Hacker News: eddycole

New comment by eddycole in "Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week"

eddycole — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:52:45 +0000

Demanding a dollar amount and judging marketing campaign's effectiveness at this early stage in the game is pointless. If (s)he made, say, $250 up until this point, that could potentially grow to $2,500 in 2 weeks or $25,000 in in 2 months, all as a result of the same campaign.

The SEO from the influx of new links is just kicking in, the public awareness of the products needs to sink in, customer base is still unstable, etc.

Success or failure at this point is just... unknown.

New comment by eddycole in "Please, take the "Work" out of networking"

eddycole — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:13:14 +0000

"neting"

Ok, so I couldn't resist. I will now bend over and take my downmod lashing like a man.

New comment by eddycole in "Why HN is slow lately"

eddycole — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:00:17 +0000

So, HN is now like the rockstar who puts on a baseball cap and shades and thinks he's out at the WalMart incognito... Ahhh, I get it now. Shhhh ;-)

New comment by eddycole in "Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money?"

eddycole — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:38:57 +0000

Think: pulling that data into a techmeme.com style aggregator/ranking site for the most popular urls people are linking to. Imagine how dynamic it would be - things that got linked to the most would percolate up to the top. you could watch in near real time as news breaks and gains traction.

I've had a service like this in mind for a while and haven't pulled the trigger because I'm a chronic procrastinator.

New comment by eddycole in "Huge Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission"

eddycole — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:40:06 +0000

Arrington didn't write this. Jason Kincaid did with contributions from Robin Wauters.

New comment by eddycole in "Apple revamps the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro with no fanfare"

eddycole — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:39:48 +0000

My feeling is that when Jobs comes back he is going to 'bring something dramatic with him.' The fanfare surrounding his return would be the perfect opportunity for Apple to release something significant that would ride the publicity wave.

New comment by eddycole in "Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme"

eddycole — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:55:23 +0000

"This is just the SEO community upset at me for saying that "seo is BS" back in 1995!"

I think it's more of a case where they are upset at you for gaming them for knowledge and advice, then beating them at their own game, which, by the way, has resulted in me having a tremendous amount of admiration for you...

You've 'scaled' SEO and kept the product quality. Kudos, J.

Edit: Oh, and it was 2005, not 1995 - since you seem to appreciate people correcting you ;^)

The "All I want for Christmas is..." Thread

eddycole — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:06:07 +0000

Ok, I'm new here at HN so I've been debating on whether to make this post or not. Now I have.

It's the season so for anyone who celebrates, what would your ideal Christmas gift be?

Come now, even hackers want cool stuff too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=405969

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by eddycole in "Ask HN: Has your handwriting suffered from years on the keyboard?"

eddycole — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:11:05 +0000

I can'r really comment on the quality of my own handwriting (nerve damage in my right arm from motorcycle accident years ago means limited dexterity in that hand) but observing others, like my daughter, her friends, etc. handwriting - yes, handwriting quality seems to be suffering. As is grammer, sentence structure, and punctuation. ;^)

I fear that like many of the skills we as people used on a daily basis, computers, automation and our 'convenience oriented' lifestyles are causing us to lose those skills like handwriting.

New comment by eddycole in "I don't want to work very hard"

eddycole — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:13:57 +0000

I had that fire for a couple years and it was one of the most exciting and rewarding times of my life. Working on getting it back right now and it's good to have that feeling in my gut again.

Thanks for the brief but highly motivating post, kareemm.