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What assets? The Washington Post real estate is not being sold. It's just the people, their pensions, and the brand that was purchased.

To show that he wasn't fooling around with side projects when he was still full time at YCombinator?

The journalist wouldn't have put it had it not been emphasized by his sources. And if they brought it up it's likely because Harj giving less attention to YC is a sensitive topic for the other partners at the firm.

Tweeted you :)

I totally agree with the point about technical hiring

Cool, I tried to signup but needed an invite code:)

I think that satago would fit nicely into a few media themes like what people can do to beat the recession, the empowerment of small businesses, and crowdsourcing data.

Not really :)

Hey Egreg, I've met Peter Shankman and love what he's done with HARO. However we're doing a few things differently.

First, it's global from day one. So we have a much lower volume of overall queries to start with. However we've already made connections in the UK, India, US, & Dubai (where we're based).

Second, opportunities are public and shared. This is a huge no no with HARO look at this link for example: http://www.publiseek.com/opportunity/seeking-new-stories-for...

Third: any content creator (not just reporters) can use it. That includes movie producers (product placements), event organizers (speaking opportunities), etc.

Also we're putting a bit more focus on design/branding. Hope this answers your question. Do you use HARO?

Hey Major_Grooves, that's a bug, IP geolocation gone wrong :( If you select United Kingdom you'll only get publicity opportunities related to the UK. let me know if I can do anything to help.

By the way what is your startup about? :)

Hi Egreg, I'm going to go ahead and say that yes it is. In the sense that every piece of content you share online with your name on it is publicity.

That includes that instagram photo of a great day at the beach, that blog post you wrote about reaching your 50th paid user, or a retweet of a hacker news article about lisp.

In each case you're saying look, that's me, that's what I do, and that's what I stand for.

It's called content marketing. And everyone is doing it if they're aware of it or not.

Hey minimaxir, you're right that they're not. Founders are short on time and need to focus. So I'm illustrating a point that you can reliably get publicity within the time limit that you allocate for this activity. It doesn't need to be a hit or miss :)

Great. So First Round Capital is pushing idea that they stood with David against Goliath and won teaching a lesson to Big Co. Did the entrepreneurs see any of the money?

Lack of SMS shouldn't be a problem. You can use two factor authentication with the app version.It's on that same page.

You could both be right. Login with Facebook, buy with 1 click. And let the merchant know all kinds of information about you to show you the right products.

They do, and the price is $0.0001 per tweet.

Search rate limits through the normal API can be prohibitive for many use cases like news/brand monitoring. Or even citizen monitoring programs for local police. So they resort to datasift and gnip and are charged volume-based amounts on behalf of Twitter. And presumably, at the end of every month, a wire transfer goes out to Twitter.

Now that doesn't mean that twitter makes $1 per 10,000 tweets. A license to the tweet is required separately for each end user of those two platforms. So with 1000 datasift users accessing a particular tweet, Twitter is making $0.10 on it. The more people request that tweet the more money Twitter makes. Marginal cost = 0.

For more info, check out the Datasift FAQ's: http://dev.datasift.com/docs/getting-started/billingfaq#lice...

You're underestimating the drive hat comes from conviction in an idea. The guy has been living like a nomad. He gave away his book rights earlier to pay for his and the organization's defense. That's when all donations were blocked by credit card companies and Paypal. He could be making much more money working as a programmer in San Francisco or as a talk sho host on CNN. His fame came from the effects of his actions. It's like saying Larry Page started Google because he enjoys the limelight. He built a world-changing organization, and fame happened as a side effect. He might get rich in the future though another book or a movie. But at this point he's personally in the red.

You're misinformed. He has not been charged for anything by any country. Do your reading.

Was it a truck carrying supplies to nearby Harrod's department store? That's what I remember reading.

You have to use your real name by default, but you an follow a question or ask one anonymously by clicking a button if you choose to.

With billions in revenue per year, Starbucks has direct advantageous deals with credit card companies that probably follow them no matter what transaction system they use including Square. In other words, they are likely to pay less than the standard Square fees.

I thought they had changed their name to Xe services. What sort of name is Academi for a private mercenary company?

Yum, eating ice cream in a dark alley

You might be right. Tweetbot for iPhone was launched under similar circumstances - not too long after the first anti-developer statement from Twitter.

I find it telling that in this AMA as well as a few other interviews he seems to be noticeably more excited about the educational startup that he's a CEO of than the driverless car or glass projects. I guess no matter how great an environment an employer provides (and my understanding is that Google X is an upgrade from the regular Google) there's just more excitement when you're captain of your own ship.

Poll: when's the last time you logged in to MSN/AOL/Yahoo Messenger?

Exactly. Too focused on having a unified IM network for the desktop web. Facebook chat took over desktop web chat. Whatsapp took over mobile app chat. And Meebo got into toolbars and sharing widgets. Their lack of product focus and subsequent sale reminds me a lot of Loopt.

And the idea that people who set out to change industries start with something that is not perceived as so is included in that same Paul Graham essay. i.e. AirBnB launched as a way to rent out airbeds and couches. They didn't launch saying they will revolutionize the hotel industry but that might the end result of their work.

Can't find the original article he wrote that stirred up all this commotion...

Does that also apply to TN visas (kind of like an H1B for Canadians)?

Launch was good. But so was Disrupt. What indicates to you that Disrupt has been lackluster?

It would be great if you can show instances of that nonsense and explain why they're nonsense.