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Thanks. I'm pleased you mentioned the speed. When I created the site it wasn't something I focused on but I have thought about more recently. I'll aim for any changes I make to be at worse time neutral.

For the login you ask for an email address. There are plenty of services providing disposable email addresses but I wonder if you need to ask for an email at all. Perhaps an 'Alias' field would be more in keeping with the ethos of the site.

Usually when attempting to take a backup or download multiple pages from a site I add pauses between requests in an attempt to limit the burden I place on the servers I'm fetching from. I'm sure twitpic will have no trouble handling this rate of requests but I would council against pursuing speed with too much zeal.

It's likely premature optimisation. You may have a problem with bots signing up but I suspect at this stage it is not as large a problem as recruiting users.

You might also want to think about relying a little less on javascript. Try turning it off in your browser and see what you get. For me it was completely unusable and rather ugly.

Actually the python equivalent of "Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive)" would be random.randrange(0, n, 1)

random.randint(a, b) returns a uniformly distributed int value between a (inclusive) and b (inclusive).

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It looks like a nicely designed homepage that gets your point across well.

I clicked on the "Switch from Delicious?" button expecting to be able to authenticate with delicious and get going straight away. Instead I got a not terribly well presented list of reasons why I might choose to switch. At the very least there should be a clear call to action at the bottom of that list.

For sign-up is the CAPTCHA really necessary? If I understand your service correctly there is relatively little advantage to be gained by signing up multiple spam accounts and the presence of the CAPTCHA will reduce legitimate sign-ups.

I'm not so sure.

A few years ago a similar statement could have been made about Myspace or friendster a few years before that. Would you be willing to make such a statement about either company today?

Would you have been willing to make such a statement about geocities 5 years ago?

It's a nice looking site.

On http://www.crowdbeacon.com/how-works.aspx the video was a little slow to load so for a while it looked like a blank page above the fold.

Some of your FAQs don't sit well with me:

Why did you start Crowdbeacon? Consider ditching, "Also, because the future of life as we know it is rapidly becoming mobile and we wanted to make our mark early in the game." It comes across as a long-winded way of saying "this is a me too startup" rather than focusing on your USP.

How do you make money? Comes across very much as a non-answer. I suggest you remove this one entirely.