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such a sucka!!!

Elegantly designed, but they still don't appear to have any business plan in mind. Are bands/record labels expected to pay to promote their own music?

HN also uses tables. (gasp)

Sounds like a neat idea worth experimenting - this is obviously very early on in the process though.

Five Guys is really blowing up right now. I'd like to see the figures on exactly how fast they're growing, but I see new Five Guys chains popping up everywhere and they seem to be extremely popular.

To keep things in perspective: the vast majority of Americans don't own small businesses or start-up companies.

Sorry, don't have the link to the HN submission, but this site is a good starting point:

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/

Craigslist has killed the classified markets dead x 100. This is huge for newspapers and not to be overlooked.

Looking at this selfishly: As an American in my early twenties, how can I land myself a gig in Ireland? I'd love to work/live abroad for a few years.

That's a substantial investment @ $250k. Congrats! This was demo'ed here a while back, right?

And this is stupid, but honestly, who uses the term "mary jane"?

By far the best summary of the recent financial crisis that I've read yet.

interesting quote:

"... if the government had rescued Lehman, it would have repudiated the claim that the Bear rescue was extraordinary; it would have also conceded that in the six months since Bear failed, neither the new facility that it set up nor the other steps to make markets more robust were reliable. Essentially, the Fed and the Treasury would have been admitting that they had lied or were incompetent in stabilizing the financial system — or both."

I think this is really good advice. Start building simple apps first to learn the foundations (which is very important), then go after your grand ideas.

The Many Eyes project that Irene led up before is a pretty neat data visualization experiment, analyzing large groups' activities on the web. It's worth a look.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home

"eBay has been laying off all year. Only this time it is their employees and not the sellers on the platform finding themselves out of work."

"In 1996, the New York Times website was dead set on getting users to sign up to access any Web content at all."

They've since opened up most of their site, but it's so frustrating that a good chunk of their content still requires you to sign-up.

I personally think iTunes sucks for playing music. I definitely prefer Winamp instead, but unfortunately there isn't a Winamp build for OS X that I know of. If not for easy iPod syncing, I wouldn't use iTunes at all.

Seriously. I know it's stupid for this to bother me, but it did.

This is a great idea to encourage more thoughtful discussion through blogs. Those disqus guys are smart.

This is disappointing because muxtape is/was such a great venue for people to discover new music.

The obvious takeaway here: It's going to extremely be hard for truly transformative services in the digital music arena to succeed until copyright laws are changed.

I think once this is added you guys will be money. I'm excited, as a consumer!

So if you link your drop.io account with twitter it sends out a tweet when you make a "drop"?

Not to be cynical but this doesn't really sound like a big deal to me - am I missing something here?

This is a neat idea, but it will be interesting to see how quality artists can be convinced that they should try this business model.

I'm shocked at the price, but good for them.

In my head I've always pronounced it something like, "Dell-Issio-Us'

The delicious.com name change could certainly give the site broader appeal. I like it.

All of my female friends from college love sending these little images back and forth to one another, and while it's a very simple idea, it seems to be extremely popular.

However, in my experience, the Bumper Sticker app is often very slow and clumsy to use. Ironically, I often use it as an example when speaking of Facebook apps that don't do a particularly good job of scaling.

I really like your site. I'm not sure about that name though..

Facebook is killing itself right now? Are you sure?

Great job by Marco of Tumblr

I think that this is a fantastic idea. I wonder what kind of variable and fixed costs come along with employing the parking sensors. A service like this will certainly justify a raise in meter fees.