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Wow, who got paid to make this law?

Goes to show that content is king and people will pay for content they want or think they need.

Build a landing page slightly explaining it with an email sign up field/submit button (like via launchrock or some other co).

Invest $50-$75 or so into some keywords/ads via adwords and see if you get signups. Fastest/cheapest way to validate.

If that goes well, put a full plan together with a schedule attached and go at it.

Good luck!

Until a robot decides not to listen...

And now for Amazon...

How much did you start with?

How do I get photoshop on this thing?

I actually think they should acquire a carrier like tmobile... They always say they want to control "the entire customer experience from hardware to software".

I like google +, I really do, but look at your google + feed, then look at your facebook feed. They are both vying for the time. Its clear as to who is winning that war.

Build a better product then advertise that. The problem is everyone is trying to build the iphone and they think that advertising is going to bring market share.

Now they get back to me and are going to Charge me $80 more for squatting on the domain?

Here is the exact text from godaddy.

According to a whois lookup at the registry, the domain name [domainname] expired on 8/10/2012 and was held in a short grace period to allow the registrant to renew. Given that the domain was not renewed in a timely fashion, the domain has now entered a 30 day 'Redemption Period'. During this period the registered owner may renew the domain by paying a redemption fee.

The Redemption Period is the 42 day time line available to domain owners to renew a domain after the expiration date. From Day 19 and on the domain registrant can renew with a Redemption fee. When your domain is in Redemption Status it has passed the expiration date, but has been reserved for an extended time frame for the domain owner on behalf of the domain registrar. A Redemption Fee is an $80.00 fee that must be paid to renew domains that have been expired for 19 days or longer. The Redemption Fee is initially paid by the Registrar to extend the registration and prevent the domain from being backordered or going onto the market.

The main difference regarding today's "Social Sites" is they have money in the bank earned from advertising, etc. (Zynga over $1 billion, twitter over $600 million, facebook making over $1 billion per quarter, etc).

Steve Jobs said it best. They just don't have any taste and in a world where people will pay a premium where taste has been considered when products are being developed (apple, tesla, etc), companies like MS will be left in the dust.

Tell that to twitter (period).

Why did't he buy class A shares before the IPO. Idiot.

Awesome! We have a similar service at www.ClientBiller.com that allows you to use your paypal, authorize.net, google checkout, and moneybookers accounts.

Great points. Also allows him to learn, grow (both in business and to look for new opportunities), and adapt.

Plus, its pretty easy to just "get a job". Creating a job or a business is much trickier. Kudos to your uncle!

Interesting that everyone is focused on Instagram as a company and how they just got $1 billion.

I find it interesting that Mark and Facebook were able to buy a company for $1 billion. Its like the joke chris rock said about being wealthy.

"Shaq is rich, the white man that signs his check is wealthy"

Interesting... Wonder how much they lost...

When are these getting released?

This isn't about saving Hollywood... Its about stopping the 99.99%'s of the populations first amendment platform - the internet. Its about stopping sites like Wikileaks and blogs that speak their opinions about the gov and politicians. thats my $.02

This isn't about Hollywood... Its about Wikileaks and everyone else who wants to use their first ammendment right. thats my $.02