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Re: Let's Get On With It

fredwilson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:11:24 -0000

That's not in the cards. I get paid every day by the people like you who engage here

Re: Let's Get On With It

awilensky — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:28:19 -0000

I would pay for AVC. That's one out of 400 feeds that I skim everyday.

Re: Pay Attention to GM This Week

awilensky — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:53:43 -0000

Too big to fail, too stupid to succeed.

Re: Pay Attention to GM This Week

awilensky — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:52:43 -0000

For the money we poured into this moribund company, we could have built a new industry from scratch around the new innovators like Tesla, Bright, and others. No amount of tweets and posts from any big three source would ever have credibility/

Re: Ollie

gothamgal — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:17:20 -0000

Is he? That's hilarious.

Re: Ollie

awilensky — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:06:43 -0000

Mrs. Wilson:

Is that dog smiling? Don't tell me he's not smiling.

Re: ShareMe -The Mobile Future : Weblog

awilensky — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:35:49 -0000

That would be a coup for them.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/early-adopters-and-finding-next-shiny.html

awilensky — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:26:18 -0000

Louis, I think this syndrome is now clustering around "real time streams". Everyone is writing posts and real articles about the messianic coming of real time updates; when it is hardly proven that real-time steams are advantageous or not.

I always thought that relevant and contextual was the real need, but now that everyone and the brother is streaming real time updates, that is the shiny new thing. ech.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

Scott — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:18:49 -0000

Linkedin isn't even in the same discussion here. The number of people who use it on a daily basis is a fraction compared to Facebook. I've made far more business connections and contacts through Facebook than I have through LI due to the sheer number of people who are on FB. In fact, I've sat here thinking for 5 minutes and can only come up with four people in my life who aren't on FB.

Furthermore, easily half of the number of friends/family I keep in regular contact with is via Facebook. Phone calls are too time consuming, email can be a chore, but Facebook is the perfect equilibrium. It may not be a mission critical utility, but it sure as heck makes this 28-year-olds life much more connected and easier.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

facebook-654557565 — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:40:24 -0000

your question is stupid. Even in the corporate world, most people have no idea what linkedin is. If that tree fell, no one would care. Myspace would have a greater effect. Facebook is huge for people without time. As a tech, I've spent a decade trying to convince people that it's easier to host your own blog than use blogspot. I've told them it's easier to build and server base back up system than to go without. etc on into infinity. people like easy and they like flashy. Facebook is dead simple to use.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

awilensky — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:58:26 -0000

I'm asking about facebook. It's gone, now what? How is the world or work changed?

I might say that losing a utility like Linkedin might have more real world impact than losing FB to its non-business model.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

Peter Antypas — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:54 -0000

How would your life or career be affected if there were no TV,sports,music,movies,outdoor activities, name-your-favorite-pastime? Certainly we don't "need" them, right?

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

awilensky — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:40:36 -0000

What are you 12? How would your life or career be materially affected if there were no Facebook? We are all acting like this is a mission critical utility.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

Geoff H — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:13:00 -0000

Why all the hate? Ive met a lot of old friends on facebook, and it makes it easy to keep up with friends I dont have enough time to hang out with in person regularly or have moved far away.

Obviously, there are people who like Facebook.

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

awilensky — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:55:11 -0000

If Facebook were to disappear overnight, who would really be the poorer?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/every-piece-of-infrastructure-carries.html

louismg — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:22:08 -0000

I wouldn't say "worried" is the right word. What I was trying to illustrate with this post is that there are many different factors that could impact uptime (or lack thereof). FriendFeed being down today is timely. The discussion of URL shorteners is timely. The conversation of FF.im happened just this week, so it's a good example. Yes, you are right in terms of addressing cloud, hosted services, and survivability. We need to have contingency plans in place for our data, wherever it is.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/every-piece-of-infrastructure-carries.html

awilensky — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:18:33 -0000

You are worried about Friend feed and URL shorteners? We have an entirely new regime of hosting services (cloud, SAAS, PAAS), that is in the process of trying to convince the fat part of the mid market that they can eschew commodity servers in the closet down the hallway, and roll out capital line of business onto elastic cloud services. Now, this will be a conundrum. Until the industry can make an convincing argument (other than keeping completely duplicate systems and comm links), the SME is going to be a tough sell. These are mission critical use cases - POS system, a mid range distributed rapid replenishment system, etc.

Many of the venture-backed cloud start ups have not addressed the survivability issues, and as a corollary, the insure-ability issue. There is not one specialty business underwriter that would touch these under capitalized, thinly equipped, and unrated services. The industry is offering minor alternatives for otherwise existing managed services where the actual, functional differences are virtually indiscernible. Managed services for legacy AS400 applications are far better cases for outsourced remote services.

In order for the industry to thrive, it must address the doubts of the SME, until the outages can be indemnified, there will be no major buy in from the SME. What you can't insure, you can't rely on; someone has to underwrite and price risk - even if the answer is SELF insurance.

FriendFeed is down? Please. Cry me a river.

Re: The American Express Blues

fredwilson — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:53:03 -0000

that's a big problem, if true

Re: The American Express Blues

awilensky — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:38:36 -0000

One of my best buddies us an IS analyst for the financial industry. He knows the in-out of Amex's centralized scoring and fraud detection center, and many of the key personnel, he claims, have turned over.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

awilensky — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:50:54 -0000

I have really tried to use the service, and after several weeks my opinion is that it adds nothing to my on-line experience.

Re: The Power Of Passed Links (continued)

Jay Meattle — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:30:28 -0000

Alan, have you seen www.bzzster.com? one-click way to email links.

Re: BlueOrganizer Tip: Uninstall

awilensky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:13:39 -0000

Glue added nothing to my on-line experience.

Re: The Power Of Passed Links (continued)

fredwilson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:15:31 -0000

Got it

Re: The Power Of Passed Links (continued)

awilensky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:09:08 -0000

I meant that it figures that what was found to be most often used is the most unwieldy. It take more clicks and the shared links are harder to manage - which doesn't seem to matter to most people, but mean everything to me.

Re: The Power Of Passed Links (continued)

fredwilson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:03:34 -0000

Email is the most effective he says