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by tobtoh 15y ago
> Really? I count OWS, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, etc. among the biggest contributions of our generation. Certainly these are confrontational? I think he covers this point here: "Yes, we’re vicious, anonymously, on the comment threads of pub
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by tobtoh 15y ago
And what do you propose is the alternative? Very easy to take a moral high ground when you don't have to worry about the repercussions of over population and strained resources. As the poster said themselves - too many people in China.
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This is how you toast misfortune(salon.com)
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> I really appreciate their test-and-learn style of product releases. I do to - but don't you feel that lately they are just releasing far too early? Take the Gmail redesign - opened up to beta, they took onboard the early feedback abou
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Siegler isn't just complaining about a buggy app - he's complaining more about the trend of Google releasing sub-par products or mis-managing their releases.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I found this paragraph to be insightful: "When Jobs took the stage to unveil something, people got excited not just because he was a great showman but because it instilled an underlying belief that what he was going to unveil would be great
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Google+ being released to Google App users - only for them to discover that Google+ app on Android and iOS isn't compatible for them. Google Reader being released to universal complaints that it's made reading more difficult due to too much
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Hardly. If you publish a book and someone publishes figures on how many books have been sold, or how many people have mentioned your book in reviews - that's not personal information. I don't see Klout as being any different. (mind you I ag
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> That doesn't make him a saint, but I think it makes him someone worthy of respect. I totally agree about respect - but respect is not charity. Charity refers to noble goals/intentions - Steve 'only' built great products - those produc
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> I think that his continuing to work is the most charitable act I've observed in my lifetime. Really? I doubt he did any of the stuff for our express benefit. Steve had a personal drive to produce good products, to achieve his personal
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I get the point you are trying to make, but I think these circumstances are different. Your point is valid if you are talking only about consumer users. However, any enterprise App account is going to be run by a (generally speaking) techni
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I check FB every day - but I'm a somewhat reluctant user of it. Whilst both Google and FB track my personal usage of the web, I actually trust (in loose terms) Google more - mainly because I know they use it for advertising (which I'm fine
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Whitman only has experience managing a business that was dominant in their area and due to first-comer advantage, basically had virtually no other companies that could come close to their effective monopoly position. Ye
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I guess it's horses for courses - but I do agree with you that it seems rather bland. I much prefer something like last.fm where I can listen to tracks that others with similar tastes to me are listening to.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Awesome - thanks! And look at that - a 35 minute video is compressed into 1 minute of reading and I bet, thanks to the summary, I obtained 75% of the relevant info that I would have got if I had watched the video in it's entirety.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I agree there is a lot of pent up demands - my point is that when your Apps users are frustrated at being treated as second class citizens, they either move to other services and/or discourage others from joining Apps. So the 'Google has it
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> they will own "Facebook for business" when they launch Apps integration Well I doubt any App user is expecting that to happen anytime soon. In any post about Google+ today, there is an App user within the top 5 parent reply posts bitt
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> it's meant to replace the auto-generated images that already exist that use IP addresses I think you need to emphasise this point more in your 'about' page. I skimmed through your about page and came away with the thought 'I don't thi
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Sam has posted on Google+ ( https://plus.google.com/113956160418597123621/posts/MAqht3NB... ) ... however be aware that I suspect he is deleting posts and blocking people (^) that are critical of him as I posted the following: "It's not muc
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Strip away all the fluff that Sam put in his blog post and what do you have? You have Jonathan's 'take a penny, leave a penny' project. You have Sam who thinks he's very clever by showing how someone can come in and siphon off the pennies a
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by tobtoh 15y ago
You paint EJ as someone trying to blackmail or strongarm AirBnB for restitution. If you read her first post, you'll find it's a warning to people to be aware of the dangers of renting out your house to strangers and that AirBnB glosses over
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by tobtoh 15y ago
> do you really think they are so dumb that they don't realize it's not worth the bad PR to save money Well it was AirBnB that admitted that they (or contractor scapegoats) farmed Craigslist to grow its business without thought how that
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by tobtoh 15y ago
One of the big things about running a business is about being flexible and adaptable - particularly for a startup - there is even a cliched word that is bandied about for extreme examples of this - pivot. The whole 'but if we do this it set
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by tobtoh 15y ago
I experienced the same thing ... here's another test from personal experience ... if you look at a leafy tree and it looks like a brown stick with a green ball on top ... your vision is bad! I know that sounds ridiculously obvious - but whe
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Quoting from the BB article which itself quotes the US copyright law: "Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable. Thus, a linoleum floor covering featuring a mu
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by tobtoh 15y ago
The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging you have a problem .... If the Joe the Plumber wants to support tax cuts for the rich and he's fully aware of his situation, then there is no issue having that opinion. But if his self-ima
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Can someone explain the IBM panel (the one about the fridge) please? I have an inkling as to what they are referring to, but am not sure if it's my personal bias mis-interpreting the joke.
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Fair point Steve - I was a little too broad brush in my response. Yes I agree latency matters - but I was replying to your response in the context that you proposed that business was hesitant to host overseas due to latency issues. My reply
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Unless you are running a gaming service, latency hardly matters for 'everyday' websites. With most people on broadband of some sort, 2ms or 160ms ping times is not relevant - they wouldn't even notice the split second delay before the page
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by tobtoh 15y ago
Done - thanks for the suggestion Corin!

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