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Re: Tracked.com

loupaglia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:48:07 -0000

This has huge potential. Will they go only B2B against the likes of Hoover's, D&B, DJ and other players like Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance. There is a real compelling possibility where they could integrate the likes of Gist capability. I'm still not a believer in "enterprise" tracking and "personal" tracking. I want one universal dashboard that I can segment.

Re: Business Model Jujutsu

loupaglia — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:38:43 -0000

This is a nice approach and one of those that seems "obvious" but is not b/c that is not often how companies think. The typical approach is "we built this API, they should thank us" when the real goal is "use" and a lift to overall engagement, whatever that may be. Very smart of have the developer community "participate" in the revenue model, it is a win-win incentive.

As David says below, it is like what Apple and FB does for apps. I'm not sure with the business model of Twitter's API, but as revenue models gear up there, it will be interesting to see if this type of model takes hold and develops diverse set of revenue models on the communication stack.

Re: The NY Startup Scene

VictusFate — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:42:09 -0000

Thanks Lou I was tied up during the day and you more than explained my thoughts. Appreciate the mention of Toni as well, his expertise is pretty incredible (on the business side).

Re: The NY Startup Scene

loupaglia — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:55:13 -0000

Max: Matt and Toni have built a company in Automattic that is pretty remarkable that it builds such great stuff and is basically completely virtual. The have engineers all around the world. They have an office in SF which is normally empty except for socials and I think the last I heard their highest employee count in any one city was four.

Re: Disqus V3

loupaglia — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:55:15 -0000

will it replace BackType. still haven't really figured out how to use that service since it is standalone except for routing all of my comments across the web to a widget on my blog.

Re: I Want My MTV

loupaglia — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:42:17 -0000

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Re: I Want My MTV

fannick — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:28:57 -0000

Ha! Very nice. Yes, I would rather search for a song and then read just those notes I need at that moment. Why listen when you can search?

Re: I Want My MTV

loupaglia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:14:37 -0000

Glenn, long time. Yes, we have entire domains for it too http://www.mtvmusic.com; I know you like to read the music though because it faster than listening to it. :)

Re: Visiting Building 43

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:24:10 -0000

I bet yoiu can buy a used one on ebay cheap

Re: Visiting Building 43

loupaglia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:14:59 -0000

yes, I know you are running the mac mini in the living room if I remember correctly. i am regretting going with Apple TV, I'm not that much of a fan of the syncing features anyway so going with Mac Mini would have been a much better decision in retrospect.

Re: Visiting Building 43

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:45:13 -0000

Apple TVs processor is underpowered for boxee. They could develop a lighter version for appleTV and maybe they should.

It worked well on my version of boxee. But boxeequeue is still very much a prototype

Re: Visiting Building 43

fredwilson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:14:16 -0000

I had no idea. The video was made three or four weeks ago

Re: Visiting Building 43

loupaglia — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:46:02 -0000

I've tried several times today. I can't get the videos from boxqueue to play back on my apple tv. I've tried two Revision3 videos and ironically, also tried to pull up a couple of building43 videos including your interview with Scoble.

All I get is the first screen of the video when trying to play it back and nothing. No audio, no video even though the boxee counter keeps incrementing as if it was playing it back.

I've had a lot of problems with Boxee on the AppleTV, I wish I went the route of the Mac Mini, think it just needs more horsepower.

Re: Visiting Building 43

loupaglia — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:16:54 -0000

okay, be honest, did you know about this before you said it on the video? ;)

Re: Visiting Building 43

fredwilson — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:08:08 -0000

A boxee app came out yesterday evening that does just that. You can read about it a blog.boxee.tv

I'm trying it out today

Re: Visiting Building 43

loupaglia — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:16:55 -0000

The technology out of BBN that EveryZing uses does this.

