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HMO: Know anyone interested in analyzing consumer EEG data? The product I'm working on is developing a solid dataset: http://www.threepound.com

How I can help: I'm a former startup data analyst and strategy consultant. I can give a few hours to help with making sense of the data you're collecting or think about how to start capturing 3rd party data.

Regarding EEG, that's what we're working on at Three Pound. We're providing tools for mindfulness based stress reduction paired with consumer EEG devices like the NeuroSky Mindwave Mobile http://threepound.com

For me, it didn't work because the Twitter Button plugin was being blocked. (I use Ghostery)

Taking this question further, what did Hunch help you do? I tried it early and passed, really interested to hear what it has done for others.

I find this emphasis on simple information storage and retrieval way to prevalent in our schools. Courses entirely based on reading and regurgitating facts made up a sizable amount of my education, including college. After a while it becomes hard to care, since the random facts are worthless to remember, sometimes even when going on to the next level course.

Upvotes for first 2. The window resizing game is agitating, and window snapping should be a native feature, if there is keyboard shortcut space for it.

I'm looking forward to testing out porting one of my Django apps to GAE, particularly since the Heroku clones for Django are not yet ready for public consumption.

Placing VC blog readership on an axis and comparing to deal flow/fundraising/etc. would make this much more interesting.

Calls to action in emails is not much different than calls to action for landing pages: Give people just enough information to take the action you want them to, and little else. Political campaigns and non-profits (at least from successful organizations) are pros at this. Most of the time it is a short teaser and a prominent call to action button. Back to the similarities, paragraphs with off direction sentences are not seen in landing pages, the trendy style is short content blocks of icons and a sentence, for an email the equivalent are bullet points/numbered steps.

Each email should have a well defined, ideally singular purpose, unless it is something like a newsletter, where the reader is more accepting of less relevant content before reaching the more valued information (and even that is not guaranteed.)