Don't be concerned because Google is competing. Be concerned because everyone I've talked to agrees that Sparks sucks, and is by far the weakest part of Google+.
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I'd love to see some 20 year jail sentences out of this. The idea that because hacking a site is easy it's 'amusing' and justified is ludicrous.
Actual design is really mediocre, there's no portfolio, there's no example of a completed project, there's not much about why he actually wants to work at the target company. The entire thing is basically an HTML5 animation and he wants a frontend UI gig, presumably focused on actual interfaces, not animations.
The work to do a web app even barely comparable to a native app, in terms of responsiveness, is outrageously larger than just firing up Xcode.
I've only ever used two web apps that don't suck- Asana and Flowdock.
We pushed to have the first United Nations conference in San Francisco specifically so that we could intercept outbound telegraph messages, and have the upper hand in negotiations.
Higher risk than a farmer from Kansas, undoubtedly, but nothing that would make the government assign people to actively monitor your international communications.
I don't know Noah, but it sounds like that's why he killed off Gambit and dived into AppSumo.
For 100% mobile apps, intelligent marketing is nigh impossible since there is no funnel- Apple doesn't tell you impressions v conversion rate of app pages.
Without that information, apps that are 100% mobile, with no web component, cannot market effectively.
Apps with web components, on the other hand, can measure the rate of online signups to app purchases, and optimize accordingly.
Mobile only products use free apps as a lead-gen tool to convert to paid.
My company is moving to the web model, simply so we can implement effective marketing, without a clear RPU and conversion rate.
Diluted to hell by subsequent rounds of investment, and ending up with .1-1%. That'd still be an ENORMOUS amount of money, but there's no way he has a claim on 50% of the currently issued shares.
In the same way, when someone participates in an organization that's going out of its way to acquire and distribute classified stuff, regardless of news value, but rather simply because it's there, I'd hope that our government would make life hard on them.
Wikileaks is not engaging in journalism- it's engaging in infowar against America. That's not legally defined yet, and the legal ramifications have not been decided yet- but I hope that it is defined, and there are severe legal ramifications for it.
The scattershot releases show that the goal is to hurt the US, not to affect change. There was real legitimate news in the releases so far- hidden in mounds of classified information that had no news value beyond exposing sources, risking lives, and slinging mud at the State Department.
There's HUGE value in an organization like Wikileaks, as shown in Tunisia.
Wikileaks itself, though, has shown that it is blatantly anti-American, risking the lives of our allies and sources. I really, really hope that one of the splinter groups takes off, with a bit more respect for the human cost of these kind of releases.
The fact that we crushed Al Qaeda in the opening years of the war doesn't diminish the threat that existed at the time. The Treasury Department essentially rewrote the rules of international finance in a matter of months, devastating their financing, and the followup in Afghanistan crippled them.
This hasn't been a "war", it's been a War.
The biggest problem is that we haven't gone far enough yet- security theater in the airports instead of Israeli-style real security. No screening of cargo containers. Virtually all American cities lack plans for how to deal with nuclear terrorism.
Bar at the bottom showing friends' faces, filter to find someone in particular, requiring like to share, posting to wall instead of Newsfeed- perfection.
Anyone who takes the time to put together a list of hard-hitting business requests like 'algorithmic transparency' is going to ever, ever, ever have a hit consumer application. The linked list isn't about making more money, it's about ideological purity.
Enemy combatants belong to non-state actors, and so no treaties or guidelines apply to them. Last I checked Al doesn't Al Qaeda and the rest of the cavers don't get representatives in the UN.
We also ask people to review after three sessions- goal is to come out even at 3, followup fast, and get to 4 or 4 1/2 within three releases.
http://cl.ly/3O3H300K3C3p423G2i2Z
It's another bookshelf icon, but the colors and style make it stand out in the app store listings.
Key is to stand out relative to competition, in the common ways users find your app.
Downloads and sales have more than doubled since the change, though we also redesigned the app interface itself in the same update.
With App Store marketing you have to describe your app with just the title and logo. By punting on logo you're losing 50% of your descriptive levers for getting rank traffic.
It's the browser reinvented for the iPad.
Full-screen, gestures, Visual History, swipe to search, Most Visited, and 'Open in Overlay' so you can open links on sites like Hacker News, read the article, close it, and be right back where you started.
Any feature requests, ideas, or comments would definitely be appreciated. Here's a walkthrough video:
You can't delete things on the internet- content is mirrored, and popular posts like that are quoted, copied, and scraped across the internet. There's no risk of the post disappearing.
However, when they're in a meeting with the head of Match and their team, it'd be pretty dickish to keep the post up. It's rude. Removing it removes friction between the teams, is a nice peace offering, and in the end changes nothing- the post is instantly mirrored.