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56,398 | ACSparks | 2007-09-18T17:48:44 | Finally, a video of what Xobni actually does | Here is your email revolution, and actually, it will be televised. | http://www.xobni.com/learnmore | 17 | 6 | [
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56,400 | transburgh | 2007-09-18T17:50:04 | Hot Or Not Abandons Free Model | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-abandons-free-model/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Hot Or Not Abandons Free Model | TechCrunch | 2007-09-18T17:32:48+00:00 | Contributor | Hot or Not have abandoned their much publicized move to a free model.
According to an email from Hot or Not’s founders, since moving to a free model the site had become inundated by spam:
You also warned us that this would probably lead to more spammers and fake profiles. You were right, this is exactly what happened. The spammers got aggressive to the point where they were screwing up the system, even causing the “someone wants to meet you” emails to not be sent for periods as long as 5 days.”
As before, Hot or Not will now have a free level of membership then a paid tier for sending messages to profiles.
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56,405 | drm237 | 2007-09-18T17:54:21 | Viaweb was the first level 3 web platform according to the definition given by Andreessen? | 'd like to point out that, as far as I know, Viaweb, an online shop system build by Paul Graham and Robert Morris, was the first level 3 web platform according to the definition given by Andreessen: | http://lispmeister.com/blog/lisp-news/ning.html | 5 | 1 | [
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56,407 | drm237 | 2007-09-18T17:55:42 | YC Ivy League Bias | I enjoy reading Paul Graham's essays. He's obviously a smart guy and usually has thought provoking and interesting essays. He often looks at things from a different perspective and I like that a lot, although I don't always agree with his conclusions. I've also followed along with his Y Combinator "seed investment firm." However, I've never applied to Y Combinator or even considered applying because I've always felt like he leans heavily toward the Ivy League crowd. | http://davidduey.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/ivy-league-bias.html#isError:false | 5 | 12 | [
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56,417 | nickb | 2007-09-18T18:03:53 | The truth about flash in email | http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/01/the_truth_about_flash_in_email.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Page not found | Campaign Monitor | null | null |
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56,421 | nickb | 2007-09-18T18:12:13 | TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/techcrunch40-session-6-revenue-models-analytics/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,424 | transburgh | 2007-09-18T18:20:11 | In TechCrunch 40's Hallway | null | http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/18/in-techcrunch-40s-hallway | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,425 | danw | 2007-09-18T18:21:35 | Read more.. about progressive disclosure (GrandCentral & GCal case study) | null | http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/read-more-about-progressive-disclosure | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,434 | rams | 2007-09-18T18:38:17 | Someone please make the bubble die | http://metacircular.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/someone-please-make-the-bubble-die/ | 26 | 27 | [
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56,442 | sigma3dz | 2007-09-18T18:50:25 | Tandem Entrepreneurs - a new type of VC | null | http://www.ventureitch.com/?p=479 | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,447 | nickb | 2007-09-18T19:01:34 | Jeff Clavier Launches $12 Million Venture Fund | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/techcrunch40-jeff-clavier-launches-12-million-venture-fund/ | 8 | 1 | [
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56,451 | tzury | 2007-09-18T19:19:33 | Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Facebook Considered Harmless | null | http://www.zeldman.com/2007/09/18/facebook-considered-harmless/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,452 | tzury | 2007-09-18T19:19:47 | Free online web template generator | null | http://www.dotemplate.com/ | 5 | 1 | [
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56,472 | transburgh | 2007-09-18T19:58:13 | Techcrunch40: Getting Funded Panel | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/techcrunch40-getting-funded | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,479 | transburgh | 2007-09-18T20:07:32 | The Community of TechCrunch | null | http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/18/the-community-of-techcrunch | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,496 | paul | 2007-09-18T20:34:12 | VentureBeat: Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances | http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/18/mint-the-easiest-way-to-manage-your-personal-finances/ | 9 | 4 | [
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56,497 | KeshRivya | 2007-09-18T20:34:13 | Business Strategy: Controlling the Choke Points | business strategy article | http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/billionaire-how.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,498 | plusbryan | 2007-09-18T20:34:23 | Valleywag: I'm too sexy for my install script | http://valleywag.com/tech/xobni/im-too-sexy-for-my-install-script-301109.php | 17 | 2 | [
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56,499 | transburgh | 2007-09-18T20:35:08 | Why Yahoo really bought Zimbra | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/acquisitions/why-yahoo-really-bought-zimbra-301097.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,500 | paul | 2007-09-18T20:35:08 | VentureBeat: Email company Xobni launches, may steal Techcrunch prize | http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/18/email-company-xobni-launches-may-steal-techcrunch-prize/ | 14 | 3 | [
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56,513 | AZA43 | 2007-09-18T21:17:21 | Flock, the Social Web Browser: Coming Soon to a Computer Near You | Early this week, San Francisco-based Flock showed off a Web browser designed specifically for users of social networking sites, and the company claims the software is the first of its kind. | http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/flock_the_social_web_browser | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,523 | nreece | 2007-09-18T21:38:12 | IBM Launches Free, Online Office Applications | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2184769,00.asp | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,524 | nreece | 2007-09-18T21:39:23 | iPhone coming to UK on O2 | http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a6EDBdJf11xs&refer=uk | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,533 | luccastera | 2007-09-18T21:57:07 | Investors Reap Returns on Clean Energy | null | http://www.redherring.com/Home/22827 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,539 | luccastera | 2007-09-18T22:06:08 | Showing the plug, not the cable | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/602-showing-the-plug-not-the-cable | 28 | 1 | [
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56,562 | yters | 2007-09-18T23:10:27 | Ask hackers: Other good online entrepreneurial/business communities? | 15 | 8 | [
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56,571 | Leon | 2007-09-18T23:47:48 | Awesome Image Resizing by Seam Carving Video | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T11:26:31 | null | train |
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56,573 | Tichy | 2007-09-18T23:50:27 | Access and Excel vs Web 2.0 | Working as a Java consultant, so far I have never had a contract request for a Web 2.0 application. The bulk of (boring) projects that are being conducted in the industry seems to be transferring old processes based on Access and Excel to Web Applications, so that some company or other can have a distributed workflow.<p>So, inspired by the other post about the impeding crisis of the web, I thought I'd put forward the idea that if the IT industry has been relatively healthy lately, it was not because of a boom of Web 2.0 startups, but rather because of said Access to Web exodus. However, that will only be a finite source of new work, as eventually all Excel sheets will have been migrated (or switched to Google apps). Hopefully by then Web 2.0 will be the job motor...<p>On a related note, is Excel perhaps the most overlooked "Virtual Machine" out there? Here is a business idea I just remembered: a platform for sharing special purpose Excel sheets. For example you want to create a business plan, might be nice to have a trusted source for looking for an Excel template (ie social network like, rated by users etc.), rather than having to Google for it and download it from weird sources. No idea how to deal with the danger of viri, though. | 2 | 1 | [
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56,575 | brett | 2007-09-18T23:58:31 | Wall Street Journal Will Likely Dump Paid Service | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/wall-street-journal-will-likely-dump-paid-service/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,576 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T00:05:03 | TechCrunch40: Kaltura Wins People's Choice! | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/techcrunch-kaltura-peoples-choice-winner | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,579 | rbitar | 2007-09-19T00:08:15 | How to Get Other People to Do the Work for You | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/09/12/how-to-get-other-people-to-do-the-work-for-you/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,580 | zackcoburn | 2007-09-19T00:14:36 | Try out Pod Clod. It's a game I made. Do you find it addicting? | http://dormitem.com/games/podclod | 5 | 12 | [
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56,583 | nreece | 2007-09-19T00:23:24 | Does Apple use Microsoft .NET on their website? | http://www.lisasandbox.com/node/66 | 7 | 4 | [
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56,626 | herdrick | 2007-09-19T02:12:25 | Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX | http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html | 101 | 82 | [
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IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they’re probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat. It was the software equivalent of Gigli.
