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I added this to http://paggstack.com since the very beginning, and I swear, it's the most commonly asked question over any other. I always try to put some humour in my response, but damn! We need a solution ;)
Google Offers - Groupon Clone
Sometimes you need to wash twice
They have me excited anyway.
Because there is one service I would use everyday nobody offers today, not even groupon, google, etc.

No matter where I am, I want to look at my iPhone and see what deals for lunch at the nearest Chili's, Cheesecake Factory, Houstons, etc. based on geolocation. If I am looking for the newest pair of Nikes, know who's got them around me for the best price.

Local deals, long tail, one to one, geolocation, all in one. That's a multi billion dollar business, untamed...
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Call me confused but i am surprised why Google tried buying Groupon if they were coming out with a clone... surely they didnt just develop the clone in the last 2 weeks!
I agree. At some point, when your company gets so big and entrenched, it becomes necessary to make decisions to do what ever it takes to keep the machine running. Some may interpret this as being "evil", but I see it as a natural instinct to survive. Self preservation is not inherently evil. It's one thing to be the underdog fighting a giant, but it's another thing to become the giant yourself and having to defend against new underdogs. The Animal Farm analogy is apropos.
Isn't the one or two page summary the test? The Science paper refers to the "test" as retrieval practice.

I guess I'm a little unclear on how this is different than what you state or what the NYTimes states.
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Ganeti. It sits a layer above KVM or Xen. The main difference from KVM proper is that it allows management of multiple KVM servers and storage nodes as a single cluster. You get failover, easy migration between nodes, balancing, etc.

With Ganeti Web Manager we're building towards software that will let you manage your own private or public cloud service.
I go out of my way and will put up with almost anything to avoid PayPal. Their anti-PayPal message is what got me. So what if PayPal has more features? I hate them!
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Love the comparison to FC Barcelona!
http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/

Its basically a virtualization cluster management system. Install it with KVM or Xen on a few servers, give it a lvm volume group to work with on each. You can then deploy and manage (migrate, fail over, grow, etc) virtual machines to the cluster in various configurations, including with mirrored disks using DRBD, all from the master node. It also has an HTTP API.

The OSL (disclaimer: I worked there as a student sysadmin for a few years) is also working on a pretty neat web interface for managing Ganei clusters: http://code.osuosl.org/projects/ganeti-webmgr/wiki/Screensho...
Why would you use Git on Windows instead of Mercurial?

Also, it seems to me that SQL Azure alone may be worth using Azure instead.

Disclaimer: I was an intern in the Microsoft SQL server group last year. Since I'm normally a POSIX kernel developer the rest of Azure was only mediumly interesting, but it seems like SQL Server is one of the really strong advantages of the Azure platform.
Btw, google recently bought signpost (in the millions) our most direct competitor, and we believe we can do better than that.
You forgot the masseuse...

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anonor-cauldwell/24/ba1/146
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_operation

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I like their energy in targeting Paypal, but is there any statistics out there that shows how many % of Paypal business users are actually unhappy ? I use Paypal quite extensively for business and it seems pretty good.

I suspect that we tend to read/hear the noisy disgruntled Paypal users. My suspicion is that this portion is probably a small % of their user base.
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Given it took the Wharton MBA and self-taught genius a year to reinvent this, I read the article with growing frustration that no details were given. None. At all.

Is it just RDP? X? Or something entirely new? Not very clear at all.

Fantastic marketing though. That MBA is already paying itself off.
I lasted two seconds. Opened the page while eating breakfast. It said do nothing for two minutes. I instantly thought "Great, I can eat breakfast while I wait" and picked up the bowl at the 1:58 mark.
Why all the hate for Apple? This article is about how opinion of Google has soured.

My theory is that "Don't be evil" isn't sustainable if society defines "evil" as making business decisions in the interest of self preservation. Society likes underdogs, and Google is now clearly the top dog fighting to survive instead of fighting to get the top. Once a company gets big enough, it becomes easy to be perceived as a bully because anything you do will have all that power and leverage behind it. And underdog entering a new market is innovative. A big corporation entering a new market is invasive. Firefox supporting WebM is practical, but Google supporting WebM is evil. Even Apple is generally perceived to be the evil Big Brother they so famously advertised against a few decades ago.
Yes I'm not saying they're the same role.
You are right to expect this from Microsoft, they've done it before:

