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Or just follow his twitter account ;)

With a few lines of code you can easily incorporate tinyMCE wysiwyg editor.

Take it from somebody in the email marketing biz: sending emails in bulk is a massive headache. You need to worry about IP Reputation and whitelisting. If you plan on sending from a single IP, you will get banned.

Smtp.com provides good dedicated IPs meant for email delivery. Best thing to do is get a new IP and send about half a million emails per month / per IP.

Also, charge for the service. It's the only way to weed out actual Viagra selling spammers. Even if you keep it at $5 a year and don't get any income from it...it will be more beneficial to your users who are doing the right thing

please implement pagination. Firefox froze for a few seconds while rendering your page.

Thanks. Will have a read.

That's exactly how i've got it now...it looks like it might be the best solution...Thanks Scott :)

Wouldn't that mean anyone can sign up to read my mail? I think they should use their own employees who are background-checked and have signed some sort of an NDA

on the hn homepage, there is a link "lists" that has these

capture email addresses of people who may be interested when you launch

you would need to hire people to go around taking photos of the ads as proof for the advertisers. You could measure roi by simply asking your customers how they heard about you

Thats a good point. I guess we could offer a feature where people say they dont want to receive any ads in a specific location and if enough requests arrive, then that location would be placed on a ban-list.

our webapp is written in php and using javascript ajax calls we keep all php, html and js code seperate

i don't use feeds. I like visiting actual sites. In firefox, i have a bookmarks folder called "daily read" and i open its contents in tabs.

Does the code do what it's suppose to? Is it maintainable? Is it scalable?

If you answered Yes to all the above...then you are doing fine.

Only for MyISAM tables...its a different story with Innodb: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/01/count-for-inn...

Javascript code that displays a drop down of Coutry and State: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/country-state-drop-down...

I know you wanted cities, but maybe this could do

these queries are not optimised at all. first of all, every page gives of MySQL warnings...and second, there are alot of SELECT count(*)...instead of SELECT count(1). This may not seem like it would increase speed alot but given the number of users and the amount of times that query is executed, it will speed up twitter by a bit. There are a few other things that i have noticed...they should really clean up their sql

They even tell you

"This note has been destroyed so, if you want to keep it's content, you must copy it before closing this page"

Kinda defeats the purpose.

it would be good if it allowed us to draw on the current page we have open as well.

I love and use osCommerce. There is great support for it in the community. IMHO, oscommerce is only good for the e-commerce aspect and wouldn't really serve well for the "community/social marketing" aspect of the site.

I would recommend getting Joomla with the VirtueMart (http://virtuemart.net/) module. VirtueMart provides a very good shopping cart solution and you can use the Joomla CMS for all other aspects of your site.