kakooljay

"'social' games... have become all the rage on social networks such as Facebook. These are more about interaction than action: players either join their friends for an online game of poker or Scrabble, or to create and show off virtual pets, farms and mob families. Zynga, the market leader, which had 22m users in January, now has more than 170m..."

Interesting that they'll be airing on Virgin flights.. I'd rather watch random pitches than most of the movies they show..

Paul Buchheit in Founders at Work (p. 162): "AdSense, the content-targeted ads, was actually something that, if I recall, I did on a Friday... Everyone hated it. Many people were kind of mad at me because they didn’t really go for the whole concept. It was something that had been talked about, and people agreed that it was not workable, it was not a good idea. So, to some extent, they were agitated that I wasted my time."

"It seems strange that the system will allow anonymous voting, but not anonymous comments. Allowing the admin to enable anonymous commenting would be very helpful." Yep. Maybe uservoice should listen to its own users..

Probably just an oversight on the set, & possibly a violation of his contract with MS??

"UserVoice requires creating an account." Are you sure this isn't an admin setting?

Professors certainly matter to students. I had one [award-winning] Art History professor who was very accessible despite teaching popular 1st year classes with hundreds of students. I also had a stats prof from China who could barely speak English...

Have a look at Flock - The Social Web Browser [http://www.flock.com/]

"The two African-American business leaders estimate their holdings -- from hotels to TV stations -- are worth $1 billion. One St. Louis hotel they own once barred black people."

"It is highly unlikely that whatever Jennings is suffering from now had anything to do with the flu vaccine she received in August. Unfortunately, this is not stopping irresponsible news coverage or exploitation by anti-vaccinationists... Jennings has now inserted herself in to the anti-vaccine movement, and is using her own case to 'warn about the dangers of vaccines.'"

We need a vaccine to cure ignorance...

Great idea. Pictures are worth...

Btw, not a very descriptive title.. perhaps an "infographic" would have helped :)

Google hints that it may introduce the format for some other categories, saying it will “increase ... the number of advertisers able to participate.”

http://news.ebrandz.com/google/2009/2939-google-debuts-compa...

"Pipe level neutrality is surely only one layer of a stack."

Is it? Am I missing something? Doesn't net neutrality just guarantee all TRAFFIC equal access at the network level? It doesn't guarantee all APPS equal access to the AppStore, any more than "highway neutrality" (equal access to the highway system) would allow Hyundai to sell its models at a Mercedes dealership...

PHP might not be the best choice for every job, but do Java developers really have more resources? Google says...

java+libraries: 13,600,000 results

php+libraries: 32,200,000 results

I agree.. Creating a separate channel for app notifications is a great idea. And if notifications are of VALUE, users may pay more attention.

Posession is 99/100ths of Internet Law. I think similar logic led to a ruling that Google did not infringe on plaintiff's IP because Google did not host the images displayed on its pages.

Maybe that applies only if the winner is American. I bet they changed the eligibility requirements after that was written..

That's hilarious :) YC asks applicants to describe a time they hacked something to their advantage.. wouldn't that be a great answer?

That is a great point.. imagine a prof issuing grades that way. I'd love to see someone with a 100-point system do some A/B testing to see how much recommendations degrade with a 5-point system.

How would that work, without access to server logs? There's no way for a 3rd party to track every request. One note: Alexa is getting better: "On April 16, 2008 many users reported dramatic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed this later in the day with an announcement that they had released the new Alexa ranking system, claiming that they now take into account more data sources "beyond Alexa Toolbar users" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet]

I'm glad FB is opening up.. now we'll see some cool FB mashups :) I'd love to see 2D visualizations of the people in my networks.. like an FB-touchgraph [http://touchgraph.com/navigator.html]..

8 great uses: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9118441/8_ways_Twitte...

There's a related article in current issue of Wired [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter/]:

The company’s revenue will be a modest $4 million or so this year. Even so, Twitter reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook last November and seems perfectly happy to burn through its roughly $150 million in investor funds...

Though the company held a discussion earlier this year called “What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up?” the mission statement is still a work in progress. “If there are three sentences I’d use to describe Twitter,” Stone says, “one of them would be ‘I don’t know.’”

I believe in free markets too (I'm an economist + engineer). But Google, which professes to "not be evil" & is making peanuts on these services, could have set a great example (and not risked damaging publicity)..

Yes - "Business" is too generic. Would you start a tech business in Pittsburgh?

Measuring IQ at age 2? Really? It's hard enough to measure IQ in adults. [Which is why average IQ scores have been increasing about three points every decade. http://skepticreport.com/sr/?p=371]

"He is always asking questions." Wow, he MUST be a genius... If he's doing integral calculus at 4 I'll be impressed. And just think: if he lives long enough, his IQ could double! lol

"Bebo, with more than 24 million users [1/2 as many as Twitter], operates in offices about three times larger than Twitter's space." Interesting...

Btw: when I cut & pasted that line, sfgate added this string: "Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/13/... Great idea...

When you have to recuse yourself at every meeting, what's the point?

Hello HTML...& goodbye Flash?

"HTML5 is expected to be a game-changer in Web application development, making obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5]

Check out Twitter API: Up and Running: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154622

Chapter 1 has a great section called "Creative Uses of Twitter" (& a history of Twitter). Examples range from breaking news & games like Artwiculate to organizing protests & flash mobs. Also, Twitter is adding geotagging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/aug/21/twitter-goog...], so you'll soon be able to get feeds for, say, restaurant deals in your area...