We have to be careful in distinguishing between private and personalized content. Both are information accessible only post-login, but private content should be indexed and searched privately (not necessarily locally) where as personalized content should always review a URI "stub" that can be indexed publicly. - Q dub
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"Great thoughts. I wouldn't say *the* flow has reversed, but that a new flow in the reverse direction has emerged and is slowly validating its power. I for one still think the traditional flow has huge potential with its accidental discoveries, such as that the military-commissioned internet has great consumer/commercial use =)" - Q dub
"They have kick ass AJAX, and the "game" concept is dead-on, but don't have the design discipline. I would doubt they even AB test anything..." - Q dub
"Only the issuing of stock is about ownership and raising money and capitalization. Every trade post listing is partly (often mostly) speculative by nature, and naked shorts both adds liquidity to markets and validate markets as a powerful signaler of truth." - Q dub
"I wouldn't underestimate the complexity of these securities, especially as an outsider to the industry.. And congress is most certainly unable to understand the valuation mechanics, as are 99.99% of the population, so no, he could not have "easily" summarized anything." - Q dub
"Then we will need new ways of selling permanent access to media for consumers who just have to have a feeling of possession. In the post-file world, we're really talking about "right-to-access" contracts." - Q dub
Cap or not, this is merely a contractual constraint--what about the physical constraint? At the end of the day there is only so much physical infrastructure out there and as long as telcos don't invest in new inf., bandwidth-heavy innovation will not happen.
The ROI justification simply isn't there. You build a bigger pipe for $Bs and how much extra can you charge on the monthly subscription? $15? Look at FiOS, that project is an ROI train wreck. - Q dub
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Great critical look at the implications of federating any communications platform. Challenges conventional wisdom on the advantages of federation and raises the issue of speed-of-innovation once things become standardized - Q dub
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Muxtape was pretty far across the line in terms of allowing people to easily choose what they listen to...shouldn't be a surprise when you're offering something so close to having actual possession of the songs. - Q dub
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"I was explaining SaaS and cloud computing to someone who's been out of touch with tech for the past couple years. The best analogy I ended with were: It's like webmail, remember when you dumped outlook express? Like that. Cloud computing? Remember all the buzz about thin clients? It's the same thing, now your browser is like a thin client." - Q dub
Is collaboration the only next killer feature? I like Oliver's point about being 10x better than the product you replace, and I'm not sure if collaboration makes spreadsheets an order of magnitude better.
The pot of gold is making spreadsheets behave like lightweight databases, but still simple enough for common spreadsheet users to comprehend. This would be the holy-grail of medium-complexity analysis. - Q dub
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Which is why I think About.com is a pretty good asset. Who says how-to's have to be videos either? Text can be more effective, and are equally indicative of user-intent. - Q dub
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"Gotcha. Is there any reason to implement the "Twitter push" method, which is a application specific API, instead of just publishing to a feed and letting any aggregators import it? The latter seems much simpler to me..." - Q dub
"If you look for the HTML which draws the "add your comment" box, that content lives inside an iframe, and that iframe no longer borrows the CSS specified in the customer CSS header." - Q dub
"There are many ways of describing the fiasco of suburbia, but these days I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
I say this because American suburbia requires an infinite supply of cheap energy in order to function and we have now entered a permanent global energy crisis that will change the whole equation of daily life. Having poured a half-century of our national wealth into a living arrangement with no future — and linked our very identity with it — we have provoked a powerful psychology of previous investment that will make it difficult for us to let go, change our behavior, and make other arrangements." - Q dub
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