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The Product Tax (adding features can be costly in non-obvious ways)(blog.netflix.com)
2 points by toffer 19y ago|1 comments
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Marc Andreessen: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year(blog.pmarca.com)
13 points by toffer 19y ago|4 comments
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HBase: A Google Bigtable clone (new opensource project)(glinden.blogspot.com)
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Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO(insidefacebook.com)
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VC Adventure: Monday morning (interesting postmortem on Startup Weekend)(sethlevine.typepad.com)
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Greg Linden writes: "In A/B tests (at Amazon), we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue." Google experienced a similar drop of
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How to design for the Facebook Platform (what works, what doesn't)(renkoo.wordpress.com)
4 points by toffer 19y ago|1 comments
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Matt Maroon: Advice for Would-Be Y Combinator Founders(mattmaroon.com)
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Asymmetric risk and the dangers of too high a valuation(lsvp.wordpress.com)
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Comscore's Fishy Facebook Numbers (35+ demographic counts way too high)(saunderslog.com)
3 points by toffer 19y ago|0 comments
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Costco also has parallels with Craigslist: 1) Wall Street can't understand why they don't "maximize revenue" by raising prices. 2) They are determined to never allow another company to come in under them and beat their prices. Both companie
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by toffer 19y ago
I love Costco. For me, the best quote of the article was this: "The traditional retailer will say: 'I'm selling this for $10. I wonder whether I can get $10.50 or $11.' We say: 'We're selling it for $9. How do we get it down to $8?'"
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How Yahoo can beat Google(storagemojo.com)
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Jeremy Liew: "Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth"(lsvp.wordpress.com)
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How to track pageviews for individual pages in Facebook apps with Google Analytics(yeeguy.com)
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Markus Frind: "Do VC Backed Founders Actually Make Any Money?"(plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
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by toffer 19y ago
I agree. I really want more details. According to the Conference page ( http://www.google.com/events/scalability_seattle/ ), all sessions were videotaped and will be on YouTube or Google Video soon.
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Report from Google Scalabilty Conf.: "SOA done right...Every Amazon Web page calls at least 150 services."(blogs.zdnet.com)
12 points by toffer 19y ago|6 comments
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Seth Godin's great idea for generating buzz at a trade show(sethgodin.typepad.com)
6 points by toffer 19y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Chen: "Facebook app users are potentially worth about 1% of what users on your website are worth"(insidefacebook.com)
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Brad Feld Proposes a Solution to the "Facebook Problem"(feld.com)
2 points by toffer 19y ago|1 comments
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by toffer 19y ago
It looks to me like you can place ads on the pages of your Facebook application. If you go to the "Music Challenge" page of the iLike application, you will see banner advertising. Since the ad is on the application page, I'm guessing that
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Why Amazon's EC2 isn't yet a platform for "normal" web applications(joyeur.com)
6 points by toffer 19y ago|0 comments
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Rejection forced the creation of Google(glinden.blogspot.com)
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Search Engine Roulette: Fewer than 1% of first-page results are shared by Google, Yahoo, Windows Live and Ask(networkworld.com)
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by toffer 19y ago
But it's a mobile phone app...what mobile phone can run Firefox?
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How many mobile phone web browsers support javascript? If most mobile browsers' support for javascript is limited or nonexistent, then it makes sense to optimize for Safari, since iPhone users will be the only ones able to use it anyway.
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Try an iPhone-optimized Web app: Simple Shopping List. (Best viewed with Safari.)(onetrip.org)
6 points by toffer 19y ago|9 comments
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by toffer 19y ago
What's interesting is that all the hype surrounding the explosive viral growth for Facebook apps such as iLike doesn't acknowledge a possible cost. Acquiring 4 million users isn't strictly additive, if it comes at the cost of cannibalizing
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According to Alexa, iLike has lost 70% of their Web site traffic since launching on Facebook(plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
19 points by toffer 19y ago|12 comments

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