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How does this plugin handle shortcodes?

Mark needs to do my PR. He always seems to find a way to get into the news.

That's not what my Chinese mother told me.

Here's a link to the official Twitter statement: http://support.twitter.com/articles/452648-i-m-having-proble...

No clue to whether this is a permanent suspension - or what? I suspect it is since they marketed their apps at the end.

That startup looks real lean. </sarcasm>

Yes, it's a CTA. Just a weak one in my opinion.

Question here.

Why not place a solid call-to-action during the advertisement for people to visit their website and sign-up?

All they said was "visit Groupon.com".

All Groupon needs is your e-mail address and a zip code. It seems like they could have baited people with something and really grown their subscriber base?

Am I crazy for thinking that was a wasted opportunity, or does that not work well with such a massive audience?

Maybe the agency they hired only does branding and couldn't fathom the thought of getting direct responses?

Curious.

It's called "harmonization". China does it all the time.

Apparently, they've retired the old one.

Here's a link to the new free bookmarklet: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/

What's the penalty (if any) for ignoring robots.txt and crawling anyway? Any citations of it being legally enforced via TOS or ASP?

This is not Google Offers. It's simply a Google Tag advertisement.

Link: http://www.google.com/help/tags/

Agreed. We're huge fans of Jungledisk here.

Great way for Yahoo! to confirm what everyone else thinks about them. That they are lost.

But I thought Yahoo! were making content plays . . . .

Perhaps they only make moves for blue collar content?

Poor Yahoo! Always shows up late to the party.

I'm impressed by Matt Mullenweg. I think the folks over at Posterous could learn a few things from him.

DHH's fantasies realized.

This exists to demonstrate to the shareholders and other interested parties that they are innovating or creating new products.

Google must be perceived as growing roughly 25% per year in order to maintain their current stock price.

RSS/Atom feed may not seem practical to some of you but I highly doubt you're the intended audience for this page.

I agree. Where's the meat and potatoes? Folks around these parts love some multivariate and/or A/B testing, plenty of fresh looking graphs and some detailed analysis.

Come one guys, if you submit to Hacker News at least put a little effort into your posts.

Update: Don't mean to sound brash but I'm tired of folks telling me what I should/should not do without giving me some detailed CR datasets, including some demographic data (if possible).

That sounds very clear and professional. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way.

Most of their competitors are in the same situation they are in.

Being the first one to torpedo the other ship and not expecting someone to get upset or God forbid do something awful in return is naive.

I think there is a difference in poaching your competitor's customers and claiming they are "no good".

I seriously doubt this is the reason but they insulted a lot of people with their "switch to us" targeted attacks.

That was classless.

BornDigital clearly doesn't understand basic SEO.

DHH has exhausted the antagonist role.