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Awesome. I am moving my stuff out of Google Reader. Thanks for the link.

Well, what I meant is - this is not like I was sitting and hacking a network or something. This qualifies as a hack because I had to overcome a significant hurdle.

If you continue to imagine that hacks can be performed only on computers and networks. Then this may not make sense as a hack. Hacks can be social and/or real-world hacks too.

1. The biggest hurdle is to get a visa to get to the US. Yes it is a big deal these days. Especially for people going from India. In the article if you noticed, I could not get a visa. SO I had to get everything done remotely, which was a challenge. 2. As a startup it is not possible to get a booth. There are costs involved and money is better spent elsewhere. Instead of getting a booth, I convinced another booth owner to let me use his booth the showcase our product.

Please checkout emo2.com - our product website if you like.

Social Engineering - wow. Should have used that in the title of the blog post.

Sorry, CES took up all the bandwidth. Got some time now. Will be making a new video of the OS. Will post it on HN soon.

Thank you. Glad you liked the video.

Thank you. CES was a dream come true!

Thank you for pointing out the hard-work and persistence part. I had to do day and nighters to pull this one.

IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word. Your comment is well-taken.

Well not as far as I can tell. We thought it was quiet original.

Love it this is simple!

Seems like you are right. Maybe submitting this was not such a great idea after all. Well anyways, I had a good laugh watching that one.

And pretty cool that he has chosen an already existing game here. Pretty smooth!

Awesome tutorial. This is the first time I have seen a tutorial that actually goes end-to-end.

I did not test it on an iPhone yet. So someone else can do that.

If you want more bookmarklets - checkout Chris's bookmarklet collection - http://static.chrisbray.com/bookmarklets/

Thanks for the link!

The article is no more available. I read it and then sent it to a few friends and now its the links dead.

That was the best and most truthful article I read in a long long time.

+1 creating a game that involves collaborating with strangers and creating music could be tedious. This overcomes that handicap pretty well. I love the concept, great work!

Thanks for the link. Makes me wonder, if life did come from space then we will have to start exploring space more seriously. The possibility of a aliens existing somewhere else cannot be ignored any longer.

Once we were trying to install a payment gateway from a bank on TC. The damn thing just wont work. Till we realized that I had installed TC as a root. I then re-installed TC as the user and everything just worked. This was using ssh on a rackspace server. Maybe someone should note this in one of these articles.

Google has the advantage of being Google. FB was the underdog at the time.

In India we don't have the concept of software patents, unless some sort of hardware is involved. I am guessing that this is way better than the system where all business methods are patentable. This kills innovation. We should all just petition for change.

I think it really depends!