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jwecker
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"Our software submits your pages to Altavista, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, OpenText, and HotBot." Nice. Those were the days. Does anyone else remember when google was underground? I remember when it seemed just me and a few of my friends knew about them. For 2 years I would say "don't use altavista- use google." and whoever it was would say "Googol? Ogle? What?" Guess it wasn't that long ago at that...
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volida
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Watch their presentation during LeWeb3 playback at minute 7:09 <a href="http://portal.vpod.tv/leweb3/70070">http://portal.vpod.tv/leweb3/70070</a>
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mattculbreth
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Yeah this was on my mind as well. Obviously thinking pretty far down the road but I guess that's the fun of it.<p>So in that case what do you think of "President" or "Supreme Allied Commander"? Pros and cons I guess.
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semigeek
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Google wasn't just underground then; it didn't exist. Google wasn't founded till a year later.
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farmer
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Kaneva: a 3D Myspace?
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Neo-nomads transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office
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python_kiss
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I remember back when you had to manually submit your website to 30 different search engines. It's amazing how fast times change.
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python_kiss
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jcwentz
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kf
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How to Make Wealth
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rms
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Not bad at all, how do you guys compile the white list?
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The God of Startups
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JoeEntrepreneur
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Now <a href="http://www.socializr.com/">http://www.socializr.com/</a> says that they are "gamma". Does that mean, its more crap than "beta" but it is still ok.<p>
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abstractbill
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python_kiss
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/307730_msftgoogle16.html
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Steve Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
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danielha
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This along with some other goodies can also be found on this page: <a href="http://startupschool.infogami.com/">http://startupschool.infogami.com/</a> which was submitted here a little while ago. Good video though and worth a watch if you haven't already.
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paul
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This would be a big improvement. I hope it happens soon.
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jwecker
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hmm. ambassador to France. Anyway, the last line of the first paragraph is dead on.
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jwecker
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Popularity Might Not Be Enough
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papersmith
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Setting up a sole proprietorship is as easy as going to a business kiosk and filling out some forms.<p>I think in BC you don't even need to register if you use your own name, so it's completely free (money/bureaucracy).
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jwecker
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I hope these do well, but when I apply my internal "would I pay for it" measurement (I never click on ads [and try to ignore branding] so ad-based revenue sites don't make the cut) there was only one on that list that I myself would pay for- the first one, Garlik. That's just me, though.
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jamongkad
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Same thing my dad told me haha!
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jamongkad
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Web 2.0 is bad enough! though I don't have any qualms with passionate. As you have to be passionate about your business in the first place. Although being passionate about something in itself is not a guarantee of being successful either.
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What he's really thinking is how few good people they leave for Microsoft. Nearly everyone who gets an offer from both must choose Google. So the more people Google hires each year, the lower down the list Microsoft's top recruits start.
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reitzensteinm
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Obviously biased, but I think he does have a point. Google has found an insanely profitable business in search and is using a shotgun approach to try to find another revenue source, and it had better work. Microsoft could lose Windows (to a Windows-killer - presume their apps would still run) and still be a nicely profitable company. Google without search, today, would be in deep shit. Windows has a much higher lock in than Google search does, too, and will do for the forseeable future.<p>I liked this bit:<p>Asked by a student what keeps him up at night, Ballmer said managing people and relationships and shifting business models were the biggest culprits. Still, those aren't major interruptions.<p>"I actually do sleep very well," he said.<p>I'm sure he does.
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jamongkad
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Awesome....
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jamongkad
1,174,125,058
Oh yeah add blogosphere to my list as well.
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python_kiss
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That is also true in Ontario, Canada; you are not required to incorporate if you're using your own name for the business.
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sharpshoot
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I don't think these are the "top 25" UK web 2.0 startups. I think i'll write an alternative list.
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jwecker
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Very good clouding.
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python_kiss
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Three notable generals who successfully implemented this strategy are Tariq ibn-Ziyad, Hurnan Cortez, and Xiang Yu. They managed to take on armies many times their size by deliberately cutting off any channels of exit.<p>Read more about them here:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_ibn-Ziyad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_ibn-Ziyad</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan_Cortez">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan_Cortez</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Yu">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Yu</a>
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reitzensteinm
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Yeah, it must be killing him:<p><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php">http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php</a><p>Was it really different 5 or 10 years ago though? Microsoft hasn't been a cool company for a long time. Although I guess it was very impressive for the resume, and prior to Google, that was a choice you'd have to make.
