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I think iPad Apps are difficult breed - I bought your app because I thought it sounded interesting, but I didn't actually use it.

-do you know how many users start using it regularly?

Well maybe the downvotes are for ignoring 2500 years of philosophical tradition - some ethical behaviour is universal

That was pretty easy to find from the Link you provided http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Qu...

The top five spending increases for 2010-11 are: 1) An additional $3.8 million will be spent on technical operations. This will include funding to establish and maintain a new data centre, increased spending on bandwidth to support our growing readership, and five new positions supporting technical operations. 2) An additional $2.6 million will be spent on ten new (non-ops) technology positions such as a QA engineer and a community liasion position, annualization of salaries of existing tech positions including some positions that were previously paid under restricted grants as well as development of a database to track relationships with editors, readers, donors and others. 3) An additional $1.3 million will go towards administration supporting all Wikimedia Foundation activities. This will include rent for additional office space, plus nine new support positions to support the work of staff and community members. 4) An additional $1.1 million dollars will be spent on community outreach and volunteer convenings. In recent years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been increasingly offering financial support for, and/or staged itself, volunteer convenings of various kinds, including for example the Berlin chapters/developer meetings, as well as paying some travel costs for volunteers, including more funding for Wikimania scholarships. We intend to do more of this in 2010-11 as key activities to grow and strengthen the movement. 5) In 2010-11, the Wikimedia Foundation plans to spend $400,000 on various forms of support for the chapters. This will include an expanded grants program for mission activities, staff positions supporting our chapters network, and a board-sponsored project designed to help the Wikimedia movement develop clarity around roles-and-responsibilities across the network.

1. cost depends on your location - central is no longer cheap 2. there are a lot of startups but I'm not sure which one is developing in python

try this map to find startups http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/de/B/iii/1/seite11.jsp

there seems to be a django Berlin group http://groups.google.com/group/django-berlin

can't help you, but it's absolutely understandable and not at all retarded :)

Could still work on Windows (which is the bigger market anyway) whitelabel it and sell a version to Dell,Sony... you get instant traction and the vendors are happy (percentage of proceeds) but of course you have to sell it to Dell, HP, and Sony...

Well they should just start reddit again, It hink that's the only community that would be willing to go along

By the way, people's tendency to misspell things the way they sound is what allows philologists to figure out how proununciation worked in past centuries.

Thank you! Interesting!

Start here http://www.seomoz.org/blog the tools are pretty good too

Well your advice is pretty much dated...but I wish you good luck. It'll be interesting to see how you rank by having a nice looking source code.

3.Metadata is not relevant.

SEO is seriously one of the things every startups has to consider, especially in many niches it's essential for growth.

I think as stupid as the term is, the idea is pretty helpful

we are working on that http://www.thinkshot.com , its's exactly what you are describing with some added features, we should be ready in the next 8 weeks

I actually thought that this was interesting and useful ... not very interesting.

It's a partly deconstruction of one of the most succesful mobile games and probably the most succesful iPad game. If you are a Hacker the probability is high you are thinking about iPad games at the moment.

Odd articles like this one together form a coherent picture and might help develop new ideas.

Techcrunch is not a scalable product business - so it'S not a dipshit business.

uh the Lady...but I think there are historic layers behind this quote

What should they search for? Behavior is partly shaped by need, we need to research a lot of topics for our daily live (work,living ...) kids don't have to do that, so they don't get used to it. They will change when they grow older.

I'm not sure that this is true, that you really need density, because density is not the way humans interact. We interact with networks of social contacts, now if you virtualize contacts or if you have a higher network density, that means less people but they are better connected you might be able to compensate a lower overall density.

Well with 2 Fans there's obviously a lot of Brand Building necessary

The headset of the Desire works as FM antenna, the FM receiver doesn'twork without some cable

I'm going to do just that

I did it all and can tell you from my experience most of them are not worth it.

I think it's actually a sad list, lot of things people think will make them happy, but instead of just trying them out the fill lists with goals. It's actually like a really long business plan ... after reading 20 pages you just start thinking "just do it!".

Of course you should listen to your customers. But the wrong way to listen to your customers, is just to add features or just to read their emails and take them literally. You have to analyse the reasons behind their requests. Why do they want this feature? What problem are they trying to solve with that?

When you are doing usability tests, you don't just listen to the user explaining whats going wrong you are watching him. Often the user explains that there is a problem with your buttons but in reality he just has a problem with some descriptions. What the user thinks and what he does are two different sides of the same coin. You need to find out "What is the problem?" and solve it.

The user might say "I need larger buttons on my phone, they are too small" but the problem might be that he makes many mistakes. Now this is a totally different problem and you can solve it in many way (auto correct features, voice recogn,... or something totally new).

Now if you find a big problem with big business potential most users will have this problem, but the won't be aware of it.

Think about Dyson, everyone had this problem, you have to buy bags for your vacuum cleaner, but this wasn't problem most people were aware of. Now Dyson solved it and instantly everybody was aware of it.

Think about phones, they ahd more and more features, but most user were not able to use them. Now Apple solved that, most features of iphone where available before the iphone but suddenly people where aware these features existed and they could use them.

Listen to customers, but don't do it "literally" ;-)

a startup we advised for some time had a registration teaser that looked like a banner ... surprisingly nobody registered... they also had a flashy news section with images, when we changed it to text only the click trough rates doubled...

I actually had this debate once when I was a member of my local town council (in germany. A small business started by a woman in her garage had to shut down and I cited HP and other famous "garage" companies and asked if we would have shut down their business. The answer I got was "Yes of course" the vote afterwards was 12-1 for shutting it down.

On the other hand there is a lively startup scene and especially the online business is quite forgiving so it's not the same everywhere in germany.

oh god, don't hack food... it's not worth the saved time. Just learn to cook, good food is cheap. I make dinner for friends all the time 5 courses and the cost per person is 5€ if I want. Preparing good pasta never takes an hour, a simple rice dish is fast, you can cook nearly everything with very little preparation time, it's just a matter of training. So don't hack food hack your food preparation skills. It's like buying something like this http://www.stimrx.com/instead of finding a a better way to exercise. If you learn to cook well, you will be able to do it without concentrating on it, so it's not lost time. Now imagine how long you are going to eat.. 60 years for every day? What would you do with every other kind of work you have to do for that amount of time? How long did you need to learn driving? Or to learn to programm?

And don't believe anybody who tells you with some kind of powder and some nutrients you will be perfectly healthy, if the research into nutrition has shown anything it's that the system is pretty complex and the only safe bet is a mixed traditional diet.

Well since you are not a US citizen maybe you can incorporate somewhere else, if you really have to. A UK limited might be an option.

Berlin based start-up allows anyone to print their own newspaper http://niiu.de/

Affiliate programms for Netflix and Amazon, highly targeted to the actual movies, add local Coupon Ad Systems from cinemas (I know they don't existyet), now double the traffic with some SEO optimization (nothing bad, just better cross linking on the site), get higher conversion rates to regular users by integrating email supscriptions at the end of every article... target the email newsletter by city.... ad local cinema advertisement by a small self service ad system ...

I think it's quite possible to make substantial amounts of money with Roger Eberts site.

Jason seems to be a pretty competent guy, met him after the socialmedian aquisition here in germany. And this is not his first startup, I can't really imagine that he pulled off samething shady, so all the fault to citi.