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Awesome! Congratulations Denis & Arend!

>"Admittedly, I was being a bit of a dick by adding the "wtf" at the end..."

This may explain, at least in part, the nature of the response that the OP received.

The NYT example is a bad one because any commercial use of of the API is forbidden per the Terms of Use [1]. It seems like the API would be a pretty bad starting point if you were a business that wanted a relationship with the NYT.

[1] e. YOU SHALL NOT: (i) use the NYT APIs for any commercial purpose or in any product or service that competes with products or services offered by NYT. (from: http://developer.nytimes.com/Api_terms_of_use)

>If a company is going to do advertising - they should do it well.

You seem convinced that this ad being targeted to you was some massive failure of Twitter's ad product. I am not sure that is the case.

Premium Twitter advertisers (of which the Sun is surely one) have a variety of targeting options that could explain why you saw this ad.

The Sun may have simply targeted all accounts in the UK. Or, they may have targeted accounts that follow other UK publication accounts (it looks like you follow a few Guardian accounts for example).

It is clear that you didn't want to be targeted by The Sun, but that doesn't mean that The Sun didn't want to target you.

Sounds awesome! Please feel free to email anytime, would love to explore the use case further.

Awesome! Congratulations John, Brandon & Heff!

What do you mean by "not the 'ideal' candidate"? Is your concern that you aren't a hacker? There are plenty non-technical YC founders (I'm one).

Assuming you are building a startup in the music space, it would seem your experience/skills could be an asset.

Many thanks, Jay!

Thanks! The current product is definitely focused on B2B companies. We have some ideas on how to be helpful for B2C lead qualification, but that probably won't happen anytime soon since there is a lot to do on the B2B front.

>I don't remember seeing any job for non-engineers.

There are certainly fewer non-technical positions posted, but there are some. For example, ZeroCater has posted customer support and sales openings.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul

>>I am wondering what the view of the community is here...

The community submits and votes on the stories.

We only include accounts that Tweet primarily (really exclusively for practical purposes) in English. So it may be that there are more English language accounts in the UK that are fans of that team than in Germany. Just a guess. I think the various data normalization and other enhancements discussed throughout this thread would also help.

Thanks for the great suggestions. All are features that we'll add in the future. The goal was really to get something out there that had a small bit of utility and spend more time on it if people found the visualization interesting. As I mentioned a few threads up, this is something that our outgoing summer intern worked on during his last few days with us and we wanted to release it before he headed back to school.

No- it's not just keyword mentions. Our main product analyzes the both the content of an individuals Tweets and social factors to make decisions about what they know. I'd be happy to share more about how we do that- shoot me a note at joe@inboxq.com if you want to chat.

James is awesome. And, we found him via Hacker News!

Definitely something we've considered for a future enhancement. Our summer intern worked on this map over the last few days and we wanted to release it before he headed back to the UK later this week.

>>a widely-used 'white hat' SEO practice.

Did you mean 'black hat'?

I think this is a pretty common domain grab for trademark holders. For example, see aolsucks.com: http://www.whois.net/whois/aolsucks.com

Company name or industry would be helpful. It looks like you may be going for the concept of a shark. If that is important to get across quickly when people see the logo, then #1 is probably a bit better.

They had a group of moderators who were selected to find the best questions. I believe most of the moderators were journalists or bloggers.

>Wasn't this in real time?

No. Questions were culled from Tweets with the #AskObama hashtag starting on June 30. Some of the questions did come in close to real-time. I think the most recent ones were 5-10 minutes old when presented to the president.

>>2) What ratio of them fall into the "married with kids" category?

There were at least 14 founders from our batch (W2010) that were married or engaged and about 6 of those had kids. I think there were about 65 total founders.

Larry Ellison had two co-founders. I believe that both of them left the company in the early '90s.

There was a great session at Google IO about developer success stories within the Google apps marketplace. It is well worth a watch if you are looking for ways to make money within Gmail (particularly if your product targets businesses/business users).

Here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnW_Y9nRiEY

He's actually quite an active angel. In fact, he has invested in at least 2 YC companies that I can think of off the top of my head.

This post suggests that YC is in some way incompatible with the idea of doing what is best for your customers. It's a strange conclusion based on the significant amount of public evidence to the contrary.

It seems strange that this article doesn't reference the reported acquisition of TweetDeck by Uber Media back in February.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/ubermedia-tweetdeck/

EDIT: Thanks for the info/links. This report certainly makes a lot more sense given that the Uber Media deal never actually closed.

Why not just use the standard four year vesting with a one year "cliff" for the full 5-10%? If your co-founder isn't a good fit or isn't hitting milestones you can part ways early and retain all or most of the stock.

More on founder vesting here: http://cdixon.org/2009/04/21/founder-vesting/ http://venturehacks.com/articles/get-vested-for-time-served http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/04/ask-the-attorney-founder-v...

Cool- definitely happy to let you know when the web app launches.