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Does Amazon make any significant revenue from Goodreads? I can see how it might be something that boosts their kindle sales but other than that they probably have a good reason not…

usenet, especially rec.music.phish It's still there but not the same. Also I want to give a bit more info about why rec.music.phish was special. Phish, like the Grateful Dead, allo…

https://www.phantasytour.com is one of my favorites. Phish in particular has a very vibrant community, if you enjoy their music you can find lots of other people who are passionate…

Every comment submitted here is kept by Y Combinator and they own it in the same way facebook or "applebook" would own it, except they don't run ads. But if you were to apply to th…

If the person who walks by did something memorable and unique then we do own that experience and it very much translates into meaningful data. If I was a witness to a crime happeni…

"Translate this page" is missing.

The mobile app Whisper can be useful to some for finding friends although there are tons of creepy people who primarily use it to try to hook up with women so if you can tolerate o…

I'm not affiliated with Taproot, but am aware of them and that they have been successful with their model. Taproot Foundation - WHAT WE DO: The Taproot Foundation connects nonprofi…

Disrupted by Dan Lyons

https://barnacl.es/ is one of my favorites, for bootstrap startup news

There is another company that uses the name "Canvas" as their brand at http://www.gocanvas.com

Not if there is no investment and no one is getting paid anything yet.

What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?

I have an application set up with Devise handling authentication for me and Devise allows me to create multiple accounts with the same email address. Considering how commonly used …

http://www.taprootfoundation.org/ - If you live in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles this could be an option, as well as the sort of model for fi…

Wouldn't these sorts of issues be solved more easily if the Gemfile listed specific versions of the gem dependencies? I don't like the idea of allowing a Rails app to just download…

My top priority when working on a side project is to work on something meaningful to me in ways that a full time job don't allow. Both on the technology side of getting to use tool…

Thanks for the link to Calagator. I have been looking for any sort of open source alternative to meetup and had not found anything. I really don't understand why there isn't anythi…

Does anyone know the link to the Kickstarter project "that involves taking an oak tree and splicing firefly genes into it"?

eBay, used computers can be just as good as new.