mikejarema

One thing I didn't expect was to have Alerts drop RSS support coinciding with Reader's death. However, today in Feedly I'm staring at a wall of "Google Alerts no longer supports RSS delivery" items.

This suggests to me that RSS was an output for Google products insofar as it served as a way of feeding content (and eyeballs) into Reader. Now that Reader is gone, why would Google output RSS?

Anyone seeing any other Google RSS feeds failing in a similar fashion?

  7.	Except as agreed between you and us in a separate written agreement 
  referencing this Participation Requirement, you will not use any Content or 
  Special Link, or otherwise link to the Amazon Site, on or in connection with:

  a.	any client-side software application (e.g., a browser plug-in, 
  helper object, toolbar, extension, or component or any other application 
  executable or installable by an end user) on any device, including 
  computers, mobile phones, tablets, or other handheld devices;

Here are the two emails I've received from DigitalOcean on the matter that shed a bit more light on the situation.

http://pastie.org/7814381

http://pastie.org/7814382

edit: formatting

Are there specific use cases that CropUp provides more value? Eg. on physical products? Photography? Digital downloads?

I ask because I see more and more similar products cropping up (pardon the pun) which want to help anyone sell anything online, but can't help but think that focusing on a specific vertical may result in the platform providing more value to the sellers.

The lifetime package subscribers (and the community at large) were up in arms about it. Here's the earlier YC thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669

The redirect domain, sideprojects.com, is owned by one "Houtan Fanisalek", but it's unclear if Houtan is the author of the book.

It's more me wondering out loud if there will be some alternative to OSX, largely built off of OSX in order to get around limitations like sandboxing.

I suspect system level choices like this are bound to continue in order to push users in the direction of iCloud and AppStore usage (ie. vendor lock-in).

Though such moves appear draconian from our perspective, I believe Apple times such moves around when some internal metrics indicate a tipping point has happened, namely the developer backlash won't be substantial enough to affect Apple's bottom line.

It's only a matter of time before the iPhone dev team puts some effort towards serving the OSX crowd that wants to jump ship but not give up "OSX" completely.

Pinterest nails this with its "boards". The technical reality is that a user has simply identified a few links and images of interest, however it is a collection that uniquely represents their interests and personality.

Public content of this kind is especially powerful, it'll create some fresh content to feed to the SEO gods, but importantly is something that the user is attached to on some level, and will actively share and take an ongoing interest in (social referral + repeat engagement).

Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hapackcnjagkljgfjl...

Source: https://github.com/ImFatYoureFat/follow_hackers

RedisToGo homepage: http://redistogo.com/ (seems to still have the old pricing)

I'm looking to make a little money from this site and the factors above, for better or worse, really make the decision in terms of where I refer traffic.

I am considering building on OpenSRS for a fully whitelabelled reg. process. Unfortunately that is a big undertaking, and I'm testing the site before committing the effort to white label integration.

Thanks again.

I'll work on the language of that link a little to be clearer.

If FB authentication is asking too much of you, please take a quick peek at the intro video to see what's inside.

http://youtu.be/ycTIFVtF3zY

However, ad agencies typically get paid more for spending more, so I don't think a "no cost" campaign works well for covering their costs.

Of course there's probably agencies out there that do/will pitch this type of campaign, and charge for the ideation + production. But virality is usually an empty promise.

Alternatively, increasing the k-factor on an already successful campaign is something agencies will want, so I believe they will fork out for these sponsored placements regardless.

All told, I really do think some secret sauce for targeting (aided by Twitter's/FB's data insights) plus some cool content produced by the brands/agencies will win out as the monetization strategy for social networks.

But you could argue that once Twitter (and FB) tweak sponsored content to the point where it's no longer annoying or is actually share-worthy, that they've nailed this rev model.

Write what you want to read (but can't find elsewhere).

This simultaneously challenges you to learn the subject matter in depth, fills a needed gap in content that other like-minded devs are probably looking for, and may even yield a nice chunk of open-source or useful code snippets.

I use this strategy on my blog, albeit infrequently.

Sounds quite generous of you! I'd love to take you up on it for one of my side projects: domainsforfriends.com

The tool is still pre-launch, but I've got nothing stopping curious visitors from checking it out.

Anyways, if you're interested, shoot me an email, it's listed on the welcome page for the site.

