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Not sure why the down vote. I interpreted the submitter's image to imply a benefit of Adblock being a shorter page and cleaner layout, which is a problem that is better solved by both Readability and Instapaper.

Actually, it's why Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) and Instapaper Text (http://www.instapaper.com/extras) bookmarklets exist. They blocks all the ads and non-essential content, ensures columns are wide enough, and standardizes the fonts.

They also work great for all those Typepad blogs with odd columns and tiny fonts.

Nice site and interesting app. It seems like more of a mockup organization system than a tool for creating mockups (like Balsamiq or Mockingbird), which was my initial thought looking at the name. Perhaps you can interface with them somehow?

I'm not big on the product name though as my first thought was "oh cool mockups" which then turned to "oh wait it's a typo / misspelling of mockups". It's further confusing because you spell "mockups" correctly throughout your site. You also run the risk of a competitor buying mockups.com and building their own mockup software (logical development option).

You've put together a great tool and well designed site, don't sell it short with a typo'ed product name.

So not only are they content thieves, they are also cybersquatters with names like:

  starwarsanswers.com
  iphoneqna.com
  facebook-questions.com
  nfl-questions.com
  squarespaceanswer.scom
  astonmartinanswers.com
  volkswagenanswers.com

And that's just the first 2 pages of results.

From 3 years ago but it certainly still holds true. As mentioned in the comments, many PPC'ers use http://www.splittester.com to help determine if there's enough data to determine a winner.

SEOBook recently opened another site focused primarily on PPC at PPCBlog.com and this was a recent discussion in the forums.

I agree - I saw the avatars and think I should either be able to click through to the person's profile on your site or at least their Twitter account.

If it's your site or a site you have access to the Google Analytics for, you can add a filter to exclude your IP.

Another reason to use randomly generated passwords and a password manager like 1Password. I don't know 99.9% of my passwords and instead rely on 1Password to fill them in.

The nice thing about a password manager with form fill is that it would prevent this "attack" because the domain name does not match the spoofed site. I wouldn't even have the ability to have it fill my Gmail password in for me.

There's a Microsoft Case Study on the site here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Server-2008-R2-...

Based on timelines, it looks like they developed in the first version of MVC.

Thanks for the compliment. It's the result of an programmer marrying an ag major and trying to find a career they can enjoy together. We couldn't find one so had to create one.

As far as expert marketers, I've learned a lot from SEOBook.com's community which has a lot of SEOs and online marketers. The membership isn't free but it has a great Signal to Noise ratio.

I develop a herd management software for cattle ranchers and wanted to call cattle-something. I wrote a program to generate lots of 3 and 4 letter combinations and ended up settling on Max. I checked whois and CattleMax.com was available. 11 years and 56 countries later, it's still going strong and I couldn't imagine any other name for what our product does.

Congrats guys - 60,000 app milestone last week, $10m funding this week.

It's a great service and I'm glad to see it continue to grow.

http://www.LearnVisualStudio.net has some great videos along with sample code.

I think this kind of thing is great - people gaining a closer connection with nature and also knowing where their food comes from.

My wife and I have a small ranch near College Station Texas (home of Texas A&M University) where we raise a herd of Texas Longhorn steers, for natural lean beef as well as their beauty. I can't tell you how relaxing it is to walk through the pasture at the end of the day. It's not only relaxing, but a great opportunity to get more "think time".

>> Prior to the iPhone, there was virtually no real development allowed on phones that achieved any levels of success (carriers had the platform locked down hard).

Windows Mobile / Windows CE phones have been around for years. I still remember the joy of writing my first app in Visual Studio to run on my Samsung i700. Also I spent many hours playing Monopoly on that same phone.

I got a kick out of this:

"These are Jason Chen's computers" http://topherchris.com/post/551530253

My wife and I dropped a $75/month DirecTV bill over a year ago and haven't looked back. Now, all the DirectTV box does is serve as a stand for our projector to sit on.

Hulu has most of the new television shows and if they don't have one of your shows, it's probably on iTunes. I'm not a big sports fan, but I was concerned about the Olympics. Fortunately, NBC had them online.

