Ditto. More than happy to listen and talk through experiences. We've certainly had our fair share. Can Skype or meet up in SF, email in profile. YC alum 3yrs into enterprise software startup.

Will these sites want Twitter to have firehose access to their data? For example Tumblr, Foursquare, Wordpress? They also offer Facebook data, but it is a managed public API connection.

It's a very good question. I really have no idea what the implications are and probably depend on each company.

Here's a graphical look: http://blog.datarank.com/recent-twitter-spam-behavior-quanti...

Appears to have started on March 31st and has affected > 100K Tweets. It also appears to run between the hours of 2PM and 10PM PST, peaking at 7PM each day.

Startups perform best when they focus on making money in one specific way. The model you choose should be based on the economics of the software, for example how much it costs to support additional users.

played through the game as well, very well done!

page views first, facts later seems to be the trend :/

really enjoyed the TC cribs bits. onward and upward!

But the best mobile social app sites now show the hand animated and interacting with the phone.

It's already happening, just not in the way sci-fi movies portray it. It's software.

You asked when will robots become barbers and cashiers? They aren't being built for that purpose because they are much more efficient at mental challenges than physical ones.

Is is appropriate to use AI and robotics for subtracting $2.34 from $10.00 and handing over the change at McDonalds? No. It is more appropriately deployed in a payments company to crunch huge amounts of data looking for fraud.

Look at LegalZoom's software and how much it has replaced the need for lawyers when dealing with legal documents.

The advantages to software deployed over the web, to physical robotics are obvious. Software can be everywhere at once and is cheap to replicate. It can be updated and patched easily. The "brain" is not susceptible to the dangers of traversing around and is kept safe and constantly backed up.

I think software is replacing the sci-fi robotics we've seen in movies. But there are still interesting companies working on modern robotics, In fact Anybots is run in the same office as YC and http://www.kivasystems.com/ is another great example.

If you are concerned about robotics replacing "people" in jobs, then rest assured barbers and cashiers are safe and sound. It is scientists, lawyers, doctors, and engineers who should be concerned.

Another interesting thing to watch is whether software can be creative and compete with designers, artists, and writers.

love mindsnacks! glad to see japanese under dev