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We call it a "consumer exploration tool" - a quick way to tap into the wealth of information in social networks to get a better picture of what people are like. The target market i…

Personally, I never ever give my email credentials out. I totally agree with Jeff Atwood on that. However, while you're at it, why not ask people for their facebooks/myspace creden…

It would also mean that your level of protection depends on the amount of air in your tank. As someone who chronically forgets to fill-up, I wouldn't like that idea...

What people seem to be forgetting is that the US ad market is the biggest by far, and thus the opportunity to make money isn't in the global market. Ask Peanut Labs (formerly xuqa.…

Good points. Especially no. 1. However, the eventuality of it makes it unlikely IMO. The web is about here and now. Why not just use a wiki?

Maybe part of the explanation is that it's very light-weight - the car in the photo looks tiny, it says it's made of fiberglass, and my guess is that the engine must also weigh muc…

Which makes the phenomenon even stranger - nobody here seems to be able to come up with a good explanation of scribd's success, yet somehow they do succeed.

Really, if you have an office doc that you want to put online, then why not export it as a pdf?

So let's see, students submitting papers and receiving scores. Sounds familiar? It should strike everybody as an idiotic way to evaluate potential business success. If anything goo…

Palm actually did have the distribution in place - through palmgear (interestingly, it still exist) which was THE go-to place for Palm apps. Regarding advantages to the software de…

Not being sarcastic at all! If a website is too slow, it has a significant adverse effect on my likelihood of using it. And it's not just me - see Google's assertion that speed is …

Very nice and useful idea. I may actually come back and use it (which happens very rarely with new apps nowadays). Problems: Way too slow. Spend more on hosting :( The "meat" is in…

Who develops desktop applications anymore anyway (except maybe game developers). If in the past you used to build apps for windows because that's where the installed base was, nowa…

That and more: Apple's platform probably won't be adopted by anyone else, so even though the user base is attractive right now, down the road it would look diminutive compared with…

That's true on the sole hacker level. If you're considering writing some mobile apps, and the iphone seems like a nice platform, then learning a new language for the purpose should…

I find that Microsoft tools in general offer a compelling package when you start out - great IDE, good docs and purportedly good support (I never use customer support myself, so ca…

Hopefully Android is just the beginning and soon enough the mobile industry will find that it needs to be educated in the way open source works.

I started a (commercial) project with Rails, and eventually, when we needed some 3rd party libraries that Java provides moved to running it on top of JRuby. Since then we've been g…

It's not. You're looking for gigs, which means networking, interviewing etc. Marketing yourself essentially. Vacation is when you don't work.

My co-founder and I started out working from our own separate homes, and we experienced a huge surge in productivity once we moved in to a common office. And I mean HUGE. Phones, I…

Since it's a start-up, it's most likely that their lawyers just drafted this up for them, and the founders don't really know any better. Lawyers tend to be overly cautious this way…

Indeed, your product is suitable for people who work fixed hours, 9 to 5 and such. I guess you should promote it to people in government, manufacturing or retail jobs.

Agreed. Here's another thoughtful post on the subject: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/06/the_rise_of_a...

I started using the filesystem for storage a while back, and then realized that I'm re-implementing a lot of DBMS functionality in my own buggy code. I switched over to using a dat…