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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The USPO seems to rubber stamp all software patents.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
When this was written it was bang on. But Twitter is deliberately choosing to go down a different path. I can easily predict Twitter will find itself swimming in the wrong direction within a couple years because the need for an open messag
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Software patents like this should never be granted. Any kind of gesture we naturally do in the real world quite obviously can be rendered in software. There's nothing "invented" here. Microsoft was similarly granted a patent for grasping
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
They made a fatal mistake in building a Rails app. That led them down the wrong path for an ecosystem that needs to be a decentralized protocol. See tent.io, they've got the right idea. Not sure if they'll be successful, but work in this
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Dr. Chrono sounds like a comic book super-villian Agree/Disagree?
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
You'd have to be silly to not expect what Twitters next move will be.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
This is very clearly the end of Twitter as a "platform". Now that Twitter is huge, they don't want or need developers or 3rd party clients. They want to centralize everything into a monetizable service. That would've been fine if that wa
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The email "problem" is what Facebook fixed. Email is broken for a lot of reasons. Managing your contacts, finding lost contacts, finding the email of that person you met last night, party planning, birthday reminders, attachments, sharing
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
PDA's usually had a few extra buttons because navigation using a stylus was always a bits awkward. If you ever tried scolling a web page using a stylus and scrollbars in Windows Mobile you'd understand why every PDA had a D-pad and a separ
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
I expect the Internet and social media is going to continue to evolve and blow past what Facebook was able to accomplish faster than anyone thinks. I don't expect Facebook will last as the largest social network for much more than 5 years.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The US government should also be subsidizing solar energy. If it's not cost competitive against oil, they should subsidize it until it is. The estimates are that by 2020 solar will reach fossil fuel cost parity. So you're only talking 8-
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The policy is intended to thwart China from undercutting prices and flooding the U.S. market with cheaper solar panels. I find this rather disturbing. If solar energy is ever going to replace fossil fuels the price of panels wil
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
I hope this crew is looking at WebRTC. The true killer app for a distributed social network is going to be a global decentalized video chat network. Imagine Google hangouts without Google. Even just to implement a voice-only chat without
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Most of these seem like derivative of other successful startups, like most of YC companies. They all just seem "done" already, so what's the point? On another thread there was the release of a YC-based iPhone controller which was no bette
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
You know who currently has an even better advantage in social networks? Cell phone carriers. If I take a look at my Facebook friendlist or feed, and compare it to the last calls and messages made on my cellphone -- they don't match up at
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The Facebook story is over. They got ahead in the social network game of making communication over the Internet easier. They did this by making Email obsolete. One centralized system where all users can send instant messages to one anoth
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
I actually thought a 2-year stay at a software job was a long time. In my experience, staying beyond that was pointless. After 2 years you've mostly learned everything you can learn from that position, and I've never received a raise more
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
I found the way Twitter works very similar to IRC. #hashtags, DM's and @references are all from IRC. Twitter made a system like this easier to use, and centralized it one big system rather than loosely connected chat networks. In a simila
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
This is probably an outcome of the comment engine on this site, it could use some real work. If it worked a little more like Reddit, with upvotes and downvotes, then good, useful comments would bubble to the surface and negative useless co
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Yes I know, I was referring to Facebook and Twitter. These companies improved upon open protocols, but their business models and motivations are now standing in the way.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Twitter replaced IRC. Facebook replaced Email. In both cases they were easier to use solutions to social communications on the Internet. But these profit-seeking corporations are now standing in the way of futher progress. The gatekeeper
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
They only had funding for about a year or so. And with a problem of the scale they were tackling there was simply no way it would've been successful. Everyone could see what was going to happen a mile away. They'd work on some flimsy FB
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The answer of course is to start more Facebook-style social network startups, that leverage the cloud, and mobile connectivity, to enhance advertiser dollars and deliver maximum value to venture capital investors through distributed adverti
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
The UK government is showing its true face, that of a tyrannical authoritarian government, who's legitimacy is threatened by the exact kind of transparency that Assange's organization intends to protect.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
I've had enough unbearable, corporate, cubicle, meeting-every-afternoon jobs that this list makes Facebook sound like a wonderful place to work.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
There are already about 4 other products exactly like this already on the market. I kind of question how large the third-party iPhone snap-on-controller market size is to necessitate both YC and Kickstarter.
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Rails is geared for CRUD apps, not messaging. Whereas NodeJS is built for messaging. Picking the wrong technology stack for what needs to be a messaging protocol that resembles SMTP definitely contributed to Diaspora's lack of adoption, b
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Rails was a horrible technology choice to to build an open decentralized messaging protocol. They were doomed from the start. NodeJS would be a better choice now. Are there really that many developers clamoring to build new apps on yet an
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
Oh I've definitely been thinking about it. One big problem is it wouldn't be nearly as lucrative as other potential project ideas -- it simply won't be possible to build another $100B Facebook style corporation around a social network. Di
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by dj2stein9 14y ago
A centralized social network is what's wrong. Despite their best intentions they're still going to have all their users and developers by the balls. This absolutely will not replace Facebook or Twitter, it'll be just another one of the do

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