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tilton Google Developer Days 2011

Definitely, looking at the topic and the pointer styling

tilton Ask HN: How and where should I host a paid for video training course?

There's a bunch of projects you could check

http://www.skillshare.com

http://edufire.com

http://www.udemy.com

http://www.tutorspree.com

tilton Why game developers hate the Facebook-Zynga marriage, how Google+ can benefit

I think that no matter who you are and how big you are (Facebook) you have to come out clean.

If you say that every developer has the same deal going on, no matter how much money they pump in, you should give them the same tools. If you DO think that who performs better should get better deals, as every business would, then just say so.

Playing the way they played so far (giving poor support, shutting down apps, making subtle deals, etc) do Facebook think they can really leverage developers with the HTML5 platform when they release it?

The only reason why developers want to keep working on Facebook is for their (official) userbase. Facebook knows that and they didn't do anything better than showing muscles so far.

tilton Ask HN: html-based flowcharts

http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html

Hope it helps

tilton Html2canvas - Webpages Screenshots with JavaScript

It's on GitHub btw

https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas

tilton Ask HN: Anyone have a link to a productivity/site-black-list script?

https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done ?

tilton Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader

I guess that's because how brain receptors work for anyone. Still, author is talking about people that are LESS satisfied than the norm, so they always need more (like addicts).

tilton Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader

Is that me or the author is not implying that good leaders ARE addicts (to drugs) but that they seek success, progress, disruption, quality as an addict would seek pleisure "artificially"?

tilton Facebook Basically Owns Zynga

And we thought Facebook was about making things more open...

tilton Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared

Still, 10MM users in 2 Weeks in a closed-invite-beta. I know, they have a 1B userbase but it means something is really buzzing this time.

tilton Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared

and +1s

tilton Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared

"users are sharing 1 billion items per day"

"the network has already accumulated 13 percent of Facebook’s 750 million users in two weeks"

Now, that's impressive

tilton YC should start its @YCjobs

Meanwhile I'll use this as collector

@techstarsjobs

@FoundryJobs

@usethesource

tilton Splitterbug (YC S11) shutting down

YC fund founders not ideas. He probably gave them a "warning" or a chance to give it a try expecting them to be ready for a pivot anytime soon. jm2c

tilton Splitterbug (YC S11) shutting down

PG: “Who needs this?”

tilton Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"

How long do you think they can hold the "don't be evil" attitude listening to users' feedback on a project so huge and at the same time so "personal" for everyone?

tilton Ask HN: Opensourced graphics?

I was actually thinking about layouts, templates, websites, logos maybe, etc... Is there anything around?

tilton Ask HN: Anyone used oDesk to build their MVP?

I'd start from here, HN, (or usethesource.com) first...

tilton CSS only Lightbox

Beta/Dev channel? I had to switch it off, it's a pain

tilton Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus

Wonderful inside-view. With this the "Facebook Browser" makes even more sense. Facebook is probably more scared of being dethroned on the data-gathering (therefore advertising) than losing the social "battle" itself.

Well, actually Google is probably scared on the same (money) level.

tilton Google+: And You Thought Facebook Is A Privacy Nightmare

Does the author even have a Google+ account? Or has he checked the "Profile and privacy" tab at least?

"Search results

Your name and any other fields you make public in your profile are searchable on the web and may appear in Google Search results."

"Public profile information

You choose what information in your profile you want to make visible to specific individuals, to circles, or to everyone"

That's the whole point of Circles... You're asked to setup these settings for every single field...

Yeah I know PR is the way they build from the ground up but I really hope this is not the way FB wants to fight back...

Put your face on "admin" "in Products", every other single post has a real name behind it...

tilton Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open

I think Google+ biggest bet right now is to spot, or introduce, the way people will live the web tomorrow. Changing it from Search to Discover.

And no, it can't relay completely on our friend's interests (à la Facebook) cause they're their interests not ours.

We'll probably stick much and much more to our beloved communities (topics, not friends) and start every web-related activity from there. That's something Google can't let Facebook win on.

tilton Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript

Quote!

Yeah I think HN did some hurt :b

tilton Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it

I think you might be happy to hear this, I'm a noob as you are and TIL that I'm "sponge learning" aswell! Thanks!

tilton Zynga is profitable - but entirely dependent on Facebook

Actually as new articles are pointing out, Zynga's weakness isn't Facebook but AWS. That might be the reason why they're building their own Data Center.

AND Google+ might offer new and better terms (read Web Store), that could be the reason why they're "rushing" into an IPO.

tilton What does Google get from +1?

Data for advertising? Data for "Sparks" to hook you into G+?

tilton The Top 100 most popular Google+ users

I don't think this has been done for them.

I think we'll need to teach people how to be "Social" on internet from scratch when G+ hits the masses. Facebook has done a terrible job so far.

Being "Social" doesn't mean being "open", and it has nothing to do with privacy. The fact you know people doesn't mean you want the world (or anyone of your "Friends") to know it. I mean this has unlimited user cases (except on Facebook) but one could be about "Business" Circles.

Anyway, back to the question, indeed is a setting and even a easy one (good job, again): Network Visibility.

tilton The Top 100 most popular Google+ users

Haven't played with settings that much yet but it could easily be they're "hiding" people in their circles.

tilton The Top 100 most popular Google+ users

That's about the "surprise"-buzz of seeing him registered

tilton Ask HN: Whom to follow on Google+?

Paul Buchheit

https://plus.google.com/111732375221065535359/posts

Harjeet Taggar

https://plus.google.com/110400433392368673860/posts

Michael Arrington

https://plus.google.com/102178700954286324866/posts