jgilliam

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by jgilliam 16y ago
This is gonna send shockwaves through the email marketing industry.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The reason the results were lousy was due to the sales culture. Sales people needed more pages to put banner ads on, so all our efforts went to building a "portal" -- not to improving search. The last thing Lycos wanted was for people to f
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Lycos is a perfect example of an internet company that failed because it was run by sales people and not engineers. I was a software developer there in the late 90's, and we did some of the first eye-tracking studies on how people used the
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by jgilliam 16y ago
You can get some small amount of information about a person via Facebook publicly, but to really get at all the info, the user needs to authorize their Facebook account to the app. Zynga and Slide have tens of millions of people who've done
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Google actually does. Here's one example http://act.ly/3o , where people in Romania were petitioning to get street level data added to Google Maps. Google responded fairly quickly and about a month later had data, which they then asked a
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by jgilliam 16y ago
It's the same reason they partnered with Zynga. It's a backdoor way to get at large chunks of Facebook profile data for ad targeting.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
I'd bet it will accelerate it, if it's even possible to accelerate it further.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Google is freaking out over Facebook. This gives them both a chance to build out their own social graph (say as a launch partner for Google Me), and access to a copy of most of Facebook's. This data is important for search, but critical fo
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by jgilliam 16y ago
What I've found works well for me, and is gettable, is a designer who can do HTML/CSS/light Javascript. Then I do the rest.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
html version is here: http://www.gladwell.com/2010/2010_01_18_a_surething.html
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Good teachers aren't motivated by money, so paying them more just attracts bad teachers. Good teachers want autonomy and to have an impact, and more testing is just going to drive them away. So both sides of this are advocating for things
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The dependable banks... are those the ones that taxpayers just bailed out for hundreds of billions of dollars because they were about to destroy the entire financial system?
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by jgilliam 16y ago
One aspect to this is how a mass exodus / conversion to a new distributed platform could work. A web-based tool could be developed that lots of geeks could install on their servers that would allow a person to export their Facebook data int
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Livestream of panel on Startups in NYC(reshma2010.com)
2 points by jgilliam 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Cool, California doesn't need the tax revenue anyway.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
But this week didn't Facebook take one big step closer to their own version of AdSense? Put those social ads all over the internet, where they aren't just hanging out with their friends, and it's a whole new ballgame.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
You are right, I was wrong. It's the full number that's a test number. 5424 0000 0000 0015
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by jgilliam 17y ago
5424 is a MasterCard test number. http://www.topbits.com/test-credit-card-numbers.html edit: I was wrong, it's the full number that's a test number. 5424 0000 0000 0015
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Any theories on how it happened, technically?
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Right, because you know how to conduct a brain study better than a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who's been working on this for years.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
There's a new twitter petition asking for it to be open sourced. http://act.ly/1w1
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by jgilliam 17y ago
This could be really unfair to startups, depending on how hard it is to become a "partner." Like, it'd suck to have your more well-financed competition (who happens to be buying lots of ads on Facebook) get the ability to automatically link
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Huge congrats on the app... with the iPad coming out, it's the perfect time for this. A possible area for expansion (or maybe even a new app entirely). There's a whole world of classical music that is extremely competitive. Since you've g
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I didn't realize the Mixergy guy is the same guy who called himself "G" on the reality show, Secret Millionaire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAKwl1GW-I
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Compete shows traffic shot up in January. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/thesixtyone.com/
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Code for America needs a CTO(codeforamerica.org)
15 points by jgilliam 17y ago|1 comments
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by jgilliam 17y ago
My guess is the reason heroku hasn't done it yet is because of latency issues between availability zones. Ping times can be 6x between availability zones, vs. within it. http://orensol.com/2009/05/24/network-latency-inside-and-acr... Mo
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Yelp has a lot of relationships with local businesses, something they are trying to grow with AdWords. They also want the dataset. The current reviews google is crawling are lousy compared to Yelp's.
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White House CIO & CTO Launching Open Government Plan live online at 11AM ET(whitehouse.gov)
21 points by jgilliam 17y ago|8 comments
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by jgilliam 17y ago
On Heroku, any process that takes more than 30 seconds has to run in a background task. The only other option is cron, but that can only run once per hour.

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