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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Phone numbers aren't exposed via the Facebook API under any circumstance. For a long time it was the same with emails, including when Scoble wrote that script, but now you can get a user's email by specifically asking for that information
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Facebook does not take a cut of third-party display advertising. For example, if an advertiser pays Zynga to put a banner ad in their application or above the Flash widget containing their game, Facebook doesn't see a penny of that. Zynga p
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I've done this at every startup I've worked at, including the ones I co-founded! Didn't realize it was a novelty.
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   There's a really easy mental shortcut engineers or engineers who are aspiring entrepreneurs can make. It starts with a thought like: "Oh, I can do that by gluing together X, Y, and Z and configuring the foobaz widget to sync via the 802.11q
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Khan Academy is doing a lot of this. They actually work with schools, too.
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   How does Zynga get a free pass? People rip into them all the time for stealing, copying, ripping off, etc. other people's games, ideas, and mechanics. There have even been lawsuits, some of which Zynga lost. They make so much money they do
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I first saw that error in a pre-Google world. It took a few days for me to figure out what it meant.
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I pay $1,000/month for a room in a 2BR apartment in the middle of Hayes Valley in SF. If you live in a less central neighborhood like the Richmond, Sunset, Glen Park, Bernal Heights, etc. it will be much lower.
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I would rather have something verbose that corresponds to the underlying API than something I have to guess or remember. Is it createProdAdvClient, createProductAdvClient, createProdAdvertisingClient, createProdAdvertClient, etc.? Completel
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    He lost the election in 2010, but his term ended in 2011. He became CEO of the MPAA two months later.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I'm not sure what the common idioms for Javascript/node.js API design are, but I think this API is really ugly. prodAdv = aws.createProdAdvClient(yourAccessKeyId, yourSecretAccessKey, yourAssociateTag); prodAdv.call("ItemSearch", {Se
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I'd wager SO's main source of traffic is Google
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    We use One World Direct at Everlane. Photojojo also uses OWD. http://www.owd.com/ http://www.everlane.com http://http://photojojo.com/
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Google's business is built on the open web, so they need the open web to flourish. This requires new standards to compete with Flash and other proprietary technologies and platforms. Pushing Chrome is a way for them to advance the state of
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I know you're not serious, but MM stands for "million." "M" stands for "mille," French for "thousand." So MM is a thousand thousand, or one million.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    When it comes to producing amazing work, quantity beats quality. That is, it's better to produce 100 things and throw away 99 than it is to sit around a perfect 1. In the end the quality will be higher. http://russelldavies.typepad.com/pl
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I can understand that impulse, but if your goal is to maximize the impact your money has, once you reach the level of a Jobs or a Gates, your name can carry as much weight as your money. e.g., think of all the time people spend talking abou
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I believe her broader point, but I don't really connect the dots from "diversity in a founding team is bad" to "women shouldn't start companies with men." Ignore the gender issue for now. Having homogeneous founding team is valuable becaus
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    You could use a tool like Kissmetrics or Mixpanel to track that easily enough -- just fire one event when the permissions dialog is opened, and another if the user accepts the permissions.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Don't charge. In products with network effects, you want as little friction as possible. This is why about.me demolished flavors.me, even though flavors.me came first. Since your product is built around doing things with other people, ther
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    If you're into biohacking you should check out http://cofactorbio.com/ They sell a kit that lets you do a 23-and-me style analysis in your own home. An article in Wired about them and others working on similar efforts: http://www.wired.c
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Funny you picked $0.50. At Facebook's current revenues, that's about how much each person would have to pay for month for them to be making as much as they're making now, if you took away all the other cash streams.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I don't know what it's like now, but back in 2007-2008, customer support was the biggest department in Facebook by headcount.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    This move is uncomfortable but necessary. The two businesses are different at every level (supply chain, cost structure, technology, user experience, etc.), and the DVD business is on its way out over the nest 3-5 years. Better to disrupt
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    1. ShoeDazzle can afford to pay for customers 2. ShoeDazzle needs far fewer customers to generate significant revenue 3. ShoeDazzle's value proposition is much clearer -- either you want shoes to buy Kim Kardashian shoes, or you don't 4. Us
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I've found that almost nobody in Silicon Valley gets this, especially engineers (speaking as one). They treat the "product problem" as a technology problem (more data, better recommendations), but it's really a psychology problem (how do y
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    What I'm trying to say is this: it's not about a "match" between the product and the potential consumer. The who, what, and how of the recommendation matter almost as much as the product itself. Just the fact that I know this recommendatio
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    To quote another article on the homepage, what I'm saying is: don't be so f*&^ing strategic.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    We don't spam anyone's Facebook feed, for the record. We will post something if and only if you click "post to Facebook."
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Robots don't merchandise, that's the problem. For many people decisions about what to wear is very intimate, but algorithms are bloodless. The who, where, and how matter much more in fashion. Algorithms miss that.