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I'd really like it if these FB apps had screenshots of what the service actually looks like. If I came across this organically, it would not inspire enough curiosity to grant oauth access.

When you do include an affiliate link, how does it do?

I enjoyed the article but I'd like to applaud you for submitting the mobile version of the article. It was a far better experience than the desktop version which I did click through to for comparison.

Dig the anti war message of these type of posts but in reality, we should have just not borrowed/printed the money at all. All of this supposed opportunity cost is nonsense.

I got this link from an HN post a while back: http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...

I'm sure we all have ideas that we consider "decent" on a daily basis but just don't have time to explore further. This is a really cool way to offload some of those ideas.

I hate when April Fool's jokes turn out to be better ideas than other serious ideas.

I know it is the Internet and I should be used to it now but when the first two words of the title are there purely as snark to rile up fan boys, I really lose interest in the article.

Viral marketing via satire!

I actually met Sam Bensalem at the last TechCrunch50. He's a nice guy.

Also, if you middle mouse click on photos (which is my natural style of browsing), you view them in the traditional non-lightbox way.

Cool idea, seems like facebook makes their recommendations based only on mutual friends, which is great for connecting to other friends or people in your network. This interest based approach would do a better job of meeting brand new people altogether.

Anyone else find it humorous that the title says something does not scale and when you click its a 404?

From a guy's perspective, alerting them to a match means "We've got a near guarantee of repeated sex with someone you find attractive". Most guys would pay more than 5 bucks for that but $5 is a fair starting number.

Also, people might dig it if you could filter out family members from the list of people to pick from.

If you go with your first model, you are creating more a lottery.

The second model ties payment to the more valuable reward of an actual match. It might not happen that often but if you go with this model, you are betting that your app will work and provide value to your users. This is an actual service and the route I believe you should take.

Safer than large U.S. or larger European mainstream registrars.

Maybe this is because I do not have an MBA but I'm completely confused why a well known (near household) name brand with a .com domain name would switch to o.co, which no common person would even recognize as a web address if they saw it without context.

Clickable: http://evocatus.com/

We all like winning here at HN but not sure this is exactly our cup of tea.

Here's the click through link: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/07/study-too-much-technolo...

Aren't all vetos by a governor single handed?

The lawyer contacted me and asked if they could have the domain (and hinted that they would be willing to pay or trade tickets/merchandise). I just gave it to him. There was never any inkling of strong arming or a forceful shut down on their end.

Conan sent us a signed thank you later about a week after the domain transfer went through.

I have experience with this.

When the whole Conan O'Brien cancelation fiasco was going on, I registered teamconan.com and teamleno.com because I saw that phrasing in a TMZ poll and they were still available. My friend and I threw together a Facebook Group and put the domain on a Tumblr account. Within 12 hours we had 10k+ members in the FB group and were getting significant search traffic to the site. We were getting emails from people offering up 50-100 bucks to run a display ad (static image, not adserved) and we didn't even prompt for it. I only ended selling 2 of them and we donated the money to the Haiti Earthquake thing. I definitely could have made a lot more had I been prepared to sell display ads. Simply putting a link on the site with a contact email for advertisers will get you plenty of offers if you really are seeing massive viral traffic. Also, ALWAYS make a facebook page for the site you create. You can really ramp up virality and pages with a lot of fans can earn money with sponsored statuses (which is frowned upon heavily by facebook).

Also, for anyone that is interested: A few months afterwards, Conan's lawyer contacted us and asked to to give them the domain. I had no problem with that and now it currently directs to his official "Team Coco" site. We still have the FB group, it has lost about 200k members since its peak but still has 200k members: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=242166564197

Yeah, but unfortunately if it is time sensitive, the approval process required by the Apple market is a huge hinderance.

This is the perfect intersection between pretty crafty and annoying as hell.

It might be stronger if you could play the first 5 minutes and then prompt for the tweet to see the rest of the video.

The families have a right to a certain level of privacy, but this took place in public and protests were given restrictions on how close they could be by local authorities.

It's absolute in the sense that you absolutely have the right to express an opinion at any time.

I'm aware of the whole "fire in a crowded theatre" concept and as you said, that doesn't really apply here.

I'm disappointed this wasn't a 9-0 decision. I'm also disappointed it had to go to the supreme court. These protesters are clearly assholes, but freedom of speech is absolute.

estibot is the api I use