I have to admit, I never thought the day would come that I would think "Wow, that Avril Lavigne fansite sure had some good strategy."

The takeaway:

You are not actually that different from other people. Build something for yourself and you'll find that if you love it, others will love it, too.

Here's a linked link to the video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keyn...

(The preview image is not my default facial expression, I swear.)

It's aural MSG.

Oh don't turn this into a TC hating thread. Someone's site just got a lot of press. Be happy for them. :)

Personally, I wish the criteria was more like "anything of interest to hackers in their capacity as hackers". I'm interested in politics, religion, lolcats, and baseball, but I'd prefer not to see these things overrun Hacker News.

Well, that's not really a fair criticism of Forbes, in this case.

Yes, Forbes "misses the point" of the "4-day workweek" as preached by 37-signals... but there's a good reason for that: they weren't talking about that version of the 4-day workweek.

The Forbes article clearly refers to a 4-day-workweek scheme instituted by Chrysler, not 37-signals - and their analysis of why it's a load of bollocks is pretty much spot on. Forbes hasn't missed the point - Chrysler has.. assuming they were even aware of the existence of that point in the first place, which I doubt.

Here we have a case of two things called by the same terms but referring to very different initiatives.

Ironically, I think 37-signals missed the point that the article wasn't about them!

The network effect.

The most important feature of a classifieds site is cost to reach audience X. At this point, it is probably impossible to compete with Craigslist on that metric.