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I agree that Reddit is taking a naive view on Advertising. There is a huge amount of value to be added here, both to Reddit and the Community by an effective Advertising platform. …

Adding some type of effect to show that the shirts are actively being bought (I imagine every few seconds half a shirt 'flash') would give the sale more of an active-feeling. Right…

My name is on the no fly list (well, mine and a million others). I get 'randomly' stopped by customs every time I re-enter the country through an airport. This doesn't happen at pa…

The author states that in his time at Google he realizes it was always a company funded by ads, but that he did not have to personally feel the need for Ads in all products. That's…

Most of my work is done in Ruby or Python and deployed via Heroku or EC2. I would look for someone who can either work in those frameworks, or can rewrite it in their language of c…

I've finally decided that I can not, in fact, do everything. Because of this I'm looking at hiring a remote developer to maintain some projects of mine. These vary from products th…

This is awesome. The time/cost of legal battles deter most folks, so I am glad you are doing what other people can't.

It would be great to have the ability to post-pay. I can imagine finishing the book and realizing that it was worth $20, and wanting to pay more. In this case if I come back to Lea…

96% of revenue in the most recent quarter came from Advertising. If Google hadn't pioneered contextually relevant advertising it would likely be bankrupt today (as no VC would fron…

To my knowledge complying with COPPA is a difficult and tedious process. Common sense does not apply, and in fact, in my understanding, can often put you in violation of the law (f…

545 or 550 get you into / out of SEA pretty easily from major eastside hubs.

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?#site... Daily UV's are growing pretty well. Interesting to see the age skews higher then I would have assumed.

Google overtook Yahoo as the largest display network last month, so it's a bit more then making a move at this point :) http://mashable.com/2011/05/26/google-yahoo-display/

I disagree becuase the chromebook functions under the idea that 99% of what users need to do happens within the browser. OSX makes the guess that what the users need to do happens …

I agree in principle that claiming the path to A is by doing B is generally a pyramid scheme situation. However, this author came across differently because of his specific situati…

Also the growth is not necessarily all in engineering. For example, I think Twitter is going to be needing a sales team to help push any pending ad products.

Depends on the team. I worked at a few different ones at MSFT, and generally the position was - two machines. Two desktops? Ok. Desktop + Laptop? Ok. Most developers went for the d…

Perhaps the type of people that would employee a man of this skillset are more likely to have a facebook account than the general population. It's also not that far off to imagine …

I saw the exact same thing. I had something like 1.25%-1.5% CTR from the mobile network, with no conversions. It was pretty terrible, and I disabled advertising on mobile networks …

It's easier now to travel then it has ever been before. I can wake up in the US and decide to have dinner in Paris. This versus having to tough a weeks long voyage across the Atlan…

I'd be interested to see the distribution of passports geographically across the US. Some parts of the United States just don't lend themselves to easy travelling. Other than Canad…

Easy to catch and filter. But yes, in theory, this will improve results. The proportion of users clicking the 10th link on a page is much lower than those who click the 1st. If use…

I do heavy Adwords analysis with my startup. One of the more interesting things I've come to discover though is that facebook provides much higher bang for the buck in regards to C…

Matt Cutts should know better. Being part of '1000 signals' does not mean all signals are weighted evenly. It does not even mean the signals are weighted the same across all query …