benvanderbeek

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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
I signed up for the beta and made it my home page. I tried hard to adopt. I exchanged emails w/ one of the guys there (he was super nice and replied quickly) when I had to revert to Google searches to find what I was looking for (80% of the
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
We have a significant % of customers who use google checkout. Not sure the breakdown of Paypal vs Google checkout. Some people (myself included) prefer the simplicity of using their same Gmail account that they're probably already logged in
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
Good point re: reviews as motivation to visit their site. Being an ecommerce guy, I was thinking "content" being product data related to products (and delivery/customer service) that Amazon itself actually sells vs. product data (and servic
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
Question: does the other guy see you as a "direct competitor?" If he has 20M uniques per month he may not feel all that threatened (whether or not he should). I'd say he has more to lose than you. Most likely even if he understood 100% what
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
Right. But if we're talking about content, most people go there because of Amazon's content, not other merchants. The vast majority of Amazon's revenue is from their own sales, not merchants'.
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
"Amazon - Leads you to other peoples goods" I think most people go to Amazon to buy from Amazon, not "other people." As opposed to eBay and Craigslist, where the above description is accurate.
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
I've never used these in hiring. Assuming the candidate doesn't have the questions beforehand, seems you're mostly testing someone's ability to BS/improv and promote themselves on the spot. For coders, I don't find this skill to be closely
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
yeah someone clean it up. wouldn't it be great if every bad driver had social (not just legal) accountability?
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Complain about bad drivers by license plate(platewire.com)
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
i have been loving lcd soundsystem lately. inspirational to hear how poorly he feels he did during his early adult life. i've been doing music for years too, luckily for me not my main focus. nicely put contrasting lazy vs. scared. side not
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
"only change cells that have been wikied" - this seems like a core strength, is "wiki" the most intuitive way to refer to cell-level permissions? I would not have concluded this meaning from the work wiki.
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
A definition of "team collaboration" would be good. Again, Google Docs has team collaboration, but I assume you mean something more, or more specific. E.g. does it have per-cell ownership? Like person A controls their numbers in column A, a
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by benvanderbeek 16y ago
I think the affiliate tag might be messed up in the URL, looks like the ampersands are getting URL encoded? http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-Well-All-Chicks/dp/0307717... I think that should be &tag=amzn_instant-20