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by minouye 16y ago
I am a "business guy" who was proficient in PHP. Here's what I did: - Bought a beginning Ruby book and gave it a quick perusal to get a handle on the fundamentals - Went through Michael Hartl's amazing Rails Tutorial (I skipped over some o
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by minouye 16y ago
Speaking personally, the biggest challenge with multiple projects is the ease with which you can switch from one to the other and still feel productive. Encounter something unpleasant that needs to get done? Switch and work on the other pr
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by minouye 16y ago
For the source of the amazing graphic cited, see the following post: http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-cr...
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by minouye 16y ago
This is a huge acquisition for eBay. It will bring them much closer to merchants and retailers. I'm a little surprised they didn't try to hold on to more of Rue La La--I'm assuming because they didn't want to cannibalize their own fashion
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by minouye 16y ago
I'm not to familiar with evolutionary psychology, but this looks interesting (and it's on the Kindle for less the $10). Added it to my reading list--thanks!
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by minouye 16y ago
Read "Why She Buys" by Bridget Brennan. It is probably one of the most enlightening marketing/consumer psych. books I have ever read. I seriously cannot recommend it highly enough. Also, it's not just about the female consumer--there's dis
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by minouye 16y ago
Does anyone know at what point your IP would get throttled? If so, any usage guidelines if you plan on analyzing a large url set?
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by minouye 16y ago
There is definitely a balance between speed and quality. The author here is advocating methods that will enable a single founder to push out an MVP as quickly as possible (while still maintaining some degree of aesthetic appeal). The reci
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by minouye 16y ago
If you are interested in doing something about this, I'd recommend you check out the Performance Marketing Association ( http://www.performancemarketingassociation.com/ ). One of their main focuses is addressing affiliate nexus legislation
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by minouye 16y ago
Amazing--I've worked on projects before where if the barriers to integrating with existing solutions were lower, phone verification would have really helped. This is an awesome example of a niche problem, with an elegantly simple solution.
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by minouye 16y ago
The quality was different however. 2D bar codes couldn't really take off in the US until mobiles came with hi-res cameras with macrofocus. As evidenced by the ubiquity of QR in Japan, Japan was pretty far ahead of the US in that regard.
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by minouye 16y ago
Interesting point on embedding numeric IDs. Looking at the Backcountry.com example, have you ever attempted to place all content one level beneath the domain (i.e. all content has a directory depth of 1)? - Category: http://www.backcountr
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by minouye 16y ago
This appears to be UK only. Apparently Staples did a similar promotion for US-based stores a couple of years ago (along with free business card printing) http://www.centernetworks.com/staples-free-resume-printing-b...
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The Story of WordLens [video](viddler.com)
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by minouye 16y ago
Before I signed up for cable, I built this and had pretty great reception. Just a couple of parts from Home Depot/Radio Shack and you're good to go: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker-workshop-dtv-...
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by minouye 16y ago
BofA uses something similar when transferring funds between accounts--a unique code is texted to a registered mobile device to complete the transfer. It seems feasible that they could extend the technology to logins.
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by minouye 16y ago
Have you noticed much fallout from the recent redesign? It seems like there was a huge amount of outrage (mainly from organizers) [1], but I'm guessing that the lack of competitors means that meetup organizers are left with no viable alter
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How To Control Your "Check-In" Addiction(the99percent.com)
1 points by minouye 16y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 16y ago
Makes sense to me. Mixi is a localized incumbent that supports anonymous profiles. Facebook relied on crowdsourced translations to make the Japanese site (which I think is an amazing idea), but that's not going to cut it as far as localiz
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by minouye 16y ago
I'm not judging you, but an activity where you view your "customers" as prey seems really depressing. I certainly couldn't sleep at night knowing I was taking advantage of people yearning for some happiness in their lives.
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by minouye 16y ago
The author of this article wrote a interesting book chronicling his experiences at HBS. It's a quick read and helpful for anyone considering B-school (skip over the technical chapters and focus on the anecdotes). I don't agree completely
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by minouye 16y ago
So the user signs up for paid accounts on two different sites? Sounds lucrative and very shady.
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by minouye 16y ago
I'm not really understanding the second method. I don't see how a rival "dating" site would have any incentive to get a customer to pay for a rival service. Are you saying that once affiliates drove a user sign-up, they would engage the us
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A Homeless Geography of San Francisco(kolahun.typepad.com)
4 points by minouye 16y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 16y ago
I'll believe you when I see the "caps lock question" on Quora. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AA...
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Kindle books overtake paperbacks on Amazon(money.cnn.com)
1 points by minouye 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Testing Display Ads In Gmail(searchengineland.com)
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by minouye 16y ago
How to manage expectations: 1. Amazon Associates: "Make money advertising Amazon products" 2. eBay Partner Network: "You can earn a lot of money" 3. Woot: "...destroy your online reputation AND earn literally pennies through dull, thankless
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Woot's take on affiliate marketing(woot.com)
127 points by minouye 16y ago|37 comments
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by minouye 16y ago
If the cost of acquiring an active user (signup + purchase) is close to $10 per user on other marketing channels, why is this promotion a bad idea? Seems like a pretty creative move if they have the excess marketing spend. I've seen a ridi

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