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by skarayan 15y ago
I originally wrote from my iPad and I have a hard time using the touch keyboard. Here's my 2 cents: 1) Cheaper than Adwords, much much cheaper. The ads tend to be expensive when you first get an estimate from Facebook, but in practice, thi
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by skarayan 15y ago
"I think the value of the so called social graph for advertising is overestimated." I disagree, for certain businesses it is more beneficial then Adwords. I have had really good experiences with Facebook Ads.
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by skarayan 15y ago
It happens to the best of us. One good thing about rock bottom, there is usually nowhere else to go but up. And other times, just when you think you can't get any lower, you are hit with a truck. Unfortunately, I have gone through at least
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by skarayan 15y ago
Very cool. I wonder what Matz will work on directly for Heroku. I understand that he will continue to work on the language, but what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
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by skarayan 15y ago
I am sure many marketers would agree with this post, however, Google is trying to reinvent themselves. They are essentially destroying their old brand to create a newer, more social, brand. There are many lessons to be learned here from Go
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by skarayan 15y ago
Agreed, also it is very easy since most of my friends are already in my GMail contacts. All I have to do is drag and drop.
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by skarayan 15y ago
I think calling it evolutionary is a guess, however, I do see a link between procrastination and being uncertain how to proceed. In my case, I am very determined when I have a sound plan and tend to procrastinate when parts of my plan are
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by skarayan 15y ago
Since the mirror would be light years away, it would take light years for the reflection to come back to Earth.
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Consciousness is the ability to experience information(sarkiskarayan.com)
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by skarayan 15y ago
One of the two books, Positioning or Immutable Laws of Marketing, also mentioned that the companies that have switched their positioning have destroyed their existing brand and recreated it in a different way. I think that Google and all th
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by skarayan 15y ago
I am really excited about their ad platform, but I question the high valuation. Is twitter profitable yet?
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by skarayan 15y ago
Ego is very important for drive and competition. I would rather have a team of huge egos who are calm, collected, and calculated. No ego = mental castration.
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by skarayan 15y ago
It's all about leverage, we will leverage anything and everything, including memory.
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by skarayan 15y ago
It depends on many things including the size of the debt and to whom. In the least, it will damage the reputation of the country, make it harder to borrow in the future, and hurt its relationships with other countries. What happens when a
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by skarayan 15y ago
Not sure if this is true, but I heard that Google takes ownership of any IT projects that you work on your spare time. If this is true, then I certainly wouldn't want to work for them. Is this true?
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by skarayan 15y ago
Set some goals: 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 3 years, 5, 10, lifetime. Sometimes goals don't go as expected, but they will guide you and give you direction.
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by skarayan 15y ago
There were some severe problems with our infrastructure team, I felt like I had no choice but to bypass them. I also felt that they should treat me as their client, much like I treated the business. It didn't go very well. :) Things go w
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by skarayan 15y ago
I've had a similar experience. While I had a good relationship with my team, other managers (that worked for my manager), and the business, I had a very poor relationship with the infrastructure team. If you have worked in an Enterprise, y
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by skarayan 15y ago
My vote goes for Sinatra as well.
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by skarayan 15y ago
I think it will help with some of the spam since users will generally not +1 a spam site. It will also add an extra attribute (social) to the search algorithm.
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by skarayan 15y ago
I think that Google+ may have a chance. That said, building a business is not just about a simple CRUD application. There is a LOT more that goes into Facebook and its adaption. There is even more that went into its timing and filling a vo
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by skarayan 15y ago
Paul Graham posted a list of projects that they would be interested in funding, I would start there. I don't have the link, but maybe someone else can post it. Problems are everywhere, it just takes a good understanding to tackle the issue
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by skarayan 15y ago
Absolutely, and the deeper you go the greater the impact. Change an axiom in your mind and watch your world change. :)
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by skarayan 15y ago
Is it a small detail? I look at it as the fine print. They most likely consulted with an attorney and decided that it should be worded like that to cover whatever they have in mind. Attorneys are very deliberate. They don't have to plan
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by skarayan 15y ago
Even if there is nothing sinister now, this is how power is abused. This worries me.
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by skarayan 15y ago
Any social network today is going to need critical mass to survive. Critical mass brings to tons and tons of user information. Is the combination of search and social so much worse? Google is trying to get into social the only way it kno
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by skarayan 15y ago
From my understanding, VCs don't like to decline so that they don't close any doors. They may not want to fund at the time, but may jump on it later.
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by skarayan 15y ago
It is best to first ship a product to early adopters and keep a healthy feedback loop as you expand to more people. I am not saying that it will succeed, but they have a good rollout strategy.
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by skarayan 15y ago
So it puts your friends in circles, but you can't group message them or see their streams in a group? What does it do or am I misunderstanding?
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by skarayan 15y ago
Looks like they got rid of Buzz?

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