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by melissamiranda 15y ago
:) Awesome to hear.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Foursquare always had a better design. Hear me out: Design is about 2 things: how it looks and how it works. Gowalla always had a prettier coat of paint, pretty interactions. But what mattered more was the design of the game - becoming mayo
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
I think the reasoning is that a link in a blog is better because it's one link with lots of text. Links on Twitter are links next to lots of links. Google doesn't value pages full of links as much as content with a few links. (It feels so b
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
This is a total pain in Tumblr. I don't even think it's possible, or at least, haven't figured it out in 3 days of trying. So now I'm weighing whether the community/distribution of Tumblr is worth trading for a little bit of SEO. In our cas
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
There's two kinds of design: 1) visual design that's about aesthetics. 2) UX design which is how well something works. A usable site that is a bit ugly will win over a great looking one that confuses the user. Craigslist is the best example
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
It's still a good looking site, and his copy is spot on. No one said design has to be very expensive or custom made, it just has to work. Ask anyone on the street if kalzumeus.com looks professional, and they'll say yes. That's what matters
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Right. Twitter is great for distributing a link, but having your link on twitter.com is not going to help you rank for Google search results. What does work is people seeing your link on Twitter and posting it around the internet.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
No recording that I'm aware of.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Right, but he made that years ago. He clearly invested a lot in design for kalzumeus.com, which he made much later. If anything, this is a case for figuring out that design does matter.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Look at his main site: http://www.kalzumeus.com/ . It's quite good looking and well designed.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
What struck me is how lonely the video felt. People hardly talked to each other. The only emotion exchanged between people was with the mom and daughter making apple pie, and that was through the screen.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
The content should be high quality. This is why I mentioned the story of eHow and what a terrible thing it is, and why Patrick said "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create content in a fashion that scales while simultane
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
I think Patrick was referring to traditional page rank and general search results as opposed to local or news.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
He's back in Japan now. He was here about a week ago.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Seriously Patrick, it was awesome to have you here. You were voted as the most helpful speaker at 500 we've had so far in the batch. Thanks!
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Awesome. I had no idea I how I felt about poverty (when did I comment on that?)
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Looks great. teuxdeux.com is similar in pushing incomplete to-do's from the past into the future. This one is nice, really simple, and fun.
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Kitty on Quora: The Beginning of the End?(melmiranda.com)
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Awesome. I use Unicode symbols as a shortcut/prototype for icons. I always look them up in wikipedia, which is painful. This makes my life easier. Thank you!
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Yes. That's the beauty of it. Paul from i/o ventures has them sometimes, that's how I found out about ohours. There are tons of high quality people you can meet with.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Great post, love the short Do/Don't format. I would add "How will you get users." That's the single most important question Hajj had for us in the pre-interview Skype chat.
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by melissamiranda 15y ago
Take a look at Mappiness: http://www.mappiness.org.uk/ It's a UK university research project to measure happiness across different settings. It would ping you with some quick questions a few times a day. Functionality is similar; it it m
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Would be amazing to have a few sample patterns as a way to show how it works (what to paint). Would help newer designers figure out how to make good-looking patterns and provide a shortcut where others could just change the colors. It's oft
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
You could temper the self-promotion with examples from friends or other people you admire. Either way, examples would have made each point much more concrete. Just consider it for the next one you write.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Great points. It be nice if it also included concrete examples of real CEOs doing each of the 13 things each week.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
The raindrops are great, but it was the greeting in your source code for aerotwist.com that made me roll off the chair. Love the aerotwist logo in underscores and pipes.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Spoke too early. These slides are incredibly useful to prepare for investor questions. Maybe Facebook and Twitter didn't have everything figured out, but I still need numbers to work out a good story.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Thanks for writing, I knew about the 8 hours in the cockpit, didn't realize there were an extra 8 outside.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
You have a point, but no one knew when it was coming (hence why I said you can only see bubbles in hindsight). I should rephrase and specify that no one can tell when a bubble will burst. And as long as a bubble keeps growing, you can still
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
No one really knows if there's a bubble before it bursts. They are easier to see in hindsight. On the one hand everyone in the world is getting a smartphone since the pricing for chips has come down so much this year. That will make the mar

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