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Pip.io tries to boil an ocean @ TC50 - please help give them support

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Use invite code: pipiobeta.

Note: I'm not affiliated with pip.io.

Boiling an ocean refers to the small size of the team behind pip.io building tools whose functionality overlaps with Facebook, Twitter, BaseCamp, iTunes, Instant Messaging, Email, etc.

Heh, it may be that I'm running on little sleep, but I initially read the headline literally, and got excited about a sweet publicity stunt :)

Looks to me, pipio is a replacement to almost every social site out there (facebook, friendfeed, twitter mashups, likaholix, etc...) and thus is "boiling an ocean" in terms of startup goals.

Man I do wish they'd do that publicity stunt tho and _actually_ try to boil an ocean :) Maybe one day.

approximate pacific ocean volume = 7.24176e24 cm^3

median ocean water density = 1.028 g/cm^3

temperature difference = 1 deg C

specific heat of water = 4186 J/(g·K)

multiply all together should = energy required to heat the ocean by 1 deg C is 3.12e+28 J

Maybe one day! Haha

I go to this site, close a popup, and... I just have a blank screen with "log in" or "sign up" links? Seems like a basic interface problem.

Click "sign up now" in that window, and the insert the promo code "pipiobeta"... fill out the rest of the info, and BAM! your online and ready to go.

Those clouds remind me of the scene in the Broadway Phantom of the Opera rooftop scene. Quite pretty.

Burners on high, let's turn this ocean into steam... internet steam..

http://pip.io/#register/PIPIOBETA

Using this link will prepopulate the invite code.

Lets go Pip.io! When pip.io is as hot as the sun, the ocean should be no problem to boil!

Gotcha, I was thinking along the lines of staringispolite 23. Either way, Pip > Ocean

O_o

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