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How difficult would it be to detect the notes that are being played by the bass? This would be useful for someone who is new to playing by ear and soloing.

For example, you pickup that the bass progression is G A D C--that makes figuring out the correct chords (and notes for soloing) even easier.

But I still think there's value in a free app that has paid upgrades, even if Apple has to classify them as "Mixed" instead of Free or Paid.

OTA is gaining real traction. By my count about 1/3rd of the companies listed on Tripeedo are members of OTA, while many more unofficially support some derivative of it. Most of these companies don't have open API's--they are very private and require NDA's and partnership agreements.

There are systems in place to handle use-cases like this. API's are in place for travel agents to search available rates and creating bookings. This is essentially the same concept.

Kayak is justifiably being blocked because they're scraping sites. If they had partnership agreements in place this wouldn't happen.

I am working in a startup that aggregates rental car rates, similar to Tripeedo using OpenTravel. Its all XML based, and can be a PITA--but the result are a better product and a better user experience.

I understand the desire to charge for a service like this, but the way Yahoo! handled this does not encourage me to use their services (I've used BOSS extensively).

This will preserve pagerank, but not immediately. This means for a while (1 week-3 months), many of your pages will be dropped from their current rankings.

They will be returned, eventually. But Google has to update their entire index before you'll start to see any improvements.

Look at their stats: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hotornot.com/?metric=uv

People used HotorNot for fun, not for finding real dates. I suspect the case will be the same here.

One cool way you could spin this idea is by letting people play match maker. Imagine a Facebook application where a person could set-up two of their friends on a blind date. I think something like this could spread fairly quickly; not to mention people are more willing to accept a friends suggestion rather than a complete strangers.

You also need more content. I want more from your Website than it offers. I'm genuinely interested in your product but can't find enough information about it on your site.

Consider adding a FAQ to cover basic questions.

But another side-effect of many CSS purists is also being an HTML purist. This leads to good semantic practices all-around.

Things like properly annotating title/alt properties. Or attaching checkbox fields to labels. Making sure the tabindex is in an order that makes sense.

As you said, with practice, everyone learns the benefits of each style and develops their own personal medium.

The way you see beauty in "perfect" code, they see in pure designs.

But there are benefits to their methods. Usability, accessibility, SEO, increased caching and reduced page load times are all side-effects of "pure" CSS designs.

I'd suggest taking the 80/20 approach to CSS. Take the best of what works and then just get it done and move on.

Also, my time limit for CSS problems is 1 hour. After that I use the best solution instead of the perfect one.

Lately I have a Vim cheat sheet next to me (PDF: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/VIM%20Quick%20Ref...), regularly dig through :help and idle in #vim on Freenode.

But I still find it to be a steep learning curve even after I think I understand Vim.

Any other suggestions on what to do to keep the learning process going?

Edit: Also, looking through other .vimrc files is extremely helpful - http://dotfiles.org/.vimrc

Also SEOBook has a decent tool: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

But yes, AdWords tools is among the best to find search volume. No one else has the data to offer the same information.

If you haven't already, watch his first appearance on Conan: http://www.viddler.com/explore/djsteen/videos/69/

I'd suggest checking out Google Hot Trends (http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends) and finding available domain names against that.

I had a site like this years ago and it did quite well. Looks like you found the right business model as well, domain squatters pay big money for these lists.

The only reason I stopped doing it was because I felt uneasy contributing to the domain name squatting problem.

I find even moving around the apartment helps. I have a movable desk, so I've been experimenting with working in different locations throughout the day.

However there are many vertical niches within classifieds that can still compete with Craigslist. Apartments, Houses, Cars, Crafts and Jobs have all split out into separate niches and seem to be doing well. There are still tons of smaller markets virtually untapped (Pets come to mind).

I think I just need to read a little more carefully :).

I decided to shift focus towards working with hosts (any host) that want to be included in the directory, whether they had an affiliate program or not.

Of course if a host happens to have an affiliate program, I see no reason to not use it as long as your transparent with your users.

Plus it keeps the site free of regular banner advertising.

You should get a privacy policy up asap. You're collecting and storing a lot of private information, so you should have a policy that dictates your stance.

Also, not having SMS support yet is a deal-breaker. I realize you're working on this but without this I can't use your system. As someone that doesn't have a smart phone I was excited to try your service but when I realize it was e-mail only, immediately lost interest.

Good luck with everything, and send and update to members when you have SMS support.

To see evidence of this go look at your local paper. Mine writes about (not syndicates...writes) national news all of the time.

Small to medium sized papers shouldn't be doing this anymore. They should be focusing on their local communities and dominating that market.

By bloat I mean purchasing multi-million dollar printing presses in 2005 (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-108017775.html) when you should be investing heavily in your local and online markets.

The notion that newspapers are still spending money on multi-million dollar presses and bloated newsrooms is what's really idiotic.

You should make that consistent.

Otherwise nice work.