buckpost's comments

On: 500px founder giving away a bunch of free photos

[buckpost]

Sure thing.

On: A Report Card on Toronto's Startup Ecosystem

[buckpost]

Lots of good things happening in Toronto: WattPad, ClearFit, Top Hat Monocle, CrowdCare, Interaxon. For more insight, check out this infographic: http://www.markevans.ca/hot-startups/

On: A Report Card on Toronto's Startup Ecosystem

[buckpost]

Although it's still a quasi-secret, Toronto's startup ecosystem is thriving. There is still room for improvement, particularly the need for more capital and more support from the city.

On: Ask: How to make my linkedin profile less geeky an...

[buckpost]

To be honest, LinkedIn doesn't offer a lot of creative flexibility but here's a couple of ideas: 1. You can make your profile less formal by giving it some personality. 2. Take the same approach to your company profile by injecting some fun and liveliness.

Mark

On: Google+: The Charge of the Like Brigade

[buckpost]

Excellent insight, including the idea that Google should have simply launched the +1 button rather than a new social network.

On: Hacker News Wordpress theme

[buckpost]

Using it depends on the design and functionality.

On: Twitter’s Battle for Control of its API

[buckpost]

Twitter has thrived by letting developers use its API to create a wonderfully diverse application ecosystem. The problem now is the ecosystem is thriving while Twitter struggles to find its way. Twitter has done difficult decisions to make.

On: Movable Type vs Wordpress?

[buckpost]

WordPress in a heartbeat. More developer support, it's free and you can self-host.

Mark

On: Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010

[buckpost]

I'm particularly interested in the public vs. private trend.

On: Ask HN: New site to help with "where to go for din...

[buckpost]

Nice photos but where's the information about the restaurants? Until you add that, it's pretty but not useful.

[epcornell → buckpost]

buckpost -- great point. the site's actually all about providing restaurant info (i.e. when you click "bite"). however, I have it as a feature that's only enabled after you've signed up... my bad for not making this apparent.