Gabriel Weinberg of Duck Duck Go interviewed on Mixergy

Interesting... Not at all what I expected. I have a lot of respect for Duck Duck Go.<p>But it's interesting to learn that his first startup got very close to a lot of what would be considered now gray areas... Creating thousands of dummy pages to get traffic from Google... forcing people who sign up to give 5 email addresses to promote the service...<p>Let's put it this way: my impression from that interview is that Gabriel got really close but eventually stayed on the right side of the fence. Kind of a success story :-)

Not really sure what to say; I was looking forward to this and it didn't live up to the expectations in my head.<p>I would have liked to hear more about the Philly startup scene, Gabriel's angel investments, etc.<p>Even after Gabriel mentioned that the click through rate on email was going down, Andrew asked a ton of follow up questions on it. Same with asking about receiving the cheque for the acquisition of namesdatabase.

I'd love to hear more about the bit earlier on about when and how to decide whether a particular idea is worth continuing putting time in to.

Would love to hear more about your thoughts on twitter - you mentioned that looking at people on twitter who are influencing the most is the best way to spread the word... What data do you use to come up with that? And what information are you looking for?

Was NamesDatabase a social network? I'm not clear on what it exactly did and how it made money. Affiliate, if so how? Thanks.