Sorry, typed in haste. Undercover Assassins, see this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/12/...
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Fomer CEO/Founder of Esper, previously Director of Product & Senior Advisor to U.S. Small Business Administration (and White House). Before that, I worked on FarmVille, because Zynga acquired my startup JamLegend (think guitar hero online).
Prior to FarmVille and JamLegend, I created Fantasy Congress in college (featured in NYTimes, CNN, NPR, etc.), Kingmaker- an election predictions market, and then Poliquiz.
Twitter @ndrewlee
Even though they were super busy, Seth would take a call over the phone when my startup was about to get acquired or when we were trying as hard as we could to raise money in late 2008.
When I was playing a game of Underground Assassins in 2011, nobody knew my name. So they went by my t-shirt's logo - Meebo. Honestly, six years after they began, people still remembered their logo.
I still find it amazing how Meebo for a period of time inhabited the social consciousness. Like art, I'm glad to have experienced it, and being in the bay area, felt a little closer to it.
It's probably one of the best parts of the book.
Like my mom said, you are who you associate with.
"Sebum Secretion and Sebaceous Lipids", Stewart et al, Dermatologic Clinics -- Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1983.
Sebum is an oily substance that is secreted onto the skin surface from glands located in the dermis. Although a number of useful functions have been proposed for sebum, proof that sebum performs any of them is lacking. In furred mammals an essential function of sebum is to supply 7-dehydrocholesterol, which is converted to vitamin D by the action of sunlight and then ingested by the animal as it grooms itself. In man, however, the location of 7-dehydrocholesterol has been shown to be the epidermis rather than sebum. Sebum may act as a waterproofing agent for fur, but humans obviously have little need for this function. Kligman has specifically disproved the notions that sebum improves the barrier function of skin, that sebum helps to regulate the water content of the horny layer by forming emulsions with sweat, or that sebum on the skin surface is fungistatic or antibacterial.(21) Kligman regards the human sebaceous glands as 'living fossils' that lost their usefulness to our species as we lost our fur.(21)
(21) Kligman, A. M.: The uses of sebum? In Montagna, W., Ellis, R. A., and Silver, A. F. (eds.): Advances in the Biology of Skin. Volume 4. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1963.
Long story short, he suffers from amnesia, cannot remember who he is. They're trying a bunch of really interesting new technology, but have not found out in over 6 years time.
"Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader.
Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."
Just received an email from Tumblr explicitly saying they don't. If I could delete the comment I would (but HN doesn't allow that), but I'll let this stand as my mistake and I'll back out from the Eastside-Westside tech battle.
Are my existing docs in HTML5? What happens now to embeds?
Well, people probably don't know that wordpress.com and a bunch of services that host your content for free also use services very similar to this.
Everyone's getting angry at something that has been happening on sites for the past 2-3 years already.
A) There is something different about this site. In a craigslist (no high production value type of way). It also has very strong network effects because as more people join, the whole site becomes even more valuable.
B) I feel like I need a friend with me as we play. It's odd that it feels like going into the city or a bar (never know what I'll find), but I'm also totally safe.
C) This kid ABSOLUTELY needs to meet up with PG, Craig Newmark, or somebody before he's taken advantage of by a crazy VC.
Little did they know, they wouldn't need YC because their little facebook app took off, then raised $4M to grow their company.
You'll be hard pressed to find anybody else in the social gaming space that has has both the right combination of confidence (the startup brashness) but also the humility (of someone who actually started in the apartment). You'll find many on one side or the other, but Zynga just got themselves a great team.
You'll notice that a lot of folks like to visit chartroulette together with friends because it's like going out. Being able to tell somebody... "crazy night, we saw... and...."
The internet is supposed to be our window into another world right? I guess this is the first real start of that. And... maybe, just maybe, we'll be entertained by someone like us (or shocked by a fat guy in a bra).
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tmL5TmhKKDQahw1tPQcrk...