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April 30, 2011

Startups Keep Tweaking Your Site. Lessons From Paycheck-Stub.com

I've written before about how over the last few years my wife and I have written several small sites (you can see some of them listed in the sidebar.) It's been an interesting experiment in creating stuff tightly targeted for...

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April 28, 2011

Software: More Battlestar, Less Gunsmoke

When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, we had a show on TV called "Gunsmoke" Gunsmoke was a western, which meant folks dressed like cowboys. Our hero, Marshall Matt Dillon, struggled every week with capturing bad guys,...

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April 27, 2011

What the hell happened to Apple guys?

Well, what the hell happened? Since when did you guys become part of the system?

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April 26, 2011

The Internet Manifesto

I want to authenticate biometrically with a nearby device -- it could be clothing, jewelry, a pad, a screen, or a display/keyboard combination. If many are nearby, I want to authenticate to all of them, and I want them to...

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April 25, 2011

The Life Processor

What's going to happen to all of those Tweets, status updates, blog entries, and forum comments once you die? Within a hundred years from now, the internet will be as full of dead people as live people, so what happens...

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April 19, 2011

Tragic Death of Bubbles in the Ghetto

Please, Mr. Headline Writer-Guy, please find something else besides ghettos, bubbles, and dying to write about. They're overused. Give it a rest.

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April 18, 2011

There's no 'them' there

We want, we need, it is required that there is another human being in which to blame our problems on. We need this like birds need to fly, or fish need to swim.

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April 9, 2011

You're too Wordy. You Write too Much

Recently on IRC somebody told me, "You're too wordy. You write too much" I waited. "Just meant that in a nice way" He was right. I am too wordy. Here's why: Blogging ain't essays. This isn't the NYT. I get...

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April 7, 2011

Bacterial Marketing

At some point, after a really long time, you have a million people who love you and you're helping out an awesome number of folks. And you know what? That's when they'll say you were an "overnight success"

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April 6, 2011

Female Form Enhances Ad Results -- Followup

This post has the three goals: report back on results from yesterday, explore what kinds of pictures work better or worse than others by setting up an experiment, and funding our startup

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April 5, 2011

Why Does Facebook Hate This Woman?

Why does Facebook hate the grey-shirted girl?

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April 4, 2011

E-Books and Pricing -- is $99.99 Okay?

I decided to write an ebook. Here's what I've learned so far.

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