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Re: Why it’s hard to care about Facebook’s privacy slapfight with Google

Anthony Ha — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:11:54 -0000

I'm not sure what part of "most of the comments have (deservedly) focused on Facebook’s underhanded tactics" is unclear.

Re: Apple earnings beat estimates, but iPad disappoints

Anthony Ha — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:55:51 -0000

They sold every iPad 2 they could make, not every iPad.

Re: Meg Whitman rumored to join Kleiner Perkins. Wait, what?

Anthony Ha — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:15:03 -0000

Also, you appear to have missed this sentence: "Not that politics should affect Kleiner’s hiring decisions, but it just adds to my sense that it’s an odd move."

Re: Meg Whitman rumored to join Kleiner Perkins. Wait, what?

Anthony Ha — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:30:08 -0000

We're talking about the election that Meg Whitman lost, right?

Re: Twitter investor: Hipmunk is “the most innovative thing” in travel

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:25:29 -0000

It was a typo. Fixed now.

Re: Square eliminates its credit card transaction fee

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:21:38 -0000

I'm not sure, most of the intricacies of how credit card processing and fees work go way over my ahead. (It took me a pretty pathetic amount of time just to bone up enough to write the post.) I'll bring it up with the company the next time I get a chance.

Re: Square eliminates its credit card transaction fee

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:20:49 -0000

Thanks for weighing in Walter.

Re: Google kills Android contact feature in Facebook data spat

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:16:12 -0000

Are we really calling them "vendors" now? That seems ... odd.

(No worries on the double post, I deleted your second one.)

Re: Overstat: The easiest way to test your website?

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:14:58 -0000

How do you know those sites use it?

Re: Five and Fifty brings the Groupon approach to instant deals

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:13:46 -0000

Looks like it's back now.

Re: Five and Fifty brings the Groupon approach to instant deals

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:13:27 -0000

Oh cool!

Re: Five and Fifty brings the Groupon approach to instant deals

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:13:17 -0000

Yeah I suspect the company focused on Groupon (and I carried that focus into the post) because it's the service that everyone has heard of.

Re: Judges bring out their knives for Appconomy’s group app

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:12:17 -0000

Thanks Brian. I tried to be fair and give a basic overview of the app, and like I said I can definitely see why people might use it.

Still, the fireworks during the judging session were pretty entertaining from where I was sitting (I don't envy you!).

Re: Twitter investor: Hipmunk is “the most innovative thing” in travel

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:09:15 -0000

Well, after I used it once it became my default flight search engine and it always pains me when I have to use something else. "Innovative" may not be the best word here, but the fact is that it makes the process much faster and less stressful for me, and many of the people I've recommended it to.

Re: MP3.com founder launches DAR.fm, a DVR for the radio

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:07:20 -0000

Well if he's trying to be sensitive to the legal context, then going one country at a time seems like the best approach?

Though to be clear, I have no idea what his international plans are, or if they exist, because I don't think he said anything about it on-stage.

Re: Dave McClure has a “raging boner” for phone startup Volta

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:59:48 -0000

Well, I can't speak for McClure, but a) Volta seems like it has built a real product serving a real need that it can build into a real, which is more important to an investor, and b) making telesales more effective isn't, y'know, curing cancer, but I don't think it's a bad thing either.

Re: Dave McClure has a “raging boner” for phone startup Volta

Anthony Ha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:56:28 -0000

Well, I think the most newsworthy things about the presentation was McClure's enthusiasm. The offending quote was the most vivid way to convey that enthusiasm.

Plus, yeah, I just have bad taste.

Re: Week in review: Jobs cancer rumors spark Apple worries

Anthony Ha — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:48:35 -0000

I don't know if I'd go that far, but I do think there should be a little more transparency, since Jobs is so key to the company's future.

Re: Week in review: Jobs cancer rumors spark Apple worries

Anthony Ha — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:47:55 -0000

Yeah, I think it will definitely be a challenge. (I assume you meant "If the company loses *Jobs* ..."

Re: Engadget editor quits, slams the new “AOL way”

Anthony Ha — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:05:48 -0000

Well, "moneymaker" in the sense that it must receive enough pageviews that the advertising revenue exceeds the amount spent on the article (i.e., the writer's pay and expenses) by a healthy margin.

Re: SlideShare makes Web meetings easy — yes, really

Anthony Ha — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:03:19 -0000

Sweet!

Re: Steve Jobs’ cancer clinic sighting sparks new Apple worries

Anthony Ha — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:03:00 -0000

You're free to dislike the post, but it's incorrect to say that I'm "reporting this like it is the truth." The second paragraph begins with a warning about why you might not want to believe it, and the whole story is full of caveats.

Re: Steve Jobs’ cancer clinic sighting sparks new Apple worries

Anthony Ha — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:01:35 -0000

We report a lot of stuff that's still just rumor, and we try to offer some context about whether or not it's believable. In this case, I start out by saying the sources are highly suspect, but then talk about why the story resonates with the uncertainty around Jobs' health.

I mean, I realize I'm probably not going to change your mind about this story, but the fact is that we will occasionally point out crazy, suspect rumors and note that they are crazy rumors, and that if you have a problem with that VentureBeat is probably going to be a frustrating reading experience for you.

Re: TuneUp adds another $2M to clean up your music

Anthony Ha — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:03 -0000

Really? I didn't think it was that bad, though it's probably not as big a priority for them since the plugin is the main product.

Unless you were talking about VentureBeat and not TuneUp ...

Re: Is Google almost ready to launch its Facebook competitor?

Anthony Ha — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:38:38 -0000

Yeah I think it's an issue to a certain extent with culture and really "grokking" how social products take off without just pissing people off. Maybe that'll change with the new product.