In case anyone hasn't seen them yet, here's a few videos of Jordan Mechner and his brother performing moves that would later become Prince of Persia's in-game animations:
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blamcast.netI guess I will just shut it down completely come 2012, I don't have any way to do grep-style searches at the same speed Google's API could.
This shot was shown for about 5 seconds right at the beginning of the recording. Front row, center. Reserved. Empty.
If you're going to rehost other people's work, you should at least link to the source. Most of the images on your site are taken from popular webcomics/blogs, so it shouldn't be hard to find the url.
I had immense success launching my startup naming business here[1], the conversion rate on clicks from HN exceeded 1%...
On the other hand, when my Photoshop business made the front page[2], it didn't bring in a single new sale. Essentially, it all comes down to who your real target audience is.
You can see the results of the bug on about 50 browsers here:
http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+...
- The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture and location of the home. It will also blur the distinction between places of residence and places of business, with uncertain effects on zoning, travel patterns and neighborhoods.
(This basically describes my life ;)
- Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly, ordering exactly what they need for "production on demand."
(Kickstarter is a nice example.)
- There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.
(You're participating in one such peer group right now...)
- A new profession of information "brokers" and "managers" will emerge, serving as "gatekeepers," monitoring politicians and corporations and selectively releasing information to interested parties.
(Bloggers, obviously, but more interestingly, Wikileaks, Lulzsec, Anonymous...)
http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/blog/my-first-100-sales
At the moment, it's paying most of my bills while I work on something much bigger ;)
I help run a popular music forum that gets over a million pageviews every month, and our search referral numbers show Google at 98.7%. The numbers are similar across 10 other domains I own.
I challenge anyone to show me a site that gets 30% of their search engine hits from Bing. Seriously, if your Bing stats are even close to 30%, please share with us.
It's something I've suggested before, getting rid of downvotes and replacing them with flags.
Google is actually pretty close, although the last few months are off.
I'd like to see a moratorium on this kind of meta-content.
As PG said: "There ought to be a word for this phenomenon where people follow a post that got them a lot of traffic from HN with another about how much traffic they got."
Great set of slides, thanks for posting this.
And like I said, you'd still have 5 million left, enough to give seed funding to every Y Combinator launch since 2005. If you're looking for Google-sized returns, that's where I'd start.
"Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found."
But, here's your biggest challenge: This concept doesn't work without a bunch of users showing up at the same time.
Tomorrow, when this is off the front page of HN, how do you plan to get people to come back? If you can solve that, you've got something.
I'll take all the karma burning you can dish out, I've got lots to spare, but calling them "Douchebags" for donating 100k is over the top.
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You cannot judge proportion by looking at the numbers Reddit shows.