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Credit to this group. I've had a SourceForge address in place for 20yrs or so that forwards to my main email and it kept working through after their acquisition in 2016 of Sourceforge.

Take a look at the 54-59 second mark on this video:

http://vimeo.com/8186279.

Look at the chest area of the guy wearing a striped shirt to the right of girl in shorts. You'll notice the stripes look weird and are morphing. It's referred to as aliasing as well.

I have a Canon 7d that takes beautiful video. I spent a fair amount of time learning to make beautiful videos with it, and I also spent a fair amount of money buying low light lenses, filters (vari nd filter), and still need to buy audio (zoom h4n), steadycam (zacuto) and follow focus gear. The thing is, I intend to make a documentary so I do want it to be as good as I can possibly make it so I will end up spending an additional $1k-2k on top of the camera body depending on the gear I end up going with.

Having said that, the target market for a cheap Canon DSLR (parents) with the stock lens and nothing more than a tripod should be very happy with the flexibility of carrying one camera for stills and video, and the results they get on video should be very close to a a similarly priced camcorder.

Here is an example of why. I was at a ballet recital on Saturday and a father was filming his daughter with a $900 Canon T2i camera on a tripod and his video will likely look better than on a comparable Canon camcorder because the light was not changing, his subject was at the same focal distance and his camera was mounted on a tripod. That eliminates almost all of the manual control variables that require more equipment except for one - audio. A $99 audio device can fix that if it matters to you.

On the flip side, the DSLR gives you full manual controls and the ability to shoot in low light with possibly a cheap $100 Canon 50mm f/1.8.

Here are two videos shot with DSLR's that can show you the range of these DSLR's:

Alexandra (1 camera body, lens, and monopod) http://vimeo.com/6854556

Salton Sea (1 camera body, lots of lenses and fancy equipment) http://vimeo.com/10314280

Video DSLR's will replace camcorders eventually. In the meantime they can be useful in that they take both stills and video, and etter yet they are the best thing that happened to independent film makers.

UPDATE: Another comments points to a post on Philip Bloom's site about which DSLR to purchase. Philips site is full of very helpful information, the Salton Sea video linked to above is his.

http://philipbloom.net/2010/06/06/whichdslr/

I don't believe you watched the TED talk by Daniel Kahneman embedded in the blog post.

Daniel Kahneman mentions the 60k stat after his discussion and says "for Americans".

That should lead you to the conclusion that the number would likely be different if you did the gallup survey in a different country.

Braintree has gone out of their way to help my company out, they are extremely startup friendly.

My customer service rep at Braintree handles regular billing inquiries and has also helped me with some coding issues - that speaks volumes in my book.

Did your Mahalo investors get a share of thisweekin?

I read a little bit about how Odeo handled it with twitter handled it, just wondering how you did.

I just noticed the attribution is missing on the photo page, but present on the homepage. If you were only going to do one, it seems the one that would benefit the photographer them most is on the photo page - because likely that will be the one that is indexed and possibly found on your site later - thus the link would help them.

The design is clean, I like the concept. I didn't see attribution for each photo, did I miss it? I wouldn't feel comfortable visiting the site everyday if you don't give credit to the photographer.

The Gmail issue you highlight I believe would only happen when the original outbound smtp server goes dark before it reattempts delivery. I say this because I have been receiving emails from Gmail with greylisting on for a week now.

Good points. I used to do enterprise IT consulting and we couldn't integrate many spam cutting techniques without getting a large dose of complaints saying "where is my spam".

In our case, it's just two of us, and the level of spam was overwhelming. I accept the trade-off.

We just integrated zendesk into django using an app called django_zendesk, so far so good.

Coda love it, used to use textmate

Interesting to see the backwards bending supply curve of labor in effect. The poor nap, the middle class do not, and the rich do.

Definitely makes it a double redirect now.

We switched to braintree from paypal at the beginning of the year - they are the most responsive payment provider I have ever dealt with. Our customer service that answers non technical questions also helped me troubleshoot some api issues I was having.

BTW I was the one that mentioned the "bait" to Andrew, but not to bait you but rather to have others learn from your experience. I think it's important that people building a company know about liquidation preferences going in.

Since you seem to know Andrew so well, how do you explain that he lives in Santa Monica and does most of his interviews over Skype? Really though, if you spent some time on mixergy.com you might appreciate what he does instead of blindly judging Andrew.

Well, it's not just hosting though. Typical hosting you cannot just boot down and then boot up a server with 8x the ram or disk space. That's just one thing.

Added - sorry about that, I forgot.

I am curious what program you created the screencast in?

so where exactly is the address to his posterous account? I only knew of the techcrunch.posterous.com account.

In case some of you don't know Andrew Warner, he has a ton of great interviews on:

http://blog.mixergy.com

and here is his Hacker News profile:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewWarner

Mac OS 7 was the reason I hated mac's from 1996-1998. I am curious what virtues it could possibly have because I just remember having to run around the UCLA computer lab troubleshooting that OS futzing with the network printer daemon.

It does make a network connection, but I am actually interested in seeing how many swf files I can serve and at what rate before my server crawls.

I said nothing about ads, rather that it's hard to raise money so charging is almost a must.

About ads, FriendFAQ is killing it on Facebook. Friends that run content sites say ad payouts are down, affiliate companies are killing it.

It's probably not a good idea not to copy other companies, rather analyze what's working them and see if you can make it work for you as well.

37Signals gives a ton of good advice when it comes to running a web service, and some not so good advice.

Here a gem 37Signals provided:

Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards? http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-...

It was so good, that the CEO of Braintree Payment Solutions referenced it when talking about the same subject:

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/annual-credit-...

Now that it's tough to raise money, "copying" 37 Signals and charging for your products on a monthly recurring basis is spot on for most new web services. I don't listen to everything they say, but every now and then they have it figured out.

$5 is not much of a barrier to entry for someone with an agenda, say troll or marketer.

Network Solutions Pro certificate was easy to setup, offers good value at $139/year.

You should read both of these items that make a case for going with a monthly charge instead of annual.

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/annual-credit-...

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-...

Every time we have looked at a class A lease, the leasing agent has pushed for a minimum term of 3 years. When we looked at executive offices the lease term was really short but the cost/sqft was really high.