kevinholesh's comments

"I suspect that what want they’re really pursuing is recognition, either from Facebook or in court, that they were the brains behind Facebook."

In my mind, these twins will never be the reason why Facebook was successful, no matter what some court decides. The value of a new website is not the idea behind it, it is the hard work of adding some kind of value and the tough task of getting people to use it. The idea that Connect U could be a "website that connects college friends" is not what made Facebook successful; it was the hard work of Zuckerberg and those around him.

I hope the twins are granted their chance to appeal and lose everything. I also hope they're never mentioned by any news story again.

I've been using Things since it came out for the Mac and I've been wanting OTA sync since the iPhone came out, but it isn't completely necessary. It is a nice to have feature, but I would rather have it done right than rushed to production.

By his logic, Apple waiting months before letting the iPhone have 3rd party apps should've killed it; or Apple not having copy+paste until version 3.0 should've killed it. But neither of those happen because Apple was patient enough to do it right the first time.

Why not put it up on Github so we can help you finish it?

I'm currently a full time jQTouch developer, but I would much prefer a working environment like the one you're describing. I would certainly be willing to help develop it.

Though I disagree with Arrington quite often, congratulations on the acquisition. He worked his ass off to build TechCrunch to where it is today.

Or use a 3D printing service like http://cloudfab.com/ if you just like making the 3D .stl files.

It's great to see Apple taking on the problem head-on. I'd much rather see honesty from a company than have them deny it and sweep it under the rug as if it were never a problem.

He's using CSS media queries, similar to what's being done here:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/using-css-media-queries...

Check out the code he uses to make this happen near the bottom of his main CSS file:

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/css/layout.css

I give my projects a deadline of about 6 months of part-time work. That doesn't mean Google has to buy them within 6 months, but they have to be profitable after that time. Profitability is my ultimate gauge of success and determines whether or not I'm continuing the project.

Interestingly enough, I was thinking about how I would do a case study this morning and here's what I came up with:

* Tell a story. This would be in the form of an interview. Basic questions from my company and let the business do most of the talking. Get to the heart of how the person uses my product.

* Use basic data and charts.

  - Show how the bottom line increased

  - Show how productivity increased with the use of my product

  - Show how my product improved conversion

* Let the person pitch themselves a little bit.

The best case studies are done by 37signals. I actually enjoy reading them and peeking into how other companies work. For example: http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2010/05/make-sport...

How is it a proof of concept website if no one can sign up for it yet?

Or at the federal level.

Webkit Nightly: 133/160

I'll believe it when I see it.

If you're looking solely at market share. Look at the profits from smartphones and Apple is dominating.

There's few entrepreneurs I look up to as much as Spencer Fry. Well written story of Carbonmade's story.

I loved the quote from David when he said selling to Fortune 500 companies takes "strippers and steaks."

Overall, great interview.

I'd love to see Jason C take on Jason Fried and DHH.

Go easy on the help tooltip pop-up things. It's unexpected and does more to startle me than help me.

The text is too long. Shorten the tooltips to a sentence.

Also, add a slight delay to the tooltips: http://snipplr.com/view/4163/highlight-menu-on-hover-with-de...

Wonder what Mr. Calacanis thinks of these logical reasons...

http://calacanis.com/2009/10/09/why-startups-shouldnt-have-t...

I agree that work needs to be done to optimize websites specifically for the iPad, but most accessible* websites I can think of now would work just fine.

* Accessible means no Flash, no unnecessary JavaScript, and clean markup practices.

Q: “What legislation, what tax incentives, do we need right now to replicate you all a million times over?”

A: Instead of taxing productivity, why not tax consumption instead? http://www.fairtax.org/