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This is fantastic. Well done! One minor comment though... I'd like to hide links I'm no longer interested in, or at least mark some as read. I would get greater use from this with some inbox-like functionality--but that may not be the kind of product you want to build. </.02>
ftr, I didn't do it. But I do think it's smirk-worthy. To each his own.
Thanks! Yeah, this only has status updates working too--mostly I did this as a proof of concept that real applications can be built through Twitter.
nice!
"In the past I've fulminated about various social networking systems. The basic gist is this: the utility of a social network to any given user is proportional to the number of users it has"
This is a bit clumsy. If all of my friends are on a social network, it doesn't much matter who else is on it. The utility of a social network is proportional to the number of users I care about.
This is interesting, but I'm not sure if it's really saying anything more than: Quora, as a knowledge-store, can power mobile search. I say mobile search, since that seems to be the implication of his dream of a siri-quora collaboration.
But is knowledge extraction from Quora really so game-changing with respect to the mobile web? Don't get me wrong--I love Quora and I think it's an incredible knowledge resource online.
But I think the power of siri comes from real-time knowledge (that is, knowledge or information that is useful to us while we're on the go). My experience on Quora has been so much more about intelligent, high-quality content than about real-time, practical, in-the-moment information.
Could be a bet on timing. Maybe they think IMVU was ahead of its time...
I think the idea is that it could create an experience similar to Turntable in the sense that you can "socialize" with strangers in a safe way. Many of those strangers also may be famous or influential; there may be something valuable in an experience where you can virtually hang out with Mike Arrington.
It's cool having that kind of interaction on Twitter--and it's certainly more "human" on Turntable since you're all engaged in a common activity that occurs in real-time: listening to music. Unfortunately for Shaker (or so I predict) virtually hanging out (apologies for the oversimplification) is hardly the same thing as listening to music with other people. This sounds like a bet on a trend...
I think you're stereotyping too strongly here. The difference in character between Princeton and Yale is marginal.
haha. I don't think it's that high. But I do think it's higher than 25%.
Congrats, guys!
Begs the question: are circles valuable?
I think that people are actually taking the time to organize their circles. You almost have to be a google+ anarchist to not organize your circles. But are people actually using circles?
The only time that I use circles is when i want to filter my stream, which is useful, though not reason to call google+ a game changer. Now, what will be interesting to see is how i will use circles when i start uploading photos to google+. If i only share with the few people i'm putting in my friends circle, that could be damaging to facebook. That could be a game-changer.
Also, fwiw, I'm using Google+ publicly right now, kind of like a long-form twitter.
It would probably be too much work if "circling" were done after following a person, but since circling is merely part of the process of following someone, it doesn't seem like that much of a burden.
ah well here he is. though who knows how accurate this is (or if the police will even follow up with it):
this is exactly the type of thing i was thinking about. Basically a file that you place in your dropbox which autoruns...
It's not practical to write an essay on an iPad. Edit: without an external keyboard.
We're "post pc" when it comes to multimedia, but not for anything that requires a keyboard, e.g. word processing etc.... That's a big deal, no doubt, but until we move past our reliance on the keyboard for some essential applications, we're not post-pc.
Granted, we're probably headed in that direction.
congrats!
The privacy problem is not going to be what kills Color. Having a privacy problem to solve likely presupposes that they've been successful.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is extremely readable and a classic of modern nihilistic thought.
I'd also recommend Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals. It's not his most famous work, but it's pretty widely acclaimed as his best.
Design is very sleek. I question though why "add friends" is located on the top nav bar; seems better suited to the side panel.
i thought the dropbox api only allowed authentication calls on mobile apps?
which itself is the same thing as goodcrush.com, which came out a few years ago...
young entrepreneur, impressive track record, prominent hn member...i could imagine some people caring.
nice article but what a terrible subtitle!
"Mr. Zuckerberg is setting up a foundation with $100 million of Facebook stock to be used to improve education in America, with the primary goal of helping Newark."
From the WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870386010457550...
Princeton's the same way. Tremendous amount of engineering talent and we even benefit from relative proximity to New York, and yet the prevailing campus culture pushes students towards finance and consulting.
How can that culture change? I can't say for sure, but my hypothesis is that a hacker culture already exists at Princeton; it's just hidden and untapped. At the very least these two things could help a university with an untapped hacker culture:
1. a hacker house, or at least some defined space to code along like-minded kids, even if that is nothing more than a dorm room.
2. student-driven cs curriculum. Princeton's CS program like Cornell's (i'm taking your word for it) is heavily theory based. There is i believe only one course on web development. In other departments, students not infrequently campaign for new classes. I wonder what effect an iphone development class (for the sake of an example) would have on the campus culture?
i (current yc batch) may be looking to hire a designer for some freelance work. my email's on my profile.