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Why isn't Posterous in the list for Blogs?

I would also add Slicehost for Hosting and Database category.

The example call for me was: "We're sorry, an application error has occurred."

A message from HBGary Federal: http://www.hbgary.com/

Is this too trivial or is it just me?

Zombal has a different format from Innocentive. The way it works is someone (the launcher) launches a task (usually scientific) and sets a budget or approximate payout amount. Then several people (the catchers) bid on it, they don't do any work until they are actually hired to complete the task.

It's beginning to look like a quartic function.

We have launched a similar website, currently in beta: http://www.zombal.com . Maybe, just maybe you can start using your secret lab in the coming months.

Yeah, horrible feature. I get lost where I'm at. I'd love to see it back the way it was please. :)

It would be better to add cursor:pointer; to a#mk2_gs selector.

I accidently discovered this when I mistyped www.duck.com instead of duckduckgo's www.duck.co

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Their 503 https://github.com/503 collection of random github-approved youtube videos.

I saw it. Nice shirts!

Oops, we still have to link it. Thanks.

Yep, just go here and request it: http://zombal.com/get-invite

We will take this into consideration. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Clickable: http://zombal.com/

What's the use of this? I don't get the point.

I'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop:

The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere; those are my naming criteria. Kids are good at generating such. Googol is a kid's term.

I just see a lot of startups having a hard time finding a decent name, so that seems like a nice piece of advice worth pointing out.

- Run your own web server.

And call it the BestOfBothWorlds Editor.

i 8 √-1 Πs. (I ate imaginary pies?) You might have to play around with it, but I hope it's a good start. :)

I believe it's in Palo Alto.

I also think Loopt's Mixx would a competitor. Isn't also similar in a way?

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This is may not be the best advice, but I wanted to share my experience. In the end I just broke even.

When I was in high school, at the age of 16 I decided to start a "clothing company." At the time I already had been working part-time on the weekends, so I had been saving up. When I had about $700 saved up I told my mother I wanted to start this business of my own, she encouraged me and gave me $300, so I now had 1K in funding to launch my "business."

I knew with this small amount it would be limiting as to what I could do. At the time it seemed the cheapest thing to do was to only start with t-shirt prints. I headed to several screenprinting shops around town, but it was costly unless you got a bulk of shirts 100+. I did some online research and found this pretty cool screenprinting shop in Auburn, Alabama (I'm in California). Got in touch with them and I was able to work a great deal.

Next, I had to think of a name for my company. This process took a while, I went through probably hundreds of candidates before I chose one the one I felt was right. I think this was the most tedious yet most important step of the process because it is what represents you.

Once I had the name down. It was time to do some designs. To me this part was the easiest since I've been drawing for years and had recently started using Photoshop/Illustrator enough to manipulate it. I did several designs and showed them to friends and family so that they could give me feedback. I especially paid attention to friend's feedback because they were the targeted age group. I must also add that I would constantly look at clothing companies websites just to get an idea what the current "trend" was.

To start off, I just had 3 t-shirt print designs and got 50 t-shirts of each. So that was 150 shirts to start off, if my memory serves correctly it came out to roughly $4 per t-shirt. What helped a lot was that they cut the design fees since I designed the shirts myself with photoshop/illustrator.

As the shirts were being printed across the country. I started promoting it on MySpace (I should note, this was around 2004) and launched a website for it. Also wrote what was the beliefs and life-style that the company represented.

Several of my friends and acquaintances had bands in high school so I talked to them so that we could cross-promote each other. At the time my website design skills were limited to HTML and graphics so I had no idea how to even put an ecommmerce site together.

Nonetheless, once I had the shirts in my hands I started selling them to friends and family for $10 a pop. So I was making about $5 per shirt. Being promoted by friend's bands really helped since I sold several at local band shows. I sold all 150 and went through a couple more batches, but eventually sales dropped and I didn't want to take the time or effort to try to improve it. I decided it was a good experience and ceased it. In the end I cut even and had about 3 dozen shirts left. I gave many away for free and til this day I still have a couple left in my closet for memories.

Also check out http://shop.johnnycupcakes.com/story/ Johnny's story was really inspirational to me!

Sometimes the smallest things make a big difference.

Great story. The ending was quite humorous:

I [still] have the iPhone that was in my left front pocket that basically exploded . . . it's now in about 200 pieces. . . and I have been meaning to send it back to Steve Jobs for a refund.

He also has other awesome projects: http://hakim.se/experiments/