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LMAO. You can add: - Joe asks a question without naming someone - 10 sec. silence - then Judith says: "was the question for me?"

All I can wish you is great success wherever you are. You can wait for a couple of months before coming back. Try a H1B for November 1.

Then spend it on a good life. Give the rest. According to study, you only need $75,000 to live happy. http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-fo... Btw, I am not sure why my first comment was downvoted.

3.4% of your life is not much if you get Facebook equity and end up with millions. The hardest part - I think - is that you are not assured at all to get rich. You might end up spend 3.4% of your life to buy you a new car and that's it.

Mobile shift is a huge problem even with a pool of smart minds. Nothing can beat a thousand startups that designs mobile from the ground up.

Most of the times doing bad things do not yield more results than doing good things, and highly increase your risk. Attacking a competitor's site is a sure loss for the perpetuator, in my opinion.

Mozilla Foundation has not moved on its position of bringing good. I think any IPO company is ultimately compelled to choose profits over values.

Nimblebit team is 3 people, Zynga is 2,800 strong. There's a disadvantage that makes the ripoff harder to fight.

Plus, Zynga sues when they think they get copied (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/16/war-zynga-sues-the-hell-out...). There's a good chance that Nimblebit won't have enough money to fight back.

The unstructured data makes Craigslist a much easier place to post listings. I don't have to click or press TAB and ask myself "what is this field now?" You could arguably find the make / model through natural language processing, which with CL philosophy and resources might be a stretch.

We'll reuse that with my own kid. Brilliant idea.

Their report is 13MB big (32 pages only!) and uses pdf instead of html.

A good illustration of how the industry can't understand easy sharing.

Facebook is a good replacement too. Watch the idealized movie of your friends' lives.

I wonder: when did Anonymous prepare this attack?

They are very efficient at pointing LOIC and all other weapons to the targets they want in a couple of hours. Were they waiting for the next event to happen?

No, that's right. I think there are a lot of opportunities businesses haven't explored enough.

You can sell rights to be the first viewer/reader/consumer. With a world where all digital content is almost free, first-time exclusivity can increase highly its value.

This answers deserves a good article on its own.

Facebook released Timeline so people want to publicize more of their life. More data = more advertising. I think business people use simple equations to justify their decisions.

Agreed. I really love your work Zed. Let haters hate and keep doing what you best do.

Schleps is an indicator our work goes towards success. It has to be hard. Notice this can equally lead the entrepreneur to nowhere. It is the role of the entrepreneur to understand if this the right schleps.

Why is this downvoted? His point is valid, even if you disagree with it.

I was not aware of his/her message until today. In my case the repetition was helping.

Any link on Dev Bootcamp in SV?

It took him some time to come up with the right response and you could feel he was "computing" the right answer in his head. When he finally found it, it just felt a very natural conclusion. Paul defused the race bomb question with great calm and clear thinking.

Could you say what the results are roughly? I cannot see the graph either.

I don't understand why copyright exists.

Are there studies showing that copyright brought an increase in creativity or art excellence?

I contacted a journalist through her Facebook account and today just heard from her thanks to the Slate article. She was sorry she did not see my important email.

You're right, those are breaks.

I found a way to reduce procrastination, while enjoying some of it. I alternate a procrastinate day with days of non-procrastination.

For one day, I am allowed to watch as many movies as I want, play chess, do whatever useless and enjoyable I might want. Then I would do variable periods without procrastinating. This could be 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month. It depends on your other priorities, work, family, achievements. During those periods, I have blacklisted the things I usually do when procrastinating. When I go back to my procrastination day, I am very happy since it has been a while I have watched a movie, trailer or play chess.

This is very similar to some drug-addiction techniques, and I found it worked for me very well. If you feel bad and haven't tried that yet, try that and let me know how it went.

Rand, why did you choose to use the Hubspot term Inbound Marketing? Inbound Marketing is more often used as a replacement for Market Research. Your definition really means Permission Marketing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbound_marketing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_marketing

In 2009, Hubspot decided to coin the term Inbound Marketing in a new way so they can claim the space ("first inbound marketing software"). Since then, they changed the entire Google results (starting with Wikipedia) so that they come up on most queries. The rare times I used Inbound Marketing with traditional marketers, they always meant Market Research.

Back when I was doing SEO, Rand Fishkin was my hero. You could not find a more humble person, while delivering tremendous value in the white-hat community. I am glad he still speaks and educates as much as he can.