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So, are you going to stop talking to your colleagues, friends and family because you might offend them by saying something? Man, live your life, do what you want/like doing. If people get offended by something you said genuinely with no bad intentions, they should be the ones feeling bad. Rather the best part about blogging is that you can proof read it as many times as you want before posting, unlike talking.

I agree with you but, what is your point?

I think he is trying to be sarcastic.

I think it just might be for the opposite reasons. Everyone in my circle likes Obama and voted for Obama but this is that moment in which everyone is "WTF".

This might be to make him lose credibility. Just my conspiracy theory.

I am not sure who is your target market. It doesn't mentions anywhere what is the purpose of creating a login, either.

However, I have a suggestion which might make it appeal to a broader audience. When a user creates a login, you can provide a list of celebrities of each category. The user can pick the ones he/she wants to read the tweets from for each category. Maybe adding an option of receiving daily email/rss feed be useful. Also, being able to add all the checked celebrities into the twitter account be also useful.

That is great information. Also, when it says "GNU Free Documentation License" does it mean that anyone can use the text for commercial purpose?

Are these copyright free textbooks? I am curious to how this free textbook thing works. There are so many free textbook projects going around the world. Can anyone use the content, reference the content and use it for commercial purpose?

Thanks and the links work on the iPhone too.

Can you provide a link for education and medical categories or pm me about them? Thanks.

I am just surprised by the number of articles written with the exact same tone. Its like saying, I opened the first coffee shop in XYZ place and made a heck of money than 10 more coffee shops opened and most of us are barely making enough money to sustain ourselves. Yes, if you come up with an insanely good idea which is new and cannot be replicated easily for example: what smule is doing, no matter what, you will do extremely good. The probability of being a lucky 1 hit wonder is diminishing because of big brands now in the foray with a total of 85k+ apps on appstore. Now only the best of the best will survive who are in it for the long haul and have the patience, persistence and vision to stay there and develop a business and not looking to hit a jackpot kind of a mindset.

USPTO reversed the position and upheld the patent 3 times. I cannot believe this. This seems to be in the same line as podcast patent, URL suggestion patent, registration key patent.

The eligibility criterion for being a patent examiner/judge needs to be revisited.

In short: no Mac required for developing iPhone apps. flash games which are extremely easy/quick to develop can be ported into iphone apps.

Conclusion: iPhone app development prices will go down the drain for most of the apps. There will be millions of apps on the appstore. Prices of apps will go down further.

WOW!!!

Entrepreneur.

I am definitely not trying to undermine what he has done. However, the article gist IMO is that when things were not going well, everyone was blaming him and finally when things are falling in place, everyone is giving credit to him. If facebook wont have grown the way it has in the last six months, the same people, who are identifying what he did as remarkable leadership qualities probably would be saying the exact opposite. So, in short, remarkable is proportional to how successful you have been.

In short: If you are successful, you are remarkable!!!

and I agree with vaksel completely: it sounds like a slave driven environment.

The title clearly mentions "teachers in India".

I understand what you are trying to say, and not being an expert or possessing enough knowledge about it, all I can say is it works in Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:High_Speed_Railroad_Map_Eu...

I am also very biased towards a well developed rail system, because I hate flying/driving. Being from India, I have traveled in train system, a lot, even though its not a high speed rail system. I loved it. I have been to europe a lot and am a fan of it. I know its a huge investment, and probably wont be profitable any time soon, but IMO, it will benefit in a very long term.

This is great for China. Hopefully, US will be working in implementing this soon too.

Thank you PG for bringing it back. However, the time decay is too fast IMO.

Also an orange dot for comments with more than +2 vote difference from the previous comment, might be useful.

hopefully, it wont last too long. The experiment with orange dot will fail and we will have comment score back.

You are looking from the perspective of the owner. Look from the perspective of the user. This will really filter out the best websites and no one will use over-the-top headings, bait and switch tactics to gain more impressions. There wont be much duplicates of the same stuff and things will be so much easier to find on the internet. Yes, it will make crappy site owners die, but they should anyway. It will also make targeted ads more popular.

I agree that $10k seems to be a very decent amount for a startup in India. I am hoping that they have success so that more will come up.

This seems to be a very neat idea. How about processing of the crawled data, if someone wants to process the data and show it to the end user in a comprehensive way? We are looking for a solution which is affordable and provide both.

You do realize that if you are out of status at any time, which you will be if you are working part time on H1B (you obtained for a different company) for your startup, you are illegally living in US. Moreover, if you apply for an extension or move the H1B to your own startup, you will have to mention that you were out of status because you were working for your own company, which will make you ineligible for H1B. If you dont, and you get caught you will be barred to enter US FOREVER, because you lied on an immigration document. Do you also know that you cannot get an H1B visa for your own startup no matter what, unless you can show somehow that you can be fired (which only can happen if you give away most of your equity to someone else). Even if you are not making money when you are on H1B for a different company, but if you signed a contract, signed a cheque, or were responding to customers, you are out of status. You can think that how can anyone would come to know that you were working at the backend, but are you willing to take the risk of getting barred to enter US forever?

so, not only they make all the money, they also want to be credited for all the innovation and leadership...

this is so inspiring... I have followed his research and he is truly an awesome scientist and extremely well known in the research community..

now.. i wish.. obama government can act upon the founder's visa.. .:)

I agree with you PG completely. There was another blog post by Albert(USV) http://continuations.com/post/190217323/the-web-and-educatio... about missing scalability solution in education, where content is extremely expensive. It is going to change very soon.

I agree with the author completely. There is a huge fragmented education market which requires a technologically scalable innovative solution.

just to give you an example.. all the big dating sites (match.com/eharmony.com) have a secure calling service and they charge money for a user to be able to use it...

now on twitter which is again a social site, you can do that without giving much away.. and see how it goes.. before actually going on a date and exchanging real numbers..

i dont think it will be used to call friends/family.. on twitter you can essentially follow anyone.. it will be used by people who dont want to give away their numbers...