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by paul 19y ago
AdSense the product and technology (content targetting) predates the acquisition, which is why the press release is titled, "New Technologies and Engineering Team Complement Google's Content Targeted Advertising Programs". AdSense the trade
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by paul 19y ago
How much did your school pay your for your efforts there?
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by paul 19y ago
What was the idea of an intern? Ads were part of the plan from very early on. Also, AdSense predates the Applied Semantics aquisition.
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by paul 19y ago
People used to make this same silly comparison about the Internet itself (when the web was really taking off in 95).
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by paul 19y ago
That would be a pretty cool product if it actually worked -- it could be used to automate a lot of customer support. I'd invest.
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by paul 19y ago
You're right that startups should be focused on building things that people will want instead of just trying to use cool technology, but you're mistaken in believing that Google wasn't doing that. Google had a strong following of enthusiast
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by paul 19y ago
Randomly select three words, then think about what they mean together and how to turn that into a business. Repeat.
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by paul 19y ago
You want a different and more complicated solution to an already solved problem?
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by paul 19y ago
Your understanding of Google is not at all accurate.
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by paul 19y ago
I wonder about their strategy for unveiling the strategy. First they should unveil that.
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by paul 19y ago
It's custom, but apparently similar to a few of the popular ones.
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by paul 19y ago
Python, mostly. There's a little bit of c++ to make some things fast, but we're trying to minimize that.
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by paul 19y ago
Here's the actual changelog, btw: http://changelog.friendfeed.com/
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FriendFeed Changelog: see what code we are writing(blog.friendfeed.com)
31 points by paul 19y ago|14 comments
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by paul 19y ago
Yeah, the fact that he chose Gmail as his first example of how free is somehow hurting consumers is rather telling.
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by paul 19y ago
I wouldn't trust that graph :) Also, Gmail makes money multiple ways, including ads (direct and indirect) and paid customers of Google Apps.
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Friendfeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly(venturebeat.com)
4 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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by paul 19y ago
The devil is in the details.
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by paul 19y ago
What's Facebook? Is that some kind of photo album site? ;)
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by paul 19y ago
That's a great quote. It's important to understand that _listening_ to your customers isn't the same as having them design the product (which would be a mistake). In this case, the message that you should get from the customer is that "my h
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by paul 19y ago
You should NOT use any library that messes with Object.prototype or Array.prototype, then this won't be a problem and the for loops will work just fine.
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FriendFeed's Google Connection(blogoscoped.com)
3 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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by paul 19y ago
It's a problem if they have no willingness to learn. If something is important to the business, the founders should make an effort to understand it.
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by paul 19y ago
Investors have no ability to force Slide to close.
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by paul 19y ago
http://www.ooyala.com/management
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by paul 19y ago
I think the complaint is about everything other than this detail, such as forcing startups to use Messenger exclusively and give MS first shot at search deals.
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by paul 19y ago
For me, your ruby version is more readable because the order is more sequential (like a pipeline). The arc version has to be read from the inside-out, vs left-to-right in ruby.
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by paul 19y ago
Because Time Warner needs protection from Google? I have a hard time feeling sorry for the telco and cable monopolies.
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by paul 19y ago
Interesting quote: "Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1981, George Vaillant, a Harvard psychiatrist who's spent the bulk of his career devoted to the study of adult resilience and coping, argued that childhood capacity for wo
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by paul 19y ago
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