pmikal

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Finance & Payments Executive, Early Stage Startup Guy, Music Lover, Cool Hunter:

I've been to the end of the Internet and tied off a rope to find my way back.

http://mikal.org http://twitter.com/pmikal http://www.quora.com/Philip-Mikal

DM me on Twitter or Quora to get in touch. Happy to answer any questions.

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Comment · 12 years ago
Website shows they've shut it down.

"The experiment is over. We will pay back everyone we can. We are not making money from this."

Comment · 15 years ago
It'd likely cause a more dangerous condition as the jammed drivers would be fussing with their phones trying to figure out what happened to their signal.
Comment · 15 years ago
Most merchant acquirers, as well as the US Government, will interpret sections 312 and 326 of the US Patriot Act to require a Social Security Number to positively identify a merchant application and to check the applicant against various financial crimes and terrorist lists. This essentially prohibits non-US companies. There are some exceptions, but this is generally the rule.

Many of the card acceptance solutions that do not require this information are not actually issuing merchant accounts or are otherwise performing what is known as aggregration or is opening a merchant account on your behalf that they own. Some are also issuing merchant accounts in non-US banks. Others are in violation of US law.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
IE team loves to poke shots at other browsers. Anyone remember the giant E placed on the lawn of Netscape's office in Mountain View? I think it was ~1997. They then dominated the browser market for the next few years.
Comment · 15 years ago
Kuler has been around since November of 2006 if I remember correctly....
Comment · 15 years ago

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