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"Go ahead and use it - no limit for good apps." - Alex Iskold

"Go ahead and use it - no limit for good apps." - Alex Iskold

"Go ahead and use it - no limit for good apps." - Alex Iskold

Can someone explain to me what just happened... I went to the home page of http://getglue.com.  I was logged out because i haven't used Glue in months.  All of a sudden, I noticed that on the home page there was a Facebook logo and message that said "Eric Goldstein, someone else, and 15 friends have joined GetGlue."  I was dumbfounded.  As a logged out visitor, how did Glue know to target me with a message that included my Facebook friends?  So then, Dave Grossman did the same thing and when he hit GetGlue while logged out, a message told him that I joined and so did 9 of his other friends. Apparently, by being logged in to Facebook.com, Getglue.com somehow knows who I am and who my friends are when i arrive on their web site.  I never gave any permission for that or had any knowledge of that.  So basically, the question i have is, by being logged in to Facebook, are they now following me everywhere I go and giving my information to other web sites i visit? - eric goldstein from Amplify

Yes, this is new social plugin. - Alex Iskold

I can see the potential benefits, but definitely took me by surprise. The reach of Facebook without people explicitly granting permission is odd and i worry will create a widespread distrust of Facebook/social media. I suppose we'll see. Also, I tried logging in to Glue but wasn't allowed to unless I granted you permission via Facebook to email me. Is that right? I had already signed up... more... - eric goldstein

"We are pretty happy with our choice. Obviously for any complex system / technology there is no silver bullet, but we think that SimpleDB is the right choice for us. One thing we had to do is to build composite indicies on our own and learn about tuning queries, but this is the sort of thing one would expect. Re: distributing among 30 domains. You rarely query across, instead, if you need an object you hash to a domain first and then query. The same with person records." - Alex Iskold

"We are pretty happy with our choice. Obviously for any complex system / technology there is no silver bullet, but we think that SimpleDB is the right choice for us. One thing we had to do is to build composite indicies on our own and learn about tuning queries, but this is the sort of thing one would expect. Re: distributing among 30 domains. You rarely query across, instead, if you need an object you hash to a domain first and then query. The same with person records." - Alex Iskold

"We are pretty happy with our choice. Obviously for any complex system / technology there is no silver bullet, but we think that SimpleDB is the right choice for us. One thing we had to do is to build composite indicies on our own and learn about tuning queries, but this is the sort of thing one would expect. Re: distributing among 30 domains. You rarely query across, instead, if you need an object you hash to a domain first and then query. The same with person records." - Alex Iskold

"Hi Jedi, Thanks for letting us know. You should be able to unsubscribe from people who you don't want to be receiving things from. Also, can you please email the names of the users who do that to support @ getglue.com? Thanks again for your comments! Alex" - Alex Iskold

"Hi Jedi, Thanks for letting us know. You should be able to unsubscribe from people who you don't want to be receiving things from. Also, can you please email the names of the users who do that to support @ getglue.com? Thanks again for your comments! Alex" - Alex Iskold

"Hi Jedi, Thanks for letting us know. You should be able to unsubscribe from people who you don't want to be receiving things from. Also, can you please email the names of the users who do that to support @ getglue.com? Thanks again for your comments! Alex" - Alex Iskold

"LOL. Here is what I know: 1) There has been good progress in deploying Quantum Technologies in real life. In particular, I have small personal investment in MagiQ Technologies (http://www.magiqtech.com), a company specializing in secure communications and made very significant progress over the last 10 years. 2) A lot of these Quantum Technologies are "entangled" (pun intended), and a few breakthroughs can quickly result in profound changes around us. I am not sure if we are talking about 10 years on this, but I do think that within our lifetime some fairly mind blowing things might be possible. Alex P.S. I was one of the first users of Dragon Naturally speaking from IBM and that thing had a hard time understanding my accent. I wonder how the dictation software you used handles accents." - Alex Iskold

