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"Steve Newhouse, the chairman of Advance.net, decided very early on that his company would not be the blob that ate Reddit, and for the most part, left well enough alone. “We had s…

I'm digging into the Harvard Statistics class on iTunes U. The material is compelling, and iTunes U is amazing in general (shout-out to universities with videos on YouTube, and MIT…

That caught my eye too, and I guessed on Twitter that it might be a typo/under-explained. Somebody from Tumblr (though on a different team) was nice enough to respond and guessed t…

Dashboard is more like a "reader." Everybody you follow is found there. Also any tags you subscribe to are there. Interactions like replies are also found there. I'd compare it to …

Kout doesn't really seem to be launched (you can only sign up for list). Whereas Gumroad lets you sign-up right now. Gumroad's design is also a bit more inviting. I hadn't heard of…

I agree with your main point. But it's worth noting an interesting trend is developing. Amateur analysts are regularly outperforming professional analysts when it comes to tech sto…

Well put. I do marketing work on a few projects that have commercial blogs. In mose cases, we're able to get 1K+ Tumblr followers in Tumblr is comparable to Twitter in that it's a …

Cool to hear about your positive incubator experience. I'm a little confused though. The main vibe of the blog post was generally critical of the value of most incubators and you s…

I can't speak for him. But for me, "beautiful novelty" is often a site that impresses me, but doesn't convince me to use it (even if i am its target- so it's not like just because …

Ah, I just meant that things can seem like a straw man if nobody is arguing the other side... but it isn't a straw man just because nobody identifies with that side (but do actuall…

(I submitted this, but don't know the author personally, so there are some assumptions built into to the following.) [edit- regarding issue of straw man perception] The issue is th…

Thanks for posting this. Can't believe I missed it. Seems this guy is riding a wave of outrage/Internet meme fun.

Thanks so much for posting, checking it out.

Just wanted to clarify that this wasn't a joke. If you're not in G+, you can't share this/don't have this button. (Whereas non-G+ members could have shared in Google Reader.)

Thanks, signing up, and kicking the tires. You'll be hearing from me.

I don't think this button exists if you've resisted the G+ vortex (I know, I know, a separate discussion :D...).

Thanks for this cool idea :D I will set it up at least for now. But it doesn't solve the discovery part- having a place where I can see everything my friends are sharing- unless th…

The no-sharing/discovery thing has hit me hard. If anybody out there has a social RSS reader start-up, feel free to reply to this and advertise your service. I will drag my friends…

One minute after posting time, it's up for me.

I was an early Posterous user (still active), long waiting for another shoe to drop. The missing social things (stream view, notification banner, having others' content be your Das…