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by lawrence 17y ago
Here's a few more vague and Hallmark-esque tips: 1) just be yourself; 2) don't do drugs; 3) it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. Not to get too snarky, but I was hoping for a little more given the headline.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Agreed. Ripped off implies something unfair or sneaky. There's nothing to prevent content producers from moving down the sales funnel.
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by lawrence 17y ago
The coupons / deals for mayors offer a more practical reason to use Foursquare. Judging from Foursquare's funding announcement, more resources will be given to that aspect now. As an entrepreneur, I see this aspect as very Tom Sawyeresque
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by lawrence 17y ago
Wow, that's way harsh. This wasn't a he said / she said piece of gossip. This was a feature that they saw on Facebook.com, that they reported. They are a tech news site and all. Lighten up.
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by lawrence 17y ago
A fake user review on the Internet? Say it ain't so. Surprised this made the WSJ.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Agree with Micah. It's great that you are thinking business model already, but I don't think you can indiscriminately charge everyone, especially the folks that will create the community / value that will bring the advertisers. I paid to
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by lawrence 17y ago
50M visitors and 800K posts per day are massive numbers. If those numbers are true, this post is way, way off base.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Or as others have told us, when are you going to accept postcards and faxes as well? And what about phone calls - voice to text?
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by lawrence 17y ago
Search is a very crowded space. And someone should ask Sequoia what would prevent Google from doing this? I don't think this is a defensible model. I think I'm going to pass.
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by lawrence 17y ago
the "netscape.com's Jason Calacanis" was kind of a giveaway.
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Booyah and Foursquare: The Fun Side of Web Meets World(sexywidget.com)
2 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
Better for us entrepreneurs that they are suing the Twitter user as opposed to Twitter itself.
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by lawrence 17y ago
I prefer to follow the founders, not the corporate accounts.
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by lawrence 17y ago
Thanks for the heads up. For a long time, this blog ranked on the first page of Google in Saudi Arabia for the keyword "sexy." Lots of useless traffic.
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Low Bar, High Ceiling - The Posterous Philosophy(sexywidget.com)
30 points by lawrence 17y ago|8 comments
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Copy and paste programming comes to consumer reviews(rateitall.blogspot.com)
2 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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Using Twitter and FB Statuses as Input for your Web App(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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Could Social Distribution Replace Search as the Primary Way People Discover Content?(sexywidget.com)
1 points by lawrence 17y ago|0 comments
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by lawrence 17y ago
yeah, who needs distribution anyway?
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by lawrence 17y ago
This post was the SEO bible back in 2003, and a lot of folks used it to go back to basics following the infamous Google "Florida" update. I think it's held up pretty well. In addition to WMW, Brett runs a pretty good SEO conference called
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by lawrence 17y ago
No, that's not what I mean. I'm comparing the growth rate of traffic coming via "passed links" (twitter, facebook, email) vs the growth rate of traffic coming via search.
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by lawrence 17y ago
ugh, as a baller this doesn't make any sense. not only do folks crash the offensive boards harder when it matters, they box out harder as well on the defensive boards. i love stats + basketball but you need at least a little knowledge of th
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by lawrence 17y ago
This is a helpful article, but I think there's a difference between easing someone towards a registration and not requiring a registration at all. Some of the companies listed seem to be the latter.
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by lawrence 18y ago
They needed to throw businesses a bone. TripAdvisor has had this feature for a while, as has RateItAll.
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by lawrence 18y ago
When you raise $31M in funding, the pressure must be immense to get the revenues up. It's not enough for these guys to get to profitability. They need to be profitable with $100Ms in revenue. No wonder they are (allegedly) pushing the en
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by lawrence 18y ago
Thanks pclark. We pull data from a bunch of different publicly available APIs. We are getting serious push back on the "please wait a moment" thing :) Good call on the lightbulb icon wording - that's from the old site, and no longer makes a
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by lawrence 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It's just so...damn... hard to lose features.
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by lawrence 18y ago
Out of curiousity, would Facebook Connect help get you over the sign up hurdle? There's no email confirmation step, so you could sign up with placeholder info until you get it. We make money off of advertising and affiliate. Until we raise
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by lawrence 18y ago
Not much feedback to be had - I guess everyone's busy.
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Ask HN: Review our (reviews) Startup
3 points by lawrence 18y ago|8 comments

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