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Re: Announcing Google Prime? - Amazon Strategies

Matt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:16:22 -0000

I'd certainly love some sort of universal prime type account. Sure amazon has lots of fulfillment centers and can ship things really quickly, but google could also partner with or purchase other fulfillment centers. Likewise they could have a series of vendors that the service worked with who already had their own centers that were capable of delivering quickly.

The part that still does't make much sense to me about amazon prime is you can order a $4 cabinet lock, and have it arrive in 2 days.

Re: Gold Prices Dip as U.S. Economic Data Improves - TheStreet

Matt — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:11:41 -0000

Gold prices this year have certainly been a pretty wild ride. With these quick moves up and down, it seems to be indicating the rapid gains and declines in value of the USD. Hopefully they can stabilize and start to be the trend indicator that they always were.

Re: Senate Passes Obama Tax Cut Bill; Estate Tax Scrutinized

Matt — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:19:50 -0000

Seems like a pretty poor excuse for legislation if you ask me

Re: Google Buying a Massive Building in Manhattan for $1.9 Billion [REPORT]

Matt — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:00:16 -0000

It was my understanding that they had already bought this building. I guess not though and I guess they are sure paying a pretty penny for it. it's a neat building though.

Re: Forget the Nexus One, We Want the Coke-Powered Phone

Matt — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:30:31 -0000

just wait till the top bursts off while its in your pocket...

Re: Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone [Comparison Chart]

Matt — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:28:52 -0000

Sure Tmobile has a slightly cheaper plan available - but they also have awful coverage outside of major metropolitan areas. so if you live in a big city and never leave... thats fine... but for others thats not a possibility.

lets not forget that the nexus one will be out for other carriers later this year (or at least thats the rumor), but a better comparative chart would have been to focus on the device themselves more than the price of the service.

Re: Questions Raised About New Facebook Privacy Settings | paidContent

Matt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:31:12 -0000

We saw that some accounts were suggesting this new default of public on somethings, while other accounts that were already more locked down were defaulting to the same locked down status.

Re: So why did you return that Chevrolet Malibu? GM wants to know

Matt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:22:56 -0000

Well I certainly hope that they are better than the dealer employees that call you up if you don't give them perfect scores on the service feedback surveys. I was told by the local dealer that I was "not welcome to come back for service". She said to take it elsewhere for future service visits and to be ashamed for not giving them a perfect score.

I was appalled to say the least, so I'm glad that they are having more experienced employees calling customers who returned them.

Some what surprised though that only 653 of 220,000 decided to even take that as an option.

Re: Droid Becomes Fastest-Selling Android Phone to Date?

Matt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:24:20 -0000

being part of that 250,000 - I'm very happy with the droid. I've found an app to do everything I have tried to do so far that the phone won't do on its own.

Sure there are some glitches in some of the features, but for a 1st generation device, its nothing more than what goes on with every 1st generation.

Re: Twitter Hammered By HTTP Server Errors

Matt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:48:45 -0000

Annoying - but not really surprising. Whenever they have errors, I just try to put myself in their shoes and think about how I would begin to handle the scale of the site. Then i stop thinking and get back to work.

Re: CONFIRMED: AT&T Announces VoIP Over 3G for iPhone

Matt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:02:07 -0000

Well thats exactly my question - -how is google voice a voip app -- interesting this comes at the same day as google and verizon announce a partnership to get some android phones going.

Re: How to Increase Laptop Battery Power Tips

Matt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:03:00 -0000

I've found one of the best ways to extend the battery life is to create a power profile that you use when on battery. I set the screen brightness to very low, set the screen to turn off to 1 min, but most importantly - find the one that controls how much of the cpu can be used. set the minimum to 0, and the max to something low like 20%.

Then when you are using the laptop, it is limited as to the amount of cpu it can use, this won't cause problems for notes, wordprocessing, and web based stuff. But can cause some issues if you are trying to play games etc. Your results will vary depending on the laptop.

Re: How to Increase Laptop Battery Power Tips

Matt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:03:00 -0000

Re: Place Pages: Google Launches Rival to Yelp

Matt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:45:11 -0000

interesting - curious to see if they reach out and build pages for everything listed in the google local business center, or just things that get searched out more often.

