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Windows Phone Marketplace marches to 8,000 apps(wpcentral.com)
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by barista 16y ago
A few hours on Photoshop and its done. I doubt if this is something real.
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by barista 16y ago
Interesting. A link to the talk somewhere?
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That's what I think is scary about the deal. Without a clear date. It's just vapor. And it they don't bring a solid device to the market fairly quickly, it would be a bad deal for both NOK and MSFT.
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by barista 16y ago
WTG NFLX! More power to you. You allowed to me stay free of Cable for last one year. Love you. Hastings made the right bet by focusing on the streaming. That's clearly the future and I'm glad they are planning to go ahead with streaming del
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by barista 16y ago
The fact that Groupon has to engage in such tactictss goes to show that they are hitting the limits. IMO they were idiots not to take the GOOG offer. It was a huge one and I doubt they will ever reach that valuation again. Discounts like gr
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yes but MS-DOS was followed up by windows 3.1 and then windows 95 both of which were a huge success. What followed up symbian was not. I think this is very sensible for them to focus on hardware while let somebody else do the software. Thou
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by barista 16y ago
But he question is: Is this smarter than peeing your pants to stay warm :)
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by barista 16y ago
These browser wars are funny. They have been going on for so many years but neither is there a cler winner nor an idea of what the prize would be like. Does winning this war really matter any more? I am not sure why GOOG and MSFT are really
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by barista 16y ago
Well in that case wouldn't bing's percentage of failed searches be even larger than Google's? The stats don't reflect that
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by barista 16y ago
Here's the gist of Matt's reply: 1. Hitwise's definition of a successful search doesn't actually involve clicking on result. 2. MSN has pages that generate bing search while masquerading as regular pages.
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by barista 16y ago
Well if they are "going" to Google for hard queries then wouldn't they try the queries on Bing first? Or are you saying that people spend time deciding a query is simple or hard and then choose appropriate search engine for that?
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Really glad to see you reply here Matt. Never expected it. Kudos! I think Microsoft did acknowledge using clickstream data as one of the 1000 signals for their relevance ranking. Now regarding the degree to which they are used, I don't have
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"One startling omission from that list: Microsoft. Their former hardware partners are heading off into the touch-computing future without them. We could have four competing tablet platforms six months from now — iOS, Android, WebOS, and Pla
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Re: bing copying Google, it has already been profusely discussed all over the internet and has been shown as nothing more than a PR stunt by Google folks to avoid discussing spam Re: fighting spam, its a tough problem indeed but so was inde
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by barista 16y ago
The guy's a perfect salesman. He knows how to sell.
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But isn't a usable screen size a big factor when selecting a smartphone? I dread browsing on the credit-card screen or playing games or writing email or doing anything else that I do on my phone
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It's a pain to use on Windows. I had a pretty beefy machine that was brought to a crawl by the emulator. I hope Google is listening. Visual studio for Windows Phone 7 was not such a hog and I tend to spend more time working in it these days
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Unless ofcourse Bing is a better search engine to begin with. (Well that's arguable so I concur :) )
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Well for 10 years I think the search results have only marginally gotten better. Besides, 10 years ago, what google was doing was revolutionary. No other search engine had such vast coverage or better intent determination. Now the competiti
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by barista 16y ago
This whole accusation by Google was very childish... and I thought adult supervision was no longer required at Google ;)
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It only records that when the user has explicitly agreed to send anonymous data. chrome and Google toolbar do that too and so do most of the toolbars out there.
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by barista 16y ago
That's why sometimes I think sites that do manual culling like Quora are greatly valuable. Sure when they have sizeable information, peole will try to spam it too but that spam will soon get cleaned up. Just like wikipedia.