npollock

The hidden cost of outsourcing is the need for increased project management. Communication issues and cultural differences often lead to poor execution, and projects that fail to meet expectations. Sure, there's significant savings on the cost of a developer hour, but your going to spend a lot more time/money on project management.

Here's a great discussion about how to run multiple versions of IE on a single windows instance,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574463/running-internet-e...

You've got to imagine the BBC does some kind of background check on the people it puts on air. Typically speakers hail from the big banks and funds, it's unusual to give a virtual unknown the pulpit. I wonder what kind of guidelines they establish before they allow you on air. Did they know he was that biased?

Very interesting. Given the regional differences with providers, this caveat may in effect geo-fence sharing by country.

This a big win for all the partners, and a potential barrier for anyone who's not a fb partner. I doubt that the real-time media playback sync is going to be available to normal fb apps. It would be really difficult to compete with any media app, music or video, that has partner integration with fb.

They actually just did. They argued that Google is free, and there's nothing to prevent users from using a different search engine. The argument seems to be that a large market share does not constitute monopoly power. In order for monopoly power to exist, there have to be barriers preventing users from switching search providers.

There needs to be some disclosure regarding the team behind the initiative. Who am I trusting with my money? Put a list of team members on the site, links to their linkedin/twitter etc.

Would be great to see the language/framework also expressed as percentages of total posts over a period. Clearly there's a growth trend in job postings, would be nice to see the relative change in demand for each language/framework.

Any startup that relies on the network effect to provide value is a daunting challenge. Your product can be amazing, but without the right user acquisition strategy, you'll be left spinning your wheels. Kudos to the AirBNB team for having the vision and determination not to quit.

Cue the conspiracy theorists, all the banned apps are photo related.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-secret-photos-app/