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When placed on the same site as your product, you're already at a disadvantage because everyone that goes there will believe it to be biased (with good reason). One of the things that bothers me the most w/ these is when someone points out their own product with all green checks, and the competitors with obvious missing points (red x's). It's typically easy to find a skewed perspective that gives you a 100% on features, and the others lesser so -- these are difficult to "believe".

The way the current rules are written for fair-use, if two people send in an identical book, are they allowed to send the same PDF to both rather than scanning twice? I wonder how the governing bodies would view that. Side-note, I think it'd be interesting if if they collected/published data about what books are sent in, and from where.

To your first point -- some people do need to control their weight (or even lose weight), not everyone is in the same category with regards to health/weight/etc., And to be quite honest, I'm pretty sure last time I saw my doctor they told me "it'd be a good idea / healthy to lose X pounds..." -- that's fairly cut and dry to me, I need to lose some weight -- this service is just a method of tracking that progress while offering up helpful advice along the way.

Had my first experience with ZeroCater today -- late last night I told a friend I'd be coming by to work out of their office, and somehow between last night and lunch today they were able to add an 'extra' order on to the delivery and had a sandwich for me at lunch today -- +1 for food in my stomach

I hear you on that one -- my engineering degree trained me to like 90-degree angles and consistency =p Not sure of a way to keep it consistent and make it natural...there must be a UI pattern somewhere!?!? My go to would be to browse jQuery UI and YUI Widgets...ha

Interesting site, didn't get to play in too much detail but I got hung up on the OS slider -- maybe make this a radio or some sort of toggle since it's only 2 selection items?

Interesting...and similar thoughts to those below where the "Connect with Facebook" pushed me towards considering the site to be spam.

Is the end goal getting information centralized? Makes me think of Greplin, except rather than import all the data to a central 'store', they allow you to search it all from a central location.

For a over a month now we've been using the service, and it's been smooth sailing without a hitch - really impressed and interested to see what these guys do next

elai we're always trying to reduce cost, the reason for it being a bit higher is because we have the business features (it's like GVoice+) - maybe a 'dumbed down' version is in order?

agilo, you can get a GVoice like account on TellFi (https://tellfi.ca)

disclaimer: I'm a founder there

Thanks for the note, will get that fixed! I wish I knew how to speak in HTML entities when I left voicemails...

Thanks for the feedback! Canadian numbers automatically get bumped up to 100 free minutes and 1-year free. The only reason we've left off 'overage' at the moment is because we wanted the signup to be seamless and credit card free! Ping us at support@tellfi.com and we can work something out.

Looking forward to grubbing with some people! Join me next Tuesday!

It's like the live feed chat that is always on websites - but it doesn't crash, this is pretty awesome.

We agree the integration of Google Voice and Google Talk is a great feature. As we are targeted more towards business users, we typically found people weren't as interested in talking into a 'machine' as we would have initially expected. We'd be interested to hear if more people than we realize are after this feature.

Hi, I handled your support question. Sorry for any confusion. Your specific question pertained to 'caller-id spoofing', which is where I believe the confusion occurred. Spoofing of a phone number which you do not own is illegal, which is the case I was referring to. Outbound calling from within the web application is not currently supported.

Unfortunately right now we only support US and Canadian numbers.

We've used existing hosted PBX systems to run our phone systems in the past, and found them bulky and difficult to setup. We're targeting ease of use and quick setup - we aren't advertising that we have new features at our core, but the method of getting to those features and setting them up is a snap.

I wonder how many of those new subscriptions came from the AppSumo deal that they were a part of last month - I bet a significant number, which means they aren't full paying customers, because of the reduced rates on the deal.

Clearly it's a weather balloon...

[B] - Definitely some good resources I've used in the past (being a developer wanting some inspiration) - one more I'd add to the list is http://sixrevisions.com - I like to pop in there every few weeks to see what's new - they typically have articles similar to Smashing in topic

People may feel more open when they are sharing a .zip rather than 'logging in' - I know a lot of people that are still opposed to 'connecting' accounts - this avoids that connection, regardless of OAuth, straight username/password, etc.,

It's not clear to a lot of people 'what exactly' they are sharing when they link accounts, but when you upload a .zip, you are ONLY sharing what's contained in that file - there really is a big difference between uploading and linking =p

This seems pretty interesting - it's a good opportunity for sites like Flickr and the like to allow 'Facebook Zip' uploads and they'll automatically parse out your photos and store them in your account.

I like the idea that it's the same search for both - think about the number of terms that would bring back adult content based on the prefix, but given the entire term, are something entirely innocent.

YC plug, but I really always thought DropBox did a great job - one of the things I most appreciated was the key example - they put it in terms of an item that everyone recognizes and a problem most people (if not all) have probably dealt with. I think the present version is even extended a bit from the original (now includes some computer files info)

I like the concept!

I assume the "music" in between readings is supposed to sound like the radio is tuning for a new station? If this is the case, it's a neat idea, but it was a little frustrating because you want to hear the music, but it's not clear - although I'm not sure on any better suggestion (i.e. elevator music, muzak..lol).

brk 23 has a good point about filters, that would definitely make it more usable.

Nice work! Haven't seen any other fun web integration of text-speech like this (I definitely don't count dictionary.com pronouncing words for me as fun!)

I never said whether it was moral or not, which it definitely isn't...I was just referring to the students response to the task at hand, which I still believe for what they were assigned was a job well done.

As far as a restaurant is concerned, why would they really care? It might annoy customers, but as long as the tables are still filling up, I feel the restaurant is more than happy, because they're still making the best of their available resources (tables and wait-staff).

It's a valid point how the artificial constraints are the envelope and the time, because the way she listed the rules was, clock starts when you open the envelope - it's almost a a ploy, or a method of trying to distract someone. Imagine, if you were handed an envelope and were told "there's money inside there", wouldn't you immediately start to wonder "how much?" and you would immediately want to open it. She restricted this thought by applying a 2 hour time constraint, from the time you open the envelope, which almost forced the students to think twice about jumping to the money. Instead, all the groups achieved something without ever really having to open the envelope. I think it was interesting, and a job well done.

Hey everyone, similar to using (trying out) Event Gel for setting up the event, maybe give http://coffee.gabandgo.com/sanfrancisco a run as you show up to help people know what crowd you're in, or where you're sitting...any feedback always welcome!

Hey icey, I checked out your posting on Event Gel the other week, definitely an interesting concept, good to see you using the feedback off the forums here, I've always found it helpful. One thing to consider that I didn't catch when I just clicked the link above, you might want to add a .ics download so people can easily include the event in their calendar, I looked into this for http://coffee.gabandgo.com/sanfrancisco but decided it to not be worthwhile, since the point is to stop in and have coffee for a short period, not 'pre-plan'. Anyway, google around a bit and you'll find the structure of the file (it's pretty simple), or you can always create a fake event in a calendar program you use, export it to .ics, then view it in a text editor.