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by chintan 15y ago
s/Google Wage/Google Wave/
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Why just startups? here are a few counter examples: Google Health, Desktop,.. Microsoft Money, Encarta,... Apple G4 Cube, Newton,..
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https://www.quantcast.com/posterous.com Although this is just a subset of their total traffic, they were consistently doubling traffic every 4 months or so.
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>But I've never clicked on a Facebook ad and I don't know anyone who has unless it was research. I often hear this on HN and from other techies. I bet you've never ran a serious Facebook or any other Ad campaign and measured effectivene
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> separate questions of "will this product be successful", and "will we make money out of it". In part, the dilemma is borne out of the fact that for almost every company, those aren't separate questions at all. NOT unless you are looki
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> Last Updated Date: March 7, 2006
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Salon: 5 million http://www.quantcast.com/salon.com Huff Po: 70 million http://www.quantcast.com/huffingtonpost.com Just sayin'
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<Interesting/> "Mobile" appears as risk factor in 2 instances. - Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where we do not currently display ads, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our
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> The problem in healthcare is the lack of engagement from many consumer/patients plus a private industry reluctant to standardize. I don't think patient engagement is an issue -- there are gazillion health related niche disease communi
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Yes, UMLS is indeed a great resource! I do think one could use UMLS as a core vocabulary but with specific application context. At my company, we use it for information retrieval of clinical trials. NIH itself uses it in several of their se
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> This is so impossible! This is exactly why I feel we need more such start-ups in this space - Naive but Bold that have a "Stay hungry Stay foolish" mentality. Having said that, I pretty much agree with all what you said. The core
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> For the majority of users Can I have an independent "authoritative" search engine and "cool" social networking tool. You both have Ad platforms on your respective platforms to "promote" products. Thank you. Disclaimer: A singleton ins
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Better Electronic Health Record systems
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Honest question: why can't I have a Facebook Connect on Google search?
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Problem with this idea is that .data will encourage "data servers" but not create a "data web" Allow me to explain. RDF[1] was created towards solving the "data web" problem. However, the challenge has been representation and modeling "thin
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Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign(plus.google.com)
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IMO they want to possibly avoid anti-trust issues in future when Chrome becomes the dominant player. "Look we are teh small guys using plain old paid link marketing"
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Great project. Any special reason why you chose PHP? Was it to attract WP-devs?
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Speaking from a Web/Healthcare IT startup experience: The BIGGEST challenge is that your buyer, user and payer are 3 different entities. Every budding healthcare entrepreneur wants to "disrupt" this somehow, but eventually almost everyone g
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by chintan 15y ago
"Google+ is Google" So it might not be far fetched to think that they might start requiring (or implicitly nudging) you to sign-in to G+ to use their Search.
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Google cluster workload data for download(code.google.com)
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IMO, this feature should not be part of core G+ experience. It might be useful for top 1% of users to see how influential they are. Instead, empower the App developers do such awesme innovation with your data. <yegge_repeat> Learn
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by chintan 15y ago
Great article! Thanks for writing this up. If there are no runtime performance benefits, then I wonder how is it different from the Type Expressions in Google Closure [1]? 1. http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler...
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Show HN: Create beautifully crafted vintage letters and snail-mail'em(vintagemailmaker.com)
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Speaking of focus, we went from "Organizing Worlds Information" ==> "Organizing People in to Circles" Indeed exciting times!
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They are a bit less than allrecipes.com http://www.google.com/trends?q=plus.google.com%2Callrecipes.... 7M uniques: http://www.quantcast.com/allrecipes.com I would estimate G+ getting 5M uniques. However, what would be interesting is to
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by chintan 15y ago
IMHO, this is not a "break away" approach as originally indicated in the leaked memo. One of the biggest pain point in web dev is the inconsistent DOM implementations. I was imagining some sort of DOM-less, HTML5 Canvas-based UI controls. A
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There is an inherent friction in using any Software or a Gadget. A piece of technology or service that removes/reduces this friction is going to win BIG! Some successful examples: 1. DropBox 2. Swipely 3. Kayak 4. Instapaper 5. GPS Voice na
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Brilliant!!
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touché

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