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Re: New on GameChanger: Import Your Opponents’ Rosters!

Ron Feldman — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:56:10 -0000

Hi! You discovered an incomplete edit. While we launched this first on iOS, it's now on Android! We'll correct the article, but use it on Android and let us know what you think. Email me any time at ron@gc.io

Re: New Pricing Options for Fans!

Ron Feldman — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:58:14 -0000

Hi Becky - if you email us at help@gc.com, we can look up your account and get this sorted for you right away. Thanks!

Re: GameChanger Basketball

Ron Feldman — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:05:05 -0000

Hi David-

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Would be happy to chat more with you via email or phone. Email me at ron@gc.io and we can continue the conversation.

Thanks,
-Ron

Re: GameChanger Basketball

Ron Feldman — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:14:43 -0000

Hi Jeff - Appreciate the thoughts and sentiment. We will definitely take your thoughts about timing into account and will be making an announcement soon as to specifics on that front. Email me with any other questions at ron@gc.io.

Re: GameChanger Basketball

Ron Feldman — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:16:57 -0000

Bret - no need to send me the $10, send me an email at ron@gc.io and I'll hopefully fill in the missing info for you. (I'm the VP Product here). I totally understand your desire for more information/clarity. Will try to give it to you and will think about how we can better communicate more broadly.

Re: GameChanger Basketball

Ron Feldman — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:59:37 -0000

Hi Fred - Email me at ron@gc.io and happy to discuss/explain further. Really appreciate the thoughts and perspective here.

Re: GameChanger Basketball

Ron Feldman — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:45:36 -0000

Hi Fred - sorry, wish that I had better news for you but the plan above still stands.

Re: Recap Stories Now Available in the App!

Ron Feldman — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 19:26:45 -0000

Hi Mark - how can we help? Probably easiest to email us at help@gc.com and we'll respond ASAP. Thanks!

Re: Push notifications live for Android

Ron Feldman — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:22:41 -0000

Hi David - Sorry for the frustration. At the moment, our team is very focused on our Baseball & Softball app. Email me at any time at ron@gc.io with more questions.

Re: New in Version 8.0: Team Messaging and Push Notifications

Ron Feldman — Tue, 23 May 2017 13:12:47 -0000

Hi Justin - Team Messaging is only available via our apps, either iOS or Android. Please let us know if there's something you aren't able to do via one of the apps? Thanks!

Re: HBO No Go

Ron Feldman — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:22:35 -0000

I agree Fred, it's definitely absurd. My only guess at the logic is that many people share their HBO GO logins with others and the cable companies and HBO worry that if those friends could stream via Airplay to TVs, they'd start losing a lot of HBO subscribers. Friends could agree to split an HBO subscription 4 ways, etc....

I also think the use case mentioned about streaming the audio to a Jambox is interesting given that the iPad's speakers are pretty weak.

Re: Early Startup Time Wasters

Ron Feldman — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:06:52 -0000

Great post Jeff. I think the challenge is whether you could have known in advance that some of these things were time wasters. For many of these, there is no universal rule that applies. Some of the coffees/conversations could be the most important thing you spend time on, it's just not always easy to know upfront.

Re: SXSW 2012 - The HTML5 Advertising Revolution

Ron Feldman — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:43:44 -0000

I think this topic is very timely as HTML5 stands to be increasingly important across web and mobile platforms and it will play a key role in the evolution of digital advertising. Tom has been a key player in mobile for a long time and is well-positioned to educate us all on this important topic. I look forward to it.

Re: SXSW 2012 - Friending is Dead: Now what?

Ron Feldman — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:37:49 -0000

This is a topic of increasing importance. Social networks and graphs are still proliferating and our ability to manage them comprehensively is long past. Ron and his team have done some serious thinking and building on this topic and I think SXSW would be perfect for this panel/discussion.

Re: My New Setup

Ron Feldman — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:26:51 -0000

Great post Fred, I largely agree. What do you think though about the opposing trend of native apps vs. web/cloud apps on mobile platforms, including Android? And, for example how Apple has extended that paradigm, quite successfully, with the Mac App store on the desktop? Are native apps that sync data automatically (like Evernote) part of the cloud vision?

Re: Hackers & The Canon of Consumer Facing Products

Ron Feldman — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:20:09 -0000

Definitely an interesting point and theory. I was going to ask about Amazon, but apparently you can add Bezos to your list (see here: http://www.wired.com/wired/.... Other thoughts:

- What about Yelp? Probably not big enough yet?

Separately, the Twitter story kind of ignores Evan Williams and Biz Stone who were in the picture as co-founders? And not sure how much Dennis actually coded for Foursquare?

And from more recently - Groupon? Zynga?