In the late 80s, Lotus was trying very hard to figure out what to do next with their flagship spreadsheet and graphics product, Lotus 1-2-3. There were two obvious ideas: first, they could add more features. Word processing, say. This product was called Symphony. Another idea which seemed obvious was to make a 3-D spreadsheet. That became 1-2-3 version 3.0.
Both ideas ran head-first into a serious problem: the old DOS 640K memory limitation. IBM was starting to ship a few computers with 80286 chips, which could address more memory, but Lotus didn’t think there was a big enough market for software that needed a $10,000 computer to run. So they squeezed and squeezed. They spent 18 months cramming 1-2-3 for DOS into 640K, and eventually, after a lot of wasted time, had to give up the 3D feature to get it to fit. In the case of Symphony, they just chopped features left and right.
Neither strategy was right. By the time 123 3.0 was shipping, everybody had 80386s with 2M or 4M of RAM. And Symphony had an inadequate spreadsheet, an inadequate word processor, and some other inadequate bits.
“That’s nice, old man,” you say. “Who gives a fart about some old character mode software?”
Humor me for a minute, because history is repeating itself, in three different ways, and the smart strategy is to bet on the same results.
Limited-memory, limited-CPU environments
From the beginning of time until about, say, 1989, programmers were extremely concerned with efficiency. There just wasn’t that much memory and there just weren’t that many CPU cycles.
In the late 90s a couple of companies, including Microsoft and Apple, noticed (just a little bit sooner than anyone else) that Moore’s Law meant that they shouldn’t think too hard about performance and memory usage… just build cool stuff, and wait for the hardware to catch up. Microsoft first shipped Excel for Windows when 80386s were too expensive to buy, but they were patient. Within a couple of years, the 80386SX came out, and anybody who could afford a $1500 clone could run Excel.
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
So, we don’t care about performance or optimization much anymore.
Except in one place: JavaScript running on browsers in AJAX applications. And since that’s the direction almost all software development is moving, that’s a big deal.
A lot of today’s AJAX applications have a meg or more of client side code. This time, it’s not the RAM or CPU cycles that are scarce: it’s the download bandwidth and the compile time. Either way, you really have to squeeze to get complex AJAX apps to perform well.
History, though, is repeating itself. Bandwidth is getting cheaper. People are figuring out how to precompile JavaScript.
The developers who put a lot of effort into optimizing things and making them tight and fast will wake up to discover that effort was, more or less, wasted, or, at the very least, you could say that it “conferred no long term competitive advantage,” if you’re the kind of person who talks like an economist.
The developers who ignored performance and blasted ahead adding cool features to their applications will, in the long run, have better applications.
A portable programming language
The C programming language was invented with the explicit goal of making it easy to port applications from one instruction set to another. And it did a fine job, but wasn’t really 100% portable, so we got Java, which was even more portable than C. Mmmhmm.
Right now the big hole in the portability story is — tada! — client-side JavaScript, and especially the DOM in web browsers. Writing applications that work in all different browsers is a friggin’ nightmare. There is simply no alternative but to test exhaustively on Firefox, IE6, IE7, Safari, and Opera, and guess what? I don’t have time to test on Opera. Sucks to be Opera. Startup web browsers don’t stand a chance.
What’s going to happen? Well, you can try begging Microsoft and Firefox to be more compatible. Good luck with that. You can follow the p-code/Java model and build a little sandbox on top of the underlying system. But sandboxes are penalty boxes; they’re slow and they suck, which is why Java Applets are dead, dead, dead. To build a sandbox you pretty much doom yourself to running at 1/10th the speed of the underlying platform, and you doom yourself to never supporting any of the cool features that show up on one of the platforms but not the others. (I’m still waiting for someone to show me a Java applet for phones that can access any of the phone’s features, like the camera, the contacts list, the SMS messages, or the GPS receiver.)
Sandboxes didn’t work then and they’re not working now.
What’s going to happen? The winners are going to do what worked at Bell Labs in 1978: build a programming language, like C, that’s portable and efficient. It should compile down to “native” code (native code being JavaScript and DOMs) with different backends for different target platforms, where the compiler writers obsess about performance so you don’t have to. It’ll have all the same performance as native JavaScript with full access to the DOM in a consistent fashion, and it’ll compile down to IE native and Firefox native portably and automatically. And, yes, it’ll go into your CSS and muck around with it in some frightening but provably-correct way so you never have to think about CSS incompatibilities ever again. Ever. Oh joyous day that will be.
High interactivity and UI standards
The IBM 360 mainframe computer system used a user interface called CICS, which you can still see at the airport if you lean over the checkin counter. There’s an 80 character by 24 character green screen, character mode only, of course. The mainframe sends down a form to the “client” (the client being a 3270 smart terminal). The terminal is smart; it knows how to present the form to you and let you input data into the form without talking to the mainframe at all. This was one reason mainframes were so much more powerful than Unix: the CPU didn’t have to handle your line editing; it was offloaded to a smart terminal. (If you couldn’t afford smart terminals for everyone, you bought a System/1 minicomputer to sit between the dumb terminals and the mainframe and handle the form editing for you).
