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I heard, "That was sick!" 3 times on the way out of the theater tonight.

It really was... sick.
Because valuing an idea as "good" or "bad" is difficult and largely subjective?

His point maybe would've been clearer if he'd said something like
"Coming up with workable/interesting/possible ideas is easy."
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Even Hacker News seems to have skipped making load testing part of the process. Unit testing won't help you with these types of problems, but load testing is a pain and big companies skip it too sometimes, usually to their detriment.
Not so - the best way to survive a war is to let somebody else fight it.
In the next episode of "The Bold and the Beautiful"...
Then the injury analogy still holds.

I hold up the Schilling's bloody sock as Exhibit A:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6948862/
There's an important point that is getting missed here.

Twitter uses multiple technologies, not just Rails.

Everyone who hopes that their site grows to a Twitteresque-size should design a system such that components (db, messaging, processing, frontend) are decoupled enough that they can be swapped (ideally transparently) if/when they become the bottleneck.
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Examining Microsoft's and Yahoo's unspoken concerns
The problem is that they all decided to compete with CNN, so now they are all trying to get the news out as soon as possible. While there is some market for that I also believe that there is a market for well researched, interesting and unique content.
How Much is Your Website Worth ?
Quantifying the worth of a website is very much like evaluating a company.

To get the overrall value of a website you need to look at

* Current traffic levels.
+ a bushel of upmods for the Mitch Hedberg reference. Somehow, I think Mitch would have been a Bipolar Lisp Programmer if he was into programming...

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
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Homework? In the last blog post to which you refer I gave a personal account of the usefulness of Xobni to me, and wasn't presenting a research paper.

I'd be delighted to hear the ways you think they can monetise the product/feature, partly to demonstrate the amount of thought you've given the matter.

In its current incarnation, Xobni is a tool aimed at the individual user. Obviously, the company/product can go in all sorts of directions but so can anyone given time/money/effort.

Let's consider the possibility that their current offering is a prelude to looking at the corporate market. There are already tools that seek to discover corporate relationships at a macro level from data mining email inboxes, albeit they are only starting to make inroads into businesses. They work unobtrusively behind the scenes to provide business "intelligence" which can include highlighting colleagues who appear to have active communications with a "target".

You should also consider that many CRM tools already enable emails to be automatically incorporated into the communication profile/history of a contact, supplemented by richer tools than Xobni presently offer [task mgt, workflow] e.g. salesforce, zoho crm, siebel.
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Please elaborate on the many things you evidently think it could be, highlighting how easily and in what timeframe they could achieve this, thereby "educating" the rest of us?
So what could it be?
re the photo, one tries to please. Sadly, I am getting fewer invitations out for a drink following the change :-)
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Very Simple !. Move to Unversities. setup center for

enterpreneuship, try to get max stake in promising startups.

You would never know you are 60 % stake holder of next

Youtube or Myspace.

Ashish A
india
Re your point on having to thoroughly explain your revenue model to investors, there are some VCs/investors who are happy to let this emerge, odd as that may sound. For instance, I believe that Fred Wilson [of A VC blog fame] has commented along these lines about his investment in Twitter. In some of these instances, the plan appears to be to focus on building a large active user base, preferably one that gets "locked in" via a network effect and then figuring out how to monetise.

I am interested to hear about the "bunch of possible directions" you can see. Can you elaborate?
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Regarding what xobni has in store....

couldnt u just then sell the outlook plugin for 20 mil

then start on your real big idea in a couple years with 20 mil in the bank
Nice videos available:

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The problem with this system for me is, facebook is suggesting people who I have previously removed from my friends list, so by clicking on the X I remove them from the suggestion list, but facebook may imply this means their recommendation was not accurate.

It seems there are many different groups of users on facebook, some people "collect" friends and others add only current, relevant friends.
Another feature that attempts to be smart, but how often does it succeed?

Perhaps this is off-topic, but does anyone else feel like Facebook's apex is in the past? I mean this in the same way that PG has declared MSFT dead. Not that Facebook is dead, but are they in their prime? They at least do not seem to be aging gracefully.
(Why) Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard
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It may be time to put down the hatorade for a minute, and consider that the guys who walked away from $20m may be intelligent enough to value their own product.
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Then the best business model available to them is to get bought by Microsoft.

