It's called BitcoinStore, but the prices are only shown in USD. I expect it will show the conversion on the checkout page, but at first glance the concept feels like just a marketing gimmick.
Is this just for face detection or for face recognition as well?
Face detection is a pretty much solved problem IMO and running OpenCV locally is a simple enough solution.
What I will miss about face.com is the face recognition. It was state of the art, lightning fast, and free. The eigenfaces implementation in OpenCV doesn't even come close.
If your goal is to make money, then sure, selling should be your goal.
If your goal is to make something that might change the world some day, then maybe it shouldn't be.
Hyperbole aside, if you really believe in what you're working on and want to see it live on, an acquisition might not be the best option. Many acquisitions lead to product deaths as the team gets integrated into the acquiring company (meebo is a recent example).
I'm aware of the startup visa act (http://startupvisa.com/), but that is not going to be available by the time we would need it (assuming it even passes).
I experienced this first-hand as I just signed a place a little over a month ago. Compared to what was listed the apartment we ended up with was several hundred dollars cheaper, and we competed with at least 10 other applicants for the place.
However, as I talk to more people they think we are overpaying several hundred dollars based on what they are paying for comparable units, most of which were signed around a year ago.
Having overly restrictive password rules like this, combined with requiring a new password every x months, just leads to more users writing down the passwords on notes stuck to their monitor.
Magnetic stripes are the most hilarious thing ever, but still work almost everywhere on the globe.
I am amazed that magnetic stripes are still the norm for credit cards in the US. Europe has managed to move all but completely to chip-based cards, but the US hasn't.
Does the cost of fraud due to magnetic stripes outweigh the cost to upgrade the entire US system, or is the market just too fragmented to coordinate such a transition?
As for the fallout, Polls was down throughout this episode. Because it spread virally by posting people's votes to their newsfeed, the three or four days of down time halted all growth. Traffic dropped to nothing and never recovered.
This is really interesting. It makes sense the way you described it, but I didn't realize how fragile growth can be.
So much for "any press is good press."