Anyhoo, after you filled out your form, you pressed SEND, and all your answers were sent back to the server to process. Then it sent you another form. And on and on.
Awful. How do you make a word processor in that kind of environment? (You really can’t. There never was a decent word processor for mainframes).
That was the first stage. It corresponds precisely to the HTML phase of the Internet. HTML is CICS with fonts.
In the second stage, everybody bought PCs for their desks, and suddenly, programmers could poke text anywhere on the screen wily-nily, anywhere they wanted, any time they wanted, and you could actually read every keystroke from the users as they typed, so you could make a nice fast application that didn’t have to wait for you to hit SEND before the CPU could get involved. So, for example, you could make a word processor that automatically wrapped, moving a word down to the next line when the current line filled up. Right away. Oh my god. You can do that?
The trouble with the second stage was that there were no clear UI standards… the programmers almost had too much flexibility, so everybody did things in different ways, which made it hard, if you knew how to use program X, to also use program Y. WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 had completely different menu systems, keyboard interfaces, and command structures. And copying data between them was out of the question.
And that’s exactly where we are with Ajax development today. Sure, yeah, the usability is much better than the first generation DOS apps, because we’ve learned some things since then. But Ajax apps can be inconsistent, and have a lot of trouble working together — you can’t really cut and paste objects from one Ajax app to another, for example, so I’m not sure how you get a picture from Gmail to Flickr. Come on guys, Cut and Paste was invented 25 years ago.
The third phase with PCs was Macintosh and Windows. A standard, consistent user interface with features like multiple windows and the Clipboard designed so that applications could work together. The increased usability and power we got out of the new GUIs made personal computing explode.
So if history repeats itself, we can expect some standardization of Ajax user interfaces to happen in the same way we got Microsoft Windows. Somebody is going to write a compelling SDK that you can use to make powerful Ajax applications with common user interface elements that work together. And whichever SDK wins the most developer mindshare will have the same kind of competitive stronghold as Microsoft had with their Windows API.
If you’re a web app developer, and you don’t want to support the SDK everybody else is supporting, you’ll increasingly find that people won’t use your web app, because it doesn’t, you know, cut and paste and support address book synchronization and whatever weird new interop features we’ll want in 2010.
Imagine, for example, that you’re Google with GMail, and you’re feeling rather smug. But then somebody you’ve never heard of, some bratty Y Combinator startup, maybe, is gaining ridiculous traction selling NewSDK, which combines a great portable programming language that compiles to JavaScript, and even better, a huge Ajaxy library that includes all kinds of clever interop features. Not just cut ‘n’ paste: cool mashup features like synchronization and single-point identity management (so you don’t have to tell Facebook and Twitter what you’re doing, you can just enter it in one place). And you laugh at them, for their NewSDK is a honking 232 megabytes … 232 megabytes! … of JavaScript, and it takes 76 seconds to load a page. And your app, GMail, doesn’t lose any customers.
But then, while you’re sitting on your googlechair in the googleplex sipping googleccinos and feeling smuggy smug smug smug, new versions of the browsers come out that support cached, compiled JavaScript. And suddenly NewSDK is really fast. And Paul Graham gives them another 6000 boxes of instant noodles to eat, so they stay in business another three years perfecting things.
And your programmers are like, jeez louise, GMail is huge, we can’t port GMail to this stupid NewSDK. We’d have to change every line of code. Heck it’d be a complete rewrite; the whole programming model is upside down and recursive and the portable programming language has more parentheses than even Google can buy. The last line of almost every function consists of a string of 3,296 right parentheses. You have to buy a special editor to count them.
And the NewSDK people ship a pretty decent word processor and a pretty decent email app and a killer Facebook/Twitter event publisher that synchronizes with everything, so people start using it.
And while you’re not paying attention, everybody starts writing NewSDK apps, and they’re really good, and suddenly businesses ONLY want NewSDK apps, and all those old-school Plain Ajax apps look pathetic and won’t cut and paste and mash and sync and play drums nicely with one another. And Gmail becomes a legacy. The WordPerfect of Email. And you’ll tell your children how excited you were to get 2GB to store email, and they’ll laugh at you. Their nail polish has more than 2GB.
Crazy story? Substitute “Google Gmail” with “Lotus 1-2-3”. The NewSDK will be the second coming of Microsoft Windows; this is exactly how Lotus lost control of the spreadsheet market. And it’s going to happen again on the web because all the same dynamics and forces are in place. The only thing we don’t know yet are the particulars, but it’ll happen.
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56,632 | jpalacio486 | 2007-09-19T02:28:51 | How many people in here like to write? Casually or as a hobby? (relates to my startup). | Poetry, fiction, etc. Just wondering, has something to do with my startup. Thanks. | 3 | 6 | [
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56,636 | rms | 2007-09-19T02:38:09 | New Yorker on Clive Wearing: man with Memento-like memory retention of a few seconds | http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks?printable=true | 3 | 2 | [
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56,638 | Zak | 2007-09-19T02:40:07 | I seem to be writing a web-app framework. Any advice? | I didn't mean to do it - I really didn't! I'm using Hunchentoot and CL-WHO to create a fairly simple web app that has to handle file uploads, file management, a simple database, user logins and the like. I had to modify a bunch of utility functions from previous projects and write a few new ones. They're almost general enough to be used in any web app and it quickly became obvious that I should modify them so they are and extract them to a library. Here are some general features:<p>- Not opinionated - this isn't Rails. Not every web-app consists of creating, maintaining and displaying lists. Users should be free to structure their apps however is most appropriate.<p>- Nested component architecture - pages are made from re-usable components, which can contain other components. A component should contain the data-structures, logic and presentation details for given type of operation. This is a bit ad-hoc right now, but my attempt to write about it has convinced me to formalize it.<p>- Modular - the various parts of the framework will talk to each other in clearly-defined ways, so they can be replaced when they're not appropriate.<p>Do any of the things I've mentioned sound like especially good ideas or bad mistakes? What kinds of features would you like to see in a framework? What kinds of misfeatures would you like to never see again? | 11 | 8 | [
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56,665 | jkopelman | 2007-09-19T03:27:30 | Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/mint-wins-techcrunch40-50000-award/ | 20 | 15 | [
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56,675 | bootload | 2007-09-19T03:35:34 | Tabs, Used Right | http://www.useit.com/alertbox/tabs.html | 18 | 5 | [
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Summary:
Tabs are everywhere, but do you use them properly? Distinguish between types of tabs, design them for visual clarity, and structure their content for usability.
