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by chaz 15y ago
What kinds of publishers have been using TinyLetter, and how did you find acquire them?
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by chaz 15y ago
That's not journalism -- that's straight from Apple's press release, which is the whole article.
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One simple and clever way to test for significant results is to run an A/A/B test. When your two A buckets converge, you've probably done enough testing.
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"Jason Fried’s mantra while testing was: We need to test radically different things. We don’t know what works. Destroy all assumptions. We need to find what works and keep iterating—keep learning." The specific learnings are irrelevant. Onl
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by chaz 15y ago
The related parent article is worth a read as well: "In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5." ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/technology/finding-fake-re... )
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by chaz 15y ago
Which browser / OS?
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The original source: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-KR-monthly-201007-20110...
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by chaz 15y ago
The "web" isn't a technical specification. People will click, link, and share the same way they've always done.
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This works great when the purpose of the site is to interact with other people that you know. It doesn't work for eCommerce or content/newsletters.
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by chaz 15y ago
I get and send dozens of important emails a day. Why is email irrelevant? "A May 2011 Pew Internet survey finds that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, including 59% who do so on a typical day. This pla
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by chaz 15y ago
The best alternative is to A/B test it with and without that type of messaging to see if it works for your users/customers or not.
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by chaz 15y ago
A must-follow Twitter feed for anyone using Amazon AWS is @ylastic: http://twitter.com/#!/ylastic At the very least, even if you don't use Twitter, it's a good resource to check for up-to-the-minute info if you're seeing an issue and want
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by chaz 15y ago
According to PaidContent, about IV investors: Also, some of these companies, including Google and Cisco, have been investors for many years, and in the early years IV had a very different tone. Back then, the giant patent-holding company,
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by chaz 15y ago
The patent is owned by Stanford. From Wikipedia: The name "PageRank" is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Go
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Colby needs to go back and challenge the requirement with his boss. Business isn't entirely a top-down process -- if it's not a good idea, it's his duty as an employee to express this. Lots of great ideas and insights come from the most jun
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Like many things, it depends on the delivery. If I received this as an email, a handout, or a lecture, my reaction would definitely be, "WTF?" But many terrific people I've worked with prefer to work this way and they're pleasant to be arou
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NPR Planet Money did a similar story a little while ago: "Why Clusters Of Like Businesses Thrive." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1213048...
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M3 Convertible. http://www.king5.com/news/Road-rage-suspected-in-fatal-Kirkl...
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Not everyone can do it, but for smaller purchases, it's much easier to just get it on your own and file an expense for it. 8GB memory SODIMM kits are about $75 and probably have the biggest impact on performance. I used to upgrade company-i
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Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug(blog.dropbox.com)
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by chaz 16y ago
It sounds like you're not really using Photoshop for all of its features, especially if you're just using it for light image editing. Check out Photoshop Elements for $80.
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Friendster: http://highscalability.com/blog/2007/11/13/friendster-lost-l... VB: Can you tell me a bit about what you learned in your time at Friendster? JS: For me, it basically came down to failed execution on the technology side — we
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by chaz 16y ago
> We used our new revenue tracking feature to see impact of “popup forms” on actual $$ made, however it is still to early to say anything. I think this last sentence is key. Raise a barrier and of course the number will go up, but avera
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$35bn apparently http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402750457619...
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Dead already. "This video contains content from TV Asahi Corporation, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
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Is there a link to this video with a player/context? Direct link to the .mp4 is unusual and somewhat hard to share.
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What's the technology that measures the value of an exposure to an ad?
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Google also buried many of JC Penney's results for linkfarming earlier this month. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html
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I've stopped designing with code for all but the most trivial elements because I realized it's too easy to get sucked into the details too early on in the process. Designing via coded prototype means that mockups are high fidelity, and ther
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Assuming the rumors were true, they could have been bought for $6bn in November by Google on ~$750mm 2010 revenue after three rounds totaling $171mm -- an outstanding return. However, they chose to turn down the offer, and take on fourth ro

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