joop

No, read the press release. It actually makes sense. They get a pretty large audience with their own activities and don't need the events anymore. Arrogant, yes. Smart, maybe...

There must be more examples of suggestions gone bad...

all true!

Sounds more like a blog than a real business. I know one website where I could enter my gadgets. Did that once but never looked at it again...

Oops! Turns out this quote isn't by Goethe after all but by W.H. Murray. Check it out: (http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm). The original quote which this one is based on was “Now at last let me see some deeds!” which is a line from Faust... :-)

Wow, that quote should be mandatory for everyone thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. Getting started is toughest hurdle to cross for most people...

He he he, smart one.

I'm about 3000 messages behind on my email. This article struck a nerve...

Sorry, url: http://www.fuckedstartups.com/2008/10/23/leaks-google-to-sla...

Check the Fuckedcompany blog (comments too!) for more info on that. Lost of details and they are not pretty...

You make it sound like page views were invented by the Devil himself. Page views aren't bad and a good reflection of what people find interesting. Yes, this story is interesting. The 50+ comments are extremely interesting and highlight all the aspects that make this story interesting. Every blogger writes for an audience and having more people read your story is a good sign. The fact that this story was posted here (by someone not associated with that particular blog) is proof of that.

Not everybody reads HN. The fact that it is OLD news here doesn't mean it is NO news.

The author writes for the same blog as I do and I disagree this not being news. It is on the front page of HN right now with 50+ comments. If so many people care about it it is newsworthy.

You can downvote but not until you have enough credit. Patience...

Ha ha ha ha!!!

The browser doesn't work. Is the only and most interesting part of the whole device. Ugh...

It's a little complicated, but worth the read!

From the page: "They (Herb Brody) say that telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. But I still think it is good to look back on how things got started and where they ended up since then. The first website was put online in August 1991. Just think about how much has happened since then and try to imagine how much we can expect from the next 17 years…"

Nice...

The gateways blocked the .torrent file names and MIME types. This tool repacks it to a ZIP file, and make torrent files available to me... very cool!

If he was a real entrepreneur, he would have made it with the boat... Nice story though!

Exactly, and that's why they have to fix it. We talk about numbers here, which is a key indicator for many to see how popular a website is; We brought this to light so Google/Feedburner will finally address it

Haha, epic fail!

The inventor studied in The Netherlands, the concept should work everywhere! I wonder if they are legal in Europe though...

Hope they will sell these at a low price

They look awesome!

I haven't made use of Delicious for a long time now... logging me out isn't going to get me back either!

Another angle: http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/26/google-does-not-digg-it-wal...