paulsilver

It's a bit of a weird question. As a parent, you do tons of stuff that is fun and good for your child and not for you. Ask a tired parent are you happy reading to your child when you've read them the same books over and over and they'll answer no. Ask them a few years later when the child is reading for themselves whether they miss reading to their child and they'll say yes.

My wife used to help with reading at my son's school when he was first there. Tip for future parents - read to your child! It becomes really obvious really early which children are read to/with and which are not.

The best place to start is to read Moz.com's Beginner's guide to SEO: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo then see what you can apply to your situation.

Also, remember that Google tailors it's search results to what it thinks you like to see, especially if you are logged in to your Google account when searching, so while you might be second when you search, when another person searches your page may not be second in the results.

I know two non-techies who bought Samsung Android phones when they upgraded rather than iPhones because of that trial. Not a huge effect and obviously anecdotal, but these things do have an effect.

However, I think developers are likely to stay with Apple as they have solidly adopted their products over the last 7-8 years, and weirdly many people seem willing to forgive a large company anything, just because they happen to have purchased some of their product range.

I have no idea why those links are being made, but you can take steps to try to stop them affecting your site:

First, register the website with Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/‎

Then use Google's disavow links tool to tell Google you don't want them to take any notice of the spammy links to your site.

The tool - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

A help page about disavowing links - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

Note that you can add comments in to the disavow file, mention in there that you have no idea who set the links up or why.

In the Eventbrite notice - http://blog.eventbrite.com/eventbrite-acquires-eventioz-and-... - it says the Lanyrd team will be moving over to San Francisco to join the main Eventbrite engineers.

It'll be a shame to lose them to the States again.

A reasonable explanation I thought of is they're having trouble keeping track of who is liking what across their databases. i.e. Alice has liked Company X, but the like turns up on Bob's account.

While this is a bit of a poor show, it would be an explanation that doesn't require any nefarious behaviour from Facebook, just some slightly dodgy code somewhere.

Sadly, rather than non-obvious, I think I've seen all of these on many productivity in the past.

I'd guessed this was to get something out the door quickly. It would be useful if you linked the FAQ image as a mailto to your e-mail address, or just through to your Twitter account. Having to type those out manually is a bit annoying.

Previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644820

They're probably just using Google Alerts. If he tagged the image "nexus" when he put it on Picasa it'd be indexed by Google very quickly (they run Picass) and hit Alerts e-mails soon after.

I'm interested to see that developers aren't trusting Twitter when they said if you got close to your token limit you'd be able to apply to them to raise the limit.

On reflection, given their recent behaviour as a company I can understand that.

I'm not sure how many Twitter users actually use SMS any more. I tried to use it to send in an update a few weeks ago and it took ~4 hours for the tweet to appear in my timeline. I'm in the UK so maybe they have better response times in other countries.

I've got an Amazon credit card (in the UK) and it's a Mastercard run by MBNA.

I would guess Amazon have looked at replacing as much of the payment chain as they can and done the parts that are profitable to replace. But they have a long way to go before the enormous hassle of becoming a bank is going to be attractive and possible.

Nokia do still make some great versions of non-smartphones, I've seen a nice dual-SIM one being aimed at South America via a friend working on the project. However, I think smartphones are where the profit is. Once companies have seen the huge profits Apple have made, they want a piece of that pie. And frankly, who can blame them?

My wife just got a new phone. She wanted a basic phone as she likes texting on a standard phone keypad, and wanted an OK camera on it. She couldn't get a basic phone that did that, so ended up with a low end HTC Android (of the same spec as my mid-high end HTC from last year.) It could be the phone networks just don't want to stock basic phones as they don't make enough money off the contracts for them, they want to sell all the extras. On the flip side, last time I looked at basic phones they all seemed very poorly made and with awful interfaces, which is why I went to a smartphone a few years ago.

There are simple, large print phones targeted for older folk, they mainly seem to be advertised in the little pull-out magazines that come inside TV listing mags and similar in the UK, and during advert breaks on daytime TV.