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Exactly. It's not the how it's done... it's the problem being solved and how elegantly the problem is being solved.
by melvinram 16y ago
Exactly. It's not the how it's done... it's the problem being solved and how elegantly the problem is being solved.
- snippyhollow 16y agoOr... It's about making the right product at the right time and reaching the right market. The problem (even if we consider the social one) that solved facebook wasn't that hard to solve. The timing and bootstrap / first users (universities) was the key. For Youtube the key timing was about bandwidth and for Google about technology/research (as well as a new search vs organize vision of the web).
- il 16y agoIt really seems to me that Qwiki is a solution I'n search of a problem. What problem is it really solving? Could you ever imagine yourself paying for Qwiki?
- melvinram 16y agoI could imaging paying for a sponsored link at the end of the presentation or below the presentation if someone was watching a presentation on something relevant to my products/services. The problem: People generally prefer not to read. Yet, people are curious creatures. If they could quench their curiosity without having to read, they will.
- il 16y agoThe problem is that by definition, people will not go to Qwiki for long-tail searches (because they won't have good content on them). And long-tail, specific, targeted searches/users is where the money is for sponsored links.
- dstein 16y agoThe problem: People generally prefer not to read. In Mac OS I have keymapped Option-S assigned to the built-in text-to-speech on the fly, so anytime there's text on any page that I want read back to me I can quickly do so with a keystroke. You know what? I never use it. I generally prefer to read.
- benmccann 16y agoThe alarm clock demo they showed was pretty cool. I could see paying a couple bucks to have that on my phone.