davidcann

a. Most nagging problem: clients slow to make decisions.

b. Sites: many RSS feeds, but I rarely look at them (see c).

c. Direct referrals: Yes, this and repeat clients are the primary ways I get projects.

If you had an RSS feed that excluded elance and odesk, I'd add it to my feed reader.

It seems more difficult for clients to find quality freelancers than it is for quality freelancers to find clients, so perhaps you could look into solving problems for the clients. I agree that direct referrals are most important, so perhaps you could make a tool to crawl the social graph to find freelancers who are a friend-of-a-friend?

I suggest giving as much detail as you can about the business and what kind of work is actually involved... i.e. driving around delivering stuff or standing on street corners selling to tourists?

* Stack Overflow - http://careers.stackoverflow.com/

* GitHub - http://jobs.github.com/

* Get Apps Done - http://www.getappsdone.com/

* Authentic Jobs - http://www.authenticjobs.com/

* CrunchBoard - http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

* Mashable Jobs - http://mashable.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

It might take some time, but just a couple firms can keep you busy for years!

You don't need education (most won't even ask), but you need examples of your experience and skills. Create a beautiful app that doesn't crash and you'll be ahead of the game. Use an API that people have heard of (Instagram, Flickr, etc.). Create a few apps and you'll be seen as an established developer.

Most importantly, deliver your first projects on schedule and they'll likely hire you for many projects down the road.

The domain seizures are very troubling, though.

Edit: There seems to be some dispute over where it's a crime to "participate" in different US states, but for the purposes of the "customer assests seized", the transaction is illegal, so it's to be expected that the "cash is locked up" as the result of government action.

I notified support about this and the representative said he agrees that it's a security flaw and that he had "sent it up the chain", although this was last year.

Despite this, they're still my preferred registrar.

Deliver quality work and stay on schedule. Build relationships with multiple design firms and you can pick between projects.

Why doesn't Amazon allow iBooks to be purchased on the Kindle? They're in direct competition.

I use and love Amazon services, but I have a hard time feeling bad for them in this matter.

I highly doubt that Apple will ever pull a Kindle-viewer app, so your second concern is likely a non-issue.

If this were 1990 or I didn't know about wikipedia, then I would be very impressed and think this was true artificial intelligence.

My first impression is that it's a flow chart in the form of an outline. The outline looks like something I could just as easily type into any text editor. Why not make it a visual flow chart?

I'm assuming there are valid reasons to use the other mapping services (i.e. OSM's Open Source License) and your framework, so perhaps you could make a chart showing feature comparison?

We made this while our app was in the review process. I'm running Node.js on a separate EC2 Small server, so hopefully it'll handle a high load.

It works best in Safari 5... for some reason, Chrome is a little choppy, even with fewer trees. If it's choppy for you, try making your browser window smaller.

https://github.com/kolber/audiojs

Really? I think it's common to consider the PC market to be fragmented, especially when it comes to complex software like games.

How about the less-sensational: "One Third of Top-Grossing iPhone Apps Profit With In-App Purchases"