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My complete guess is pretty much the opposite :)
My friends have no idea what delicious is, nor other tagging/bookmarking programs, but they love to find interesting/funny content on the web and share that on facebook. I do the same, even though I have delicious and facebook bookmarklets installed. Just lazy I guess
The Da Vinci Code (haha remember when that was huge)
Or it's intentional and he's commenting on how they've been too soft in the marketplace these last few years.
I know this isn't a "HN: Review my ____ " post, but I feel compelled to give my 2¢.
The headlines/article blurbs are HUGE! I only see one story above the fold, and I'm presented with too much information for each link. Categories and tags are a bit repetitive. Also, does anyone pay attention to when something was posted or made popular down to the minutes? Hours would be plenty, if anything at all.
By removing the short blurbs lead-ins, you encourage submitters to write clear titles, and remove the redundancy of having both titles and one sentence repeating the title (e.g. 100 Money Saving Tips for the Holiday Gifting Bonanza: Here are a hundred tips to help you save some cash for that holiday gifting bonanza.)
haha yup. You win on clarity
The examples are pretty basic and can be done with 4-5 excel functions and no scripting. Do you guys have any heavier duty examples in the works?
What market are you going after? Soccer moms managing team phonebooks? Entrepreneurs who have other things to worry about than cleaning up data?
It'd be cool to see see prompts that inspire better uses/structure to your data. E.g. if a company is managing their sales pipeline (as in the dabble db 8 min demo), analyze that data further than excel easily allows.. track how the data changes over time to deliver insights that people wouldn't see by just producing graphs. What common trends exist among sales that actually close? How long does a sale stay on the table before closing? Does this vary by salesperson/location?
It makes sense for people who know little about spreadsheets [like my mom who would manually add dashes to dozens of rows :) ], but they may also be the type who wouldn't think to seek out a web app to help them clean up the data.
I'm probably a poor sample b/c I spend 5-6 hours/day in excel (finance @ tech company).
Color-logo feature is sweet!
Yahoo's insider blackout period began this week, so it's no surprise that he bulked up before he's blocked out for the next 6 weeks.
Same here, except they yelled at me once for doing laundry after 10pm :-P
Depending on the city, look for local management companies that own multiple complexes. I'm in Palo Alto and Vittoria Management has like 10 buildings (vrent.com). They will post them on their website before posting them on Craigslist. Things go so fast on CL that's it's not even worth it.
business model? grow traffic and sell ads?
Since Best Buy competes mainly on price with the other big retailers, don't you think opening up all their data could be a bit risky? How long will it take for someone to start tracking the prices of all their products, and then optimize when customers should buy? (a la farecast.com)
and another year has passed and I see this list, realizing I'm getting closer and closer to 30 (ok i'm not that close yet).
Does anyone else feel that it's about time for themselves to stop reading the lists and start building something?
how come I didn't get an SMS invite? I'm so bored at home...