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Re: The worst things startups do

edwink — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:34:28 -0000

Great interview. Great post. Scoble is back!

Re: A superfast RSS subscribe (Scripting News)

edwink — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:30:43 -0000

(There are previews of feedly available for chrome and safari)

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

edwink — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:53 -0000

This is the robert scoble I love! Android needs Chrome + one more iteration.

Re: Brizzly and Seesmic Web Get Into the Twitter Lists Game as Well

edwink — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:51:05 -0000

Good post. Dynamic market. I think that @cw has an unfair competitive advantage given his past and Brizzly is going to get increasingly better and harder to compete with.

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

bedroom dresser — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:05:18 -0000

I agree! I really fine Palm creative and useful for people who are always on the go.

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

edwink — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:52:33 -0000

Hi Nikolay, you sound a lot like the people who were saying in the early days of Java/Application servers that Java was a nice little toy for building applets but for building real server side logic, you need C++. Let's meet in 5 years and see if devices will be programmed using Open Web or some type of obscure third-party proprietary framework.

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

nikolay — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:46:10 -0000

It sounds great to all lazy developers, but the reality is that the mobile devices are quite different - performance, energy efficiency, and other things start to play a major role. At the end, the HTML/CSS ideas are part of the Android platform as well, but to build a lightweight apps or services, you don't need a browser. Also, Android comes with an NDK now, which allows you to develop native services, when performance, hardware drivers, and other things become critical, and I'm not sure if webOS has something similar.

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

edwink — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:16:07 -0000

Of Course. Palm is the only one to use web technologies as the heart of its platform. I would be happy to bet that that choice will pay off in the long run.

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

nikolay — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:13:40 -0000

Palm Pre? Are you serious?!

Re: Developers: the best smart phone platform is?

edwink — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:57:41 -0000

If I was building a mobile app and had to prioritize my resources, I would go iphone -> palm pre -> android -> blackberry. f( how future proof the technology is x size of the existing user base)

Re: The biggest loser in the Twitter search deals

edwink — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:35 -0000

You are right: twitter has a better naming story and that is really important. But it remains a very primitive platform beyond that. I think that facebook+facebook connect will end up winning this war. You could very well be right in which case I will eat my hat and buy you a bottle of aged scotch! I hope that baby is doing well.

Re: The biggest loser in the Twitter search deals

Scobleizer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:23:38 -0000

Sorry, Twitter has, by far, the best tools to feed and manage your community (I'm a bit biased because I have access to lists). EVERYONE has an @reply name on Twitter and it always works the same way. On Facebook? No. They are trying to add that but haven't gotten there yet.

Re: The biggest loser in the Twitter search deals

edwink — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:19:50 -0000

I do not agree. I think that over time, small businesses will realize that have a public page on facebook is as valuable (more valuable) than having a twitter account. When those pages will be public, they will be automatically available to Google (that is the power of the open internet). So facebook will not sell the data. But the google traffic will still be there. I do not think that the twitter vs. facebook argument for celebrities and small businesses will be based on whose has a deal with Google.

The key is who will offer me the best tools to feed and manage my community and it is not clear at this point to me who the winner is.

Re: louisgray.com: Twitter Gives Bing Access to the Firehose, Promises More to Come

edwink — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:30 -0000

Great post. I am un-impressed by http://www.bing.com/twitter This is a smart move by Twitter: sell the data and then use the money to build a much better experience.

Re: Realtime search opens new doors in knowledge sharing

edwink — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:03:19 -0000

If you want to compare real-time search results with Google, you should at least click on the options and select past 24 hours:
http://www.google.com/#q=Google%20Wave&hl=en&tb...

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

JohnAtkinson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:16:36 -0000

+1 on tehdik for putting Edwin K in his place

+1 on Edwin for acknowledging the err of his ways ;)

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

edwink — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:15:32 -0000

My bad!

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

tehdik — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:08:59 -0000

Thank you for the intelligent comment. You should try starting with that instead of being a jerk next time.

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

edwink — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:02:15 -0000

You say "Bloggers can only help so much because adoption isn't a part of the plan".

Adoption is only part of the value. The key when you create a new project is to get quickly from 0 to 1000 active users so that you start having a feedback loop, start measuring and iterate.

I think that this rule is true for every new product which tries to innovate. It is a key ingredient to survive inception.

This is why blogger which have a large and active community are a key ingredient of the start up ecosystem.

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

tehdik — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:46:38 -0000

Educate me.

Re: It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

edwink — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:45:03 -0000

Techdik. You obviously sound like you do not know. So may be you should try to know before coming here and writing some non-sense.

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

edwink — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:47:51 -0000

Interesting post. This might be an example of where Google is trying to do too much in one iteration. They could have taken wikis and improve them. They could have taken email and improve it or they could have taken google docs and improve it. The 3 together seems to have too much complexity (both conceptually, from a user interface perspective and from a technology perspective) to have the chance to benefit from mainstream adoption and become part of the fabric of the web. On the other hand, one of the benefits of being Google is that you can make these kind of bolder bets, fail, learn from them, re-scope and move forward.

Re: LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Firefox Extension?

edwink — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:09:40 -0000

Firebug, Feedly, Cooliris

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/09/feedly-explore-highlights-recommended.html

Victor Bezrukov — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:30:25 -0000

Yes i see it on the Cover page !
why it not the regular link as it was one week ago
i using by karma a lot !
thanks !

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/09/feedly-explore-highlights-recommended.html

edwink — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:24:17 -0000

Hi victor. The karma is still there. There is a module in the digest to navigate to it. You can also go to it directly http://www.feedly.com/home#karma