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Not only do people like gambling (contests), but they're also generally bad at estimating probabilities. The voting feature will promote viral growth as people refer their friends to Snap to encourage them to vote for their idea.<br/> Not only […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="feedback_post"> <div id="post-328" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/31/be-better/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Be Better"">Be Better</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/feedback_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/31/be-better/#comments" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Be Better">2 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/visitorfromtomorrow/" title="Posts by Visitorfromtomorrow">Visitorfromtomorrow</a></span> May 31st, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/feedback/" title="View all posts in User Feedback" rel="category tag">User Feedback</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>One of the great things about the new new economy, as much as there is one, has been the shift in influence from traditional advertising routes to consumer to consumer interaction. (I work in marketing, but you probably guessed that by now.) I've worked with a number of companies who want to know how to […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="vote_post"> <div id="post-327" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/31/dont-focus-on-the-us/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Don't focus on the US"">Don't focus on the US</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/contest_idea_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/31/dont-focus-on-the-us/#comments" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Don't focus on the US">2 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/beppr/" title="Posts by beppr">beppr</a></span> May 31st, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/launch-contest/" title="View all posts in Launch Contest {Closed}" rel="category tag">Launch Contest {Closed}</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> <div class="vote_box_closed" onclick="location.href='/2006/05/31/dont-focus-on-the-us/'" title="Voting is closed."> <span class="votes">2</span> </div> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>The switch from Alta Vista to Google took me and the rest of the world 30 seconds. Now Google is in everyones system. And we know that GOOG doesn't provide the best search available. But GOOG is the pride of the US, so Americans stick to it.<br/> My idea would be to focus on other parts […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="feedback_post"> <div id="post-326" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-visualizations/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Snap Visualizations"">Snap Visualizations</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/feedback_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-visualizations/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Snap Visualizations">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/akmicrokid2003/" title="Posts by akmicrokid2003">akmicrokid2003</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/feedback/" title="View all posts in User Feedback" rel="category tag">User Feedback</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>Instead of just simple previews of sites, Snap needs to take the visualization of search results one step further. Consider this - every time a common word is entered into a search engine today, it would take almost an hour just get a rough idea of the results you got and somehow triage them […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="vote_post"> <div id="post-325" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-api-competition/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Snap API Competition"">Snap API Competition</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/contest_idea_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-api-competition/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Snap API Competition">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/akmicrokid2003/" title="Posts by akmicrokid2003">akmicrokid2003</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/launch-contest/" title="View all posts in Launch Contest {Closed}" rel="category tag">Launch Contest {Closed}</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> <div class="vote_box_closed" onclick="location.href='/2006/05/30/snap-api-competition/'" title="Voting is closed."> <span class="votes">1</span> </div> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>I'm kind of assuming that Snap.com is already planning on making the API for their various products openly available to the developer community - I didn't see it written anywhere, but it would seem to make sense (so correct me if I'm wrong).<br/> Here's an idea - Use the launch money to runa a second competition, […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="feedback_post"> <div id="post-324" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-bots/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Snap bots"">Snap bots</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/feedback_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/snap-bots/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Snap bots">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/akmicrokid2003/" title="Posts by akmicrokid2003">akmicrokid2003</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/feedback/" title="View all posts in User Feedback" rel="category tag">User Feedback</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>I want you folks at snap.com to, first and foremost, know what I want in the next generation search engine. I'm sorry, but live previews are not the only technology I would hope to have at my fingertips. Seeing as I am not running a search engine company, and will not have an […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="vote_post"> <div id="post-323" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/digg-awards-hosted-on-diggnation/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Digg awards - Hosted on Diggnation"">Digg awards - Hosted on Diggnation</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/contest_idea_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/digg-awards-hosted-on-diggnation/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Digg awards - Hosted on Diggnation">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/flamingo/" title="Posts by flamingo">flamingo</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/launch-contest/" title="View all posts in Launch Contest {Closed}" rel="category tag">Launch Contest {Closed}</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> <div class="vote_box_closed" onclick="location.href='/2006/05/30/digg-awards-hosted-on-diggnation/'" title="Voting is closed."> <span class="votes">1</span> </div> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>My idea is at the end of the year Kevin and Alex, host a Digg award type thing. Kinda like any other type awards. Going down the list of categories and finally ending on the biggest thing that impacted the tech industry that year.<br/> P.S. - I'm pretty sure this idea must have come up […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="feedback_post"> <div id="post-322" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/just-look/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Just look."">Just look.</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/feedback_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/just-look/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Just look.">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/lol/" title="Posts by LOL">LOL</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/feedback/" title="View all posts in User Feedback" rel="category tag">User Feedback</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>I'm tired of people talking about oh, let's just put all this stuff on myspace! Or hell, why not msn?!<br/> Well, why DON'T you put it on MSN? But not the normal google add way. Pay them to tell people about it in the news. Like how they talk about the Iraq War or […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="feedback_post"> <div id="post-321" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/social-integration-sticky-homepage-ffie-search-box-and-more/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Social integration, sticky homepage, FF/IE search box and more"">Social integration, sticky homepage, FF/IE search box and more</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/feedback_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/social-integration-sticky-homepage-ffie-search-box-and-more/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Social integration, sticky homepage, FF/IE search box and more">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/harveycarpenter/" title="Posts by harveycarpenter">harveycarpenter</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/feedback/" title="View all posts in User Feedback" rel="category tag">User Feedback</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>Firstly, for those of you just voting for a popular friend, please also spare a moment to vote for me. Not only would it make my summer holiday (quite literally) but could really improve Snap, making it a more social, community driven place – read on straight to point 1.<br/> And for the many of you […] </p> </div> <small><span class="metadata"> <span class="emaillink"> </span></span></small> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="vote_post"> <div id="post-320" class="item entry"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 15px"> <div class="itemhead"> <h3><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/get-in-to-high-schools-and-colleges/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to "Get in to High Schools and Colleges"">Get in to High Schools and Colleges</a></h3> <div class="listing_label"><img src="/web/20090324224354im_/http://blog.snap.com/wp-content/themes/k2/images/contest_idea_label.gif"></div> <small><span class="metadata"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/2006/05/30/get-in-to-high-schools-and-colleges/#respond" class="commentslink" title="Comment on Get in to High Schools and Colleges">0 <span>Comments</span></a> <span class="chronodata"> <span class="posting_link"><a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/author/bendilks/" title="Posts by ben">ben</a></span> May 30th, 2006 in <span class="posting_link"> <a href="/web/20090324224354/http://blog.snap.com/category/launch-contest/" title="View all posts in Launch Contest {Closed}" rel="category tag">Launch Contest {Closed}</a> </span> </span> </small> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 15px"> <div class="vote_box_closed" onclick="location.href='/2006/05/30/get-in-to-high-schools-and-colleges/'" title="Voting is closed."> <span class="votes">1</span> </div> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 15px 0px 0px"> <div class="itemtext"> <p>Get into schools!<br/> This is a v.low cost way to get more traffic. Think, where do a huge amount of searches take place? In Schools!<br/> The Majority of Internet Users are young people anyway, and your sleek looking site will appeal way more to this audience than the primary looking 'google'! 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