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Re: Disney CEO on crack for suggesting Hulu charge for access

profy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:14:09 -0000

Steven, I may be on crack as well but I'll have to remind you that my own post was focused on international users who are not allowed to watch anything on Hulu at all (and we don't pay to have access to its content from our homes as a very limited number of international channels is available to us here at all). So crack or no crack, I know one group of users who will be more than willing to pay even though it will be virtually impossible to persuade people in the US to do so.

Re: Meebo Comes to the Desktop

profy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:02:26 -0000

That's exactly what I keep talking about: we are supposed to move online from desktop yet numerous online apps populate our desktops with further apps - some of them pretty resource-hungry as well.

Re: rizzn's socnets: What has Transparency Gotten Us? How About Free and Cheap?

profy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:35:23 -0000

Mark, lucky you are for feeling so enthusiastic about all web applications and thank you for your decision not to lecture us (me and Steven) on how we should do our jobs. But my only problem is that you seem to misunderstand both me and Steven as I never refused to serve as an early adopter - I just mentioned that I now have some limits to determine usefulness of this or that application and covering it only when I feel it can be useful to some of my readers. I just don't want to cover the 100th niche Twitter version, that's it, and I certainly am not going to feel guilty about it.

Re: Stand proud Svetlana – you don’t need to be on the bandwagon

profy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:26:29 -0000

Louis, of course I do realize that you don't necessary have to download mobile apps if you consider yourself an early adopter - it was just what made me realize there were some things that were not making me excited any more even despite of the fact that everyone in the tech community adores them.

Re: Stand proud Svetlana – you don’t need to be on the bandwagon

profy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:24:13 -0000

Steven, thank you very much for this post and for expressing your own feelings on the subject - I am really happy I am not alone feeling like this and that there are bloggers in the tech community who are also willing to question the cool new things for a second or two to make sure they really make sense to this particular person. I was really worried about this idea when I published the post but I'm glad to get a reaction like yours - it makes me feel very much better to know there are other bloggers who feel the need to think critically of new apps instead of just hyping them because it is the trend of the day.

Re: trailObama.com: Following the President’s Every Move

profy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:31:10 -0000

I guess they will be able to easily launch a new site for every new president - and still get enough search traffic for the popular name even after Barack Obama is out of the office. I really would not worry about that - the guys seem to be clever and creative enough to know how they will scale the idea in the future :)

Re: KillerStartups Killed?

Cat Food — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:59:29 -0000

Yeah, I have described KS as a type of blog when I wrote an article about in in a magazin some years ago. I like the way it was, more "personal" than the other startup websites...

Re: You too can follow President Obama

profy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:25:58 -0000

The thing is that they could easily launch a new site for the new President if he enjoys a similar popularity and also keep this one in case there are still people who will want to listen to what Barack Obama has to say after his Presidency is over.

Re: louisgray.com: You Don't Need To Know Where This Rant Was Written

profy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:03:54 -0000

Yes, that's what's really amazing: we are moving to total transparency that does not really seem to be actually reasonable or needed.

Re: GReader Leaderboard: Louis Gray

profy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:30:59 -0000

Louis, thanks for the explanation about my absence, I guess I'll have to rethink my posting schedule again to ensure at least some sort of comeback to your leaderboard :) Anyway good to be interesting even despite the timezones!

Re: As Chrome leaves beta, an update on the Mac version

profy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:04:33 -0000

The irony in Google not launching a Mac version from the very beginning is that it could be huge with combined efforts of Google fans and Apple fans (who are naturally inclined to love a product endlessly). The combined power could do miracles to increase the market share of the browser.

Re: Google Zeitgeist 2008: All other search reports Palin comparison

profy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:43:23 -0000

Funny how Sarah Palin distracted the entire blogosphere from the rest of the results. Like there were some interesting questions people asked Google, like "What is RSS?" - yet these things remained virtually unnoticed with everyone talking about Palin's top position only.

Re: Facebook announces fbFund app winners

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Re: Facebook announces fbFund app winners

profy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:40:58 -0000

I guess the apps were selected for their potential and probably the MouseHunt still has a long way to go, even if profitable now. Besides, given that users also participated in the decision making process with their votes it is no wonder as the game seems to have tons of passionate users judging by the reviews on the game's page on FB.

Re: Forget the milk: Gmail gets its own task list

profy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:08:22 -0000

Honestly, I feel like Google is not particularly willing to let other companies grow using their products - and RTM is no exception: they allowed them to work than launched a competitor that will prompt the majority of people to use their own functionality for obvious reasons.

Re: Nerd fight: Google vs. Facebook

mathewi — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:24:12 -0000

Thanks, Svetlana. I agree that inter-operability would make things like Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect a lot better.

Re: Nerd fight: Google vs. Facebook

profy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:16:58 -0000

Joined the network, it already looks much better Mathew :) As for the topic itself, I wonder if it will ever happen that companies start to think about their users first and not about their own interests. If Google's Friend Connect could have data to Facebook users and social graph, it could really be useful - otherwise it will have very poor chances of wide adoptation, even despite of the fact that it is the almighty Google.

Re: Facebook to Google: my Connect is bigger than yours

profy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:13:34 -0000

Eric, excellent title here and I agree with your conclusion 100%: Facebook will be mostly appealing to websites because of the additional (and powerful) distribution channel it will offer and I think the webmasters will just need some time to see what functionality they are really willing to offer to their visitors and but no one will want to refuse the free marketing on Facebook.

Re: More open government: Obama transition site Change.gov gets user comments

profy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:58:13 -0000

Yes, Barack Obama is certain way more generous towards OpenID than the internet giants like Yahoo, AOL or even Google who all choose to serve as OpenID providers instead of trying to help the concept of single ID for all websites.

Re: Google buries Lively

anthonyha — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:36 -0000

Good point!

Re: Google buries Lively

profy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:44:54 -0000

Yes, I was also surprised about that. The thing is that they reported that their economy is growing pretty rapidly with a user spending less than a dollar per hour on average. My guess is that it is less expensive and more healthy than drinking a beer in a bar to escape of your problems. So could be pretty sustainable.

Re: Google buries Lively

anthonyha — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:47:06 -0000

That's interesting about Second Life. Will be interesting to see if that's sustainable.

Re: Google buries Lively

profy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:06:04 -0000

I guess there's not much difference between virtual world and real world - in one place you can make money, in others you can't, absolutely logical. In fact, Second Life has recently reported very successful financial quarter with users spending more money in-world - probably because when they are left unemployed they have no better things to do than try and spend some time and money in the virtual reality hoping to earn something over there as we've all heard great success stories.

Re: Prove how uncool you are - be a Microsoft fan

profy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:13:54 -0000

Steven, I really have nothing to say here but "thank you", I am really glad that you share my thoughts and were not afraid of writing this and facing the comments you were supposed to get for it.

Re: Is the Blog Network model dying?

profy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:41:34 -0000

Duncan, excellent suggestion and good arguments here. And knowing your experience, I tend to agree that the days of blog networks are really gone and even if giants like Gawker Media survive, it will definitely be nearly impossible to launch new networks based on this model and hope it will be a success only because of the huge number of cross links they can exchange.