It's all speculation, but I would say the search box getting larger (so as to look like Quora) does mean something, as in they might be pushing for search, which would be interesting.
yeah, the Quora idea is quite possible. Where search drives the interactions. As I wrote, search is something that’s totally under-realized on the Facebook platform. There is no way to search and filter content.
Wow I was going to write exactly the same thing earlier today. So funny how people think the same thing at the same moment. I agree it's really annoying. I still can't familiarize myself with links with google.com domain. Nowadays it's mostly some guy's google+ post but it's really misleading. First thing that comes up to mind when you see a link from google.com is "is this an announcement from Google, inc.?", when it's mostly some dude's rant on Google+
You are missing so many things very obvious that I don't even know where to start.
1. Twitter is already doing ads, and they are not sharing revenue with their users.
2. Why would Twitter share revenue with users when they don't need to?
3. There have been a handful of companies that tried to do something like what you described.
4. Letting users generate revenue messes with the value of the network itself.
Google used to do ads and then stared sharing revenue with Publishers. Would love to know more about the other companies doing what I described and why they have not worked.
can you please explain further? You are making me feel like an idiot. I don't see anything wrong with the tree. What exactly is the joke in here?
Also, i'm even more confused because it doesn't even seem like a "redesign" at all. Not even sure if these two pictures are from the same location. The backgrounds are different.
What you described (recommended posts within a site), as well as someone else mentioned below (recommended posts from other sites) are already out there. If you ask me if the idea sounds novel, it is not. Just visit Techcrunch and take a look (For example, http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/28/paypal-cyber-monday-mobile-...)
You will learn if you start doing more market research, but I've found it's either of the two for your initial idea: 1. There is someone else doing the same thing out there; 2. You haven't done enough research.
Even if something similar is NOT out there after all your research, it is highly likely that it has been tried before and failed (and that's why you can't find them). Even these products you can dig up more if you do intensive research via google. You'll learn a lot while going through this process. Just don't be naive and think your idea would be novel when you haven't done any market research yet.
The key is in absorbing as much knowledge as possible in the field you would like to tackle, and later to be able to say "Oh I came up with this idea, and I am 99% sure this is a unique idea that hasn't been done before, because I 'know' all that's been done before"
By the way, Posterous started out as a niche product. The platform may be trying to do everything nowadays, but in the beginning, they were tackling email to blogging niche, which didn't exist before. Everyone thought blogging should be done by signing into your wordpress account, typing a title and content and reading the preview, and then posting.
Thank you. But I was more interested in YC's perspective. I've done enough research and am confident i can write a good application (I've written business plans and pitch decks and raised money with them too before)
However I was curious about why YC selected those single founder startups. Of course the application has to be top quality, but I'm sure there are lots of others whose applications are top quality but still don't make it.
