Stories by amichail

Would an OS exclusively for web apps not need a virus checker, firewall, UAC, etc?

Does Windows 7 have any must have features that Windows XP does not?

Anyone else find technology conferences disturbing?

Would adapting readmytweets.com to use ads encourage more web surfers to read ads?

An idea to get significantly more web surfers -- including savvy ones -- to read ads.

How would you rank people based on their "web 2.0 sophistication"?

How should I detect and handle cheating in "Read My Tweets"?

Why not use Web 2.0 to provide seamless advertising on other people's sites?

Please critique "Read My Tweets" -- using CAPTCHAs to increase your followers on twitter.

Please critique "Read My Tweets" -- using CAPTCHAs to increase your followers on twitter.

Improving startup virality using prediction markets to estimate failure probability.

Star issue 313 to encourage Google App Engine team to provide distributed transactions.

If an email service thinks your email is spam, shouldn't it ask you to solve a CAPTCHA?

The case for teaching everyone programming.

An idea for getting people to read each other's tweets.

Long discussion on using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.

Web 2.0 startups are hard because anything interesting conceptually is too complex.

Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.

Using CAPTCHAs to enable more effective yet free advertising.

Chatbot Game now shows queries used to trigger a bot response in real-time as you chat.