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by therealarmen 14y ago
Cool product! I know this is a nitpick but you should include a link to your homepage ( http://telech.at ) somewhere on your blog so readers don't have to manually type in the URL.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
This may be a small step towards further "appification" of the MacBook line of products, which for better or for worse has been Apple's M.O. lately. On one hand, I love opening up the App Store on my MacBook and flipping through all the shi
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by therealarmen 14y ago
That's exactly what we're doing at http://www.plugshare.com . Check it out. The blue icons are residential charging stations and the green icons are public charging stations. Over 2,000 people have signed up to share their home electricity
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Lets go of 4000 Motorola Mobility workers. Big difference.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Against Kickstarters TOS. They only allow "creative projects."
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Congratulations to Dalton and the entire team at App.net! They deserve every penny. Dalton's steely resolve through this entire process has been an inspiration to me; it takes a lot of guts to go out on a limb and ignore all the haters. Eve
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by therealarmen 14y ago
If you have an iPhone app with 1 million daily active users, VCs will be knocking down your doors to write that Series A check. A spammy Facebook app with 1 million "users" is a totally different beast on the other hand. It really depends o
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Fact is, meeting new people is hard . Airtime forces you to connect with Facebook, so anyone you meet knows exactly who you are. Which makes using Airtime hard . At least Chatroulette introduced a fun element by letting users stay anonymo
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by therealarmen 14y ago
The deal was a little more complicated. I believe Efficient Frontier bought Context Optional for $50 million, and then Adobe acquired eFrontier for $400 million. I went ahead and added it.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
And the shakeout of social media management startups continues. Here's a recap so far: Vitrue (Oracle, $300 million) Involver (Oracle, undisclosed) Efficient Frontier (Adobe, $400 million) Buddy Media (Salesforce, $689 million) Wildfire (Go
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Believing that the finish line is just yards away and finding that it is actually miles is not going to be good for your company’s morale. I've learned this lesson the hard way. It's easy to get caught up in acquisition discussions, so be
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Over 1 billion monthly pageviews for r/funny in a pretty wrapper. I'm in the wrong business.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Author's anger is misdirected here. The core thesis of the TechCrunch article -- shipping some working PHP code is approximately a million times better than designing something mindblowing in Haskell that never actually ships -- is true.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I understand the frustration, but NBC is just trying to optimize for primetime viewers so they can extract maximum advertising dollars. They paid over $1 billion dollars for the right to broadcast the Olympics and now they must recoup that
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Ping is rolling over in its' grave. I guess if you can't build it, buy it.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Wow. The fact that some teaser screenshots are getting so much attention is great news for App.net. Honestly I wasn't sure about Dalton's prospects at first -- but with the developer community hanging on to his every word, he might have a s
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Keep in mind that this is written from the point of view of the employee and not the founder(s). The reality is that it takes longer than a 30-minute interview to determine whether or not someone deserves a chunk of the company that you hav
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by therealarmen 14y ago
This is almost certainly a strategic move on Twitter's part to slow the spread of Instagram. I doubt it has to do with "developers" as others have surmised. Even if it hurts Twitter's growth in the short term, in the long term it makes more
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I think this is great. The comments here are yet another case of unnecessary HN negativity. Kickstarter has strict guidelines around what sort of companies are allowed to raise money (only creative projects) and they have left room for many
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by therealarmen 14y ago
So, if you want to get covered in Techcrunch, start a consumer internet company. If you want to get rich, don't start a consumer internet company.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I definitely appreciate how clearly everything is laid out. Some VCs have ridiculously wishy-washy copy on their website. If I had a nickel every time I read about "investing in big ideas" I'd have a $1M seed round in no time.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I like all of the criteria laid out for portfolio investments, save #5: The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area. I'm seeing this requirement more and more often among venture firms. Clearly K9 Ventures has had success with th
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Seriously? Some people in this thread are dissing Fab as "Groupon for hipsters." If you don't know about Fab that's your fault. They are on track to top $100 million in sales. Just because they're not in the valley doesn't mean you have to
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Your math is wrong. You're assuming they raised at a $2 million valuation. If they raised equity funding at a valuation above $60 million (which is likely since Viddy raised at $350M+) then the investors lost money.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Sigh. We're drawing conclusions from Compete again? I've said this before and I'll say it again; using Compete for quantitative traffic comparisons is flawed, particularly with social sites that utilize embeddable content. Their data has be
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by therealarmen 14y ago
Why not just make it free like iOS updates? Is Apple really hurting for the extra cash? Seems like the benefit of having everyone up-to-date outweighs the financial hit.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I applaud the effort. With all the recent hubbub surrounding Padmapper I would have expected startups to avoid messing with Craigslist. The best way to get a giant like Craigslist to move is to step on its' toes.
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by therealarmen 14y ago
It's a fun exercise, but we all know how reliable Compete is for quantitative traffic comparisons. For example, Compete currently claims Reddit ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/ ) has less traffic than Digg ( http://siteanalyti
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by therealarmen 14y ago
I have an old Yahoo! Voice account and could not find my credentials in the txt dump. Anyone with an account find theirs?
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by therealarmen 14y ago
The reason why the content itself is not served under https is precisely to avoid the SSL warning. As I've said before, this particular issue is not high priority right now, which doesn't mean we're not aware or aren't going to fix it. So

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