Nope. The red line is a company that launched in October 07, which is why they had a brief blip that month before dropping down near zero. - Paul Buchheit
Oh, friendfeed is red? Hmmm, twitter is one of the others? And techmeme? - Robert Scoble
Atul: you probably are right about blue being techcrunch instead of techmeme. - Robert Scoble
Blue/Green are hard to read. Here is a compare of ff/twitter/techcrunch on compete starting dec07. http://siteanalytics.compete.c.... I don't have compete pro subscription - may be easy to verify if someone has compete pro sub. Am assuming this is from compete.com - Atul Arora
I can't understand how you trust so much in compete.com, their data is unreliable --as most of "web audiences estimations-- and proved wrong several times (for example: http://www.inquisitr.com/13464... ). You should just trust in directly measured data, from example those directly measured from quantcast. Otherwise is just FUD, or hype. - Ricardo Galli
Ricardo: quantcast's charts are not anywhere near as fun. This stuff isn't about accuracy, it's about entertainment. And, anyway, the twitter numbers here were pretty accurate. - Robert Scoble
Blue is Facebook or whichever one is slightly ahead. Green is Myspace. Red is Twitter. The bigger question is why are people using the less accurate Compete compared to Google Trends? Facebook passed Myspace months ago. We all know this. - beersage
There's no way Facebook or MySpace had only a half-million viewers in July of 2007. - Mark Trapp
Psst, read the other comments before you guess. - Jason Wehmhoener
I'm going to play mind-reader and guess Paul's trying to make a point about where FriendFeed is as compared to another service last year. So, it's likely to either be a direct FriendFeed competitor (not Facebook) or some other user-content based company that the blogosphere finds darling that it didn't this time last year. - Mark Trapp
Disregarding my own predictions, I'm going to say it's Orkut. - Mark Trapp
The Green Line is Twitter, that much I can work out from Compete. The Red line is FriendFeed. The blue line is a mystery - Duncan Riley
What Mark said. Twitter shows around 500k flat for most of 2007 before taking off. Nearly IDENTICAL to FriendFeed for 2008 - Duncan Riley
I agree red is FriendFeed, green is Twitter, also not sure about the blue line. Paul, how about telling us the answer? - Alvin
The Red Line goes to Harvard Square, the Green Line-- wait, wrong conversation. Never mind. - Mitch Wagner
I probably should have taken a closer look at that graph.before guessing - beersage
That blue line is the stumper, I will guess something Google... Orkut? - Jeremy Campbell
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The red line is where either friendfeed or twitter would be without the Scoble effect. What? We surely can't have a conversation about twitter or friendfeed without the Scobleizer can we? :D - James Herbert
@zee You're associated with PoF? I have a love/hate with PoF (all for-profit dating services). There's a similar problem to the drug industry. It's in their long-term best interests not to solve their users' problems, just to string them along as long as possible. - ·[▪_▪]·
oh no no, not associated whatsoever...but think it's phenomenal that the sites managed to get so damn popular. - Zee.
Agreed. It's really the best (in a sense, not features and looks) dating service i've used and amazing and inspirational how it sky-rocketed past far more well-staffed, slick and marketed services. I still think it uses similar seeding tactics like the others to lure customers. - ·[▪_▪]·
This post took way too long... and when I saw Rick's article in RWW hit my Google Reader today when I was almost done with this one -- oof -- I was just glad he went a different direction with it. Nice job, Rick. - Louis Gray
Good post Louis. I should add that your blog and comments, etc., would have to be on my list of Top 10 web services of 2008.Thanks for making it easier for me to keep up with this stuff. - Rex Hammock
@Jason, you're welcome. Socialmedian is great. @Tyson and @Rob, yes, FriendFeed launched in 2007, and was not considered. @Igor, no scandal, just a disagreement. I happen to like Allen a lot and Socialmedian as well! - Louis Gray
Stephan, thanks for noting the Yokway mention. I'm remiss I forgot to include Twine. Hate it when that happens. - Louis Gray
web2.o..very good.also.What's happening on the web http://www.kosmix.com/ Kosmix searches for a new way around Google.it has won $20 million in funding from investors who include Time Warner.good/bad! kosmix basically hits a sweet spot somewhere between Google and Mahalo. what makes Kosmix worth the investment? Well, 11 million visitors is nothing to scoff at. Plus, Kosmix’s ad model — which will roll out in 2009 - tomartomartini
This article should be titled: Safari Javascript Speed tops Firefox, Chrome, but he didn't bother test the latest WebKit download in the same way he tested the other browsers. - Sam Pullara
