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Does it learn what you like as you add in more of your preferences? This seems useful to people who don't use their bookmarks (I don't) and just use google.
Such a shame, but I won't be using it either.
Speaking of Warcraft, most of the people I knew who played, did it in Windowed mode.

All to often, you needed to reference WowHead.com and after you alt-tabbed back in, you'd come back to find your dead little corpsed ganked by the damn Horde.
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Just apologize for the comment, man. You're not going to change anyone's mind with a childish rant like this.
Not sure about Adwords, but here is some slightly related info.

First I would fix those meta tags. I did not see any keywords at all.

<meta name="description" content=
<meta name="keywords" content=
<meta name="robots" content=
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="
<meta name="verify-v1" content="

With Adwords long tail keywords seem to be an ok bet. I hope you are using different landing page for small business, enterprise and personal with an incentive and a lead capture form (just in case someone wants to leave).

Buying cheap traffic can convert better than Adwords sometimes, specially if you have a free product.

Affiliate networks are great as well. Although they are not sexy, sexy companies such as Apple use them all the time.

Asking the bloggers to use the proper anchor text will help as well. Most of these blogs have a high PR and they will use your company name as an anchor text which is pointless. The anchor text should be those keywords that you target.
In the words of Warren Buffett, "be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." [1]

I'd have to agree with him, now is probably one of the best times to invest IF you know what to look for.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html?_r=...
>The irony is that quality is the best marketing. The product that aims at marketability at the expense of quality will achieve neither, the product that aims at quality at the expense of marketing will achieve both.

It'd be nice if it'd be true. But look no further than the example at hand and its relatives.
Damn impressive. Make sure you hit up the site's homepage and look at the 4 demos they have available.

I don't know if you can really do GrandCentral in 15 lines, but the examples they provide get the mouth watering.
Adwords works ($5 mill rev per year), but it's about what you put in the ad and where the prospect lands.

Put yourself in that person's seat.

Are they trying to track employee's time consumption?

Are they trying to increase employee productivity?

How fast do they need the service?

What is their intelligence level (will they click the big shiny blue button)?

What about their budget (did they search "cheap time tracking software" or "best time tracking software")?

Will they sign up using a boring form that does not seem to have something of value on the other side of it?

Take this all into consideration when choosing keywords (as well as negative keywords). Writing ad copy (which also should be "relevant" to your keyword) and designing the landing page.

I highly recommend A-B testing.

A GREAT example of this is: http://rushmypassport.com (search "expedited passports", look at the ad copy, plus organic placement, landing page with actions + trust inducing images, the click through to a form that seems like it's the SECOND step in a 3 step process and product specific info)
The Ruby Language itself has plenty of warts, but the implementation problems are far worse. The MRI is awful, and 1.9 isn't much of an improvement at all.

The best hope I see for Ruby's future is embodied in re-implementations like MacRuby, JRuby, and Rubinius. MacRuby could totally become the popular way to write new Cocoa applications.

If MRI can be effectively displaced, Ruby can really break out of the "Perl that people write better code in" ghetto.
good that it's finally gone mainstream
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For me, python, but that's not exactly a change ;).

I've always felt that python offered the same benefits as ruby accept with a simpler syntax, better cross platform support, better performance, and a more organized community.
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Are you saying androids did this?
Honestly. Justin.tv is not doing well. The service is shoddy, every channel is riddled with pedophiles and now this.
I think is that the CEO was asked for a response, and all he said was something about this being against terms of service. Nothing emotional whatsoever, which is understandable but a bit lame.

And I think we care because Justin.tv is a YCombinator site, and, more importantly, they all post here and they're good guys. (Bill in particular usually has got stuff worth saying. Maybe others and I don't realize it's them.) So people respond like they do because they know that J.tv people will read it.
cough Parrot! cough

But seriously, anyone know if Parrot is a realistic vehicle for this?

It's just puzzling to me that with all the demand for a better interpreter, there really aren't any available options that are going to satisfy the community at large, and there's no visible light at the end of the tunnel. Is this because Ruby is a particularly difficult language to implement? Is it because there is no formal spec? Lack of leadership (compare with Guido and Larry)? All of the above?
your post made me smile. i lived in the city for 14 years. there were the uptown kids, boring upper east-side parties, divorcee moms of the upper west, faux-hipster of avenue a, drug kings of Avenue d, pretentious bowery gays, i-bankers who poked at plebeian lawyers, hedge funders who poked at i-bankers and took home their madison ave. girfriends of west village, little chitaly, 2nd tier murray hill post grads who couldn't afford turtle bay, turtle bay types who only used their apartments for sleep, pretentious chelsea boys vs. the "matured" hell's kitchen gays, soho of old, new soho (new jersey), the area of south midtown of low 30's and upper 20's that to this day still has no identity, battery park city's isolation to the rest of the island, forgetting there's a world past 11th avenue.

