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Louis Gray
Personal blog · blog.louisgray.comstartupsbusinessculture
Louis Gray writes louisgray.com: Silicon Valley early adopter tech blog, a personal blog at blog.louisgray.com about startups, business and culture. Since 2009, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “50 Top Startups Worth Watching”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
A Silicon Valley early adopter tech geek blog, written by Googler Louis Gray.
Most-linked posts?
- 50 Top Startups Worth Watching2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-10
- A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-05
What Hacker News says?
Posted on it as well. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/04/gumroad-launches-to-sell-d...
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on “Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad”Submitted Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going? as a story · 166 points
HN discussionhere is a review by Louis Gray: http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/03/texty-texts-from-google-ch...
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on “SMS from Chrome, fully sync'd with your Android phone”Submitted Full-time Geeks Shouldn't Ignore Physical Impact of the Craft as a story · 72 points
HN discussionLouis Gray had a nice post about Subjot yesterday if you are interested in hearing it from someone else's perspective. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/08/subjot-subject-based-shari...
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on “Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes. ”Submitted iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android as a story · 53 points
HN discussionDave, this post was in response to many other articles that have framed iOS vs Android as the 2 dominant smartphone platforms and made a parallel comparison to the Mac/Windows discussions of old. I do like Windows Phone 7 a lot. I think the UI is fantastic. I do not think that its current app situation is fantastic, and it is starting with a serious deficit versus competitors. I will not dismiss it at all, but think…
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on “The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2”Submitted Why I Turned In My iPhone and Went Android as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe biggest problem with articles such as these is that the author willfully ignores all of the other mobile platforms currently on the market (Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS (note: ignoring Nokia due the the expected retirement of their platforms in favor of WP7)). These platforms are much more compelling than any other OS was during the PC/Mac wars, and dramatically affect the overall market. Especially when you…
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on “The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2”Submitted The Story of Google's Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThe maybe you can create a startup that revolves around your 'addiction'. Some people successfully writes blogs for startup news such as HN, e.g., http://blog.louisgray.com .
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on “Ask HN: If you had to choose, would it be your startup or significant other?”Submitted Physical Media Has To Go. I'm Digital Only From Here. as a story · 35 points
HN discussionFriendfeed's acquisition by Facebook was widely viewed as a talent grab. It seems to be working out well enough for FB so far. http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/friendfeeds-not-dead-while...
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on “The HR Acquisition”Submitted The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionWe've now put a link to a tour of some of the features on the front page ( http://friendbinder.com/tour ) I've also updated the links to include the recent "The Next Web", TechCrunch and Flickr Blog coverage we got last week. Louis Gray is a blogger who is well respected for talking about social media and social media tools. If you are interested in that sort of thing his blog is at: http://blog.louisgray.com/
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on “FriendBinder – Not Just Another Lifestreamer ”Submitted Facebook Starts Mandatory Profile Linkage to Public Pages as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minno and SoundCloud Debut SoundRain for Music Payments as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Low Quality Offensive Ads Degrade the Web Experience as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted XYDO Preparing Social News Hub With Quora Flavor as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do iPhone Users Face a Draconian Future? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Leaders Don't Win By Saying They'll Crush Somebody as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foursquare May Be Buying Thing Labs (Brizzly) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Walks Away from Web Apps as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did You Know All Your Emails Were In One Basket? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Third Wave of the Web Will Be Uniquely Personal as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social.com Domain Is Up for Auction: Who Will Bid? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Angry Birds Slammed With 1-Star Ratings After Adding Ads to Paid App as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Scorched Data Policy Is Bad for Web, Bad for History as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flapon Flaps Into World of Topic Based Social Networking as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition as a story · 8 points
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