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by elvirs 16y ago
come on, we all know that at the end of the day you have to make money.
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by elvirs 16y ago
yeah they have developed pioneering technology but they failed to build a profitable company, which is what matters if you take funding and present yourself a company.
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by elvirs 16y ago
nice to see people getting over overhyped web2.0 'companies'
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by elvirs 16y ago
I love the 'Unlimited Units' plan for $249 which is there just to make 'Unlimited Units' plan for $69 look like a good deal.
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by elvirs 16y ago
The tagging made by users in their photos and face recognition is different. When a user has to tag someone they are given standard sized box to drag over the person you want to tag while the face recognition systems selects only the face o
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by elvirs 16y ago
Did you notice that most of the comments on the facebook blogpost are made by ladies? Looks like they are more concerned about the security of their accounts than men do.
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Facebook Acquires Mobile Advertising Startup Rel8tion (emoney.allthingsd.com)
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by elvirs 16y ago
looks like some people here walk around and downvote anything they dont like.
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by elvirs 16y ago
same here, I feel guilty for clicking 'spam' on emails that do not really spam but demand me to login and and change subscription settings of my account, which takes way more than 5 clicks but I still click on 'spam' because it is easier an
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by elvirs 16y ago
is it safe to declare Square dead?
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by elvirs 16y ago
I know that, you did not notice the sarcasm, congrats to Kevin Rose for not managing to keep talented people in Digg.
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by elvirs 16y ago
congrats to Kevin Rose :)
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by elvirs 16y ago
considering the fact that 95% of all email is spam, the email service providers should implement a similar quota system to fight spam. actually it would be great if entire email ecosystem had something like this in its core.
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by elvirs 16y ago
Parker must have hated the cocaine and underage girls scenes.
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by elvirs 16y ago
you made a genuine point, I stay corrected, thanks.
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by elvirs 16y ago
Was not the NewsFeed Sean Parker's idea originally developed for Plaxo (he is cofounder)? P.s. Its nice to see academicians finally admit that they sometimes do kill creativity and discourage students from innovation.
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by elvirs 16y ago
I have a japanese guy in my friendlist on facebook, but that's not the issue here. And yes, this way of customer acquisition won't take facebook too far.
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by elvirs 16y ago
I am surprised by the fact that arrington allowed an article that criticizes tehcrunch for being hype machine (which it is). Regarding quora, yes it gets too much techcrunch attention but it is not as flawed as the writer thinks, quora gene
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by elvirs 16y ago
Facebook is Japan's nothing. It is not that well known in Japan.
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by elvirs 16y ago
Congrats on the sale Mark, if you disclose the price, please make sure you do that on HN :)
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by elvirs 16y ago
Wow that's a shitload of money, but he did a great work during the decade of being CEO.
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by elvirs 16y ago
why all real estate applications are pure text/image or pure maps with some text pop-ups? I think the ideal real estate application is a perfect combination of maps and text/image
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by elvirs 16y ago
may be to make Azure and other cloud products/services better.
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by elvirs 16y ago
This is great. I think a good payoff for all the work they've put in would come from acquisition by microsoft instead of selling this as a service to customers. Probably that's exactly what is on their mind.
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by elvirs 16y ago
zappos does not outsource that for a reason.
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by elvirs 16y ago
One of the reasons Google may fail at this is the support call center. Groupon has large and professional support call centers that around the world that takes care of customer inquiries, something very distant to Google culture
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by elvirs 16y ago
Google acquires mainly technology and talent, or in some cases it would pay big bucks to acquire marketshare. There is not much technology behind group buying things. And none of the Groupon competitors have the marketshare Google wants. Th
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by elvirs 16y ago
it is phony practice though it will be really hard to prove that certain decisions made by Google were based on analysis of AdWords data from Groupon campaigns.
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by elvirs 16y ago
'With its vast reach, huge resources and brand recognition, it could prove to be a powerful player in the space.' Yeah, just like it did with Buzz. Though this time it actually has more shots at it.
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by elvirs 16y ago
Goopon?

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