Call me picky I guess but I want a story, you know, with a beginning and an end. Not just a collection of stuff the author dumped into a WYSIWYG editor.
No reflection on you for submitting it, of course, but it's the laziest way there is to write something and I come here b/c often it's avoided.
Can we please keep these types of posts out of HN? "20 blah blah blah", "140 ways to be rich yesterday" -- we don't need another http://delicious.com/popular
"I told him he was brilliant and that his moves this month would be remembered for decades. Decades."
I'm amazed Scoble's been able to keep his tall talk intact after this many years of announcing next big things that never go anywhere. But I'll say this for the guy -- he's perky.
Not really worth the time to read, same stuff that's been said before. Showing a user an ad while they're searching for something works amazingly well -- any other time it's a crap shoot.
For the foreseeable future I think the best way to advertise any web app or other online service is with a blog and as many helpful, informative, thought provoking posts as you can find the time to write. There are plenty of examples of successful companies that have used this model -- building a brand and a network simultaneously -- and there's no reason to think it's going anywhere.
No reflection on you for submitting it, of course, but it's the laziest way there is to write something and I come here b/c often it's avoided.