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Pricing as Signal
Forbes: “EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year.” The story they̵…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 240 posts.
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Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service
Update 3 : Please see my follow-up post about Twitter's response. I started using Twitter in March 2007, just before their SXSW explosion. Not surprisingly, I instantly became addicted and since then have used the service for everything from personal to professional. Overall, Twitter is a g
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Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux
Last I checked, Mac OS X had around a 5% market share, and Linux had much less than that (among consumers). I can feel that many PHBs look…
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Data is good, code is a liability
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
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SvN: Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart
A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart. The start Here’s where we…
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Tipjoy (YC W08) now allows payments via Twitter
Tipjoy is different in a few ways. - We don't mandate branding in the tweet. You can just use 'p'. - We don't take a cut per tip, unlike their $0.05. That's 20% overhead on a $0.25 payment, which is high. - We allow cash out. People receiving money in Twitpay currently can't cash out. We're hoping to enable this…
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Bill Gates on iTunes Store: another interesting memo
Link to: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/PDF/Gates/gatesmail15.pdf
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Rands in Repose Gives Dropbox Love
Cloud computing is yet another name for services that have existed for a really long time. Here's the 2008 IEEE Internet Computing quote regarding Cloud Computi
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Are You An Entrepreneur or a Wantrepreneur?
Compare the best sports betting sites Singapore bettors use on odds, bonuses, banking and payout speed, with the wagering terms and limitations explained.
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Rules for startups
My buddy Jason had a GREAT post about rules for startups. Read it, love it learn it.
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Feedback Army: website feedback for $7, inspired by HN post
Feedback Army is an incredibly useful little website where you pay $7 for feedback to a given website of yours, and then get back 10 comments. Feedback Army uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the background. You enter the domain in question, say “example.com”, and then ask a bunch of question. Questions could be, “What…
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Ask 37signals: How did you come up with pricing for your products?
Mattijs asks: I am developing an internet product and I am rapidly approaching the point at which I will need to set a pricing scheme for this product. Problem: I have no idea what to shoot for! I have done some research which shows a wide range of similar products with varying pricing schemes. …
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10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened
In the race to provide full-stack visibility, many modern SaaS platforms have inadvertently created a new problem: information overload. High-end enterprise solutions are designed for companies with dedicated Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams that spend their entire day inside a dashboard. But for many…
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone, Bold, Storm, and G1
So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by:- 7 x Mini USB cables: 2 of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard. 1 x Ethernet cable: […]
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Tarsnap public beta
Tarsnap's paranoia also extends to the client-server protocol. With most online backup services, you're lucky if they use SSL; I avoided using SSL because I wasn't satisfied with its security. Obtaining a fraudulent SSL certificate is too easy (read: possible) for an attacker, and relying on external certification…
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Trust customers over VCs
Venture capitalists are glorified gamblers in the Ace-from-Casino sense of the word. They try their best to collect intel on the players, but ultimately still just place bets. Bets that usually fail more often than they succeed. It’s the 1-in-10 blowout payoff that makes sure the piano keeps …
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YC's summer update
We’re less than 2 weeks away from Demo Day and I feel like this funding cycle has whizzed by faster than any other. We have 22 startups this summer, bringing the total number we’ve funded to...