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by majani 14y ago
Is that sarcasm? I honestly can't tell.
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by majani 14y ago
I don't want to speak for the founders, but looking at the factors surrounding this acquisition(little innovation, spam tactics, low price, unrelated acquirer), it is clear that Socialcam was a build-to-flip company. And as a build-to-flip
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by majani 14y ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again here: You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. SocialCam negotiated a fantastic deal for themselves. Great sale.
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by majani 14y ago
The worst part is, they could have said that they had 7k developers who in turn have 100m users, and we'd still be impressed. Instead they just smeared egg all over their own faces.
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by majani 14y ago
I think this hero worship is a side effect of having a celebrity CEO. Many leaders choose to shun the spotlight, which goes a long way to ensuring that the whole company gets credit for the work(eg. Spotify). Some leaders feel it's importa
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by majani 14y ago
I'm a Classic Shell user myself. It's great for point-and-click navigation, but searching for applications is faster for many people.
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by majani 14y ago
People love the concept behind RSS. They just want it served in an easily digestible way, which is: social media.
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by majani 14y ago
Degrade yourself. Do stupid, Richard Branson-style stunts(seriously). When it works, it works REALLY well. Examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5aaXQ1maU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYK-IT0-xE
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by majani 14y ago
Facebook need to get real with that voter requirement. Asking 270million to come out and vote would require them to be rallied through a presidential-level campaign with TV ads, fund-raising dinners and all. I think 5-10 million or thereabo
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by majani 14y ago
Seems like a trojan horse disruption tactic to me. Playing nice at first, then when they get some real traction, they'll reveal their true intentions.
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by majani 14y ago
It absolutely depends on your audience. I've seen a football news site that posts updates and commentary on their page between 60 and 100 times a day yet their engagement, clickthrough and like stats are really good.
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African Startup wins Silicon Valley’s attention barely a fortnight after launch (humanipo.com)
2 points by majani 14y ago|0 comments
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Nigeria to ban use of foreign IT products to promote homegrown industry(humanipo.com)
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by majani 14y ago
Idd Salim, one of the guys building the cluster has a pretty interesting blog: http://www.iddsalim.com/blog
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Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa (arstechnica.com)
46 points by majani 14y ago|16 comments
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by majani 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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by majani 14y ago
'The only thing I think news papers have over citizen journalists is credibility, editorial and writing quality' Those are pretty big competitive advantages. In fact, I'd say those are the three main factors people use when choosing where t
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by majani 14y ago
Thank you for saying this. As a small publisher myself, I am slowly being forced to go the Demand Media route, ever since I discovered that my articles earn about 1 dollar a piece. Got to get them done for less than that if I'm to stay in b
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by majani 14y ago
AWS and Kindle make up just over 1 percent of Amazon's annual revenue. The theories of Facebook's death are based on the premise that they are promising to discover a grand new revenue giant in the near future, which is a bit of a stretch i
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by majani 14y ago
By now, they've clearly shown us that their main game will be display ads. The history of other public web companies tells us that anything else added on will be small incremental improvements compared to the display ads.
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by majani 14y ago
The 'Dragons' are mostly value investors, not growth investors. They want high cashflow investments in which they can share the dividends.
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by majani 14y ago
DOA because no mobile site.
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by majani 14y ago
I was expecting to be told how I too could live this lifestyle, if only I bought her awesome Article Spinner for <strike>99.99</strike> $9.99
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by majani 15y ago
I think they still need just one other successful game to prove to investors they can repeat the trick if people were to get bored of Angry Birds.
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by majani 15y ago
Sometimes I suspect many hackers of being anarchists. It's not always that a big company is going down, or that a certain industry needs to be disrupted from behind. It's like some of you secretly want to see the world as we know it, burnin
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by majani 15y ago
Isn't turntable.fm a video game? Most video games have a fad cycle. Game developers realise this and cash in on their hits immediately. The 'gain users first and patiently monetise' strategy has no place in the world of gaming.
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by majani 15y ago
This sounds like the sensible way for a company to pick up an attractive team. Picking up a junk product along with the team is a horrible thing to do to shareholders in my view.
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by majani 15y ago
The mistake people make is to toss any thoughts of making money to the side. As pg says, get ramen profitable as quickly as you can. That really changes your attitude, and allows for the long term thinking.
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by majani 15y ago
Wow, Quora is now in IPO territory. How do you think a Q&A site would perform in the public markets?
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by majani 15y ago
Once I had a friend check out my site. However, he spelled it wrong and went to a domain parking page. He had just said, "oh it looks nice," before I cut him off and told him the right spelling! :D

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