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This looks really cool and I can't believe it got ZERO responses! Going to read all the docs tomorrow and hopefully try to make it fit in the project I'm working on now.

Ahhhhh this makes me sad because I've had something very close to this idea months ago and have been slowly picking away at it. Great job though.

That video seems to be the exact opposite of a single convincing slide. I watched it and have no idea what SoundCloud is supposed to do. In the context of social media platforms, I would think that sound, for the most part, would be music. The video hardly mentions music and talks about generic "sounds", which may be interesting from some perspectives, but I don't have the faintest clue why it would be a be the basis of a missing youtube/twitter/flikr/whatever as the slide mentioned implies.

Thanks for all the work! I'm using Noir right now for a few things, and I love it.

Kind of a funny example: During my last few semesters at college I operated a textbook buyback service and experimented with facebook advertising. The one ad I put up that got me a ton of likes and positive feedback was just a small picture of a bottle of this cheap brand of vodka that happened to be popular at this party school with the text "get money for the weekend" or something. It just linked to a page where I would put up a pictures of textbooks with a caption of how much I paid for it.

This could probably be profitable for anyone if you're at a big school with a decent amount of friends.

Just my opinion, and you're right that it pretty much doesn't matter, but I don't like "Trello" because we already have "trulia" and "twilio". They just are too similar to me.

I agree.

Nobody want's to invest time into learning something called "Perl 5" when there's something already out there called "Perl 6". Yes, some research into it will reveal that they are now on two separate dev paths, but there is still some mental stigma associated with investing time in learning an "old version" of something. And learning the "newer version" quickly reveals that it is not widely used/supported yet. They are basically two separate languages and should be treated as such.

These days the arena Perl competes in is extremely competitive, and these seemingly small issues will continue to be disastrous for Perl.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen something that felt more intentional. No way they handle company secrets by giving a 2 second request to put away cameras before showing off the thing.

I hate to be negative, especially given how coveted CR-48s are/were, but after about a week of getting mine I just had to put Ubuntu on it. Yeah, I spend 70% of my time in the browser, but I just can't give up that other 30% (dev stuff). It's not really worth having a laptop for me without a decent text editor/full ssh capabilities.

It might serve the masses well, but my point is if you're the type of person who would make your own you're probably better off not doing so.

Unacceptable maybe, but what do you expect? No one really knows if there can be legal consequences to running an unregulated commodity exchange, and the operators of mtgox face considerable risk and charge VERY reasonable fees, which still allow them to do quite well I'm sure. It's not their fault really that they lack necessary funds to prevent such attacks, an I applaud them for just keeping data safe so far.

Anyone else is free to open up a competing exchange but it's such uncharted territory (mainly legally) that the risk outweighs the reward.

Bitcoins are in their infancy, remember. How they will ultimately be used, exchanged and valued has yet to be determined, and early adapters on all fronts are just going to have to deal with these things.

Edit: Just to add to this, during the last two attacks the guy that runs mtgox was in the bitcoin IRC channel working on the problem and giving people updates in real time. Both were fixed in a relatively timely manner (it's back up now). You really just can't ask for more from such a small operation.

Wait I'm sorry I'm seriously confused, what what she mad at? A "half-naked American Idol winner"? Why would that make her fume with anger?

I've been waiting forever for a damn extended taskbar for dual monitors. Multimon works OK, but I just don't see how a feature like this can be ignored for so long in a software company where (hopefully) tons of people use dual monitors internally.

I wonder how much of this disruption can be attributed to the removal of the erotic ads section. You can see a major slowing of momentum around the time they were taken down (May '09). I mean that was an area without any major competition and which I'm sure accounted for TONS of traffic.

Classic. If you care even the slightest bit about programming languages you need to watch this.

His comments on Yahoo Answers' traffic coming from users migrating from Myspace struck me as way off. No one "hangs out" on Yahoo Answers because their tired the lack of anonymity on Myspace. The masses didn't leave Myspace because of any form of stalking.

Interesting interview overall I guess but his comments on this subject really annoyed me for some reason.

I for one eagerly await the music-less dystopia that awaits us following the collapse of the RIAA

The last thing Apple should want to do in these times, where their superiority over competitive devices is growing ever thinner, and there is a growing risk of actual shrinking market share, is force developers to choose between Apple or all other platforms.

