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akaak | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your thoughts on .co domains in 2013?

True. My assumption is that .co may be a tough sell for some b2b models. Interesting in finding if that is true or not.

akaak | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your thoughts on .co domains in 2013?

Agree with you on this point. Website content and inbound marketing efforts certainly outweigh any advantage one would get with a mere .co/.com name.

Depending on the kind of business and website visitors the TLD designation may not matter in some cases. Trying to see what others have experienced with different businesses; whether it be b2b or b2c.

akaak | 13 years ago | on: Ruby or Java. Why?

Agree with other responses. You may compare Ruby (considering Ruby as your reference) with Python. There are good discussion on Ruby vs Python in HN. One of the threads is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682101

akaak | 13 years ago | on: Copernicus birthday Google doodle animation

I am curious on how this animation done in HTML5? Any simillar examples out there that give an idea?

akaak | 13 years ago | on: MailChimp Annual Report

warbyparker.com has a good take as well. I like the way mailchimp's report/page though. I sure hope that we would see more in the startup world.

akaak | 13 years ago | on: MailChimp Annual Report

looks like twitter's bootstrap fw with scrollspy in action here. not certain though.

akaak | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: A web app for creating interactive people plots and family trees

Congratulations on a great new product. One thing that I would like to see is have a small context map (plot area and the window that you are looking at) so that it helps the users while dragging the plot.

I see that the product is not timeline friendly unlike your timeline product.

The use cases are not as evident as your other timeline product.

Good luck.

akaak | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: TweetBoard.me

Yes. Looks good. headed over to @pluggio and started using it.

look into going beyond basic black!

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

Simply brilliant. I am sure this doodle going to bring some good bit of PR and non-google search users (if there are any) to the Google home. They are marketing/pr geniuses in using the tech. In hindsight, the doodle patent (http://mashable.com/2011/03/22/google-doodle-patent/) looks very useful

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Trust in T-Shirts

Thanks!

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Trust in T-Shirts

what does it take to get your T-Shirt. I have seen yours in the wild and really like them. Could you tell here what supplier you use?

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Is this a good name for a company?

If you are planning to model to support various properties what about Omvious (may be more memorable)? Om from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om or from Omni. Domain seems to be available.

Mivious sounds simple, memorable and catchy. btw, i would have said it the same way: Meh-Vee-Us.

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Importance of Side Projects

having a dedicated time to work on the side project tasks is a good idea. Balance does matter and it is sometimes difficult to stop what you want to do on the side project. OP's point about not getting into analysis/paralysis is the reason that I work on the side projects just to get see if the damn thing works or not.

akaak | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Tumblr vs self-hosted blog?

If all you want to do is write a blog then definitely go the tumblr route (for that matter posterous does pretty well too). I have been a long time user of wordpress (hosted sites on my own as well as wordpress.com) and recently started using tumblr and posterous and like the simplicity of these blogging tools/services.