http://robertnyman.com/2009/01/26/microsoft-force-installs-f...
Not exactly. As you see in the transcript on the blog, we responded with a simple "Hi, how can I help you?" and then we're asked if we were a robot. We don't use pre-written responses, nor do anything else like you suggest. We're just online, working away.
Glad to see they learned from their previous pricing, http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html, where the cheapest tier was 1000 requests for $60. Dunno why it took them so long given the angry backlash to their original API, http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/10/15/the-wolframalpha-api...
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I meditate fairly regularly as well. It's interesting that I've seen meditation characterized very differently in this discussion so far. I've never particularly thought of it as "emptying your mind" or "letting one thought soak into the mind." Uchiyama Roshi characterizes meditation as "opening the hand of thought" and I really feel that this is the most accurate description of meditation for me. We are not rocks after all! To think is part of human nature :)
Site: Typography is inconsistent and hard on the eyes. Spacing is off. I'd recommend looking into a WooTheme.

You don't show us what you've actually built.

I clicked on "Mobile" and instead of an actual mobile app, I saw a traditional website crammed into an iPhone screen.

Approach: I can't speak to your engineering capability, but from a product & marketing standpoint (1) you're probably trying to do too much, and (2) you should look at investing more in design/usability.
I don't recommend sitting against a wall. If you plan on meditating, I recommend investing in a zafu and zabuton. They'll provide much better back support than a wall or just the floor.
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Our development team at IndexTank handles our customer questions. The training they've received comes from working alongside client development teams for years (our team has been together for 4+ years handling search problems for many companies). So we trust each other to type freely.

The misspellings is an interesting suggestion. Since our team originates from Argentina, English is our second language, and we do make mistakes. But we try not to. But now maybe we should ! Thanks for your advice.
AdGrok's seen this a number of times:

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USA (Philadelphia,PA) #4859:	wow

USA (Philadelphia,PA) #4859:	so you are not a bot?

Matthew:	Only on the dance floor, man.

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USA (New York,NY) #664:	haha never chatted on olark, this is fun

antonio:	yeah, it's quite the app

USA (New York,NY) #664:	didn't think there would be ppl behind it

USA (New York,NY) #664:	:)

antonio:	there isn't, this is a robot

antonio:	:p

USA (New York,NY) #664:	hahahah

USA (New York,NY) #664:	ok

USA (New York,NY) #664:	am very happy if robots are this intelligent

antonio:	well, intelligent-seeming...
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According to our data they're in the top 10 largest AdWords advertisers, at least by reach.
I see a lot of this on Facebook. This weekend, a friend needed a long-distance tow from Central to Southern California. Put out a request, which I came across when it popped up on my Facebook Android widget. Within an hour, she reported problem solved.

Aardvark also strikes me as an interesting approach to the problem. I signed up this summer when I first heard about it. I liked the concept, thought they struck the right tone with their website. Still, a couple things put me off of it once I started to using it, and I gave up pretty quickly.

So though I find more to gripe about with Google every day (latest outrage: Panda Express outranks Wikipedia when I search for panda!), I stick with it.
Mate I am a bit dissapointed (nothing personal). I was really really hoping (feel free to call me crazy. you wouldnt be the first) it would be an article on replicating your iphone sdk on a non-mac platform. I managed to get the same thing done on ubuntu with nextstep but the lack of the cocoa libraries means you are way way off developing iphone apps on hac-macs.

And yes your title does not mention "iphone" in it so shame on me for hoping for it. Still id be crazy not to wish for it!
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I frequently watch code because it is one of a set of projects. I don't care about that project specifically, but I like to see it is active, make sure they aren't going in a direction that will mean trouble could be headed downstream to what I actually care about and so on.

I also watch projects that I think could amount to a big deal, but are currently in the concept phase. That way as they get going and start solving a problem I know how it goes.

Finally I watch projects that are solving problems I may have insight into -- so I see places I can contribute.

In all these cases I don't fork because I am not engaged enough to maintain an active fork, since they you must manually pull the upstream master regularly... annoying if I'm not doing it because I'm involved. Then I can just clone from the head easily when it is time to fork or modify the code.
Wut? hukou is just a citizenship system. Much like how mexicans just can't wander into the US, or Chinese can't wander into Korea. Every country operate the same way, just that in China it's more local because of its feudal history persisted longer.
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Update 2: We’ve also learned that Google will pay out 80% of a business’ revenue share three days after its deal runs. Google will hold the remaining 20% for 60 days to cover refunds before sending the rest.

This is a pretty significant piece of the news. With groupon famous for its slow payment terms, 3 day terms may look very attractive. Cash flow management is a big portion of running many small/local businesses and with most of their vendor terms from 7-30 days the 30+ day delivery from groupon can turn a big success into a big problem. This sounds like a great sales differentiator for them.

