fourlittlebees

Did I miss the part where they said HTML5 was better? I took it to be more of a slam of the Android fanboys who insist that Android is better than iOS because look! we have Flash and you don't! Reality is, video just plain sucks on mobile, period and until the various lunatics quit pimping which platform is cooler and actually work on fixing it, it's all going to suck.

Am I the only person in the world who intentionally avoids both those apps like the plague? Facebook chat doesn't work in Camino. All hail Camino.

Classic, and the main reason we tell our daughter that Facebook won't be AROUND when she's 13. All I see are the acai ads (no, I never click on them) and the occasional Pages ad. I'm sure that I need to become a fan of FriendFeed night crew. Useless, useless app, and it's tragic, because they have an amazing userbase that they just fritter away because of clueless management.

free invites? I'm all over that. How many?

Hopefully nowhere near any kind of shortlist for any position that would drive tech in this country.

Y'all are missing the point. Start-up offers totally unrealistic salary, and gets some script kiddie who couldn't hack his or her way out of a paper bag. Said script kiddie builds the app using toothpicks and glue. App actually gets users and completely s*s the bed. Founders realize they have a great idea and a loyal audience, but now have to spend a HUGE amount of money completely rebuilding the app because the existing codebase is useless.

What's worth more? Scaling your app at the outset and then rolling in profit? Or saving bucks at the outset and then blowing 10x more later on trying to fix the mistakes. Let's ask Twitter.

No actual Skype account is involved. All spoofed. Person B is taking money out of Person A's account and making it look like a Skype subscription payment. Of course, if Person B wasn't a stupid script kiddie, Person B would only hit each account ONCE instead of 10 times in a row, making it obvious that there is a problem.

Allen scores again. Too many CEOs are spending their time socializing and engaging in flame wars rather than doing things like working on a business model or building a company. Valleywag coverage should be a CEO's shame, not a PR goal.

No, a lot of people ARE angry about it, and not because of the money. The Web 2.0 crowd have been singing "It's not a bubble" for years. Some of us who lived through 1.0 knew better. Not taking it seriously, not realizing a company HAS to have revenue to survive, and that VC is not a revenue stream has contributed to this meltdown. It's hubris, and the video is an example of it. Not to mention a Wall Street Journal reporter - WALL STREET JOURNAL - is hanging out drinking with the people she's supposed to be covering objectively and making stupid drunken videos. It's a massive fail on all counts.

It isn't up to someone in QA to determine what a company's product direction is. And no, I wouldn't hire someone who violated an NDA unless it was a serious life-threatening reason to disclose.

Eric, I'd agree, but at the same time, why is the U.S. so unaware of sites in other countries? It can't just be a language barrier, since there are tons of great English-language sites that aren't American. I get the feeling that the U.S. is so wrapped up in itself that the rest of the world is just passing it by.

I was actually discussing Web awards in general, and included two examples: ONA and the Webbys, but there are certainly a LOT more. There is a great deal of focus on U.S. audiences; how many sites are there that do what Pandora or Hulu does for non-North American audiences? How many awards/recognition programs are there that allegedly cover international audiences and truly do that? It has nothing to do with me speaking only English (which isn't the case, at any rate).

Heh. Skewers several of the "tech blogosphere" it-people. Too bad they'll think it doesn't apply to them.

OMG! Someone found the ??? between launch site and profit! MAKE TECHCRUNCH! You don't even need to have a business model anymore.

1. Launch site.

2. Make TechCrunch

3. PROFIT!!!!

Sheer genius. And to think, all these years we were wondering.

Adding "cloud" or "grid" is really bs... when you think about it, companies like IBM and EDS have done this for years with their data centers. I don't think there is a health insurer in the U.S. who's purchased their own hardware in 20 years or more. It's all gussied up with a new, trendy name, and it's repackaged for the little guys, but it's about as new as pegging your jeans.

You have to. It's beyond hilarious.

Evite is a complete pain to use, and confusing to anyone who's never used it before. I think the bar here was set pretty low.

I'd be interested in seeing more data, as well as to know whether he's talking about NYC or NY as a whole. He uses them interchangeably, but is he also counting the rest of NY? Some from NYC tend to forget the rest of the state is here.

The "killing" that they are making is by running ads for OTHER Facebook apps. Isn't that just passing the VC around?

iPhone has the App Store, through iTunes, and is already demonstrating that people will pay money to install those apps on their phones. Facebook apps plan to make money how exactly?

He was specifically calling out Dave Hornik for his bit about not investing in iPhone apps because it's too small a market. There's too much VC investment in junk they think will be the next big thing rather than things that might be smaller hits, but actual hits. It's the difference between a $1 scratch-off paying $5 vs. buying $30 of Powerball tix in hopes you hit the jackpot.

Tila Tequila is number one and they couldn't even get the CEO at Linden Lab right? Fail.

Rumors abound that some stores are just going with the #suckit approach and handing over the phones sans activation. Maybe this whole forcing to an in-store activation was a poorly-thought-out plan?

Isn't the price point also an ROI issue, though? The journalists and insiders already know what's coming, so paying huge amounts for a booth to preach to the choir doesn't show much of a return. If the point is to talk to gamers and consumers, that might be more of a worthwhile investment.

So is vi. So is PINE. But I want better tools.

LOL. Actually, you just made the point. If you have to be on a "right" server or a "right" channel, that's the definition of kludge. Mainstream adopters don't want to figure out what's right and wrong.

I never fail to be confused by this assertion. Why is it that coders expect to be paid for developing apps, yet anyone writing or taking pictures or creating music should just assume they are creating it for free?

But one of the reasons we're very lucky is our engineering team has selected to use PHP as the primary development language. That allows us to use a fairly generic server type. So we, with a couple of exceptions, have three main server types and run a fairly homogeneous environment, which allows us to then consolidate our buying power.

Scary, but that's what he said. Could be why they need another $100 million for servers. ;)

So it makes more sense to recreate a table than grab a screenshot? I'm all for hand-coding HTML, but I'd rather grab a quick shot than type tr, td all day long.

Some skeletons should remain in their collective closets.