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Four ideas:

1. Are you getting their e-mail addresses? You could send out some kind of e-mail once a month with a summary of their packages and some ads and/or affiliate offers.

2. Since you are sending them direct messages, they must be following you. Use Magpie or some other service to just post advertisment tweets (not direct messages) to your public timeline. You get paid on a CPM basis.

3. After every nth package, send them a DM asking for a donation if they appreciated the service.

4. License your app to be the official Twitter bot of any of the package tracker services. So if someone tries to track a package on any of their sites it gives them the option to add to your twitterbot. (This one would be the hardest/most work, obviously.)

They don't have any exceptions. I paid for the rails SAAS kit and then talked to Braintree and it took a week's worth of email just to get them to send me the application. They told us that if we didn't do enough volume they would cancel our account.

I ended up just going with Payflow Pro (Paypal). Had to rewrite most of the SAAS kit..

>> 2. If you want to process AmEx, you have to call them directly...

This is not true when using Paypal Payflow Pro or Website Payments Pro for your merchant account.

I thought they were cutting back on the free food etc.? Remember Sergey's comment about the M&M's and bottled water?

LOL, funny I lost karma for saying that.. :)

For example: George W. Bush

I knew that cavitation was a concern for submarines, pumps, ships, torpedoes, etc. It makes perfect sense that it could become an issue for any fast-swimming aquatic life as well.. but I don't think I ever put two and two together on that. (I guess I assumed no aquatic life could swim fast enough to have cavitation concerns)

I think "beta" gets a bad rap nowadays because everyone uses it. I mean, GMail has been in "beta" since it launched!

Beta doesn't mean your code is bad, it just means you're not at "version 1.0". There is nothing wrong with launching your app in beta for a few months.

Very excited about this release!

Official Cappuccino site: http://www.cappuccino.org/

Download link: http://cappuccino.org/download/

I can't believe they had to change this.

My favorite of these is "GoCart". I want an Android phone just for this:

"GoCart is your shopping cart on-the-go. Users can scan the barcode of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. Once scanned, it will search for all the best prices on the internet and through the inventories of nearby, local stores."

Dude, it's just a javascript library. And a pretty damn good one.

I think you guys might be a little too uptight..

With a list of "who's using jQuery" that includes Google, Bank of America, Dell, CBS, NBC, Netflix.. your boss might not be the sharpest tool in the shed if "be a javascript rock star" bothers them..

"Internet Explorer 8 includes a Compatibility View feature that displays Web sites that were created for older browsers as they were designed to appear. You can enable Compatibility View in Internet Explorer or on the Web server."

Thank goodness for that!

Everything is "available". It's just a question of how you think about it.

The big picture philosophy of trying to build "linkbait" (for SEO) is to take the site's niche, and then start exploring anything on the fringe that is slightly related to it.

Think outrageous, and think outside the box.. it doesn't have to be directly about your niche/topic, as long as it is tangentially related..

Of course, it always helps if your site is interesting enough that people feel compelled to share it for what it is.. good linkbait bridges the cap when it is not. :)

I think this is more applicable to folks that do SEO for a living and take clients etc. (vs. the typical News.YC reader)

I've tried various gems and plugins and kept having issues, eventually giving up on AWS (that was several months ago).

Can you offer any tips or suggestions for a successful rails deployment?

I learned BASIC on a Radio Shack TRS-80 "Color Computer" that I got 2 weeks after I turned 5.

How many out there have been programming since they were kids?

Thanks!

Wow, that actually sounds like a great deal!

I'd really like to use AWS for future Rails deployments.. Has anyone gotten a Rails app deployed using EC2/EBS/S3?

>> Will Apple again lose its to early technical lead to a generic platform like DOS?

Isn't "Windows Mobile" a "generic platform"? Didn't that come out years before the iPhone?

Aside from that, the biggest looming threat is probably Android..

We just pulled the trigger for EY this week, should be migrating to our "slices" within 7-10 days.

Things like this make me nervous..

The depth/extent of the plan is surely debatable, but folks like Larry and Sergey and Eric Schmidt would not make the decision to pull the trigger for an acquisition unless they knew what they wanted out of it. They are smarter than that .

In the case of MeasureMap, for instance, they knew they wanted that technology integrated into Google Analytics. They may not have been able to answer the "how" part of "who, what, when, where, why, and how", but surely they knew the "who", "what", and "why".

I understand that the startup built the technology and the acquirer didn't. That's the beauty of how this system is set up - a company like Google with piles of cash and stock can has so much money it can buy anything it wants.

Well then how do they decide which startups to buy (MeasureMap, Feedburner, etc.) and which startups to pass on (Digg)? That's the "master plan"..

I know, I have a degree in it. :)

I'm curious how they optimized for this. Perhaps some sort of linear programming or variation of the "traveling salesman" problem?

I just found a couple boxes of old photos that I took in the 90s and would love to get them scanned in (by someone other than me). I look forward to trying this service!

When Google hands over six or seven or eight figures for something, they obviously have a plan for how the technology and team fits into their "master plan".

Why is it surprising that, at least some of the time, they aren't actually interested in the original web site?

I'm at the point where I am looking to move to EY for hosting an app. Spoke with a rep today, reviewing options before pulling the trigger.

Appreciate the good words I am hearing here.

I think internet marketing is going to get very hard in the future. Folks will have to focus on adding value in order to get recognition.