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1,203 | null | comment | amichail | 1,172,500,585 | Is it not the case that a major motivation for doing your own startup is to pursue your own idea? So the question that needs to be asked is this: what is the probability that k people will collectively come up with an idea for a startup so that each person feels they have contributed sufficiently to this idea? Maybe fo... | null | 1,142 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,202 | null | story | mattculbreth | 1,172,500,325 | null | null | null | null | [
1226,
1222,
1438
] | http://ariejan.net/2007/02/26/4-unusual-uses-for-subversion/ | 8 | Four unusual uses for Subversion | null | 5 |
1,201 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,500,214 | If you could somehow involve students in virally marketing it to their teachers it could get interesting. Still, not a big market (especially when you factor in their spending power). If you're passionate about it, though, it's an area that can always use a lot of help and I really hope it goes well. Keep yo... | null | 1,199 | null | [
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1,207 | null | comment | dangrsmind | 1,172,503,264 | This article could be a chapter in the book How to Lie with Statistics.<p>It is clearly a biased sample, listing only "successful" companies but not the much larger set of unsuccessful ones. The "exception" of Excite thrown in with 6 founders, IMO makes the author's intentions (conscious or unconsc... | null | 1,142 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,209 | null | comment | shimonrura | 1,172,503,683 | Every time I see this graph I am a little bit tempted to puke.<p>There is only the barest explanation of what the test means, and as far as I can understand the circumstances of the test are not like those typically encountered by web servers, even those under extremely high load.<p>On top of that, this graph measures ... | null | 1,150 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,214 | null | comment | pg | 1,172,505,016 | We find two or three works best. One advantage of three is that you have a third person to defuse any dispute between the other two. But if the two founders have known each other long enough, like Emmett and Justin, you may not need that. | null | 1,142 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,215 | null | comment | pg | 1,172,505,435 | Fixed. At news.yc we have a plan for linkjacking: the editors
just replace the url with the url of the original source. | null | 1,200 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,208 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,503,338 | Well, reaction time and being agile enough in general (like when pg talks about implementing a competitor's feature the night after a competitor announces it) also give you room. That can be institutionalized. | null | 1,162 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,213 | null | comment | immad | 1,172,504,733 | Hmm, I see your point. Value/Users does seem to be meaningless by itself. You could reverse it around and say $440 is how much value they think they can derive from each facebook user. But that does not take into account any future growth and as long as facebook stays *the* college social network it's going to cont... | null | 1,180 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,205 | null | comment | dangrsmind | 1,172,501,392 | Thanks for the information and links. My background is in video and image processing, well originally multiple target tracking, sensor management, and sensor fusion, but now I work in biometrics and video analytics. Understood about processing the information into a graph. <p>Your point about Google raises one of the... | null | 1,135 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,204 | null | comment | jmzachary | 1,172,501,141 | Jessica captured great material and didn't get in the way doing it. Each chapter was clearly focused on the target story, not Jessica's agenda. She did a great job facilitating the QA. This makes the book useful and enjoyable, and not a marketing voice for YC. <p> | null | 1,133 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,211 | null | story | pg | 1,172,504,236 | null | null | null | null | [
1259,
1255,
1220
] | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/25/the_best_book_f.html? | 25 | Paul Kedrosky: The Best Book for Startups | null | 5 |
1,206 | null | comment | floozyspeak | 1,172,502,822 | I think its forming. I don't have a startup in my pocket to address it, but I think consumers are being exposed to more identity issues today than they've ever been before. I think consumers are connected to the pain of identity as the net evolves. They see this in news regarding id theft and they feel the p... | null | 916 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,210 | null | comment | dangrsmind | 1,172,503,741 | This one is probably related to the well known property of human short term memory which states that we can remember about 7 plus or minus one things. This is the reason that phone numbers are seven digits for example.<p> | null | 1,169 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,218 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,172,505,987 | I agree that the one size fits all method doesn't really work for everyone on social news sites. My site, http://www.klipboardz.com, tries to solve this problem by using some of the same suggestions that you listed. We have a recommended area that lists stories based on what sites you visit and your up and down vot... | null | 1,141 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,216 | null | story | andres | 1,172,505,506 | null | null | null | null | null | http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286065,00.htm | 4 | Dell prompted into action over open source | null | 0 |