Re: Mixxing with a Dash of NoFollow

Matt — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:08:11 -0000

I think Bryan hit the nail on the head. Big sites will millions of inbound links can do a lot of different things.

I won't be surprised if more sites end up going the same route.
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Re: How Much is Chris Brogan’s Online Presence Worth?

Matt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:03:04 -0000

very interesting story - I've read lots of things by Chris - he does a great job on his blog. But this is a different way to look at the value of it.

Re: Google Launches Internet Stat Center

Matt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:24:28 -0000

seems very cool to me -- just wondering if they will launch this in the usa. There are some fun facts in there.

Re: Discover More Related Content with Headup

Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:44:19 -0000

sounds like something to check out -- but if it isn't that fast -- thats a major draw back.

Re: Google Translate Adds More Foreign Languages

Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:57:52 -0000

wow thats a lot more languages -- including some that are not very common.

Re: How Many Google Penalties Are There?

Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:56:57 -0000

interesting research on the topic. still trying to figure out what happened to a clients site.

Re: Google Penalties : Manual vs Algorithmic

Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:39:05 -0000

whats confusing is when this happens and you haven't done anything.

Re: Why Display Ads are the Lifeblood of Online Publishing

Matt — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:41:48 -0000

Running a website that is funded on advertising revenue as well as an avid web surfer, I end up with a different opinion.

I don't mind ads on sites, in fact several sites do it so tastefully it really ads to the sites. But other sites have ads that are filled with spyware, popups, popunders, etc. The other ones that annoy are ads that play audio automatically -- like the annoying smilely download banners that infected myspace.

Facebook's attempt to show relevant ads on the right hand side of whatever your doing works to some degree -- but again they do a terrible job of filtering out irrelevant ads as well as the down right scams -- click here to get your obama stimulus check!

I do a lot of surfing in chrome as well --- so no ad block even available here.

Overall my take on the situation is -- someone who goes about to specifically block ads, is not too likely to have clicked on them (just like users from digg and stumbleupon are not likely either). But they still would have been there for the display ads paid on a CPM basis.

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Re: Why KFC’s Oprah Debacle Could End-up Finger Lickin’ Good!

Matt — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:21:03 -0000

I'm remembering a time when Quiznos offered a coupon for buy one get one free subs... then after redeeming it a few times... seeing a cut out of the coupon on a board that said "not accepted". Same with Mobile gas stations ran a promo about 10 years ago for some deal involving a very cheap soft drink. Of course they too stopped accepting it as well.

Why on earth these companies think that they can make an announcement to give something away for free -- and then not plan on following through -- is beyond me. There are websites dedicated to watching for deals like this so that everyone who follows those sites can participate -- even if you didn't watch the original show. The oprah.com page on this has over 6000 comments as of now..

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Re: Action Alert! Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) Town Hall Meetings Thursday & Friday (Pittsford/Henrietta, NY)

Matt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:38:00 -0000

while I don't think this cap is fair, or close - it should be noted that the existing time warner road runner service agreement allows them to cap internet usage based on amount transferred or speed. So they technically can already do this.

Setting a cap as absurdly low as 40 GB/month is just bad business. In fact its terrible business. Sure this is getting a lot of media and perhaps its just a publicity stunt, but it is a terrible idea. you can easily track some of your bandwidth usage just by setting windows task manager to monitor bytes sent/rec'd and then turn it on with your computer. not ideal, but gives you some idea...

in a data center you can usually get connections for $20 to $30 per mbit (which is about 300 Gb/month if run wide open). So TWC's costs are nowhere near this. Understanding that though - you couldn't get a connection anywhere near as fast as home cable modem if you were a business for $40/month... you would be charged much more.

3mbit/768 up DSL would allow you to transfer about 1.2TB/month for just $30 from Verzion... if you used the whole thing the whole time...

TWC does offer a home worker package from the business class service... for $80/month. With no plans to limit the business end of things. Perhaps this is just a ploy to get even more each month from customers.. instead of $30, $40, $50/month for cable modem service... now they could just push "heavy" users to a higher plan and up their revenue.

Re: YouTube Could Lose $470 Million

Matt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:57:33 -0000

I think that if ISPs start charging users for bandwidth overages -- which several are currently testing in the US, including Time Warner... then many users may reduce the amount of youtube videos they watch. This in turn reduces revenue as well as costs, but might make the revenue amount in line with costs.

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