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brianjolney

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brianjolney··on We Spent $1,138 on Facebook in 6 Days: Numbers and Lessons Learned
a point for improvement: facebook's auction system is quite aggressive in picking its favorites. Having that many ads in one campaign, especially one with such a low daily budget, will cause one to get nearly all the impressions and take over.

You also can't stop ads after only a thousand or so impressions. Let them run for 50k+ before cutting, as an ad that performs well will take a decent amount of clicks for the bid to fully come down.

brianjolney··on Plivo - an opensource alternative to Twilio
how does this hook into a phone system to actually function/process messages? This is why I use Twilio.

Website was pretty confusing

brianjolney··on Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?
my odesk secret: only pitch developers you want to work for you. The inbound stuff is all crap, where as I've found several awesome developers and designers who I contact via email on a regular basis, and bill all work through oDesk.
brianjolney··on Ask HN: How to get pitched by startups
ah perfect, just what I was looking for. thanks!
brianjolney··on Ask HN: How to get pitched by startups
I suppose thats the problem, I'm not quite sure.

Our company is Vita Coco (http://vitacoco.com), and we're always looking for ways to increase our social media fans, analyze where and what our fans are doing, optimize our web/fb pages, etc.

I guess what I'm looking for is a way to opt-in as a person willing (and looking) to be pitched ideas by fresh companies.

brianjolney··on Google Docs adds Pivot Table support
One of the few reasons I've held out on excel - pivot tables seem to be such a great way to use SQL like queries on spreadsheet data. Excellent!
brianjolney··on Google Announces Admin-Free Chrome Frame Installs For IE
now how about IE frame for Chrome 12? I need to be able to manage Bing paid search and look at how horrible my development sites look in IE6 on this here MBP...
brianjolney··on [dead]
Keep in mind you can restore to a new linode to see how it will function first. That linode is charged on a pro-rated basis, so if you work quickly its only going to be a few cents.
brianjolney··on The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code
link died. any mirrors?
brianjolney··on Show HN: Quotica - A beautiful way to collect quotes.
Love the design of the site pre-login.

Once I signed up and logged in, it was downhill for me too. Quotes don't seem to need backgrounds, photos, etc. Play with more typography and minimize the design elements!

brianjolney··on Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25
sounds like an excellent device for wall-mounted dashboard monitors
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