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by jwesley 18y ago
What this leaves out is Taleb's advice from the book -- to pick a non-scalable career that is guaranteed to pay a high wage. His reasoning is that scalable careers are at the mercy of Black Swans. The vast majority of rewards are distribute
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by jwesley 18y ago
Definitely some good tips here, but the real challenge is building an ecommerce site with 6 million backlinks and 1 million pages indexed. Aside from that SEO is easy . . .
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by jwesley 18y ago
TrustRank is built on the whole site, so every quality link you get into your blog will make your entire domain more trusted. This is why you see massive sites like Amazon and Wikipedia ranking for everything.
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by jwesley 18y ago
You would probably be better off putting the blog in a subdirectory if it's practical. Google used to count subdomains as entirely different sites, and although they have now moved to treating them more like subfolders, you'll still probabl
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by jwesley 18y ago
I think that's what the 30 something business guys who decided on the name would say.
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by jwesley 18y ago
"There will be no addtional features and functionality for users, this upgrade will be strictly to signal intent to the community." So basically, all you get for your $20 a month is a badge saying that you're cooler than people who didn't p
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PlentyOfFish Starts Charging Premium Membership Fees(onlinedatingpost.com)
18 points by jwesley 18y ago|20 comments
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by jwesley 18y ago
Good assessment of this article. Although I do agree that Twitter search is being overhyped right now. Big time. It's basically the only thing left to hype so TechCrunch et al are milking it for all it's worth. Twitter search is useful as a
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by jwesley 18y ago
Google is easy to pronounce and does not have any slang acronyms. I wonder if they chose omgpop because lolgamez was already taken.
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by jwesley 18y ago
What makes it a good name? Personally I think its pretty terrible. Does not mean much of anything, makes me think of a celebrity blog or something. The domain is hard to pronounce. If you don't use the OMG acronym its completely meaningless
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by jwesley 18y ago
I wish them luck, but I don't think selling ads on a weather site will be easy, especially without a massive amount of traffic. What types of ads will be relevant? Those for umbrellas? Maybe products for storm chasers or meteorologists? The
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by jwesley 18y ago
Yea, I posted this mainly because it shows how desperate the conservatives are to smear Obama. Blaming the economic issues on him is completely ridiculous, yet here we have the WSJ, formerly a highly credible business publication, posting a
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I am Fairly Confident TechCrunch is Raising Capital Right Now(benkoo.com)
5 points by jwesley 18y ago|1 comments
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by jwesley 18y ago
If that's true, why would any publisher not discount their work by 30%? Does Amazon control the discounts? Only 35% rev share for the publisher seems extremely low to me.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Definitely seems interesting, though as staunch said, the barrier to installing a new plugin is significant. I wonder how Google feels about the widgets covering up the Adwords ads in the right column. Enough people start using it and that
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How Does WordPress Make Money?(labnol.org)
1 points by jwesley 18y ago|0 comments
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by jwesley 18y ago
Unless they have a contract, they are at-will employees, meaning you can fire them or reduce their salary at will. On the other side, they can quit at will as well.
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by jwesley 18y ago
The problem is that finance is not really an engineering problem. Issues arise because the techniques used to distribute risk change the market value of the underlying assets. This was a major cause of the MBS issue. Financial engineering a
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by jwesley 18y ago
Very good collection, but wouldn't the value of this material have been much higher before the financial crisis? It seems like the theories and methods applied in these texts played a large part in the downfall of the financial system. Math
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by jwesley 18y ago
This is an idea that's given rise to many conspiracy theories about the politicizing of science, many of which make a lot of sense when you look at them objectively. I recommend reading Michael Crichton's essay on second hand smoking and so
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by jwesley 18y ago
Newsletters are also the best way to get visitors to return to your site. Far superior to RSS. It's the difference between being one of dozens or hundreds of feeds in a reader and reaching into a person's inbox. Jakob Nielsen wrote an Alert
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by jwesley 18y ago
Most web communities are politically polarized in one way or the other. If you do not like the political stories, Reddit allows you to unsubscribe from the politics sub-Reddit. Or just don't visit the site.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Was it an informational product the reveals the secret to getting $10,000 in Government Grants in ONLY 2 WEEKS!!!
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by jwesley 18y ago
Digg is such a mess. The 1% of users who control the content and make up 50% of pageviews are completely at odds with where the owners want to take the site. There is so much payola going on behind the scenes. Not just on Digg, but Reddit,
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by jwesley 18y ago
This will probably not be a popular opinion, but I think that Google must eventually become public property. Once their search share approaches 100%, they will have a strangle hold on the flow of information. This is too much power for any
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by jwesley 18y ago
This is what they get for trying to mix advertising with user generated content. There are too many conflicts of interest between Yelp, advertisers, and anonymous users. Who would buy an ad for a page that can be easily defaced? No one who
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by jwesley 18y ago
The remarkable thing is that this story isn't really all that unbelievable or surprising. Those lawyers, always add value...
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by jwesley 18y ago
Agreed. It was interesting to see original Twitter sketch, but it provides about as much insight into the company and as the first mock up of the Google homepage would about them.
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by jwesley 18y ago
This is a tough question because Google does have by far the best search product. The problems arise when they have such a dominant market position that they control virtually all search traffic. At that point, they can do anything they wan
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by jwesley 18y ago
Google could siphon off traffic by adding more ads, integrating direct lead generation forms, or funneling visitors toward Google products. For example, take a look at the search results examined in this blog post: http://www.blogstorm.co.

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