- A Quora link listing the “most significant startups for Quantified Self and Self-Tracking” was shared, providing a snapshot of early QS ecosystem players.  
- Participants lamented Google’s annual April-Fool pranks—specifically “Gmail Motion” (gesture-based email) and the 2008 “Project Virgle” Mars-colonization spoof—as missed opportunities for real R&D.  
- BitBucket’s origin story was noted: it began as a one-person project, raised $60 M, and was then quietly acquired by Atlassian, highlighting the rapid monetization of developer tools.  
- A game concept was proposed to accelerate the RepRap community: a Minecraft-like environment where every visible object is an open-source 3-D model that can be paused, selected, and printed directly, inspired by the freely licensed assets from the music video “House of Cards” by Radiohead (models available at beeple-crap.com/resources.php).  
- The phrase “Human Enhancement Services” was jokingly observed to sound like a high-tech janitorial company, underscoring the branding challenges faced by transhumanist ventures.