JeremyKolb

Location: Chicago Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Digital Marketing Specialist with experience working for B2B technology startups. Studied at Oxford University and have written several books.

Resume: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremymkolb/

Email: Kolb.Jeremy@gmail.com

Thanks for the summary, I started reading but wasn't going to get far on this one.

This article was posted last night and I don't see any significant price change on Bitcoins from it. This might be the first instance of government getting really interested in digital currency, it will be interesting to see how traders react.

You should make it possible for people to explore it a bit more organically, say I click on a color, it should show other pallets with that color. It would also be nice to have an easy save image feature if someone finds a color they really like.

I can give you feedback on the website becuase it is what stopped me from learning more about your product.

First off, your page loads quite slowly, and the colors are rather unappealing. There's a lot of empty space above the fold and nothing that really enticed me to keep looking. I would definitely advise you to find a designer to help with your webpage.

Also, there isn't a clear place to click above the fold. When you're selling something you need to make it as easy as possible for people to enter your sales funnel.

YOu need to take a second to think about what Google is doing here. Again, Google is being clever about getting data from you. Take a moment and ask yourself why they're doing this...

Google want to connect your browser information with your phone information. And they're doing a good job.

Not long ago, my site's search traffic jumped by about 120%, I hadn't posted anything new or done much SEO type stuff so I assumed it was because of a Google algorithm change.

As a site, we've never done link building or any type of black hat tricks to grow our site, and it seems like Google is rewarding that. So personally I applaud any effort that rewards quality content over SEO tricks.

I hope dropbox builds on what Mailbox is currently doing. It would suck if mailbox just went away because Dropbox just wanted to get some more talent.

Personally, I find Google+ to be a much more interactive and enjoyable experience, especially for tech oriented people. On Twitter I follow Tech Crunch and PandoDaily.

I've experienced the same thing, off of 1,300 visits for an off topic article we got about 7 leads. When we posted something clearly targeting our market our conversion rate jumped to around 10%

I write for a startup and have been on HN front page a few times, most visits from HN in a day was around 1300 for an article about Facebooks Social Graph: http://www.applieddatalabs.com/content/how-facebooks-graph-s...

This article misses an important benifit of getting large amounts of traffic: Google starts to recognize you through author rank and links as a qualified source of information.

Ever since my articles have been on HN, search traffic has steadily grown. This could be because of something else, but the common connection is large amounts of traffic from you guys.

I like this idea, but when I opened it, it wasn't at all what I expected.

What I wanted to see was a visualization of all trends, showing what was popular when. This would let us see the overall trends of the internet, but displaying this Google Trends style doesn't really provide anything that interests me.

It kind of highlights the problem a lot of people have with data currently. This does a great job of displaying data, but it doesn't interpret the data. I wanted something that would tell me what's important instead of relying on me to figure that out. What can I say, I am like most people: lazy.

Beyond that, slavery/human trafficking is likely a part of the problem. Sadly, Apple moving elsewhere will unlikely improve the lives of those left behind. The underage workers will just have to get a different job, which probably isn't as good.

Dang it! I was hoping that those machines were actually going away.

I think it will be a fight for numbers today. Consolidation will happen around the biggest community.

Yeah, there are tons of Hacker News communities popping up, we took out the "official" bit.

I am definitely guilty of patent infringement...

This could have some interesting implications when it comes to emotion response testing.

I wrote an article about the purpose of the game. Why it was built. you can check it out here if you like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805229

I love Google, so I don't really care that much that they're getting data this way. I'm just looking forward to using the improved maps. What do you think?