Even if google doesn't get significant traction out of the gate, if this forces groupon to abandon their aggressive floats it could have a real effect on how good their financials look leading up to an IPO.

Imagine if Google was willing to take a significantly lower revenue share on the deals to gain market share. A big reason everyone is so breathless about the business model is how crazy the margins are. If google was willing to throw a significant amount of the $6B offer price at a promotional pricing structure they could seriously slow down the rate that the competition expanded markets.
And you'd be much more likely to be seen as a person if you opened with, "Hi, this is Jorge. How can I help you?"
That clock runs slower than the usual one. Damn its hard!
Eric is joining Apple when Steve leaves.
Does email obfuscation actually work?
Newspapers and other local advertisers will be a take a big hit while the Big G's battle it out.
In case you haven't seen it, I'd look at http://milo.com . Not quite what you're describing, but based on similar premises. They were acquired by eBay not too long ago for $70 million. At least eBay sees value in local shopping as you described it.
If there were a market for better Windows VPSs, wouldn't that already exist? I think there's a lot of room for players in this market and something tells me you agree.
"You payed for those just to prevent you from lying to Apple and fraudulently claiming a warranty replacement."

You make it sound like Apple is an innocent little child. It swings both ways - for every "amoral" customer you get claiming a warranty replacement, you'll have another "moral" customer getting short shrift from Apple (or company X) in terms of legitimate warranties not being honoured in a timely fashion or not following up on promises. When it actually comes to needing support, a lot of people find that Apple's slick sell doesn't flow into support - you take your chances and sometimes it really sucks.

"$500-$1100 SSD upgrade"

That's quite a tarry brush you're carrying there. A nice 120GB 2.5" SSD is all of $250 Australian dollars ($220 on newegg). A 240GB 2.5" drive is indeed $500, but I couldn't find an $1100 drive (my local may just not stock them). Regardless, you're intentionally picking the worst possible case to make your point.

What about this situation: The bottom end mac pro comes with a 250GB drive (and you can't get a 500GB one). Upgrading to a 500GB drive costs less than $100 for the parts if you buy your own drive ($89 near me). Or 750GB/1TB for $115/$185? That's a decent upgrade for you computer, and it's not ridiculously expensive like you make out.

I don't have a problem with countermeasures like water sensors, but to defend them by saying things like "what's the problem with buying a special screwdriver since anyone who's going to do so is going to install the most expensive SSD they can possibly find!" is just straight out apologism.
I use to meditate a lot. Now it's like 2-3 times a week. The difference between when im not meditating is of course a lot of reduced stress. I just have a clear sight of everything happening, the solution to problems are always obvious. This is a great feeling and this is why i enjoy and i encourage you to meditate.
What to do is simple, there is plenty of meditation you can find on the web. Just find one you like and do it. Do it a lot like for 2 years and master it. Once you master it, it will be natural for you to get this state of mind, this lucidity, even when you are not meditating.
Agreed, that is definitely more clear.

Alternatively, increment with c++ and replace [c] with [c%4].
"Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13"

In 2010, Mike Beltzner (director of Firefox) announced that Flash causes more crashes than any other plugin. Maybe they should ban Flash while they're at it.
Just noticed the awesome thread after my quick comment. Pretty funny :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/f5vh1/i_founded_the_an...
Google is the world's largest affiliate and the world's largest search arbitrageur, and they ban affiliates and search arbitrageurs all day long. This is so that they capture a larger portion of advertising spend and do not leak it people who they believe do not add value.

(Google is an affiliate: they do cost-per-action advertising on behalf of customers. Google is a search arbitrageur: they have a large source of searches which they can acquire cheaply, a large number of pages with content which is not quite responsive to user needs, and advertisers who are willing to pay for targeted traffic. The difference between Google and other search arbitrageurs is that typically the arbitrageur outsources the search engine and owns the content, where google owns the search engine and outsources the content to its AdSense partners.)
It feels really fishy that skype forces you to install something like this.

Any time a company pulls something like this on me, they lose all credibility in my book. Its as bad as spyware and adware.
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The description above is clearer than the website. The picture of the iPhone makes me think you are a mobile software development company. Why does the iPhone screen read "Lewis Direct"?

The text links at the top ("Home", "Social", "Website", "Mobile") aren't spaced far enough apart for me to parse them as different links. Coupled with the "Web Social Mobile Monetize" text in the header graphic they create an overwhelming impression of jargon which dissuades me from wanting to read the actual text. You could probably link to most of those pages from a single "about us" page and keep the main page cleaner and your signup funnel more focused.

