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by jfarmer 16y ago
This is tangentially related, but when I lived in Palo Alto I'd walk past the Permuto ("The Shopper Connect Network") offices every day (the corner of College Ave and Staunton Ct) and always wondered what they did, exactly. Some sort of B2B
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I was all, "Hey, interesting story." Then I was all, "I wonder who wrote it?" Now I'm all "!!!". The world that might have been. Do you ever think it would have been better if you had gotten fired?
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I was at a wedding two weeks ago, filled with non-technical, non-Silicon Valley folks and in one of the songs before the wedding they ad-libbed in the word "tweet" for "call" or "write" or some other verb. Everyone in the audience got the j
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by jfarmer 16y ago
No, that's not right. Cantor's argument says that it's impossible to create a bijection between the rationals and the irrationals. It does this by considering an arbitrary bijection and then showing there is at least one irrational not in
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by jfarmer 16y ago
"one to one" typically means injective (into). That is, every element in the image corresponds to a unique element from the domain. That's just a convention, though. To be precise one ought to use terms like injection, surjection, and bij
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by jfarmer 16y ago
When these articles say "losing millions of users" they mean losing millions of active users, which in the case of Facebook is the sum of all new and returning users over a given time period. They're not talking about registered users. Losi
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I'm going to toot my own horn, here. Almost three years ago to the day I wrote an article outlining what Digg should do in light of the launch of the Facebook Platform: 1. Digg should become the default way people like and share things on
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by jfarmer 16y ago
They're only ambiguous to machines. Humans can read it just fine.
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Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations(gigaom.com)
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Just for completeness' sake, there is also http://likebutton.me I'm not sure which has more traffic, but likebutton.me has been shared on FB about 20x more.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
I imagine because it's easier to identity as a currency symbol.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
I agree the "average debt" is a silly, but I assumed "25% have no savings at all" (note: it does not say "25% of people") meant "25% of working Americans," a continuation of the line item right above it.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
That's a symptom, not a cause. MySpace saw Facebook coming. I remember a quote from Rupert Murdoch in 2006-2007 saying that MySpace was losing to Facebook. There are a million ways they could have used their position to crush Facebook, bu
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by jfarmer 17y ago
It reminds me of ColdFusion, e.g., CFQUERY. That is never a good thing.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Groupon and other deal-a-day coupon sites spend tons of money on Facebook ads. Since Greg (hi Greg!) works at Facebook, it'd be a gross breach of trust for him to reveal who Facebook's ad clients are. Zynga is a well-known example, often m
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Why on Earth am I being downvoted?
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by jfarmer 17y ago
I use a Citibank MasterCard. :( Is there any way to report this to Citibank?
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Both Kayak and Bing are powered at least in part by ITA. Kayak is to Mint as ITA is to Yodlee.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
It's the parked domain girl! http://yousuckatwebsites.com/web-trends/the-most-infamous-gi... http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&f...
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by jfarmer 17y ago
NPR also had a segment explaining it.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
It's possible that someone else stole it and uploaded to a stock photo site trying to pass it off as their own work.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Mine passed the got-run-over-by-an-SUV test, modulo a new external keyboard and monitor.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
PayPal did this. HotOrNot went from freemium to free to freemium again. It's not unheard of, especially if (as the TC article quotes), the majority of the VALUE is being created by paying users.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
I don't think Gary wrote that article.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
It sounds like Bootup Labs wasn't able to draw down on some of their LPs. So, it's not nefarious, but it would make me think twice before accepting (the promise of) money from Bootup Labs. It ain't real 'till the money's in the bank.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Lots of people have tried this. It's very hard, especially on Facebook, because people are there to spend time on Facebook first and foremost. The one exception to this might be Zynga, but of course they're far and away the #1 app develope
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Quora ( http://quora.com )
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Plausible deniability?
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by jfarmer 17y ago
Or if security isn't a (top) priority.
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by jfarmer 17y ago
You should read "Enough" by John Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group.

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