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Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:37:15 -0000

Wow, I love that idea.

Hmmm.... Someone should do this. Maybe my buddies at Geezeo.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:22:00 -0000

T-mobile edition.

v4.2.1.107 (Platform 2.3.0.83)

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:30:01 -0000

I bought a newer MBP, loving 4GB of RAM and my new 30" monitor (you were right about that!).

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:50:53 -0000

That is beyond dumb. Why would Spark even "need" a publicity stunt?

I am familiar with most (all? is that good or bad?) of the venture firms in Boston and repeatedly recommend Spark to people who ask me for a recommendation. The reasons are many including the fact that you guys are out there pushing the status quo that Boston loves to fall back into at every opportunity.

Keep on pushin'

PS. I will bite my tongue about the usefulness of said event......... Don't know many who would think that the next great idea is going to come from a panel of venture guys....

Re: reddit still not as popular as porn

David Cancel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:25:59 -0000

Thanks for checkout Compete. We've all been big Reddit fans for a long time. We even have Reddit stickers on our printers.

Keep up the good work!

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:43:05 -0000

Hmmm.. Geezeo.com is half way there. They have all the credit card processing and product/vendor categorization working today. They're missing the product review piece.

Will talk to them about this.
;dc

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:21:34 -0000

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I'm so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought my single 30" was hot. Damn you for showing me this!

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:38:49 -0000

Happy Birthday! Today is my birthday too, what a great day. 36 years old today.

Cheers!

Re: EC2 Birds-of-a-Feather in Boston - May 21

David Cancel — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:53 -0000

James.

It kicks off at 9am. I'll email you the rest of the details

David

Re: What would you ask Fred Wilson? How about Don Dodge?

David Cancel — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:14:51 -0000

Dave, thanks for the comment, will be sure to ask your question.

Thanks again!
David

Re: Using Amazon S3 as a CDN?

David Cancel — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:36:46 -0000

Tim,

Good point, I didn't try the Nginx Memcached module for this test but have used it before. I think it could lead to a slight bump since memcached still requires a socket connection. A better bump might be had by caching it in RAM in a similar way that the 1x1.gif pixel module does, http://wiki.codemongers.com....

What I found in looking at our other performance tests was that most of the latency we saw in the EC2 tests were due to the network connectivity. I don't think any solution would bring an EC2 instance into the sub 200ms range. But I'm sure we can bring it down into the low 300ms or even high 200ms range which would be fine for most applications.

Thanks for the comment.

Re: Using Amazon S3 as a CDN?

David Cancel — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:42:45 -0000

Jon, would love access to the Velocix beta. My email is dcancel ~at~ dcancel dot com.

Thanks,
David

Re: Using Amazon S3 as CDN, Part 2 - Cacheability

David Cancel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:29:19 -0000

Rob-See above I had linked to the post you highlighted in the original post. ;-)

Re: Checking Out Google Trends For Websites

David Cancel — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:09:33 -0000

Great post.

Full Disclosure: I co-founded Compete and am still an adviser to them.

We in the web analytics world have been waiting for Google to allow users to share their Analytics numbers publicly. I'm very sure that is coming soon and this along with their GA benchmarking opt-in feature they released a few months ago are just small tests as they try and get the experience right.

I'm all for it, the more transparency in numbers the better. Because all data are dirty and biased the best way to create a level measuring service is ubiquity. If the market agrees on a local analytic standard, like GA, then we can get closer to the "truth", that would be best for everyone including Compete, Comscore, Nielsen, etc.

For years I tried to push forward on a local auditing option, similar to what Quantcast is doing now with their quantified program. My biggest regret is not having brought that service to life at Compete. Our competitor Nielsen was way to happy to sue anyone in the local analytics space (except the big guys like Google and Yahoo of course) for patent infringement, http://tinyurl.com/6l2r5f. Being a smaller direct competitor we opted not to launch that service and take the conservative route; I know better than to take the conservative route these days.

+1 for Google allowing full opt-in GA data sharing because these Google Trend numbers are terrible in this first version.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

David Cancel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:03:43 -0000

Looks absolutely fabulous. Congrats.

PS. The great picture of you with your family shows that your priorities are properly aligned.

Cheers,
;dc

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

David Cancel — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:55:28 -0000

I'm with you there. I saw them in Portsmouth, NH this year, one of the best performances I can remember.

Re: Amplify Wordpress with Lookery!

David Cancel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:26:27 -0000

Thanks for stopping by and look forward to seeing you join the Lookery Network.

I do look mean aye! :-)

Cheers

Re: Amplify Wordpress with Lookery!

David Cancel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:34:01 -0000

Awesome Ian!

A MyBlogLog + Lookery Mashup! Can't wait to see that. Hot!

Cheers,
;dc

Re: Using Amazon S3 as a CDN?

David Cancel — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:12:59 -0000

The origin server was running on Amazon's EC2 service.

Re: Web Performance: David Cancel Discusses Lookery Performance Strategies

David Cancel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:58:18 -0000

Stephen,

Love the article, obviously! Thank you. You're a great performance guru AND a good writer, bonus.

Would love to catch-up in-person sometime soon. Lunch?

Cheers,
David

Re: My tumblr theme now available under creative commons

David Cancel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:04:58 -0000

Good on ya. Open beats cloed. That is a worthy mantra.

Your theme looks sharp.

Cheers,
;dc

Re: git -- it's when you don't know what you don't know

David Cancel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:32:17 -0000

Haha. I feel the same way about Git.

Understand all the interesting bits (I think) but don't see anything so compelling to justify the steep learning curve.

Going to keep learning it mostly because of the awesomeness that is GitHub and all the projects I follow on there.

Re: Lookery Dev - At Lookery we like KISS a lot. Today we had to...

David Cancel — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:26:28 -0000

Cool your first dev blog post! Great stuff and good timing was just reading through some Fabric docs.

;dc

Re: The new MacBook

David Cancel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:02:59 -0000

Note that the new Macbook Air can also drive your 30" monitor.

Time to walk down to the Apple store and trade in your relic (1yr old Macbook Air).

:-)

Re: My review of the G1 after 3 days

David Cancel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:04:29 -0000

If you didn't have the Exchange dependency would you trade your iPhone for it?