lawrence

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by lawrence 16y ago
Any time I start to get too trusting of people / government, or too dismissive of conspiracy theorists, I read something like this. This is pretty evil.
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by lawrence 16y ago
Events based chat + location makes a lot of sense. Reminds me a bit of Meetro from back in the day (though that was IM).
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by lawrence 16y ago
And what will Facebook overlook? Maybe location? Was Facebook's failed acquisition of Foursquare like Yahoo's non acquisition of Google?
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by lawrence 16y ago
That is exactly right. I'm to the point where I will only sync with FB if I know and trust the founders of the company. That doesn't scale so well.
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by lawrence 16y ago
Self employment in Mexico City is a bit different than the startups you find in San Francisco. No, it's not a bit different. It's completely different. It's another universe. The vast majority of self employment in DF is a fruit stand or
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by lawrence 17y ago
I enjoyed his "curious choice" description of Apple choosing to go with default wallpaper that looks like a series of deep scratches on the screen. Glad I wasn't the only one who gasped "crap, it's scratched!" when I booted it up.
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by lawrence 17y ago
This is incorrect. AdSense was 31% of their revenues in Q409. They did more than $2B in AdSense revenue in Q4 alone: http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q4_google_earnings.h...
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by lawrence 17y ago
Awesome linkbait / PR execution by these guys. This has mainstream media potential - it's easy to imagine a hysterical CNN headline. I hope they have a plan for how to put all this great buzz and inbound links to work on a real business.
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by lawrence 17y ago
I find Alexa stats sad. Om could add the Alexa toolbar today and rocket up that chart.
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by lawrence 17y ago
While I think the author was a bit heavy handed in his reaction (why not ask for better privacy tools or checkin a little more selectively?), the privacy + location services conversation is a pretty interesting one. Understanding this sort
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by lawrence 17y ago
Google and Yahoo have tons of reviews as well.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Yeah, this list was more about pure play review sites. Obviously Amazon pretty much invented the space.
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The Top 11 Consumer Review Sites(sexywidget.com)
5 points by lawrence 17y ago|3 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
The space is really cool. It's right next to San Francisco's best scifi bookstore (Borderlands), and in the heart of some of the world's best taquerias and dive bars.
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The Tale of the Tape: Foursquare and Gowalla(locationmeme.com)
2 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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MyBlogLog Left Its Mark(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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Google: From Middleman to Destination(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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The Golden Age of Scrobbling(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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Geo is on: Gowalla Raises $8.4M(gigaom.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
That's a great story. Here is an interesting macro data point that might help to explain why we are seeing growth from a number of How To video sites: http://google.com/trends?q=how+to
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Foursquare Style Checkins: Not Just for Places(sexywidget.com)
20 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
While I agree with SEOBook that Demand Media and their ilk are the story of the year in large scale content production and optimization, I disagree that this necessarily ushers in a new generation of low quality content in the SERPS. Long t
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by lawrence 17y ago
I didn't see much whining in here. Aaron is pointing out that there might be big changes coming to far and away the biggest source of referral traffic on the web. I probably don't have to spell this out for you, but it's a big deal if Googl
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by lawrence 17y ago
This is the best argument for considering venture capital that I've read in a while, and it barely mentions venture capital.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Exactly. This problem is why the friending / follower / newsfeed format has won. Everyone's accountable for curating their own feed. Want to expand the universe? Allow friend of friend, or friend of friend of friend views.
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Go Big, Go Horizontal: a look at Demand Media, AOL, Wikia, etc.(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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Top Referring Sites: Social Media No Threat To Search(chitika.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
To me, this is the killer paragraph: "Reese is a tall Texan who serves as Demand’s chief innovation officer and who created the idea-spawning algorithm that lies at the heart of Demand’s process. To determine what articles to assign, his f
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by lawrence 17y ago
Eh, you have a big stage. You are difficult to ignore. Seems a bit heavy handed to try and put these guys out of business, but I don't care enough about the issue to make a stand for pay per pitch guys (who I choose not to pay). Rock on.
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by lawrence 17y ago
I always get a little nervous when third parties, whether it be the government or folks like Jason Calacanis, try and tell companies how they should price their products. I don't want anyone telling me how to price my company's products. Pa

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