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Not quite what you are looking for perhaps, but I use http://blip.fm

I have found that very useful for finding new music by following (like Twitter) users who post songs I like, then then daily I get to hear new songs I haven't heard. I have got into lots of new bands that way. http://blip.fm/MCFlurry

Has been mentioned before on the requests thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

I would but sadly not located in London.

fair point, I cheerfully withdraw my comment.

I didn't post it as linkbait. I posted it (with the original headline from the site) because I was interested in people opinions and reactions. I am glad it has been discussed as it has, so I hope it isn't removed.

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Unless my lab mouse is really conducting experiments on you? Trying to make you think that your oil is smarter (RIP Adams)

Can you be a monopoly when most of your stuff that could consider you a monopoly is free and/or open source?

Until today I always used to CTRL+Scroll and highlight text... NO MORE :)

I have it on my FF bar now... would love the feature to change the style it while looking at the page.. different pages need different reading styles for me.

My first impression was "that's pointless"... then I tried it... I can see me using that on lots of pages actually. So simple, but so effective.

Would like to be able to change settings once the page has been loaded though.

what kind of licence? Like The GNU Licence, MIT licence, Apache Licence? or a Proprietary licence?

The title of this is something I would have thought all start ups did as a matter of course.

Even big companies (Microsoft excluded) often go with that mantra. To start on the offensive before even beginning is dooming yourself to fail.

Good luck... you are brave. I didn't realise web site flipping was still big business.

I don't follow the home page. The comparison has ticks for both Twitter Search and Snapbird

Ok but to what level should I do those things? Should I "only" drink Green Tea?

I think that distractions can be productive.. a few moments away from a problem can clear my head.

For that reason I didn't read the article, but judging by the other comments, I'm glad I didn't :)

I'm amazed at how many of them I had forgotten about.

I'm even more amazed that I had heard of all of them.. either I spend too much time on the internet, or Google are good at promotion... maybe both?

Such a good idea, and It's made an excellent start, it would be great if this got through. Although I can imagine that it would be difficult to keep it air-tight to its purpose (as you pointed out with immigration abuse)... but doesn't mean it shouldn't be in effect.

This line really said it all. "The problem is that I don't have any idea I personally believe in."

My advice is don't even write the idea down on your list unless you completely believe in it, then you will be tenacious and motivated enough to get you to a milestone which motivates you further.

If a NH moderator deletes a news post for any reason (spam for example) does it also get removed from your Twitter feed?

It's not a criticism, I just wondered.

I totally agree, taking a break to read Twitter, NH and others clears my head, I go back to a problem feeling less buried, and I might have learnt something new too.

Ok, sure, often I only learnt that someone's cat just jumped in a box, but it works for me.

Although not something for me specifically. I was interested to see it as this indicates support for Oracle's pledge to maintain Solaris.

That's neat... does it work with moderation?

Yes, it's a very unfortunate name, it's a shame it stuck.

I'm not against SQL at all, I just like that the "movement" to provide an API to develop against at the points where SQL isn't necessary. It just saves me implementing it myself with the SQL behind it.

This title would have been far more useful to me if it said "Tools to Help you Focus and Increase Productivity as long as you are a Windows or MacOS user"

Realistically we have all been creating NoSQL applications for some time. For years we have been hiding the SQL away from the Objects. EJB is a classic example of something that tries to keep the SQLugly away from applications.

But NoSQL is like a breath of real-time fresh air for me. RDBMS have become stale and the flurry of NoSQL out there is exactly what the real-time web needs.

You are right about "asking Twitter".

That is something that Facebook have been teasing Google with for years, that they could be a better search engine because results would come based on your friends results.

I think this is very realistic reaction, people listen to the people they trust more than someone on I'm feeling Lucky. I'm basing my own startup on exactly that ethos.

I think this is a bit of a naive post from dotcoma... Twitter haven't waited this long to just spam adverts at people randomly.

Twitter are smarter than that. I think they will be more Hyper-targeted adverts that will be way more subtle than annoying. That's what I would be thinking about doing.

Now that IS interesting.

What if Microsoft buy Yahoo?

I think the investors have already spoken, Yes Twitter can and will make money... lots of money.