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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   "... and will probably fill them all." You have absolutely no information to base this statement upon. There are plenty of seats on all the flights we have looked at. September is just an empty month for airlines. We are not utilizing some
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   It's Revue Std.
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   "Based on Apple’s response, it seems my “devil’s advocate” hunch in my initial piece on this was pretty close to the mark: that it’s about Apple’s competitive relationship with Google. Put another way, Apple does not want to make it easy o
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   Hacking the Twitter API: Bet Your Followers (betyourfollowers.com)

   21 points by dcurtis 17y ago|7 comments
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   PicPosterous, the Posterous iPhone app, released today(blog.posterous.com)

   41 points by dcurtis 17y ago|3 comments
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   This is possibly the most unusable website I have ever seen. I can't even get to an "about" page. It keeps sending me to a Chinese version of the site.
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   There was nothing new in this video, really. Buchheit seems to be pretty good at talking without saying anything.
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   The flaws in the iPhone are almost always made to improve the user experience. The flaws in Android seem to be made out of incompetence.
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   by dcurtis 17y ago

   Apple does not compete on the low end, where margins are razor thin. They own the premium computer market where margins are high.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    Yes, 30dayflight.com will soon have more information.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    And I'm coming along, too!
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I carefully suggested that I would go to the press. Two days later, the stuff arrived on my doorstep.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I had a similar experience a while ago. My PowerBook G4 Titanium overheated and melted. I called Apple support. They took my number and told me to wait for a call. Ten minutes later, an executive in Cupertino called me and apologized for my
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    Nowhere does the logged-out site answer the question "what is this?" anymore. I guess they are assuming everyone knows what it is already. I think that could be a mistake. I wonder what will happen to the signup conversion now. I hope they
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    This makes sense if all future emails from the sender are marked as spam, but the email I am using to unsubscribe should not be marked as spam. The button should be "unsubscribe and mark all future emails as spam."
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    That's a rumor now, but we'll see the real numbers with the SEC filings. Also, I asked Tony if Zappos was profitable about 4 months ago and he said yes.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    All of the things discussed in this essay are problems I see with product design as well. Lots of people ask me for advice, and the first thing I always tell them is to change the first sentence a user sees on the homepage from "Abstract te
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    http://dustincurtis.com/ 113,242 visits (past 2 days) 1. Firefox 58.40% 2. Safari 18.82% 3. Internet Explorer 8.93% 4. Chrome 8.76% 5. Opera 1.94% 6. Mozilla Compatible Agent 1.68% 7. Mozilla 1.05% 8. Camino 0.17%
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    Do not use the flag button for things like this. That's not what it's for. This is not spam or off-topic. If you don't want to support the story, don't vote for it.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    This is absolutely not true. The difference between the screen on the 13" and the 15" MacBook Pro is enormous. The text is far sharper on the 15", and that matters hugely to developers. It matters to anyone who reads text. When you use dith
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    If I can phrase things to drive people more efficiently through interfaces, it will help them have a better experience.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I tried exactly what you describe. The conversion for "follow me" as the link during my one test was 9.22% compared to the "twitter" link, which was 10.09%. I'm not sure why it performed (very slightly) worse. It might have to do with the l
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I thought about this. But there's a fine line between being tacky and being efficient. When I read bandwagon phrases like the one you propose, I always cringe. It's just not genuine.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I tried other longer but dulled phrases: "Please follow me on twitter here." "I have an account on twitter." "I'm @dcurtis on twitter." "Follow me at http://twitter.com/dcurtis They performed poorly.
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    Posterous adds Google Maps support(blog.posterous.com)

    27 points by dcurtis 17y ago|13 comments
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    Not really. You still have to be able to log in, store data, set up parental controls, deal with power management and screen savers and wifi networks, choose desktop backgrounds (assuming they don't force you to use a single tabbed window),
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    I'm glad Google has identified a need for something like this, but I don't really trust that Google has the right talent to build an operating system. They have serious problems with user experience and interface design (see: Doug Bowman).
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    Pandora isn't really about the music. It's about the song selection engine, which is amazing. Pirate radio could never come close.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    And that's only 1 million dollars revenue. Which is nothing.
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    by dcurtis 17y ago

    "Twit" is a trademark owned by Leo Laporte, and if you use it in your name he will come knocking.