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Thanks to the participatory nature of technology these days, its become fiendishly difficult to predict what's going to produce wealth[1].

It used to be easy, wealth was made by growing something and eating it or digging something up and banging it into a shape. It got a bit more subtle when people realized that dragging stuff places (where said stuff was likely eaten or banged into a shape) could create wealth too.

It got even harder when information became wealth. Mostly at first by letting people know the best places to drag stuff and the best shapes to bang stuff into.

Now we are at the place where the idea itself can attract wealth when it goes viral and millions of people suddenly contribute to it. Facebook, wikipedia, twitter etc. It might actually be a clue that these are hard to "monetize" yet are seismic forces in peoples' lives. Wealth and money might finally be starting to go their separate ways.

I think maybe the author might have a little bit of dig stuff up and bang it into a shape bias, but I understand how it might be difficult to spot the wealth creation potential in some of these "new fangled" ventures.

[1] Wealth in the "bettering all human kind" sense, not the "pile of government printed paper" sense.
While I see your point about price, we should remember that RAID is not a backup. There are numerous spectacular ways in which you can lose your data with RAID of any level.
Let me just break it to you: google wave is the google OS
think about it. the browser becomes the OS. chrome becomes chromeOS. haven't we been saying this for a while?

so what is wave? it is the OS of the web. you know the one we have been talking about. some may call it web 3.0. embed any part of the web into the OS: your photos, your docs, your whole life, and yes, even facebook. it can run on a phone on android, or your home computer.

it's quite clear that much of the web does not understand what google wave really is. http://gizmodo.com/5378733/things-easier-to-understand-than-google-wave-metaphysics-parseltongue-our-own-existence
Quite a bit of vitriol in there, but it seems it would more appropriately be directed at lousy journalism rather than bemoaning the state of entrepreneurship. While the BusinessWeek article claims to evaluate on "potential for growth," the projected revenue figures sound like PR fluff. I was left wondering which of the 10 were selected just so they have a nice round number for their list.
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What about selling mapping to trail management agencies (National Parks etc)?

They probably already pay to have paper maps produced - you could provide a web based interface for them to update & maintain their maps. Town, state & regional tourism authorities are other markets.

You might need a Lite version of your app which only includes the info they pay to include (and you could offer branded versions specific to each agency)

Anyway, I think that now you have consumer buy-in, you need to look to sell to businesses to increase your profits to the point you are looking for. The sales cycle to sell to businesses is a lot longer, but fortunately the fact that you already have consumer users will help with your sales.
Good article, but something bothered me:

Hackers or crackers? In the first paragraphs, he seems to assume hacker=cracker. I always thought there was a clear distinction between the two, at least among hackers. Am I wrong?

*"... these hackers are discovering the actual rules of the computer systems (e.g. buffer overflows), and using them to circumvent the intended rules of the system (typically access controls)."
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this post contains almost zero content other than a cursory reference to some previous data, therefore I've flagged it.
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i don't see those, because i long ago edited my hosts file to get rid of them. lines for your own hosts file:

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An internet community of musicians that I frequent collectively played with Hit Song Science during their "free trial" period.

Basically, we discovered that it doesn't do a very good job.

For example, I had a track that was 1:57 long with a very slow tempo and a minimal arrangement, however there was a slide guitar towards the end. This gave it a really high affinity with a bunch of US chart-topping country & western hits, and so it had a score of something like 8, which is just absurd.

So while I like the general principle, we discovered very quickly that its "similarity" metric is probably just too simple. There seemed to be a very weak correlation between songs that we thought sounded like hits, and the score they got on HSS.
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More than two years ago I realized that Twitter usernames were widely available. I registered several hundred common words and company names. While some have been transferred to the respectively named companies, the majority remain in my possession.

Among the mix are Fortune 50 company names and words seen in multi-million dollar domain sales.

I believe these accounts have value - how should I proceed?

