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What's the over-under on when they put pop-up ads in the game?

Did you play in your high school band? Join the marching band. If you're worried your musical chops aren't good enough , just remember; it's not how well you play, but how loud you play! You'll have 100 new friends and have a lot of fun. Heck, I met my wife in the band.

"Oath of Fealty" was a science fiction novel, not a how-to guide

Interesting, but I'll stick with Twister: http://twister.net.co/

"China" has been trying this for over 10 years. There first attempt was Red Flag Linux, and there have been a few other Linux derivatives since. The problem is that the 'users' (personal/business) want the Windows and will pirate copies as required.

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Geez - Huddle was "inspired" by Padpaw, but I'm not bitter, much.

Lot's of ideas get tried out, some times they stick. Other times they take 2 or 3 starts/failures before they stick

Must mean it's time for me to write that "Get in on the Bitcoin Revolution" book.

Agreed - Granting or selling shares is much more straightforward than an LLC. Plus converting an LLC to an S or C-Corp takes a lot of billable hours.

So - find a lawyer local to you, and have him set up the S-Corp in your state. Don't worry about it being in Delaware. Making that change later, or even going to a C-corp is easy (for a lawyer)

Heh. When was the last time Dave McClure followed the Oakland A's? I mean, to take his analogy of "Moneyball" to his investment strategy to it's (il)logical conclusion, you'll have a bunch of start-ups that will make it the playoffs (seed) but never win the important game (series A).

Oh and other 'teams' will read the book, understand the new metrics that help predict success, spend more money, and win the World Series (e.g. Liquidity event). Maybe even do it twice in 3 years =)

I worked there 10 years ago and if I remember correctly, the system that generated seed files wasn't on the network. They wanted an "air gap" just for this reason.

And yes - the method for SecurID was long ago known - just read the patent.

Your supposition is incorrect. The planet is awash in oil. The only limitation is cost of extracting it. For example: the Bakken oil reserve in North Dakota is estimated to be in the 100's of billion barrels. Unfortunately, the oil is trapped in shale which limits the amount that can be extracted _today_. That problem gets reduced every year that new extraction technology comes on line.

I think you're making the error of equating "energy" with "oil". In an economy that relies on moving people and stuff around, new cheaper ways of supplying the energy will always be found - it's in our nature.

Example: New York state has huge natural gas reserves. If you converted all the buses in New York to run on CNG, the state would still be be a net-exporter of natural gas.

Yup - I scanned the QR Code during the press conference and filled out the form on my phone. I didn't think I stood a chance of getting one, but Christmas came early today.

Nice machine.

Hats off to Twilio - it makes SMS dead simple

I'll believe it only if they bundle Jumpman

Thanks Tim - getting people educated is a major obstacle. It took American Idol to get people in the US to use text messaging.

cool - thanks

Ha - not only that, but the "Notificator" (love that name) had a revenue model!!!

Here's a simple solution - get rid of tenure. Tenure was originally a protection for professors to speak freely without the fear of getting fired. The result however is an ossification of faculty that doesn't care because they've attained a level of job security not found in the rest of the economy.

Seeing the same thing. Someone is getting a wake-up call, I hope

Padpaw, Inc. <http://padpaw.net>; is pleased to announce our Beta API for adding group text messaging to your web site or social network.The API is perfect for social networking sites that want to quickly add text messaging capabilities to their services without the long implementation of getting a short code, working with an aggregator, or getting a campaign approved.

Text messaging to groups can be challenging. While it's straight forward to send a single message to an individual from your web site, managing group communications are more complex. Padpaw is offering this capability which has been developed and tested with real live groups.

The text messaging service consists of a REST API to Padpaw's messaging server which allows for a quick integration. Individuals and companies wishing to use the API will need to register with Padpaw to obtain an API key. You can find out more information, including documentation at our web site:

<http://padpaw.net/api/>;

Future API releases will incorporate other Padpaw features such as event RSVP, sign-ups, and polls.

The service is in Beta and we're looking forward to you trying it and giving us your feedback. During our limited Beta program, you can use the messaging system to up to 200 messages. Pricing for our production version of the service will be announced later.

mBlox was good in getting us feedback and suggesting fixes during the process. You spend most of the time waiting for the carriers to respond to applications and testing.

You can get a shortcode in three days - $500 for a random 5-digit, $1,000 for a vanity 5 or 6-digit. The biggest gating item is the approval process with the carriers. That will take 6-8 weeks.

If you're getting a prototype working, textmarks might be the way to go. You'll have to prefix your SMS command set with a keyword. Longer term you want your customers/members to identify with your own shortcode. Imagine them getting messages from two services on 41411

Padpaw is currently using mBlox and they've been very helpful in getting us running and approved through all the carriers. We're using the XML interface for sending messages, but we might switch to SMPP if our volumes start getting insane. I wrote 3 blog posts regarding our experience. You can read about it here <http://www.padpaw.net/blog/?p=42>.

As far as pricing, expect to pay a monthly fixed fee and then a per message charge. I found mBlox pricing was the best.

Free yes, but as someone else mentioned, you don't have any guarantee of service quality. We used email-to-sms when prototyping Padpaw and got mixed results on message delivery. This is an important requirement as we're sending out change of event (i.e. "game rained out") messages. Also, using SMS for signup is a lot more straightforward for people - they can send it right from the phone.

Gee, my site is Web 2.4 rc1. Will I be ready?

This post doesn't belong on this service - can anyone delete it?

Social networking, like a lot of other business segments, is starting to encompass lots of other companies doing similar things. Increasingly, social networking is about finding people with similar interests, backgrounds, or personal attributes (race, religion, disease/disability) and getting them to talk/share stuff with each other. What's driving startups is that they're going after specific groups/markets in the hope of getting enough of them together so they click on an ad every once and a while on the web site.

The best example I can think of that goes after a specific group is Dogster. Dogster was started as a joke by someone who created the site over a weekend (at least that's the story I heard). Much to the designer's surprise, people really wanted to talk with other people about their dogs. Dogster has since raised some money and is getting revenue from sponsorships. Woof!

Increasingly, people/groups will just put these networks together themselves instead of relying on a business to do it for them. Ning has been working hard and has a bunch of social networks already up and running. They make it easy for people to put together all the components (forums, photo albums, video, etc.).

Plug: Mobile Monday Boston will be having its next meeting on Sept. 17 to discuss mobile social networking. A number of companies will be presenting (including mine - padpaw.net).

um..what's the difference between this and Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux??

OTOH - nice vision :)

Almost all the browsers are XHTML1.0 compatible (with the OpenWAP DTD). The only problem we've encountered are font size issues across phones.