This is an updated version of an article written by Jakob Nielsen in 2007.
Tabs are a fundamental and frequently used control in interface design. For decades, the humble tab has enabled designers to organize and facilitate content navigation. In that time, tabs subtly evolved from the classic file-folder paradigm that initially inspired them. These essential best practices will ensure your tabs do not introduce usability issues for your users.
(This article discusses tabs found within the user interface and not those that allow users to keep multiple pages open in the browser chrome.)
What Are Tabs?
When to Use Tabs
Tabs Versus Accordions
Types of Tabs
Tab Visual Design: Best Practices
Tab Content: Best Practices
Diagnosing Design Problems with Tabs
What Are Tabs?
Tabs allow users to selectively view a single panel of content from among a list of options.
From a user experience perspective, a tab-based design includes the following elements:
List: A (traditionally horizontal) list of the available tabs
Label: A concise description of the content found on that tab
Panel: A panel displaying the selected tab’s content
Selection indicators: A visual signifier that marks which tab is displaying content
Clicking or tapping on the label selects the tab.
Tabs simplify interfaces by organizing and concealing content until requested by the user. Classic tab styling (top) evokes physical folders in a filing cabinet. Modern approaches (bottom) attempt to make tabs easier to integrate into layouts by reducing or eliminating the border strokes on the selected tab and its panel.
A tab control contains a list of available tabs, short labels describing the tabs’ content, one or more indicators marking the selected tab, and a panel displaying only the selected tab’s content.
In addition to these common elements, complex applications may contain other supplemental features to help users. These include:
Icons (ideally the icon should be accompanied by a label)
Adding, closing, renaming, or copying tabs
Reordering tabs via drag and drop
Scrolling through the set of tabs if not all are visible on the screen (i.e., carousel-like tabs)
When to Use Tabs
When lengthy content has clear groupings. Tabs minimize cognitive load by chunking content into scannable pieces instead of showing it all at once.
When there are few content groupings. When the number of tabs overflows the tab list, the tab bar often becomes a carousel. As a result, the hidden tabs become less discoverable, and the interaction cost needed to access them increases, as users need to manipulate secondary controls to reveal those tabs. The fewer tabs, the better.
Patagonia: A button appeared when the viewport was smaller than the tab list. Clicking the button horizontally scrolled the tab list to reveal additional tabs.
When content has unequal importance. Tab controls select and display a tab by default. This default tab receives more attention from users, while the other tabs may be ignored. Ensure that the content within nondefault tabs is supplemental rather than critical for a successful user experience.
When content can be labeled concisely. Short tab labels work best, as they conserve horizontal space in the tab list and avoid horizontal scrolling.
When users don’t need to simultaneously see information presented under different tabs. Otherwise, users must repeatedly switch between tabs to compare or reference information. In that situation, a tab-based design taxes users’ short-term memory, increases cognitive load and interaction cost, and lowers usability compared to a design that puts everything on one big page.
❌ Google’s ad-management site uses tabs to organize topics or brands used in advertising. The tabbed approach makes it hard for users to get a comprehensive view of ad content they may encounter and to set their preferences.
Tabs Versus Accordions
Like tabs, accordions are another effective method for collapsing content. Accordions are particularly useful on mobile devices, where they work better than tabs due to the limited screen space. Accordions can utilize longer labels and work well to organize short pieces of content such as FAQs. On desktop, tabs may be preferable as accordions can make the page seem too empty when closed. Moreover, tabs can handle longer content and accommodate more complex layouts than accordions.
Types of Tabs
In-page tabs organize and present related content within a single page. These tabs are not for navigation but enable users to alter the content displayed in the panel. In-page tabs are the originator of the tab-design pattern.
Navigation tabs enable users to navigate to different pages. Because navigation usability improves when the user’s location is clearly marked, designers started using the visual presentation of tabs (in particular, selection indicators) for navigation controls. Over time, this tab styling became a common visual approach to navigation.
Although navigation and in-page tabs look alike, understanding the subtle differences between them is essential to implementing each effectively.
Navigation Tabs
In-page Tabs
Content
Broad scope
Unrelated
Different
Narrow scope
Related
Similar
Location
Top or sometimes left of the viewport
Frequently bottom on mobile
Varies since they are embedded within the page layout
Scrolling Position
Sometimes fixed to the top (or bottom) of the viewport
Rarely fixed
User Expectations
Navigating to a new view
Slight loading delay
Remaining in the current view
Instantaneous loading
Default Selected Tab
Usually one tab selected by default, but if the current page is not organized under any tab and was accessed elsewhere (like through a footer), then no tab may be selected
Always one tab selected by default
Yahoo Finance: 3 layers of navigation tabs exposed several tiers of information architecture (Finance, Videos, and Videos subcategories). The in-page tabs in the Markets and Program list containers enabled users to view types of content while remaining in place.
Don’t Mix and Match Tab Types
Mixing in-page and navigation tabs within one tab control will disorient users. In-page tabs should have similar content and keep users where they are. Navigation tabs should have dissimilar content and navigate users away from the current page.
❌ Unfortunately, this tab control found on a career-information page for the San Diego Wildlife Alliance mixed navigation and in-page tabs. Most of these tabs kept users on visually consistent pages that showcased different career details. The Careers Home tab, however, was an outlier. Clicking it led to a different page without the tabs. This design was unpredictable and likely prevented users from learning the site’s organization.
In-page tabs are supposed to keep users on the same page while alternating between related views. The intent is to reduce users' cognitive load by chunking content and progressively disclosing it upon selection. Strictly speaking, each in-page tab should have the same layout but with different data.
✅ Google Finance: This page demonstrated a classic implementation of in-page tabs. It used two in-page tab lists for a line chart visualizing financial-market performance. The first in-page tab list displayed specific market categories (in this case, US is selected), and the second tab list displayed a time scale (with the selected one being 1D — 1 day). The various tabs displayed different data consistently (as line charts) and users remained on the same page as they switched tabs.
Tabs Should All Look and Work the Same
In-page tabs and navigation tabs should be internally consistent (consistency is a usability heuristic; it builds the user’s feeling of mastery over the interface). For a given tab control, clicking on any of the tabs should change its panel, and they should use the same unselected and selected styling. Use a design system to promote this behavioral and visual consistency with your tab controls.
When using in-page tabs and navigation tabs in the same experience, visually differentiate between these tab types to convey to users that they behave differently.
❌ Behance.com: This in-page tab had a Creatives for Hire tab that did not look or function like the other tabs; clicking it opened a different site in a new browser tab. The added icon attempted to convey this functionality difference, but this control is a link masquerading as a tab and should not be part of the tab control.
