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by rantfoil 17y ago
Kind of annoying -- I understand people are crazy for SEO, but not linking back to twitter directly to view the stream is not the behavior I care for.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
If you told me up front you were going to keep the photos around for a little bit then take them down, that's all good. I don't begrudge you, your company, Kodak, or any other company for having a profit motive. It makes the world go round.
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KodakGallery.com is holding your photos hostage. Bust them free using this.(axonflux.com)
22 points by rantfoil 17y ago|6 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Dupe from 450 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123822
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Surprised that nobody has mentioned replication. MySQL replication is a known quantity. PostgreSQL has it, but they're third party and less proven/battle-hardened.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
This seems like a colossal waste of valuable SEO linkjuice. Good lord! Would it be so hard to do a proper redirect showing the redesigned pages / branding?
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by rantfoil 17y ago
As far as I can tell, Dropbox has actually solved the desktop file-sync problem. It's the first sync product of its kind that I've used that works out-of-box. Yes, sync is hard. Where I think things fail is mainly around user experience. Yo
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I admit, it's my fault.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Would love for you to use Posterous for this, and would love to chat with you offline about how it works out for your team and how we can get better. My contact info is in my profile. =)
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by rantfoil 17y ago
For a brand that's gaining momentum, getting coverage is a bit easier. You might already follow the writers on twitter or vice versa, or if you're in SF/the valley you might even grab coffee with them. For a company starting out, you need t
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by rantfoil 17y ago
It's something we talked about even back during last summer when we first launched Posterous. It's great to finally be able to put it out there. Once we launched group blogs though -- we did start hearing a lot of requests for this feature
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by rantfoil 17y ago
We're definitely excited about the potential for this feature to grow into its own product! You can expect improvements to this coming fast and furious.
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Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists(mashable.com)
68 points by rantfoil 17y ago|17 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
The one way to stay a programmer and avoid the tyranny of being 'managed' by a manager is to create a startup for oneself. Sure, you have to do more than just code -- but you can still code on your own terms, and it feels awesome to code fo
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Gabe knows because he's in the business (iMob) and he's seeing first hand where this rabbit hole is leading...
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by rantfoil 17y ago
This just shows how attention is and continues to be the scarcest commodity in an information glut world. Maybe eyeballs mean something after all... but only if you hook it up to a way to monetize, whether its Acai Berry / daily SMS horosco
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by rantfoil 17y ago
This is a really cool demo -- fast, to the point. Well done. I'll be keeping tabs on this and looking forward to the launch in May.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
My cofounder spent 6 years at Apple-- they do it by just doing it with fewer people. It's astonishing how much work gets done with such small teams.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Wow, talk about drinking massive hater-ade against Google engineers. I think this is little more than a poorly reasoned diatribe / ad-hominem attack against the perceived Googleplex. Come on now -- Google has smart engineers who get design.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Kyro, I agree-- twitter and posterous is like peanut butter and jelly -- they're complementary and are better together!
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by rantfoil 17y ago
However, it is a) functional and b) massively easy to embed.
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Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API(techcrunch.com)
35 points by rantfoil 17y ago|6 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Right, well, that may be true -- however the craigslist posting really only mentions "free rent" in exchange. A real advisor will get stock in your company in exchange for connections, advice, and an ongoing relationship that includes stock
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Equity is for life. It's a bum deal to trade equity in your company for a small amount of cash, unless whoever you're selling to is a real value-add investor or advisor who can contribute more than money for the LIFE of your company, not 6
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Unfortunately for Facebook, it ends up costing as much just in servers and upkeep to support 800 million users.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Do you dislike being indexed by Google as well? How is Backtype any different?
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by rantfoil 18y ago
1) Chatterous.com (YC W08) now has an API that can reach user's IM clients. That's exciting. I'm watching out for that one. 2) wince I used to design UI for desktop apps. Menu items have been a dead concept for quite some time, and with g
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We're working on it! (Actually could use a few beta testers for the private beta, fire me a line...)
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Interview with Posterous (YC S08) Co-Founder Sachin Agarwal(downloadsquad.com)
43 points by rantfoil 18y ago|9 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Good luck guys. Remember, even if you don't get in, keep hustling. You don't need a permission slip to start up.

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