Wall St. protests (mostly small compared to the others you mentioned) did happen..

People do express their dissatisfaction, though it seems to be dwindling with more acceptance of whatever is being thrusted upon them..

Just wondering how committed are the sports fanatics in US/Latin America/India or movie fanatics in India and then comparing the (missing) outrage when liberties are at stake.

if you append ?share=1 to the end of the url, its open again..

The whole premise of interviewing and opening to the pool of candidates is to evaluate and give every applicant a fair chance after passing a minimum bar. If the whole point was to favor or employ someone (pre-decided or friend), then why this facade?

Nice advice! One finds 2 paths I guess- to focus on the medium (code, framework, etc) or on the results for a MVP.. once the MVP gets enough traction, then even rewriting the whole app is not bad as long as we know the idea has potential.

I am surprised to see ww.com in the list there. Unless I missed something in the recent past, wasnt it the webcam based venture he was working on?

They are not for sale, from the article:

"Ww.com and reocities.com are there for 'curiosity value' only."

The trend seems to be that the long url is the actual webapp location whereas the contracted one is for the short url (ff.im vs friendfeed, google vs goo.gl)

If searching in the appstore, "google voice" didnt bring up anything but "googlevoice" worked

It was on the second page of results for me.

I second searching for "googlevoice"

is the sliding back due to the need to do "something to wind down" or to get some buzz. If former, cooking and gardening have proven to be therapeutic to me, if later, then it is addiction.

edit- spell

After reading Siver's post (http://sivers.org/punish), this development seemed like a perfect data point (though I am unaware of the extent of threats etc which drove them to take the decision)