gustaf

I that the more money you have the more you think about how to spend them. If you don't have a lot of money you don't have these options.

It takes a lot of discipline to raise a lot of money but still keep the same amount of speed/focus as you did before you raised the money.

Nagios and Pingdom

this is great. let's hope some mobile browsers integrates flash directly in the browser now. I can't wait

I think most people make this mistake. They start with themselves when they think of use cases.

This is when most people use the mobile web:

- At home

- In school

- On public transportation

I disagree completely. If you look at the facts on what websites that are being used on iPhone the vast majority of sites are mobile websites or sites designed specifically for the iPhone - not normal webpages.

Mobile web is not WML

Mobile web = XHTML

I work for Heysan and we've been seeing a tremendous growth in the last 6 months. Mobile web is for more than 100 million people in the world the main way to experience the internet. In a year or two there will be more people having their first experience of the internet on a phone than on a computer

applying programming-talk to startup interviewing...:)

In practice, yes. Work is generally defined as getting a salary. In theory no, i think

If you've not been on VISA previously you might be able to apply for a J1, the application time is fairly short but for a non-established company the authorities will have to do a "site-visit" to check that you are an established company.

this is great. if they could open up the network fast I'd be happier.

The problem is that you have to get a phones sold by Sprint which sucks.

Sim-cards is a great invention. Compare with computers, imagine if you bought a computer from Dell that would only be allowed to run on the Dell-DSL network and only allowed to run Dell-approved software. Not a great deal

"I think this is probably one of the main reasons that the Scandinavian countries are ahead in the mobile game. You can get cheap plans that include an unlimited amount of text messaging"

I'm from Scandinavia and this isn't really the case. Data is more expensive in Sweden than in US. The US market has done a lot to make it easy for people to use data on their mobile phones. Sure, we have advanced phones in Sweden but that's about it.

Some countries with cheap data-plans for mobile: http://gammalife.blogspot.com/2008/02/pricing.html

that's a very technical way of looking at it. i'm not only talking about how a site works in a particular browser but if it's actually good or not.

mainly the sites i have in my mind are sites where you don't choose the service based on the web-service and you end up with a really sucky service that you can't leave. for example: - banks - utilites companies - cellphone carriers - government sites - ecommerce sites (where you're a customer in the physical store)

etc

not that great idea after all. Comments shoul be open

The idea was that PG&E would pay to even be able to see the comments. The comments would be hidden

even better idea. works in both IE and FF right?

The "WAP Deck" represent the idea that people should find their mobile services or "content" from a startpage when the go online on their phone. this make no sense for anyone who know how the internet grew. Google overtook Yahoo when they still believed that the internet should be organized like a directory, like there were a limited "shelf" space. That wasn't true and it wont be true for mobile either.

Admob, one of the largest mobile ad network has a monthly reach of 50 million unique users, that's about the size of one of the largest carriers in the world.

I'm certain that the concept of "Carrier WAP Deck" will not grow in the same pace as the open mobile web....

Congrats to Loopt! :)

You'd be surprised how many people use ICQ still. Israel, Germany, Russia and Ukraine are big ICQ countries.

You are clearly a hacker =)

Yes, AIM is the 2nd largest Network in the US after Yahoo. Internationally MSN Messenger and QQ are dominating in terms of pure user numbers.

Great post!

This is awesome, congrats to launching!

Yes, my understanding that "All countries are equal but some countries are more equal than others"...i.e people from eastern Europe have a bigger problem entering US than people from western. That sucks bad.

I'm one of those founders, last time i put out my email for anyone needing advice I got like 20 different people asking me questions. I'm happy to answer any questions in the forum.

This is what think:

1. Don't worry about VISA until you get accepted, it will take too much time

2. To get the right VISA is hard, lawyers will tell you what the law say, not necessary what is the right thing to do in the situation

3. Don't be too honest at the border control. I had a friend once who where touring with their band in US, at the border the asked if they where going to work in the US? (I.e get paid) and they were honest and said yes, the border threw them out. As long as you are not earning money in the US, you're best off by saying you are on vacation.

Good question! This is a pretty bad problem.

Marie from heysan! was the only girl in the winter program 2007

worst thing about the email:

"Sincerely,

Todd Abrams President and COO Layered Technologies Inc.

Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, immediately delete this message."

Lots of people have high hopes in location based advertising. For no reason, i think. at least not right now.

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/my-thoughts-on-consumer-l...

Congrats to the job!

So nice and so simple. I'm amazed

rest of the team was 24, 24 and 26 when we started heysan

26 when we started, turned 27 in June

If that's true it would be awesome, unfortunately it's not.