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Great when working with sessions or cookies.

Link: http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory/book.shtml

Google is the right company to compete with PayPal. They could implement it into many of their products and leverage their massive ad network.

I've also been waiting for Amazon to move into this market, but the closest they've come is Amazon Payments (https://payments.amazon.com:443/sdui/sdui/index.htm).

I don't understand how he thought hi-jacking Obama, Britney and Fox News twitter accounts wouldn't make headlines.

My first guess was http://macrumorslive.com/admin which contained the full source code and password hashes to everything on the site.

They must have had a strange configuration because their .php files were showing as plain text files. This revealed their master DB username/password along with many other ways to exploit the site.

There's a reason security through obscurity doesn't work. Unfortunately MacRumors had to find out on what was probably their biggest day of the year.

I'm not terribly excited about paying again for the same music, but I hate DRM enough to make this 1-time upgrade.

It looks like we might be in the middle of a pricing war between Amazon and iTunes:

iTunes: $.99 + DRM

Amazon: $.89 + No DRM

iTunes: $.69 + No DRM

Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?

Pretty interesting to watch it unfold. The first SQL the guy posts is a SQL injection waiting to happen:

$query = "select * from sms_users where authentication='".$_GET["auth"]."'";

Edit: Changed link to use webcitation because 4chan link went down. Original link was at: http://zip.4chan.org/g/res/3118906.html

But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit.

Why isn't this plagiarism?

Hopefully this is just for the launch of the site and not permanent.

My only suggestion would be on the front-page tell me why I need your site. Something like:

Keeping up with environmental regulations is hard. Let us help. We simplify the process to let you focus on stuff that matters.

Then tell me how you do that.

Overall interesting idea, good luck with it.

One concern I have is there might be too many* SKU's: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/pricesheet

While offering a variety of prices is great, I'm curious if some users don't become overwhelmed.

Should have left that one off. Otherwise nice work.

Behavioral Economics is a fascinating field. It combines Psychology with Economics and can more accurately predict human behavior because it includes the Human factor.

Here's a sentence from another related book (Nudge) I'm currently reading on the difference between Economics and Behavioral Economics.

To qualify as Econs, people are not required to make perfect forecasts (that would require omniscience), but they are required to make unbiased forecasts. That is, the forecast can be wrong, but they can't be systematically wrong in a predictable direction.

In this book they use the term Econ to mean what a typical Economist thinks of an average person.

This is an emerging field of Social Science that has seen tremendous growth. As someone whose interested in both Psychology and Economics this is exciting to see.

Point being I don't think anyone can compete with Netflix right now. They've done everything right. Blockbuster deserves to loose because their short-term interests were to delay and drag their feet.

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=509

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=520

With the hiring last year of Anthony Wood, founder of ReplayTV and Roku, Hastings reinforced his intent to deliver video straight into the living room. Originally, Netflix had plans to build its own boxes a la TiVo, Vudu or Apple TV, but Wood convinced the company that it could get wider distribution if it embedded its software in set-top boxes and gaming consoles.

This was very smart. By not trying to get the whole pie, they're getting a smaller piece of a much bigger pie.

"It's a good strategic move," said Andy Hargreaves, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities. "Netflix sees the world will go digital, no matter what they do. They realize there is more to be lost by waiting than doing it early."

The last line is crucial. Too bad other businesses don't understand this.

When this happens I've found exercise to be a good release. I'm able to clear my head and work out all the nervous energy.

Perhaps you could have a journal instead of a public blog? This way you can still write without the side-effects of telling everyone your secrets.

Last year we ran out towards the end of the year. The roads quickly went from bad to worse. Any company that's willing to donate salt for this purpose is a big winner in my book.

Its unusual, minimalist and yet elegant and powerful syntax reminds of Smalltalk, but the language goes far beyond that. Io is an object-oriented, prototype-based, message-based and fully-reflective programming language. This means that you use messages like in Smalltalk, you create objects like in Javascript and every bit of your code can be inspected and passed around as you see fit.

I think this is OK as long as you're upfront with the customer about the reoccurring payment. If you try to slip it past them, they will notice, will want their money back and will leave with a sour taste in their mouth.

It is the best way to sync your statements if your bank can't do it automatically.

This is what people will expect from web applications or they won't use them.

When I switched it was frustrating. It took me 2 weeks before I felt comfortable navigating the OS.

After that 2 weeks things began to feel comfortable. I feel much more productive on my Mac now than I ever did on a Windows box.

Perhaps you could also work in goals somehow. This is one of the best things about usability tests--giving users a set of goals to complete and watching how they respond. Maybe offering certain users a chance to take place in the study with X reward?

Also, CrazyEgg (another site for visualizing clicks but implemented as a heatmap) lets you run campaigns, which is extremely useful. Considering you generally want to run tests like this after you've made changes, having a set limit is a good idea (10 hours, 100 users, etc...).

One small critique, I got bored with the video and went straight for the demo. I'd suggest making the video shorter or somehow showing "the goods" up-front.

Very nice idea and good implementation.

Another cool site featuring office pictures from Apple, Adobe, Craigslist, etc...: http://www.officesnapshots.com/

That being said I'm not impressed with either of his 2 most recent startups, truemors.com and alltop.com.

I'm not sure if its the idea or the implementation--but neither jump out at me as significant. I guess I expect more from Guy considering he's a world-known VC/author/blogger.