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1. Good inflation hedge (and not gold) 2. Physical ownership 3. Easy to buy & sell

Pick two.

Do your predictions work? Until you have some evidence either way, there's not much to say about this.

Twitter says they "do not currently expire access tokens." http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ

Who knows what they will do in the future.

I don't know of any easy way to programatically grant OAuth access.

Look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/w8S4A.jpg

Then look at this:

http://www.kissinsights.com

I primarily read the HN RSS feed, and also try to look at every headline that comes across the feed to make sure I don't miss any godo stuff. I became curious about how much in the minority I am in doing this.

See the FAQ.

Great. Any thoughts on parameter values?

What maximum % of your net worth would you allocate to angel investments?

I value my time and believe in improving things. What more can I say?

I disagree. Some of the tweets I subjectively label as garbage might be legit. Hey, maybe some guy's mom is on twitter and wants to know what he had for lunch. It's not a people problem, it's a drawback of the platform that all of this different subject matter has to be broadcast in the same stream.

Custom searches don't capture all of the good information that's out there because I may not specify the right keywords. It's ANTI-search that I'm personally looking for.

I've never heard of Jaiku, but what you describe sounds exactly like what Twitter needs.

In theory you could use multiple Twitter accounts for multiple channels. It would be sort of faking it, though.

That's how I view Facebook. Twitter on the other hand is rich with useful information.

This is awesome.

You guys should set up a Twitter feed or something for noostr so we can stay up to date on when it gets released to github.

Classic selection bias. The dropout founders of Apple, Twitter, and Facebook need to be balanced against dropout founders whose companies failed. Of course, we have no idea who they are and so it's difficult to point to examples.

I'm the author of this article. I've posted a follow-up that incorporates some of the comments I read here on Hacker News. Thanks for everyone's feedback.

http://jmillerinc.com/2010/04/28/angel-investing-simulation-...

I am looking for an existing Twitter client that can filter by regex while still having all of the bells and whistles. Building my own would be a last resort.