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You don’t have to be the best. You just have to be someone’s favorite. - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
Turns out GAAP jokes don't work on a 2 year old
Advice needed: is YC worth it at their valuation? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"I would give YC the same amount of stock for $0. That is to say I'd give them advisor shares just to be involved. That's pretty common. That makes this whole debate irrelevant. It is worth it." - Ivan Kirigin
rafer: @ivankirgin Just the fact that you touch twitter using more than one UI during each month makes you 3 or 4 standard deviations from Normal. I actually don’t know whether I’m normal. Do you? My question was actually whether it is normal to use _only_ 3rd party clients. I’d bet most people are using _just_ twitter.com. And those doing the API... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
rafer:
 @ivankirgin Just the fact that you touch twitter using more than one UI during each month makes you 3 or 4 standard deviations from Normal. 
I actually don’t know whether I’m normal. Do you?
 
My question was actually whether it is normal to use _only_ 3rd party clients. I’d bet most people are using _just_ twitter.com. And those doing the API accesses also access twitter.com once a month (like me). Either way, I don’t see how it adds up to an argument that monthly uniques are under counted.
 
Not that I think twitter is hurting. They’ve been overhyped, and had a bad few months. They’ve released a lot lately, so this might change soon.
@rafer how do you know?
@rafer you could track a day's worth of http://twitter.com/public_..., then track those users for a month to see where they post from
rafer: jryu: Comparative Estimates: US Unique Visitors to Twitter, September & October 2009 (millions and % change) (via Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up - eMarketer) Rafer sez: Wow, am I sick of this. Just to make sure — you do know judging Twitter by web visitor traffic is the robust logical equivalent of using a car odometer to measure how far... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
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jryu:
  
Comparative Estimates: US Unique Visitors to Twitter, September & October 2009 (millions and % change) (via Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up - eMarketer)
  
Rafer sez:
Wow, am I sick of this. Just to make sure — you do know judging Twitter by web visitor traffic is the robust logical equivalent of using a car odometer to measure how far the Space Shuttle travels? That’d be about 5 miles, from one end of the Kennedy Space Center to the other.
 
None of compete, comscore or nielsen can count API calls, nor do they even try. I believe Majestic has the infrastructure to do so, though I doubt they are for Twitter right now.
  
How many months go by where you don’t visit twitter.com?
 
The API access miss-count can’t be that high for monthly uniques, right?
dice.com: Hi, is this Ivan? [pronounced incorrectly] me: Yes. dice.com: I'm calling from dice.com to see if you're looking to expand your engineering team for tipjoy.com me: Have you been to tipjoy.com recently? dice.com: no me: are you in front of a computer dice.com: yes me: well, go ahead. This should just take a few seconds. ... dice.com: Well... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
this looks like an awesome game. http://www.canabalt.com - and on a side note, if you make an iphone game, make a flash version too
Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"yeah facebook is totally hiring http://www.facebook.com/careers... people can email me with any questions or just go through that site: ivan.kirigin@gmail.com" - Ivan Kirigin
gbattle: Baratunde Thurston - “There’s a #Hashtag For That” - Web2.0 Baratunde, editor at The Onion, reveals that not all Nigerians are royalty seeking temporary liquidity in exchange for bountiful riches. Some are just plain hilarious. Amidst the tables of swag, headset laden shilling, and abject redundant nerdery, this presentation was the... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
gbattle:
  
Baratunde Thurston - “There’s a #Hashtag For That” - Web2.0
 
Baratunde, editor at The Onion, reveals that not all Nigerians are royalty seeking temporary liquidity in exchange for bountiful riches.  Some are just plain hilarious.
 
Amidst the tables of swag, headset laden shilling, and abject redundant nerdery, this presentation was the highlight of #w2e (at least for Hoffman and I).  Bravo good sir.
 
It is because of happy experimentation like this that I will exclaim again why the new RT feature sucks donkey genitalia:
 
ANNOTATION » ATTRIBUTION
 
Expression matters.
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I think of this photo whenever I see a facebook profile pic with more than one person in it - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
I think of this photo whenever I see a facebook profile pic with more than one person in it
tedr:fred-wilson:nevver: 14 St - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
tedr:fred-wilson:nevver: 14 St
@jamiequint haven't had enough soju to form an expert opinion - but boy have i had enough sake to know i love it
cut my thumb on a bagel today. Typing is going to be fun
"I've seen people use "privacy screens"on latops make them matte" - Ivan Kirigin
I could subsist on a diet of kimchi and sake
@gbattle do you have a post anywhere describing what you'd like to see change in music (or how you listen to music, for that matter?)
Set up your ActBlue Express account today! You’ll enjoy the benefits of contributing on our secure site to any Democratic candidate or organization around the country, and track your giving history in one central location. And now, with an Express account you can also give through Twitter! - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
the facebook engineering page has a ridiculous logo fanned - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
the facebook engineering page has a ridiculous logo
 
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if you've sent me an email including an environmental warning about printing the email, we don't live on the same planet
succeedblog: FACEBOOK Thread SUCCEED - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
succeedblog: FACEBOOK Thread SUCCEED
@abbyxmix how is it?
loading a familiar site without CSS or with the wrong CSS is crazy
“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore / and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot / In the Carribbean, by Providence impoverished, to squalor / Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”: Tony Award nominated actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (as seen on House) performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” — a rap about Alexander Hamilton from the POV of... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore / and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot / In the Carribbean, by Providence impoverished, to squalor / Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”: Tony Award nominated actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (as seen on House) performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” — a rap about Alexander Hamilton from the POV of Aaron Burr — at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.
 
via thedailywhat
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this looks interesting http://freemusicarchive.org
"An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work"- pg: http://paulgraham.com/apple...
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