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Hey folks, I'm starting to think about expanding my e-commerce site to Canada, and eventually Europe. I know zilch about what's involved in taking a site to Canada. Can I get away …

I could see this working really well if you did it with opposing charities, e.g. RNC vs. DNC. The charities wouldn't even need to endorse it, necessarily. Could be huge.

Hello friends, JoeMaps is a new site by me and my cofounder, Joe Harrow. Here's the "elevator pitch": JoeMaps makes it easy to get a map that gives you directions between two place…

I agree - not a lot of utility in this (for me at least), but I'd pay $100 for something that did this for webpages.

Anyone have any data on the clickthrough rates of share (e.g. Digg, Mixx, Delicious) badges placed in the footers of blogs or news sites, e.g. the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chica…

I've used it - really helpful. Wish they would send their testers eye tracking monitors - that would rock.

My other projects.

Glad to see that even the smart folks at HN are subject to the temptation of mindless diversions.

Not playing football in 6th grade. I would have been a completely different person, I believe.

Learn to code -- that's what I did. It doesn't take much to get to the point where you can implement your ideas. If there's one thing I believe in, it's not waiting for other peopl…

Finding good developers is hard... but finding business people to help drive growth is, in my opinion, harder. Especially people who get the Web. Who's had luck? What were you look…

I love Axure for prototyping. I'm a mac user and it's windows only, and it's the only reason I have VMWare installed. Once you get it set up properly, the fact that it's running in…

We have a public chatroom in our campfire account that we use for this purpose. Also, I heard that you can now embed gTalk widgets in webpages, allowing gTalk to be used for that p…

Where do you live?

I think a couple of our guys (thepoint.com) are going. Please say hello! We look like this: http://www.bandrew.com/rampage/

* Use a thesaurus * Read lots about the problem you're solving. You may find obscure (but cool) academic terms that apply to your space. * Buy theburdenofdestiny.com from me for a …

twenty thousand-ish. Finding a domain was painful. First we wanted tipit.com, but we couldn't even get the squatter that owns it to respond. Then we wanted hotpotato.com (god I'm s…

Hey guys, I'm the founder of The Point (www.thepoint.com), a startup that launched a few months ago for organizing collective action and helping people make things happen. We've go…

To those of you that work on websites that require users to click a link in an e-mail to validate their accounts: what percentage of users complete the activation process?

What do you think? I see it done all over the place...

I'm going through the process of writing all the various e-mails our site sends out to users, e.g. "Welcome!", "Reset Password," "Confirm E-mail Address," "You have received a priv…

I'm curious what technology you used to grab content from wikipedia?