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Re: Could You Help Me With a Project

ecspike — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:40:38 -0000

I saw it. What a cutie.

Re: Hulu Embraces Publishers, Linux Users with Shiny New Tools

ecspike — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:01:58 -0000

There isn't an official Linux version of Chrome but the Ubuntu builds Google provides have been very stable for the past couple of months. It even has the Java plugin installed. I hardly ever use Firefox anymore.

Re: NBC’s Chuck Back for Season 3; Can Social Media Keep it Alive for More?

ecspike — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:58 -0000

I think that this stay of execution will be nice but probably won't be repeated. The networks don't fully understand the internet yet. Given the theme of Chuck, I'd guess that a lot of the viewers watch in non-traditional forms (Hulu, Youtube, Bittorrent). Neilsen ratings are at best a guess. They should adopt a long tail Amazon-like approach. Chuck will probably not ever be as popular as Grey's Anatomy but that doesn't mean that its audience is in any way less important.

Rather than canceling it after uproar 2.0 doesn't happen next year, they could possibly make it an online only series with a shortened season (maybe 6 - 10 episodes).

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

jbruin — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:35:37 -0000

James...baby steps :)

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

ecspike — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:04:38 -0000

If only it showed the last five tweets of that person, it would be doubly awesome.

Re: What Do YOU Think of The Swine Flu Hype On Twitter?

ecspike — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:09:35 -0000

Maybe there could be some sort of algorithm that could take into account how often someone tweeted about a subject and how many times they were retweeted to determine authority.

Or maybe adapting the love/hate/think/believe/feel/wish meme from twistori. Most of the hysterical tweets express some sort of fear. Maybe grade the tweets based on perceived emotion and the matter of fact ones rise to the top, the Chicken Littles fall to the bottom.

Re: What Do YOU Think of The Swine Flu Hype On Twitter?

Corvida — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:46:11 -0000

I like your response James. Filters will definitely be something Twitter will need to work on when it comes to breaking the news. Do you have any suggestions on what types of filters Twitter could implement?

Re: What Do YOU Think of The Swine Flu Hype On Twitter?

ecspike — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:22:03 -0000

I don't think Twitter is the problem as much as the 24 hour news cycle. Cable news has space to fill and the swine flu is a low hanging fruit. It my Twitter circle, I've seen a lot more joke tweets about the swine flu than ones of genuine concern. Most of my friends are developers who are known to be a cynical lot.

I don't find Twitter any more misinforming than old media. Twitter is a great source for breaking news like natural disasters but lacks the needed filter to be totally reliable for anything that requires analysis/debate.

Re: What Do YOU Think Of All The Recent Media Hype?

ecspike — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:25:00 -0000

I'll be happy when they find a less useful tool to exploit. The thing that got me about Ashton Kutcher's comments was that he said a regular person can be as powerful as a media company...I'm probably butchering the quote but my point is that he would have never got to 1,000,000 followers if he hadn't traded on his fame to rely on a bunch of people to blindly follow him. I'm hoping that this doesn't turn into the race to collect friends (à la Myspace) and people actually engage their community and don't just broadcast to it.

WRT noise, there definitely will be more noise than signal but that's how Twitter works. Compare anyone's first month or so of tweets to months or years later and the noise to signal ratio definitely improves.

When people can't wring out another story for the current news cycle out of it, they'll chill out.

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - Twitter vs FriendFeed Rivalry Gets Catty I’ve...

ecspike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:31:23 -0000

Twitter gives me a snapshot of someone's consciousness whereas FriendFeed gives me an better idea of what interests and motivates them. A killer feature of FriendFeed is that it pulls in Twitter so easily. Until everyone I know moves over to FriendFeed(which won't ever happen), I'll use both.

Re: Microsoft Pays $300 Million to Tell the World They’re Cheap?

ecspike — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:36:43 -0000

I found it to be an odd attempt at being quirky and viral. Viral can not be planned, it simply is. I'm not really sure of who the target market is. The demographic that would take stock in what Seinfeld says are more prone to buy off the shelf with Vista already installed since you can't get a XP license through regular channels anymore. Millenials, (born 1978-2000) who thrive in an environment of instant gratifical and access to information, IMHO are not going to be moved by the call to action of Seinfeld's "take a long time to say nothing" comedic delivery.