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& the incandescent bulb should be extinct

And surfing in the internet for the latest and greatest is one my biggest time waster. Although knowing it trying to avoid it, somehow time just clicks by so quickly reading too many articles.

I did notice in the last weeks through friends I heard hthat LinkedIn has hire at much higher rate software engineers. My assumption is that they will integrate and add more features and try capitalize on it.

I am pretty sure many of the HN here already have access to google voice with the trial period. I do like it a lot, but I know some friends they could not get in, so I thought maybe a good idea to post the news of the all open Google Voice now.

Santorini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini

My 6 year old daughter kept asking if giraffe can swim, which I could not really answer or find answers to it. Now I got a logic answer, thank you.

"Microsoft fits this description. Their failures in multiple markets is no longer just a failure of management but a failure of board governance. (Hard to fix when the major shareholder is the lifelong friend of his handpicked replacement.)"

Strong and direct words, but I have to agree. What we see as outsiders is the acting of the CEO, but his actions are backed by the board and they are responsible for the direction of the company. Just wondering when the change of leader ship will come.

Tony Hsieh website on delivering happiness http://www.deliveringhappinessbook.com/ with lots of more information around the subject he is very devoted to.

What has quantity to do with quality and usability?

Don't get me wrong ,I think that Android will grow tremendously and do great, but that is not the point. It is like on the PC/notebook platform where we have a much bigger Windows user group, but there is the x% Mac users. After 20 years Windows last year I switched to Mac and I do understand now why some people like it better. I think the iPhone is to some degree similar. Good or bad, but having the hardware, OS and application framework from one company does offer quality and ease. I hope that Android will pick up so the iPhone also gets cheaper and better.

Aaron Patzer was a single founder at Mint.com and there are many more examples.

Watch Paul Singh and you know how it is done http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/

The article summarizes with one unemployment number an overall characteristic. The reporters conclusion is to simplistic and I don’t agree with the observation.

Sure the increased number of unemployed contributes to the increased level of startup, but that might not be all the reason. 
Why are there so many 35-44 starting their own business? Not because the majority got laid off, but rather they lost the trust to corporate and know major changes will come. Too many have seen with downturns what can and often will happen to people with advanced age level.

If you fall into that position you have some serious problem, because the severance package for 10,15, 20 or more years of service is not a real help. It helps out a couple of months, but than what. What do you have? I am one of early 40 pool and decided not to wait, but rather take action.

The TV Program Technow showed yesterday a school here in the Silicon Valley where each student got a iPad. They are now going to roll this program out to every student of this school beginning this upcoming school year. I am surprised how fast some schools are jumping on the technology and would not be surprised to see the iPad sales numbers to climb up even faster.

You have to ask yourself what is your real goal? Making such prototype is 5-10% of the overall task. Market that kind of product and commercialization is the rest of it. If you truly want the product to come to market I would try to find potential customers and than try to close a first round of angel investors. Following than would be to build up a small team, continue product development and so on. You can see it is all in the execution towards the goal and that closes the comment with the same starting question. What is your real goal?

good readable on my iPhone, better than what I have seen so far, nice weekend project. I will keep using it for now. Thank you

The first information was that your partner did not perform to your expectation. At the same time I read that half year passed your have not been out at the customer front to see if your business model is viable. Just because comparing to a competitor does not mean your business is in the same situation. The low margins, poor brand is both of your responsibility and can have many reasons.

As a startup founder you are the face of the company and there is no excuse to not talk to customers and close deals. Your are small team and there is no CEO or VP or Sales. It is you and him to close the deals. If you want your company to survive a simple phrase will do, do whatever it takes.


And if you think this is not what you signed up for than follow the advice of many, stop it now and fast.

"You're doing a software/Internet startup with low marginal costs."

I know this is where a lot of the media focus is on software and internet. But I think there is still a good number of service or product related start-ups, although I don't have actual numbers.

There is a difference. The solar panels in Europe go up everywhere nothing compared to US you see. Some countries in Europe have a highly subsidized government programs where you get paid 50c per KWh for so many years. That spurred a rush to install a panel on the roof top and with it came many small solar installers/companies.

As Steve said there are good investors and bad one. It is good to have a website like TheFunded.com where you can collect information if the VCs you are targeting or talk to is the right one or not.

Ideas often spark at a situation where you have little time to take care of it. I use Evernote on my iPhone and PC. After making a short not I usually later on go back and evaluate it. 
Over the years I found this to be the best sorting and capturing mechanism.

that search result has been questioned by many, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341553

tried OneWay out, works great, really easy to use. Great work. Thank you.

headline is a little misleading, because each company is in the $1Million range with total of $50M according to presentation. Interesting part is the forward looking statement of a $1B revenue expectation on open source. Would like to see how they got there.

In the last weeks since the new Facebook api and policy change you can see the outcry and the security problems being reported frequently and so many places.

It is getting to a nightmare and I am not sure how well in general consumers in the social media can keep track of it. 


Here is my business idea. My assumption is that a website helping people to understand and simplify the security issue on the social media places plus a clean how to instruction on setting the security levels will generate some good traffic. Anybody wants to build it?


Definitely a clean and nice looking entry website. I agree with many others, don't overdo it. Feedback link at landing page is important & missing. Hear good things about uservoice, but have not used it, just an example. 
Good luck with your endeavor.

looks to me that Spencer Fry would be a good candidate for Mixergy

the main advantage on 4G is in the bandwidth so I would put some thoughts in the video streaming area

Just bought 2 kits at 10:02AM PST, so offer is still there.

Blibby policy says "Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information about your purchases with others. This information will be public by default, but you may make it more private by editing your account settings. You should be careful about all information that will be made public by Blippy." I do not see lots of reason to sign up for this service in the first place. With the social media interconnecting all the data even on a passive way which the F8 from FB hinted it we are heading into a direction were someone has to be more careful with personal information.

A good starting point is the Nolo book "Patent it Yourself". Best reference book for this matter I can recommend.