Here's the problem with the 30%. My local paper advertises it has an app. I download the app, but there's no where to subscribe within the app. Apple didn't bring "me" to them. Their own add did, but I still want to subscribe within the app.
- Stephen Pickering
I think it's fair not to use Twitter in a product name but Tweet doesn't seem right. Tweetie Bird was a favorite character of mine : )
- Matt Terenzio
Stephen: AMazon isn't a Silicon Valley company. Microsoft falls into the same bucket of why they weren't invited to John Doerr's house.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter for a long time took many of their features away from the users, under the guise of being lame when it was in fact a powerplay.
- Aron Michalski
But Kindle is a retailer itself, not a wholesaler, so if it gives 30% it will lose all of its margin
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: exactly. If you are a shopping mall you don't allow other people to built new malls in your building.
- Robert Scoble
Buying from Amazon outside the Apple world is fine, except for video,which is not Appleriffic.
- Aron Michalski
There's no question that Apple has the "right" to do this, we're just saying they shouldn't. It's going to open the door to competition. Amazon is a worthy competitor.
- Stephen Pickering
ustream ads are killing me, hope steve gets a cut.
- Paul E. Ester
Paul he gets paid in free distribution and bandwidth. :-)
- Stephen Pickering
Well, as long as none of us create content, we'll be fine.
- Aron Michalski
Steve should go back to the 5 minute ad at the start of the show, to pay for his daughters college education :)
- Jamie
The publishers have political clout, app developers don't...
- clive boulton
Why doesn't Toyota take 30% of my mall purchases, since its car took me to the mall?
- Stephen Pickering
How many secure and user-friendly "store" platforms are there anyway? Google's, Amazon's, Apple's? The question is which one does a developer use and how much of a cut they hand over? Kindle could still work with Apple iOS. Apple users could use Amazon's shopping platform and Apple could ask for a more reasonable referral fee of under 10%.
- Alex de Soto
Don't worry, as unions are crushed and regulation is eliminated, the market will sort it out; we'll never have to pay an upcharge because we're Americans and they love us.
- Aron Michalski
Stephen: funny argument, but Toyota has no leverage there. If it could convince every other car company to charge, maybe.
- Robert Scoble
(of course we're listening to people who have multiple iPads in their home, and there are still a few households worldwide who don't have one yet...)
- Aron Michalski
Apparently Apple is pissing off at least one publisher.
- Jim Posner
Jim: which one? Have they pulled down their iOS apps yet?
- Robert Scoble
The problem is that just because you subscribe within the app doesn't mean that Apple has actually brought you to the product.
- Stephen Pickering
Using the Kindle app on the iPod touch avoids the 30% for Apple...
- Aron Michalski
Jim: and he's not a publisher that charges money.
- Robert Scoble
It doesn't look like they're going to remove their offerings, and publishers are hoping to get the Feds involved.
- coldbrew
I agree that if Apple causes the sale they should get that or even more, but just because that you buy within the app doesn't mean that.
- Stephen Pickering
Kevin: when they did the suggested user list. That pissed off lots of us. Then they picked certain clients and made them god and pissed off lots of developers.
- Robert Scoble
How about this: Amazon raises the typical $9.99 Kindle book price to $11.98 on Apple iOS and $10.98 on Google. $9.99 on Amazon. Buyers choice!
- Alex de Soto
Oh, I hi Nick! I love this chat room. I guess that means that Twitter will buy DataSift. (My thesis)
- Robert Scoble
robert: no they are not - they would like to - but wont get a part
- Nick Halstead
Nick: can I use DataSift on the folks I'm following yet?
- Robert Scoble
hornOKplease just tweeted: @scobleizer alex payne had a post that said that at this point twitter devs are either a) twitter partners or b) hobbyists. no middle ground
- Robert Scoble
just seems data mining/ event-pattern recognition is a logical area for twitter to grow
- Jim Posner
I thought Halstead was bringing Track back?
- coldbrew
robert: yes - wait for ver 0.9 coming out early next week - lots of amazing new things - including real-time storage - you can keep every tweet you want.
- Nick Halstead
twitter is sitting on a massive real time database that they have yet to monetize or have the tools to monetize.
- Jim Posner
Halstead: I'm glad you've not been afriad to play in their sandbox. But, I guess that means you think ubermedia was in the wrong today (they weren't, imo)?
- coldbrew
Is there still a need to consider text with Twitter?
- Aron Michalski
Nick when are going to get some wysiwyg tools for DataSift? throw us non developers a bone.
- Jim Posner
from @stop: One fresh pull of data using Twitter/iPhone is almost 300k of data. Int'l pay-per-use is $.0195/Kb. That would be almost USD$6.00 per pull!
- Kevin Marks
social search is pointless - the fact is search will be replaced with 'follow' - by interest graphs
- Nick Halstead
Nick: I'm really happy I'll be able to do DataSift on the folks I'm following. That makes it MUCH more useful!
- Robert Scoble
so overseas data is about $15-19 a meg while a text will be .50 to .75 cents. Mobile Realtime is a rich man's luxury once you cross the border.