there really is no one new york when you live in manhattan. if i didn't have a family who loves living out west right by the beach, i would be back in a heartbeat.
Doesn't this apply less to Google because of the way in which they went public?
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You think the people on here are dumb enough to believe that what you posted was an "experiment"? You're an asshole.
A simple first step would be to talk to a security expert locally in your area. In my area (Cleveland, OH) there is a group that will test your security for free and give you pointers on what to change.
Byte was a great magazine, especially the early '80s issues which had themed articles and a matching Tinney cover. I can still picture the SmallTalk hot air balloon and the C toolbox. But the mag I really miss is Micro Cornucopia. The depth and quality were exceptional.

It seems to me so many of the magazines fell into the same trap. They turned into "review rags" to attract advertisers, but in the process lost the hearts of their readers.
That's a little different because a company could argue that moving operations offshore would hurt sales. If a company was already operating offshore, and they turned down an offer to move to another, cheaper location, then you'd probably have a case.
someone SHOULD recreate GrandCentral. Its been a long time since Google bought them, and people still can't register new accounts.
You know full well that I am referring to the about the nominal GDP, while you are referring to the GDP at purchasing power parity. Both are interesting economics measures.

You should not be too surprised that I choose the more surprising one to write about.
At a guess, because it's so popular. They're interested in how social games are used, not how they're designed.
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I have run some more or less successful Adwords Campaigns.
It is absolutely possible to make money with them, but it requires a lot of testing. You need to run different ads, at different prices, on different keywords.
After 2-3 Weeks you can find out that while certain keywords generate more clicks, people who clicked on those keywords stay on the site much less long than those who clicked other, less popular keywords, etc.

As with Rescuetime I think it could be tough to make it worth while. The product is so great I believe you'll get much more bang for the buck with mouth 2 mouth recommendation. I've already told a couple about it ;)

Think about how much a (non paying) user is worth. (Multiply the conversion rate times the worth of a paying user). That number will tell you how much you should be paying per conversion from Adword Click to free user.
I just checked, you pay an average of 10$ for the keywords rescuetime would be interested in.
If you achieve a conversion rate of 10% for somebody who clicks your ad and then signs up to the service (which is pretty good in general), you're paying 100$ for a free user.
You'd have to have extremely good conversion rates for this to be worth it.
I like the simplified API. Can anyone recommend an ultra-simple API for SMSs? I am soon to need a lib (maybe for ruby) that has such simple semantics but for SMSs. One key attribute I'll need is to easily associate SMS replies to the context of the previous send. This will be my first SMS app, so any pointers would be appreciated.
I find the "there's only one way to do it" philosophy of Python to be really important. That's the main thing that kept Ruby off my radar.
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I think the time is ripe for a server/desktop side Javascript language to come along. Rhino?

It's my humble belief that Javascript will be the most popular language within 10 years.
I wasn't aware that Linux ran on the z80...
Lotsa good advice-- thanks! Though most of it is SEO oriented. I'm a huge believer in SEO over SEM, though it can only take you so far (and so fast).

FWIW, Metakeywords are useless... I suppose it couldn't hurt to add 'em.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
(search for "Meta Keywords" in the page)
I have a small business selling software. It's use of AdWords has been written up in a few places. Among them:

http://www.google.com/adwords/conversionoptimizer/bingocard....

As you can probably tell from the domain name, I have good things to say about AdWords. (My version of the same story, with the fiddly bits not filed down by marketing, is here:

http://kalzumeus.com/2007/11/10/conversion-optimizer-adwords...

and elsewhere on that blog. Anything you'd like to bring up in particular?

(Incidentally: I mainly use AdWords to drive trial downloads, and of they some percentage convert to purchase. This is subtly different from the SAAS use to get signups to the free plan and then hope to upsell them later, but it isn't exactly an unconnected use case. Your main issue, similar to one of mine, is if someone is out-monetizing you on a related use of your keywords you can sometimes get priced out of existence unless you get tricky.)
Where's 500? Or am I being ignorant and not seeing it?
Just because justin.tv may not have been at fault doesn't mean that they won't share in the blame.
I find it interesting that many believe a company's "CEO and board are bound by law to seek the greatest returns possible for shareholders" is actual law. Is it? What is this law? Companies are state entities, not federal ones. So the only federal law would be SEC stuff, right? I find it hard to believe that all 50 states have the same law.

