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Generating content from registration

Posted: November 7th, 2009 | Author: monolith | Filed under: Ruby on Rails | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

There is a catch 22 problem with getting content for commune2.  And this really is a problem because the content is mostly user submitted posts, and (just a guess here but) people don’t want to post unless they see other posts out there already.  This must be a common problem, but I haven’t really seen a solution like the below anywhere else… although it is really simple.  That’s not to say there aren’t websites with something like this… I just haven’t seen any.

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I am a blogger now

Posted: October 25th, 2009 | Author: monolith | Filed under: General | Tags: | No Comments »

I decided to start a social networking company in early 2009. In part this was because I had been learning Ruby on Rails for a few months at that point, in part because I wanted to start a business and could not find the right people to help me – so I thought a social network for finding such people would be useful, and in part because I tend to be always working on something – and ran out of things to do.

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