Stories by amichail

Ask YC: Does it make sense to combine ads with interactive puzzles/games to get people's attention?

Ask YC: Do you feel bad when some users spend way too much time on your site?

Ask YC: Do you know of any web 2.0 sites where most users are computer illiterate?

Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand

Ask YC: How can I compete with someone who has a life story like this and who donates 50% of profits to charities?

Ask YC: Anyone know of a web site testing service where you can see a video of the user (not just a screencast)?

The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.

Ask YC: Players at top of puzzle/game high score lists as ideal employees/cofounders?

Cultural Differences in the Perception of Facial Emotion [pdf]

Survey shows few men bothered if wife brings home more bacon

Ask YC: Why does adsense try to find ads relevant to web page content rather than to the user?

Ask YC: Would it make sense to have an "ad captcha" to force people to look at ads carefully?

Can Only Intelligent People Be Creative? A Meta-Analysis

Ask YC: Are merit-based ads a good idea? Appearance probability proportional to karma/score/etc.

Obama's Web marketing triumph

Ask YC: Would it make sense to build a social news site using bounce rate instead of voting?

Ask YC: Free advertising to encourage greater user participation and promotion of your service?

Ask YC: Why not release your email statistics involving strangers to the public to reduce spam/uninteresting email to you?

Ask YC: How do you build a community in a single player puzzle/game site?

An idea for breaking through Silicon Valley's social network. It can be viewed as a generalization of Hacker News.