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gknon The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela

Google is the greatest shopping center in the world and I must admit; I really do like it. Must be more shoppers around than the information seekers it seems.

gknon Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator

Paul Vick made a new blog post about this today http://panopticoncentral.net/2012/02/16/software-patents-rev...

gknon Ask HN: Recommended credit card payment service for companies outside US?

I was in the same boat as you. If you want a globally available service that IS developer friendly, reliable and simple, PayPal might actually be the correct answer after all. It is what we ended up with after a lot of research.

I don't know your reasons for not wanting to use PayPal, they might differ from my hesitations, but after spending a couple of days experimenting, reading docs and so forth, I found the technical side of it extraordinaraily flexible and easy to use.

gknon How should I market this product?

And make sure to include a fb meta image tag on your page. As it stands, the pre order button is displayed on the wall when posting. Much better to have the Toy Picture!

gknon How should I market this product?

There is only way - word of mouth. Me liked and tweeted. A small contribution from a fellow norwegian :)

gknon Facebook's Newest Problem: Being Boring

I Absolutely agree with you - Facebook can be as boring as email. It does not matter, Facebook has become Infrastructure.

gknon Help bootstrap our startup by giving us work.

Side projects doing what you are best at can be a great way to fund your startup, but I understand what you are saying - It is easy to lose focus.

On the other hand, we can't all make Obama O's.

gknon Notepad of all my startup ideas

Here is mine:

A GOOD free service that gives detailed reports on Internet companies given keywords or tags. Needs to be fast, retrieve data from extensive range of sources. Use multivariate report criteria and present results as infograms or similar.

Does it exist already? Please tell me. I do not like catalog sites.

gknon Don't Be So F*cking Strategic

And this is why I am doing a start up - and praying we are not growing large(?)

gknon Spotify's U.S. Landing Page

All saved music lists in Spotify has clickable Album, Artist and Track links so in effect you can easily make "Album" lists. I have done that for ages.

gknon Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

Hello HN. Here is a campaign I set up today for this cause

http://vinatta.vinattaengine.com/Email/EmailInvite?campaignK...

It might help to get the message out to a wider audience.

Shameless plug: This is a part of my Internet Startup. You can opt in to have your name (or alias) published.

gknon Poll: How old were you when you started programming?

Basic on Casio FX-702P @ 18 yrs of age. Then Pascal on Apple ][, ND10 and Osborne 1. Still coding, C#, MVC with StringTemplate View Engine atm.