(My first thought - ask domain squatters to bid on the accounts.)
Is this really as clear cut as the artist is trying to say? The page she references says "The portrait is created using the encaustic technique of painting with hot wax." as far as I know there isn't a copy machine on earth that will make an enlargement in hot wax. Point being the "offending" artist must have done some amount of actual artistic work.
Which then means that Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
It has been a few years since my blog was on *.wordpress.com, but my recollection is that they opted me in when they introduced the feature and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it off. (Settings -> General, as I recall.)
And if I'm an INTJ without literary skills? :) I know, I know, complaining too much. Seriously, I find emails to be the most effective for several reasons:

- Even if I had the resources to do phone marketing, I consider it way too intrusive. At most I'd do phone interviews to get a better idea of the market, but not sales.

- I can present myself in writing as articulate, detailed or brief as I want to

- I can offer links and / or images

- I can reach a lot more prospective clients this way.

The only problem is, the inhibition associated with "spam" is so big I only did this once (and landed a big client). If I could do this in a way I'd consider acceptable it would probably be the best way.
Most people don't want to hear the truth.
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No WikiMedia images? That’s a shame. I guess that including images for every article would suck up a lot of space and wouldn’t work well on an eInk black and white display anyway, but a lot of the more useful information on Wikipedia is presented in chart and graph format.
Whilst I agree with your logic, I think there is still a difference between being an entrepreneur and running a fairly standard business. Your definition would say that someone who buys a franchise or setups up a basic shop is an entrepreneur - I think few people would see it that way. An entrepreneur need not be trying to be revolutionary but they should be shooting for the stars and trying to at least improve on the way the competition does business

One of these people designs logos etc for medical practices, employs 5 people and has revenues of $225,000. By my calculations that is an average of $25/hour per person in revenue. That is not pushing the boundaries in revenue or ideas - that is just another person who has a small business. I'm not criticising that person in the slightest, that is great for them, but if they are making a list of top entrepreneurs under 25 then that is pretty sad.

As I think someone else pointed out this is probably more just a case of very poor journalism.
Just setup the damn thing on your machine; takes about 7 minutes.
The encaustic paintings shown are basically just the wax equivalent of tracing the blown-up originals -- the "artist" glues the blown-up paper version to a canvas, then layers black wax over the black parts, and white wax over the white parts. You can even see the halo of the original paper version behind the white wax.

It isn't totally mechanical, but there isn't much creative work involved either.
How do you know that it's a copy of a photo?
It's there some kind S.M.A.R.T. check with those SSDs like their is with hard drives, to give you a clue when the thing will fail?
doesn't twitter turn accounts over fairly easily? like if I emailed them with a rar.com email and said "we want rar twitter account" they turn it over?
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At first, i wanted to scream out.

Who cares.

No really your country is up the creek and here you are filling up an article with nothing more than a blow by blow summary of your week alone on an Island. Yet still i read on. Partly that boyish dream of living the crusoe life style.

The time i reached the end. Jealous and day dreaming. It hammered home the fact we mostly choose the life we lead today.

Equally if i had children, i would want them to read this piece. To allow them that moment to dream and let their mind create Vivid imagery. After all how different was this guys desire to yours and mine to convert that vivid idea into something tangible, real and perhaps even profitable ;)

I trust he won't write a book or turn it into a movie!
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This is the best book on that: http://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited

Then this:
http://sivers.org/book/UltimateSalesMachine
Wealth and money have always gone in slightly different ways. Every positive externality is wealth by your definition, but I unless its internalized I don't get paid for it. (And negative externality are basically stealing or looting.)

To give less abstract examples: I don't get paid for being a good citizen, voting, reading the newspaper to be informed. And I do not pay for being angry, putting a lot of strange gases in the atmosphere with my care (yet), congesting the streets. Or putting systemic risk on the financial world.

