kalistoga
Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 14 years ago
It's all speculation, but I would say the search box getting larger (so as to look like Quora) does mean something, as in they might be pushing for search, which would be interesting.
Comment · 14 years ago
love this version. Been coming cross all kinds of different "shit * say" lately and most of them were pretty pretentious.
Love how this video depicts programmers as people who value "shut up and get things done" :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Hehe great to know I'm not alone. I was feeling kinda guilty :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Wow I was going to write exactly the same thing earlier today. So funny how people think the same thing at the same moment. I agree it's really annoying. I still can't familiarize myself with links with google.com domain. Nowadays it's mostly some guy's google+ post but it's really misleading. First thing that comes up to mind when you see a link from google.com is "is this an announcement from Google, inc.?", when it's mostly some dude's rant on Google+
Comment · 15 years ago
The problem is people don't invest in the present but invest solely based on the perception of the company's future.
Comment · 15 years ago
http://jquery.com seems to be working fine by the way.
Comment · 15 years ago
You are missing so many things very obvious that I don't even know where to start.
1. Twitter is already doing ads, and they are not sharing revenue with their users. 2. Why would Twitter share revenue with users when they don't need to? 3. There have been a handful of companies that tried to do something like what you described. 4. Letting users generate revenue messes with the value of the network itself.
... and a ton more reasons.
Comment · 15 years ago
can you please explain further? You are making me feel like an idiot. I don't see anything wrong with the tree. What exactly is the joke in here?
Also, i'm even more confused because it doesn't even seem like a "redesign" at all. Not even sure if these two pictures are from the same location. The backgrounds are different.
Comment · 15 years ago
Then explain. I don't get it.
Comment · 15 years ago
When you're submitting something with a cryptic title, make sure people can understand it.
Comment · 15 years ago
What you described (recommended posts within a site), as well as someone else mentioned below (recommended posts from other sites) are already out there. If you ask me if the idea sounds novel, it is not. Just visit Techcrunch and take a look (For example, http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/28/paypal-cyber-monday-mobile-...)
You will learn if you start doing more market research, but I've found it's either of the two for your initial idea: 1. There is someone else doing the same thing out there; 2. You haven't done enough research.
Even if something similar is NOT out there after all your research, it is highly likely that it has been tried before and failed (and that's why you can't find them). Even these products you can dig up more if you do intensive research via google. You'll learn a lot while going through this process. Just don't be naive and think your idea would be novel when you haven't done any market research yet.
The key is in absorbing as much knowledge as possible in the field you would like to tackle, and later to be able to say "Oh I came up with this idea, and I am 99% sure this is a unique idea that hasn't been done before, because I 'know' all that's been done before"
By the way, Posterous started out as a niche product. The platform may be trying to do everything nowadays, but in the beginning, they were tackling email to blogging niche, which didn't exist before. Everyone thought blogging should be done by signing into your wordpress account, typing a title and content and reading the preview, and then posting.