lshepstone

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by lshepstone 10y ago
Oxford, UK | Wayin | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE, https://www.wayin.com Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing interactive applications and is used by househ
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by lshepstone 10y ago
Wayin | Senior Software Engineer | Oxford, UK | ONSITE, https://www.wayin.com Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing interactive applications. Our platform is used
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by lshepstone 14y ago
It's actually a very clever way to seed access to their honeypot.
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by lshepstone 14y ago
The choice of Stellenbosch in South Africa as an example is perhaps not ideal. While SA may be a third world country in parts, it is very "first-world" in others and has a GDP greater than Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Ireland. Stellenb
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by lshepstone 15y ago
Speaking as a South African, you do not want to go to prison there. People try to avoid it at all costs. Corruption is rife, and reports have surfaced of guards selling sexual access to prisoners amongst other unpleasant activities.
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by lshepstone 16y ago
Just 4-5 years ago most Telco's were building portals and walled gardens where they were licensing the content themselves (or even had teams creating it in house) and selling it in various ways to their customer base. So never mind a 30% c
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by lshepstone 16y ago
You've missed the point. Apple is providing access to hundreds of millions of potential customers who can purchase your product in a frictionless manner. The people on this platform spend more $ per person than other ecosystems because th
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by lshepstone 16y ago
I wasn't arguing that Apple won't do it, just that they would be even more crazy to try this for SaaS than for content subscriptions. It's one thing to charge 30% for when someone is selling an entire product through your platform. It wo
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by lshepstone 16y ago
I'm starting to see a whole bunch of posts/comments about people reacting to losing 30% of their SaaS software revenue but no one seems to be calling out the Apple contract specifically lists content as defined as magazines, newspapers, b
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by lshepstone 16y ago
It's simply due to the regional monopolies the telcos and cable cos have in the US. If you had open competition it might go something like what happened in the UK. Bandwidth was pretty expensive in the UK back in the nineties, but then OFC
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by lshepstone 16y ago
It's going to be pretty interesting watching this play out. But Apple and Android have an unfair advantage right now...apps, and lots of them. If you've got an iOS or Android phone and already own some apps the other guys are going to hav
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by lshepstone 16y ago
I don't agree. I can show you some form based screens where a non-technical user can create some content and publish it fair easier and quicker than using an in-context editing approach. I raised the point in comments above, but there is a
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by lshepstone 16y ago
I think we're mixing requirements here. Use case 1: I need to create a new page and for many corporate sites, each new page is different than the next for the majority of the body copy...different layout, one has a map etc. I need to choos
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by lshepstone 16y ago
Apologies for the delay in reply, quite busy at the moment. A couple important points to address from your comment. That site only has a few screenshots taken from the UI, so unfortunately not all of the functionality is adequately represe
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by lshepstone 16y ago
(Disclosure, I worked on this product in a previous life) So this is an enterprise CMS example, but the UI did get some pretty decent feedback from customers. Have a look at http://media.vignette.com and you can see some screenshots. Thi
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by lshepstone 16y ago
Love the sentiment, but I'm not sure they're going about it in the right way. Of course any attention and funding is better than none, but instead of getting McKinsey to advise someone or open a few offices in East London I would much rath
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by lshepstone 16y ago
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.