zackhall

Agreed - nothing more annoying than a product that wants my credentials before I can even try it out, see a screenshot, or anything else that might make me want it. le sigh

Very cool site -- I've long thought about setting something like this up as a side project that'd be fun to build!

I think that I'm going to try out a self hosted solution for a while. For no other reason than just the fact that it seems fun. Here's one that was posted to HN recently:

https://github.com/swanson/stringer

"Facebook has been the gateway drug to the internet." I have never thought of it put that way, but it is such a true and insightful statement. When I began high school, almost none of my adult family members were on the internet (less one aunt who did a lot of internet shopping). Here I am closing in on my graduation from college and my entire family has adopted the internet -- grandparents of both sides, my father, aunts & uncles, etc. -- and in every case their first experience was making a facebook account.

That's a very good point. I made that statement out of my perceived, and very naive, "closeness" to other cultures.

Can anyone shed any light on how Japan seems to be doing so well in this metric when all of the other countries that they are close to geographically and culturally are doing very poorly?

Am I the only one who initially read this as "Don't Eat Fortune Cookies," and didn't realize my mistake until going back to read the rest of the title?

Anyhow, it was a very great and inspiring read.