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Google, p-p-please make it available for iOS. Come on, make love, not war.

Very insightful article. I feel more worried about the Chinese housing bubble crash than anything else. You think the '07 US recession was bad? That'd be a walk in the park if China's bubble bursts.

Hah this is the best comment I've heard in a while, what a great way to start the day. Thank you sp332.

Wow, Google Talk and Twitter both go down in the same morning? Crazy!

What's next? EC2 data center power issue?

Wow that is impressive numbers.

One thing to note:

"Bridge’s deepest competition will come from the legacy giants when Bridge starts working with large enterprise operations."

Yep, if you want to pick a fight, pick a fight with the biggest one guy in the room. Best of luck to this team!

I'm sorry, my comment was aimed for someone that has worked with Mansfield at Apple before. This is not a place to start a flame war, take that stuff elsewhere.

I am in shock. He doesn't seem like a guy that would retire at such a young age. He's such a workaholic that I thought he would work well into his 70s. =\

How are they tracking diet automatically through the wristband? Can someone please explain that to me?

I believe this is the first of its kind. Both women-centric and international. Props to the Slideshare team for coming up with the idea and putting it together!

Props to Justin. This guy carries himself like a true startup veteran despite being only 28 years old. He has a level of tenacity that will make him succeed 9/10 times regardless of the idea, that's what differentiates Justin from rest of the wantrapreneurs.

CMU grad here, let me chime in a few words if I may...

As much as I am proud to hear that Carnegie Mellon SCS grads are making the top $, it saddens me a bit to realize that our graduates are playing it too safe.

I don't have the exact numbers, but my guess is that the percentage of CMU grads doing startups is probably at a much lower number rate than other top tier tech schools like MIT and Stanford. As a result, while these other school's immediate graduate salary is lower than CMU, their life time salary is probably going to be higher.

Yes, making $100K out of college is glorious, but that novelty is going to wear off and you'll be like everybody else slaving their life away. While you still can, while the market is still hot, why not aim for something better like creating the next instagram or dropbox? What's the absolute worst that can happen if you fail? Returning to that $100K/year job?

Life after college is like stepping into a casino for the first time and the casino offers you a free roll. It's silly not to give it a shot if you have practically nothing to lose.

It's very smart for these celebrities to build a brand other than what they're currently doing. Not many singers can be hip for more a few years, and not many models can look better when they go past 40. It's good for these people to build a second career later on so if/when they need to switch, the options are open.

Props to Ashton Kutcher to leading the way for venture investing. Smart move.

Not bad for your first web app.

I'd recommend that you work on making it easier for the user to play the game right away. Every click the user makes will result in a dropoff in conversion rate. Otherwise this is pretty interesting!

Keep at it!

I'm kinda disappointed that he didn't wear his trademark hoodie to the wedding like the way he did to the IPO roadshow. :/

This is simply brilliant. Travis you are the man!

Why hasn't Google acquired this company yet? They've been doing such great work and they obviously have the right passion to make email/calendar better for the world.

This is definitely a good move by Google to Shed some weight and let a promising product keep flourishing. I'm impressed.

Does anyone have an estimate on the price/term of this deal?

pdenya, can Hellofax do without the auto-complete feature? I rather sacrifice that so I don't have to give up my personal contacts.

Plus... most of the people I am faxing won't be in my contact address book. Those are usually to some random numbers. If you guys can remove the request for address book, it'll be a no brainer to sign up.

The bottom of the article lists the top 25 startup ecosystems. I am very surprised that Beijing is not one of them. I have a hard time believing DC/Chicago/Montreal's startup throughput is anywhere near Beijing's. What do you guys think?

damn... Matlab is not on the list! :)

I better go start getting all of these polygon domain names... just in case visa/master starts their pentagon/hexagon/heptagon services too.

This is a bit odd to me as an acquisition. It's unlikely to be a talent acquisition given the userbase/brand of posterous, but the two product doesn't seem to mesh at all IMO. Does anyone have a theory as to what's the synergy behind these two companies that could justify an acquisition?

I am seeing roughly +/- 0.1s accuracy range on my browser. Can someone please enlighten me on why we cannot reduce this further? I assume this page has <100ms response time, can't they get to a better accuracy range?

Reading this article makes me giggly inside.

Good writeup Jason. I also clicked on the rejection therapy post by accident... ha, that was hilarious.

Oh the rage. Time to move my accounts off of GoDaddy. Any suggestions on where I should take my business to?

very impressive linkedin. Good move.

Ouch... 137 upvotes for Sal speaking at MIT and only 15 points for the same speech at Rice?

Come on Rice hackers, where are you?

Love it. This is an excellent use of mechanical turk solving real world problems.

Best of luck jhancock! Thanks for the awesome inputs.