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I would be interested in a followup from the guy who invested his entire savings into Bitcoin: http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-saving...

Skydrive is also quite useless with file restrictions like no files over 50mb. Why not just use Dropbox?

I recommend the first link, it was really enlightening to read and after I read it it illuminating a lot of marketing/sales techniques I didn't even see operating.

If it doesn't stream, what's the point? Why do I care that I can redownload a song? You can already do that. As to iTunes match, so this is basically just a backup service? I was e…

They have a list of some ~60,000 merchants, email addresses in the tens of millions, no patents or 'moat', and they're trying to sell a dollar for fifty cents and make a profit. Al…

Your favorite subject is always yourself. Why should I care about this? Was bitcoin in the headline earlier?

Why is it necessary to "give up your ability to fit in with your own people" to understand another culture? Why would understanding America and Singapore mutually exclusive? I know…

Simple, Google is worried Groupon theoretically could get a huge share of local advertising like they were with Yelp. Google isn't infallible, they are mortal. I think most likely …

There are almost zero barriers to entry. Groupon has a list of a few thousand merchants, a few million emails, 8000 employees, and sells a dollar for fifty cents. How can you scale…

Your comment is spot on except your hyperbolic and unnecessary attack on social security. Groupon figured out a way to sell a dollar for $.50, and they use money from new investor'…

The difference is... Groupon can never scale well and have great profitability-- they need 8000 employees to do what? They have a list of merchants and a database of emails and wha…

| edw: No, I think they should license it to HTC and all the other Android handset manufacturers, given them one more feature bullet point in their long list of features that the i…