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by chaz 13y ago
These teardowns are great -- thanks to the author for doing them. Onboarding is so important to breaking the ice with users, and providing with a clear sense of what to do after they register. They got sold about some value proposition befo
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EBay reveals activist investor Carl Icahn submitted proposal to spinoff PayPal(thenextweb.com)
1 points by chaz 13y ago|2 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
FB habits are very different from Google or Yahoo. Last earnings call, FB said that half of their daily users are mobile only . About 25% of Google searches are mobile. http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/30/nearly
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by chaz 13y ago
Navigational searches on Google from users going to Facebook are being displaced by direct access to the FB app on their smartphones, which is not measured in Google Trends. That, and the assumption that FB is equivalent to MySpace circa 20
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by chaz 13y ago
Worth mentioning that Netflix has a similar effort: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/01/new-isp-performance-data-for... http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
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by chaz 13y ago
This study is based on a couple of very shaky assumptions. The first is that they're modeling the decline of Facebook on the decline of MySpace, and assuming that their traffic/popularity curves are similar. I think the two sites
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by chaz 13y ago
But why would I want Bitcoin as a consumer? I want chargebacks if the merchant screws me over, I get a rebate/miles/points with every purchase, and some cards offer warranties and return protection. AmEx does a pretty good job at
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by chaz 13y ago
They didn't. The story is provided by Verizon's Enterprise Security Products group, and is a cautionary tale about one of their clients and the need for proactive log review. The client and the cat-loving software developer in que
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by chaz 13y ago
I agree that it's a dark pattern, but I wish that more people would reserve downvotes for comments not constructive to the unpacking of ideas and opinions, such as inflammatory, derailing, or factually misleading/incorrect informa
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by chaz 13y ago
Relevant: "Man reportedly outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos" http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/17/business/la-fi-mo-ma...
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by chaz 13y ago
Attributed to early FB employee Jeff Hammerbacher: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4
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by chaz 13y ago
Relevant: "Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links" - http://searchengineland.com/expedia-loses-25-of-their-search...
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How an intern created The New York Times’ most popular piece of content in 2013(knightlab.northwestern.edu)
2 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
If want to check an individual site, if is free. But if you want to set up monitors across a swath of sites and technologies, they have plans priced from $295-995/mo. https://builtwith.com/plans
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The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO(mattcutts.com)
159 points by chaz 13y ago|139 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
The upvotes seem to validate the article's value, even if the topic has been posted in the past.
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by chaz 13y ago
Every opinion or observation suffers from at least one of dozens of biases -- from the crucial ("should I marry her?") to the mundane ("does this outfit match?"). In fact, the tendency to quickly label and dismiss said a
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by chaz 13y ago
But there will be fewer of them in 2015 than today.
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by chaz 13y ago
I liked using Windows. Keyboard shortcuts for everything and you could be pretty free from using a mouse most of the time. Being able to log into any machine on campus and accessing your files was great. Active Directory can work really wel
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by chaz 13y ago
Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the audience. Walking around is ok, too. But slouching and shifting your weight from left to right can hurt your confidence as well as hurt the way your confidence is projected. You'll devel
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by chaz 13y ago
The advertiser usually doesn't care, since most ad blockers prevent the ad call, and their budget will be spent on another visitor. The ad blockers that render the ad off-canvas are bad for the advertiser, since they're getting ch
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Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC's Net Neutrality Rules(online.wsj.com)
1 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
I am, too, but like "hacking," those horses have long left the barn.
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by chaz 13y ago
Revenue is to be made on unique visitors and impressions. No clicks are required.
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by chaz 13y ago
We all know that he means copyright infringement: the content was reproduced without permission. Using the literal definitions of the words "stealing,""theft," and "piracy" mistakes pedantry as rebuttal, and he
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by chaz 13y ago
Yes, I would consider a full version increment to be a distancing. Most press that I've seen had been considering Windows "Threshold" (codename) as Windows 8.2. https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8.2 Win
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Target Data Breach Much Worse Than First Thought(recode.net)
2 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
$500 is such a small amount to pay, it is easily recouped over the course of a year. $100k to pay a developer? Just 0.5% to break even through reduction in time spent, or increase in comfort, or decreased eye strain, additional time spent w
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by chaz 13y ago
If Google built this as "people can send you messages on Google+," and you get a notification in G+, wouldn't that be perfectly normal for a social network? And in addition to that notification, you get an email, saying that
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by chaz 13y ago
I was speaking about this article and the root comment. Overstock is almost entirely physical goods, and I'm skeptical that this has a meaningful impact on Bitcoin as a whole. But your point stands re: digital goods. One use case I was

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