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by bmac27 15y ago
First time I actually made any money through the web, I was 15. I had a fan site for my favorite NHL team and sold a couple of copies of (I think) NHL '99/2000/whatever it was at the time for Playstation through Amazon's affiliate program.
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by bmac27 15y ago
No question. But part of why a lot of searches & recommendations are happening through social to begin with is because there are still so many algorithmic flaws in organic search. Issues that have plagued search for the better part of 1
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by bmac27 15y ago
Agreed. It's become nothing more than another line item to point to clients (or to the C-suite if you're in-house) to say how much progress an SEO campaign has supposedly made. But that's important to a lot of folks, particularly clients wh
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by bmac27 15y ago
Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
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by bmac27 15y ago
I'm more curious about whether or not the founders felt Fanvibe's business model was a successful one. Did they feel they reached an optimal product/market fit? Or was there potentially more to give? I've been doing research in the space(s)
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by bmac27 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying Vish. Good luck with beRecruited.
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by bmac27 15y ago
Sounds more like an acquisition of the team upon first glance. Not sure what the plan will be as far as integration. Seems like two entirely different business models.
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by bmac27 15y ago
"He punishes himself for failure." Disagree. In many cases academia DOES actively punish failure, through negative feedback mechanisms involving grades, comments on papers/essays and the like that subjugate "out-of-the-box-thinking" in favo
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by bmac27 15y ago
While I agree strongly with most of the author's thesis, the zero sum aspect to this debate is tiresome. And I say this as a dropout myself. Both sides go out of their way to justify their all-or nothing positions based on their particular
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by bmac27 16y ago
I'm more interested in their ability (or the ability of the folks they partner with for data processing) to pass along events in real-time; or at least close enough to make a bet/prediction prior to the next play when even the official web-