Stories by amichail

The first-impressions game for web 2.0 startups (turn web site reviews into a fun activity)

Listen Game: Like the ESP Game but for music

Would you work for a Google-like company that gives you 100% freedom? You will be fired if you don't make money though.

Will VCs and angels hang around here to get to know founders or will they set up their own competing sites?

JavaScript Vulnerabilities and How GWT Developers Can Fight Back

"Do you have any ideas you consider patentable?"

Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? How the Bell lobby helped midwife YouTube.

Targeted real-time ads reach downloaded content

Chris Okasaki's PhD thesis on purely functional data structures (pdf)

Luis von Ahn's PhD thesis on Human Computation (a must read!)

The costs of annoying advertising

Glimpse Inside a Metaverse: The Virtual World of Second Life

startup matchmaker: build a service to recommend and facilitate startup mergers to make it more likely they would succeed

How do you give users privacy in your web 2.0 service? Do you use client-side encryption?

Port this to the web and you will have the most advanced online word processor by far

Do any Y Combinator startups share code and/or hardware?

Austin & Goliath: One unorthodox programmer takes on Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

Students give up social networks for Lent

On finding a cofounder: what is the likelihood that people will like your idea AND your proposed implementation technologies?

"The Hug Shirt is a shirt that makes people send hugs over distance!"