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Re: on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @02:24PM (#44250372)
Google is the greatest shopping center in the world and I must admit; I really do like it. Must be more shoppers around than the information seekers it seems.
Re:Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator on Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:01PM (#3600878)
Paul Vick made a new blog post about this today http://panopticoncentral.net/2012/02/16/software-patents-rev...
I was in the same boat as you. If you want a globally available service that IS developer friendly, reliable and simple, PayPal might actually be the correct answer after all. It is what we ended up with after a lot of research.

I don't know your reasons for not wanting to use PayPal, they might differ from my hesitations, but after spending a couple of days experimenting, reading docs and so forth, I found the technical side of it extraordinaraily flexible and easy to use.

Re:How should I market this product? on Sunday September 18, 2011 @06:13PM (#3011429)
And make sure to include a fb meta image tag on your page. As it stands, the pre order button is displayed on the wall when posting. Much better to have the Toy Picture!
Re:How should I market this product? on Sunday September 18, 2011 @06:08PM (#3011412)
There is only way - word of mouth. Me liked and tweeted. A small contribution from a fellow norwegian :)
Re:Facebook's Newest Problem: Being Boring on Sunday September 18, 2011 @05:13PM (#3011272)
I Absolutely agree with you - Facebook can be as boring as email. It does not matter, Facebook has become Infrastructure.
Re:Help bootstrap our startup by giving us work. on Sunday September 18, 2011 @05:02PM (#3011242)
Side projects doing what you are best at can be a great way to fund your startup, but I understand what you are saying - It is easy to lose focus.

On the other hand, we can't all make Obama O's.

Re:Notepad of all my startup ideas on Sunday September 18, 2011 @03:05PM (#3010980)
Here is mine:

A GOOD free service that gives detailed reports on Internet companies given keywords or tags. Needs to be fast, retrieve data from extensive range of sources. Use multivariate report criteria and present results as infograms or similar.

Does it exist already? Please tell me. I do not like catalog sites.

Re:Don't Be So F*cking Strategic on Sunday September 18, 2011 @02:57PM (#3010957)
And this is why I am doing a start up - and praying we are not growing large(?)
Re:Spotify's U.S. Landing Page on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @03:08PM (#2735393)
All saved music lists in Spotify has clickable Album, Artist and Track links so in effect you can easily make "Album" lists. I have done that for ages.
Hello HN. Here is a campaign I set up today for this cause

http://vinatta.vinattaengine.com/Email/EmailInvite?campaignK...

It might help to get the message out to a wider audience.

Shameless plug: This is a part of my Internet Startup. You can opt in to have your name (or alias) published.

Re:Poll: How old were you when you started programming? on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @12:57PM (#2049539)
Basic on Casio FX-702P @ 18 yrs of age. Then Pascal on Apple ][, ND10 and Osborne 1. Still coding, C#, MVC with StringTemplate View Engine atm.