TimH
Ask HN: Got space to sublease in Palo Alto or MV?
Are there any startups out there in Palo Alto or Mountain View that have spare work space they'd like to sublease?I'm looking for some, and the 'AirBnB for office space' startups don't have local inventory. How would you find space?
The author of the "Five Levels" article is the CEO of Sonic.
Ask HN: Best unintended use of your webservice?
I build a website called favstar.fm. Its purpose is to provide feedback on tweets - and easily show who is favoriting and retweeting your tweets.This morning I woke up to discover a Japanese user has been using it as a canvas. Visit this tweet and click on the 'others' link next to retweets and you'll see a cool picture that they've put together by carefully setting up avatars for over 60...
Facebook moves to HBase for message storage
Digg partner-site upvoting stops after Digg informed - they're self-gaming?
People took out their wallets, and paid. See if you can find the 28 people who matched. It's not easy - they're not getting any PR. This was someone who on a whim decided to attempt to raise money for a charity through the Twitter medium, and he gained a lot of support. The trigger was favs, not RTs - I'd argue it's not a PR stunt.
I do share your cynicism about the Iran situation, but I think Twitter can be used as an effective tool around smaller issues as demonstrated.
What if in the future there are 2 billion twitter users instead of 170 million? Do you think there will generally be higher awareness of global issues? Before you can act on something you need to be aware of it right?
28 people matched the 10c donation, and there was $8,000 of adhoc donations inspired by the action. See: http://favstar.fm/users/Mike_FTW/status/27901780152
Does the angry blue bird multiply its mass?
From there click on the recent button to see what tweets of yours were recently faved, or the given button to see what you have faved.
I've recently started integrating RT tracking too, as tech tweeters do tend to use RT more than likes.
If you log into http://favstar.fm once, it will start collecting favs and RTs you give and receive almost instantly. Otherwise it collects them more slowly using twitter's REST api.
Ask HN: Your lawyer investing in your series A round?
While educating myself I've seen that startup lawyers sometimes invest in angel or series A rounds. I was wondering what people thought of this. To me it seems a little disadvantageous as it means your lawyer's interests are now aligned with the other investors, instead of remaining independent. As a founder, would you be second guessing advice given to you by your lawyer after the event, or...
I think it's wrong to state that Twitter is censoring, and is harmful. It should have been posted as a question instead.
[edit: The poster's reviewed it.]
Here's what I see: http://twitpic.com/1spne4