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by demachina 13y ago
As an aside there is one tactic Scoble uses to deal with critics on Twitter and elsewhere. He actually retweets posts from people who are criticizing, filleting him and trolling him. It shows he has a thick skin. Trolls WANT you to get an
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by demachina 13y ago
Exactly, unless people start off being nice, complimenting you, agreeing with you and telling you how great you are you shut them off, instantly. For as long as I've read your blog and twitter feed you simply will not have a conversation w
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by demachina 13y ago
His anonymity and the truth of his statement have absolutely no correlation, not sure why you even think there would be a correlation. You have a tendency of making people regret they ever get in to it with you so its not suprising a lot of
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by demachina 13y ago
Pretty sure Dave blocks most people who disagree with him for the space of more than one tweet. People he already holds in high esteem before they disagreed with him might last slightly longer.
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by demachina 13y ago
On the other hand Dave has a notoriously thin skin. He is very good at criticizing everyone else but he absolutely doesn't take criticism himself. Only time you are going to strike up a conversation with him is if you agree with him on ev
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by demachina 14y ago
I'd have to agree, training on the Twitter API is just a bad idea. Its just weird to see a company do everything imaginable to drive people off their API to turn around and want to train people on it. Most companies turn kind of hostile wit
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by demachina 14y ago
What category of smartphone apps and web apps isn't a crowded category at this point? I pity startups doing pitches in this space any more. There are simply too many of them doing the same things so it must be murder to speak to what you a
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by demachina 14y ago
Focusing on your blog post more than your pitch, do you think it really adds value to your message to use gratuitous language like "shit the bed" and "f*cking". Dave McClure and Brad Feld have made it in to an art form but they've already
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by demachina 14y ago
Wadhwa keeps putting out immigration studies, like this one, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1348616 "Americas Loss is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs" on why immigrant entrepreneurs and skilled
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by demachina 14y ago
HTML is machine readable it just has problems with the machine understanding it part. I think you are asking more for a semantic web which hasn't been particularly successful so far. People mostly struggle to just put together a web page t
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by demachina 14y ago
Are you asking how could they have made money or what cool things would they have done? I dont care about the making money part, the cool things they could have done being the Internet's message bus: - Really good search, and access to the
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by demachina 14y ago
How do you explain Wikipedia then?
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by demachina 14y ago
Trends on Twitter just aren't important enough for everyone to constantly cite as to why Twitter sucks or why our species is doomed. Its just a source of brief entertainment to see what large numbers of people you probably don't have much
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by demachina 14y ago
I'm of the school that one of the worst things Twitter could do is add support for data/attachments, long messages or message bloat in general. The essence of Twitter and its beauty is the messages are short, low overhead and you can skim
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by demachina 14y ago
Telehash is radically decentralized. How do you get a firehose out of that? It would be more like a point to point garden hose wouldnt it? I would like to be proved wrong, but I think Twitter/centralized and Telehash/decentralized will e
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by demachina 14y ago
If someone is following thousands of people in their stream, and they are scattered across a hundred servers, how do you go about assembling their stream for them in real-time. Is the host server going to have to send user id's for everyone
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by demachina 14y ago
Not sure about Facebook since I never use it but Twitter's search feature is crippled because Twitter wants it that way. I think they are planning to monetize access to full history, though I dont remember exactly what was being said on th
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by demachina 14y ago
I think you either missed or are glossing over Michael Sippey's blog post today where he said "in the coming weeks, we will be introducing stricter guidelines around how the Twitter API is used". People aren't upset about the old "stricter
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by demachina 14y ago
I really can't see decentralized social networks being successful. If all hosts are going to be synced the traffic would be huge. If they aren't synced search for both messages and users would be painful. Patching together a stream when t
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by demachina 14y ago
Yea, they want developers to develop content for them, and they want developers to develop traffic for them. They absolutely dont want developers to develop interesting clients and apps using for their message bus. Their guidelines on dis
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by demachina 14y ago
"I still don't really grok what it's for or why I should use it, and that's why" Uh, its for pretty much the same thing Facebook is for, except you can do lists and make them public or private, you seriously didn't get that? Or did you just
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by demachina 14y ago
Network effects are still horrible barriers to overcome on social networks or phone platforms. Once a company has large numbers of active users they tend to win, and once they start winning they have little incentive to care about the well
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by demachina 14y ago
I was kind of hoping Dorsey coming back to Twitter would have put an end to or at least subdued their hostility to their developer community, but it doesn't appear to be the case. Their new proprietary attachments are even more concerning
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by demachina 14y ago
You are incorrect. Casino gambling is entirely state regulated, there is no Federal law controlling it. More and more of them are allowing it because its an easy way to boost their tax revenues without raising income and property taxes. Th
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by demachina 14y ago
Uh, gambling is legal all over the U.S. now. There are casino's and off track betting all over the place, keno in bars, lotto tickets and scratchers in every convenience store and supermarket. Do you actually live in the U.S.? The issue w