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Thanks for the link. The more details we get the better we understand...

That's an idea, in fact. Aggregate all those small players into a big one...and other new small players can join to the federation...

A good way to make money for those guys...intranet microblogging.

It is known that companies are, usually, more resistant to the inovation. I just remember the company I worked for some time ago: they switched from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 last year :)... I know a company which builds educational products...yet it doesn't support Firefox! Firefox which has 20% of the market! Another company just upgraded their Internet Explorer browser...switching from IE6 to IE7...

So, give it some time...the enterprise will catch up eventually with Twitter like stuff. Too bad that, at that time, something new will be out there...and they have to play the cat and mouse again.

Exactly...Yammer does that.

I guess this resembles the case of the social networks out there. There are some general leaders (Facebook, Myspace, Hi5) and some niche leaders (Linkedin and other dozen of niche social networks).

And a bit resembles also with the search engine situation: Google is the leader but that doesn't stop entrepreneurs to build niche search engines or even take on Google directly.

Twitter is the leader, no doubt. But a Twitter clone could have a specific niche (Yammer, for example, is much more oriented to enterprise "twittering").

Laconica just offers you, free, the mean to build such a niche service without being necessary to hire developers. Like there are lots of social networking software...or video sharing software (Youtube clones).

Do you know any other image hosting scripts competing with this one?

Anyway, if Godaddy fails I guess he can choose something else...the problem is that there are so many hosting companies and so much info that in the end you might end up choosing whatever...trials and error, I guess.

Do you propose something else, some other hosting? It seems Godaddy is in his town...so he can go and grab their nuts if they mess with his site...

You will hit beaureaucracy at big companies, that's for sure. To get done simple things you have to get tons of signatures. A, don't forget those pesky meetings...

At a startups probably you will work more...but ask for options too, not just salary.

In the end it depends on your personality...boring or fun?

Most are afraid to tell straight in the face...

It's the all american stuff: we don't want to hurt your feelings so we are going to tell you that we'll get back to you :)...

Filmmaker :)...and I am already learning about this.

I'm sending their resumes to some recruiters I know...or, if I hear about a job somewhere I send them the link to apply.

No changes for my wesite :(...I guess I need more link development and more updates to the site.

There are enough cases when the man goes bankrupt and the wife is leaving him instead of supporting him until he recovers. But also there are cases when the wife is supporting the man until he gets on his feet...I've seen both.

Yeah, fire the wife!! How come she says that instead of supporting you?? I guess she didn't contribute with anything to your success but probably swallows money like a shark.

But then you have 4 kids with her :(...you're kinda trapped there.

I hope this is a good list of these providers.

Well, many blogs outhere are Wordpress based...even the most known tech blogs like Techcrunch, Venturebeat, Mashable...

Secutiry should be taken seriously for any website, not just for Wordpress...I bet there are security holes in Movable Type or Textpattern or other blog software...that doesn't mean we should stay away from running blogs...because that means we will stay away forever.

Very comprehensive list of tips and tricks. I like the new feature of Wordpress 2.7: automatic updating (that should keep many hackers away by updating the installation to the newest version).

> he did not rape me I guess he didn't impale you either :) (just saw you name is "Vlad" and reminded me of "Vlad the Impaler" (also known as Dracula).

Ops, sorry...haven't checked HN before posting...I thought HN can see the dupes, at least try to identify them (as Digg does)...

Hmm..no iphone users here it seems...

I would like to hear some REAL opinions about iPhone...will Blackberry Storm be better? Should I wait for it? Should I wait for Android phone? Or just go ahead and get the iPhone?

Is this another Alltop.com sort of...?

Checkout these free solutions (PHP/MySQL): - www.magentocommerce.com - www.zencart.com - www.cubecart.com

You can host these on your servers and many hosting companies are making it easier to install by offering Simplescripts or Fantastico scripts bundles.

Of course, there are tons of other options (including paid ones).

8,000/day doesn't seem high but I bet they were very targeted and had a good conversion rate (especially that Bankaholic was on Google's top searches for certain terms).

Now, if they bring also more people to work at Bankaholic then the site could do even better.

Well, I guess this website can answer to your question: www.highscalability.com

Hope this helps.

I am doing both...but many times is hard...very little sleep in the night, almost always tired. You have to make a lot of sacrifices without the guarantee of making it (startup).

If they are in a 3rd world country contating a lawyer could be pretty much useless. I bet they don't have enough money to pay a lawyer. I'd say take this story to the media (of course, if this is true and after you did everything to negotiate with your host).