"<Sigh> You clearly didnt get the point of the article. It wasn't to say it was right or wrong. It was to say how easy it is to ruin someone whether it is valid or not."
- Gregory Ng
Interesting the last 2 phone calls I had both said something along the lines that a well known West Coast blog and a few more doesn't cover tech / startups on the East Coast! I agree and getting tired of this echo chamber controlling the "tech news" bubble world! Time do something about it . . Do you know which site they're talking about?
I had the same conversation while in NY with a few individuals. Startups and companies need to stop treating certain "blogs" like the end all press and just market your product/company to your target customers. Getting posted about on certain blogs is almost like the "digg" affect.
- Wayne Sutton
Dave: TechCrunch has employees all over the world, so no.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble you know, and just because acertain blogs have employees all over the world doesn't mean they provide a "fair" coverage to the tech space
- Wayne Sutton
I do think it's a dual problem though, startups and tech companies want exposure and tech blogs want traffic. I think it's a marketing and perception problem. Also a "social media" problem.
- Wayne Sutton
I am writing a whitepaper "what startups can learn from the music industry". Seems like you guys are reinitiating the east coast/ west coast beef? ha!
- professor daddyo
Wayne: maybe not, but I've seen tons of east coast companies in techCrunch. Nine companies from Israel were picked for TC50 last year. It's hardly Silicon Valley centric.
- Robert Scoble
Wayne, don't waste your time raging at the machine. Instead BE THE MACHINE YOU WANT TO SEE! to paraphrase and mangle the quote.
- Dave Slusher
Thanks, I'm going to become a CyBorg!
- Wayne Sutton
Fred Wilson just blogged about the NYC startup scene heating up and deserving some press. Let's pile on by talking up our own local space.
- Scott Magoon
from iPod
Just got this email: "Sir,
I am a widow, with one son, Please I want you to help me to com down to your country to start a new life with what my late husband left for me. Which you will help me to clam.
Please I wait to hear from you for more details.
Faithfully.
Mrs. Rose Williams."
You're supposed to wow yourself and tell us about it. :-)
- sean808080
You can read "panic tweets" from Twitterers about Twitter being down: http://bit.ly/lA7HK
- Gus
dont get me wrong. I feel Friend Feed has a place in my life. I just havent found it yet. FF has my undivided attention until Twitter comes back
- Gregory Ng
wow I just spent 10 minutes watching Will.i.am explain the situation. Not sure exactleywhy but it is facinating to say the least
- Gregory Ng
from twhirl
"A newer development is the introduction of the service Qwitter where you get a message when someone unfollows you on Twitter. I must admit, it gives you pause when unfollowing someone in fear that they will know. It will be interesting to see how people will deal with rejection. Like this one for instance: http://twitter.com/juliaro..."
- Gregory Ng
"One thing people should not forget is the willingness to play nice with others. The bottom line is people dont want another Twitter. They don't want another Facebook. But if you can create something that integrates into them, you are much better off. Imagine a Blip.fm without the Twitter integration? Of a Brightkite or a Seesmic or 12 Seconds? You may develop a small group of early adopters but it would nevere expand and would eventually die."
- Gregory Ng
"Love this article and it brings up a lot of questions regarding social media, social networking, and how it is relevant to the post -30 crowd. One of the issues with places like Facebook is the wide range of reasons people join them. Some may only be there for the games, or for the pics, or for the "lil green patch". But no one really knows that as they see pages of "Friends You May Know". Sites like LinkedIn do take steps to have people self-select the type of interaction they are interested in. Facebook, not so much. One question I have is as people find new ways to say, "I hate you", is that bad? De-friending someone is the best way to tell people I hate you IMHO. It is direct. It doesn't string people along while sending a definite message and avoiding being face to face or voice to voice."
- Gregory Ng
"My only concern would be this scenario: You have a romantic dinner planned for your wife and you set your Surface walls to look like the beach in Bermuda where you had your honeymoon. The dinner is going great and you lean in to kiss her and bam! You see this."
- Gregory Ng
""Thats just life if an adult stole a car they would go to jail." They go to jail but they don't have the warden hit them. That would be illegal."
- Gregory Ng
"The only thing genius about the way this was handled was how swiftly they pulled the Seinfeld ads. From a branding perspective, this is a disaster. I know! Let's reveal to the whole world how much the Mac ads bother us by hitting head on that they stereotyped us! The Apple ads ran their course years ago. But Apple is the big winner here. Now they know MSFT was pissed. And now all the watchers of the MSFT ads know that too."
- Gregory Ng
I'll start: MATRIX 1 because of the interesting use of effects, esp 'bullet time' and amazing sound. Sadly, I could have done without Keanu, but oh well. Trinity is amazing, great outfits. And any movie that ends with Rage against the machine has to rock.
- Jeremiah Owyang
An oldie but a goodie - War Games. The concept of a learning computer - WOPR - in 1983 was pretty cool. Plus, I had a crush on Ally Sheedy :)
- Bryan Hunter
from twhirl
Minority Report (like idea mother of MS Surface) : )
- Erhan Erdogan
The underrated Sneakers..... And for old school, War Games....
