lynx44

From this picture, I'd actually feel quite good about the team in terms of their technical competency. I get a positive vibe from them in terms of that.

I would worry about their business acumen, however. This team does not seem to have an immediate business type presence.

Highly misleading. A visitor is someone who visits a website perhaps 10 times or just 1 time. A user is someone who is using the website more regularly.

The value of a visitor is the percentage who convert into users * the value of a user or s/t like that.

I don't agree with the approach this article uses to gauge learning.

For one thing, it completely puts down science and math courses. In a multivariable calc class, we didn't have reading or writing (though I did have more than 40 pages of homework!)

Second, it's a bit arbitrary.

This article makes a good point.

But the problem is that Google controls traffic to that extent. Almost any website if asked honestly will say that at least 60% and more likely 80% or more of their traffic comes from Google.

This article has an interesting premise.

Some products spread because they are so high quality. Google became a giant because its search was superb, Starbucks its experience great, and Facebook so life-enhancing.

But advertising is just a part of free enterprise. Such quick successes are the exception, and advertising can genuinely create awareness of value adding answers.

I am not a big fan of Tim Ferriss - he argues for a 4 hour work week, but in one sample day of his I saw, he worked 4 hours on one article for the Economist alone.

That said, this article is surprisingly interesting/useful.

I have written 200+ articles in health and medicine and looked into L-Theanine specifically.

It has benefits and does work to enhance the benefits of caffeine. That said, this article over-hypes it, and it's really not that big of an impact.

Seems a weak idea.

The value prop of location based gaming is interested but details of implementation need to be worked out imo.

This sucks, but telling your visitors to click on ads indirectly is a clear violation of the ToS.

I too got fired by Google's algorithm and didn't do anything whatsoever wrong. They are heartless.

Worse of all, this article does not mention the monopoly they have. They own the online ad market. No one else exists that is anywhere as good.

It's straight-up monopoly, and if you get on their black list, you're out.