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Comments should live on the original blog post. We'll continue to see hacks like friendfeed comments and this plug-in until comments are fixed.

For what it's worth, last year, a handful of companies didn't end up launching on the day(s) of the conference (probably because they weren't ready vs strategy)

I was in the Demo Pit -- was good since I'm from Canada, and got to tour the bay area. I wouldn't recommend the Demo Pit -- people spend most of the day in the conference and either head home or make a quick pass through the pit. You will mostly be speaking with service providers. For the price, I wouldn't recommend the conference either (for entrepreneurs, there are much better ways to use the $). If you do end up in the Demo Pit, I would strongly recommend getting a slot on the first day.

Last year, we were the only Demo Pit company to use the student rate ;) This year, the student rate is $149 to attend the conference.

I'd love to see this for prototype. Let us know if you ever get around to it.

Mootools lets you do it; you can even choose the type of compression you want (although I prefer to minify things myself): http://www.mootools.net/download

If you're looking at building your own crawler in Python from scratch, here's a benchmark of SGML parsers:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:LYoRD1GTP2UJ:www.oluyede...

We've been playing with sgmlop (http://effbot.org/zone/sgmlop-index.htm) for parsing and urllib2 (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html) for fetching.

Keep in mind, revenue sharing/generation might not be as important as you think. Think of Revver vs. Youtube. Reading this may help:

http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2006/10/research-note-peer-v...

Using freeconomics isn't monopolistic in nature. There are ways to compete, independent of pricing strategy (e.g. all webmail is free, so the best product wins).

If Roovno is a service that can generate revenue for users while they use free web services, you're very much a part of the Freeconomy. In fact, you're betting on $0.00 being the future of business. lol.

It was probably left in for better performance. Glad I could help.

From http://www.cs.queensu.ca/software_docs/gnudev/gcl-ansi/gcl_9...:

... If either list-1 or list-2 has duplicate entries within it, the redundant entries might or might not appear in the result ...

What happens if blog tools (Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, etc) include threaded comments in their next release?

I would imagine that hedge funds will get hit harder than VC

I was just talking about this today. I believe common investors will want to see a working business model earlier in the product. The potential for early revenue with real customers (i.e. not ads) will be more attractive.

I think it's unfortunate. Capital intensive start-ups will be at an even bigger disadvantage.. in this case, I would agree with andreessen: raise as much as possible. I've always believed in creating value before you capture any, and that will be more difficult if you have to focus on your business model early on.

Goot pt. Wanted to say this as well, just couldn't find the words.

Benefits:

- Having your thoughts/opinions online

- Discussions with readers can be valuable

Drawbacks:

- Taking the time to author original, thought provoking and/or informative posts. When blogs echo or summarize other posts, without any added thoughts/opinions/etc, they suck

- Keeping it up-to-date i.e. Wordpress upgrades, etc

1. http://www.google.ca/

2. http://www.netvibes.com/

3. http://192.168.0.100/

Tables are for tabular data, blah blah blah

These are some pretty basic improvements; this is a more complete list:

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

You can also use the YSlow plugin to rate your pages based on the 13 suggestions, etc

Upcoming:

"High Performance MySQL" (O'Reilly) (New Edition)

"Advanced PHP Programming: Developing Large-scale Web Applications With PHP 5" (Developer's Library) by George Schlossnagle

Released:

"Building Scalable Websites" (O'Reilly) by Cal Henderson

"Scalable Internet Architectures" (Developer's Library) by Theo Schlossnagle

We've been covered on TC twice (without any other significant coverage on the same day):

We saw an additional ~2200 UVs for the site on the first post; ~12000 UVs for the widget (incl in post) and ~1000 UVs for the site on the second post.

To this day, we still have people e-mailing us (as a result of TC coverage) -- usually they want you use their service.

Don't know why, but I really liked network calculus in university: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_calculus

I would think Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the gang of four is the most famous -- I can't say I've read any books on programming that I felt were "memorable"

I think the fact that you lack insight into yesterday's healthcare industry works for you -- it's an industry that's desperately in need of fresh perspective. These "insights" can blind you from new opportunities that may shape tomorrow's healthcare industry.

Both industries are ripe for change, but if healthcare's grass looks like it can be greener, go for it. You have 4 months to explore its problems.

"When you're green you grow; when you're ripe you rot"

"But consumers still have the ability to figure out which of 2 free products is best. Free does not preclude quality. Same rules as before apply."

That's why his argument that free will impact innovation is wrong as well. If anything, this promotes innovation and kills incrementalism.

Well, not really - free is maximizing value creation, not value capture. Chris Anderson explained all this: "the world of free exists mostly to acquire these valuable assets [attention, reputation, etc] for the sake of a business model to be identified later"

It just so happens they already have a great business model, but they didn't when they released their search engine. They didn't make their search engine free to "maximize their profits"

This guy keeps getting stuff wrong.

Instead of fearing free, take some time to understand it.

I love "freemium" business models, but only when the negative externalities aren't seen by the "users of the basic version" and especially when the positive externalities _are_ seen by the "users of the basic version".

I wouldn't expect to see value-adding apps too soon... unless FB is willing to make some significant changes to their platform. There's simply no incentive to make them right now -- virality continues to be the main criterion for app success.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ is good to watch

you should use this: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

yeah, typically any user-gen links are nofollow

This is way off. Free always beats paid. Your example of champagne is somewhat accurate (i.e. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_dri...), but I don't think the same concept applies to software. When some alternatives cost money, consumers will almost always choose free. Why do people use Windows?

(1) It is pre-installed on machines - note: Linux is no longer "free" when you need to install it yourself

(2) It is included in the PCs price or consumers aren't aware of or given "free" alternatives

(3) Historically, *nix has been too difficult to install/use, lack of software, etc

Think about this: how much did MySQL just sell for? How much does MySQL cost?