I have to disagree with you regarding waiting for confirmation from NOAA, NMFS and Green Peace. From strictly personal experience, growing up in the mediterranean and being the 2nd generation of spear fishers, sailors and divers, living in resort/tourist destinations for the majority of my life; waiting for confirmation from resource-strapped government agencies is sticking your head in the sand. I've seen the decline of fish first hand since I was a teenager.
Focussing on the Pacific Ocean, and this specific article would be to forego the magnitude of the problem. We removed smoking areas in restaurants because, as one wise man said it "its like having a pissing area in a pool", I believe the same can be applied to the ocean.
Green Peace have already reported on similar problems [1]
So have the NOAA & NMFS [2]
In countries like Mexico, economic stimulus is prioritised as most mayors/local governments live on a 4 year stint to make an impact, resorting to populistic moves that the unfortunately ignorant populace will follow. Prioritising development of real estate, hospitality, touristic developments that are by no means sustainable. Making sure everyone has a job. I'm by no means arguing that these are bad things, I've made my career in the field but these are again, by no means sustainable. Long term investments into education are left secondary, effects of which are already felt [3]. I'm talking about the destruction of sea turtle nesting grounds, the destructions of mangroves that nourish the reefs, water sewage directly in the ocean[4], the killing of sharks[5] and much more.
Italy, where most older fishermen can barely read nor understand what their daily labour actually does to the ocean is facing a crisis across all coasts. There's just no fish left to sustain its industry. [6]
Its hardly new any of this. Jacques Yves Cousteau reported on this long ago. [7]
Know that everything around you will eventually turn into waste, we are at a point in history were we have enough alternatives to not damage. I agree with you that all we really could do is reduce the rate at which we harm the ocean. Its time to make educated choices.
I believe the key lies in the second sentence, 'Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku"'. My mother wouldn't care whom the hosting provider is nor understand what it is.
The hard fact is that /your app is unavailable/ and I promise that >99% of users won't care why. Did anyone care why Twitter used to Failwhale? It was down, and that sucked, and software exists these days (and has for >20 years) to eliminate single point of failure.
Just speaking from Mexico... Telmex soon announcing - "Banda Ancha Internacional". Mr Slim already charges insane fees for any form of communication through his company, having an opportunity like this, he'd seize it immediately.
I'm a huge fan of Pixelmator. Read Fabio Sasso's tutorials if you're having doubts, might not necessarily be much on web mockups, inspiring nonetheless. http://abduzeedo.com/tags/pixelmator?page=1
The product we're launching is pretty easily monetized, money isn't really the issue for us. Professional resources and experience was the main reason we chose to apply. We can reach ramen profitability with the first 5-7 clients. The main reason for applying to YC was the awesome amount of exposure the startups get, both to press and to VC's. I contemplated long before submitting the application, and giving up a small share of the company for a kickstart seemed reasonable, not to mention having access to office hours. Best of luck to everyone.
I agreee, refreshing design! I'd focus as well on trying to develop a sharing segment, similar to the newsfeed of the entire community, where people can browse whats being shared. Also, just a thought, the awesome background in the beginning could be switched to an image rotator of pics uploaded by users with a public setting.. And a bottom part with most active public discussions or shares.. Sort of whats trending in the community? It would help the users visitings knowing why they should sign up, or at least me:) Did you do this just for fun or is there a specific issue you want to solve? Suerte.
Gracias! And very interesting ideas (thank you for them! I like way you think.) -- I definitely need to make it more active mainly for new users since it's still very small for a social network (675 users and counting... almost 3 days in though!) and it can seem a little quiet at first. Well, to be honest I got inspired to make this when Facebook started with the changes... I don't want to put in a cliche phrase about being the next big thing, but I just saw a lot of my friends and the general public pissed off and hating Facebooks changes, which led me to think you know what might as well really test my skills and see what I can do. I attempted a social network before myself (this is my second attempt) but that was about a year ago and It's stupid how much I've learned since then.
I have to disagree with you regarding waiting for confirmation from NOAA, NMFS and Green Peace. From strictly personal experience, growing up in the mediterranean and being the 2nd generation of spear fishers, sailors and divers, living in resort/tourist destinations for the majority of my life; waiting for confirmation from resource-strapped government agencies is sticking your head in the sand. I've seen the decline of fish first hand since I was a teenager.
Focussing on the Pacific Ocean, and this specific article would be to forego the magnitude of the problem. We removed smoking areas in restaurants because, as one wise man said it "its like having a pissing area in a pool", I believe the same can be applied to the ocean.
Green Peace have already reported on similar problems [1] So have the NOAA & NMFS [2]
In countries like Mexico, economic stimulus is prioritised as most mayors/local governments live on a 4 year stint to make an impact, resorting to populistic moves that the unfortunately ignorant populace will follow. Prioritising development of real estate, hospitality, touristic developments that are by no means sustainable. Making sure everyone has a job. I'm by no means arguing that these are bad things, I've made my career in the field but these are again, by no means sustainable. Long term investments into education are left secondary, effects of which are already felt [3]. I'm talking about the destruction of sea turtle nesting grounds, the destructions of mangroves that nourish the reefs, water sewage directly in the ocean[4], the killing of sharks[5] and much more.
Italy, where most older fishermen can barely read nor understand what their daily labour actually does to the ocean is facing a crisis across all coasts. There's just no fish left to sustain its industry. [6]
Its hardly new any of this. Jacques Yves Cousteau reported on this long ago. [7]
Know that everything around you will eventually turn into waste, we are at a point in history were we have enough alternatives to not damage. I agree with you that all we really could do is reduce the rate at which we harm the ocean. Its time to make educated choices.
[1] http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/oceans/fish-in-cr...
[2] http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mediacenter/2012/09/13_secretary_of...
[3] http://noticaribe.com.mx/2013/10/18/sacude-magisterio-a-play...
[4] http://www.quequi.com.mx/2107_solidaridad/1759374_hay-aguas-...
[5] http://forums.locogringo.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1292457
[6] http://www.lastampa.it/2013/10/12/scienza/ambiente/il-caso/c...
[7] http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=309...