Stories by amichail

Would it make sense to have intentional lengthy downtimes to increase press coverage (assuming your service is popular enough for the press to care)?

Why social networks use bidirectional links even though unidirectional links are probably better

Why social networks use bidirectional links even though unidirectional links may be better

What are students reading nowadays besides Harry Potter? (Info needed to seed Study Stickes Facebook app.)

Living it up with a Live Programming Language [pdf with movies]

Anyone having problems accessing justin.tv?

Yet another variant on reddit: Submitter determines and can change rank of link on front page

Why not let online ads fight it out in a geometric real-time game played by advertisers and consumers?

Did anyone try pay per non-click advertising? Would that result in better targeting by advertisers?

Anyone interested in Scala technical discussions? Do you know of a good forum for that purpose?

Why it is in Microsoft's self-interest to have an OS that is prone to catching viruses.

Have you published research papers/technical articles? If so, which one(s) are you most proud of?

Why failure doesn't hurt so much with startups (and why you will try again and again failure after failure)

A proposal for a service to make random people famous

Is it wrong to make someone famous without their permission? Are there any legal issues?

How do you encourage users to share/copy/evolve data while preventing competitors from copying it?

Would it make sense to give equity to your users when they invite lots of other users?

How do you make "arrogant" blogs acceptable? Build a service dedicated to them?

The Software Garden: Software Quality Visualization for Non-programmers

Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills required!