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18 May 09

danieltenner.com — How to make your application viral

    • There are many other things you can do to tweak the viral coefficient and improve the spread of your application, but carefully considering these points will get you further than most:




      • Invitation should be a core process, that is essential to using the application – this will maximise the chances that your users do invite new users.
      • Keep pulling people back in, rather than letting them forget you after the initial invitation, and make this “reminder” process also be central to the use of the application.
      • Be useful even to the lone user, because that lone user is the source of all your other users.
      • Remove artificial invitation limits, to recognise the reality that most invitations come from a few very active users, and help those users spread the word.

Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk

  • Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
  • The fact that circumstances changed allows people to change their viewpoints without being viewed as inconsistent. People are generally not thrilled to change their viewpoints on something, as they fear they will display lack of consistency and be called a flip-flopper. Convincing people that their old decision (to stick with the old product) was completely 100% correct under old circumstances allows them to be more responsive to the messages that imply a new product/idea is better because the circumstances radically changed since then.
13 May 09

Guest Post: The Post Mortem of a Venture-backed Start-up « TIME TO GET STARTED

  • the Mei Moses art index, which suggested the art market was countercyclical and had a low correlation to the S&P
07 May 09

9lessons: Draw Charts with Google Visualization API.

  • Google Visualization API is a Javascript library displays methods to load and control the visualization. It's useful to display nice charts in your web sites.
14 Apr 09

"We think you'd also like..." and the Math of Suggestion – Teil 2 | Gründerszene

  • Because of the computational limitations of user-based collaborative filtering, around 2001 there was a shift to what’s known as “item-based collaborative filtering”.
13 Apr 09

Hacker News | Stop the Press: Building A Startup Presskit 101

  • 6 points by jkincaid 2 hours ago | link


    Hi, I'm a writer at TechCrunch. Because many entrepreneurs on this forum are going to eventually be reaching out to bloggers, here are a few tips that are probably better suited for 'new media' rather than traditional press. Note that I haven't conducted any kind of formal survey - these are all tips that make things easier on me, which may or may not be applicable to other bloggers (though I suspect they would be).
12 Apr 09

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com

  • ts enormous influence has not improved American students' gra
08 Apr 09

80 legs

  • An emerging trend in search technology is semantic analysis, which extracts the actual meaning from web content. This technology faces two big challenges before it goes mainstream: building a large enough catalogue of web content and analyzing the enormous amount of data contained in that content.
06 Apr 09

SVD Recommendation System in Ruby - igvita.com

  • Wouldn't it be cool if we could use the collective knowledge of our whole community to recommend and rank episodes for each user individually?"

NextBio

    • search


      • Explore genes, pathways, diseases and compounds across curated data
      • Search thousands of public microarray, mutation and phenotypic studies
      • Access millions of related journal articles and clinical trials
      • Instantly compare your own microarray and other assay data with public studies
      • Discover pathways, diseases and treatments that correlate with your own data
      • Securely share your data, bookmarks and search results with colleagues
      • Connect with scientists in your company or area of research
      • Create your own scientific profile and collaborative groups

How to build a simple recommendation engine - Internet Entrepreneurs Blog || REVIEW APP

  • Traditionally only technically advanced sites like Amazon were able to offer this service but with ever increasing processing power and simple open source software, now you too can add recommendations to your website.
01 Apr 09

How To Get Great Copywriters to Mentor You For Free — Copyblogger

  • f you’ve ever longed to write with the same persuasive power and attention-holding prose as your copywriting heroes, a one-on-one mentorship could be your most effective way of getting very good, very fast. But what if you don’t have the money or opportunity to mentor with the best of the best (or worse, your copywriter of choice is no longer with us)? What do you do then?


    It’s easy. You get inside their head, and you get all the mentoring you need … for free. Here’s how.

ALGORITHMS: Algorithms Homepage for Evaluation of Face Recognition: Release 5.0

    • On May 1, 2003 we released version 5.0 our our software. This software includes simple C source code for four distinct face recognition algorithms along with image pre-processing software, statistical analysis software and scripts to run experiments comparable to the original FERET evaluation and some of our own more recent experiments.



      This release includes an updated Users Guide. The Users Guide is now the definitive source for information on the algorithms available and the other tools provided in the CSU Face Identification Evaluation System.

31 Mar 09

How WebMynd decided to remove a feature – the ‘Ask Twitter’ case study « WebMynd Blog

  • Last week we removed the ‘Ask Twitter’ feature from WebMynd’s interface on search results pages. The idea of the feature was that, when you search, as well as being shown results from your favourite sources on the right-hand side of the results page, you could also ask your Twitter followers for help with your search. Here’s how it looked on Google:
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