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Additback.com turns social "likes" into increased traffic for a site. It analyzes the social graph of users and recommends friends to be tagged who are most likely to read, like an…

Joe Google Flu Trends is pretty good at tracking geo-mapped disease trends. They track all related queries (symptoms, drugs, treatments etc). Take a look at the nature paper they w…

Google Flu trends (Nature, Aug'08) tracks the query volume of the symptoms of a disease like Flu; its a pretty neat idea, especially for countries that do not have a CDC-scale dise…

Why we don't see any homerun product-based startups in the developing world ...

Thanks, will do.

Thank you for this input. We didn't want to change much in the most popular Bittorrent client (Vuze) that we used for building this. You are right, we will work on releasing a ligh…

I am not sure what you mean by "reverse the changes", but if you want to improve upload contribution for a low-bandwidth node, it is built into BitMate (it improves both download p…

Just saw the surging traffic on our download site and noticed the link from HN. Re: Aggressive sharing. Yes and no. If the torrent is encoded as a Merkle tree, you can verify subse…