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Curated reading every week on design, growth, monetization of mobile apps and any newly published data about apps.

Hope I'm not repeating something already mentioned in this large discussion, but here's another thing to add to that list: Once you live in San Francisco for a few years, it will b…

Classic case of lowering expectations so much that even fulfilling the basic needs seems like a fantastic experience.

While I agree with the coolness quotient, and the technological marvel, here is one for the skeptics: I, being an infrequent traveller, am almost always online - whenever I am usin…

Besides all the other points in favour of S3, I'd like to add one small note: in any business, you want to shift your fixed costs over to variable costs.

It would be a bit like investing in your customer's business. You want to, but is that the business you're in? Besides, the two all important questions: How do you decide who is de…

I am moving to the bay area (and the country) and I need to get a broadband connection for my apartment here. Would love to find out what most people here use, and if there is any …

I got a copy of the Apartments For Rent magazine from a friend (I believe you can get it from ForRent.com) and found a lot of places that weren't there on Craigslist or Rent.com. I…

Reading between the lines, does this mean: We are scared that pursuing this "legal battle" might open up a can of worms we'd rather keep under the covers?

How is this semantic matching? Seems to me another pop-quiz.

About Harvard professors spending time/resources on such things - it is a social phenomenon. And given the money involved here, a business phenomenon as well.

Run my map-reduce as a single task. :)

a) Find out how to partition your data. b) Can you pre-process some of the queries and make the data available to the algorithm in a BDb or some such? c) Can you make your heavier …

Like everyone else is saying, don't. It's a lot of responsibility and that's not your main business anyway. How about using something like Amazon FPS instead?

My thoughts exactly. Although both are functional in their own way. MySpace is about me. Facebook seems to want to position itself about my network.

Reminded me of this post by Seth Godin: It's easy to be against something that you're afraid of. And it's easy to be afraid of something that you don't understand. ( http://sethgod…

I fed my feed back to my friend feed account. Each post showed up twice but that was it. No infinite loop, no endless recursion.

Hehe.. technology is finally getting touchy feely! :) But I'm not sure how much a value-add this is over bluetooth which, although a tad slow, serves the purpose of short range com…

why do you think hacking is the same as programming?