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Free basic internet may include Google search, Wikipedia, email of choice, access to all pages that Google suggests in first two pages. But I think Facebook should not be part of basic internet.

Writing this from Kolkata (India). We were asked to evacuate the office building, as it was shaking. Just got an all clear to get back in.

God bless everyone.

Mihai, we will remember you by what you have done and accomplished.

RIP

Agree to what you say. Facebook is great in some cases, like finding your old buddy from college or school. I use FB to find them, but after that I get their email ids and from then on its email communication. So for me FB is the place to find people.

But FB is not for getting news about the topics I like; because, IMHO like the OP, Facebook news feed is broken for this purpose. Yes it is broken if you like to get news and information related to your interests. The prime reason, which I have discovered over the years of using FB, is I like things which my friends do not like a lot and vice-versa. I cannot blame Facebook for this. So when they like something which I do not, I still get the news in the feed. The same thing is happening in Twitter.

I felt that it would be better if we can follow information we like rather than the people we like. This way we will be able to get the information that we want/like rather than the noise. A critical step towards this is tags and if we can follow a tag it would be better [1].

[1] Disclaimer: I have created a website to do just that. Link is https://www.scoopspot.com/ .

The web design needs a re-thinking from all points mentioned in OP. +1 for the counter, these are not only worthless information but also sometimes takes so much time to load the web sites.

We have created a project to access GDrive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box from web browser. We have some plans to open up the API in the future. If you guys think that's useful.

https://www.addfs.com/

Excellent map and railway timing integration. very nice

Looks nice and neat. It would be great if you could expand the examples a bit more. One more thing, could you please provide some examples with form validation.

This looks interesting.

We built ScoopSpot[1] to make microblog better, one of the core proposition was to allow the application developers work with the statuses more openly. However, it didn't caught attention of the people. One interesting aspect of ScoopSpot was to allow user follow a tag or topic.

The possibility of application built on what users' interests are limitless (at least that's what I think). I will look into the protocol of OStatus to see how can we make our API's open. [1]https://www.scoopspot.com

People at Twitter must realize that when developers talk about your API's tos rather than the API, you must have broken something. It reminds me Facebook episode of network feed and privacy. At the end of it, Mark understood what the users were talking about and took action to correct it.

The problem seems like an issue of making profit by showing promotional tweets, which will not happen in the clients. It, to me, looks like the problem of management which could not come up with better revenue model.

Just one word... wow. This worked more than any tutorial on HTML 5 I have ever read. Very good job.

A part of any investing activity requires risk taking (truer now than ever as sovereign debts are defaulting or on verge of that), the other part is making profit based on risk. In case of startup seed funding the risk are much higher but profits are high too (like 1000x). Now an investor can make profit by selling their share to other (future) investors. The point to note here is: the first investor sells thinking that the venture’s value has reached a reasonable price which was expected or it’s now overpriced.

The point is, profit has to be booked to be realized.My question to PG is how does YC decide when to sell?

Good point. It's already in our todo list will do it.

Thanks for the suggestion. It is done in two weeks by of us. So a lot can be improved. This is an app that came from a personal need. The need was to see where my files are in one view. Also, we were seeing that just for backing up we are uploading same file twice in two different storage (like Dropbox and GDrive).

Thanks for your comment here is what the app does:

addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).

Thanks for sharing that we would fix it

addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).

Anonymous hack has stopped facebook access also.