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lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Auto-antonym

I guess I got a bit cheeky with the title. I'm a marketer, so I can't help it. :-)

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Google Effect

So what happens when I forget what the Google Effect is and I have to Google for it?

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Kippt collects pretty useful links

I like Kippt because you can set it up to automatically save any link you share on Twitter. Since Twitter has yet to let us access our archive of Tweets, Kippt makes it super easy to find that link you shared months ago. I've yet to use it to follow or be followed much though. I may consider ditching Pocket for Kippt completely, as well.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person

I like how you can toggle between the normal Google map and the census dots. It's fun to try to guess what the large white spots are in areas I'm familiar with, such as the Crystal Springs Reservoir near San Mateo, CA.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Why LinkedIn's "recommend" system is broken, and how to fix it

I don't think any recruiter or HR person looking on LinkedIn places any weight on the recommendations whatsoever. It seems to be an overt attempt to get people to engage with the site more, thus making LinkedIn's active user numbers look better. LinkedIn is one of those networks that is only really useful on an occasional basis when you need it to find a particular person or connection at a particular company.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Betting on Black Swans

I'm not sure if you're entirely correct here. True, VC has had a long history of exits and failures. However, PG & co have generally had a better history of Black Swan-type events in their portfolio (e.g. Dropbox).

Taleb's Black Swan theory and approach to hedge fund management is similar to VC.

From his Wikipedia entry: "As a trader, his strategy has been to safeguard investors against crises while reaping rewards from rare events, and thus his trading career has included several jackpots followed by lengthy dry spells."

His fund steadily and intentionally loses money or breaks even on a normal day, but vastly outperforms other funds on days when the market swings wildly in either direction. The strategy is not for the faint of heart.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon

I don't foresee this project playing out at all like the ISS did, at least not with the way it's being billed thus far. Sounds like this is a very NASA-centric project, so therefore wouldn't require cooperation from various countries around the world to make it happen. Also, my guess is that it would be physically smaller.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Why things fail

As I read this, the conspiracy theorist in me keeps thinking that Ford built Building 4 to optimize failure rates so they occur immediately after the warranty is up so they can cash in on service visits afterwards.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Get Your Startup Covered by Any Blog

Yes! Persistence is key. These days, everyone is too busy. If you really feel that talking about your startup would be an excellent fit for the blog, keep pestering them...in a good way.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong

Oooo, that does sound like a good idea. Definitely not a quick way to grow their customer base, but could payoff in a large way if done correctly. Meh, Netflix would probably screw it up under the existing management.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong

I'm not completely sold on the comment section even being on my blog at this point. Comments don't always create the valuable and lively discussion that I would like. I'll try out your padding rule idea later though. Thanks for the feedback.

As far as the wp-svbtle theme goes, I like it for the simplicity. I won't deny that it's a complete rip-off of Dustin's Svbtle. I pointed it out to him on Twitter once and he only favorited my tweet. Maybe he will try to do something about it at a later time, who knows.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong

I wouldn't say my post was supposed to be a rant, but a critique of their approach to social media marketing instead. Seems to me that it would be relatively easy to add social sharing buttons and it would pretty much instantly increase their viral reach and subsequently grow their subscriptions.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: The story of Timothy Dexter

>In the second edition Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks. Dexter instructed readers to "peper and solt it as they plese".

...zero f*cks given.

lylemckeany | 13 years ago | on: You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain

He's relatively plugged into the SV tech scene. He also struck a cord with his original blog post[1]. App.net was obviously just a reaction to the outpouring of support for the ideas he expressed in that post. This could just be proof that 80,000+ page views of a blog post does not equal $500K in paid users at $50, $100, or $1,000 a pop.

More recently he received a ton of attention from his open letter to Zuck[2].

[1]http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been [2]http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg

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