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So... how much of the company are they going to sell? Or haven't they announced this yet either?

A $1 billion valuation would seem awfully low, since last I heard they have multiple hundreds of millions (possibly half a billion) in revenue. I personally have concerns about the long-term sustainability of their business model, but I'd expect a valuation much higher than this.

Personally I won't invest. Too evil for my tastes.
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> Has anyone seen this in the wild?

It's practically a meme:

http://d.pr/nJpH

EDIT: Tracked down the Tumblr where I saw that slide:

http://bryc3.com/post/172703130/i-ganked-this-slide-from-joe...

Slide text:

How VCs Say "No"

- <strike>"No"</strike>
- They don't return your calls or emails
- "We love what you're doing but would like to see more progress"
- "We'd like to see what your beta looks like"
- "Have you thought about hiring a _____"
- "Have you thought about approaching _____"
- "We're interested, but we don't want to lead."
You've got Andy's name wrong, twice, in the headline. It's "Hertzfeld", with a t, and no i.
To be honest I'm not exactly sure what kind of programming I want to do. I'm thinking it will probably be related to the web in some way.
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I'd invest in Farmville cash before I'd invest in bitcoin!
BTW layout is seriously screwed up on http://upout.com/nyc/do/date-night-kafana-seriouseats, FF 5 on Mac.
Works fine for me. Maybe it's geographic?
May be a chrome bug[0] or a spec bug/weirdness[1].

See edit, try checking for the state attribute on your event object to filter out spurious popstate events.

An other option would be to use a shim library (History.js) handling that kind of crap (and smoothing out implementation details issues) for you.

[0] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=28ed...
[1] http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/history-api-changes-in-fire...
I just tried this and state is always null for me.

edit: it was because I was passing null on pushstate. I can change this. Thanks!
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> ... intelligently dial numbers based on where you are in the world ...

I lived abroad for a year. The pain of manually adding '+44' to every contact in my addressbook (directly on my non-smartphone) meant that I've only used international numbers ever since.
you play the game differently when you're the no-mark upstart compared to when you're running the show
Google+'s video chat barely works for me at all. Maybe it's because I'm in Europe, but the video chat is basically a big blurry mess. Skype is worlds better.
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The problem with adding someone to my circles is that the relationship is backwards from what it needs to be for some use cases.

Suppose that I want to tell a bad joke every day. (Not an entirely hypothetical example - I did this on Buzz for a couple of months at one point.) I know that a lot of my friends like my jokes. Some of them don't. I don't want to push jokes to people who won't like them.

What's my solution with Google+? Here are some options:

- I can make my jokes public, pushing them on people who I know don't want them. This gets in the way of other relationships that I want to keep track of.

- I can create a circle for people who I think like my bad jokes, start adding them, and send them jokes. But now people have to ask to get my jokes (which they probably don't know that they can) and have to ask me to get off that joke list.

- I can create a new account just for my bad jokes. Now I have to be managing multiple accounts, which gets to be a real PITA.

Here is what I want instead. I want to have private circles and public circles. Private circles, I manage. Public circles I let the world know about, and they manage. When I create content I just send it to the appropriate circles. Anyone who wants can see me, see my public circles, and can see what I put there. And can sign up for them.
I was impressed with the fact that this post was on plus. It's like Twitter, only with no size constraint and with discussions right on the post. I'm excited to see how its usage will pan out.
If you were a teenage girl, you'd think this was the awesomest thing ever.

(Or, y'know, whatever the translation of "awesome" into teenage girl at the moment.)
Are the printing presses slowing down? In the "Revenue and Profitability" section towards the bottom, 2011 profits estimated to be almost half of 2010 ($90M -> $47M)
There's video chat in Google+? I hadn't even noticed.
Great site! Some usability feedback:

When I click 'sign up' it takes me to an 'about page' with the sign up form in the middle below a little explanation of the site.

On my notebook with a resolution of 1024x768 the form is actually below the fold in Chrome (I have a double row task bar).

I'd put the sign up form above the fold as the main focus of that page as that is what users normally expect from clicking on the 'sign up' link.
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I believe noelsequeira is referring to the stream, which is what Facebook calls the "news feed".

