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The sole reason I stick to Firefox as my primary browser (despite Chrome appearing to hog less memory) is because of the TabMixPlus extension (which allows multiple layers of tabs). I frequently have >10 tabs - and at times, 25+ tabs - open, and Chrome is terrible when it comes to tab management.

The whole "productivity app" market is saturated, yet new startups or apps come out all the time. Trello is one, Asana is another. And now, Do.

It's a pretty common concept. You can't be a successful entrepreneur or a manager without a "well, as long as it works" mentality.

"Jugaad": http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/jugaad_a_new_growth_formula_...

I've noticed a trend in posts like this. Some startups go out of their way to appear "cool". If you need silly phrases like "getting crunk" when you're looking to recruit someone...that's a red flag to me.

Can you be more specific on #1?

I actually find the accent slightly difficult to follow at certain parts. Perhaps the OP should look into having a professional dub over the videos.

I would still strongly suggest that you take the page down temporarily until you hear back from the recruiter. The damage has been done, but can still be minimized.

We're firmly in the stage in which patents stifle innovation, instead of promoting it. The industry has been headed down the wrong path, and unless patent law sees some drastic reform, frivolous and ridiculous patents such as this will only serve to make patent lawyers very, very rich. It's beyond pathetic.

Hyperbole much?

> How would you describe it through words?

That's your job. :)

Put it out there, be as succinct as you can, and tweak it along the way. No shortcuts here.

I think this is more damaging for Oracle than any other player involved.

Airing out potentially confidential information just to spite someone reeks of immaturity. Very bad move on Oracle's part.

Link: http://judg.me

I'm looking for some genuine, constructive feedback.

I came up with judg.me because I noticed how most of us often wonder not about how "hot" we look, but how others perceive us. E.g. how differently would you be perceived if you had a faux hawk as opposed to being bald? Do those glasses make you look more "nerdy"? Does having popped collars really make you look like a douchebag? judg.me lets you find out (and the truth could be a little hard to digest!).

In the interest of usability, users can be judged on only 2 scales: the social scale (introvert<->extrovert) and the intellectual scale (dense<->smart). Users judge you based on how sociable and intellectual they think you are.

I'd appreciate any comments or feedback. Thanks.

Diaspora? Is that thing still up and about?!

hotornot lets users rate others based on their attractiveness.

judg.me lets users judge others, not on how attractive they look, but on their perceived social and intellectual capacities.

I came up with judg.me because I noticed how most of us often wonder not about how "hot" we look, but how others perceive us. E.g. how differently would you be perceived if you had a faux hawk as opposed to being bald? Do those glasses make you look more "nerdy"?

In the interest of usability, users can currently be judged on only 2 scales (or "continuums"): the social scale (introvert->extrovert) and the intellectual scale (dense->smart). Users judge you based on how sociable and intellectual they think you are.

I'd appreciate any comments or feedback. Thanks.

On a related note - why is notifo still on the new user registration?

Times out for me too. Pity.

> Seriously, answering that question should probably be their number 1 priority.

Spot on. Focus on nothing else but this initially. Remember Carol Bartz's answer to "What is Yahoo?"?

    "What is Yahoo? Listen Yahoo is a great company that is very, very strong
     in content for its users, uses amazing technology to serve up what increasingly
     we think is going to be the web of one. For instance, on our today module in the 
     front page, every 5 minutes we have 32,000 different variations of that module. 
     So you don’t even know what I’m seeing in fact we serve a million different front 
     page modules a day and that’s just through content optimization. And that’s just 
     the beginning. Customized because we know the things you’re interested in. Maybe 
     you don’t like light entertainment maybe you like a certain sports team, etc. And 
     our click through rate went up twice. So the point is, people come to us to find 
     out what is going on with the world in a very nice quick fashion to do their 
     communications, email, messanger, check-in on their teens. We all know about 
     Yahoo finance. It’s a places where you can just get it together. It’s collated 
     for you, it’s all the things as you’re moving, you can even get your social 
     information there. Everybody moves through many websites in a day, Yahoo is one 
     they always stop at."

Ouch.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/ok-seriously-what-is-yahoo/

Remember, HP's board underwent a major shakeup once Léo came in: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/28/hp%E2%80%99s-bo...

Question: It seems (to me) that a lot of landing pages look very similar - I'm not a designed, so is there a template out there that could be used, or are all of these built individually, from scratch?

Nobody is stopping you from doing that. The entire point of AB&B is that you truly (could) get to stay at "home away from home", and experience what you wouldn't get at a hotel.

Not that I'm defending or promoting AB&B, but staying at someone's home as opposed to a hotel would obviously need more stringent requirements (background checks etc) that I'm sure most people wouldn't mind going through.

You're absolutely right. I was able to tell from the Snapjoy link what the startup did, and whether or not it was a thread worth browsing through. In 2 seconds.

If all YC (and non-YC) startups describe what they do in the title in 10 words or less, everybody wins.

Unfollowing isn't an option because I'd still like to get the occasional post from Person X - just not as frequently as I'd like to see posts from Person Y.

I'm not talking about "firehose people" - my point is, it would be great if I could see (posts from Y) > (posts from X) > (posts from Scoble), even if they're all in the same Circle. Currently, everyone inside a Circle is given the same weight.

This is something that Google+ needs to deal with immediately. It's also a problem that Twitter faces.

Certain folks tend to dominate or flood my Twitter or Google+ stream - but muting/blocking/unfollowing them is not really an option.

From a usability point of view, it would be great to have a slider or a similar control that will allow me to tweak how often Person X's posts are displayed in my stream. Everyone in a Circle is not equally important.

In my profile.

It would be great if we could simply subscribe to public Circles (haven't played around with G+ enough to know if such an option exists in the first place), as opposed to having to add people one by one.

An invite would be fantastic: bharathaldo gmail com

Many thanks.

Ah yes. Pity! Appreciate the gesture, though!

If anyone has an invite, (pretty) please get in touch!

> After all, one can't always tell with certainty which immigrants are the "good" immigrants and which are the "bad" ones, in advance.

You can. Those with advanced degrees should be viewed as "desirable" immigrants.

Yes, but "green" and "tea" make it sound a lot healthier. It's every marketer's dream come true.