Sure. If there's a market that has only closed-source incumbents, providing an open- or fair-source alternative, i.e. changing the distribution model, can be an innovation unto itself.
I think it can be triggered automatically when a major shift happens in a stock. I remember a few of these back in the 2000s when things were crashing left and right.
I'll attest to the article's accuracy, but that's one data point. The highs from big wins are great, but the lows hit hard and often. Celebrating (even unreasonably so) small wins is particularly important to try to keep things in balance.
I have no idea how it averages out compared to non-founders and non-startup-employees, but it's a nasty roller-coaster to be sure.
I am not sure if being a founder means that you will be unhappy. Personally I feel that that by being a founder you are constantly exposing yourself to circumstances that could cause you to be "unhappy" -- there is no end to the ups and downs.
This has been out in the wild for a while now. I first noticed it when I added IAP to my application.
My app will call on our server to verify receipt and I was getting bogus receipts that actually caused that part of the code to crash.
Apple's receipts are proper json objects and what I was getting was this string "com.urus.iap.30297356." The last part keeps changing, so I am guessing the developer actually tracks usage.
So the moral is to always verify your receipts and don't deliver content unless the receipt is valid.
But most developers won't have resources to do this and creating a general service for them would be too much custom work. I think SDK platforms should have this capability built in. Pay $10/mo and we'll verify your receipt and return a file based on the IAP product id.
Can you clarify the phrasing of your cloud issues? Do you mean there is no solution for trust/privacy issues, or do you mean there is no solution for licensing?
As for paying, this is a non-issue, you are going to pay either way.
There is no one i trust with my data more than me, and large projects have a poor history with trust/privacy.
When I talk about licencing i'm talking about the future: where you could use the cloud to access full fat programs like photoshop (after getting over any technical issues with remote installs). AFAIK there aren't provisions in current licences for such things.
Even if you have to spend for (more) local storage/backup, it is very likely to be much cheaper, and i would have a strong preference for the buy-once (and own) rather than rent monthly model.
Most people don't create a lot of content, and won't bother tagging their short tweet/status
This is a good point, but couldn't that also be said for the existing way Circles work? I think some form of the reverse would be better for power users without affecting the casual users.
4 year to vest for most companies here so if you were hired in winter of 2008 into spring of 09 all of those shares will be vested by time the lock up expires.
That is assuming they file next week go through the 3-4 month quiet period and revisions to their S-1 and then IPO late spring, maybe June and then the lock up expires in December 2012.
It looks like you are doing a simple frequency analysis to determine words for titles. In some cases it works, in others it reduces to just brand names. The Linux tab is filled with "Linux" for example.
Perhaps you need a learning filter that catches words that are too common and filters them out.
