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Re: Xbox 360 sees biggest sales week in its 7-year history | VentureBeat

efliv — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:20:59 -0000

Wonder how many of these were replacement units? Figure they are less valuable as they don't grow the game platform / Xbox Live install base.

Impressive growth from Kinect. That's a lot more users for Kinect software makers.

Re: Amazon reports Q3 earnings, misses Wall St. estimates big-time | VentureBeat

efliv — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:42:24 -0000

If the Kindle was Amazon's only product, this would be terrific reporting.

Re: Catherine’s 1st NFL Game

efliv — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:54:33 -0000

Looks like she's a Saints fan. If it ain't broke...

Re: International Wireless Roaming

efliv — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:23:02 -0000

This doesn't answer your question, but I just got back from a month-long honeymoon in SE Asia (Singapore, Bali and Malaysia). I have an iPhone and bought the international voice plan from AT&T. I only made one call back to the states and haven't seen the bill yet.

But for data, I turned off data roaming and relied solely on WiFi. It was nearly ubiquitous, as most restaurants and cafe's offer it free to customers. If you're staying in one place for more than a few days, you'll end up with a nice collection of hot spot passwords on your device.

True, it doesn't offer 24/7 connectivity but that isn't necessarily a bad thing when you're on vacation.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/522234322

efliv — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:52:50 -0000

Great minds think alike. :)

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/522234322

efliv — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:03:02 -0000

Where in Asia? We're honeymooning in Thailand and Bali for most of July.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/522234322

efliv — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:26:41 -0000

Mills,

That's awesome news! My soon-to-be wife and I are moving to SF in the summer. When do you get there?

We'll have to hang out once we're settled.

-Eddie

Re: The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point

efliv — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:23:51 -0000

Fred,

I found your point that Twitter should have launched without the "holes" filled by 3rd party services really interesting. I wrote a graduate school paper on Twitter as a Complex Adaptive System that argued Twitter's success is due to it's willingness to let customers define the product.

The argument is that Twitter, knowingly or unknowingly, followed many of the lessons of Complex Adaptive Theory, recognizing the natural emergence of features and behaviors in the user base and incorporating those into the platform experience. Specific examples are features like Retweet and @ replies. So, the idea that Twitter had predetermined these “holes” and should have launched with all the current features of it’s ecosystem intrigues me.

Was Twitter cognizant of all the "holes" early on or were they discovered more organically?

Re: New efliv.com Design

efliv — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:57:47 -0000

Thanks!

The site is based off the "Depo Skinny Theme" for Wordpress. There's a link at the bottom of this page. That's a good place to start.

I added the DIV tabs at the top but you should be able to figure that out by viewing the source code in your browser. I had to add a few lines of javascript to make them function correctly. Let me know if you need that and I'll post it.

Re: Explicit vs Implicit Social Nets

efliv — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:40:08 -0000

When Buzz first dropped, many commented that Google finally "gets" social. After all the backlash, I'm left wondering if they ever did or if this bungle is a sign of the "strategy tax" forcing their hand.

I'm hoping for the former because the implications of the latter are much more troublesome.

Re: Scripting News: Must-have features for Twitter-killing

efliv — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:46:12 -0000

Eloquence doesn't require perfect grammatical syntax (though I prefer it). Rather, it means distilling your point down to its essential message so it can be communicated within the 140 character constraint. Hashtags and slang can convey just as valid a point as the Queen's English.

Re: Scripting News: Must-have features for Twitter-killing

efliv — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:21:44 -0000

I don't think the 140 character limit should be removed. Part of the beauty of Twitter is that it forces eloquence from its writers. Yes, that also creates constraints and work arounds, but without that limit it would be difficult to scan one's Twitter stream so quickly.

However, I definitely support enclosures. If one wanted to write a message on Twitter over 140 characters, place the extra characters in the enclosure and display the first 140 or simply the titles. Enclosures would also eliminate the need for Short-URL's, no?

Re: Apple's jumbo Oreo. (Scripting News)

efliv — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:36:41 -0000

I mostly agree. This is a casual form factor. The deign, while uninspired, is totally appealling to me. I would immediately prefer to do my living room surfing on the iPad over my Macbook Pro.

Unfortunately, it's also a casual operating system. Lack of multitasking and limitations of the app store hold this thing back greatly. Even for a purely entertainment device, those are glaring issues on a computing product this big and expensive.

