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The author starts off by asserting that Ford never said what is popularly thought he said.

And then he starts his discussion with his own assumption: "Here are some of the things people would have responded with if you asked a mid-late 19th century city planner what he needed with regards to equine transportation:"

I think it would have been a stronger argument to just list a few sources of information.

But besides that, I think the article raises some interesting points. For me, I don't want a faster car, I want fuel efficiency. I want a car that doesn't require too much maintenance and repairs.

When I planned a trip to Spain, I use the Frommers 3 days guide in Madrid to plan activities.

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/madrid/0056020791.html

I then used Google Maps and created a custom map with all the suggested sites, activities, and eateries. I was also able to share it with my friends and collaborate over it.

I think this is a great opportunity for Google to streamline all this and make another great product.

Uhmm...I'm going to ignore your snarkiness and condescension and just present the below data from Google's Support page for Chrome plugins:

" Your data on all websites

This item can read every page that you visit -- your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on. Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to.

Caution: Besides seeing all your pages, this item could use your credentials (cookies) to request or modify your data from websites."

I think it is not unreasonable to take pause when an extension asks for such permissions.

I just signed up and will give it a spin. I was going to install the Chrome Extension but the prompt says:

Add Kiptt?

It can:

- Access your data on all web sites.

- Access your tabs and browsing activity.

Why would the extension need all that above data if it's just bookmarking the page into Kippt?

None of the bug links are working for me.

How much does the book go into the first few weeks and months of Reddit? I've always been curious about how community sites get started and I was wondering how much in depth the book goes into how you guys bootstrapped Reddit. For instance, does the book go over how you and Steve create dummy accounts and content to seed Reddit? (I'm not saying this is a bad thing, in fact I think it's a legitimate technique) Was the process automated? And how did you guys get the first real users after you tapped out family and friends? I'm hoping the book goes into detail about the nitty gritty stuff like this when it comes to getting users for a community site.

>> Just look at what the data might look like for the 17 people. -They all sign up in a period of a few weeks. -They all review this one place and nothing else. -16 of the 17 never sign back in again.

Looking at the 17 filtered reviews, 16 of them are 5-star reviews from people with 0 friends and less than 5 reviews (mostly only have 1 review). There's also a 1-star review from a person with 0 friends and 1 review.

It seems like to me that their filtering algorithm is working pretty well.

I think what he meant was that the majority of people on social networks are 'socializing' on Facebook.

By hack, they mean that two teens who know how to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, help musicians use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.

Here's an example of a HN comment with 200+ comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530963

Here's the same thread in my layout:

http://threadit.kaizenrails.com/discussions/839

The arrows let you cycle through the replies of the above comment. This way, instead of using indentation to indicate a parent or ancestors, you simply look at the comments above. I find it easier than following indentation or indentation lines to mentally juxtapose a comment with its parent and its ancestors.

Here's my entry:

http://threadit.kaizenrails.com/discussions/691

I'm experimenting with redesigning thread layout to focus on context and making it easier to follow and comprehend a complicated thread.

It's not as ambitious as other ideas out there, but I feel this is a improvement over what we have currently.

I've been trying to implement this exact idea: http://www.blazingrails.com/

Topics describe your interests, and you can subscribe to multiple topics. The 'Best Posts' feed is a list of recommendations ranked by a combination of matching topics and points.

The end goal is that you start getting a feed of only content you're interested in.

Oops, I forgot to put in the link for a normal account.

Thanks for your feedback, especially the tidbit about focusing early on.

The 'manage links' is meant for a point game system where people can reward you with points based on the relevance of your links. Bad links get paused, but you can still re-word or modify your submission to improve its relevance, and then 'run' it again.

I was trying to focus on just the 'interests' part of the idea, but as you can see, got distracted by a tangent. =)

Yes, that's pretty much what I'm doing. I'm experimenting with adding more meaning to a 'topic' or 'tag'. It does make it a more complicated to add a link, but it allows someone to be more expressive in what they want to see in their news. This should in turn allow a submitter to really target their link to the right audience.

Clickable link: http://socialnews.targetmyinfo.com/improve_recommendations