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Curious to see where they move check-in and location integrations. I've noticed they've been using my foursquare data to show me "Which place do you like better?" in the sidebar. They could do a lot more recommending of places like restaurants, bars, stores, and tie in deals.
Re:SeatGeek Blog: What An Earthquake Does To Page Load Time on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:43PM (#2918105)
From the post:

"For about six months, we’ve been using a combination of StatsD, Graphite, and GeckoBoard to power a real-time dashboard of some of our system stats."

Re:Compete in Startup March Madness 2011 on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:58PM (#2332796)
Thanks for all the interest!

To make sure this goes smoothly and we can verify you are with the startup you're representing, please send an email from your company's domain to: bracket [at] seatgeek [dot] com once you're all set up. Thanks!

Re:Poll: Where do you work? on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @06:01PM (#2145666)
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Re:How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail on Monday January 24, 2011 @10:34PM (#2137870)
I think it's somewhat relevant since the article discusses incoming mail handling in MobileMail.app. And obviously it's not a hardware issue or 'faulty unit' as you say. It's a well documented issue.
Re:How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail on Monday January 24, 2011 @10:10PM (#2137810)
This is a great breakdown, thanks. Now can you explain why so often I receive an email on the iPhone and one of two things happens:

1. I'm not in MobileMail.app, get a notification that an email arrives, but when I enter the app, nothing is there. When I manually hit the refresh mail button, the new message downloads and appears.

2. If I'm in MobileMail.app a new email arrives and I see it up top for a few seconds, and instantly it disappears. Again, I have to tap refresh to re-download the message.

Why does this happen?

Re:Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video) on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @03:56PM (#2032414)
How does Hipmunk make money? Commissions on flights are extremely, extremely low. That's why sites like Kayak, Orbitz, etc. are plastered with ads - they make the majority of their money through advertising and upselling.
Re:Google Buying Manhattan Office Building for $1.9 Billion on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:51AM (#1965994)
That dumpy looking building to you is actually pretty nice looking on the outside and inside in person. It's also the third largest building by square footage in Manhattan, the main carrier hotel in the city for providers like Realty Trust, Equinix, Telx and home to a ton of high profile companies like Nike, Deutsch, Armani, Spotify among others.
To clarify - time it took to complete the challenge was never factored into the application process. We simply pulled this data because we thought it would make for an interesting metric to display in the post.
The real question is, did it pay off? Did going exclusively to TC generate the traffic and buzz you were looking for? Would love to hear more about the results.