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Re: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

bradleyjoyce — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:45:11 -0000

meh, I've only had probably 2-3 extremely poor experiences with the network side of the iPhone... enough to make me vocally complain along with everyone else but at the end of the day though, I barely use the phone functionality in comparison to how much I use email/apps.

maybe it's just because I switched from tmobile to att... sort of a wash :-P

Re: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

bradleyjoyce — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:58:13 -0000

I think this is why the iPhone will always be in the lead... as geeks we often get lost in comparing features, hardware, specs etc etc etc... and in doing so it's often easy to lose sight of the overall user experience. Apple just KILLS everyone when it comes to the end-to-end experience consumers have with its devices. As much as people seem to dislike the limitations/control Apple puts in place, it really is the foundation for the great UX.

Re: It Just Might Be the Droid You Are Looking For

bradleyjoyce — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:13:25 -0000

if I buy an android phone, does google get paid??

Re: Charging from Day 1: Genius or Deathknell?

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:06:32 -0000

Marshall, thank for the book recommendation. MVP is a term that's been coming up a lot lately and I 100% agree.

I think we did a pretty good job of finding the mvp for TweetSaver... we have a decent backlog of features we'd *like* to implement... but they aren't necessary and customers seem to be happy with what we have.

I also really enjoyed Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation where he talks about killing features instead of adding features.

Re: Being Successful as a Distributed Team

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:03:55 -0000

hey Marshall... I have some pics posted on my everlater page at http://everlater.com/bradleyjoyce and then a few more on my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/29213832@N03/

Re: Being Successful as a Distributed Team

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:02:33 -0000

Thanks for the comments everyone... papy posted the correct links and I've updated the post with them as well.

Re: Your vacation was fun. Your vacation photos should be fun too!

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:01:34 -0000

sweeeeeeet! this is quite a bit of fun actually :-) thanks for the tips!

got a few of my first ones up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/29213832@N03/

Re: Why it is Ok to Pay to Pitch

bradleyjoyce — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:56:08 -0000

For me it's really more about the principle of it. At the end of the day I think it comes down to what is your true purpose/goal/mission. For those of us who are truly passionate about helping our entrepreneurs/startups in any way we can, the whole pay to pitch concept is like something that is the exact opposite of your core belief system. When I see people wanting to charge startups to pitch, that *screams* to me that their first priority isn't to help out entrepreneurs. Is it inherently bad, no... but I strongly feel like we need more people and organizations willing to give startups the opportunities they need to succeed without putting up MORE financial barriers.

As an aside, I don't see any validity in the TC50/DemoPit argument... it's a conference and the DemoPit is like buying floor space at any other conference. Also, is TC50 passing on costs to investors or to Sponsors? I would think that's an important distinction. Investors don't need to pay to sponsor an event, they get 100s of companies coming to them all the time, but it's a way to market their brand and support entrepreneurs. This is definitely more of a win-win than the pay-to-pitch model.

Re: Your vacation was fun. Your vacation photos should be fun too!

bradleyjoyce — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:28:19 -0000

I just downloaded the lightroom trial after reading this. Can you elaborate on how to use the presets and which ones you used in the photos above? Thanks! :-)

Re: Questions for OneForty.com - Squeejee

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:22:55 -0000

Thanks so much for the reply and getting involved in the discussion so quickly. It speaks a lot to your intent and purpose to be open about mistakes and where you're heading going forward.

In my mind, the store aspect of OneForty really complicates the life of a twitter app developer. There is just so much more to take into consideration. With regards to customer contact, this is going to be a touchy issue.

For us, if you are using one of our apps then you've agreed to allow us to contact you via email for such purposes as informing you of updates to the application, info regarding your account/subscription and general marketing. Of course, we hate spam just as much as the next person so not only do we rarely send out emails (just so we're not perceived as annoying), but when we do we use a professional service (MailChimp) which then allows people to unsubscribe should they not want to receive anything from us. Since we pride ourselves on our level of customer service and support to our customers, giving up this right to freely communicate is not really an option for us. The way you have it worded now is like we're automatically assumed to be inconsiderate and we're going to spam the heck out of the people who are paying to use our products. This sounds like the lawyers talking. It's a much stronger deterrent to know that an upset customer can leave a bad, public review about any misbehavior.

At the end of the day, by choosing to be the middleman, you've got to assume a lot of the risk for what you allow in to the store. It's unrealistic (and borderline offensive) to ask people for their apps, and then (through this contract) do as much as you can to keep the risk on the developer (this was the way I initally perceived things after reading the contract). Do your diligence upfront to only let upstanding developers/apps into the store and then let the community moderate. After all, you have the final ability to remove any app from the store. If you get a lot of complaints about someone, it wouldn't be hard to stop it pretty fast.

The other thing I don't really understand is this notion of stuff distributed by oneforty.... the percentage of apps that could be distributed by oneforty is extremely small (basically just desktop apps right? most twitter apps are web based and phone apps are going to be distributed through their respective app stores). A lot of the language in the contract just doesn't make sense for web-based apps which will be the majority of apps listed in OneForty. All of Squeejee's twitter apps are web based. How would we sell these through OneForty? I don't see how that makes any sense. Of course we'd be happy to have OneForty participate in any of our affiliate programs so if you send us a new customer who ends up subscribing, we'll throw a little love back your way. Any other arrangement I think would be over complicated for the amount of money we're charging people.

