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by brackin 14y ago
Do you not have these services already in the US? In the UK every major supermarket will deliver to your home whenever you want. They all have mobile apps, etc. They have the leverage, surely the same would happen in the US?
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by brackin 14y ago
The interesting thing is at the Apple keynote they announced Passbook and showed a Starbucks card, the passbook product is lacklustre in comparison. This shows Apple is betting on this and Starbucks would rather go with a solution that fits
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by brackin 14y ago
It's almost impossible for Square to launch in Europe with their traditional product (Swipe) but they probably could with Pay with Square. Their European rival had to jump through huge technical hoops (payments offsite, can't swipe, etc) to
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by brackin 14y ago
I think it doesn't have to just be a Twitter rival. Twitter is heading into the mainstream direction. Focusing on news, celebrities, etc. A voice will develop if this does go to plan and Twitter could be Reddit while App.net could be Hacker
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by brackin 14y ago
I agree, I've got a retina MBP and far prefer the cable. The cable on my MacBook Air was too strong.
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by brackin 14y ago
I spoke to a lead developer from one of the biggest Android camera apps that sold to a big company. They said that they realised the Android market isn't nearly as big as it's made out to be because most Android users don't even install app
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by brackin 14y ago
I realised how much sense this makes for BetaWorks, they have so much social data from bitly and knowledge in the space. They can make a real consumer end to bitly as well as the enterprise tools they're building. They can make a semi-curat
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by brackin 14y ago
Yeah that's true. I definitely think someone should build it.
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by brackin 14y ago
Why just Avatars.io, why not profiles.io? I'd love for my Twitter profile, Facebook bio, About.me, etc to be in sync.
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by brackin 14y ago
Two I know of: http://blottr.com - Has huge traffic and reports early. http://Orchive.com - New company I heard of recently with no traction yet.
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by brackin 14y ago
9GAG is Reddit for the 90%. They Cherrypick the best memes from Reddit and wrap them in a social layer of Facebook comments and timeline integration to make them even more viral. This company will never be nearly as big as Reddit but it see
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by brackin 14y ago
Cheddar's syncing is a bit hit-or-miss. On one hand you know that when you post a task it's synced instantly and you know when it's finished but on the other you have to have a constant internet connection. I use these apps on the Undergrou
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by brackin 14y ago
They do a surprising amount, they seriously have vans that drive around scanning to see if you're watching television on a physical TV and if so if you don't have a licence they'll fine you I'm not sure if they are actually finding out if y
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by brackin 14y ago
I'm not sure about the legalities abroad but in the UK at least it's illegal to watch this stream without a TV licence and they do try and prosecute people if they can find an address attached to your IP, obviously this isn't possible throu
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by brackin 14y ago
The article refers to one device from Apple vs tens from Samsung. I think it would be fairer to compare with one device, such as their most popular one.
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by brackin 14y ago
I totally agree, which is why I'm working on a startup to make charities more transparent and allowing them to make use of the resources they can get once they do this. (Andrew@brack.in if anyone has any ideas).
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by brackin 14y ago
The brand is worth a fair amount, beta works launching a new news site won't get much attention but "DIGG REBUILT AND RELAUNCHED" could get some international press and at least convince old users to have a look at the new site. It's not th
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by brackin 14y ago
I still think that there is no incentive for developers to switch. This situation has a parallel to the Windows Phone app development grants. Microsoft is paying startups to hire someone to develop a Windows Phone app. After speaking to the
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by brackin 14y ago
Great, exactly what I want, although it probably doesn't need to go through DDG it works perfectly fine. Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it.
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by brackin 14y ago
They have so much value in the products, yet they aren't even being developed. I can see Yahoo Answers being a far bigger brand, News could be important as well as Flickr if as you said they actually develop it. Any products that aren't bei
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by brackin 14y ago
Nearly all of social cam's traffic came from the timeline. Viddy is just content uploaded by me or you, so I'd venture to say most of their traffic is real but SocialCam was embedding YouTube videos of women in bikini's, funny clips, etc an
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by brackin 14y ago
Because their numbers were boosted using shady tactics that Facebook are starting to stop, when Facebook completely kills these apps their real traffic (videos people are actually uploading) will become non existent.
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by brackin 14y ago
They couldn't become an Instagram because they knew their growth wasn't sustainable or real in any way. They had to sell or they'd fade into obscurity.
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Mobile Rewards Network Kiip Raises an $11M Series B.(techcrunch.com)
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by brackin 14y ago
Exec isn't so much a task rabbit clone, yes it's a similar concept to TaskRabbit but they've in my opinion improved the concept and TaskRabbit is far from dominant. In Germany and the UK Milk.ly is quite big and has a much better looking In
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by brackin 14y ago
They already do this to a large extent. When you're in business class or higher (this new policy only applies to Business or First) the air hostess already knows your name, where you're sitting, etc and greets you with "Hello Mr. Brackin".
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by brackin 14y ago
I've tried Trippy and liked the experience but I like Tripit because even though it has a terrible interface it's easy to share to it and it automatically posts to my Facebook. http://trippy.com
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by brackin 14y ago
Twitter - fixed the same problems at text messages but went public to put a different dynamic on it. Facebook - solved Photo Sharing, a constantly updated contacts book that is up to date with all of your info. Skype - Huge disruption, one
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by brackin 14y ago
Make relationships, it's simple as. You can very easily do this on Twitter but it's similar to investors in the sense that they won't pick up on you without an intro or building a prior relationship. To get the most out of journalists at ev
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by brackin 14y ago
They weren't US Hosted Servers fyi. Richard confirmed this before. The only reason the US is claiming is that it was a .net and the dns goes through Verisign.

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