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Craigslist, Plenty Of Fish plus some others are examples of sites that took a really minimalist approach to design but managed to pull in a massive market share through fulfilling a customer need. Revenue from advertising paid the bills.

We wrote about ugly design before, how in some cases it actually increases conversion rates. It's odd but sometimes ugly is beautiful...

http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/keep-it-simple-...

Code Club - The Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Chad Hurley

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:30:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhGIajRsq4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147740

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:07:25 +0000

Article URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147637

Points: 146

# Comments: 19

New comment by sparknlaunch in "Common Blogging Mistakes Made by Startups"

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:04:34 +0000

> "Blogging mistake #1: Not prominently linking to your main site

> Blogging mistake #2: Not integrating with social properties

> Blogging mistake #3: Making it harder to subscribe to, and regularly follow, your blog

> Blogging mistake #4: Only blogging about product announcements

> Blogging mistake #5: Hiding what your product is about"

Agree in part to these but blogging and social media are overplayed. Building and integrating all these elements, and building a sufficient & quality following is tough work.

These tips certainly point novices in the right direction, but even doing these well doesn't mean you will succeed - at blogging or at your startup.

Microsoft Research make breakthrough in audio speech recognition

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:12:58 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/06/20/a-breakthrough-in-speech-recognition-with-deep-neural-network-approach.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4146256

Points: 138

# Comments: 44

Who invented the full stop?

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:10:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4146249

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sparknlaunch in "Why do you think people are poor?"

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:00:06 +0000

In a recent fictional book about poverty in the UK, two types if poverty were identified.

One was unintentional poverty- someone falls into trouble due to no fault of their own. Maybe illness, trauma etc

The other is intentional- individuals taking full advantage of government benefits. In the UK generations of families have been stuck in this category.

One group feel more deserving...

Real World Problem - Major bank suffers many day outage

sparknlaunch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:36:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/banking/9347515/Millions-of-Natwest-and-RBS-customers-left-high-and-dry.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145974

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Major UK bank hit by technical glitch impacting cash

sparknlaunch — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:14:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18535060

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144221

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Question: Is a black pixel on or off?

sparknlaunch — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:00:45 +0000

Article URL: http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/technology-is-a-black-pixel-on-or-off/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144164

Points: 1

# Comments: 0