suking

Reddit could make a fortune - they just don't try very hard. We'll see what the next CEO does. But if profit was a concern for Conde Nast it wouldn't be hard to deliver it.

Oh - so he's going to tell the truth then? I guarantee he has confidentiality agreements about all of that - so I don't believe anything he says for a second. Loopt was a total bust for VC returns.

No way - they have 900 people working there. They are probably hemorrhaging even more $! And this is a $5bn+ company - what a joke.

* ready to sell business because it wasn't going anywhere, sequoia knew greendot well and got them to get a return on the $ put in so it wasn't a total buss. Hence the huge (relative to the sale) incentive for founders to stick around since they got nothing from the sale. is my guess.

You don't sell enough e-goods then or you would have gotten them.

sequoia made them.

1) no it doesn't - i've done it plenty of times with twilio - very simple 2) ok... 3) WATCH OUT - TIMEZONES!!!!!!!!! TIME = SERVER_TIMEZONE + (USER_OFFSET)... or you can locally change the time zone of the whole account to their local one... come on... easy.

bingo

1) send and receive is built in API

2) just keep a db log - simple

3) omg - set an int(12) of time() when you want it sent in DB... run a cron script, check if currentTime>sendTime... send!

4) meh - simple enough

I don't get how companies like this get funding - so simple and do nothing imo except provide another point of failure.

c) this would take a developer like 2 hrs to build... NEXT!

Maybe 3 year vesting - although 4 year is more common. But 75% vested of a big company is fine.

I agree - I can care less about checking in or who checked in or local deals or coupons. Fad fad fad.

Instead of down voting can someone give some examples...

I don't get what you can do with twitter data...

I think Amazon offers WaaS...?

Been around a long time, never caught on. Their traffic #s from compete are a joke, even if they were off by a magnitude - still shows they are stale. They should try something different than competing with google.

here's how to improve in php: header("Location:www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&q=".urlencode($_REQUEST['q']));

Complete linkbait piece then, b/c DDG is anything but popular.

No one uses DDG - they must have hired a PR firm to get some BS stories planted. their results are pretty terrible for the few tests I did the last time their PR firm got something on HN.

We do more than that, but only send a few hundred emails per day outside of our internal google apps accounts (using sendgrid) and then blast a newsletter once a week via mailchimp.

Thanks - that's why I use sendgrid & mailchimp. Don't have time to care about these things.

Which big ones use that as their white label?

You don't have to pay to get whitelisted with an ISP. You have to have good IP reputation then apply.

HN is becoming 37Signals News.

They must have got a hold of 37's backend and forgot to change the database password to their own!

I don't know anyone who uses it in US. Must be a SV thing - who knows. Definitely not the trend I'd like to see though if I invested at that peak.

Didn't they get roped right into turntable.fm too?

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/turntable.fm/

I'm pretty sure they already use this software and that's how they automate finding youtube videos. But then people speed them up, add little watermarks, etc. to make them harder to find.

I was just talking to a friend about timeline and how hard it is to navigate. I can't even go on friends pages that use it - it's just too hard to get used to, especially when almost everyone else uses the regular interface.

Agreed. Not like a wordpress blog and design cost that much.