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Ah, I think I know what is going on. Did you send a welcome message to the group from your cell phone? If you didn't then your group is staged and not yet created. I need to check for numbers in the staged groups as well. Thanks for the feedback.

Done and live. I went with "Add more".

Thanks! We are looking at ways to use your address book to make group creation easier. Our upcoming iphone app will allow you to do that but we would also like to enable it from the web as well.

Rat's I will look at that version of FF. If you switch over I would appreciate the feedback on how it works for you.

Thanks, will do!

Yes

The VC's are funding a few companies in this space on the hope that this is the future of social networking. If that happens the biggest network will be able to monetize the traffic with tag line ads, mobile ads, coupons or the like. Until then the VC's are paying the freight for all the SMS traffic so enjoy the free texting :-)

I just launched the API today so any feedback on it would be greatly appreciated. The direct link to the API is http://www.groupflier.com/api.html

P.S. Click the phone image to watch the video easter egg

I love Redis and the new features rock! I use Postgres and Redis in tandem and it is a great combo. Postgres for all the stuff SQL databases are good at and Redis for all the stuff they are not.

I wish it was mobile optimized web site but all the good stuff, camera control, address book, motion sensors etc. is not exposed to web apps and won't be any time soon. You will be writing an objective-c app for iphone, and java apps for android and bb.

RoR for dynamic HTML apps used to be the coolest thing but now the really new/cool stuff is written as a JSON server talking to AJAX and mobile clients. In this world node.js, clojure and erlang (maybe) are cooler than RoR.

In the early 80's at Rice University my academic advisor steered me from computer science which I enjoyed (APL rocked!) to chemical engineering because "computers will be programming themselves in 20 years and comp sci isn't real engineering anyways". I hated chem eng but after a decade of detours final came back to coding. I didn't mind the detours but it was spectacularly bad advice and I was dumb enough to take it.

The old saying "hungry dog hunts best" sums it up as was already pointed out in another comment. The hungrier I get the sharper my focus becomes, whether it is writing code or hunting, it works!

linode for dev, test and launch and then dedicated hardware at 100tb.com or the like when needed.

I would like to see the stats from Linode et al. on deployments. My sense is that Ubuntu is growing faster than the other distros.

Thanks we will add that. In answer to your questions.

No we don't re-sell or do anything with the email addresses.

As a group member you can see a list of the other members and remove yourself from the group.

coffee, vim and screen do it for me :-)

Interesting enough I find a hang over unleashes my creativity.

I finally made the switch from MySQL to Postgres for my current product. The impetuous was licensing as I got burned by MySQL's ambiguous licensing on a prior product. Now that I have gotten over the learning curve I like Postgres about the same as MySQL. Both are good products but you can move Postgres from a Saas to an onsite deployment as needed without any licensing issues.

Thanks, great pointer. I'm putting together a service and will try this.

This is why the Saas model works so well. Churn rate is everything in a subscription business so your motives are closely aligned with your customers. You continually improve the software to keep the customers happy and the churn rate low.

At some point I would like to blog about it but right now I am under the gun to deliver a product so I'm writing a lot more code than english for the next few months.

In a nutshell I use Postgres for the relatively static data and Cassandra for the very high volume transactional data. I use Redis for ad-hoc data structures and some caching. The natural fit means I'm not jamming de-normalized data into a relational database for performance reasons. Hope this helps.

Redis has a rapidly growing list of data operations to model a wide variety of problems within a bound storage space (the VM feature expands that space). Cassandra does a specific task, unlimited high volume redundant writes, extremely well. I use Redis for session data, caching and queuing needs but for the huge volume data store Cassandra is the answer.

Redis is a swiss army knife, Cassandra is a Ka-Bar.

Woohoo! Redis has quickly become my favorite transient data store. I'm using a combination of Postgres, Redis and Cassandra and feel like I have the natural data mapping for every scenario. No more pushing square pegs into round holes.

Good idea, I filled one out.

I don't have the specifics but I believe the other times were narrower claims against specific technologies. This is a broad brush stroke against an entire industry segment.

This is unusual behavior for MS. I wonder if this is the opening move in a buyout/takeover gambit.

The manifestation of this crisp thinking is tarsnap. The best linux backup product I have ever seen.

Very timely ... Amen on business lawyers! I just signed the papers on a seed round and what drove me nuts was all the expensive back and forth on possible IPO provisions (caps on legal fees etc.) let's see if we can get user one without using up a significant chunk of capital on legal fees first!!

Agreed with the pain of admin with CPAN. I ended up creating a custom build and distribution tool to manage this as the existing solutions are weak.