My wife is a lifelong migraine sufferer and these anti-CGRP drugs really seem to be working (fingers crossed). She'd literally tried everything and had given up. Virtual high-five to these researchers
Hadoop is much more than MapReduce. It's a fault tolerant, highly scalable file system where you can store a shitload (technical term) of data. That alone is remarkable.
Once your data is there, then you get your map/reduce on. And the best way to get started there is to look into Pig or Hive (high level map/reduce abstractions). Either of those will take you a long way.
Don't worry about competition. It's a good thing. It means you picked a good market. Focus on what makes you different and better.
Sounds like you may be a single founder. If so, find a friend or mentor who can help you work through the ups and downs. You're going to be discouraged a lot starting a business.
I went through a similar situation and solicited advice. Lots of people told me "know when to quit." I didn't, and I'm glad I stuck it out.
I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name.
One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.
Sites like Hulu and Spotify predominately use web analytics to gauge their audience in order to sell advertising, not to make their sites better. That may be a by-product, but that's not driving their analytics usage.
Additionally, cross-site tracking isn't used for feature/usage tracking. It's used for highly targeted advertising.
My point was the "shattering advantages" are really advantages for advertisers, not web designers.
This technique wasn't developed with web designers in mind, so let's be clear about that.
why is this upvoted so much? your points are all off base, and frankly sound like they're coming from someone who doesn't care to do iPad development.
The real factor here is the iPad has only been on the market for 5 months. We've had the iPhone SDK for over 2 years now. We just need more time to figure things out.
to your point: what do we expect skype to do differently on iPad vs iPhone? how about something creative?
it's embarrassing that Facebook doesn't have an iPad app by now. Kudos to Twitter for trying (and shipping) something new and exciting.