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by dzohrob 18y ago
Read the fine print -- it's top sites by pageviews , which is a very different (and less meaningful) metric than top sites by unique visitors. That same Alexa data you quote has POF at 168 in the US and 466 worldwide, with 21+ average pa
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Balls and brains -- Smart men have better sperm(economist.com)
18 points by dzohrob 18y ago|15 comments
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by dzohrob 18y ago
You've obviously never been there - see http://www.forgottendetroit.com/
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by dzohrob 18y ago
My only source is my business partner, but it's a pretty good test. At 10-15 feet, you can only see features as geometric shapes, but on very well-designed sites you can probably tell what you're "supposed" to do. This is most effective f
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by dzohrob 18y ago
while i appreciate this from an aesthetic perspective, this fails multiple usability tests: 1) "across the room" -- stand 10 feet away from your machine and see if you can tell what you're supposed to do 2) "don't make me think" -- i'm sure
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by dzohrob 18y ago
what's even sadder is that the uncov kids can't handle criticism. when i clicked through this morning, there was a user-submitted, reasonably well-written rant against the uncov guys, along with some back-and-forth in the comments. it's go
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by dzohrob 18y ago
don't forget the new yorker. the best $1 i spend a week. (for reference, the sunday NYT is $6 with home delivery.)
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by dzohrob 18y ago
Actual traffic data, from http://www.quantcast.com/digg.com : 156.4M monthly US pageviews 224.1M monthly global pageviews
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by dzohrob 18y ago
[insert standard Alexa disclaimer here] http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/cuil.com?s...
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by dzohrob 18y ago
from the post: "When designing UX think about what your mom would use, not what Louis Gray would use" That's probably a good rule. That's not saying build something a geek wouldn't use.
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by dzohrob 18y ago
shame on you if that's an affiliate link.
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by dzohrob 18y ago
FWIW, the first one I clicked on was this: http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-05-31 Not that it's the best source of data, but.
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by dzohrob 18y ago
Many sources [1] show that IE6 still has more global usage than IE7. Though I'm sure 37signals' userbase is not represented well by global data, turning away users of perhaps the most popular version of the most popular browser is an inte
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by dzohrob 18y ago
Most of the methods people use for sharding/partitioning end up in the application layer, because open-source DBs just aren't fancy enough yet to handle this. Mysql-proxy ( http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy ) looks promising, but it's
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by dzohrob 18y ago
Start here: http://postmaster.msn.com .
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by dzohrob 18y ago
I would definitely like to hear about this as well; right now we're outsourcing our payroll using PayCycle ( http://paycycle.com ). We're bringing on our first employee soon and definitely want to focus on our core business (ie, making coo
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by dzohrob 18y ago
http://startupers.com
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by dzohrob 18y ago
http://hitforge.com
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Alexa changes their ranking scheme(alexa.com)
8 points by dzohrob 18y ago|2 comments
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by dzohrob 18y ago
is this a not-so-sly reference to Vonnegut? http://vonnegutsasshole.blogspot.com/2007/04/authors-and-the...
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by dzohrob 18y ago
You might find this book useful: "A Technique for Producing Ideas", by James Young. Exceedingly short, simple, meant for advertising, but helpful for any industry. http://www.amazon.com/Technique-Producing-Advertising-Classi...
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by dzohrob 18y ago
I sincerely hope all my competitors follow your advice.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
am i reading this wrong? "In addition to the GNU General Public License v2 licensing terms, we explicitly grand [sic] you the permission to run any application on top of Passenger, regardless of the application's own licensing terms. The ap
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by dzohrob 19y ago
I love Ritual -- and the fine folks that work there (behind the counter) -- but the preponderance of nerds-with-macs has definitely changed the vibe of the place over the years for the worse. My coworking space costs a little over $200/mo f
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by dzohrob 19y ago
I'd say "post it here," but you should think about who (and what) you're aiming for. Hackers tend to focus on things like algorithms and blocks of text and whether you used a JPEG when you should have used a PNG. If you're aiming for the ma
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by dzohrob 19y ago
I was speaking in general terms, but the specific thing that brought that to my attention was the welcome notification -- the yellow box filled with "stuff you can/should do" after you sign up. My hunch is that it would be intimidating to
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by dzohrob 19y ago
I'll briefly preface my comments with the fact that when I've submitted sites to YC in the past, people have tended to focus on superficial things (IMHO). Maybe because it's easier to do that in a short span of time. You've got a nice star
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by dzohrob 19y ago
This is a common question, and I'm not sure there's a "golden number" for how well any page ought to convert; it depends a lot on where the traffic is coming from. One of your best tools in improving your page, however, is to test multiple
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by dzohrob 19y ago
tom's real profile is here: http://myspace.com/tom
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by dzohrob 19y ago
We ran into this, too, and have been dealing with it on some level for the past 6 months. It's probably not the content of your mail; this year, many major providers have gotten very aggressive with their anti-spam tactics, especially Micr

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