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by aresant 14y ago
I've spent ~15 years in online advertising and this sure isn't limited to just being a "Facebook scam". This style of advertising called "incentivized co-registration" (co-reg / co-reg path) (1) has been a long running plague - as far back
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by aresant 14y ago
That's what I call fun Saturday reading . . . "GM mangroves that can grow in salinated intertidal zones and synthesize gasoline, shipping it out via their root networks, is one option." That one sentence overloaded my system with a visual d
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by aresant 14y ago
Let's break down the absurdity of this situation. There is a likelihood of falsified tests despite the fact that the machines were "tested by a third party". Why? Because “before [a test] gets underway, we might believe the system is on one
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by aresant 14y ago
Nice to see that the FTC recognizes what an incredible nuisance telemarketers are, but hard to cheer for them as politicians are not only allowed to use robodialers, they are exempt from abiding by the Do Not Call list. Why? Because they ar
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Siri vs Google Voice Search for iPhone(vimeo.com)
1 points by aresant 14y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
I had to look up the 3-envelopes joke: http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes....
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A Brief History of Gestural Interfaces(rhizome.org)
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by aresant 14y ago
Hard to believe that as recently as 1999 the lack of ubiquitous camera-phones meant that images like this are rare / remarkable. You can see in the photo properties several are taken with a Sony Cybershot - eg somebody had to have the foret
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by aresant 14y ago
Apple just jumped the shark if this is true. Bill Nguyen is massively talented at making things work for Bill Nguyen - his prior business bought by Apple for ~$80m, Lala.com, was lackluster at best. Under Jobs you could kind of, sort of get
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by aresant 14y ago
A picture's worth a thousand words . . . http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/fch4fp/simcity-gameplay-d... Surprising that Wired actually wrote close to 1,500 words with a headline about the graphical style of the game, but included one sca
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by aresant 14y ago
Next months cover story "Defending my choice of iOS to launch this magazine" I am amused that by appealing to the tech audience Marco set his release up to be nitpicked not for content or concept but by platform choice. Fitting but almost t
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by aresant 14y ago
Congrats Dan & team - that is awesome news! Looks like your bump happened in May 2012 and drove that 2x growth in adoption. Probably not coincidentally connected to your funding round that same month - what's the story of the growth?
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by aresant 14y ago
Maybe it's the mobile version of the post but feels like some of these simple lessons about posting to HN could benefit your engagement rate from this post: http://www.meetingburner.com/blog/2012/10/05/a-story-of-two-... Eg - talk about w
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by aresant 14y ago
Brilliant, brilliant PR that's knocking every corner of the internet. But the pitch feels a bit dishonest given that the $1m will be "a mixture of cash and equity" A mixture could mean a $10k signing bonus and $990k in stock. And then what
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by aresant 14y ago
Take a look at how many articles on the frontpage today today don't follow those principles. For instance the current #1 post - "Living in a van" - has one mention of Priceonomics in the article, no explanation of the service, and no call t
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I hired my friends and family, and I’d do it again.(meetingburner.com)
48 points by aresant 14y ago|24 comments
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Pin Number Analysis of 3,400,000 ATM Pins (datagenetics.com)
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by aresant 14y ago
Truly GREAT UX designers are, in my experience, at least as hard to find as great engineers. As such I've always wondered why more small design firms aren't acqhired. Cool to see Square create a template for doing this, seems like a no-brai
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by aresant 14y ago
Goog does a good job illustrating just how "different" mobile is. In our experience at ConversionVoodoo.com over the past couple of years a properly mobile optimized site for a direct-response style business is a difference of 2x, for tradi
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by aresant 14y ago
The ad is well placed to ensure most users will see it - check out the average horizontal attention graph below to understand the necessity of that placement in the UI vs further right or lower on the page: http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/
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by aresant 14y ago
Highlights the need for some basic A/B testing platform within app stores, though I see the complexity that prevents it being a priority.
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by aresant 14y ago
The Kurzweilai.net blog-spam barely summarizes the article, the original is here: http://www.businessinsider.com/labor-day-2012-the-future-of-...
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by aresant 14y ago
There was a clear before and after when they launched the iPhone By NAILING it apple managed to popularize existing tech like the modern touch-screen interface, the app develeper economy & handheld computing. So enough with this apple h
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Why aren’t Apple’s error messages written by marketers?(conversionvoodoo.com)
12 points by aresant 14y ago|11 comments
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Apple Pulls 'Genius' TV Ads from YouTube and Apple.com (macrumors.com)
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by aresant 14y ago
Keep seeing that the deal is "now worth $747 million" No, it was always $300,000,000 in CASH plus 22,999,412 FB SHARES. That amount of shares happens to be around 1% of FB's stock. I love those numbers. Can you imagine the brass balls it to
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by aresant 14y ago
Sorry - clarification - when I said "today's 37signals" I literally meant that 37signals TODAY, in the present. 37signals is NOT a startup and yet much of the advice / information that they produce is disseminated in that spirit. In other w
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by aresant 14y ago
37signals is the real deal of superhuman talent. I had the benefit of exposure to members of the 37signals team in their early days when they did contract work, built their remarkable "redesigns", etc. It was crystal clear to me instantly t
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by aresant 14y ago
"How can we afford to put our business on hold for a month to "mess around" with new ideas? How can we afford not to?" Taking advice from today's 37Signals on how to build your company is like taking advice from Michael Phelps on how to bec
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by aresant 14y ago
Hey contrarians - the guy walked accross two runways and had to shoulder-tap a baggage loader to make his presence known. I don't think NPR is unreasonable to be shocked at the lapse in security despite their colorful language.

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