But that aside...

How could you stop people "bidding" $100m for their own site?

Anyone with capital, why would they waste their time putting fake bids down? If they're genuinely interested in a site - they'd approach the owner privately.

What is the value of this, beyond "ooo look how much this site is worth"? Don't you just become another flawed website value calculator?

Just some ideas.

Bingo. Why even give my money to a middleman?

Cloak their IP and a 10 mile radius. Show them a new homepage saying you've got fabulous new features in the works. Think up a series of completely useless features that would drive people away, but frame them as plausible. Back it up with facts and figures from "in-depth" user studies you've done.

Then watch them try and beat you to develop the features.

It worked for me in the past.

Granted, not every bookmark will be "next to" others, but it many cases this would give a good sense of context.

"Hmmmm a page on Google analytics... I wonder why I saved that.... oh yeah! That was just after bookmarking this page about 'Best tracking systems for WP blogs'"

“They say they’re drinking more coffee than before, about 20 percent more,” says Rotem (who, by the way, drinks four to six cups on a bad day). “Our users save around 30 percent on coffee.”

Me: "GIMP"

Client: "I'm not prepared to be spoken to like that"

click

They've defined a bunch of methods for popular APIs. You can then pipe the results into another API.

e.g. Watch Disqus comments and auto send thank you mail

Send email attachments to your Dropbox

Create Trello cards from Evernote items

Checkout the Directory, then click on an item - you'll see all the possible interactions:

https://zapier.com/zapbook/

Oh wow, that's what I needed to see. Impressive. Almost overwhelming! Thanks

No, you've given your rocket to someone else. They control the flightpath now. You're just along for the ride.

The web runs so much faster.

I'd love to know if there's more "easter eggs" like this placed around MIT.

Anyone want to claim responsibility? :)

Clicky dynamically adds a JS file to the header so it's asynchronous. It does the same every few minutes to poll and indicate someone's still on the page.

When used with InstantClick, the first tracking request worked fine. But when I clicked - the first AND second Clicky tracking request were sent. Another click meant 3 new requests were sent.

It puzzled me for a minute, before I realized. Clicky's JS didn't have InstantClicks' data-no-instant attribute, so all previous tracking scripts were being re-loaded with every click.

The fix is to push the tracking requests to Clicky manually via InstantClick's on change callback. Then I used JQuery to add the data-no-instant attr to all the clicky script tags in the head:

  InstantClick.on('change', function() {
    clicky.log(location.pathname+location.search, document.title, 'pageview');
    // now stop any clicky scripts from being re-requested each time the page is insta-reloaded, to stop wasted tracking requests
    jQuery("head script[src*='clicky.com']:not([data-no-instant])").attr('data-no-instant', true);
  });

Hope this helps someone if they see the same weirdness.