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Correct me if I'm wrong but apparently twitter broke the story?

I missed the point about janitors getting perks and they not.

We can all speculate and make up theories on a late friday night but the fact is Google has a lot going on. Some of which is probably currently unknown by their competitors. They want to keep it that way. Who knows what these guys are working on. Naturally, this isn't the best PR story ever. They could have handled it better.

Clearly, from this guy's perspective, it was wrong for him to get fired but I'm sure the vendor that was providing him as contracted labor had to make a statement that they wouldn't tolerate this kind of thing. Would you hire a firm to video your office if they didn't fire a guy recording stuff you wanted confidential?

Honestly, I'm not sure this is a big deal. They're hiring unskilled labor and giving them a role at an extraordinary company. A rational management team wanting to generate profits for risk taking investors and generate new growth, cuts costs by eliminating benefits when possible.

They could easily get this done in India or China. If they are really doing book scanning, I'm shocked this isn't being done in the far east. With that perspective, this isn't far from "don't be evil".

It's not the best practice in the world but this isn't exploitation.

Perhaps it should inspire some investigative journalism. Perhaps Google could fund a program and give these data entry people the opportunity to innovate, rewarding them accordingly with a small scale founders' award?

Despite the assumed background of these employees, they're at Google inspiring their kids. With so few benefits outside of their salary, they can always work elsewhere. But why would they take fast food or something of the sort over this?

I imagine the cleaning crew that vacuum at Goldman Sachs at night get treated way worse.

I think you're onto something and I think what we're seeing is the resurgence of portals on the web. Reddit and Hacker News are niche content portals. Facebook is in a position to be a mass market portal to the entire web.

Competition is a matter of time and people's purpose driven browsing will continue to push people to various sources.

I'm not sure what you mean by an open competitor.

would be nice to see the number of upvotes for a comment like this. :)

Can you add about.me?

well done. seems like a very viable business. Great website. Just make sure that you make a free sign up button nice and prominent on the home page when you're taking sign ups.

A service to make your own social bookmarking site. Like create your own sub-reddit without the reddit umbrella.

Decided to change the topic of my sociology research paper last minute: Would love it if everyone could fill this out. Will be happy to share the data.

"socially engineered spamming". How accurately does this really represent AOL's business model?

can u publish that script that takes a screen shot?

The technology we have these days and the power of the social web is mind blowing. I hope these links go "viral".

Fellow Israeli immigrant here. Feel free to ping me. email in profile.

You should seriously consider applying to YC.

Be'hatzlacha

PG: How do I know if this time is the right time to apply? Group of 4(!) founders. Heavily leaning towards waiting until Winter or next Summer.

Can css specify which letter number in a text to apply to? If so, a single span could be used for the text, no?

With twitter, and social media, and all these email addresses all over web, if you have absolute merit then you can make those connections. It's a matter of persistence.

If you are a member of a minority or have notable merit achievements.

Does this girl have a flaw? haha

Thanks for this research. ;)

   > There are no natural contracts.

Do not kill?

I hope this company monetizes this quickly and is able to last because this is one of those few apps that as soon as I saw, I utilized. GroupMe just got 10+ active users. Haha.

How expensive is Blackboard?

I assemble teams of hyper focused people and do my best to keep my mouth shut with them when it comes to distracting ideas.

anything. try it. haha

I was introduced to http://min.us and have been hooked.

Just wanted to thank you for asking. This is a fantastic question that has not really been thoroughly addressed.

If I was Airbnb I would acquire the above.

I agree with the above but on the other hand, if I was searching for places to stay in a city and found out that an old friend of mine was on Airbnb for that city, I would jump at the chance. I haven't used Airbnb but I would really push an initiative to feature friends on the site via FB connect.

quality > quantity.

Getting mentioned on NYT.com will yield powerful results. Posting yet another link in a related discussion forum topic won't do much.