Tab Visual Design: Best Practices
Indicate the Selected Tab
Prominently highlight the selected tab. There are a variety of selection indicators to convey this status:
Common region. This classic method for indicating the selected tab involves using the same background fills for the selected tab and the displayed panel. This tab fill should contrast with the background fill used for the other, unselected tabs. Today, designers and developers rarely use this technique as it introduces complexity in coordinating background fills across controls and page layouts.
Lines. Include a horizontal line to underline the selected tab. Lines have become a popular choice because their layout is flexible. Do not use thin, single-pixel strokes or poor-contrast colors.
Font styling. Change the text label of the selected tab to be bolded or to a different, darker color.
Size. Resize the selected tab so it appears larger than the other tabs.
Icon. Give the selected tab a distinct icon indicator not found on unselected tabs.
Use at least two selection indicators to enhance the visual salience of the selected tab. Multiple indicators are critical to distinguish the selected tab when there are only two tabs, as there are fewer unselected tabs to compare against.
✅ Crateandbarrel.com: The selected tab was differentiated from the unselected tab using a common region and font styling.
❌ CNN: The selected navigation tab (in this case, Tech) was bolded, but the effect was so subtle that it was nearly indistinguishable from the other tabs.
Make Unselected Tabs Clearly Visible and Readable
Unselected tabs should be visible to remind users of the additional options. Unselected tabs that are too faded into the background may not be noticeable, so users may never discover their content.
❌ MongoDB: Several navigation-tab controls were used to organize complex technical content. Unfortunately, the font styling of the unselected tabs, such as Overview and Dependencies, had poor color contrast with the white background and could be mistaken for unselectable features.
Connect the Selected Tab to Its Panel
Using a common region as a selection indicator is a visually powerful way to signal that the tab and its content are part of the same group. However, as mentioned above, this method is less used today.
Another way to convey the connection between the tab label and the tab panel is to use proximity. This approach is useful when the selected tab is highlighted using a different fill from its panel.
❌ PaneraBread.com: This tab found in the ordering flow was poorly connected to its panel. The yellow delivery tag, large amounts of padding, and the full-width line all separated and disassociated the Delivery label from its panel.
✅ macOS: These in-page tabs organizing trackpad behavior didn’t share a common region with their panel, but still maintained proximity despite their different background fills.
Use Only One Row of Tabs
Websites and simple apps should avoid stacking tab lists within one tab control. Stacking arrangements increases the risk that a selection indicator (such as a line) is ambiguously positioned between several tab labels.
Stacking is also ineffective for tab styling that relies on a common region, as it requires repositioning the selected tab to be adjacent to its panel. This destroys spatial memory and makes it impossible for users to remember which tabs they have already visited.
❌ Amazon: These navigation tabs that were on Amazon’s website from 2000 are a classic example illustrating the problems with stacking tabs. Clicking a tab in the back row (such as Kitchen) forced a difficult design tradeoff: highlight the tab in its back-row position but leave it disconnected from its panel, or move the tab to the front row to improve its proximity but rearrange the tab list ordering? Both options are undesirable from a usability perspective.
Position the Tab List Above the Panel
Vertical and bottom list arrangements will cause users to overlook the tabs. The visual design for in-page tabs should make the panel evident.
❌ Okta: These overdesigned in-page tabs violated multiple best practices. The tabs were positioned to the right of the content panel and not at the top. The selected tab was differentiated only by a subtle shift in text color. There was no clear panel, as both the image and text were far apart. The tab labels were long. The blue line was equally spaced between different tabs, making distinguishing the selected tab difficult. Even worse — the blue line was animated and automatically selected the next tab after a few seconds!
✅ Vanguard: These simply executed in-page tabs are positioned directly above their panel.
Tab Content: Best Practices
Arrange Tabs for Efficient Usage
Arrange tab content so high-use content is first in the list and selected by default. This maximizes visibility of frequently accessed content and lowers its interaction cost.
✅ SpotHero mobile app: This in-page tab organized parking-spot reservations by status. The Upcoming reservation tab was appropriately arranged first and selected by default, as users would likely be most interested in upcoming parking reservations interact. Past or cancelled reservations were available for reference.
Logically Group Tab-Panel Content
How the content is perceived and used by users should inform how it is grouped. Card sorting is one option for researching this mini-IA problem. If you don’t find distinct groupings, tabs are likely the wrong interface control for managing your content. In such a case a single-page layout with subheadings would be more appropriate.
Use Descriptive Tab Labels
Users should be able to predict what they’ll find when selecting a tab. Since unselected tabs conceal their content, labels with strong information scent are crucial for users to engage with them. Use plain language rather than made-up marketing terms.
❌ Variety: An in-page tab list organized and previewed recent reviews. Film, TV, and Music were short and apparent labels, but only an existing reader of Variety would recognize that the label Legit represented reviews of theater productions. This branded word has weaker information scent and probably less user engagement.
Write Short Tab Labels
Tab labels should usually be 1-2 words. Short labels are more scannable; if you need longer labels, it’s a sign that the choices are too complicated for tabs.
Do Not Use ALL CAPS for Tab Labels
All caps negatively impacts legibility. Although typography research suggests that all-caps text may offer some glanceability improvements at small font sizes, this is more of a mitigation for smallness than a wise visual-design tactic to use broadly.
Because most text we interact with in daily life is mixed case, people are unaccustomed to scanning or reading all-caps text (and ephemeral design trends aren’t going to change this). Better to pick one capitalization style (sentence- or title-case) and stick to it.
❌ Penguin Random House: These in-page tabs would have been more legible if their labels were not in all caps.
Make Tab Features Findable
Complex apps where users must manage their information space may need tab-management features (e.g., adding, copying, or deleting tabs). Indicate the presence of these features by embedding controls within the tab (but beware of questionable icons). Monitor these features during usability testing, as they will not be familiar or findable to many users.
❌ Microsoft Excel for Microsoft 365: Accessing tab-related commands such as renaming or deleting a worksheet (i.e., tab) required knowledge that right-clicking the tab would present these options in a menu, which could be challenging for novice users to find.
✅ Google Sheets: Split buttons for the tabs hinted that additional commands were available. Clicking the tab’s arrow button revealed tab-related commands (unfortunately, this arrow button lacked a clear visual signifier: the button border displayed only when the cursor hovered over it). Right clicking the tab was an alternate way of opening this menu.