Netflix is great if you watch several movies a month, but if you are like me and one is enough then iTunes or Redbox work great.

"User of AirBnB"

This should be a requirement rather than a bonus. I can't tell you just how helpful it is to hire people who are customers/users of your service. They obviously believe in what you are doing because they use the service and have given the ultimate vote - opening their wallet.

Here's an old blog post where I talked about that with our company http://www.cattlemanagement.com/customer-service-hiring-phil...

The Google branding being removed was to rename the "Google" button to "Search". They aren't actually removing Google search... at least not yet.

Here's a link with before and after http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/10/apple-removes-google-bra...

FYI the article is dated June 12, 2002.

Seeing as how EC2 IP addresses are being blocked by many spam blocking services*, I don't know that I'd want to depend on Amazon to ensure my emails are delivered. Sure I realize it's probably a different block of IPs, but I wonder how long before those get blocked too.

Source: https://community.engineyard.com/faqs/questions/ssmtp

I've done CPC advertising with Facebook and found the quality of traffic to be lower than G/Y/M but the lower CPC cancels out and makes my cost per conversion similar.

There is not a single answer in my opinion. I like to focus on cost per conversion since I know what a conversion is worth to me. Another metric I like to watch is total conversions.

It's a balance between optimizing for ROI and optimizing for total revenue. If I can get 50 signups/month at $3.50/conv and can get 75 signups a month for $3.85/conv, I'll increase my bid so long as it increases my total revenue.

CPC on the content network is useful for branding as you receive exposure every time your ad is displayed, even though you only pay when someone clicks.

Are your keywords highly searched according to the https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox? If so, you may have to increase your bid until you build an account history and quality score.

I wonder how a Mac-like PC (no trialware, no excessive stickers, minimal blinking lights, etc) would sell. The kind of people who appreciate that and are willing to pay a premium buy Macs. The kind of people who don't or can't appreciate that save their money and go with a PC. It's almost a cultural issue.

I agree that when Apple can use a specific model design for years, simply changing out the internal components for several revisions, they can put more money into a solid design.

I don't see how the fact that it's a web app, content site, or desktop software would matter. You value an asset, taking into consideration the acquisition and maintenance costs. I haven't figured out the $250k for Retweet but I tend to be more ROI-based with my purchases.

As far as good code vs bad code, if you intend on maintaining the site then you probably want to setup a code review via remote desktop where you can review some of the code.

I'm in talks to buy the assets of a company that developed a desktop software program. The software was developed in an archaic language I've never heard of and am not interested in learning, so I was pretty frank that the source has no value to me since my interest is in converting the customers over to my desktop product. Had the code been in something like .Net that could easily be maintained, I'd place a higher value on the asset.

I'm also in the process of selling a custom classified site written in .Net. When I sell the site, I'll be providing the contact information of the contractor developer who created it. The new owner will have the option of continuing with this developer or finding their own developer.

Agreed - most books become outdated by the time they reach the bookshelves.

I'm saying more of a book approach than a screencast approach. Most books start at the ground up, with each chapter building on the previous, while many screencasts tend to be independent of previous episodes.

I'd think you would have to look at it like writing a book, except with the chapters being in video instead of text. I think trying to approach it as a series of RailsCasts would not cater to the type of people who want such a structured learning system. One of RailsCasts best benefits is that you learn on your own terms, which is the opposite of what you are going for it sounds like.

There are many different learning styles and some people like to see rather than read so I think it has potential. You may check out LearnVisualStudio.net as they have been selling videos for years, including videos that go from nothing to building a full featured application.

Good luck in your venture - the more ways people can learn rails, the more it will attract new developers and grow the ecosystem.

The "bad thing" is the inconsistency with Google letting large sites get away with the shady practices while punishing the little guy.

It's hardly a rant when it comes from a guru like Tufte. The guy has literally written the books on displaying information, so he has a lot of experience to speak from.

Also, he provides specific examples (negative space by cross hairs, top & right margins on home screen).