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by hoop 16y ago
I always assumed this was for usability purposes. In particular, the whole "most users won't scroll down to see 'below the fold'" rule.
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi Groxx, I agree with your comment overall; however, I wanted to touch upon the following quote. > how can you ... only notice [your app is failing] because you checked ad revenue? Sorta implies where their focus is, neh? In what busin
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by hoop 16y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I'm a happy Mint user and had never, ever heard of Wesabe.
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by hoop 16y ago
Did you see the SEOmoz beginner's-guide checklist? http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-small...
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by hoop 16y ago
It just occurred to me that it's in the "Google Profile" box, so the typo was probably made there
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by hoop 16y ago
The Twitter link on your blog has a mis-spelling. i.e., the Twitter logo links to " http://twitter.com/neautralthoughts when your username is neutralthoughts - See the extra 'a'?
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by hoop 16y ago
How often will interviews be posted? Weekly? Bi-monthly? As often as you can get content? In any event, I've subscribed to your RSS.
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by hoop 16y ago
> The contract for syncing with a corporate Exchange server, in many places, simply requires you to allow your phone to be wiped. > If you don't like it, don't sync with your company's Exchange server. What's so hard about that? Th
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by hoop 16y ago
I've been trying to see if I can fairly-accurately match the number of visitors I had with some type of mathematical expression. As I pointed out in the article, the decay looks exponential. I've gotten closer with f(x) = 2658e^(-0.94)+30,
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by hoop 16y ago
I hadn't heard the 10HN votes -> 1k uniques rule of thumb before but that seems spot on. The article I wrote seems to have come pretty close as well with ~9k uniques @ ~100 votes http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600693
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by hoop 16y ago
Interesting point! I'm guilty of that Reddit use pattern and, in fact, wish HN had a similar toolbar so I could remember what link it was that I opened in the first place :) Feedburner (now owned by Google) tracks stats on # of subscribers
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The HN Effect in Numbers(blog.charleshooper.net)
42 points by hoop 16y ago|15 comments
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A quick and dirty guide to the WHOIS protocol(semmyfun.blogspot.com)
2 points by hoop 16y ago|0 comments
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by hoop 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I've taken your advice and changed the look/highlight effect of the book icons. Check it out again and see what you think http://www.charleshooper.net/twitter/
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by hoop 16y ago
That's an excellent idea, and one that I think xulescu was getting at with integrating the book recommendation engine into a bulletin board. Part of the challenge is maintaining a large enough corpus/histogram to generate good results. Mean
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by hoop 16y ago
Hah, thank japherwocky for that one!
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by hoop 16y ago
That's basically where I'm at now. Once my account was suspended I retired the spam bot. I even retired a similar project. BookSuggest, in its web-app form, was the only way I could think of to use my existing technology in a way that wasn'
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by hoop 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback!
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by hoop 16y ago
Yep. Peddled everything from "sensual massage devices" (which I had no idea Amazon carried) to e-books.
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by hoop 16y ago
I have just added some stopword filtering until my corpus becomes more fully developed. Hopefully this will improve the results of the recommendations!
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by hoop 16y ago
Hah, nice try :-)
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by hoop 16y ago
It's not just that they changed their TOS. They also started to take a stronger stance against spam. In addition to publicly announcing "we WILL actively suspend the accounts of spammers" they followed through and probably beefed up their a
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi nerfhammer, They started out like "@{{user}} You should read {{book title}} {{shortened book url}}" but many people would take offense if the recommendation wasn't a very good one or the book touched on a sensitive subject (like weight.)
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi akkartik, You make a good point, however Twitter's ToS was quite different back then. Their current TOS was updated: September 18, 2009 (this date can be found at the bottom of today's TOS) That's around the same time my bot was suspende
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi, thanks for the feedback! Apparently my corpus isn't a large enough size to naturally filter out useless words like the ones you listed so I have added stopword filtering. Give it another shot and see how it works for you.
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi there, That's a great idea. I hadn't thought about plugging it into a bulletin board system, but did think about trying to plug it into facebook. A recommendation engine plugin for phpbb, etc could definitely make the forum operator some
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by hoop 16y ago
Very cool. I hadn't thought of seeding the recommendations with trending topics. What kind of conversion rate did you get?
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by hoop 16y ago
Hi Mike, HN is the best response I've received compared to any of the other sites that this link was submitted to, to include Reddit and Digg. Two thoughts come to mind: 1. HN is where we just saw a thread where users posted about the most
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by hoop 16y ago
Sadly, I lost my corpus some time ago so until I pull more data from Twitter (I've got a script doing this as we speak) the suggestions are going to be a little weak. The book suggestions are faded unless you mouse over them - if you click
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by hoop 16y ago
It appears that Twitter is starting to move in this direction. I recently read that they now embed what they call "Promoted Tweets" (another word for an ad) in their search results. I'm wondering how long it will be before these start showi

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