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I just got a Dell Vostro 3400, and am quite impressed. Clean design, multitouch trackpad, nice battery. Just missing the MagSafe power. It's the first PC laptop I could imagine myself using every day, if I couldn't use a MacBook.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/us/segments/bs...


We've been running http://bln.kr for over 6 months and haven't had a single DMCA notice.


I am skeptical of using products when it's not clear how they make money.

If you give everything away for free, when will it stop being free? When will the bait and switch occur?

If everything truly is free, how long will you be around?


They have a pro version, which costs money.

http://imvox.com/download.php


Always a legit question that I hope I can answer to the best of my ability.

We are highly interested at this moment in disrupting the market more than anything else. The current market for gaming voice clients is a tad stagnant and we'd like to do better in the long run.

We have a paid Pro version, which is $24.99/year and allows more users to join a server and the creation of more servers. We are adding additional features to the pro account to make it yet more compelling for a larger portion of our gamers. We're considering various virtual goods setups, as well as in-client advertising for the free clients.

While I realize this doesn't present an entire business model , we've got a few other tricks up our sleeves too and think that if we can perfect our software then we'll have a decent chance at making it work.


I wonder how much it costs Facebook to send all of those application notification emails? It seems this announcement is decentralizing the sending of those emails, and putting the onus on companies.


I started with their socialauth app, and heavily modified it for http://bln.kr. I wanted to allow a user to login with one service, then add additional services to the same account.

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/08/django-socialauth-login-v...


why are the files split in the first place?


Pretty sure Google Code has hard limits on file size


So you won't be as frustrated when you get disconnected at 99% ? (I am not sure if you can resume downloading, like with FTP servers that support resuming)


Not to mention the client has to support resuming as well. This is why (along with the fact that they enjoy using ridiculously outdated technology) the scene still uses split RARs—a lot of the autotrading scripts (as well as FTPd's) they utilize don't support resuming.


HTTP 1.1 supports byte ranges. You likely don't have any software on your computer than does not support HTTP 1.1.


We expect anyone who makes music to upload. We have a few famous artists like The Streets (http://bln.kr/-skinnermike), some internet famous folks like Levar Thomas (http://bln.kr/-LeVarThomas), and plenty of people just trying to make it. We also have hobbyists who just want to share music with friends.


If PoF is a launchpad to premium dating sites, how do people end up on PoF in the first place? I assumed SEO, and I searched for "dating" and "online dating" but PoF didn't rank high. Maybe they go after more niche keywords.


Google search for "free dating" put PoF at #2


PoF is mostly word of mouth, it was the only 'good' free dating site for awhile and they're still banking off that.


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