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by mtw 18y ago
i would be interested in rescuetime publishing aggregated user data, showing the fastest growing web destinations. i mean, if the buzz about blog has died, where are people going to instead? what's the hottest thing?
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by mtw 18y ago
the market value is tied to the amount of money that a company can generate (profitability). the profits are in theory given back to investors. this is why software companies which have very low capital expenditures have very high market va
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by mtw 18y ago
this is a business. couchsurfing is the open source equivalent :)
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by mtw 18y ago
the blog post doesn't make it clear that Peter Thoeny started the open source project. however, I also know well how the TWiki community works and wouldn't have expected that the original founder would act like this. TWiki in practice was o
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by mtw 18y ago
This is just the first part of the equation, I've done news feeds and one of the most difficult thing to do is aggregate similar actions from the network (such as X people from your network changed their profile photo). I've got a working t
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by mtw 18y ago
maybe Cassandra was mature and stable when they released it?
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by mtw 18y ago
nice find, but i'm wondering the difference between this and cloud sites
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by mtw 18y ago
killing the horse just to get tourists see sharks and other sea predators is imo stupid and unelegant
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by mtw 18y ago
see also Eric's blog who begun a series about lean startups. if remember well, he started here http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2008/09/lean-start...
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by mtw 18y ago
does the app update the database regularly? and I also wish there were formatting + images
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by mtw 18y ago
Ireland was never a british colony (apart from northern ireland)
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by mtw 18y ago
unicity of users
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by mtw 18y ago
I'd look in my own backyard if I were Balllmer. dump everything that is average (msn, vista, live, etc.) and come up with brand new products, from scratch
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by mtw 18y ago
I really like this. It's more open that Facebook's, and more powerful than Friendfeed, since it also show email activity (à la xobni) And for once, they don't brand it as yet another social network or any other buzzword
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by mtw 18y ago
see http://vencorps.com
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by mtw 18y ago
not really, flickr, stumbleupon, clubpenguin started when .com bubble crashed. crises do spurr ground-breaking technologies and new ways
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by mtw 18y ago
can we settle for a high return and a very low variance? :)
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by mtw 18y ago
the excerpt uses very grim words for something which is just "describing". that said, I agree with your last 2 sentences
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by mtw 18y ago
my point was that a startup should look for alternative business models than advertising, which bets only on eyeballs. unless you truly have a new way to handle and display advertising, that is
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by mtw 18y ago
i've followed the SvN blog for years, and i've never seen linkbaiting (contrary to TechCrunch or other TC-style blogs)
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by mtw 18y ago
is this criticizing hackers and/or programmers?
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by mtw 18y ago
another reason why web startups should not rely on advertising. even if media powerhouses like the NYTimes or Washington Post has their revenues stalling, why would your startup do a better job?
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by mtw 18y ago
the greater transparency solution would be only avalaible to big companies, who would employ armies of consultants and accountants to be declared "transparent", since a small business needs a minimum of $20k to get their balance sheets audi
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by mtw 18y ago
I don't suppose this is real-time, with continuously updated results? It seems you run once the SVD algorithm, store results in a spreadsheet, and then greasemonkey pulls the data from this static file.
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by mtw 18y ago
interesting but in genetics, nature takes the best AND the worst features
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by mtw 18y ago
most recent startups aren't building revenues, they compete for eyeballs. friendfeed, twitter, youtube, slide... there's hardly a case for an IPO
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by mtw 18y ago
apple.com (navigation, commerce) amazon (especially for nagivation, also commerce) facebook (for community) nytimes (for content) backpack
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by mtw 18y ago
if this is true, then we will see soon Chineese men behaving like conquering Vikings :) (ratio of men vs women is one of the highest in the world due to single child policy)
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by mtw 18y ago
fail. i thought at one point the laptop would also make coffee, since they added in the design pretty much everything that came through their mind
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by mtw 18y ago
i thought that this was an April fool's joke

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