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by karzeem 19y ago
This is good. The phrase "OpenID ... was successful" isn't the best thing to lead with, but their heart's in the right place.
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by karzeem 19y ago
I have a history in publications, and the thing that annoys me most about web standards is that a lot of stuff that Quark and InDesign have made absolutely mundane in print isn't even on the horizon for CSS. Little touches like easy round
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by karzeem 19y ago
Or you can change it by building more compelling products, which is what the author (in his own, angry-to-the-point-that-it-hurts-his-writing kind of way) is wishing for.
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by karzeem 19y ago
It reminds me of an urban legend I heard about a Porsche dealer who held a "buy one car, get another free" promotion, thinking he'd make it up on volume. People who introduce the crufty products that the author rightly complains about focus
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by karzeem 19y ago
Exactly. The social networks' messaging systems are convenient front ends, but there's no reason that they can't all share data.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Yeah, the source of the problem was that the founders and the professor were out of sync. If they agreed with him, they shouldn't have been in that meeting in the first place. If they disagreed with him, they should have stood up in the m
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by karzeem 19y ago
As a general rule, day-trading is a very bad idea. It would be surprising if after expenses Ms. Torii (whose success is extremely atypical) is still in the black a few years from now. Making serious long-term money is rare enough among pr
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by karzeem 19y ago
+1 point for incisive social commentary. This site remind me of the Bored@(insert name of college library here) sites, which people have managed to find good (and even non-lascivious) uses for. Best of luck with it.
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What kids like to do online -- a Slate investigation(slate.com)
5 points by karzeem 19y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
I second that. These kinds of arguments often go pretty quickly from "social sciences are hard to study properly" to "social sciences aren't worth studying." That's usually the main problem at companies that suffer from a tyranny of the e
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by karzeem 19y ago
Yeah, and it's a little surprising that the Harvard Business professor in the article basically acknowledged that.
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by karzeem 19y ago
From their About page: "This website layout was humbly borrowed from Twitter original layout, since we believe we are creating value for its own community from which we belong." I wonder how Twitter feels about sites replicating its layou
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by karzeem 19y ago
The social networking craze is becoming more than a little absurd. The TechCrunch preview of Mash doesn't mention anything that doesn't put it firmly in the me-too category. Don'y they understand that catching up to Facebook isn't enough?
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Why it's hard to communicate clearly in e-mail(andyrutledge.com)
2 points by karzeem 19y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
It's mostly that they want to put together an exciting story. They're not going for straight reporting. They're after drama and nuance, so there aren't considerations made for readers who just want the facts.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Simply putting up some ads in your app is unlikely to do much for you. A few months ago, Valleywag reported on a group that found 0.04% clickthrough rates to be common for ads on Facebook. That's 400 clicks for every million impressions.
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by karzeem 19y ago
A lot of business books, like some of the ones on this list, suffer from overly anecdotal arguments. All the books that have actually affected the way I do things tend much more towards theory and frameworks of thought. Our little startup
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by karzeem 19y ago
Sometimes I feel sorry for VCs. It's not easy to come up with ways to invest your fund that sound at least halfway coherent. These guys have clearly run out of ideas. The mistake people make is conflating the ideas of a social network and
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by karzeem 19y ago
I hope this isn't milestone fever talking, but I'd put Wikipedia at just about the top of a list of the most important websites ever. It's tough to think of another site whose value is so unique (and so massive).
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by karzeem 19y ago
No more than the web can make you dumb. The study was about what social news users choose to focus on. That's a choice that all web users make, and on balance, most are probably better informed as a result. It's also quite possible that s
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by karzeem 19y ago
The Xobni blog had a post a little while ago predicting that Facebook would become a reputation engine. I think it's more reasonable that a person's whole social network, from Facebook and elsewhere, would serve that purpose, but the gener
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by karzeem 19y ago
This made me chuckle. The thing for them to worry about is that there's not much reason to come back to the site (Zillow has a milder form of the same problem), but maybe they'll figure something out for that.
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by karzeem 19y ago
I second that. It's good to give users content right away, but add something to explain to people why they should dig in. Your About Us section is still a little vague, but it's a good start. Shorten it a little, clarify it, and give it
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TrustPlus - uses your social network to provide a universal reputation(arstechnica.com)
1 points by karzeem 19y ago|1 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
The full report also says that international news is more prominent in the MSM than on social news sites, which is probably more evidence in favor of your point. Big international stories are the ones where major news outlets can still add
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by karzeem 19y ago
There are so many variables to tease apart, though. Are more companies raising money out west just because there are more good companies out there? And the fact that companies are more likely to get funded in the Bay Area doesn't necessar
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by karzeem 19y ago
Just considering. We're not tied down anywhere.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Obviously, Silicon Valley is the capital of the startup world. But would a startup that's successful there fail in New York? My wariness about the Bay Area is mainly related to groupthink. Being surrounded by people who are all in the sam
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Is New York a bad place to set up shop?(paulgraham.com)
2 points by karzeem 19y ago|8 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
Same here. If I'm away from my computer, I use GMail, but if I'm at my computer (i.e. most of the time), it's Mac Mail. Why pass up the UI superiority and integration with the rest of the system? Using both doesn't diminish my ability to

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