Dan Haubert

"It's the PG microblog." - Dan Haubert

"I don't like that idea. Part of what makes Hacker News great is the forced absence of comment self-promotion/signatures and a extremely high focus on what's being said rather than who says it. Anecdotally, if I find myself particularly interested in what someone says I'll visit their profile to learn more about them." - Dan Haubert

">What I hadn’t seemed to realise (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), is that this fourth day is where angel funds and VC’s pay upwards of £50,000 to attend (no kidding!) £50,000!? Can anyone else confirm this?" - Dan Haubert

">What I hadn’t seemed to realise (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), is that this fourth day is where angel funds and VC’s pay upwards of £50,000 to attend (no kidding!) £50,000!? Can anyone else confirm this?" - Dan Haubert

"Redorb already covered that before me so I didn't. Besides, Twitter will eventually make money; it caters to too many of the seven deadly sins not to." - Dan Haubert

"Great run down, but this part is inaccurate: >They have a small number of employees, strong revenues, no funding, and apparently consistent operating profits. Funding: http://37signals.com/svn......" - Dan Haubert

"One creates their own linkbait, the other their users do it for them." - Dan Haubert

">killed somewhere around 20 people through fear alone. Do you mean without even biting them? How do the people die? Panic attack/heart attack?" - Dan Haubert

"Not true on both accounts. They rank for over 125,000 keywords. Source: http://spyfu.com/Domain..." - Dan Haubert

"Title: Can We Please Have Jerry Back? . Text: Do I really want Yahoo to bring Jerry Yang back? No, not really ?" - Dan Haubert

"I think it's their follow up to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item..." - Dan Haubert

"It's like a more civilized version of 4chan." - Dan Haubert

"Because they get tons of traffic." - Dan Haubert

"Because they get tons of traffic." - Dan Haubert

"I'm not complaing, just making fun of :). It probably worked in terms of sales. But unfortunately it has the unintended consequences of all these people trying to coin unnecessary gobbledygook words when plain simple English will suffice. Now sometimes reading a newspaper article feels like sitting through a business school class. IMHO if anything making up terms and introducing more jargon just makes communication harder. >Many of the basics are now essentially free, which means a business built on the infrastructure laid down by the first two generations of Web companies can gain scale on a shoestring budget, all while giving away its products and services for free. Call it Web 2.5. Or in other words, things have become cheaper and it's easier to start a web company. Call it technology. Also, this has been true for much longer than the author acknowledges. He's trying to a fit a company into his cookie cutter view of the internet while coining an unnecessary word." - Dan Haubert

"This more of a case in point than a because of. 37s has always had very very responsive customer service." - Dan Haubert

"Yeah but the whole O'Reilly empire sells books, conferences, webinars, etc. all bearing the Web 2.0 scarlet letter: http://search.oreilly.com/......" - Dan Haubert

"The guy sells books and conference tickets :)." - Dan Haubert

"It's marketing/douchebaggery and demonstrates a lack of creativity. "Web 2.0" was coined by a dude trying to sell more books." - Dan Haubert

"Their support is brilliant too." - Dan Haubert

"Perhaps, but calling yourself a revolution is kind of like calling yourself insane or weird or unique or a celebrity; it's just disingenuous. >Many founders set out to create a company for the sole purpose of selling out (which in the author's context included Aaron). You don't know that. Aaron could have set off to build a long-term profitable company, which they seemed on their way to doing. But 170 million dollars is 170 million dollars. Almost everyone has their number especially if they have shareholders and vested employees (which 37s does). You run in to the same problem as the OP does: a lot of assumptions without any real knowledge of Aaron or the company's dealings. Instead you're relying on blind assertions to judge others." - Dan Haubert

"Their linkbaiting is brilliant." - Dan Haubert

"How's it selfish? And certainly that's better than making blanket statements about the next generation or having the gull to think a company is sparking a "revolution". That word is starting to become more overused than the word "celebrity"." - Dan Haubert

"How's it selfish? And certainly that's better than making blanket statements about the next generation or having the gull to think a company is sparking a "revolution". That word is starting to become more overused than the word "celebrity"." - Dan Haubert

"Sure, out of context. And that doesn't mean it wouldn't be awesome :) You're insinuating that it's selfish (and perhaps wrong?) to sell a company, which is just ridiculous. It's funny you're nitpicking a quote when the original article is pretentious enough to call their own company a revolution." - Dan Haubert

"That's just not true as the CEO himself admits. Mint were absolute masters of SEO and PR: http://spyfu.com/Domain..." - Dan Haubert