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Re: Introducing New Usernames & Vanity URLs

shuri — Mon, 25 May 2015 01:24:04 -0000

My current username is 5 letters long :(

Re: Let’s all laugh at my horrible 2006 post: “YouTube is not a real business”

shuri — Sat, 02 May 2015 11:44:46 -0000

I thought you would mention Grooveshark :)

Re: Why Banning Telecommuters Is A Sign Your Company Is Screwed - by Fredric Paul

shuri — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:52:40 -0000

It's hard to change culture remotely. They probably wanted to start cleaning house without affecting morale too much. I'm sure whoever was a star got approached beforehand. This is a smart move.

Re: Just like Eduardo, nearly 1,800 people renounced U.S. citizenship this year, many over taxes | VentureBeat

shuri — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:55:48 -0000

They should donate them to a needy entrepreneur.

Re: Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

shuri — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:16:24 -0000

So how about a part 2?

Re: A timeline of turmoil at Yahoo | VentureBeat

shuri — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:40:34 -0000

Yahoo had some really good acquisitions over the years!

Re: Electronic Arts’ The Sims Social is now live | VentureBeat

shuri — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:13:55 -0000

This is exactly the sort of game Google+ should have negotiated an exclusive release period for.

Re: Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual

shuri — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:17:29 -0000

Sorry for not being clear. Vibrant based advertisements, when I mouse around the thing "pops up" but not in a separate window. I see this in two computers (mac and linux). You guys are better than that,

Re: Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual

shuri — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:37:32 -0000

It seems you have a great site but I just cannot read it with all these pop unders. This is a major turn-off for me to return to the site.

Re: Scala/Mustache: Creating a comma separated list

shuri — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:14:22 -0000

I was looking at mustache last week and was also wondering if there is a simpler way. It seems to me a disturbing limitation of mustache which otherwise seems nice.

Re: Brand Reversioning by Graham Smith

shuri — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:48:22 -0000

I originally named my search site BinGooHoo (now 1result.com) with a similarly minded logo
http://1result.com/static/i...

Re: 10 Intriguing Apple Patents to Get Excited About

shuri — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:32:15 -0000

I predicted the 6th one in 2007 and called the shuffletooth: http://www.shuri.org/?node=...

Re: Delicious’s Loss Is Startups’ Gain As Users Jump Ship

shuri — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:42:24 -0000

I partially agree. Some people are willing to pay, the data collected probably has some value. In general sites like digg are conceptually close and they manage to stay afloat. It seems like the space is very attractive for developers and I wonder how big the general potential is.

Re: Delicious’s Loss Is Startups’ Gain As Users Jump Ship

shuri — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:46:41 -0000

I wonder, how big an opportunity is this? We all love it and we're all ocd about our bookmarks but how big a market is this?

Re: Why Sunsetting Delicious Matters

shuri — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:15:28 -0000

I suggested a non.yahoo.com solution. http://www.quora.com/What-s...

Re: Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us?

shuri — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:38:26 -0000

1. You can and should make a great company out of all the severed Yahoo bits. Call it...HooYa
2. I happen to know there are still a lot of amazing people at Yahoo, so I still have hope.
3. I know this means nothing but... I knew it.

Re: The Ten Golden Principles For Successful Web Apps

shuri — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:11:29 -0000

I may have been trying to cover too much with one term.

On the one hand, self-correcting maybe over stating it for feedback and analytics. However, it's not limited to soliciting feedback since using site-analytics and A/B testing you can detect problems that the users themselves aren't aware of.

On the other hand, what being programmable achieves is that a site gets functionality beyond what even the site-owner knows is needed or has time and resources to implement. That possibly goes beyond self-correcting.

Re: The Ten Golden Principles For Successful Web Apps

shuri — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:08:00 -0000

I would add self-correcting to the list, meaning via a feedback button and site analytics detect and correct problems in the flow.

I also like to generalize things. A lot of things fall under what I call "path of least resistance" or flow: discoverable, speed and instant utility.

And under self-correcting you can put: feedback, site analytics, and programmable.

The last part (arguably) is getting them to stay and comeback.

Re: EtherPad Blog: Saving is Obsolete

shuri — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:18 -0000

Awesome :)

Re: Bing: Microsoft Launching New Rival to Google?

shuri — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:30:34 -0000

Yes, "live" is overloaded and not well defined.
But as far as branding is considered, or at least in my mind, the word "live" could be associated with a search engine that crawls and indexes every comment, every twit and every blog post as soon it is posted. With all the "ooooh, the web is all streams and real-time now"-discussions, that seems relevant.