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Re:Touch on Monday December 05, 2011 @06:45PM (#3317076)
Looks like a better designed WhatsApp; can't try without a WP7 option though unfortunately.
Re:I too know the websites you visited on Saturday December 03, 2011 @08:49PM (#3309571)
Guessed all of mine correctly with Chrome on Mac. Scary.
Re:Show HN: Unlimited Free Backup For Life (built in HTML5) on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @08:49PM (#3297891)
Can't beat a quote like this from the creator: "We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud"

I think not, but thanks anyway.

Re:I want to get into the startup industry, where do I start? on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:35PM (#3275809)
In a relatively similar position and would love to hear any thoughts on this as well.
Re:It's time to fix European technology journalism on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:29AM (#3191884)
Will be very interesting that's for sure...at the moment, there aren't many I read regularly at all, hence the possible opportunity I think.
Re:Ask HN: Please Give Me Your Thoughts On My Site on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:08AM (#2766849)
Clickable Link: http://OkayID.com

Ask HN: Please Give Me Your Thoughts On My Site

Posted by tct on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi all,So I've been working on and off on this site over the last few months and am now at a stage where although personally I think it would probably be useful, I don't really know whether I'm alone in this.The site is OkayID.com and I see it as being particularly useful for people buying/selling on the internet, although others will probably find it useful as well (I think!)So a few things I...

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, clickdesk.com on Saturday June 25, 2011 @10:52AM (#2695754)
Looks great...I'll try you guys out for the site I'm building at the moment.
Re:For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation on Friday June 10, 2011 @12:59PM (#2641546)
Microsoft have released some great products in the last few years; Xbox and Windows Phone are a couple. Xbox has obviously done extremely well and WP is only going to grow with their partnership with Nokia. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these were both the result of starting from scratch with a smaller, more agile team who have permission to do something different and new. This works; even for Microsoft.

I also feel that maybe similar to Marco Arment's comments on the benefits of the new features in iOS on Instapaper, this may be the case for MSFT. If Apple can pave the way to making consumers' understand or at least appreciate what the cloud can do for them, then Microsoft and Google and others will have an easier time talking about their products. Before the iPhone came out, people couldn't see why and didn't want a "smartphone". Now everyone wants one, whether it's an iPhone or Android (and in the next few years Microsoft).

Microsoft does have some great products in this sphere I believe, Mesh and Skydrive being two. I haven't used either, but from what I've heard they do have some great potential. If off the back of Apple's announcement they can make them look good and continue developing on them, they will be able to sell it, even if its just by saying its the same as iCloud, but made by us. Apple does have a reputation of creating beautiful, easy to use products, but they are also seen as expensive and sometimes unneccessary. Android has taken off by being an alternative - Microsoft have the potential to be that alternative to iCloud. They have the pieces and experience shows MSFT does much better when they are the underdogs (Xbox and WP).

Just my two cents.

Re:Ask HN: If you think ideas are not worth a dime then post yours here on Sunday May 29, 2011 @09:59AM (#2596647)
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