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Thanks for the tip!

I'm definitely interested in how best to solve the privacy problem. I'm not really interested in the majority of location services because they tend to track you all the time, my thought was that making it more of a on demand thing would help to alleviate the fears but it may not be enough.

We have a couple ideas. First is that you only post your location when you want to. We're not going to map every tweet you post on twitter. So a user would only post from our site, or include the hashtag, when they want to be placed on a map.

If that isn't enough for people we are open to including privacy controls, like only allowing people you follow to view your location, but we wanted to see what people wanted from the site before we went down that road.

I'll take a look at it, thanks. [Update] It looks to be working now, I think our host was having some problems. Please give it another try.

TweetMapr lets you easily share you location on Twitter. It's like the Twitpic model for location.

A friend and I have built this site over the last couple weeks and we have a list of planned features a mile long. I feel like we've gotten the basic stuff right and I would love to get some feedback from all of you.

We're going to support the new location info from Twitter, obviously, and allow users to post their location through a hashtag from any twitter interface. We're also working on an API for 3rd parties so if anyone is interested in integrating with us send me an email and we can start talking. bpollet at gmail.

I'd appreciate any feedback, Thanks.

Yes because Apple chooses all the ship dates for their OS updates based on rinky-dink legal cases. Actually Snow Leopard original scheduled ship date was 3 weeks AFTER it actually went on sale so they didn't 'delay' anything.

But you're completely right Apple "fucked itself" by releasing their new operating system ahead of schedule.

I'm actually really surprised that Loopt isn't more open with it's data, or doesn't utilize their website more.

Well, for the record, I clicked on your link because it has Lisp AND Sex in the title. I just had to see how you were going to relate the two.

Unfortunately your entire post was meta and as such I'm afraid I can't send you to the front page.

I would love to have one, but Microsoft 'concept' videos have a tendency to outstrip their shipping products.

Here's hoping it works though, I would buy one for sure.

I used to not understand Twitter either but now I'm a believer. Maybe not a $1 Billion believer but I know there are ways to extract value from the data they have.

Sorry economist, you fail.

A great article but I wonder if it's actually aimed in the wrong direction.

While I own an AppleTV, and enjoy it, from the rumors it seems like the new Apple Tablet is aimed at being a portable media center, isn't it possible that these LP albums are actually made for that, to be viewed on the go or output to an HDTV through a dock connector?

I would love to see a great 3.0 AppleTV update, especially with the HTTP Streaming mentioned, but as time passes it seems less and less likely that Apple is going to overhaul the product again.

Yeah, but I've already read all of those twice ;)

I think it's interesting to see how quickly the investors try to flip the deal around to be extremely in their favor. Only a few founders have been able to talk them back to reality but when they do it's awesome to watch.

The element bar guy in the latest episode is a great example this is a short clip of him but the whole episode is available too. http://www.hulu.com/watch/95380/shark-tank-power-and-ambitio...

I've tried to get people on here interested in the show before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761443

I think it's a great show and I really like seeing all the different business ideas. Most of the founders seem to make mistakes in the negotiations but I think there have been some pretty good deals on the show so far.

I definitely recommend watching it, either live or on Hulu, it's one of the best shows on TV and definitely one of the best reality shows, other than The Colony.

It has nothing to do with comprehension it has to do with the footage looking like it was created with Maya.

That footage looks really fake doesn't it?

I mean, I have complete faith in John Carmack but if that had come from Iran I think we would all be calling it fake.

This is the kind of article that I like to see on Techcrunch.

I'll admit that it will definitely end up being more expensive over a more 'Hacker Focused' option like Slicehost. I think the reason that I like Heroku is that it makes my deployment/configuration easier in the same way that Rails makes app development easier. I know that there are guys over there who are implementing the Varnish cache correctly, setting up load balancing, implementing full text indexing, etc. It allows me to focus on my application and not on the thousands of configuration options that I have to think about if I'm the admin.

Now, with that said, once you start to grow your application the costs would probably start to add up rapidly and it may be in your best interest to roll your own, but in the beginning at least I think it's a great option for getting off the ground quickly and correctly.

All of their service levels, and server names, are japanese in nature so it's probably a safe bet.

http://heroku.com/pricing#blossom-1

Also the service is amazing! I had been using Slicehost for the last 2-3 years but I recently tried Heroku out and I love it, all of my latest projects are being hosted there.

I'm so sick of TC whining about every freaking thing! If you want a dead simple music player for OS X then freaking write it!

Maybe it will work about better than that 'dead simple web tablet' we're still waiting for.

Awesome Conference Ad! If I was in the area I would have to attend.

Perhaps you could make the conference presentations available online so that I can keep my SkyNet from running rampant in the future.

Great article! I have been recently wrestling over the decision of whether to write my next application first as an installable version or as a web app. All of my experience, and my gut instinct, is to do the web app first but I just couldn't set that decision in stone, maybe now I can.

That's probably true, good observation.

Where do you live?

It's interesting for me to hear this kind of stuff since I live in Tulsa Oklahoma. Nearly all my friends, single or married, have bought their own homes in the last couple years. My wife and I rent but only because we would rather save up to build our own house outside of the city.

I have a feeling that a lot of this 'lost Generation' stuff stems from people who live on the east and west coasts but that may just be my bias. Anybody else have an insight?

Exactly. With feigned 'outrage' at Arrington for all his Google Voice love as of late.

And that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!

I don't think this invalidates any of Apple's marketing speak because it still "just works."

The fact that this is built into the OS and doesn't have to be separately installed, upgraded, or managed fits in perfectly with what makes OS X a great and easy to use OS.

Apparently you didn't actually LOOK at the car.

If you offered someone from the "general population" either the Grand Sport or any other "good" car they would pick the Grand Sport every time.

Get it while it's free!

I recently had a similar problem with Google and my AdWords account. My quality score fell from an 8 to a 0 with no explanation and no way to correct the situation.

If Google decides not to let you play in their network you're just out of luck. It's worse than the Apple App Store process.

Always a good choice.

"Code with me if you want to live."

Wait... there really is a robotics company named Cyberdyne? And they are building human-robot interfaces for exoskeletons?

That's pretty scary....