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How's being an elitist prick working out for you at parties?

No, because people would get it's a South Park reference.

Ironic since TechCrunch bought InviteShare.

Well, I see two pictures and the words compare who's hotter instantly. It's for the lack of a better word a FaceMash, which itself is a clone of a few dozen other predecessors before it.

No further explanation needed. Your copy, however, needs work to compel me to bother spending 30 seconds to sign up and play with it.

"Every Monday morning [Jobs] brings them together to review products and the challenges of designing and executing them... Four hours a week, fifty weeks a year, for twelve years equals 2,400 hours spent building mental and relationship capital by connecting the newest ideas of diverse brilliant and passionate minds."

I've been told before success is simple: you focus and you be patient. So yes, you too can be an "overnight" success lauded and dissected by millions around the world when you spend your whole life on it.

See also Michael Jordan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBxcunGc_nA

Seems you fancy yourself an iceberg hunter. You see just the tip and you seem to know everything underneath? How about you stop knocking other's hustle and focus on yours? You have to learn to let go of this immature angst; it will eat you alive and taint everything you do.

Small businesses expect the marketing rewards of those loyalty cards, look forward to the breakage, and demand everything to be as cheap as possible.

Traction is going to be hard. Good luck.

Sometimes people switch out from being CEO to being chairman because it's just more fun being the globe-trotting-jet-setting-lunching-with-Obama guy schmoozing and closing deals and partnerships than being the tedious micromanager.

Just saying.

But it's also fun to fantasize, speculate, and gossip about really rich and important people.

1. It would be awesome if you incorporate transitions between the single page design elements instead of jumping back up then back down.

2. On my 13" the screenshots are too big, then I have the chat widget overlaying on top.

I wish they would graduate Alexia to cover better stories. Give her some of those Glengerry Glen Ross leads, Michael and Erick, instead of making her trawl through Hacker News threads.

Other than the ironic name use, what's the point of throwing 460 words on this?

I remember Garry, like me, arrived early at the Y Combinator pre-party. He had long hair, kind of like every other Asian friend I had so I figured he must be really smart. Stanford smart.

I shook his hand and he introduced himself as getting an interview slot too. Naturally we conferred and compared notes. Mine was something weird, a scheduling software--we haven't decided yet. His was a photo blog. Well like a photo blog, but easier, the kicker is you only manage it through email.

Oh, I said. That sounds... interesting. Since I was young that was go-to answer for any pitch. The less he explained the more compelling it was. Blogging for your grandma, blogging that anyone can do, blogging that's accessible. I remember asking how long he's been working on it, he said for a few months. I smiled and said he's probably going to get funded.

I didn't, it was my fifth try and became my last.

Throughout the years Posterous' engineering skills, design skills, and marketing skills have made the platform really awesome. Reading his blog, learning his thought process, and seeing the passion he puts into his work, it's inspiring. Very inspiring.

Blogging for grandmas is such a good idea, it's carved a great niche amongst giants WordPress, Blogger, and Tubmlr, and it's growing as a company.

Our career paths took really drastic divergence but seeing what you've done in the past three years is one of the examples of the immense potential working in our little crazy world.

Congrats and good luck.

I don't understand your train of thought.

No, I'm pretty sure I know the difference. But the older I get, the more sure I am of my opinions, the more educated I am of my thoughts, the better I am of writing, the less I care the more I start to see something to hide and hiding thoughts are too similar.

That's as annoying as a pseudo-intellectual and inauthentic hipster.

A quick glance at Read the Fucking HIG and it's very clear what they're mocking deserve to be mocked; not a single one validates based on the HIG.

Vulgarity is immature and childish but it's a tonality the Internet has adopted. You can participate or choose not to, sermonize about decency or not, but this insistence--beyond the scope of this article and RTFHIG--that everyone does things on your pace, your schedule, your needs, your preferences, on you... is just so whiny.

Care less, it'll make you happier.

I write the same way in my blog as I do in a diary and leave it open with my name attached. I prefer it.

Other than that I'm not sure what we're arguing about. Though it is interesting you have things to hide.

Just because work is hard and it was done doesn't mean it's above criticism.

Now it's called blogging. Xanga -> LiveJournal -> Tumblr.

It's all derivative of forum software. Thread, post, reply, notify, user, profile, follow.

If Reddit has an interest graph built on a social graph with a Twitter graph and a map to find all these graphs then they too can be the media darlings of Silicon Valley. But, wait, they slayed Digg, is that not good enough of a narrative in 2010?

Quora has now momentum, I think that's going to get them over the hump more so than anything else. When Steve Case is on your site commentin', that's at least worth $1MM in valuation right there.

I know this because no one reports it. Everyone moves on. To another idea, to another company. The better candidates work for a YC company.

Deal flows in Boston and NYC is better than Silicon Valley right now. Pay attention to OnStartup.com, JasonLBaptiste.com, and things Bijan Sabet is saying.

Google didn't buy a diabetes management app.

Purposely being glib loses its humor amongst nerds that live and breathe internet business. Try another schtick.

What everyone is essentially fighting over is scraps left behind by Facebook so this makes perfect sense.

AOL went sideways when internet users grew up and left their walled gardens, messed up again with MySpace what with the lukewarm response of AIM Pages back in 2006. Now Aol is spending cash on trinkets to pretend they can still worm their way into the center of a non-competent user's internet life.

Aside from their content publishing offerings almost every one of their product offerings is fourth class, or third at best. But damn, are they ever good at producing nuggets of content to slap ad relevance algorithms against. They're in a hard position though, what can you do with millions in users and billions in cash in 6, 9, 12 months time to still stay relevant and competent in a post-Zuckerberg Man of the Year world?

No, you can't hire a hit. You can only appease shareholders with churn.

I'm going to predict the future: In 3 months time everyone in an AOL/Aol database gets sent an email telling them to plug in feeds from other more successful web services. In 6 months time people forget this because behavior can't be modified. In 12 months time a social media consultant will still try to convince you their about.me page is worth putting on business cards. But by then we would be onto the new shiny.

This happens after every round for the past four years I've been paying attention to Y Combinator. I don't applaud you for taking the jump, as moving and doing all this stuff is more normal than abnormal to me. In the wake of youth, you're going to enjoy everything you're doing.

Will it increase your likelihood of success? No. There has yet ever been a startup that has developed after a rejection from YC. Will moving to SF help you? No. There's a lot more action in the east coast for tech then there are out here. In fact, I would say you're going to have a much harder time trying to figure yourself, your startup, and navigate the social culture and scene. Your budget is also naively out of whack.

But you're going to enjoy your adventure, good or bad. I applaud that, I applaud that simple affirmations.

Good luck, let's grab lunch when you're out here.

Looks awesome :)

I started the ball rolling tagging people last week (http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/12/07/recently-tagged-pho...). Ended up messing with Mashable's profile and next thing you know everyone's doing this. If I wasn't so busy I would have built this, but then again if I wasn't so busy everyone would be rich, happy, and content. Good job!

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AppDrop and similar techniques really helps in reducing the friction of getting an app tested and made. This is a trend that more and more solution providers will jump on.

Hi Emile,

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We're also looking for a senior Android developer, iPhone developer, and a web developer that's really good with Python/Django.

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I sometimes will go to which ever site automatically pops up first when I type the first letter.

Eg.

a -> apple.com

b -> my blog's wp-admin login

c -> google.com

and so on.

What's your email?