- Aron Michalski
Jamie, Robert, Stephen: Sorry had to walk away for a sec. I guess that's right. Not pricing fixing in the true sense. I guess Apple will remain an exclusive mall with a lot of customers with deep pockets. Publishers will want to be in that "mall" for sure just like some stores want to be on Rodeo drive regardless of the rent.
- Alex de Soto
deck.ly takes +140 chars into a separate database...and linksto it appaer as "More"
- dlature
dlature: doesn't TwitLonger do the same thing?
- Robert Scoble
So what dlature? Doesn't that save some people from having to write a blog post?
- Matt Terenzio
ran into it b/c Tweetdeck kinda forced me to
- dlature
jim: thanks, we will start inviting more people soon, we only have 500 invited into Alpha currently, but have 10's thousands on the invite list ready to rock.
- Nick Halstead
matt, I don't neccessarily have a problemwith it...lot of tweeters don't like it...I can see its uses
- dlature
not the same as ad conversion, I don't think
- Richard
Tell me you are not more apt to click on a SERP with a friends pic/name in it? CTR will be higher even if lower, but not on the bottom.
- Kevin Mullett
Richard: They write lots of stuff over there with opinions and a few facts from being freinds with so many of the value. Most of their interpretations seem to be worthless.
- coldbrew
Nick-any interest in data visualization (heat maps) on the live DataSift streams?
- Jim Posner
someone mention Watson..big story that happened this week
- Jim Posner
Hmm. I thought most tech people had highly curated host files, no?
- coldbrew
Robert, Why can't Josh see it? Did he block you or vice versa? hehehehehehehehhehehe
- Stephen Pickering
Even though I don't click on the ads, I might subconsciously see them. R . A. C. K. S. P. A. C. E
- John Taschek
It's so easy to go from a link on Google SERP to a Web page that offers to FB "Like" your brand so that in seconds you're on Facebook learning about the brand from real people. That's powerful!
- Alex de Soto
More than a buzzword in executive meetings, cloud computing is the next big thing in the world of IT. Clouds offer an infinite amount of resources, both on demand and in pay-per-use models: computer resources on tap! In this article, I’ll focus on one of these cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, and give you all the information you need to get started developing PHP applications on this platform. Although we won’t go too deep into the technicalities, I will point you to further information and resources on specific points as we go. By the time you’re done, you should have a good understanding of the Windows Azure Platform, and you can test your knowledge in our Article Quiz.
- Jas Sandhu
More than a buzzword in executive meetings, cloud computing is the next big thing in the world of IT. Clouds offer an infinite amount of resources, both on demand and in pay-per-use models: computer resources on tap! In this article, I’ll focus on one of these cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, and give you all the information you need to get started developing PHP applications on this platform. Although we won’t go too deep into the technicalities, I will point you to further information and resources on specific points as we go. By the time you’re done, you should have a good understanding of the Windows Azure Platform, and you can test your knowledge in our Article Quiz.
- Jas Sandhu
More than a buzzword in executive meetings, cloud computing is the next big thing in the world of IT. Clouds offer an infinite amount of resources, both on demand and in pay-per-use models: computer resources on tap! In this article, I’ll focus on one of these cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, and give you all the information you need to get started developing PHP applications on this platform. Although we won’t go too deep into the technicalities, I will point you to further information and resources on specific points as we go. By the time you’re done, you should have a good understanding of the Windows Azure Platform, and you can test your knowledge in our Article Quiz.
- Jas Sandhu
Great stuff going on down in Brazil around Interoperability and Imagine Cup 2009. Team Proativa our winners last year were deeply involved!
- Jas Sandhu
I had the pleasure of hosting Team SKAN in Redmond, our Interop Award winners from Imagine Cup 2008, before my trip to Egypt for our 2009 awards. It was great having such talented guys around and it was fun hanging with them and showing them around. Here's a great post by Karun one of the great fellas I hung out with. Check out his very comprehensive post and the pics he put up!
- Jas Sandhu
Very interesting take on the company and how it controls messaging and communication in a time of transparency. It seems to be working thus far, think otherwise?
- Jas Sandhu
from Bookmarklet
anther post on the @imagine_cup blog around the trip from Team SKAN our Interoperability Award winner from Imagine Cup 2008 and their advice to the current champs representing the US at Imagine Cup 2009 Software Design competition.
- Jas Sandhu
I had the pleasure of hosting our Imagine Cup 2008 Interoperability Award Winners on our Redmond Campus last week. Here's a blurb about Team SKAN, Noel, Amith, Sameet and Karun from Mumbai India. A very talented bunch of guys. Best of luck with Creative Software, post-grad and to Noel/Sameet who are going on to Imagine Cup 2009 representing India. See you both in Egypt!
- Jas Sandhu
I really enjoyed all the games Peter created in his Bullfrog days, remember Populous?, and at Lionhead, Fable & Fable2 Well now he's at MGS and he's created Milo that's Natal enabled. Cool? I think so!
- Jas Sandhu