IANAL, I would appreciate someone pointing me the law or court decisions that have made this to be.
I've only just realized that this kind of behavior in response to global warming represents the flip-side of why anonymity brings out such horrible things in people, on the internet.

Instead of specific victims and anonymous perpetrators, we have specific perpetrators and anonymous, scattered, uncertain victims. It hardly even makes sense for people to talk about victims of one's globally dispersed pollutants, even if it causes just as much damage.
This seems like the last Seinfeld episode, where they were arrested under a Good Samaritan law for observing a crime but doing nothing to help the victim. If the account in this article is accurate, there were people watching the video feed for "hours" after he took the pills before calling the police. He might be alive if someone called earlier.

A similar thing happened in the Joel on Software Offtopic forum. Idiosyncratic, self described AI researcher Chris McKinstry kept talking about suicide, was mocked, then eventually took some pills and started a thread describing his final time on Earth in periodic posts. No video, and he didn't say where he was, but some people in the thread got close to tracking him down but not in time.

(I used to contribute there, but had stopped before this happened. I found out about it later and dug up the transcript in the archives when I read about it in Wired:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimyst...

"He posted the message on his blog and a slightly different version on a forum at Joel on Software, a popular geek hangout.")
MediaWiki is a ghetto, FYI.

Once you go MediaWiki, you will never be able to leave. Why? As far as I know, no one has ever been able to duplicate the parser in any other language.
The internet is just like the Lord of the Flies on a global scale.

People are animals; unfortunately it's the outliers that get our attention.
This shows why Zed acted appropriately. It just as easily could have been someone like this kid who killed himself. Better to find yourself pranked than to not investigate and find out someone died and wondering if you could have done something to alter the outcome.
1. The interface is pretty disruptive, with the two large gray buttons on the same horizontal visual line as the header of the search result. I only managed to turn this off by opting in to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" Google Labs experiment, which actually is pretty useful.

2. Does this mean that we'll now have YouTube-quality comments just a click away from the search results we see dozens of times a day?
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This is really the most honest response here.

I guess I'm the only other person who can't see why a pseudo-sentimental canned response is so much superior to any other canned response.

When Pepsi, or the Whitehouse, the police, or whoever else (aside from those who knew the person, weeping or outraged) gives the canned response about caring, does anybody actually believe them when they say "all of us are deeply saddened...", or whatever you're proposing?

By now, people are immune to any type of official response to anything tragic[1], and don't expect (and really wouldn't want) a candid response of any type.

I know it was broadcast live on the internet, which is why it made the news at all but no normal well-adjusted adult (or child, for that matter) will go from "happy go lucky" to killing themselves live on the internet over the course of an afternoon flame war on bodybuilding.com, of all places.

[1]except perhaps missing child, axe murderer on the loose type thing... and then only in Podunk, really.
From that account, looks like you did everything you could.
That is the primary reason I chose not to use SBCL (Lisp) to implement the game engine I'm building. I really wanted to, but SBCL leaks memory on Windows. When I asked their mailing list about how to fix it, the community was silent. Those two issues make it impractical to use SBCL to develop a product.
I wonder if IronRuby will have the same memory problems. Not as though the Rubyists will really give it twirl anyway.
Stuff like this is bound to happen on a live broadcast site. There's six billion people out there. Every conceivable behavior will be broadcast.
http://blog.justin.tv/2008/11/moment-of-silence.html

Justin.tv staff would like to take a moment to recognize and reflect upon the tragedy that occurred within our community today. We respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this challenging time.

Michael Seibel
CEO, Justin.tv
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I don't think JRuby gets enough credit. He pretty much dismisses it because it uses a lot of memory and starts too slow for simple scripting. The JRuby team have done some tricks to speed up startup time, seems to respond almost as fast as MRI to me now. Haven't paid attention to memory though, but if you are launching a script big enough that memory is a factor I don't think the JVM is going to matter.

With invoke dynamic around the corner (Java 7), it seems that JRuby is Ruby's best hope for a decent runtime.

What I don't get is why all there is such a strong anti-java sentiment in the ruby community. Everyone wants to speed things up by writing native C code. I for one would much rather write java code than C code. It's just as fast and much less shitty. And it runs pretty much anywhere.
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As many have posted below there is more to Adwords than just the auction - creativity in forming the ad, landing page, keyword list (yes get innovative, target tail etc) matters.

But when you mention of success stories I would assume there are 3 main aspects to measure your spend against:

1. direct revenue: actual money

2. quality of users: conversions, usage stat, repeat users/loyalty

3. scale: traffic volumes

Most startups when they launch do it for #3 traffic, mid way focus #2 tune conversions, if they are still signed up #1 happens.

