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by lylemckeany 13y ago
I think it was a year well spent! Nicely done. This is an important step in the right direction for independent musicians that don't have the benefit of large distribution. Quick question: How do the various services handle categorizin
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by lylemckeany 13y ago
>The larger slogan, "Never lose touch with friends and family", is vague. The smaller one, "Send photographs through the mail with just a text message", is specific. It makes clear what you offer and also that there i
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by lylemckeany 13y ago
I'm speculating that this change is the result of analyzing their users' behavior. Over the past couple of years I made a switch to asking questions, especially when trying to figure out some obscure Excel code I needed or somethi
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by lylemckeany 13y ago
I use unroll.me and that way I only see one daily digest of my LinkedIn emails and any other spammy things I signed up for at some point for some reason unbeknownst to me now.
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Counting the Cost of Fixing the Future(nytimes.com)
2 points by lylemckeany 13y ago|0 comments
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Crazy Enough To Change The World(steveblank.com)
4 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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Startups: You've Got To Know When To Go All-In(mixingitup.quora.com)
1 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
Warning: A little shameless self-promotion coming. I wrote a blog post called What Street Artists Can Teach Us About Marketing, http://www.lylemckeany.com/2012/11/05/what-street-artists-ca... When doing some of the research for it, I came
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A letter from Banksy - Imgur(imgur.com)
2 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
Like some others have mentioned, the title is somewhat misleading. There is no feasible way that Google ends up owning the entire market. And I'm not talking about the actual cars, because they're definitely not getting in the car making bu
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I'm a huge advocate for the Lean Startup approach, which is more often than not the best approach for deciding whether or not to develop a mobile application. That being said, I think it's a bit of a stretch to expect a blog from a company
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I completely agree. I tried it out a few months back when I had an interesting exchange on Twitter with Jason Evanish (@Evanish). Check it out here: http://branch.com/b/who-will-pave-the-way-for-future-human-s... . Being able to import our
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
True, but I'm trying to measure how many new followers I can acquire on Twitter with a very simple CTA. Plus, I thought it was funny.
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I guess I got a bit cheeky with the title. I'm a marketer, so I can't help it. :-)
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Auto-antonym(en.wikipedia.org)
30 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|45 comments
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
So what happens when I forget what the Google Effect is and I have to Google for it?
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I like Kippt because you can set it up to automatically save any link you share on Twitter. Since Twitter has yet to let us access our archive of Tweets, Kippt makes it super easy to find that link you shared months ago. I've yet to use it
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I don't think the possibility of the Big One precludes too many skyscrapers from being built. Skyscraper building techniques are such that this is of minor concern and the large skyscrapers would most likely fair better than most older, sho
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Startup lessons from the Science Fiction masters(saintsal.com)
3 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I like how you can toggle between the normal Google map and the census dots. It's fun to try to guess what the large white spots are in areas I'm familiar with, such as the Crystal Springs Reservoir near San Mateo, CA.
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I don't think any recruiter or HR person looking on LinkedIn places any weight on the recommendations whatsoever. It seems to be an overt attempt to get people to engage with the site more, thus making LinkedIn's active user numbers look be
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're entirely correct here. True, VC has had a long history of exits and failures. However, PG & co have generally had a better history of Black Swan-type events in their portfolio (e.g. Dropbox). Taleb's Black Swan th
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The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer [Amazon](amazon.com)
1 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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Record Companies are VCs(lylemckeany.com)
1 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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What Street Artists Can Teach Us About Marketing(lylemckeany.com)
1 points by lylemckeany 14y ago|0 comments
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
I don't foresee this project playing out at all like the ISS did, at least not with the way it's being billed thus far. Sounds like this is a very NASA-centric project, so therefore wouldn't require cooperation from various countries around
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
As I read this, the conspiracy theorist in me keeps thinking that Ford built Building 4 to optimize failure rates so they occur immediately after the warranty is up so they can cash in on service visits afterwards.
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
With stories like this and the recent Rdio announcement ( http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/02/rdio-artist-commission/ ), I kind of wish I was still a professional musician.
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
Yes! Persistence is key. These days, everyone is too busy. If you really feel that talking about your startup would be an excellent fit for the blog, keep pestering them...in a good way.
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by lylemckeany 14y ago
Update regarding the Svbtle theme. I sent a tweet ( https://twitter.com/lylemckeany/status/253688832501874689 ) to Dustin early asking about it. He kindly asked me to change my theme and I will in the next couple of days when I can get

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