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Precisely. Then add simple tools for categorisation, design customisation and so forth.

The point is that there are probably 10 active commentators for each active blogger. Perhaps Disqus is building towards a platform for people like this, who comment actively but who don't want or think they wouldn't be able to run their own blog.

I think this is a better idea than relying on advertising, but do you think there'd be enough demand for a white label version for it to be the core of their model?

Another approach: Fred Wilson's post today on comments constituting blog posts suggests that maybe they're building towards a sort of blogging platform for non-bloggers, where the aggregate of a user's comments on other blogs would form a new low-maintenance blog (on the Disqus site).

I think Louis is right to point out that Disqus' approach to customer service and their generally well-functioning product will lead to serious market dominance, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they'd convert market dominance into positive revenue.

Does anyone have a confident suggestion as to how they'd monetise?

Of course, giving kids unsupervised access to computers they don't know how to utilise is going to provide little educational value. But the article distracts from the fact that with the slightest bit of guidance, computer access can be a tremendous asset.

I remember being taught Qbasic as a kid - before then, computers were mysterious gaming devices to me. But with just a few weeks of of guidance by an interested teacher, a whole new world was opened up.

It sickens me that even now, many kids here in Sydney don't have computer access in schools until they're in their teens, and even then it's at atrocious student-to-computer ratios and with little guidance.

Part of the problem is that Luddites in the community misrepresent articles like these, thereby diminishing the public interest towards computers in education.

It surprises me that so many firms still resort to arbitrary credential-based requirements rather than looking at something such as, say, solutions to a series of problems.

I guess it just means that the most creative HR departments are going to net the most appropriate candidates.

Hey I wasn't using google to establish the truth-value of a proposition. I was just trying to show that there's wide-scale usage of 'radiation' to describe what an electromagnetic wave is.

Google gives me around 2 million hits for "electromagnetic radiation".

Absolutely. Furthermore, you're going to give yourself a huge bounce-rate if - like the dentist example - you have a single page with no external links.

Google keeps track of how many times users click 'back' from a search result to a search page. Needless to say it's going lower the subsequent rankings that the dentist page receives.

Decreasing the number of pages through clever AJAX use can improve user experience. But it still makes sense to have different chunks of content on different pages, linked together. The SEO implications are a reflection of this.

jarnold is talking about a situation without debt, that's why you're confused - debt is effectively the difference between present value and future value. Think of debt as the cost of having something sooner rather than later, and you'll start to understand why we need to use a PV factor to price a future cashflow.

Here's a reformulation of the same problem:

If I paid you $200 now, would you pay me $10 a month for 24 months? You have access to a bank which gives you interest of 5% pa compounded yearly.

The answer is no, and the amount that you'd lose out by is $27.94

This doesn't have much to do with the iPhone since we're pricing two different products here, but it's a very important concept to understand in finance.