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Re: Wikipedia seeks to raise $7.5M in ‘Wikipedia Forever’ campaign

anthonyha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:45:57 -0000

I'm not sure what "allowed" has to do with it. Though the tech may be aging, Wikipedia is incredibly popular because people find the content useful.

On the competition front, Google tried with Knol. That didn't go so well.

Re: Prosper.com gets another $1M for peer-to-peer lending

anthonyha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:44:01 -0000

What are you basing that on? The "870,000 loans in the marketplace" number comes from Prosper.

Re: Google tries to speed up programming with a new language: Go

anthonyha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:41:12 -0000

Can you be more specific, and/or offer links? Just curious how common the complaints are, since I'm not a coder myself ...

Re: Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: ‘Many CEOs are afraid to get too personal’

anthonyha — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:08:14 -0000

Thanks, Ian!

Re: Billing Revolution adds PayPal to its mobile payment service

anthonyha — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:07:41 -0000

FYI, I deleted a previous comment because it accused PayPal of fraud -- I'm not defending the company, but the VentureBeat comments section is not the place to make potentially libelous statements.

Re: Microsoft: Windows 7 makes us cool again

anthonyha — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:18:46 -0000

I've heard plenty of complaints about IE6, but you don't think IE 7 and 8 are friendly to web developers?

Re: Google’s Sergey Brin: Chrome for Mac delays are disappointing

anthonyha — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:17:39 -0000

"Hurry up" but "don't rush it"?

Re: Web 2.0: Teens love Facebook and Apple, confused by Twitter

anthonyha — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:16:14 -0000

Fair enough re: thinking Twitter is rubbish, but I don't think you can extrapolate much from your own friend group. I'm 26 and I'd say 70-80 percent of the people I know are on Twitter, and almost all of them use it more than Facebook. Obviously, that's not representative of the larger population either.

Re: Web 2.0: Teens love Facebook and Apple, confused by Twitter

anthonyha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:34:47 -0000

Wow, I never thought of that! Well, except when I wrote the last paragraph of this post, which is about how it's silly to extrapolate larger trends from this.

Re: Apple’s Tim Cook scoffs at iPhone competitors

anthonyha — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:19:48 -0000

"Apple loyalty is a strong factor, but AT&T hate is almost as strong. Even if a phone is only 90% what the iPhone is, there may be a lot of people willing to make the switch."

Agreed.

Re: Apple’s Tim Cook scoffs at iPhone competitors

anthonyha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:07:59 -0000

"I think they’re trying to catch up with the first iPhone that we released two years ago," == "scoffs at"

Re: IT search company Splunk reaches profitability

anthonyha — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:54:32 -0000

Oops.

Re: Adobe pushing new Flash technology for pretty much every mobile device — except iPhones

anthonyha — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:44:42 -0000

"Missing from the line-up - at least so far - is Apple."

Uh, wasn't that the whole point of my post?

Agree that McCracken had good coverage of this, though.

Re: Adobe pushing new Flash technology for pretty much every mobile device — except iPhones

anthonyha — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:44:00 -0000

Did you see the update at the top of the post? As I explain in the new article that I link to, this undermines some of my opinions hear, but fewer than you might think initially.

Re: Flash apps finally come to the iPhone — but not Flash websites

anthonyha — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:40:57 -0000

Go for it! And don't forget to give him my email address ...

Re: Ringful creates an iPhone app for finding the best hospital

anthonyha — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:43:18 -0000

"If the sex offender app can be successful, so can this one."

I like your thinking, Michael.

Re: AT&T turns on iPhone multimedia messaging: Should I be excited or scared?

anthonyha — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:21:36 -0000

Not sure, I just say "yes" to every question iTunes asks me. It usually works out.

(FWIW, I haven't had too many problems with 3.1 ...)

Re: Routesy’s comeback: Resurrected iPhone app featured in SF’s new app store

anthonyha — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:20:07 -0000

I dunno, both "R"s are fancy and swoosh-y, but they don't seem *that* similar.

Re: DEMO: Basically one big tech party

anthonyha — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:15:54 -0000

I know, right??? I didn't realize you had it in you.

Re: DEMO: LeapFILE promises faster, easier file-sharing

anthonyha — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:05:50 -0000

Fixed, thanks.

Re: DEMOfall 09: Your guide to VentureBeat’s coverage

anthonyha — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:15:14 -0000

A valid question. Obviously, we aren't covering the conference or these companies from a position of complete financial objectivity (as you noted, they paid DEMO a fee to appear on-stage at the conference) but there's no pay-per-post arrangement. Posts on VentureBeat aren't part of the deal -- or if they are, no one told me ...

For what it's worth, we covered each and every company at TechCrunch50 as well, and we sure didn't get any money from them: http://venturebeat.com/?s=tc50

Re: DEMOfall 09: Your guide to VentureBeat’s coverage

anthonyha — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:06:27 -0000

Yeah, there were some bugs, but I think they've been fixed.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2009/09/07/125415/

anthonyha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:21:34 -0000

These are all good points. I think my argument in that section got a bit muddled.

Re: Report: Yoko Ono says the Beatles are coming to iTunes

anthonyha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:14:40 -0000

I dunno, I'm 26 years old and I love The Beatles.

Re: AT&T to upgrade network, but San Francisco iPhone users are out of luck

anthonyha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:11:01 -0000

Yes, clearly it's just a problem with my iPhone; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/co...