- Chris Reed
My two favorite movies are Ali and Spaceballs, and Ali can't be defined as a tech movie. So I guess it's Spaceballs, although it's more of a business movie (promotions) than technology.
- Ontario Emperor
Star Wars... if you count LightSaber as "Tech". Matrix too, albeit I would tend to say it is more philosophical than tech.
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
The First Matrix cuz, for some reason, the technology in it seemed plausible and the Operator desktop with all the scrolly crap reminded me of my Linux setup
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
war games for it's accurate depiction of phreaking in the early 80s, tron since it got me into 3d animation as a career, and BBS: the documentary (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/) because it's brings back tons of memories.
- Doug Brooks
Three movies popped into my head before I read any comments. Others have mentioned them all.... War Games, Tron and Sneakers. I think we've defined a new move genre. "Tech Films". I guess perhaps, "Metropolis", although considered sci-fi really spoke to what would happen with advanced technology. Maybe we could also add Chaplin's "Modern Times" to the list. One last film that may qualify, "WestWorld". I'm sure there are many more that I'll think of with a few hours to ponder.
- Kevin Shannon
iron man! ok, i just saw it but still...
- Frankie Warren
Matrix does do an example job of bringing up issues that I think are important. How far are we willing to become dependent on technology?
- Leif Hansen
from Alert Thingy
The Thirteenth Floor. Better than Matrix, in my opinion. Wargames for sentimental reasons... I actually had my younger brothers convinced for years, that Matthew Broderick was me... (I used a stage name because it was a secret from Mom & Dad that I was acting!)
- Kenneth LeFebvre
"Sneakers" - Best Line "It's about who controls the information..." a movie before its time.
- jyamasaki
from twhirl
@cyndy - was being sarcastic, the first examples were all terrible. By the way, I'd add in "Enemy of the State" for cool surveillance tech
- Jeremy Toeman
c'mon...The Fifth Element? Anybody? Totally what the future will be.
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
While I'm partial to War Games and The Last Starfighter (hey, I went to see TLS *musical*...) I have to say that none of 'em top Real Genius.
- felix
Hackers - it was the movie that first got me interested in computers. I have yet to meet a developer that looks like Agenlina Jolie though ;)
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
many favs: Matrix 1, Paprika (anime), and Minority Report
- Carolina Velis
from twhirl
Are documentaries allowed? Startup.com. They could have swapped out govworks.com with any dot com i worked in pre-bust and it would have been the same storyline.
- J.J. Toothman
Wow, no one mentioned Blade Runner? Loved the 5th Element, Marc. Real Genius, great. Sneakers. Matrix 1. Star Wars. War Games, god this list is great! I can't decide. I hope you blog it somewhere for reference. If anyone ever wants to learn about our geek culture, we can link them to the post!
- Christine Cavalier
Hell yeah War Games, Real Genious, Fifth Element and Swordfish all great. I am so watching War Games tonight. That totally got me into BBS too. I remember the first time I logged onto a BBS I felt like I was about to hack into something like in war games. I can't remember the name of the movie but it had these robotic bugs that injected people and poisoned them. Well it looks like the...
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- Adam Gershenbaum
The Last Mimzy. Not the best movie, but we get a glimpse of what Intel can power waaay in the future.
- Nathan Hull
What no votes for "Weird Science?" Can you imagine making Kelly LeBrock!! err...well making <insert your fav., I'd have to say Jolie>
- Snay Trivedi
I'll have to go with Bladerunner. Except for the replicants, I think that will be very much our future
- John Frost
Hackers. Loved the part where they are drooling over the laptop with the built-in 56k modem.
- Richie Escovedo
What, no Terminator? I"m sure someone out there is building Skynet as we go about our business. When they finally make Ender's Game into a flick, then we'll have something to talk about!
- Marc Sirkin
When The Matrix came out, I was working in IT as a network administrator. It felt great to see computer geeks portrayed as kung fu badasses.
- Wade Rockett
@Matthias 06:34 Euclid Predicts: Pi will remain the best 06:35 Press RETURN ;)
- Mario Olckers
definitely Office Space. no tech show-off, cheap effects and hackers. pure tech life.
- Berk D. Demir
"Well, true. My agency does work for Chili's but I do not work on that account. Plus, I am leaving my agency at the end of the month. Regardless, the video was not to advertise for my agency's client. It was just to tell other people about a good burger I had."
- Gregory Ng
"Sameer, excellent point. A code of ethics may work but my concern would be if everyone adheres to the same codes, will we be seeing the same types of marketing messages with restrictions in place?"
- Gregory Ng
Dry your eyes Elvis fans, the king lives on. I have come back to wight my wongs and this time, I’m not wasting time on fried banana sandwiches, I’m heading straight for the Dim Sum table. So sit back, kick your feet up, and enjoy some entertainment th
- Gregory Ng
Dry your eyes Elvis fans, the king lives on. I have come back to wight my wongs and this time, I’m not wasting time on fried banana sandwiches, I’m heading straight for the Dim Sum table. So sit back, kick your feet up, and enjoy some entertainment th
- Gregory Ng
Sending successful direct mail can be a tricky science. After all, your mailer is competing with thousands of marketing messages a day not to mention 5-10 other mail pieces in your customer’s mailbox alone. You might have the greatest message or offer i
- Gregory Ng