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Re: Can you top these iPhone Halloween costumes?

Yan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:21:17 -0000

Scroll down this discussion thread for my favorite Apple themed Halloween costume
http://www.buxr.com/topic/three-last-minite-cos...

Re: Your House Is Not a Good Investment

Yan — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:22 -0000

I used to look at my house as an investment but no longer. Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow Quadrant was the eye opener

Re: Why Do I Share My Finances Every Month?

Yan — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:55:24 -0000

I think you made your point clearly but to wrap it up you should really fix that last link where it says "altruism doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t exist". ;-)

Re: Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Yan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:53:32 -0000

These are very good tips, thanks a lot!
This resonates the best with my own approach to startup: "Founders should create naturally viral businesses"

Re: Tumri gives you more control over ad widgets

Yan — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:56:51 -0000

All these widgets lack an important functionality that made Google Adsense successful -- contextual sensitivity. Widgets that need to be configured for each page are doomed to fail because of the maintenance effort they require

Re: Triggit, a new way to directly edit web pages

Yan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:40:10 -0000

I can't stop wondering what thir business plan is...

Re: Microsoft Offers Cash Back to Searchers, But for How Long?

Yan — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:54:58 -0000

It is no doubt MS will make money with this. They have simply copied the business model from Jellyfish, a startup they acquired last year. That model (profit sharing) is profitable and used by many (eBates, Fatwallet, etc)

Re: What If You Could Pick Your Seat When Buying a Movie Ticket?

Yan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:09:39 -0000

This would probably be a good idea especially for those first day events when seats get all booked. Personally for me - I wouldn't care. I rarely go to movies. Netflix works just fine

Re: Reddit Goes Open Source: What Does That Really Mean?

Yan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:09:13 -0000

The goal for both Digg and Reddit is to produce better quality news. If opening up algorithms helps the goal then Reddit wins. The key is probably how much existing Digg users are unhappy about Digg not being transparent.

As for how non-programmers can participate, I think it is hard to do so w/o knowing how the site internally functions. There needs to be a document available that explains that in simple terms. After that I would guess you just submit a suggestion for consideration by the community.

Re: 2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-statsaholic-lawsuit/

Yan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:26:55 -0000

I am linking through to an article that tells another sad story, how Amazon shut down their affiliate program to several popular websites w/o much explaining what is going on.

Re: Budget Busters #1 - Coupon Book | Hey, It's Free!

Yan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:54:53 -0000

Great job on the video! You might want to shorten it a bit. My attention span is just enough for 3 minutes of guy's talking, not more (5 minutes if it is a girl) ;-)

(Goob: Trust me, I agree! This will be the last 9 minute video I upload.)

Re: Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero

Yan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:46:41 -0000

As clever as it may sound in reality the campaign will do very little to Wikipedia page rank. Too many bloggers are ignorant of how search engines work.

Hopefully it will at least get the Wikipedia team thinking.

I am surprised Matt Cutts supported the move. :-(

Re: Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero

Yan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:21:36 -0000

"Well, he personally asked me to enable nofollow last year, so Iâ€™m not too surprised."

...which is the same as...

"Use the source and don't give credit back".

This is so much against the philosophy of the web, I struggle to believe Matt would have said that.

Aren't search engines work because the algorithms they use imitate the rules of the society? Or do you mean to say Wikipedia is above this "noise"?

Re: How GE gets the CFL into the Incandescent Shell

Yan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:54:40 -0000

The guy said nothing

Re: Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine

Yan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:51:05 -0000

Pretty cool. Reminds me of MsDewey.com
I wonder how many people need all these bells and wistles...