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Great way to get around the work of setting up the environment to get straight into the API.

Great way to level the playing field for kids!

Wow, nice work. I wonder how difficult it would be for Dropbox to switch out their SSL certs and reinstall on their servers.

One problem I ran into was having Go Daddy when I registered my domain via Google Apps. Even though I unlocked the domain and got the auth code, because the way Google uses privacy, the transfer was rejected. Any advice there would be much appreciated.

Agreed, pure speculation with little chance of getting through regulatory approvals.

Is this what the WSJ publishes to draw in weekend readers who are mostly unfamiliar with the tech space?

When was the last time they gave partial refunds? I think this was the case even years ago. I agree with the tone of the wording though; it has that passive aggressiveness that we paying customers shouldn't have to endure.

I wonder how many casual Facebook users will understand this feature and find it useful. Seems like the main beneficiaries of getting subscribers are one-person fan pages, like Scoble. But they already have a following on Twitter and G+.

Any more information on this? I caught the presentation linked from the article, which claims you can get a decision within 72 hours. Their website http://www.menloventures.com/portfolio_talent.html simply asks you to email them without clarifying what information they want. I'm curious as to what they're looking for in terms of application material.

What's refreshing is that they're not asking for referrals, which can slow things down considerably and put the less networked entrepreneurs at a disadvantage.

The self-proclaimed "journalist" calls this piece journalism? Uh huh.

I think what PG meant was many people go to grad school to wait out the bad economy while it's hard to find good jobs. Is that your case, or you always wanted to go to grad school?

The other poster said it right, consider your reasons for attending in the first place.

The final point that PG makes is investing in your own startup. If you have a solid team and execution skills, then by giving up on grad school and investing your youth and energy into your startup could yield better returns relative to "investing" later when the market is hot.

Paul Krugman has it right, the S&P is in no position to judge after all its mistakes: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/sp-and-the-usa/

My take is I give the S&P two middle fingers up, WAY UP.

The views here feel too extreme. Many many people are willing to trade in what is called "enslavement" to be a part of a winning team that has stability. The concept of an elite team works in small groups, solving specific problems. But when you want to scale, like Google for example, you need people who do less glamorous work, whatever it is. Does that make them slaves, or the company evil because they're enslaving these people? I don't think so. For the most part, the terms on the table in the US are relatively transparent and people are aware of the bargain they make when they accept employment. And that's fine by my book.

It's hard to determine without knowing how you would actually use at 27" monitor compared to the 1080p. Is it possible to "rent" one for a week from a local retailer to test drive your use case?

My thought is that I'm staring at a monitor more than 14 hours a day. It's like the tires on a car, where the rubber meets the road. It's such an important connecting between physical and the computer, that it's worth the additional investment.

That said, I can't make these judgments for you. I still recommend trying it out for a week if you can, and then decide if you're more productive with larger screen space. Good luck!

The local space is still to be figured out. The fact that Groupon can generate so much revenues, despite bleeding margins in its marketing expenditures, still makes it the leader in this disruptive field.

The bigger question is how and whether they will retain this lead, when local retailers and competitors get smarter about this space, and create better margins for themselves.

At the end of the day, the Wall Street traders will make the "proper" move and properly price it on its IPO day. How it will fare in the long run is still anybody's guess.

True that the transfer rates aren't specifically spelled out, but if I'm advertised the nation's largest 3G network, or something to that tune, then my expectation is unlimited data on that network.

I'm curious as who are the VC's who invested in IV? Are these typical tech VC's, or are they more of the private equity type that relish in making money off these so called opportunities or arbitrages that don't require actual productive work.

This is not very useful. It's essentially a directory that maps twitter ids to G+ profiles. If you're the first of your friends to sign up, you'll find no results.

Hard to categorize a tool as useful if it has social network effects (needs critical mass).

Note that by signing up you're giving up the profile association willingly into their database.

First the Russians buy into Facebook and now the Chinese too? All kidding aside, why would Facebook even want this to happen. It's not like they don't have enough investors out there waiting to throw money at them, who won't have potential conflicts of interest (censorship, surveillance) don't the road.

And did the author actually mention MySpace as a potential destination for defecting FB users, without mentioning Google Plus?