DDG has a laughably small market share. This doesn't necessarily make them a non-threat, but it's going to take more than this to change users' search behavior (ie convert them from Google to DDG) on even a minute level. I mean Google has the whole page preview thing now anyway, and the content farm thing should be fixed soon, as mentioned. Honestly, Google Instant is the best thing in search for a long time and it's so ingrained in my expectations now that I couldn't see switching to a search engine without it.

So asking what Google will do isn't really an important question.

Not only that, but the threat of a non-backwards compatible upgrade being just around the corner is a major point against picking up Perl at this time, and the uncertain release time frame of Perl 6 makes that not exactly an attractive choice for a language to learn.

Pretty funny, and interesting that this comes from an Amazon company, Amazon having pioneered the online affiliate industry and finding much success in it. Still, It's a pretty accurate portrayal of the whole affiliate scheme, and I think it might have the effect of keeping away the low-value affiliates while not deterring those who could actually provide a mutually beneficial relationship.

Yeah this probably should be indicated

eh, I find the isolated quote interesting and relevant in light of the recent CEO change (surely the reason it was posted).

That is a good one. I end up having the thought "damn, a solid implementation of this would really be worth something" when merely skimming half the research papers I come across.

This. The notion that Google would even need to resort to low brow tactics other people are mentioning (like snooping on Groupon advertising data or banning them outright) are pretty absurd, obviously immoral and completely unnecessary for this to work. I've also been a Groupon member and after not seeing anything compelling for awhile I'm starting to dismiss it as spam.

Google has a ton of users on the business and consumer end, and a ton of public trust despite all this recent rambling. For the price they were going to pay for Groupon they can make this work. They will be able to attract offers that can appeal to a wider audience do to their sheer volume of their current business clients who are already earning solid ROIs advertising from Google and could easily be enticed to give this new Offers thing a try.

Yeah I think you're grossly underestimating the success of Android, and confusing the genius of the two separate operating systems with bifurcation. Android was a BRILLIANTLY timed play that stopped an Apple monopoly in modern smartphones in its tracks. Just think for a second what the current mobile landscape would look like had android not come out exactly within the quarter that it did.

While we have yet to see the effects of ChromeOS, its release will no doubt be massively disruptive, and the ability to recognize the different functionality both operating systems serve and launch both consecutively despite the fact that it looks like a very odd play to the naive masses, takes balls and isn't something I would say ANY other company even a twentieth the size of Google would attempt, and I predict this will pay off in the end.

I also disagree that Wave, TV and Buzz lacked discipline and oversight. Not everything a company can do is going to be a revolutionary success. A lot of times markets just need to be probed or explored, and if there's a hit great but if not there's no huge loss of resources and returns will still be made in some form or another (eg. wave code being reused in Docs or buzz maybe showing up as part of another social product in the future). For Google TV in particular, it really hasn't been outperformed significantly by competitors, and really the world just isn't ready for that type of media. But when it is Google will be there.

I mean, I don't know Shcmidt's exact role in all these products but sometimes I think people are too quick to dismiss the Google products that don't live up to the expectations of Gmail, Maps, etc, when really they are minuscule investments by the company among many others, and even if one in ten is the next Gmail then that's a damn solid business model.

Very awesome, I wish I had this when I was taking college math classes.

My compulsive frequent jumps to new programming languages have also settled down after learning Clojure, for pretty much the same reasons. I never really felt comfortable with any languages I've messed with, even as a novice programmer. I just feel so at home with Clojure and yet there is so much to learn and improve on that I should be busy with it for awhile. It really is a masterful blend of beauty and practicality.

Facebook happens to have the best advertising product that ever existed. When I click on your company's group's ad's like button, all my friends see it. No other advertising has ever parodied word of mouth advertising so successfully, and they've hardly begun to take advantage of this fact.

In addition, Facebook has reached the mindshare of the masses in a way that no other internet company has. No other internet company has EVER had my parents and aunts and uncles talking for hours about an internet company though the holidays. It brought talking about the internet in public to the masses.

Facebook will have a 12 figure valuation by this time next year, and Google will lose its current level of dominance in the online ads sector. I'll put my money where my mouth is if someone want's to propose a safe way to go about doing it...