clemesha

Cool. I'm building http://SurfsGood.com which is basically the same thing. I've been meaning to put more time into it, and one thing, as dlokshin and others point out, the public vs private pics is definitely a very real concern with surfers.

I've heard a lot of praise for Testflight, and now we have people proclaiming "I wish they'd charge me". What's the catch - or put in a better way, what's their business model?

Related: http://TheWikiGame.com (multiplayer game of connecting Wikipedia articles with different constraints)

Understood, but the owner of that Twitter account is not Starbucks' PR, correct?

Either way, I'd rather 'assume good faith' as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Currently I'm just curious, as I've been following the card story since before it got picked up by the more mainstream media.

Does this mean the below is a fabricated statement?

  Response from Starbucks: "We think Jonathan's    
  project is really interesting and are flattered
  he chose Starbucks for his social experiment"

- http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10066971227443609...

I'm really rooting for Phonegap. I really want to write apps written in html5/css/javascript, but what is really need is "proof" that it is possible to write a great app using these tools.

I've seen all the demos, and all the Phonegap apps in the App Store, but none of them are "killer apps". They don't have many ratings, and the ones that do have several ratings aren't so good. Hoping this changes soon.

Can anyone give the main differences between 3.x and 4.x?

E.g. what features and/or improvements make it so apps like Foursquare require 4.0?

Not trying to be snarky, but a huge benefit of going to a place like "Stanford Business School" is precisely the advantageous effects of "naming-dropping" you went there.

This is great! What about also indicating if the plane has power plugins? Or is this becoming the standard these days?

If my laptop/iPad dies, knowing the internet is available goes from awesome to super painful.

Related: http://TheWikiGame.com (I built this app, it's made with using django, xmpp, and almost every datatype that Redis provides)

It's good to know this stuff, but in my real-world usage of JavaScript, I've become a big fan of Backbone.js to help structure code intelligently, etc.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Phonegap + jQuery Mobile + Backbone.js. Remote work. Email me at: alex@surfsgood.com. Thanks!

If your app uses a database, you've got bigger problems than optimizing Nginx for high traffic loads.

That said, I absolutely love Nginx because it's so damn lightweight, and easy to setup and maintain.

It would be so cool to make http://TheWikiGame.com for IMDB data, but I guess the license dis-allows it?

On a slightly related note, I first heard about Redis from Ezra -- probably ~2 years ago. I believe he deserves some similar type of credit for the early spread of Redis.

(His latest project cloudfoundry.com just launched today, so I think it's fairly relevant to give the guy some props right now :-)

A possibly more precise way of expressing this thought is: "Competition from big players doesn't necessarily equate to a death sentence to small players".

Had a similar thought yesterday: "Google Code and Launchpad are run by big players, yet Github is the real leader. Yet another argument against "XYZ big corp might smash us"." - http://twitter.com/clemesha/status/55400961652441088

1) Man, people who comment on Techcrunch are mean.

2) Good luck with Crush Notifier.

Can you list a couple of the worst parts about Facebook's photo service?

I'm not a Facebook user, but I do know that photos are one of the main reasons why people use (love, are addicted to, etc) it.

Maybe even compare your improved solutions to the poor features of Facebook's service. Thanks, and good luck!

Every time I see CSS3/HTML5 demos like this, I think "awesome, but what's the IE situation?". I mean that in a honest way, not in a "oh, that probably will never work on IE type of way".

IE9 is supposedly way better than before - will it support stuff like this?

I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done.

Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment?

Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.

I have a real-time, multiplayer online game (http://TheWikiGame.com - built with XMPP + Redis + Django), and I can say it's been one hell of a learning experience.

The features you build and test on your local machine or private cloud instance certainly behave differently when you have a bunch of people, with totally different internet connection speeds, and game-play behaviors, all using your app at once.

Ahh, the race conditions you never knew you had :-)

Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia?

Just looking at the top comments here, and other places around the internet - I think it's far too common.

Let's be more positive. Wikipedia is amazing - congrats to them for successfully achieving their fund-raising goals.

Redis. Makes working with a database fun, just like jQuery made JavaScript fun.

Hey there! I'm the creator of http://TheWikiGame.com, and the first thing that comes to my mind is:

"New Competitors Help Validate Your Market"

So, I'm totally cool with ThreeWiki.com! :-)

I don't have more info on that statement, but it reminds me of this:

    When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to    
    engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision
    to a simple logic problem.

From here: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

   In the App Store, it's ranked by units sold ...
   I will be higher up in the charts, which will get me 
   more exposure ... volume of sales doesn't change 
   linearly with rank either, it's quite exponential.

This is a great piece of insight, much appreciated.

Thanks. Yeah, the front page is pretty messy/busy - any simple ideas to make it cleaner?

It's just me working on the game, part time right now, and it's the first game I've made.

Awesome, thanks! I love hearing about people who invented the game - people tell me all the time, "hey, I invented that!" :-) I certainly did not invent the game, but I'm determined to make something awesome out of it.

Improvements to my app http://TheWikiGame.com, making more "game types" like "Speed Race", "Least Clicks", "5 Clicks to Jesus", etc. After that, iPhone/Android apps for the game.

I noticed the paid app was sold at varying times for $2.99, $1.99, and $0.99. Anyone have more information about the physiology/performance/trade-offs of those different prices?

Do $0.99 apps sell way more than other priced apps?