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by phereford 15y ago
Those horror stories are actually somewhat scary for a business owner. Not being able to dictate what time your discount starts? If people have a bad experience with the Groupon at your store, the store gets inflicted with tons of bad revie
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by phereford 15y ago
25 cents on top of 50 cents. You have to take into consideration the discount they are required to give as well.
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by phereford 15y ago
It is 100% dependant on industry. Ask any retailer if a Groupon makes sense when they depend on the margins their products produce. The only way it makes sense is if they are able to get large volume discounts on whatever they are trying to
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by phereford 15y ago
Sustainable means it doesn't hinder the business like a 50% off coupon and a 25% split on the revenue thereafter. Most local businesses cant afford that and realize it too late. The company I work for is thegolocalcard.com (won't plug it ag
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by phereford 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a sustainable deal site for local businesses. One factor that hbr is not mentioning is business owners (national and local) that participate on Groupon, for the most part, are having bad experiences. Obviously this de
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by phereford 15y ago
Fair enough. :) I dont use KISSMetrics so I haven't read up on their ToS or PP. Makes sense though.
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by phereford 15y ago
Definitely not conspiracy. AirBnB is probably flailing around trying to figure out what is the best way to get to turn around this month long PR nightmare. Orphan blog post probably sounded like a brilliant idea, until it hit hacker news an
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by phereford 15y ago
And all of this may be moot anyway with the government trying to track everything online anyway. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-a... Can a court really penalize KISSMetrics when the government asks ISPs to trac
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by phereford 15y ago
Preface: What I am about to say is a complete and utter assumption. One would assume that ATT did some analysis on bandwidth usage patterns amongst heavy users. They probably came to the conclusion that the top 5% of bandwidth hogs account
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by phereford 15y ago
I donate to OCW as well (LOVE OCW) but I don't think any of this information is on a closed system. I believe JSTOR allowed all mit ip addresses access (for free) to every article in their system. Aaron's downloads came from an MIT address
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by phereford 15y ago
He violated Terms of Service for a large database of journals at an egregious rate. If he had stolen say...10,000 articles this may be a non-issue. The fact that they can tie 4,000,000 articles to him is what makes this so bad. The other pa
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by phereford 15y ago
Okay...now I am a tool and can't find that study...but here is my personal account of reviewers helping downloads for my old application. We got written up in Thrillist boston, Phandroid, Androinica, Droid-Life, TalkAndroid, and Gizmodo. Fr
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by phereford 15y ago
I do understand your reasoning and logic behind your belief. If you were to ask someone now: "What application do you use to video chat with?" the answer is most likely going to sway heavy to Skype. If you ask that question in 3 to 9 months
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by phereford 15y ago
I don't think Skype is a competitor to Facebook at all. Facebook has had a good partnership with Microsoft for several years and have finally found a good social element that Microsoft brings to the table (Skype). Skype is great for video c
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by phereford 15y ago
Totally agree with nik here. Mobile ads are not the means to acquire new customers. Relationships with review sites, blogs, and other media outlets is your best bet. A good review can get you some pretty good uptake. We got reviewed in seve
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by phereford 15y ago
I am going to start off by saying I haven't read the article. With that said, didn't Google deny Facebook from scraping contacts off of gmail a year (or two) ago? I forget the exact method they implemented, but I know it stunted Facebook's
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by phereford 15y ago
I don't think this is too much to ask. Anyone who uses apps on Facebook are well aware of the permissions and probably deny some apps beacause of what they ask for. Sure some of the Android permissions are a little obtuse, but users are def
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by phereford 15y ago
While this opinion piece seemed to create the notion that the FBI caused his demise, no one but Hemmingway knows of the actual incidents that took place to lead him to that belief. I am sure there were many other incidents occurring in his
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by phereford 15y ago
I got a "Database Connection Error" (I am sure your server got hit hard with being top 5 on HN). :) The irony makes me giddy.
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by phereford 15y ago
Okay. My point is what is active? Someone who logs in once a year? Once a month? Sure 50% of "active" users log in once a day, but what about the other 50%?
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by phereford 15y ago
I dont think when Facebook said they had 500 million users that they meant they had 500 million active users. I thought I saw a post today (or this week) that they hit 750 million users (without the word active in it...or so I think). The d
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by phereford 15y ago
Mobile browser market is small potatoes compared to desktop browser market :(.
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by phereford 15y ago
I have been running my startup for a little over 2 years now (bootstrapped). After inputting my constraints/situation to the simulation, it was pretty much spot on. I definitely wouldn't argue with what the numbers showed up as :)
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by phereford 15y ago
Totally agree with what base said. The hindrance in developing for all phones is the OS. Some ATT/T-Mobile phones are not allowed to upgrade to 2.2, heck sometimes not even 1.6+. I ran into that problem with an app I launched last year. Doh
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by phereford 15y ago
While yes, Abrash's point was that you are a hero because you finished your project on-time, patio11 has a great point. There have been many a horror story of long long LONG hours posted on here ranging from RockStar (lost the link) and ma
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by phereford 15y ago
The AOL buyout has really pushed me to stay away from anything they write. While the quality of articles and writing was dropping pre-buyout, it has definitely gotten much worse post-buyout.
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by phereford 16y ago
You can't use the logos of any NFL team without their consent. Stats are fine...logos are not.
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by phereford 16y ago
Yea I agree. Have you check out sportsdatahub.com ? While their UI is not as great as yours, you might be able to generate some ideas for visualization from their platform.
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by phereford 16y ago
Its not really of use to anyone playing fantasy football, but it is definitely beautiful. While the app is somewhat limited in functionality, the UI is awesome and the usability is cool. Good job