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pinksoda··on Picture storage web site? But not flickr or picasa!
Why did you put "Yahoo (Microsoft)"

Yahoo doesn't own Microsoft.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Live CD virus scan?
CD's are not typically rewritable, you can put files on them once and that's it. CD-ReWritables do exist, but they require additional drivers/software to be loaded to function- which means loading the OS.

You'll also need the OS loaded for updates via the internet.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Review my start-up Add yours while your at it.
Nice site.

I agree that it needs more info. I'll be taking care of that soon, keep an eye out.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Review my start-up Add yours while your at it.
Clickable link: http://www.sinkfloat.com/
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No one has anything to say about this?
pinksoda··on Don't ask venture capitalists for referrals if they say they're not interested.
I laughed when I read your post. I exchanged emails with him before and you described him perfectly.
pinksoda··on Don't ask venture capitalists for referrals if they say they're not interested.
You are exactly right. There is no harm in asking. What's the worse that can happen, they say no?
pinksoda··on [dead]
Doesn't matter?

Okay let's do this in assembly, you down?

pinksoda··on [dead]
Stop posting this garbage. I'm not signing up just to read an article.
pinksoda··on Why we got brilliant engineers for only 2,000$ / year
His font / size hurts my eyes.
pinksoda··on Ask HN: We're still developing - A competitor has launched - what to do?
What's your competitors site?
pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
Just don't let them terrorize you. Stand your ground, fight the fight.

I've had several very successful websites and I was always dealing with people and companies trying to "shake me down." I think it's just part of the game.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
That's pretty common. Take a look here:

>> Despite its track record of successfully defending cases brought in U.S. courts, in July 2003 a default judgment was entered against the site in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court High Court of Justice for EC$27,100,932.00.[4] The award, made in Eastern Caribbean currency rather than U.S. dollars, has not been recognized or enforced by any U.S. Court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report

pinksoda··on Duck Duck Go is starting to get coverage
They don't move that quick. Took them a few years to come after me with an old "grey area" site of mine, and it was ranked in the Alexa 500 for quite some time, receiving 400-800k unique visitors per day.
pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
Semi-public information, such as address or phone number, isn't allowed on the profiles, even though a simple whitepages.com search allows that.

The amount of information in the more than 1 million reviews that would be considered "private" is less than what you would already find through available avenues such as a Google search or even public records.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
It doesn't seem risky in the US, I'm not aware of any similar laws here.

Fortunately, I don't live in the UK, so their laws don't apply to me, even if they say they do.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
It works the same way as Citysearch or Yelp, in that aspect, anyone can review you. Members need to be aware of their local laws when writing potentially libelious or hateful statements - you open yourself up to lawsuits if you go on the site and start stirring up lies.

It's pretty easy to make your point, even a negative one, without being libelious/hateful/rude, which is the way it should be done.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
It used to recognize which one you chose, then it showed you the first page of N amount of results, which for some categories is over 200,000 reviews, in alphabetical order. I got advice from HN'ers that it needed to be changed :)

The account simply narrows down the results for you based on your selections of categories and locations. You can enter just one location and it will still work, it just doesn't tell you that.

The account is barely an account, just pick a username and e-mail address, click, your password is in your inbox. Simply used to remember your preferences since it's pretty heavily customized (narrowed down) for you, to be relevant.

Now that I've explained it a bit more, do you have any suggestions?

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Took your advice, successfully! Let's try it again.
Clickable link: http://www.talkburst.com
pinksoda··on Ask HN: I suck at marketing, can you give feedback on my startup's homepage?
You don't look at the camera even once during the whole video. It really bothers me and reminds me of when I'm talking to a blind person and they can't make eye contact with me because they can't see me.
pinksoda··on Tell HN: Consider the implications of Google pulling google.cn
Scraping Google is against their TOS, so your point is null and void.
pinksoda··on I will be losing my Job today...
No money to buy cigarettes? That must be deeply upsetting.

I don't think it's right to have "no money to buy food" and "no money to buy cigarettes" in the same sentence.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: Legal advice for Web developer
Take him to court before he can take you. This will give you the better position and he will probably get scared and settle.
pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
I just changed the home page drastically. It's not completely done yet, still have to find a spot for the "recently earned badges" but check it out and let me know what you think.
pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
http://www.talkburst.com/person/504281-Jeremy-Stoppelman

That's the founder of Yelp. Should I tell him I'll hide the bad reviews if he signs up as an advertiser? LOL

pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
I'm glad you mentioned the logo. Some other people mentioned it was nice, now I know they were just pulling my leg. What makes you think it is a nice site?
pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
I'm doing this solo and have a lot on my plate, but I'll get there! :)
pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
It's not centered around libel, at all. There's only a very small percentage of 1 star reviews, less than 2%, and most of them make their point without being rude or hateful.

Anything that seems hateful, defamatory or gossip-like gets censored from public view and hidden from the search engines.

Thanks for the feedback about the categories. I'm working on allowing people to narrow down categories like you described.

I'm open to any suggestions you may have that would make it seem less "centered around libel" - I thought I was doing a good job with it already, but maybe not.

pinksoda··on I created a social network all by myself. What do you think?
Here's a clickable link: http://www.talkburst.com

There are currently over 1.3 million reviews of people from the US and Canada. Everything ranging from doctors to professors to lawyers to investors, and more.

pinksoda··on Ask HN: How do you evaluate a lawyer?
If it's a US or Canadian lawyer try searching for their name on http://www.talkburst.com/ - anyone with a name can be reviewed now.
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