It would be nice to be able to set relative ratios for how often posts from different circles show up, to result in varying frequency of the top or recent posts from each circle.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. Maybe it's due to the fact that I'm not a native English speaker, but I never meant to insinuate otherwise (after all, Google+ is very very young and the score should come from somewhere). I just wanted to share the fact that Google+ makes this score available.
It was nice of him to announce this using a service he single-handedly built in a weekend
I guess you're right. I do agree that people are too touchy today.
With VC's you always have to consider the possibility that they have already funded a potential competitor, and that they are actively but subtly trying to hinder you in order to help that competitor. You even have to keep this possibility in mind after they have funded you, because they may view writing you a check as simply a cost-effective way of keeping you under control.
Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback. I have the luxury of a full 1080p when I do design... I'll update this :P
bsphil - I even have an invite but Google hasn't allowed me in yet. Anyone else dealing with that problem? I've been trying the invite link for two days now and it keeps saying that they've reached their capacity even for people with invites.
I'm not sure of the prime uses, but the example case is pretty interesting... list management in 10 lines of code. Doing similar in PHP/Ruby would take a lot more LOC.

I'm not clear on how bandicoot handles durable persistence (ie, integration with SQL/NoSQL datastores), or if it is intended to replace them.

All in all, very interesting.
Sorry for misinterpreting you. For the record, I'm not a native speaker either, which might be a source of confusion.
The money Google pays Mozilla is a split of the ad revenue. Google keeps renewing the contract because it's profitable for Google! They also don't want 25% of the web switching to use a different default search provider.
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Hangouts? It's not like they didn't market that as feature #1 or #2.
I agree. I should just clarify that I'm all for bcrypt, having used it and recommended to friends/clients/employers. When I found out about SRP, I was researching on ways to do exactly what tzs asked, i.e., verifying a password without sending the plaintext (or plaintext-equivalent). In my case, the client had a login form that couldn't be placed behind SSL (don't ask why). Do you know of any solutions to this problem?
They have online activation now?

Stay classy, Apple.
Its not even g+, its worse than that. Facebook is trying to inspire awe with something google talk has had for ages.
I used the service for about a week before being booted... in the US. Suddenly, I don't have a Facebook friend on the "inside" or something...

It's really fun but not working 99% of the time. Right idea, poor implementation. Guess the "social listening" sector is still wide open.
Yep, I was doing it wrong. You're supposed to pass a state object as the first parameter, I was passing null. So this fixes 2 things, prevents me from having to do XHR on initial page load AND I don't need to do an XHR on back/forward navigation either, I can just use the state object to store my data. Awesome!
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Is the video-conferencing going to be free? Is it free on Google+ (I have not used it yet) ?

If there is free videoconferencing on facebook, what are the advantages of paying for it on skype?
Wow, Google+ really got the timing right.

Facebook looks to me like they're on the defensive... if FB aren't directly reacting to Google+, I hope they've had time to get the kinks worked out.

This is getting very interesting.
I remember when facebook was the "grown up" MySpace... oh wait, I mean 6 years ago.
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This seems night and day to GroupOn's S-1. A solid sustainable business, plenty of cash on hand which is growing every quarter, and a clear path forward to continue their phenomenal growth.

There are plenty of risks of course, not the least of which is Facebook turning off the lights, but that is something that seems like it could be baked into the IPO price for a 1 billion dollar company with these financials.

Not saying I will invest in few months after the IPO, generally it takes time for investor hype to cool down and heat back up again (see LinkedIn, the only people who made any money so far were the investment banks) - but it might be a good post-IPO lull buy.
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Under the law Amazon has a CA presence because it has wholly owned subsidiaries like a9.com and Alexia in CA. I know that the corporate veil is not impervious, but can CA pierce it in this instance, or can only the Feds do it? Has it been tested in the courts? I dont have a clue, but would be interested in hearing from someone who does.
Yep it's somewhat of a curse for those developing on high resolutions screens - I have a dual 1600x2560 and 1200x1920 setup but keep my trusty 1024x768 X61 around for testing and the occasional couch surfing ;)
It is free on Google+, and Facebook would be committing suicide by charging for it. There's no way they would.
I hear Somalia is nice this time of year.

Well, you could make a decent argument that in a direct democracy like Switzerland the politicians are largely figureheads similar to the queen of England.

In other words, that's almost like being free of politicians, but Switzerland certainly has no shortage of police.

But then again, they also don't have nearly as many non-violent drug offender in prison as the US does.
He never said physical keyboard. Just keyboard, and always connected to the net.
Isn't using one single service to archive your photos a bit of an eggs-in-one-basket problem? Everything is reliable until the TOS changes, or someone revokes an app's privileges, etc.
If this is true, Google+ with limited availability and limited geographic reach is essentially still born as a Facebook killer because there is no reason for your mom to switch.

Sure Google will mine some meaningful user data and Google+ will almost certainly be a success in terms of generating additional advertising revenue. But it's now even less unlikely to take off with consumers.

