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The point is to provide this functionality for other sites. We're using ourself to launch ourself. Once we're out of beta, you won't need to do the referrals. We think it's a good way to create hype about your new startup.

We do that so that you can't game the system with the same email address. + are invalid.

Ya, sign on up and refer some friends. ;) We're letting people into the WYSIWYG editor in the next few days. We've got the first few sites built on our platform launching soon (hopefully tonight). We're also creating a widget for you to use if you don't want to use our site builder/hosting.

The basic formula is very similar to the Forkly/Hipster strategy, but we've got some more ideas that we're going cooking up as well. We want to create a tool to help people launch, recruit, retain and build relationships with users.

Hoping to have something ready for consumption this coming week.

Analytics are on the roadmap. We'll probably have some basic stuff baked in with the initial release.

We're doing a number of things to combat gaming including cookies, double opt-in and potentially some external email verification through a third party service. We're definitely, definitely thinking about it.

I'm one of the guys behind LaunchRock. While we're not planning on open sourcing it, we'll be offering this in several forms.

One option will be to redirect your DNS to our servers while your launching the form. The other, and perhaps more interesting to you is an embedabble widget.

Location. I thought they'd be perfect for it, but I think their implementation shows that they just don't quite get it. It doesn't matter to me that someone was at Wawa 15 hours ago.

I can set this up if Gabe wants it. It shouldn't be too big of deal. Gabe, let me know.

Sort of. Twitter and Yammer are great for putting things out there quickly to get feedback or an answer to a question. Private conversations though will always be important.

That being said, I often appreciate a DM instead of an email because it forces people to be quick.

I'm 23. I'm going to reference this research when we pitch our company to raise money. Fund the young guys.

Sweet. Boxee's best feature is back again.

Lets just hope they don't have ridiculous restrictions on embedding.

I've been using the plugin for a few weeks. It doesn't often come into effect (I don't misspell that often), but it is nice to have when I do!

Wow, great idea. They're going to cause their followers to explode overnight which will convert to future sales for them from the Twitter account. Genius.

I love my Macs, but man, I wish they would update on a more continuous basis. I have a 3 month old Mac Mini, and this is pretty frustrating.

I wouldn't say it is the classes though. College transformed me as a person and forced me to grow up. Maybe it helps that I go to Drexel where we have co-op (school for 6 months, work for 6 months, repeat). Anyway, I would not have been prepared to lead a start up right out of high school. Today, I think I'm ready.

I'm glad that I took all of my money out a month or so before the crash and invested it in my start up. My start up might not be successful, but I would have lost it one way or the other. At least this way, it is in my hands.

I am all for being eco-friendly, heck my startup is focusing on helping the green building community, but I'm also for not killing people. We already know radios are distracting. I don't want the guy in the car next to me determining his speed based on a game.

"I'm sorry officer, the car was telling me that I should speed up so I would be saving as much gas as possible. It was the car's fault, it was distracting me and I didn't see the other guy in front of me."

That's why I love getting my hands on those leaked PDF copies of textbooks. Hope there aren't any publishers on here. ;)

That works often, but a lot of publishers have a fun little trick where they barely change the content but do change the problem sets.

This is a tough one. I sometimes regret choosing to go to college, but it truly changed everything for me. I studied Materials Engineering, and now I'm doing a web startup, but I really believe the college experience, the connections I've made, and the failure in multiple ways in college (not in classes thankfully) has helped me prepare to take the leap to full time entrepreneur.

I hope this happens for my childrens' sake. (Thankfully, that is a long way away.) In addition to being too heavy to haul around, textbooks are expensive and constantly outdated, forcing students to sell them for often 10 cents on the dollar. Chegg's textbook rental is great, but this could result in free books with even better and always up to date content.

I'd love to see the numbers to back this up. Gotta love that a company is essentially bribing its customers to quit. They must be pretty bad to justify the $300 bribe.

This is a really interesting Q&A about OpenSocial. We're trying to decide right now if we want to integrate it into our project, http://konnect.me, but I am not sure it is gaining the traction.

Facebook not being on board the OpenSocial bandwagon is unfortunate. Things would be much better for the industry if they weren't doing their own proprietary thing with Facebook Connect. Of course, if I was in their position, I'd probably do the same thing.

The fact of the matter is that numbers speak. Facebook is my identity on the web, and I bet it is yours too. It is too late to turn back. Unless they do something 10x worse than Beacon, I'm not leaving, and I doubt you will either.

I'm afraid they control your web identity. You know what though, I'm okay with it. It makes my life easier.

Looks pretty cool. I'm looking forward to using it. They're presentation at TC50 didn't go so hot though. I feel bad for the guy.

Okay, I’ll preface this with letting everyone know that I’m a part of the Philadelphia community, and I know a lot of the guys that were a part of DreamIt.

I am very familiar with many of these companies. I use Dropcard about a few times a week. These guys have made it extraordinarily easy to send a digital business card that you can easily add to any address book. Just try it. It will take you less than 15 minutes to get set up. I’ll certainly be using it at TC50 next week.

Vuzit is a great idea backed by great technology. Some people really are looking for a white label solution for viewing documents and don’t want their documents hosted at Scribd or Docstoc which have more of a YouTube model. They’ve also got some features you won’t find elsewhere.

Anthilllz also has some great potential. LinkedIn lets you recommend others, but this entire site is built upon your recommendations and others’ opinions of you. Imagine you’re looking for a new web designer. What is more important, a LinkedIn profile (essentially a resume) or a place that has truly honest reviews? If Anthillz is successful at building out its network through its “Trusted Colleagues” feature (which is a great viral feature), then you’ll find it quickly become a place where people’s reputations live and die.

I can’t really speak to the other companies as I’m not too familiar, and I think that maybe some of the ideas for some of those companies might be a little flaky from these summaries, but there are some very promising companies in the bunch. They may not ever be huge, but they can certainly be successful.