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Yep - agreed. We're a relatively new team, so there is a lot more to come. Our larger goal is around making a lot of data accessible and actionable for owners everywhere. Stay tune…

Great call on sharing a more robust write-up. We're going to be watching the market closely over the next 10 days and will share more here. For our team, one of the more interestin…

If the link leads you to an ‘area search’, that means the user removed their listing from Airbnb, likely after having booked their place for the Super Bowl. Often, these are people…

Love this. This makes it easy to send Gifs to friends via text. Essentially, instead of texting emoticons, you can easily send over full Gifs that you find/love. Brilliant, really.…

Looks pretty darn cool. Seems like Facebook can own the peer-to-peer payments. Integration with retailers would be even better. Retailers certainly would LOVE to allow me to pay & …

Slick tool -- Definitely amplifies the ability of anyone to create novel GIFs to share with friends. Something tells me there is a pretty big audience for this tool. I dig it!

Used this. Love it. Brilliantly conceived.

tl;dr Want to work on an awesome side project? Know python and django? Live in San Francisco? We are working on a project in the local events space and we'd love to talk to you abo…

Yup... typing msitake. 1-3+ years How the heck did this make the front page of HN?!

Thanks Cherian Would love to talk further about your experiences. Feel free to write me - ak@urbantag.com Thanks! and yep - def a tough problem... ;)

Interesting & strong point. We're looking to solve that problem as well -- its a darn big challenge!

Agreed - and we think your friends would benefit from those short, honest, insightful comments as well. Its all about providing an environment where people you care about can easil…

Interesting point - what if your reviews are shared between your friends? Our findings are that people can be honest in a community where they know their recommendations will mostl…

Some thoughts on why a new review ecosystem is needed, and about to develop

The quick & dirty results from an API comparison test we ran last week.

We built a tool to query the various POI APIs. Striking how different the results are... We have an analysis write-up coming out shortly. Currently, the default location is set on …

Thanks for the thoughts - We'll share more about our solutions as we approach our launch. Also, Playoff Beards rock; perhaps the word lickable is a bit over the top...

How three design flaws with current LBS platforms are hindering the development of a great tool for local discovery.

a teaser of whats to come from @urbantag

loving this collaboration/organization tool from Asana... Think I need it today!

Damn, this is frustrating... geo-location is such an exciting technology - just shocked that one company can own the rights to so much. Patents that cover ideas this expansive are …

Good point - There was another article recently about Apple that addressed this -- "You Can't Innovate Like Apple" http://bit.ly/3eYW In short -- Apple's focus on perfection/design…