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Louis Gray

Personal blog · blog.louisgray.comstartupsweb

Louis Gray writes louisgray.com: Silicon Valley early adopter tech blog, a personal blog at blog.louisgray.com about startups and web. Since 2009, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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112mentions?
2recommend?
46HN people?
2009–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 57 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Louis Gray's blog for coverage of social media tools and startups, such as Gumroad, Subjot, and Chrome SMS, and for commentary on the iOS vs Android platform war.

Recommended for · 2 comments
One commenter calls a Subjot post nice and a useful outside perspective; another calls the blogger well respected on social media tools.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A Silicon Valley early adopter tech geek blog, written by Googler Louis Gray.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-05
  2. 50 Top Startups Worth Watching
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. louismg · 2011-04-04
    Posted on it as well. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/04/gumroad-launches-to-sell-d...

    Comment linking /2011/04/gumroad-launches-to-sell-digital-goods.html

    on “Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad”
  2. chmars · 2014-06-29

    Submitted Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going? as a story · 166 points

    HN discussion
  3. TextyTeam · 2011-04-29
    here is a review by Louis Gray: http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/03/texty-texts-from-google-ch...

    Comment linking /2011/03/texty-texts-from-google-chrome-via-my.html

    on “SMS from Chrome, fully sync'd with your Android phone”
  4. ldayley · 2011-08-16

    Submitted Full-time Geeks Shouldn't Ignore Physical Impact of the Craft as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. ccarella · 2011-08-12Recommends
    Louis Gray had a nice post about Subjot yesterday if you are interested in hearing it from someone else's perspective. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/08/subjot-subject-based-shari...

    Comment linking /2011/08/subjot-subject-based-sharing-to-help.html

    on “Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes. ”
  6. instcode · 2010-06-08

    Submitted iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  7. louismg · 2011-04-11
    Dave, this post was in response to many other articles that have framed iOS vs Android as the 2 dominant smartphone platforms and made a parallel comparison to the Mac/Windows discussions of old. I do like Windows Phone 7 a lot. I think the UI is fantastic. I do not think that its current app situation is fantastic, and it is starting with a serious deficit versus competitors. I will not dismiss it at all, but think…

    Comment linking /2010/05/in-todays-world-of-mobile-choices-look.html

    on “The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2”
  8. niyazpk · 2010-07-11

    Submitted Why I Turned In My iPhone and Went Android as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  9. DaveMebs · 2011-04-11
    The biggest problem with articles such as these is that the author willfully ignores all of the other mobile platforms currently on the market (Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS (note: ignoring Nokia due the the expected retirement of their platforms in favor of WP7)). These platforms are much more compelling than any other OS was during the PC/Mac wars, and dramatically affect the overall market. Especially when you…

    Comment linking /2011/02/windows-phone-7-is-best-windows-ive.html

    on “The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2”
  10. mariorz · 2009-11-09

    Submitted The Story of Google's Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  11. nethsix · 2011-04-06
    The maybe you can create a startup that revolves around your 'addiction'. Some people successfully writes blogs for startup news such as HN, e.g., http://blog.louisgray.com .

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: If you had to choose, would it be your startup or significant other?”
  12. srikar · 2011-04-20

    Submitted Physical Media Has To Go. I'm Digital Only From Here. as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  13. dpritchett · 2009-12-04
    Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook was widely viewed as a talent grab. It seems to be working out well enough for FB so far. http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/friendfeeds-not-dead-while...

    Comment linking /2009/08/friendfeeds-not-dead-while-not-clear.html

    on “The HR Acquisition”
  14. samrat · 2011-04-11

    Submitted The Android and iOS War Is Not Mac vs Windows Part 2 as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  15. rythie · 2009-12-14Recommends
    We've now put a link to a tour of some of the features on the front page ( http://friendbinder.com/tour ) I've also updated the links to include the recent "The Next Web", TechCrunch and Flickr Blog coverage we got last week. Louis Gray is a blogger who is well respected for talking about social media and social media tools. If you are interested in that sort of thing his blog is at: http://blog.louisgray.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “FriendBinder – Not Just Another Lifestreamer ”
  16. brlewis · 2010-04-29

    Submitted Facebook Starts Mandatory Profile Linkage to Public Pages as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  17. sahillavingia · 2011-05-19

    Submitted Minno and SoundCloud Debut SoundRain for Music Payments as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  18. ilamont · 2010-02-01

    Submitted Low Quality Offensive Ads Degrade the Web Experience as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  19. terrapin87 · 2011-02-15

    Submitted XYDO Preparing Social News Hub With Quora Flavor as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  20. derekc · 2010-05-21

    Submitted Do iPhone Users Face a Draconian Future? as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  21. waleedka · 2011-06-16

    Submitted Tech Leaders Don't Win By Saying They'll Crush Somebody as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  22. louismg · 2010-07-05

    Submitted Foursquare May Be Buying Thing Labs (Brizzly) as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  23. louismg · 2011-04-23

    Submitted Apple Walks Away from Web Apps as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  24. srikar · 2011-04-05

    Submitted Did You Know All Your Emails Were In One Basket? as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  25. twapi · 2010-11-07

    Submitted The Third Wave of the Web Will Be Uniquely Personal as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  26. srikar · 2011-05-26

    Submitted Social.com Domain Is Up for Auction: Who Will Bid? as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  27. louismg · 2011-03-19

    Submitted Angry Birds Slammed With 1-Star Ratings After Adding Ads to Paid App as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  28. louismg · 2011-06-04

    Submitted A Scorched Data Policy Is Bad for Web, Bad for History as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  29. plannerball · 2011-04-19

    Submitted Flapon Flaps Into World of Topic Based Social Networking as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  30. prakash · 2009-10-17

    Submitted Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion

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