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   by coverband 16y ago

   I love this thing but it goes through too frequent updates. They just had 3.1.8 9 days ago and now they have 3.2. It's not quiet about the updates either, so I feel bad if I don't upgrade. I wish updates had known release dates, except wher
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   by coverband 16y ago

   quote: "As for advertising in Cosmo, thats sadly beyond our budget. We've been mentioned in some pretty major media though, but had pretty much no financial return from it. A mention on Ellen, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Health, Cosmo, L
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   by coverband 16y ago

   These are the minimums you need to have for any company these days... Not a significant differentiator for you, unless everyone else sucks in your industry...
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   by coverband 16y ago

   - Don't give away free gift cards -- make your audience earn it by doing something for you (e.g. have 10 of their buddies friend you on Facebook, etc.) - Try to have an ongoing conversation with your customers using your distribution list.
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   by coverband 16y ago

   I think it's a promising business actually. Have you decided who should be your customers? Women who see your ads and buy it directly, or men who buy it for their girlfriends/spouses? Since G. Ads seem to be expensive for you, then you'll n
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   by coverband 17y ago

   So what if some dude with extra money pays a premium for a brand name? If it wasn't for them helping with the profits, Best Buy wouldn't be able to sell us a $400 dollar dual core laptop at a razor thin margin.
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   by coverband 17y ago

   I would argue that the original proposition is flawed. If we did an experiment, most people who would listen to live jazz or a good recording in an easy atmosphere would enjoy it. It's just that jazz music can rarely be fit into your busy l
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   by coverband 17y ago

   ArsDigita was a good story about funding killing the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita Though, another POV suggests that it was the greediness around newfound money: http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita
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   by coverband 17y ago

   I think the standard practice with other providers is to have a separate admin account that can login to the VPS and whose actions are easily audited. Using the VPS owner's account and password is ridiculous and could cause a legal liabilit
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    by coverband 17y ago

    The comments on the Gizmodo site provide plenty of reasons to discount this suggestion.
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    by coverband 17y ago

    MySQL web site has always been horrible for navigation and community version download purposes. This is nothing new -- the site and the steps to download look pretty much the same as before Oracle.