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Ask HN: Good software for demoing apps live to customers?
I'm looking for some simple live demo/screencasting software for my startup. It will mainly be used to for sales and demoing the application to potential clients.

Webex seems somewhat excessive.

Any recommendations?
This seems like some common sense...

cant they just get some magic beans instead?
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Thanks! I thought about putting the bar at the top but I didn't want to obstruct logos and headers by setting the iFrame as-is, while starting the main frame at the bottom of the bar would then eat up too much real estate.

As for your question, it's an awesome one. To this point I have not received any negative feedback from developers but I've also only pushed testing traffic through the site. It's entirely possible that I will receive negative feedback as the site grows, though I obviously hope developers see worthyy as helping more than hurting.

My perspective is this: I could easily start yet another blog that covers web services and each post would be just another singular perspective on each site. Try as I might to avoid it, my opinions, impressions and perspective will inevitably come through as visitors read my take on each site. My perspective will weigh heavily on whether or not readers end up clicking through. I don't want this.

I want the developer's work to do the talking. Developers put tremendous amounts of time and thought into building these sites. I obviously don't need to tell you that. Why should I be just another guy who covers their work on my blog, inevitably misrepresents something, misses covering key functionality, etc? I want worthyy users to see and experience each site as the developer envisioned it - without preconceived impressions from my opinion or anyone else's for that matter. I then make it as easy as possible for the user to bookmark the site and should they choose to click through and discuss the site, there is always a direct link waiting for them.

That said, my intentions hardly invalidate the fact that some may potentially view worthyy as stealing their content. To that I can only assure those concerned that I will, without hesitation, remove content from my site immediately should the owner of the content request that I do so. No argument and no questions asked.
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A master model is not necessarily slower. Everything goes through the server either way, and it comes down to how much data you have to transmit and how much the sender, server, and receiver have to process it.

At http://draftastic.com/ we keep a master but only broadcast changed portions -- a compromise between re-sending the whole document and handling a hail of tiny diffs. This uses automatic locking, which we thought was reasonable given that people rarely want to type directly on top of each other, but it means a much simpler implementation of undo and so on. Basically, we've made a heartbeat-based system with heartbeats so cheap that they can be fast, and we never need a merge algorithm.

In any case, I'll be watching the just-raw-edits approach with interest. Best of luck to Etherpad -- there's plenty of room in the market.
thanks, i'll check them out. 101 acres in CA Redwood forest.. we're off the grid, (solar, spring, propane) except for a 14.4 phone line that is buried under the horses corral. Gotta love it!
Awesome point. I'm afraid addressing the issue will fall outside the scope of v1 but I've already added it to my list of functionality to examine for the next build. Thanks!
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Does it have problems with large repositories? It seemed to hang, and when I tried restarting it it just crashed.
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Whenever you think you've gotten it, be sure to tell a few people what the name is over the phone or in person. Then ask them to email you the name you just told them.

I've known more than a couple of sites that have failed just because nobody could figure out how to get there without a 3 sentence explanation of how to type it.
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Good for you guys. Hope it goes well.
You think giving them $25 billion is going to be the end of it? They'll just be out of cash again in 6 months, asking for another bailout.
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if you are having trouble you can try that namethis website, haven't used it myself...or now anyone who has...but it seems to fit what you are looking for

https://namethis.com/
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Maybe we can suggest names? What does it do? Can you give us a link?
So it was with fauxto.com

It was a witty spelling of a simple word, but failed miserably at your litmus test. Changing the domain alone to splashup.com brought a 4x increase in average daily traffic.
There are no absolutes in this. Listening to users blindly while ignoring your quantitative metrics is bad. Ignoring user sentiment and relying solely on quantitative metrics is also bad. The art is in how you use the two types of data to inform your product decisions.
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We user uservoice feedback tab and react to the top two to three suggestions that get up voted.

Like 500 people suggested and agreed about X. Definitely want to listen to that!
claude shannon = biggest stud ever.

i highly recommend "Fortune's Formula".

Great read. Smart dudes (Shannon, Ed Thorpe), blackjack, casinos, financial markets, and more.

http://www.amazon.com/Fortunes-Formula-Scientific-Betting-Ca...
Okay, I've probably spent 150 hours reading about branding and naming... two corporate structures, three websites, and a half-dozen products now. Here's where to start:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Monster-Amazon-Crocs---Why-Creativ...

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Weird-Words-Make-Great-Brand-N...

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Power-of-Storytelling-to-Build...

