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It's the PG microblog.

I don't like that idea. Part of what makes Hacker News great is the forced absence of comment self-promotion/signatures and a extremely high focus on what's being said rather than …

So it's like saying Sequoia paid $2 million to come to YCombinator's demo days?

> What I hadn’t seemed to realise (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), is that this fourth day is where angel funds and VC’s pay upwards of £50,000 to attend (no kidding!) £50,000!…

Great run down, but this part is inaccurate: > They have a small number of employees, strong revenues, no funding, and apparently consistent operating profits. Funding: http://37si…

Redorb already covered that before me so I didn't. Besides, Twitter will eventually make money; it caters to too many of the seven deadly sins not to.

One creates their own linkbait, the other their users do it for them.

> killed somewhere around 20 people through fear alone. Do you mean without even biting them? How do the people die? Panic attack/heart attack?

Not true on both accounts. They rank for over 125,000 keywords. Source: http://spyfu.com/Domain.aspx?d=4637578045168633002

It's like a more civilized version of 4chan.

Because they get tons of traffic.

This more of a case in point than a because of. 37s has always had very very responsive customer service.

I'm not complaing, just making fun of :). It probably worked in terms of sales. But unfortunately it has the unintended consequences of all these people trying to coin unnecessary …

Yeah but the whole O'Reilly empire sells books, conferences, webinars, etc. all bearing the Web 2.0 scarlet letter: http://search.oreilly.com/?q=web+2.0&submit.x=0&subm...

The guy sells books and conference tickets :).

It's marketing/douchebaggery and demonstrates a lack of creativity. "Web 2.0" was coined by a dude trying to sell more books.

Well in that case apology accepted. And to your second remark I agree with you - I'm genuinely against built to flip companies. I just don't think Mint was one of them.

Their support is brilliant too.

Perhaps, but calling yourself a revolution is kind of like calling yourself insane or weird or unique or a celebrity; it's just disingenuous. If you have to call yourself something…