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Agreed. Our site was almost completely delisted a couple of months ago due to a completely fabricated claim. https://playerassist.com/4000-playerassist-urls-removed-due-... We’re still submitting the urls one by one. 10 days ago they said the complainant had 10 days to file suit or they would relist. Still waiting on relisting.

Unfortunately we didn’t generate the negative pr that the intercept was able to generate. And I’ll never know who did this either. Very frustrating

I understand, the part that's insane is having to press a plus button and copy and paste each url into a text field. Also, the lack of notification of any sort

Agreed, at $8,400/yr I feel like I might as well just pay my devs an implement something like introjs. Granted, not as powerful, but still.....

I did immediately think to myself that this was a needed product when I saw.

https://neilpatel.com/blog/buying-websites/ Looks like this link explains it a bit. Neil Patel bought the blog for 500k

My mind is blown. I never knew this could be done. I have always hated selecting text on the iphone

ideally that would be true, but 95% of the people i know who have bought cryptocurrency have bought it for the investment.

Does anybody else not worry about providing access to their investments via direct access to the various exchanges? If they are hacked, they have a direct pipeline to my accounts? Surely not all exchanges are setup to provide secure read only data? And what about the initial auth connection?

I just hate to add another point of vulnerability into an area that is no doubt being heavily targeted by hacking groups

Perhaps the business unit wasn't doing well and the alternative may have been lost jobs?

I don't get it. This is completely baffling to me that this is a company worth 9 figures.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but sometimes, companies are left with no other solutions. We had some websites hosted with Wordpress VIP. Because of their full page caching and just general restrictions, creating a login and user registration system like we wanted was not possible. We had to use a 3rd party hosted solutions that loaded with javascript(we used Gigya). Before that, I thought exactly as you do.

There is a reason Gigya just raised 25mm more dollars. Granted, they do more than just user login as a service.

In my daily use, I find Chrome to be overall faster and easier on the computer in general. I have recently run into a case during my development where Chrome actually has trouble compared to Firefox ANNNNNNND IE. It involves a large unordered list with several different divs, buttons, and links in it. There is some serious jumpy scrolling compared to both of the others, which surprisingly render smoothly.

This is the only instance I've ever run into where it didn't quite measure up.

blasted simple neural network behavior equations :P

I'm a little confused about app.net at this point, is it just a developer community?

The first comment on this article says it all: "This valuation is preposterous, because the methodology is preposterous. There is zero evidence that either the markets or investors use some arbitrary "multiply users by a dollar amount" calculation to determine a valuation for these companies. Using such a formula to arrive at an absurd number is especially egregious here because people will now use the authority of this publication to say "Businessweek reports that Goodreads sold for a billion dollars", though that's almost certainly not the case."

this is pretty amazing

Does Simple allow for sending checks from an online interface yet? If they don't, that's one point for GoBank.

it would be awesome if the code behind this was open-sourced. I like most people have a hard time letting a third party handle sensitive information like this.

i think the funniest thing is, it actually took this long for somebody to notice

I'm surprised. Maybe marketing to the wrong audience? I told 2 people, my wife, and her sister, and they both became hopelessly addicted. Neither are techie people at all.

No doubt

One thing definitely not helping their cause is their crappy domain name. No offense as I'm sure their product is lovely, but stripe has a big advantage in terms of branding

What was originally a weekend project turned into a 3 month project. Let me know what you guys think :-D

It doesn't look like it expired, it just looks like someone stole it from his account. I think more appropriately the person should be called a domain thief

Its a cool api, and I mean no disrespect to anybody involved like the guy said above, I just believe the business as a whole is a kneejerk reaction to a couple of well connected people and sites getting the rug pulled out from under them. It would be cool if they could get enough people to use it, but the API is only useful if there is useful data to pull from it.

If you took Facebook and Twitter making a few people mad lately out of the equation, this is a mediocre idea at best. I think its feeding off of people's temporary anger at the situation. I think it will pass.

I don't think it solves one, I think its providing a way for developers to stick it to the man. In this case, Twitter, Craigslist, and Facebook.

this looks like redirect spam, trying to push the techupdates domain

very cool, BUT, needs a better name, I'll never remember that.

the real source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/apple-said-to-plan-...

They wouldn't indeed, but, it makes it more difficult in the hopes that they scrape a different data source.