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yogiprernaon Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion)

Congrats guys! Very exciting.

yogiprernaon 500 Startups Unveils Start-up Accelerator Program

there is no formal application process. you have to be referred by a 500 Mentor / respected angel.

yogiprernaon Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office

agreed. it's also widely considered to be a technology-inspired revolution.

What's disturbing to me about this is not the technology (which is awesome), but the fact that it's been buried in the government trenches for 40 years. That kind of knowledge hoarding seems highly antithetical to the "American spirit".

yogiprernaon Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year

I don't think this means the 'end of email'. This seems to me like a natural progression. Before FB, Twitter and cheap SMS, email was the most effective means of digital communication. Now we have different tools for different types of digital communication. That doesn't mean email is becoming obsolete. It's a bit like saying mobile-touch computers will replace all other types of computers. I don't see that happening at all. Instead, we just use a number of different computers (in all shapes and sizes), for different situations.