I absolutely love this - now my new homepage. This is a very pleasant way to present this to my eyes. Even more importantly, it loads 'instantly', which is extremely important for a go-to/default site. In my opinion, drudgereport's popularity owes a lot to this combination of easy to absorb and quick loading times.
If I could make a suggestion - I would be interested in seeing a list of popularity based on clicks/time. To preserve the layout, you could only load it as a side column if the screen was wide enough to display more than 3 columns.
I actually think a site like this could turn into a one-man cash cow if you can get it to be a default site visited multiple times each day.
I had the same general idea about a year ago, and I setup a site as the entry point of the idea: ParkedAvenue.com
Since I don't have a huge collection of domains, it is kind of a chicken and egg problem getting people to list their domains they would be open to leasing/selling.
Good luck with the endeavor. I am sure someone who gets critical mass will have some success with it.
That is the big claimed upside of this approach, the cell phone transmitter receiver is very simple, with only 1 antenna. The base station number crunching becomes much more sophisticated, but that is fine.
This is a really, really good idea. Much time has been spent discussing separating different parts of your social life, but the idea of doing it based on "shared secrets" is great.
A big obstacle in my mind is duplication of overlaps, e.g. 'I read Hacker News' and 'I read HN'. The both mean the same thing, but if two users click "Me Too" on the different versions, they won't see the common interest. People may be tempted to just add a new overlap instead of searching for an existing version, especially as the number of users and possible overlaps grow. Hopefully you can find a way to have the community help aggregate overlaps.
In related news, their stock price is still nowhere near its year-high. Intel was my first job out of grad school in '04, and the options I gave up when I did a startup are still underwater today.
I am implementing some domain monitoring tools on my site, ParkedAvenue, and this gives me a good idea. I will monitor my customer's domains, and then will be able to let them know when they are up for renewal, and hopefully offers an easy for them to migrate to better registrars!
I tend to agree that there is an education bubble, just not in engineering or the sciences.
Any English or history major has access to the same loans that an engineering or biology major has, but on average, they are likely to make far less in income. Should what you are studying be a factor in loan applications? I think so.
Another side of the same coin on income inequality (pure numbers, not social justice) is that most universities (that I am aware of) charge the same for all degrees, regardless of earning potential. Someone majoring in elementary education will almost always have a smaller return on investment than an engineering major.
Working on a domain management tool for entrepreneurs, especially the domains that you own but are not using for a startup (yet). http://ParkedAvenue.com
If I could make a suggestion - I would be interested in seeing a list of popularity based on clicks/time. To preserve the layout, you could only load it as a side column if the screen was wide enough to display more than 3 columns.
I actually think a site like this could turn into a one-man cash cow if you can get it to be a default site visited multiple times each day.