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There is a good podcast by planetmoney explaining it. Mostly it is because there are so many industries and interests touched that regardless of what you negotiate, there will be p…

Feedbackarmy.com did this a couple of years ago, with a really minimal form. Very nice to see a tuned version with more structure.

One year ago the nyt ran an article describing how one company makes a killing by angering people into giving bad reviews on such sites: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/…

I'd find the number intersting how many users would pay, if there were no free option available - my take is that it would be much more than the one percent of users that seem to b…

Rational Choice Theory says you are right, but it can't explain why people vote nonetheless, even though the perceived cost is so high for the small actual gain. Some people seem t…

Well, as the chance that the vote one casts is actually making a difference is so miniscule and the cost of informing yourself about the poltical agenda of parties rather high it i…

Another option is to set up an affiliate program and pay for leads / sales. That way people will start on the one hand to create landingpages or put your ads on some pages, but the…

That's too bad, I always recommended the service for easy collaboration and sharing, was one of my favourites. But well, Facebook will hopefully make good use of the technology and…

Well, if you are frustrated with College anyway, you might send an application to Peter Thiel's dropout funding: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/peter-thiel-drop-out-of-sch... Sta…

Great offer. Perhaps a small idea for those looking to put an original element in their CV that I used successfully: Put your Skills in as a Tagcloud. Strong skills get a bigger fo…

Hmm, I have the opposit feeling, that is compared to me many seem to be more intelligent. I stumble into many different fields and know some basics, but whereever I go people can t…

that's quite brilliant, it should work probably much more reliable than our guessing.

We didnot play with our own money, but with the coupons on the back of the cinema tickets. But even so, we should have made slightly less than 300 a month, but we did a slightly mo…

I bootstrapped my first startup by playing roulette in a casino every night. A Cinema close by was giving out 10 Euro coupons for the casino to play with, so we went first to the c…

I think two useful pieces information could be added to the ranking algorithm: the ratio of clicks/view and the ratio of upvotes/clicks - basically the conversion rates of an artic…

it seems to draw more eyeballs than an unveiled window, but still, cool idea ;-)

I am a fan of Wordpress in combination with buddypress. There are tons of plugins to tailor the community to what you like, from Chatmodules, groups, extended profiles, etc. And it…

Analysis is a hot field, so although most startups don't need a full-fledged Business Analyst your knowledge should enable you to spot an opportunity in this sector and to use your…

Well, it does not say anything about the methods they are using... cross machine tracking definitely seems somewhat strange and unexplainable to me...

"Sibyl" is by the way from greek mythology and referred to a woman who could predict the future, a prophetress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl Wikipedia mentions there were as …

Challenging project for sure, I'd actually be quite interested in the data mining techniques employed, but I guess that any private company who'd even research such a thing would b…

If you are hosting paid video content then you probably don't have so many people accessing your content simultaneously, so hosting it yourself is not that difficult? I rented two …