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by spif 16y ago
Don't forget http://getmarvia.nl
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by spif 16y ago
My way of formulating this truth has long been: “It’s doesn’t help being first, if you are very quickly second best.” But I don’t equate “execution” with “product development”. You can develop the best product on the planet, but if you do
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by spif 16y ago
Amsterdam, NL also possible? If so ping me on twitter ( http://twitter.com/spif ).
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by spif 16y ago
Ruby dev - Amsterdam, NL Postgres dev - Amsterdam, NL C# dev (Outlook plugins) - Amsterdam, NL Company: http://www.soocial.com Soocial is a new way to manage your address book(s). Our offices are in a nice old 'grachtenpand' in the city c
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by spif 16y ago
My mostly mouse-less OSX toolbox: 1. SizeUp, small window management tool with keyboard shortcuts 2. QuickSilver 3. Ctrl + tab 4. Things quickentry ctrl + alt + cmd + space (that one is actually very helpfull)
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Company-Customer Pact(getsatisfaction.com)
1 points by spif 16y ago|0 comments
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by spif 16y ago
Although this is useful, it still doesn't solve having multiple address books across multiple accounts. Until it is you can use Soocial.com to sync the contacts between them. (Disclaimer: Soocial's my startup.)
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by spif 16y ago
Interesting how the failures make it look eerily human. And it seems to me while watching that the robot becomes frustrated when failing. I know it's me projecting that, seems interesting to apply that to human interaction though. How much
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Robot needs 50 tries to learn how to flip pancakes.(wired.com)
58 points by spif 16y ago|33 comments
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by spif 16y ago
Purely out of interest anyone know what in the production process could be causing this?
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Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4(apple.com)
4 points by spif 16y ago|4 comments
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by spif 16y ago
Mea culpa. I wrote the title from my main take away from the article not the original. Thanks for correcting.
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Remember to Thank Your Star Players(nytimes.com)
14 points by spif 16y ago|6 comments
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by spif 16y ago
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We're looking for an engineer to join our backend development team and work on our architecture and cool new features. (Mostly working with Postgres, Ruby, Queueing systems, AWS and of course Rails.) Have a great
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Twitter is not censoring flotilla.(search.twitter.com)
26 points by spif 16y ago|25 comments
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by spif 16y ago
No, it's not: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flotilla
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by spif 16y ago
Only just looked up those numbers as per Jacques question. ;-)
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by spif 16y ago
Yeah, true. We are looking into l10n and I18n. Right now just under 50% of our users are from the US. There is a seeming correlation between high conversion rates and english speaking countries and this would confirm your point. In order of
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by spif 16y ago
Right now it's about 1% of our raw unique daily visitors. The tricky thing is to drill down and see which users these are and where are they coming from and how are they using Soocial. Any tips are welcome! ;-)
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by spif 16y ago
This went live before we launched our premium account so don't have those stats to track. We measure 3 related goals in GA, the homepage -> signup form; homepage -> signed up user; and new visit -> paying user (using the goals b
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by spif 16y ago
Although the two words weren't revolutionary we were quite surprised by the increase. Mind you we had about 6 other variations as well, including "It's free up to 250 contacts" and an orange version of the "Signup now!" button - both we tho
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How two magical words increased signups by 28%(visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
84 points by spif 16y ago|57 comments
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by spif 16y ago
Very interesting, so does that mean all those HFT programs managed to make/lose money or pretty much break even?
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by spif 16y ago
Follow the action live on Google Finance (one of the few finance site still working): http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI
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by spif 16y ago
Google Finance is working nicely: http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI
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by spif 16y ago
According to CNN it "might" have bee a computer glitch causing a huge volume of trades and corresponding panic that followed pushed it further down. Things seem rather stable at -4% now...
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Why time stands still at 9:42 on iPhone/iPad ads(networkworld.com)
138 points by spif 17y ago|42 comments
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Google makes various API's faster - allows for partial responses(googlecode.blogspot.com)
5 points by spif 17y ago|0 comments
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Google makes various API's faster - allows for partial responses(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by spif 17y ago|0 comments
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by spif 17y ago
The KPAX site ( http://homepage.mac.com/svc/kpax/index.html ) mentions this screencast (which is from 2005 BTW): KPAX was featured in the controversial Lisp Movie ...[snip] Anyone know why this is/was controversial?

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