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At its loosest description, email is a social network and a ton of otherwise computer illiterate people use it daily.

Thanks for the tip bud.

Its almost a parody of itself. Part of me wants to believe its in jest.

The real question is will it be able to use its firepower to open any doors for the wine industry. Alcoholic beverage shipping and sales laws in America are still stuck in the dark ages.

What's so odd to me is that reading through the working knowledge section and others on the site is that the Harvard Business School just doesn't seem to get a lot of things about web business anymore.

This article comes off as being written by someone who, while incredibly credentialed, just seems like an outsider. It seems like an article my parents would write and they dont necessarily have a great grasp on the way business is evolving.

I'd much rather read certain blogs than the stuff coming out of hbs these days. Its odd but they're missing developments almost as badly as traditional media.

Note this semi-rant is directed on the whole at hbs' working knowledge site and only a little bit at this specific article.

search at http://www.internic.net/whois you can be sure it wont be stolen if you search there.

Isn't there a difference between startup and random web-based tool?

I'll be honest, when you back that up with something more substantial, I'll read more of your posts. Until then you've got another fluff piece

I think where you run into problems is when one founder doesn't have any knowledge of the other founders areas of expertise i.e. the Bus Dev guy and The Programmer.

The ideal setup seems to be a designer with a bit of marketing skill and business acumen (doesn't have to be huge amount) and a coder.

These two can leave each other alone to work when it matters but they also have the crossover skills to help each other work through a problem.

A good designer on the web is going to know a little bit about coding and a good coder is going to know a little about design.

Its a nice mix and you dont run into any bike shed problems where you have 4 different people checking out the same code.

haha my bad, you created a spammy, built for adsense site, not an affiliate site. Sorry, my mistake.

now that this has been switched to so smarmy affiliate chair site can we please no longer vote it up?

Cool, I will keep you updated. Did you end up going to TechCocktail last night?

It is a free event, apparently the registration they do is to get an accurate head count. Just show up.

On a completely tangential note, I would like to state for the record that CakePie is one of the greatest things I have seen.

Yes, I'll be there, but unfortunately I don't know the venue either. I believe its upstairs at Barleycorn. Anyone else going?

don't worry about it, I just upmodded you.

In the time it took you to write that you could have found and submitted several things that improved the quality of the community... When people start trying to game the system it detracts from what news.yc is supposed to be.

Go to the UPS store and get a mailbox. Your Mailbox has a real street address. It will look something like 1845 Blank Street Suite #ofmailbox

1.) always do your domain searches on http://www.internic.net/whois.html so you can be sure that they're not being registered as you search for them.

2.) Read http://www.thenameinspector.com from beginning to end

3.) Come up with words that describe your ideas then use thesaurus.com

4.) Look to chop words down by syllables and then combine. ie. a personal bookmarking service or online profile service that was described as "my highlights" would become mylights.com.

strangest name I've encountered in a while and thats saying something on today's internet.

Chicago

I've been working on compiling this type of directory. When its finished its gonna go up at www.buzzfolder.com . Email office at unchartedventures dot com if you want me to let you know when i finish it. should be about a week now...

Thanks for the down mod... I wasn't saying I thought I and other entrepreneurs are too smart to be susceptible to it. I was getting at the idea that it shouldn't be used as a crutch.

You said it yourself... why does this even matter? Brains are all the same color (well for the most part anyway).

Yes I would say its really important. If a person has the potential to earn money from a card submission they also have the incentive to start gaming the system (groups of people even) by rating their card highly even though it may not be the best card.

Also you really need to limit the voting by ip address, what prevents me from adding an affiliate link and then creating accounts with my 50 different email addresses and boosting that card to the top all for my personal gain...

Its not spammy but the lack of disclosure that it is basically an affiliate site sort of gets to me. There are too many sites like this on the internet designed for google and thrown together to make a quick buck. The kid seems like he has at least some ability to code, why not put that towards something with a little more value-added.

My other comments were edited since I sort of feel bad about jumping all over it... Theres normally so much sleaze associated with credit card marketing in general that it is hard not to jump on it sometimes... For starters, your plesk login page is indexed by Google. Probably not the best idea for site security.

After that if the site is to work you need to make sure you keep it really pure and unbiased. Don't allow users to submit affiliate links, put strict controls on user ratings and don't allow small groups to drastically affect the site. Inherently the site sets itself up to be abused by marketers but if you can put strict enough controls in place to keep it relatively unbiased you have the potential to create a decent resource.

Paul, when you write your great reviews why not use affiliate links to the products? Seems like an non-intrusive way to monetize your content.

Pretty nice, these guys: http://www.simpleweather.com have done a pretty good job at it too. You should put your minds together.

OpenAds I think can be run on a per click basis, its free too I believe: http://www.openads.org/faq/general