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811.
by ed 19y ago
I'm currently working on an app (primarily focused on photo sharing) which uses some advanced image processing techniques in a very main-stream general-consumer sort of way. Don't know if I'll have a demo working by Sunday (need to stop rea
812.
by ed 19y ago
Play to the particular technology's strengths... flash for video or performance and javascript for flash-disabled clients or working closely with the DOM
813.
by ed 19y ago
(I forgot to mention) I'm in. I'll probably drop in early to do some hacking in the coffee shop so if anyone wants to just chill and code, let me know. Also, could the people attending tell us about themselves? It'd be great to see what kin
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by ed 19y ago
Hey Bokonist, This sounds great. I was actually planning on getting this organized myself but wanted to give the teams some time to cool off after Demo Day. If you need any help organizing let me know (see profile). Jessica said she'd try t
815.
by ed 19y ago
Heh, point taken :)
816.
by ed 19y ago
I think I'm one of those people. So, why shouldn't they?
817.
by ed 19y ago
Disgusting... looks completely procedural. They could really clean up their code with a decent object naming convention and __autoload
818.
by ed 19y ago
... in 1996.
819.
by ed 19y ago
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
820.
by ed 19y ago
The facebook video is pretty good too.
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by ed 19y ago
Brick-and-mortars aren't good at targeting internet users -- that's precisely why Google does so well. Most companies would much rather outsource this task since it's very rarely close to their core competencies.
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by ed 19y ago
I think you can effectively fake the appearance of community in the beginning, assuming you have the resources. A more important question is: how would you create value for a potential user beyond what the existing communities offer?
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by ed 19y ago
You'd essentially be motivated to seek poor returns for a campaign. How would that create value for the advertiser?
824.
by ed 19y ago
If that were the case, you'd lose your competitive advantage as soon as someone clones your service.
825.
by ed 19y ago
Seems like there are more efficient ways to determine the effectiveness of an ad.
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Who was your Childhood Inspiration?
4 points by ed 19y ago|7 comments
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by ed 19y ago
TBL has been touting the coming of a Semantic Web for quite some time now. I love hearing about example applications but frankly I don't know how much of it I can buy into. Think back 10 years to the examples we were being given about "Surf
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by ed 19y ago
Just a thought: do the winners in each category bubble up to the top? It'd be cool to try and "challenge the #1 spot" with your own video.
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by ed 19y ago
Eh, wait until traffic builds a bit before you clean up your act. Porn often makes for great seed content, so long as you don't let it erode your brand.
830.
by ed 19y ago
The first suggestion that comes to mind is to automate as much of the process as possible. I rarely use social bookmarking sites because, 1) they waste more time than they save, and 2) I don't have the patience to sort through the details o
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by ed 19y ago
Agreed. It looks like the author got a few press releases and decided to include whoever came to mind first.
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by ed 19y ago
You can only offer a limited feature set if you lack true user accounts. Photoflock.com for example relies purely on client persistence to manage the user's upload history. It's a simpler solution than requiring accounts -- there's less fri
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by ed 19y ago
Hi Mike, welcome to the site! I feel like this is getting fairly pedantic but the question "what width should your site be?" is flawed -- there is no single correct answer. It's alot like asking the question: "which browser should I develop
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by ed 19y ago
I'm reposting my argument from the blog comments: "Given the screenshot you posted, I wouldn't really buy into your conclusions because you never really adjusted your designs to fit the varying widths. I think I can agree that have a landi
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by ed 19y ago
I think that'd be a pretty safe bet. Edit: I'm leaving my original comment for posterity but I misread the parent post. (Whoops: ">" != "<")
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by ed 19y ago
The last Boston meet up was a big success. There was a postmortem discussing the event but I can't seem to find it at the moment. The original thread is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17969 I wanted to organize one more event
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by ed 19y ago
I guess I beg to differ. I can think of many examples where providing proprietary services for locked-in users has been a primary source of competitive advantage -- consider why Microsoft fights so fiercely to maintain a high market share f
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by ed 19y ago
Locking up your users' data ensures that there is an increased cost associated with migrating to a new social network. They're just protecting their share of the market.
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by ed 19y ago
That's too bad -- I thought Heysan was doing a much better job than Slide or its competitors.
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by ed 19y ago
Heysan is now dedicated exclusively to mobile messaging? What happened to flash slide shows?

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