This is not a bad business plan, by the way-- there are quite a number of folks who have made good money filling some gap Microsoft missed, and getting acquired.
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Ballmer won't budge above his price for Yahoo
> Duh? What is Xobni OTHER THAN a feature of Outlook?

Everyone can criticize all they want, but this is a clear case of asymmetric information. Xobni knows a lot more about their value than you or I do. But even with the limited information I have, I have to say they are a lot more than just a feature.

With the Yahoo! Mail release (and I'm guessing GMail/hotmail/other client releases in the pipeline), what they're really doing is being a hub for all your contacts, attachments, and online interactions, INDEPENDENT of your email client. I use 4 different email addresses, and at least a couple different email clients for various reasons.

With this synchronization across mail clients, Xobni has transformed itself from an analytics feature to a full-fledged network to manage your contacts and interactions. I could see this integrating powerfully with, for example, Salesforce.com.
its obvious, just look beyond the UI

Bill Gates, himself, once the richest man in the USA and the richest in the world, said he liked XOBNI, this alone means XOBNI is like the new MS or the new Google! Which makes it worth at least 200,000,000 dollars ... at least, not just the peanuts they wonna throw at, 20 mil is nothing

XOBNI makes email fun again ... and easy ... and those are values.... see values not feature

So outlook without xobni is lame, and nobody wonna use it, not add XOBNI and suddenly everyone wonna jump and spend the whole day inside outlook, ore more specifically XOBNI

Sayin XOBNI is just a feature is like saying RoR is just a lib for Ruby ...... nooooooooo, Ruby is just a feature of RoR, want proof .... DJANGO and Grails both Rails like,

see the tables are truned, the language is the feature ... notthe other way around

python is a feature in DJANGO and Groovy is a feature in Grails, but rails is the way ... man, rails is the way

Tomorrow you will see XOBNI for GMAIL , XOBNI for Yahoo Mail , XOBNI for Mutt even... and when this happens Outlook becomes a feature of XOBNI and not the XOBNI a feature of Outlook

And again Bill Gates HIMSELF complemented Xobni, this alone makes Xobni worth more than 20 mil

Xobni is the next google, those guys are gonna be billionaires, just like how Linus Torvalds became one for inventing Git ... okay so Git may not have turned Linus into a billionaire, but than its not as revolutionary as XOBNI ... and most important Bill Gates, the richest man thant he once was, never compliment Git or said it was any good
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Woah. Positive correlation between how excited people are by a piece of science news and how much they know about the topic. How often does that happen?
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No, that's not what I'm saying at all, but let's just move on. (We can take it off-board if you want though.)

Also, I never suggested buying and holding individual stocks. I agree that one should only buy and hold that type of index funds.

As for the relevancy of this discussion, I was just responding to your comments. The original post was just about a dumb argument made by Warren Buffett, and not about equity premiums or any other underlying issue at all. In fact the post closed with This is not a discussion about whether we are actually in for similar, higher, or lower returns. Let's leave that for another day. This is just to say that this argument for lower returns is ridiculous!

That being said, with your belief in the equity premium theory, do you believe there is any scenario where investing in stocks long term (say buy and hold for the century) makes sense?
another thing to do would be to buy out symbian. with mobile phones threatning to mete out the same treatment to desktops, as was done by desktops to main-frames in the not too distant past, it might prove to be quite useful.
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for doing a great favor to the world, you may take a billion $$ extra as a bonus for using your brains :)
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1. There's a good chance that at that multiple the VCs get the bulk of the money.

2. A deal with Microsoft almost certainly requires them to come on board at Microsoft for some period of time.

3. A deal might include a noncompete for after they leave.

It really does depend on what the terms of the deal on the table were.
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Somewhat accurate, but thankfully not as creepily accurate as LinkedIn's.
I said in my comment specifically Note that I am not suggesting stocks outperform bonds on a risk adjusted basis. It seems your whole comment assumes the contrary as it opens with If stocks really grew faster than bonds (outside of risk). This assumption is simply not true.