Re: Visiting Building 43

loupaglia — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:14 -0000

Fred: Would be a lot easier with the video bookmarking, queue to your TV functionality that you discussed. :)

Re: Analogy of Status Updates

loupaglia — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:32:55 -0000

Thanks for the comment Jim. First, what is I interesting is your use cases for Twitter and Facebook are very close to the opposite on my usage patterns. My Facebook exchanges are much more informal with friends and family and while Twitter is sometimes informal, I also have a larger amount of content coverage regarding business and technology topics. I rarely get into those types of conversations in Facebook. In face, I recently stopped auto-posting all of my Tweets into Facebook because many of my friends were saying that they were confusing. Building on that, I've often considered removing business relationships out of Facebook entirely and keeping it for my closer network of friends and family. I haven't done it yet, however, because I think Facebook is going to have to find a way with more clear permissioning to create effective sub-groups.

To your questions, I think you are spot on. First, I think we would be remiss if we didn't say there is a certain "noob" effect on FB. And that I think is where a lot of my analogy comes from. Many of the users on Facebook aren't in the tech community, so they are venturing out and trying all the new platforms like Twitter and Friendfeed. So often, like with AOL, when you use FB constantly, the natural response you build is "why would you do x, y, z elsewhere when you can do it in Facebook". The concept of the open web isn't something a lot of people think about, very much like people in the AOL of the 90s didn't think about what I guess we could call "the larger web". So with that in mind, the open nature of the web and also the ongoing existence of closed-networks drives a lot of the information asymmetry as well.

The concept of the status feature was where it really jumps out to me in an obvious manner.

Re: Social Media - What Needs To Be In The Cloud?

lucius910 — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:52:31 -0000

You're dead on. What we really need is a platform that can join up the media on your local machine, your external HDD plugged in to your xbox, external sources like Hype Machine or Amie Street, and the same for all of your friends. Universal content resolution gets around the major hurdle of any music service which is we cannot assume an infinite catalog with access rights specified by each user unless we spend millions of dollars and years negotiating agreements with individual providers. This is why Playdar (www.playdar.org) is so exciting. It has the potential to solve that resolution problem on the technical front.

The next problem to solve is the monetization/business end. What can we come up with that is simple enough and still takes care of the obligations of the content providers? Should there be a master resolver out there that any start-up can come to, pay a fixed fee per stream/user/etc, and the resolver will handle all of the reporting and payments necessary to make this work? That way, start-ups will be able to innovate on the front end, have a business plan that's easily visible as viable in the very short term, and not have to worry about all of the licensing minutiae.

Re: Social Media - What Needs To Be In The Cloud?

loupaglia — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:12:43 -0000

I think cloud will take hold first as it is already but as costs stabilize, it will be a solid combination of both. There is no reason, your social experience and related media can't sit in the cloud with pointers to either the media locations at third party storage services or if you are set up with local storage (say in-house NAS type equipment), that those same pointers can't point back to hardware at your house but connected to the web. For example, we see already a logical movement of where people are going to be able to hook their own hardware and storage space to be available and leverage-able to cloud-based services.

Again, this will simply be a balance of the costs of bandwidth (both up and down) and the cost of storage overall. I just don't see how there won't be a healthy combination of both.

Re: The Boxee App Dev Challenge

loupaglia — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:01:19 -0000

touche! you are absolutely right. now only if it hasn't been years since I coded "hello world" in Perl. :)

any Python developers out there reading this interested in partnering up to come up with something cool, give me a shout.

Re: The Boxee App Dev Challenge

fredwilson — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:54:28 -0000

You can get one for free if you hack up something cool in python!

Re: The Boxee App Dev Challenge

loupaglia — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:50:07 -0000

Love Boxee, wishful thinking here but I wish there was a way for it to not get blown away with the AppleTV update. But they definitely continue to signal where the digital home is going and with outside developers building apps for it, we'll see the same progressions as in web apps (not that the line between it and the web isn't already indistinguishable).

btw, hadn't seen Dropos before, fantastic looking device. A bit steep for consumer back-up needs but still finding myself wanting one, especially if I go the RAID back-up route.

Re: A Project to Root For

loupaglia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:46:32 -0000

Thanks Ron. As far as the FriendFeed widget, just part of the template I am using and then using the width to get the FF widget to go across.

Re: You Can't Solve Problems With Money

fredwilson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:39:20 -0000

I don't delete comments unless they are hate speech or porn or comment spam