mquinlan

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by mquinlan 14y ago
I've actually had this happen to me a few months ago; I tried to sign in and my account was locked due to some private pictures I had stored. I decided to just wait out the the "grace period" they gave me. When I checked back a few weeks la
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by mquinlan 14y ago
Based off of their team page, Pinterest is up to 31 employees. http://pinterest.com/about/team/
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by mquinlan 14y ago
Things may have changed in the last few years as blogspam is still pretty lucrative and has continued to advance, but I remember reading a study a few years ago (found here: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-i... )
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by mquinlan 15y ago
The majority of sites that I've seen using Project Wonderful gave been online comics, and since that's a big market for the site, I personally couldn't recommend it for just anyone. While I do think the idea behind it is really nice and a g
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by mquinlan 15y ago
From my own experiences (viewing SEO as a "hobby"), I do think the type of semi-blackhat SEO that's most prevalent - the 20k blog comment blasts and automated WhoIs reports - is righteously dying out. It may take a while since a lot of peop
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by mquinlan 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the outcome of any other "failed" projects, but has Kickstarter ever forcibly refunded money or intervened in any way? If not... they're obviously growing (nearly 4x as much pledged in 2011) and I don't know if more st
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by mquinlan 15y ago
One feature that feels kinda necessary while the ideas are sparse is the ability to skip (or not have repeating) ideas. Otherwise, I feel like I've already read over all the submissions in just a few minutes.
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by mquinlan 15y ago
It sounds gimmicky when you add on top of the 3 item, 2 day, and 5% off restrictions that it's only on select products and valid in select stores. Nice headline news, but shouldn't Amazon be looking to find people who'll become long-term us
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by mquinlan 15y ago
As long as the submitted sites aren't the latest social network simply mining for more data/active users, it sounds like it could foster a great community.
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by mquinlan 15y ago
For the sales of Crawford's book to go from 6 (/day?) to 5,000+ makes me question how many of those aren't really fans and are just readers because it was an impulse "buy". At least he maintained his 4.5 star rating even with the flood of
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by mquinlan 15y ago
Agreed - it seems like more of a failed attempt at a namedrop, when more of the "blame" should be directed towards the public. If Times readers as a whole lose express interest in WikiLeaks while Assange is dealing with legal issues and man
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by mquinlan 15y ago
It really does seem like auto-solving captchas has its benefits (assuming spammers already just use crowdsourcing to solve captchas). Utilizing this could open up the doors to any homebrew captchas services (such as small town university li
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by mquinlan 15y ago
This type of approach seems to beg for collaboration between schools. If something like this can be done for such a fraction of the normal price, what's stopping a school from molding this existing text to their own curriculum or building t