However, given your comment, would you suggest an investor invest in stocks at all in a buy and hold strategy (as opposed to merely speculation on the price being low at the moment)?
may be u r right - mobile internet, mobile e-commerce and mobile advertising is the future and a powerful mobile OS and apps will help to lead the market and thats what google is trying to do.
Insoshi or LovdByLess
For starting a social networking site based on rails these two seem to the options:

LovdByLess(www.lovdbyless)
Insoshi(www.insoshi.com)

Has anybody done a comparison(features, code quality, momentum behind the project, etc)?
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I absolutely love working in Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_edit/). This guy's big complaint seems to be a lack of Intellisense, but seriously, it's OUT there. You just have to look beyond Dreamweaver.

In Komodo, I get intellisense, but the damn thing's even smart enough to pick up if I'm writing javascript inside a <script> tag inside HTML inside a PHP doc - it pops up the appropriate javascript autocomplete stuff and not the PHP stuff. It's awesome.
The Incidental Workforce
Start a YCombinator that funds 2 types of startups:

1. Startups that add value to current product line of windows, office, xbox, etc.

2. Startups that are disruptive, i.e. which will pretty much kill that cash cow
Max Levchin had some insights on this in his interview with Robert X. Cringely (NerdTV).

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/002.html
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Ask YC: How do you invest your money for long term growth?
There have been various side investing discussions in various threads. Here is one straight on for usefulness and clarity.

I realize investing is very case by case, so here's a (I hope relevent) case:

--Assume you have a good sum of money to set aside (and not touch) for three decades.

--The main goal with this money is for long term growth.

--Assume it is enough money where dividing it up at the 1% level makes sense.

--Assume it is enough money where your access to desired investments is possible and makes sense.

--Speak in %s so it easily translates, e.g. I would put x% in commodities.

If I'm missing anything to make this a good question, please clarify.

And if your strategy involves more actively assessing things from time to time, please also include what it tells you to do right now.
I love the mentality here. Thrash TC for posting something they "know nothing about" yet turn the attention onto something else that you probably don't know anything about. Unless you guys have access to Twitters racks, let's save some of the defense/speculation. I'd guess Arrington and Co. probably have significantly better sources than anyone on here.
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More details on that statement:

"Selvitelle told eWEEK that reports of Twitter abandoning Rails are "Not true in any sense. We use Ruby as our primary language. We have plenty of back-end architecture in other languages. Especially prototypes. We still use Rails and have no plans to discontinue this in the future."

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Ruby-Rails-...
You don't value your own company, value is set by the market, and in this case the market said 20 mil.

Will it increase or decrease depends on the actions of Xobni and the market.

The arguments that the founders "know their potential value" better than us is completely irrelevant. Don't you think MS investigated the company first, it's offerings and it's future before making an offer? I own a startup and think it could be worth billions someday... does that make it so?
Okay, I took the time to do some asking around with some finance friends of mine. Their opinions were that:

1) People in that sector don't really understand why this is a big deal.

2) It looks like just another "Breakthrough" in hi-tech; which is to say, a regular every-day occurrence. The fact that all articles point to nothing coming to the market for at least five to ten years also means that finance people aren't interested in the tech yet.
They lost a DB server:

http://twitter.com/twitter_status
It may be hard, hard, hard, but it doesn't have to be perfect.

The difference between listening imperfectly and not listening at all is astronomical.

The bottom line is listen; even if you don't do exactly the right thing, odds are you'll be turned in the right direction. And someone will be glad you're listening.
I can't tell from your reply if an obnoxious personality is coming through, or if it's just the problem with ASCII communications.

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Email is a very target rich environment, I've done quite a lot of work in this area and I think there are two key things to realize about email:

1. Mining the content of emails can give you information about what's in them and the person who wrote them. Examples are any spam filter, POPFile, GMail ads., automatic email response systems.

2. Email also contains relationship information. And this information doesn't need to be gathered by forcing the user to 'friend' people.

