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by spokey 16y ago
Richard, thank you for writing this up. I have two questions and a minor bug report for you: 1) It seems you were tracking your Page Rank closely in this time period. Can you quantify the relationship between PR and actual rank or organic s
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by spokey 17y ago
Just BTW, there's some related HN discussion from an earlier post at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253528 .
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by spokey 17y ago
If it is the same data they use for the ranking factor, doesn't this give me a way to tank my competitor's rankings? All you'd need to do is install the toolbar on browsers using some low bandwidth or throttled internet connection and brow
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by spokey 17y ago
If the Webmaster Tools site performance chart is any indication, that's exactly what they'll do. Let's just hope they'll ensure a large enough sample before using this as a factor in search ranking. In my experience the Webmaster Tools perf
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by spokey 17y ago
I think the other bit he missed was the early focus Sun placed on Java Applets. I think they initially saw Java and JVM primarily as platform for distributing client side code to web browsers, to set-top boxes, to mobile phones, etc. In th
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by spokey 17y ago
Now I know you're trolling. Good day.
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by spokey 17y ago
Spoken with the false confidence of youth. Here's a few examples of fairly revolutionary achievements post-30, even within the relatively narrow field of tech startups: * Jimmy Wales was 36 when Wikipedia was founded. Larry Sanger was 34. *
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by spokey 17y ago
I don't think I understand Jukaroo. (I'm not familiar with whrrl or eat.ly, so maybe that hurts.) Is this like imgur or twitpic except by posting an image I'm saying I recommend the thing in the image? I see it in your list at the bottom,
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by spokey 17y ago
For what it is worth, the biggest class of these is known as the Likert Scale (Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree Nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree). There's a slew of research on how to apply and interpret these if you google th
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by spokey 17y ago
The idea currently on row 17 "apt-get update/upgrade for music" is very good IMO. I would use this service. You could also expand it in various ways beyond tracking new releases for a single band to make it more of a music discovery servic
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by spokey 17y ago
1) Just under 6 months (part time). 2) No, didn't apply. 3) No, haven't tried. 4) http://www.brightspoke.com/ My goal is to put more people on bikes by creating educated consumers and helping them discover the joy of cycling. I did a "rat
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by spokey 17y ago
> 24. MBAs are conditioned to use their brains in much the same way as sex workers are conditioned to use their genitals. Nice work if you can get it. Can someone explain that to me? I have no idea what Hugh is trying to say there.
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by spokey 17y ago
> Encyclopedias did really well until Wikipedia came along. Encarta was the first sign of trouble, but Wikipedia was the nail in the coffin. This is incidental to your comment, but I think your details are wrong in this example. Multime
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by spokey 17y ago
I've actually done a tiny bit in the advocacy space and would like to do more, but I'm trying to move the casual cyclist, the once a month crowd, rather than the existing advocates. Bike lanes themselves are a bit of mixed blessing: Studies
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by spokey 17y ago
That's interesting. I'll need to noodle on it some more.
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by spokey 17y ago
Thank you. I agree. It's a mistake to have that as the first big link on page, as that's really a work in progress. As I as wrote below, the stem version - http://www.brightspoke.com/c/understanding/stems.html - is more complete and may b
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by spokey 17y ago
Thank you. That was my first thought as well, but in testing that's quite not the way people like to approach the problem. (In fairness, the form I have on the homepage currently also isn't quite the way people like to approach it.) For ex
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by spokey 17y ago
Indeed. I'm sorry to disappoint you. That's a work in progress. The stem version - http://www.brightspoke.com/c/understanding/stems.html - is more complete and may be more in line with what you were expecting.
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by spokey 17y ago
Thank you. This is great feedback. I've been thinking along some of these lines as well. In fact you've hit on two things that my customer discover research suggests as the right route to go down. But there are a lot of basic community/for
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by spokey 17y ago
Thank you. Fixed. The other version is relatively frequently cited online, but this is a much better phrasing anyway.
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by spokey 17y ago
This is aimed at helping bike newbies become bike experts, although frankly it has been easier to gain traction with experts. I try to imagine it as a bike expert looking over your shoulder while you're looking at bike specs explaining why
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by spokey 17y ago
I've been working on Brightspoke (part-time and bootstrapped) for a couple of months and while there's a lot more left to do, I feel there's enough of the MDP/MVP in place that hopefully you should be able to see where I'm headed. For fear
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Ask HN: Please review my startup for bicyclists(brightspoke.com)
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by spokey 17y ago
I'd rewrite this sentence: "To create a user or log in, click on that button", maybe something like "To create an account or log in, click on the button below"? More generally, I don't understand what this app will do for me (and didn't wan
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by spokey 17y ago
On a tangentially related note, before Feedburner (acquired by Google in 2007 for ~$100 million), the folks behind Feedburner had a startup very similar to femtoo.com. It was called SpyOnIt.com and was launched in 1999 and purchased by a co
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by spokey 17y ago
This is quite minimalist but interesting. I think you might get more traction if you spent some time writing up the "methodology" or workflow you're proposing here. That is, if I understand it, I think what you're suggesting is that people
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by spokey 17y ago
I agree with others that suggest website.grader leaves some potentially important analysis off the report. This service is obviously similar, but as much as I like website.grader, I've long thought there is room for improvement, and I think
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by spokey 17y ago
That's great growth for two months. It would be awesome if you do a little writeup here or on your blog about some of the techniques you're using to promote the site and the lessons learned from this. Also, just something I noticed, your ma
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by spokey 17y ago
Training wheels don't have to be in constant contact with the ground. With my kids I installed the training wheels several inches off the ground. The kids had to balance to use the bike effectively, but the training wheels would catch them
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by spokey 17y ago
I happen to be working on a micropayment strategy and implementation for my day job (we're content producers in this scenario) but we're US based. I am curious to know more about the micropayment problem your startup is solving. The technic

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