sthommes

Merry Christmas! My holiday message of hope (repost from http://www.generalstore.co/hope.html).

As I look around my little Bay Area town, and especially my Facebook and Instashrams, I am struck by how fortunate we all are.

We do live and 'like' in our own snow globe of good tidings ~where everyone is warm, everyone is well fed, and the love of friends and family flows as easily as the wine. So today, my wish and message of hope, is for all of us to pause. ... While we celebrate, let's pause to reflect, to consider and to act. Let's all extend an extra hand this Christmas, Hanukkah and into the New Year.

Whether it's a hand, a dollar, an ear or a smile, what you are truly giving is hope~ a star in the east to follow. Wishing you and yours every happiness and good fortune. Peace and peace of mind and God's blessing..

Feliz Navidad Prospero Año y Felicidad Happy Hanukkah Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays,

-sthommes Founder & CEO at Rainbow

"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” -Einstein

Underlying driver here is that users are migrating en masse to Facebook now for their professional updates and post streams. Twitter is most impacted, but LinkedIn too. That's why TWTR selling, LNKD sold. The market for users attention, not just the market for their stocks is moving against them. FB is like the wandering Jupiter of our early solar system- the 'grand tack' is sweeping up the smaller bodies in the solar system. Good to be Jupiter..

Shame is really hard to assign and even more difficult to self apply. So while society (let alone our small, sometimes dark programming/tech back lot) is a long way from where we should be, each of us does have a responsibility to more than our own self-entertainment. Trolls are not unique to HN and blogs, they exist in real life too - they're called bullies. And with regards to this story, there's not really a 'both sides' here. There are females and males. And of the males, there are men and boys. Deep down and up close in your own personal mirror, you know which one you are. Instead, why not be awesome and redirect negative, petty energy and do something productive. Change the World, it's clearly needed

At a very early stage but well-funded startup, where everyone is relatively equal in age, capability or experience, I think the idea of everyone making the same 'monthly nut' money, like $100K per annum could be appealing. In the Bay Area, I actually think $100K after taxes/medical/401K deductions would be reasonable, high side. Cash/Stock bonuses could then be variable based on contribution. Equality, transparency and trust would be key

Hello, Mr. Cook, yes, yes, your EA here. No, no, you heard me right, God, Sir Isaac Newton and John Lennon are on the line.

No, no. I don't know who reports to who. Do you want me to guess?

What's it about? uh, let me ask.

Ok. they say they've trademarked 'Apple' and want to talk about a license

Oh, ok. Can you ask them if Steve can also join the call?

Really, really smart hire by @dickc. and @adambain knows this so it's no threat to his juggernaut advertising business- commerce and content could very end up two equal legs in a three-legged awesome @biz stool (sorry for the twitter cc pun there). more so than even FB, @twitter's just a few years younger and maybe the little bro that grows up taller

I love this. I not only illustrates the concept of the false negative (which is presumably as likely as the false positive)- it also showcases that disciplines and best practices, even policies hr, finance, sales ops and yes, even product are not absolute. every case is unique and can be quantum- not binary right or wrong, but every infinity in between

Personally, since we're in PG's House I chose to filter out the actual content and focus on the pretty sweet visualization.

As an awesome UI for navigating large datasets where context and metadata edges of the graph are more relevant and useful than the nodes

Of course, that's always been known at Google (we just don't think of PageRank and AdRank/Quality Score as edge operators since GOOG has been our primary mode of edge traversal for at least a decade)

+1 - I've always thought the Gregorian calendar was arcane and awkward, a weird artifact. Is there like an ICANN for the calendar?

Lot of truth and good POV here, zaroth

Suggestion for the biz dev team at Loom: how about a "Loom Mortgage" for unlimited > 5GB storage. Like a family home, all of your thousands of photos should be an heirloom that passes on to the next generation. If it were say 1% of your home value, and your mortgage is $2,000 per month, that would be $20 per month. I'd pay that

When I was 12 I had treasure chest- an orange Vans shoebox full of printed cards, which I had accumulated via acquisition (new, wrapped, plus stick of gum from the Ice Cream truck) or trade. Included rookie Fisk, Killebrew and Ryan, and an old Walter Johnson, Senators. My Mom threw them away while I was away at college

In 30 years, my children will be starting to have children of their own. Apple is only 36 years old. Google just turned 15. You're right, this is not a problem for VC's investment attention horizon. People need a solution here that will be around in 300 years...

As an early beta tester, I wanted to share my thoughts - not a feature by feature analysis or comparison to anything else out there associated with photos. I use all sorts of apps and software to create, share and store photos: Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, iPhoto, Adobe Photoshop and Creative Cloud.

But, while I've gotten pretty good at taking, beautifying and sharing photos, storing them remains a nightmare. I think Loom has a new and needed approach - hopefully a fix to this difficult, puzzling problem. Personally, I’m pretty excited.

A better abstraction will happen. It is inevitable. And my impression of Jan is that he is neither myopic nor naive.

Files are an old, ugly metaphor born of the file cabinet. Remember when you had to label a file and then figure out where to file it: alphabetically, client name, recency, importance, by project, etc. You even used different color labels: green meant go, red meant it's hit the fan, etc.

What seems unlikely is that the following WILL NOT happen in the next 5 years:

A way to effortlessly tag any content, anywhere and on any device in a predictive and n-dimensional way so that content is broken down to its most granular, atomic and consumable unit- a quote of a book, a lyric of a song, a smirk or a smile in a photo, a highlight clip of a video, the exact anniversary gift you intend to buy- each having its own 'GPS coordinate' on the Web, or in some emergent meta-layer fabric that hovers above and interweaves our now-Web

This much-faster way to navigate is a hyper-jump teleport to discrete coordinates, probably crowd-sourced like Waze. With combinations of tags parallax-sextant-triangulating there way more efficiently than today’s ubiquitous search query paradigm, another antiquated metaphor falls. A metaphor, no matter how popular today, I imagine not playing a major role in the future Internet

What is this next new thing? My 10 year old would say he already has it: Minecraft

pg is right- fundamental.

angersock also touches on a higher level, fundamental need here: the ephemerality of human memories.

Technology should be able to help and this is exactly the problem that Jan and his team at Loom are trying to solve.

Our memories- of our grandparents, our parents, our loves, our children, our grandchildren- they should last forever, and not be ephemeral like clouds and the Cloud.

Technology should help them endure like the cave paintings in Lascaux France. They were created by the earliest, most primitive human technology and remain to inspire awe in all of us.

More than that, our memories- the visual stories of our lives- should be available on any device: any iPhone, any iPad, any Android. And even any TV, Windows or Glass- wherever we are, and wherever we go.

Memories should be memorable and shareable with those we cherish most. An heirloom of us.

Each side has its perspective and points. Each side points fingers: "Scum", "incremental", "non-compete", "stole our idea", "couldn't breathe".

I'm not sure which side Amy Wallace falls out on, but both sides are right. And both sides are wrong:

In this day and age, ideas should not be owned. One-click by Amazon: obvious and ridiculous. Reuseable garment bag: more obvious and more ridiculous. Ideas are on a level playing field and competition - the only one that matters - is for customers.

If anything, Mr. Siegel by way of offering to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars offered to combine ideas and resources which may have created a more effective competitor.

The idea of a non-compete after buying two of something at a tradeshow and then a conversation over drinks at a Santa Monica hotel: ridiculous. It's just like an entrepreneur in our industry asking an angel or VC to sign an NDA and non-compete.

And for the record, the Eureka moment does not matter at all, either in purpose, practice or philosophy.