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Cool - another medium for more baby photos and emoting.

Spotify is an app you have to download, right? Google builds web apps. Why would they want this?

The author didn't give any reasons that seemed very compelling to me.

From the article: "Consciously or unconsciously we think of our interlocutors as disposable or replaceable."

Interesting, this must be how interviewers or HR types feel after they never get back to you.

Quora fell apart when Ashton Kutcher and other celebs started posting.

I certainly agree with you there, the latter alternative is much worse.

Sigh. I feel like a lot of people in this generation are using their talents thinking up new ways to get users to click ads. Myself included.

Ashton Kutcher is an entrepreneur now and "makes stuff" ?

Oops, thanks for asking. I left out hotmail.com which was 13%

My mistake.

I have an email list with 304,985 contacts:

34.5% yahoo.com

24.0% other

13.9% aol.com

9.9% gmail.com

2.6% comcast.net

2.2% msn.com

So because it's boilerplate to any other website that makes it acceptable and right?

Tested this on a website written in ColdFusion and it's reporting back as ASP.NET

A lot of businesses don't HAVE to do anything. Why try and justify this? Ethics be damned, I guess.

Unfairly hard huh? Have a look at this and be sure to watch the video: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

This deserves more attention, especially by those that think Google can do no wrong. Thanks.

Reading this reminded me of this story: http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-maj...

Anyone else not fully convinced by Comscore's numbers or traffic data from any other site like Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc?

These are estimates until they actually have tracking pixels on the sites they measure.

I do think LinkedIn is making considersable progress and would like to see sites like Monster and CareerBuilder (relics of the dot com era) put to rest.

I'm worried we'll lose the look and feel of the old themes once the new Gmail interface is rolled out. I dislike the Big Blue Button that is showing up in all of Google's UI refreshes too. Google's search results seem very cluttered as well.

Good point about Monster and CareerBuilder.

I interviewed at CB and that was the impression I got.

It seems like they are dotcom era relics that are destined to be made obsolete by the new job search paradigm coming from LinkedIn or Indeed.

What will happen to the International Space Station?

Really? Source? Diamonds are a controlled artificial market and aren't worth squat. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2524/is-a-diamonds-...

I could be wrong, but wasn't a large part of this due to Flash?

He mentioned wanting to get that patch into FF7. Why not FF6?

I hope the Onswipe theme got killed off in this release.

Moniker

Cannot even read the entire article because of the Onswipe theme. Who's awful idea was this?

Yikes.

New customers that never return.

So, skydiving.

This is interesting but I'd say you're in the minority compared to most businesses that try Groupon (like restaurants, cafes) and have high fixed costs and slim margins.

Thanks for the write up though.

Of course you're going to sell a lot of Groupons. But what was the real cost to you based on your margins from whatever you were selling/discounting? Any repeat business from said Groupon customers once the deals are over?

I think this is the main problem for small businesses that have very slim margins and are not seeing return customers after the deal.

It seems that Groupons may be better for SMB's that are service-based (salons, dentists, spas) and have the margin to give.

http://www.quora.com/Groupon/Is-Groupon-good-for-businesses-...

His first sentence really sums it all up:

"I’m tired of seeing small businesses get screwed."