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(Note #1: I hope I don't come across as too critical mate, I'm just trying to be helpful!)

I just had a little play around with the site and I was a little confused to what it actually did for a few moments (even though I did read the tagline, it more or less blended into the toolbar up the top) Perhaps an "About Us" type box between the second signup section that is in a contrasting colour to draw your attention to it? Perhaps a light turquoise or light yellow background to ensure it is well defined in the layout of your pages. This would also give you the opportunity for another signup call to action.

So I think you really need to change a couple of design elements to make it clear what the site is about.

Some other design elements I would look at (and I'm just being picky now, but trying to be honest aswell) would be caption under each picture could perhaps not be in that little black box underneath each image? Whitespace is a wonderful thing so I'd use it wherever possible. Ensure the flag is there in the whitespace too - It's just right now each image gives me the impression it looks like Google Adsense

- Perhaps less boxes for places on the frontpage too? You don't really want to overwhelm your new users with too much information. Maybe try some sort of large gallery that shuffles through various locations and pops up it's location underneath (I'm trying to remember the name of the open source thing you can use, but have a look at http://graphpaperpress.com/demo/monochrome/ and you will see what I mean) ... I think with the larger cycling gallery and an about us box, you could essentially shorten and shift the grey text under your tool menu, ie make it a plain tagline "for remembering and discovering places to visit." and leaving it under the sitename above the tool menu, which would also neaten up the design.

- Perhaps explain to users what your features actually mean (the majority of users of websites don't know terms like KML)

- The sidebar has a weird amount of extra margin on the right of it, making the whole page seem shifted to the left.

- Perhaps you could combine the Login/Signup into one large box by joining them together and where the whitespace is in the middle add the word "or"... it would reduce the amount of hot pink as I think that comes across as distracting. Maybe the addition of a closing option to close the window again?

(Note #2: I hope this came across coherently, I've been up & coding/doing math on and off for the last 30 hours and I'm about to go to bed)
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Exactly. The Windows dialog is very, very short. The apple dialog is a miniature tutorial on the purpose and consequences of this thing called "save".
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"... Your opinion on we♥places? ..."

Good but frustrating to add places. Maybe it's me but I'd rather either:

- entry box like twitter to enter location

and how do you enter the street address of a mountain?

- so a pin button locator where you can fine tune the placement on the map itself

A geeky way would be allow users to also enter Geolocation, lat/lon. But that's not important. The entry works but adding entry to the front page removing the requirement to add an add-on will increase usage.

One thing that does bug me and could be be a problem. It has to do with the restrictions on flickr images but there is a technical solution. I added this image ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2803128286/ to my account ~ http://www.weheartplaces.com/users/bootload The image is mine so copyright is clear for my use. Others can use it as well, but if you ignore the licensing ~ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en by placing adverts you leave yourself open to a lot of flack. Eg: If you get big ppl will be able to enforce their license agreements. The technical solution is to use the flickr API ( flickr.photos.licenses.getInfo ) ~ http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.licenses.ge... to check the copyright permissions and respect them. Ignoring the licensing problem will become a problem ~ http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157601196183552/?... and http://www.flickr.com/groups/lawgroup/
By enumerating all possible moves, one can show that the first player can always win in normal-play games starting with n = 3, 4, or 5 spots. The second player wins when n = 0, 1, 2, or 6.

Am I missing something, or is the outcome of every sprouts games predetermined?
Clever solution.

Sometimes XOR seems magical (like with the XOR swap trick). Though in hindsight, it seems like the question was designed for the solution, not vice versa. XOR just happens to do exactly what we need in this case.
I'm a huge fan of anything that can displace Evite, but when organizing events, I found I consistently fall back to Evite. Anyvite adds nice-to-haves like RSS, mobile support, and a much cleaner/streamlined UI, but none of these are MUST-haves. If I use anything but Evite I risk people not recognizing the email as an invitation and deleting it. Plus, I have to put up with all the "Why didn't you just use Evite?" jokes. As cool as AnyVite (and Renkoo and Socializer and mypunchbowl and Google Calendar) is, I'd rather spend the extra 10 minutes muddling through Evite. I guess that's sad.
Very interesting (especially the part about their own employees using fb for _everything_), but ends abruptly.
Sorry, this dudes just a blowhard. I just read his "Can Blockbuster be Saved" article, as well, and it's just painful how far behind the curve Reisinger's opinions are.

