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pirsquare··on Show HN: Turn quotes from reviews into social proof notifications
Founder of OnVoard here. Yes I can confirm that only verified data will be used. In general, we only support extracting quotes from Facebook and Google because reviews from these sources can be fetched in an authenticated manner.
pirsquare··on Google introduces 'Customer Match' – target web ads to email addresses
The adtech term for this is call "CRM onboarding". This technique was actually around for a while and popularize by 2 independent companies, Datalogix and Liveramp (founded by Auren Hoffman). Both of these companies exited with Datalogix (sold to Oracle) at around $1.2b and Liveramp (sold to Acxiom) at $310m.
pirsquare··on Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL (2014)
To add to that, 100ms-200ms is only the cutoff time to determine the bid winner from adexchange perspective. We still need to add the time for adexchange to notify bid winner + adserving load time for total ad response latency.
pirsquare··on Pulsar: Real-Time Analytics at Scale
Anyway Druid is by MetaMarkets, Netflix is one of the users
pirsquare··on A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
There is nothing wrong with companies "copying/stealing" designs. But it is wrong when you are criticizing others for doing so while you are doing it.

See TechInAsia previous rants on "copying designs":

https://www.techinasia.com/flightfox-copy-rip-off-nomadlist/

https://www.techinasia.com/china-startup-copy-listener/

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