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For Facebook "active" has always meant "signed on within the last 30 days."

That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.

The fact that 10% come from that page is a problem, not something to brag about.

They send out emails. They're not relying on people reading the blog. Also, http://www.businessinsider.com/yelps-first-daily-deal-beats-...

If you're producing the slides for a live audience, this style is superior. People can read faster than you can talk, so if what you're saying is all packed onto the slides it crea…

Or, rather, you just enter a URL and it tells you what frameworks the app is using.

You've met one, now!

Uh, sure, ok. Facebook "rode the fad" the same way Ford rode the car-driving fad. You're not really saying anything at all, as far as I can tell.

I think it just becomes story-telling.

OpenID and OpenSocial aren't getting traction anywhere. OpenID because it's a non-solution to a non-problem, and OpenSocial because Google didn't provide developers with the primar…

Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has …

They made plenty of attempts. You're just ignorant of them.

Don't be an ass. You don't know the first thing about the people working there and what they have or haven't tried. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a freemium,…

Funny. Do you have any actual information about how early they tried to find a business model? I suspect you don't. So, the situation is this: we have a product lots of people want…

Every company is around until it isn't. Blockbuster just declared bankruptcy -- does that make Blockbuster a fad? Facebook is six years old. 500MM people use it every month. They a…

I didn't read the part about validations. That's silly. Even if you have to do it in the application layer, why would you need more than one SELECT? Just get the installed apps fro…

In what universe is Facebook a fad? There are billion-dollar companies built on their platform, ferchrissakes!

Erm, that solution is a little extreme, unless there are a few steps missing. The first things I'd do: 1. Aggregate those inserts into a single SQL command. You never want to be is…

Doesn't that support pg's argument vs. Arrington's?

It was founded by Mitch Kapor. I think he knows a thing or two about starting companies...

$100k is an ok number for a one-person outfit, but it would be hard to support even one employee on that number. In face, their current model of altering the Google SERPs almost ce…

Who needs Dropbox when you can just run rsync?

Groupon

Yes, but the reason these brands weren't doing this before Gilt was because they were afraid selling excess inventory at a discount would associate their goods with that lower pric…