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ynot
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"Google without search, today, would be in deep shit"<p>50% of Googles Revenue does not come from search.
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chris_l
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How on earth can they concentrate on their work in a cafe?
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danw
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"With no agenda other than they're interesting, here's 25 UK-based startups that I think are worth watching in 2007. It's a very personal list - it's not based on financial metrics, user bases, or likelihood of being bought by Google. So this isn't the top 25 UK startups, in other words. It's just 25 cool ones."<p>I'd be interested to see your list, I'm tempted to draw up my own to see where the overlap is between different "top apps" lists
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danw
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volida
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daemon(s) originates from the Greek word deimon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29</a> which means someone who is wise, knows things, has wide and wise knowledge of something. In the ancient Greek times it was not linked to the concept they are now.
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Alex3917
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I wonder how much more social news can evolve without any new advances in the underlying technology. Without new tech (digital identity, semantic web, etc.) then the only thing you can do is to change the people present or the way that they interact. And if there is significantly more value that can be extracted by tweaking the design then it'll take someone smarter than me to see it.
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e1ven
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That's a very clever site, but I worry about scalability- If you're adding links manually you're going to run into the same problem that yahoo ran into, but without the Ad-revenue to try to overcome it.<p>I'm also slightly worried that it's a difficult thing for kids to type or say, but I imagine they'll have it bookmarked for the most part.
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DanielH
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Wouldn't these be a little bit more interesting?<p><a href="http://2007.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/">http://2007.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/</a>
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there is a prototype of this at news.ycombinator.com/active
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python_kiss
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You are right. Have a look here:<p>Digg.com No Longer Just for Tech News Junkies<p><a href="http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/790/digg-this-diggcom-no-longer-just-for-tech-news-junkies">http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/790/digg-this-diggcom-no-longer-just-for-tech-news-junkies</a>
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immad
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Agreed, ignoring the fact revmap is not on there (travesty :-) ), the list doesn't seem that representative of the UK scene.
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done; we now have all three of these
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prototype at news.ycombinator.com/active
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danielha
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Some of us have been using <a href="http://startup_weekend.bluwiki.com/">http://startup_weekend.bluwiki.com/</a> to organize for the last couple weeks.<p>It's also seemingly down right now, which may actually be a sign to move our information to the official Wiki. Thanks Jessica.<p>(edit: Spoke too quickly. It's up again now.)
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If other people agree with this, please upvote joshwa's suggestion. If you want to keep things the way they are, upvote this reply.
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mynameishere
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_Microsoft, because it invented the XMLHTTP object and without Google standing forth on this aspect, you wouldnt have been able to see any of the above mentioned miracles imparted to the web today_<p>That's the most badly constructed sentence I hope to read all day.
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you can now delete a comment if it has no children by editing it blank
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neilc
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"Gmail was the first most interactive web based email client which actually used the XMLHttpRequest to make a rich internet interface providing asynchronus behaviour thus making the email client more user friendly than any other in those days of 2004"<p>Aside from the atrocious writing, it seems to me this is mistaken: wasn't Oddpost the first web-based email client to take advantage of AJAX-style techniques?
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Sam_Odio
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Nice. We were having some problems with our ISP, which has caused ~2 hrs of downtime on bluwiki :(<p>If someone wants to volunteer to condense everything onto one wiki, I'm sure that'd be appreciated. Otherwise, I guess we could link between the two wikis or something...
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richcollins
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Co-Founder
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joshwa
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I should note that this is the way the reddit bookmarklet works... they're the ones who have set my expectations/habits. <p>You could also make a like/dislike bookmarklet the way reddit does...
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danielha
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"You don't need to have it all figured out right now. The important thing is to keep moving forward. Seek opportunities to learn or try something new, something with uncertain outcomes."<p>I liked that part. Working in startups is exciting and starting one is even more exhilarating. For years, I've always been interested in pursuing a startup, but it was more recently that I decided/discovered that there is nothing else I could do that would leave me satisfied.<p>On another note, I just recently finished reading your interview in Jessica's book. Good luck on that next adventure of yours; I'll be interested to see what you're going to be up to.
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paul
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Actually, "Outlook Web Access" (OWA) was probably the first, since XMLHttpRequest was supposedly added for OWA. Gmail was the first good&popular AJAX-style webmail client, so it helped legitimize and popularize those techniques.
