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Jim Gilliam is the founder and CEO of NationBuilder, the essential toolkit for leaders. http://nationbuilder.com/

His speech, The Internet is My Religion, has been viewed over 500,000 times and called "the best video on the internet." http://internetismyreligion.com/

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dev.nationbuilder.com 14y ago

How we cut Rails boot time by 33%

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www.votervault3.com 14y ago

"We recommended using IE, version 6.0 or greater, when viewing this site."

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www.davidtinapple.com 14y ago

Deschooling Society (1970)

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nationbuilder.com 15y ago

How my startup helped change the world this week

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3dna.us 15y ago

What the pundits don't get about the cloudpocalypse

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nationbuilder.com 15y ago

Show HN: NationBuilder, my startup just launched

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

How one guy turned his C&C skills into millions with online poker

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rocknewsdesk.com 15y ago

Napster boss set to buy Metallica’s record label

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3dna.us 15y ago

A Non-Sucky Twitter Business Model

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blogs.news.sky.com 15y ago

Obama's campaign agency being acquired by WPP

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3dna.us 15y ago

Facebook's plan to topple Google

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www.reshma2010.com 16y ago

Livestream of panel on Startups in NYC

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codeforamerica.org 16y ago

Code for America needs a CTO

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www.whitehouse.gov 16y ago

White House CIO & CTO Launching Open Government Plan live online at 11AM ET

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www.jimgilliam.com 16y ago

How Twitter can fix both retweets AND replies

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vimeo.com 17y ago

Shopify App store implementation is awesome

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www.endesha.com 17y ago

5 very detailed posts analyzing Google Wave

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www.jimgilliam.com 17y ago

How do you deal with competitors, people who want you to fail, in open systems?

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blogs.harvardbusiness.org 17y ago

The Beginning of the End of Business As We Know It

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Best translation service for a web app?

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whitehouse2.org 17y ago

White House 2: Crowdsourcing priorities for the next President

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The Guardian's headline is very misleading. Google's mission statement is not "don't be evil" - it's "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Larry Page is clearly referring to the mission statement that may need to change, not "Don't be evil." This is all made very clear in the original FT article The Guardian cites, they just chose to go for a more inaccurate and salacious framing of the entire story. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3173f19e-5fbc-11e4-8c27-00144...

[edit: the guardian changed the headline!]

Anyone who thinks they should get a salary like that when you've only raised $250k should not be your CEO. Run away quickly. Don't even try to negotiate him down.

His point that Zappos isn't a technology company, but rather a customer service company makes Las Vegas the perfect fit. Las Vegas is the #1 city in the world for service industries.

The main thing for me was being able to pursue an idea no one would fund. I could self-fund it to the point where it was obvious people wanted it, at which point fundraising is easy.

And having done a few startups, I also had the confidence to not need anyone else to tell me it was a good idea. I just needed to build something customers would pay for. Those can be two very different things.

One thing to know that is somewhat unique to bone marrow transplants, is that you need a lot of people registered in order to find anyone who will match. It's not like you can go pay someone for their bone marrow and be done with it, you need to find that one person amongst millions.

That changes the incentives a lot. When you register, some day you may get a call that you are the one person in the world that can save someone's life.

[I had a bone marrow transplant from a stranger 15 years ago]

Except they aren't called sites and groups any more. You're really underestimating how important labeling is.

EDIT: Lots of people want sites, lots of people want private groups, but no one wants a space simply because they don't know what that is.

How is Amazon not a platform? Completely leaving aside AWS (which the author does mention):

a. it has zillions of stores selling through it b. a whole generation of small businesses have been built by people selling used books, cds and dvds. c. anyone can publish their own books, cds and dvds d. anyone can use their fulfillment services and payment services e. digital video and music f. kindle

I wonder if there is a way to calculate the total cost of lost developer productivity due to Facebook bugs, changes, and bad documentation. I swear I spend way too much of my time dealing with it, and it sounds like everyone else does too.

The Constitution is not about direct democracy at all, it's setting up a parliamentary republic. And the drafting of it involved a lot of online feedback and participation, but was ultimately written by a committee of 25 people.

Some noteworthy aspects: It guarantees universal health care, the President is elected with preferential voting (where voters rank their choices 1,2,3,etc.), and to amend the Constitution, Parliament must pass a bill and then a vote is held within 1-3 months. It's also possible for Parliament to unilaterally amend the Constitution, but only with a 5/6th super super majority.

Path is also doing really poorly. Another site based on sharing information privately with a smaller group of people. Has anyone shown traction with a product that is explicitly anti-viral?

I think he is saying we shouldn't use jQuery Mobile because it's a web app that tries to look like a native app.

Thanks for the feedback. We definitely struggled with the overall positioning at launch. Our initial target is political campaigns and non-profits, mostly because they know they need this kind of a tool, and the current options are ridiculously expensive. For them, it's all about coordinating volunteers and engaging people in every channel possible.

But we also think, based on our background using political organizing to distribute documentaries, that there is a big market potential for independent creators as well, a market that will get very large. Authors, filmmakers, musicians, comedians, YouTubers, bloggers, etc.

The first few questions in the FAQ talk about this: http://nationbuilder.com/faq

We're definitely gonna play around with the main language on the website, thank you.

It was clearly designed to be easy to hack, so they are not afraid of that. What they've really done is set a premium price on their content. Whether people pay it or not, everyone will now feel like the NYT is very high quality. That seems to be the intent.