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joshwa
18y ago
you mean this? http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
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joshwa
18y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=261437
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joshwa
18y ago
What about an aftermarket for profiles on failed dating sites? Or even ones that haven't failed yet. Dating profile portability? Dating site messaging federation? Pay per message that crosses networks?
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joshwa
18y ago
thanks!
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joshwa
18y ago
Hmmn, photography seems to be popular. I do food/travel photography: http://joshwand.com/food/ (though I actually make some money on this, so don't know if it qualifies as a hobby) Flight Simulation (X-Plane) Cooking (I've taken up real B
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joshwa
18y ago
Process trolls can infect any organization...
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joshwa
18y ago
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/349/
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Face Swapping
(kk.org)
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joshwa
18y ago
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joshwa
18y ago
The HN title is misleading-- is really more specifically about newspaper sites.
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joshwa
18y ago
Xobni + Highrise?
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joshwa
18y ago
Yeah, there was definitely a surplus of snotty expat i-bankers (even compared to NYC). Shanghai is the ultimate party city.
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joshwa
18y ago
I was there during a period of unseasonably clear weather-- from the top of the Grand Hyatt we could see clearly for miles and miles (which gives you a good idea as to how HUGE the city is.. and I live in NYC. ). The air is much worse in
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joshwa
18y ago
I just got back from Shanghai last week. Curious urban planning-- whatever you want, there's a street for it. My personal favorites: the industrial supply street, dye street, and the outdoor (!) air-conditioner market. One of the side effec
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joshwa
18y ago
+ XGA LCD Projector ($800)
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joshwa
18y ago
$6-33k for "telepresence?" Skype video chat + cheap webcam accomplishes the same thing for $25.
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joshwa
18y ago
More terms to avoid: * Ninja * Guru * ___ - Fu * Kick-Ass ___ * ___ Chops * Mad ___ Skill[sz]
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joshwa
18y ago
It's spam for two reasons: 1) The default setting for a long time (not sure about now) was that you'd get an email every time someone new followed you. 2) For those folks looking to make actual social connections on Twitter, it's next to im
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joshwa
18y ago
How is "following back" each of the 20,000 people that follow a corporate or prominent blogger account on twitter a legitimate use? Nobody can read that firehose. It seems like people are overloading the "following" feature --rather than a
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joshwa
18y ago
Seems like there is definitely a market for "exchange for the rest of us" done right... I wonder what the minimum feature set for an Exchange-compatible email/calendar sync server might be.
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joshwa
18y ago
Yeah, a better title would have been "beyond RSS."
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joshwa
18y ago
The actual post is here: http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/16/google-where-companie...
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Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub
(slideshare.net)
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joshwa
18y ago
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Friendfeed Crawls Flickr 3 Million Times Daily
(waxy.org)
2 points
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18y ago
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joshwa
18y ago
Thanks, Luke! I am subscribed to the RSS feed with radius search now. Too bad I can't actually leave my Fortune 100 job for a few more months...
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joshwa
18y ago
Probably true. But they trashed this great little lightweight application platform in the process...
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joshwa
18y ago
Delicious is owned by Yahoo, not Google. But c.f. JotSpot nonetheless...
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joshwa
18y ago
Came across this today: http://wegame.com/
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joshwa
18y ago
Well, now there can be legitimate competition in the e-learning market, at least (c.f. Blackboard patents)
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75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks
(blog.shlang.com)
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18y ago
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Vimeo says "no" to one of its biggest userbases
(vimeo.com)
24 points
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joshwa
18y ago
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