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Re: Lion Kimbro - WebSeitz/wiki

BillSeitz — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:26:41 -0000

Great to hear from you! I've sniffed around your Facebook page occasionally to see that you're still alive. I miss your online collaboration-process thinking, but it sounds like you've found a big lever to push on, so that's awesome. Things are a little bananas this month, but after the holidays I'll find a chance to hook up.

Re: Come for an Action, Stay for the Community

BillSeitz — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:08:13 -0000

The "transaction" focus makes it sounds like basing community on consumption/brands, which doesn't feel like progress.

Re: How Apps Can Shape Your Future Self

BillSeitz — Wed, 02 May 2018 19:00:01 -0000

I'd like to understand the Lifesum example further?

How did they establish what phase a new user was at? How did they identify changes in phase?

Did they make the phase explicit to the user, or just inexplicably change the interface?

Re: Structured Writing - WebSeitz/wiki

BillSeitz — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:56:57 -0000

Thanks - fixed!

Re: Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free

BillSeitz — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:09:34 -0000

"Whitaker, who founded two other Elsevier journals and has a combined 50 years of editorial experience with the company." I don't think that's how 'combined' works.

Re: My Offer to Stop Donald Trump | Scott Adams Blog

BillSeitz — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:34:14 -0000

more like https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Quizlet

BillSeitz — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:48:16 -0000

My kids have often been Quizlet users, so I'm a fan.

Sadly, it feels like a *bigger* % of education startups are in the Automate category these days.

Re: The Prize

BillSeitz — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:15:04 -0000

Even the push for early reading may be unnecessary.

From Daniel Greenberg's book on Sudbury: "None of our graduates are functional illiterates. Some eight year olds are, some ten year olds are, even an occasional twelve year old. But by the time they leave, they are indistinguishable. No one who meets our older students could ever guess the age at which they first learned to read or write." http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Re: Future reading

BillSeitz — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:41:52 -0000

I read everything on my phone, but have always hacked my books to keep them open.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Image handling is still annoying.

Re: We're still somewhat in the Information Dark Ages

BillSeitz — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:38:01 -0000

in Facebook search bar type "friends in San Francisco", then click on the People tab. Seems to work right now, though I've seen comments about the feature having been turned off in the recent past. Also it may include anyone who has EVER lived in San Francisco, not just those with it as their current home city.

Some people suggest changing your current city to that temporary location, then click the Friends header-link in the left-nav-bar, which gives you lots of subgroup names, and click on the city name/link and it should give you just those friends.

Re: We're still somewhat in the Information Dark Ages

BillSeitz — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:23:18 -0000

FourSquare Swarm?

Re: Do people still use libraries?

BillSeitz — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:43:31 -0000

Big effort to gather family stories: http://storycorps.org/

Re: I would love an open source Slack clone

BillSeitz — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:18:37 -0000

Are you sure the webhooks cloning is sufficient? Seems like lots is done via the WebSocket-based RTM API. (Sorry if this is stupid question.)
https://api.slack.com/

Re: The Phablet Effect

BillSeitz — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:36:57 -0000

Really liked my Nexus7. But it died after a year. And my old phone was dying at the same time, so bought a Nexus6 to replace the two together.

Re: What is Better Than a Republic? | Scott Adams Blog

BillSeitz — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:28:59 -0000

There are a couple apps that have been written to implement this model: LiquidFeedback/LiquidDemocracy and DemocracyOS.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Re: Feature Friday: In App Advocacy

BillSeitz — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:30:46 -0000

I agree on subways.

And down below I note BusRapidTransit, which has relatively low capital/disruption requirements.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Real-time location reporting for subways/buses might also improve multi-modal trips. (Maybe that's a solved problem now, I haven't kept up...)

Re: Feature Friday: In App Advocacy

BillSeitz — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:40:27 -0000

I think BusRapidTransit is a lot easier to get going.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Re: Feature Friday: In App Advocacy

BillSeitz — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:39:22 -0000

After all the work to accommodate bikes, they make up 1% of commuting trips in NYC. Seems like a wrong alternative to focus on.

Re: The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

BillSeitz — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:26:18 -0000

Update
* still growing
* still losing money
* market cap still over $1B

Re: The Great Decoupling

BillSeitz — Thu, 28 May 2015 14:28:27 -0000

Except lots of ownership (home, car, ahem children) actually increases your fixed costs, reducing your financial resilience.

Re: Why Are We Here?

BillSeitz — Fri, 22 May 2015 07:30:29 -0000

Seligman covered this area pretty well in "Authentic Happiness". http://webseitz.fluxent.com...

Re: I, for one, welcome our new newsstand

BillSeitz — Thu, 14 May 2015 07:12:17 -0000

Whether you call Facebook a "publisher" or not, they become a very powerful choke-point. They may use that force for social-good (dragging newspapers out of their delusional incrementalist paths), or bad (picking winners, commoditizing, etc.).

It's always harder to fight a monopoly after it becomes one.

Re: Will · The Lazy Language of Learning

BillSeitz — Wed, 13 May 2015 19:22:34 -0000

Sometimes I think this sloppy language comes from an institutional desire to avoid conflict. Which isn't surprising when you're selling to "enterprises" (schools/districts/grantors).

https://gettingreal.37signa...

Re: Feature Friday: Google Calendar for Android

BillSeitz — Sat, 09 May 2015 13:48:27 -0000

Note that I didn't make a general statement/question, but rather one targeted specifically at Fred, who I'm pretty sure has lots of time blocked in his calendar, and does lots of running around. So I'm curious about how he handles that.

Re: Feature Friday: Google Calendar for Android

BillSeitz — Fri, 08 May 2015 14:29:47 -0000

Don't you create your event times with travel time built in? So then GoogleNow's alerts are too early?