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Y Combinator's community discusses personal experiences, new platforms, Web 2.0 implications, and entrepreneurship challenges, highlighting innovative ideas like an online parking marketplace and a project management tool.
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Y Combinator's startup news highlights various discussions and submissions from the community. Recent topics include personal experiences such as dropping out of grad school, insights on customer service, and the launch of new platforms like Scriggle-it for fan management. The community also engages in discussions about the implications of Web 2.0, the sale of Odeo, and the challenges of entrepreneurship in Europe. Other notable mentions include a startup aiming to create an online marketplace for parking spaces and a project management tool that integrates ticketing and version control. The conversations reflect a vibrant ecosystem of innovation, with members sharing advice, experiences, and critiques on various aspects of startup culture and technology trends.
- Recent discussions include personal stories and startup insights.
- New platforms and tools are being introduced to enhance user experience.
- The community is actively debating the impact of Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship challenges.
- Innovative ideas like an online marketplace for parking spaces are emerging.
- The startup culture is characterized by sharing experiences and advice among members.
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Became (or spun out) Twitter, by the way.
But the biggest loss imo is the link at the bottom- we really could’ve used an ongoing Idiot Startup site/blog a la The Daily WTF for all these years.
Edit: breathless hype for Pipes:
> While Google concentrates on challenging Microsoft Office with its online word processors and spreadsheets, Yahoo! has looked much more deeply into the way the net works and given us the building blocks for a brand new way of dealing with online content.
> This isn't user-generated content, it's user-controlled content. And unlike personalised pages or simple feed subscriptions it really does put control into the hands of the user.
> But Yahoo! has given us a glimpse of the networked future, where the world's information is not only at our fingertips, but available to be mixed, mashed and filtered on demand, giving us what we want, when we want it - and from wherever we can get it. There will be no going back.
- pg
If you post things that pg doesn't like then you don't get funding.