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Posted by
expertcs on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am developing an app where I need to provide a list of all the schools, universities, and training centers based on location. Are there databases available with such information that I can obtain for free or paid? Any help in general for obtaining such information will be appreciated.
I am a bit confused on how they are doing it. As a developer I sign up and put my app on sale. I decide the number of units I want to sell. Buyers buy it through the website. Now how do the buyers get the actual app?
Posted by
expertcs on Monday October 18, 2010 @03:23PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.
I think that is why they have kept it. It will give them insanely high publicity. Moreover, I think they might be able to keep it too. It's not like Oracle sued Matrix team for having an Oracle. :)
Also, to the people who are saying images are not displayed in most of the email clients, browsers, don't forget smartphones where there is no option of blocking images.
Posted by
expertcs on Thursday October 07, 2010 @11:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.
We are building web services (APIs) which can be used within iPhone apps for data synchronization. I was wondering which one is generally better: SAX parsing or DOM-style parsing in the iPhone app. There is no dependency and we can chose any but I am confused whether to chose the easy one (SAX), as it is sequential and not a memory hog like DOM. Any particular reasons to chose DOM if you dont...
zferral seems to be a good option for affiliates who will continuously market your product. I am looking for a system which can help me release campaigns to my existing users. For example, if they post about my product with my link provided on twitter/facebook or simply email it to their friends and their friends purchase the product, I should be notified so that I can provide the offer to my existing user.
Posted by
expertcs on Sunday October 03, 2010 @09:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have a product which asks user to register. I want to integrate an automated referral system into the emails I send out to my existing customers so that if they refer my app to any of their friends and the friends purchase it, both the friend and them get some discount. I checked zferral and hasoffers but both of them are for affiliates. I am looking for a easily integrable referral system...
This is good for now, but, I wont be surprised if they start generating leads and doing affiliate marketing for shoes/apparel.
Posted by
expertcs on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @04:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Lately, techcrunch has added auto-refresh on their website. I understand it must be for increasing pageviews, however, I simply hate it. Can someone help me on how to turn it completely off?
no iPod touch update? I was hoping they will at least have a camera in the iPod touch added.
I think its mostly because there are not many NEW users. I would guess that more than 75% of iPad users own an iPhone or an iPod Touch.
Posted by
expertcs on Saturday May 29, 2010 @01:58PM
from the news.discovery.com dept.
The problem here is that FB makes more money by making user profiles more public. They have shown it already. And, I doubt you will disagree with me on this fact.
Now, you can argue that making private information public to generate revenues is not selling, however, IMO, it is, given the fact that they started out as a completely private social network.
So, are you saying that instant personalization was adding no value to their revenues? Making status updates public was in no-way an answer to twitter and generate a real-time news source? Linking interests to direct pages otherwise blank pages was making them no money? I know you work for FB, and it seems a lot of fb employees are following this thread and trying to generate a positive vibe. I am not against FB, but the way they have done things lately, it is almost impossible for me to believe that they wont do it again. I was one of those people who used to post things without thinking much on fb, and now I have completely stopped. Hopefully, every user will understand and would start treating it as a public forum.
Their intentions are to make butt load of money. The only way they can do it is by selling users data one way or another. One of the main reasons I user facebook is to keep in touch with my friends and know what they are doing without having to do much. Big announcements or happenings are also passed on through facebook, nowadays, which is fine. However, this information is just between friends. Unless, they somehow make most of this information public, I dont see a way for them to make loads of money. They have a funding of $716M and a lot of it at $12B evaluation. What else are they going to do?
I don't understand why people are jumping back in the band-wagon. Facebook has shown its intention, clearly. Reverting back is only a temporary solution.
A smaller 3G iPad. No voice plan, no contract, just data.
Edit: iPad without 3G is $129 cheaper. iPod Touch is $229 cheapest. Adding a 3G chip to it should make it <$350.
I think it is going to be an iPod Touch with 3G, a video camera and OS4.0 for ~$300. I haven't heard any rumors of it yet, but I think it can be disruptive.
playing games with your voice-Awesome!!!
It is a strange thing to say given that your products are already in the market. You sound very confident in your posts and you sound awfully scared in this comment of yours. Are you particularly scared of HNers?
Posted by
expertcs on Thursday March 25, 2010 @08:29AM
from the mavergames.net dept.