1,221 | null | comment | drop19 | 1,172,506,363 | This article gave me a lot of encouragement and heart, because they are based in New York and because they are out-hacking large, established players. <p>I agree with what Paul et al have written about the importance of being in a startup hub, but this article makes me think that if you are targeting a particular indu... | null | 1,191 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,212 | null | comment | smackaysmith | 1,172,504,530 | Seems like having fun at work is the whole point. We all are experiencing the blurring of work and home life. The Skinny guys have figured out that you build projects out of a personal need and enjoyment. Some stick; some don't. Apparently, t-shirts designed by their community sticks.<p>The video of their talk is d... | null | 1,116 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,222 | null | comment | amichail | 1,172,506,531 | You can also use it to do code search by automatically tracking which commit comments correspond to which lines of code. That way, you can search for drag and drop say and get back code that has been part of commits where the commit comment included the words drag and drop. You can also try doing code search without co... | null | 1,202 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,219 | null | story | gcaprio | 1,172,506,062 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.1530technologies.com/2007/02/the_apple_exper.html | 6 | The Apple Experience | null | 0 |
1,226 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,508,163 | If I could put my whole life in subversion, that would be great. | null | 1,202 | null | [
1241
] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,220 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,506,241 | dupe (1133)- but we forgive you because you're pg :) | null | 1,211 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,225 | null | story | misterchen | 1,172,508,126 | null | null | null | null | [
1253
] | http://www.smallbusinesshub.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1224/Backroom-Confessions-Of-A-Marketing-Executive.aspx | 6 | Backroom Confessions Of A Marketing Executive | null | 6 |
1,217 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,505,530 | Having never started a startup, I wouldn't know, but how long does the average successful startup go without hiring more people? The number of founders pretty clearly only matters during that period. And, is that the hardest part of getting a startup off the ground? PG wrote that he generally hired people when none... | null | 1,194 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,224 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,507,433 | Respecting licenses is all well and good, but I was never completely clear on why the full text of the book was not published on the web to begin with, since it seems clear that the bulk of the authors' revenue is probably coming from YC, and anyway the publisher frequently keeps most of the revenue from book sales... | null | 1,175 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,223 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,172,507,155 | Ooo good PG video. Will be bookmarking this one... | null | 1,076 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,241 | null | comment | danielha | 1,172,513,260 | I can't tell you how convenient it'd be to 'commit' and 'revert' on whim. | null | 1,226 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,227 | null | story | adamd | 1,172,508,215 | null | null | null | null | [
1234,
1231,
1237
] | http://www.cangooglehearme.com/ | 8 | Can Google Hear Me? | null | 5 |
1,237 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,172,511,794 | red paper clip as marketing strategy... I guess the internets like the little-guy-long-shot story...<p>http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ | null | 1,227 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,236 | null | comment | pg | 1,172,510,946 | I'm sure anyone who has to deal with cell carriers would say it was a pain in the ass. But that pain also kills off a lot of competitors. Much of Loopt's success is traceable to the fact that they were one of the few groups, if not the only one, who were both great hackers and willing to endure endless meetin... | null | 1,234 | null | [
