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by fookyong 16y ago
Isn't this basically covered in every legal agreement since time began? "Apple reserves the right to refuse..." I'll bet there's a line in the developer agreement to that effect. A catch-all defense used at times like this. Shouldn't come
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by fookyong 16y ago
I have some exposure to this industry and subsidies do happen. It's written off as a customer acquisition cost. So when you see $20 of Amazon coupon being sold for $10 and wonder how on earth it makes sense for anyone (except the customer,
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by fookyong 16y ago
Anyone who thinks Groupon has been caught off guard here - I highly suspect this was part of the preliminary due diligence process in order to get the $6 billion figure on the table when the offer was made. In fact it seems like it would ha
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by fookyong 16y ago
3. higher numbers sold look better for WOM marketing purposes, even if many of them are culled during the tabulation after the sale ends. My guess is, LivingSocial know exactly what they are doing.
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by fookyong 16y ago
HIV rate in Japan is 0.1% HIV rate in Singapore is 0.2% The app tells me I am 100% more likely to get HIV in Singapore... which I guess is technically right but it certainly doesn't sound very inviting...
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by fookyong 16y ago
you'll still have to build your application in such a way that supports these new nodes, though. Sessions, load balancing etc. a "true" cloud would just handle all that stuff transparently.
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by fookyong 16y ago
automatic scaling would be a good benchmark for the true definition of cloud. a lot of "cloud" services these days are nearly identical to VPS services of yore, with the added new ability to create/destroy VPS nodes whenever you want. very
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by fookyong 16y ago
http://sendgrid.com/deliverability.html
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by fookyong 16y ago
hm strange. for me, the first time I loaded the page and whizzed the slider back and forth, it felt like each face was loading separately (faces were half-loaded etc). or it could have been just the large sprite was still downloading as I
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by fookyong 16y ago
preloading those face images would greatly improve the experience. (or use a css sprite)
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by fookyong 16y ago
you get decent deliverability now - what are you going to do once that stops happening? one of the points of SendGrid is that you pay them to worry about that, so you can concentrate on your core competency.
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by fookyong 16y ago
I use a few in that list too, but in particular SendGrid and DropBox have really been life-savers (paid user of both). They both solve a problem that is otherwise quite complicated and boring to solve, in a very simple, hassle-free way.
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by fookyong 16y ago
you can't tell us all that and not show us the game! what is it?? and how is it not earning a livable wage with 2 million users?
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by fookyong 16y ago
it worked!
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by fookyong 16y ago
Turns out Hipster is Q&A for places: https://twitter.com/#!/yongfook/status/27198058643066880
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by fookyong 16y ago
It is, although normally with a Dry Test you are a little more specific so that you know what product the hype is or is not being validated for. Hipster's hype simply validates that people like hype (and pictures of cities).
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by fookyong 16y ago
Dry testing at its best. 1) Landing page with email capture + vague promise of something cool 2) ??? 3) Profit! I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a product yet and are still figuring things out... EDIT: Just realised I am a hypocri
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by fookyong 16y ago
the client business does not get 100% of the sale of each coupon. Groupon takes a commission which varies but is reportedly around 50%. So the client business gets 250-yen per coupon.
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by fookyong 16y ago
I just think having a simple private auction without attracting the right parties to the table might not get you the maximum the site could get. Just my thought. Obviously this is true, but it's arguably the quickest. If Mark wants to fli
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm a big fan of groupon, but this situation is going to repeat itself, I'm sure. Recent example: http://www.groupon.jp/deal-detail/cid/4054 For those who don't read Japanese, that's a mom&pop-like Thai place doing a 500-yen ($6) all-
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by fookyong 16y ago
Agreed. I also liked that it was all done in one take and it wasn't given corporate PR-treatment, it was just a guy in front of his webcam. Also quite clever to do it at the office, when everyone has gone. Gives the impression of the hard-w
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by fookyong 16y ago
no probs. I guess to make my point more relevant in a business sense, I recognise the problem being solved here. In fact it's not just users who have the "is it down?" question, it's non-technical coworkers in a large organisation too. I'
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by fookyong 16y ago
If you're just doing a GET request then this doesn't solve the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong but you're trying to solve the problem of reliably displaying uptime status to answer the "huh it's down for me, is it down for you?" question t
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by fookyong 16y ago
I would be more interested in hearing the results/reasoning of their recent introduction of a paywall. Seems the business model pivoted slightly. e.g. http://backtweets.com/search?q=yongfook.com%2Fall-about-litt... anything beyond the las
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by fookyong 16y ago
what is the 100k follow limit and why does it break your app?
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm merely hypothesising. Here's another one: 5) Facebook's terms and conditions have adverse effects on Zynga, enough to turn them away from the platform. Zynga is only going to stick around if there's money to be made. If there's 1 billi
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by fookyong 16y ago
Zynga needs Facebook today , yes. I think the parent question was more thinking long term, at what point will the opportunity costs of focusing so heavily on Facebook outweigh the benefits to Zynga? I can think of a few situations where th
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'd like to see some discussion on this too. FWIW, Zynga serves international markets via non-Facebook channels. But I have no idea as to the percentage of overall business this represents.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Also known as lazy registration. Also known as a neat trick you can try out on hobby/free apps but are most likely horribly inappropriate for the average startup. As soon as you get even remotely serious, for example spending money on mark
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by fookyong 16y ago
If you raise VC and you feel owning international TLDs is important, you get a good law firm to do the ones that you can't register yourself online. They will then contract out to local scriveners etc to do the local trademark/domain regis

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