lawrence | 15 years ago | on: Building a location based iPhone App: from idea to my first users
glympse? Ish, would like to connect with you. we build geo apps, and work out of the mission (in the us bank building on 22nd and Mission).
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lawrence | 15 years ago | on: Winning Isn't Normal
It probably comes down to personality type as to whether you are comfortable with this sort of message wrapped in self promotion. I thought it was an effective piece, but it would have been more effective if someone else had written it about him.
And by the way, don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings
By going to jail, this guy will likely get even more inbound links. It's extreme SEO.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
Hopefully this is PR spin. If it's not, it's pretty disturbing that allegations of one mean merchant can cause an algo change. How many businesses will be collateral damage of this update? How many fake negative review campaigns with this spawn? If this is a real algo change, it was done in an extraordinarily hasty, reactionary, and cavalier manner. (Please don't ding my site G, nothing personal)
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: The Quiet Rise of AngelList
Yes, we used it. 15 very high quality leads (funds and angels) within 48 hours.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (October 2010 Edition)
DoubleDutch (http://www.doubledutch.me) has three internship positions open: bizdev, engineering, marketing. Based in the Mission District of San Francisco, close to Bart.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
Any time I start to get too trusting of people / government, or too dismissive of conspiracy theorists, I read something like this.
This is pretty evil.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: MessageParty (YC S10) Ties Location With Chat Rooms
Events based chat + location makes a lot of sense. Reminds me a bit of Meetro from back in the day (though that was IM).
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: What Happened to Yahoo
And what will Facebook overlook? Maybe location? Was Facebook's failed acquisition of Foursquare like Yahoo's non acquisition of Google?
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: How much is Facebook Connect limiting Quora's growth?
That is exactly right. I'm to the point where I will only sync with FB if I know and trust the founders of the company.
That doesn't scale so well.
lawrence | 15 years ago | on: The Sobering Reality of Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Self employment in Mexico City is a bit different than the startups you find in San Francisco.
No, it's not a bit different. It's completely different. It's another universe.
The vast majority of self employment in DF is a fruit stand or selling cigarettes at traffic lights (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I spent some time with an Italian entrepreneur a few weeks ago and he told me "we have three VCs in our country. and two are out of money."
The Sobering Reality of Entrepreneurship in the US is that we have it better than everybody else in the world, and even more so if you are an entrepreneur in SF, NY, Boston, Austin, etc.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: John Gruber: The iPad
I enjoyed his "curious choice" description of Apple choosing to go with default wallpaper that looks like a series of deep scratches on the screen. Glad I wasn't the only one who gasped "crap, it's scratched!" when I booted it up.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: Mahalo's disappearing noindex tags
This is incorrect. AdSense was 31% of their revenues in Q409. They did more than $2B in AdSense revenue in Q4 alone:
http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q4_google_earnings.h...
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: Please Rob Me
Awesome linkbait / PR execution by these guys. This has mainstream media potential - it's easy to imagine a hysterical CNN headline.
I hope they have a plan for how to put all this great buzz and inbound links to work on a real business.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: Om Malik is not sad
I find Alexa stats sad. Om could add the Alexa toolbar today and rocket up that chart.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: Committing Location Based Service Suicide
While I think the author was a bit heavy handed in his reaction (why not ask for better privacy tools or checkin a little more selectively?), the privacy + location services conversation is a pretty interesting one.
Understanding this sort of backlash is probably a pretty big deal to folks trying to build location into their applications.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: The Top 11 Consumer Review Sites
Google and Yahoo have tons of reviews as well.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: The Top 11 Consumer Review Sites
Yeah, this list was more about pure play review sites. Obviously Amazon pretty much invented the space.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: I/o Ventures – A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco
The space is really cool. It's right next to San Francisco's best scifi bookstore (Borderlands), and in the heart of some of the world's best taquerias and dive bars.
lawrence | 16 years ago | on: One Of The Fastest Sites You Never Heard Of
That's a great story. Here is an interesting macro data point that might help to explain why we are seeing growth from a number of How To video sites: