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I think it made a lot of people smile when they saw the concept. Perhaps its time spin it into http://shipandsink.com/ ;-)

I do now ;)

I was curious about this too so had a search and found. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7109635/is-it-ok-to-show-... If you use MKStoreKit to localize the pricing then its OK. Apple dont want developers hard coding pricing info or displaying the wrong currency to the user.

Costs for our app have just gone from $120 per month to $1200. Its a service we provide to users for free, we cant afford that level of hosting. That is a 10x price increase.

How many biz can get away with that sort of hike? This and how Google treats Android developers (shutting down forum, not responding to issues) is making me question why I bother building anything for your platforms.

I was on app engine from the start, I've sat though your DevFests, arranged hackathons, and told countless people they should use your platform. I've invested many hours learning your API. But this is it, its over, no more.

Anything but a tiny free app is going to cost the earth, if you want to scale use AWS or Heroku. If you are an outside developer trusting Google it will cost you.

I used it in exactly the same way.. when I saw an issue I would check for forums to see if others were experiencing the same issue. I'm not sure I would have noticed payouts being lower than they should have been without the forum, and I'm not 100% convinced Google would have either. The "known issues" page only lists a small subset of the real issues with the market. Also more often than not when they fix something, something else breaks.

Just an update to say Skype have responded saying they will fix the bug in an upcoming release. Hopefully we won't have to wait long.

Thought I would pass on a word of warning about the recently released Skype 5 for Mac. Once installed, if Skype 5 is running (even in background), it will block Flash from being able to access your webcam. This breaks quite a few popular web applications. Unfortunately users will think the problem is caused by Flash, when it is actually caused by Skype.

Examples of sites and applications broken by Skype 5.

* http://www.dailybooth.com - core feature of the site

* http://www.facebook.com - webcam record and "take a photo" feature

* http://www.picnik.com - image editors that have import from webcam

* http://www.webcamsnapper.com - webcam photo widget used by brizzly, dailybooth, many other sites. (disclosure: my company built this app)

* adobe connect, dimdim, etc - online meeting apps

Skype has been aware of this issue since the release of the beta in November and yet they have not fixed it before the general release. According to their issue tracker they say this new behavior is "by design".

https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCM-721

In the old Skype (2.8) this was not a problem, so something has changed. If indeed this is not a bug and is "by design" then it is a very worrying move. Imagine for a moment things were reversed. Say for instance a new release of Flash stopped all video calls working in iChat or Skype. People would be outraged, Gruber would have a heart attack.

Just to be 100% clear, Skype doesn't need to be in a video call for it to block webcam access by Flash. It simply needs to be running. The only fix is to shut down Skype then reload your browser. After this the webcam will start working again in Flash. The only long term fix is to uninstall Skype 5 and install an older version.

More discussion of the issue in Skype forum: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=782411

That may be the case sometimes, but as far as I'm concerned they are spam. I would like the option to blacklist sites from my results. Wouldn't it be great if we had choice.

Really like the UI/UX work. Hope this gets picked up by someone who can develop the site. Looking at the designs I would hazard a guess the designer responsible is the guy who does the dailybooth designs.

I didn't see haXe on the list so added it. Seems its often overlooked when people talk about languages which compile to JS.

I switched from zoneedit to zerigo not long after they had a period of extended downtime. I was also put off by them talking about a new admin which was coming. Blab about it after it launches not before.

Will try a "special" shower tonight, let you know if it works for me.

Awesome. I think its a great idea. I've enjoyed being part of the FB group for people hacking on november / monthly projects. The more community and exposure we can build the better it is for everyone hacking on projects. Have followed on twitter, look forward to reading more.

I'm a big CoffeeScript fan, but I would never say just learn CoffeeScript and skip JavaScript. CoffeeScript is really just syntax and abstraction on top of JavaScript.

Love the domain name, site looks good too. Pricing seems rather high but I guess developers are not the target audience. I tried uploading a video and it seemed to get stuck 1/4 of the way though 100mb. Thats probably my net connection, not your service though.

I guess its down again, I can't reach it.

Having worked with webcams in the browser I find it hard to understand how you can get the resolution / accuracy needed to do eye tracking. Is there a demo anywhere? Just seeing the dot move around the screen to where you are looking would be enough to see the technology works. I guess it could also be used to control games too.

I'm happy using Ruby and Python and have built sites with Rails and Django in the past. These days I mostly use Flask (sorta like Sinatra in Python) as its lightweight and has templates that don't drive me insane (sorry Django). For a large app with lots of models and mixed developers I would likely choose Rails.

I started watching but turned off due to the sound quality. I think its the sound of the fan from the computer being picked up by the mic. Blame steve jobs :) Keep doing what you are doing, looked like an interesting interview.

I'm in, will post details on what we are launching on the group.