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Re: Amazon vs Beatport: Where Can DJs Get The Best Deal On Music?

floozyspeak — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:39:50 -0000

which one provides a higher royalty back to the artist, or are the they same?

Re: We Just Led A $10 Million Round in Spare5

floozyspeak — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:38:20 -0000

Hasn't the whole web 2-3.0 rage been monetizing the very people that need to get a life? Outrageous notions is what the web is built on. If someone is engaging or paying why does it matter?

Re: We Just Led A $10 Million Round in Spare5

floozyspeak — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:32:43 -0000

not really a upscale M-Turk. Turk is in a league of its own really. Spare5 is a mobile turkish concept, taskrabbit of opinion but not like gigwalk or a few of the other like mobile data collect app concepts, dscout etc. Key to Spare5 will be getting the demographic, and keeping them fed with tasks so you maintain that engagement and find a coveted space on the phone to stay there. Good/engagement tasks will be key. Then selling your customers not only on the volume of ppl you have but the quality of what you can get and speed is the sauce. Turk is amazons crowdforce skunk works project, its super fun for alot of different things. Should it ever go mobile, that would be interesting as well. But i don't see these products as a direct comparison other than crowd of people do stuff.

Re: Amazon.com, Inc. Trying To Sideline Angie’s List Lawsuit With Irrelevant Motions

floozyspeak — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:22:08 -0000

If Angie's List has true proof of Amazon employees logging in and infering/scraping content and or IP specific to Angie's List rank/info etc so to bootstrap and kick up the Amazon product, that is 1, massively stupid of amazon and those folks are likely gone/fired or should be. And 2, to fight this battle telling Angie's List this is "common practice" hurts amazon more since its the biggest platform to copy content from. I think Amazon has to settle to some degree otherwise they set a precedent that they are ok with this kind of behavior/tactics, which really makes the a much larger target for this kind of abuse.

Re: What DJ Gear/Production Would DJTT Members Design?

floozyspeak — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:16:58 -0000

two things...

software, I'd make an auto-mapper tool for the midi figher or twister, that you just fire up different reactor plugins and the auto mapper, pulls up a recommended mapping for that plugin (the mouth, finger, mangle, xosphere etc) and gives you instant fun. Likely doable for the midi mappin experts out there, hurry up make it... i'll pay.

software, app, for the ipad
trakor remix decks control on the ipad, you can plug kontrol f1, or more so you plugin twister, load remix deck and have fun. No laptop required, just you and your ipad/iphone and twister.

Re: Feeling Old(er) at Big Omaha

floozyspeak — Thu, 07 May 2015 12:11:10 -0000

I feel like this all the time, lol. Its great to see the "next" class of folks stroll in and build anew. I always think have the same energy they have, applied differently, still working on the end goal, enable people, enable ideas, foster the scene, play that part you play.

Re: A powerhouse on the football field, but not in the startup ranks: Ohio State looks to play catch up in commercialization

floozyspeak — Wed, 06 May 2015 13:29:28 -0000

Hope is not lost, commercialization is a work in progress, very much like our own. Columbus startup community scene. Its a false perspective that because you're a massive, thus you should be leading the pack on startup/coin generation. Startups take time to grow, and good startups aren't wired for exiting in 10 years, real investors what bigger bangs- so we're in the long haul mission. Late to the game? Perhaps but out of it, hardly.

Everyone in commericalizaiton knows that most universities tie their success to 1 drug, 1 unicorn of success, the rest are plugging away at the day to day battlefront of direct licensing and startups. All deals are a "dance", IP, terms, alignments, wants, needs, applicability aspects, they don't happen instantly and they always have things we can and cannot easily control. Direct licenses to established companies are easy compared to startups, and they don't grow jobs, or startup culture.

Startups are hard- another wildly apparent theme at Columbus Startup Week.

Its true that the university doesn't turn on a dime, but it inspires more than you can imagine: on the field, in the classroom, in the lab and in halls of where people are seriously starting the believe.

The bottleneck isn't bureaucracy, tho a factor, and should be expected anything as large as Ohio State, the real bottleneck is people- in order to crank out companies you need people. We need entrepreneurs.

To me, making IP is often easy, its the offshoot of working on a great research problem (which is often hard)- which is how the university is wired, go after problems, IP may or may not occur, making better IP (shaping it for commercialization) a bit harder, making people, umm, yeah thats really, really hard. Ohio State needs more people to come to the table, and these doors are open all day long.

We're in it for the long haul.

Re: The Internet's hidden science factory | PBS NewsHour

floozyspeak — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:28:00 -0000

Loved turk since the day I stumbled upon it- hugely powerful tool and turks rock the planet period. They're the secret force behind much of the startup scene, from ux testing, to research, to writing, or plain help me do the impossible faster. Turk can be used in a wide number of ways. If anything upping the minimums would be nice to see so that turks can fare better on the average hit.