If you have access to the email box of a user you have all their email which means all their relationships plus all the subjects they are interested in. If you then do that across a company (or another group) you have a great deal of information for clustering (both by relationship and by content).

You also have IP addresses which leads to physical location (with some degree of error) and time information (including time zones).

That's a great deal of information to have (for example, companies like Facebook would love to know as much about you as possible but only really get the friend relationship; email gives you that effortlessly with content th analyze).

The obvious follow up on this is 'how are they going to make money'. I don't know Xobni so I can't answer for them, but if you look at the areas where money as been made analyzing content or relationships, it's not hard to see that Xobni could be a trojan horse (an Outlook or other email pluging) that gives the user some value while providing greater value behind the scenes.
I'm also interested to know more about this. Fwiw, Insoshi has a full-time team behind it, whereas Lovdbyless appears to be more of a side project.
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Great idea. Simply great.
Let me give you a scoop, then: Lots of 37signals code is not in Rails, either. We run Solr for search. We use a C-based poller for Campfire. We call out to ImageMagick for transformations of images.

Most successful LAMP sites use software from more than one bucket. That is not news.
True.

Alas, there seems to be a fair number of people in the valley that fret (nee obsess) about every single bit of feedback from any source and end up constantly changing directions because of that. Talk about the road to schizophrenia.
I think it might be more accurate to say work per day = (x(1.1) + N * x(1.1 * .7))/(n+1) = x(1.1 + n * .77) / (n+1)

So as your number of days approaches infinity average work / day approaches 77% of your old work per day. Or on your second day you only get 77% of your normal work day done.
Are they already using Java?

This is al3x's comment from last night:

"Apologies, that would be our Apache answering when it can't find an application server to talk to. We'll work returning a proper 501 in that case. "

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...

It's been a few years since I did Rails, but isn't "app server" the parlance of the Java world?
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Ok, that's awesome! Is Monty being "controlled?" I would love to hear, in broad strokes, what his brain is like, if not.

edit: Ok, I see the driver now (Trevor?). It's still amazing. How is the control UI done--I was expecting more like puppeteering...
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Yes, by the end of the clip you see a person in the back with VR goggles on.
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1. Make IE 6, 7, and 8 fully standards compliant. Don't say it can't be done. MS puts out hotfixes all the time. It can be done.

2. Release all Windows development tools for free. Free as in free for commercial use too. Build all the Windows apps you want, please!

3. Revamp the Windows API. Make it stupid easy to programmatically create and manipulate all types of media files and office documents.

4. No more DRM on anything. Tell Hollywood to get bent.

5. Simplify the Windows EULA: You own this copy of Windows. You can sell it or install it on as many machines as you like, even your friend's machines. No license keys required. You say you didn't even pay for this copy? Good for you. Enjoy.

5. Force OOXML designers to create their documents in OOXML using only Notepad. Watch format miraculously improve.

7. Open dust bin, deposit Vista source code, wash hands, walk away.
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I just finished reading his book "The Pirate's Dillema" and highly recommend it.

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If someone weighs 300lb's then they are probably weigh 100+ pounds more than their goal weight which works out to around 350,000+ calories. Fixing that would take not eating for 3 months or a long term solution like 45 minutes of exercise a day.

Chances are if she keeps that up for 1-2 years she will have lost a lot of weight but nothing is a magic bullet at that level of weight.
As an American, I found this story pretty disheartening. I can't for the life of me understand why we are putting up so many barriers, financial and otherwise, to smart, qualified entrepreneurs who just happened to be born somewhere else. It sounds like anyone who wants to come here and start a company without wasting thousands on lawyers and bureaucrats will be out of luck for the foreseeable future...
It's possible to store multiple bits in lots of devices, including capacitors and inductors. Intel has been shipping flash that stores multiple bits per cell for quite some time.

There's an interesting tradeoff between the size of the box, the number of bits, and the required detector. And, if you're going small enough, the charge of an electron.
Beethoven's 3rd Symphony was a nice touch.

As for the idea... nah, not really, as long as it needs the attached reader etc.
Arrington is a bag of douche.