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Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by sweis »

pmjordan wrote: post #72
borism wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it be pushed to the client? Seems to me you can do this just as well on server side, and work more on ensuring Server Client interface security. Crypto tokens would be a start.

How would you do a full text search on the server if the server only holds an encrypted version of the data? To my knowledge, no homomorphic encryption algorithms exist that can be used for practical applications such as full-text search. The way to tackle this would be to make index creation on the client incremental: any new messages are downloaded, decrypted, indexed, the index encrypted and uploaded back to the s…

There has been a lot of work in the last 10 years on search over encrypted data. Some of the more practical schemes do operate similar to how you describe; searching over encrypted indices. For example, check out Chang & Mitzenmacher's "Privacy Preserving Keyword Searches on Remote Encrypted Data": http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/051.pdf

There has also been a lot of theoretical work in topics like predicate- and functional-encryption which could eventually be used for richer queries.

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Alex3917 wrote: post #38
fnid2 wrote: post #2

I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.

Hey this is Alex from LaunchHear. We just finished our presentation fifteen minutes ago and we're hanging around outside the YC building now. I just wanted to say that a lot of these startups are actually really impressive, it's probably just not obvious from the three sentence descriptions. Also, a bunch of these startups are still under embargo so they aren't even being written about. Give it a year or so and then…

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Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by jfb »

tiffani wrote: post #93
jpatte wrote: post #78

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I wonder if they were single founders from the very start or if the team broke during the program?

I know the Notifo guy, Chad, was working by himself. Dude's amazing. :)

He's a machine. We're all in awe of him.

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by jfb »

hristov wrote: post #12

These seem pretty good overall. Although I am rather unconvinced with the twitter ones, but then again I always thought twitter was a waste of time. But the others seem good. There a couple of surprises: (i) there are two single founders, and (ii) there are a couple of pairs that seem to be in the same space. Obviously embedster and embedly seem to be doing something similar, but there was also a couple of search eng…

jfb from nowmov here. There was never really any friction, the meetings always tended to be pretty matter-of-fact and collaborative. We didn't have any direct competition, so I don't want to speak for the embed* guys, but everything was always really collegial.

There's a half-dozen or more of these guys that I'd put my own money into if I were an accredited investor (some that are still embargoed). The three sentences are really insufficient, I think.

But then again, I'm biased.

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by jfb »

johnrob wrote: post #81
borism wrote: post #62

Notifo - Creating a mobile phone push notification platform which allows any service/business/app/website/anyone to send instant notifications to their users’ mobile phones without the need to develop applications for specific hardware models. SMS?

Hopefully Notifo is building something that will replace SMS for this use case.

SMS costs. Notifications don't.

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by derefr »

pmjordan wrote: post #72
borism wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it be pushed to the client? Seems to me you can do this just as well on server side, and work more on ensuring Server Client interface security. Crypto tokens would be a start.

How would you do a full text search on the server if the server only holds an encrypted version of the data? To my knowledge, no homomorphic encryption algorithms exist that can be used for practical applications such as full-text search. The way to tackle this would be to make index creation on the client incremental: any new messages are downloaded, decrypted, indexed, the index encrypted and uploaded back to the s…

How about a mutually-trusted third party (somewhat like OpenID identity providers are supposed to work right now)? The mail service uploads your encrypted index to the search provider, you upload your key directly to them as well (possibly beforehand), and the search provider returns the results to the mail service. It's not quite client- or server-side, then, though; after all, you could specify the third party to be your own machine if you were paranoid, or their own server if you were lazy/unconcerned. It creates more of a flexible spectrum of privacy levels.

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by andrewhyde »

pistoriusp wrote: post #19

I'm pretty interested to see what the CHROMAom guys are going to come up with - Are they going to build something new? I'm a fan of http://colourlovers.com . Maybe they'll make affordable... long lasting... PANTONE books.

My favorite on the list, great guys, great product!

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by fallintothis »

patio11 wrote: post #99
fallintothis wrote: post #46

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I was giggling at Gamador's summary. We make social games. We launch faster, iterate faster, and use metrics better. "Use metrics better"? I guess that one wasn't crafted with consumers in mind.

If it makes you feel better, you can pretend they said "We make the games our customers want to play rather than the games we think they should want to play." Because that is what they said.

Because that is what they said.

In so many words. I trust their second sentence is relevant and makes more sense to investors, but I imagined it being their slogan. "Gamador: We launch faster, iterate faster, and use metrics better" just sounds humorous (hence the giggling). To me, as a Joe-average user, it sounds more like That Guy from Futurama than "we make a lot of really addicting games".

Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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Post by lenley »

qeorge wrote: post #76

Does Zenedy sound exactly like Demand Media to anyone else? "..first determining algorithmically what content people are searching for, then identifying what portion of that content could effectively be monetized through targeted advertising, and finally contracting out the creation of that content to qualified freelance writers." That's pretty much Demand Media in one sentence.

kind of, but demand's big money maker is enom.com
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