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We have also published our tool to mirror the WordPress repository. We took a different approach. Our tool, Morpheus, mirrors the exact WordPress API. It fetches and maintains only the latest versions of plugins, themes, and the WordPress core. This limits disk space considerably.

There’s also a plugin that connects to WordPress.org by default but falls back to Morpheus if needed.

We’re still working on improvements. Right now, we only support English-language updates, but we’re adding more languages and features. Our goal is to support the entire API.

https://github.com/blogvault/morpheus

While this is Google's App Store and they can do pretty much anything they want, having such rules is simply anti-competitive. It is as good as saying that on Google Chrome, they will not allow people to visit Firefox.

Google has a 90+% of smartphone marketshare in many parts of the world, and this is abusing their power. Amazon is not installing malware or breaking copyright. Everything else should be allowed.

This may not be true. The post has been deleted by the actual source.

Thank you. We are a C-Corp registered in Delaware. Would you have any recommendations on some service which can help with this.

Thanks. The main reason I ask is because I would like to do something similar with my product. However, after this fiasco, was skeptical about it.

If it is an ad, then it would definitely be safer to mark the link as nofollow as ads are not allowed to be links with SEO benefits.

I don't understand how Rap Genius' hack was any worse than what Mixpanel does with its free plan.

https://mixpanel.com/free/

Here, they are bribing customers to link to their site? Would this not be illegal too?

That is a valid point. However, there are many campaigns that are no longer active or have relevance. The learnings from that can be made public.

Alternatively if someone has the expertise in this field can start a new campaign and show how a campaign should be built for a new product. I am sure there will be a wide audience which will be willing to pay significant amount of money to learn from this.

"But (like other ways of bestowing one's favors liberally) it's safe to do it so long as you're not being paid to."

We at blogVault love the above line. We often have our customers ask us for help with things completely unrelated to what we do. However, we always refuse to be paid for it. We always tell them that we are in the business of backups. Everything else we will help out but could not accept any payments for. It ensures that we don't have to commit to deadlines etc.

It is for a client who is not comfortable publicly sharing the name of the domain. Is there anything I can do besides waiting it out?

Thanks. The registrar has not been very helpful. We waited 48 hours and still no resolution.

I found the design distracting, and was not sure where to look first. I normally look for the main content on the left side of the screen.

Since "The next big thing" column is in green, I expected that to be the primary section, but then because it was smaller, moved to the right section.

Overall, I prefer blogs to have the more traditional feel.

Jacques, I had sent these questions in a mail to you. However, the answers should help others in identifying the appropriate lawyer.

1> What area of Criminal law this pertains to. 2> Is she an Indian? 3> Is she looking for professional representation or someone in personal capacity. Based on this we can look up one from a prominent firm or not.

This is a non-news. The Verge has an article mentioning that the loss has no impact on Apple's ability to use the name.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3591380/iphone-ifone-and-a...

this is more of a case of too much YC on techcrunch.

2 take aways from this:

1> Microsoft continues to place big bets on markets which matter. It is not sitting on fancy profits. 2> It has a terrible management team.

This page is clearly blog spam. How did it land up on HN?

There is no auto-complete in the search box. Should this not be expected?

I am really skeptical about Apple Maps. Maybe they can get data as good as Google. Maybe they can even do directions as well as Google.

I think they will falter on one of the most important parts though. Google Maps has a fantastic search. If it does not match up, then it will definitely by an issue.

Would you stop visiting Google if it had a homepage full of news?

Having a sparse homepage is not the reason why Google is winning today, or why Yahoo lost.

India

We had done something like this for my first attempt at a startup. We had this product in India, and my name as well as those of our co-founders can be spelled in many ways. This can be confusing. So we picked a name which is like the most common name in India, which nobody gets right.

The asx file is a xml file. Pick out the URL from it, and use mplayer with it.

mplayer mms://a977.l12501352976.c125013.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/977/125013/v0001/reflector:52976

Isn't Hulu pretty much the same thing?

Given how insightful the previous site for Windows7 was, this is surely one to follow.

How does this number compare to that of Wave/Buzz? I would not be surprised if Wave/Buzz garnered similar numbers when they were first released.

His clarity of thought is what just astounds me.

Read "The Little Kingdom" by Michael Moritz. While it is not only about Steve, it does talk about him quite a bit. It is a great read.

At Google's scale I would have guessed that they would have had no difficulty in matching and even beating Amazon's pricing. This is surprising. Why so?

Sorry for the karma bait title :)

I usually like what scoble writes, but this is such nonsense. Myspace would like to believe that they were let down by Microsoft or LA, but the fact remains that they were playing with marbles compared to Zuckerberg's chess.

They could have matched Facebook feature to feature and that too the very next moment. I can guarantee that it would not have changed a thing. Google came out with numerous social plays with better strategy, scale and speed without much success.

Finally if Myspace could not change fast enough it cannot be attributed to the platform. In hindi we have a saying, "naach na jaane aangan tedha"(calling the floor crooked, when you don't know how to dance).

Silicon Valley might be awesome for its talent, but I would bet that there are enough awesome developers in any metropolis to make any web company successful. You need to be a place which needs to be able to attract such people. Being in SV would not have changed a thing, as no good person would have wanted to join Myspace.