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by sabat 16y ago
Excellent rebuttal. Real SEO is an act of marketing. You make a website that is genuinely useful and interesting to its intended audience, and then you make it as search-engine-friendly as possible, and cultivate links. None of that is a jo
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Certainly, Rosenberg has been crucial to Google’s success, so his exit has come as a shock to pretty much everyone to whom I’ve spoken. That said, its timing seems quite convenient, particularly in relationship to what looks very much like
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Meanwhile, Zynga raises $500 Million from T. Rowe Price, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley. With 401k money from ordinary folks. Compared to the hundreds of billions in the mortgage market, $500 million is chump change. That's why this "bubble"
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It's not all bad, but I've noted a disturbing trend of dogpile upvoting and downvoting. What about taking away downvoting? It would change the dynamic, at least. I suppose it doesn't solve the problem of stupid posts and comments being upvo
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by sabat 16y ago
You don't have get an apartment in SF if you'll be working in RWC. Remember: SF is not the Bay Area. The Bay Area is a large metropolitan area with three major cities. You'll be working about halfway between two of them (SF and San Jose). Y
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by sabat 16y ago
It is not the responsibility of the critic to fix problems. I strongly disagree, obviously, and find it disconcerting that you've gotten upvotes. This is a community of makers, and apparently it's becoming a community of bitchers and whin
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My point exactly. If Facebook is failing to deliver, find a better way. Don't just say "This place sucks! It used to be cool! Now it sucks!"
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You're taking my analogy too literally. I meant a wave that is just a wave. there are certain elements of the current situation that do seem awfully familiar Perhaps, but I've been involved in the startup world since around then, and the
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by sabat 16y ago
So invent something better. Don't just complain. OP has taken what is actual innovation and groundswell for granted. Not enough? Then innovate.
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This kind of joke I can stand -- it's ridiculous, but they actually did it.
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Even though ordinary investors have been locked out of the game, should this bubble burst, the financial elites will most certainly find a way to shift the consequences of their folly onto the rest of us. Cynical although certainly possib
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You're correct about what stage they're at, but this is still very exciting news.
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In reference to the technology industry, "bubble" means stock market bubble -- because that's the kind of bubble that can have a direct, significant impact on the industry. And it did, in the late '90s. What kind of bubble are we in? A VC i
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by sabat 16y ago
nobody said there was a stock market bubble That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though. If the OP didn't mean a stock market bubble, he should explain what he does mean. A "bubble" of investing? Why would it warrant the analogy of a
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by sabat 16y ago
There is no stock market bubble. News flash: coupons are still boring and I don’t want to give out my email address to a service I don’t even know I’ll benefit from. So now we have an App Store that serves nothing but candy, and we all lov
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by sabat 16y ago
Enormous wealth takes care of so many day-to-day concerns, that the remaining ones grow that much more frustrating. It's hard for me to be sympathetic about this. They forget that the non-super-rich have all their same frustrations, plus
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by sabat 16y ago
Anecdotal over-investment on the part of three VC companies != a bubble. A bubble is a stock market bubble based on massive, irrational over-investment on the part of VCs and stock market investors which, after implosion, will hurt the US
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by sabat 16y ago
That does not a bubble make. Hackers are hacking a lot != we're in a bubble. A bubble is a stock market bubble based on mass amounts of over-investment by VCs and the public .
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I don't know the intimate details of Mozilla's server configuration, but the way I understand it, these geographically disperse load balancers don't know specifics about the requester locations -- just IPs.
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Maybe it's a New York vs. San Francisco thing, but in New York we're building companies, not startups It's not a Bay Area thing -- unwarranted extrapolation. :-) The problem seems industry-wide: I hear people (from all over the place) say
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by sabat 16y ago
Hrm. Happy to answer any questions. I work for SQLstream. (I'm not speaking officially for SQLstream at this moment, of course.) The upshot is that it's a realtime query and manipulation engine that works with standard SQL. There's a relati
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It's actually the opposite: 1) massive corporate abuse, 2) "Look, over there, the GOVERNMENT!" (which received its direction from behemoth corporations). AT&T will not go out of business tomorrow. "The government", as you know it, will
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Here's a blog post by Daniel Einspanjer from Mozilla describing how the internals of this app work: http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2011/03/22/how-glow-mozilla-org...
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I should mention that under the hood, the live stream processing of download events is being done by SQLstream, the startup I work at. :-)
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Corporations run the government. Don't forget that.
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You're apparently unaware of the high dissatisfaction rate among businesses that could easily result in declining business interest in Groupon.
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I know of Freenet and Tor, but haven't heard of Phantom. Because the word 'phantom' returns a huge number of irrelevant Google results, I haven't been able to find the project. Care to throw us a pointer?
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As if they'd let you live.
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It's a little early for Groupon to describe itself as "industry-changing", muchless a "profit machine". In a year, it could be described as merely a "has-been, internet fad".
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... but corporations are A-OK. It's the government that's the problem. Right?

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