matdwyer

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by matdwyer 16y ago
"I A/B Test My Girlfriends"
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Ugh, I hate the fact that BBB charges you an extra $xxx just to put their seal on your site, in addition to you paying their basic fees. It's extortion in my mind, but yes, Mafia like protection
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by matdwyer 16y ago
FYI If I'm not mistaken you can link to the mobile version of the story on NYT and it will be "free"
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by matdwyer 16y ago
If you're trying to keep costs low you can attempt to split up the job and do parts using http://fiverr.com . You wont get amazing animations for $5, but you can actually get decent voiceover work. I've had a video made which was solid, a
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Seems like its designed for a tablet to me... I think we'll start to see more content displayed like this (not that it is blowing my socks off now though)
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Not sure which adobe web app you're referring to but you can try https://acrobat.com free trial if you were using a different one. I've messed around with it and it isn't THAT bad...
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by matdwyer 16y ago
This certainly sounds interesting, but is it something that will turn into "pay me $xxx/hour" after the first month?
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Well, hard to compare as it isn't really an easy process for a Canadian to just decide to go work in the USA instead of Canada to avoid the tax. If you're a founder you're likely minimizing your "income" to almost zero to avoid as much tax
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I'm assuming that your idea has to be pretty darn good for someone to be able to take a 1 sentence description and turn it into a business better than you
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Agreed - please change the blue, its very hard to see
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by matdwyer 16y ago
It's called MediaSync http://www.mediasynconline.com/ and it is pretty good, I've used it a number of times
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by matdwyer 16y ago
WagJag in Canada has done this - they have a partnership with Metroland it seems, which owns The Toronto Star among a TON of free papers in smaller areas. Now I don't know this for sure but I'm 99% certain that they use their personal sales
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I've participated as a business in one in Toronto. They took 10% after being launched for 2 months (this was 1.5 years ago). Now industry standard is 50% of the revenues the agency keeps. It is my understanding that initially they waive or
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Absolutely. The group buying things are insane - There are 28 different sites in Toronto right now for group buying, with some of them having different deals for different areas of the city. One of them actually markets themselves as a "pla
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by matdwyer 16y ago
So pick out a growing, successful business in the US, bring it to Australia and profit! Great model. (I'm being serious)
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I'm a bit excited about the advertising possibilities - I know it is a bit creepy, but if an ad company knew what I spent money on (generally), my shopping habits, and where I am, then I'd expect extremely relevant ads that would be interes
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Ha, I put "easy" as a keyword and it's giving me "sluttish" "loose" "tardily" and "promiscuous". Almost what I was going for - ha! But neat little tool
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by matdwyer 16y ago
dmoz is complete b/s - if you don't know a moderator there, you're basically SOL. You'll be in that queue for a year (or infinitely) unless things have changed significantly
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I think another key thing is in three years the price of storage will keep falling (as it has over the last X years), and with Amazon they are eating that cost (hopefully) and not sticking you with old outdated hardware. Kind of like leasi
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Go about emailing some prominent travel bloggers from communities like bootsnall, (like the families going across the world, etc.) and then try to give them some sort of incentive to update your site, and then talk about it on their blog. U
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I actually clicked & watched this and assumed that it was a paid tweet (i.e. you paid him to post it) Very neat that he just randomly posted that.
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by matdwyer 16y ago
for an internet based (but "tangible" service) I get about 6.5% engagement (sign up, email, or call) and of that about 50% converted to customers. This is from fairly target people (people coming to our website find us through organic searc
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I use a similar method - I take my Gmail & download it about once per month with Mail.app using Pop3. I just leave it local though, I'm fairly confident in both Googles servers & my local disk.
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by matdwyer 16y ago
History is history, and with Apples iPhone track record I'd say the 99% bet is April. Also... "The DigiTimes reports that Apple has notified Foxconn that they will ship the iPad 2 within the next 100 days"
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I'm sure it exists, but SMS of specific twitter keywords in a stream. Example, the police here tweet about accidents/delays on the roads, and I don't want every one of their tweets, but it would be nice to only get the ones that are for roa
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by matdwyer 16y ago
I've been using the iPad for sales since a week after it came out. I picked one up in the US before it came to Canada, and EVERY person I showed it to was instantly interested in me, my presentation, and how big of a "tech guru" I must be t
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by matdwyer 16y ago
In that case, I'd highly suggest learning the ins and outs of ruby or python. I'm sure you could get an offshore job with a company for that sort of compensation, or do freelance work to get in that range. Good luck!
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Out of curiosity, how much per hour/week/month/year are you look to ideally make? What languages do you already know?
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by matdwyer 16y ago
Neat! A few quick observations - 1, I'd love to see some sort of explanation before I give my access. I'm sure it is coming. Second, I know it might be difficult, but I didn't realize that the last ingredient/direction that isn't "+"'ed do

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