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kwison How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

It's a private company, run by a very opinionated individual with a demonstrated lack of concern for the feelings of others.

He might notice, but he's making so much money that I really doubt he cares.

kwison How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

Yes, though I'm not sure if that's the original or one of the edited versions he tried for a few days before just taking the article down.

kwison How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

This is a CEO who, in 2005, posted a blog article talking about why we have to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, because (mumble mumble) 9/11. He deleted both the original post and a half-retraction shortly thereafter, or I'd provide a link.

As such, I'm not surprised that he turned his personal hunting exhibition into a marketing expense. He seems to have a deaf ear when it comes to brand management. And that doesn't seem to have hurt him in any meaningful way.

I'm not sure what lesson to take away from any of this, except that he runs his business differently than I do.

kwison Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers

Well, this rules out my plan to buy a Series 9 for travel.

Hopefully the supervisor he talked to was just blowing smoke and trying to get him to go away. If this is legitimately approved by Samsung, somebody needs their head examined.

Or failing that, they should loan me their laptop after they've done some banking and online shopping on it.

kwison Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

> Amazon has always made a point of not building services on top of its Cloud offerings that directly compete with its users.

This doesn't strike me as true.

Amazon CloudWatch versus CloudKick Amazon SimpleEmailService versus SendGrid Amazon RDS versus FantomDB

Frankly, looking at AWS's evolution, it seems that one of their favorite methods of innovation is to watch for startups that are servicing a lot of AWS companies, then creating their own version of that product.

kwison Introducing Fowndr: A private network for startup founders (invites)

HN is a place for people who are interested in web startups not a place for founders. There's overlap, but it's simply not the same audience.

Somebody who is actively spending their life trying to grow a business doesn't have time to "actively participate" in HN, because HN is a timesuck. It's largely filled of stories that have little or no impact for somebody who is actually on the ground, executing their business.

None of this means that HN is a bad place. But active participation in this community is a bad idea for the entrepreneur whose target market is something other than startups.