Adam Breckler

internet professional

Month: February, 2009

How to find info about a dead image on Flickr

flickrFound a dead link to a flickr image like http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/2177060015_258bcfaff9_m.jpg and want to find out which user posted it, more images by that user, see the full-size version, etc?

Why didn’t I think of that? Part 3: Retailmenot.com

Retailmenot.com is a simple coupon search site that has been taking off over the past year. The site solves a simple problem (dead or expired coupons) by allowing users to submit and vote on the validity of the coupons. They use a classic affiliate referral model, and by the looks of things, appear [...]

Setting Up Facebook Connect for Wordpress

These steps are needed to prepare your wordpress blog for facebook connect integration using the WP-FBConnect Plugin. The plugin is documented here and you can download it here. The implementation is pretty simple, but there are some caveats as follows.
Step 1:
Add the language attributes wp function to your header(s). The plugin will [...]

Question: When is $0 > $1,000,000?

Answer: When you are a pre-revenue company like Twitter.

Twitter is much maligned for not having a forseable way of generating revenue. It’s easy to mistake this for a lack of effort or accumen on the part of the team. In fact, I would argue that the apparent lack of a business model and lack of emphasis on revenues is not a short-coming but a strategic effort on the part of twitter’s investors and founders. The reason being, it is a hell of a lot easier to justify an inflated valuation for a startup based on the amount of capital invested and not on revenues.