The author of those pieces has some really good ideas. Now, some feedback:

1. Do what other people aren't doing. Sounds obvious, but you're almost certain to pick something that sounds like what others are doing in your field unless you take a really bold stance. Look at 37signals: They named most of their products after camping. They compete primarily with business software with boring titles. They started marketing first and foremost to design firms. Cool.

2. Look at negative words. Every is "Super Awesome Perfect Strategically Integrated Systems" - much more interesting to be "Apocalyptic Computers" than "Desktop Systems Corp." -- Of course if you brand negative and your product sucks, people curse you even louder.

3. Keep a running list of words in a notepad file. Just let it get bigger and bigger to mix and match later.

4. Try putting the names of people/things you admire into Wikipedia, follow the links around, and read the words in the file. Start with Renaissance artists and inventors if you like. Explorers, military leaders, writers, humanitarians, reformers. There's lots of interesting words associated with them. Rome and Japan have a bunch of words that everyone's heard of but rarely thinks of.

If your name is creative, everyone will hate it at first. And even if it sucks, everyone internal will come to love if you start using it. Don't trust either of these reactions. Finally, "Web 2.0 names" will almost certainly sound really, really stupid in five years.

Good luck - the process takes a while, but business life really is easier and better with a cool, memorable name.
What he doesn;t tell you, at least on the Drupal end, is that enabling all those modules at once will make your "social media site" howl bloody murder and that creating a nice UI for them will do the same to you.
Right, but you asked why they didn't. If they collectively negotiate above market wages the company will die in the long term.
the guy IS an incredible blogger. He's just gotta find a new gig that lets him harness those skills again.
the difference is that there are known solutions for automakers (more efficient cars, using japaneese production systems etc.) whereas there isn't one for print media companies
If a domain is not available you can try using action words, 37signals style, like basecamphq.com and campfirenow.com

You could try some domain hacks, but some people don't like them. DO try to get the similar .com of it, for a conversationally link drop.

You could always create some wierd name, like weeeezo or something new and hip like that, but some people might just get confused or not like it all.
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what about person C - a nonunion honda plant employee. he has beaten the competition fair and square, and now he must subsidize them. perversely, the harder he works, the more money he can potentially contribute to a government underwriting his competition.
Because if the Big Three go under, a very large number of workers (folks working for the Big Three and for their suppliers) will suddenly be collecting unemployment insurance instead of paying taxes

and they will also paid in taxes if bailed. so GM is going to become a giant money laundering operation for the IRS?

cut out the middleman and put them on unemployment...then they can actually find PRODUCTIVE work
"Who makes more money, Toyota or Rolls Royce?"

I'd leave off the automotive comparison. Porsche is rich enough to contemplate buying Volkswagen.
A big 3 bankruptcy will be bad for auto workers

yes, i think that is understood. they're going to live in the real world one way or another

get them out of the big 3 and they can find work that the economy values. will they find it soon? no, but then again maybe trying to compete in the global economy with a high school education wasn't such a bright idea after all

this is just about a huge chunk of our economy that has been living in the 70s finally forced to join the rest of us
And now, Drudge is linking to this story on 37 signals. :)
people liked the results that had the google logo on them

To me, that signals serious weakness.
the nytimes isn't asking the government to deliver their papers.
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i commend them for experimenting

i also commend them for shutting it off when the experiment has failed

if you want to grow new products, you have to engage this process
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no, its a strength. it means people make a very strong association with google being better at search. they earned this reputation and deserve it.
To be a web developer today, you really have to have a big bag of tricks.

Do you guys find that many of your best colleagues have a wide spread of knowledge (from SQL to CSS, including sysadmin) or are they pretty specialized? (amazing with Ruby but doesn't jQuery)
But.. they're putting OpenGL ES in HTML5's canvas as is.

Quoting from: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-canvas.html
"A future version of this specification will probably define a 3d context (probably based on the OpenGL ES API)."
And recently today the heads of GM and Ford both refused to take a one dollar annual salary as Lee Iacocca did when Chrysler was bailed out in the 80's. So I really don't see top management in either Ford or GM to do anything to symbolize sacrifice.
Add an RSS feed. I doubt I would visit worthyy.com everyday to see what new site is being highlighted, but I'd definitely take a look if it showed up in my feed reader.
Well, a very high % of taxes come from either businesses or people who make more than the average GM worker. Plus a $25 billion dollar loan to GM isn't the same thing, from the taxpayers perspective, as giving them $25 billion. Presumably it will be paid back with interest. Of course, it won't get as much interest as people could earn investing their own money in the private sector, or they'd all be buying GM bonds already, but the actual loss is orders of magnitude less than $25 billion.

