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Good ideas, mostly. Of course, as always, the devil is in the details (and to some extent, I think that's the point). - Paul Buchheit

interesting list, surprised to see photo/video sharing sites on there. - Adam Kazwell

"More open alternatives to Wikipedia." Wonder whatever happened to Google Knol... - Philipp Lenssen

They should start FF rooms for each of these. I'd contribute to a few. - Amir Gharaat

I think most of these are *great* ideas. This post isn't food for thought, it's a banquet :-) - Karim

Seems a little like bait? Some of the ideas are excellent reading and should be interesting to a few thinking about 'what they can do better'. Some of the other mentions (and wording in particular) leads me to wonder why go public with the list. - Charlie Anzman

Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it. --- :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Jesus, this single page has more original content and ideas than the last 1000 ff and blog posts I read. Inspiring. - John Murray

AWESOME idea, thanks for sharing Paul... this is going to be fun to watch! - Susan Beebe

Haha i posted thast too. Although Paul is most more visible on FF, of course. - Akshay Dodeja

Very interesting, especially #4 - Scott Schnaars

did any of the y combinator startup go big ? perhaps an ignorant question... a couple of them i know of are scribd.com, and a search engine for mechanical parts.. forgot the name. - Krishna Gade

We're working on #3. - Ryan Kuder

search engine for mechanical parts: http://octopart.com ? - Peter Stuifzand

Interesting: "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. ... What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. " How does TV advertising treat its audience better than web advertising? - Constantinos Michael

TV advertising is generally more entertaining than web advertising. - Ajay Kapal

@ Peter yeah... I was talking about octopart thanks for the link. - Krishna Gade

@ Ryan, what is it ? do you have something outside to try ? - Krishna Gade

would have liked to see this idea for an iPhone App Builder make Paul's list....seems much for YC-esque: http://joelaz.com/post... - Adam Kazwell

@ Ryan Kuder, I've been looking into #3 for a while, I'd love to chat if your in the bay area - Kris

I definitely vote for better email, or better say, better communication tool. - Jan Horna

What I'm interested in are #5, 6, and 7. :) - imabonehead

Sorry to say... The "Y Combinator" team is a little ...ahem... short on business expertise. - Mitchell Tsai

any web 2.0 icon resources? - abhishek manocha

looks cool... thanks for the warning! - Susan Beebe

looking attractive - Abhishek Singh

so cool - 阿石

Hutch: here's one for you to ponder. If Seth is the smartest guy on the Internet (and I think he is), why isn't he on FriendFeed? : ) He also doesn't allow conversation on his blog posts! - Robert Seidman

not a big fan of the game, can't dance and can't finger dance either, very interesting viral model however - Lou Paglia

Robert - some people achieve guru status, at which point interactions aren't needed (but would be appreciated). I imagine if Warren Buffett started a blog, he'd dispense his wisdom and not bother with what people thought. Take it or leave it. And people would take it. Same with Seth. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, Seth is great with interacting. But he doesn't seem to think FriendFeed adds to the ecommerce stream (that's your thing, right? FriendFeed as ecommerce?). I agree with you completely on Buffett, or Gates and lots of other people too. - Robert Seidman

seth's aversion to comments and the most engaging forms of social media do surprise me, but he's a real family guy and probably is just trying to maintain some balance. - Fred Wilson

Fred - I would think comments are a manageable form of interaction. Blogger can engage as needed. But it's cool. Really not needed for what Seth does. - Hutch Carpenter

Fred, I agree but I see a lot of people write "rules for blogging" and really, there are no rules. I don't believe Seth gets away with lack of interactions because he has achieved "guru" status. I believe he achieved guru status because his ultimate focus was towards providing good content. Everything else is second. - Robert Seidman

I have several interviews with Tapulous at http://qik.com/scobleizer that you might enjoy. - Robert Scoble

Robert Seidman (not Scoble) - interactions aren't really ever "needed". But that is one of the philosophies of blogging. If I turned off commenting and didn't show up on FriendFeed, I'd still have a (very) small readership. Just a matter of how big the audience would be. - Hutch Carpenter

I think twinkle is just as viral, I can't wait for more improvement on the twinkle-front. - karl dotter

Interactions aren't really ever needed when the content by itself is really valuable. But why do so many people make such a big deal about "the conversation" then? So on the one hand you want to say it is a big huge honking deal, but on the other hand not so much? - Robert Seidman

Robert - you mean like this conversation here? Who is this "you" kemo sabe? Conversations do matter, but all in context. Most of us are trying to figure stuff out, and it's a lot easier to do so by bouncing thoughts off others. If you're a lifelong student, conversations matter. If you're a professor, valuable content matters. And we're all a bit of both. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, conversations don't always (or even usually) matter in terms of ecommerce. We both may love these conversations, (and I surely do) but our love of them doesn't really mean much in terms of ecommerce. - Robert Seidman

Hmm...Robert...I'm thinking this is a conversation better held over on the e-commerce thread? - Hutch Carpenter

Back to the iPhone apps topic, analogy to FaceBook app first mover advantage falls short. FB has in-your-face viral features built-in (news feed, invites, shares, profile boxes, etc) which iPhone apps lack (as of now). iPhone app store has 3 things: #installs (doesn't translate to usefulness/quality/fun), user ratings (Apple does not allow sort by rating), and user comments which many people likely ignore. Seems like a smaller % of iPhone apps benefit from network effect, compared to FaceBook apps - Amir Gharaat

Amir, true, but then again iPhone apps have been available for a whole week! - Robert Seidman

But the game itself isn't that much fun. I have it, but I spend more time playing Aurora Feint when I'm in a line/waiting room/waiting for children at soccer/karate/gymnastics. - Cyndy

giz said it was buggy though... Did it crash on you yet? - Chad from twhirl

Not yet. I would rather see Contacts pull from other resources. FB has the advantage (as do other sites) of having up to date information. - Dion Almaer

The login form was buggy, finally got it to work, and then the app crashed for me. - Bret Taylor

Not almost for me, my contacts lists is much more comprehensive than my facebook contacts list. - Rajiv Doshi

Chris White: For my sister-in-law it will. For some folk, FB is their contacts. Just not you and I :) - Dion Almaer

So what we need is a "Plaxo Contacts iPhone app" that layers personal and shared contact information together - but have it come from a company without the spam-baggage that Plaxo carries and the wall-garden-baggage that Facebook carries. - Jonathan Berger

Jonathan Berger, perhaps it's time to let bygones be bygones? Plenty of companies have done stupid, albeit not intentionally evil things, and gone on to offer awesome stuff. As a former Plaxo contractor, I'm biased, but I think the bloggerati haterade's been way overdone in this situation. - Adam Lasnik

"Expected in Q2 2008"? - Mihai Parparita

wait, friendfeed is releasing a phone? omgomg! - j1m

sounds like it's time to get an iPhone Jess... - MG Siegler

Excellent, is it just one syllable? - j1m