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by dm8 14y ago
Some of my friends follow, "no email checking" hour everyday at their work for focus. It's working really well for them and I'm thinking of giving it a shot too.
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by dm8 14y ago
Answer: Twitter & asymmetric friending/following model.
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by dm8 14y ago
Do they fear that people can take their social graph to Tumblr? I never thought Tumblr was anyway similar to Twitter. Tumblr is altogether different beast when compared to any other social platforms.
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by dm8 14y ago
Andrew, why do you call there is a bubble? From what I know, it's still very hard to raise seed money. Last week, founder of Launchbit posted her seed round on her blog (and it made it to HN front page), it didn't seem easy at all. You are
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by dm8 14y ago
Facebook et. al. are generating healthy revenues and profits. That was not the case in first dot com bubble. During first dot com bubble going public was just fashionable. Now it's very very hard to get company to an IPO.
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by dm8 14y ago
Interesting idea. Google is already doing this ( http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home ) and they have solid relationship with big publishers. Question to founders - 1. How are you different from Google? 2. As a UX person, I'
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by dm8 14y ago
It's interesting to see how they saw Facebook in 2004. For them it was a college directory and their biggest milestone was reaching all the schools in US. Their pitch deck looks mature. It covers all the major points; product, audience prof
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by dm8 14y ago
They will curse the application developer and choose the next best application. In this case, it will be Twitter.
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by dm8 14y ago
Everyone cites Myspace. Either Twitter or Facebook does something controversial and we hear everyone citing Myspace. Myspace didn't lose it's user base due to amazing UX for end-user. They lost their user base due to combination of bad UX a
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by dm8 14y ago
It makes things harder for developers. But it doesn't affect end-user at all. Twitter already has eye balls, celebrity users. Average joe doesn't care if Twitter has 100k user cap for third party client. End-user experience is getting bette
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by dm8 14y ago
Which winter are you talking about? Twitter has been tightening the strings for a while now.
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I'm curious to know how do investors judge whether given founder has strong or weak personality? Especially in 30-60 minutes meeting? I'm sure it must be gut feeling but good salesman can easily fake it, unlike most of the founders who are
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by dm8 14y ago
I've worked with everyone on their founding team at Cal and they are all amazing! Kudos to MW team :)
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by dm8 14y ago
I agree but Auto industry is not about car manufacturers. Players like auto insurance companies (who constitute billions of dollars in market cap) will not fade easily.
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by dm8 14y ago
I love Google's Self Driving Cars. But do you think auto industry will allow self driving cars without any problems? For simple concept like Uber, we are already seeing so many hurdles. For any radical innovation to happen lots of naysayers
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by dm8 14y ago
I love Kippt! Founders: Is there anyway I can access my bookmarks on my mobile/tablet?
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by dm8 14y ago
Question is, will it turn out to be "News Feed" feature of FB or FB Beacon? Their founding team were present when FB introduced News Feed and Beacon. I'm sure they've given lot of thought to it. Common sense dictates, it is screwed up move.
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by dm8 14y ago
What is done to IP (code, patents) in most of the acq-hire cases?
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by dm8 14y ago
There are multitude of other reasons why many students drop out of their PhD programs. Lot of my friends started grad school with doing something innovative and original research. But at the end of the day their advisor is funding them and
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Couple of years back, it was all about "modernism".
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by dm8 14y ago
> yet another fee leech that is compiling a list of my purchases to sell to annoying advertising companies. Square's business model is transactional. It's not advertising based!
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Skeuomorphism can be horrible if it's not done properly!
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by dm8 14y ago
It was Google's deal with Yahoo that catapulted them to mega success! They were Yahoo's OEM for search and Yahoo was Internet's home page at that time.
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by dm8 14y ago
Cool idea. Signed up and talking with someone via texts. Couple of features that you should add - 1. Give questions to participants to talk about based on their FB likes or whatever data mining you could do. 2. Multiple people chats - SMS i
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by dm8 14y ago
Ad Walls Forcing the user to click on ads or submit personal information for advertising purposes in order to fully use an app provides a poor user experience and is prohibited. Users must be able to dismiss the ad without penalty. Does t
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by dm8 14y ago
Berkeley, sadly, is perhaps too large and diverse for an overall characterization. So true. As a Cal alum, I think he is spot on here. :-) I pulled about 400 followers from each school, and added a couple filters, to try to ensure that f
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by dm8 14y ago
I do agree that Twitter's asymmetric model works. And Google + also have same feature. I don't have to be "friend" with someone to follow them. Having signed up on Orkut in 2004, and used that social n/w quite regularly for ~ 4 years. Peopl
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by dm8 14y ago
I beg to differ. Twitter is my primary source of real time information. In fact I go to find relevant information from people I follow from time to time. By the way, Twitter is very popular amongst younger generation. Relegated to infrastru
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I thought Facebook matched the investor expectations this quarter yet wall st. don't have confidence in them. I find this confusing. And by the way, if you look at the stock market for tech companies for last two days. Almost all the tech g
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In tech (especially SF bubble) we forget billion dollars is lot of money.

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