Unless there is an obvious incentive to purchase a giftcard -- critically for a store/vendor which you already have near-term plans to spend money at -- then avoid them. Eg. I recently purchased one which had an effective 20% savings due to some holiday promotion and will be done spending the balance some time next week. Even then I barely decided to do so.
I don't know how we got conned into trading our money for giftcard balances at par.
I'll be shopping for a new phone soon and am interested in this model. But wow, they've missed a huge opportunity to capture that interest and let me know when I can buy!
The announcement says it'll be renamed to "Red's First Flight" and be re-listed "pending further review".
I wonder if this is simply a rebranding so that the original no longer appears for "Angry Birds" searches in the app store. Namely that subsequent versions make more $ per install, and having the original at a low price point is cannibalizing sales of the newer more profitable titles.
Think “scummy anti-SEO practices”. It’s so that when people search their Purchased Apps index for Angry Birds, having not recently installed it, the older flat-price no-IAP version isn’t shown in the results, and they’ll be more likely to install an IAP version instead. (iOS lets you install apps you’ve installed previously, even if they’re delisted.)
Definitive, eh? Qualifiers like this are amusing, as they're generally self-proclaimed.
However, having a domain like applerankings.com, as well as a comprehensive, in-depth and entertaining library of apple reviews, definitely helps make the case.
What other heuristics have you seen out there that help make a self-proclaimed "definitive source" become an indisputable one?
Edit: looks like the site came online last year with that same claim, so time is not in their corner.
I think the amount of fees per block is what's "insane" here.
Going back a day shows that the fees were on the order of ~3 eth per block (https://etherscan.io/blocks?p=300) whereas now they're averaging around ~20eth per block.
In other words ETH holders are very motivated to move their tokens right now, and the amount they're paying to do so reflects this.
Helpful (http://helpful.com) was working on this as well but got acquired (or maybe acquihired?) by Shopify. I'm not sure how much traction they got or if the product was just before its time. I suspect there are a bunch of lessons to learn from their efforts.
Union Square Ventures invested in them a few years back, and blogged about their rationale and some info on where Tucows is/has been headed as a business:
I stumbled upon this site when taking a trip down memory lane. Recalling the FILE_ID.DIZ file format[0] from my BBS days, I typed in the closest matching URL (file-id.biz) and found this curious interface.
I've only found one command so far after a bit of exploring:
help → "I am not what I am."
I noticed the TM used in the title: "Open Startup™". I wasn't sure if TM was used in jest here or whether there was actually an organization behind it holding the exclusive right to use the term.
Anyone know? Is there an "authoritative" source for open startups -- a list, practices, etc etc?
It'd be ironic for the term "open startup" to be locked up behind a TM and a "governing body", so I'm inclined to think it's not. However, the use of the TM here got me wondering.
We use it because we want it to be a common term for startups. We copied it from @levelsio who tweeted about it [1].
According to wikipedia the use of the trademark symbol indicates an assertion that a word, image, or other sign is a trademark; it does not indicate registration. It's not super relevant for our page though.
OP is a close friend of Pieter Levels (of Nomad List) and if you go to nomadlist.com/open you'll see "Open Startup™" as well, linking to open-startup.com which redirects to this tweet:
Unless there is an obvious incentive to purchase a giftcard -- critically for a store/vendor which you already have near-term plans to spend money at -- then avoid them. Eg. I recently purchased one which had an effective 20% savings due to some holiday promotion and will be done spending the balance some time next week. Even then I barely decided to do so.
I don't know how we got conned into trading our money for giftcard balances at par.