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eokumaon Spotify And Ford Team Together To Showcase Spotify’s First In-Car Integration

Wow...I am really glad Ford decided to do this. There is a huge advertising market in radio right now that a potential partnership between Ford and Spotify will expose. For people will no access to smartphones/data plans, this will finally be a chance for them to listen to what they want whenever they want on the road!

eokumaon Twitter closing another massive $400M round

I completely agree. Twitter's motto of simplifying their current product definitely steepens the hill to justify their value. But then again, the whole concept behind Twitter is a simple microblogging service. Very hard to monetize this unless they expand...

Quote: “We’re thinking about how we can simplify the product even further. That’s what makes it different. [We're looking] for what can we ‘edit’ out.” He said. “These other products are adding services and we are trying to simplify ours down.” [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/twitter-ceo-on-google-its-c...

eokumaon Improving the Worst Experience

Good quote: We founders unwittingly focus on how to make the best customer experiences better, rather than making the worst experiences less worse, and sometimes this is a mistake.

eokumaon Groupon Rethinking the Timing Of Its IPO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190453740457655...

eokumaon Offer HN: FREE: I'll make your first 10 cold calls

Awesome Jay! How's it going?

eokumaon Any big surface becomes a touchscreen with Visualplanet’s “touchfoil”

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

Very similar project

eokumaon Moves by HP, Google further marginalize the traditional PC

Yeah I concur. Not sure if it's ever possible for businesses to shift from computers to mobile devices completely imho; only time will tell.

eokumaon Google Now Lets You Export Google Voice Data

[Edit: Why wouldn't you want to export data?]

Yeah as well as text messages, phone numbers (for importation into other contact systems) etc. backed-up and archived for work/business (even personal) purposes.

eokumaon Comodo Hacker returns...

http://pastebin.com/1AxH30em <-- Check this out

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/03/comodo-hacker-releases...

eokumaon Munch On Me (YC S11), a deals site for restaurants, expands to West Los Angeles

I think it feels normal. A lot of people have a problem with indecisiveness when it comes to deciding where to eat and a large reason for this attribute is money. Since Munch On Me provides not only deals to awesome restaurants in your local city but also deals for each restaurants' most popular dishes, you'll discover new eateries and you won't need to worry about deciding between all the delicious menu entrees.

eokumaon Google invites are open, if anyone requires any, place in your email ids

Me too, thanks! eokuma1988 gmail com

eokumaon Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story

There's a company currently in beta called Kno (website: http://www.kno.com/) that is working on a textbook app!

eokumaon Warning To All Entrepreneurs About Bad Investor Behavior

Thank you very much for posting this. Learning that good advice/mentorship > bad money (VCs like the one in this article). Budding startups inevitably need funding to survive but it is more important that young entrepreneurs reach out for valuable advice/mentorship e.g. startup incubator programs like YC etc.