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by zhyder 18y ago
Good point. I should fix that. Thanks!
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by zhyder 18y ago
Request granted :). You can already do that, altho I need to make it more obvious. Click Share -> Make Public. Now you have a public webpage you can link to, and you can directly embed the image in blogs too. (The latter part is non-obv
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by zhyder 18y ago
Thanks! Other shapes are planned: diamonds and triangles for sure. I want curved lines but haven't figured out the UI for them yet (I'd need an additional handle compared to straight lines, to allow the user to change the control point and
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by zhyder 18y ago
Thanks! Btw, you can currently download a .png format for free, which I hope you'll be able to print with any program on your computer, or convert to pdf. Do you think there's value in doing a direct conversion to pdf? Converting to Visio t
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by zhyder 18y ago
Thanks! I was thinking of a similar pricing plan. I worried that companies wouldn't be comfortable with the security issues of having their drawings on my servers though. Any tips on what I could do to make the service secure, and to make t
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by zhyder 18y ago
There is collaboration functionality already. Click the "Share" button on the top-right. It's not truly real-time yet though. (You either share offline, or if working online together, you have to hit the annoying refresh button). I need to
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by zhyder 18y ago
Wow that was amazingly fast feedback! Thanks! 1. Good idea, was considering that anyway as a way to reduce my database load, as opposed to saving every 4 seconds (if you change the drawing) which is what I'm currently doing. (I'm a hardware
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by zhyder 18y ago
I was frustrated by how annoying other options for digital whiteboarding were. Most cases I (and others I know) just fell back to using a physical whiteboard, or overusing words when a quick picture would do the job much better. In brief, I
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Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck(dabbleboard.com)
122 points by zhyder 18y ago|129 comments
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by zhyder 19y ago
"All three groups were significantly more productive using 24-inch-or-larger widescreen monitors (1920x1200 resolution, or larger) compared to 18-inch displays (1280x1024 resolution), according to the research." They're not comparing 2 disp
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by zhyder 19y ago
Just tried Snipshot to compare. Looks like Snipshot, like most online photo-editing apps, renders changes at the server. So there's a lag between when you change something (e.g. the exposure) and when you can see the result. Picnik appears
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by zhyder 19y ago
It's also India's largest conglomerate, with revenues equaling 3.2% of India's GDP. Tata Consulting Services is also India's largest IT firm with 100,000 employees.
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by zhyder 19y ago
I don't think you're looking at it from the point of view of the target market, low income people who so far could only afford a two-wheeler for the whole (large) family. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_02/b40660330...
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by zhyder 19y ago
Hmm... the previous link seems to be dead. How do I update it? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/World_watches_Tata_Motor... http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/tata-nano-the-wor...
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by zhyder 19y ago
They claim it meets Bharat Stage III (and Euro IV) emissions standards, which is as good as any other car in India. That statement is in response to fears that as people move up from scooters/motorcycles to this car, the emissions problem w
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Tata launches the $2500 car(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
28 points by zhyder 19y ago|12 comments
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by zhyder 19y ago
That's just another component of intangible capital though. The reason risk-taking isn't mentioned separately is because it's of far less significance (either because it doesn't make much difference, or because the delta between developed a
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Ebay admits it overpaid for Skype(businessweek.com)
2 points by zhyder 19y ago|0 comments
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by zhyder 19y ago
Facebook is harder to replicate than Google in one way: Facebook has a large network effect on its side, Google (search) doesn't.
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by zhyder 19y ago
Keep in mind also that a strategic investor is always willing to pay more for the same stake than a purely financial investor. This is because the strategic investor -in addition to reaping financial rewards- will also gain something else.
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by zhyder 19y ago
"Most of Myspace's user base (and thus value) was added since the acquisition." How many of those new users were because of News Corp's acquisition? If majority of those users would be added anyway (if it was just a matter of time), and a
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by zhyder 19y ago
I wouldn't believe "forward" anything :). If Salesforce.com goes back to 9% net profit margin next yr, its P/E will become 80. A P/E that's 1.5-3x that of MS is reasonable, since MS's revenues are not growing much.
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by zhyder 19y ago
Not really. For many high-tech companies, the earnings can vary a lot from one quarter/year to the next. If the profit margin is hovering in the +/-10% range, the P/E can vary wildly. Even in a low-earnings period, wall street will typicall
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by zhyder 19y ago
To be fair, I've found cops check for traffic violations more in safe areas (e.g. Silicon Valley), than in unsafe areas (e.g. Berkeley/Oakland) where cops are busy busting real criminals. So they do prioritize to some extent. In the Sili
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by zhyder 19y ago
Yes looks like we disagree on that, hence our differing conclusions. I believe the speed traps do more good than harm. You have to admit that this service's tag line "find cops before they find you" does make the user sound like a criminal
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by zhyder 19y ago
Of the traffic tickets I and my friends have received, most were useful in actually reminding us to drive more carefully. Occasionally you hear of someone getting an unfair ticket: I think that's the exception rather than the rule. I hate
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by zhyder 19y ago
Does this pass the "do no evil", or the "improve users' lives" tests? Unknown speed traps are arguably good for us.
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by zhyder 19y ago
You're right about the barriers to entry part. But barriers to entry are low enough for relative first movers like Facebook/Ning. When the market matures and there are several clones of these services, Facebook/Ning will have to rely on the
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by zhyder 19y ago
Users want control of their data, but businesses want to retain that control as well. All businesses (web or otherwise) love to lock in their customers. Why would Ning want to make it easy for users to leave their service? Just like Micros
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by zhyder 19y ago
It's also useful to think of how business works in various fields in the physical world: you can find real opportunities for web startups or software to fill a need. E.g. the real estate industry is huge and agents in particular earn large

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