Diagnosing Design Problems with Tabs
Tab-design problems are a common finding if you are using analytics for a UX-health check. If you’re tracking within-page actions, you may find users rarely use tabs on certain pages.
Check if you’re violating any of this article’s best practices. If yes, redesign your tabs and do a quick A/B test to check whether your redesign is better.
Remember to check these accessibility considerations as well:
Keyboard navigation: Ensure that tabs can be navigated and selected using the keyboard. Use Enter or Space to select a tab.
Focus: Tabs should have high-contrast focus highlighting.
ARIA roles: Check with your developers whether appropriate ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) roles and properties are used to communicate tab structure to assistive technologies.
Conclusion
If you follow this article’s best practices, users will know how to use your tabs without further exploration or error-prone guessing. Then, they can devote more time and energy to understanding the content and features available under these tabs. Tabs seem boring, but when done right, they exemplify good UX design: users don’t consciously think about the tabs themselves — they just work.
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56,708 | nailer | 2007-09-19T04:30:31 | Layered Technologies hacked, 6000 accounts compromised | Breaking: Major US hosting company Layered Technologies have been hacked. Credentials for 5-6000 hosted accounts - and the data stored in them, including customer details in web stores - may have been compromised. | http://www.venturecake.com/layered-technologies-hacked/ | 4 | 1 | [
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56,738 | unmarshal | 2007-09-19T06:01:04 | Widespread Diffie Hellman Implementation Weakness: Conspiracy or Ignorance? | null | http://labs.musecurity.com/2007/09/18/widespread-dh-implementation-weakness/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,752 | darius | 2007-09-19T06:38:17 | Jobs quote of "A 3G iPhone later next year" should kill demand for iPhone 1.0 | http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=782 | 1 | 2 | [
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56,764 | danw | 2007-09-19T07:14:11 | The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups me hearties | null | http://adactio.com/extras/talklikeapirate/translate.php?filename=http%3A%2F%2Fpaulgraham.com%2Fstartupmistakes.html&submit=Avast%21 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,765 | Neoryder | 2007-09-19T07:15:12 | On Cartooning | Reading this it gave me a feeling that he was writing of something more than cartooning but in living lives of passion, in general!
| http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004157.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:854396441450'. | on cartooning | 2007-09-11T18:33:08+00:00 | Patrick Crampton |
The Gapingvoid Email - free insights & inspiration three times a week!
[December, 2007 marks the 10-year anniversary of my “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” format. Here’s some random notes on the subject, in no particular order:]
1. I came up with the format in early December, 1997 in Chicago. I moved to New York about a week and a half later. But the format didn’t really gel till I got to the East Coast, a couple of months later.
2. At last count I had done over 5,000 of them. That was over two years ago.
3. I never really experienced the “One Big Moment”, the Tipping Point etc. The schtick just built up slowly, day by day.
4. When people ask me what I do, I never say, “I’m a cartoonist”. But the other day a friend of mine made a compelling case for me to start doing so. Not sure what to think yet…
5. I never expected the cartoons to get successful.
6. The way most cartoonists make a living utterly horrifies me.
7. Constantly setting new goals, artistic or otherwise, is harder than it looks.
8. Not caring what other people think is harder than it looks. Especially AFTER you get successful.
9. As I get older the temptation to “tone it down” grows stronger every day. I’m glad I still can resist it, most of the time.
10. My favorite cartoonist for the last while has been David Shrigley, long since before he was hired by Hallam Foe to animate the title sequence. I first met him in Glasgow in the early 1990s. He’s a really lovely guy in person.
11. Musicians have always inspired me far more than other cartoonists, with perhaps the exception of Charles Schultz, Saul Steinberg, Ralph Steadman, Ronald Searle and Edward Gorey.
12. Instead of carrying a portfolio around, I just keep a couple of hundred images on my iPod. Seems to work well enough. Luckily my format is well suited to the device.
[All you need to start building an empire- drawing pen, blank business cards, iPod, smokes, lighter, and a local pub that serves a good pint. Click on image to enlarge etc.]
13. Everything I own would easily fit in the back of a small pickup truck. I’ve never been into possessions. The same was true for my late paternal grandfather, probably the most resonant influence in my life.
14. I find it very liberating to have a format that allows you to store a few years worth of work in a single shoebox.
15. If you offered me $10,000 for this cartoon, I’d probably turn you down.
16. One of the smartest moves I ever made was to figure out that making money indirectly off the cartoons was far easier than trying to make the money directly. If I could teach gapingvoid readers just one thing, that would be it.
17. I can’t imagine how I would have made the cartoons successful without the internet. I just can’t imagine a likely alternative scenario.
18. There are tons of cartoonists who write and/or draw better than me. If my work has one thing going for it, it’s the quite unique and unconventional life that I’ve always seemed to lead.
19. I’ve never envied people with “normal” lives. Nor have I ever envied the people without them.
20. My work generally isn’t for sale. You have to ask me to give you a drawing. And I have to be in the right mood at the time.
21. I have found the standard “struggling artist” myths and stereotypes mostly full of crap. Powerful magnets for Bullshitters, to say the least.
22. I don’t envy, admire or like pretty much 90% of the artists I meet. That’s not me just being old and jaded, that was just as true when I was a teenager.
23. I want to draw cartoons that rip the face off the reader. But in a good way.
24. I have no artistic ambition outside the cartoons. No desire to write a novel or anything like that.
25. I would never recommend to a young person to pursue a career in fine art. Even if she had a talent that was off the scale, I would be slightly hesitant.
26. The most important word in cartooning is “continuity”. Drawing a good cartoon isn’t difficult. Doing it repeatedly, day-in, day-out is far, far harder.
27. Cartoonists who don’t like to think much about the actual business they’re in, who are fond of saying, “I just want to draw” deserve everything they get.
28. Drugs and alcohol are lousy substitutes for inspiration.
29. The older I get, the more solitude the work seems to require.
30. The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
31. I increasingly find that, as I get older, the only subjects worth writing about are Love, Loss, Religion and Ambition.
32. Ten years ago, when my current cartoon format was “new”, there was a certain magic to it that now I SIMPLY CAN’T RECAPTURE. It took me many years to just let it go.
33. The format works for me because it forces me to keep things simple.
34. If the early days, most of my drawing was done sitting at a bar. Nowadays most of the work is done sitting at the kitchen table. They both have their pros and cons.
35. There’s something about being a celebrity, even a micro-celebrity that poisons the soul.
36. I can totally see why so many artists eventually become recluses, living in the boonies. I find myself increasingly heading in that direction, and I doubt I’ll lift a finger to stop it.
