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Marketing traditionally encompasses: price, product, placement (distribution) and promotion. PR, advertising and sales fall under different branches of promotion.

...and shared on Hacker News.

Furthermore, both Google and Meta have quietly conceded that a lot of the digital attribution data they generate is pretty bunk. It’s why Meta developed Robyn, which uses MMM techn…

This seems really silly. A better system would be for a service like Flathub to support bitcoin Lightning payments direct to app developers. Obviates the need for the store to hand…

Two decades of blogging and still every company blog links to the blog index, not the brand homepage.

But all the comments in this thread are talking about the failure of bitcoin, when the article is about the wallet software they developed. That’s the sleight of hand.

There’s a bit of sleight of hand going on with this article, which conflates use of the Chivo wallet software with bitcoin. But then later the article says: “Meanwhile, many living…

> Finally, most of the internet is powered from warehouses that are purposely built in areas with carbon-neutral electricity. The operators are actively optimising their consumptio…

But that’s just an argument against any technology that will increase electricity demand, such as EVs. When the web was growing the electrical demands were similarly criticised: “T…

What was unique about GOV.UK is that it wasn’t done by a consultancy. They managed to build an in-house, central resource (GDS/Government Digital Service) and pioneered a lot of pu…

The limit wasn’t artificial though, it was the number of characters you could send in a single SMS message (160 minus 20 reserved for meta data)

InternetWorks getting credit for ‘tabs’ here, but looks more like a multi document interface? Which Opera also adopted — before Firefox (Phoenix).

“Mac-er News”, surely?

Appreciated the gigantic RSS subscription button at the bottom of the page.

I can absolutely see the objectives of US foreign policy (enable citizens of foreign powers to evade domestic surveillance) conflicting with domestic policy (bulk communications co…

“The internet is a government op to spy on the populace” does appear to be the synopsis of the authors book, linked at the end of the post. So I suspect this post is really just an…

I tried to set up a Twilio number specifically to handle these services that demand SMS for login. Weirdly it only works for a minority of services, I expect many use Twilio to sen…

I think the statements: "CA were ineffective charlatans" and "Carole Cadwalladr is misinformed" and "the methods by which CA attempted to influence the election were wrong" can all…

The 'hard STEM degrees' and 'brutal interviews' are irrelevant if the industry is functioning: are the people in these roles are able to perform them and are the companies profitab…

So this is... actually worse?

His perspective seems built around ego. It's no longer the special club he wanted it to be, it's not "hard enough" for the people he sees as "wrong" to participate. He liked YC whe…

"I have the world at my hands. Access to written knowledge from any point in the history of time. Tens of thousands of video games and movies available for under $10 and/or a small…

You should probably check the authors resume: https://georgetannenbaum.com/resume/ He certainly understands the concept of brand and product advertising.

Passive safety sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd want to focus on when designing nuclear reactors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem