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Re: Comments on the Node Foundation

AlexSchleber — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:25:54 -0000

It is important to note that from all appearances, the io.js people made their decision based on Joyent's overly heavy-handed, slow-boating, increasingly corporate approach, which can also easily be seen from the Node "Foundation" member list: IBM, Walmart, Microsoft, Paypal, etc.

So in essence to evade the very thing you decry in your post. There was a pretty good HN thread about it the other day. I know you don't like links posted in comments, so search HN for "Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation".

Some movement forward, like moving faster toward new version of V8, as well as support of "new" ES6 standards are just necessary, given the fast moving overall picture with Golang, Scala, et al. in the server-side race. But I don't get the feeling that io.js is interested in breaking everyone's modules on NPM, so nearly everything should stay backwards compatible.

You could ask @indutny about it on Twitter.

Re: Coming To Port 53 Near You: The New DigitalOcean DNS!

AlexSchleber — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:40:59 -0000

IPv6 ?

Re: Content Shock: Why content marketing is not a sustainable strategy

AlexSchleber — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:23:48 -0000

I could not help but recall that I wrote the following circa mid 2011 (posted to my blog in early 2012 from another SM/clipping service that I had been using - Amplify.com - sadly now defunct):

businessmindhacks.com/post/...

"...That is the essence of The Content Creator’s Dilemma: Too long, didn’t write… given the pincer-like twin threat of Content Overabundance and Content Decay."

Re: Wake Up – Why It’s Now About the Media not the Social

AlexSchleber — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:18:56 -0000

Would you be willing to pay $1/month for such a (fully functioning) network? (guaranteeing that the servers stay on without the need for any privacy/data exploitation...)

Re: Facebook Declining Page Reach: 9 Experts Weigh In

AlexSchleber — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:51:20 -0000

Hmmm... http://sethgodin.typepad.co...

Re: ReadWrite – The 7 Technology Trends That Will Matter Most To Small Business in 2013

AlexSchleber — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:37:58 -0000

Well, in regards to 6) millennials and moms, you can safely rule out Google+, as none of the former are on the latter...

Re: Google’s sync changes are going to screw Gmail users on Windows Phone

AlexSchleber — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:46:13 -0000

What Windows Phone users...? :) You mean all several hundreds of them?

Re: ReadWrite – HP Elitebook Revolve Blurs Tablet/Notebook Line In Search Of Hybrid Heaven

AlexSchleber — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:02:20 -0000

Exactly, I had a 12" Windows "Tablet PC" with almost exactly that same mechanism in 2004-2006. I had high hopes for the tablet/touch-screen (+ stylus) aspects of it, but the thing just never worked well enough in those modes.

Now that everyone has seen and HELD what does work, namely iPads and increasingly Android tablets from 7" to 9.7", why would anyone want to try to use this as a tablet at the too-large/heavy 3 pounds and 11.6"?! (Which BTW is about 0.5 pounds heavier than a Macbook Air; must be due to the honking battery this thing will need to run Win8 on a Core i5+ for 8 hours...).

So far, the only hybrid designs I've seen that made much sense at all were the Asus offerings: One WinRT clone of the Asus Transformer (Android), which unfortunately is still priced too high once you add in the keyboard dock for $150+, and one straight Win8 Touch-Screen Laptop (no swivel) in 11.6", fairly light feeling, Core i3, SSD, and priced around $600.

Re: iPad Mini: All big tablets, please go home (review)

AlexSchleber — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:15:35 -0000

This is why I went with the Galaxy Tab 8.9 a while back. At 1 lbs. it was the sensible, truly mobile tablet size before the iPad Mini. The 7" Androids are a bit too small/narrow for my taste, Apple's aspect ratio is better, even though it currently screws up HD video vs. the Nexus 7.

I am glad that Amazon has been going in the 8.9" direction as well with the Kindle Fire HD 8.9, although they and most of the other Android OEMs will (have to) be trimming their bezels down a good bit, now that the Mini is showing the way...

