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by c3o 17y ago
Likewise MININGCO.COM is now About.com (#31 -> #65)
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by c3o 17y ago
"Atomico itself is the largest single investor in its new fund"
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by c3o 17y ago
To understand this you need to know that back in 2005, Ning wasn't as restrictive a your-own-customized-social-network service as it is now, it allowed you to build several kinds of social, "web 2.0"-ish pages like hot-or-not type rating si
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by c3o 17y ago
Macs
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by c3o 17y ago
True. I guess you could just do the conversion at some later date when the computer is online -- that would still free the couple from the burden of having to do any video editing themselves, but I suppose it would be a little tricky to bui
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by c3o 17y ago
Regarding the Animoto proposal: You should look into the Stupeflix API ( http://www.stupeflix.com/api ), which could easily automatically stitch the videos together into something that looks impressive. Let me know if you would like a perso
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by c3o 17y ago
This seems like an appropriate place to post this: Another YCombinator founder, Florian Hufsky (Claimspotting, S'08, never launched), committed suicide in December.
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by c3o 17y ago
He could add my implementation at http://canvaspaint.org -- just a few bugfixes and style changes to do :)
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by c3o 17y ago
I heard him speak at a media arts festival here in Vienna a few months ago. I'm pretty sure he won't be trolling TED or throwing around in-joke references: He actually seemed pretty sick of all the mindless repetition of memes (and how coul
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by c3o 17y ago
In an ideal world the extension would only be making HEAD requests and the analytics system would only count GETs, right?
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by c3o 17y ago
But that looks like someone's trying to protect something valuable, which could make it more tempting.
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by c3o 17y ago
So health insurance was the only thing keeping you from doing that so far?
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by c3o 17y ago
I agree that the invite process is all wrong, but for a different reason. Google should be encouraging users to invite others for a practical purpose, ie working on a project together. Having a specific purpose in mind when being invited to
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With 1-5 star ratings, most things average out to about 4.3(onthemedia.org)
30 points by c3o 17y ago|16 comments
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by c3o 17y ago
Probably not quite what you mean (focused more on tinkering than startups), but I can't not link to http://hackerspaces.org when I read "a whole network of hackerspaces".
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Celebrating fast failure at Seedcamp 2009 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by c3o 17y ago|0 comments
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by c3o 17y ago
I thought this might help explain what kind of value teams can derive from the events Seedcamp puts on before even picking any winners to fund , which are an important part of its model and a distinction to other micro seed programs. For m
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One entrepreneur's review of Seedcamp 2009(emigal.com)
3 points by c3o 17y ago|1 comments
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by c3o 17y ago
Why would you say "whoever puts up 50k Euros"? Seedcamp Investments LLP does.
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by c3o 17y ago
Most medium-size supermarkets in the UK do that (Tesco Express, Sainsbury's, M&S Simply Food). I've never seen it in a large one though.
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by c3o 17y ago
Saul Klein: "Y Combinator, by virtue of being in the valley, has a built-in network, a built-in infrastructure. In Europe, we got none of that ... We have a real problem of fragmentation, so Seedcamp was really trying to solve for that iss
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by c3o 17y ago
The Seedcamp fund is obviously where the money for the EUR 50k investments comes from. It seems logical to me that the people contributing the money are the audience of the final pitching round, upon which they then decide who to fund. Ther
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by c3o 17y ago
The Mini-Seedcamp events all over Europe and the multi-stage application/interview process offer loads of chances to get to know the people involved before participating in Seedcamp week proper.
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by c3o 17y ago
That's exactly what I feel hacker spaces do. http://hackerspaces.org
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by c3o 17y ago
Just in case anyone from Vienna, Austria is reading this: There's a talk on exactly this topic at local hacker space Metalab tonight: http://metalab.at/wiki/Metaday_25 [german]
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by c3o 17y ago
Thanks in advance for reporting back here whether it lives up to these promises once you've tried it :P
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by c3o 17y ago
Why is the data on all the traffic stats sites so far off for them? I know those sites are hardly accurate, but my own startup with significantly less than 1M uniques shows at least as equal to dailybooth.com (and more often than not towers
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by c3o 17y ago
That's http://streem.us actually -- you might be mixing it up with Soup.io (which is my startup) there, since the products have similarities :) But I agree: His work is top notch.
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by c3o 17y ago
But wasn't the requirement that a tweet fit into an SMS? How relevant the SMS medium still is to Twitter is another question...
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by c3o 17y ago
There are "Capture the flag" contests at DEFCON and other hacker conferences where teams each need to defend a machine and attack those of other players: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag#Computer_secur...

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