Room CU

“prettyPrint” is an in-browser JavaScript “variable dumper” similar to ColdFusions’s cfdump. It enables you to print out an object of any type in table format for viewing during debugging sessions. - Adrian

I guess that leaves me to take the honors. - Adrian

I have never tried, but we're both rather very tech savvy users so we shouldn't be counted. As you pointed out, it is more about branding, marketing and SEO. To say nothing about that type-in traffic gives you very good CTRs so you can easily wait for/find the buyer. - maurycy

Generally speaking, A/B techniques involving improving CTR, Bounce Rate, returning visitors and tools like Google Optimizer are depressingly frequently overlooked in the startup community in favor of 100% test coverage and such. I always wonder why. - maurycy

I'm working on the invites. - Adrian

A few members here have already joined this room, Code Junkies, and it went public just a few hours ago. Personally, I'm not coding as much anymore. - Adrian

There is also here a room about internet tech in Europe: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Adrian

"I honestly do not want to sell Twitturly now, or ever, because I know that it will be a very profitable business someday. Unfortunately I have to sell it though for it to continue to grow. I would rather sell it and know that it has a future than hold onto it and watch it die." - Adrian from Bookmarklet

Similar to friendfeedlinks or FFholic but for Twitter. It could work to go into partnership with someone from here. - Adrian

This basically says that when a person is doing: 1) what they are most passionate about, 2) are comparatively best at, and 3) being paid at the same time, they are being 'Hedgehogs': maximizing their positive impact on their environment. I agree with the notion and the article gives tips on getting to that point. For me, getting to that point is like being at the beach with a metal detector and listening for the detection sound, the closer you get, the louder it grows. As applied to the Hedgehog concept, this involves dropping away things that won't take you to that performance zone, which for me comes from respecting subconscious signals so that one's background excitement can grow. Says Collins, Hedgehog staff are what make great companies. - Adrian

http://loglibrarian.blogspot.com/2007... - Adam Thorsen

"Bret stated explicitly that ads need to be in the river of content, and not relegated to the sidebar. I could not agree more." - Adrian from Bookmarklet

Lastly, for FF to remain free in all respects, and attain an acquisition for a significant sum, I think it must be attractive to absolute beginners: people with no feeds to aggregate and no friends on the service with whom to connect. In other words, people in under-developed nations. However, the site could still sell stats as some social bookmarking sites have done. It could also attempt to glean knowledge from the semantic markup of the pages linked. For stats, some quant jocks from Wall St. could help. - Adrian

"Dropbox is a cloud storage service with really smooth native platform integration on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. The Dropbox client software will automatically keep files synchronized between multiple computers and the user's Dropbox web storage space." .."The company jumped into a software space that is saturated with mediocre offerings and has delivered a better user experience and more cohesive platform integration." - Adrian

Conventional VC procedures of startup due-dilligence still apply for companies producing web applications except that the products are companies themselves, with customers being corporate acquirers who make payments to consume such companies and their applications. From this perspective, an application's users are not a company's customers as they don't lead to company profit in a direct way since applications are most often provided for free. Rather, an application's users are suppliers to a company of thought and mind to make its application workable and self-perpetuating. Entrepreneurs are then tasked with providing applications with high enough utility, usability and pleasure so as to maximize user engagement for any style of application and its underlying human emotions. In this way, to a potential customer (ie an acquirer), users should demonstrate that an application can operate in its own larger and more monetizable context. - Adrian

Of the multiple online business models, the free model seems to have generated the largest investor returns. Here, companies and their applications may never generate any sustainable revenue or substantial profit yet still provide an investor return through a liquidity event due to an acquisition. This style of business investing and operation is new and unconventional. As an analogy,... more... - Adrian

Just made this room today. Toastmasters is an excellent way to improve your presentation skills. - Bruce Lewis from Bookmarklet

Did you spam or something? - Dan Haubert

No, I hate spam as much as the next guy. I actually hardly ever post to YC...not sure how to even get ahold of anybody to ask. - Trevor Lee

Post here ;-) - Adrian

So the Linux version is no longer alpha? Cool. Please send an invite to me: brlewis ourdoings. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

everyone get one already? kfischer gmail com if you need one - Kevin Fischer

Interesting that Friendfeed lacks Socialbrowse integration.. - Adrian

"It is my pleasure to present django-monetize, a pluggable Django app which aims to make it trivial to intelligently monetize your Django projects. It was designed with two guiding principles." - Adrian

I changed the name and went public with the room because I felt it had run its course in such a status to be of the most benefit to the most people. I reckoned that 80% of the people that were to ever have participated in it had already done so, should it have remained private indefinitely and assuming I stopped invites. The general low proportion of participation was to be expected... more... - Adrian

Ben, good questions. It IPO'ed and name-changed on Friday (established in early June). A new logo too! - Adrian

"RDFa allows you to embed data into your web pages and also lets you create custom vocabularies, or even better, reuse existing vocabularies. Why would you want to do this? SearchMonkey will go out and index this content and open up a rich search API to allow you to do intelligent queries. Well beyond what is possible with traditional search." - Adrian