Tons more related discussion over here ->

https://plus.google.com/112...

Re: The State Of Online Advertising Revisited

AlexSchleber — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:37:04 -0000

Curated/related: http://www.antipope.org/cha...

"The inadmissible assumptions
By Charlie StrossUnderlying all debate on the future of the internet are a constellation of unspoken assumptions. These include:

a) Advertising is socially neutral or good,
b) Internet content provision on the internet is therefore best funded by selling eyeballs to advertisers,
c) Most people just want to consume content the way they used to consume TV or movies, and it's socially acceptable to orient the internet around this model (call it the broadcasting fallacy),...

Reality check: a) All advertising tends towards the state of spam (which is merely free-as-in-dirt-cheap-and-unregulated advertising)..."
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Well said. Interruption marketing is slowly but surely coming to an end. People will not tolerate it int the future for all but the rarest of use cases.

Re: A Man, a Car and His Startup

AlexSchleber — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:00:23 -0000

re:showers - get a $20 or so / month 24-Hour Fitness membership -> gym, showers, many even have sauna & lap pools. Problem solved...

Re: Scripting News: Ideas for movie moguls

AlexSchleber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:29:35 -0000

While I really like that idea as well, that would be far too logical for the movie theater chains to consider... ;)

Re: Scripting News: Ideas for movie moguls

AlexSchleber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:28:00 -0000

The brilliant Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin (by now a minor chain in that region) has solved a lot of your concerns for a long time:

1) Real food: Check. Adult beverages: Check. Friendly waitstaff hurries them to your table: Check.

2) They do have a pretty strong/ingenious message starring some celebrities at the start of each movie against cell phones & talking. "We will take you...out." I like your auto-silence signal idea though. The other day a star conductor in Europe halted a major performance of an opera or concert due to a cell phone going off in the audience...

3) As to the volume level on dialogues specifically, I've thought for years that someone needs to create a sound equalizer for home use, as one is always adjusting between action scenes (way too loud) and turning back up for barely audible dialogues, especially if you have room-mates/significant others trying to sleep/study in the later hours of the night.

Really Hollywood could fix that to some extent by having the basic audio tracs on movies equalize out a little but more...

Re: A Post PIPA Post

AlexSchleber — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:21:58 -0000

Wrote this a while back:

"Sony is making a huge mistake by not going the $1/month route for complete/unlimited streaming music access with their own new offering. Because that would put it in the complete impulse purchase, don't-need-to-think, will-likely-never-cancel-for-any-reason category.

What if they could thereby garner 100 Million users, thus spending about $1.2 Billion, or in other words about 20% of what still is left of the global music industry?!

If Apple doesn't do it, then someone else eventually will. *Only then will some in the #dinomedia come to see, that the race was not about who was still going to eek out some residual "crumbs" profits from the Old System, but who was going to wholesale import the masses into their Ecosystem.* "

Re: A Post PIPA Post

AlexSchleber — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:55:34 -0000

Until the #dinomedia in all of its guises (newspapers, film, music) understand the new realities leading to this: http://alexschleber.amplify...

there will be little common ground to argue on...

Re: Top 10 (Outlandish) Social Media Business Prediction for 2012

AlexSchleber — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:03:43 -0000

Some interesting thoughts, especially re: BestBuy + B&N combo (high capex up front though, no?)

re: 2) nah, Nokia / WP7+ is toast... sorry. They didn't capture any new mindshare at CES, which may well have been their last chance.

See here: https://plus.google.com/u/0... or here: https://plus.google.com/u/0...

Re: The worst aspects of social media are converging — on you

AlexSchleber — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:48:00 -0000

Many great points.There is a lot to digest, but right off the bat I would think of a few posts that I wrote/curated myself in the last year. Certainly I agree on Klout being a cancer of sorts, as well as the filter bubble and issues of Power Law Effects with Twitter Trending Topics et al.:http://alexschleber.amplify..., there are many issues there and you may have seen my highlight a good handful of posts in recent weeks from+Mahendra Palsule etc.

