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Re: Creating Surplus

kskobac — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:18:04 -0000

Exactly my thoughts-- the lack of scale represented masks the scariness of the imbalances represented. The massive decrease in cost of TV's (at the south extreme) does not at all balance out the massive increase in hospital services and college tuition (on the north extreme). It needs to be put in perspective.

Re: Work Life Balance

kskobac — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:14:48 -0000

@fredwilson & AVC community: I'm headed to China next week and trying to figure out the best way to watch Mets baseball online. How did you do it when you were traveling?

Re: Fun Friday: Favorite Travel Resources

kskobac — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:23:52 -0000

Hadn't heard of Indagare, nice recco. A friend of mine is working on http://localfu.com , a way to tap local experts for personalized itineraries , which I think is a pretty cool and different resource.

Re: K.B.SKOBAC BLOG: Can "The Interview" Pave the Way for a New Film Release Future?

kskobac — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:54:44 -0000

All media entertainment experiences are changing, whether we like it or not. Bookstores need to focus on curation and added value like author readings, music stores need curation and limited editions and concerts [for example]. Not everyone can afford or wants to pay $16+ per ticket for a movie, so they pirate copies. Same day on-demand releases will help fight that [I think and hope].

Re: k.b.skobac.com: The Golden Era of Podcasting?

kskobac — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:45:43 -0000

Nice -- I moved off Stitcher because certain podcasters have had bad experiences from the business side and no longer list their shows there.

The guy who produced Planet Money is also doing Startup Podcast (above)!

Re: The Personal Cloud

kskobac — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:49:26 -0000

Not to mention all of the useful things that the latest pairing of iOS and OSX can do, with handoff etc.!

Re: Reblog: The Future Of Media

kskobac — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:45:02 -0000

I love this post and it's vision, but in the last year Techcrunch, Mashable, and even GigaOm have changed over to partial RSS feeds. It feels like RSS is under attack again. Reading cached feeds on the subway is getting harder and harder.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Deeper

kskobac — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:26:53 -0000

Classic Digg + Digg Reader + News.me is really impressive, Digg is looking pretty good these days!

Re: Instabland: It's time for the top photo-sharing platform to evolve

kskobac — Mon, 05 May 2014 11:52:44 -0000

I wouldn't argue that Instagram has stopped innovating. For sure, new features like video and direct messaging are great (though I haven't heard yet how often DM's are really used). And I'm equally impressed that Instagram "ads" have been well received, mainly because they've reinforced the artistic direction a sponsored post must take. But ultimately they also need to focus on what made their community, what drives most of their engagement, and what their core value proposition is-- a photography creation and sharing application. In that, progress is needed.

Re: Changing Clocks

kskobac — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:38:51 -0000

Seems like Nest should build an awesome smart clock that dons tons of things we never thought a clock could do. Maybe the numbers on the clock would glow different colors to reflect the weather and temperature outside. Or pulsate when you have a message on your phone from someone in your important contacts.

Re: New: Business Card Scanning and Presentation Mode for iPhone and iPad

kskobac — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:59:22 -0000

How does the business card feature work with Evernote Hello's business card scanning?

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

kskobac — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:51:18 -0000

Ease of use, of course, and it looks super cool-- but have they fixed the energy waste problem?

Re: Simple yet sexy

kskobac — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:30:42 -0000

you've returned actively to Tumblr after a year of absence!

Re: This is exactly the way I’ve always imagined...

kskobac — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:30:05 -0000

Tell me more!

Re: AR Drone - The Maiden Voyage

kskobac — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:09:48 -0000

Very cool. My friend has the DJI Phantom quad copter. We hooked up a GoPro to it and have started recording videos. This is an example of the first one, which ended early because of the wind, but you get the idea! http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Running The Table

kskobac — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:43:13 -0000

I guess what I'm interested in is what we'd all choose for Google's specialized focus to be. As much as it may seem overzealous of them to pursue every category, Google tends to be positive and disruptive in so many of its efforts. Mobile got better with Android, web browsing got better with Chrome, productivity got better with Google Apps, etc., etc., .. and I don't want them to give up with their big ambitions. So if I had to pick what their reasonable territory is, vs what they shouldn't get greedy about, it's a hard choice to make.

