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Thank God the red close button is gone.

I worked on Pier 38 this past Summer in the Dogpatch Labs building. Pretty cool space. http://dogpatchlabs.com/

Eh, people have been attributing a lot of Twitter's success to the same phenomenon for a few years now.

Agreed, but they've got some serious time on their side. For me (and everyone else who just picked up the 4), about a year and a half.

Can someone email you the .app package, or are Mac App Store apps compiled to be Snow Leopard only?

This Museo thing has to stop. It's cute, it looks real friendly in titles, but dear god, do not typeset an article in it.

"It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy."

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2032304,0...

Annoying, yes. But really? A deal between FB and TC?

So was 4sq.com.

On HackerFollow (http://hackerfollow.com), we created a leaderboard of most-followed users. There's also a bookmarklet for when you're on a user profile to add them.

This seems like a pretty similar service. Love the market validation ;)

Current leaderboard:

AndrewWarner bdittmer davemc500hats dcurtis dhh erickerr gyardley keysersosa kn0thing loganfrederick mojombo paul pg treblig

Let me know when your friend invites you to a party on Facebook and you get it via Google Calendar. I'll be the guy by the bar while you're at home. Your friends couldn't care less what an .ics is.

My mom doesn't care about "openness". She cares what I put on my Facebook wall.

Photo alternative: cute. I'll never go to your Flickr page. I've seen ~100 pictures today of Thanksgiving celebrations, because they were in my News Feed.

Messages: Most of my FB messagers are spam, but what do you think is the easiest way to message a 14-year-old?

I trust Dropbox immensely. I clicked all of those buttons without really reading the specifics.

1. I trust that they're not doing anything scummy or underhanded. My life's on Dropbox, and they're not going to do anything to reduce that level of trust.

2. If I ended up accidentally Tweeting that I love Dropbox, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

This said, the messaging was very clear, and everything behaved as expected. Great work as usual, guys.

Whoa, looks like Data's testing the iPhone 4 in this one.

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2010/image...

Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"?

It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend.

"iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" from iOS. Still, probably a long shot.

This is wild. When Facebook flips the switch, they'll instantly become the largest email service.

When there is some hardware with a physical keyboard as good as the Blackberry's, RIM is in serious trouble.

Nice list.

I'm the co-creator of HackerFollow. As a note, we don't do any type of email notifications. Just creates a Twitter-like feed of posts and comments.

Sleeve? It's damn near tattooed on his arm :)

What is the purpose of a game publishing company on the app store? Feels to me like a remnant of the software-in-a-box distribution model.

Incredibly cool and in-depth post. But it's funny, I just assumed the conclusion intuitively since the first time I used a blue bird.

Definitely toeing the "Permission based marketing" line there, but sometimes you gotta be a little scrappy :)

Coming next week :)

This is an excellent post, and a very timely one with The Social Network coming out. The film certainly glamorizes startup life, and makes it seem like you won't fail.

I released my iPhone app this Summer (SeizeTheDay, http://seizethedayapp.com). I'm in school at Ohio State for my senior year. We got featured on the App Store, and received app of the week from Time and CNET. This has put us around 100k downloads in the first couple of months. While in SF this Summer, I received a lot of advice to drop out and blow it up. I disagree significantly. College is fun, and the idea is that it's something I can do on the side while I'm in school.

I'm currently making somewhere between beer money and a salary from iAds (will probably post some data on this at some point when we have more data available). I figure if I can grow revenue to about 4x what we're currently doing, I can afford to dive in full time. This gives me 9 months of school to keep working on the side, and see if it's realistic when I graduate.

We put about $800 of investment into it, and our only recurring cost is Apple's dev license ($100/year). While not every startup can operate this way, I feel this is the way to do it. Our model lends itself pretty well to tackling a small problem and growing slowly.

When was the last time a "Co-President" worked well?

Serious question, I'm just having trouble thinking of one.

You just perfectly described a 2010 Blackberry.

For free?

Agreed, but it's "Daring Fireball".

Steve Reich is rhythmic, repetitive, and very cool. Highly recommended.

They had to've. In fact, Drew cited the following in his YC app:

# What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet? Email themselves attachments.

http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html

This absolutely happened to me in high school when playing Tetris on my graphing calculator. I'd see the shapes falling as I fell asleep at night. I always thought it was because I felt only semi-conscious for stats class in the morning, and I was returning to that "half awake" state while falling asleep.

Cool to find out it's a real phenomenon.