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by evancaine 16y ago
http://www.springwise.com and sister site http://www.trendwatching.com
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Six ads that changed the way you think(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
One reason: design. I have virtually no design ability. Believe me I've tried and failed miserably. Over the years I've read a number of books and tutorials, I've tried to emulate styles and designs from sites I like, I've spent countless
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by evancaine 16y ago
Congrats on launching something, that first hurdle kills more startups than anything else. As far as the product goes, I agree with the sentiment in the other comments - I don't see how this is any different to email? Perhaps you could hav
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by evancaine 16y ago
Given the festive spirit and the popularity of the original submission titled "Today you, tomorrow me", I thought HN may enjoy this story. Merry christmas HN
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Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982](bbc.co.uk)
210 points by evancaine 16y ago|13 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
A lot of the comments in this thread seem to imply that brand specialists will always deliver a quality logo. I can think of one recent example where that wasn't the case: the London 2010 Olympics logo. It cost £400,000 and was negatively
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Ask HN: where can I find interface designers?
3 points by evancaine 16y ago|1 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
focus on the message, not the medium. The comic reminded me of any number of articles about cognitive errors and distortions that regularly appear on HN.
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by evancaine 16y ago
I often see design contests for open source projects. Why does no one seem to mind when there is usually an uproar against commercial contests/spec-work/crowdsourcing sites?
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Why the seed investment bubble is exactly that(eliasbizannes.com)
4 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of how and where Twitter spread(blog.hubspot.com)
2 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
The interface looks remarkably similar and they seem to be taking the same approach to privacy
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Swytch.net - diaspora already has a clone(swytch.net)
5 points by evancaine 16y ago|3 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
I disagree. People do care about privacy, they just have no way to show it other than to quit facebook and that's something they're not prepared to do. They'd rather put up with poor privacy controls and keep their account than have no acco
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Answering Recent Questions on Privacy Controls(blog.facebook.com)
1 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: why do spammers target HN?
5 points by evancaine 16y ago|4 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
A very good set of tech talks on a range of topics, especially of interest to ruby developers.
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Pivotal Labs Tech Talks(pivotallabs.com)
2 points by evancaine 16y ago|1 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
Being open source, I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone writes a plugin/fork that works with Amazon S3. The user would then only need to sign up for an S3 account and that largely removes all four of the roadblocks you mentio
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Japan unfurls Ikaros solar sail in space(news.bbc.co.uk)
16 points by evancaine 16y ago|5 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
For anyone in the UK, going to google.com gives you 'original' google without the background. A redirect sends you back to the UK version but if you set your homepage to google.com/ncr it should stick
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AT&T security breach exposes emails of 100,000+ ipad owners(techcrunch.com)
17 points by evancaine 16y ago|5 comments
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"Find something impossible and do it" - Yehuda Katz keynote at RailsConf(twitter.com)
2 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
http://status.heroku.com is up and recently updated. There's also http://twitter.com/herokustatus
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Ask HN: in open source projects, is the design/UI also open?
3 points by evancaine 16y ago|2 comments
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4chan's founder on why anonymity can be valuable(gigaom.com)
1 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by evancaine 16y ago
Isn't that true about Facebook privacy stories too?
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by evancaine 16y ago
this was the last straw for me. I just requested that FB delete my account
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by evancaine 16y ago
I find it unlikely that fb copied this feature. FB is in the content discovery game (amongst other things). Once users are sharing photos, a likely next step would be to help them discover photos from their friends and friends of friends.

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