ryanwanger

I thought it was a good post, and didn't come across poorly at all (though the comments seem to differ).

Perhaps it's because I didn't follow any of this yesterday, so this is the first I am reading of it.

Hadn't been to that site in a while...or ever? My first thought? This is how I expect Target's website to look.

Microsoft, Google, and Apple have profit margins that are roughly 3-4 times that of Yahoo.

If they nudge people away from long tail queries, won't this mean that people will perceive the relevance of the search results to be worse?

I doubt Google wants to start driving people to other search engines by making it harder for people to find what they are looking for.

How old are you? I'm curious because I used to be like that. Now, my back hurts if I am anything but sitting upright or laying flat.

These maps are mostly disheartening.

10 years ago, when I visited Australia, their currency was similar in value to the US (I think an aussie dollar was worth roughly 65 cents US), and they had no pennies OR nickles. It started at 10 cents.

They also had 1 and 2 dollar coins.

The best part was that the change in your pocket was worth enough to actually allow you to buy things with it. Not like we have now, where people only use it to avoid getting more change back.

It's understandable that you feel that way. But really, it isn't sketchy. Think of the lower price as a discount that wasn't offered to everyone. The people who paid the higher price thought the value of your service was worth it...no one twisted their arm.

If you're really against it, don't test two at the same time. Just double the price for new customers and see how that affects signups.

An interesting aspect of this is: there are lots of professions where people dread phone calls. If the awesomenessreminder guys were able to call from a different number everyday (which they might be doing anyway, via Skype), it could completely change the feeling those people get when the phone rings each day. After all, one of those unknown numbers is going to be a lot of fun!

They should pitch that service to property management, technical support, customer service, etc.

I'll bet that Americans have to travel further to see family than most other countries. The bigger the country and more mobile the population, the more days are lost to family visits...making true vacation days even more scarce than they might appear.

I was initially skeptical of ADstruc, probably because it was a market I know nothing about. I'm sold on it now...watch out - they are going to crush it this year.

As a point of reference, I did print-your-own wedding invites. Bought them at Michaels. Just use a text editor and a swirly font, then run them through your home printer. We actually got compliments on them and I think they were less than $1 per...plus about an hour total to write up the invite and print it out 60 times.

All the NYC BnB rentals will start listing their terns as: "You must intend to stay 31 days or longer."

Agreed. If I watched the video and then had to explain it to someone else...I would never even think to use the phrase "social network"...even if you made me talk for 10 minutes.

Met the founders of the company at a local entrepreneurs event.

I'm sure AT&T knows more than me about pricing but...

I doubt the fact that they'll be getting tons of new customers because people can now save $10 a month. Apple has intentionally scaled back on the number of different models they offer (on all products). Why? Because otherwise there is too much choice.

Most people have no idea how much data they use in a single month, and as mentioned 98% aren't using a massive amount. So, to squeeze a few extra dollars out of the 2%, they just made the decision way more complicated for everyone.

People buy iPhones because they are sexy, easy to use, their friends have them, etc. There is no need to complicate the purchasing decision by forcing people to start guesstimating their data usage.

What happens now when my mom decides to get an iPhone? Before she could buy knowing that "it just works". Now, she's going to call me and start asking questions about which plan she should get, then get confused by the answers (since tech-wise we don't really even speak the same language). All of the sudden, it's starting to seem like a headache.

For each customer they don't sign up because of the complicated pricing (or those they lose because people who don't use that much bandwidth are now afraid that they're going to be constantly being charged for overages), they would have to sign up an extra 6-10 customers who signed up because they can get a plan for $10 a month less than they could have before.

Seems unlikely, no?

I just had a fun little therapy session with someone on there. It was my first glimmer of hope as to the value of chatroulette (the concept of it anyway).

Great article.

Pretty incredible to think about how almost everything consumed in the developed world is a luxury...yet we tend to think of them as necessities.

I guess you weren't the only one who didn't understand that you could disable all notifications from a particular app in two clicks.

Not sure why they couldn't separate spam in your feed from direct notifications...the later were 95% relevant for me once I hid everything from Mafia Wars and people sending me stupid presents.

May I suggest Colorado? Cost of living in SF is 30% more than even the most expensive city (Boulder, ignoring resort towns).

Yeah, it can get cold, but the winters are orders of magnitude nicer than the midwest or northeast.

Call me old fashioned, but without exaggeration, Facebook is THE site where I am least likely to engage with strangers.

Walden 2, by B.F. Skinner.

It's like an instruction manual for a utopian society, in novel form. This book set my mind on fire with crazy and inspiring ideas about how society could be...

One of his other books, In Defense of Food, might almost be a better recommendation to read first. If they like that, go for the novel version - The Omnivore's Dilemma.

I'm surprised that this game is 2 years away. Isn't that plenty of time for someone else to create a clone? Sure, the graphics are primitive, but it doesn't matter for a game like this.

Looks like I accidentally ended up at Reddit...

Actually, the home that you're living in isn't that solid of an investment...it's more like forced savings. Generally you'll come out ahead (versus if you rented), but depending on the market, it could easily take 10+ years before it works out in your favor.

If you can buy property and then have other people pay the mortgage for you, now THAT is a solid investment.

It's true, we have no SEO at this point and are just starting to work on it. Would love to know what search terms you expect Everlater to show up under...

So I don't want to burst your bubble (I've got the pass too), but almost zero of those trips are direct. Everything goes thru Boston, NY, or Long Beach...and the west coast stuff is really limited.

For example, Vegas to Denver goes through BOS/NYC, Denver to Salt Lake is the same, etc. etc. etc.

:-(

I just bought my pass! I've mapped it out already (http://www.everlater.com/ryanwanger/jetblue-all-you-can-jet-...) and I'll be documenting it as I go.

Disclaimer: I work for Everlater. But of course, this is why we built it!

I tagged the description of my trip with #AllYouCanJet so if anyone else does it, I can create a page of trips from others doing the same.