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by shafqat 18y ago
By restoring media credibility and giving people a platform to voice their opinions about the quality of journalists and news sources.
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An amazing story of perserverance from David Cowan at Bessemer(whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com)
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Nice work. I agree that tts refreshing to see a service where I understand what it does in 10 seconds.
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by shafqat 18y ago
You are funny.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Simply amazing. Really. This is so much better than Cuil or a lot of the other BS search engines out there. The presentation isn't great. So with some improvements in the design and a marketing machine, this could be big.
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by shafqat 18y ago
That kind of stuff is pretty rare. Turkers are pretty hard-working/honest people on the whole I guess out of 10,000 maybe 10-20 screwed around. That's less than .2%.
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by shafqat 18y ago
I don't really want to give you an opinion that could screw up your product! As mentioned, I am not in your target market so that question is probably better directed at someone who is. IMO, just stick to the sales/licensing/tracking. But i
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thats the one line that stood out in the Posterous job announcement. Sounds pretty elitist to me. I went to one of those schools, but I can tell you that I've met far many brilliant hackers who didn't go to these schools.
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by shafqat 18y ago
I'm a huge fan of MT, and do think that it can be used to get pretty accurate/high quality results. You can actually have multiple people work on each HIT and then cross-check or chose the best I actually posted about our experience with MY
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by shafqat 18y ago
I'm not in your target market, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It seems like you're trying to do too much in one go. You should try to keep the main thing, the main thing. You said it was a to help developers sell/license their pro
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10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill.(tenthousandcents.com)
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks - didnt think anyone would notice since it's buried way in there. It was a big surprise to us.
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Boston Globe: 10 Technologies Headed for Mainstream(boston.com)
3 points by shafqat 18y ago|3 comments
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The Top 100 web 2.0 sites based on recent Delicious adds(momb.socio-kybernetics.net)
5 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Just go for it. Seriously. Worry about it later, and if you get sued, make it a big publicity stunt. All publicity is good publicity. If you are just a honest, hardworking individual trying to make a website, you will always be given a chan
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by shafqat 18y ago
I like the concept. I don't think I would ever visit the website again (nothing appealing there). But I did follow for the Titans NFL twitter account. That's a real service and will definately add value, especially if you can aggregate from
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by shafqat 18y ago
Me? You can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/NewsCred
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How my startup used Mechanical Turk to rock our world.(blog.newscred.com)
4 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Interesting post. Not everyone can get away with repackaging though. You better be damn sure you're content is amazing before trying to serve it up over and over again. Otherwise it'll just piss people off. They get away with because the co
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Another exit for the Accelerator Group (TAG) - Kindo acquired by MyHeritage(techcrunch.com)
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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Video of new Mac vs PC ad using two simultaneous ad spots on NY Times(techcrunch.com)
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
They can turn around tomorrow and say it'll cost 10 bucks a year to use it. Most people will pay to play, just because they've been sucked in. $10 x however many millions of users they have... you do that math!
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by shafqat 18y ago
This seems like a good business. "Build something useful and charge for it" model always works for me. If they can follow up with Wufoo-like execution, it could be a winner.
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A big thank you to the entire YC Community. That's it.
3 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
If its really $1CPM, we're better off sticking to Google Adsense where we can get higher than $1 eCPM.
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by shafqat 18y ago
OK, we're well above that so will give those a try. Cheers!
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by shafqat 18y ago
I've seen sites listed on FM that have far less than 1M uniques. Given that we get thousands of uniques a day, it seems like we've graduated from Adsense, but not enough for FM? Dilemma...
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Ask YC: Would like to start CPM/Banner advertising for my startup. Best ad network to use?
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|10 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Agreed. Duncan, however, is effectively calling my startup bullshit. I'm glad the commenters on his site (and here) disagree with him.
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by shafqat 18y ago
I like this comment left on his blog: "I respectfully disagree with your entire thesis. No one is saying we should stifle a "false opinion." No one is saying that we won't allow people to publish posts or blogs as they do today, on any topi

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