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These Three $50B+ Companies Should Be Fighting Over Foursquare(hunterwalk.com)
2 points by hunterwalk 13y ago|0 comments
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by hunterwalk 13y ago
Yup, this is a commitment hack meant to strengthen obligation. In most cases, interests are aligned. When they're not, at least you have a foundation to discuss upfront why they're differing.
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by hunterwalk 13y ago
I think of it more as creating professional obligation rather than friendship. It's a commitment hack, no?
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VC Firms Don't Back You, VC Partners Do(hunterwalk.com)
9 points by hunterwalk 13y ago|6 comments
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by hunterwalk 14y ago
hi, i wrote the post. As many engineers try to decide what's a "side project" vs startup, i thought it would be interesting to share one team that just made the decision.
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by hunterwalk 14y ago
great points. I can't put myself inside the heads of FB execs, but I always got the sense there was a notion of "we will be the largest graph and anyone who wants their product to be social, will see the value to build on top of our graph."
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by hunterwalk 14y ago
yeah, although I bet if you asked Facebook they would have thought a Facebook Connect driven app would have seriously challenged LinkedIn by now, but anyone who tries it fails. I think it's because people don't associate the Facebook brand
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by hunterwalk 14y ago
I wrote the post. Curious on feedback. What do you guys think?
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Startups Ditching Interviews - Try Before You Buy(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by hunterwalk 14y ago|0 comments
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You Don't Have to Pay the Most If You're the Best Place to Work(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by hunterwalk 14y ago|0 comments
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Product Thoughts on New Foursquare(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by hunterwalk 14y ago|0 comments
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The Death of Social Proof(hunterwalk.com)
4 points by hunterwalk 14y ago|0 comments
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The continued codependency of Facebook & Zynga(hunterwalk.com)
3 points by hunterwalk 14y ago|0 comments
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Why LinkedIn Should Add "Biggest Mistake" to the Resume(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by hunterwalk 15y ago|0 comments
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Solving user review incentive issues on airbnb, etc(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by hunterwalk 15y ago|0 comments
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Why App Markets Should Ditch the 5 Star Rating System(hunterwalk.com)
2 points by hunterwalk 15y ago|0 comments
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
exactly! my point is these are human factors we need to design around.
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
my hypothesis is that (a) no one likes "noise" (b) everyone has a different notion of what "noise" is and (c) these systems are designed to amplify noise (but there are ways to create noise dampeners). Personally I find my direct usage of s
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
Really? That's certainly not my experience. I'd be curious to hear from other folks on this thread. I bet your view here is pretty unique.
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
The question of "is this assumption even right for most people" is certainly a fair one. My observations which were driven from personal experience as well as various data/user research suggest that at least SOME meaningful percentage of pe
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
i had heard, and don't know how credible this is, that early on there was discussion at Twitter about hiding follower/following counts from public view. The notion was they were designing a system w constraints (140 characters) and were wil
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
of all the services, Twitter makes it the easiest to unfollow albeit at the individual level. Try severing a LinkedIn connection w someone - astoundingly challenging.
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
right on! thanks for sharing
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
yeah, duh, fixed that now. You should be proud that thousands of other people didn't catch that. Or maybe we should be scared thousands of other people didn't catch that :)
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by hunterwalk 15y ago
thanks for adding this to hacker news. I wrote it and happy to discuss if folks have comments
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Pathgatory: Two weeks of Path friend requests(elapsedtime.blogspot.com)
3 points by hunterwalk 15y ago|0 comments
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Do celebrities make good angel investors?(elapsedtime.blogspot.com)
3 points by hunterwalk 15y ago|1 comments