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How do you deal with applicants which either don't have the necessary equipment or refuse to create a video?

According to http://manning.com/fogus/ in January 2011.

The experience of an introverted guy doing such an experiment for 30 days: http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/

Why should local papers use your service when they can ask their readers to send them the photos directly? At least here in Switzerland there are already newspapers doing this.

An alternative is to use OpenID which requires a single input login form by design.

If you are a tab-"addict": Close all tabs before closing your browser, so that your browser doesn't have to load unnecessary stuff when starting the next time.

You could use an account with no real followers.

He probably meant this talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/derek_sivers_keep_your_goa...

According to http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html most people use Twitter's web client.

I never got to this page, I stopped after visiting the pricing page...

A demo or a trial period would be useful.

No, they didn't charge for the service, they only showed ads on the start page.

For a single-user use case you could use http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token which doesn't require you to go through the OAuth token acquisition dance.

He sells wine: http://winelibrary.com/

I don't think OAuth 2.0 is ready for prime time yet because the standard is still a draft, and, more importantly, because there is a lack of client libraries.

The email address in the email field is not visible for others. You have to use the about field if you want to make it public.

The talks are tagged: http://www.ted.com/talks/tags

I would replace the counter with something like "We track about 140 events per second". That's easier to understand than some counter, where you don't know when it was started.

Nice interface, though I'm missing a sign up link.

"TED has never paid speakers to attend, but we're committed to creating an experience that's tremendously fulfilling and beneficial on all sides. We do, of course, cover travel costs to Long Beach or Palm Springs, and provide excellent hotel accommodation." Source: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/73