Re: A Day Late And A Dollar Short

kskobac — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:18 -0000

I still feel Blackberry could have killed it with the ultimate keyboard-based Android phone. No one was doing that well. an enterprise Android phone with Blackberry's keyboard, mail service and BBM would have been a strong offering (a few years ago).

Re: Foursquare Checks In

kskobac — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:00:18 -0000

@fredwilson i may have missed this, is there any public information on whether there are more explicit signals (check-ins, tips, etc.) coming in from users of the latest versions of the foursquare app, than earlier iterations? also curious if the average user is contributing more with each iteration of the app, or if the trend is stagnant or the other way (more passive users than active users, as foursquare grows). or maybe its enough if the smaller community of power users continues to drive those signals for everyone.

Re: Foursquare Checks In

kskobac — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:54:30 -0000

@albert i completely agree-- and certainly maintain my habit religiously, for present and future value. but is it still part of Foursquare's general market consumer facing story?

Re: Foursquare Checks In

kskobac — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:13:26 -0000

I'm very curious how, as Foursquare transitions themselves to more of a search / recommendation product, they'll continue to motivate people to check-in, ad tips, etc., contribute the data Foursquare needs to make those powerful recommendations. Foursquare seems to signal that they're happy with more and more people searching, not checking in, but they need both implicit and explicit information to be a powerful resource. And historical data is only so valuable-- the business of restaurants, local companies, etc., changes too fast without new signals flowing in consistently all of the time.

Re: k.b.skobac.com: Our Vineviewer Vine Search Engine Gets Some Love

kskobac — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:32:36 -0000

Thanks Sam!

Re: Evernote Hello 2.0 for iPhone is Here: Remember Everything About the People You Meet

kskobac — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:57:26 -0000

Love the upgrades! I would switch cold turkey from CardMunch to Hello if you had a way to port over my existing CardMunch contacts. Also, do you make a connection to the Linkedin Profile from the business card scan, in similar fashion?

Re: ReadWrite – Foursquare Is Now Irrelevant, Thanks To Facebook's 'Nearby' Update

kskobac — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:45:30 -0000

Completely agree with this comment - the new RWW feels very "me too", versus the incredibly different and insightful articles that used to be written. Starting to not need it in my reader next to everything else.

Re: ReadWrite – Foursquare Is Now Irrelevant, Thanks To Facebook's 'Nearby' Update

kskobac — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:21:06 -0000

I don't think this article, and especially this line "it offers little that's compelling to new users", could be farther from the truth. Facebook has jumped in to me too spaces many times before, with Quora killers, etc, and so far it's proven that a single Facebook feature should never be pumped up to "XYZ killer / irrelevant" status. Foursquare's long slug from launch to now shows just how much work it takes to make a great recommendation service. As someone who's used Foursquare from Day 1, I can promise that I return now not even thinking about points or badges, rather because it has powerful search & discovery, powerful historical tools, etc. The amount of data + intelligence it's baking into it's "explore" feature, the way it's now summarizing the best content when you check in, the ability to complex search through my personal history, all that gives me critical reasons to open the app multiple times every day - on my phone, and on the web. And no one thinks, I imagine least of all Foursquare, that it will become the single social network for people - it's a community that gets richer all the time with 'liking', photos, and a connected app platform, but it's not a social graph in the way Facebook or Twitter is, and that's not a bad thing.

Re: ReadWrite Mix: Guy Kawasaki Talks Apple, Google & The Book Business - by Jon Mitchell

kskobac — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:02:38 -0000

Will videos of your ReadWrite Mix talks be up anywhere?