The problem is that Google+ is an attempt to solve Google's problem - shareholders' demand for a presence in "Social Networking," rather than solving an actual problem experienced by social networking service consumers.
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Well, that and the peptic acid.
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I guess it's all I've ever known, really, but now that you point those things out, they are irritating.
Well positioned:
1) They have a constrained ecosystem which could insure that the quality experience for apps is better than the current average in android apps

2) I haven't owned a wp7 device for over a year, so I don't know where things are now, but for the months following launch, the apps were a crapshoot & expensive. There were no angry birds, no hipstamatics, etc. Twitter, Facebook & that's about it.

So the quality problem I am referring to is akin to the choice between walking into a flea market (Android), a Nordstrom (iPhone) or a jc penny (windows phone 7).
Opinions on the way Google puts your Google Profile at the top of results?
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Well. I added Markus Persson (aka Notch, of Minecraft fame) to my Following circle, and... his posts are always bumped to the top of the stream because so many people comment on them.

Posts can also take up a lot of space when there are attached pictures/videos and comments.

So Twitter has these huge advantages that everything is streamlined and kept short. Google+ does not; and it's not really necessary if you don't use Google+ as Twitter. This is also something that Google can fix, so we CAN (then) use Google+ as Twitter.
OHA is functionally irrelevant. Google will not authorize the use of their branding if you go outside of their interests.

I'm speaking from experience. OHA tricks people into thinking the platform is open. Hows your honeycomb, OHA?
My three comments

a) Payment friction is a big problem here; reviewing comments, I love the idea of overcoming that with an app, but there are also other marketplaces like google chrome apps, etc. Nothing to say you can't sell a web app through one of those right now.

b) Don't email survey your customers, call them. Well, in your case, email them and say you're the founder, you want to know what they liked / didn't, and do they have 10 minutes to give you some advice? This will get you far more than automated surveys

c) I'm kind of thinking a nice "Before / After" with someone's actual inbox would be nice, then they could just click to pay once they see how great it will look.
it is a cool site only one bug i saw is when you click on the city to change city, there is no cancel button and i had to reload the page to get out of it, otherwise a cool site which it had more things then just restaurants and night clubs, but i do like the free section very nice touch
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I hate the black tabs and would something more like Chrome.
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Y'see, this is where the argument turns into hyperbole. Airport security does, in fact, make it much harder to carry out an attack on a plane.

Maybe you can sneak a blade through, but you're not getting on board with a gun. Maybe you can stick forty grams of plastic explosive up your butt, but you're not getting on board with a bag full of TNT. The 9/11 hijackers used shitty weapons because it was all they could get on board -- they changed the rules, and now they're stuck with even shittier weapons. The shoe bomb was a crappy bomb, and the underpants bomb was even crappier.

Now, if your point is that a terrorist would have to be stupid to even try to attack an aeroplane when so many other opportunities for killing folks exist... then you'd be right. But that's exactly the kind of stupid that terrorists seem to be... they keep on going for the aircraft rather than the crowded music festival. And hey, if they want to keep going for our best-defended rather than our softest targets then I'm not gonna try and talk 'em out of it.

Perhaps the TSA is really a desperate cry of "Oh please don't throw me in that briar patch!"
To be fair its been years since I've touched access so maybe its much better now than it was. Also perhaps I'm blaming the paintbrush when I should also be blaming the painter which is going on regarding PowerPoint in this thread.

That said I've had to unscrew a number of spaghetti coded access based shadow systems of the "why are you running your business on this!?" type in the past and I do think these tools are to an extent responsible for leading users into the wrong paths. PowerPoint for instance guides users right into bullet point hell. You can create beautiful presentations with it but it leads you in the wrong direction from the start.

The danger of access (and excel) IMO is they encourage users who don't regularly build software to create complex systems without good tools to test and verify what they're doing and in a totally disconnected fashion. They also lack an audit trail which enables all sorts of I'll advised and sometimes unethical number fudging. Generally speaking I consider numbers out of these systems suspect until I understand how they work. as long as they're simple its manageable but they get complex quickly with no control and no record of how they got the data to a given state. This disconnection bears similar risks as a developer who goes for months without checking in code only to drop their masterpiece in on code cut day and inevitably shoot everyone in the foot.

I sympathize with people whose choice is between building a shadow system and having to deal with a Oracle's billing department (shudder). I just think there can be better solutions between "user is totally at the mercy of n thousand $/hr report writing consultants" and "user is forced to code their own disconnected data system without a net." In that situation I'd probably be recommending option #2 as well but with a please KISS warning.

Every time I read about a company making a big public mistake because they made an error in a user developed shadow system it breaks my heart a little.

I suppose its as much or more of a company culture and procedural issue than it is a tooling issue but the tools we make are responsible in some part. I think we can do better without throwing user empowerment completely out the window or spending big money to get a simple report. I think this is the most important ongoing challange in business intelligence (despite how cool "big data" is at the moment).
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