I wonder what the reasoning was behind branding the author in the URL path as opposed to as a subdomain. It seems like a very strange approach to take from guys who have done the latter before.
If nothing else it sure makes posts from Medium very annoying on HN because I can't actually tell which blogger's post I'm going to read until I click the link (primarily read on iPad so no hovering).
SEO would be one theory. Pages under the same 'www' subdomain will provide a more positive SEO boost to medium.com than pages under various subdomains.
I love the idea of being able to autofill a form on page load using the browsers own history! Also, I'm highly impressed if indeed this is being added to chrome based on something Alex asked for.
Hey intropic, requestAutocomplete() is only invokable in response to a user action (load's not considered that), so it's more likely that this would be done when you click a "checkout" button or something like that.
The comments on this post are pretty interesting to read, there is such a divide between those who think this is a terrible story and those who are inspired by it. Quite fascinating.
I'm not sure how I can see Guido having the effect at Dropbox that he had at Google. Dropbox's engineering difficulties, while large, are not near that of Google's. Is this more of a Matz being hired by Heroku scenario, in name only sort of thing.
As MartinCron pointed out, it is important to know the source of your images when farming out work. This article is a topical demonstration of that principal. It will cause some embarrassment. It is also a great way, in this soundbite culture, to dismiss a person without having to actually go through the motions of a debate. This same thing can happen to your startup. Imagine some designer not liking your business and slipping in a photo of a serial killer on your site. Or if you're running an amusement park and a photo of a child molester is on your site.
Given all the things that can happen with stock photos, I believe folks should probably hire a photographer or get the photos from staff that swears they took them themselves. Get some releases signed if people are in the photos and be done with it.
Why? It's one thing if it can be framed as something you intentionally did, but as long as it's deniable, there's lots of folks for whom there's no such thing as bad publicity. As a politician trying to stay in the limelight Santorum qualifies.
"As long as its deniable" "no such thing as bad publicity"
Neither of those are actually true in politics. Any slip, any misstatement, any gaffe can be used multiple times in short soundbites. Bad publicity sinks campaigns and denials are not often heard. If you aren't well liked by the press expect the incident on page 1 and explanation to be buried in the home and garden section. Heck, look at all the total BS we have heard about birth certificates and Mormonism. People catch the soundbite and believe this crap.
Hey Intropic, Zenbox co-founder here. Zenbox is free for showing profiles (up to 150 per day) from nearly all services, except for Salesforce.
Premium accounts let you update the profiles (Mailchimp, Salesforce, etc.), subscribe/unsubscribe customers from mailing lists (Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Mad Mimi, etc.), refund charges (Stripe). It's $29/month, with a discount up to $19/month when paying for a year up-front.
We haven't published the pricing information yet (it'll be up this week), but that's what we've been releasing to our beta users so far.
Appreciate it - we want small startups to be able to use Zenbox without worrying about the cost until they're getting enough value from it, hence the free tier.
Any feedback on the product is hugely welcome, sean@zenboxapp.com