I don't think there's a lot of moral hazard there in terms of taking from the poor and giving to GM workers. The real issue is whether it's better for everyone involved than just allowing them to restructure in bankruptcy. I can't see how the answer to that could be yes.
(online dating = if you are successful using the product you should never be back) and any long-term user community he builds up is almost pathological by definition

Or so goes the conventional "Your success is your own un-doing." online dating industry mantra. Most sites today are so terrible that a user is forced to run a near endless gauntlet of trials and tribulations before they meet anyone remotely suitable. This leads to a scarcity mentality which many people react to by 'latching on' to the first acceptable person. As a corollary, many people think that online daters are only in it to search for 'the right one.'

But in reality, most online daters would in fact like to meet "the reasonable 10" and have some options to choose from. That was our thinking behind http://flowmingle.com . We wanted to lower the cost of finding a reasonable person and setting up a date, and make going on a date a likely and regular event.

In this way, yes, your customers eventually leave, but in the meantime they have had a good experience and will come back if they need to. The supply of single people is endless and lucrative for an effective site that treats their customers well.
Maybe it won't be "staring" because ubiquitous computing will mean we just constantly glance at our heads-up displays.
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> 3.Will anyone care? I guess I can find out by doing it.

Good attitude. I've open-sourced some of my own projects in the past and found the response always surprised me.
Actually it looks like Google was just using a private, undocumented API. Apple likely did not give them special access. The blogger was able to gain access to the method later.
I think we should allow the car companies to form a union. They can collectively agree that unless every single auto worker accepts $10/hour and no benefits, they all fire everybody. It would be very interesting to see how this works out.
To the contrary, perceiving McDonald's food as tasty is the natural state, that's why children love McDonald's. Only later some of them become liberal intellectuals and train themselves into not liking it.
Great for when someone asks a question that could have been answered with a google search.
With today's CPM, I don't know, maybe twelve bucks?
He was very active up to a few years ago. He still keeps a blog. He's a fan of Achewood, which is how I came across his name again.

And he's a master of his sort of humor. No doubt about it.
forgot to mention this but most of the Big 3's parts aren't even American:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/11/18/what-is-an-america...

Not to mention:

"Cars.com found only four cars and six light trucks with a domestic content (meaning US or Canadian) above 75%. That list includes the Toyota Tundra and Sienna and the Honda Odyssey. Other Honda’s have a 60-70% domestic content, barely missing the cut"
I clicked on the link and from the description thought "big deal" but checked out the demo anyway and actually that is really slick! definitely something that could be built upon or componetized for other projects!
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As far as I can tell, when plentyoffish started there was already a lot of dating sites around, so I suppose it's possible. Far from easy though...
The biggest problem with the detroit automakers is their high pension and medical cost burden. People are living far longer now than they were predicted to when the pension deals were struck in 1951. The Detroit automakers have an unbearable burden when compared to foreign car makers. This drives up their prices and effects all of the business decisions that they make.

The management at the big three auto companies hasn't been very brilliant or innovative, but I bet they've done just about as well as the management teams at comparably sized companies. Firing all of them would probably just cause a lot of chaos and waste decades of learning and experience.

This financial problems they are facing have more to do with the credit crisis than making the wrong kind of cars. There is this insinuation in that media that if Ford had just made more eco-friendly cars then everything would be ok. There is still plenty of demand for american cars and trucks (especially in the american south). It seems like they just need some time and money to re-negotiate things with the unions and this can be worked out.
Two things I don't get about this site (and I like the idea in theory):

1. It doesn't seem to check for domain name availability, so a good portion of the names suggested would be very expensive to buy

2. What is to stop some unscrupulous person from sitting on the site, spotting the best names, registering them before the 'ask for help' expires, and then squatting on them / selling them for a profit?
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Person A might very well pay taxes, if they are a single individual with no children. They don't pay a lot of income tax, but they likely do pay some.
"Our friends at the worlds biggest software company seem to not be playing fair when it comes to their new iPhone application."

