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Zero is important because it is the first abstraction.

Aren't numbers themselves an abstraction?

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You might also enjoy the recent novel Speak, by Louisa Hall. It's a thoughtful treatment of the idea of speaking dolls/conversational agents and the connections we form with them.

http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Novel-Louisa-Hall-ebook/dp/B00N0...

It would be awesome if they could integrate that with a translation feature, such that content in high reading level (perhaps dense with technical jargon, etc.) could be translated into a simpler, yet semantically correct version.

Looks like fun. Some of the people commenting on that page don't appear to understand the intended meaning of the term hacker in that context. But then, they probably aren't the target audience of the competition either. :)

Awesome: "Judging by the reactions of the investors, the recession seems to be over."

I like the idea of easy registration, but I am not really sure that No Registration Required is all that attractive to me (as a buyer or seller) for this type of application.

Other user goods marketplaces give an idea of seller's histories, in form of ratings, reviews, and so forth. I think that can be really helpful (and I do tend to avoid Amazon marketplace sellers with low ratings). Is that a feature you will want to provide?

Currently book listings have a Contact Seller link. I have not yet come across multiple listings for the same book (different sellers). How will you effectively distinguish those listings from each other?

Some smaller items that stood out:

http://beta.mrtextbooks.com/browse (Buy link) is broken. On Buy|By ISBN,By Author, By Title all links point to the same search page. Each time though the Title filter is selected. http://beta.mrtextbooks.com/search - if no matches are found (which could be due to filtering or simple title mismatches), then the same form is displayed again. It would be really helpful if you showed some message indicating "No results were found - try broadening your search" or something to that effect. Otherwise it may be hard to tell if search is simply not working or if there just aren't any matches for a given search.

I understand her point. However, if I am offering one thing but people keep repeatedly asking for another thing, then maybe that other thing is what I should (also) be offering. Seems like pretty good feedback from the market.

The SNS Usage Overlap chart could use some improvement. Examples: 1) Who uses MySpace and LinkedIn but no other network? 2) Who uses Twitter and Facebook, but no other network?

Check out TiddlyWiki.

I think it could be pretty useful, if search engines did not simply return a list of results, but rather took content from a number of useful documents and then assembled a document that essentially summarized the result - with links to the source documents.

Generating a person profile based on the person's footprint from all over the web seems like an interesting application of that idea.

Good point. I'll make sure to do that next time.