zkinion

15 ms·

31.
by zkinion 19y ago
Heh, I found this thread off of vwag. Eh, give him a break. He's probably been coding all day.
32.
by zkinion 19y ago
This is dead on about the copyright infringement.
33.
by zkinion 19y ago
all the accounts here are bots. Theres like 3-4 real people total. ;)
34.
by zkinion 19y ago
I guess if you were really clever you could cache it too, if you had a site with a ton of traffic.
35.
by zkinion 19y ago
slashdot ;)
36.
by zkinion 19y ago
I like the openness/energy level of number 10. The others just seem silly, and not to mention extremely expensive.
37.
by zkinion 19y ago
I finally agree with TC, that seems pretty pointless.
38.
Ask YC: open geoip databases?
21 points by zkinion 19y ago|8 comments
39.
by zkinion 19y ago
Heh, I hardly went to class, and ran a successful business while I was in college, and got almost a 4.0 </self promotion> I kind of regret even going to college though. I learned much more in the real world and having a business, f
40.
by zkinion 19y ago
I bet those people are living like kings in whatever east european country they are in.
41.
by zkinion 19y ago
Hah, everybody was in here saying the sky was falling and they would be shut down overnight, but it turns out this lawsuit threat isn't as real as it seems.
42.
by zkinion 19y ago
Never mind, I'll just make it in openoffice then share with scribd.
43.
by zkinion 19y ago
Yeah, I finally sat down and watched this whole thing last night. He gives some really good advice about achieving your dreams. It goes off on some tangents sometimes, like when talking about the specifics of his student's projects, but
44.
Ask YC: online presentation (shareable) software in place of Zenter?
3 points by zkinion 19y ago|2 comments
45.
by zkinion 19y ago
You guys are confusing competence with confidence . If you're riding a motorcycle really fast, would you rather be confident with yourself being able to control it, or would you rather be competent? People who go all in are not always j
46.
by zkinion 19y ago
Yeah, I tried to do some reading about plentyoffish and couldn't find anything about myspace spamming. Though I don't doubt he had a ton of fake accounts at the start, and probably did some deal of spam.
47.
by zkinion 19y ago
Probably some kind of "legal spam". You'd be surprised how many startups do this.
48.
by zkinion 19y ago
Don't forget the upcoming google bigtable, which changes that graph quite a bit: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/google-bigtable...
49.
by zkinion 19y ago
Microsoft is still doing well off of office, and acquisitions/ventures such as hotmail and msn/windows live search. When most "average" people use their computers for the first time, and then on, they'll use internet explorer which goes to
50.
by zkinion 19y ago
Yeah, I haven't even added in the thought of brand advertising as well. That would add to the effect, as the child company also gains eventual brand recognition over time in that situation.
51.
by zkinion 19y ago
I loved reading some of his books like Alchemy of Finance, and Soros on Soros. The ironic thing is he speaks a lot about reflexivity, where market's participants views on an outcome actually end up affecting that outcome itself.
52.
by zkinion 19y ago
Your putting too much faith in the buyers of ads reacting to the changes in prices and knowing exactly how much the traffic they are buying is actually worth. All mortgage broker's/free i-pod scam/dating site/etc know the exact ROI they
53.
by zkinion 19y ago
I understand what you're saying. However, I'm trying to make this "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" argument. But, with Berkshire, almost all of its investments thrive well on their own. Buffett invests in each and every one be
54.
by zkinion 19y ago
You're assuming perfectly priced traffic, in an arbitrage-free environment where the buyers of traffic pay perfectly for the traffic, an exact amount proportional to their revenue that they will get from that traffic. It doesn't always work
55.
by zkinion 19y ago
"Facebook" wouldn't have to change their core competencies at all. It would have a stake in a company who's core competency is whatever that industry happens to be. The site is indeed relatively worthless, and I doubt anybody at all is pay
56.
by zkinion 19y ago
-The SN network in this situation would be acting as a "holding" company. It does not expand into anything itself. The child companies do, and gain expertise (by possibly hiring from competitors), and also advantage by more traffic sent t
57.
by zkinion 19y ago
wealth for an entire nation/world certainly is, but not necessarily wealth for a specific company, especially in the situation I speak of.
58.
by zkinion 19y ago
Sell ads on what? Those sites are buyers of ads. They do the conversion of traffic. I should have made more clear that this is a longer term strategy, and yes, indeed more expertise is needed in these industries. However, what these in
59.
A way for social networks to actually monetize [better] (holding company theory)(outrunpoker.com)
10 points by zkinion 19y ago|21 comments
60.
by zkinion 19y ago
http://www.outrunpoker.com/blog/2008/03/a-way-for-social-net... I don't think social graphs or other "hocus pocus" BS will get them much more CPM than they are currently getting. I believe the only solution is to take more of the revenue

More ›