"Let's review the case of Youtube... Product became a hit, traffic shot up at an unbelievable pace, huge bandwidth bills, scary lawsuits. So while it's possible the technology costs may become largely irrelevant as he suggests (though I'm doubtful), the people piece (engineers, sales, management, lawyers) remains and their cost isn't rapidly decreasing. So while he is probably right that Series A as we know it is slated for the scrap heap (since early costs used to be dominated by now much cheaper technology purchases), there is still Series B and C and with the IPO market decimated by Sarbox there is a much greater need for Series D's and perhaps beyond.." - Bret Taylor
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Mitsubishi UFJ paid $8.1M to its top 14 executives. Morgan Stanley's CEO alone took home 5 times that amount -- $41.4M. - Jess Lee
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GM's CEO makes 16x the CEO of Toyota. And look where it got them... - Mike Brzozowski
In the case of C-level executives, paying less gets you more. Salary of Warren Buffet: $100,000/year. Bill Gates also worked for a ridiculously low sum of $300k, back during the hey-day of Microsoft - Piaw Na
Seems to me the Japanese have a much better pay structure than US banks do... - Bindu Reddy
"So far, about two-dozen staffers from the two companies have spent weeks participating in each other's staff training programs and sitting in on meetings where business plans get hammered out." --- Interesting. - Bindu Reddy
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"One of the first results of the collaboration between the two companies was an online campaign inviting people to make spoof videos of P&G's "Talking Stain" TV ad and post them to YouTube. The original ad, aired during the Super Bowl, shows a job candidate being drowned out by a talking stain on his shirt that babbles nonsense every time the man tries to speak during an employment interview.
Spoof campaigns can be risky. What if people post something rude about your product -- or don't participate at all?
This "never would have happened" previously, says Mr. Stengel, who left P&G last month to start his own firm. It's "something [P&G is] really wrestling with: How does a brand morph from one-way to two-way communication with the consumer?"
P&G tried to enforce limits. It provided prospective spoofers a toolkit of official logos. And it demanded that any stains appearing in mock ads must come from an approved list, ranging from a mai tai to spinach dip. (Grease, blood or ink was forbidden because the Tide - Roshan Vyas
..."Tide to Go stain-removing pen doesn't work on those stains.)
In the end, of the 227 spoofs submitted, a handful were deemed good enough by P&G to air on TV. The campaign was successful enough that Tide plans to use more consumer-generated content in the future, P&G says." - Roshan Vyas
A copyrighted article cannot be entirely copy-past on a website, but thanks to the "right to quote" (or "faire use" for the US), we can all quote a part of this WSJ article (10 lines per person) and share the all article legally. I may be wrong, but it's so cool to be able to read unaccessible content without hacking author rights in the process. Thanks Friendfeed! - Jérôme Flipo
According to Internet World Stats there are roughly 248 Million Internet users in the US, but that only accounts to 17% of the estimated 1.4 Billion Internet users worldwide. Latin America has roughly 140 Million Internet users. China alone has 253 Million users.
In terms of monetization and traffic it’s immediately apparent why it makes sense to release your site with a global focus. Here’s the how and the why. - Jorge Escobar
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"Weebly, an AJAX-based drag and drop web page creator, today announces it has reached a million registered users — and perhaps more importantly — that the three-year-old company is now profitable.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up, seeded with $650k by Ron Conway (who participated in our Downturn Event VC Panel) and other angel investors including seed fund Y Combinator, in June launched two products to help bring in revenue: The first was professional accounts (versions that users actually have to pay for), the second was Google AdSense integration into sites built using Weebly." - imabonehead
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congratulations to them. inspiring to hear at a time like this. - mike
"...that the three-year-old company is now profitable..." this is what i like - Naor
Fable 2, Fallout 3, Spore, Dead Space, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Tales of Vesperia, Grand Theft Auto IV, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Plus last year's Oblivion, Super Mario Galaxy, Skate, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Metroid Prime 3, God of War 2 - DeWitt Clinton
One of the things I'm launching soon. - Sam Pullara
Could you guys add a really simple intro perhaps with screenshots. I had to look at a lot of pages of documentation to work out that it was a widget/gadget platform. - Adewale Oshineye
I'll see what I can do especially since it isn't really a widget/gadget platform but rather a social application platform like Facebook's F8 or OpenSocial. - Sam Pullara
"Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on…" - DeWitt Clinton
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"Today I thought I'd talk about a neat design pattern that doesn't seem to get much love: the Properties Pattern. In its fullest form it's also sometimes called the Prototype Pattern.
