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by froo 17y ago
Quote from Seth In fact, I can't think of one successful online brand that was built with cash. Well it depends on your definition of success (either market position or financial), but Paypal would definitely fit that bill.
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by froo 17y ago
I think what's most terrifying is they raised roughly $100,000,000 USD in funding, from folks like Larry Ellison at that. From the article: Any interesting views from your office? "Well, the building opposite of us has two ladies of . .
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by froo 17y ago
Until then I'll take Wave about as seriously as I take OpenSocial. I'll see your OpenSocial and raise you a Knol.
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by froo 17y ago
Well the thing that got me was there was an assertion in the email that the last.fm employee was concerned about how not handing over the data would affect their rates - which sounded like the data could possibly be have handed directly to
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by froo 17y ago
PayPal support leaves a lot to be desired. They lock accounts without reason and don't offer much support as to why. That's an understatement, I had my account locked (for no reason, it just randomly got locked one day) and spent about 45
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by froo 17y ago
I like to look at their "financial acrobatics" in a more metaphorical sense. Like driving a 911. The car is prone to oversteering, so if you push it too hard around a corner, you can lose control and spin out. Looks like this this is what i
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by froo 17y ago
Me either, I just think the "bash arrington" meme seems to go too far at times, but to be fair - your points implied dislike for arrington (given the negative tone) even if you don't
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by froo 17y ago
Well, for one thing, it lends more credibility to the story. But to go on your initial point, why bother writing a follow up piece at all? Because that's what it takes to make a blog that people want to read. As far as they know, the source
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by froo 17y ago
Sorry to go grammar police on the writer of the original email (see screenshot), but its "their" not "there" when talking about their "pov" Also, glad to see Michael fix it in the quote, although then technically the quote is wrong :)
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by froo 17y ago
Well as the saying goes, there's three sides to every story. Yours, Mine and the truth So just because you know someone involved in some stories, doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the whole truth either. Arrington can grate me a lot o
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by froo 17y ago
Firing it's founders out of a large cannon into the sun gets my vote, in a hypothetical sense.
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by froo 17y ago
For most sites, I don't imagine it would be a boost, for sites with lots of avatars like Digg or large forums, it might be a boost. Oh, I didn't say that you couldn't think of an example where it wouldn't have a use, I was thinking perhap
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by froo 17y ago
So, in my day to day browsing of the web, reading news sites, twitter, facebook, emails, blog posts and all that other text content out there will only make my web experience at least 31 times slower, but that's ok, because at least the occ
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by froo 17y ago
Umm... I just tested this, Firefox 3.0.10 running under Linux (Ubuntu). Trial 1.. MXHR Stream - 10988 ms Normal - 346 ms Screenshot attached http://i41.tinypic.com/zn0k88.jpg Trial 2.. MXHR Stream - 10978 ms Normal - 111 ms Screenshot
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by froo 17y ago
Hell yes I would. What about your average romantic comedy, especially those horrible ones with Hugh Grant - They have little more production value than a Frasier episode. I would definitely pay to go see Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce
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by froo 17y ago
Well, Pirates of the Caribbean has been a Disneyland staple attraction since the 1950's, so they've got nearly 50 years of data to go on, on whether they should continue it or not - it's exactly why they made the first film. When you consid
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by froo 17y ago
Umm, no, the business model is fundamentally sound, it's just they need to reduce unnecessary costs which they've increased themselves. In the case of the LOTR and Pirates sequels being filmed back to back, that was a situation consisting o
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by froo 17y ago
Umm, its exactly what its about. He's complaining that "the big evil internet" is killing their business, because more people are consuming more media. Yet however, the actual data shows that ticket sales in cinema are actually going up, bu
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by froo 17y ago
Actually not at all, This year has so far been the biggest year on record for Hollywood in terms of ticket sales. The thing that's sucking for them, is that budgets for movies are going way up so that they can compete with other studios (it
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by froo 17y ago
I wonder how much of Sony Pictures revenue is made up of DVD etc sales off internet merchants such as Amazon.com? I also wonder how much additional merchandise they're also selling as a result of this global marketplace? Similarly, netflix
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by froo 17y ago
Yeah, the problem with diets and exercise is mostly a continuous motivational problem if anything I figure, which is why the current business models are set up the way they are. People are really motivated for the first few days/weeks, afte
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by froo 17y ago
oh I understand what you're saying, the thing is we over-engineered a problem which has a pre-existing, simple and effective solution (diet + exercise). With our solution, we figured with the addition of the GPS, we could also do things lik
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by froo 17y ago
Well the thing is that is one of the conclusions we came too after having built a prototype. I'm not a skinny guy (nor was my partner), we built the thing for personal use and after several months of use we had found that it was simply too
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by froo 17y ago
Not at all, the content has always been the core business - without the content, there wouldn't be a market for the merchandise. Merchandise supported revenue isn't a new business model, I mean, that's how George Lucas made the majority of
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by froo 17y ago
I was thinking about this a few years ago, you probably wouldn't even need RFID, perhaps some barcode scanning grid around the rim, with beams pointing at different angles so that when something is placed in the trashcan, it can be potentia
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by froo 17y ago
Note that this is completely unrealistic because no one pays for pron anymore anyway. You would be surprised. If the following device does half of what is promised and recent sales of a device called a "monkey spanker" (I helped a female
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by froo 17y ago
I pitched this idea to YC last year, basically. Mine also had "GPS on phone to monitor person's level of physical activity to help tailor diet to their dietary needs" We even worked on putting this together so that the algorithm could work
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by froo 17y ago
(It's 3am and I'm running on about 3 hours sleep from the night before, so my ability to argue effectively is diminished, instead I will just provide a specific example as a case FOR free.) Many of you would probably have visited homestarru
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by froo 17y ago
they need support from outside their own party if they really want to get anything done. I thought Rudd had already broken the record for most time spent overseas for any PM in Australia's history.... Seems like he's getting plenty done[1
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by froo 17y ago
Pretty much every major ISP in the country has told the government that they have their heads up their proverbial asses if they think this is going to work. There is plenty of talk on whirlpool about this and throughout various local news s

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