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Re: The Ideal First Round Term Sheet

sanj — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:31:15 -0000

From Dixon's original article:

"not worry about money but not save any"

So what does that mean? No retirement savings? No 401k? No 529 Savings for kids' colleges?
If I weren't saving for that stuff, I'd be worried.

Re: Can Facebook help apps get iPhone distribution?

sanj — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:19:46 -0000

Apple won't like anyone else pushing apps, but anyone can generate a link and lead people to their content on the iTunes Store. As an example, our app is at http://itunes.com/apps/luck....

But, it'd be trivial for Facebook to set up a config option during app setup on their site asking for the URL of the iPhone application. I'm guessing they'd want to make sure it was using FBConnect and so getting into that directory might require a step of human intervention.

Second, I think that there's another path. Do you remember when the iPhone first came out and the story line was that you were supposed to write web apps? And that those would "just work" on the iPhone? It sounds silly now, especially referencing the iPhone, but FB apps *are* web apps.

In fact, for our iPhone application, we chose to build a very "thin" client component and then sublaunch Mobile Safari so we could take advantage of server-side work and rendering. I believe it works pretty well, but you're welcome to see for yourself: http://itunes.com/apps/luck...

Since FB Apps are just web apps, the apps 'tab' on the Facebook iPhone application could launch the mobile version of the FB Apps the user has installed -- ideally shrunk down and optimized for the handheld screen. In fact, you could use a WebUI view to keep it within the Facebook iPhone application and maintain the user experience. The sublaunch could deal with handing over the credentials *and* perhaps some other information (geolocation comes to mind). I'd be happy to port what we've done into that environment.

The practical upshot would be that existing FBApps would have a place on the iPhone with little additional work for Facebook.

Re: Spammed by TimeBridge

sanj — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:16:11 -0000

http://googledataapis.blogs...

Almost 9 months!

Re: Spammed by TimeBridge

sanj — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:45:28 -0000

"recently Google introduced a secure way "

This is incorrect. Authsub has been available for over 2 years and prevents requiring Google Crendentials.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

sanj — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:47:53 -0000

Yaz!

Written by Vince Clarke.

It is filed in my mind near Erasure.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

sanj — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:47:37 -0000

I feel badly for everyone who had Bryan Adams squeeze out the brilliant work of Ron Hawkins in the early '90s.

Re: It's Not The Data, It's The Flow

sanj — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:09:15 -0000

I had this realization yesterday when listening to the radio. It was some one-hit wonder. There was a time I thought *everyone* who ended up on the radio had it made in the shade.

The reality is that it is everyone around them -- the delivery infrastructure industry (aka, the 'flow') that has it made.