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I wonder how this affects Latitude... I can't imagine facebook would want to litigate with google?

I wholeheartedly agree with you, if the fact was as simple. As it stands, the paragraph should have read: "a startup [with $200,000 funding of other people's money] was probably the worst endeavor for them", as that more accurately represents the reality of the situation.

It's a nice idea, but it won't happen. There's simply no business incentive for the big players to even think about integrating in this way.

Additionally, once you set up a data exchange you're relying on an honour system to ensure content items are edited or removed, and that whoever is hosting nodes that your traffic goes through isn't snooping.

For what reasons would you want to stop him from doing this?

Interesting - I wasn't aware of that, a good bit of info to know.

Presumably YC only works for US companies, as people from outside the US (Canada, for example) wouldn't have the permission to work in the US for the three months?

Thanks PG. I have previously considered YC, unfortunately the cost of living far exceeds the amount of capital YC could provide initially.

Looking around the industry lately it seems that you can't do a startup unless you're fresh out of college with not a care in the world.

On the other hand, if you actually have industry experience (even if you are under 30), you can't "drop out" of "real life" because of implicit responsibilities (socially - such as dependents, and financially - such as rent/bills).

Unfortunately I already have an apartment to pay for, and no guarantee that if I left my job for 3-6 months I'd be able to get it back. Definitely worth thinking about though!

That's exactly my quandry - it's a bit of a catch22.

May I recommend http://di.fm ? I've been listening to it for years, and all the ads on any of the trance streams are related to server hosting. They know their audience..

Doesn't do anything on Firefox 3.5.3 on OSX :/