ereldon

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by ereldon 19y ago
I remember hearing somewhere that the amount Friendster offered Facebook then was something like $10 million. I'm sure a lot of people told Zuckerberg he was crazy not to take the money and run.
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by ereldon 19y ago
did you keep your comment short to make your point?
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by ereldon 19y ago
to whoever downvoted my comment... you really know how to make friends and influence people! the funny thing is, i might even vote for ron paul, i just think ron paul supporters need to analyze their own behavior a little more carefully
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by ereldon 19y ago
i was about to say that! the campaign need stickers like "I spammed 1000 message boards for Ron Paul, 08"
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by ereldon 19y ago
Kleiner has invested in only a couple web companies in recent years (including Friendster). http://www.kpcb.com/portfolio/portfolio.php?consumer It seems they're not saying they're pulling up stakes but rather saying "we didn't feel like
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by ereldon 19y ago
respect.
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by ereldon 19y ago
Okay, so I admit the headline was a bit silly. But some people are going around saying that targeted ads and such will make Facebook worth that much and its something worth looking at. How would you have valued Google before Adsense and Ad
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by ereldon 19y ago
jia is not only a savvy entrepreneur, he's a really chill guy. and he takes the prize for Best Haircut In Silicon Valley
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by ereldon 19y ago
Please let us know where we can improve (and what we're already doing well). Feel free to leave comments here, or take the survey linked to, above.
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Ask YC: Tell us how to improve VentureBeat!(venturebeat.com)
10 points by ereldon 19y ago|4 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
The most interesting, underutilized and least known aspect of Facebook's platform, imho, is the fact you can export Facebook data to other sites and other communication systems (albeit in a limited way). O'Reilly's been blogging about this
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A social operating system beyond Facebook's platform(gigaom.com)
1 points by ereldon 19y ago|0 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
as the old saying goes, success has a thousand fathers
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Is China really blocking all the US search engines?(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by ereldon 19y ago|3 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
no kidding! that's quite a cut-n-paste job
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A historical perspective on tech bubbles(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
6 points by ereldon 19y ago|2 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
um, talk about fuzzy math, how about fuzzy copy-editing at the IHT: the caption reads: "Right Media, co-founded by Brian O'Kelley, was valued at $200 billion when Yahoo invested in 2006...." the article reads: "Yahoo's investment valued the
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by ereldon 19y ago
i agree with emmett. mint is great. it lets you pull in data from multiple bank accounts and track your spending patterns across all of them. and in a cleaner, simpler interface than competitors like geezeo, or wesabe, imho. as to the whole
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by ereldon 19y ago
i bet the "northern europeans have bigger brains" crowd is gonna have a field day misinterpreting this data.
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Sim City creator Will Wright receives major Brit TV Award -- for his most excellent video games(variety.com)
1 points by ereldon 19y ago|0 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
have you actually worn a tie to work to be different? did it work for you?
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by ereldon 19y ago
the funny thing here is that ted is the prototypical candidate for ycombinator: - technical skill: math degree, radrails - belief in tech meritocracy - ambition to solve a hard problem thats why ted's criticisms hurt so bad -- he is slammi
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by ereldon 19y ago
i don't think this article is about PR gaming reporters, even though PR sadly does set the agenda with reporters sometimes. my read of the article is that some hipster NYT reporter's narrow hipster-centric view of the world made it through
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by ereldon 19y ago
Your point isn't addressing the fact that this guy is right more than everyone else, most of the time. Also, what's with the "women" comment?
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Is scientific journalism doomed?(nouseforadave.wordpress.com)
2 points by ereldon 19y ago|0 comments
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by ereldon 19y ago
I believe they're headed in that direction -- the sooner, the better!
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by ereldon 19y ago
Here's to replacing fiat currencies with oil-backed currencies (directly)
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by ereldon 19y ago
the story has a good point, but the example is weak. if you're willing to pay for a ferrari, one would think you'd be willing to buy a regular parking spot for it. and why would you drive it to the airport in the first place if you're plann
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by ereldon 19y ago
A bone tossed to the writers in the crowd :) "Switching back to writing has confirmed something I've always suspected: writing is harder than hacking. They're both hard to do well, but writing has an additional element of panic that isn't t
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by ereldon 19y ago
I don't get why this study is trying to draw big conclusions through comparing stories published by mainstream news outlets and stories that are popular on social news sites heavily, heavily skewed towards geeks. As the cliche goes... apple

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