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Re: Bitcoin Price Drops Near $2,000 as Crypto Markets Fall Toward $70 Billion - CoinDesk

Itamar Rogel — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:22:36 -0000

Let us hope it takes one dip and ends it... no double dipping.

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Re: Apple Feature Timeline (with Email Template)

Itamar Rogel — Mon, 08 May 2017 00:05:31 -0000

Great post Steve! Thank you!

Re: sxsw-panelpicker-logo PanelPicker®

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:02:02 -0000

With the amount of data and engagement around the content which go to social networks instead of the publishers, it's amazing how user comments - which are challenging to moderate but are still as engaging as ever, as can be seen by endless threads on news sites - haven't yet been harnessed to full effect by most publishers.

We're going to discuss ways to tame the beast, let users have their say and create a winning news experience.

Re: The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit

Itamar Rogel — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:57:52 -0000

Ted, thank you for the thoughtful comment! You could be right, or maybe I'm just wrong here, or at least not as right ;-) ... Nir is the expert here and I've been wrong about many things, many times before!

Re: Arlo Gilbert's Blog — The Karma of Drinking Coffee

Itamar Rogel — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:19:54 -0000

Great post. I can definitely understand and sympathize both with your view and with Dave's frustration. I would say that it's all about balance ... these meetings add spice but they can't be the staple food in one's calendar menu :)

Re: The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit

Itamar Rogel — Thu, 28 May 2015 12:19:36 -0000

so I have to disagree :) I think "I don't" is self-imposed and as such is stronger. I.e. I don't eat sweets - meaning I simply don't eat them, because I choose not to... Whereas "I can't eat sweets" implies I can't because my doctor/health conditions/parents/whomever won't let me... and is indeed weaker.

Re: The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit

Itamar Rogel — Thu, 28 May 2015 02:08:20 -0000

Great post as usual, thank you!

One note - in the sentence "“I don’t” is outside our control while “I can’t” is self-imposed.", do you not mean the opposite (i.e. "I don't" is self-imposed, while "I can't" is outside our control) ?

Re: Google launches Player Analytics and custom native ads tools for gaming developers

Itamar Rogel — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:51:59 -0000

What about NativeX ? http://nativex.com/

It'd be interesting to hear their reaction to this announcement.

Re: you have ruined javascript

Itamar Rogel — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:54:09 -0000

The examples are contrived... Anyway, it's not that you're "wrong" or that I disagree per se, it's just a matter of who you are and what you care about.

Generalizing a bit, in any given software design cycle, it goes more or less like so:

1. New technology is cool, code is written by hand and controlled by a relatively small group of intelligent but chaotic hackers. Each such coder/hacker knows all the of the new technology's ins and outs and revels in his awesome knowledge.

2. Some big company BigCo (directly or via someone who tries to cater to it) tries to scale the usage of said technology to a level where multiple average coders can work together to create a very large (and often, boring) project

3. Our friends from #1 above (the old guard of chaotic hackers) takes the contrived aspects of frameworks introduced by BigCo and claims it is ridiculous, with varying levels of being correct (depending how lame the framework actually is), with the bottom-line claim of "you should just know what you're doing, what the fuck is this shit"

I've seen this happen with ...

C and C++ ...
Java and Java EE ...
Plain JS and Prototype/jQuery ...

And here we go again :)

Re: AngularJS: ngFocus

Itamar Rogel — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 07:31:41 -0000

This is a new feature for the next stable series, it is not included in stable 1.0.x.

Re: CanJS 1.1 Release Notes

Itamar Rogel — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:24:42 -0000

Looking good. I already love CanJS for lean yet rich web apps (especially on mobile), and this seems to take it even further ahead. Thanks guys!

Re: The Complete Guide on How to Build and Manage your Twitter Community with Commun.it

Itamar Rogel — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:18:32 -0000

Amazing in-depth post! Thanks!

Re: Elapsed Time: Twitter, Instagram & the Challenges of Non-Feed Discovery

Itamar Rogel — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:02:23 -0000

Hello DS - Agree re using visuals to illustrate significance! Our app Riversip does that actually, for news stories. You might want to check it out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/... or https://play.google.com/sto... .

Re: Is the opposition still unified against Ubuntu Unity?