Re: Mobile Notifications

Ron Feldman — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:52:28 -0000

Fred - I couldn't agree more on the importance of notifications and it's a core part of a post I'm working on regarding what Apple needs to fix on the iPhone. I think that the continued success of SMS is due to the ability to set unique notifications for SMS on almost every device. Apple has a lot of catching up to do here.

Regarding personal context though, I agree for phones, but I think that the iPad and other tablets present a challenge when they are shared as a family or multi-user device. I think user profiles is a big missing component on the iPad, but imagine if this was implemented it would present a challenge for alerts. As it stands now, my wife and I see each others alerts on our iPad all the time, which can be confusing and I wonder if she misses some important ones when I see them.

Re: Building Better Social Graphs

Ron Feldman — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:16:17 -0000

I agree this is definitely becoming more of an issue and a solution would be great.... I wonder if the Google Me initiative is working on this. One of their employees put out a video a while back talking about the problem of different and overlapping social networks.

Re: Mobile Transition

Ron Feldman — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:13:40 -0000

Totally agree and didn't really see this coming either. I agree with @jkeera about the constraints of the mobile device really helping here. I also think that companies should think about the total time it takes to perform a task on mobile vs. web - when faster, this is one of the many reasons that the mobile app becomes preferred. Things that make some mobile apps faster (Yelp and Netflix come to mind) than their web counterparts are a persistent login on a mobile app, UI that takes you right to the task that you want to do, geolocation that saves the need for you to tell an app/service where you are.

Re: Talent and Bandwidth

Ron Feldman — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:00:12 -0000

Agree, I find Google's building acquisition interesting in this context. If they wanted to, they could start to turn that building into a start-up hub as other leases expire. Could be an interesting move for Google Ventures a la Polaris and Dogpatch.

Re: Beginner’s Mind

Ron Feldman — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:44:27 -0000

Brad - funny, I embarked on the same journey a few weeks ago although with no background in coding. Tried a few different resources. Started the 6.00 course as well but found the problem sets hard without access to the recitations and found the course a little too heavy on theory for my purposes. If you do continue with it, I recommend this as a companion: http://curiousreef.com/clas..., it's a site where you can join a community of others taking the online course, compare problem set solutions, etc.

I ended up using this instead of the MIT course: http://learnpythonthehardwa... and find its style suits me and my purposes better.

As for text editors which you asked about in a tweet, I've tried the following which are both good:

http://www.barebones.com/pr...
http://projects.gnome.org/g...

plus IDLE for the MIT class.

Good luck and enjoy!

Re: http://birch.co/post/2157137218

Ron Feldman — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:11:28 -0000

Great post Mark. I agree. It's definitely a complex issue though. Will Price recently wrote a post about it here: http://willprice.blogspot.c.... My comment there:

"Great post and question Will. I think you and the commenters have come up with some interesting theories. I will say that MIT Sloan (I'm an alum, full disclosure) has done a better job than most programs by integrating sales, especially into the entrepreneurship curriculum. It's always been a core part of the entrepreneurship classes and tracks, including a class called Tech Sales. There is now also a Sloan Sales Conference: http://www.sloansalesconfer..., and a club that runs it: http://www.sloansalesclub.com/.

Per my own experiences though, I do think there are larger issues though about the way sales organizations are managed and incentivized at large corporations, tech and otherwise that lead to valid concerns by MBAs about the costs/benefits of being part of those organizations."

Re: Negative Sentiment May Help Search Engine Optimization

Ron Feldman — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:45:02 -0000

I agree that this is not a perfect solution, but I also don't think that Google's bots would be good enough at sentiment analysis to do it well and bad sentiment doesn't necessarily mean something shouldn't rank highly. For example Wikileaks generates a lot of negative sentiment, but probably should still rank highly in searches? Reviews of retailers within Google searches (like they do for local businesses) might be a better solution. NY Times definitely did a good job in scaring the average consumer but I agree their analysis was not thorough enough to draw conclusions.

Re: Negative Sentiment May Help Search Engine Optimization

Ron Feldman — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:29:16 -0000

Lenny - I found this article fascinating also. But seems to me that the best solution is for sites like Get Satisfaction to better implement nofollow for negative sentiment links. Since they explicitly ask for sentiment in conversations, they could easily add nofollow to negative conversations. Of course that's not necessarily true everywhere, but seems like the best answer right now?

Re: http://birch.co/post/1121031076

Ron Feldman — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:23:08 -0000

Yes, the experience of adding to Instapaper on the iPad and reading Instapaper on the iPad is pretty great, plus the fact that it syncs to your Instapaper account elsewhere, like iPhone, so you're linked everywhere.

I think the only problem with Instapaper and other tools of its ilk, is keeping up with them. Matthew Ingram recently tweeted about it (http://twitter.com/mathewi/.... It's easy to put stuff in, not as easy to take stuff out....