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by zach 16y ago
How well will Android's advertising-centric app economics work with these devices?
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Samsung Player, Android rival to iPod Touch, to launch at CES(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by zach 16y ago|1 comments
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by zach 16y ago
I know this is a topic John Gruber has mentioned many times, but I think the persistent lack of an Android competitor to the iPod touch is still little-mentioned and revealing. However, I just saw that Samsung is looking to fill this role,
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by zach 16y ago
Game design guru Michael John posted an ode to the game sensibilities of the Prius when it was (ahem) the only game in town: http://www.methodgames.com/methodblog/files/archive-4.html#u... All you need to make a game is a feedback loop wi
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, it really lost steam by the time it got to Twixt. There wasn't even a story there. Worth reading to consider how people hear and pass along origin stories and explanations for quirky things. Or even to consider how habing stories behi
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by zach 16y ago
Great point. There are other lifestyle factors besides diet playing a part as well. Particularly, that Afghanistan is probably one of the most stressful countries in the world in which to live over the last 35 years.
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by zach 16y ago
> But remember: the average life expectancy of an Afghan is 39 years . These supposedly fit and healthy societies had entire generations that never saw the age of 50. That's life expectancy at birth, because Afghanistan (understandabl
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by zach 16y ago
Missed this last night. Congrats to the Movity team. Real estate is a tough business in which to both scale up and monetize -- basically, pick one or the other, because doing one makes the other harder. Obviously, since my startup is LA L
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by zach 16y ago
Oops, missed it. Deleting.
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by zach 16y ago
Since I've submitted (and run a similar startup), let me be the first to congratulate the Movity guys. Real estate is a tough business in which to both scale up and monetize (pick one) so this looks like a good result for both companies.
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by zach 16y ago
Another worthwhile blog post sullied by an over-sensationalized headline, from the author of How to Change the World . Let's be honest, this is triage to save the life of people dying on the streets. And frankly, I find that to be a far m
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by zach 16y ago
It looked pretty promising to me. I looked at those demos and saw some nice capability. The code was pretty clean. I actually greatly prefer minimalist demos and so consider this a presentation problem. It would be better to place the cod
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by zach 16y ago
Fantastic. Applying it to my site right now. I'm a little humbled to realize I've stopped viewing source as much as I did five years ago. I really should do it more often so I can see cool things like this, especially for sites with great
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by zach 16y ago
Cool! I'm delighted to hear whenever the internet is not being overwhelmed by the other side of the "anonymity plus audience" equation.
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by zach 16y ago
Therefore it will always be as NSFW as humanly possible.
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by zach 16y ago
Activate some you time for great good!
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by zach 16y ago
Entirely irrational but people are people. Have you seen the "Ice Cream" ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl67TNDW-0Q
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by zach 16y ago
Well, they A/B tested with your friends saying "good riddance!" and "fine, get lost!" but the clear winner was the "miss you" page...
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by zach 16y ago
I've heard a little about those editions but don't know much about them, so I think you might have some user education necessary. But it sounds great on the whole.
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by zach 16y ago
But the big question is, can uploaders stitch together all those existing "1/9," "2/9" etc. videos so we can put that whole era behind us? So was the original pre-June 11-minute limit a product of the MPEG LA rules where videos "12 minutes
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by zach 16y ago
What would really be valuable and popular would be if you could find a way for us to get a group discount on these $80-$100 books that are priced as textbooks. There is a huge amount of pent-up demand there. Take the extreme but famous exam
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What's the Most Interesting Thing About You?(zachbaker.com)
3 points by zach 16y ago|1 comments
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by zach 16y ago
I would love that to be the case, but that idiom pops up all the time in my parts (LA area). Most recently it showed up in the dialogue for Disney's Tangled and not even in a self-aware way. Ugh.
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by zach 16y ago
I've gotten a telemarketer call from the BBB here in Southern California recently and it reeked of the worst things Yelp is accused of. They led off with a yarn about how they had heard from consumers looking for information about my busine
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by zach 16y ago
I was actually just kidding. However, I admit that I did search LinkedIn for a Chase H. at Google.
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by zach 16y ago
I have a three step solution. 1. Create an amazing dream programmer job opening. 2. Use this as the interview problem. 3. Hire the one with the best solution and put it into practice. I bet it turns out you only need two weighings.
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, I just emailed the address and got an autoreply with an invitation to the pre-launch beta! Ah, Google, you rascals of viral marketing...
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by zach 16y ago
I think people are very, very wary about pre-checked checkboxes just under payment details, because it reeks of cramming. That is, they set off alarms not just that they might be subscribed to some email list, but that a "free trial subscri
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by zach 16y ago
Most companies know that there will always be inefficiencies and even seriously dubious stuff wrapped up in affiliate programs, but accept them anyway. I think there are is a counter-argument to be made because price discrimination is almos
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by zach 16y ago
A classic pivot. They used BugMeNot's audience and reach to slingshot RetailMeNot into a huge site. You would be forgiven for having written them off from where they started with BugMeNot. You look at that site and say, "How in the world

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