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Why did Google/Youtube spend $15mil acquiring the company instead of creating a similar service? I think more than the technology itself, Google would like to hire the Omnisio team.

Is there another search engine coming to the market that is even better than Google?

Overall, good job.

Very sensational. I don't think people are foolish and naïve like this. There must be other missing stories behind this incident.

You can use Skype on AT&T Tilt (or any Windows) mobile phones. It works with WiFi and 3G data network. People are downloading and using VOIP application on their mobile phones.

Amazing to see how small the team was before Google acquisition:

2 sysadmin

2 scalability software architects

2 feature developers

2 network engineers

1 DBA

The API can be found at http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/index.html and it seems very simple:

   http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{vertical}/v1/{query}?appid=xyz[&param1=val1&param2=val2&etc]
   vertical  - web , image , news...
   query     - text query
   appid     - your Yahoo application id
   parm1,2,3 - filter, type...
   filter    -  -hate , -porn...
   type      -  pdf , html , nonhtml , ppt ...

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.

2) Keep it simple.

3) No manual intervention"

Also been discussed in the following posts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224324

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211853

There is a similarity between Gnip and FriendFeed service. They both are one stop shop for all your social networking updates. If Gnip start publishing users' data on their website, then I think they will become a competitor to FriendFeed, but they will probably stay with just an infrastructure provider.

"V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: He was articulate, he was intelligent, not obviously psychotic or emotionally disturbed. He could read a newspaper. Everything seemed fine except he had one profound delusion. He would look at his mother and he would say, "This woman, Doctor, she looks exactly like my mother but in fact she's not my mother. She's an imposter. She's some other woman pretending to be my mother.

NARRATOR: The injury to David's brain had brought on a very rare condition called the Capgras Delusion"

...

NARRATOR: Whenever we look at an object or a face, the message reaches the temporal lobes, where it's identified, but then it gets relayed to a structure called the "amygdala," which is the gateway to the limbic system that contains the emotional centers of the brain. And it's here that we generate the appropriate emotional response to whatever it is we're looking at.

V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Now, what I've suggested is that what's going on in this patient is the message gets to the temporal lobe cortex, so the patient recognizes his mother as being his mother and evokes the appropriate memories. But the message doesn't get to the amygdala, because the fibers going from the temporal cortex to the amygdala into the emotional centers are cut, as a result of the accident. Therefore, there is no emotion. There is no warmth. And he says, "If this is really my mother why is it I'm not experiencing any emotions? There's something not quite right here. Maybe she is some other strange woman pretending to be my mother."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2812mind.html

Awesome Highlighter uses frames to view other websites and some websites prevent their pages to be viewed in someone else's frameset (if (top != self) top.location.href = 'example.com'). There is no way I know of to disable this and need to respect their wish not be viewed in frameset.

http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/web2py_vs_others.p...