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Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Test Embed — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:22:02 -0000

Mathew, thanks for pointing it out but you are being biased with your interpretation of this story, IMO.

Out of everything Ive said on this topic, dozens of comments - you happen to pick out the single only comment that I leave that is not formal and then you left out the first part of my comment where I mention that *this one comment* was "off topic" and had to do with defending my personal self from Jason, but not the topic matter at hand. Pims and Daddies is his language, check out the tweets he was sending before hand, most people were saying that he was acting like a 3year old. I also had people emailing me saying not to worry about Jason, he speaks without thinking things through but he is a good guy.

Almost everything I have had to say on this topic had been formal and academic and the reason why I bring it up is because Im tired of being poked by Jason. He started this, he perpetuates it and now its part of my life. I can choose to ignore it, but instead choose to defend myself, just like Im doing here.

Also, conspicuously, and on the contrary, Jason has had only one formal thing to say recently and you found it. The other 99.9% of his response has been to attack me personally while avoiding the questions about Mahalo.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Test Embed — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:31:14 -0000

Fair enough, thanks for responding.

Re: Rocketboom Blog

Test Embed — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:48:29 -0000

I wonder if her lawyer got paid in doll hairs.

Re: louisgray.com: How Would the World React to a Powerful Silicon Valley Quake?

Test Embed — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:19:48 -0000

I'm lucky I have the choice to not live *right on top* on an active fault line, on the side of a steamy volcano, or in the path of a regular Hurricane or Monsoon season.

Re: 2008/01/10/the-problem-with-podcasting-isnt-downloads/

Test Embed — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:10:00 -0000

I would suggest as just one option looking into a relationship with just one or two mid-to-long term sponsors who already understand the value of Mashable (and maybe that you already know) to help flip the bill to get you up and running.

Then, once you are up, you can take some more time to look for ad solutions as they mature.

Lots of different ways still yet uncovered to be forged.. . .

Re: 2008/11/18/twitter-fail-whale/

Test Embed — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:59:33 -0000

Grasshopper??? That's an inch worm, moving slowly.

Re: Is Your Community For Sale

Test Embed — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:20:26 -0000

Nice one Chris, how do you turn this stuff around so fast?

Leon, Im glad I found you here. I wanted to message you on Twitter but of course I couldn't because clearly you dont follow me.

I did want to say that for sure you are taking it the wrong way. This is not how I treat my friends, this is social experiment that came out of a creative moment before I deleted my account.

Re: Wake Up to How You Share on the Web

Test Embed — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:05:26 -0000

Chris, you are WAY wrong about this. Consider my perspective with Rocketboom:

When I upload a video to YT, they can do whatever they want, but if I decide to take it down, from that point fwd, YT cant do anything with my videos anymore.

What if in 30 years from now, people look back at Rocketboom to visually track some of the day-to-day trends of the internet and it becomes in demand suddenly for nostalgic reasons; If I want to try and use that content to do business, Facebook could put the content out for free or modify it and include it with other packages, or do whatever the want to compete with me and undercut my sales because they will own the right to forever do whatever they want.

For Christ’s sake Chris, this is very serious. Do you think I would sign a document that I send into the copyright office for my work that includes my name as well as Facebook on every sheet? You think Disney is going to put one of their videos on Facebook without a special contract?

Why should I give away my content to Facebook? They might sell to Disney, and then Disney would have the right to do what ever they want, even after I close down my account.

Please read some more. Here are some links to consider:

Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/facebook-tos-pri...

Slashdot (scroll down to read comments):
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/09/02/16/1347230.shtml

Re: Wake Up to How You Share on the Web

Test Embed — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:32:14 -0000

People! The big point here is that Facebook does not need to own it perpetually. Most other platforms will stop use given a reasonable enough time for them to take it down from being publicly available.

It's not needed to operate, its just needed to be greedy. A take-away from people who don't understand what they are doing. Think about how much this increases the assets of the company! One in five people who visited the internet last month, visited Facebook. People are sharing twice as much this year, as they did last year. Facebook *owns* all the media and everything these people are coming to obtain. You do the math. You relinquish your data to the market-pool forever more, but it's the only place where it happens and it doesn't need to be this way.

Facebook has the option to remove the "perpetual" part of this term, just like YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, Flickr, etc. did.

Re: What I’ve learned in 2007

Test Embed — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:34:56 -0000

Cheers Robert! As great as this post was, I have to say, it was just another post in context of all of the great posts you have cranked out, thanks for spreading all the great insights and info in such a positive way.

Plenty of good inspiration for 2008!

Re: How to survive CES 2008 without getting off the couch

Test Embed — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:04:44 -0000

Sarah Meyers will be there **live** full-time with Popsnap:
http://www.popsnap.net

Re: Why don’t tech bloggers write about Kenya

Test Embed — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:47:41 -0000

Hey yall, we have one of our field correspondents who has been in Kenya all this time. We have three episodes up already here:

http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Kenya

On Monday eve, we have another one coming in, its getting worse, not better.

Re: FastCompany.TV launches

Test Embed — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:24:43 -0000

Way to go Robert!!

Re: Era of blogger’s control is over

Test Embed — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:27:38 -0000

I think you are right, though now the trend will be to bring it all back together.

Re: User data ownership on Facebook and why it doesn’t matter

Test Embed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:22:25 -0000

"Truth is it doesn’t matter." - Robert Scoble. B.S. to that, big time.

http://twitter.com/andrewbaron/status/1219010436

Re: Is My Electric Bicycle Lame?

Test Embed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:25:58 -0000

I've lived in Austin for 10years riding a bike and Manhattan for the last 8 years and a couple of months ago, I got an electric bike:

http://ultramotor.com/

I am certain that for me, its the quickest, most efficient, most environmentally friendly way to travel around Manhattan. Period. I can go where scooters cant go (i.e. on bike path, sidewalks, ped bridges, right on through red lights like bikes and peds - and to your point about the guy who pedals fast?

I can ride mike bike around Central Park and have so far beat ALL the Lance Armstrongs because you get the 18-20mph (limited by law) PLUS peddling which blows away fast bikers combined.

Im a big advocate now of electric bikes as a form of transportation.

Re: Is My Electric Bicycle Lame?

Test Embed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:25:58 -0000

I've lived in Austin for 10years riding a bike and Manhattan for the last 8 years and a couple of months ago, I got an electric bike:

http://ultramotor.com/</p>

I can ride mike bike around Central Park and have so far beat ALL the Lance Armstrongs because you get the 18-20mph (limited by law) PLUS peddling which blows away fast bikers combined.

Im a big advocate now of electric bikes as a form of transportation.

Re: Updated: Sony Brings Video Show Rocketboom Into the Fold; Seven Figures?

Test Embed — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:58:10 -0000

Hi Rafat, good to see you still here too. Holding down the fort?

Re: Updated: Sony Brings Video Show Rocketboom Into the Fold; Seven Figures?

Test Embed — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:59:06 -0000

Thanks for the update Rafat!

@Joseph I completely agree that is was a blessing in disguise because we were destined to head down the same route, too soon. I think we could of built up big shows, but that it was too early to monetize them, which would of required way more investment. Furthermore, what I didn't speak about in my weblog, is that while standing by, we figured out a better way to expand the content offering without all of the separate verticals that the other networks have.