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What else is part of Nokia other than their 'Nokia Devices & Services'?

Lots of thoughts, but basically find the fun in coding.

Build Apps in Android, they are also Java based. Try coding challenges, www.hackermeter.com was just launched and they seem cool. Play with new frameworks - things like Play Framework are interesting. And try taking online courses (like the Scala Udacity course).

It will take you some time to dig yourself out of your situation, but you should be able to do it.

Thanks! Awesome service. I haven't seen it earlier for some reason.

Great UI. What service did you use to create the product placement screenshots?

> Google tried to combat Facebook with open standards and it didn't work. OpenSocial, ...

Yes, they did try open standards. However, the reason it failed was not (IMO) because open standards were a bad idea.

The Open Standard initiatives failed at Google because they did not really know how to do UX. They have only recently started to figure it out.

(I would argue that Google+ is significantly better than OpenSocial ever was, and Google needs to improve it even further)

Sounds like they may not have had a high enough viral coefficient as they would have wanted. So they felt like it was not worth investing more in product development or marketing.

Definitely impressed that they had the discipline to shut it down in 4 months.

I believe David is ok with advertising. He just doesn't want it to be the main focus of his effort. The fact that Tumblr has huge growth and Yahoo has one of the largest Ad Sales teams in the world, means that this merger will in-my-opinion be v.successful.

My bet/hope is that with more resources from Yahoo, David will pick and influence more parts of Yahoo than just Tumblr.

I believe they were running out of money and needed to do more work to bring revenues appropriately up. Yahoo allows them to not need to focus on revenues, as they already have a large and established an ad sales team.

They are building a social network for families. So they don't need to have lots of users, just a large part of a few families to have the network effect tested.

PostHaven's value proposition is much clearer (to me). They are focusing on content creators and are building a site that will remain around for sometime. I don't see a potential user even wanting apps on it. The site is ready today.

App.net's value proposition is just not clear. I can't think of a reason to sign up for other that the face that it will be great someday.

It seems that he is suggesting app.net to build two-sided market for social apps: users on one side and developers on the other side.

Sounds great - once they build a successful marketplace. But until then, the value proposition is not currently compelling. As a user - ad-free is not in itself compelling enough (yes, ad-free with a user base similar to twitter or facebooks is compelling), and as a developer their user base is again too small to matter.

They likely need to figure out which group is more important. If it is users, they likely need to focus on a killer app, or a killer community (perhaps by focusing the group they are targeting). If developers are more important, and they don't have a user base that is large enough to be compelling, perhaps they need to pith a different pricing model to developers (something to the effect of free to build apps and $1/user with these 100 social features).

If you are looking for a full-fledged site, you might find these guys relevant: http://www.cofounderslab.com/

(I haven't used them)

Interesting site. There are parts that left me a little confused. Are they basically building a marketplace + online tools? If so, the text 'Jellifi is looking for event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more' should perhaps be 'Jellifi has a network for local event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more'. The point is that when I see 'Save Time Booking Your Next Event', I wonder 'how' - and was hoping for an answer there.

The other question is, who is going to be paying on the site - event organizers or those getting gigs? (Both is fine, but it is not clear from the site).

As someone who might organize one or two big events a year, I feel like if I pay, I would like to pay per event for help. (I guess I could consider paying throughout the year, but I find it hard to understand a value proposition that would matter in between my events).

Reminds me of Freebase. They built a huge data-set as well as tools and an api to access themselves. Have you talked to anyone on the team? (they are now at Google) How would you say that you are different from them?

Google has modified Java for Android. They could have instead modified Python. There have been academic papers that have shown that Python can be made to be statically typed (ignoring one or two keywords, like eval).

Assuming that Google had done these, there should be no reason that Python would not be fast or robust enough.

There are multiple hackathons depending on where you live (some are online also) and what you are interested in. Some that are interesting and in many cities include NodeCopter (node.js and drones) and the startup related ones - AngelHack and Startup Weekend.

A great site is listing many hackathons is: http://www.hackathon.io/

Fixing WordPress's code problems don't really need to break plugin compatibility. They can rewrite the core, have new features requiring doing things the new way, and have small adapters to maintain the backward compatibility.

But yes, this refactoring is going to cost and there is unfortunately not many people for whom it is a worthwhile expense. If Automattic is able to think about 10 years in the future, it might make sense for them to start investing in such a clean up.

