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bsparker··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Hey! I'd love to contribute to this directory. My personal website is https://sparker.co - it's my professional presence where I share thoughts on product development and the tech industry. I work in Product at You.com and am passionate about building great user experiences.
bsparker··on ChatGPT Atlas
Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response
bsparker··on Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
and banksy!
bsparker··on Apple Considered Switch to Search Engine DuckDuckGo from Google
Yeah I guess anything is possible but it takes effort
bsparker··on List of Mythological Objects
I would love to run all of these through DALLE2
bsparker··on Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub
Ohio needs to unite the 3 C's and dominate tech, healthcare and insurance, there is so much talent and a little capital goes a really long way.
bsparker··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
I'm a product manager working on code.you.com. This is good feedback and an interesting suggestion. We'll work on adding those special characters, variables and casing to make the search better for coding.

We're just getting started but working really hard to make this something special. There is a fairly active slack community if you have any other suggestions and want to share. thx.

bsparker··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
Social search has been attempted so many times.

Google tried it in 2009, failed. Microsoft tried it in 2013, failed. Startups across the board have tried it.

I think it is because "social" usually implies to a user that they are searching for a person, not the content they create. And previously, there wasn't a ton of UGC that was relevant to a query.

Disclaimer: I'm a You.com employee working on search.

bsparker··on Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign is a huge company, I remember when they were the scrappy new guys
bsparker··on The next Google
This is one of the reasons I love working for You.com.

SEO is killing Google and it needs to be addressed before it kills the internet. Having the opportunity to build an app that solves a search, instead of perpetuating a spam system, has been really rewarding... and we're just getting started.

bsparker··on Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?
SEO is dead. Nothing matters anymore except personalized SERP.
bsparker··on “Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”
I’m building this at the moment :)
bsparker··on Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)
Lebron is also a genuinely good human being and as a Clevelander, I wish him the best of luck in LA.
bsparker··on Aretha Franklin has died
RIP to the Queen of Soul
bsparker··on FCC admits it was never actually hacked
So does this have anything to do with the fake comments (left in my name): http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/fcc-and-net-neutrality-check-t...
bsparker··on Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified
Thanks!
bsparker··on Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified
Pay wall. Anyone have a link to a cached version?
bsparker··on Introducing A16Z Crypto
I believe the actual problem this solves, the "killer application," is already out there.
bsparker··on The Never-Ending War on Fake Reviews
I'm starting a new project for verified reviews: reviews that are "peer reviewed" by others in the community. I am still in stealth mode but I'm working to solve this: https://thepeerreview.com
bsparker··on Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus
http://archive.is/QXUkq
bsparker··on Show HN: The last person to use this button gets $200+ USD, via Smart Contracts
brillant growth-hacking from the metamask team :)
bsparker··on “The Orville” is on a smoother trajectory, with just a bit of turbulence
Its a really good show.
bsparker··on American Equity
The United States is not a corporation or a startup and should not be treated as such.
bsparker··on Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
Because this is paid advertising... not opinions, but promoted media.
bsparker··on Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
Twitter is an American company, and is publicly traded as such. They have a responsibility to appease shareholders. This isn't really about politics at all, or patriotism, it's about money.
bsparker··on Coinhive – First Week Status Report
Interesting. Is there way to subscribe to these?
bsparker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
ReviewTrackers in Chicago is hiring Product and Marketing positions. Also Sales. Always sales.

http://reviewtrackers.com/jobs

bsparker··on VR
It's weird, he keeps misspelling AR. ;)
bsparker··on Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Will the Trello/Slack integration be affected?
bsparker··on Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Culture of greatness and all that, let him be.
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