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1,234 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,172,510,211 | If the success of your startup depends on getting a partnership with one company, you're probably doomed. Successful products are ones that create value for users, and value comes from startups. Creating a product where half the value comes from the startup and half comes from an established company usually leads t... | null | 1,227 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,229 | null | comment | veritas | 1,172,508,901 | It's not even a list of "sucessful" companies. It's a list of well known companies. I'm sure there are plenty of successful companies piloted by only one founder or more than 2 founders. The sample isn't statistically kosher if you will. Success doesn't depend on the number of people fou... | null | 1,207 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,239 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,172,512,150 | It's sure one hell of a sustainable competitive advantage if you have the cojones to pull it off. That being said, I'd rather spend my time thinking about how I'm going to get my users laid rather than how to appeal to the self interest of a non-rational corporate entity.<p>update: That is, I work for a big... | null | 1,236 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,240 | null | story | comatose_kid | 1,172,512,489 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002201.html | 2 | How Mitchell Kapor (founder of Lotus) deals with a difficult s/w project. | null | 0 |
1,232 | null | story | danw | 1,172,509,570 | null | null | null | null | [
1303,
1290
] | http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/25/do-you-need-to-write-a-business-plan/ | 11 | Do You Need to Write a Business Plan? | null | 3 |
1,235 | null | comment | danielha | 1,172,510,888 | I didn't think the link provided a good analysis of an optimal number, but it was nice to have a list of some big names next to their number of founders.<p>It's hard to say how many founders works the best. You just need to find what works for your situation. I'd say it's usually on the low side so you&... | null | 1,142 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,231 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,509,569 | Well I guess if he can generate that much buzz over the simple act of handing a business proposal to Google- without even mentioning anything about what that proposal is- then he has some talent. Google could hire him and put him in marketing. | null | 1,227 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,230 | null | comment | aristus | 1,172,509,232 | Err, no and no. That was a hypothesis from the 50's that has since been invalidated, and many (most?) places in the world do not have 7-digit phone numbers. Memory is "chunky". For instance, you can easily remember phone numbers in your same area code even though they probably have 10 or 11 digits. | null | 1,210 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,233 | null | comment | brett | 1,172,509,824 | Could provide a small counterpoint to pg's post-Kiko claim that, "The best solution for most startup founders would probably be to stay out of Google's way." (<a href="http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/kiko" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/kiko</a>)<p>Interesting that where Google proves to be kind... | null | 1,191 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,248 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,172,516,225 | dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1191 | null | 1,246 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,244 | null | comment | trevelyan | 1,172,514,370 | #include <meatrank.h>
| null | 1,069 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,245 | null | story | joshwa | 1,172,514,433 | null | null | null | null | [
1251,
1312
] | http://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/10/account/ | 9 | An OpenID is not an account! | null | 6 |
1,250 | null | comment | Harj | 1,172,516,817 | thanks - im taking it down now | null | 1,248 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,238 | null | comment | comatose_kid | 1,172,511,849 | Hi,<p>Like many others here, I read a lot. Consequently, I find that I have already seen many of the links on this site. <p>With this in mind, you should consider providing a link next to each article that a user could click if he/she has already read this article elsewhere. <p>This info could then be used to give a... | null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,243 | null | comment | eduardoflores | 1,172,514,067 | IMO, this has to do with what a company is about: people and relations between them. That is, communication. With two persons it's easy to get to a 100% understanding. As the number of persons increases, the relations between them increases exponentially. So does complexity of those relations. Maybe two or three is... | null | 1,142 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,252 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,172,517,854 | Start the introduction by describing what your product is, in three sentences or less.<p>Eliminate the account creation. Don't bother making a prototype right now, just make some mockups in photoshop. It's easier to drag images around than it is to drag code around (at least if you want the code to compile).<p>... | null | 1,178 | null | [
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,242 | null | story | comatose_kid | 1,172,514,003 | null | null | null | null | null | http://rspec.rubyforge.org/index.html | 1 | RSpec - a better way to test your ruby apps. | null | 0 |
1,228 | null | comment | danw | 1,172,508,848 | Any chance you could correct the title to last.fm please? Sometimes the little things bug me :)<p>Its amazing how quickly last.fm responds to their users. Someone asked them to post the source code to this internal tool during their FOWA presentation and by the next day it was up. | null | 1,197 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,247 | null | comment | drop19 | 1,172,514,892 | The best part of this book in my opinion is the section where they describe every step they have to take when implementing a new feature. It clarifies the advice they give about saying 'no' to new requests initially (because even a seemingly-tiny feature can involve a lot of work to make sure it launches succe... | null | 574 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,246 | null | story | Harj | 1,172,514,730 | null | true | null | null | [
