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721.
by paul 18y ago
With my house key, they can get to my email, so email permissions are narrower than house permissions. Someone with access to my house can definitely cause more trouble than someone who only has access to my email. It's not just friends eit
722.
by paul 18y ago
This isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. The fact is that I DO give out keys to my house to a number of people that I trust. Likewise, I've used this import feature on a few websites that I trust, such as Facebook, and
723.
by paul 18y ago
Yes :) http://friendfeed.com/paul
724.
by paul 18y ago
It's good to make content accessible without cookies, js, etc so that it can easily be crawled by Google. I wouldn't waste time making the interactive parts work without it though. Moving the session cookie into the url is a bad idea -- it
725.
by paul 18y ago
I think that the most compelling uses of rooms are for smaller groups. We'll probably continue to refine the options however and may separate the read and write permissions.
726.
by paul 18y ago
See http://friendfeed.com/rooms/friendfeed-news for all the latest news. If you create a similar room for your startup, please post it here.
727.
FriendFeed Blog: Get a room!(blog.friendfeed.com)
6 points by paul 18y ago|3 comments
728.
by paul 18y ago
Faneuil Hall felt just as fake to me, kind of like Fisherman's Wharf. The rest of Boston is nice though.
729.
by paul 18y ago
Santana Row is bad relative to a real city, but it's great compared to a regular shopping mall (and compared to most of what surrounds it). For example, the linked article, http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96sep/kunstler/kunstler.ht... (
730.
by paul 18y ago
Having a documented api doesn't make it easy, just ask Xobni. In practice, making a fast and stable Outlook extension is extremely difficult. Also, Gmail actually does have a number of documented and stable hooks for extensions to use.
731.
by paul 18y ago
It's impossible to know if this was a good deal for them without knowing the terms. Also, Google actually did lease machines early on, which is essentially debt (done for accounting reasons, as I understand it).
732.
by paul 18y ago
You are dramatically overestimating the speed with which large products develop (especially Outlook). Even if they started last year, it still wouldn't ship for years.
733.
by paul 18y ago
I bet that you've never written an Outlook plugin :) I'd much rather try to hack Gmail JS, which many people have done, btw (see Remember The Milk for a popular example).
734.
by paul 18y ago
You could make the same argument for why advertising won't work for TV, newspapers, and magazines. Google's model is nearly optimal in many cases, but I believe many advertisers still spend the majority of their money outside of Google. The
735.
by paul 18y ago
Yeah, I don't understand most of what he writes either. His page on inheritance is very confusing to me.
736.
Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise(nytimes.com)
16 points by paul 18y ago|6 comments
737.
by paul 18y ago
Yes, they were obviously way off with that one. Facebook has grown enormously in the past two years, and they would have no trouble selling for many times more than the $750M that he turned down. The great thing about these old articles is
738.
by paul 18y ago
Actually, the vast majority of the feedback is very positive. What I've noticed that is that a lot of the stories getting voted up here are just bashing something popular, such as Twitter, or Facebook.
739.
by paul 18y ago
I'm starting to get the feeling that there's a big jealousy factor developing here. The formula is simple: find something that's getting traction and getting talked about, and then bash it. This bashing is very appealing to people whose own
740.
by paul 18y ago
It's funny to see people making this argument. When was the last time that MS released anything truly new or made any "competitor" history? Netscape was a long time ago.
741.
by paul 18y ago
That's a bad sign. Did they specifically refuse to tell you? Did they offer any explanation? It's important to be able trust the people you are working with. At FriendFeed, we'll share just about any number with the people we've made offers
742.
by paul 19y ago
Why does it have to be painful? Maybe he's just doing it wrong.
743.
by paul 19y ago
"Suggesting startups — specifically tech startups — don’t need to look for revenue opportunities now is akin to spoiling a child and shielding them from the outside world: They’re far less prepared when they eventually have to leave the hou
744.
by paul 19y ago
I would like that too. We just need per-user feeds from news.yc. Patrick has actually written the code, but I think that perhaps PG is concerned about the extra load.
745.
by paul 19y ago
Perhaps the long hours are a consequence of the determination rather than a cause of the success. I actually thought that people at Google were pretty reasonable. They weren't exactly 9-5, but most people weren't working 80 hours/week eithe
746.
by paul 19y ago
It's easy for a low quality page to have a bunch of links. The blog post you linked is also wrong about AdWords -- the pricing model is important, but there's a lot more to it than that (which is part of the reason why Yahoo can't catch up)
747.
by paul 19y ago
http://friendfeed.com/paul
748.
by paul 19y ago
People communicating with eachother IS making the world a better place. It just doesn't always look impressive.
749.
by paul 19y ago
Why do you care? The reality is that most human conversations are fluff. If you could listen in on everyone's cell phone calls, do you think they would sound very different?
750.
by paul 19y ago
Actually, link counts are pretty much worthless.

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