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HA this guy. For years he went on and on and on about my first start-up idea and not in a positive way.

In 2007 I created The Social Alarm Clock (was my 1st idea on the web) and asked for feedback here. This Matt guy, hated the concept and said so in my Ask HN posted in 2007. Yet it didnt end there, he continued his hate for it in many HN posts throughout the years and even blogged about in 2011 or 2012.

HA, it had an impact on him.

Well, we have moved onto to our second idea and unfortunately I don't think http://SpeakerBlast.com (Turn a crowd & their devices into a huge stereo) is going to have the same effect on Matt. Though maybe...

Cheers, Matt, Cheers!

What's even worse that it automatically connected to Picasso which I must have used 5 or more years ago for some very private photos. When I signed up to google plus I was shocked to see these photos my ex gave me. There were under albums. I was horrified. I think connecting ur Picassa account to google plus was a bad decision. I never used it minus that one time years ago.

Fortunately I deleted them upon finding them a day later. Luckily I only had a few friends in my circle at the time.

Overall I'm not using it. I still use Facebook until everyone moves onto g plus.

Anyone know what is being taught regarding technolgy and the Internet in the us elementary and high school systems? Is Internet 101 a mandatory class that teaches these basics and some HTML? I sure hope so!

Will these type of clueless users always exist?

Not so amazing as Skype nor Vonage match the phone experience as neither take control of your dialer nor run in the background. If Skype is closed your phone won't ring and your calls will be missed.

What?

"You keep it hidden because for every 1 person who takes your advice and helps you out there are 5 who will write you off as a serious person for the rest of your life.

Edit: I'm not saying this is right/wrong, but there are real consequences to outing oneself as a depressive."

What are the consequences? After dealing with OCD and social anxiety issues from 18 to 28, I finally started to open up and talk about these oddities that conflicted me to others. What I learned is most people I talk to all dealt with something similar. These were just random people I met at work, friends and family members. I wish I talked about what conflicted me before I was 28, I would have been able to enjoy that 10 year span of my life more.

What I am saying is don't think you are alone, think you are crazy the one dealing with ocd, social anxieties, depression - the majority has been there and when you learn/realize that we are the same a huge weight is lifted off your shoulders. In other words talk talk talk about your problems, oddities (obessesive thoughts or actions), social anxieties and depressive thoughts until you are blue in the face. If people are going to look down on you for being a depressive screw them, they are hiding behind their own wall of B.S. - no one is perfect and everyone has dealt with something from the above in various degrees before!

My condolences to Dan's family and friends.

How about news sites charging say $12 bucks a yr. for iPhone centric versions of their site?

Reading Hacker News & other news sites on the iPhone is not the greatest experience! A lot of sites could charge for this and in turn offer a better UX for a nominal charge & in turn have another revenue model, that's easy to create & advertise!

Thanks everyone!

Currently - http://sleep.fm and some other things too, soon to be released.

We (http://sleep.fm) redirect IE6 users to an older version of the site that has less features.

Not sure, if that's suffice for this campaign or not?

So you don't use an alarm clock that uses noise to wake you?

We have made the noise extremely short and it repeats til you stop it. This weekend I was gonna go on a hike that was 2 hours away with some friends. Forecast woke me saying hot with thunderstorms. In my slumber and fumble to stop noise I only grasped one point - thunderstorms and went back to sleep! 2 hours to hike in thunderstorms no thanks.

I've never had trouble sleeping but in my start-up journey the alarm clock and working to improve it has become part of my life. Most people just want to hear a noise, like an mp3; maybe because that's what they are use to. FOr us we want you to hear a 5 seconds of information that tells you to go back to sleep(i.e. heavy snow) or helps u with day ahead (flight's canceled).

Do people want such a fancy alarm wake up sound; we hope so!

A Social Alarm Clock :)

http://browsershots.org/ may prove helpful to see how others using all the various web browsers are viewing Tapinko.

thanks for all the comments and helpful resources!

I wish HN had a section devoted to testing new features & UI! That would be great, as Im not asking feedback on my app(graciously received that), just like to know if the simple UI defines our new feature.

Feel free to take the Turk - 9 assignments remain: http://tinyurl.com/cx5czv

Since we do not have access to IE6 and know our latest version is messed up in it we are forwarding IE6 users to our old version( /ie6Index). The site is functional but asks them to upgrade.

Sure this awesome & amazing to see for us!

The data compete is stating is the number times people searched Twittered for Sleep.fm and not the amount of Twitters. We do have a somewhat steady stream of people talking about us, but compete's data is not showing the most popular Twitter topic rather most popular searches. Sleep.fm would surely not show up in that report, more so Obama, iPhone and other pop culture attention getters.

Every youtube video I watch and scroll to bottom of page i see the chrome ad.

Nice job! I saw a similar service called umbrellatoday too.

A month or so ago we ( http://sleep.fm ) launched wake up to ur weather report. We speak the weather to you upon zip code entry/alarm time passing.

Thought I'd share via the relevancy of this post. Congrats on your launch!

Agreed ... though I say the title of your email is most important, rather then it's contents. Be short, sweet & descriptive in your title and in the email. Press and bloggers get a lot of mail each day.

Don't forget the little guy bloggers (they may be the big guy soon) as you never know who the big guys read or feed they subscribe to.

Does it let me claim my name and auto register said name to each site?

A new form of Open ID! Visual and lazy!

Its an amazing simple idea and tool!

So much data on there for us start-uppers to use for research, marketing, as well as building innovating services using the data. One could create a crowd sourced Rotten Tomatoes-esque site. One example of many what can be done with the data there!

I never wanted to type Japanese but if I ever needed to... now there is a handy web service - good idea and work!

How about adding Chinese too?

Was going to type that site too, as I have used it many times!

Also, searching stumbleupon ... search graphic designer ... have come across some great folks!

Check out the latest browser statistics..

Firefox within a year should have 50% of the market http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Its all personal preference, but as designer dealing with IE and seeing these statistics makes me smile!

In six years .... not terribly different. Though we can look at current technology thats up and coming and place bets that by this time such will be popular.

Look at Facebook, it has been around since 04 and four years later we are now just seeing the early majority hop on board. Adoption takes time and bureaucracies slow new and better tech down. i.e. alternative energy and telecommunications

Maybe we'll see this ... obviously we all thought of this feature before and would enjoy this. Maybe they are listening?

Also, if they are listening I would like to be able to Twitter within Gmail. Have an inbox tab and a Twitter tab; spend all my time in Gmail & refresh Twitter a few times a day, why not consolidate?

I'd prefer an option where I send it and it rests on gmail's server for X amount of time I specify (minutes, hours, days).

I could then go back to it and edit it at will or delete it before the send time has passed.

Unfortunately, it goes with the territory.

But, if you believe in your work and you hear positive, the positive is your audience. Work for your audience ... don't dismiss the negative if such is constructive feedback you can use to make a better product.

Just think how many people hated on various businesses (myspace, twitter come to mind) and yet they became wildly successful!

Keep your head up!

Nice design that provides immediate comprehension.

Understood it in a few seconds!

Tapinko=same boat!