1248
] | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/business/media/26adco.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | 1 | An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little | null | 1 |
1,265 | null | comment | danielha | 1,172,519,936 | From the article:<p>"This issue has reached a crisis point. Computer science employment is growing by nearly 100,000 jobs annually. But at the same time studies show that there is a dramatic decline in the number of students graduating with computer science degrees.<p>The United States provides 65,000 temporary H-1... | null | 1,261 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,254 | null | comment | SwellJoe | 1,172,518,130 | OKCupid is pretty cool...but I can't imagine writing web apps in C++. It just seems pointless and kinda stupid. Performance of machines is so good these days...even the slowest web frameworks in high level languages (RoR and Zope/Plone come to mind) are plenty fast enough for almost every requirement.<p>I'm s... | null | 1,119 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,258 | null | comment | danielha | 1,172,519,406 | It all depends on the implementation on the relying site.<p>Indeed you must still pick a username (or perhaps you don't -- again, depends on the implementation), but it all comes down to simplifying the identification process. If the identity provider recognizes you, the relying site trusts that the information you... | null | 1,251 | null | [
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1,262 | null | comment | danw | 1,172,519,737 | There was a good point that Simon Willison raised recently. If your building a web app and that app gets dugg, the digg users will be able to log straight into your site with no sign up process if you support openID. Aything that lowers the barriers to someone using your app has got to be a good thing. | null | 1,258 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,253 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,517,990 | Basically, my possibly buzzword-influenced perception is that since more people listen to blogs and other highly grassroots, internet-based, relatively honest (to the extent that they know anything) sources of information, classic marketing has begun to wane in effectiveness, because marketing most of the time is disho... | null | 1,225 | null | [
1272,
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
1,261 | null | story | danielha | 1,172,519,650 | null | null | null | null | [
1265,
1355,
1354
] | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301697.html | 6 | How to Keep America Competitive by Bill Gates (Current state of affairs with Computer Science and Education) | null | 3 |
1,260 | null | comment | palish | 1,172,519,470 | That's something I hadn't really thought about before. If I create some kind of useful resource for students, then they'd be more likely to involve their teachers in getting a Classbug, yeah. That's an area to focus on.<p>Monetary gains aren't my prime motivator. If I can just create a service th... | null | 1,201 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,263 | null | story | thumbarger | 1,172,519,763 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.thefreelibrary.com/iRise+for+Entrepreneurs+Program+Empowers+Emerging+Companies+With...-a0159176397 | 1 | iRise for Entrepreneurs Program Empowers Emerging Companies With Software Simulation | null | 0 |
1,255 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,172,518,256 | How does he sleep at night? He writes ten or eleven blog posts a day, reads half a dozen papers, dozens of blogs, writes weekly newspaper columns, and runs a VC firm. And on top of that he still reads a ton of books. Amazing. | null | 1,211 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,256 | null | comment | jullrich1 | 1,172,519,175 | At the end of the day this is a public explanation of a private decision. I'm guessing that the amount of thought that went into this decision is massive and began on some level long before PG made a comment. Without personally knowing Andres, I think it's safe to say as a physics expert he possesses the anal... | null | 227 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,257 | null | comment | palish | 1,172,519,223 | Thanks for your input Alex3917, and I agree that I need to refactor the introduction. But it seems that the "create mockups in photoshop" concept wouldn't really work. Reddit was able to focus for a solid month and get most of their site implemented. It's easier for me to express my product in code t... | null | 1,252 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,266 | null | story | farmer | 1,172,520,041 | null | null | null | null | [
1271
] | http://www.word.sc/ | 1 | Word Source - The Social Dictionary | null | 2 |
1,259 | null | comment | jullrich1 | 1,172,519,420 | I agree with everything PK says and would add one more thing: JL does an amazing job of staying out of the way of the answers. Most interview style books allow way too much truncation of the answers by the ego driven interviewer, usually right when you can tell the answer was about to get interesting. Well done. | null | 1,211 | null | [
