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Are you looking to learn new skills or to make money? Learning something new is not going to bring you $50 / day now, but on the long run yes it could turn down to $500 / day or more. With that said I would suggest looking into the mobile industry iPhone and Android for now (the other mobile OS are not worth the time and effort, the manufacturers will create a true OS pretty much soon - if they wake up from they're dream " We have a mobile OS").

A lot of the content on the web today is getting much attention from smartphones, so there is a ton of potential out there.

Hope this helps

When using shadows on text with css you put the users CPU to test, if the users is on a mobile device or slow computer the CPU will work hard to make the shadow look good, so keep that in mind and try to avoid text shadow.

Follow up with twitter and you will see the best news. Or as dshankar said check it every 5 minutes.

I getting quite tired about this subject, the short answer is NO.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I would like to know if possible, how much would that be / month? I can find the rent, but I have no clue about the bills and any other expenses that might be involved. Thanks

So no one here has a startup ? :)

Yes indeed

I would do the following: for mobile users Yes, for PC's no. And here is why because when they send more then 140 chars on mobile it becomes 2 messages or more (more carrier fees).

I think that this found will improve the chance for a startup to become big, because with this extra money they can focus on the product and have a bigger found for advertising. If YC dose this is a win win situation for them because the companies that they found will get a bigger evaluation from the start. So now they invest $20K (let's say) and get somewhere to 10% if they invest $150K and still get 10% the company is worth $1.5 mil from the start not $200.000 like in the current funding.

Hi, a good resource can be found on http://psd.tutsplus.com/ but you need to practice practice and more practice, and by the way logos are usually created in a vector program like Adobe Illustrator in order for them to be 'print ready'

It's good to know that someone there still thinks this ad is going to drop visitors: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/real-blogs-dont-have-inters... Thanks for trying to remove the ad.

I estimate that 10% of the users will go to other sources for information, because this type of ads are really frustrating. If I war an advertiser this is one type of ad that I will not want in my ad campaign, the users try to skip it as soon as possible, so in return I don't really get the result I would like to (conversion).

CAKEPHP it's 10 times easy to work with and the framework orientation to standards beats any other framework I've seen for PHP including Symphony. The bake it's one feature that I could not live without, it builds the views, models and controllers for you with the basic View/ Edit / Delete functions all ready in place. www.cakephp.org

I think that we will see a big shift in they're marketing strategy in order to bring in more users. I don't have the link but I remember reading something a chat they wanted to add based on location, that would really scale up the numbers. So, you could chat with someone near you, e.g. in the same restaurant. The potential in something like that is huge, and if they don't build it, let's built it :)

Hi. Yes chargify is not really a payment gateway, but will do the job very well if you have different plans: e.g. Basic, Pro, etc. you just setup the prices and redirect the users to the specific pages and there they get billed. Once they pay the amount is transfered into your account. As for PayPal Pro, sorry I have no clue about if it will work with banks from India, but if PayPal accepts your credit card it should work but you have to discuss this with your bank. Hope that helps.

Hi. There are so many options out there like paypal recurring billing (using the API or just simple checkout). And here is one good payment gateway very simple to integrate but it's quite expensive if you ask me. http://chargify.com/

Yes brk, but I really doubt that half of the 6 million users are active. Then we end up with more then 100 checkins/user. It's like one check in for each working day of the month.

Wow, that is really impressive, but I do think that foursquare will have some decline in 2011.

Indeed a nice article, I think that PR is very important for a startup, I would say that is viral, we all know todays startups from press, and when we visit they're link we become users if the product they offer is indeed one of the best on the market