As far as I can tell it is AGPL licensed PHP code, you can download the code, run it, and modify/fork it freely. Code is open source, but it is not developed in the open.
A book club for startups. It could be interesting, but how would it solve the problem of prioritising what to read, if everybody is expected to read the same?
Authentication via third parties are not an inherently Bad Thing. Mozilla Persona shows how third party authentication can be done, without risk of user base hijacking,
It would have been a bold move, if Damien had left the "Couch" name with Apache CouchDB, and released his CouchBase product under another name. Also, this would have liberated him from having to distance himself from CouchDB, Erlang and Apache, when promoting his new product.
It's not different. Both are random search algorithms packaged in a (somewhat complex) human abstraction. The convergence properties are the same as for other search algorithms using meta heuristics, including the classic simulated annealing algorithm.
Can someone point to resources that outline what the web developer community can do to speed up the general transition to IPv6? Are there any startups that today make their services available via IPv6?
IMHO the problem is Google's reliance on the pagerank algorithm. Prohibiting automatic back-linking is fighting the symptom, instead of coming up with a cure.
It is a shame that not even Amazon is challenging PayPal's monopoly in Europe. Neither Amazon DevPay nor Amazon Simple Pay is available in Europe, and Google Checkout is only available in the UK.