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by chris123 14y ago
Will be interesting when the crowdfunding floodgates open.
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by chris123 14y ago
RE "Zuckerberg's" Facebook idea: When I was at Georgetown University back in the '90s, at the beginning of each year a printed directory of the students came out. In that book, was a photograph of each student and their profile, including n
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by chris123 14y ago
Not if he negotiated properly coming in, which I suspect he did given this quote: “I had always been upfront with Mark that I eventually wanted to do another start-up.” If he was upfront, then that means before he came on board. He probab
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by chris123 14y ago
Japanese proverb: "With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world." Interpretation: More departures coming soon.
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by chris123 14y ago
So they gave the standard reply from page one of the playbook: Deny and smear. But this whole thing smells like retaliation and a hostile environment, probably done mostly subtly and in passive-aggressive and other roundabout and plausibly
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by chris123 14y ago
The main point is what I've quoted below: "Non .com extensions will leak traffic to the .com version of that domain name. Every business set up on a dot org and dot net domain will lose a proportion of their traffic to the dot com version
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by chris123 14y ago
RE: "Conversation Ads will serve as an opportunity 'for marketers to reach our hundreds of millions of connected users in a place where they can have meaningful conversations about brands in a highly engaging environment,'" Sure, it will do
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Ads Coming to Skype Audio Calls on Windows(pcmag.com)
2 points by chris123 14y ago|1 comments
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Spectacular .net or a so-so .com – which should you chose for your business?(domaining.org.uk)
1 points by chris123 14y ago|1 comments
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by chris123 14y ago
"I can't say it any better than this: "Non .com extensions will leak traffic to the .com version of that domain name. Every business set up on a [non .com extension] domain will lose a proportion of their traffic to the dot com version of
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by chris123 14y ago
It's cool they decided to open source the code instead of sell it. That way everyone who wants to use it and/or study it or learn from it can do so. Seems like a nice way to give back to the community, grow the pie, etc. +1
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by chris123 14y ago
Congrats to the team. Would have been even sweeter if it would have been pre-Faceplant IPO!
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by chris123 14y ago
Just asking for disruption.... (P2P taxis, ride-sharing apps, etc.).
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by chris123 14y ago
Using an extension other than .com (at least in the US), will result in at least some traffic "leaking" to the .com version of the domain name. The question then becomes is that some number big enough to matter?
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by chris123 14y ago
One step closer to Gitmo, one step closer to 1984 on steroids.
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by chris123 14y ago
Good tips. Will be interesting to see how much longer this cycle runs.
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by chris123 14y ago
Chris if another option in the gender-nonspecific department.
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by chris123 14y ago
Nice post/concept/analysis. Keep it up :)
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by chris123 14y ago
A couple of interesting ones on that list. Best wishes to them. Question regarding your site, StartupPlays.com: When did it start (cause this is my first time seeing it).
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by chris123 14y ago
How fitting the name "OMGPOP" turned out to be.
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The Decline and Fall of 'Draw Something'(theatlanticwire.com)
24 points by chris123 14y ago|9 comments
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by chris123 14y ago
On the margin, there are some people (Brill) who are self-censoring to avoid/minimize the attention of the ever-growing police state. The hardest core "Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 3: We had to Destroy Democracy in Order to
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by chris123 15y ago
Question regarding Kickstarter: Can it really be used for commercial projects (or is Pebble not a commercial project?)? Because here http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines it says it is only for "creative projects". I guess it is ok
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by chris123 15y ago
People still read TC?
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by chris123 15y ago
I can relate to a bad-mgmt experience. But 8:30 to 6:00 is nothing to complain about in startupland (or medical, legal, finance, consulting, etc.). In fact, I'd call 8:30 - 6:00 light (even very light).
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by chris123 15y ago
Glad to see someone fight back against the the corruption that is American politics and status quo and it's growing inquality and accelerating movement towards dystopia. Maybe Dotcom committed crimes, maybe he didn't. I really don't know. B
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by chris123 15y ago
Congrats on your first deal, Dan. Sounds like you learned some valuable lessons along the way. They will serve you will in the future. Cheers. PS: Will be interesting to see what new owner does with the site.
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by chris123 15y ago
Interesting book review: NYT: "Ayn Rand’s Revenge": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html
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by chris123 15y ago
Hi Jakub, Do you have any experience with or interest in the Amazon Product Advertising API? The specific project, in a nutshell, will be to build an e-commerce storefront that sells Amazon items in a niche I am targeting. Cheers, Chris
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by chris123 15y ago
Hi Jason, Do you have any experience with or interest in the Amazon Product Advertising API? The specific project, in a nutshell, will be to build an e-commerce storefront that sells Amazon items in a niche I am targeting. Cheers, Chris

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