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by xg 17y ago
My main point was more about how nonprofits judge ROI and donor relationship value and I only included Aaron's post as an interesting link that wasn't included in the Post piece. I can say from my experience working with nonprofits that Aar
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by xg 17y ago
Interesting article and I've been wondering how long it would take for someone to write about this. Here is the post by Taproot ED on the real cost of Facebook Causes ($300 million in nonprofit employee time to raise $30 million): http://w
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by xg 18y ago
Even the simplest user language parsing is difficult. It's no wonder that PowerSet never actually launched.
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by xg 18y ago
And I guess if I'm just going to post the negative argument without saying much else, I should also link to Walter Isaacson's more substantive argument (longer than the one in Time): http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.49593
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by xg 18y ago
The Case Against Micropayments - Clay Shirky http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a/515
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by xg 18y ago
It depends, but the answer is probably not. Most people operate shortcodes through an aggregator (OpenMarket, mBlox, Ericson IPX) that has direct binds to all the telecom carriers in a given country. For the most part, aggregators charge a
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by xg 18y ago
We (Mobile Commons) just open-sourced a Legislative Look-up tool as both an API, web-site, and open source code and database. We had some issues making it work and thought we'd save other people some trouble. Namely: GIS files and location
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Open Source Legislative Look-up(mcommons.com)
1 points by xg 18y ago|1 comments
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by xg 18y ago
The nature of consulting (no ongoing support) means that most apps built by consultants are trivial. That doesn't mean they aren't talented programmers, but it also means that if you're looking for something that could legitimately be a 10k
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by xg 18y ago
http://sailthru.com (great APIs) and we use http://campaignmonitor.com for our newsletters.
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by xg 18y ago
Solid of them to do that, but FogBugz is terrible. Our dev team found it to be tedious (4 developers). We've switched to Pivotal Tracker (also in free beta) and find it much more suited to rapid development and "agile" practices. In particu
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by xg 18y ago
I attended the Tufte course a few years ago and it was fantastic. I enumerate the following reasons: 1. The 4 books alone are worth almost $200 2. He's one of the most engaging speakers you'll ever see: you're ability to present will improv
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by xg 19y ago
Other people did a good job explaining the basics. The issue is about book value and the complexity of the risk. The risk is similar to what the firm Citadel did with E*Trade. The risk on the books of Bear Stearns can't be fully calculated
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by xg 19y ago
Fantastic Photoshop tutorials that focus on "polish" and a lot of design elements that are currently in vogue. http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/elements-of-great-web... http://psdtuts.com/interface-tutorials/making-a-message-stri..
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by xg 19y ago
Are you talking about a screencast of your product or are you talking about video footage cut with other things? For screencasting: keep it under 5 minutes, use a script, read the FreshView Post: http://www.freshview.com/thoughts/2007/05/h