Stories by amichail

Paul Graham on what business can learn from open source and blogging.

Dating Web site targets 'fit, good-looking' people

"...it has also been my observation that a majority of all entrepreneurs have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or AD/HD."

Is it often the case that one founder tends to dominate the decision making process (e.g., Steve Jobs vs Steve Wozniak)?

A place where you can see web 2.0 services being developed in real-time?

Is popular YouTube ad big trouble for Hillary? (What can we learn from independent ads for Obama?)

How secret do startup proposals to Y Combinator need to be? Should applicants avoid making any of their prototypes public?

Any ideas on taking justin.tv further by allowing viewers to more actively participate in Justin's life?

Web 2.0 Games Blog

Which startup is most worthy of in-depth study for a budding web 2.0 entrepreneur?

Google Web Toolkit Performance and Interoperability

Google Web Toolkit Q&A Video

Google Web Toolkit Q&A Video (BAD URL, PLEASE DELETE)

Do incentives build robustness in BitTorrent? Actually, no. [pdf]

Which startup buzzwords irritate you the most? I don't like "passionate".

Entrepreneurs are largely born rather than made, research suggests.

Google TechTalk: Closures for Java

Founders at Work p. 402 "If I got married tomorrow, I'd probably be worrying about a code issue during the ceremony and deliver my vows in Python."

The Two Cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (pdf)

WWW 2007 Program (which papers do you like? which ones might make for compelling startups?)