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Re: How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

andrewbaron — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:31:17 -0000

Steve, good point on the image size, I will reduce. Also, I agree and think Twitter's model of keeping the feature set minimal was a needed step for its growth, in order to engage all of the 3rd party business. Agreed, agreed, agreed. However, your arguments suffer from a fallacy called "Tu Quoque" which attempts to defend oneself or another from criticism by turning the critique back against the accuser. This is a classic Red Herring - attacking the size of my screenshots is entirely unrelated to any refutation of Twitter's design.

Because Twitter has such a small feature set, for whatever reason, it should be easy to put the interface together.

Re: How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

andrewbaron — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:39:39 -0000

Oh you were clear all right. I was just thinking outloud, wondering how now home could equal timeline, a word that applies to every layout of tweets. A timeline of your tweets, a timeline of your friends tweets, or a timeline of AT&T complaints. This further suggests that there is a break down in the hierarchical structure of the navigation even in concept.

Re: How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

andrewbaron — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:21:43 -0000

Here's one for you. Have you seen http://business.twitter.com/twitter101 ?

I found myself at that funny link url when I clicked on "Business" in the footer. Once there, check out the logo (i think you could call it the logo) on the top left, it breathes for some reason and it's clickable to refresh the otherwise static page.

Re: How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

andrewbaron — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:02:19 -0000

WTF?

Re: Shopify » Please Log In

andrewbaron — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:29:20 -0000

Yes you do!!! You know you would love it. I'm sure you would have plenty to say back too. At least when wearing this shirt, I found that I was gifted with superpowers and was able to always have a come-back, as well as the last laugh. Definitely worth it, I recommend buying two and wearing them both at once.

Re: Misdirected Social Victims of the Antiquated Web

andrewbaron — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:10:23 -0000

I got an email from msm.com the other day and I just assumed that person worked at Microsoft.

Re: ROCKETBOOM INTERNATIONAL TALENT SEARCH

andrewbaron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:43:41 -0000

Thanks for the feedback! If we would of had the freedom to jump in fully, I feel pretty confident you would love Caitlin as much as I do...it's actually the opposite, I think: She IS very sophisticated and much older than her age. Keep the comments coming, much appreciated.

Re: twdsc.us: @arrington

andrewbaron — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:14:53 -0000

Ok, seems to prob be Google and Yahoo. Hope the crunchpad will find a way to leverage the buzz around Apple's upcoming releases and come out right b4 then.

Re: And We're Off!

andrewbaron — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:58:57 -0000

Thanks for the nice comments FunTime and Tim! Much appreciated!!

Re: Question to the Internetz on API usage

andrewbaron — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:57:13 -0000

True, for sites like Hulu, its not an issue. We just grab their RSS feed and run with it. Though there are plenty of other ways to track hulu videos, without hulu.

Re: Question to the Internetz on API usage

andrewbaron — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:54:28 -0000

Yes, actually that is what saves a lot of apps I think. Like with Tweetdeck, I personally get 100 req per hour via Twitter as a Tweetdeck user.

Though in the case of Magma is not the users doing the requests, its just us. ;)

Re: Question to the Internetz on API usage

andrewbaron — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:33:53 -0000

Because we already built our own system, bpm. Thanks for understanding that we are not interested in paying for your service at this time.

Do you have any data you could share here publicly to my question about rate limiting?

Re: Lost Views & Tracking Chatter

andrewbaron — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:17:30 -0000

My understanding is that they had to make a tradeoff due to people hacking view counts off site.

For example, If you have a blog with 30 posts on the home page, and every post has an autoplay video, every time someone lands on your pages, that would be 30 video plays. But obviously most people only watch one video at a time. Also, I think its more difficult to trace back the i.p. to determine uniqueness, which is why off-site, one unique individual can watch a video 30 times, but it only counts as one view.

Moral to the story? When there are a lot off-site views, YouTube doesn't count a lot of them.

Re: Rocketboom Nominated Webby Award!

andrewbaron — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:25:07 -0000

I will go to the show and I may just bring my ukulele!

Re: Why TV Lost

andrewbaron — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:28:44 -0000

On Piracy. I'm not making any bets on how this will pan out, but there will be a way to generate revenue for digital media. This idea however does not refute the fact that the Tv studios havent figured that out yet, and by now, its too late. And thus they have already lost control.

Same thing happened to the music industry. It used to be 5 record labels that controlled all distribution and promotion. Now they dont control any promotion at all and Apple controls the most distribution and all the pricing.

To your final note, I agree too. On Saturday I was in the Hollywood hills ironically coming down from a jaunt with a friend and one of the first houses at the end of the trail had a box of snacks and water bottles and a sign with prices and slot to drop the money. Try this same thing with a 7-11 on 42nd Street Times Square, where the big business is, and that store will be empty before you could get there on the A express.

Re: Why TV Lost

andrewbaron — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:06:59 -0000

Hi Morgan, I read your article and also don't all together disagree with you. In my opinion, your article and Graham's article are only in contrast by your definition of "what is TV?". I think Graham means "the tv studio business", like NBC or ABC for instance. Whereas you seem to be defining TV as literally, the phenomenon of watching content on a screen. He wasn't referring to to the talent. Obviously the producers and actors and writers in Hollywood got there for a reason: They are damn good. But the $70B business machine behind it, needs $70B and in the last 6 months alone, just lost $35B. They also have massive amounts of competition. The creative geniuses in Hollywood that have been making TV shows and films for years along with a new breed of creative talent found all over YouTube, threaten to hook up with venture capital (or their weekly allowance) and change the business model and the whole work flow before NBC can turn their gargantuan, over inflated selves around.

Re: Why TV Lost

andrewbaron — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:26:40 -0000

Don't worry, most of this stuff will shake out in the background. You'll still get the programming you mentioned and it will continue to be the most popular and continue to improve in production quality. The question is simply, who will get all the money. Maybe not NBC.

Re: Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee

andrewbaron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:15:55 -0000

I agree. Yet AT&T tried selling a box a year or two ago and failed. TiVo is not new either but doesent make it look easy. And don't get me started talking about Akimbo. Oy.

Re: It's The Interface!

andrewbaron — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:44:32 -0000

It could be, though I think they tried that, and now it's time to try something else. I like the idea of what you are suggesting if you are considering the layout of an airplane cockpit or the position of a bed control in a hospital, but when it comes to your phone and your social networks, lets have a little pizzaz. Even Twitter allows you to change the background color, sheesh.

Re: Sony Pictures Takes The Ball and Runs With It

andrewbaron — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:41:13 -0000

Fixed, thanks!

Re: Dembot - Twitter Down Art Collection

andrewbaron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:55:09 -0000

Got it, thanks!

Re: Dembot - Twitter Down Art Collection

andrewbaron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:54:32 -0000

Thanks Chris, just found that too and posted :)

Re: Tysabri Obtained

andrewbaron — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:40:32 -0000

Rolled, over the last several years, my father donated around $1,000,000 to Mayo to conduct the research which led to this discovery of Tysabri.

Re: Tysabri Obtained

andrewbaron — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:13:22 -0000

The bottom line is that Biogen may have too much control over the destiny of who gets the drug and who does not. Its in a rare category and only a few other companies have this power.

Re: Tysabri Obtained

andrewbaron — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:39:43 -0000

Rolled, Biogen decided **on their own** that they wanted to remove the drug and thus decided to deprive 10's of 1000's of people from the drug for their own internal reasons.