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Reminds me Derren Brown’s ‘The Push’. Trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFpACkiZ2Q

That’s a big no.

Manufacturers forget what they do best: make tv's

Once they don't see the revenue they're expecting and realize that if all TV's come this way, most of us would be willing to pay MORE for 'no ads'... we will be back to where we were 5 yrs. ago.

Fake news designed to cut down on DDOS

I heard Jaron speak at a conference in 2011 and his predictions on Social Media were spot on.

Highly recommend his books!

Calling Ghost ‘shady’ is not ‘polite’.

It’s rude.

Good lesson for anyone looking for trouble.

#1: The Man From Earth (Most here have seen it)

#2: Jeff Who Live At Home Slow moving (very), but worth it for the last 5 minutes of the movie.

Best fight scene ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns

Just recently found Cloudmailin - love their product

Off-topic ...

I have not tried Hey.com yet and respect the author for the comparison of the two email platforms, but here’s two points:

1). Fastmail has custom domains to the nth degree (I have 20+ domains there, not certain how many Hey is planning to support and if they’re willing to handle replies from each)

2). Gmail or Yahoo seem to be a more appropriate review in these early days

Just my 2 cents ;)

Possibly off-topic ...

Can you provide a reference for “find out what time the original OS was installed in the Foxconn factory”?

Congrats on the growth - enjoyed the writing which led me to find your partners blog as well.

DDOS is always a good sign —- would make a great post as well!

From his partner’s blog:

“Once this was done the next step was to get people to choose our product vs the competition. In order to do this we did something that some might consider unethical - we included most of the features that the competitors had and made the app FREE which forced the competitors to go into losses. You cannot build a business by being nice.

Making the app free got us a plethora of users to whom we provided exceptional customer service which lead to them writing 5 star reviews, so even though they were using the app for free, we derived ROI out of them by gently nudging them to write reviews which boosted our ranking and eventually got us to the #1 rank for certain keywords.

This was when something very interesting happened. One of our competitors ran a DDOS attack on our servers. At this point we were getting 5 reviews a day and users congratulating us for our good work but the fact that someone tried to screw us over made it evident that we were on the right track.“

I share the same name as a tv journalist and author.

After years of receiving emails and calls - I received an invitation to a “Back from the Hamptons Cocktail Party” hosted by a now US Ambassador.

With the RVSP, I let the host know I was the other guy (we both worked in TV at the time).

She insisted there was no mistake and the invite was for me.

Spent the evening partying up with Martha Stewart and many other celebs.

In 2008, Gladwell wrote an excellent article on this same topic:

http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html

An excellent quote from the article:

"The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition."

Exactly -- big difference between a 2-seater flying VFR vs. IFR conditions.

Depends on the type of analytics -- as that is a huge area.

- For just tracking traffic -- Google is fine. - For Adwords, Omniture has a slew of products.

Once you add on a couple of layers -- such as an affiliate program, some display and then PPC from Yahoo & MSN .. you will run into a couple of areas .. such as multi-payouts and an issue with attribution.

One client just started using C3 Metrics

http://www.c3metrics.com

Its working for them.