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What Keeps Google Up At Night(forbes.com)
17 points by prakash 17y ago|20 comments
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by prakash 17y ago
Office hours for non-founders? Maybe in a coffee-shop nearby to YC -- maybe once every 2 weeks?
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Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang (pdf)(ginx.com)
34 points by prakash 17y ago|2 comments
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Bebo founder starts a fund(bizjournals.com)
9 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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Aww, social networking is growing up(brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code(blogs.zdnet.com)
18 points by prakash 17y ago|8 comments
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by prakash 17y ago
making a website 2 to 10 times fast is not that hard, put them on a CDN. The usual suspects in increasing performance are: - compression - caching (origin, edge, browser) - persistent connections - tcp-optimizations
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Steve Blank: Business Model for Startups(slideshare.net)
10 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
579.
Kleiner Perkins’ Former Front Man In China Starts Fresh(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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Japan’s Porn-Obsessed Highlight The Need For New Content Delivery Models(mobhappy.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
581.
by prakash 17y ago
It's been 2 years since Xobni was released, 2 million was just last year, so the total number of downloads are higher. The percentage of active users, IMO, would be higher than 50% initially, then tapering off to say 20%. The revenue they g
582.
by prakash 17y ago
Assuming there are around 2 million active users (TC mentions a figure of 2 million downloads just last year) of Xobni, assuming a conversion rate of 1%, is 20k users that pay, which is over $500,000 in revenue. Nice change! IMHO, outlook u
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by prakash 17y ago
1. Sites which are useless for everyone e.g.: splogs, etc. 2. Some sites could be useful for a few, while being completely useless for the rest i.e. letting users remove certain sites from their results only 3. Like the ad-block software, p
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by prakash 17y ago
very interesting analogy but I still don't get the picture :-)
585.
by prakash 17y ago
Cache Oblivious Algorithms are actually fairly old, 1999 to be precise -- Harald Prokop's Master's thesis: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/Prokop99.pdf (pdf). Tokutek uses it: http://www.tokutek.com/careers.php
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by prakash 17y ago
Funny, how that is turning out, eh? What were your thoughts when you started kiko -- was it the thought of a sustainable business?
587.
by prakash 17y ago
Why Forth?
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Podcast: The Future of Search - featuring DuckDuckGo & Kosmix(blog.tippingpointlabs.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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Speaker Presentation Files: Velocity 2009(en.oreilly.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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by prakash 17y ago
Have you considered applying to the YC program with this/variant of this idea?
591.
by prakash 17y ago
This is really cool. Maybe you can use these links to train: ( http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive )
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by prakash 17y ago
Content was just one part of the equation. The larger problem was that Joost assumed people would download a client, after all they did it with Kazza & Skype. By then, the dynamics of the consumer had changed (thanks in large part to yo
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Build a Search Engine with 10 Open Source Software Projects(blog.cruxlux.com)
1 points by prakash 17y ago|0 comments
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Simpler Programming for Multicore Computers(technologyreview.com)
14 points by prakash 17y ago|2 comments
595.
by prakash 17y ago
The underlying technology to Kazza, Skype & joost are similar with an exclusive license granted to these companies -- a smart move actually from the founders perspective.
596.
by prakash 17y ago
make sure you read the comments on steve's blog, there are some good nuggets there.
597.
by prakash 17y ago
Congrats to both the companies, the future is bright for both kind of services as stand alone's or as an integrated service.
598.
by prakash 17y ago
Quick q: Have you heard of duckduckgo before this post?
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by prakash 17y ago
I was another person looking for this feature: https://twitter.com/pswam/status/1661113057 I have been playing around with what Gabriel built, it's interesting, here are some of the queries I tried: - @duckduckgo diff - @duckduckgo diff -
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by prakash 17y ago
IMHO, you have too many buying options. I would probably have 3. 1. free 2. Combine the "basic", "plus" & "family" -- price it at $24 3. Combine "business basic" & "business pro" -- charge it at $99 Congrats on your launch!

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