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How about pulling fiber through instead of a string assuming the copper is worth more than the fiber? Clear some debt as well as covering the cost of the fiber and upgrade the network at the same time.

I released a first version on Android only using the emulator but of course its never the same as testing on a device. I have a Nexus One and it's a great phone. I think Virgin Mobile would be a good source of a second/development phone as you can get an Android phone without contract for $150 and unlimited data is just $35/month http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...

In that case you should be also asking why people emigrated. I emigrated from the UK to the US and although I now consider myself an aspiring entrepreneur I emigrated entirely for personal reasons.

This poll may not be intended to be US centric but I think the interest in it mostly is.

Let's not forget that Groupon where not first to the Daily Deal concept. QVC have offered a "Today's Special Value" since 1987. Woot.com have been going since 2004. Groupon is certainly a great evolution of the Daily Deal and a new genre of Daily Deals but not the origination. So I think Daily Deals are certainly here to stay even if the local daily deals are not.

It's probably simply more cost effective to drop the Affiliates as it is for all the smaller businesses with affiliate programs that are also dropping affiliates.

You can't get what you need from their API? http://www.groupon.com/pages/api

Looks great thanks for sharing. Here are a few things that came to mind while browsing the list.

In the browse view it would be helpful to show more of the description as many of them are cut before they get to the point. Also including the visit official website button as well as show details would be a nice shortcut.

On the details page it would be great to include an image where available.

Should I be worried that your post is one big block of text? :)

I could really do with a faq/guide/tips and tricks for http://www.getdealdrop.com. I'm sure you could improve the existing copy as well. If that works out I can find a lot more for you to do.

You can develop/submit/get approved iOS apps using a hackintosh.

However if you really want to develop iOS apps for fun/money/education/whatever I think this is something you need to be pragmatic about. Sure the requirement to use Mac OS, that can only be officially used on Mac Hardware, that is expensive to buy, requires you to have another computer, etc can be very frustrating and hard to swallow. But you need to put those ideals aside and concentrate on your real goal.

As a number of people have said when developing iOS apps you don't have the luxury of slipping too far behind the Mac OS updates. Apple only accepts app submissions from certain Xcode/iOS SDK versions which require certain Mac OS versions. Those requirements are constantly advancing. So it won't be long before you get very frustrated with the hackintosh update process.

You will probably also be learning many new things at once. Mac OS, Xcode, Objective C, Cocoa Touch, mobile dev, etc. So adding hackintosh maintenance into this mix is the last thing you need.

The only hardware requirement for iOS dev is that it's an Intel Mac. I personally use a Mac Mini and it's more than capable. After all you are developing something that needs to run within the limitations of a mobile device.

Have fun!

And I was proud of not destroying my laptop when I replaced the power socket on the motherboard.

Any update on this meeting?

I removed the facebook comment/post as my friends replies where showing as well. Couldn't see a way to control that in the facebook permissions.

Thanks for this. I have posted via Facebook. I'll also show a message to my users soon.

Deal Drop, http://www.getdealdrop.com, 0 employees, located in El Dorado Hills.

100% of Deal Drop revenue is from affiliate commission so this would kill Deal Drop.

In the video he said steralizable not that its already steralized.

I held off buying an android tablet and doing any development for one leading up to google i/o. Now I have the hardware and knowlege to get started so will work on a tablet version of my app soon. However its still not my top priority as I don't feel the demand is there yet. No users have asked for it like they did for an iPad version.

I do the same. zoneedit.com is a free and very easy way to do this. Register a domain and use zonedit for DNS and email forwarding/filtering.

Drupal is a great framework and much more. IMHO using something like Drupal is a higher order of development and we should be building with the bigger pieces that such a tool provides rather than having religious wars over languages. Sure language X or Y may be more elegant or faster at building feature A but feature A has been built over and over again. So why not build on top of something that already provides commodity feature A and concentrate on building the unique features?

Great ammunition for those of us with day jobs. This is the kind of article upper management loves and should really grease the wheels.

If no one can agree on what they want maybe the solution is a flexible/customizable app? Let the user choose the depth of data that is displayed.

From my limited experience (a friend's and my own app in the Amazon store from the first week) the exposure is pretty negligible anyway. I imagine the requirement to enable side loading (not possible with AT&T), downloading another store app, enabling 1 click, etc is really hindering adoption. So I don't think developers need to loose any sleep over this right now.

I'm not personally a fan but isn't GWT an open sourcing of what the use to build gmail, etc? http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

80 national and 2,500 local Daily Deals (local deals coming soon to Android).

gthank, roc. Very few situations are black and white. Sure Android may not be open as other open source projects but that doesn't mean they it is closed. Also google are not talking about closing it down. They are just talking about a delay in widening who has access.

Try mollom (http://mollom.com/). It uses text analysis for the most part and only uses CAPTCHA if its not sure. Even though I don't have a huge site it blocks a lot for me.

I think this is a description of accessibility not openness.

Of course I don't really think that's the case I'm just amazed by the over reaction to something google have done all along.

Is Apple sponsoring these articles or something?

I'm really going to miss T-Mobile policy's like unlimited tethering and cheaper plans with no contract. This is a real shame. Maybe its time to get a contract to be grandfarthered in? A T-Mobile contract on the larger AT&T network may not be so bad.

Edit: I forgot to mention the no fee for tethering or hotspot. I use that enough for it to be very helpful but not to pay an additional fee.