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“…repeating velocity, agility and nimbleness on a rosary” - that was so good. You made my day sir!

Not an owner or shareholder. I encourage you to read up a bit more on their competitive strengths, including their battery, charging infrastructure, and autonomous driving tech. In that regard they are WAY ahead of the competition. I am stoked that VW is serious about playing the EV game, and you are correct that they are significantly more capitalized; however they are still WAY behind Tesla in the critical areas mentioned above. IMO, they are going to gain a lot more market share, for a long time to come.

Does FB put in writing somewhere that deleting your account will result in all your data, including inferences and profiling data derived from data you and others have provided will be actually purged from their systems? Or do they just delete what little personal data you may have provided directly, but could still reconstitute virtually everything about you, whether anonymized or re-linked upon request or payment by a third party?

That sounds about right.

I doubt that it is a problem with the dev team, or a PM's lack of org clout or lack of API access (apparently the app could functionally do what it needed to do, except perhaps the final step, which might have required correcting an expired CC. iTunes has the same flaw when my card expires, requiring me to login from my desktop to fix). In my opinion, this is purely the fault of the PM or PO for lacking any sort of understanding of proper interaction design or making it a point to enlist the help of others who do, with the end result being a horrible UX.

I have gone through several Bluetooth headsets including Jaybirds, which lasted weeks at best. right now, I am using the Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones and love them. You don't sound as great as my old Motorola us, but they have lasted over a year so far of exercising and no problems whatsoever.

I had not heard of the East Meets West art by Yang Liu. Looked it up and found it very interest...if not spot on. Some made me quite sad about Western culture, such as grandpa walking the dog instead of his grandchild. Or the one on "self".

Results are buggy. "San Antonio to Caribbean for two weeks in July" displayed plenty of results, including Georgetown, except it was Georgetown TEXAS. My next search was for "San Antonio to anywhere in July for under $200". I get many results; however the price range is way over $200 on most of them. If I hit the back button I lose my search (can't see what I last typed to fix it). Also I keep almost clicking the giant PLAY button in the center of the page to start my search, probably because my search string ends right about where the big play button is. My eyes have to scan far right to see the actual search icon, which is somewhat obfuscated because it has no contrast with the search bar. I guess I can just hit Enter to search ;)

Something else to lament: their complete lack of support for webhooks.

Links above are broken...or at least for me (using Chrome).

Very interesting. Does anyone know what tech wetransfer uses for uploading? I was prompted to use Flash for download, but what about uploads? They don't use a Java applet. Anyone?

Very interesting. I was pleased with the results and have already added this site to my Chrome bookmark bar, right between my Google search and Hacker News icons.

Why can't the next area of innovation be in education? I’m not talking solely about the transition from print to digital, but rather a complete reset on education with technology at its core rather than at the periphery? Rethink the status quo, with no sacred cows (teachers, buses, grades, testing, - even classrooms all up for grabs).

Imagine tablet devices or similar technology that provide individualized, adaptive teaching programs that exhibit techniques that allowed students to progress each at their own pace, using highly innovative and entertaining forms of education.

Imagine all progress (and regress) made by the student as a form of continual testing and as gates to increasingly more complex subjects, with programs that adapt to a student’s areas of weakness (and strengths), hitting at core concepts from different angles and in ways that appeal to that individuals ideal method of learning, until that student was able to progress to the next concept, or skip and then revisit once a complementary concepts is are understood that would augment that student’s ability to master the concept they skipped earlier.

Imagine technological innovation that allowed us to take a less linear approach to certain subjects, which is the only method today given the constraints of 1:* teacher:students and the invisible “bar” which forces certain students to move at the lowest common denominator pace, while taxing other students to keep, such as those that have difficulty learning in the cookie cutter way.

Imagine applications that blend multiple subjects (math, science, history), presenting the material not using your standard “preach at you” teaching technique, but instead using role-based or video game style interactive learning that makes the kid WANT to study, gets excited about the subject.

Envision a system where the best teachers become the product managers that formulate the logic and program flow for those innovative applications, and your run-of-the-mill teacher becomes a custodian for keeping things under control while the students interact with their devices, and of course, with each other, as social interaction is essential for their well-being as well.

Sure there would be many hurdles, not the least of these being teachers unions and the hurdle of changing centuries of preconceived notions of how education should be accomplished, but hey, the author asked for what the next revolutionary idea could be, and a transformation in education with technology at its core has my vote.

It will start with currency and such, followed by clothing (hey, look at me!), then nails, then full body "tattoos". Heck, a couple of decades from now we'll put the city of Panem (from the Hunger Games) to shame. We'll all look like a bunch of human butterflies.

Too clever perhaps. Zero UI doesn't mean No UI. I also had to read the About to figure out that I could drop a file onto the castle wall, which btw failed to do anything (I assume I need a login). What's missing is something called "Affordance" in UX nomenclature.

None of the widgets worked for me in the demo. After researching WebSockets I figured it out: WS aren't supported by IE (or so it appears, using IE9 with all default settings). see them when using my Chrome browser. Seems like IE users are still a pretty big market though, so not sure how this will succeed without support for IE.

It worked fine in my browser (IE9) but horribly on my iPhone (iOS4.x), same experience as the previous poster. I would be more gentle in my critique if Pllop's main claim to fame wasn't the ability to build it once and render on any device. Did you even test it before going beta? I have to say that I DO like the idea and believe it could gain mass adoption IF one could host the Pllop engine on one's own hosting service, much like I can do with WordPress or Joomla today, rather than being tied to Pllop's domain. "Powered by Pllop" or whatever attribution, perhaps only removable when a license fee is paid (way to monetize). Good luck.