Bryan Landers

"several months ago I began sending images to my good friend in Los Angeles, Clive Piercy — odd and interesting things I had found online that day. Each morning, before starting work, I would spend 30 minutes looking for visuals that were beautiful, funny, absurd and yet inspiring. I am continually amazed at the millions of images we have at our fingertips: design history, architecture, photography, ephemera and information. Gradually I added other friends and colleagues to an email list I called "Today," and over the following months it became a kind of obsession. Every day I was trying to find even more of this wonderful material, images that made me smile or that inspired me. Most designers are pack rats and collectors; it is our nature to see rather than just look and these images become a part of our everyday lives." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

as I posted there: "I'm think you're conflating the value of an idea with the leanness of a startup. Leanness can certainly contribute to success. A good idea certainly contributes to success. Neither is a guarantor of success, or even necessarily a predictor of outcome." - Andrew Badera

I agree, Andrew. What the poster had in mind is perhaps only concerning web startups, which are better off when they are lean at the beginning. obviously, leanness is a factor contributing towards success but it is not the most important one. What poster fails to make explicit is that the startup must be based upon a need, a gap to be filled out. He says there must be a customer but it looks more like potential customer. If there is a need addressed by the service of the startup, there will be customers. - Hayk

very cool! just put one of my blogs through it and got all miserable ;) - Hayk

How many monitoring scripts are enough? I think I am making the monitoring sites more popular than my site with all of the tracking scripts. - Scot Duke

im a fan of quarkbase - its does the best job for me - Anthony Feint

It's addictive. Developers and programmers are a highly helpful bunch. I also like how Jeff added the gaming components to it, like the achievements and reputation. - Alan Le

I like it. I don't understand everything in there, but then it's hardly possible. - Ian Hussein Maverick May

Yup, I have been addicted. - Varun Mahajan

s-corp (inc) or LLC ... - Andrew Badera

I like LLC and personally would recommend doing that at least, but you should consult with a good attorney. Also, not all states are like the People's Republic of California and have a minimum $800 tax. For example, here in Arizona there isn't a minimum tax on LLCs. Definitely check with a CPA and find out about that as well. - Jason Shultz

agree with DJ Chang. Revenue under $50,000 in most states sole proprietorship is pretty good. After that you use LLC's to own property, but corporations give you more tax flexibility to run your business - Lorraine Ball

FWIW, we have several dedicated boxes with an added bandwidth package from our hosting company that runs us between $4,000-$5,000 a month. We're probably going to drop at least one or two boxes, and possibly move some of our heavy storage requirements to the Amazon cloud to save on bandwidth costs. But I've definitely been tasked to look at all options. - Andrew Leyden

There are team members in our group actively learning the tricks and traps of EC2 with the goal of moving off a hugely expensive dedicated rack of servers. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Care to share some of those tricks and traps? Your team keeping a blog by any chance? I'd love to share in their insights. - Andrew Badera

and we just broke the 1000 mark - which is fantabulous. :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

Thanks for inviting me mate. - Steve Spalding

Thanks again Zee :) - Carolyn

Thanks for inviting me Zee, I am reading the previous posts - Taban Khajehnassiri

"I recommend Gary Vaynerchuk and Brian Solis for social media marketing and personal branding; Umair Haque and John Hagel for strategy -- don't know what stream they fit in, but they are both absolutely brilliant." - CBG

"I particularly enjoyed the title of Howard Lindzon's latest post: "Too small to fail" Nowadays, as a web startup, you have to try pretty hard to not be capital efficient. We just came out of the latest YC batch with the majority of their investment still intact. With a few thousand dollars, entrepreneurs can develop and launch products with room for several small, follow-up experiments. If you're able to create real value in the first X months, capital, business model, etc will all fall into place." - CBG

Seconded - Aaron Krug

Justin: thanks for the feedback -- we're thinking about it - CBG

It's on the list. I promise :) - Paul Buchheit

for all you softies in the house :) - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

:) - edythe

unlike the mother...it looks like this bloody share just won't die! ;) keeps getting coughed up again! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

"alaska isn't a foreign country" - peter

the hilarity just doesn't stop. fun fact: sarah palin got her degree in... journalism! - Leonard

Thinking that PT Barnum is wishing he could charge for the spectacle coming up on Thursday. Wow. - Casey

Jeremiah, like a lot of people, misses the point of Friendship. People aren't relegated to mere collections of topics to be parsed into hashtags or filters: they're above and beyond that. News and content discovery needs to be better removed from the whole social connection process, but it's not going to make "Friending" obsolete. Being able to follow people, not topics, is the appeal to the rest of the world outside of social media and web strategy experts. The intelligent web ought to include how to follow people we care about better, not removing them entirely from the equation. - Mark Trapp

So knowing that, isn't it our choice to decide how much to put out there? Also, there are sites / services that aren't indexed. Why not go that route? - just asking. - Mona N.

I'm not saying that it would be bad that public information gets indexed and combined. I'm just saying that in long run the difference between private and public is going to get mixed. It's our choice to decide what we publish or not but there is much information about ourselves that most people don't even know to exist. That is the main thing that makes me to be somewhat pessimistic of future. - Daniel Schildt

I think that if this were to end up being a problem, FF can easily identify the resource hogs and block them uploading photos. - Alan Le

I mentioned in a comment on the site that I did utilize FriendFeed's caching ability for a few days, as the hospital wouldn't let me use FTP. It was a great backup. I haven't taken the time to download the files myself and redo the image links, but may "just in case". - Louis Gray

Only #3 is an issue. The first two are the same issue, namely that FriendFeed lets you keep data online. This could have been a one-sentence bug report on the FF feedback room. (Obviously I don't represent FF or I would be apologizing for the trouble and being totally nice.) - Bruce Lewis