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The quickest to create virals is TikTok because this is its DNA. Everywhere in the world, TikTok is envied for its capacity to boost content in matters of hours, through its algorithms and its thousands of bots that spread that content like fire in a dry season. What kind of content? That depends on who is paying, I believe. In the Romanian and Moldavian election cases, it appears to have been Russia.
How many maimed kids do you need to have in hospitals to understand TikTok is malign too?
make it mobile, please
@ChuckMcM: I guess you've nailed it.
It pretty much depends on what are you looking for: a procedural executant or a project developer. A project developer can execute very well for the first couple of times, but expect from one to get bored with the same speed.
You have to find the right tasks for these "very smart people" instead of hiring them to do the wrong job. The alternative is to hire really dumb people, at least they'd never be able to do anything more or better than what they're told.
Good point; please let me know which are the grammar issues blocking the understanding of the post and I'd be happy to correct them
Hey, you found instead a cheap chinese knockoff made by LG!
Sorry, it's "than", not "then".
I would't be that confident Google will properly herd out contacts, eventually... It happened before with Android's openness, it can happen again with G+
Actually they did not restrict the access to your own data, but to a specific method of accessing them. Which, I am quite sure, is no legal issue for anybody
Let's start naming that one OS X feature that was functioning incorrectly and was addressed with Lion. I thought so!
I've got the exact same feeling
What would you think they’re supposed to do, wait till all the devs succumb?
Now as Apple’s a defendant, win or lose, it doesn’t matter.
Apple sees what Flipboard does, they have also bought Tweetie. I don't think buying Twitter is a very bright idea. Did Microsoft buy Nokia?
I think google won't let you bind an email to an ip
It is both "wrong" and WRONG: if you have to fake the real fans and the real efficiency of your startup, no matter how good your idea you think it is, it's just a bubble. Your startup sux, big time. As did and does Microsoft's (someone mentioned MS took quite the same savage approach when they launched).
Nobody will ever be able to legally prove the gmail accounts were created for and by AirBnB. Actually, I don't think those accounts were created by AirBnB guys, but by a third party, for AirBnB use. Ad extremis, the AirBnB founders might as well plead they never knew what was the exact method this third party will use to generate traffic and users.
I bet Google will come up with Chrome for phones and let Nvidia fully run on its new OS. I can foresee Android killing more than 2 cores out of Kal-El' 4...
I heard Marco Arment at a 5by5 Show also saying it's easier to pay 0.5% instead of going into a long and expensive trial.
I believe it's not necessarily a troll patent issue that Marco was talking about, this is what trolls are meant to do, anyway; I think it's an issue with the law itself and its enforcement.
Could you believe this some 40 years ago: "I'm going to pay this parasite tax just because I cannot be protected by anybody"? Try "associate with" instead of "protected by"!
“[t]he authorized sale of an article that substantially embodies a patent exhausts the patent holder’s rights and prevents the patent holder from invoking patent law to control postsale use of the article.” Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008).
In plain English: because Apple bought the patent from Lodsys, Lodsys cannot ask for any benefit that might be related to the patent. Period.
"It takes you several minutes to go and buy a physical newspaper" - this is not an argument. The dynamics of a mobile app is so different than real life's. Imagine you play one of Zynga's games and wait 2 physical years for the animal to grow up. There's no doubt any mobile app showing you instant and hot content should start blazing fast, so that it serves your impulses. We are reading news out of our impulse; although we may alocate specific times of the day for it, it's not a programed action like reading a thousand pages fanatsy novel; therefore if a news app fails to satisfy that impulse (quickly, efficiently, in critical time and dimensions) then you may say the app is not serving you well enough. In my opinion, it doesn't matter the name of the author, he's got a point.
Question is: what happens after 90 days? Who's paying who?
I have an opposite opinion: I don't think it's even logically possible NOT to mess with the results.
Let's say there here's a table index and there's some query asking for things the index doesn't contain. How do you calculate "relevancy" out of no-answers?
Or let's put it another way: people are asking, the machines are answering. Do you really think a machine is able to answer any type of questions a human person can ask? What would a machine answer to "Who's the most beautiful of them all?" "Snow White" or "the evil Queen"?!
Although it doesn't seem, people don't usually want to know existing answers that are already indexed somewhere; they want to know "How will the weather be tomorrow?". Google will answer to that question by looking up words, ranks, links and so on and it'll provide you the most "relevant answer". For Google, not for you. You are left with taking this answer for granted, although it comes out of Google's bellies exclusively. More than that, the answer tends to become "correct" although it cannot bear this value.
A search engine that's not already containing the answer (truth-bearer) will only offer opinions (non-truth-bearer); these "opinions" are never true or false, so they cannot be part of any reliable judgement. Google says these answers are to be trusted because they're relevant, not because they're true. But this relevance is not dependent on me, the one asking the question, but on Google's bellies! And you have any doubt that a search engine is designed to be 100% human intervention free?? (here is a more detailed article on this issue: http://utestme.com/post/2745142659/the-search-of-doom )