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Another work around is to create a pro app and offer in-app purchasing to upgrade to a pro version, at least your profiting from your existing user-base and they know they are not paying for this ripped off version without realising.

I was very impressed with this until I realised that everyone with my birthday will get the same result as me so the count is not accurate with out a specific time of birth. Just saying.Great idea all the same.

Does anyone else think the Nokia Lumia 800 looks like an iPod Nano in design with a touchable screen? The rounded sides and flat top / bottom and the multiple / bright colours.

Like nodata said, you might want to take a look at third-party plugins / add-ons. My friend had an issue with using a third-party advertising company to run adverts on his site and firefox / chrome flagged the JS it embedded as malicious.

From searching and looking around a logo design can cost around $250 on its own, getting a domain to match a pre-designed and brandable logo is a nice idea and i like the concept, will i ever use this? Probably not.

Really like this, great slick look and feel! Great work!

This is what i meant that the user data is valuable otherwise you would have frozen out the existing users and have a web platform you would have to build up a userbase on again, which if this was the case then you would just start your own project as you are starting from scratch. The only upside is existing traffic to the website. Existing users who turn up one day to realise the content they have added is now gone would be a disaster for the user, then asking them to sign back up to recover that data is another unnecessary step.

It was interesting to read that the price does not include the existing users and data. Which would in my eyes, possibly be the most valuable part of purchasing a website like this. You could pay for or develop something similar for much less that the starting price here.

Great post, very insightful. I had not really noticed serivces like FB and Twitter had moved the logout button the way they have until you pointed this out. It is quite a clever idea, as your post suggests sites that offer a service or product require the user to be logged in to get a personalised experience. Users are less likely to logout if they cannot see it as an option.

I would imagine that you / the user is not expecting to be surprised at any point if you use a service like this. I would also imagine that the op would fadeout or disable the ability for anyone else to purchase the same gift. However I am not sold on the idea of all the money raised goes to the User on the event.

For example Christmas you could of paid 50% of the cost to 5 items for friends and families hoping someone else would pay the rest, what if they do not? Come Christmas day your money is just passed to these peoples paypal accounts and you have nothing to give them on the day.

A question would delivery be optional to the User or me as the buyer? So I can give that gift to someone and not just deliver it by post?

I do like the idea and if executed correctly a very useful tool for around Christmas time. But it can be hard to predict the response to a service like this.

I know nothing about game development, I just play them, but would be interested in seeing the source code of this game.

Agreed, but having a sense of humor is fine until it becomes reality.

Interesting you say about high contrast, all the examples are black on white. Do this mean all content related websites should be white backgrounds and black text?

Interesting, after load I just get a black screen. (FF5 on Win.XP)

Not read all comments, but a spelling mistake is obvious on the details images, that explains the button. It says it will turn on and of respectively. This should be off. That is all. Good product all the same.

^ this is the best comment.

Already said but great article, I am in this exact situation right now.

this is amazing! I want one.

Clearly ahead of your time, my friend. If Facebook does it, it's cool...

I don't buy books that often, but $50+ dollars for a book? Ouch. Are all books this pricey in the US?

This is awesome! I actually loled.

Sure looks ugly, I hope that was a joke. Navigation doesn't look to easy.

Nice idea, but a sample of what you would be signing up for would be useful. Good Luck!

Blame the media, they portray fat for the reason people are fat, the do not educate these people with the truth behind complex carbs and simple carbs and how the body responses to these. Some fats are good for you such as olive oils contain mono saturated fats which is great for your body and those can be found naturally in meats. But trans and saturated fats are hard for the body to respond to. It comes down to educating people of what they are eating.

I think what he meant, is twitter does not have an embedded link shorterner on the site but only if content is submitted via external links. Like HootSuite when submitting to FB or Twitter you can shorten a link while submitting the content. That would be a very welcomed feature for twitter in the long run.

I agree that it has been adopted by manufacturers but I also believe that they also need to educate the users on how they can interact with QR codes. Like another comment stats, until Barcode scanning becomes a standard for all mobiles or other portable devices it will not create a mass following.

Blackberry is the same, you can scan for other BBM users but implementing the camera as a barcode scanner would help with QR code popularity.

My response would be that the bigger corporations are dictating what we use. Blackberry use QR and I see alot more content with QR on it. I like the fact data-matrix can offer much more in terms of less erroring, more security. But i must admit i have not seen anyone using matrix code.

I agree, alot of new startups are working on using similar social media 'whoring' as you put it. It seems to be a great way to generate a bit of buzz. Connect.me used a similar technique and had thousands of registrations with in hours and a new startup for startups called Launchrock.com is essentially a holding page application designed for this exact role.

I must agree with your comment, but what other revenue options would someone like Twitter have other than advertising?