Serving your ass like John McEnroe since 2001!
Steve Mallett,
About Inevitable
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Our Joints:
Our Flagship!: OSDir.com >4000 most visited websites (U.S.), even better world-wide. (tech support & news)
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Big Data site:
yellow pages (big data - yellow pages & what is happening where - gbiz.org
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And:
Twollow (Twitter follow management)
Done.io (personal & project todo task management
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I came across this Techcrunch article last night when a good friend mentioned it on Twitter.
I have a really hard time absorbing this at face value. Here’s the relevant quote from the article: (emphasis mine)
…Alright, so if you’re looking to evaluate a startup’s chances of success,…
Oh, dear. Teh Blog is still taking a backseat to the @inevitablecorp twitter acct.
Anyhoo, for those of you still in RSS land and such… we’ve purchased brilliant todo task app http://done.io, from @kylebragger, @forrst operator & former @garyvee CTO of cork’d.
twitter has killed the blog as we know it. you may want to follow @inevitablecorp instead of, or in addition to, this.
The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people to join, says to its newest employees: “If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you’ve worked, plus we will offer you a $1,000 bonus.” Zappos actually bribes its new employees to quit!
Why? Because if you’re willing to take the company up on the offer, you obviously don’t have the sense of commitment they are looking for. It’s hard to describe the level of energy in the Zappos culture—which means, by definition, it’s not for everybody. Zappos wants to learn if there’s a bad fit between what makes the organization tick and what makes individual employees tick—and it’s willing to pay to learn sooner rather than later. (About ten percent of new call-center employees take the money and run.)
the view
Vid of (the) inevitable corp excalating interview process.
While hoping to get my invite to join the beta program Amazon Web Services has for persistent storage volumes for it’s EC2 instances I’m playing with and doing calculations of costs involved using PersistentFS.
PersistentFS mounts AWS S3 as a live file system you can read/write.
It was rediculously easy to get started (having AWS experience already) following their step-by-step.
I’m working on nailing down costs now and if that works out I’ll run some time trials, but I’ve read others are quite happy.
The Giffen good is a strange beast from economic theory. For most goods, demand decreases as price increases. A Giffen good defies this normal market behavior — the demand for it increases even as its price increases.
Giffen goods have a very interesting history. They were postulated originally by Alfred Marshall in his 1895 book The Principles of Economics. The classic example is staple foods such as rice, wheat, and potatoes. As their price goes up, poor people on a tight budget actually consume more of them, because they are forced to cut back on luxuries such as meat, but still need the same number of calories to survive. Until recently, Giffen goods remained a theoretical beast, with no real documented examples — until 2007, when two Harvard economists demonstrated that rice and noodles behave as Giffen goods in certain poor parts of China.
Google’s recent results raise the possibility that search advertising might be a Giffen good. Here’s a simple model. Company X spends marketing dollars on two channels: search advertising and brand advertising (on the web or on TV and magazines). Search advertising drives customers directly to their site, resulting in immediate sales. Brand advertising drives organic traffic, albeit in a more unmeasurable way.
Ok, this is seriously cool. Google Trends incorporates OSDir news as benchmarks. I knew google news uses OSDir as a source, but this seems much deeper in the Google Brain.
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop has OSDir as a linux news source. That’s cool.