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by arindone 14y ago
get the average person to care? currently anyone in the world on pretty much ANY device can access, register an account, and connect fast and easy to their nearby friends on Facebook. The FB philosophy is to "make the world more open and co
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Facebook Games GDC Vid - No Longer Just for Casual Gamers(youtube.com)
1 points by arindone 14y ago|0 comments
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by arindone 14y ago
Agreed -- it's a good filter for a higher probability of better talent (note: I say "probability" and not "guarantee") and their stock price and potential for growth speak for their human resources strategy.
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by arindone 14y ago
To be fair Google has had a similar unofficial policy for ages and it has worked well for them =) (Not supporting it either way...a bit undecided myself)
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by arindone 14y ago
It's easy to say that from a philosophical point of view, but it's preposterous from a business point of view. In an organization like theirs working on 1000's of different things at once, you can't keep expanding horizontally; you have to
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by arindone 14y ago
It is absolutely material in competitive and antitrust law. It's not an issue of interpretation or opinion here -- it's applying the same principles that got Microsoft in trouble in the 90's.
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by arindone 14y ago
100% agreed -- anecdotal blog posts should not be up-voted to oblivion simply because the community at HN agrees with them. (Though I find it ironic that such a technical community doesn't consider lack of data in arguments like these an is
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by arindone 14y ago
Agreed -- this article shows not one data point to back-up their argument, but if you do look users actually opt for social login due to ease of access and use. Hell it's what makes paypal so easy and popular -- you put your data in one tru
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by arindone 14y ago
Well look at the alternatives: (1) join dropbox, probably for a pretty penny with stock options that will probably look very nice when Dropbox goes public -- fuel further growth and integration with Dropbox with even more significant resour
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by arindone 14y ago
Exactly -- it's a product with a loyal following, but not necessarily significant... and when you work on the scale of Google, a few million people (or even a few dozen) does not move the needle for them
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by arindone 14y ago
I'm skeptical that it would be enough to even come close to pay the engineers working on the project, never mind supporting the data storage for all the users
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by arindone 14y ago
Agreed -- anti-competitive law is pretty clear on the fact that scale and market dominance in one market cannot be leveraged to gain significant market share in another market for this exact reason
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by arindone 14y ago
It's an irrelevant question -- when you work on the scale that Google does and have the data that they can analyze, it's easy to make the business case that it is either a good business product or not worth the time. It's easy to make a sur
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by arindone 14y ago
I think that's the point -- a passive journal/log of your life and connections (I default all posts to be "Only Me" and share what I want as appropriate to further cement in my mind this idea of a personal journal that's backed up in the cl
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by arindone 14y ago
I use it quite a bit...I've been using it as my personal journal (setting the default post setting to be shown to "Only Me") and it's still the page I see when checking other friends' activity
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WSJ: Movie Sales Increased with Megaupload Shutdown(online.wsj.com)
1 points by arindone 14y ago|0 comments
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by arindone 14y ago
I actually love the app for a personal journal that backs up privately with Facebook -- i.e. it posts to Facebook but posts from the app are made private automatically via the privacy settings...it's sweet and I can still make things public
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by arindone 14y ago
This is an overly simplistic statement. They're completely different tools: Tumblr is a tool for developing (micro?)blogs about any topic under the sun -- therefore identity isn't really relevant (unless you WANT to be an authoritative sour
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by arindone 14y ago
It's often not said enough, but the goal of Facebook during its history has always been to connect real people -- places like Twitter offer the opportunity to create humorous pseudonyms and fake identities, but Facebo
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by arindone 14y ago
Misleading title -- the point is that having an item on your to-do list 'learning how to code' is not as useful as something more specific, say 'learn javascript to start work on my own blogging platform' ... essentially it's an article on
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by arindone 14y ago
I am a big fan of the "Learn to Code" movement, and I agree that Statistics should be even HIGHER priority than coding - data-based reasoning & communication are almost an absolute necessity for any field. Also th
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by arindone 14y ago
Frankly the data shows otherwise ... from my previous work in the industry the majority of people respond well to retargeting simply because it's relevant and useful. Hell it's been working for Google for years...
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by arindone 14y ago
I used to work in an advertising start-up, and I have no qualms about it. I think it's naive to consider it "unacceptable" or "evil" ... and there are two BIG reasons I say this: (1) Google and (2) Free Content vs Pay-walls (1) Google essen
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by arindone 14y ago
What gets me is that most of the comments here are defending Google for sending your information to developers; however if any other independent site/app took your information and sent it to a third party without your
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by arindone 14y ago
Indeed -- the point that struck me most was this quote: "...OpenX lays the blame squarely on the vulnerabilities of open source in a hackers’ world..."
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by arindone 14y ago
A bit of a misleading title -- I got really nervous because I have friends who work for OpenX; yet it was the OnRamp service that was shut down and not really the entire company.
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by arindone 14y ago
this sort of goes against one of the philosophies/purposes of 'timeline,' namely a journal of your life along with all the related connections you may have made. you may be able to hack something, but is the gain/ROI really worth it?
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by arindone 14y ago
Maybe it's a West Coast thing...I've worked jobs in Los Angeles and now the valley and company cell phones in lieu of desk phones is the new standard I think. That, and Facebook video chat/Google chat/Skype...
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by arindone 14y ago
well this is part of a series for Lifehacker -- they've had some other interesting ones in the past (including the Editor of the MIT Tech Review.)
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by arindone 14y ago
I have to REALLY disagree here -- maybe it's because I just read Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You," but I have to believe that you have significant career capital that others generally don't have. Sure, it's easy to cash that in

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