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He includes links to code on the site. There is a GitHub repository with all code in it.

I look forward to seeing some new screencasts on that site. The last one is from May.

But they've got a point. Even if it takes "only 10 minutes" to upgrade, there have been so many new versions and so many security issues that it gets kind of old after a while. Especially if you have multiple sites all running it.

Tim Ferriss gives a good example of this in the book Four Hour Work Week, when he discusses how he used Adwords to pick the book name.

LOL who would have thought Google would have indexed ask.com pages showing their own Adwords ads!

I love the idea!

I've always found Slicehost and other DIY hosting solutions to be difficult to set up and work with. Which is why a solution like Heroku is so tempting (though various limitations have precluded my using it so far).

I'm excited about the potential for something like this.

Wow, congrats to Paul Buchheit and the rest of the Friendfeed team!

I thought that was pretty ironic too

I doubt I would have watched that when I was a kid, but I will DEFINITELY watch it now. The cartoon format makes it kind of goofy, but the content is great.

I think Buffett is spot on.

If you're going to have a "lifestyle business" and you will be living in California you may as well just register the company in California. All Delaware gets you is more paperwork, i.e. the requirement to file in Delaware AND California.

Ummm, I'm pretty sure Jason Fried is a designer (and not a developer).

This reminds me of "I want Sandy".. which Twitter acquired and squashed..

Between this and GWT (and the Google Wave app they are going to open source), I'm getting pretty interested in Java and using tools like GWT to just generate all of the javascript etc. It almost sounds like it will be /easier/ than Ruby on Rails.

Is that crazy?

I think this sounds awesome.

However it is odd they didn't link to GitHub or something. Looks like they just launched the site, so hopefully that's coming soon.

If you're going to write it in C, why not just write it in Java? You could use the Google Web Toolkit..

I find it to be a great way to communicate with friends and folks I'd like to know a little better. It's like IM but you don't have to catch them online individually or disrupt their workflow.

Take a look at trademarks for Zillow and derivatives: http://bit.ly/jrJ8v

Zillow could argue that your domain is confusingly similar and violates their trademark. They are probably offering you a few hundred bucks because it would cost more than that for them to send you a cease and desist.

Not sure how much you can squeeze out of them given this.

Of course people will pay $9.99 for software! In fact, they are often willing to pay a lot more than that - as long as the value it provides them exceeds the price. (And the MLB app obviously does.)

Doesn't matter that it's for the iPhone.

If all you're selling is something that makes fart sounds, you might be happy with 99 cents. But if your software kicks ass and can save time/money/headaches and/or fix problems or help people make more money, 99 cents might be cutting yourself short.

That other article was a joke. Did you even read it?

I thought it was funny and interesting, and it certainly gratified my intellectual curiosity. I liked the stats on Ruby vs. Perl vs. PHP.

Lighten up, dude..

It may not be 20% of the internet, depending on who actually uses your site/app. Check your analytics.

Does your startup have a business model? Can you try to grow it while generating revenue at the same time?

I have no doubt that YC provides great networking opportunities. My question was in direct response to nanexcool's comment that the cash would have given him the chance.

So you're letting $10,000 hold you back from your dream? For real?

Friendfeed is certainly different from Twitter, Paul - which is why posting Friendfeed comments to Twitter is a bad idea that shows people don't "get" Twitter. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550118

That said, Friendfeed is a lot more like Facebook. And in many ways, Facebook has evolved to become like Friendfeed. The social media aggregation and conversation features have a lot in common.

At Startup School last year, Paul Buchheit said that Friendfeed was an aggregator of social media traffic in much the same way that an e-mail client was an aggregator of SMTP traffic.

Paul is a really really smart guy. It makes perfect sense.

The problem is that Facebook does a pretty good job of being an aggregator of social media traffic too. You can post articles and status updates, photos, etc. I have my Twitter posted to Facebook as well. And with the addition of threaded comments and "Like", etc., in many ways Facebook has made Friendfeed obsolete.

It's almost like Facebook and Friendfeed both came up with the same idea of sharing information and being an aggregator of social media traffic. Except Friendfeed started with the aggregation features, and Facebook started by building a critical mass of users.

When it comes to sharing information with people you know, the critical mass of users wins.

Friendfeed does this already - check out http://twitter.com/paultoo

As an avid Twitter user, the problem with this is that they end up posting a lot of tweets, since all of the Friendfeed comments get posted to Twitter - and they don't make a lot of sense in the context of Twitter.

I tend to unfollow people that start doing this because it shows they don't really get Twitter.

LOL you folks crack me up, downmodding me for that!

I hope this isn't an April Fool's joke!

A friend of mine made a Rails plugin called acts_as_recommendable (a plugin for collaborative filtering): http://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable/tree/master