It's just not very interesting to see someone who is less informed than me on these topics (and that is truly uninformed, because I couldn't care very much less about Apple or Blockbuster) spewing random opinions.
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Ok, I just did a very rough & quick chop job in photoshop to try and explain what I was mumbling about, remember its a very rough copy.

Having another look at the image, I'd probably even make the images below even more thumbnail like, perhaps a series of small tiles?

http://marklancaster.org/storage/weheartplacesquickmockup.jp...

Hope that helps mate.
Isn't that like 1/3 the web share of linux...

Wow.
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I don't sit watching what all my friends do though, thats a little creepy.
Okay, we can't downvote spam... how about a report button? You could auto-hide and review by moderators after x# reports.
Browsing the web on the iphone is a very nice experience compared to any other small form factor device I've tried (Palm Pilot Tungsten T3, PSP, other cell phones via WAP, and the Blackberry).

It's the clever use of multi-touch to make a small screen truly a window into a larger 'page' of information that makes the iPhone so good at this.
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The Mac dialog has a lot of text, yes, but it requires less reading to be understood, which, empirically, is what seems to matter most.

If you watch people use your software, one thing you notice right away is that many of them don't read ANY text. When a dialog shows up, they go straight to the buttons and click whichever one seems right--even if they don't know what the dialog is asking! It sounds crazy, but it's what people do.
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I wonder if machine learning can be used to enhance the way people "connect" with others... Oh wait, that's my startup :)
We'll be pushing out that feature in the very near future.
Hi, thanks for the appreciation.

Actually, I started writing this when I was 13-14 years old. The document had been abandoned about 3 years back and now a year back it was revived again by a guy called Nick. I worked with him for a while and we called the new thing as Intelligent Entity (IE). Now that project is also kinda hibernated/abandoned. We had lots of crazy ideas in the new document, like evolving the IE from the scratch. I will try to get that document from Nick and then post it on HN.

To be frank, I didn't read much before writing this thing. I had just read neural networks (that is why you would find such heavy emphasis of it in this document) and pondered a lot on how mind really works. I remember I had found deja-vus, dreams and other such stuff very amusing. So, I had started examining what could be the possible mechanism for all such weird phenomenon with the mind.

Most of the thinking is from the scratch based on what I thought was commonsensical. I am really surprised (and happy) to learn that Minsky and Push had similar ideas.

Thanks for all the links. I will definitely go through them.
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Thats exactly what i said!! What is the big deal?
Actually I did play someone with 6 dots and won... so i think there might be ways of changing the outcome, for example if you use a line to encircle other lines to cut off their access. Either way, I thought this was a strategy game and it seems closer to the "dots and boxes" pencil game, ie...
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clarification: i played someone as player 1, with 6 dots, and won.
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It has no purpose. Once again, let me be the bad guy because nobody else will: it's not useful!

The idea you have behind it is good, but you have done a shoddy work of communicating it.

Think of it from the perspective of someone external to the page. I open it and see a bunch of pictures of beaches. I could go to google images and type beaches and I'd see the same thing. I'm never going to go to Turtle Island, I never heard of it, and I'm not interested in it.

So, what would be useful to me then? Imagine I could go there, and then click on my own city. Then I see a bunch of photos of obscure bars and fun places (and not the monument in the center of the city) then it would be useful. If I knew I was going to New Zealand in december, I could click on christchurch or something, and I'd instantly see the cool places to go to, then that would be useful.

I know you've had these ideas, the problem is that you presented the actual way to get to the useful stuff as very cumbersome and unclear. Instead, you're putting technical stuff on the front page like "tags", "tools", "KML feeds".

I have no idea what a KML feed is even though I'm a technical guy. And why in heavens name is OpenID the most important "feature" you support? Is that not a bit of a wrong setting of priorities?

"Cool Bookmarklet"? A bookmarklet that has a low temperature, or does this bookmarklet wear dark glasses and doesn't dance in the club?

Yes, I know I'm being rough on you here, but it's better to hear this stuff now before it becomes impossible to change.

You have had a great idea, but you need to communicate clearer. You're communicating too technically and you need to do it different. How you do it is up to you, I'm just making you aware of the fact.
Just because he can force a win, doesn't mean he will. So it's still fun for novices, or large numbers of initial spots.
Political power has always revolved around shaping the flow of information.

