jakeludington | 11 years ago | on: Twitter is blocking Flurry app install links
On the plus side, it looks like you can get a Twitter card for your app using a tracking link without paying for a Twitter app install campaign.
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jakeludington | 12 years ago | on: This coupon code is a slap in the face
Macy's solves the problem of coupon codes in a way that's good for everyone. They have a coupon code box. They also have a link to a page that shows you all available Macy's coupon's. If one applies to your cart, you can use it. If there isn't a coupon for your cart, you might find out something else is on sale and buy that too. If you don't care about coupons, you can check out and ignore the box.
The customer wins. Macy's wins.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Stop Using noreply
It's trivial to filter out of office messages if you use a decent email program. The false positive rate should be as close to zero as you can get.
Reading every feedback email from every real user teaches you how to create better products. If you make it clear users can provide feedback, there's an opportunity from them.
I ask every single real person who leaves my service why they left, which translates to about 12 emails from me per week. Most of the time, the feedback isn't actionable, but 2-3 of every 50 emails translate to something I can use to make my product better.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Search for Obama on Facebook and You Get Romney
Facebook is in the process of gradually rolling out sponsored search. I think businesses with big budgets get to cut to the front of the line.
What's curious to me is the difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this. The Romney campaign is clearly on the offensive as well as playing smart defense. If you search for Paul Ryan, you see Romney as the top result. If you search for Bill Clinton, either Ryan or Romney show up. The Obama campaign does not appear to be bidding on any terms.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Examining The Outrageous Aaron Swartz Indictment For Computer Fraud
Slightly dated, but interesting look at the JSTOR case against Swartz from someone who appears to understand the laws in play.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53
Since when does trusting a business critical function to a free service make any sense? At least GoDaddy has a motivation to provide some level of service because people are paying them.
Some other alternatives that aren't free, but are highly reliable are: http://dyn.com/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com
I use the latter one and in addition to providing an alternative to my registrar, they also seem to have much faster response times, which cut some milliseconds off a site lookup.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Is using iPhone profiles a bad developer practice?
I should also say, I'm not suggesting the Profile feature is bad in general - I've found it invaluable for using with things like TestFlight, but as a general distribution case, it seems like something to be discouraged.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Is using iPhone profiles a bad developer practice?
Like Onavo before them, Wajam is using the Profiles feature of iOS to add a layer of functionality that's impossible to accomplish by building a standard app. The question is, how smart is that?
If we start training users that they should click on links in email to add features to their phone are we opening up an opportunity for man-in-the-middle type attacks or other unwanted behavoir?
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Wajam adds social search to Mobile Safari and iPhone
I found the video on YouTube, but my question is how are they doing this? There's no way to access Mobile Safari from an app like this, is there?
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Facebook Updates Ads Interface
Looks far simplier to configure an ad campaign on Facebook than it used to be. But does that really matter if there's still a problem with bots?
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: YouTube makes tags private
That's one less useless feature clutter YouTube video pages.
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Is Pulse.me Stealing Content With Backing And Support From Microsoft?
If Pulse is in fact violating copyright law (not saying they are), how is it a violation when it's behind a password protected user account, but not when it's behind an app that requires authentication to access?
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack
While they have closed the loophole for adding credit cards, you can apparently still change your email or password via phone: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/08/07/amazon-tigh...
jakeludington | 13 years ago | on: Outlook.com - when SPAM detection goes wrong
Getting the captcha to work at all is nearly impossible. I've entered it 9 times now and can't pass a single one.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Promoted Post Pricing is Variable
Three different prices and three different estimates of total reach for a promoted post on the exact same Facebook page.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's a good primer on online advertising?
It's tough to know exactly what to point you to because you haven't suggested a specific use case you're looking to build for.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's a good primer on online advertising?
The IAB is the authoritative source for advertising information. Most of the major advertisers and publishers utilize their guidelines for both creative and measurement. http://www.iab.net/ad_unit
To address your specific example, there may or may not be any difference between an impression and a view. In the case where one page shows one ad display, you would get a single impression and a single view. If there are multiple ad blocks on the page, it's possible that the same ad could show in more than one ad block, resulting in multiple impressions for a single view.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Ads Are Effective, Just Not Relevant, Yet
The only thing I would disagree with is the click-through rate of ads in general. Sites with effective placement and targeting of ads (which would include the top ads in a Google search) easily see click-through rates of 5-7%, in the case of that top spot on Google, the ads I've run were easily above 10%.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Could Affiliate Links Kill Pinterest?
Pinterest would be a even greater risk if they were to apply their own affiliate links to other people's copyrighted content. By putting a monetization model on other people's content, they would instantly lose any possibility of making a fair use claim.
jakeludington | 14 years ago | on: Could Affiliate Links Kill Pinterest?
A link doesn't need to be a copyrightable work for the "material" posted by a user to be considered altered. What matters is how a court defines "material" and whether or not the court would define that "material" as modified by the service provider or not.
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