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by diego 14y ago
I think there's a bit of a self-fulfilling effect going on: readers know that stories by these sites do well on Hacker News, so when they see an interesting one that hasn't been published, they submit it. I've seen this first hand: many of
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by diego 14y ago
That is true for Google. However, we don't know if this is the case with Facebook. I have no insider knowledge, but I suspect that Romney's campaign must have approached Facebook and worked out a one-off deal. I see Romney as the top sponso
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by diego 14y ago
And you're posting this to a social site :)
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by diego 14y ago
Nice. Feature request: please make the scale logarithmic (at least as an option).
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by diego 14y ago
In fact Quora ranks pretty high in Alexa for what I believe is a relatively small user base. They must have a significant number of lurkers and decent SEO. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com
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by diego 14y ago
Very simple: what is the cost per year per user? app.net started with a number of users that keeps the lights on. As they grow, there is no reason the cost per user needs to go up. The price of the service guarantees profitability as long a
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by diego 14y ago
"What problem are you solving" is dogma. At the earliest stage, a startup is an experiment to see if people want something. There are tons of examples of companies that started as toys, and ultimately became businesses. In hindsight you can
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by diego 14y ago
Of course Vinod Khosla has an agenda. However, I know some very smart and helpful investors who don't do convertible notes and/or won't touch YC companies because they think they're overpriced (I'm not one of them). There is no one-size-fit
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by diego 14y ago
That is a good point. However, this already happens. How often do you email support@somewhere only to get a response that says "your email has been received, we'll process it within 24 hours?" In some cases you'd like to have the option to
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by diego 14y ago
"In reality, legit commercial mass mail usually does have to pay to send" The point is that they don't pay you . It's an externality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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by diego 14y ago
In Q2 premium generated $43M. Not the $121M that Hiring Solutions made, but still not chump change. http://press.linkedin.com/node/1223
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, I wonder why it hasn't taken off. Perhaps lack of word of mouth, or the fact that it's lacking the "paid" component. I would feel bad about telling people to email me at shortmail.com, but a VC who receives tons of unsolicited pitches
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by diego 14y ago
"From my limited reading experience the dartboard rarely wins implying people do add value" This is wrong. If the dartboard consistently underperformed most stockpickers (i.e. say it ranked around the 30th percentile year over year) t
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by diego 14y ago
It's not exactly the same question. Wouldn't that response include much more than Facebook and Twitter? E.g. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, Google+, a long tail of social media sites?
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by diego 14y ago
That is correct. However, Google Consumer Surveys is accessible to laypeople for a relatively low price. I would assume that when a company commissions a Gallup Poll, Gallup ensures the poll is properly designed. On the other hand, people w
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by diego 14y ago
I agree. There's a great "Yes Prime Minister" video about this. I just wrote a blog post about how it relates to this poll. http://diegobasch.com/google-surveys-know-what-you-are-askin...
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Google Surveys: Know What You Are Asking(diegobasch.com)
61 points by diego 14y ago|15 comments
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by diego 14y ago
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." And then the OP runs a questionable survey that doesn't warrant the conclusion (which by the way, is not earth-shattering). - You could not be on Facebook / Twitter and stil
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Content, Connections, and Context(thenoisychannel.com)
8 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
"People like you are why I actively avoid comment threads on Hacker News." That's just a gratuitous ad-hominem. If you are terrified by the thought of putting your work out there for others to judge, I suggest that you work on that proble
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by diego 14y ago
You just shared a comment with THE ENTIRE world. For all you know, it could be picked up by this Twitter account that has 7k followers: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says Is it that scary to post your work on the internet? Imagine that you
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by diego 14y ago
Not for the CEO of a big company like that. 5 months is barely enough to get the lay of the land. The press may have you believe otherwise (e.g. Marissa Mayer is changing Yahoo overnight). It's a more interesting story than "she's slowly ge
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by diego 14y ago
I guess some people on Hacker News don't have a thick skin. Some are actually scared of things that seem trivial to me, like writing a blog post and submitting it. They don't like being called on it. Oh, well.
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by diego 14y ago
"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful." I'd loved the mashup. However, if spending a weekend making a mashup scares the hell out of you, you must be living a very sheltered life. Here
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by diego 14y ago
"It is quite possible that Twitter has a similar situation where most tweets come from a smaller number of users" It's not only possible, it's certain. The average Twitter user doesn't tweet very much. I don't know if it's 5% or 1% that's
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by diego 14y ago
Agree, that doesn't mean anything. My study was misinterpreted: those users are generating a TON of posts. The top poster has close to 6000. There is a long tail of thousands of users who are pretty engaged. They are just not posting like c
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, for example: https://alpha.app.net/global/ I don't think you can read the posts programmatically (including metadata) unless you pay for developer access to the api.
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by diego 14y ago
Why do you need to trust them? It's a commercial relationship like any other. I don't even think about the issue of trust. For me it's very simple: I pay to have fun with the service. I've spent more time playing with app.net in the past mo
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by diego 14y ago
It seems that the people who paid for app.net (myself included) are very motivated to get their money's worth. There's a group of people who seem to be posting all the time. Some have thousands of posts already. I spent $100 to have develop
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by diego 14y ago
All those blogs die because people don't bother to use WP Super Cache or the equivalent. Just for comparison, in 1998/99 I ran an mp3 search engine that handled 200k daily queries at the peak. It was a Pentium with 128MB of memory. The sear

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