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1,251 | null | comment | danw | 1,172,517,012 | This is a really confusing aspect of openID. It still perplexes me that when I log into a new site with my openID that I have to verify email, choose username etc. <p>Whats all the fuss about if all it does is handle the password entry aspect?<p>I know that many 'normal' users find it very confusing to be redir... | null | 1,245 | null | [
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1,264 | null | comment | dougw | 1,172,519,917 | Much agreed, she asks all the questions I want to know before I wanted to know them! | null | 1,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,249 | null | comment | byrneseyeview | 1,172,516,553 | I think he means that threaded comments encourage flamewars, since they let you respond to responses, instead of to the original article.<p>When reddit added comments, I think that was one of the complaints. But Digg's awful "@userX..." kludge demonstrates that people will flame no matter what, but if comme... | null | 1,102 | null | [
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1,268 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,520,426 | null | 1,267 | null | [
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1,267 | null | story | farmer | 1,172,520,174 | null | null | null | null | [
1342,
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] | http://www.cio.com/archive/021507/fea_user_mgmt.html?action=print | 3 | Users Who Know Too Much (e.g. who read the print-friendly version instead) | null | 3 |
1,270 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,520,605 | Commented the wrong post, my bad. | null | 1,268 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,269 | null | story | pg | 1,172,520,478 | null | null | null | null | [
1292
] | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/gift_economy_or.html | 15 | Tim O'Reilly: Gift Economy or Honeymoon? | null | 2 |
1,271 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,520,645 | First Impression: great front page. I am not enthralled / don't understand the wordsource live stuff, however. | null | 1,266 | null | [
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1,272 | null | comment | bhalligan | 1,172,520,910 | Well, I think that your reason for existence still persists, but the methods for achieving that existence have changed. The internet has made all markets more "efficient," so that marketing executives need to figure out better ways to let people shopping for their product/service discover them through search e... | null | 1,253 | null | [
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1,282 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,526,514 | Shawn, I too am very interested in improving the classroom experience using the web. You might want to check out my buddy Mark's post on creating a viable blackboard alternative: http://www.markmcgranaghan.com/2006/12/16/idea-lightweight-blackboard-alternative/<p>He outlines pretty well the costs of maintaining b... | null | 1,178 | null | [
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1,280 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,524,276 | Markets being more efficient means that customers know better what is actually going on, and marketroids have less influence over their perceptions. Sure, there are still horrid inefficiencies, like the 1000% markup on eyeglasses, but 19dollarglasses.com and the like has begun to close that inefficiency. It isn't t... | null | 1,272 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,283 | null | comment | hwork | 1,172,526,552 | Hmm this extra comment showed up as I was trying to edit my previous post. Oh well!
| null | 1,178 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,288 | null | comment | palish | 1,172,527,632 | Hmm.. This ended up as a double post. | null | 1,281 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,275 | null | comment | phil | 1,172,521,610 | Good rundown, they must not mean "most popular" literally though. | null | 1,274 | null | [
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1,279 | null | comment | mynameishere | 1,172,524,119 | "TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo and Alexaholic. These are some of the most popular websites on the Internet. "<p>Huh? | null | 1,274 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,290 | null | comment | brezina | 1,172,528,620 | In my limited experience, the best investors don't ask for biz plans. Perhaps instead of a biz plan being the method by which an investor judges an entrepreneur it is a means to adjudicate an investor. | null | 1,232 | null | [
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1,278 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,523,987 | They probably trick some people into believing that they are honest bloggers, but since people reading blogs generally expect and want the bloggers to be honest citizens, incognito dishonest bloggers can't stray nearly as far from blogger-quality honesty as normal marketing can without being yelled at for being a s... | null | 1,277 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,284 | null | story | jwecker | 1,172,527,017 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/02/26/advertising-truth | 1 | Advertising truth [state of the zeitgeist] | null | 0 |
1,274 | null | story | phil | 1,172,521,463 | null | null | null | null | [
1279,
1916,
8518,
1275,
1329
