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Barnes & Noble unveils online bookstore(reuters.com)
5 points by smakz 17y ago|2 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
This is the whole point of beta programs. They talk about you once when you release and again when you're out of beta: free PR.
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by smakz 17y ago
Which Microsoft famously tried to circumvent with J++.
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by smakz 17y ago
I saw the those Microsoft/Google exchange as two people talking past each other. I find it hard to believe Google doesn't have different KPI for Google Maps vs. say, Google Books. I mean one involves scanning books, the other involves mappi
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by smakz 17y ago
"In June, 1996 KPCB organized a $100 million Java Fund to back a slate of startups using Sun's Java programming language, including Active Software, Calico, Internet Security Systems, Marimba, and Netiva." It's kind of funny seeing the prec
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Blogs AOL Could Buy Tomorrow(businessinsider.com)
1 points by smakz 17y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Associates to Terminate North Carolina Members(insight.makovision.com)
73 points by smakz 17y ago|37 comments
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Adobe starts charging for Acrobat.com(pcpro.co.uk)
1 points by smakz 17y ago|0 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
Eberhard nearly destroyed Tesla. Musk did what anyone who invested 70 million dollars would have done. A perfect example of Eberhard's arrogance is the whole 2 speed transmission debacle. Eberhard absolutely insisted on having a 2 speed tra
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by smakz 17y ago
Was anyone else confused by this article? I assumed he was going to be talking about the efficient market hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_market_theory Anyway, this seems an uncharacteristically juvenile HBR article. Of
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by smakz 17y ago
About the actual technical root of the issue - does anyone else find it surprising that twitter is actually using integers for each status update added to it's database and incrementing as it goes? It seems to be this is particularly bad fo
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by smakz 17y ago
Xbox had a couple of difficult gems. Try Gunvalkerie or Panzer Dragoon Orta on the hardest difficulty. I remember everyone saying Ninja Gaiden for Xbox was this massively hard game, but I remember beating it without too many problems. It wa
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by smakz 17y ago
Not sure why your comment got voted down, while the digg/reddit style supermodel comment got voted up. I think a better target for them might be a company like loopt or whrrl. More users and a stronger growth curve.
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by smakz 17y ago
That's not a rule, in fact the Pepsi Challenge is one of the most successful marketing campaigns ever and it mentions Coca-Cola by name. In general, market leaders will not reference competition to not give them credibility/free advertising
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by smakz 17y ago
Regardless of whether you go the YC path or not - you should know that there are many, many examples of extremely successful companies being founded by people in their 30's and later. Cisco, Qualcomm, Amazon.com, Bose Corporation, LinkedIn.
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by smakz 17y ago
That doesn't really jive with wikipedia's history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube According to wikipedia a few months after they launched they were extremely popular.
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Google says it will challenge Amazon on electronic books(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
3 points by smakz 17y ago|0 comments
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by smakz 17y ago
First rule of PR: Know your audience. IMO you are marketing your site all wrong if you go after the HN/Digg/Reddit crowds, which generally tend to be more techy. You should be hitting the websites which would want to use this service, deal
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by smakz 18y ago
Yeah, but in reality the ideas in the article are really more boring then the headline suggests. He wasn't in a position to co-found youtube, not to mention there were already plenty of video sites around before and during youtube's rise to
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by smakz 18y ago
Wow, this is really great news. I use Amazon EC2 for all my web hosting and absolutely love it. Total control of a not-too-shabby box for 70$ a month was a great deal. For 40$ a month it's a downright steal. Thanks for sharing.
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by smakz 18y ago
The companies were all picked based on stock price performance - which should tell you something about the books ability to make predictions. Not to take anything away from Good to Great as a book, but past performance does not indicate fut
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by smakz 18y ago
Advertising budgets are down just as much as consumer confidence - they are tightly related. But even in hard times people's needs don't change - save people time, money, or make them healthier, #2 might be more attractive in recessions, bu
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by smakz 18y ago
Another point to this: people who run these sorts of low user, high margin companies will never reveal it to the hacker news/tech crunch/etc. crowd - for the simple reason that it will seem like it's way too easy how they are making money a
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by smakz 18y ago
I don't 'hate' companies that see advertising as their only revenue source, I just question both it's effectiveness in running a sustainable business and the hesitation that software developers working as founders have in charging real mone
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by smakz 18y ago
It's actually pretty astonishing to me how many web sites don't charge anything. It reminds me of how Bill Gates gloats about the early days of MS how there was this huge hobbyist scene in software and very few were getting paid (not sure h
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by smakz 18y ago
My favorite quote: "Nothing will work unless you do." Maya Angelou. Works on many levels - you have to keep your nose to the grind stone, take ownership of all the problems you have, especially as an entrepreneur. At the same time take care
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by smakz 18y ago
IBM's history has shown they are not afraid to use their patent library offensively. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21509.wss http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5527642.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9
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by smakz 18y ago
Some other tools I use day to day when working on websites: Measure it - adds a ruler to FF for pixel pushing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539 Web Developer Toolbar - adds a whole bunch of inspector type stuff https://
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by smakz 18y ago
I think the statement that math is more useful then philosophy is debatable, especially at the university level. Advanced calculus and "pure math" courses had precious few uses in the day to day grind of many jobs. Pure math might teach log
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by smakz 18y ago
I studied philosophy on the side of my computer science degree, and I have to say it's been immensely useful. Before studying philosophy I was a green idealist, but after studying philosophy I centered on a pragmatic philosophy. Also it enh

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