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by shingen 15y ago
If the US Citizenship test assumed all Germans from 1933-45 were volitional Nazis, then yes it'd be a jerkwad test.
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by shingen 15y ago
While it's a perfectly fine choice to ostracize Yahoo for their actions, Yammer's CEO is going to end up looking like little more than a hypocrite at the least, and maybe a dipshit, if he doesn't apply the same rules to all companies equall
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by shingen 15y ago
That would of course be the tip of the iceberg. Since Imgur and Reddit represent a fraction of a fraction of the total reposting / rehosting / et al. Extrapolated to its natural conclusion, you might as well shut down the Web and all that i
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by shingen 15y ago
The mass of content owners that could pursue Pinterest aren't organized into an effective cartel. So no, it's not likely Pinterest is going to get assaulted the same way Napster did. That doesn't stop one or two larger content owners from h
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by shingen 15y ago
America isn't lacking, in any regard, in financial regulation. There are more laws on the books regarding that industry than any other. Regulation does not inherently = smart or good. You know what isn't regulated? How stupid the Fed gets t
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by shingen 15y ago
I understand the concern premise, but I disagree. In the US we already live in an increasingly padded walls nanny state. Personally I've had enough of it. Forbid we be daring and reach for the stars again, and take on the risk that goes wit
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by shingen 15y ago
"The company's Caffeine index spans 100 million gigabytes of data ... " That's a painful number. I wonder what Facebook's image data store is up to these days.
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by shingen 15y ago
Andy was 28 years old or so when he sold out to Yahoo. I don't think he was all that young or naive when he sold. It would not have been difficult at his age to understand the nature of Yahoo in the context of what they had just done to Goo
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by shingen 15y ago
Several impressive numbers in there. 100 backers at $1,000 a shot. $38 per pledge. Oh and exceeding the goal by nearly $3 million.
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by shingen 15y ago
Great call. The people you're funding are worth a lot more than the money they're being given. Ideas being a dime a dozen, you're obviously funding the people more than anything else.
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by shingen 15y ago
Yahoo sued Google over GoTo / Overture in 2004, picking up a cool billion dollars in the process. This guy wasn't already seriously skeptical about their intentions by 2005 when he joined Yahoo? Yeah OK. And this: "I thought I was giving th
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by shingen 15y ago
It's based on the crowd's judgement of merit and who is filing the lawsuit and why. That is to say, Yahoo is viewed as non-innovative, and their action is viewed to be the result of a new CEO intent on aggressively finding pennies through a
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by shingen 15y ago
If you were going to do the 'review anything' concept you'd need serious marketing cash. You'd also build verticals within the service to target, to benefit from search engines and try to narrow on the big core markets (but still stay open
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by shingen 15y ago
Good write up. It's always nice when people share that kind of information / data. If I learn one thing from the time spent reading it, it was well worth it. So, review a web site; review a dating profile (buyer). Why not a 'review anything
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by shingen 15y ago
It's obviously 30 million monthly pageviews (I said 1 million daily pageviews, I think you misread my text). 100 servers would assume media hosting for images and other files that go with a blog. That could all be kicked out to other servic
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by shingen 15y ago
Yahoo is currently hitting a $5 billion per year sales rate. Sales for fiscal 2005 were $5.3 billion. Yes, they're obviously a rocket ship of growth. They're rotting. Worse than their 7 years of stagnation (let's not even inflation adjust f
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by shingen 15y ago
It'd be the first time founders were wrong, right? Obviously once Posterous took the A & B $10 million in venture funding, their clock was seriously ticking. The founders no longer had real control over the company or its future. It wou
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by shingen 15y ago
A monetized Posterous could be run on 100 or less servers. Tumblr runs on perhaps 1,500x according to High Scalability, and it's at least a few hundred times more nasty than Posterous in terms of server thrasing (pageviews and hits on the d
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, it had a very real business opportunity. It really does make me want to take a run at getting the platform from Twitter, if they are in fact going to close it down. I've got the perfect name to rebrand it with, far better than the Post
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by shingen 15y ago
Why would the remainders be lacking funding or customers? The startups that stick around will have access to more of both all things being equal (ie assuming the same economy). Posterous is apparently about to create a lot of orphans. Those
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by shingen 15y ago
Amazing, a top 500 global site (roughly), that appears likely to just close up shop. What the hell is that? Hey Twitter, how about you give me the platform, we'll split 50/50 anything I make with it, I'll assume all the downside liability.
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by shingen 15y ago
It provides that much greater of an opportunity for startups that stick around.
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by shingen 15y ago
We already treat smells as extremely valuable on earth. The fragrance industry is worth tens of billions for that reason.
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by shingen 15y ago
Scarcity (smells on the moon) or lack thereof doesn't alter the principle of value, it varies the scale of value.
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by shingen 15y ago
The word is: boondoggle
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by shingen 15y ago
First of all, Microsoft screwed up in removing the start button. It was completely unnecessary to remove it, and they added no value in doing so. They could have just as easily had the start button pop out the appropriate side navigation, a
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by shingen 15y ago
Congrats guys, this is very cool.
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by shingen 15y ago
Comeon, who doesn't trust Sony?
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by shingen 15y ago
I think it's entirely possible to be both throughout a lifetime. I've been frighteningly ambitious and conservative at different points in my life and with different ideas. When I was 21 / 22, I decided I was going to take on eBay. The prem
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by shingen 15y ago
"Fast forward to today, and as a recent insightful post pointed out, even the "non-technical" members of famous founding pairs like Gates/Allen or Jobs/Wozniak have been extremely technical." So, uhm, when were either Gates or Allen ever co

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