The only thing that has changed is the medium.
Reminds me of the Star Trek: TNG episode I, Borg. The crew considered showing the captive Borg drone a paradoxical graphic. Each attempt to understand it would "spawn an anomalous solution," until, eventually, all computational resources of the Collective were consumed.
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I'm seeing this too, but it corrected itself somehow. When I started developing a site my CSS changes were not noticed without shift-reload, but now they are with a simple reload.

Odd, unless firefox detects update frequency somehow and decides if to do the reload based on that? Seems weird, but I never had a reason to investigate it much.
If the company wants to capture significant market share from Microsoft and see Mac OS X become more ubiquitous, it needs to stray from its comfort zone and start making more innovative decisions.

GUI(1), mouse(1), air, ipod, iphone, dock, linuxbased - need I say more about Apple innovation?

I wouldn't take stock recommendations from this guy.

(1) Yeah I know it was originally developed at Xerox Parc, but Steve Jobs was the one that managed to get it into a real product.
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Maybe this will lead to software developers better equipped to build software for non-developers.
I'm curious as to what would you consider a must-have feature to be in an invitation creation site? With more and more people relying on mobile Internet access while on the go, I would think that a mobile interface to view and manage your invitations would be a bit more than a nice-to-have feature. The other issues that you present are definitely hurdles to overcome when attempting to take on a product with a well known brand in the space, but are not insurmountable, as we've seen continued user adoption of Anyvite. Hopefully, in the future, we'll have the product to the point where you wont even consider spending an extra ten minutes on Evite when organizing an event.
don't understand what the fuss is about, there are plenty of website like that around, in particular i use www.melodyshot.com, its the same concept, only difference is you can download and there a way way more results.
Why not link directly to the Nobel Prize's website list?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/video_lectures.ht...
This means the first player wins for n = {3, 4, 5} if both players play perfectly. Similarly, if both players play perfectly, tic tac toe and checkers games result in draws. Fortunately, humans can make mistakes, rendering the outcomes less certain. :-)
Possibly - but I think you're overestimating the reach that techcrunch has (even within the technical sphere), and the need for publicity that Intel has.

Moreover, even if TC sold one of these to every reader and two of their friends, that's still a tiny volume in the PC market. They just couldn't possibly have the supply chain sorted out to be able to move the sort of volume that Intel would need for a good discount. Sure, they might get it stocked at Newegg, but even organic demand for a product like this doesn't generate sales. Ask Nicholas Negroponte - another greek guy!

Anyway, I think the Atom's brand recognition is probably quite good, with a sticker on every eeepc or MSI wind that's out there.
From a technical standpoint Apple were to do this again, it would impact OS X's reliability - having to deal with an infinite number of hardware combinations as opposed to a select limited few is not easy...

From a financial standpoint, hasn't this already happened before? If I remember correctly, it didn't do wonders for the company's bottom line nor did it do much to make inroads vs. Windows marketwise.

The way things are now, Apple is making good market share gains vs. MS and it doesn't have to worry much about software piracy either.
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If you have enough karma, there's a 'flag' link to the right of a submission. (I'm not sure how much karma that requires. probably 20 or so). But generally spam doesn't stay around here for long.
I feel the same way. I've been looking for exactly this for a while now. I want one for my 3-year-old's room and I'll program some kids games and set it up to go to various kids sites.

I think this could be the computer equivalent of the Flip Video. Simply & obvious.
When your working on cross multi-editor / multi-developer projects, you can do your tabs differently, (one might do tabs, another soft tabs, their soft-tabs are 4 spaces, another is 2, another is 8 (ack)) and you get irritating inconsistent tab errors. It can be quite annoying. Having to synchronize on such an irritating detail is even more irritating.
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ooh! i did not know that such page existed!!!

i wrote a scraper to extract all the video lectures in Perl!

bah.
You should mentally add "you idiot!" to the end of all your sentences. If the resulting sentence makes sense, rewrite it until it's so polite that adding those words doesn't make sense.

Your points here are somewhat valid, though. I'm just irritated at reading your rants, thinking "wow, this guy is kind of mean," and then looking up and seeing "maxklein" as the username.
I find this whole China versus the United States ridiculous- there is at present a state of mutually assured economic destruction, as real as that which existed with the Soviet Union in terms of nuclear weaponry.

