andrew_simone

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by andrew_simone 14y ago
I think much of the push back to App.net comes from not understanding the context in which Dalton et al. is building the platform. Frankly, it wasn't until Dalton linked to PG's write-up of his PyCon talk that I really began to understand w
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
because he is doing something very ambitious. if you don't understand why, that's fine, but don't dismiss it on that account.
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
I don't understand the confusion folks have about the business model (earnest confusion, not "yur dumb" trolling confusion). App.net creates an API and people pay money to have access. Different tiers demand different prices. $500,000 in me
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
It would be mediocre if it was simply an "open api" twitter/facebook but, given the chatter on the Alpha site and the look of the API on git ( https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec ), I think there is something bigger going on here.
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
If by "sticking it to the man" you mean "creating a business model based on an open api and not the content in the platform the API uses," then I agree. The problem with Twitter and Facebook is that they've moved away from supporting extern
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
I could be pedantic and link to a few tweets, but I think a quick search.twitter.com would yield you a few answers.
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
Depends on what you mean by "pull this off." The alpha itself is pretty beefy for the alpha's I've seen. The API isn't stable but it's certainly nothing to sniff at and the web GUI is more realized in a few weeks than twitter was in a few m
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by andrew_simone 14y ago
I'd be more weirded if they stuck with it.