jacob commented on New York nobody calls for innovative new platform

"She might be onto something, I mean clearly ordinary people don't have the self discipline not to stalk their ex-whatevs, crushes, etcetera."

jacob commented on This Google search user not feeling lucky

"AFAIK this only applies to a random sample of searches, or people who have been foolhardy enough to click that web/search history link up there."

jacob commented on Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku

"Jaiku is "Address Book 2.0" (something Tim O'Reilly apparently groks) and their closest competitor is probably Plazes, not Twitter."

jacob commented on Financial Times sets its articles free

"Well this is great news, but what isn't clear from their article and what you seem to assume is that "viewers can click through *without trouble*". They don't even so much as imply it will be without trouble."

jacob commented on Marc Canter tells Mark Zuckerberg how to run Facebook

"I think that Canter is perhaps not intentionally being condescending in his phraseology, but that it's just his style… PeepAgg, as Canter refers to it, seems to be more of a white label demo platform than a consumer offering. As to as 'give away [their] business', nothing would be as such."

jacob commented on Silicon Valley startup Riya,

" Munjal, CEO of Riya (aka like.com), posted this on his blog (and as the article states, three months ago)."

jacob commented on Six creepy things I can learn about you

" Knowledge and use of these research techniques is privileged."