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Nice idea and great execution, congrats. I tried it for a while and I already discovered some friends who got married (and I was not aware of it) and some other friends who are not divorced.

I would love your web app even more if it would provide me with a list of updated events. I don't check FB very often and it would be lovely to just use your service once in a while and see, in a glance, who got married, who got divorced, etc.

My pain is having many ideas for startups and not being able to develop them for lack of coding skills and lack of interest in coding. Give me a drag&drop development system and you will make me happy :)

Nice idea. I look forward to seeing the kind of cookies you will provide and the price of the subscription.

Argh, I want to vote puppies but I see "loading" :-( Me want puppies!

Interesting idea but I don't like the execution. The thing seems to be a cheap wood piece. I would do it in aluminium or other metallic material. I would also try to find out a way to hide the not-used side of the gadget. Why don't you use for example a gadget with lights (green or red)? It would be much cooler.

Anyway, keep up the good work, you had an interesting idea.

Nice idea. Can you tell us something more about technical details? How does it work, do you have to run a script every day? Does it use any API from weather forecast websites? Do you personally travel all around the world to check the weather ;-) ?

Nice idea. I would totally love to have an option to import pics from some other websites, such as Flickr, Reddit, etc.

Well, I think the target customer is not the one who buys commercial flights but maybe the one who usually reserve private jets to fly to the Bay Area from LA. $1,000 for this kind of customer could be extremely interesting.

Nice implementation of an image search engine. I would love to be able to share faces and maybe star them.

Love this idea!

Ciao, thanks a lot for your feedback. You are right, we have to simplify the process. There are some additional fields that we would love to add, such as sexual gender, interests, etc. but I agree with you that we should avoid asking these questions right at the signup process. Maybe we could ask them later or allow the user to update her profile whenever she wants to do so.

Btw, send "un caro saluto" (a dear greeting) to your mom! I am from Milan but I moved to the US four years ago...I miss Milan :-)

Thanks again for the feedback!

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I don't think this action will slow down piracy. The average user don't even know what's the difference between Megaupload or other cyberlocker websites. The user just (I guess) types what he wants on Google and gets some website with links to these cyberlockers.

This act, on the contrary, could help induce other websites to correct their conduct or could help induce potential developers to create such cyberlockers.

This is a very good point. Of course, as I said I am not a coder and I am far from being an expert in characters' spectrum. My experiment was just an experiment :-)

You totally got the point of my post and my experiment! I created the experiment after reading one of my friends' reaction to the Filesonic decision about stopping file sharing. He posted on his Facebook account that this was the end of piracy. But as Pash correctly states, as long as content is digital, it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes and the usenet experience teaches us that any file could be easily translated in words and posted anywhere, including blogging platforms.

Using Twitter was just a provocative way of analyzing the issue, given that the experiment was deeply interesting also under the light of DMCA, as another user suggested. I was thinking what would happen if people started "infesting" legit websites such as Twitter or other blogging platforms with copyright protected content under the form of Mime64 messages or using any other encoding method which translates a file in text. While posting a link to a copyright protected file would justify a DMCA takedown notice, the problem would be bigger if the file would be hosted (under the form of Mime64 tweets) by the blogging platform itself.

Let's make it even more complex. What if tweets or blog posts would be posted randomly (not just by one user) and links to all these tweets or posts would be collected in a small document, something similar to a .nzb file? Could Twitter or any other blogging platform refuse a DMCA takedown notice for messages which are harmless by themselves and which are a violation of a copyrighted work only if collected together following the list of files contained in the .nzb-look-a-like file (which may be hosted somewhere else)? This would be a general counsel's nightmare.

In conclusion, the fight against piracy is the classic mouse-cat fight...piracy will never die and the only way to bypass this is to come up with a new business model for content providers and copyright holders.

I know that Paul Graham recently launched the idea of "killing Hollywood" by creating a new business model for content distribution. I think this idea should even be broader and should be about "how to kill piracy" by removing the fundamentals of pirates (which is, I think, sharing, avoid paying premium prices, etc.) by creating a new business model or method for content delivery and fee collection for content utilization.

Thanks everyone for the great comments that you posted so far.

The difference would be that files would be hosted by Twitter directly and would not use third parties' services.

Interesting point. I wonder if this is a way Tumblr wants to protect your creativity, allowing you to specify the title of your blog and have that come out from Google.

Thanks a lot for all the replies, I will email personally anyone who posts a comment here and shows interest. I don't personally use anything yet, as I am not a coder, I have just developed the idea :-)

It is really incredible how the things are going for Netflix. Three/four months ago I was discussing with my father about shares he wanted to buy. He was losing some money on RIMM and I suggested him to buy Netflix, telling him: "Hey dad, they have the control of the streaming offer online and they are heading where the future is...no more DVDs, all streaming".

I was lucky that my father did not follow my advice (otherwise he would have killed me, eheh) and now I see the problem. As a subscriber of their streaming service, it is always very difficult for me to find something interesting in their catalog. I am also a subscriber of Hulu and I use Hulu daily for all my TV shows needs. When I want to watch a movie, Netflix does not offer me anything interesting, Hulu does not have a big catalog and I end up getting DVDs from Red Box.

Thanks a lot! I just sent you a message, I would be very interested to get additional info on this project.