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We raised money from Kima after our incubator. They have a fast process and understand technology well.

This is much better than incubator terms, and if I had this before committing to a incubator, I would have done this instead.

The new breed of chrome apps has a lot of flaws after I tried to convert my app over:

-Previous installed chrome app matches the HTML5 api, the new chrome apps has a lot of restriction where you have to totally rewrite you code in terms of storage. i.e. Chrome.storage instead of localStorage; All chrome storage is async.

-The new window format for apps are a huge UI flaw. You can not open an Chrome app in a tab anymore. Basically, you now have an extra window whenever you open a chrome app. This is very annoying since when you click on the existing window the app is hidden in the back, you have to flip through your windows on the mac to find the app you just opened again.

-Javascript execution permissions are very strict, and no longer follows that of a normal webpage.

The result is, you can no longer build an HTML5 app and prepare it for the chrome store, you have to specifically change the code to package it. This makes it less ubiquitous and creates extra work for developers.

Team matters so much more than anything else. You can apply lean startup perfectly and have a team that just can't execute.

I am wary of methodology driven startups vs a great team tackling a general idea/market.

Hey, this is exactly what NimbusBase (http://nimbusbase.com) wants to do. It's a work in progress to integrate all the services, but we got the major 2 Dropbox and Google Drive.

The only impressive example is the email one, which didn't have a lot of default components, all other examples are things easily done with other frameworks.

couldn't this be done in the first place already?

I thought firebase supported html5 a long time ago.

Is it the websocket part that couldn't be ported to Phonegap?

Looks great!

From a human perspective. Money really isn't "wasted" during the holiday season. Most of money is spend on your family as gifts anyways. As a kid, Christmas + birthdays were looked forward to because that when you got the toys you wanted for the entire year.

The design looks great.

However, handwritten makes me think that you can "draw" your own message via the mouse rather than typing. I was only allowed to type.

very cool, but from a usability stand point, you should show all the questions without the collapsing. Have to click 2 times for answers is not optimal.

Sinofsky was a great tech leader and shipper of products. The people who replaced him seems weak sauce.

I'm not sure if firing someone creates faster progress in an area vs. just shipping more products.

This is already possible through the public folder function on Dropbox.

You can still turn it on in Dropbox if you don't have it.

Great work, I'd like autoplays I click on a certain video though.

Dropbox as a database is a actually great idea. It takes away scaling problems from the developer and puts the data control back to the user.

I'm actually working on NimbusBase, a product that allows you to write clientside javascript applications where there is no server code and data is stored inside of Dropbox. It also integrates with backbone.

Shameless plug: sign up for our beta! http://nimbusbase.com

Awesome! Our team already applied but NYC is shut down for at least 2 days. Would have been hard to film a video if the subway is shut down and we couldn't meet up.

Cool, check us out in a couple of weeks!

ah, I was mistaken there.

What about this: http://www.scirra.com/arcade

The boundary of html5 has been pushed far beyond this before.

In this the author said most HTML5 games are pacman, etc. If you look at Bastion for the chrome store, it's a very complex game with great graphics on HTML5.

“Sam (Altman), you know what my biggest, overused, meaningless tech lingo is? On-boarding….It’s driving me bananas”. -Jessica Livingston

Great quote

Or...it will invoke memories of college years for her and brings a aura of youthful vitality to you.

I love 3D printers, but this is the third one I've seen this week in addition to MakerBot and Form 1. I'm really not understanding what the differentiator is after seeing the video except a slight change in price.

The reason it needs all permissions is that some people have their own pages and the data is on there. So you might need permission to crawl those secondary pages for twitter and github (?)

At least I think that's how it works. I could be wrong.

If a two people team cannot hash out their problems together, it is already a sign of trouble.

Great article! I think where most people falter is in the create phase, not a lot of people create things of great value. Communicate and capture are easily done any time after you create great value.

Facebook could be an example of a startup with great value who didn't communicate or capture until they were extremely big.

Apple's software development seems to play a second fiddle to their hardware development a lot.

This is OK in most instances since I don't buy a lot of their software, but if you fail to get the firmware and the drivers working, it's a major problem.

awesome, saves me the time of loading pages

Wow, this is not a gif.

It takes a static image and rotates it with webkit animation. This is pretty awesome.

This is big, it's another functionality that used to be server only moving to the clientside.

Actually, in a automatic production economy, design becomes king and whoever can design the best product becomes the most important person.

This already happened in the case of the internet. Cost of labor is almost zero upon scaling, and the people who make the most valuable and well thought out websites gains the most market shares. It is not the people who owns the capital that profited the most on the internet, but great individual and team of designers and makers.

It is also not assumed that the automation would be owned by the few instead of owned by everyone. Personal 3d printers are on the rise, and I foresee a future where we print our products and 3d printers spreads like the personal computer.

I think you should use whatever you can develop the fastest in, this might be Rails if you are a beginner, or node, sinatra, or some python framework if you are a more experienced programmer.

The author fail to mention that node also scales way better and you probably will have no problems serving at least 10k users will where as in Rail you would have to play with scaling way earlier.