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"Indeed. In my post I was referring to the other way integration: Read It Later to Yummy." - Alex Popescu

draw, highlight, everywhere - Alex Popescu

Sketsa SVG Editor is a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. - Alex Popescu

DrawIt is a vector editing application with support for bitmap-like image filters. Vector editing as well as the filters are completely non-destructive which means that a vector layer can still be edited even after a stack of filters has been applied. - Alex Popescu

Scribbles is a drawing tool for everyone. - Alex Popescu

Netfitti is a network application for online realtime drawing. - Alex Popescu

the power of virtual goods - Alex Popescu

a smart bookmarklet - Alex Popescu

pomodoro app - Alex Popescu

"He, he... maybe 10 minutes to go through the slides, but surely a lot more to think about them!" - Alex Popescu

"Fred, seeing you, a busy person, blogging every day is both encouraging and challenging. I have a lot to learn from you. Thanks. The thing that attracts me to this blog is the wide range of subjects you are covering. You speak about your experience and share advise, you help your companies, you inspire other companies and last, but not least you have the guts to pick up any subject that interests you. This blog feels like it's you as a person in this world. And that's simply great." - Alex Popescu

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Alex Popescu

"Just another crazy thought against FCC regulation. If FCC imposes these rules, ISPs may consider dropping altogether their R investments in flood protection. In the case of a cyberattack (hey it happened quite recently in Lithuania, Estonia, etc.), US might be caught bare naked. And I'm really afraid to imagine what that'll look and feel like" - Alex Popescu

"Even in a perfect world, this problem would remain thorny :-). Let me exemplify it through a couple of different arguments: 1. Why would I have to suffer from all that illicit/illegal traffic? The reason here is that all the illegal traffic has an impact on the internet and that's influencing the lifes of others. Plus there are already other level 7 services doing it (think Google and spam) 2. The moment we start judging in absolute terms (illicit traffic), that very same principles would ask us to include other things in our absolute rankings: is YouTube generated traffic better or worse than linux distributions available through torrents? Is a YouTube video better or worse than a Hulu video? etc. Fortunately, we are living in an imperfect world... and that makes things even more complex." - Alex Popescu

"I must confess that it took me a bit (and a visit to the site) to better understand what this service is about, so my understanding might be wrong: it's a Yahoo!/Google Finance with a social twist. Anyways, my comment was more related to the blog post than to the service itself, so back to the topic. "Yahoo!/Google are ticker driven." I think an important consequence of this "ticker driven" is that it makes these services (close to) real-time services. "LinkedIn and CrunchBase are company and people centric services." I do think that both LinkedIn and Crunchbase are still far from being real services, both being human edited with almost no real-time aspect. And I'd speculate that the value would be in having these transformed in real (close to) real time services. Imagine Crunchbase being able to present you with real time data about the company: latest news, latest press coverage. Add to that news related to the market/product/resources and competitors. Combine that with ticker..." - Alex Popescu

"What I find extremely interesting about these crowdsourcing ideas is not really about their financial aspect or the obvious benefits of crowdsourcing, but rather about the fact that it is one of the best ways to show that your community really counts and that you are open to see and promote your company through their perspective. Now, there are companies that are deciding the winners internally so they can make sure that the final message is fitting the company official message, while those loving and trusting their community are leaving the community itself to decide." - Alex Popescu

"It is interesting that you are going from GAppEngine storage to Cassandra, so I'd like to ask a couple of questions: 1. Isn't it overkill to go from the GAppEngine model to 3 machines? Do you really have that amount of data or is this just an experiment? 2. In case it's just an experiment, have you evaluated other solutions like Project Voldemort? (or any others from this list http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/2009......) 3. It looks like from PaaS you have decided to go the IaaS way and I cannot wonder what made you pick Rackspace instead of Amazon AWS? Looking forward to learn from your experience, ./alex" - Alex Popescu

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar... - Alex Popescu

Comparing a problem solution in MySQL and Cassandra - Alex Popescu

"Kristof drop me an app code and I'd be happy to test it/provide feedback." - Alex Popescu

Hive support - Alex Popescu

Highlights: http://awurl.com/55bLeuKm3 - Alex Popescu

Links to Dan Pritchett BASE: An Acid Alternative, Werner Vogels: Eventually Consistent and rewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services by Seth Gilbert and Nancy Linch - Alex Popescu

"@Mihnea I am not sure I understand your point. Having a business plan and no clients will almost never bring you financing, while having clients and no written business plan might have better chances. Basically we are talking about theory vs practice: the business plan is pure theory and you'll have to prove that it works in real life before being able to convince others to finance it. Or were you referring to something else?" - Alex Popescu

"@daryn: birdfeed seems to be yet another elegant Twitter client. And it seems a bit more expensive than the others in this category. @davidkaneda: While I've heard a lot of good things about it, Tweetie didn't seem to have any cool/interesting features to make me pay for it. It seems aligned with all other elegant Twitter apps and some of those are available for free." - Alex Popescu

Moleskine cool stuff - Alex Popescu

"Interesting. I didn't know that's Buddhism. Anyways, my point is that due to the information overload our system is getting overwhelmed with the input and so it's starting to ignore/filter more and more things. And this experiment shows that we are not necessarily filtering out what is noise, but almost everything." - Alex Popescu

"@ducu pen'n'paper is a simple enough approach, but it's not digital" - Alex Popescu

"And in case you're wondering what's with the little duck, that's my travel mate :-)." - Alex Popescu

Introducing Megastore http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008... - Alex Popescu