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:03:29 -0000

Unity is terrible. It's not more user-friendly, not more powerful, not even more beautiful. Moved to GNOME 3.0 on Ubuntu and may take the plunge to LinuxMint soon.

Re: Riversip For Android: Technology News Reader That Ranks Stories By Popularity

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:50:40 -0000

I'm Itamar from the Riversip team - thank you for the great review!

On my part, I just wanted to add that our chief goal with Riversip is to give users a way to catch up with the most important tech news in 5 minutes - no matter their reading pace and how busy they are.
Everything we do and that you describe above so nicely - prioritizing, layering your social network over the news (not covered above), topics, etc - is all done to this end.

We hope people enjoy it - and we're always open for suggestions and feedback! Hit us up on Twitter (@riversip) or with the feedback form on our site (http://www.riversip.com) if you'd like to chat :)

Re: Favorite Four: Google Reader Apps for iPad

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:49:30 -0000

Amazing how one web app can have so many quality takes on as a tablet/mobile app :)

Re: What Visual Designers Can Learn From Biggie Smalls | Blog | design mind

Itamar Rogel — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:59:19 -0000

Wow, great write up. Very creative and interesting analogy.

BTW ... Biggie can also inspire us to know which clients to avoid, so as not to end up having "Suicidal Thoughts" ;-)

Re: iOS needs a universal Twitter API

Itamar Rogel — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:40:57 -0000

Well, I've arrived here rather late, haven't I? Glad to say that Apple have listened to you :)

Re: http://blog.zieglerc.net/post/7644788046

Itamar Rogel — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:23:48 -0000

Great set! This just powered up a nice hour of work for me :-)

Re: louisgray.com: Topify to Go Dark as Twitter Claims Another Dev Victim

Itamar Rogel — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:51:08 -0000

Too bad. The silly thing is that AFAIK, Twitter is basically claiming to want to phase out all 3rd party services which are more of "reimplemented features" than natural service offerings on their own right. But for any service for which this claim is true, and it's indeed merely a feature, the way to phase it out is much more natural - just render it obsolete by strengthening the base platform's features. It's not necessary - and it makes no business sense - to do this kind of maneuvers and alienate the developers who helped you grow.

Re: Evolving the Social Graph: Why Google+ is on to something

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:14:22 -0000

Great write-up and a brave prediction, Ben! ;)

By the way, the search question - whether Twitter/Facebook can really offer a better-but-different search experience across the board - is not at all clear IMHO...

Re: louisgray.com: The Secret 10 Step Guide to Giving Good Social

Itamar Rogel — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:03:45 -0000

Great post and a fun one to read, Louis :)

I'd add that there's a slight tension between fun sharing of various real-life stuff (mentioned in #6) to being too off-topic ... but nothing that a little common sense can't handle :)

Re: Scripting News: Page's mistake

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:16:45 -0000

Yeah, I guess... Amazon has always realized the power of infrastructure and platform, though - as in their merchants strategy, for example.

Re: Scripting News: Page's mistake

Itamar Rogel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:09:02 -0000

Great post! I think the "Everyone's watching" part is specifically hard when trying to create a great product. No "embarrassing v1.0", lean-startuppy products for Google :)

I also think it's just hard for such companies to NOT try and solve the problem with some new product. Even if intuitively the chief recognizes the strategic insight you've laid above, it's hard to let go and opt for some platform/background function instead of creating a new product. These people are creators, and these are companies with (theoretical) great execution power... It's hard to resist wielding this power when you have it.

And besides, one could think - "never say never", eh? Maybe this or that product could actually work. I'm not the one to rule that option out; stranger things have happened :)

Re: Are We Suffering From Generosity Deficit?

Itamar Rogel — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:29:58 -0000

Relating to the economic meaning of "deficit", I would say that emotional generosity does not obey economic rules: True emotional generosity creates "something from nothing", leaving the receiver and the giver both better off.
Moreover, one with emotional generosity towards oneself can generate emotional generosity towards others with no cost - "something from nothing" again :)

So without going too deep, I would say this means we can create a positive "bubble" (in the economic sense) of emotional generosity :) A group of people who have learned to be emotionally generous towards themselves, can spread this like a virus... beware, this will happen sometime ;)