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by jfornear 16y ago
Looks very polished, nicely done. The real problem with new social apps (for me at least) is that I can never get my friends to join anything. Take Rdio for example, another nicely designed app -- I just can't get my friends to use it with
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by jfornear 16y ago
Insufficient sample size for drawing conclusions about target population. /sarcasm
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by jfornear 16y ago
All these two companies have going for them now are stamps and badges...
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by jfornear 16y ago
This explains the "Marina bro" better than I could: http://uptownalmanac.com/2010/07/wont-you-be-my-bromate
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by jfornear 16y ago
(2.) I just moved to SF ~4 weeks ago. I lived in one of those antique hotels while looking for a place the first week I was here. I probably should have gone the AirBnB route instead, but it was still cheap and not all that bad. (1.) I kind
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by jfornear 16y ago
> I’m either going to launch an open source operating system for unmanned aerial vehicles, or build a first person shooter to teach non-violent solutions based on buddhist principles. Or a pet food review site. Which one do you like be
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Moving to the Bay Area(jessefornear.com)
7 points by jfornear 16y ago|1 comments
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by jfornear 16y ago
I don't get Foursquare from a users' perspective, but the possibilities of location-based marketing make it a no-brainer investment from a business standpoint. Their situation is the inverse of Twitter searching for a business model, if t
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Coke sees 'phenomenal' result from Twitter ads(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
5 points by jfornear 16y ago|5 comments
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by jfornear 16y ago
FSB is just KGB with a smiley face :)
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by jfornear 16y ago
...or just ask del.icio.us who sold for like a few million to Yahoo? :)
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by jfornear 16y ago
Sorry about that. :)
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by jfornear 16y ago
It looks like they took a little too much influence from the Twitter home page... EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted? http://twitter.com http://fanpul.se EDIT #2: I don't mean to call them out on their integrity or anything. I'm mostly su
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by jfornear 16y ago
I think it's easy to forget about the diversity we have here on HN. We've got traders, climate scientists, ex-Marines, lawyers, chefs, etc.
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by jfornear 16y ago
The "execution is everything" mantra is tired hyperbole. Of course 'the idea' is worthless if it's nothing.
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by jfornear 16y ago
The Uptown area in Dallas is one of the nicest areas in the US.
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Ask HN: How do you license music for web only playback?
4 points by jfornear 16y ago|1 comments
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by jfornear 16y ago
It looks to me like they are only trying to prevent third parties from cluttering the official stream with third-party paid tweets. Not really anything for developers to get riled up about.
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by jfornear 16y ago
I have a friend who is an engineer at a wind turbine startup here in the US and he has told me that most of their prototypes are bought by big names in Hollywood for "eco-bling" as well.
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2 Months Out, 74% of Latest Y Combinator Class Funded or Profitable(gigaom.com)
43 points by jfornear 16y ago|16 comments
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by jfornear 16y ago
I've had better results with Facebook Ads than with Google AdWords... but that could be due to any number of things.
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by jfornear 16y ago
The eventual Facebook replacement will look nothing like Facebook in terms of functionality. I wouldn't give a penny to a startup/project that positioned themselves against Facebook like this. Any variation of an "Open Facebook" of some sor
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by jfornear 16y ago
Facebook ads are usually creepily relevant because they feed off keywords in your chat logs and interests.
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by jfornear 16y ago
I have worked for a university as well, and multiple logos I designed for the small grant that I worked for were shot down for misusing the official logo somehow. The review process seemed very politicized, subjective, and opaque. It would
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by jfornear 16y ago
I can relate 100%. I have a good friend who quit his desk job in finance to go to Marine OCS. He runs around in the woods, climbs on mountains, and sleeps on the ground everyday. This might be dumb, but I feel like he's already done more wi
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by jfornear 16y ago
Very cool. I thought about pursuing an idea similar to this after spending nearly 2 hours (it felt like 10 minutes...) on http://wimp.com the other day.
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by jfornear 16y ago
I think the speculations and rumors are very interesting and relevant to learning more about how the market works (or doesn't work), a topic that no one is ever going to have enough "facts" to fully understand.
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by jfornear 16y ago
The rumor is that the Citi e-mini desk sold $16B of futures ($SPY) by mistake and meant to do $16M. (I don't buy it. CNBC is propaganda.)
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by jfornear 16y ago
http://bloomberg.com is down too.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The temptation of Facebook's CEO (money.cnn.com)
3 points by jfornear 16y ago|0 comments

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