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by froo 18y ago
>Straight forward question and I would like the opinion of HN: Can you build a successful product/service based on Twitter? Absolutely, look at Summize (now Twitter Search) and Friendfeed who has a large amount of data in the form of Tw
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by froo 18y ago
> Less can be more (speaking to the complexity of graphics, etc). It's true, in fact this is one of the core values that Matt Groening (creator of the Simpsons/Futurama) holds as he's written about before. It's especially true of 2D (ce
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by froo 18y ago
I don't think these graphs are (in all fairness) accurate. Twitter by all accounts has had about a year+ headstart on Friendfeed and if you compare the two assuming the same starting point, Friendfeed are doing OK. I agree with Paul, it tak
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by froo 18y ago
I created my own holiday a few years back which I've observed every year with friends since its inception... Nacho Friday. It occurs on the 2nd Friday in July, you have to drink copious amounts of Tequila, consume lots of nachos and wear a
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by froo 18y ago
> The "initial pixar deal" was all Eisner, which got Toy Story and so on, happened before 95, which was before Disney purchased ABC (which is how Iger got to Disney). Yes, which resulted in Pixar having to give up 50% of the revenue for
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by froo 18y ago
I watched this (more from a technical interest in tools used than anything) I'm guessing she used either Toon Boom Studio (I doubt she used Developer, there doesn't seem to be much interpolation between frames) or perhaps Flash? I'd still b
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by froo 18y ago
"I'm currently making cartoons" sums it up pretty much. I really don't want to get into the specifics because you then see people's eyes glaze over.
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by froo 18y ago
Couldn't Blizzard argue Prior Art due to MUD's and MUSH's, thus simply nullifying the patent troll's position?
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by froo 18y ago
It's true, Eisner was doing the initial pixar deal but negotiations fell through several times. Actually Bob Iger (Michael Eisner's successor) successfully negotiated and finalised the Pixar deal after he came to the realisation that all of
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by froo 18y ago
Semi offtopic, but Ze Frank's attitude to anti-intellectualism. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050506.html
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by froo 18y ago
This is actually very interesting news for someone like me who would open up a good number of high CPU instances at any one time but only for short periods to do some rendering. Typically a few hours Now I guess I gotta do a cost analysis a
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by froo 18y ago
This would be much more awesome is Woz was grooving while riding around on his segway.
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by froo 18y ago
I've yet to use OSX extensively, so I cannot really comment on that over the other two. But having tested Windows side-by-side with Ubuntu 8.10 for the last couple weeks, I can honestly say that I love Ubuntu as an OS more. Apart from direc
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by froo 18y ago
Damn you google search, you horrible search engine you. I'm going to make something from yahoo's BOSS api, charge $1000 a search... therefore my search MUST be better... right? RIGHT?
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by froo 18y ago
Advice from business-people is inapplicable to us science students most of the time. Walt was an innovator first, businessman second. Did you know he invented the multiplane camera that revolutionised the Animation industry? Or perhaps th
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by froo 18y ago
... That's actually a result of everything that's happened since Walt's death in 66, especially the terrible reign of Michael Eisner from 84 to 05 which nearly killed Disney's animation. There's a book called "The Illusion of Life" that was
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by froo 18y ago
One of my alltime favourite quotes that I think is relevant is: "I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination" - Walt Disney Also, perhaps this o
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by froo 18y ago
I'm in a different boat, my last 3 machines have been notebooks and I'm actually going back to a desktop. Then again, my needs (3D modelling + animation) are a little different than most and the subsurfacing can be intensive on a notebook (
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by froo 18y ago
Are you saying that you can produce 6 seasons of Frasier with the cost of 1 minute of Pixar animation? Sounds doubtful. Not cost - number of artifacts within a that timeframe over several shots. Then again, Let's run some numbers to talk
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by froo 18y ago
Thanks, unfortunately I wont be applying this round, but I'm sure you will be seeing our application next round.
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by froo 18y ago
Except that I'm not talking about producing films. Yes, Pixar films are expensive because they are swinging for the fences. That means they have many, many models, sets, textures etc that go into the production of any film, which of course
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by froo 18y ago
I don't know why you think animation means you don't need actors. I'm not saying it doesn't - it obviously does.. what I'm saying is that not all animation has to be film scale, nor does it have to have proper actors as draw cards for voi
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by froo 18y ago
I know I'm biased towards 3D animation, but I can give you examples where thats simply not the case. Take Pixar, It's the highest profile of the 3D animation studios and can you name any of the voice talent for WALL-E? There was no "top tal
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by froo 18y ago
I still believe in film as an art form but for a commercial production webshow it may be overkill, especially as HD cameras get better. I think that for content to be produced for online (not just as a novelty webisode but as an actual ar
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by froo 18y ago
Hey Matt, Sorry I was out all day but I gave a very rough outline of what I'm proposing above just now.
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by froo 18y ago
The majority of cost of any TV/Film project goes into equipment and salary realistically. The way I figure it, the minimum number of people you need in any traditional production is essentially the cast and base operators (which could also
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by froo 18y ago
The connection is that the internet really took off when people realised you could use it to connect with each other in new and interesting ways. YouTube, Facebook, Myspace etc are among the most visited sites and are all about connecting w
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by froo 18y ago
The problem is getting together the budget to make a good TV show. This is actually a problem I'm working on now which I'll be applying to YC with as soon as I figure out if I can pull it off. I was ranting in #startups on freenode
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by froo 18y ago
Yep, that piracy stuff is really killing the film industry. 2009 is turning out to be Hollywood's best year ever, even with the economy crumbling around them.
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The Stock Market Is Down But the Movie Business Is Up 14% Over 2008(slashfilm.com)
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