alexdevkar

"These new accounts ... are a mix of Hotmail upgrades, switchers from Gmail and other services, and people opening new accounts."

I suspect the mix is almost entirely Hotmail upgrades. It is very hard to get people to switch even if Outlook was much better than the alternatives.

The more I hear from designers, the more I realize how much more thought I should be putting into design choices.

Interesting idea. I would guess that this idea, like many good things at startups, will be have to change when you get to 20 or 30 people. Correct?

Vine seems best suited to be a content creation tool for twitter. I would be very curious to see data on traffic for vines from twitter vs. all other sources.

Ugh. Lamar Smith. No matter what he does, he'll always be the sponsor of SOPA to me.

I cannot believe this worked.

This is not a Nash equilibrium if you consider that the students are competing for class rank. Getting 100 percent with everyone else is worse than getting 100 percent and everyone else getting 0.

In this area, no good deed goes unpunished. It sounds silly, but you have to be careful.

But now you know how Rap Genius works so their plan was successful.

The conclusion that most languages "convey the same amount of information in exactly the same amount of time" is interesting. I wonder if the information density per syllable or syllables per second are important factors for determining which languages are easier to learn.

Fear of Putin

Good point but probably need to look at the beta for TSLA before estimating what effect this PR flap is having.

Love the use of their product to respond. Haha.

Is it true that Broder is winning the argument?

That was not my impression, but I haven't read everything yet.