37. In the early days of the cartoons I was living in Manhattan. It would really tickle me when people would describe my cartoons as “SO NEW YORK”. Though now a wee voice tells me that if I still lived there, I’d probably be dead by now. I think a lot of ex-New Yorkers feel that.
38. One of the great things about the format is, hey, they’re just doodles on the back of business cards. It doesn’t matter if they’re good or not.
39. If you told me ten years ago that I would still be using this format pretty much exclusively in 2007, I don’t think I would’ve believed you.
40. I have never really given any serious thought to changing my format in all these ten years. Sometimes I find that odd.
41. Art is simply using the tools at hand to ask the question, “What is possible?” Painting, music, literature, it doesn’t matter what media one uses. What matters is the question.
42. No artist wants their best work behind them. But that day always comes.
43. I was fortunate. Somehow I managed to get the B-Plan baked into the A-Plan. And vice versa.
44. The good news is, my drawings will probably be worth a lot of money one day. The other good news is, I probably won’t be alive to see it.
45. I feel extraordinarily fortunate and grateful.
[Related Link: “How To Be Creative”. 10,000 words from 2004 etc.]
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56,769 | davidw | 2007-09-19T07:22:46 | Google loses one billion dollars per year to fraudulent ad clicks | http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/03/02/tech-googleclickfraud-20070302.html | 6 | 1 | [
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56,782 | rms | 2007-09-19T07:51:19 | Paul Bucheit on safely storing user passwords | http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-read-this-if-you-ever-store.html | 29 | 1 | [
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Thomas Ptacek has a good post explaining why your password storage scheme is probably bad.His post has a lot of words, so I'll summarize: Storing passwords in plaintext is obviously bad (most developers already know this) Using a salted-hash such as MD5 or SHA-1 isn't much better. (too easy to brute force) Your other clever password storage ideas are probably bad too. Use bcrypt instead. It was created by real cryptographers for just this kind of thing.Here's bcrypt for Java. It has a nice simple API:// Hash a password for the first timeString hashed = BCrypt.hashpw(password, BCrypt.gensalt());// Check that an unencrypted password matches one that has// previously been hashedif (BCrypt.checkpw(candidate, hashed)) System.out.println("It matches");else System.out.println("It does not match");I'm sure other popular languages have similar libraries.
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56,788 | limeade | 2007-09-19T08:36:02 | How do you guys (and gals) hire programmers in Silicon Valley? | I'm a grad student here and wondering how one goes about hiring a programmer to help with a project that I started and is pretty far along. Post something on Craigslist? | 1 | 2 | [
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56,796 | curi | 2007-09-19T09:18:16 | The Fabric of Reality (Opening Paragraphs) | http://www.qubit.org/people/david/FabricOfReality/FoRExtract.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T01:48:16 | null | train |
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56,811 | henryw | 2007-09-19T11:21:36 | Storewriter.com, What do you think? | I've been working on <a href="http://www.storewriter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.storewriter.com</a> for a while and finally got a preview version online. What do you guys think? What kind of improvements would you like to see? Any feature requests? <p>Thanks in advance. | 12 | 16 | [
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56,812 | ideas101 | 2007-09-19T11:36:39 | Want to taste success? Exploit capabilities | null | http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/sep/19bspec.htm | 1 | 1 | [
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56,815 | kkim | 2007-09-19T11:43:48 | Fred Wilson: "Blown away" by Xobni | null | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/09/xobni.html | 28 | 11 | [
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56,819 | luccastera | 2007-09-19T12:08:14 | PCLinuxOS gets number 1 spot on Distrowatch; Ubuntu is now number 2 | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070917#editorial | 2 | 1 | [
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56,820 | ahsonwardak | 2007-09-19T12:16:56 | Announcing SoftTech VC's $12M seed fund X the Return to the Dark Side | http://blog.softtechvc.com/2007/09/announcing-soft.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,822 | ahsonwardak | 2007-09-19T12:18:46 | Religious Social Networks on the Rise | http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/18/religious-social-networks-on-the-rise/ | 3 | 3 | [
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56,825 | davidw | 2007-09-19T12:25:34 | Ask yc.news: Opinions on EC2? | I'm looking into Amazon's EC2 "web service", and I'm wondering if anyone else here has looked at/utilized it. What are its strengths and weaknesses? What did you use it for? What should it not be used for? | 21 | 26 | [
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56,826 | ahsonwardak | 2007-09-19T12:26:25 | Web 2.0 Investments Up 7 Percent | http://www.redherring.com/Home/22813 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,827 | danw | 2007-09-19T12:39:48 | What happened to Mobile Web 1.0? Dan Applequist | http://www.tomhume.org/2007/09/mobile-20-what-.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,842 | drm237 | 2007-09-19T13:11:26 | Scaling Smugmug from startup to profitability | Smugmug.com a 5 year old company with just 23 employees has 315000 paying customers and 195 million photographs. CEO & "Chief Geek" Don MacAskill has a nice set of slides where he talks about its 5 year journey during which it went from small startup to a profitable business. The talk was giving during Amazon's "Startup project" so it talks mostly about how it uses AWS (Amazon Web services). | http://www.royans.net/arch/2007/09/19/scaling-smugmug-from-startup-to-profitability/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Royans Tharakan | null | Royans Tharakan |
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56,843 | ideas101 | 2007-09-19T13:12:51 | Customer Service Nightmares - Please share your stories | I would like the audience to share their worst stories for customer service they have experienced ... also you can share what would you expect if someone wants to be best in customer service domain. | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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56,846 | charzom | 2007-09-19T13:16:49 | Hack Your Home Telephone with Asterisk | null | http://lifehacker.com/software/telephony/hack-your-home-telephone-with-asterisk-301195.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,856 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T13:42:42 | How to Keep your Rookie Startup Company from Riding the Bench | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/9/19/how-to-keep-your-rookie-startup-company-from-riding-the-bench/10196/view.aspx | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T17:46:11 | null | train |
56,861 | nootopian | 2007-09-19T14:13:19 | Websites as graphs | http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/ | 4 | 4 | [
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56,866 | colortone | 2007-09-19T14:37:52 | MySpace: Launching Interest-targeted Advertising | null | http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-MySpace-Advertising.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,892 | markpeterdavis | 2007-09-19T15:18:13 | Pitching VCs: Present Flexibly | When most entrepreneurs practice these presentations they focus on smoothing out the pace of the presentation. While it's good to practice and get comfortable with the content of your presentation, it's important to keep the order and pace flexible; I can guarantee that you won't go in the order or at the pace you expected. | http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/09/keep-your-prese.html | 6 | 1 | [
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56,895 | ideas101 | 2007-09-19T15:24:43 | Online Customer Service - Share your ideas | Pls share your ideas what model would be the best for providing customer service on the web ... | 1 | 1 | [
