drew_kutchar

I'm in the process of building a social site and I was wondering if microformats are still relevant and or useful? Should I bother implementing them?

Thanks!

So I just got off the phone with AT&T and found out that if you own an AT&T iPad and you use the AT&T service once, from that point on you need to activate the service at least once every 60 days, or else they will disable your SIM card.

Now here's the kicker. If you do want to activate your account after 60 days of inactivity, you need to get a brand new SIM card from them for $25!!!

So much for an on-demand internet service.

Hi Everyone,

Is there a website that lets you chart your blood test results over the year such as cholesterol, sodium, etc, etc? It would be nice if it could track other stats, such as your weight and BMI.

Thanks,

Drew

Are there any open source/commercial libraries out there that can detect mailing addresses in text, just like how Apple's Mail app underlines addresses on the Mac/iPhone.

I've been doing a little online research and the ideas seem to be either to use Regex or a full on NLP package such as Stanford's NLP, which usually are pretty massive. I doubt iPhone has a 500MB NLP package in there, which makes me to believe there should be an easier way. Too bad UIDataDetectors is not open source.

Thanks,

Drew

I'm working on a project and I wanted to use Twitter style inline @ and # tags and I was wondering is there any legal implications to that. As in has Twitter patented that? Is it even patentable?

As a side question, what do you guys think about inline tagging/referring. Is that good UX?

Thanks,

Drew

For my next project I need a recipe database with pictures of the food.

I did come across http://www.odditysoftware.com/page-datasales226.htm but that doesn't include photos.

Also, I know there is http://www.opensourcefood.com/ which I think I can safely "scrape" since all the recipes have Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License as long as I attribute the original author.

I was wondering if anyone on HN knows of a better recipe database out there which I can buy.

Thanks!

Currently Google Reader is the main app that most use to read RSS, but it doesn't really handle reading other sources such as articles that you come across online. For those, there's Instapaper and Read it Later to name a few.

I was wondering is there room for innovation in reading apps. I think it's safe to say that people read a lot more (specially online) these days than ever before. In addition, I don't think the amount of reading is going to decrease in coming years.

Do you think there's a market for a better reader app or Google has already won the war? In addition, will you pay for a better reader app? If so, how much and what features you would like to see?

Thanks!