From this picture, I'd actually feel quite good about the team in terms of their technical competency. I get a positive vibe from them in terms of that.
I would worry about their business acumen, however. This team does not seem to have an immediate business type presence.
Highly misleading. A visitor is someone who visits a website perhaps 10 times or just 1 time. A user is someone who is using the website more regularly.
The value of a visitor is the percentage who convert into users * the value of a user or s/t like that.
I don't agree with the approach this article uses to gauge learning.
For one thing, it completely puts down science and math courses. In a multivariable calc class, we didn't have reading or writing (though I did have more than 40 pages of homework!)
But the problem is that Google controls traffic to that extent. Almost any website if asked honestly will say that at least 60% and more likely 80% or more of their traffic comes from Google.
Some products spread because they are so high quality. Google became a giant because its search was superb, Starbucks its experience great, and Facebook so life-enhancing.
But advertising is just a part of free enterprise. Such quick successes are the exception, and advertising can genuinely create awareness of value adding answers.
...advertising can genuinely create awareness of value adding answers.
While certainly it can, the problem is that the vast majority of time for the vast majority of people it doesn't and is consequently wasteful and annoying. I imagine that there were a small fraction of cases in which leaches were also medically effective.
I am not a big fan of Tim Ferriss - he argues for a 4 hour work week, but in one sample day of his I saw, he worked 4 hours on one article for the Economist alone.
That said, this article is surprisingly interesting/useful.
> In the second category, you have people who don’t love what they do. It comes back to that comfortable mediocrity. And for them, it’s about replacement. It’s not about reduction. For them, the goal is to get to the point where they’re doing what they love. And that is the objective of everything that I teach. _It’s not to be idle_, but it’s to get to the point where you control your time and allocate it to the things that will give you the most joy and also provide the greatest impact. For each person, that will be very individual.
the wikipedia article seem to be much more useful and objective than the original post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine
,and see references there-in
I used medical journals for the research, they are all behind paywalls -- if you have access to some University Journal Databases, check the sources in the bottom of the articles. The most recent study was published in December of 2010.
Does anyone actually get paid by Google Adsense? Almost everyone I know has been kicked from it, not early on but usually when a big payment is coming.
And this bit about returning the funds to advertisers? Any advertisers ever gotten money returned due to click fraud?
I love Google and pay for lots of their products (docs/storage, appengine, etc) but the adsense stuff seems very shady on Google's side as well. Maybe it is my misunderstanding but I know noone making good money on Google Adsense.
Granted this dude was violating the ToS but I know plenty of people kicked just before payment and with no reason for it. It seems like smaller sites or medium content sites they are glad to use for free ad space until it comes time to pay dues. I imagine there is lots of free advertising space and metrics gained from these situations.
Now, go to pof.com and try to find yourself an AdSense ad today. They have their own ad network now: https://ads.pof.com
Shoemoney still has AdSense ads, but has diversified his income stream quite a bit. I'd be willing to bet that he doesn't see anything near what he had been making from AdSense in 2005.
I would worry about their business acumen, however. This team does not seem to have an immediate business type presence.