I didn't think Twitter was profitable yet. That's good to hear.
How do they make money?
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#62It looks like they think Quora is a product of LinkedIn. Judging from the comments here, and from my personal review, the facts of the site seem to be very wrong. However, the design is nice.
I disagree about the design part. This would work so much better as tabular data. Also, as someone said earlier, having to click that X to view another company's information is a pain in the ass. They also use the word "sort" when they actually mean "filter".
I'd say the aesthetics are nice, but aesthetics are a small part of usability.
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#63Hey guys, this is Wil of SEER, we are noticing some sources are off with the links pointing to the wrong place, we will work on it.
--Wil
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#64Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
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#65Cannot filter by profitable/non-profitable.
It's just as well. I personally know that one of the companies on the list is profitable, while it says it's not. (That's not to say it's "earned a good return for its investors, blah blah blah, just that it isn't having to draw down its capital.) The only link it gives as a source is to a page on the website that says absolutely nothing about whether it's profitable.
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#66Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats ) what will we see there? 319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
Site says they are non-profit => They don't turn profit.
That's not what the term means, though I accept that companies may be sleazily using the term this way.
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#67The Xbox section is missing a lot of information. Microsoft makes money on gold live subscriptions, but also makes about $10 for every retail xbox game sold, and much more from high profile first party titles like Halo and Gears of War. Afaik, the Xbox hardware has also been profitable for quite sometime (at least 2-3 years.)
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#68Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Design pet-peeve: only way to dismiss a modal window is with a tiny, low-contrast X.
Sorry to be redundant, but I REALLY want to stress on how annoying this is. A good alternative is to allow user to click elsewhere on the screen (other than the dialog) or press the escape key.
Re: How do they make money?
#69Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Design pet-peeve: only way to dismiss a modal window is with a tiny, low-contrast X.
Since starting to work with modals, I've been baking in a keypress captures on ESC into my code to close them. I have yet to actually decide this is a good idea in most cases, though.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Design pet-peeve: only way to dismiss a modal window is with a tiny, low-contrast X.
Sorry to be redundant, but I REALLY want to stress on how annoying this is. A good alternative is to allow user to click elsewhere on the screen (other than the dialog) or press the escape key.
This is expected behavior in a lightbox style application.