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The journalists you describe are just following the golden rule; make something people want.

Three words: "Working for Families"

$500 for "groopvine.com"? I say sell.

Why did you sell?

I'm a bit out of the Facebook loop, but one angle I've read of is selling data to advertisers.

The information is the property, it doesn't matter what the format is. iTunes will still charge you .99c even though what you're buying is only a digital copy.

By "control" of something, I mean the ability to decide what happens to it. A monk copying a manuscript doesn't take control of the original, but he is able to then decide what happens to that information. That's what's being taken.

In the case of a monk I would guess spreading a religious text wouldn't be a problem for the person who gave it to him. But when someone copies the latest Harry Potter manuscript the author/publishers do have a problem, because they are losing something. As they can no longer control what happens to that content their ownership is diminished. And when someone's ownership is taken from them against their wishes, what else would you call that, other than "stealing"?

Stealing is taking the control of property from someone, not just the physical property itself. Because taking control of something is usually done by physically taking it, this aspect seems to define stealing, when really it's secondary to what stealing really is.

I was referring to all your code, not just the HTML. Which, of course, you wouldn't want people copying no matter how easy or hard it is to do. After all, your app will be the result of months of your hard work and effort. The same is true of music.

So when you're done making your web app everyone can have a copy of the code ... right?

"Why should something that I can get for free cost money?"

Are you for real?

So what's stopping you?

Depending on how much you have, why not invest in start ups? (No, I don't mean me.)

That sounds like a lot of hassle.

Let me know when you do this.

It's a bit pricey but I recommend a Presso: http://www.presso.co.uk

Scott Adams does (I think it was 5:00am). Make of that what you like.

The advice of having one point per slide and using an image instead of lots of text should be in a message that pops up everytime someone starts Powerpoint.

Unless you're making something specifically related to China I would say it's not worth it.

What made you notice that?

The music industry (as it is now) is dying already, imo.

This is really just a big ad for Squidoo. Still interesting though.

This is kind of ironic...

How would you measure desperation?

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks!

Did anyone else see the logo and start daydreaming about having electric boots?

I'm not a web design expert (or any kind of expert) but I would think:

1. Read/observe.

2. Design web pages.

I hope you didn't use this idea in your yc application.

Jasmine tea and Led Zeppelin.

Sounds good to me.

I wonder what the odds are of a TechStar startup competing with a YC startup? That could be interesting.