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I clicked a few just to see the animation. If a lot of people did that there is your 6%.

One cool thing Pandora might be able to do is analyze their stream data and predict where bands will have enough fans to make money on a live show. I could imagine TicketFly offering a service that essentially tells bands where to play, and of course steer them to a Ticketfly venue whenever possible.

I can't think of any reason this really needs to exist - but it's damn cool anyway.

When I said I wanted to be in the 1% I wasn't talking about commuting times.

90 minutes in, 2 hours coming home most days. Only saving grace is that I'm not driving for most of it.

So the CMS is hosted in your cloud, and the website itself is hosted where ever we want? Am I understand this correctly?

Not sure I understand the advantage of this approach. It's interesting, but at the end of the day everything is still in the cloud, and the sites are only secure as the security on your cloud environment.

Trading Google for Yahoo is just trading one company trying to track you around the web for another company doing the exact same thing.

If you aren't deeply passionate about the subject you will get bored quickly writing about the same general subject every day.

So blog about whatever you are passionate about. It's really the only way you have a chance of sticking with it long enough to get any traction.

The cook at the frat house went home after putting lunch out on Friday, and didn't come back until Monday morning. However we had a rule that the kitchen had to be stocked with bread, cheese, butter and Cinnamon toast shakers at all times. You can go all weekend eating grilled cheese and cinnamon toast sandwiches.I did it a few times, at least.

Purdue graduate here, and I think that's a fair assessment. The rich kids seemed to be Management majors. They just needed a degree so that they could take over Daddy's company when he retired in a few years.

Seems like a solution in search of a problem. Finding email addresses is not hard. It's pretty easy to guess the corporate email address of anybody working for a US based company. Simply use Google to figure out the corporate pattern for email, and apply to the person you want to reach. When in doubt, simply guessing variants of the usual patterns will usually work within 5 minutes. There are also tools like jigsaw.com and LinkedIn.

I just have a dorky personal blog, but the comments moved from the blog to Facebook on their own. I didn't do anything different, but my friends sort of decided they preferred to discuss the blog posts on Facebook. I didn't see any reason to fight it. It's not like I have ad revenue on the line.

I had three phone interviews with AWS, then they flew me to Seattle for 7 more interviews in one day.

I didn't get an offer.

There is a large randomness factor in interviews. You could have come in second to somebody who is basically your equal, but happens to have the same undergrad school as the hiring manager. You just don't know, and you never will.

It starts way before you are running over budget. Your entire sales and contracting process needs to reinforce the idea that there are no fixed cost estimates prior to the completion of the discovery process and sign off by the client on the wireframes and/or software specification document.

Granted, 90% of clients don't really work that way. In which case you need to gauge your comfort level with getting them to buy in, or in some cases, you simply have to walk away from the client that has a one page overview of a complex web site and wants a fixed cost, binding bid.

My AM/FM Heathkit radio worked the first time I powered it up. One of my proudest moments in junior high.