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- Hello, Great post ! This is a key - though much of a Graal yet - issue of web search. I was surprised the other day to notice under the Google search box the "Personalized" option, as I did ...
- Hey Paul - a friend just pointed me to this article, as usually happens, after it'd been sitting for a while. Not sure if you noticed our beta-launch on news.YC last week (Directed Edge), but this ...
- Thank you for an idea of how to get one's ideas funded. My idea of how to sell my ideas was simply to join a company and start applying my ideas to it's inner workings. That is, while having ...
- Because many people want to keep it simple, not everyone understands technical minutiae or the processes that go on in a business, you can't hope to condense everything that goes on in a business (especially ...
- Idea's do matter a hell of a lot, einstein changed the world with conceiving of the proper ideas with which to view physics and gravity, the fact of the matter is, great ideas matter, but KNOWING HOW ...
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The power of links and the value of global knowledge started by paulbuchheit
Long, long ago, before Google, search engines evaluated and ranked web pages by considering each page in isolation, examining the size of the fonts, the contents of the meta tags, etc. In some cases, it was even possible to "hijack" another site's listings by simply cloning their HTML. Perhaps a few search engines attempted to improve on this with simple
Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain started by paulbuchheit
How much is an idea worth? Many normal people assume that ideas are valuable, and that if only they could think of one, they might be able to sell it for millions of dollars, like the Pet Rock. On the other hand, many engineers, VCs, and successful entrepreneurs claim that ideas are worthless. Paul Graham provides a sort of "proof"
The most import thing to understand about new products and startups started by paulbuchheit
First, a quote from Marc Andreessen's "Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters"
If you ask entrepreneurs or VCs which of team, product, or market is most important, many will say team.
...
Personally, I'll take the third position -- I'll assert that
There's no such thing as a "social network" started by paulbuchheit
Of course there are many things that people call "social networks", but that's more confusing than enlightening. The "social network" aspect of these products is just a mechanism, not the purpose. It's like saying that something is a "Javascript". Many websites use Javascript, but hopefully the Javascript is only there in order to accomplish
Is fragmentation bad? started by paulbuchheit
Imagine that you've just finished watching a movie and are in the mood to talk about it. How are you going to do that? You could chat with random, semi-anonymous people in the movie theater lobby (assume you went to a theater). You could find a community of people who are big fans of the director or the book that the movie was based on. Or, if you saw
Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook? started by paulbuchheit
Apparently Facebook will ban you (or at least Robert Scoble) if you attempt to extract your friend's email addresses from the service.
Automated access is a difficult issue for any web service, so I won't argue with their decision --
Automated access is a difficult issue for any web service, so I won't argue with their decision --
Is there more to life than money? started by paulbuchheit
Whenever there is a discussion about joining a startup vs working at regular job, someone will defend the boring 9-5 job by saying, "there is more to life than money".
These people are, of course, right. There is plenty of evidence that happiness is only loosely correlated with wealth, and that people seem to derive a much greater sense of satisfaction
These people are, of course, right. There is plenty of evidence that happiness is only loosely correlated with wealth, and that people seem to derive a much greater sense of satisfaction
Ultra-immersive, long-form video games from the past or future started by paulbuchheit
As our technology and understanding of nature improves, we are living longer, and many predict that this trend will continue to the point that humans will become nearly immortal. When confronted with the possibility of living for hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years, most people express several concerns: "Will I still be able to retire at
Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think started by paulbuchheit
It's very fashionable to declare that Facebook is an over-hyped fad and will never make any real money, certainly not enough to justify it's insane $15 billion dollar valuation. At first glance, it's easy to understand why some people might think it's a toy -- most of the activity there seems to involve biting, poking, and joining groups with funny
We all have tunnel vision started by paulbuchheit
Supposedly people can hold about seven "items" in their mind at any one time. I was never sure what that meant -- what qualifies as and "item"? I recently realized that it means our brains have roughly seven "registers", similar to the registers on a microprocessor. These registers don't
FriendFeed from the command line started by paulbuchheit
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/e965e539aa2a8c69dde29eef5c4830e8c1fe5f4e"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 525px;" src="http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/e965e539aa2a8c69dde29eef5c4830e8c1fe5f4e" border="0" alt="">
Sometimes, it's faster and easier
Sometimes, it's faster and easier
Good news, everyone! started by paulbuchheit
FriendFeed is officially launching! (and also announcing our funding)
See Louis Gray, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/25/friendfeed-the-best-software-for-conversations-raises-round-and-launches-publi
See Louis Gray, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/25/friendfeed-the-best-software-for-conversations-raises-round-and-launches-publi
Twas the night before Festivus... started by paulbuchheit
And all through the FriendFeed Global International World Headquarters, not a creature was coding, not even Bret..
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Building a great team started by paulbuchheit
Unless you happen to be really great at everything, it's very important to build a well matched team of people who have complimentary skills and can work well together. Unfortunately, that's much easier said than done, and most startups really struggle to find the right people. That's why I'm excited to announce another great addition to the FriendFeed
Brilliantly wrong started by paulbuchheit
Being a little bit wrong is easy, but it's much more interesting to be completely wrong.
Google Blogoscoped had an entry yesterday about my statement that, whenever possible, everything should
Google Blogoscoped had an entry yesterday about my statement that, whenever possible, everything should
Back to blogging again, I hope started by paulbuchheit
I have about a 1000 posts queued up in my brain, but these things take forever to write, and now that I'm working again, I don't have forever to waste. So, in the spirit of "Good enough"