Very cool. I'm thinking it would be great if elance-type of sites, or even experts exchange, would have an area where a prospective employer can submit small coding questions to potential employees.
VC's have nothing to do with optimism, and everything to do with who you are. If you're an "insider", chances are you'll get funded even if your product is absolute crap. If you're an unknown entity, good luck getting funded even if you have a killer product.
I don't think Venture Capitalists fund "complete newbie, probably straight out of school, yet buzzing with an idea and looking for an investor to fund his concept" these days. You have to either be a known entity in your field, have experience, and usually have at the very least a working proof of concept. Of course there may be exceptions, but your probably better off going to friends and family (going the 'Angel' route, do a search on the concept) then trying to find those exceptions...
I'm not sure what the solution is, but the problem is definitely there. So you'll get at least one upvote from me in the hope that THIS post of yours stays in front...
Wouldn't using an "uptime" tool affect your analytics? Not a problem for an established site, but for a website just launching, you would probably want to have very exact numbers day by day...
1. You can ask for more, but how many will they give you? and
2. The fact that you need a key, makes it virtually useless for wide use in applications or websites. With the old api which didn't require a key, you had, practically speaking no limit when calling the api client-side. With the key that option falls away.
Huge difference between the two, unfortunately. The CSE is made for specific websites, not web-wide search. And it's limited to 100 queries (more if you ask for it, but still limited) per day per key. Compare that to the previous unlimited search api!
I think the biggest news here (which I think Google tried to hide under all the announcements of "new" stuff) is that the web search ajax api was deprecated. There is no no official way to search the entire web with a Google api. I imagine this will be painful to many many sites and applications out there.