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Re:Why T-shirts matter at tech companies on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:14PM (#2425422)
Wrote a post just yesterday about the power of advertising through T-shirts. Referenced a local restaurant, The Salty Dog Cafe, whose entire identity is based on a t-shirt. Has worked well for others also.

http://bfginteractive.com/blog/travel-tourism/2011/04/06/the...

85% Of Women Are Annoyed By Most Facebook Friends

Posted by atrevisan on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @10:07AM
from the allfacebook.com dept.

http://www.allfacebook.com/85-women-are-annoyed-by-most-facebook-friends-2011-03?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allfacebook+%28Facebook+Blog%29

Funny as it may sound, are we producing a culture of people that are annoyed by everyone else? Granted this survey used a very limited sample, but I think it speaks to a bigger picture. We want to be more connected and social media gave us that. Now we are annoyed by this interconnectedness.You can be best friends with someone, then when you start living together things can go terribly wrong. I...

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Re:The real reason people are mocking Color... on Monday March 28, 2011 @05:37PM (#2380211)
Even if it was Colr, Android Market could find a way to make it impossible to discover via search.
Re:41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble on Thursday March 24, 2011 @12:40PM (#2364801)
Typically those kinds of things would happen once every year or so, twitter (I still don't fully grok their business model), facebook and so on.

Don't understand Twitter's business model? Promoted tweets have the ability to become AdWords for social. Millions of pieces of content are shared everyday giving insight into user's pleasures, dislikes, and lifestyle. This user data, when analyzed, has immense value for companies interested in purchasing. That information is worth a ton.

Bubble or no bubble, I sure grok their business model.

Re:Subject: Airbnb on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:48PM (#2337740)
All other important factors aside, everything comes back to scalability. This helps further drill that point.
Re:Drchrono (YC W11) is building a health care revolution on the iPad on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:42PM (#2329544)
Love this. The health care industry was due for some needed technology innovation in regards to billing and prescriptions and the iPad is the perfect platform to do so.

Can someone make a "doctor's handwriting" font?

Re:If Steve Jobs was such a bad boss why did so many people work with ... on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:31PM (#2329487)
Working for a visionary often brings about opinions on opposite sides of the spectrum; you either love them or hate them. This is true for Apple as it is for other tech giants. If you are on board with Steve's vision and can even remotely grasp what in fact you are working towards, you will love it. If not, you will probably hate it.

Much of this stems from an outward opinion of Steve Jobs being a jerk, which will of course vary based on who you talk to. This is true for every visionary.

Many people will tell you Bob Knight is a jerk, but he was one of the best college basketball coaches in history. If you talk to any of his past players that were willing to put in 100% effort and understood what his intentions were, they would tell you they loved playing for him.

Re:Scvngr launches spinoff LevelUp to compete in daily deals market on Thursday March 10, 2011 @02:12PM (#2310302)
I understand SCVNGR's thought process behind this and appreciate the fact they are going after a major inherent flaw of other daily deal sites (not generating repeat customers).

However, I think SCVNGR will find they have the same problem. Even though they claim research shows that a customer who visits an establishment three times is a "regular" this doesn't take into account that customer is used to severely discounted prices. When someone is used to paying 75% off, I think this is a huge barrier to overcome in order to get them to continuously pay full price.

Re:Sleep is more important than food on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:52PM (#2307002)
Isn't Red Bull the same thing as sleep?
Re:Amazon.com Says It Will Open App Store to Rival Google’s on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @04:03PM (#2277187)
Let's hope that the Amazon App Store improves upon the horrendous searchability of the Android Market.
Re:Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @04:15PM (#2255849)
I find it funny that Facebook can be used as a resource for conducting a political revolution, yet they kill this.
Re:Peter Thiel & Max Levchin: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation" on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @03:31PM (#2255675)
I don't think you can compare generational innovation. These things are all relative. It's hard for me to believe that today's minds who are building a supercomputer that can reproduce human logic and understanding couldn't produce the Manhattan Project.

We aren't becoming more short-term focused, rather the future is shrinking. A 20 year time frame in past generations is now 3 years. In this day, if you have a long-term scope and vision you will become obsolete in five years. Adaptation is crucial to innovation as well.