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This author sounds a little naive re: technology. Perhaps he should examine some of the Facebook publicly available scans that have been done by "academic researchers", e.g., in So…

Google is really good at seamlessly integrating the companies they acquire to give the appearance to users that Google develops much more than they actually do. The Google brand be…

TOPS-20 Autocomplete.

I think what he means is getting funded is commoditized. But that will not continue indefinitely. And that is because eventually someone will want to know how the company plans to …

I'll bet she was thinking of the data mining and analysis possibilities opened up by allowing users to input information in the form of "notes". Of course, that's just a guess.

I am afraid I do not understand the question as you have structured it. If you can rephrase it, maybe I can give you an answer. I may have been sloppy in my usage of the term "regu…

They made money in the past, as more and more users kept signing up and using the site (more new eyeballs on the display ads). We're looking to the future now. What happens when th…

If you're with me in spirit, I take that to mean I'm not "wrong", I'm just unrealistic, a dreamer, etc. I think web developers have a lot of power over how the web operates. Much m…

Let's look at this in simple terms. Let's look for evidence of a "business model". Website becomes popular. Website gets personal details from users: email, maybe photos, address, …

What is a "power user"? How do you define this term? Is it a user who wants to add features to something that otherwise works fine for its intended task? (This is a guess based on …

The ideal to strive for is what we call the "Goldielocks effect". Not knowing too little. Not knowing too much. Knowing just enough to get the job done. In computing there will alw…

I never said an optional GUI would hurt R. (I think optional GUI's are a smart idea.) I was referring to SAS and SPSS. They have mandatory GUI's.

In general, do marketing people know how to create websites? If not, how can they even know what is possible to create using HTML, CSS, etc.? If the answer is "they look at what th…

Are we sure that "=" and not "==" is the correct operator? If "==" was appropriate then there would be no problem of ambiguity. And there would be no need for the clarification. Be…

It's web developers that are responsible. It's a little like advertising perhaps. Advertising has become more of an art form than a tool. Awards given for achievement in creating a…

Email is a bootstrap that no "next-generation" communications solution can do without. Every startup, whether focused on communications or not, wants your email address. That is no…

Wise words. What's the sense in spewing out endless chunks of code when no one (even the authors later on) can take the time to read it and understand it? Why not review the code t…

Maybe price won't be the most important factor, as some commenters have pointed out. Maybe the more important issue is the use of an "open format". I'd like to see "ebooks" that ca…

I've sometimes wondered: Is there any country that has "free" dental care?

Walled gardens, which are just another annoyance in a long line of progressive manipulation of the computer user for profit, together with an increasing lack of responsiveness (des…

Maybe they do not trust the FPGA's being supplied to Wall St.? Does Wall St. check for backdoors in hardware?

"investment community... limited in scope" But how about the regulatory environment? Maybe it might make a good base from which to launch a startup focused on reclaiming some stand…