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by zaidf 14y ago
I'll give it a shot but from a user's perspective, I took for granted the ease with which I could find directions from one app using various modes(walk/drive/public transport). Changing a basic habit for no good reason is hard--if anyone, A
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by zaidf 14y ago
If I live in Manhattan and extensively use Maps for public transport info, is it true that feature no longer exists? If so, I'm going to wait before upgrading to iOS 6. Widespread blunder like this does so much to hurt the Apple brand espec
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by zaidf 14y ago
Someone make this for twitter please! A big problem with twitter is that most active users use it for everything from communicating with their significant other to sharing industry news. In most cases, I am only interested in the industry n
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by zaidf 14y ago
During his TechCrunch Disrupt talk, Khosla explained that the key role of early investors is not funding, but personal attention and guidance. This particular criticism made me chuckle as one of my fondest memories of my time at YC is of
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by zaidf 14y ago
I have tonnes of emails saved in my iPhone Notes app of people I met, tried to unsuccessfully find on facebook using the app, and later found them using the facebook.com from a normal computer. I'm starting to feel that facebook purposely b
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by zaidf 14y ago
When I was 14, bunch of my cousins and I started working at my uncle's start-up as a summer "internship." Bulk of our job was to find product images and resize them in various sizes. For a while, my cousins were using photoshop to do them a
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by zaidf 14y ago
Exactly. Only time I have heard $x CPM is when ad networks tell me they can make me $x for every 1,000 impressions of their ads on my site. Overall that post remains pretty confusing.
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by zaidf 14y ago
When we back these numbers out into CPM terms, our platform is doing a $340 CPM! To give some perspective: $20 is a very high CPM for Display and $100 is a very high CPM for Email. Nit pick but important enough to confuse me and may be o
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by zaidf 14y ago
Please shoot me an email: zaid.farooqui at gmail :) Or msg me on gtalk.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Awesome! Jenny told me about your site some time ago :) Good to see it on HN. Another thing - when I click play, it's not apparent that it's a modal and there is an 'X' on top left. I thought you were taking me to a new page. May be reduce
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by zaidf 14y ago
So, I like the idea! I share a lot of videos on facebook but their present UI makes it super hard to only check out videos. You seem to kind of address that. I do think you can improve your messaging. I kind of knew what you offer but not
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by zaidf 15y ago
That's not value for the average Facebook user (for advertisers? sure, very much). Google still makes bulk of its money from advertising. As you admit yourself, facebook has precious data for advertisers that Google doesn't. Facebook is p
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by zaidf 15y ago
The fun will begin when facebook uses Bing's index and their UI/engineering expertise to launch a _serious_ Google search competitor. I for one am ready, though I think facebook will probably take another few years before getting to it.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Silly semantics. You could also see it as a magnificent $0.65 per page. After all, a blog is just a dynamic page outputting database records, right?
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by zaidf 15y ago
Your tool is very useful in finding domains but you're likely leaving a bunch of money on the table by only monetizing via domain affiliates. You should consider a premium subscription where members pay 5-10 bucks to see even more domain op
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by zaidf 15y ago
Reason #2 is that if necessary, a DuckDuckGoogle can be created in an afternoon's worth of effort in Mountain View. I can't tell how serious you are with that statement.
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by zaidf 15y ago
I didn't even know Bing Search API let you just query it. IMO they should have done more evangalism before starting to charge. Has someone used this to re-create the classic Google search experience that Google has shit all over recently? O
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by zaidf 15y ago
This got me thinking...is it possible for Microsoft to secretly buy out DDG and leave them the fuck alone except where they need help(ie. access to Bing index)? For all the money the Bing unit keeps pouring, I feel buying DDG and leaving
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by zaidf 15y ago
A better question would be: what were the chances that Google could acquire instagram and use them to make a charge at facebook? The question, of course, sounds a bit laughable. But the answer is a non-zero number big enough for facebook to
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by zaidf 15y ago
Obama Admin needs to straight up create a position that is the OPPOSITE of the Copyright Czar...someone who can internally bat against much of what the Copyright Czar comes up with.
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However, I don't think it's applicable to groupon's situation That is debatable. Consider this: Amazon started off just selling books, today they are gunning for Walmart. At the time, people raised similar objections and Amazon took heat
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by zaidf 15y ago
Amazon was unprofitable for years after IPO. If your argument that profits right now are the only thing that matter, then you'd be hating on amazon for the same reason you're hating on groupon. And if Amazon listened to folks like you and
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by zaidf 15y ago
Groupon didn't make its money by swapping money between a couple of friends. Making a bil in revenue by the way of your example versus Groupon's way have very different risks associated with it.
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Welcome to the stock market.
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when you sell software or educational ebooks cheaply Sorry, but I know far too many people who enter new niches with an inexpensive ebook and then once they have built a solid list of customers interested in the niche, they go on to sell
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by zaidf 15y ago
It's "scary" and "even" dangerous one may say, but not meaningless.
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Saying "who cares about revenue?" is just as faulty as stating "who cares about profit?"(which I never stated).
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by zaidf 15y ago
It worked on the novelty effect and it was doomed to fail. A little premature to write an obituary of a company that finished 2011 with 1.6B in revenue.
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I hope you have an option to buy copies for friends(who get it in their email).
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by zaidf 15y ago
As someone who bought Sascha's book, his pricing made it a no brainier. I bought it in a snap. So the difference is that Jarrod earned $2,000 more--or roughly 25%. On the other hand, Sascha(who made less revenue) had 1,234 or almost 5 times

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