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symlinkron Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce To Everyone

My evidence would suggest that they guess.

symlinkron Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce To Everyone

Currently they do not have a solution for this. Luckily it is easy to detect people gaming the system and I believe they handle collisions by hand at the moment. I can only assume this money will help them build a proper solution to this problem.

symlinkron Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Open source is interesting, it is a philosophy. I first noticed this when I saw the backlash that was directed at Makerbot when they went against the reprap community and decided not to open source parts of their new replicator 2 printer. When you mess with someones philosophy you have to be very careful.

The decision to open source is not something you can ever backpedal on without serious backlash.

symlinkron New Android Maps API around the corner?

Fancy. Looks like a response, sort of, to Apple Maps. I wonder if this api will debut in updated maps apps for both Android and iOS? One can only dream.