Re: The worst aspects of social media are converging — on you

AlexSchleber — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:48:35 -0000

Re: Why My Search Engine Use Is Dwindling and Why Yours Will Too

AlexSchleber — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:44:59 -0000

You are absolutely right re: Siri, and that is why Google decided several years ago that it HAD to do Android to not find themselves suddenly cut off on mobile platforms...

Re: Engadget, broadcasting live from Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' event in Cupertino!

AlexSchleber — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:30:30 -0000

Oh noooooo, did they just stop the live stream?! Big mistake, you keep the show on the road, and in truth they could have put any ad/promo-like interstitials they ever wanted for the next 2.5 hours. How hard can it be to get some interns/people/etc. to keep chatting away about the iPhone 4S-maybe-5-but-who-knows?!

Re: Engadget, broadcasting live from Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' event in Cupertino!

AlexSchleber — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:27:33 -0000

Cue "The Great Unveiling", umpteenth take -> http://businessmindhacks.co...

Re: Sony Vaio Z Unboxing – Vergleich mit Sony Vaio Z12

AlexSchleber — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:28:42 -0000

Why didn't you just buy a Macbook Air and set it up to dual boot Win7 and MacOSX? Still better industrial design and very likely battery life...

Re: Google's Strategic Mistakes Drove Motorola Buy

AlexSchleber — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:19:43 -0000

What part of "moat strategy" did you not understand? Android is Google's way of keeping you in their (mostly search) ecosystem, which they are able to monetize better than anyone else. To the tune of ~ $10B in profit per year ( http://investor.google.com/... ). THAT is worth protecting, and so far Android's up to 50% share appears to make them right on this point.

So the patent attacks have necessitated that Google spend somewhere between say $4B-$8B (they could end up selling off the handset business to e.g. Huawei, and the set-top box business to someone else), to buffer Android. Is that worth it to buy into the future on mobile platforms, and be able to continue to make $10B / year?

You tell me. MSFT is willing to lose $3B / year on Bing and their other Internet Division properties, because they feel they need to be there in the future. And so far they can't quite buy their way into mobile at all, either with WP7 or tablets.

Google has made a decent stand with Android in smartphones, and in tablets there is at least a chance to grow share at the lower end and for "less sexy" enterprise use cases where a shiny, hyper-branded iPad is overkill. Windows 8 is still a long way off, and may ultimately come far too late to make a difference.

Re: Google's Strategic Mistakes Drove Motorola Buy

AlexSchleber — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:19:10 -0000

You yourself say that Apple et al. could always shut off/disallow Google's applications on their mobile devices. Which is why they more or less had to go with the Android strategy, which has been run as a "Moat Strategy" from the beginning:

http://alexschleber.amplify... initial cost was a very low $50M or so in Android acquisition, plus dev cost since then. Which up to now has bought Google nearly 50% share. What's not to like?So now it turned out that due to the #PatentAttacks, the price has gone up. Fine. But Google may have actually gotten a decent price on the Motorola deal:They paid ~$9.5B ($12.5B - $3B in MMI balance sheet cash) for 17,000 patents, plus 7,500 pending. Too keep our math easy, let's assume they paid $10B (because some of that MMI cash is of course tied up for operations), and that they'll only get about half of the pending patents approved. So $10B / 20,000 = $500,000 per patent.The MSFT/Apple/et al. consortium just paid $4.5B for 6,000 patents, or $750,000 per patent for the Nortel block.

Re: http://wall-notes.com/post/8821588886

AlexSchleber — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:49:22 -0000

OK, but how does that explain the "few things are as exciting..." bit?!

WP = just another silo to dead-end stuff you type into it. Change is coming... ;)