It is hard to represent or measure #2 and #3 in monetary terms. Yet every campaign value should be weighed taking into account of usage and traffic generated along with direct revenue. If you can figure out your formula - and see if adwords cost is less than value generated - it is a success. Good thing with adwords is it is a knob, once the wheel is set to operate at positive levels its easy to scale in terms of volumes by increasing spend.

In terms of when to start doing PPC I would suggest work backwards look at your conversion rates -

lets say for a random set of y number of users 2% sign up and generate x amount of revenue. So effectively you are fine spending x * 2 amount to get this set of y users.

Cost of acquisition = y/x with given conv rate.

If you can set up your adwords campaign to get a click at this rate it is promising. Of course there are complexities as conv rate would be different (mostly better) with adwords campaign than organic users. Revenue generate x is tough to measure with indirect revenue aspects - loyalty, usage, traffic etc and has to be dealt individually.
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All of the above!

Parrot is never going to be viable -- 'flexible' platforms are only so when there are piles of diverse users. Specifications do not make reality.

Ruby has a huge advantage over Perl in that there are a number of groups successfully working to reimplement, specify, and reform it. There are visible lights at the end of the tunnel, they're just for specific communities -- JRuby and MacRuby. Hopefully Rubinius (or a successor project) succeeds in replacing MRI, but it's a pretty damn hard problem.
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There's also the fact that the CPython implementation doesn't have any huge warts.
Seems like the good and crappy things about Ruby and Java, respectively, complement each other well. Ruby is a high productivity language, Java not so much. The JVM is a very well engineered run time engine, Ruby's MRI not so much. Unicode, threading, fast, reliable, portable, well understood and supported. Pluses for Java, minuses for Ruby.

So in principle it seems JRuby could have the best of both worlds. But for now I'm having more fun with Clojure. :)
Well, they had to digitize them (presumably using OCR) so you can search them, which they did without permission from the rights holders. They then displayed (and still do) chunks of the books for free, again without permission from rights holders. I have read multiple pages of my book there.

That seems to me just as much a violation of copyright law as having Daily Show clips on Red Lasso was. They're certainly not exempted as a service provider under the DMCA when they're uploading the content themselves.

As an author, I'm not opposed to this if I'm given the right to opt out, and I'm compensated for any sort of AdWords type stuff run along side it. But many authors will be, and Google didn't ask us or give us a way to opt out.

For me personally, I think it benefits me to have sections of my book there, so I'm happy about it. But I can certainly see why some authors wouldn't care for that at all, and it's not up to Google to decide how those rights holders' property can be used.

I talked to a former attorney who is now a literary agent (and who therefore may be biased) back when the suit first appeared and he said it was pretty much an open and shut case and that it was just a question of how much Google was going to lose.
The blogosphere seems pretty pleased with the Tesla Roadster, from what I've seen:

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/09/tesla-v-supercharged-lotu...

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/11/17/tesla-roadst...
It matters if you're trying to build a good reputation for your startup in the public marketplace. As much as we like to think that it's all about the code, these public perception things matter. Ill-considered comments - and even well-meaning comments that have the tone-deaf dissonance of stock boilerplate - have a direct, adverse effect on the public's image of your company. If you run a company like Justin.tv, that should matter to you, regardless of your personal feelings about the suicide itself. That may seem calculated and political, but it's a reality in the unpure world of business.
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I have no clue what this is supposed to mean? My post meant that:

1) I'm a car / driving enthusiast

2) Most American citizens aren't automotive enthusiasts like myself.
I agree. The sentimentalists are denying it. The idea that site operators have to be responsible for the live-feed user-content on their sites is absurd. Yes, this kid killed himself, but if I was the CEO of justin.tv I wouldn't feel bad for the kid. I'd feel bad for the tarnished name of my company. Honestly, people commit suicide ALL THE TIME. And it sucks.... for their friends and family, but suddenly it's broadcast across the internet and I'm supposed to have an interest in this specific incident?

But this story is a sensationalized love-in because other people witnessed the 'suicide'. I'm certainly not calling 9-1-1 every time I read a post trolling some web forums. 99% of the internet is NOT serious business. Most of the internet is people trying to piss each other off and cause trouble.

Honestly, the best this CEO can hope for is if people forget his company was involved, and worse case is the family ends up on Opera bemoaning how horrible the internet is and calling the CEO out to get involved in suicide prevention and better moderate his company's web properties.

_This story shouldn't be about how the internet is a cruel place that forced someone to kill himself. It should be about the real world being so cruel that not a single person in this kid's life cared enough to notice his problems._