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by cedsav 17y ago
a couple wording suggestions: "Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil." "Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number
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by cedsav 17y ago
err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM ]
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by cedsav 17y ago
is that the full text? I didn't see anything about angels turning devils.
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by cedsav 18y ago
well, I don't feel too bad for designing my product logos myself now.
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by cedsav 18y ago
I'm not a native English speaker but the wording of "Ask a Question of Cyberdyne Customers" seems odd. Did they mean "to Cyberdyne Customers"? Also, "People-Powered Customer Support" doesn't really convey what they say it conveys. All custo
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by cedsav 18y ago
Users end up on GS because of a Google search. Does that necessarily mean that they looked for and couldn't find a proper support channel first? I don't think so. I'm sure there are plenty of people (me included) who google first, and navig
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by cedsav 18y ago
Every business should be a "lifestyle business". If don't know what a non-lifestyle business is, but it sounds like something that's unsustainable, that doesn't make you happy and thus doomed to fail.
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by cedsav 18y ago
That would still count as solving a very hard problem for 99% of people. It's even a hard problem for me, not because I can't set up svn/apache/webdav and whatever, but because I need to actively avoid doing this kind of things and focus on
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by cedsav 18y ago
What I find hard to understand is why he did not even try to invest the money. He had a parallel, successful and legit investment business, so it's not like he didn't know how to do it. He could have prolonged the scheme (and made it harder
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by cedsav 18y ago
You make a good point. However the author goes beyond just taking a pseudonym. He pretends to have 12 years of experiences with parrots, when the reality is zero. This is where overcoming bias turns into deceptive marketing practices.
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by cedsav 18y ago
good point... I fear we're at that stage :-)
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by cedsav 18y ago
To me, you just did everything right. The idea of releasing early & often is to learn about your market, understand what your users really need and what your product should be. Could you have done your 'grand scheme' release without th
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by cedsav 18y ago
They migrated 5000 workstation out of 90k. Presumably, they started with the easy ones first. I bet they'll keep a number of windows machines for those cases where no OO equivalent is available.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Everyone in the media/blog industry write with an eye on optimizing advertising revenues. The difference I guess is how much you care about what you write and how much you care about your readership (your integrity if you will).
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by cedsav 18y ago
I wouldn't be surprised they tested it. I agree with you on that.
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by cedsav 18y ago
That's not a made-for-adsense site. It's heavy on SEO, and looks indeed like high quality content, but for a different purpose. The content on a made-for-adsense site is designed to look good enough to fool Google, yet not helpful enough so
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by cedsav 18y ago
I think he or you are overstating the importance of the domain name. There's nothing inherently special about the Nike swoosh. It just happen to be on shoes that people like to wear.
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by cedsav 18y ago
He's not providing any useful service. He's taking traffic and ad revenues away from legitimate sites while providing low quality content, which wastes people's time (hence they navigate away clicking the only links available: ads).
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by cedsav 18y ago
CPU time may be cheap, but Google has billions of page and images to index. If they were able to extract text from images, they'd probably use it for their image search. I'm also not convinced that the header image is a good indicator of r
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by cedsav 18y ago
I can't really blame anyone for making money on what is essentially arbitrage, but the bottom line is that they add no value to the system and they make it harder for legitimate sites to get advertising revenues (by preempting traffic and a
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by cedsav 18y ago
I was surprised too. I don't see why Google would spent cpu time on this, and I can't think of a way one would be able to validate that claim.
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by cedsav 18y ago
If you promise a reward based on 'success', then your friend was right to get a contract from you. For such a small contribution though the whole thing sounds rather silly. Better to pay something upfront and/or ask for pro bono.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Official explanation: http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=ni... a bad software update, and a weird attempt at removing 'spam' from their forum.
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by cedsav 18y ago
I guess the point is that very early on, having $0, you're better off trading time for knowledge.
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by cedsav 18y ago
I've been through the exact same stages (I guess I'm at #7 now). I couldn't emphasize enough the importance of hiring part-time help if you can and then moving them to full time if things go well. You're going to make mistakes running your
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by cedsav 18y ago
I don't disagree with that. I'm just doubtful about this particular tax issue having a real impact on people willingness to work more or less
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by cedsav 18y ago
The higher your income, the lower your work incentive should be anyway (regardless of tax situation). You can afford to slow down and enjoy life. I don't believe that people change their work habit, or choose to work less, just because of a
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by cedsav 18y ago
And Buffett doesn't single out bailout money. He just says that the crisis makes government-backed entities, such as FDIC-insured banks, safer for lenders. Not really surprising. Quote: "Funders that have access to any sort of government g
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by cedsav 18y ago
I found the article inspiring, so thanks to the OP. As an entrepreneur, I sometime struggle with the idea that everything has been done, all the great ideas have been implemented, and I'm one step behind, trying to get by on the long tail o
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by cedsav 18y ago
second that. Maybe something similar to ySlow? http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow

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