hackerbob

Except Myspace got Google into multi year ad deal that made them several hundred million, recouping some or most of their investment.

> "someone will develop it for free"

Perhaps a fair point. But I sigh nonetheless...

---ignore all--- On a totally unrelated note, I like your about quote, always one of my favourite simpsons line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY

A higher price point is what I'm thinking about for what I'm doing, and I suppose its a bit misleading on my part to say what I'm doing would only be an extension as there'd be main website as a dashboard.

The price you list does bring up an interesting question. Could there ever be a market on the Chrome app store for people wanting to sell +$50 apps. I get the impression the market on the app store leans more towards free - $1.99.(to be fair its similar to the Apple app store, with some exceptions)

Another poll I was thinking of was, how much would you pay for a chrome extension/chrome app?

Thanks that is informative. Do you think having a free version is a bad idea, if you ultimately aim for revenue through a paid version?

The poll is the important part, I'm glad you voted.

The overwhelming usage would probably come through the extension and a site would compliment it as a dashboard.

>What about accepting complete urls as parameter? So that you just need to put tldr.it/ in front of an [URL] to obtain a summary?

I agree with drtse4 on that point. Not as many people know about bookmarklets as we let on to believe, at least thats what I found out among my friends. And well frankly this time last year I didn't know what they were either.

Secondly, the domain is quite short; telling people to add tldr.it in front of any url to get a summary is simple and could have better word of mouth advantages then say teaching/telling them to use a bookmarklet or coming back to the homepage and pasting it in the text box.

In the video Jason also states why future Ycombinator startups participating the facebook socializing of your product is a bad idea. You can watch it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJAkjF9qnY#t=1h14m43s

Jason main point is that its a bad idea because facebook has a history stealing good ideas.

I disagree, not that they haven't done that or that there aren't other concerns, like facebook or twitter changing there platform policies. But worrying about any competitor stealing your idea is often a premature concern when you have other things to think about like whether you have a good idea, can you execute well on that idea, how will you get distribution and will people use it.

As Steve blank would say, "You should be so lucky to get to a size that you have a competitor thinking about you".

You should watch this clip Jason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USgPkfsVJM#t=25m55s

and thanks for TWiST, I enjoy it alot.

Maybe like with New Coke this would the perfect time for Ballmer to step up and declare the "Search Wars" over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Marketing_response_by_...

I think for public figures, people are always going to find something small or big to hate on. So I think you deal with it and not wonder about it.

As to the comment. Honestly. If your good at something and you worked at. You should not be afraid of the thought of telling someone your good at it, perhaps even one the best.

"To fund Veoh’s YouTube-sized ambitions, apparently. Sources familiar with the company tell me that during its go-go days, it was spending as much as $4 million a month on a bloated staff and infrastructure.

But Veoh only generated something like $12 million in sales over its 5-year life, and most of that was in the past couple years, sources said."

source:http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100211/universal-music-gro...

Perhaps I poorly worded by saying "ten minutes in", I meant starting from 10 minute and 10 second mark Sergey brings up how he's been using the service internally.

Edit:But going back to your point, I not sure Pagerank is relevant to twitter/facebook, and I don't think Sergey was saying that it was. But I do think their could be search problem emerging in social networks when people start having several hundred friends and you want to find relevant conversations to your interests going on within your network.

When listening to Sergey talk about Google Buzz ten minutes into this video he brings up the value of using buzz to ask questions to his contacts with the recommendation system directing the question to who best can answer it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W6Qbob2mg#t=10m10s

I was like "this sounds like Aardvark".

Thanks. I found that interesting, but what caught me more was how Omar approached the obvious Google problem. Mainly the fact that he realized early on that the potential market size was large enough that the entrance of Google wouldn't be the beginning and end of mobile advertising.

Another interesting post along the same lines was the post on the Launch of the iPhone. http://admob.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-does-iphone-mean-for-...