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Zuck is brilliant at many things. But when someone says he's great at product, I raise an eyebrow. Seems to me they A/B tested their way to the top. FB today reminds me of Google 5 years ago. Their 41-shades-of-blue-testing days.

But Google learned to listen to more right-brain arguments so maybe FB can too.

Thanks for your thoughtful feedback!

Yeah sorry about that, it is a little buggy! After installing, just go to google, then click on the icon in your browser bar and it should work.

A fair point. In my excitement of finding an available domain, perhaps I tried to force the name :P

Invite code for my HN friends: unicorn

No offense to OP, but this reads like propaganda to me. It feels like someone at the Pentagon realized they weren't winning the war of the minds of hackers, so they encouraged some of their own to blog about their experiences.

I hate to sound like a tin hat wearing conspiracist. I really do. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of concerted effort by the NSA to encourage a dialogue with hackers on platforms like HN.

Sorry for the paranoia OP. Glad you enjoyed your time at the NSA.

I asked Jonah about this very thing a year ago. His response was lacking IMO:

http://cdixon.org/2012/07/24/buzzfeeds-strategy/comment-page...

In their defense there's no good software out there that hooks into a vendor's fulfillment house. FB created a proprietary order system which sent emails to the vendor when an order came in. Then the vendor had to create an packing slip or send the order to their fulfillment house on THEIR proprietary shipping system.

There's so many shipping systems out there and none of them talk to each other. If someone were to create software that integrated every vendor with every distributor I think they would do very well for themselves.

I had a product on FB gifts. It sold great on sites like Fab, but did terrible on FB. I think we sold less than 5 units total before getting kicked out.

This tweet from Chris Dixon a year ago summed it up best for me: "It's all about the mental state. are you sharing photos online vs giving something offline. the numbers show it's hard to switch".

argh, good catch, thanks!

Curious, is there a link to your site on the printed card? It's a better user experience for the recipient if they don't know how the hot dogs are made.

I was skeptical of the idea until I watched the video. Great execution!

I know a couple of twins named Winklevoss that would be perfect for their firm.

Cool idea but at the end of the day, your idea encourages people to violate the terms of service they have with their ISP. Karma gets around that.

I love Evernote. I use it as a kind of 2nd brain. I have tabs for personal development, book summaries, business notes..

And I just search for things when they're needed. It's like Google, but instead of searching for information out there in the world, it finds information related to my personal life.

I am the only one that thought the game was making fun of Skrillex? I thought all the noise cubes were supposed to represent his music..

This video helped me when naming my company: http://youtu.be/blTOv3oXdbk?t=1m25s

It may seem like an icky marketing video at first but there's some good stuff in there.

Check out Jason's blog for photos of their new warehouse space. Very impressive.

They're selling a lot of things that you would expect to see on fab.com. And I think they only have 100 vendors to start?

All Things D has a good write up: http://allthingsd.com/20120927/say-hello-to-gifts-facebooks-...

As a selected vendor, I must say they do seem focused on quality. I'm clearly biased but the impression I got from the buyer is they're being very picky.

Another thing that will be tricky is separating signal and noise. If I'm buying a birthday gift for my punk rock friend, they shouldn't bother showing me cupcakes and chocolate boxes. Seems like a no-brainer to show me gift options based on his likes.

In future wars, it will be hard to know when your nuclear centrifuges have been compromised or if you've simply been rick-roll'd.

It's strange how much FB worships at the alter of engagement. Time and time again they intentionally poke their own users in the eye like this.

I too thought the old basecamp was terrible but the new one is quite nice.

It's cool because in a small but poignant way it represents how Zuck was able to build his company w/o kissing Wall street's ass. So many CEO's tactics are driven by quarterly earnings. By keeping his hoodie on and not flying out to New York to ring the bell, Zuck kinda saying fu off to all that.

If that blue Nasdaq button embodies short term, profit driven thinking, it's neat that the engineers were able to hack it and bend it toward their will. It's a poetic hack.

I think he means that by framing an activity as a "growth experience", it loses a bit of it's soul. Ghandi, Lindbergh, Jobs - they all changed the world because they had a fire in their belly and couldn't sit still. They didn't pursue things because it would grow their character. They did things because they we're compelled to.

Tyler Winklevoss: "We were there at the beginning of web 2.0.."

Yes, technically you were both alive on earth at the time. So was my Nana, my creepy uncle Hank, and about 6 billion other people.

Nice work!

what are you building?

His brain has too much throughput for his mouth to handle! So he uses 'Um' as a kind of verbal buffering device.

'The “pin” button remains inactive until the user types something. Anything. Might this count as “criticizing” or “commenting”?'

Interesting. I'd like to see a court case further define what constitutes a "comment" on the web. Other sites do this too, for example Buzzfeed.com's entire business model is based on taking content from bloggers and then hosting it on their own site, without providing any kind of insightful comment.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/if-both-of-angelinas-legs-wer...