"This campaign will only receive funds if at least $32,000,000 is raised by Wed 21 Aug 11:59PM PT."

Thanks, i thought indiegogo had no "time limit" and no goal to be reached.

I hope the desktop capability is a big seller too, but so far Microsoft has been unable to sell the "all-in-one" experience at a highly successful level with its phone, and they're much better known and more accessible for most users than Ubuntu.

Uhhh, but what are the images of? Abused children who probably didn't want to be in pornography at the age of (not 18).

One possibility is having it be CG. Under current law that is illegal.

:') you just made my day

Glad too! My designs look utility functions ;-)

I've read this exact same thing over and over and over again, which leads me to believe that it's not true. The genuinely different bit for me, by the way, probably won't be its decentralized nature that makes it appealing. It will be appealing, and someone who cares enough will make it decentralized.

You don't believe in the network effect because too many people have heard of it? that's not how science works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

(if you're talking about something else, phew, could you clarify which bit?)

Sorry, what I meant was that I don't believe in the network effect like I don't believe in [the eternal "rightness" of] Communism, not like I don't believe in Santa Claus.

There's a lot of historical evidence indicating the power of communism, so I'm not really sure why you don't believe in it, even if you don't like it.

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Ok, then I don't think we'll agree. about the nature of evidence, or this.

He's saying that he thinks people who employ the network effect as an argument for the unshakeableness of Facebook are probably appealing to dogma, because there cannot be that many people who deeply understand the dynamics of networked behavior. And I tend to agree -- the network effect is often offered as undeniable proof of a near-eternal reign from Menlo Park. I don't think that's what it means to have network or lock-in effects in your product.

I like it that way (and I don't have an iPad to test it on)

I definitely did a little title baiting, but I think it's justified in this case. This is a monumental cock-up.

It is a pretty compelling argument for little benefit on Yahoo's part. The correct answer for Yahoo is to freeze email in the previous domain, create a new domain for mail and move forward. But there is a certain lack of understanding that is settling in a Yahoo which feels distinctly like 'new young people' (and I mean that in the nicest way possible) but people who consider the time before they were aware of the world "ancient history" and for new grads from college in 2012 - 2013 that was anything before 2000.

Imagine the fun that could be had if Hollywood decided to 're-use' old stage names. We could get a bunch of new John Wayne movies!

Looking at it, fuck, I dont think you really link baited enough. What are they thinking!?!?!?!?!? I can almost no benefit to this. Start a new domain if you want to free up usernames.

Sure, a few people will lose their identity, but millions will get good email addresses!

and don't forget: access to yahoo's amazing webmail client, IMAP and SSL/TLS support, free mail forwarding, and much more!

Okay, who are you and why all of a sudden are you popping up in news aggregators like Techmeme?

Sorry if I missed out on some new (or old...I have no idea) thing here, but I've never heard of you nor your site. Is this suppose to be some alternate blog/identity for some other semi-famous tech writer or something?

Again, I apologize for not being hip or "with it" in regards to who you are. But you tend to obscure who you are on both your site and twitter feed. Why?

I think this could be way worse than the AOL search results debacle... I guess we'll see.