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Now I'd only wish people to be able to share lists with friends, just like you download blocking lists from adblock :)

But in the meanwhile good riddance Mahalo, eHow, Yahoo Answers and ExpertSExchange, etc

What if I am a presenter aswell? Would you say it might be useful to me too?

Usability 101: every other checkbox matters and lowers conversions

Having bought like 10 deals I really miss having emails that tells me "hey this coupon is expiring in 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days"

I have let some coupon expire because I was lazy and didnt need them at that very moment

me too, entered at least 5 times

Die HN die, the parent comment was -2 when I posted my question.

Why down voting?

If the headline "Decide what the world sees when it searches for you." means that when someone search a name+surname profiles.google.com will always be top I see this as quite powerful!

I never said and didn't want to imply that is about cash, just that is a nice side effect.

In fact, I called you smart, not "trying to be greedy", I agree it's a win/win/win (well, except for your competitors :)

that's pretty smart of you :)

economics of a fundraising, random numbers but you can scale them up or down easily.

assuming you usually have $10k daily profits, and today you got even only $15k that's still 5.000$ / 50$ (average profit for you on a $500 project or whatever is an average project) = 100 new people that'll try you out. So total cost = $10k with no other costs (a part from fixed ones: hosting & support)

If just half of these 100 people will do another project on average in their lifetime cycle you already have covered your costs and make some good profits (100 / 2 * 500$ = $25k)

Without even counting all the free press! let's say $10 CPM and 200k people reached, that's a nice $2k of bonus

Daniel or David something, anyway the name, second name and surname of one of the current and most iconic 37 signals guys

You wrote that in a hour? Congrats, it's a lot of material! I'd write 1/2 of that in a hour - with editing after of course.

Right perhaps I can still do $100 a month with that with some promotion... so I'd keep it rather than sell for $500. But I'd totally sell it for $1600 eheh

"What’s really interesting to me is that I remember when Mahalo first launched, Jason told me numerous times he didn’t care about Google because he was going to build loyal users who would just come directly to Mahalo"

Really?

Hey Justin, thanks for your message.

the problem with point 2) is that he was claiming this mysterious social media buy for $5 a day which I asked him to tell me before sending the payment, but he didn't.

Anyway I'm gonna contact him in a last kind email tomorrow and see if I can get something out of this.

Not sure how much the site would get re-auctioning it today, even if rankings for "ebook design" went from #5 to #1-2 I feel like I can't mention fake revenues like he probably did so the price of the site would probably be < $500

I have no idea what that buying social media traffic @ $5 a day is, and he won't tell me.

Spammy title (5 things...), dubious content, 5 points in a short time without comments: smells like cheating?

As far as I know he was buying backlinks with an external service and he claims the site is still signed up with that, so yeah the same way I guess

and no, I haven't changed anything.

Does anybody else feel like shorting Demand Media?

On another note the new MacBook Pro is nothing special: - still no SSD drive built-in (+$250) - still no 8GB of RAM built-in (+$200) - less battery duration than last generation

We thought, 'Let's just do one of these ads that we know will get rejected,'" he says. They shot the whole commercial in 25 minutes. When CBS refused it, Biderman's company posted it all over YouTube and the Web, tagging it as the "banned Super Bowl commercial."

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Kudos to you, Mr Biderman

You can still clickjack it, can't you?

The big question is: will there ever be depreciation of domain names?

Do they have a chance?

Sometimes even saying "just do it" in 30 different ways might be good to motivate someone.

Wasn't the 3310 the Nokia high point?

Doesn't work for me? linusrocks-at-gmail-dot-com btw

Which school did you attend?

I'm not sure how much he learned with a site with 30 users.