For Facebook "active" has always meant "signed on within the last 30 days."
That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.
The fact that 10% come from that page is a problem, not something to brag about.
They send out emails. They're not relying on people reading the blog. Also, http://www.businessinsider.com/yelps-first-daily-deal-beats-...
If you're producing the slides for a live audience, this style is superior. People can read faster than you can talk, so if what you're saying is all packed onto the slides it creates a bad audience dynamic. If, OTOH,…
Or, rather, you just enter a URL and it tells you what frameworks the app is using.
You've met one, now!
I think it just becomes story-telling.
OpenID and OpenSocial aren't getting traction anywhere. OpenID because it's a non-solution to a non-problem, and OpenSocial because Google didn't provide developers with the primary benefit of the Facebook Platform…
Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has that locked up.
They made plenty of attempts. You're just ignorant of them.
Don't be an ass. You don't know the first thing about the people working there and what they have or haven't tried. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a freemium, subscription, or (uhm...) donation…
Every company is around until it isn't. Blockbuster just declared bankruptcy -- does that make Blockbuster a fad? Facebook is six years old. 500MM people use it every month. They are profitable and do over $1Bn in…
I didn't read the part about validations. That's silly. Even if you have to do it in the application layer, why would you need more than one SELECT? Just get the installed apps from the DB in a single query and do a set…
In what universe is Facebook a fad? There are billion-dollar companies built on their platform, ferchrissakes!
Erm, that solution is a little extreme, unless there are a few steps missing. The first things I'd do: 1. Aggregate those inserts into a single SQL command. You never want to be issuing O(n) SQL queries per request. 2.…
Doesn't that support pg's argument vs. Arrington's?
It was founded by Mitch Kapor. I think he knows a thing or two about starting companies...
$100k is an ok number for a one-person outfit, but it would be hard to support even one employee on that number. In face, their current model of altering the Google SERPs almost certainly generates more revenue.
Who needs Dropbox when you can just run rsync?
Groupon
Yes, but the reason these brands weren't doing this before Gilt was because they were afraid selling excess inventory at a discount would associate their goods with that lower price-point. Gilt gets around this by…
You're wrong and I'm happy to bet against you. Proof points: 1. Tencent QQ is a Chinese social network for games. It's essentially Facebook+Zynga combined. Many of the top games on Facebook are ports of popular Chinese…
There's a reason the deals on Groupon last only a day. Your argument applies equally to Gilt, but I don't think people are going to start paying less for Diesel jeans.
How "productive" was Electronic Arts? It's from the same class as Adobe, etc. Computers aren't just for spreadsheets.
For Facebook "active" has always meant "signed on within the last 30 days."
That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.
The fact that 10% come from that page is a problem, not something to brag about.
They send out emails. They're not relying on people reading the blog. Also, http://www.businessinsider.com/yelps-first-daily-deal-beats-...
If you're producing the slides for a live audience, this style is superior. People can read faster than you can talk, so if what you're saying is all packed onto the slides it creates a bad audience dynamic. If, OTOH,…
Or, rather, you just enter a URL and it tells you what frameworks the app is using.
You've met one, now!
I think it just becomes story-telling.
OpenID and OpenSocial aren't getting traction anywhere. OpenID because it's a non-solution to a non-problem, and OpenSocial because Google didn't provide developers with the primary benefit of the Facebook Platform…
Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has that locked up.
They made plenty of attempts. You're just ignorant of them.
Don't be an ass. You don't know the first thing about the people working there and what they have or haven't tried. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a freemium, subscription, or (uhm...) donation…
Every company is around until it isn't. Blockbuster just declared bankruptcy -- does that make Blockbuster a fad? Facebook is six years old. 500MM people use it every month. They are profitable and do over $1Bn in…
I didn't read the part about validations. That's silly. Even if you have to do it in the application layer, why would you need more than one SELECT? Just get the installed apps from the DB in a single query and do a set…
In what universe is Facebook a fad? There are billion-dollar companies built on their platform, ferchrissakes!
Erm, that solution is a little extreme, unless there are a few steps missing. The first things I'd do: 1. Aggregate those inserts into a single SQL command. You never want to be issuing O(n) SQL queries per request. 2.…
Doesn't that support pg's argument vs. Arrington's?
It was founded by Mitch Kapor. I think he knows a thing or two about starting companies...
$100k is an ok number for a one-person outfit, but it would be hard to support even one employee on that number. In face, their current model of altering the Google SERPs almost certainly generates more revenue.
Who needs Dropbox when you can just run rsync?
Groupon
Yes, but the reason these brands weren't doing this before Gilt was because they were afraid selling excess inventory at a discount would associate their goods with that lower price-point. Gilt gets around this by…
You're wrong and I'm happy to bet against you. Proof points: 1. Tencent QQ is a Chinese social network for games. It's essentially Facebook+Zynga combined. Many of the top games on Facebook are ports of popular Chinese…
There's a reason the deals on Groupon last only a day. Your argument applies equally to Gilt, but I don't think people are going to start paying less for Diesel jeans.
How "productive" was Electronic Arts? It's from the same class as Adobe, etc. Computers aren't just for spreadsheets.