"LOL. Here is what I know: 1) There has been good progress in deploying Quantum Technologies in real life. In particular, I have small personal investment in MagiQ Technologies (http://www.magiqtech.com), a company specializing in secure communications and made very significant progress over the last 10 years. 2) A lot of these Quantum Technologies are "entangled" (pun intended), and a few breakthroughs can quickly result in profound changes around us. I am not sure if we are talking about 10 years on this, but I do think that within our lifetime some fairly mind blowing things might be possible. Alex P.S. I was one of the first users of Dragon Naturally speaking from IBM and that thing had a hard time understanding my accent. I wonder how the dictation software you used handles accents." - Alex Iskold

"LOL. Here is what I know: 1) There has been good progress in deploying Quantum Technologies in real life. In particular, I have small personal investment in MagiQ Technologies (http://www.magiqtech.com), a company specializing in secure communications and made very significant progress over the last 10 years. 2) A lot of these Quantum Technologies are "entangled" (pun intended), and a few breakthroughs can quickly result in profound changes around us. I am not sure if we are talking about 10 years on this, but I do think that within our lifetime some fairly mind blowing things might be possible. Alex P.S. I was one of the first users of Dragon Naturally speaking from IBM and that thing had a hard time understanding my accent. I wonder how the dictation software you used handles accents." - Alex Iskold

"I agree. Beam us up Scott!y!" - Alex Iskold

"I agree. Beam us up Scott!y!" - Alex Iskold

"I agree. Beam us up Scott!y!" - Alex Iskold

Thats what happens sometimes at Redmond. But I hear XBox is doing well? - Alex Iskold

Between the dreaded 'red rings' and the magnet/drive problem, there are thousands of returns. A lot of pissed off people. - James D. Robinson IV

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"We are very excited to have Ami on board! And are looking forward to working with book publishers, enabling them to better understand and reach their audience." - Alex Iskold

"Could it be that Amazon rates are low historically because they started with books and their margins on books are too small? I mean I don't think they can possibly afford to pay 15% to an affiliate, I doubt they make that much?" - Alex Iskold

"Could it be that Amazon rates are low historically because they started with books and their margins on books are too small? I mean I don't think they can possibly afford to pay 15% to an affiliate, I doubt they make that much?" - Alex Iskold

"Could it be that Amazon rates are low historically because they started with books and their margins on books are too small? I mean I don't think they can possibly afford to pay 15% to an affiliate, I doubt they make that much?" - Alex Iskold

"This sounds right to me, the only issue being click fraud. Right now, Amazon is dealing with this issue simply by saying if it transacted - its not a fraud, but if they paid per click then they have to deal with the whole fraud issue that Google is battling and its not really their core business now." - Alex Iskold

"This sounds right to me, the only issue being click fraud. Right now, Amazon is dealing with this issue simply by saying if it transacted - its not a fraud, but if they paid per click then they have to deal with the whole fraud issue that Google is battling and its not really their core business now." - Alex Iskold

"This sounds right to me, the only issue being click fraud. Right now, Amazon is dealing with this issue simply by saying if it transacted - its not a fraud, but if they paid per click then they have to deal with the whole fraud issue that Google is battling and its not really their core business now." - Alex Iskold

"Hey Fred, I am assuming you are looking at the Orders Report. The click report that they provide is incomplete and confusing. They do show total clicks, but it is unclear for example, how many actual clicks each link you put up provided. This is because they show the total number of clicks and then they show clicks on things that people actually bought. So if your link was clicked and then something else got purchased - there is no way to see. Or if your link was clicked and then nothing was purchased, there is no way to see that either. So from my personal experience, GetGlue.com has millions of objects and tracking what is actually going on using that system is impossible. (Unless I am missing something here...)" - Alex Iskold

"Hey Fred, I am assuming you are looking at the Orders Report. The click report that they provide is incomplete and confusing. They do show total clicks, but it is unclear for example, how many actual clicks each link you put up provided. This is because they show the total number of clicks and then they show clicks on things that people actually bought. So if your link was clicked and then something else got purchased - there is no way to see. Or if your link was clicked and then nothing was purchased, there is no way to see that either. So from my personal experience, GetGlue.com has millions of objects and tracking what is actually going on using that system is impossible. (Unless I am missing something here...)" - Alex Iskold