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danielha
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Pretty funny anecdote, even if having a relative purchase the item is a bit on the sketchy side. But I definitely understand having to show your business at its best in crucial situations.<p>I wonder how one would analogize this to a social network-based website where an influential blogger might be visiting to review. Would one populate the place with a buzzing community? Script certain features to respond flawless to expected invocations? It's much more manufactured (and wrong) in this case.
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danielha
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That works well. A listing of the most active is better than a listing of recently commented on. What's the threshold for most active?
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MySpace defeats YouTube in war game
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Search News YC (unofficial)
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danielha
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"Snipitron, a new social bookmarking site for academics, professionals and students, launched in pre-beta mode on Friday. On many levels, it's your conventional bookmarking site: you add URLs via the web interface, a bookmarklet or the browser plugin (IE and FF), add tags, add friends and explore websites bookmarked by others.<p>Slightly different is the idea of collections: all your bookmarks are part of ongoing projects, usually concerned with researching an assignment or a purchase."<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2007/03/17/snipitron/">http://mashable.com/2007/03/17/snipitron/</a>
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pg
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Wow; my slight annoyance at having someone write software I wish I was writing (instead of working on my damned talk for startup school) is outweighed by how impressed I am at your initiative. Plus it's actually useful...
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jasonyan
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I wrote this because I wanted to look for some old articles which were no longer listed. I started crawling News YC over night at a slow rate, and it is still going, so many of the latest links and comments are not indexed yet.<p>I threw the code together, so feel free to report any bugs you encounter. However, I won't have time to touch this for the next few days.<p>I imagine at some time News YC will have a search feature implemented (it may even be today with all the recent changes), so Paul, let me know if you want this removed.
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msgbeepa
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Digg For Photos - A Photo Voting Community
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nostrademons
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Anyone want to bet that their predictions will be wrong?
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domp
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Why not just make your service good to every user instead of focusing on those people you think you need to impress? I think that every user should have the same great experience and not just a handful of hand-picked consumers. If you have a good product I think that'll show through regardless. It seems like if you feel that you need to do this that you probably find huge weaknesses in your product.
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Sam_Odio
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Interesting. My personal experience definitely support's this. My brother's an entrepreneur, my dad's an entrepreneur, and just about every uncle on my dad's side is an entrepreneur.
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Ninjamonk
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I think if they launch a database product then it would be even more useful.
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papersmith
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Slashdot isn't even on the list.
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JMiao
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Thanks, Jason. This is great.
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bootload
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great hack jason, works a treat ~ any chance of a quick writeup of how?
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immad
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Is there much to learn from that article? I guess what he says about branding is interesting, but it seems way to simplistic.<p>Take amazon for example which he puts into the first category. Its not appropriate, they apply themselves accross multiple category not just books and there marketplace (and some other products) are more like a service than ecommerce. Also he gives netflix as another example, I am thinking DVDs have high markups and there rental structure makes them again a bad example.<p>My real issue with this and his previous article is that its way to over simplified and doesnt give that much useful info except to say don't pick a market thats too small. Am i missing the point?
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bootload
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I'm surprised there have not been more 'vertical' del.icio.us variants. Looks useful to a subset. For a business I wonder how much the 'niche' audience will restrict the sites ability to make money?<p>PRO: <p><i> simple</i><p><i> export data via RSS</i><p><i> pre-built input tools via browser</i><p> CON: <p><i> does not copy delicious conventions enough</i><p><i> free & long term viable? ('We're still working through the whole "money thing.")</i><p><i> redundant images of sites</i><p><i></i> does not export citations,
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kingkongrevenge
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He said <i>hiring growth</i> is insane. It's fair to wonder what the heck 5,000 new hires are doing in a company of 10,000. Google makes all its money from ads and there's no way they're all involved in the back-end for that. If they're sitting around building cute little javascript applications then Ballmer is most certainly correct that they're insane.
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danw
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Yes, but they're not all up yet. In the meantime I thought people might enjoy some of last years talks
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prakster
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"President" is technically correct if you have a corporation, since every corporation must have a President and a Secretary (one person can be both). Your other choice may seem nice, but it will lead to more questions. Your best bet is to keep it simple for now and go with "Co-founder". As of right now, it's all noise anyway...what matters is the title given to your product by your users :-)
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davidw
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Reading 'Founders at work', so far his story is the one that most clicks with me. I'm a technical guy, so I really understand having lots of varied projects going on. The more difficult part is focusing on one single product.
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