qeorge

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by qeorge 17y ago
Think PayPal for shipping addresses.
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's fine, definitely two ways to look at the problem. We charge a higher rate than some shops, because I think our work is worth it, and it includes things like IE6 compatibility. But these are just differentiation points, and there's ro
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is the same policy we keep at my firm. We support IE6 on all sites, I don't see it as an option. Part of being an expert is making things look easy. IE6 is frustrating, but its our problem. The exception is web applications that aren't
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is brilliant. I've been wanting UPS to add something like this themselves. They've focused on the social aspect, which is great, and would be a perfect fit for reddit's current secret santa project. However, I think the applications in
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by qeorge 17y ago
That makes sense. Since you seem to have found your own quarters-to-dollars machine I've been wondering why you aren't exploiting every possible source of profitable traffic. Sounds like a case of diminishing returns. I'm surprised prices @
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by qeorge 17y ago
Thanks for sharing your customer acquisition cost. Do you ever buy traffic from anywhere else or are you happy with the volume from AdWords? BTW, still chuckling at Peak Bingo. Well put.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps not, but you can calculate the chance that a given customer will refer a friend, and factor that into their lifetime value. Even more interesting, you can see which actions are predictive of referring friends (e.g., leaving a commen
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by qeorge 17y ago
Its not as hard as you might think. I'm sure Patrick (patio11/bingocardcreator.com) knows the cost of acquisition for 1 customer. If you're good with AdWords, its pretty doable. Anecdotally, I've heard Amazon shoots for $23. Thus they'll pu
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by qeorge 17y ago
Fair enough. I agree with you, I just thought the comments were a little nitpicky and came across as knee-jerk. Thanks for clearing it up.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Oh please. Obviously I mean companies that give 2 shits about PR and are trying to hit home runs, not weekend projects. Techcrunch is the most popular tech blog. If you don't care about it, you don't care about PR. Replace TC with Mashable,
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by qeorge 17y ago
Can you imagine a web service launching publicly today without making sure Mike Arrington had a working account? Good find, thanks for submitting.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Its hard to give examples of successful SEO, because you don't want extra competition in your niche. As a result, all we (SEOs) can offer for free is general advice on how to do it yourself. That said, I've been wanting to write a free guid
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by qeorge 17y ago
"If Microsoft were to make such an agreement with Fox where they would pay them to be delisted from Google, it would be an agreement which unreasonably restrains competition and it affects interstate commerce. (As would anything online whi
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by qeorge 17y ago
"paying Murdoch not to index his sites on Google is bordering on antitrust" The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossi
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by qeorge 17y ago
"Copyright law doesn't cover google indexing the page for its search engine anymore than it covers me posting a list of my favorite songs on my blog. Would you argue that someone can't develop a song recommendation engine without acquiring
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by qeorge 17y ago
"Will someone please inform Mr. Cuban that Google's opt-out procedure is entirely voluntary on their part and there's nothing that says they have to continue to offer it or abide by it?" Google's policy is irrelevant. NewsCorp owns the in
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Bing trying to get exclusive on Fox is smart (Mark Cuban)(blogmaverick.com)
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by qeorge 17y ago
I think you're being a bit dramatic here. Whats the difference between this and Playstation paying for Grand Theft Auto's exclusivity, or Bing and Google paying for access to Twitter's content while small engines like DuckDuckGo go without?
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by qeorge 17y ago
Try this: http://parselets.com/parselets/yc/14?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.y...
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by qeorge 17y ago
I feel you, but I think its the cost of doing business / innovation. If you don't do anything, you don't make any mistakes. But anything that further obfuscates the code leading to vulnerability of the reported is infuriating, especially w
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by qeorge 17y ago
This is my understanding of the problem, but I'm not a security guy so please correct me where I'm wrong. The rub is that IE8 modifies the source of a page to prevent XSS attacks. Essentially it escapes a bunch of strings, like <scrip
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by qeorge 17y ago
"This XSS filter has to be one of the most braindead far-reaching decisions since the invention of magic_quotes in PHP." So, I'm guessing you're also against the XSS filter Firefox is adding, and NoScript, and any other attempt to automatic
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by qeorge 17y ago
I love the internet, but HTML/CSS/Javascript apps that run in browser are not a panacea. Don't get me wrong - the web has changed the game, but whatever the de facto HTML standards are is somewhat of a sideshow. I often feel as though we're
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by qeorge 17y ago
Linkbait is accurate. Your article's title and introduction imply drama which by all accounts is non-existent. Reducing to the more accurate title you've suggested above reveals this to be what it is: a non-story. However, I had never heard
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by qeorge 17y ago
I think you've missed the point. "Chrome OS can't run Skype" succinctly explains the chief obstacle to such a play. Regarding the apparently "frightening" lack of discussion about Chrome OS's impact on Microsoft and "the future of the web",
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by qeorge 17y ago
Thanks for elaborating. I don't personally agree that HTML5 is a threat to Windows or Office, but I see your point.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Please explain. This sounds like a kneejerk, snarky comment, but perhaps I'm wrong.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Not saying a Skype web app is impossible, but I haven't seen a web apps that can effectively do p2p, which is essential to Skype.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Playing "here's the catch" with customers isn't right. When the product you are selling fails, you must be available to help.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I disagree. If I pay a company, they owe me support when their product breaks. If that's going to be limited to email support, not to mention non-responsive email support, they need to disclose that upfront.

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