There's a big public one of these called Groupon too...

That was a bit shady if you're buying stock, but I've never had any trouble buying a groupon, getting a groupon redeemed, or getting one refunded. Overall I think Groupon is pretty legit for its customers, and businesses actually get paid (whether or not they can support themselves with the kind of clients Groupon brings in is another issue).

If you have to read mice type to find out the full T&C, there's something less than reputable about how you do business.

EDIT: Just looked at the FAQ on the site, they are up front with their 2 options. The shoes are $39.95 if you sign up for the VIP program, otherwise they're full price. So if you want the sale price, you've got to sign up for VIP. http://www.justfab.com/faq.htm#Q02

"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" or so they say. As a mid-40's veteran of multiple startups, I say do what you have a passion to do. If that's fishing, live to fish and do what you want to support that passion. If it's whatever you're working on, then you're good.

In your case, perhaps your drive and your passion are not aligned at this time. Once that's fixed, life becomes much better.

Well said. I call it Grouponzi.

Very interesting approach, hope you post a follow-up to this experiment.

Looks like they are in 503 land right now...

Good. As interesting an idea as this is, it'll just be exploited by worthless, lazy recruiters.

Nothing but 503 for every city I try

503 as well over here...

Congress spends, Presidents don't. Kind of a myth. Interesting data nonetheless.

Interesting in principle, but I couldn't open the About Me or FAQ, so hard to tell. Won't give up credentials to who knows who the people are.

Not sure why the FAQs didn't load for you =/ http://www.identity.io/faqs/

This one (is a start) to answer your Q

Who's behind Identity.io?

Identity.io is by run by computer security and privacy experts who are serious about putting you in control of your information. We work out of the NYU-Poly Bloomberg Technology Incubator in New York City.

My browser is not seeing that the content at that link is an html page, so it downloads it instead of displaying it. This is a symptom of a MIME-type misconfiguration on your webserver.

Thanks - we must have done something wrong with apache - number of concurrent users we are having right now isn't something we've tested before...

Neither the Register nor Login links work for me in Chrome stable, view-source: shows no bytes in the response from the server.

Same; I get a blank page in Chrome, IE and Firefox.

Should be back in business if you'd like to try again.

the article states "Whatever happens, we’ll all know about it. Every piece of data gathered by the robots will be made available in real-time (and for free) to anyone who registers."

I'm really excited about this. With tools like Amazon's Elastic Map-Reduce, it's actually possible for those not affiliated with a research institution to process this data and attempt to draw conclusions from it.

Nice implementation. Looks more like a feature than a product. There are others that do a similar (better?) job at this like http://re.vu/

Saw this on a prior comment thread: http://re.vu/BarackObama

The Obama profile looks really awesome. I wasn't aware of this service before. I do wonder how much of the profile is hand-crafted vs auto-generated from a standard data-source.

Don't know, the background is certainly custom. The timeline seems to be auto generated. Here's another one I found that seems pretty cool.

http://re.vu/sarajchipps

Yeah it's simple. But if you want simple and better, http://re.vu/ is far superior.

Better seems very subjective. I spent more time trying to figure out how to read a re.vu candidate's charts and visualizations than quickly digesting useful information about the candidate.

I am a fan of exploring portfolios. I am not a fan of exploring resumes. Especially when I would like to flip through a few hundred quickly.

There are probably other good ones that don't have uber-fancy domain names too. (http://resume.io/ and http://re.vu/ are fancy in different ways)

Want a post up an example of a re.vu resume for comparison against this service?

Buried in their About page are the founders:

http://re.vu/stephen http://re.vu/bart http://re.vu/mikeharding

Hrmm...I like these, but just looking at the first two it doesn't give me much information. Or rather, not much information that a recruiter can use.

It's like it is talking, but not saying anything.

Sure, how about this one:

http://re.vu/BarackObama

I must admit that this one does give a bit more useful info about Obama than the others give of themselves respectively.

same can be said for http://vizualize.me being "simpler, better, and far superior" as well

woah, that guy on their front page is serious stuff.

http://cl.ly/283i2B0y1p1W0G3J0f0q