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getting error loading bitfountain.io: Response Error. Technical description: 502 Bad Gateway - Response Error, a bad response was received from another proxy server or the destinat…

Do you worry about people pirating your eBook, or worse yet - infringing your copyright by taking the information in the eBook, and publishing it as their own? It seems that by goi…

at the same time, yahoo's design influenced google. google used to have an exclamation point in its logo, just like yahoo.

I used to have a folding bike made by Kama. Can't say it was very convenient. To get it inside an elevator, it took more time to fold it, than for the other kids to fit their regul…

this may be true. I lost my wallet today, and a very honest man found it and returned it to me. The wallet contained a large sum of money.

I feel monkey island was the most captivating out of all those type of games (except maybe leisure suit larry?)

Daniel, Did you guys have the name twitvid registered as a trademark?

If I remember right, based on his presentation at Stanford Enterpreneur Corner, Hoffman was about to go sell jumbo juice after college, not thinking about SocialNet...

maybe one of the designers / programmers of twitvid.io is selling source code to twitvid.com on the side... :)

Of course there is no single magic pill, but I'll try anyway. :) Google - PageRank. Google was not the first with the product anyway, there were many other search engines in play a…

It is most likely, as these sites were probably not built in a matter of days. The concern is not about that, it is about copyright - about the look and feel, and the name. What is…

I agree, competition is somewhat of an after-thought when building a successful company. However I consider the comments "work hard, run faster" to be general knowledge, something …

related threads to this discussion picked up by venturebeat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638769 I started a separate thread for discussing barriers to entry here: http://ne…

Although this question has been on my mind for quite some time, the situation with twitvid.io http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638526 prompted me to post it on HN. I am posting …

I doubt it took them just a few days, considering they have an API, flash plugins, design elements, etc..

I am not an IP lawyer, but seems like copyright infringement to me. Starting with the name. I don't think it matters if twitvid.io is not a .com - if they are providing services un…

the domain twitvid.com was created earlier but may have been bought from the original owner just recently.

Owen, It would be very educational to hear you go into the details of the liquidation deal that you would prefer and recommend to people joining a new startup. Or, if you could rec…