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Great idea! While the questions may not be the same, I love the simplicity of this solution!

I know it is hard to pass judgement from a single story like this, since I am sure someone has another version of this story to tell...but this still takes a bite out of my "I love Apple" mentality. If this is entirely true, it is the kind of thing that should really upset someone who has believes in a fair and just world. The fact that lawyers can get away with filing million dollar lawsuits with falsified information is a slap in the face of what the legal system should be.

I have seen this in much smaller scale personal lawsuits as well and it is really disparaging to see the system manipulated by lawyers and there to be no consequence for doing it. In my opinion if a lawsuit is filed with entirely fabricated information which was easily verifiable by the filing part at the time of filing, then there should be serious consequences for those people.

Sorry this one upset me a bit :)

Awesome product and awesome progress from a small dedicated team with a ton of determination and passion! These are the kind of stories that inspire others(myself included) to work those extra hours on their idea. Keep up the great work Weebly team!

Yep, they really do get it, but the fact that it makes money is pretty much the only good thing about this new version of spam.

I completely agree, I have been a "subscriber" for months and I am borderline considering it just another piece of spam. But the real point here is how bad it is for so many businesses. I am not saying it is not great for some as well, I just have heard too many stories of groupon trying to hard sell small companies that don't fully realize the impact these "deals" can have. That is just a business model that scares me!

I think this is a bit of a pessamistic view of the companies in questions. I mean sure we can all agree that their revenue model at the end of the day is ALL about advertising, and sure companies only care about making money right? So I can see where you care coming from and why, but there are a lot of engineers at those places who could care less about serving up a single ad.

Google, Facebokk, Twitter, and anyone else who wants to make a dime off of advertising has 1 goal that should always be higher on their priority list than serving up ads...getting more users and keeping them happy. Without the massive scale of users that these companies have, who would care how many ads they are serving.

I know what I am saying is all very obvious, but I think there are far more people inside those companies that are aiming to solve and inovate on problems within the user space rather than just the ad space.... just IMHO.

Love the concept of tutorspree and the idea of what it could mean for a some what ignored space. Excited to see what you guys come up with over the next few months!

I completely agree. I think what we really need is some rethinking and innovating ideas on public transportation. I know that is a vague concept to a lot of American's that live in cities other than NYC and maybe Chicago and a few others, but it is a solution that works in other areas of the world. We have some obstacles to get it to work here for sure, but good old American ingenuity can surely solve those can't they?

This is the type of industry that really needs that type of standardization and enforcement of it. I can fully understand why the government wanted to step in and help enforce that standardization for a greatest benefit of all involved, and I can not really think of an alternative to the cash incentive to get people to do it. Can anyone else offer up a reasonable alternative?

I feel claustrophobic just looking at the rendering!

Another good article on this is on techcrunch right now as well. Really makes you feel like you are being watched doesn't it?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-seemingly-unanswerable-...

You are exactly right, it is an admission of lack of knowledge. My thinking is that if the majority starts looking at learning and growing as a positive rather than a negative, then a lot more positive things will come of that. Now while this may take decades at large corporations, it is the kind of things startups and founders can implement in their small business and see some real change.

I agree they are rare and there are 100 potential pitfals before patents would become a concern for a startup, but they are still starting to scare a lot of people with the current press they are getting. It is a tricky issue for me to decide on. On one hand I fully understand the need for patents, there would be a lot more horror stories of the little guys getting squashed without them. On the other hand I hate the way huge companies are using them as a revenue stream. I personal would like to see patents become unenforcible if you can not show that you are currently working on a product that utilizes the patent or have a product in production that utilizes it. Stop letting companies just own a patent for the hell of it.

I agree with you this does seem to be the case in most companies, but I think that is because a majority of the people would look at it the exact same way you are. If you, your manager, their manager...etc all think this way, then you will think a person asking you how to solve a problem is weak because you would never do it yourself. Now if the majority of the people at your company believed in these 3 points personally, then the whole dynamic would change. Granted this is a bit of a perfect world scenario, but it is one that any new founder or hiring manager can start putting into place from day 1.

In my experience(mix of large and small companies) the one that seems to really confuse people is ASK. It seems the when people run into a problem that they are unable to solve, the majority do not think to ask for help or guidance, but choose the path of self preservation and do whatever they can to hide or spin the situation. This of course inevitably comes back to cause them or someone else in the pipeline problems, but that doesn't seem to stop most people. Is it just too powerful of an instinct for the majority of people to overcome or are we just becoming a "Cover Your Ass" type of society? Then again maybe I am just frustrated this week :)