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Sorry not being clear enough. Yes I was kind of asking why they didnt try simpler options. When you look at their paper on Haystack you see that it's essentially a constant local database.

If you're familiar with thumbnail display you know Facebook has Haystack for efficient image serving. It goes very low end. Sparkey or CDB or BAM (mentioned in this post) could be much less complex and can do similar work. Why did they go Haystack route I dont get it.

There is LMDB (http://symas.com/mdb/) storage solution for read heavy workloads. Alternative to LevelDB or CDB.

can you please expand on this? everybody says C-CORP for a startup for flexibility, investor trust and so on. OTOH, C-CORPs are costlier and more complex. but you're an INC and "real" startups as DBAs! if you make blog post on this that would be great.

QT, really? Using a framework for a must-be-power-efficient device on a much-slower-than-desktop cpu. I'm not a QT or C++ expert and wondering outcomes of using QT for webOS. There is absolutely a hit on power and speed but how much?

Email nor anything related to core email protocols do not need to be fixed or redesigned. It's doing what it was supposed to be used for and still doing it very well. Over the years desktop and web mail people have added too much and its 70s design idea of anyone can send mail to any other's inbox (btw, creative idea at the time worked till 2000s) have cooperatively decreased its usage.

We still need this universal and mature protocol but we should do a different thing for communication. period.

Jquery does what most open source projects do not. That is providing a clear roadmap with 99% questions answered.

Hard as in writing code in three different languages. Apart from that I think tech community giving too much credit for Apple and especially Google. They could have fixed this native vs html5-js-css thing two versions ago.

I've searched a little while and found that it has no support for camera (or sensors) in mobile devices. It looks like HAXE/NME is heavily geared towards game development.

Jason great post thanks. AFAIK, they didn't do most of what you say. Maybe because of uber-popularity of Apple. What is your take on Apple in Japan?

Actually they don't have much choices on dropping some specific email features to make UI better. Anyways I think it's just like MS Metro. One cannot say OMG this is cool as we say with Apple properties but people continue to use those (inferior) UIs.

I'm the co-founder of Tusulog ask me anything.

bdfh42: you know it's just like that always. Chicken-and-Egg. Maybe you can open another account to test or add me as friend http://tusulog.com/people/mehmet we can exchange a few.

kaolinite: honestly you should have a few friends over there to really decide you want or not. A reason maybe as a user you've absolute control of your inbox.

Tusulog complements email and more but we honestly don't think email can replaced completely. It's a simple product that sends and receives messages between people. What it does:

First it turns the basic idea of email upside down that's anybody can send mail to anybody's inbox. With Tusulog messages from people you don't know goes to Public Pipe and also you can disable it altogether. BTW, your friends can send to your inbox directly.

Second with email you apply the filter after getting the message. With Tusulog you apply the filter (pipe) before. PG, taking your example literally: You create a TODO Pipe with public_key THEPUBLICKEYOFPGSTODOPIPE. You give this public_key to people you want. They can send message to that pipe in other words they can put a task into your ToDo list. They can do it using Tusulog UI or Tusulog API.

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application controlled by swipes. you know ones you do on a touch device.

This is just the beginning guys! Big web properties are becoming more like a TV Network. They interrupt you with an ad because they think that if their name is not some power of 10 then they have to use this TV-like experience. Maybe they're right but if this "platformization" thing catches on then you will _not_ have option to block them out!

I don't know the solution but I'm (we're) trying with our startup.

Yes but what I meant was they have to be Everything for everybody. They cannot afford to offer less features.

Interesting analysis. I think now Facebook has become when-AOL-bought-Time-Warner-big. As a new social network startup founder I'm happy about what Facebook released. We've launched before Google+ and then we saw G+ has bombarded with features and now FB. They both are becoming much more confusing. Everything for everybody.

Interestingly Istanbul-drivers are not liked at all in other parts of Turkey as well. When asked they say they have to otherwise they will not make it.

You don't have any link to home page on your blog. Your service should be all premium. It can be like Nielsen ratings of video. Nice idea.

Quora is hardly going mainstream because mainstream cannot ask the questions that Quora elite would answer. Not that they don't have the ability but they don't care! If it does ever it'll be called Yahoo Answers.

Thanks for the heads up. All those are global brands and we're a new start-up. It seems like we have to engage people first.

It's simple to use. Uncluttered. Makes your communication with your friends easier.

We use the term "easier than" because only you can decide if it is better. I haven't used dreamwidth so no comment. Twitter and Facebook are gigantic successfull companies doing great work. For the "communication with your friends"-wise our product is easier to use.

Your ROI could be easier and more direct communication with your friends. On Tusulog you cannot broadcast to all your friends at once, only to the specific group you choose. So you don't worry about "if I post this my mom/boss/ex may see too!". This may not be a problem for power users but most people don't know how to tackle those complex privacy settings.