Is it just me, or does this feel like linkbait? The facts seem to be accurate, but the style and the title make feels like a cheap shot to get attention to the article.

the quality of the writing is poor, too. didn't expect that in a british times publication

They might as well have gone for broke with "superfast internet that has sex with you".

It would've been nice if OpenID provided a way for Web sites to contact users without knowing their email address. This way, the Web site owner will not to put up an annoying page asking for an email address, and the user has control over who's allowed to contact them through their settings with their OpenID provider.

Facebook is hopeing to be such provider and they're giving these nice features. There are a few Web sites that allow you to login to using your Facebook cridentials, and by doing so they can email you without knowing your email address. And, Facebook allows you to optout at any time and they also measure how many people opt out and put a cap on the offending Web sites if they start to spam people. It's a nice system, except for the vendor lockin part.

Looks nice. Being compatible with Blogger themes is a smart move. How do you plan to compete with Google Pages, Weebly, and all the other site builders? A calendar and a member directory might not be a big enough differentiator.

Actually, Weebly isn't much in the same space. The newly re-designed Google Sites (Jotspot 2.0), site/wiki builders like Wetpaint, or social network builders like Ning are all in the "facilitate group communication" space, and all look to fill the same need.

we're not so much in the 'group communication' space as the 'web publishing' space. our main goal is to make interesting/useful/rich websites (though we may harness group communication for content). we want these websites to be valuable for those within the group AND mean something for those outside.

I think what they meant was that most people "think" that rock is the most likely move and therefore choose paper.

Anyone knows if Firefox passes the same test?

Firefox 3 will, current versions do not.

Opera and Safari have passed the test for a while.

One thing going for digg that myspace doesn't have is the huge number of RSS subscribers. Digg can potentially introduce ads in their feeds.

EC2 is not suitable for most Web applications:

- You don't get a static IP address, so if your instance fails and needs to reboot, you might end up with a different IP address.

- If your instance fails, it also loses all the data stored in it.

- There is no hardware load balancing.

With that said, you can probably use it to complement your other servers by doing some of the batch processing.

Don't touch the fonts. They're perfect. The bigger font gives the feeling of simplicity, don't lose that.

If you allow anonymous posting (and manage to control spam at the same time), you could have a winner. People hate to register to do a simple thing like asking or answering a question.

The UI is nice and easy to use. Great job there.

Brilliant. That's why Facebook is going to be one of the major web players soon. I can see them challanging Google in a few years. It'll be interesting to see Facebook's aggresive bully style head to head with Google's do no evil style.