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I've actually had this happen to me a few months ago; I tried to sign in and my account was locked due to some private pictures I had stored. I decided to just wait out the the "gr…

Based off of their team page, Pinterest is up to 31 employees. http://pinterest.com/about/team/

Things may have changed in the last few years as blogspam is still pretty lucrative and has continued to advance, but I remember reading a study a few years ago (found here: http:/…

The majority of sites that I've seen using Project Wonderful gave been online comics, and since that's a big market for the site, I personally couldn't recommend it for just anyone…

From my own experiences (viewing SEO as a "hobby"), I do think the type of semi-blackhat SEO that's most prevalent - the 20k blog comment blasts and automated WhoIs reports - is ri…

I'm not familiar with the outcome of any other "failed" projects, but has Kickstarter ever forcibly refunded money or intervened in any way? If not... they're obviously growing (ne…

One feature that feels kinda necessary while the ideas are sparse is the ability to skip (or not have repeating) ideas. Otherwise, I feel like I've already read over all the submis…

It sounds gimmicky when you add on top of the 3 item, 2 day, and 5% off restrictions that it's only on select products and valid in select stores. Nice headline news, but shouldn't…

As long as the submitted sites aren't the latest social network simply mining for more data/active users, it sounds like it could foster a great community.

For the sales of Crawford's book to go from 6 (/day?) to 5,000+ makes me question how many of those aren't really fans and are just readers because it was an impulse "buy". At leas…

Agreed - it seems like more of a failed attempt at a namedrop, when more of the "blame" should be directed towards the public. If Times readers as a whole lose express interest in …

It really does seem like auto-solving captchas has its benefits (assuming spammers already just use crowdsourcing to solve captchas). Utilizing this could open up the doors to any …

This type of approach seems to beg for collaboration between schools. If something like this can be done for such a fraction of the normal price, what's stopping a school from mold…