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and then follow up with this: St Paul's protesters urged to remove tents (by City of London Corporation) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15532692

I agree with point 1. A Dedicated Full-time Community Manager could shape the community, chip away at the crap and support to cool aspects. Someone who knows HN inside and out, who listens to what the community wants, is willing to put their ego to the side when they are wrong and is stern enough to enforce rules.

How about https instead of http?

Videos are easy to digest, and considering the target audience is not web designers I think this is a great resource. I can point my friends to it when they ask what I do :)

I used to find a free generator and modify it. But more recently I haven't been including a TOS in new apps.

I think it was "Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers that I first heard about doing this.

Prey is open source so, if you knew how to, you could add some monitoring capabilities to Prey to make sure it isn't doing anything it shouldn't.

Hypothetical question that would never happen: What's to stop Google moving to Switzerland?

How do you get into the developer scene in Edinburgh, Where do you hangout?

To sum it up, it seems like it's a step in the right direction.

IPO's response to each 10 points: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipresponse-full.pdf

Can you define developer looks? Might help to see the site.

I'm not a designer by heart, but I just look at other sites in the same market for inspiration. Most of the sites I design come out looking pretty good. It's all about prioritizing. Take a look at this amazing post Allison House: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-to-arrange-interface-elem...

I've been using oDesk to do some remote work. You can definitely scale remote working to where you have enough money to travel.

Most places I've been always have an internet connection in easy reach.

Love this! Love the map!

I think the maps api allows you to use custom pins, so how about different icons for different types of events.

Also noticed you have an empty meta description.

Also, to both projects, how about implementing machine learning to find events (scan twitter, FB, G+ and sites). Hehe, someone smarter than me would have to figure out how this would work :)

This really is the key to success with sites like these, you needs events, and you need alot.

You don't really want to be entering events manually if you don't have to. The future isn't manpower, its algorithms.

P.S. I've bookmarked this.

Nice! I'd love to see it in a few months.

I don't tend to agree with groups like Lulzec and Anonymous, but please think about Lodsys as a target.

Love Prey. The amount of times I've lost my phone while out and about, to find it was home all along is appalling.

Go with Prey, it's open source so if the company goes, you can still use it.

How about asking event owners to submit more events in their area while submitting their own, in order to gain a more prominent position on the listings.

Nice idea, the problem I always have with sites trying this is that they don't have enough activities in my area (That I know exist).

You need people to submit events in their areas, so how about a gaming mechanic. If you get random people to submit as many events as possible (Don't specifically target the event owner (Only 1 event)) and reward them somehow (Badge, payment, physical prize), it could work.

Make it cool to use SplashActive.

I'd also get rid of the advertising until you are abit more popular, it's just a turn-off that no one will pay for until you have a large user base.

The title in the header could be shortened to "Find activities in your area"

Finally, I hoped you had fun making this, I like it's simplicity.

Good Luck! - Matt

What's the average tuition fee in a typical US college/university year?

The UK was about £3300, now under roughly £7000.

I'm so impressed with this. Took 1 minuite from signup (FREE CREDIT) to receiving a SMS to my phone from a PHP script on my laptop. Cool

I feel these are some of the most important videos I've seen this past year. Thanks Ryan and the team.

Like the idea, but not willing to buy any until it has proven more robust and usable

No it won't, for one good reason.

I can buy a Cash Register for around $50, whereas iPads start from $500