Mike

brandvocates.com - brand + advocates = brandvocates :) great for a social media agency, again didn't get past idea stage

productapi.com - self-explanatory, was going to be somewhat of a amazon-style API of products, but with a "ship" function, grabbed this when I was working with drop-shippers and thought that there had to be a better way

affiliateapi.com - wanted to make a skimlinks-style platform, ended up (recently) with a open-sourced JS-library for GoDaddy affiliate links

giftify.com - send a virtual gift through FB, and the real one arrives at the recipient's door (launched shortly after the FB platform became available, shipped approx 20 orders)

dealreel.com - curate your own list of daily deals from Groupon, etc. and publish it for your friends and followers, wanted to address the fact most deals are crap and there are a select few power users that do look at every deal, wanted to put them to work to find worthwhile deals for the masses, Yipit is doing something cool w.r.t this idea based on normalized sales data: http://blog.yipit.com/2011/08/05/introducing-trending-daily-...

dnsrecipes.com - central wiki w/API listing all the cloud services out there and the DNS settings required to make them work, essentially helping non-techies tie their Google Apps, Tumblr, UServoice, etc. services to their domain in a consistent and visual way, still want to do this at some point as my buddies bug me all the time to do this shit work

logocaster.com - auto-generates an infinite canvas of logo variations (much like the entries page on 99designs) and let's a user refine their logo design based on parameters like color, font-face, emotion, etc.

autowatermark.com - automatically watermark images uploaded to social networks, sadly this is not possible via FB's API or others :(

I'm probably as guilty as any fellow HN'ers of being trigger happy on domain registration when struck by a moment of inspiration. I am happy to see some of the great & fun domains & ideas popping up in this post.

For example, .tel, domains in that namespace all have the same structure by design. I don't believe a .tel registrant can change their DNS in order to do otherwise.

This is a good thing to an extent - DNS for most people is a huge hurdle preventing them from establishing their own online presence, now more so due to IPv6. If new gTLD provide tools to get .author's or .lawyer's presence up and running in an effective and fair way, great.

But overall I am discouraged by this possibility as its a nail in the coffin of the open internet. It's akin to the review process in mobile AppStores, really stating what you can and can't do within the confines of a gTLD. Not something I'm looking forward to becoming comfortable with on the web.

Sounds like the role is more than just as a developer, but someone who desirably is a long term part of the business and its growth.

I think the parameters slightly change for this type of position. In your shoes I would pitch the vision & culture you're trying to nurture as much as the technical challenges and career advancement that would come out of it.

Or did you just try it for testing purposes?

On the other hand its surprising to me that when heroku goes down, it goes down hard, namely that all hosted sites including their own are unavailable.

http://support.name.com/entries/21336448-how-does-domain-nab...

So I would use their service for sure, plus Snapnames, Pool and Namejet.

A redemption period of 75 days is quite long, but the link above mentions a 77 day window before deletion, so i think youre up to bat very soon for this.domain.

Best of luck!

Personally I don't know if these lists are published (a quick search yielded nothing current), but I would do a bit of research to see if the registrar of your desired domain does have a drop catcher partnership. Failing that, I would put in a bid on all the services you've mentioned.

Godaddy backordering is a special case, as you have to buy a credit upfront (whether or not the name is secured). If the current registrar turns out to be GoDaddy or one of its subsidiaries (eg. Wild West Domains, there may be others), then be sure to buy that credit. Otherwise, I'd advise against it. I've never seen GoDaddy's drop catch come out on top (granted its a small sample size, I've used dropcatching to secure approx 10 low-competition domains).

EDIT: A quick WHOIS on the domain will tell you the current registrar. I'm sure you don't want to share the specific name, but sharing the current registrar here may help out.

Really the big win (for individuals) would be a one click unified domain registration, social media signup, @yourname.com email hosting and About.me setup.

The video you've made shows the current path of least resistance to setup your online identity (at YourName.com), but I can't help but feel it requires more effort than it needs to. Eg. navigating GoDaddy's aggressive upselling, DNS management, etc.

Have you seen IWantMyName.com? They're trying to simplify some of this.

On the other hand, Flavors.me is like About.me but also offer domain registration as a part of the signup.

Finally, when it comes to using a personal domain, my instinct (and most others I'm sure) is to find free solutions for every aspect of the domain where possible.

On my personal domains I use:

- Google Apps for email and private wikis (free, I'm well within the free usage limitations)

- Tumblr for my blog (free, including pointing my domain to their service, I love that about Tumblr)

- Montastic for monitoring (free, my needs are quite simple and they'll happily monitor a couple URLs at somewhat infrequent intervals)

I think the point I'm trying to make here is that I'm onboard with you in terms of personal domain advocacy. However in terms of a business its probably tough to simultaneously offer a very low effort solution that provides a good overview/perspective on the individual using the service (eg. a nice default personal profile page) and make money given people's propensity to use free solutions for their own domain.

Check out the recently launched BrandYourself.com, they're doing something cool that is really in line with your thinking, I wonder what their traction is like (I use the free tier - surprise, surprise).