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When you look at it zoomed out, Facebook combined disparate web avenues (chat, contacts, forums, game portals, bboards, adspace) into one place and added a thick air of mass adoption. This is hardly world-changing innovation-wise but it is game-changing in making the web more usable and understandable. Facebook is a fork of the whole web (Open web vs Facebook Web). I am betting the farm that this is what internally facebook is running with. This is a powerful motivator because they can justify to themselves and to everyone in the company the act of copying>improving elements of the open web into it. This is why a Facebook email, search, OS is inevitable.

In short - my definition of Facebook. its the web in the CONTEXT of your social circle and that has changed the web biz game, it has only begun to change the world 'proper' and thats what i think excites people like Lars.

I agree but they are pitching it to the consumer web not educational institutions.

Its a nice-to-have and in a very competitive market (information retrieval). it goes up against the following competitors.

a. reading Wikipedia b. searching on Google c. asking questions on social networks / forums

Its flashy and attractive but doesn't make the task more efficient and or grant obvious benefits. Might have a market in Education or Product showcase vertical but as a web consumer play? not going to be huge IMHO.

He's the other dog humping Mr. Jobs' other leg. So to speak.

I have been using this for months and the interface is really good and the rights management filter is a very nice touch.

I am hoping it starts indexing/storing vector files soon or maybe have accounts for the artist/shops behind the icons so that people can easily contact then hire them from the site itself.

In other words the conversion rate from tweeting to activism is too low.

I felt so stupid for about 10 minutes repeatedly trying to find the demo username/password in this thread and the github docs. until i realized that there was a signup button...

You're GF's HN about line is awesome.

I think it was more desperate than genius since it was nothing to do with their product and the goal there was to earn money to sustain them further. The expo>shortage>CNN coverage is an example of a genius move by the same guys.

That's very hacky of you.

That quote is awesome. I will use that to recruit people in my startup. Thanks quote-source-that-scottw-cant-remember!

So does Facebook. :)

Wordpress + Blogger API is still XMLRPC which feels icky to hook up into. :)

I wondered if they were showing a building still under construction.

This is what was lost when blogs overwhelmed journalism. Fact-checking, accountability and misaligned curation but I am hopeful blogs will evolve over time to incorporate them back.

Am i in reddit?

Forgive me but doesnt white labeling implies some sort of written agreement preventing white labellee (?) from stealing those codes? from my limited understanding white labeling is just licensing the product sans branding?

I think the main reason here more than anything, is the founder's are not just into it anymore.

Haha, should've known someone will apply that arbitrarily typed bit.

everyone you/I know = 0.00000001% of Facebook's users.

Awesome. Microsoft does search, Google does mobile OS, Apple does social networks, now Facebook does phones. Its an all out tech war.

Probably the best interview about Gabriel Weinberg.

Strange how an unfunded startup with a single founder (DuckDuckGo) is getting better results than a $30million backed one comprised of a bunch of ex-Googlers.

For a guy running a "lifestyle" business, he's doing pretty good...

This is the best written post i have ever read with regards to launching. http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/dont-launch.htm...

Summary: there are two types of launch - product and marketing launch. do the former ASAP, the latter when you have all your ducks in a row.

How do you monetize forrst? ads?

lets all move to Chile then. :)

Our very tiny funding from a foreigner investor is taking almost 6 months now in the Philippines. we suck.

This was one of my prediction in the "What can kill Facebook" thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604211

For some reason, I forgot that MS did make tablets. Anyway, I think the perception that the iPad succeeded because it had less features is false. The reason it succeeded was because it expertly worked on top of an existing ecosystem of the iOS and boosted by the Apple brand. If you take those two out I think it wouldve had a hard time in the market hence touting that it succeeded because it had less features is misleading.