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Not that I disagree, but "inability to respect social norms" is basically part of the definition of Borderline Personality disorder or Narcissism, so saying as much is basically tautological.

That's a 'backup', that has nothing to do with all social content on the servers being unreadable to anyone but those in the graph.

OneSocialWeb, Diaspora et all are solving the wrong problem but are getting attention because of the general grumblings about Facebook. The issue causing the most Facebook user dissent is privacy. Open protocols do little to address this; having your whole social graph (think embarrassing pics) sitting on any server out of your control, whoever the owner, is the problem.

What is needed is a system that guarantees privacy by storing your social graph is such a way that it cannot be data-mined, sold, leaked, or linked by other websites. One way to do this is to have all data on the server be encrypted where the key only resides on the client side.

OneSocialWeb does nothing to solve the privacy problem.

GM Giri on on chessbase has had excellent analysis of the whole match, here's his writeup of game 12:

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6327

<--- What, you mean like that?

I'm not sure the slow start is what's called for here, if CL were so inclined they could permanently make these guys irrelevant in a week or two.

This will work in certain situations. Basically, in negotiation the one to mention price first 'loses'. The reason the first party to mention a price 'loses', especially if it is the payee, is fairly simple game theory. The first price mentioned by the payee will set a high bound. If they payer must set a first price, this will be the low bound, and may exceed the payees high bound. For instance, if a dev offers to do work for $100, but it is really worth $200 to the client, the client will accept the $100. The client may have offered $200, but now with the information that the dev will do it for $100, of course they will only offer $100.

tl;dr - The client must come up with a price first, and if they have a personal relationship with you and the value they gain is higher than your sunk costs, it will probably be higher than what you would have set.

Entrepreneurs obviously need to spin their situation in as positive a light as possible, see all the chatter around the monitization of twitter as an example, but I doubt outright lies are going to be a winning strategy. (it may work for Jobs, see woz-atari story, but is it worth the risk?)

I think it's important for the Entrepreneur to understand that VCs lie all the time however, it is just their nature, despite how open they look, they're especially good at lies of omission and manipulation of fund performance.

Never mind the cost of the network effects, PayPal only stayed in business because it figured out effective fraud loss minimization, which its completion did not (billpoint etc). Preventing fraud is mostly orthogonal to the lean/cash intensive issue.

I was just investigating postabon, I zoomed out to the whole US and only found a few dozen postings. They really need to work on their network effects, probably by spending large amounts of $ on contests and marketing.

Nice try mr MBA

Can't you have a standard for reddit ads? I would like to support reddit and view ads, but I feel you broke your covenant with users when you allowed flash-based blinky and moving ads, so now unfortunately your site is adblocked.

I like Brad, but sometimes he comes off as a narcissistic princess. If the VC already said 'no', it doesn't hurt at all to ask for a referral, the worst that can happen is they'll again say 'no' or ignore you.

That sounds like a lot of work for 10 people, or a normal amount for 20.

This is some seriously trite advice, and from a spammy site no less, who upvoted this?

Cute, paper generating, but probably fruitless. Even large real economies are poor models for each-other, and second life et all have more in common with flea markets than they do the complexity of modern macro econ.

100 engineers? What have they been up to for the last 5 years? (besides buzz)

I wish the energy being put into the whole 'nosql' movement had moved toward object databases instead of KV stores. KV is fine for caching, but is obviously not suitable for modeling and retrieving data with complex relationships.

I think it's hilarious that some NoSQL solutions now have 'columns!', way to go, you're slowly reinventing the RDBMS, poorly...

Oh please, facebook already had 1/2 the Ivy league signed up and were growing at a fantastic exponential rate before they received an initial investment of 500k in June of 04. A real 'venture' move would have been to fund Zuckerberg _before_ he had a giant user base.

VCs, despite what they might claim, are not about innovation or even venture. They function merely as a bank that buys equity, this is identical to the type of banking setup that would finance railroads in the 1800s.

I propose a start-up test, if a VC is willing to fund you, you do not need them, you are better off taking debt financing, you are already a sure thing.

The word you're looking for is 'marginal cost', econ 101 goes into your points in great detail.

No

No flash video

No SD slot

No USB (come on apple)

No writing input (newton 2?)

Weird itouch/iphone OS, means apps/everything controlled by apple, expensive

No eink display

sounds like a meetup I can get behind, when where?

"make something lots of people want to pay money for"

sophomoric, I'm not sure why this appeared on reddit.