No one's bombing the other, no one's invading the other, and no one's blowing the shit of the other's satellites. At most, China will sell their bonds and we will block the import of Chinese goods. Then our economies will real and someone will blink, causing a return to normalcy.
I ran into this too a few months while back, oddly enough with IE. Some proxy server or something was caching old versions of CSS files. After messing around forever with HTTP headers, I found the easiest way to deal with this is the href="blah.css?i=12345" solution mentioned in the article. Works for JS files too.

Rails makes this very easy with asset timestamps:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetT...
(well, "easy" sort of... until you have multiple web servers and the times get slightly out of sync)
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I know I'm a bit mean, but someone has to be the mean guy. Personally, I dislike this fake politeness and niceness that people hide behind all the time. It makes life boring.

I'm just saying things the way I see them without sugercoating them at all, I'm not being mean for the sake of being mean. I'm just saying what's in my mind without trying to reformulate it such that the other guy does not get hurt.

When I demo my own project, I hope others do the same. Because that will make me improve and change till I can hopefully finally make something that is just frickin great. I care about this stuff here, this is not my job, it's my art. Art has to be aesthetically pleasing, and you would not criticize someone for saying his honest opinion about a crap piece of art, would you? And I'm not saying that the project above is crap, it's actually quite good, but there are some things that are not right in my opinion.

Niceness is overrated. If you're trying to make something great, then you need to feel the flames when you're small. That's what will mould you and make you into a hard mean money making machine. If everyone just pats you on the back and encourages you to "follow your dreams", then you'll end up making something that nobody wants.

When people tell you straight to your face what they don't like about your project without trying to be all diplomatic and sparing your feelings, you have an opportunity to look at other peoples perspectives and improve and change things.
What the... why is iPhone traffic share so much higher on Tuesdays and Wednesdays?
Stuff I'm not 100% happy with at the moment includes the popup help and the look and feel, which is a bit rough around the edges.

I've also got a big stack of story cards yet to implement, the top 5 being:

1. Invoicing in days x rate

2. Printing invoices

3. Printable VAT returns

4. Loans + long term liabilities

5. Future payments

and the list goes on...

I'm also thinking of changing the homepage to target a more well defined customer.

This is all just my work so any feedback at all would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

Jon
I think the main difference is that with twitter its a one way following. You can follow people and they can be completely unaware. With facebook you have to have the two way yes we both consider each other 'friends'.

To actually beat twitter/friendfeed they would have to allow a 'stalker' relationship. So you can stalk someone without being their friend.
Why would Lenovo ask for an NDA? Are they trying to avoid retribution from Microsoft? Is it their attempt to minimize the profile of people who ask for Windows Tax refunds? The first sounds paranoid, so I suppose it's probably the second. Refunding people their money seems like an administrative hassle, so you'd want to minimize that.

As far as not getting an install disc... that's absurd, and I would complain to Lenovo. Laptops are prone to all kinds of damage, especially on the hard disk, so you'd think you'd want to be able to reinstall if necessary.
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it depends how you define your problem. if you have some degree of control on the price+specs equation Drupal is one of the best solutions I came across
I'd be curious to see how they did this. Some of the early ones could be somebody spending way too much time in Illustrator, but by time they get to the impossible ferns and mushrooms, you know they're using some programming.
I'm not sure where the confusion is.

#1 User presses "Save".

#2 Is met with "Yes/no".

#3 Presses "yes".

Where am I confused? I'm getting downmodded by the mac-bots as usual, but the purposeless verbosity remains purposeless as far as I can see...
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I was invited to a wedding recently. The logistics were rather complicated as it took place in a somewhat remote location that few guests had known before. People were travelling there from far afield using all kinds of transport, some of which had to be chartered just for the event. Also, the whole thing didn't take place in one single location. We were actually moving between at least three locations and a lot of other coordination intensive stuff was going on.

Now when I think back what the invitations looked like, it was nothing like what these invitation sites offer. There were maps and train/bus schedules and reservations and bad wheather provisions and different cases for different groups of people and a lot of real time coordination until very late. Of course there were people who were not in the digital age at all, so everything had to be printed and mailed as well.

I don't know whether it makes sense for sites like Anyvite to cater to these kinds of complicated events and include event organisation features on top of invitations. These events are of course much less frequent (I personally remember only three comparably complicated events). Organisers could certainly use help with that, on other hand rare complicated processes in the consumer space are dangerous for software makers as people don't like to learn stuff if they need it only once every few years. It would have to be simple AND powerful and integrate a lot of communication channels and information sources. It's difficult to get right I think.