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Because:

1) I did not expect them to respond at all

2) I did not expect them to revert to their previous terms

3) I like it how they communicated that, not too much 'doublespeak' in there

None of these were on my list of 'expected actions', I fully expected them to stonewall and ride out the media storm. I think that their about-face is possibly reflective of the number of cancellations they've seen more than from anything else, but I doubt we'll ever get confirmation of that.
So, then, are higher mammals and higher animals misnamed? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+mammals%22

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+animals%22

The Encyclopedia Britannica mentions plants that are more highly evolved than others: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22highly+evolved+plants%22

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/463192/plant

for example, the most highly evolved plants reproduce by means of seeds, and, in the most advanced of all plants (angiosperms), a reproductive organ called a flower is formed.
Only had time to take a quick look, but I think the design is too "done by a programmer". Not much consistency bar size for the front page icons. Padding and borders is inconsistent too.

There would have to be some very glowing press or recommendations for me to come across this in the wild and sign up. Then again, I don't buy things often enough to be in your probable target market.

Best of luck though!
Nothing's proven flawed. Both of those pieces of advice work under the correct, narrow circumstances.

If you're building a web start-up, forget specifications. Write code. There is no way to have the slightest clue what you need to specify anyway. Write something that does something useful and put it in front of some users. Go from there. In different circumstances, of course (e.g. while building the software for a major Stock Exchange), this is the absolute worst thing you can do.

If you're building your start-up, it's almost always too early to think about performance. You need to have some vague awareness of whether it will be possible to optimise your code later and keep it clean and simple so that it remains possible, but ultimately I've found that it pays to optimise at the last minute - i.e. optimise when there are performance problems, not before. On the other hand, going back to the major stock exchange example, performance there is likely to be one of your major challenges, so you need someone on the team who is performance-minded and has built a stock exchange before, so that they know where the bottlenecks will be and can ensure those are avoided.
Congrats from another Finn. Did any Finnish news outlet pick this? I haven't seen any. Unlike your Facebook project, which was featured recently in Helsingin Sanomat.

For anyone interested - here's the page with Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=fi&...
Ford will ride this out, I'm not so sure about GM and Chrysler, they may be beyond salvage.

The Chrysler/Fiat deal was quite telling, essentially a good chunk of Chrysler changed ownership just for the right to sell Fiat under the Chrysler label.

Fiat is arguably the European car brand with the worst quality image, sure their cars are small and economic but that's not all there is to a car brand.

The fact that Chrysler seems to value itself at '0' is quite an eye opener, and if the news is any indication GM might find itself in Chinese hands after all, with or without congressional approval simply because they will be debt so much with their suppliers that they'd have to change ownership or shut down.

Scary times to be in the auto industry or in any part supplying to or dependent on the auto industry.
Well, O'Reilly recently reported that sales of of computing books in general were off something like 28% for 2008. So starting a new occupation (software archhitect) or pandering to those who'd aspire to the "title" may be a marketing strategy.

According to Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/isbn/dp/059652269X) the book was to be released Feb 13. I put it in my Amz shopping cart so I can let the reviews thereon tell me whether it's at least worth skimming it at Barnes & Noble (all that's available to me locally).
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looks interesting. goodie but first i need to read the documentation :)
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I think Darwin got the last laugh on that one...
I'm confused as to what you think the term higher mammals or higher animals has to do with the term devolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biological_fallacy)
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I like Neils bio. A real example of perseverance paying off, even without formal education at the early stages...

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Interesting. Could you describe how this process has gone in more detail?

How broadly do you think about "selling?" What kind of on-the-job training did you do? How good can one get in twelve months?

Thanks!
you're right -- but they dont deserve credit for reversing it -- they deserve maybe to be slated a little less.
Copying bigger companies?
http://www.mahalo.com/answers

Don't get me wrong, sometimes 'copying' is great when somebody truly believes they can solve a problem better, but that doesn't seem the case here — the only new feature I see is that you can add a bounty to your question; other than that, I see no advantage over Yahoo! Answers.
The existence of higher mammals and higher animals implies the existence of lower mammals and lower animals, and therefore possible devolutionary directions.
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Hehe, ok, I see your point. But from what I'm used to when it comes to bigcorp communicating with Joe User this is a pretty good example of how it is done.

Their initial action was a bad one, but their handling of the fall-out is pretty good, I see it as a net win for them, they're all over the news and they are shown to be on top of the situation.
If you have any suggestions for additional checks, let me know, and I'll add them in.

Also, this whole thing is CC licensed (haven't put the logo on the page yet), under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ so feel free to re-publish, change, etc...
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Facebook was pretty quick to respond and revert the changes. I think if they had waited for a few weeks most users would have forgotten about it. I doubt any significant percentage of users changed their facebook usage habits because of this issue.
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Then again, once Google gets wind of this scheme, Mahalo's pages will be listed somewhere around, oh, page 50.
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but there's already plenty of sharepoint competitors. none of them meet your needs?
I suggest you read the wikipedia link? The terms higher and lower are, as far as I understand, mostly just there for classifying the amount of complexity present in an organism - there's not some "these organisms are better than these other ones" thing going on.