Again, I've been really pleased with your openness and responsiveness to developer concerns over the contract. Hopefully the community can continue to discuss (civilly, what is is with some people and their negativity?!) and improve things to make OneForty a success for all involved.

Re: Questions for OneForty.com - Squeejee

bradleyjoyce — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:48:14 -0000

I've been really please with the way they've responded thus far and look forward to the open discussions on the contract. I think you're right in that requiring telephone support just isn't going to be realistic for a lot of developers. Platforms like Get Satisfaction are much more efficient means of support, especially when the average twitter app is developed by a single person or very small team.

Re: Questions for OneForty.com - Squeejee

bradleyjoyce — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:46:16 -0000

I think there definitely should be a separation between claiming your app and agreeing to participate in their sales program. The idea of an app store for twitter apps is intriguing and could be very cool, but app devs shouldn't have to agree to all those terms just to get be recognized as the developer.

Re: Questions for OneForty.com - Squeejee

bradleyjoyce — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:27:06 -0000

I think I should re-iterate again that we love the idea and concept of OneForty and I hope this post isn't too negative. I also should add that Laura Fitton, founder of OneForty.com has emailed me and done two things which I think are pretty cool. The first was to thank me for writing this post and helping to spur a little conversation about the contract (pretty cool since I was a bit negative) and second, that they plan on addressing these and other concerns that have been raised by developers.

We are definitely looking forward to their response and to see how this progresses!

Re: You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company:

bradleyjoyce — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:24:04 -0000

I could care less about the sponsored users list... I've skipped it every time I'v ever created a twitter account. I prefer to discover great twitter users organically through my own network, and through interesting tools like Mr. Tweet or Sherflock.

You've put together a really interesting list Robert, and already that is more valuable to me than the SUL... I don't see the point in wasting any energy talking about, arguing about, or being upset by the SUL.

Re: FWD Thinking - Most people don’t realize that old tweets fade...

bradleyjoyce — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:13:20 -0000

Maria, thanks so much for the kind words! We're glad we can help keep all those tweets around :-) Thanks again for the recommendation and feel free to send us your feedback any time!

Re: I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:45:42 -0000

Robert,

I definitely feel your pain on twitter search and discovery/rediscovery of your own good content on Twitter. The search fiasco was what really gave me the idea for http://tweetsaver.com. I really wanted a super easy way to search further back than just the most recent days.

Of course the idea evolved a bit and now it is basically Delicious for twitter, with great search and the ability to tag your tweets. We also just launched an auto-tag feature that tags your tweets automatically based on the hashtags inside the tweet.

Anyway, I took the liberty of starting to sync your tweets up, so if you ever want to try out our service you should already have stuff in the system!

Re: TweetSaver: Backup and Bookmark Your Tweets [Invites]

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:44:16 -0000

the coupon has been all used up! Thanks everyone for your interest. You can follow @tweetsaver for additional opportunities for coupon codes.

Re: TwitterLand - All the best Twitter-related APIs in one gem!

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:02:32 -0000

Thanks Wynn, but I think I'll have to pass on at least 90% of the credit to you for all the coaching :-P

Re: Google is on Twitter now

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:48:22 -0000

you can follow their tweetstreams and search tweets and more here: http://google.floxee.com

Re: Top Tweet Thursday

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:27:52 -0000

these are absolutely great!!

Re: How Dean Heller Changed Tweet Congress

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:41:56 -0000

Hopefully twitter will be moving quickly to add Gov't officials to their verified accounts program...

Re: BrightKite and FriendConnect

bradleyjoyce — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:17:45 -0000

yeah! the only way I've found how see any application is to type in a search for it. Seems Facebook is purposefully making it difficult.

Or it could just be me ;-)

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?

bradleyjoyce — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:32:57 -0000

Jerry, just came across this article and thought you might be interested in an application Squeejee (the company I work for) just launched. http://tweetcongress.org is a Twitter mashup (that uses some of Sunlight Labs technology) that allows people to easily search for their congressperson to see if he or she is on twitter. We also have a few other fun features built into the app.

Please feel free to check it out. It really is a grass-roots effort to get more congressmen and women on twitter and engaged with their constituents. We would really appreciate any help you could provide in spreading the word about TweetCongress.org!

Thank you so much for your time.

Regards,

Bradley Joyce
Squeejee

Re: People, sites, and software I am thankful for this year - Locomotivation, the technology blog from Squeejee

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:59:53 -0000

I think I can echo just about everything on the list as well as what others have added.

+1billion on the Squeejee team! I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with such a great & talented bunch of guys!

Also have to give a shout out for Shopify, the coolest Rails-built e-commerce platform around

And of course, what would I do without my beloved Mac OS X? Would be a lost, wandering sheep :-P

Re: Shopify » Please Log In

bradleyjoyce — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:31:06 -0000

Can't wait to see the products!