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I created a version of my own: http://jawadonweb.com/projects/pi

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I like it. What are you using to send the email? Simple HTML functions or perhaps something more sophisticated, like phpList?

I like that idea. It could also be words of wisdom or something in between. The framework is already there and I don't mind giving anyone this code. All that needs to be changed are the quotes and the domain name.

Chess Go RISK

For Canada: Waterloo University

TS accepted startup teams before YC announced who's been accepted to the interviews. I, for one, received a phone interview from TS by April 1st.

If the emails are automated, they might end up in the junk mail. Yahoo and Hotmail, in particular, have the tendency to do that.

Anyway, about one hour is left before it hits 10th in Mountain View. Good luck everyone!

Why do all the good things happen only at Stanford? Hopefully someone will make a bootleg video of this and spread the wisdom through torrents.

As one of the collaborative projects on my social network, we asked that people code a spelling check script in PHP. One member, who had zero previous knowledge of PHP took up the challenge. After investing a few hours into it, he came up with the following:

http://shuzak.com/Teamwork.php

You're welcome to download the source code. One major issue with the code is that it loses efficiency when the dictionary size is increased from 1,000 to 20,000 words.

"..Even when you find genuinely good things to copy, there's another pitfall to be avoided. Be careful to copy what makes them good, rather than their flaws. It's easy to be drawn into imitating flaws, because they're easier to see, and of course easier to copy too. For example, most painters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used brownish colors. They were imitating the great painters of the Renaissance, whose paintings by that time were brown with dirt. Those paintings have since been cleaned, revealing brilliant colors; their imitators are of course still brown." - Copy What You Like, by Paul Graham

Earning off Google adsense is not a business, it is a hobby. Very few startups manage to squeeze a reasonable profit off Google.

Advertising is, of course, a feasible business. But no one (this especially applies to geeks) clicks on Adsense ads anymore because they are so used to seeing them. My suggestion is to develop a custom ad delivery system, or manually post sponsored ads (just as TechCrunch does).

Use "I" because it's more personalized. The excuse for using "we" is simply that the service may seem professional; hence, building more trust. That might actually be true, but unless you're building an online bank, it wouldn't matter.

I initially worked on my webservice alone, and decided to adopt "I" on every possible location. I managed to build a dedicated community around the website, and later on decided to use "we" to denote the community as well as myself. Now, when I say "we thank you for participating", I mean "me and the community...".

Of course, if you've more than one founder (like I do now), you should use "we". Be consistent with the terminology in order to avoid confusing the end-user.