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Such a bummer. They were working really well on a project of mine.

Regardless of where you host, if that's a problem for you, just set up a free account at Pingdom to hit it every 1 minute, and get uptime/response time monitoring as a bonus. Easy peasy.

Sorry for the fb post link. Robert Scoble just noted that "I've heard that Marissa Mayer has doubled Flickr's team size in the past week. I'm glad. Flickr is the best thing about Yahoo for me."

When I launched BookCrossing in 2001, some in the press called us "the Napster of books," but 11 years later and I can count the number of complaining authors on one hand. We never heard from any of the guilds. I think our focus on serendipitous book releases and catches helped in that regards.

Check out the prototype, made public at WWDC over a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BXM9PYaXY0

Leave it to uber-businessman Bloomberg to wire up a 30% commission to NYC for all future sales to other cities.

And WorkFlowy is ok with that?

Wow. Let's see how the readers of posts like http://www.quora.com/Does-a-human-male-corpse-have-an-erect-... or http://www.quora.com/Coming-Out-Outing/How-should-I-know-if-... feel when their identities are listed for all to see. (Don't click them unless, you know, you're ok with your name being on that list.)

That's a good way to get attention... from the SEC.

SocialCam's main competitor, Viddy, just raised at a $370M valuation, and some data[1] show SocialCam at around 2X the traction of Viddy (post-sharkfin for both). The modest scale of this acquisition is not the kind of comp you want to see if you're Viddy, especially with their Series B terms[2].

I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks – has mobile social video peaked, or has it just not been done well enough yet?

1. http://i.imgur.com/ncvPr.png 2. http://www.businessinsider.com/viddy-series-b-terms-2012-5

Bold move. Curious if CL's next step will be to add noarchive tags to prevent google cache content from being crawled.

Possible bug: as I'm scrolling down any list, for example http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/L/, and the infinite scroll refreshes at the bottom, I'm seeing many, many dupes – like the list is repeating. Makes the search very frustrating to keep seeing the same words. I'd second the request for a downloadable text list of names if you're feeling generous. :)

I'd just fake a login screen on the app's main page.

Looks like a less-polished version of Rummage (http://rumma.ge)

"The grass is always greener where you water it" is my preferred version.

AdWords has an option now to distribute your daily budget evenly throughout the day.

Have you considered starting something in your wheelhouse? If you worked in oil and gas for six years, you probably know that space cold. I don't know much about it, but I'm guessing there is lots of money in it, and it has room for further disruption by technology.

If you take time to learn programming first, you may miss the current window of relatively easy seed money. Think of an angle, use $40-50K of your nest egg, and get a contractor to build a nice prototype quickly.

If/when you do go out to raise money, you'll have far more success if you can tell a convincing story about why you have an unfair advantage in your chosen space. Leverage your history and experience to its fullest; that's something others cannot compete with you on.

OT, but I'm pretty impressed at that site's design, considering it's a .gov property.

Really? I find Georgia extremely readable on desktops and laptops, and the NYTimes makes heavy use of it at 12px in article bodies. Looks a little dated/old school, but I've never heard of Georgia (or Times for that matter) having "degraded" readability.

It's about revenue, not user count. Money changes everything: when customers pay, they expect a different level of service.

A company's revenue per employee is a common benchmark, and is usually around $600K-$1MM or so for successful companies at or near scale, up to $2.2MM for outliers like Apple(1). A company cannot grow to $100MM revenue and higher without having a large number of employees just to manage those revenue streams, partnerships, contracts, and support issues.

I should add that Instagram had ~13 employees, not two. That is a very low number, but mobile apps are easier to scale, support-wise, than web apps – users are just less likely to bug you, especially with a free app.

(1) Comparing Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon's Revenue per Employee: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+ap...

Still very respectable traffic on digg (as compared to reddit and HN): http://imgur.com/a/BMHXe

I'd be surprised if the WaPo (or someone else) doesn't step up to take it over.

My hunch: the intersection between gamer geeks and fitbit users is not a large one.

I certainly hope you're right. Glad to know it's working for you. I haven't yet received access, so I can't tell.

I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive:

http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

I'm in the same boat, having had an 80GB plan for $20/yr for some time now.

1 TB on Google Drive = $50/mo

1 TB on Amazon S3 = $125/mo (down to $55/mo for 5,000 TB)

Being based on S3, Dropbox is going to have a tough time competing on price.

It's a useful exercise from the other direction, too. As an employer or manager, ask yourself how you'd feel if Employee X walked in your office and handed you their resignation. If your gut reaction is closer to relief than to horror, then terminate Employee X sooner rather than later.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that delightful bit of UX was Kyle Neath's idea and execution.

Very cool. Quick feedback: there are too many players on one screen. Getting immediately run into and killed repeatedly by random players careening around isn't a great user experience. My guess is dropping ~5 players max onto a canvas would be more compelling, and lead to longer initial engagement times.

Yeah, kind of a turnoff for me, too. Try to find some authentic pics there.

More info here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/09/sopa-supporters-await-...