People use this pattern all over the place, and I'll give you a nice set of real-life examples in a little bit. It's a design pattern that's useful in every programming language, and as we'll see shortly, it's also pretty darn useful as a general-purpose persistence strategy." -Steve Yegge - DeWitt Clinton
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I dunno. It's a property bag, not a religion. I haven't been able to get that enthusiastic about property bags (or extension cords or other useful commodities) for 20 years. - Joshua Allen
Epic tl;dr. Someone else is on yegge summarization oncall for this one. - ⓞnor
You can skip the Lisp section. Yes, Common Lisp symbols have property lists, but one symbol doesn't act as a prototype for another AFAIK. Scheme symbols don't have property lists; they're basically interned strings. - Bruce Lewis
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"These guys used to go door-to-door in the 1970s selling lightbulbs and they would offer to replace every single lightbulb in your house, so all your old lightbulbs would be replaced with a brand new lightbulb, and it would cost you, say $5, so a fraction of the cost of what new lightbulbs would cost. So the man comes in, he replaces each lightbulb, every single one in the house, and does it, you can check, and they all work, and then he takes all the lightbulbs that he's just taken from the person's house, goes next door and then sells them the same lightbulbs again. So it's really just moving lightbulbs from one house to another and charging people a fee to do it." - Tudor Bosman
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Peteris Krumins of Latvia has been publishing his notes on a video lecture series accompanying the seminal book _Introduction To Algorithms_. - DeWitt Clinton
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I watched the quicksort lecture. Good and mathy. - DeWitt Clinton
I TAed this course three times; twice with Eric Demaine. - Steve Weis
@Steve -- ooh, that's great. I just read through the book for the first time this year (I know, I know). I love the way it is presented. I would have preferred that to my undergrad text, which now I've completely forgotten. - DeWitt Clinton
"In this talk I'll give some background of Google's existing hardware and software infrastructure. I'll then discuss what works well and what does not, and I'll highlight some areas where we see interesting unsolved research problems. The problems span a wide range of topics, including processor design, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, text processing and many other areas. This talk is meant to cover a sampling of interesting problems/areas, not a comprehensive treatise." - Bret Taylor
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"In essence, households, banks and the government have already spent some of their future earnings. The current crisis marks the point at which the bills begin to get paid." - Adewale Oshineye
"If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago,
you would have $49 left.
With Fannie Mae,
you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.
With AIG,
you would have less than $15 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle..."" - Bret Taylor
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I'll be the buzzkill: recycling refunds are based on the deposit fee that is built into the price of the beer. So, based on the numbers above, you are simply returned the $214 that you gave as a deposit on the cans and, on the $786 you spent on the beer, you get a 0% financial return, though you get tons of beer. Also, at 5 cents per can, $214 in refunds equates to 4,280 cans...and with a $1,000 purchase price, that translates to 23 cents per can. Barring wholesale costs, WTF beer costs 23 cents/can? - Chester
you can call it your 401-keg...or in Chester's example above...a 401 - keg fail... - Skye Miller
A more damning "investment" comparison is that: you could have bought a Hummer last year and it would have retained more value than the stocks listed above. For that matter, one-year-old beer would probably have retained more of its original value than those stocks. - Chester
Chester, not a very effective buzzkill. ~2000, I had a friend who used to joke that he had outinvested everyone else with his "*non-interesting-bearing* checking account" - j1m
Well, anyone with a non-interest-bearing mattress is looking pretty good for 2008. - Chester
I went 100% into cash Apr 2007. The lousy 4% interest is looking pretty good now. Waiting to cost-average back in... Since I was in private equity in Feb 2000, I saw the loss of traction in deals, and also exited the market except for $20,000 ($2,000 in 10 stocks). Missed the internet crash also... - Mitchell Tsai
Since I started investing just after graduating college in 1986, I saw the 1987 crash first-hand and have a healthy respect for economic downturns. When I feel the market is too risky, I exit... Maybe I'll miss some gains. That's ok by me. - Mitchell Tsai
I'm making more money from the interest on a savings account than I would if I put it in a CD (of any length of time). These are weird times. - Andy Bakun
Stephen Colbert might be onto something by investing all his money in cans of soup. - Constantinos Michael
I love this. One, it's a powerful, well-tested logging library -- basically every C++ project at Google uses it. But two, there are little gems in here, like mutex.h (http://code.google.com/p/googl...). I wish more companies open sourced more of their code under permissive licenses. - DeWitt Clinton
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I often think Open Source developers should be better rewarded (or sometimes even rewarded at all) for their efforts though. dotnetopenid on Google code is one example where one a specific person has put in a ton of effort and requests "donations", Would be nice to see something less obtrusive that could pay these people back (esp. for popular libraries). - weblivz
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