jgilliam

The dependable banks... are those the ones that taxpayers just bailed out for hundreds of billions of dollars because they were about to destroy the entire financial system?

One aspect to this is how a mass exodus / conversion to a new distributed platform could work.

A web-based tool could be developed that lots of geeks could install on their servers that would allow a person to export their Facebook data into this new service using the Facebook Graph API. Facebook would try to shut this down, so it would have be to have installed and operating in so many different places that they couldn't keep up. And the cool part is that as Facebook tries to shut it down, it will just build more and more media attention, driving more people to leave.

Brand it as The Facebook Exodus, or something like that, set a launch date, and then build momentum from there.

Cool, California doesn't need the tax revenue anyway.

But this week didn't Facebook take one big step closer to their own version of AdSense? Put those social ads all over the internet, where they aren't just hanging out with their friends, and it's a whole new ballgame.

You are right, I was wrong. It's the full number that's a test number. 5424 0000 0000 0015

5424 is a MasterCard test number. http://www.topbits.com/test-credit-card-numbers.html

edit: I was wrong, it's the full number that's a test number. 5424 0000 0000 0015

Any theories on how it happened, technically?

Right, because you know how to conduct a brain study better than a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who's been working on this for years.

There's a new twitter petition asking for it to be open sourced. http://act.ly/1w1

This could be really unfair to startups, depending on how hard it is to become a "partner."

Like, it'd suck to have your more well-financed competition (who happens to be buying lots of ads on Facebook) get the ability to automatically link up your friends as soon as you visit their site.

Huge congrats on the app... with the iPad coming out, it's the perfect time for this.

A possible area for expansion (or maybe even a new app entirely). There's a whole world of classical music that is extremely competitive. Since you've got the iPad sitting on their piano, use the microphone to record yourself playing the song, and then it can be uploaded automatically and rated alongside others who've played the song.

Then you can have a leaderboard for each song, and even an overall leaderboard, like a global tennis rankings. They could challenge each other to a "duel" like a tennis match, or there could be a tournament. People can have their ranking, a profile, how old they are.

It would be hugely motivating to kids learning to play, and very disruptive/democratizing to the whole classical music world.

I didn't realize the Mixergy guy is the same guy who called himself "G" on the reality show, Secret Millionaire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAKwl1GW-I

Compete shows traffic shot up in January.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/thesixtyone.com/

My guess is the reason heroku hasn't done it yet is because of latency issues between availability zones. Ping times can be 6x between availability zones, vs. within it. http://orensol.com/2009/05/24/network-latency-inside-and-acr...

More and more cloud services are running on AWS deliberately so there is very low latency. I can host a SOLR index on one service, a MongoDB on another service, and still get reasonable performance.

Yelp has a lot of relationships with local businesses, something they are trying to grow with AdWords.

They also want the dataset. The current reviews google is crawling are lousy compared to Yelp's.

On Heroku, any process that takes more than 30 seconds has to run in a background task. The only other option is cron, but that can only run once per hour.

"The single biggest difference I've seen between great programmers and everyone else is a pure love for what they do."

This applies to everything, whether it's programming or gardening or sales. You can only be great at something if you love doing it. Keep trying different things until you find what you love doing. Once you find that, everything else will fall into place.

There is also a rails plugin: http://github.com/dan/hivelogic-enkoder-rails/tree

This will create a pretty mailto link encrypted with javascript that the bots can't pick up: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

I've used it for years with good results. People will even email me thinking that I've exposed my email address to spammers encouraging me to use the blah [at] blah dot com style.

When the product manager says he navigated to the museum and is standing in front of it, he's actually on a green screen. You can see the difference in the lighting on him vs. the background. Kinda amusing.

It's great we don't have to use the templates anymore, but the frequency of the API changes to something as basic as posting to the stream is really getting annoying.

I think they priced the iphone app high so people will think their free web version is a bargain and actually worth using. "Hey, I can get it for free on their website!" Even though they weren't using it at all before.

p2p transactions in real life. split lunch, gas, kegs, house parties, street vendors, scalpers.

I recently found http://sendgrid.com/ which is designed to solve the email sending problem from EC2, and includes a REST API.

An application promoting single payer health care is not even remotely comparable to a flame comment.

I'm not following you. What is wrong with the content of the article?

They have to undercut all of them by doing it themselves. If big brands start publishing this stuff on their own sites, no one will bother with the other sites.

The fact that this API is one-way really highlights the difference between Facebook and Twitter.

It's one-way because Facebook has to be worried about spam since anyone can send a message to anyone else. Twitter doesn't have this issue because you have to opt-in before you ever receive a message from someone.

No, it started as a hand-built directory of websites, and outsourced its search function, using several different providers over the years. It bought Inktomi at one point -- which at the time was one of the top search engines (it powered Hotbot) -- and that's when it became more of a search company.