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onreact-comon Guy Kawasaki: Twitter spamming works

There is nothing wrong with repeating your tweets, especially for different time zones, once for Australia, once India, once UK/Europe/South Africa, once India and once the US (or twice for both East and West Coast).

Personally I have followers throughout the world but seldom manage to tweet stuff more than once but this way you not only don't reach all of them but basically discriminate against some of them.

onreact-comon Guy Kawasaki: Twitter spamming works

Sorry, but the actual headline is "How to Drive Traffic with Repeat Tweets". When you disagree with an author at least try to be honest and don't use a misleading headline for HN.

You can voice your disagreement in the comment section.

onreact-comon Ask HN: Why 85% of Spam is about medications?

Sad but true it's a real life business model that works.

People really click on those links and buy the advertised mediations. Sometimes only a few per thousand but if you send a million of emails...

Most of these life style drugs are not real medications like the stuff sick people need. Also most of them are cheap generics or even counterfeit or fake drugs. These might be even dangerous.

That's the reason the only channel you can sell them is outside the proven medical sector.

onreact-comon Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few

No surprise here. Good to have scientific proof nonetheless. The so called free market is a travesty in the current form of oligopoly capitalism.

onreact-comon Netbooks and iPhones anticipated in "The other road ahead" (2001)

In 2001 we already had netbooks and iPhone like devices, the Nokia communicator has been around for ages and I remember using a netbook sized Windows 98 laptop in 2000.

onreact-comon Simple Ways of Improving Bounce Rate and Conversion Rate

I think there must be a way to mimic the bounce rate in AJAX by firing the onclick event to make it meaningful again.

onreact-comon Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths?

I strongly advise you to follow the link to the source which reveals many more astounding data tidbits like "U.S. cyclists are three times more likely to be killed than German cyclists and six times more than Dutch cyclists, whether compared per-trip or per-distance traveled"

http://www.projectfreeride.org/team/cycling_health_and_safet...

onreact-comon Who else feels like sharing their adsense stats ?

"Adsense often makes sites look like crappy, low-rent. low-content, spammy, rip-off sites"

True. Thus I use Yahoo ads. They are much more customizable and you can make them blend better with the rest of the site in order not to have spammy Google branded blocks.

Many websites are better off with CPM ads (sites with high visitors numbers) or affiliate ads (authority sites based on personalities or other trusted sites).

onreact-comon HN Added to the Sociable Plugin for WordPress

Why? Do you prefer for HN to be a place where only TechCrunch, NYT and Mashable get submitted? Such a button would greatly improve the variety of submissions here.

onreact-comon Apple to App Developer: Remove the Most Useful Function, Please

No. Did you read the article? They removed ALL of them not just this one.

onreact-comon Nano Air Vehicle takes flight

Next time an insect is bothering you: It's not a bumblebee, it's the US army robot. Reminds me of the Eclipse trilogy by John Shirley or The Fifth Element.

onreact-comon HN Added to the Sociable Plugin for WordPress

Mea Culpa! I did NOT have the latest Sociable version installed. Now fixed. HN has already been added!

Download here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

onreact-comon Apple to App Developer: Remove the Most Useful Function, Please

There must be a reason for this.

Maybe they run some spyware in the background you could suspect to exist once you compared the memory you use yourself with the memory still available?

It's easy to spy on others using their iPhones and there are several ways the iPhone calls home or can be remotely run by Apple (for instance to delete prohibited apps) so that would be no wonder.

onreact-comon Obama's 10 Leadership Mistakes (And How Not to Make Them)

Wasn't it that HN prohibits top 10 lists in headlines and besides politics is not welcome here? Are some publications exempt from that rule?

onreact-comon "Flying Taxi" inventor killed in crash

Hey, they were the pioneers and they wanted to build a real flaying car not just a plane with foldable wings. It's almost done. It's already flying in contrast to the Jetpod that plummets. That's why it took so long.

onreact-comon Simple Ways of Improving Bounce Rate and Conversion Rate

"You can expand on that general idea. Do you display advertisements? Do you display them to everyone equally?"

This suggestion has already been implemented with another plugin. It's called "Who Sees Ads":

http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-s...

onreact-comon Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

Google makes billions even in a slow economy so it should be able to afford customer service for at least its paying customers.

There are tens of millions of Indians out there eager for such a job. This is a better opportunity for them than "outsourcing SEO services" where they mess up the Google index by low quality and high quantity "link building".

onreact-comon Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

Digg is only for posting ugly comments and offending others so that's why you actually don't have to click or even read something on Digg. ;-)

onreact-comon Girls are primed to fear spiders

Poor brainwashed babies who now fear flowers...

onreact-comon Dual Screen Laptop

Is it only me or does this thing look ridiculous? Is it a parody?

onreact-comon Please don't use hnreputation

Imagine this with politicians: Not knowing whether a speech was made by Obama or Cheney would greatly improve trust in politicians ;-)

onreact-comon Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

Yeah. Don't pay people to do customer service is still more profitable than losing a few customers a they are not many search and Adsense/Adwords alternatives that can really compete when it comes to reach.

onreact-comon Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

I guess you would make more webmasters happy besides yourself by making Google set up a team that deals with such issues where webmasters don't have to raise hell first to get noticed.

Maybe Google should hire the 10k "permanent temps" again it spit out a few months ago during the "financial crisis" panic.

onreact-comon Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

This is a well known issue with the so called Digg effect. I warned people years ago not to aim for Digg traffic because Adsense tracks page impressions and click throughs and Digg users behave like robots, flooding a site with requests and bouncing off right away.

[edit:] Reddit is even worse, higher bouncer rate (95%+), and even lower engagement than Digg.

onreact-comon Does money buy happiness? Yes, if it's used to buy memories

This post is only a comment. Read the original source instead:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/08/23/...

onreact-comon "Flying Taxi" inventor killed in crash

You might want to try other flying cars instead:

# Moller http://www.moller.com/

# Terrafugia http://www.terrafugia.com

# Volante http://www.volanteaircraft.com/

Moller is my favorite.

onreact-comon The Truth About Lying

Ah thanks, I thought it was some kind of bug.

onreact-comon Ask HN: Where do you find clients?

I get most of my clients via the Web. Far to many of them for me to handle. They find me on the Web due to my SEO or they notice me due to my blogging and social media participation. Also clients refer new clients.

onreact-comon The Truth About Lying

Why is this on the fp with just 2 points after 13 minutes?

onreact-comon Camper bike

Yeah, the classic. We have plenty of those around here (Berlin) as well but they're quite expensive (hand made!). Other cargo bikes get manufactured and are thus cheaper.