There is something to be said for connecting externalities with incentives. Giving the right incentives makes people's choices more compatible with the outcomes.
The dictionary definition of entrepreneur is simply "a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture." So innovation can be helpful, especially in achieving a competitive advantage, it is not necessary (and certainly not sufficient) for successful entrepreneurship.
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Scope, money and time are what I know them as, with quality as an optional fourth (that could be included as part of scope).
But then you're not the target audience of the device.
Change your name, then. If its so early in the game, nobody recognizes your company / product anyway.
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Is this worth the cost premium? It seems like you could get similar performance using 4 standard SATA SSD drives in a stripped RAID and the cost would be a bit less than 2k.
Or at least link to this page from the bottom of the post you want people to comment on.
A brief look at some Twitter Spam.
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I found this commodity article actually advantageous for the SEO basics, while I was optimizing my new website. I added it here for newbies to get benefited.
It kind of bother me, I mean can't he find another way to distract himself without "damaging" his environment ?
While I agree that most of the entrepreneurs don't have brilliant ideas, I thought there were two clear standouts:

1) The guy that developed carbon nanotube probes for microscopy applications (www.cnprobes.com)

2) The guy that hacked away in his basement and created new higher performance heavy duty machine lubricants (www.greasewarehouse.com)
It seems rather small for reading ebooks. And then 99$ isn't cheap, compared to the kindle.
I have a Google Wave invite to hand out...
Probably a realistic assumption. Though you do not have to have a photograph to make a portrait.
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...for the first person to post a solution to this puzzle I created. (of course you have to agree to test Wave with me as well)
Does any of the "bad website" things have an API (I mean the blacklisting that modern browsers seem to include - not sure if FF includes something like that, too).

Seems easy to detect Twitter spammers by following the links they post and check them for spamminess.

Of course eventually they will take to building a following with innocent content before they post the spam :-/
Aagh, why is there Javascript on the site that breaks "open in new tab"?
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Yes - forget reading PDFs. I have a (fairly huge) Kindle DX and it's barely adequate for most PDFs, with their small-ass type.

That said, it doesn't seem to say anything about how it will sync.

If it's clever, I'll probably get one for my husband.
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Tell HN: Start-up events, competitions and lectures in Cambridge UK
For those of you in the Cambridge area I thought I would list some things that are happening this week.

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs:
The universities enterprise society is launching its annual events and competitions tonight. There is a £100 for 100 word business plan competition and I think some team events throughout the year. It seems to be open to anyone including outside the university. It will be a great way to meet people interested in start-ups!
www.cue.org.uk/grandlaunch

Enterprise Tuesday:
This starts next week and is very good, I went to some last year and hope to be able to go to all of them this year. The evening starts with a lecture from a successful entrepreneur and is followed by a networking session with free drink and food!
www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprise/timetable.html

Also on the way to work this morning I walked past www.beginspace.co.uk. I haven’t heard much about it but it looks quite interesting, anyone here involved?
That's not entirely senseless--traffic engineers have tried and failed to improve the flow of traffic in almost all major metropolitan areas where automobiles are the primary means of transport. It appears that automobile traffic simply does not scale. As a result, encouraging people to abandon automobiles for other forms of transportation is the best solution left.
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I wonder how many other companies have internal presentations for their sales staff on how to win business from competitors, regardless of the alleged suitability of their product?
Ok from now on I shall laugh at nothing so that no one can read me.
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I would but if they don't reach their target all the money goes to Amnesty instead....
Yeah, sorry about that. I was hoping to give all the proceeds to Trafigura, but couldn't work out how.
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Where do you get Linux netbooks for <$200? New?
Appearance -> Extras -> Enable mShots site previews

I am on wordpress now, and just turned mShots off a few minutes ago. I had no idea this feature was causing anyone problems. Open in new tab still worked fine for me.
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The distinction is irrelevant to the article
I read Zombie Virus Found. Was i sorely mistaken :(
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I guess if you had some clients to that app still out there (say, installed apps) somewhere, server gets deleted, but clients then try to connect to it - in the meantime someone has snapped up the name/URL and is collecting data from unsuspecting clients.

