ashamedlion

What happens when the topic of discussion is the intersection between the Internet and economics?

Some sites more aggressively got their users to tweet the required hashtags than others.

Indeed, this is actually our eventual goal. The idea was to get something out, aggregate the most exhaustive list of RSS readers and then add the comparison details. It takes time!

Alright, fixed it!

We are most likely going to be adding this. It was in the original plan, but we wanted to get something out first.

Sorry, lots of traffic. If you refresh a couple times, it usually comes back :)

Yep

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/22/we-say-no-to-...

http://www.namecheap.com/moveyourdomainday.aspx

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2012/01/18/blackout/

I'm loving this Bitcoin ramp up over the past few weeks. Namecheap should be applauded for their general endorsement of "what's good for the internet". Of course it's in their best interest, but you don't see GoDaddy doing the same.

I think back to the "So, that's the end of Bitcoin"[1] article by Forbes and chuckle to myself. Hopefully one day we can look back at that article in the same way we look back at Ballmer laughing at the iPhone [2]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/20/so-thats-...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

* forever or until we get purchased

But in all seriousness, the design looks really great. It's reminiscent of path, but that's a good thing. It seems like Evernote would be one of your main competitors, but luckily your application has a much more casual user friendly design.

I added your tip to the list, thanks!

The homepage design is certainly "inspired" by Dribbble.

I believe this was a concern raised the first time they were trying to sell it, but a big worry for anyone considering purchasing Softfolio is probably what would happen when 37s no longer owns it.

It's sort of like their job board (http://jobs.37signals.com/). People like the job board because of the types of developers it attracts. Both companies and prospective employees value each others' skills and styles. If 37s didn't own that job board and sold it, it suddenly becomes 'just another job board'. Is it the same deal with Sortfolio? Anyway good luck to the potential buyers of Sortfolio. Hopefully they won't have wasted $480,000.

Impressed by how Github handled this. It's easy to get red-faced and smack down with a hammer, and it's hard to remain level-headed and come to the best decision. This seems like it was, in fact, the best decision.

For those of you who didn't see, they were quick to update people and be on the ball: https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerabili...

Just downloaded it. A couple of suggestions:

- The design could use some tweaks. (Poor icons in the home screen, not vertically aligned title bar text, ugly "comments" title bar that scrolls with you, inconsistent orange color (click a link and you see the bottom bar is a different color to the top bar), puke color in the "pull to refresh", has a very non-native feel with the custom list view, awkward arrow that is low res in pull to refresh)

- No comment indentation so everything is difficult to follow in the comments

- No ability to login and comment?

- Awkward click regions on the list view. It should only allow you to press on one or two buttons, but instead I can press on the timestamp, the comments, the title or the background. It should be clearer

It's really quick, though, and that's lovely. Keep at it!

I commend you for making something that isn't SaaS -- it seems to be rare to have one-off payments now, so this makes it more attractive.

Also, it seems that your demo (http://live.amon.cx:2464/) is down, which is a pity as I'd obviously like to try it before installing.

EDIT: And local monitoring is a big plus, too.

It's a pretty generic logo, so I highly doubt Apple copied this design.

I'll cross post what I wrote on their blog: "Perhaps you can take this opportunity to make the icon more refined. Apple's icon is how good the HipChat icon could have looked (and don't get me wrong, I love HipChat). Maybe that same amount of polish could go in to the new icon?"

Alternatively, they could go for something more radically different. This actually seems like a nice opportunity.

I realize this doesn't have much to do with the talks themselves, but:

I feel like other people don't have this problem, but I'm really not a fan of the Pinterest-style content grids. I think it's really difficult to parse content on Chill as well as Pinterest.

My eyes sort of skip all over the place and I just don't feel comfortable sorting through the information. I get the same problem with the Facebook timeline.

I was looking at the pricing, and I don't know how willing people would be to pay per month for this... Have you considered making it a one-time cost instead of that?

Lots of TechCrunch competitors launching recently, but I do like this one. It's sort of like a simplified Verge for startups. Hopefully they remain objective.

A direct link to the icon: http://i.imgur.com/znn1i.png

It's a little better, but still kind of sucks.

I wonder if it would be feasible for them to put Chrome on the iPhone. Technically, Apple wouldn't be against it since it's using WebKit.

Yes, I realize that, but there is still something to be said about the direction animation-heavy websites are going. Because of the novelty of presentation styles like this, I would argue that they're a weaker form of presenting information. It certainly draws the audience away from what's actually on the slides.

For instance, the first time I went through this site, I read the first slide, then flicked through the pages and only upon a second visit to the site did I actually read what it had to say. This obviously isn't the case for everyone, I know.

What's up with all of these Prezi-style Javascript presentations recently? I realize this is a jQ version of something that was posted the other day, but all of this flashy Javascript is really promoting a second coming of Flash Internet of the 90s™.

As a new presentation style, this doesn't impress me any more than a PowerPoint does. It makes me sick flipping and turning through a website, and though I realize it has some potentially cool uses, stuff like this will, for the most part, be abused.

If I'm not mistaken, this is an AMA request, not the actual AMA.

It looks like highcharts.js to me.

Really clean design, love it. I can imagine this would be really cool with something like a chat application displaying messages/sec, users online, messages read, stuff like that.

Also an excellent showcase of a use of redis.

EDIT: And in case you missed it first time around like I did, here's a link to a screencast of it in action: http://www.screenr.com/KiJs

This is pretty hilarious. It was going to happen eventually, but I love how they're like "we're backing the internet community and this bill just isn't good enough yet" when they were gung-ho about supporting it before.

People would be fools to buy this. Their original stance really speaks volumes about their inner workings and mentality. Just because they're backpedalling doesn't change a damn thing about who they are as a company.

"In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support."

That leaves a bad taste in my mouth, too.

I absolutely love updates, but the new iPhone app feels like a big F U to power users. They're de-emphasizing direct messages by putting them a level down in the "Me" tab and switching accounts if you have multiple is found in the same place.

Also, not a fan of the wasted space on the sides of the tweet feed. However, the new web design looks great.

In case you haven't seen how this thing lands, watch the link below. It's really so amazing how this is entirely automated and executed so flawlessly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o

I hate to say it, since I was looking forward to this, but on iPhone/iPod touch, this feels like crap to use. It jumps around, feels really slow and has some troubles responding to my taps. I really wanted to like it, but I much prefer simple mobile sites to ones that use JQuery Mobile.