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Re:The clowd on Sunday June 08, 2008 @08:20PM (#212379)
Indeed, the owner of clowd.com is a Network Service Manager at Sun.
Re:Don't Be Better than the Competition on Sunday June 08, 2008 @01:32AM (#211952)
The post has a great quote: "The gap between [her brand] and its potential is far greater than the gap between [her brand] and it's competitors."

Unfortunately, the title is terrible. It has nothing to do with the quote.

Re:Ask YC: What are the downsides of open source? on Sunday June 08, 2008 @01:25AM (#211947)
> What is the challenge to make open source software successful in terms of making revenue?

Acceptance in enterprise.

Re:What sparked your inner hacker? on Sunday June 08, 2008 @01:21AM (#211941)
It's interesting that the style of searching you're talking about has remanifested 12 years later in the form of Firefox 3's smart bookmarks. http://ptaff.ca/smart/

What was the name of your program? Does it still work?

Re:Dave Winer: "Twitter is a ghost town" on Sunday June 08, 2008 @01:01AM (#211931)
Agreed.

The strange thing is that yours is the only comment here that responds directly to Winer's statement about a ghost town.

Is anyone else wondering what the hell Winer is talking about?

Re:Ask YC: What makes Twitter so special? on Sunday June 08, 2008 @12:42AM (#211918)
For one reason or another, people have an emotional investment in Twitter. Maybe it's just the cutesy vocabulary and artwork, but I like to think that people are invested in the promise of Twitter (that is, Twitter as a product with attractive features).

That, and also how the spectators and critics are investing in themselves by how much they complain and speculate about how each little thing is being mismanaged. It is Twitter, after all.

I think this is definitely one of those rare times when having fewer candidates will be better for the country.
Re:Is Amazon S3 a Good CDN of Choice? on Sunday June 08, 2008 @12:12AM (#211905)
Thanks for the link! That's exactly what I was looking for.
Re:Reccomendations on CDN| High Scalability on Sunday June 08, 2008 @12:11AM (#211904)
Let's spell "Recommendations on CDN" correctly for the search engines.