February 2010
10 posts
YCombinator's Etacts steals Ballpark's layout
So YCombinator’s Etacts just launched today…but wait the site looks familiar.
It looks like they borrowed Ballpark’s layout. Even copied their logo’s font and all the buttons.
If you expect us to trust you with our gmail username and passwords, it’s probably not a good idea to ruin that trust by copying other people’s work.
You are a FUNDED company, amateur...
New Update
Going to have another update Monday or Tuesday.
Some changes you’ll notice:
The 2nd ad spot will now show up all the time, for those users with less than 200 reputation.
Fixed a few badges
If you have more than 20 rep points, you can post as many Qs/As as you want.
Relaxed the rules for unregistered users: can create new tags, can vote.
You won’t see the human verification...
Month #3 stats
I’m just going to plug in numbers from the old post.
So it’s now been 3 months since I launched Style Guidance.
So here is the report for month #3. I’m comparing December 18th-January 17th numbers to January 18th-February 17th numbers.
Visitors: 35K —> 64K(up 82%)
Returning Visitors: 7,491 —> 12,543(up 67%)
Daily Visitors: 1,200—>1,500K (up...
StackOverflow getting VC funding is a recipe for...
So we find out today that StackOverflow is going to start looking for VC funding in order to expand the StackOverflow business.
Basically they are going to do a land grab, put out a ton of StackOverflow like sites, and grab the market before it’s too late. So in essence, they are going to do what StackExchange users have been trying to do for like 4 months.
The whole idea here is that...
Just launch already.
Failure to launch seems to be a disease in the startup community.
Everyone is working on a ton of projects, everyone is plugging away…but noone is launching. Everyone is waiting for perfection.
WHY?!
Do you honestly believe that if you don’t release a perfect product right away, noone will care? Here is a dirty little secret…noone will care even if you do release a perfect...
Why isn't Eric Schmidt following anyone on Google...
Does he have no friends…or does he and his friends know something that we don’t?
BTW on Twitter, the guy follows 92 people
Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/109938146389129062343
Twitter Profile: http://twitter.com/ericschmidt
Why is the startup culture so eager to forgive...
Why is the startup culture so eager to forgive unethical behavior?
Remember Zynga?
10/31/2009 Techcrunch started the whole Scamville issue over Zynga’s lead gen business with rebill offers.
01/08/2010 Techcrunch awarded the CEO of Zynga, the one they blasted just 2 months before in over a dozen posts with “CEO of the Year” award.
How about DB?
02/05/2010 He gets caught...
The Techcrunch intern who sold posts is Daniel...
All the evidence you need:
we’ve also deleted all content created by this person on our blogs.
http://www.techcrunch.com/author/danielbru/
P.S. it is fully appropriate to make the name public, nobody should ever get a free pass on unethical behavior.
P.P.S. here is my followup post…Why is the startup culture so eager to forgive unethical behavior?
Google's porn problem and how to fix it
Have you used Google Images lately? It’s filled with porn, even for the most innocent of keywords.
Now to be clear, this is me using it with safe search off…but that shouldn’t matter. If I search for a completely innocent key phrase, I shouldn’t be seeing porn on first page of results, regardless of whether or not I have safe search turned on or off.
I’ll give you...
Latest update.
The latest update has just rolled out, here are the changes that were implemented:
Regular username/password login/registration option was added. As usual you can still use 99% of the features w/o registering, but for those who want to vote, now you can register easily.
Every registered user can now create new tags
Every registered/unregistered user can now edit tags
Every...