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This is such an amazing move. It's going to put access to information into the hands of millions of children. It is a revolution in the making.

You may try to get your facts right. Instapaper is not a dollar a day. Also, if you are giving cons for Instapaper, you should provide cons for Readability as well. Otherwise the articles loses objectivity.

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A bash from DHH is coming...Duck!

I think this is it.

How do you differentiate yourself from other popular news apps like pulse, flipboard etc...?

Good exercise if you want to join who wants to be a millionaire. I got 32 out of 50 for the record.

This is the most depressing title I've ever read.

this is just brilliant. i just had to write a comment to appreciate.

just out of curiosity...who would pay for this? i am not trying to be cynical or anything. I am just genuinely wondering who the prospects are.

Google Analytics?

I think the key to get upvotes is to be part of the RSS feed of HN. Not evey article shows up in my Google Reader. But once an article shows up in the RSS feed it will get upvotes from anyone. The key is to get over the hump and show up in the rss feed. And that may require a little help from friends. :-)

Once on HN I read a blog post that said great writing only comes from facing ones deepest fears. It is really a brilliant way to sum it all up. Any other kind of writing is just dull.

It is only you who knows what it is that you fear the most. Everybody knows his own fears. Most people cannot face them. So if you want your ability back face the fear that is holding you back, challenge it, fight it, beat it and then write it.

I have the exact same problem. For all practical purposes I am illetarate without a keyboard.

Please post to HN when you open source it. Very interesting stuff.

Turning search results into RSS feeds pretty cool but it is something entirely different. What I meant was, to include the pages in my RSS feeds I am subscribed to, to the search you are doing just like you include Facebook to your search.

Regarding Facebook integration. Can you give me a use case where this integration is helpful and improves the search results? I don't think the survey argument is a valid one because our friends are usually not qualified enough to make an informed decision on this.

Yes I did. And I will continue using it. I guess my point is that a user should not even be aware of the fact that you use slash tags. I mean who cares what technology you use to give better results? Let that be a power user thing.

I also don't get the Facebook integration. Especially in your case. Your focus is on great content. Facebook is junk as far as content is concerned. Before Facebook I used to receive stupid emails with links to funny videos, cartoons and jokes that I'd immediately delete. I have not been receiving them for a few years because all of that stupidity went to Facebook, thank God. What valuable result do you expect to retrieve from there?

Given Blekko's focus on content quality and relevancy, I'd expect integration with Twitter if you really feel like you must do something on that front. Or integration with anything that people subscribe to for great content. RSS feeds come to mind. I don't know if this is possible but an integration with Google Reader would be beneficial for me. You may also try to add social features to your site such as an RSS reader that you can use to integrate to your search results. Again, I don't think this is such a big deal but if you are spending resources on integrating to Facebook, you might be better off spending them on integration with Twitter and the like.

Just my two cents. Like I said, I love you guys and I think categorizing and curating content on the Internet is the way to go.

Funny you asked. I signed up couple of days ago, deciding that slash tags should be the best way to get rid of all the crap in google's search results. I was a little confused though. Does Blekko expect me to choose which slash tag I want to use for my query? If that is the case, I think it will be hard for them to go mainstream. I can do it, no problem. But an average user will not be able to. I was expecting some sort of an intelligent algorithm which would decide which slash tags to use with my query. I think it all should be seamless to the user. They should curate the slash tags themselves and apply them to the search queries when relevant.

They've been around for a while. So I think it is fair to expect more powerful features from them. Color me worried. It would be a shame if they don't get more momentum. I think their idea of slash tags is a killer one. I just think they have not implemented enough or going to the wrong direction.

To sum up: 1) slash tags are just brilliant. 2) slash tags should be seamless to the user and be applied by Blekko automatically to each search query. 3) They should build their own slash tags, not relying on crows sourced ones. They should go crazy about this. Doesn't seem like they are. 4) More power to them. I love them

this looks really good. really well thought out. congrats. We are in the process of choosing a mobile JS library for our framework. We were going to go with JQuery Mobile but I am impressed with Kendo. You might get a call from us in the next months. You never know...:-)

Yes, exactly. I wonder if they will be able to though. Very interesting challenge. Trouble if it is not crossed.

I think you are spot on. I think they are pushing towards CRM. The question is how many users do they need to pull off a local merchant CRM tool that is big enough to justify the amount of funding they have received.

Bingo with the comment "A Game with no winners". :-). Actually, I think Facebook integrated location very nicely to their feature set with their latest mobile UI. I don't think they abandoned it at all. The combination of Tripadvisor+Lonly Planet served me well in my travels. So did Foursquare. But I don't think this alone will make it a viable business.

I got 4 pieces of chicken wings at Hooters in LA once. :-)

I totally agree with your comments. Do you mind to share which direction do you think they should go?

What I see from my friends is that they use Facebook and Twitter constantly. However every month they pick a new favorite social, local, photo app to play with. One month it is Instagram, next it is Foursquare, then Path. But they don't stick with this 3rd app. They use it merely as a toy that they eventually get bored with and throw away. So yeah, I think Instagram might be in trouble too.

Yet the video that shows off the product on their web site has sound. Oh the irony...

Ahhh come on...This video is not some futuristic nonsense. It is almost like an engineered speculation. In the last decade Apple did nothing but implement this vision. In several cases, the implementation surpassed what Apple engineers thought was possible in 1988.

I am just asking for an example in A.I world that is an N.P. hard problem which makes real world applications of A.I. difficult?

I think we crossed an important treshhold with Siri though. For the first time, we have a consumer product that uses artificial intelligence. What kind of problems are you specifically talking about.

Very interesting article indeed.