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mattcarboneon WEF 2009: Mark Zuckerberg thinks difficult times require a tie

PR spam at it's finest

mattcarboneon Microsoft.com being redesigned to push Silverlight

This just shows that they don't understand their own technology. RIA/browser plugins have their place, but not for corporate home pages. If this was the case then Adobe.com would be a full screen flex app and Sun.com would be an applet.

arrg.

mattcarboneon Idea to Discuss and Evaluate

The "cool factor" is there.

One possible problem: The person has at least three things to work with now, your scanning device, the paper, and the computer. It would be really nice to have it interface directly with the mobile device.

mattcarboneon Why is twitter popular?

Is there something I'm missing here?

It seems like there is nothing there that is not already a feature in another site/service.

mattcarboneon Well after a month of sacrificing all my free time... this is what i came up with

I love the idea.

mattcarboneon A refreshing design for Buxfer

Buxfer will be the next startup from Y to get picked up. It's useful and could easily be a feature in some bank's web portal.