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dotcoma is a personal blog at dotcoma.it about business and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2009–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment cites a different paper on advertising waste and branding rather than discussing this blog. Nothing in the comments judges its writing or says what its posts cover.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Read The Waste in Advertising is the Part That Works: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4733724_The_Waste_i... . In it E. Ann Hollier and Tim Ambler make a strong case for what has been known from the start about branding: that mass media do it best, without performing at the personal levewl. One corollary for their case might be, "Not everything you value can be measured, and not everything you can measure h…

    Comment linking /2015/06/22/the-problem-with-targeting.html

    on “GDPR will pop the adtech bubble”
  2. Submitted Ad.ly - twitter spam marketing is the future as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. OR: Apple selling close to 10% of all mobile phones in the US with just 2 models (iPhone 3GS and 4) without spending a penny on ads in a market they entered only three years ago... http://www.dotcoma.it/2010/08/03/in-news-that-isnt.html

    Comment linking /2010/08/03/in-news-that-isnt.html

    on “Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.”
  4. Submitted Your company's urge to tweet as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yeah, sure there were forums and back Pud certainly did not censor anybody. But it was not really a business, that's what I meant. It was done for fun, and so that Pud could make a name for himself. And later write a book! My username: thanks. I was a great fan of Pud. I even wrote the Italian 'version' of F'd Companies https://www.dotcoma.it/book

    Comment linking /book

    on “Ask HN: Glassdoor is unbelievably bad, why no one disrupting it”
  6. Submitted The End of an Era (Bullshit on Google's homepage) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. My blog https://www.dotcoma.it/ Posts in English https://www.dotcoma.it/english

    Comment linking /english

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  8. Submitted Amazon.com launches Auctions as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Mailchimp vs. Facebook as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Nokia. What a difference 6 years can make. as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Companies (not: startups) don't have a voice. When they tweet or blog, they lie. as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Ice Cream as a Service (ICaaS) a much better model than SaaS? as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted Ten Inconvenient Truths about the Web as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Facebook is fine. "Social media marketing" is a failure. as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Apple, the iPhone Company as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Credit cards, marriage and divorce as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted MSFT's Win 7 Mobile's "strategy" is a mistery to me as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted The Cluetrain Manifesto in 2010 as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Tirekickers.com as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted News that isn’t: Android-powered phones outsell Apple’s iPhone as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted The largest toilet database ever - or: web2.0 is BS as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted What Twitter Really Is as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted So... here come Twitter ads :-/ as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Is Ajax the new Flash? as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted More Bad News for the Newspapers: Your Main Offering Is Your – Free – Website as a story · 1 points

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