Unless you mean something entirely different than what most people mean when they say "devolution", what you are referring to is just evolution. The same way that "reverse racism" is just racism.
I skimmed through a few. There are a lot of platitudes in there, but a few of them are useful reminders or elaborations of things we know "in the bone", like #18 and #24.
Pretty nice checklist for web devs. ...ranging from usability issues to SEO issues and security.

Even better... author is willing to augment checklist with your suggestions - which means he could protect it against obsolescence. Bookmarked.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biological_fallacy)

I suggest you read the wikipedia link

I read it before you gave the link. The discussion page conflicts with the current state of the main page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Devolution_(biological_fal...

evolution can be both 'progressive' and 'regressive'. [...] if a population deteriorates genetically it certainly is something like 'devolution', and this article completely ignores this issue. [...] deterioration, misconceptions aside, is a real thing, and we need to stop giving people the impression that it is only a 'fallacy'.
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"I.e., verifying algebraic identities is easier than euclidean proofs, especially if done by maple."

If something like that has been discovered, fine, use it, and solve geometry problems in that way in the future. But how would that have been discovered without doing classical mathematical proofs? I don't think that some problems can be solved algorithmically proves that the same holds for all problems.
I imagine Mahalo has someone at Google that'll ensure they remain relevant.
Very generous of him to share his financials. Some lessons useful for any startup... including the feedback to this post by his readers/customers. It'd be great to see a follow-up in a year to see if he can get it into the black.
Actually they try to see the bigger picture in "connecting people". Phones are just their current platform of communication.

I'm seeing an approaching point of convergence to PC's with every new generation of phones and computers.
Current top-of-the-line multimedia phones and the newest pc-netbooks are quite different beasts than traditional GSM/CDMA cells and PCs.
Soon netbooks and phones might be one. At that point Skype/Twitter would make more sense than call on air/SMS.

See Nokia corporate history for evidence on planned abandonment.
Alright.

I said "Devolution is a nonsense concept" because, as I stated before, what is referred to by "devolution" is just evolution. The term, as used commonly, implies some sort of objective heirarchy to evolution, and although organisms may get labeled with terms describing their complexity, that does not mean that one has somehow "devolved" if it evolves into an organism with less complexity. It has just evolved.

Edit:

There's not much disagreeance on the page. There are people talking about using the term to describe something that actually happens, but they aren't talking about what most people mean when they say "devolution".
Interesting that the link is to Google-India. But I notice that it's not unique. Works at Google.com as well.

Good to see that promoting their own Chrome doesn't mean eschewing publicity for other browsers.
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what is referred to by "devolution" is just evolution.

Dictionaries do not define devolution as just evolution. They define it as retrogade evolution. http://www.google.com/search?q=devolution+%22retrograde+evol...
Renting from whom?

Unless you're proposing the government operates a People's Barracks, then housing must be able to make a return for someone or there won't be any liquidity. Which will mean that renters will be just as immobile; they'll have no way to rent a new place at their destination.
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I'd love a hosted (eg, internal) service, that lets users create projects of people, and they can check files in/out, have them entirely versioned, etc etc.

Make it so you check files in/out via Mac/Windows/Linux shortcut menus, rather than clunky web apps.
Iphone applications are a 'marketable commodity', as such if they are priced 'wrong' there is room for a competitor with a product priced 'right'. This should take care of itself.

The fact that people are willing to pay for these trivial bits of software is telling, how much they are willing to pay for it is less important. I hope that soon there will be a way to put foss on the iphone without all these hacks and then we can put this all behind us.

But then again, there is a market for snazzy cell phone covers too...
I second this statement. When I first saw the site, I was instantly annoyed by the bold faced type in the intro paragraph. I think it's worded fine, but the presentation of it threw me off.
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There is macroevolution (molecule-to-man theory) and microevolution (no increase in complexity and no new species).

And then there is natural selection, which decreases the amount of variation of a species.

It's very important to keep different things separate.
Yeah, but I need to have the routing points right?

naive A*
Can you explain?

And what's rana?
All I need is route points between places even for service roads via programatic access (an API). I would like links to free resources (I'm a student)
Apparently NY Times has really been growing "TimesPeople" API over last year and is ready to promote it: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/announcing-the-time...

I think I catch a whiff of a Social-Media-business-model NY Times in the future. Competition for FaceBook (if not Twitter)? Maybe they're really thinking Web 2.x? At least they are inviting involvement from reading community and... maybe next the hacking community? Certainly this suggests a determination for NYTimes to survive - even if not as "the Grey Lady."

Could this be a more significant shift toward a real digital society than open.gov ?
Look, I don't know if you're drunk, or if you just want to argue, or why this is so important to you, but I'm done arguing this.

If you seriously think that we haven't changed our theories of evolution since Darwin, there's not much I can do about that.

