yaacovtp

Time is less important than the number of friends you have spamming it all at the same time.

There are times when you want to keep things in your house. They're using amazon s3 so it's costing them $0.30 per download. Pennies compared to the 50k prize.

I wish there was something like this two years ago when I posted in the rideshare section of craigslist offering a ride from nyc to Boston. If Zimride were around then I woul never have given that couple's massage sex therapist who's father passed away earlier that week and had to run away from stuff to nyc for a few days.

I can see them teaming up with zipcar for people who are going away/back home for the weekend and want to cut down on expenses. Fun stuff.

You have to admit that banners on popular sites are much less obtrusive than they were years ago. Plus, there's always the freemium plan where users can pay for extra features and ad free browsing.

Can plugins like AdBlock stop domain hosted ads or do they just work on third party ones?

They don't tell publishers what share of the click revenue they receive. I barely have any traffic on my blog, but the clicks payout anywhere from pennies to a buck and change. I'd like to know which links are clicked on and what % of the advertisers money I'm getting.

At least they do "crisis communication" http://schwartz-pr.com/services_l2.php?id=63

"Q. Does Google plan to eventually offer DoubleClick's existing services for free? A. At this time, we will continue to operate DoubleClick's services as they have been. They have proven to be a successful business and we don't have immediate plans to change their business model."

This question sounds like they assume publishers think adsense is a free service when in fact, they refuse to reveal what percent of revenue publishers are getting per click/impression.

Don't be evil - Sneaky - We want to store the world's data - Evil tyrant.

Fun. Hook it up to a thesaurus and synonym dictionary and it will kick everyone else's butt.

Meanwhile, I had fun seeing how many "a"'s I had to type before a .com became available. And it was this many - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com

What were the first 50 guys thinking?

Talked to a friend at doubleclick and the office is going wild!

Stop the spam and lying links

Yeah, I was going to go there too (update: Making them sell when they never had before."), but didn't want to say the obvious.

Sad, go back and read the second half of the first paragraph of the email you received. Do you realize the odds of getting into Harvard are better then getting an interview with YC and even then only about a third are accepted. Not having an extra 15K in the bank never stopped anyone from launching a startup.

I bet that more startups are started because of groups applying to YC. It's a good thing you applied, but move on already. My partner and I don't need the money. We applied more for the mentoring and camaraderie one gets spending time in a group setting. Instead of YC we're tapping the locals here in NYC, online and anyone else we can think of to bounce ideas off of, test our application and help get the word out once we've launched.

Go, work, launch. Let me know when you do.

There should be a rule against submitting your own site more than 49 times. If your content is valuable enough for others then you must know someone else willing to share it with us.

Clearly they're having fun with their blog. Did you look at the comments? I wish my blogs launched with that much traffic.

They have the social games down pretty well. I'm sure more are coming which should lead to plenty of time spent on the site/mobile per user.

Waiting for my invites and I'll give them out here.

i'm there! yaacovtp at yahoo com

But it can't be for google to do the exact same thing with blogs. The ebay auction countdown begins...what will they come up with next?

I'm playing around with it. It saves every 20 seconds. Great for forgetful people.

add in "justin" to that search and it gets a whole lot more fun.

How soon do you want to go broke? The Bay Area is a big place and all you need to get started is a laptop.

The idea is one step better than tabs if you can manage to get enough of the pages into each window so users can see the content. Then they should be able to click and blow up each into a full size window. What about performance? I may want to have a dozen sites on my homepage.

I know little about mobile websites, but isn't their content stripped down? Just looked at m.yahoo.com for the first time.

Good luck taking on the tabs.

Have to add in this page which shows hundreds of users http://glogger.eyetap.org/viewall.php

Justin clearly proves you don't need an original idea to get buzz, sponsors, and funding. Execution and timing can take you far.

That's evil. Why don't the founders use their profiles with a bot. At least that way new users know there is a busy, real person behind the canned message.

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give me a break.

Now this is the story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air In West Philadelphia born and raised On the playground where I spent most of my days Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys said "we're up in no good" Started making trouble in my neighbourhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared And said "you're moving with your aunt and uncle in Bel-Air"

Go with a merchant account if you're going to be doing any regular commerce/membership, but don't neglect paypal/google checkout as some people may prefer them.

Host your own forum and introduce your product to any relevant forums whether they be independent site or a google/yahoo/other group.

Thanks, I'll definitely be going to the next meetings.

My partner and I are looking to meet up with other startups and form a regular meetup in the area. My email is in my profile.

Think positive, otherwise you'll get bad karma.