ryanmerket

Support and transparency.

Did the flame war algo catch this one? If so, well done.

This is really scary...

There's an upside to using them too: You can send tracking data back to your app through the Apple App Store 'black box' allowing you to track where your users come from. Use the 'app-argument' meta t…

It's actually much harder to monetize mobile web than to monetize in-app.

This is only an issue because the mobile app doesn't have Replies yet. once the mobile apps support it the chronological issue will go away. Relax.

This. Flat design may look 'cleaner' but that doesn't mean 'easier to use'. I echo your usability findings -- usability tests are showing flat design is much harder to use.

How's this different from Balanced Payments? Other than the supported countries. Do they do ACH? What's the holding period?

You're probably right... https://alpha.app.net/senitiki https://alpha.app.net/_danilo https://alpha.app.net/arfsoftware https://alpha.app.net/drh https://alpha.app.net/yahelc …

Most low/no carb diets say to stay away from nuts in general because they are generally starchy and have hidden carbs.

"..because the company is not dependent on venture capital or advertising." -- Uh, yeah it is. They took millions from VCs.

You were probably eating Planters or some other 'big brand.' Most peanut snack foods come loaded with sugar, carbs, and bad oil. http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/peanuts/car... …

Give me a break. He didn't have this idea back in June. It was a result of his twitter and Facebook platform experiences.

You should have used your Marc Andreessen connection to talk to the VP of Product instead of a Level 2 or 3 dev relations employee.

What does that have to do with anything? In your letter to Mark you said, "I had been reassured by Facebook dev-relations employees" -- as an ex-Facebook Dev Relations employee I can assure you that y…

Yea? So what? You just happen to post it right after your post about creating an open feed platform -- right as the PR momentum behind it started dying.

So you were extending Facebook's core features and you didn't expect Facebook to think that was being too competitive? I'm pretty sure I've seen this somewhere else... at least a dozen times.

Almost certainly.

This. Business is business. It's not the Dev Relations team that decides if an app on the platform is competitive. Just because they told him to it was 'cool' doesn't mean the execs think it's too com…

Facebook can easily grab the search queries from the header and use that to serve ads based on explicit searches.

Uh, yes they have. Have you seem Facebook's press page?

Yes. Please open source it...

I'm of the opinion that it takes more than 'natural curiosity' to convert someone to an engaged user.