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Posting in the IRC channel seems also like a good solution to get upvotes. But it feels still a bit odd that your post can't get on the front page on a normal way.

Sure, startups & companies should operate worldwide, but the Samwer business model is really scummy. I could understand if they would build the clone with the background to avoid monopols, but they just try to fill a niche market with a stolen idea and make money with it. Just look at http://www.lazada.com.my/, an amazon clone for countries, where amazon doesn't operate(d) yet. They even use the same layout. I wouldn't say that cloning something is bad in general, if your main focus lies on the extension of an existing idea, but the Samwer brothers nearly copy the idea 1:1 without innovation and creativity and sell it to the mother company later. Thats a really bad motivation for the real entrepreneurs, who try to be innovative. Startups should really start worldwide, to avoid that these copycats make further money with their ideas.

The h33t.com logo shows the demonoid logo now. Maybe they work together now?

I don't want to ask dumb questions and I also read the content on their site, but I'm still not sure if it's just a twitter alternative or more. And what about identica? Isn't it a similar service like app.net?

I don't like PHP either, but nearly every hoster let you run PHP code. You could pick a 3 Euro Webhost and it will be fine. That's one of the biggest advantages for PHP.

Well thats true as well. I think the best choices for TLD's are .is, .ch/.li and .eu. However, .is is quite expensive(39 euro).

Well, but I thought it isn't wise to use an US registrar today, because it's easier for the US feds to seize a domain?

I reviewed my some of my code and figured out that I'm one of this terrible persons, which haven't spent enough time to show an useful output. I should fix this now ;) A useful log output can be a real time saver. I also seen applications which just showed "an error occurred", so I had still no idea what causes this error message.

I agree with you. I would say the same if I would do domain name front running. Who wouldn't lie in this situation? But there are more reasons for avoiding godaddy. Their CEO kills elephants, they had an important role in designing the SOPA bill(and moved back then) and they are expensive. I would recommend gandi.net or inwx(InternetworX) instead.

That's great :) I mostly use vim on the command line, but Textmate is great for dealing with Rails applications. I know, there is the nerdtree plugin for [Mac]vim, but the Textmate folder view is much better imho. Also, it's a nice tool for beginners, because you have zero configuration, but a really powerful editor.