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56,899 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-19T15:33:22 | Gordon Moore predicts end to Moore's law in 10 years | null | http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/gordon-moore-predicts-end-to-moores-law-in-10-years/ | 1 | 1 | [
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56,900 | nsimpson | 2007-09-19T15:33:23 | Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity... | http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/tradition-will-.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T04:29:22 | null | train |
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56,908 | nickb | 2007-09-19T15:53:35 | $689 million fine is a cost of doing business for Microsoft | null | http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_6925390?nclick_check=1 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,910 | byrneseyeview | 2007-09-19T15:54:08 | GPhone 'Definitely' In The Works, Says Vague, Uncited Source | null | http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/09/gphone_definite.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | news | null | null | InformationWeek is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLCThis site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.HomeLatest NewsOriginal reporting, exclusive interviews, and sharp analysis by experienced journalists. Coverage of the breaking and developing news that IT executives need to know about, like moves in the enterprise IT market, major cyberattacks, and more.Previous12345…1623NextEditor's ChoiceWebinarsHarnessing Mainframe Data for AI-Driven Enterprise AnalyticsNov 12, 2024Navigating the Risks: Why SaaS Management is Crucial for Compliance and Security in Healthcare & FinanceNov 14, 2024Strengthening Cloud Security: Addressing Today's Threats and Preparing for TomorrowNov 19, 2024White PapersThe Defender's Advantage: Using Artificial Intelligence in Cyber DefenseSmart Service Management--Easy Automation for Manual IT TasksRethink and Transform Security Operations WhitepaperAutomate IT Playbook: A Playbook to Supercharge ITSM with AutomationAI-Driven SOC Transformation Customer eBookReports2024 InformationWeek US IT Salary ReportMay 29, 20242022 State of ITOps and SecOpsJun 21, 2022Never Miss a Beat: Get a snapshot of the issues affecting the IT industry straight to your inbox. | 2024-11-08T20:42:35 | null | train |
56,944 | luccastera | 2007-09-19T16:44:58 | JPU - JavaScript CPU Monitor | http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2007/09/jpu-javascript-cpu-monitor.html | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,949 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T17:03:52 | Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's! | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/techcrunch40-recap-mint-thankyou | 6 | 1 | [
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56,951 | danw | 2007-09-19T17:14:44 | Device and Desires by Stephen Fry | null | http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/?p=3 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,953 | terpua | 2007-09-19T17:21:28 | Exclusive: Facebook to Offer Data Storage | http://www.rev2.org/2007/09/16/facebook-offers-data-storage/ | 5 | 2 | [
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56,970 | davidw | 2007-09-19T17:50:30 | Revenue Model Alternatives for Book Publishing | http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/revenue-model-a.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,971 | far33d | 2007-09-19T17:52:17 | News can't be an online-only business | http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/news-cant-be-an-online-only-business/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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56,991 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T18:28:10 | Does Digg Want To Be Facebook? | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/19/does-digg-want-to-be-facebook/ | 4 | 3 | [
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56,993 | danw | 2007-09-19T18:31:56 | IDEA #75 - Where I Hang Out (dodgeball as a facebook app) | null | http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/09/18/idea-75-where-i-hang-out-facebook-app/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
56,994 | brett | 2007-09-19T18:33:52 | RubyForge vs CPAN - O'Reilly Ruby | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/rubyforge_vs_cpan.html | 5 | 0 | [
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57,000 | phony_identity | 2007-09-19T18:56:37 | The Unexpected Uselessness of Philosophy, The Unexpected Usefulness of Mathematics | http://www.isteve.com/Philosophy.htm | 10 | 15 | [
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57,005 | phony_identity | 2007-09-19T19:01:58 | Nerds: The Unexplored Cornerstone of the Modern World | http://www.isteve.com/nerds.htm | 9 | 0 | [
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57,007 | axiom | 2007-09-19T19:12:12 | Avast ye mateys! Today be talk like a pirate day! | null | http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ | 8 | 5 | [
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57,016 | danw | 2007-09-19T19:28:47 | Retarded Iteration | null | http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/09/19/retarded-iteration/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
57,017 | nreece | 2007-09-19T19:28:54 | Yahoo Mail Innovates, Gmail Stagnates | http://lifehacker.com/software/email/yahoo-mail-innovates-gmail-stagnates-293929.php | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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57,018 | AZA43 | 2007-09-19T19:30:18 | How Handset-Maker Palm Lost Its Punch in 2007 | null | http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/how_handset_maker_palm_lost_its_punch_in_2007 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | timeout | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-07T23:44:08 | null | train |
57,020 | danw | 2007-09-19T19:36:40 | Global Wireless Data Market Update - 1H 2007 | null | http://www.chetansharma.com/blog/2007/09/12/global-wireless-data-market-update-1h-2007/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
57,022 | divia | 2007-09-19T19:42:09 | Examining rich datasets: spiderweb science and click trails | http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/19/spiderweb-science/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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57,023 | tojileon | 2007-09-19T19:42:11 | Rate YC Hacker News Interface | How much would you give it out of 10? I am not impressed with the user interface or home page of many startups. As a test of how the hacker community thinks, let's rate the hacker news UI. Mine: 9 out of 10. | 7 | 11 | [
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57,024 | nreece | 2007-09-19T19:43:22 | Funny but Real Linux Commands | http://frankmash.blogspot.com/2006/03/linux-commands-funny-linux-commands.html | 18 | 5 | [
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57,026 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-09-19T19:47:45 | OneWebDay 2007 (Sept. 22, 2007): "Celebrate the Web and what it does for each of us" | http://www.onewebday.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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57,027 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T19:48:49 | Explore The Connections Between Related Websites (Cool Java App) | null | http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/19/explore-the-connections-between-related-websites | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
57,053 | nextmoveone | 2007-09-19T20:41:06 | What do you think of your YC idea? | What do people think about their YC idea? <p>Do you feel your idea is THE one? Or are you unsure of your greatness? <p>No need to specify your idea, just whether you have confidence in your idea and team or not.<p>personally: I feel my idea and team are great, but I am not sure if it will Fly with YC. | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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57,054 | transburgh | 2007-09-19T20:41:24 | Digg Gets Social-er | null | http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/09/digg-gets-social-er.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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