] | http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95 | 25 | What the Web's most popular sites are running on | null | 6 |
1,291 | null | story | Sic | 1,172,530,391 | null | null | null | null | [
1295,
1304,
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] | http://www.digitalreading.net/yacs/articles/view.php?id=29 | 2 | Looking for partners to build ebook/self-publishing related website | null | 5 |
1,276 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,521,983 | If you can think of a methodology that won't make you puke, please suggest it. Yaws is easy to install on most platforms (like "apt-get install yaws") and very easy to configure. Maybe in the academic sense you can poke holes in the methodology, but in the practical world I can't think of a more cleve... | null | 1,209 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,281 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,172,525,308 | I am a current user of Blackboard, but only under duress, and would heartily welcome a replacement written by someone who actually cares about software. Under their model, even if you write the best software, it is likely that no one will care, since the users of the software (teachers and students) are not the people ... | null | 1,178 | null | [
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1,289 | null | comment | palish | 1,172,527,641 | It's disheartening to hear that teachers are using such horrible tools that they're refusing to use them. I hope to change that.<p>As to revenue, I'm not worried. I'm going to focus on making it as useful as possible first. :) | null | 1,281 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,285 | null | story | jwecker | 1,172,527,154 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/BUSINESS/702250330/1003 | 1 | Starting up in Florida | null | 0 |
1,277 | null | comment | misterchen | 1,172,523,065 | What are your thoughts on the emergence of professional bloggers incognito and their impact to the value of blogs as honest source of opinion/reviews? | null | 1,253 | null | [
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1,273 | null | story | amikael | 1,172,521,335 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.xindesk.com/blog | 1 | The xindesk blog | null | 1 |
1,286 | null | story | jwecker | 1,172,527,265 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4579530.html | 2 | Head start for startup school | null | 0 |
1,287 | null | comment | palish | 1,172,527,541 | Extremely informative! I had no idea that blackboard had an annual cost of $75,000. Ridiculous.<p>Yeah, the automatic grading will be hard to get perfect, but it can certainly come close in a short amount of time. One thing that I feel will be beneficial will be the ability to embed videos, images and hyperlinks dir... | null | 1,282 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,292 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,172,531,167 | Stupid idea: Someone should do a mashup of Google and Revver, and show related Revver videos instead of text ads next to search results. The site would actually be monetized by getting people to watch the videos. | null | 1,269 | null | [
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1,294 | null | story | jwecker | 1,172,531,559 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/technology/27joost.html?hp | 3 | Kazaa Creators Do Latest Venture by the Book | null | 0 |
1,293 | null | comment | jwp | 1,172,531,284 | Hmm, perhaps we should talk. Email me at e40.32313371@bloglines.com if you're interested. | null | 1,205 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,295 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,172,531,954 | Am I reading this right?<p>"believe that books going digital is great business opportunity on the long run (in the next 5-10 years)"<p>== you will only be compensated with stock OR we don't expect to bring in any money for a while.
(not that that's bad for a startup partner.)<p>:) | null | 1,291 | null | [
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1,296 | null | comment | phil | 1,172,532,268 | agreed. have the masses really been yearning to make friends and build a network around dictionary words? | null | 1,271 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,297 | null | comment | Ninjamonk | 1,172,532,522 | great detailed read, Kinda of funny to think that mySpace pushed SQL server further than MS have done themselves. <p>I would have done it a lot different myself :p | null | 1,015 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,298 | null | story | sharpshoot | 1,172,532,753 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://venturevoice.com/ | 12 | Venturevoice - podcasts of leading entrepreneurs such as Reid Hoffman, Evan Williams, Fabrice Grinda | null | 4 |
1,299 | null | comment | Sic | 1,172,533,354 | yes.
I'm working alone on an idea.
Plus I work full time as a software developer and have a small baby at home.
I'm trying to find partners who hopefully have more time or at least interest and willingness.
I don't see this being a full time activity at the moment -- I wish it was ;)
I think a working prot... | null | 1,295 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
1,301 | null | comment | Sic | 1,172,534,045 | Wow, 30 mintues and 51 people contacted me and they all want to become my partner!<p>... well, not really :) | null | 1,291 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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