Nobody reads these days, so I think having such a mass of text is a bad idea front and center. The stronger bits of the page are further down. Unfortunately, everything below the green bar rolls offscreen on my 13 inch Macbook, so the immediate impression is simply of a lot of text in a fairly unreadable color scheme. The strongest explanation you have is ("Web + Blog + Social") imho, although you might want to double-check that the wording resonates with your target market -- people might be very clear that they want a website rather than a blog and calling your system a blog might put them off.

Most powerful inducement to checking out the CMS would probably be seeing it in action. Drupal lets people play around with a live version that gets reset every now and then. Could you do something similar, so that people can see and play around with what they'll be buying?

All suggestions intended constructively. Good luck with the business!
It prevent John and Jane Doe from just picking up a common screwdriver of the types that people generally have lying around and opening the gadget. Techy types who know can hunt these things down, but it's to stop the casual users (ie: Apple's targeted market slice) from opening the units.

If they were a company that sold equipment to R&D labs only, they would have used common fasterners.
may be to make Azure and other cloud products/services better.
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"... And we probably, in many cases, won't do it forever."

You will have to excuse me for not being terribly excited about the words "probably" and "in many cases".

He sounds to me like someone who is saying exactly what he thinks people want him to say, and then throwing in a couple of qualifiers that pretty much leave the company open to doing whatever they decide to do in the future. If someone calls Him on it, well he did say "probably", and "in many cases"

Now I don't know Eric Schmidt from Adam, but I did watch the interview where he said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." (yes, I listened to it in context, the quote is not the only part I heard). While that quote perhaps does not mean all that people have made it out to mean, I still find it deeply disturbing -- especially coming from the (now "former") CEO of a company which is in such a great position to abuse their collected information if they decide to.

Yes, perhaps Schmidt was only trying to cover the company's collective rear end for when federal laws require them to disclose information, but if so, He has done an extremely poor job of convincing me (and obviously many others in the world) that such was his intention.
Was just enough for my bathroom break.
If I were a Google investor I would be watching this very closely for two reasons:

a- See how Google overcome their issues in dealing with customer service and related things. They'll need to get better at this stuff at some point to have the widest possible scope for trying new things.

b- See if they can pull off another extension of their core business. Adwords is the ultimate small business advertising platform and Groupon is another part of that world.
Study from 2009. I wonder why I haven't heard much about this.
I made a similar comment the first time I heard about these guys. We're a .Net based startup currently hosted in Azure and was really excited to learn about AppHarbor. But like you mentioned, there are some other very valuable services in Azure such as SQL Azure which still seem to make it much more attractive.

We committed ourselves to the Azure platform because we also needed things like Table Storage and Message Queues. I'm not quite sure what their road-map looks like, but before claiming to be 'Azure done right' I'd like to see some tips on how I would run my Azure app within their service.

I have to also admit that the GIT stuff basically prevents me from actually being able to play around with it right now.
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Either because it was debunked or because corn farmers have a large lobby/subsidies/etc. Take your pick, though the first theory is probably easier to prove that the second one.
HTML (structure) - Page layout

CSS (presentation) - InDesign has style-sheets as well but they are different in some fundamental respects.

JS (behavior) - Using fundamental design rules a designer can have a measure of control over how the viewer "behaves". Dynamic white space, focal points etc.

I think any print designer can be a good front end engineer if they have enough desire to do so.
Groupon is going to face a lot of competition these next months. Now Yelp is offering some similar deals related with food....
By not making anything new.
Like apologizing to Kurzweil?
Most people will take thoughtful typing with mis-spellings over a 'canned response' any day - especially younger users.

A bit more advice since you're abroad. If people ask, I wouldn't lie about your location. We had some customers who would ask Indian reps to pick an American name (lots of Bobs) - but sometimes people make chit-chat about weather and the like while waiting - and getting caught in a lie can destroy the company's reputation with the user.
I was the Mechanical Turk (not in the "amazon" sense of the words) behind the Olark in that conversation. I was never instructed in what to say when we get a question from a customer. We only have to follow three simple laws, in a specific order: never injure a human being, obey orders by human beings and protect our own existence. That's all.

But, hey, saying "how can I help you?" sounded right to me, so I use it often.
Since the blog post we're getting contacts through Olark testing our response times. We're still pretty fast, and we're still passing turing tests!
why all real estate applications are pure text/image or pure maps with some text pop-ups?

I think the ideal real estate application is a perfect combination of maps and text/image
I thought that was the point of Orkut and Buzz.
I am thinking it would be nice to have a 'best of olark transcripts'collection. Surprising customers with free-flowing interactivity is what this is all about.

+1 for your 'only on the dance floor,man' response