ericwaller

Just having a paid version might help convince customers that you're a reliable company.

antioxidants in general cause certain effects that inhibit otherwise positive effects of exercise

It's like claiming "food found to cause heart disease," based on a study of cholesterol. It's true, but totally overblown.

http://eric.drumsti.cc/

It's designed to be public or private, with one or many users. No search yet, but it's definitely a major feature.

EDIT: To answer your question more directly, google notebook and drop.io are two functional services that are doing this type of thing right now.

But my claim is that a consensus of scientists is an authority on matters of fact of the natural world, specifically. In the same way that a consensus of programmers would constitute an authority on programming. So that it's fair for Dawkins, who views the (non)?existence of god as a fact of the natural world, to appeal to scientists as an authority.

Theologians would want to disagree, but I would argue that an overwhelming number of scientists does constitute a legitimate authority on whether or not something (god or otherwise) does or does not exist.

Even if you don't care about the competition, it's an easy pretense for getting in touch and working with a professor. Plus, you might be able to convince your school to give you time during the day to work on your research (when I was in HS, we got a period every other day).

I think this a great idea. Have you thought about trying to partner with other ad networks as a quick way to get access to content publishers? That could go a long way toward solving the chicken/egg problem of how to attract sellers to your marketplace.

What Dawkins is likely saying (I haven't read the book), is that we can (or even should) forget about individuals and just look at relative gene frequencies (b/w generations); we'll see that some are selected for and some are selected against. And that this is actually the level at which evolution occurs.

"Survival of the fittest" is a useless tautology. An organism's evolutionary fitness, if there were such a thing, would be its ability to survive to reproductive age. So of course the fittest survive, we've defined fitness to mean survival.

In reality it's the species that has an evolutionary fitness; and the distinction is important. Take a bee colony for example, a huge number of the bees are infertile.

To address your example: infertility treatments may catalyze an evolutionary process of selecting against those who are disinterested in child rearing. Or, like the bee colony, infertility in some members of the species may be evolutionarily advantageous; hard to imagine, but not without precedent.

It's by paying a dividend that google would be in effect saying it has so much cash it doesn't know what to do with it. Starting a venture fund is google saying that it can reinvest it's profits for a positive return.

I personally think these demos are useful, but a blog post explaining what's going on with a properly marked link to the working exploit might be a better way to go about it.

Something to think about for your own applications

And the graph is meaningless at best. We'd expect to find a correlation b/w the average tax rate across the board and tax revenue as a percentage of GDP. Plotting just the top tax bracket in an effort to show no correlation is intentionally misleading.

By "get for free" I mean using personal connections, creativity, or whatever else you have at your disposal (maybe university affiliation) to avoid paying at all, either with real money out of your pocket or development and maintenance effort (in the case of software).

According to Alexa, Yahoo gets a little less than twice Facebook's traffic. Yahoo's revenue for 2008 was $7.22B. So yeah, $1B+ for Facebook from conventional ads is probably reasonable.

Beacon was supposed to be their adsense and look how that turned out. I don't doubt facebook's potential, but I do doubt that there's a switch that they're just waiting for some magic user count to flip.

I think web hooks really are the next step in the progression of the web. Feeds and most APIs are very "one-way," once web resources are actually able to initiate exchanges/transactions, we are undoubtedly going to start seeing some really exciting stuff.

Is the valuation just too high? I've heard 3-5x revenue quoted as a good starting point for figuring out a valuation during an acquisition, but I'm assuming this is an early stage start up which expects to grow this revenue number quite a bit.

"The vast majority of startups probably don't get a fair chance at success"

No one comes to deserve success just by starting a company.