immad

Good point. I kind off broadly classify all javascript only pages as Ajax though its not strictly. I guess with one page only it was probably easier to make the website.

Wow, a fully Ajax front page (http://cloudant.com). Looks nice but a bit overkill?

We are going to be opening up APIs for publishers get achievement data. We also already push users through our viral channels back to the publishers website (would do this automatically but flash doesn't allow it).

Most publishers we talk to love it. We want to open up this data and allow creative applications of achievements, both in the given community and in the wider social graph.

What aspect of Mochi Media are you comparing Heyzap to? They don't have achievements or dual currency.

Kongregate's system is not distributed so it doesn't work whereever the SWF is. Also our system ties in to dual currency (points) and Facebook/ Twitter.

Kongregate's system is nice though.

Hey Adam, Immad from Heyzap. Would be good to talk sometime about all things flash. My email is Immad (AT) Heyzap

In my mind, the issue is more to do with other people getting rich off the back of this authors work while the author gets hardly any thing.

So the question is not the value of the book to society, but the percentage of the value the author should get versus everyone else in the stack.

@heyzap

Is there a consumer fan application of this already as well?

edit: hmm, it has a fan as noonespecial says. So I guess that is almost a non-question

It rewrites the flash and javascript so that they call your reverse proxy instead of the original domain?

> Flash usually uses around 90%+ of one core on my box to decode video

Is that on a linux box?

Really sad. Dan was a smart and funny guy. He had a great way of looking at life and very confident.

The world will definitely be a poorer place without him.

Google still finds http://thepiratebay.org/browse

But Bing wins with the front page: http://www.bing.com/search?q=pirate+bay&go=&form=QBL...

On a side note: The way bing shows the first result it made it feel like an ad and I skipped it the first time.

Also: The related search results in Bing are quite useful.

I like that one too.

edit: though some thing in an autobiography might not be things that make you happy but might increase its interest for the reader.

> correlating success with people is a better metric than correlating with money

Sure, I agree. I did that

> The article blurbed something about exercise and a strong body

You mis-understood or I did not communicate properly my sentance I said "Exercise myself to the highest potential". I meant exercise in the sense or work to my fullest potential. "blurbed" seems like a bit of an unnecessarily argumentative phrase.

> As soon as you put the more or less words before successful you lost the game

Hmm, I think you view a lack of success is a negative thing, where as I view degrees of success as a way of something to achieve. If you just think you are success and have nothing to achieve then that is fine. It personally drives me. None of my metrics were particularly materialistic

Any way this is just my opinion, I am not trying to impose it on you

If that is your definition of success than aren't you already successful?

What about the degree of success? Are you more successful if the most people possible are crying with the greatest passion?

Shouldn't success give you a more enjoyable life while you are still alive?

Site is down. No Google cache yet either...

If you instead looked at every VC funding above $1m in the US I wonder how many of them would be in Califronia.

I think it would be more than 90%.

I agree. Sales tax kills newegg for me though I prefer shopping their because there search is way better.

Will p2p lending work for mortgages? Do they have p2p loans configured towards mortgages? It would have to be pretty different to the normal unsecured loans

Why does it have to be a "massive worldwide famine" rather than a general slow starvation that forces an overall balance?

I get why some human issues lead to catastrophe like, global warming, but I never get why all issues will lead to catastrophes rather than gradual equilibrium.

I don't think he was being sarcastic.

I think you are getting to caught up in the logistics of how the Visa administration will work. The actual delivery of it is going to obviously be more thought out than Brad Feld's blog post.

Any effort to address the problem is better than nothing.

If Twitter did that it would be some sort of weird hedge fund doing hype-based leveraged Buy Out.

Google is a more innovative home for tech companies than Inuit

If you know what your earning power is and know that you could comfortably pay of the debt in 6 months I don't see the problem.

A good hackers 6 month savings applied to him living a scrappy bootstrapped lifestyle could give a year of living on CC debt.

900m revenue or profit?

The article only mentioned Skype "is on track to take in more than $600 million in revenue this year."

If Skype is a low margin business than the profits might be very low. Given that they have such competitive pricing I can't imagine they have that high a margin.

YC startups grow up and get funding and then can pay salaries. Pg gets to observe that too.

But I think PG was mainly referring to non-US YC applicants that want to continue staying in the valley after the 3 months. In general a YC round is about 10-20% foreign

I second that. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.

Nope, not even close :).