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Actually it has seemed like this is the primary point most of these stories have been making for a while.

"The percentage of young drivers is inversely related to the availability of the Internet, Mr. Sivak’s research has found. Why spend an hour driving to work when you could take the bus or train and be online?" (from the article)

"...[A]lmost everything about digital media and technology makes cars less desirable or useful and public transportation a lot more relevant." [from May 2010, http://adage.com/article/digital/digital-revolution-driving-...]

A more complex but potentially fairer variation of this idea is to create an ecosystem where each sender posts a bond when delivering a message to an unknown recipient. If the recipient finds the message abusive/spammy, they could flag it as such and claim the bond, otherwise the message is received without a cost to the sender.

"I don't see why every web site makes you create a new account. Why not log into everything with my facebook account?"

Actually for many web sites this is a pretty good idea too.

we're looking for hackers that like to move fast: http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineer...

like...blippy?

zillow has a pretty decent api

Keep in mind: this quote is from 10 years ago.

yeah, we're rolling it out over the next few weeks.

Are there good ways of measuring your dopamine/serotonin levels?

Kind of ironic that she created a blog, instead of a twitter feed, for this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4417261.stm

Seems to indicate that THC stops inflammation of blood vessels by suppressing the immune system's response. Also seems that oral delivery was used vs. smoking.

hey alecco - site owners have full access to all the raw data via API or FQL, btw.

You might also consider using Facebook Connect. Check out http://www.brightkite.com/ as one example of a pretty nice login flow, there are more on our wiki @ http://tinyurl.com/6ybl44.

The http://stackoverflow.com community might also be helpful for this.

the netflix apis offer pretty rich catalog detail APIs that are RESTful: http://developer.netflix.com/

interface Energy { getUsage(); setPowerState(outletID, powerState); ... }

I wonder if we could create a developer community oriented around defining interface standards we'd like to consume.

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

check out this demo too: http://openid-demo.appspot.com/

I hacked up dalampati.com/ihacker/ a while ago, but it's just the consumption-side of HN.

nice, what are you researching?

Great business model!

I do agree that this is over the line.

But I'm also slightly conflicted - why did I laugh when the Arabic reporter threw his shoe at Bush a few months ago? In retrospect, that event should have been just as inexcusable. What if Georgey wrote up a similar blog post about his experience? How would I have felt then?

like another user mentioned, shareaholic looks pretty interesting. however, i think browser plugins are too high friction for an average user to install. has anyone implemented something similar as a bookmarklet?

yeah, you can use facebook connect to get the school networks associated to a user. might help simplify your reg process.

the winner: http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2009/01/22/i-won-a-facebook-...

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Yep. Why does it seem like most new sites still roll their own reg? OpenID/Facebook Connect/etc all seem like better choices.