The API seems to require users (and not just developers) to have to authorize the app :-(

This kinda limits you to Google Docs style apps, as opposed to other crazy ideas I might have. I would also like to have an option to pay so that I can keep our users data private.

Edit: Added clarification.

See https://duckduckgo.com/ :-)

It might be risky, but there are a lot of other companies that are doing exactly the same thing and and have shown a great path for newsblur.... (for example, wordpress, sugar-crm, etc).

If Google is shutting down reader, are they going to remove RSS feeds from Blogger? What about Feedburner?

I think Google's better move would have been cut a few features and 'Plus-ify' Reader - kinda like they have been doing with their other products. They would have evolved an important user base, shown commitment to the RSS standard, and kept a number of important apps using their api's.

Aren't they after all supposed to be championing the open web?

I don't think this is intentional, but it now hard to argue againsT people saying that they intentionally waited till they killed the RSS readers market and then shut down their product.

The sorta part is a small problem. It makes my life easier if you have the gaming built in. (Also it might help your viral spread).

I will definitely play with it.

It would be awesome if you guys took this to the next step: let me share my wifi to all my Facebook friends (or for some people anyone) as long as they have signed up to share their wifi with me as well.

(Great idea. I also don't like the tagline.)

Seems very similar to these guys as well: http://moj.io

I am looking forward to the competition (and innovation) in this space.

Firstly, lets make sure you do your day job well, and then others will (hopefully) follow. I do this in two steps:

For interesting articles during work time I always save them for later. This is usually using Pocket (getPocket.com) but there are other tools. Later I read them when I am in the mood to read the interesting articles. This way, I try to limit wasted time.

For when I want to add a comment, I actually plan to only do it 2-3 times a day, and at most in 15 minute slots each time. This again puts an upper limit on my time on non-work tasks.

Once you do the above, you realize how much time you were wasting on non-essential things. And from there, you can take on other fun projects.

You do have an ambiguous description - so my answer here is very general. Feel free to e-mail me (see my profile page) for a deeper discussion.

My instinct is that you are getting a decent amount of ad revenue, and that you might be able to get more - but it will likely require a whole bunch of experimentation to figure that part out.

I would instead focus on the other opportunities: driving more users, and generating other forms of revenue.

You likely will be able to 2-4x your users by experimenting with SEO and Social traffic sources. Also, 2M page views means you likely have a lot of users that you can try to get them to interact with the site more - that interaction will likely result in them coming back and getting more users (via) facebook.

With regards to revenue your simplest bet could be with thinking about different affiliate programs - you might want to approach relevant companies even though they might not have an explicit program.

If you have a specific niche of users, then you can likely drive up ad revenues more, but even if not you can try segmenting your users giving them a little more reason to stay and finally targeting them differently for higher ad rates.

I think your audience will likely be thinking: I believe you that your framework is better than Hibernate, but is it so much better that it will be worth my time to download it? to set it up? to learn how to use it? to train the entire team to use it? to get their questions answered when they have a problem?

The above is a high bar to hit - even if it is free. And if you charge, you have a bigger challenge.

If you are building a framework for the Java community, I think that your answer is to make a large part (that is significantly better than Hibernate) open source. Once you do that, and see the community forming around it, then you should think about monetizing it. Likely by selling support, services, premium connectors, monitoring tools.

While I would be willing to believe that you guys have an amazing product, I am still extremely skeptical in believing that you will be able to build a business around it. So think MVP without investing too much into it. And right now, MVP sounds like: make it open source.

You might want to see how the Vaadin guys make money.

The WHY is definitely important. But, it is also important to include the HOW the code works (as opposed to just WHAT the code does) and HOW to use the component.

I find it useful to think of three four questions as a good checklist when reviewing code. Naming often helps in only one of the above.

I like it. It lets me see all the items at a higher level. The best part so far is that I can move groups into one another.

Using it quickly makes me want a couple of features:

- not needing drag n drop for something (like creating a new task or group - be default putting them in the previous group or top level)

- being able to add tasks that are at the intersection of two groups. I imagine this would look something like a venn-diagram.

Finally, I am reluctant to support a startup unless I know how you are planning to survive. Is it going to be advertisement? not yet release feature? large teams? Once you do this, I will be more comfortable telling others.

I was looking for this detail - and not sure where it says you get 2 instances free. Can you post a link?

Edit: I did my math wrong previously. It is 1500 hours/month.