Not sure if this is still kept up-to-date, but there a list of Course Development tools at http://www.web-miner.com/detools.htm
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"The Colorado legislature should have foreseen this outcome - it's not the first time Amazon has been forced to shut down affiliate programs. In July of 2009, Amazon closed off their programs in Rhode Island and North Carolina, and has previously sued over a law passed in New York in 2008. The suit, however, was eventually thrown out and Amazon has since been paying taxes for New York affiliates they feel are too valuable to give up."
So I still don't see why Amazon is choosing to fight this battle with Colorado :/
Adding video to web experience is becoming commoditized. To change to the world (for better or worse) means working on launching the next big thing -- which in turn will be commoditized.
This applies even in technological backwaters such as I'm in - maybe even more so. Living out here does present some challenges for start-up work, but more and more luddite businesses are finding they have to be web-connected if not web-based. So they need me (and can have me - until my night job becomes my day job).
Remember that Readability is only at version 0.4 - and i'm not sure that it even has a plan to montetize (sorry, haven't read their site details). Have you considered bringing this suggestion to their attention?
?Perhaps an opening for new security startups to compete with the PC/"security" powers that be?
But if the info could be tailored more (e.g., "2,437 HN subscribers that follow me") I would be more interested. In other words, not everyone finds following the most massive crowd a sign of value.
"Homicide, AIDS, and drugs are characteristically New York ways to die young, of course, so it’s no surprise that when we sharply decreased the fatalities they caused, we caught up with the rest of the country. But here’s the thing: It’s not just that we’ve conquered these urban blights. Cancer and cardiac arrest are down, too. The number of people in the city dying from heart disease has dropped by a third in the last twenty years, and cancer rates have slid by nearly a fifth. And again in these cases, New York is getting healthier faster than the rest of the U.S."
Proposed: More walking; better health care access; less crime -> attracting more wealthy-healthy residents, bans (like smoking, trans fats)... They're making NYC sound like what we always thought California was supposed to be.
But neither NY state nor Calif can muster effective state legislatures. Oh, well, there's another post waiting to be written.
Yes, an interesting (first-of-a-kind?) incentive to "sign up early." Wonder if any will sign up with so many free options around?
"©2009 Nine Fives Software. Pinboard is full of bugs but daily trying...
Too bad it's not going to get much test-driving: "Pinboard is free to use, but charges a small, one-time membership fee."
Maybe so. But the source of the "translated from the Mandarin allegations about orders to the thee manufacturers is MacRumor forums:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8071477#post807... | YMMV.
Very high-brow humor :/
Plus... they won't even give you a list but require you to click through them.
Methinks that Businessinsider.com wants to go the way of newspapers.
Abstract:
Paul Fenwick, Perl Training Australia: "An Illustrated History of Failure"
The average individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. The opportunity for catastrophic failure, that influences nations or continents, has been traditionally reserved for royalty, parliament, and others in a position of great leadership.
However in recent times we have developed a profession who have the opportunity to fail like never before. A profession that can make mistakes that are so monumental, so wide-reaching, and so costly they can shake civilization to its very core. This elite group, rarely seen by every day society, are the foundation upon which modern society depends. The few, the proud, the Software Developers.
Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we travel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the world has ever seen. From the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, July 25, 2008.
Creative Commons; FairShare (tracking for dynamic); Plagium (tracing for static); Tineye (image tracking); Change Detection (takedown detection)
This was a TechCrunch panel presentation, and so may have been overlooked here, but I think it presents another niche market that could be ready for several types of startups.
The app has outsold the book, and O'Reilly explains the business model validates as, " the data suggests that they have created growth without sacrificing print market share. "
As for "Don't we all know the feeling of not wanting to stop?"... maybe us on HN.
But your comment raises a significant issue: those who do readily get into that "not wanting to stop" place are likely to end up working late because of that engagement (and hence focus).
Would a few examples of a range of possible end products possible (even just screen shots) help noobs envision the usefulness of it. [sorry if that's getting you into marketing issues (?prematurely?).]
Maybe noobs could even be shown an editable example (eventually: several examples to choose from - templates essentially) to play around with: i.e., a "sandbox".
Nice work!
The bad news: the "best" answer was: to use a CAPTCHA.
Really sad that this is state-of-art for the issue.
"When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer."
As to the "why"/mechanisms... just the authors' speculations at this point.
The post starts off with what seems to me like a strange analysis:
"...but Firefox and Opera were and are non-mainstream tastes. Most people use Windows without thinking much about it..."
I guess I perceived that FF & ( were non-mainstream choices ...because 90%+ of PC were sold with only IE installed. :/