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Re: Did AT&T have Apple kill NetShare to start its own tethering plan?

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:22:33 -0000

ha ha ha, that is a GREAT point Henry. maybe Jobs had to turn it off because of his excessive use of slang.

Re: Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big name in sight

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:52:35 -0000

A good example of how the more open ecosystem of Android could drive innovation. Thanks.

Re: Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big name in sight

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:51:29 -0000

Ah, what a good name! Thanks for the clarification Rylan.

Re: Microsoft fails to buy Yahoo, so it buys…some European comparison shopping sites?

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:45:27 -0000

Right, sorry about that, meant to note that it walked away from it just last week. I'll correct. Thanks!

Re: The Sky is Falling: Comcastic Caps

http://www.inquisitr.com/2730/the-sky-is-falling-comcastic-caps/ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:46:29 -0000

Even if (when) Google comes up with such a solution, it will not be free unless they choose to subsidize the service. And experience tells us that subsidized services like that, sooner or later, come with a price - would you use "free" bandwidth from Google if they put interstitials between every few web pages you viewed, for example?

The root of this is really simple economics: someone downloading 100GB of data per month costs Comcast a lot more than someone using 10GB. At some point along the line of how much you download, Comcast stops making a profit on a per-user basis, and starts making a loss. At that point, unless you cut your usage, they're really better off if you're NOT a customer.

Comcast hasn't set that 250GB cap in a vacuum: that's probably close to the point at which it starts to lose money on a per-customer basis (and in fact, that point may even be lower - it may have decided it can afford to subsidize customers who use, say, 100GB-250GB in the short term simply to have a higher cap).

Re: Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big name in sight

Rylan Barnes — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:43:16 -0000

Big in Japan is just the name of the company. We're actually based in Dallas. Check us out at http://www.biggu.com

Re: Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big name in sight

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:56:55 -0000

big in Japan right? but I don't think most people stateside have heard of it. good to keep the global perspective in mind though, thanks.

Re: Comcast to dam and damn the Internet with usage caps

Silus Grok — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:21:47 -0000

Of course they have a right … but that's not what I'm arguing. I hate capping. Read my comment again: the success they've seen in asking customers to voluntarily dial back bandwidth consumption is, I believe, because the _customers_ (not the users, mind you) are astonished at the bandwidth that's being consumed under their noses.

Re: Apple’s major multi-touch plans continue to come into focus

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:34:52 -0000

An interesting idea Fabio. As for price, it may still be cost prohibitive for this year, but I expect we'll see a device by next year.

Re: Comcast to dam and damn the Internet with usage caps

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:33:05 -0000

Yeah, I wouldn't expect customer service reps to know something like that just yet. But if this becomes standard you could well be calling in to check your remaining usage balance just as you do for your phone.

Re: The Sky is Falling: Comcastic Caps

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:31:06 -0000

True that bandwidth does cost money Duncan, but Comcast also charges us quite a bit of money. The problem here is that this sets a dangerous precedent towards limiting the Internet. Others are sure to follow. It might be wrong to think that technology for serving data cost effectively can keep up with demand, but Comcast and others already limit speeds of downloads. That's why I hope someone (Google or anyone else) is able to come up with a wireless solution via the white space (in the U.S.) or something else. It'll happen eventually, we won't always been using coaxial cable for data transfers, but how long?

Re: Comcast to dam and damn the Internet with usage caps

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:23:56 -0000

Start one up if there isn't Don. I'll join.

Re: Comcast to dam and damn the Internet with usage caps

parislemon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:23:19 -0000

You may be right on illegal music, but remember that legal online music and movies are continuing to become more and more popular, this will harm them. Also porn could be right too, but porn isn't illegal, so does Comcast really have a right to try and curb that?

Re: FriendFeed working on a new RSS supplement to speed up data retrieval

parislemon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:57:03 -0000

Thanks MK. Great stuff, obviously.

Think Twitter strategy right now is to make XMPP more available through Gnip.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/18/gnip-to-be-th...

Re: Google is neither buying or running many online display ads, but Microsoft and MySpace are

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:17:15 -0000

gotcha

Re: Google is neither buying or running many online display ads, but Microsoft and MySpace are

parislemon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:04:34 -0000

Yeah, definitely looks intriguing Don. More options are always better.

Re: Google is neither buying or running many online display ads, but Microsoft and MySpace are

parislemon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:03:57 -0000

Main point wasn't that Google isn't running them, more that they aren't showing them in large numbers on their sites - I just didn't want the title to be 4 lines long.

Re: Want to bypass iPhone SMS fees for Twitter updates? Get JustUpdate

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:55:09 -0000

Well then obviously this is less pertinent to you. But many people (myself included) don't have that.

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:00:59 -0000

Victory!

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:50:57 -0000

Hello again, @don_draper! Goodbye, @fakedondraper! All is well again http://bit.ly/omgmadmentwitterisback

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:18:49 -0000

That's a good point Jeff, but as you note it's a pretty gray line. If AMC wants the names for themselves to use that may be one thing, but there's not indication that will happen.

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:17:20 -0000

Yeah, it seems rather silly for AMC to be silencing free promotion.

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:16:03 -0000

Ha ha, thanks Peter.

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:15:49 -0000

yeah, i've gotten a TON of new ones today alone :)

Re: Google Gears quietly launches beta test for Safari

parislemon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:15:17 -0000

Ooops. Thanks jemima, left out a word. Fixed.