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flardinois··on Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb
I've done worse... Thanks for flagging.
flardinois··on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
$1.083 per hour, but you have to pre-pay for 24 hours to start one up. After that, it's billed by the second.
flardinois··on Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
Docker also announced a $35M raise today: http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/11/13/1946551...
flardinois··on What Is Glitter?
https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/12/21/youtuber-a...
flardinois··on TechCrunch redesign is terrible
I think we fixed this. Try again.
flardinois··on Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms
her entire essay...
flardinois··on US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network
Worldwide roaming is included in all of T-Mobile's postpaid plans if I'm not mistaken.
flardinois··on Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform
I asked them about that (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/trello-launches-developer-p...). Those are total signups, not active users. They are not disclosing monthly actives.
flardinois··on Parrot announces new Disco drone, ditches quadrocopter design for wings
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/04/parrots-newest-drone-has-wi...
flardinois··on WordPress was b2/cafelog (2004)
We used it at ReadWriteWeb back in the day, too. Can't say it was especially user friendly, but it got the job done.
flardinois··on Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours
I've been playing around with a somewhat similar project at http://news.siliconfilter.com/ for the last few weeks. My biggest challenge was the grouping that I need to do in the background so I don't show multiple versions of the same story from different sites. I'm mostly using some basic text and link analysis for that. I think Techmeme does some of that by hand.
flardinois··on Chrome reporting malware on techcrunch.com?
It was a problem with the iSocket ad network. Fixed now.
flardinois··on Sarah Lacy launches PandoDaily (with former Techcrunch writers)
my cynical answer: better/more coverage of the startups they fund?
flardinois··on Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
I think he got the date wrong. He couldn't have found it until the video chat feature was live.
flardinois··on A simple tool to check if Lulzsec has leaked your personal data
author here: I second that - I know who wrote the widget but the developers are understandably afraid to get hacked themselves if they make their identity known.
flardinois··on How Jack Dorsey used Square to con VCs
and he's been telling the same story for as long as Square has existed...
flardinois··on Where to submit your startup for some coverage
ReadWriteWeb (tips@readwriteweb) - email us and we will definitely take a look.
flardinois··on Amusing Comment Thread
RWW Writer here: these people are all coming to our site by searching Google for "facebook login"

Very sad, but I guess it's really a good reminder that we live in a bubble. For a lot of people, the Internet is magic and they don't know what to do when something changes.

flardinois··on Bing Off to a Good Start: Takes #2 Spot Ahead of Yahoo
StatCounter does get its data from sites that use their analytics package, so this is more than just a Nielsen-style prediction. I'll admit that those numbers could be skewed due to the type of sites that use StatCounter, though.
flardinois··on Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions
having talked to the guys on the Wave Team, it is clear that they are still trying to figure these things out. They are just now opening it up to more users and seeing usage scenarios they didn't even think of themselves. I'm guessing spam wasn't really an issue they had to deal with so far, and from what I've seen, there really is no spam on the site yet. Also, given that you invite your own contacts to join a 'wave,' chances are, spam won't be a huge problem as far as I can see.
flardinois··on Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions
I agree, Wave is really hard to explain, but once you see it in action, it actually becomes a lot easier to figure out.

Maybe one way to think about it as a more structured version of Etherpad, only that you can use it for collaborative editing and messaging at the same time.