Just say "We only send you clean clothes in great condition." Saying you donate the crap that no one wants is offensive.
Facts: 1) GoDaddy has been doing crazy stunts forever (see rejected Super Bowl ads) 2) GoDaddy is the largest registrar, with 31% market share (http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global) Given the…
Quote of the day: "If your software miscalculates the path of a space probe, you can't finesse your way out of trouble by saying that your code is patriotic, or avant-garde, or any of the other dodges people use in…
Interesting that completely missing from this conversation is: -- Their website design -- Their code (Rails? Jquery?) -- Their hosting / scalability / "cloud" strategy -- Source control methods, dev environment, tools…
I would buy that in a heartbeat. My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case -…
Techmeme, like Google, is a great and valuable resource. However, the debate is whether or not these aggregators sites should show up in search results instead of the original source. I use Techmeme all day long, but…
Malcolm Gladwell defined talent as "the love of practicing". That's the best definition I've heard.
The other way to look at it is what if Google HAD NOT bought YouTube. What if it had gone to Microsoft? Or Comcast? Sometimes keeping something away from your competitors is enough of a reason.
It is worth remembering how airlines price tickets: Pricing is not based on how much it costs the airline to get you to your destination (i.e. distance and fuel). Airlines long ago figured out how to extract the most…
All very true. Also a very good, practical and easy read: "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060007737/
Google wants more people to use that Internet more often. That's it. The more users (web, mobile, tv, whatever) the more money they make (in the big picture). If they can help the carriers get more people using smart…
Best advice I've ever heard: "End the fight as fast as possible." This isn't the movies. There are no "cool moves". If you have never done it before, striking another person is emotionally difficult. Your biggest…
My wife always tells me when I'm "programming with my eyes". She says my eyes get this look and she can tell that, even though we are having dinner or a discussion, that in my head I'm looking at code. She's almost…
Disclaimer: Everything I know about Hollywood I learned from watching Entourage... A big difference between breaking in to the script writing world and breaking in to the web app / internet startup world is the amount…
This is why I withdraw all funds from PayPal every weekday morning. PayPal has been the sole payment solution for my software company for more than 5 years. 99% of all of my money, my families money and my employees…
User's are terrified that an app will spam their friends. The users that aren't are pre-teens that don't care or older adults that don't know what spam is. On one of our apps, we improved FB connnect usage by 50% by…
Seriously? Who wiped your butt when you crapped your pants? Who taught you to ride a bike and held you when you skinned your knees? Who bought you your first computer and fed you and drove you to school and held you…
Just say "We only send you clean clothes in great condition." Saying you donate the crap that no one wants is offensive.
Facts: 1) GoDaddy has been doing crazy stunts forever (see rejected Super Bowl ads) 2) GoDaddy is the largest registrar, with 31% market share (http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global) Given the…
Quote of the day: "If your software miscalculates the path of a space probe, you can't finesse your way out of trouble by saying that your code is patriotic, or avant-garde, or any of the other dodges people use in…
Interesting that completely missing from this conversation is: -- Their website design -- Their code (Rails? Jquery?) -- Their hosting / scalability / "cloud" strategy -- Source control methods, dev environment, tools…
I would buy that in a heartbeat. My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case -…
Techmeme, like Google, is a great and valuable resource. However, the debate is whether or not these aggregators sites should show up in search results instead of the original source. I use Techmeme all day long, but…
Malcolm Gladwell defined talent as "the love of practicing". That's the best definition I've heard.
The other way to look at it is what if Google HAD NOT bought YouTube. What if it had gone to Microsoft? Or Comcast? Sometimes keeping something away from your competitors is enough of a reason.
It is worth remembering how airlines price tickets: Pricing is not based on how much it costs the airline to get you to your destination (i.e. distance and fuel). Airlines long ago figured out how to extract the most…
All very true. Also a very good, practical and easy read: "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060007737/
Google wants more people to use that Internet more often. That's it. The more users (web, mobile, tv, whatever) the more money they make (in the big picture). If they can help the carriers get more people using smart…
Best advice I've ever heard: "End the fight as fast as possible." This isn't the movies. There are no "cool moves". If you have never done it before, striking another person is emotionally difficult. Your biggest…
My wife always tells me when I'm "programming with my eyes". She says my eyes get this look and she can tell that, even though we are having dinner or a discussion, that in my head I'm looking at code. She's almost…
Disclaimer: Everything I know about Hollywood I learned from watching Entourage... A big difference between breaking in to the script writing world and breaking in to the web app / internet startup world is the amount…
This is why I withdraw all funds from PayPal every weekday morning. PayPal has been the sole payment solution for my software company for more than 5 years. 99% of all of my money, my families money and my employees…
User's are terrified that an app will spam their friends. The users that aren't are pre-teens that don't care or older adults that don't know what spam is. On one of our apps, we improved FB connnect usage by 50% by…
Seriously? Who wiped your butt when you crapped your pants? Who taught you to ride a bike and held you when you skinned your knees? Who bought you your first computer and fed you and drove you to school and held you…