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Re: Contest: Win Trick ‘r Treat on Blu-ray

EricFriedman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:50:11 -0000

Thanks matt!

Re: Valuation and Option Pool

SteveKane — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:08:31 -0000

Amen

Re: The AVC Reader Census

daryn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:11:30 -0000

Thanks! Snow Crash it is, and I'll keep an eye out for that @bfeld
thread.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

daryn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:09:07 -0000

Everyone's always surprised that I have little to no interest in Sci-Fi. This was especially true when I started coding - but fortunately the jolt soda, cheetos, and first-person shooters stereotype has faded a little since then :)

I do hear everyone rave about Snow Crash and Neil Stephenson's other books, and I did enjoy Neuromancer in high school, so maybe I need to give it another chance. What are the first 3 sci-fi books I should read?

Re: Google Dashboard

EricFriedman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:07:55 -0000

I would definitely want to see that data too.

Re: Where’s your head at? A good example of an entrepreneur thinking about the right stuff

ceonyc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:35:09 -0000

You have to be 51% right 10% of the time. The 51% is at the level of
each individual decision...10% is at the company level.

Re: Where’s your head at? A good example of an entrepreneur thinking about the right stuff

ceonyc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:31 -0000

You just gotta be right 51% of the time.

Re: Data Exhaust

EricFriedman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:52:15 -0000

I will check it out.

Re: Data Exhaust

EricFriedman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:54:52 -0000

The first time you use Facebook, your profile is empty, which is why they
have created an almost game like dynamic to "get your profile complete".
Inferences made from your completed profile help advertisers reach you,
relevant news feed items come through, and honestly tweak the system so that
you don't see what you don't want. All that happens through categories you
opt into and data you share not a series of questions like "what type of
news do you want to see - choose from these 85 choices" which is the old
way.

I think Amazon is another that contours results from the moment you click an
item, search for something, or make a purchase. Your customized Amazon
looks exponentially different than mine - all due to data exhaust and no
difficult questions.

A brand new system has a major data density problem that can be solved by
bringing over credentials from another system, or providing a value
proposition that is so strong, you start contributing back to the system and
solve the data problem.

Re: Data Exhaust

EricFriedman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:48:56 -0000

Collect it all.

Re: Introducing Tracked.com

EricFriedman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:08:38 -0000

Yes.

Re: Google Apps Connector For BES

EricFriedman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:05:07 -0000

Any experience using or setting up with this vendor?

Re: How to setup an appointment

EricFriedman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:30 -0000

I would LOVE this feature. I find that all export to calendar things do not
work as promised, but if you could pull this off it would be well worth the
dev. time and money.

Count me in to contribute if you want to see this get built.

Re: How to setup an appointment

EricFriedman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:15:47 -0000

Thanks! Was going to send this to you today but you got there first!

Re: The Double Opt-In Introduction

SteveKane — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:04:24 -0000

Somehow, I don't think so. ;)

Re: Why is the Kindle so anti-social?

ceonyc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:51:06 -0000

I think it's just got to be done right... I agree that you don't want
purchase notifications and friend requests interrupting your reading
experience... but when you're shopping or looking for new ideas, social
recommendations would be helpful.

Re: Why is the Kindle so anti-social?

ceonyc — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:18:59 -0000

I had no idea. *Almost* but not quite... I feel like that's got to be
on someone's roadmap.

Re: Exit Strategy

vruz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:48:16 -0000

I'm more concerned about the ways in which I *don't* want to exit.
That's an exit decision too.

Re: Exit Strategy

vruz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:57 -0000

depends on the decision. I already know there's certain things I don't want to do in life.
it's harder to learn what not to do than learning what to do, as you get a lot more of experience, you realise of this inescapable fact of life.
'initial decision judgement' is oftentimes an euphemism for 'core values'.

Re: Exit Strategy

vruz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:21:49 -0000

I wouldn't personally include that in a first presentation, I agree it's braindead, but I do have some ideas about certain exits that I consider next to non-negotiable, and depending on the situation and who is the addressee of the presentation that may or may not come up.

I hope you don't get too many slides of the braindead kind :-)

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:02 -0000

Try this one instead...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a40a4...

Sorry for the confusion.

Re: Eat.ly - Meal Tracking and Social Food Discovery

EricFriedman — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:20:02 -0000

Last pic was the grey dog breakfast - a whole totally different breakfast :) But, yeah, I love this place.

Re: J. Tillman - Steel On Steel Photo by... - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:38:52 -0000

I didn't take the picture, but there might be more info if you click
the photographer's name.

Re: Google Apps Connector For BES

EricFriedman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:48:47 -0000

Thanks for the information - I have considered running an Amazon EC2
instance but then we are left managing a server. I would rather pay
slightly more to have a managed hosting environment in case of downtime or
updates. After, with email being mission critical we cannot have things go
down. The other alternative is to switch to Google Apps without BES - which
is not a great option. I think tons of people would gladly switch if Google
hosted a BES for people.

Was the provider you used in the beignning exchangemymail.com or was that
who you switched to?

Re: Google Music

EricFriedman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:40 -0000

Great points.

Looking forward to seeing campaign results from folks.