I disagree on the mobile point though. I think the 3G pricing is great, despite its ties to AT&T. If the model I want wasn't $830 I would consider this an option for an upoming, extended trip abroad.

Re: Techies and normals

efliv — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:47 -0000

I'm curious how you'd interpret the second case (success with normals before techies) in Moore's Crossing The Chasm/Inside The Tornado frameworks.

I'd always considered techies to be the early adopters that influence the early and late majorities.

How does one jump straight to the majority?

Re: BRYCE DOT VC, What Website?

efliv — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:58:55 -0000

Fandango - Totally surprised by this one, perfect for finding movies and theaters, even booking tickets, while traveling thanks to location awareness.
Epicurious - The shopping list feature rocks when picking up missing ingredients for a recipe. Never been to the website.
Canabalt - Though the flash version of this game is free online, it was meant for the iPhone/Touch.
Pandora - Love the app but the website is ridiculously fugly.
nextstop - A website, not an app, but very app-like when viewed from an iPhone thanks to HTML5.

And I totally agree about Tumblr.

Bijan, some advice:
Pictures, you can only click on pictures when they're in "picture" posts, not when they are included in a "text" post. Also, you can't zoom in/out of pictures.
Also, sometimes fonts on text posts and reblogs blow up with no way to zoom around it. This is happening right now on the Tumblr Staff post about the new "Ask Me" feature. And on multiple reblogs the text can get pushed to the right and cut off.

Re: BRYCE DOT VC, What Website?

efliv — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:57:59 -0000

Fandango
Totally surprised by this one, perfect for finding movies and theaters, even booking tickets, while traveling thanks to location awareness.
Epicurious
The shopping list feature rocks when picking up missing ingredients for a recipe. Never been to the website.
Canabalt
Though the flash version of this game is free online, it was meant for the iPhone/Touch.
Pandora
Love the app but the website is ridiculously fugly.
nextstop
A website, not an app, but very app-like when viewed from an iPhone thanks to HTML5.

And I totally agree about Tumblr.
Bijan, some advice:
Pictures, you can only click on pictures when they're in "picture" posts, not when they are included in a "text" post. Also, you can't zoom in/out of pictures.
Also, sometimes fonts on text posts and reblogs blow up with no way to zoom around it. This is happening right now on the Tumblr Staff post about the new "Ask Me" feature. And on multiple reblogs the text can get pushed to the right and cut off.

Re: Boxee keyboard makes searching TV content fast

efliv — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:21:05 -0000

Is the Hulu support native in the software or through a browser pointed to Hulu.com?

Re: Top 10 Records Of 2009

efliv — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:04:29 -0000

If you haven't already, check out Feral Harmonic by Old Canes. I can't say whether or not it would have cracked your top ten list, but it's fun record.

Re: My Droid decision

efliv — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:35:30 -0000

The perfect solution we will never see...

iPhone Boot Camp, so you can run OS X and Android on the best designed hardware out there.

Re: Looking Product and Marketing Talent

efliv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:56 -0000

Hey Fred,

Do you know if Covester would consider MBA candidates who will not graduate until May? I have experience managing technology products for the equity research and trading communities, as well as consumer software marketing experience.

Re: I Hate Fantasy Football

efliv — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:13 -0000

Sucks dude, I once lead my league in scoring and missed the (very generous) playoff cut. Blew out my W's, narrowly lost my L's.

Re: mills baker - One of the most famous of E.J. Bellocq’s...

efliv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:21:32 -0000

I guess you're right, but my problem is that, without George in my ear, I wouldn't know what to search for!

Re: I Haz NFL Gamepass!

efliv — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:16:38 -0000

Hoops?

Re: mills baker - One of the most famous of E.J. Bellocq’s...

efliv — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:49:24 -0000

Strangely coincidental.

My fiance, sister and I went to Bess Bistro in Austin this weekend. I found the same photo hanging on the wall of the restaurant and they've clipped the image of the stockings to use as their logo. See www.bessbistro.com.

Also, I have the good fortune of attending George Schmidt's Christmas party each year. He definitely creates some truly amazing work, of which the significance and history go way over my head.

Re: Hat tip to Dave Winer

efliv — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:14:28 -0000

Here, here.

I started using Flickr-to-Twitter in Oct. 2007 and recently switched over to the official Flickr solution. One less middle man, you know.

But, it's so awesome that we've had this functionality nearly two years before Flickr got their act together.