Re: Making Music Live with Synths, Drum Machines and more

floozyspeak — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:17:31 -0000

The new Roland MX1 will make this even better. I still yern for a way to control remix decks via ipad with a kontrol f1 vs lugging a whole laptop etc around. I'd be nice if traktor DJ added remix decks ability, then just add controller and good to go in a smaller footprint. You still want MX1 for effects or a series of pedals. Adding a H9 to the mix could be nice as well.

Re: Native Instruments Traktor 2015 Feature Wishlist

floozyspeak — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:11:28 -0000

I'd like to see..

1, Traktor gets full use of or whatnot, Reaktor Engine so we can use all the reaktor plugins etc as effects etc. Like the The Mouth, Finger, etc can be used internally inside traktor on decks/remixdecks/inputs.

2, DJtechtools comes out with its own modular iOS app soundpacks/player, why not!!

Re: Animated GIFs

floozyspeak — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:52:21 -0000

turntablefm meet gifs, http://gifspinner.com/

Re: Why Shaker Won

floozyspeak — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:07:02 -0000

So the answer is the contest was "rigged"? I mean that could be the case but doesn't that suck? Sure CrunchFund invested in it, but man that would blow if thats the real reason why Shaker won. It makes all future tc events slanted in a heavy bias. For as much as tc is a "mess" right now I gotta they're not rigging it all.

Re: How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas

floozyspeak — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:16:23 -0000

Death by design committee- but isn't that the obvious? Of course thats still happening but iterations aren't to blame. Its the people in the process and the lack of leadership to foster true visionary leaping on ideas and innovation.

Iterations are key but you need to know you're iterating on a path that has a reasonable buy in to make sure you don't surprise key stakeholders with a turd of excellence. You could breadcrumb the process presenting the key aspects of the concept, an over arching framework etc, that need the high level "are we sane" nod vs giving them too much for them to chew on where they freak out on bit specifics you don't want them to judge.

You get too many cooks and your iterations will typically always fail.

Re: At 81 Minutes per Day, Mobile App Use Tops Web Browsing

floozyspeak — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:54:10 -0000

How are games not apps? Gamification is bleeding into everything, yet those are not apps?

Re: CueThat

floozyspeak — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:15:33 -0000

Fixed!

Re: CueThat

floozyspeak — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:15:23 -0000

Check your popup blockers.

Re: CueThat

floozyspeak — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:15:02 -0000

Working for us on Firefox. What version ya got?

Re: CueThat

floozyspeak — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:14:41 -0000

We got that in there now. Allows you to pick the format you want.

Re: FreakJet

floozyspeak — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:12:47 -0000

Well thats when Mike told me about it.. Panera :P

Re: Klout for Business: A Useful Metric –but an Incomplete View of Your Customer

floozyspeak — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:48:44 -0000

I agree that Klout potentially heightens the focus of the metric more so on the muscle armed influentials in the game, and incorrectly so, it seems to give them more "klout" vs the average joe, which should in some cases be valued more for their raw untainted interest, even though their reach may be significantly lesser.

As much consumers "game" the system, I'd wager that key influentials game it even more. There are more and more apps designed to help you game. The gameification of twitter is rampant, yet it works to snowball influence if you're after it, and it works to reduce the clarity in what you can analyze, what is bs and what is not gets harder and harder.

I still feel "sentiment" is a lame analysis approach as well. It should free, given how frickin easy it is to do. If we could draw more from the social graph to actually segement these folks better, that data becomes more useful even though much of it is rubbernecking meh data. Understanding the core context that generated the chatter, that is holy grail. Transparent tracability would be awesome.

No one should reply on one metric and should routinely bounce metrics off each other to see if we're swimming in bs or chewing on something worth while.

Not enough people consider the sheer volume of noise on twitter and the fact that anyone following over 400 people barely sees all the tweets that come by their radar. The SM douche bags of the planet drum up even more noise by using spam tweets or repeating tweets over and over each day which will slowly educate the average joe to see all of twitter expect what comes from ones they trust as trash.

Re: Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients UberTwitter And Twidroyd For Violating Policies

floozyspeak — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:15:36 -0000

they're just getting pressure from investment to frickin monetize their biz, jerky to lure all those devs to make, not really, just really smart (and maybe a bit evil ha!)

Re: Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients UberTwitter And Twidroyd For Violating Policies

floozyspeak — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:09:51 -0000

Simply put, twitter is not about to let someone "developer" out monetize them.. lol

Re: Tech books authored by Columbus writers

floozyspeak — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:44:31 -0000

Another book worthy to be on this list (ok not completely technical).. Pawan Murthy's Race to the Starting Line

http://www.amazon.com/Race-...

Re: Startup Spotlight - Big Kitty Labs

floozyspeak — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:42:23 -0000

hey Ben thanks for the coverage and props!

Re: I’d love to see Ignite Columbus at the TechColumbus Innovation Awards

floozyspeak — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:48:33 -0000

Sounds like a good idea, or at least we can do our comedy routine... :P