I'm not a biologist, but it seems to me that evolution refers to combined mutations over time and not much more, regardless of the perceived "direction" of those mutations. I imagine I would be more frustrated than I am already if I were a biologist.
Some of this applies to StartUps in general. And he's got a lot of experience to share.
From the introduction:

"If you were to ask “over 200 social media leaders” which social media site they would pay for if they had to, as Abrams Research recently did".

But they don't and they won't because both services are free.

If you had to pay for air, which is currently free, you probably would, but since it is free you don't have to, and despite the fact that this would make air a better business than say rock it really doesn't matter.
besides that it will be a long time in coming before twitter text will be considered legal, which is the case with fax and email.

Twitter, for all its success is still a niche, not a mass communications medium like email. And I wonder how they expect to get out of that medium.
who does she propose the big corps should acquire?
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Notes from a copywriting point of view:

(1) Switch the first two paragraphs: Nobody cares what shopialize.com is, but what problems it solves.

(2) Remove the passive voice of the second paragraph. Suggestion: "Tell your friends about new products and the best deals in town. Discover opportunities your friends have found. Review products and ask your friends before you buy."

(3) Remove "or login using Twitter" from the first action box. Move it to the "Register" page. Three options are confusing.

To be honest, I don't like the Sign Up Form on the front page. I'd remove it, distribute "Use Shopialize to..." on two columns, and repeat the action box "Take the tour or ...". I'd also add a box with testimonials (or a small list of the latest entries), and then show the last box.

I'd also animate the slideshow. I'm also wondering why you have no second password field to catch typos? Did I miss something?

Note that English is not my first language so correct the above suggestion if necessary.
that's a weird analogy... You'd have to pay for air because it's NECESSARY for you to live. Does any business NEED Twitter or Facebook to stay alive?

Also, there are many services which offer free and paid services. In that sense, no one should ever pay because there's a free version available...?

Bottomline: of course it matters. Although there's a really huge gap between 'saying you would pay for' something and actually commiting to that...
well done!

Would be great if you could post an update at the end of this month, and see if you really had to rescale the Y-axis ! :)
Google's ranking blends together hundreds of variables, just one of which is pagerank. If it is so prominent, there is a reason for this: it is effective in delivering relevant results.
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I'm no economist, but from a level-of-the-average-american perspective, this country has had an entire culture based around living ridiculously outside of your means for the last few decades - at least in the middle to upper-middle classes.

That's the entire point of, for example, credit cards.

Everyone knew it, and after a generation or two, people seemed to take it for granted.
yes, there is the necessity angle, that's true. But still, I think it holds for the most part, if you ask people if they would pay for a free service then that's absolutely content-free.

Something like facebook or twitter needs to be free in order to succeed, just like air needs to be free for you to live. Asking if someone would pay for air, facebook or twitter is a meaningless question, if you need it and you can only get it by paying for it then that's what you'll do, but in the case of facebook or twitter a free alternative would spring up overnight and run with your userbase.
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that is HN's resident troll:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482311
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480986

His m.o. is usually to take some weird position and to argue incessantly with all kinds of links to support his position thrown in for good measure.

The interesting thing here is it seems to work, he gets modded up quite frequently and scores tons of karma like this.
I disagree with that to some extent. Yes, it is still effective, but it is much less effective now than it was when it was launched.

Pagerank turned out to be the death knell to the value of linking to someone, it created an opportunity to be gamed so large that it changed the nature of the object (the internet) that it was supposed to be measuring.

A good measuring device does not 'load' the circuit to the point that it stops to function...
Very interesting... I wonder if there's a business here? Free access to the text for the public, with premium features for people/orgs willing to pay?
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Google took Angel, and then VC of $25M ... but (according to pg) were profitable before VC.
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First one off the top of my head would be YouTube
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Calacanis' playbook is to add features early and often. Their 'answers' feature is an example of this. Their long term strategy is all about content, or pages with aggregated content/links that help people find the content they need. It's actually a great idea, instead of relying on Google's algorithm 100% to serve the right results, Mahalo is employing people to aggregate the content.
The phrase that pays: "We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice"

Nothing to see here, move along.
I can think of quite a few people, mostly women who probably think they need Facebook to stay alive.
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Nice list. I would add 'Test your ability to recover from backup'
Ah, I like it! Maybe I'll combine with the 'configure backup' one. ('configure AND TEST backup' !!)
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"if Google lets this slide then many other people are going to start spamming them too"

Isn't this problem already all over the place?
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Renting could decouple "home" from "house," allowing everyone to behave more rationally and giving the middle class better real estate portfolio diversification.

This doesn't require a People's Barracks. It could be done privately, merely by introducing a layer of indirection between individuals and housing stock.

I see a few problems with this idea. First, given the opportunity to behave more rationally, will most people act on it? Second, it doesn't fully decouple "home" from a physical place. It doesn't address the social environment of family and friends, or the costs of moving one's belongings. My other worry is acknowledged in the article but sort of dismissed: "homeownership has some social benefits—a higher level of civic engagement is one."
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