dmils4

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by dmils4 15y ago
Ha, sorry. I was just nitpicking to nitpick. "Here is an exmaple from a new startup whose website I joined yesterday:"
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by dmils4 15y ago
Right up there with fixing your "From" field is using spell check on your blog posts. :0)
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by dmils4 15y ago
I empathize with what you're saying, and in this case the notion of "stealing an idea" was a bit more blatant than most, but I still think two versions of Svbtle is better than one. Let's look at some positives of what the clone did: 1) It
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by dmils4 15y ago
Yeah - I agree with you. I was responding to the commenter's post - re: staying away from Facebook altogether, especially if you're a business. That logic makes no sense.
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by dmils4 15y ago
Would it really be in their best interest to shut down the marketing efforts (and Facebook pages) of every company with the word Book in its title? If that ever happened, this would get challenged and antitrust laws would rule against FB's
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by dmils4 15y ago
I've always thought Facebook's was pretty good - "work fast and break things" I doubt that's the top corporate motto (I think that would be "making the world more open"), but it's been associated with them quite a bit and it rings true (in
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by dmils4 15y ago
A few people have touched upon it, but the Chicago startup community is very small (compared to SV). Regardless of your opinions around why they were bought, it is nice to see an exit for a Chicago startup (even if they are eating their own
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by dmils4 15y ago
This is a great repurposed version of the Hipmunk interface, Surprised no one else has made the connection! FlickMunk won the techcrunch disrupt (hipmunk for movies) - I wonder how many other applications for this interface style will pop
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by dmils4 15y ago
Fair enough on KickStarter - I've seen it used in both cases. I think with your resume the community over there would really enjoy it, but fair enough. Re the design, all I meant by too much work is that I actually needed to look for where
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by dmils4 15y ago
Have you thought about releasing this as a KickStarter project? Might be good from a marketing standpoint? The design of this page is sort of hard for me to get through - I know you intentionally made it informal, but maybe something to con
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by dmils4 15y ago
I think what's throwing me (and possibly others) off is the first example on the features page. I know what you're saying, but "dumbed down social media tools" and "here's how you sign up for an account on twitter" are pretty different. I'v
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by dmils4 15y ago
Usually the free product gives you a taste of the premium one. It sounds like your idea for a free product is totally different (if I'm understanding your point correctly). Something to consider.. I do like the idea of a codecademy for soci
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by dmils4 15y ago
This looks like a really cool product - put one clear call to action at the top, instead of your three sub-points. Look at http://www.mixpanel.com for some inspiration. They have the best landing page I've ever seen (and the funny thing i
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by dmils4 15y ago
Don't spend money. $50k is a hell of a lot of money to spend to build a prototype. Depending on what you're trying to do, it should not cost that much. Just get your minimum viable product built, whether you're building it yourself after sp
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by dmils4 15y ago
I think it's useful - all of these sites fall into the social networking space, but they all have different ways of changing these things (and every site is changing them, at that). Next logical step is tapping into API's for settings API's
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by dmils4 15y ago
Yeah - another good way to go for this is to find awesome and completed photoshop files and then try to reverse engineer how they were created. Theme and template gardens usually provide the photoshop file, you'd be amazed how much you can
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Google just released a new +1 button design.(google.com)
3 points by dmils4 15y ago|1 comments
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Improv Everywhere Crashes TED Conference(newsfeed.time.com)
2 points by dmils4 15y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 15y ago
Great job guys!
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How This Man Made Dos Equis a Most Interesting Marketing Story(creativity-online.com)
12 points by dmils4 15y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 15y ago
Yep - my favorite is companies who send you one last email (after you've unsubscribed) just to let you know in case there was some huge mistake. A total pet peeve, but the companies who send these confirmation emails are the same ones who m
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by dmils4 15y ago
Funny that their "new" feature doesn't take into effect the new timelines. It won't be hard to integrate, just doesn't seem like they wanted to change it before making the announcement.
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by dmils4 15y ago
Yes, you can try to hack the system- but if they think you're lying or being misleading your chances of playing for them may be gone. This shouldn't be legal in the first place- but doing the second or fake account workaround (or saying you
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by dmils4 15y ago
For college athletes sometimes that option isn't there. If you've only got one school interested in you, and they're requiring you to provide it - calling their bluff is a risky move (on the other hand, might be worth pursuing a career in s
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by dmils4 15y ago
This is unbelievable. With all of these studies showing up that employers/schools use public social media channels to make a decision on applicants, this is way over the top. Hopefully this ends fast.
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Instagram Filters as Photoshop Actions(dbox.tumblr.com)
1 points by dmils4 15y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 15y ago
Do it anyway. 1) Creating the app is half the battle - executing on distribution is the main thing you'll have to fight. 2) You don't know what their end game for the app is - they might be creating it with a totally different function in m
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by dmils4 15y ago
You're describing basecamp, verbatim. Check it out http://www.basecamp.com
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by dmils4 15y ago
There's a need for a website like this - meetup is the closest thing I've found, otherwise you just kind of have to be in the know. Find one person who's well known in the circle you're trying to find conferences for, then email them or goo
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by dmils4 15y ago
linkedin works pretty well = search for the skill set you need, and it will show you connections that are close to you - then you can get a reference from your direct connections who know them. That's been the most effective way I've found.

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