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by chintan 13y ago
1. Walmart paid $300m to buy Kosmix/RightHealth to create @WalmartLabs http://techland.time.com/2011/04/19/walmart-purchases-kosmix... 2. The original Kosmix founders left in a year - http://gigaom.com/2012/06/22/walmartlabs-loses-kosmix
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by chintan 13y ago
Great insight! So very true! I feel the same with people obsessing over Perfect "ToDo" app or "Project Management" app. More than often the underlying issue is lack of discipline and human behavior (or in Enterprise case, "organizational be
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by chintan 13y ago
Once you have revenue/cost numbers, things with auto-prioritze themselves. Quick SEO nitpick (and one more #ToDo item for you ;) On bottom of home page, you have direct links to City/Neighborhood listings with relevant anchor text but all t
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by chintan 13y ago
its a recursion! the forum points back to here
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by chintan 14y ago
"no contract, followed by 20 months of $20 payments on top of monthly pre-paid data plans." <= how is that not a contract?
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by chintan 14y ago
"If I had glass" on Yahoo and Bing: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Agw0sPNuxbiST6yjUH1P2j6b... http://www.bing.com/search?q=if+i+had+glass&go=&qs=n... and Google https://www.google.com/?q=if%20i%20had%20glass#hl=en&new
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by chintan 14y ago
Thanks but I still have the status that "I'm following <My Competitor>" that I cannot remove http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3003
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by chintan 14y ago
Here is an example of another LinkedIn Virus (or may Crunchbase-linkedin virus), that I experienced the other day and got really pissed. 1. Go to this page: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook 2. Click on the "In" Widget 3. It says
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by chintan 14y ago
OT: As per the Hindu calendar, yesterday was Shiva's birthday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_Shivaratri Great timing!
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by chintan 14y ago
Great app! We faced the same problem a year ago finding insurance for our startup. One major pain point was that everyone just made us sign up and connected to a insurance agent who sent us a bunch of official looking PDF docs. I had to sit
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by chintan 14y ago
Desiderata has a special meaning for people with background in Health Informatics: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~jeremy/HealthInf/RCSEd/terminology-...
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by chintan 14y ago
If you do the math, unlocked phones turn out to be cheaper over 2 years. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/prepaid-phone-plans... I hope people start avoiding the contracts because of this stupid law.
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by chintan 14y ago
There is a FDA regulation mandating publishing of basic results after 1 year of trial competition. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-site/results There are currently about 7936 studies with "Results": http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resu
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by chintan 14y ago
Same here! After this incident - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4866677 - we gave it a try and its now in production!
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by chintan 14y ago
http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/ This Google doc script monitors your websites and sends an SMS to alert you when down. It uses the same "Calendar->SMS" feature.
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Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators(nytimes.com)
12 points by chintan 14y ago|3 comments
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by chintan 14y ago
Thanks for the great advice!
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by chintan 14y ago
How do you find your sales lead? Specifically, my question is how do you identify a potential sale target? Is it through your connections. call calls or online ads?
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by chintan 14y ago
Loved the concept. And kudos for a frictionless onboarding process. Just submitted 3 reviews. Some suggestions: - I forgot to submit the "star" ratings. Just entered the comment. May be you can have 1. give rating, 2. provide specific feedb
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by chintan 14y ago
We built a click 2 call app for a client using Twilio and now realized that they needed to have Caller ID to be passed to the call center. This morning, we were looking into Tropo. Glad to see Plivo also supports setting arbitrary caller ID
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by chintan 14y ago
In past 2 weeks, I have had 2 friends (from UK and India) asking me if I'm on Whatsapp. I felt a bit outdated for not being on it. It reminded me of early days of FB/Twitter.
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by chintan 14y ago
Honest question: For a multi-billion product like Windows, doesn't Microsoft conduct usability testing? Neilsen had 12 participants in his study and discovered quite major usability issues. I wonder if their internal testing came up with si
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by chintan 14y ago
> We do not hold on to our original idea out of sheer stubbornness, or because our ego is tied up with its rightness. Sometimes sticking it out is what is needed. These days it is fashionable to "pivot" -- I believe that in most cases y
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by chintan 14y ago
Neat Idea! I would provide some form of "embedding" and customizing capability to match a target site. For the current site, may I ask which Wordpress theme are you using?
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by chintan 14y ago
Hey guys, We use this daily at work and also for personal use. Let me know if you are interested in using this service. We want to see if there is any market for such a tool. Thanks.
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Show HN: Skype calling sucks, so we made this to talk with our offshore team(callusbob.com)
6 points by chintan 14y ago|5 comments
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by chintan 14y ago
There you go, now you've an answer to index: http://wwpgd.com/?q=wwpgd.com
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Semantic Dynamic Forms in Django(trialx.com)
1 points by chintan 14y ago|0 comments
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by chintan 14y ago
Offtopic: This is the first time I'm seeing a post "on" app.net and not "about" app.net
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by chintan 14y ago
About 30 minutes ago, I tried the Starbucks app to pay for coffee. I keep seeing all cool dudes (in SoHo starbux) take out their shiny phones to point & pay. So I gave it a try today and it definitely was not a better experience (may be

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