schwinn140's comments

I wonder if they're getting interested in this again after seeing Algolia and Elasticsearch take off? I suppose this was only a matter of time.

My data does not support that conclusion. To the contrary, the vast majority of business decision makers are still on a Windows based machine in the US.

I can validate this directly as we operate the largest library of long-form professional/technical content library on the web. Over 700k professionals per month are registering and downloading content specific to their needs.

Below is the current breakout of their device factor for 2020:

Windows = 97.26% Mac = 8.21% Linux 2.92% Chrome OS = 0.27%

Clearly just one perspective into the market but we've never seen Mac approach any level of critical mass within the US professional marketplace.

The same way countless business, government, and philanthropic leaders were all duped by Theranos.

Group think and greed are powerful drugs for those unable to perform their own critical thinking/research.

PREACH. This is hands-down the single largest reason why I abandoned my Gmail. I receive countless people's credit applications, loan details, new credit card details, bills, etc, credit collections, etc.

All because they have the same last name as me and opted to use a period in their email address.

This is happening across multiple countries as well. Sadly, none of these people ever receive their important messages because I gave up trying ages ago.

How they continue to explain this away as a feature is beyond me. Google is constantly pushing forward with various, and perhaps superficial, security/privacy oriented initiatives yet here's one of their core products offering up the most private details of others without zero care to fix it. SMH

Agreed. Think of the countless companies, arguably most, that will never publicly acknowledge their layoffs.

"Corporate double-speak" is still far better than not saying anything and/or hoping that nothing leaks.

Public acknowledgement in difficult times is near impossible for most companies, especially those that are private, to accomplish.

Agreed! How about possibly converting this to an in-browser web app to get around the platform hurdles?

Yikes is right. Seems like they said the quiet part out loud.

Congrats to the SO team. That said, I'm struggling to understand how/why a they could possibly need to raise now a total of $153MM.

All the content is community generated so there's no costs there.

The core Exchange product is extremely templatized and I would assume be quite scale-able to spin-up as they need additional ones.

I don't believe they have much in the form of paid outbound marketing initiatives.

I'm assuming that I'm completely missing something here. Educate me. ;)

I'm not experiencing this and I would assume anyone employed at a larger or established company would mirror this.

I've seen our company quickly react to the reduced office related costs and have reallocated that to cover employee's home office needs: internet service, phone, supplies. If you needed a desk at home, that also was accommodated.

Being able to take our work computer(s), including dual monitors, was also immediately available to everyone.

The general consensus within the AdTech industry is that everything is going to be going back to the basic 'context-level' targeting. This will be very akin to the web 1.0 based targeting philosophies.

Still will be relevant to what you're doing and where you're spending your digital time but will lack the cross-site personalization and hyper-detailed targeting layers currently available to advertisers.

This is great. Any interest in expanding the Roles available in the drop-down menu to be more inclusive of other Roles within a tech company.

Speaking for myself, a tech industry Marketer, I'm pretty damn burnt out!

Thanks for creating a tool to help us visualize and keep reference of where we're mentally at.

It might be a cool feature to have the ability to save your report and trigger repeat measurements over time. With that data, you could then 'map' the mindspace of the user and how they are hopefully working towards triggers and burnout.