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Very cool idea. Excited about the possibilities here! Wish there was more meat to this post though...nothing but the wireframe of what you did to get there.
Awesome story, going to try out your platform.
> Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how it takes your team over two months for application takedowns. You're more than aware that a vast majority of you're users are from lilyjade variants. Now you're taking credit for malware downloads. Those aren't 100M users, they're 100M downloads. Stop hyping yourself up. Further reading if anybody is interested:
> [1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/05/facebook-takes-aim-at-cro... [2] http://www.exposedbotnets.com/2012/05/facebook-lily-systemma...
Growing from 0 to 1M users is probably harder than from 1M to 100M.
But if you are in a 1 billion market, your growth rate is impressive and you make data-driven decisions to manage your future growth, then yes, 0 to 1M was harder.
Warren Buffett has a quote for this: "Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill". Even if you find wet snow, it's important to look how long the hill really is.
Larry Page uses the toothbrush test: he wants to invest in products that people would use like a toothbrush, twice each day.
Um.. no you don't, you have 100,000 requests to your servers per day. Each page request generates a subsequent 248 requests for assets. You actually get 403 requests per day.
O wait, what's that? You are including "spiders" and other web crawlers in this statistic? What happens if you filter these out?..
100 unique visitors per day! Nice! (So you only just tried to mislead me by a factor of 1000.)
Some people need to learn how to report MAU/DAU/uniques/views/impressions.
These all mean different things.
To say you have grown 1M to 100M users is really disingenuous and a maniuplative use of ambiguity...
At least that's my understanding from reading about Crossrider on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/inkl0/crossrider...) where they alleged, for example, that Crossrider extensions changed users' default search engine.
xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…
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As an extension author, one problem with using Crossrider is that you lose control over the code that is being distributed to users. At least that's my understanding from reading about Crossrider on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/inkl0/crossrider... ) where they alleged, for example, that Crossrider extensions changed users' default search engine.
As an extension author, one problem with using Crossrider is that you lose control over the code that is being distributed to users. At least that's my understanding from reading about Crossrider on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/inkl0/crossrider... ) where they alleged, for example, that Crossrider extensions changed users' default search engine.
I think this proves quite the opposite. As a developer, you can decide if you want to change your users' default search engine (which will probably annoy them a lot), or do anything you want. It's a platform.
My general (perhaps theoretical) concern is that Crossrider is putting themselves in a powerful position by having their software running on 100 million peoples' machines (likely less since some people have installed multiple Crossrider extensions). If Crossrider decided to go evil and start monetizing those extensions, as an extension author I would likely get the blame since the user installed my software and not Crossrider.
A lot of this likely depends on what their business model is. For example, is Crossrider spying on users' browsing experience and monetizing that data? If not, do they have the right to do that in the future?