Microsoft has an iPhone application?
What does Romney stand to gain if the big three go into a "controlled bankruptcy"/government take over? If they fire all the executives at those companies as he suggests, will Bain Consulting make a lot of money guiding the automakers through a restructuring? I don't want to sound conspiratorial but it is convenient that he's publically expressing opinions like this while closely tied to a company that does business consulting.
Can you site that $73/hour wage? A cursory glance around the internet indicated something around $30/hr as of last year. The only places I saw $73 were other forums, but maybe they all have a common, legit source.
He gave plenty of economically motivated speeches, both on the campaign trail and while he was governor. The media just covers the fist bumps.
Who benefits from this scenario? Between the American people, car company execs, auto workers, and the government, this is a lose-lose-lose-lose plan.
I believe that $73/hour number includes all executive pay and obviously is an average chosen to misrepresent information. The average assembly line worker wage (and the median wage) is closer to $30.
Romney's father turned around a failing auto company. Romney has turned around a ton of failing companies. I think I would take his advice on this one!
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Word. Unless Drupal has changed in the last year or two (and it might have), the number of queries Drupal issues for any given page is O((u+n)*m), where u is the number of users being displayed on the page, n is the number of nodes, and m is the number of modules installed.

You can cache static pages, but the constant activity of a social network makes that impossible if you're logged in.

Basically, if you install even a few modules on Drupal it'll take a big dump all over your database.
I wonder if google will open source the software.
"... Philippe Kahn was hired around this time and I remember Niels coming back from the US telling how great a marketing genius Philippe was ..."

I didn't realise that Borland was founded pre-Kahn by Jensen,Henriksen and Mogens. It shows though, after you create the widget the one who can capitalise the widget gets the chance to become "Chairman, President and CEO" ..

"... If you have owned Borland C++ 3.1 for a long time, your installation copy may use PKZIP file compression instead of PAK file compression ..." ~ http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/techinfo/ti1752.txt

and get to name their own file extension (.pak)
As a TC commenter pointed out, the traffic graph for Knol looks just like that of Lively: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lively.com,+knol.google.com&#...

Maybe (hopefully?) Knol is next.
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$8/hour = $16k per year (roughly). Since this is greater than the standard deduction you will not be avoiding federal income tax at this level.
And plus, Microsoft actually gets most of its revenues from selling software. Google gets its most of its revenues from selling ads.
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I even tried my nickname concatenated with another word (another word which can describe the site). Heck, even that domain name is taken. I checked http://domai.nr some good names, but I cannot use fancy domains like del.icio.us since the site also offers urls for a few webpages(precisely subdomain)s, so henry.my.si.te wouldn't look good. Coz it's not something all Henrys can remember.

'Action words' That rings a bell.

The names 23andMe, 43things, 37signals all sounded weird at first and a while after they began to sound cool to me.

Well, now I'm thinking of some good number to prefix to the name I want. :)

Any good two digit number please?
I would probably do a Google Code/Google Group
I cannot say what the previous person was referencing, but NPR has a great comparison of GM and Toyota at http://www.npr.org/news/specials/gmvstoyota/

If you read the list, it looks like you're both (partially) correct. The average hourly salary for non-skilled assembly-line workers is a little over $31. However, GM's labor cost per hour exceeds $73/hour for those workers.

So, in terms of GM's costs, it's over $73/hour. I'm guessing the UAW has structured it in a way that benefits the employees, but I can't imagine what benefits would be worth more than my salary. Seems to me like more in salary and less in benefits would appeal to me more.
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I remember reading a story when eBay did this. Just found something related in wikipedia.

"The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book, The Perfect Store, and confirmed by eBay."
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it really disgusts me that this comment has been upmodded so much. it reeks of overgeneralization, ignorance, and hyperbole. it's very easy to sit on your high horse and talk about hypothetical denny's waitresses, but a little harder when this actually effects you and your loved ones.

my father worked his ass off for GM for more than 25 years, not to mention driving 100 miles each way for the last 10 so his family didn't have to move. when he retired a few years ago he made $25/hr + the overtime which he always worked so i could go to college. $25/hr an hour is not 8x of your hypothetical denny's waitress, it's what we call a "living wage". maybe your denny's waitress worked harder than my father, but assumption that every UAW worker somehow is swimming in a money bin like in scrooge mcduck while the rest of the country is toiling in the coal mines is false.

i'm not defending the auto industry here, nor do have i decided whether it would benefit my country or my family to bail them out. i think management made some terrible decisions (see: suvs + $100/barrel oil), and i think UAW bargained for some deals that were unsustainable. heck, i'm not saying you should buy a buick... i'm sure as hell not. but why do you need to degrade the sacrifice of honest people to make your point?
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