At least that is what popped into my mind.
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Hmm.. How about the ADsafe code - http://www.adsafe.org/adsafe.js

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Hard to find, but the news for the beta on their main page mentions it: http://www.fogcreek.com/ (first news entry)
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"No successful web company (not eBay, Flickr, Amazon, Facebook...) succeeds because of a significant technological barrier to entry. It's not insanely difficult to copy what they've done. Yet they win and the copycats don't."

Amazon had billions of dollars in losses before they were profitable; that's a huge barrier to copying what they've done. Not to mention their logistics/tracking technology. You can't run a company like Amazon or Walmart without incredibly advanced supply-chain management, etc.
Since there's probably a heavy compression used and the modifications happen all over the wikipedia, I don't think there is a way. The only thing they could probably do is to split the articles in several categories and allow to update them separately.
I'd really like to see some functional-style JS code.

[ background : I've used OOP a lot, and thought it was the ultimate, until I discovered lisp... ]
The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality").

As I read this, I couldn't stop thinking of one of my favorite quotes, which succinctly describes the essence of hacking:

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." - Albert Einstein
Since when has art been reduced to the image on canvas? What matters is the artist's motive, the reason behind the work. That's what separates art from commercial design -- after all, in both places you see original images, but only the first qualifies as art.

I don't think this qualifies as plagiarism. After all, didn't Andy Warhol take a soup can and repeat it over and over again. I don't remember the soup company crying plagiarism. Or the designer who first came up with the soup can cover.
...it gets about 300-400 visits a day...

And what do they think you should do?

Current customers are often an excellent resource for your business planning. Have you found out what sets their hair of fire?
I think it's forbidden. Check the terms of use for Google Earth imagery and models.
Why is MongoDB only for big scale sites? That's just bollocks. For some systems the Mongo-way just fits better. Scale or no scale.
What, are you worried the hermit crabs are now going to set up some sort of repressive caste system based on their shell numbers?
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It is indeed hosted on EC2, and they provide you with an internal DNS name, so you can access it via EC2's internal network, which means it's pretty damn fast.
First thanks for the up-vote. Let me see if I can try to explain it a little more linearly and see if it helps. You have a generic function that you pass in a reference to another function, the generic function does a generic routine and then calls the reference function at a specific point. The reference function then returns a value that the generic function uses to give it a calculation that it wil use in its routine. The interesting part is the reference function can have scope visibility outside of the generic function. This allows for very loose coupling, where one can inject a function into a master function and all scope for the referenced function can be abstracted away from the generic function. It makes the only hard contract between the two the return value of the referenced function and possibly the parameters. It eliminates the need for interfaces or tight coupling to build systems such as listeners, notifiers, callbacks and event systems.

I hope that helps, if it is just a convoluted, then I am sorry. Delegates are a pretty abstract subject and I may not be the best at explaining them.
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Sure. But what about replication and fail-over? It's pretty easy with MongoDB, but not 7 minutes, and it do involve some system administration.

This is a perfect match for e.g. Heroku. With Heroku + (MongoHQ|Couch.io) you don't need to do any system administration yourself, which is a huge plus for many.
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If, however, you do exactly what your competition is doing, the only risk you are taking is the one derived from being less competent than them.

The article's point is that if average is the best this generation can offer then it's doomed.
While I see the point, I'm not sure I believe you that easily. Not all clearance forms require you to be a citizen (besides there must be some way to cooperate with companies from other countries). Why are you sure he would get arrested? Has there been a documented case of something like that happening before? Isn't the offer of employment an official document that's legally forcing to hire someone if they accept? (not sure how do those work in US)

What you wrote is just a bit unlikely. If US can force a UK citizen and a "hacker" (NASA case) to be transported to US for the trial even after many appeals, why would it be a problem with Canada?
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It's more of an annoyance when you use your cursor to indicate where in the text you are while reading. Or when you just park the cursor somewhere and it happens to be on a link. Quite annoying on articles with a lot of links like this one.
Clickable:

http://www.cue.org.uk/grandlaunch

http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprise/timetabl...

http://www.beginspace.co.uk/
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