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why is this news.

Can anyone help extending this?

Trying to add Click events to this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7621401/adding-a-click-ev...

CANADA!!

haha agreed. My Auto Motive I thought would do well though ;)

I debated the name and really tried not to, but I think it does fall under the definition of a hack... I could be wrong. Sorry if I mislead. Was not the intention.

This is a great question and something I struggle with everyday. All I know is that the typical answer of.

"Well, I am going to do this thing that makes money and then when I am rich I will give back"

Is bullshit. You either give back or you don't. It's not a question of time and money.

I try and do as much local charity work as I can, I try to be present when listening to friends and family. I try and treat my wife and my family as the most important people in the world so that they can bring that love to other places, but I hear what you saying.

I want to be working on things that change the world. I think at some level, we all want to be.

Thank you for asking / sharing.

Kent

Ewakened is always looking for Flexible Rails developers to work remotely.

http://ewakened.com/apply

Excellent article. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you Dallas.

Amen

Thanks Jason! Great insights in your post. Great read for sure.

haha really? That's awesome. Well, they got enough traction :) I love my Dropbox.

interesting perspective. I agree and disagree. I think Google could over-engineer it, but UI aside, there needs to be some "intense" engineering to scale this reliably across the globe. I don't doubt that Dropbox could do it, but I feel Google is poised for something like this. To their credit, they have gotten a few things right ;)

agreed. I love them too, but it will be hard to be the underdog in this race.

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I sure will. Thank you!

I will! Thank you for the tip.

Sorry about that. Purposely didn't link Viewpointr for that reason. Thanks to @engineyard we are humming again. We are also having a little Twitter bug that we are working on. Sorry :S

That's very kind of you! Thank you. It was my pleasure.

Thanks :) I agree ;)

kent.fenwick on Skype.

Thanks Charlie! It was fun :)

Thanks I will.

practice

Check your ego at the door. Do some sketches. Have some conversations with friends and other people about the idea. Focus on initial reactions and gut feelings. Sleep on it. Wait a week. See if it's exciting after a week. Do some more paper prototypes. Sleep on it. Wait a week. Compare both sets of sketches. Focus on common elements. Write something down. Get advise from domain experts. Sleep on it. Wait a week. Have some potential users do some sketches. Compare with your sketches. Focus on common elements. Sketch some more. Learn Ruby or Python. If you don't know HTML / CSS use Photoshop and send it to a company like XHTMLIZED. Use Rails or Django. Host it in the Cloud, preferably with Engine Yard or Heroku. Use MySQL. NoSQL will come soon enough. Review all of your sketches. Test it. Ship it. Check your ego at the door.

Dropbox

ZumoDrive