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by immad 20y ago
Thats something I wrote a minute ago. Feels like self-promotion to put my own blog post on here, but I am interested in peoples views on it.
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Viral mediums, Viral products, Viral Marketing and Viral=Good(immadsnewworld.blogspot.com)
2 points by immad 20y ago|2 comments
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by immad 20y ago
Sounds like what Yahoo and other portals tried to do and didn't really succeed. Facebook is like the same play coming from a different angle, except this time they own all your friends :-).
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by immad 20y ago
apologies, I tried looking but couldn't find anything in the newest and figured this story was new enough. Is there a better way of checking for duplicates where url is unlikely to hit?
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by immad 20y ago
Seems the same apart from harder to participate. Do you think it has a chance? Here is a blog post about it: http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362949/rival-to-wikipedia-goes-live.html
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Citizendium - Wikipedia founder's rival to wikipedia(en.citizendium.org)
3 points by immad 20y ago|5 comments
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by immad 20y ago
Also I can't wait till Facebook is actually beating Myspace. I just dont get the motivation/mind of myspace users properly, facebook is a lot easier to understand (this is purely on an academic/entrepreneurial level)
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by immad 20y ago
Always amusing how Markus looks at everything in terms of dating. Facebook doesn't seem optimal for dating, I have been thinking of how you could use the Facebook API to do dating properly but didn't come up with an amazing approach. It has
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Facebook continues on...(plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
2 points by immad 20y ago|4 comments
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by immad 20y ago
7th textbox down: "For each founder, please list: YC username; name; age; year, school, degree, and subject for each degree..."
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by immad 20y ago
aren't you missing the funny side?
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by immad 20y ago
I recommend reading the comments to that blog post. They make very valid points and make the post much more interesting. There is a place for innovation in big companies, just most of them are bad at nurturing it (excluding Google).
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by immad 20y ago
I figure whereever there is a possible problem there is a business opportunity. That article is a bit long though. Basically the issue is that as content become more and more free, media organisations will start disappearing and then a smal
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From Subprime Loans to Failing Newspapers - Business opportunity?(radar.oreilly.com)
3 points by immad 20y ago|1 comments
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by immad 20y ago
and a summary of that is: The short explanation of what it takes to be a hero is the presence of heroic imagination which the authors describe as the capacity to imagine facing physically or socially risky situations, to struggle with th
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by immad 20y ago
read http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/03/the_banality_of.html for background.
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The Banality of Heroism(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
1 points by immad 20y ago|2 comments
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by immad 20y ago
Fascinating story. Really liking interesting marketing / distribution strategies now days.
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Purple Cow Redux(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by immad 20y ago|1 comments
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by immad 20y ago
I would argue that every max you hit is a local maxima, you just have to be creative / innovate to find a bigger local max (untill possibly you hit some kind of insurmountable barrier)
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by immad 20y ago
Digg provides a lot of value to people who don't bother signing up, so its 1 million signups figure doesn't actually indicate that they only have 1 million users.
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by immad 20y ago
Is there much to learn from that article? I guess what he says about branding is interesting, but it seems way to simplistic. Take amazon for example which he puts into the first category. Its not appropriate, they apply themselves accross
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by immad 20y ago
Agreed, ignoring the fact revmap is not on there (travesty :-) ), the list doesn't seem that representative of the UK scene.
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by immad 20y ago
aren't you defeating the fairness of this test by telling us its purpose?
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by immad 20y ago
hmm, but the Big Four are like advertiser aggregators (probably a real term for that, reselllers?) since they resell the advertising. So this doesn't seem that surprising to me, the people it affects are other people providing a similar ser
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by immad 20y ago
I have never really considered it in terms of shrinking markets. I guess what it all boils down to is how much of an affect your growth has on the competitor. Seems like if you are a small startup initially you would want the market to grow
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by immad 20y ago
agreed, clearly the discontinuity in the demand is based on the non-price costs, which is why people like the idea of easy micropayments so much. But the psychological difference between free and not-free is pretty significant.
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by immad 20y ago
Wouldn't google be a better way to find what you are looking for? Having said that I might add mine anyway :-).
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by immad 20y ago
Extract from Fabrice Grinda because he says it better than me: "The book's self-help parts are annoying and the story would have been stronger if it focused only on Facebook, but that aside Inside Facebook, with its compelling characters a
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by immad 20y ago
Read some of this when it was first released (and was free for a bit). Pretty interesting, now its $10 or something so worth a read.

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