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Sonian is hiring. We are seeking a EC2/Xen Master for Sys Admin role (1)
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Sonian is looking to hire an experienced Linux Administrator to join our team.We are looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining our Amazon EC2 infrastructure.The successful candidate should be a flexible, highly independent worker as well as an excellent team player, and able to work efficiently under tight deadlines.Responsibilities:Design, build and maintain EC2/Xen machine images and instances.Design and implement unattended installation and monitoring tools.Develop procedures for ...
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David Cancel said:
Fantastic company and team. If you know anyone please pass this along.
Three ways the new browser privacy modes will hurt site owners (4)
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Google Chrome has its “incognito” mode, IE 8 has its “InPrivate browsing” mode and Safari has its “private browsing” mode. It’s only a matter of time until Firefox adds one as well. These new privacy modes in the various web browsers will create serious problems for site owners that rely on revenue from affiliate programs and targeted advertising. It will also change the landscape for web statistics software and skew visitor statistics for websites. Why? ...
Three ways the new browser privacy modes will hurt site owners (1)
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Update, Sep 12, 2008: A “privacy mode” has now been announced for the up-coming Firefox 3.1 as well, making this post even more relevant. Google Chrome has its “incognito” mode, IE 8 has its “InPrivate browsing” mode and Safari has its “private browsing” mode. It’s only a matter of time until Firefox adds one as well. These new privacy modes in the various web browsers will create serious problems for site owners that rely on ...
New: Top Referring Search Engines Report (1)
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After months of a lot of hard work by our development team, today we’re very excited to roll out our latest report for Lookery users - Top Referring Search Engines! This report tells you which search engines are driving traffic to your site, and how much you’re dependent on each one. Starting today, these new statistics are available for all sites in the Lookery Network that have the Lookery JavaScript tracker installed. In addition to ...
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David Cancel said:
So much more coming, this is just the first tasty bit.
Convertible Note Form for TechCrunch post comment (3)
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In response to this TechCrunch post on the Y Combinator equity docs, I left this comment: A few notes: 1. Seed-stage deals that first sell equity aren’t doing themselves any favors. We work hard to always do fair convertible debt, which is much cheaper from a legal perspective, much more founder friendly, and preserves stealth mode per the Form D problems Josh Kopelman highlights. 2. I’ve posted our note form on Lookery’s blog: Download Word ...
Monetizing MySpace Traffic - Is it Really Any Better? (1)
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As a followup to their report on projecting Social Net revenues and our take on that optimistic forecast, eMarketer produced an analysis of Fox Interactive Media’s (FIM for short) most recent quarterly revenue numbers. For those curious, MySpace is the largest property within FIM but also includes other notable web properties like Photobucket, IGN and Scout Media. The crux of eMarketer’s analysis is the breakdown of FIM’s quarterly revenue into average revenue per U.S. user ...
When is this startup “real”? (1)
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I’ve been thinking of Grommet’s milestones to date, and the many bazillions to come. But before I forget them, I want to record moments of note which incrementally moved the endeavor from “gleam in my eye” concept to…what? Hmmm…I think we are in “gestation phase” now. (I am still into recording my children’s milestones too, so this feels like normal behavior to me. Maybe this post is the business equivalent of a baby book.) But ...
Understanding what makes venture critters tick: how they make money (2)
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Every entrepreneur should read Fred Wilson’s recent post on the economics of venture funds. Understanding how VCs make money goes a long way to explaining VC behavior. Fred’s post clearly shows the two mechanisms (management fees and carried interest) in the context of showing the gap between gross and net venture fund returns. Also see my related post: How Venture Capitalists Make Money
Targeting Data Collection Growing up Fast (1)
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As TechCrunch pointed out last week, Lookery is “bootstrap[ping] a data services business” on top of our ad network. It wasn’t clear from their post, but we started the effort back in October when it was Dave, Rex, and me with Todd not-yet-full-time. All that work is starting to show traction. The Lookery stats that caught my eye today require some explanation: Over 2,000 new cookies are being dropped every minute Over 7 million keyword ...
CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar (90)
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Filed under: Internet, Internet ToolsI'm a pretty big user of Google Calendar, because I like how I can automatically sync it with my BlackBerry. The problem for me has been that on my desktop, I really prefer iCal's interface. Syncing the two can be cumbersome. We've written about third-party programs that can sync iCal and gCal together in the past, and although those are great -- I have still wanted a native way to sync ...
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AgentMunroe said:
zomg
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Nate said:
neat
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David Cancel said:
finally. Great news, iCal's interface rocks.
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BillDeys said:
nice I'll have to look at this more tomorrow
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Mathew said:
FINALLY! iCal and Google Calendar sync! This is why Google will take over the world using Macs.
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Dustin Diaz said:
Hey, cool. This is useful.
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Geoff H said:
This is great -- we can share the Group's schedule via gCal.
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stephdau said:
Great news.
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yamahito said:
Hooray!!
Give Your Ubuntu Desktop the Complete Mac Look [Weekend Project] (87)
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No, you won't actually have a Mac at the end of this transformation tutorial and, yes, it's just a tad bit, well, excessive. But if you're going to go through the effort of turning your Linux desktop into a Leopard clone, you may as well give it the full ride. Going beyond previously-posted guides, Make Tech Easier tackles how to transform your menu bar, add a dock and retractable widgets, create a floating stack over ...
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Carey said:
Uh oh, I know what the boy will be obsessed with shortly
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Santosh said:
I wouldn't do this to my Ubuntu distro, maybe for Windows, but never for Ubuntu. Try it if you may.
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Mitchell said:
really cool, but do you really want to make it look like a different os?
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Todd said:
sharing this only because I've had several people ask about how to do it.
The Essence of Silicon Valley (1)
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"Instead of managing business risk to minimize or avoid failure, the focus here is on maximizing success. The Valley recognizes that failure is an unavoidable part of the search for success."This is a quote from Randy Komisar's book. It's not a new book (first published in 2001), but I only recently picked it up and started reading it. When he wrote it, he'd been an entrepreneur involved with a bunch of exciting companies like WebTV, ...
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David Cancel said:
Randy's quote is one of my favorites, it applies to much more than just geography. His book is great read too.
Will Larson: Replacing Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy (4)
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In the first example of Django's loose coupling we looked at replacing the templating system with Jinja2. In this article we're going to look at replacing the standard Django ORM with SQLAlchemy. This is a pretty big leap, and before we jump in too deeply lets take a look at how switching to SQLAlchemy is going to impact our application. In the introduction to this series, I said that Django's implementation follows the loose coupling ...
New Lookery Guarantee - the Q3 Edition (1)
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Given the overwhelming success of last quarter’s guarantee which helped grow our traffic to over 3 billion impressions a month, Lookery is pleased to announce we are once again offering social application developers a new guarantee program for Q3. Starting immediately and good through the end of the quarter, Lookery is offering 15 cents per 1,000 pages (terms and conditions apply of course). We plan on making the guarantee a quarterly program with an announcement ...
Lookery Launches User Demographic Analytics for Websites (2)
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Lookery’s vision is to provide a service that accurately describes the demographic profile of every user on every webpage. With this goal in mind, we are extremely excited to announce the release of Age and Gender analytics for the Lookery Network. Where does this data come from? Lookery aggregates user profile information from, and with the permission of, social networks, dating sites, ISPs, and e-commerce sites. This aggregated information powers all the reports and analytics ...
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David Cancel said:
Hurray! We've launched our Demographic Analytic services. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Internally Caching Longer Than Externally Caching (1)
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We use varnish for a lot of our file caching needs, and recently we figured out how to do something rather important through a combination of technologies. Imagine you have backend servers generating dynamic content based on user input. So your users do something that fits the following categories: is expensive to generate dynamically, and should be served from cache many requests come in for the same objects, bandwidth should be conserved doesnt change very ...
Enter the iPhone apps (4)
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Some iPhone apps we’ve been discussing in our Campfire chat room: Mobile AIM lets you chat via your phone. TypePad for iPhone lets you blog directly from your iPhone. PayPal lets you check your PayPal balance, send money or request payment. OmniFocus does location aware to-do lists. When you are near the grocery store your grocery list pops up. Neat. Remote turns iPod touch and iPhone into a remote control for iTunes and Apple TV. ...
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