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I'll have a play around with swapping the vendor link / avatar ...thanks for all the ideas!

I'm trying to keep the homepage as free of clutter as possible but I do think this would add a bit of personality to the site (as opposed to the sterile, crowdsourced feel that you mentioned before). I'll have a think about a creative way to put this in.

Thanks for the feedback - really helpful. I've been thinking about adding a poll feature (e.g. "Which of these dresses should I wear for a party tonight?"). Making that the main focus of the site is an interesting idea.

Thanks for the feedback. I will have a careful think about anonymous submissions (obviously spam is a big issue). Anonymous voting is definitely on the cards.

IE7 doesn't allow bookmarklets to be dragged to the Links toolbar, presumably due to the security risk. Instead, right-click and Add to favorites...

Most of the startups that are making money are the ones you've never heard of. This is a pointless exercise...however, here are some that I believe are making money that you may have heard of (happy to be corrected as I don't know for sure that they're all making money):

1. GitHub 2. eBuddy 3. Dogster 4. StyleDiary 5. ThisNext 6. Kaboodle 7. Stateless Systems 8. RedBubble 9. Wufoo 10. NationMaster

This is a gross generalisation. Plenty of startups are making money.

Self-referential fail.

No results for: kgb search engine

Time will tell but how am I going to remember to take another look in six months time? :)

The page doesn't reload when ony the fragment part is changed.

I prototyped a Rails-like framework in JavaScript using Rhino and Servlets and was suprised how feasible the whole thing seemed for a production website. JavaScript is perfectly capable for this IMO.

The benefits come when you start to re-use code on the front- and back-end. An obvious example is form validation business rules. Using the same models can be really handy in AJAX-heavy apps, too. It can be very DRY if done right.

I saw that someone recently wrote a V8 module for Apache - that could lead to some really interesting developments.

No offence but I'm not even going to read a scientific news story on The Sun :)

I bought mine new a while back (~$3000 AUD) from Apple. Just looking at eBay, they seem to go for a touch over $1000 USD at the moment. I figure they're a bit of a bargain at the moment since they're perfectly capable and have just been replaced by the shiny new model. I mainly develop Ruby Rails/Merb apps with TextMate.