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Why?

Agree. A finer example of such techniques are prevalent here on HN. Recall VirginMobile Nexus and black Friday items with tons and tons of comments. Coincidence? Appropriate timing? VirginMobile ran out of that product by the way.

Use Firefox with Slurp and keep your bookmarks to yourself. Delicious experiment shows that your bookmarks are not worth anything to anyone but yourself.

Makes no sense jumping from one dead service to another. You might as well use Firefox beta and Slurp to get your URLs out from delicious (with tags) and keep them to your local machine. Better liberate your data from the clutches of the cloud and these untrusted services.

No browser in the market are smart and there's not doubt about it. Browsers don't grow with the users, they don't remember well, cannot spit the information back on demand. Until and unless browser reacts or come close to reacting like a human brain, they cannot claim to be smart or modern.

Quora is an idiot. Internet should have its own revolution to get rid of such idiots from the wire.

Not only they open late and closed early, they are not a good alternative for consistent work particularly if you require your phones to be on. However, libraries are generally better and spacious than coffee shops. mcDonalds is another alternative if you find chairs that are not hard.

Down vote with qualification. I spent time writing my thoughts, you spent your time downvoting with a click?

Imagine when the next time around Google couldn't find a hero. Perhaps Microsoft will? There will be an endless race to finding a hero for the revolutions.

Bad idea all around, a slippery-slope no less.

"We was".

I agree. The day I learned to hide (apps spam etc and people) the day I started using Facebook without any issue.

You don't have RSS feed on your website?

Could someone please tell me the simple RSS feed for the comments here on HN?

So are we expected to wear these T-Shirts in summer in Chicago? Nice idea at the right time but I am not sure why people would buy such things. But then again, you'd know better.

All the more reasons to comment less on the websites.

He got a better offer from Quora over Google?

That's a nice development for the future of internet.

Quora's team is either disingenuous or lost themselves. Many of their own people are using Quora as a Twitter - sharing thoughts, chit chats, in a form of questions. How viable is that to sustain a service? If they wanted to create a social-networking site to begin with, than why bother with the QA format?

I didn't know about Sugar Sync when I was sucked in to Dropbox hype. I have changed my mind.

Indian video game in movie theater. Like there aren't enough already from Hollywood.

Here's the documentary that tells all: http://j.mp/fzlrBu

It's not about minimal, it's about scope. I see HN as content-based system, where as, Digg and rest of the others went the route of social-based. The site where the content is the king, is still valuable versus the site where people are the king. There is a trade off with reputation of course, one has to first build the reputation and credibility before one can claim a solid content-based system.

If you recall, the problem started with Digg when people started gaming it. There were stories after stories of how people are gaming the system. This is when they first lost their credibility.

There is a fine line.

Licorize does something similar.

I don't see anything new.

PS: I'm bitten by the type of services you note above, my "brain" is stored locally on my browser backed up by myself, I'm fine with what I have..

If Mozilla is getting rid of it and if Chrome doesn't have it, than that's just proof enough that big companies are conspiring against RSS. My fingers crossed for the Adblocker.

The only reason I'm messing with it is because Nintendo DS XL has partnered with FB to let me upload my photos to FB. I don't have a stinking SDHC card reader and I need to take my photos out of this device.

You mean, people in my email address book gave permission to FB to show themselves up when I get on FB?

If this is correct, how do I prevent this for myself? How do I not give permission to FB, prevent myself from showing up in someone else' FB profile when they get on FB?

I have a side question if anyone knows. How does Facebook know contacts from my email address book even though I have not given them permission to search friends in my email?

I created a fresh FB account, and right away saw suggested people showing up in FB and these people are all in my Gmail address book. How is it possible that FB know this?

Agree, it's the most ugliest website out there ranking at top of the search engines. I prefer to use Wikipedia over IMDB.

Google bookmarks doesn't appear to have RSS feeds.

That makes sense. I guess Windows was not meant to be on the cloud and I'm asking it to do too much.

You're right, but evernote auto saves and so does the password safe. I'm not technical but there should be an easy way. Let's just look at this scenario of backing up bookmarks in Firefox. Assuming that Dropbox would react the same way as it currently does, if I were to selectively sync only my bookmarks and if my Firefox is always ON, than how is it going to help me if my dropbox is always stuck in the limbo while I'm browsing the net?