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Well, I guess that when you've raised 58M in funding it's difficult to stay as a cultural institution. Your investors would never allow you to do that.

I have reasons to believe that most of the "follow" activity in google+ was managed by bots (google bots?) that took over zombie accounts just to simulate the community was alive.

I have a real example. Without doing much, other than being featured in another google+ profile with +500K followers (which happened to be sponsored by google); we end up getting 11K followers for our company profile.

All of our followers seemed to be zombie users with real names, but none of them had a real person behind them. We believe that since the +500K account was sponsored by google itself, most of the followers were fake and thus we end up having some of those followers too.

We tried to contact some of our followers, without never getting an answer. Once, we got as follower the sommelier (wine expert) of one of the best restaurants in the world which happens to be a few kilometers away from were we are. Since it was wery strange that a guy like him has interested in the google+ profile of a company focused in music and video distribution (our company), we also got in contact with him. As always, nobody answered.

By doing so, they can charge whatever they want for their productions using their own e-commerce solution (which we provide them [1]) and then get the long tail revenues that come afterwards by adding third parties like itunes, netflix or amazon.

[1] KiteBit, the direct-to-fan selling solution for video

Although we still serve less than 4K resolution (we've not found demand yet), I can confirm that NONE of the things said in the article like TV set age or contracted internet speed are in the top list of issues that we are dealing with on a daily basis.

In our experience, what is giving us most of the headaches is the network congestion at the time of download/stream; at weekend nights some ISPs just can't deal with the amount of traffic that this kind of services are demanding. We are spending quite a lot of resources in customer service for this reason. Unfortunately, at the end the solution is always the same, "please, try again later". Of course, this is not something people like, specially when they have paid for the contents they intend to watch "now".

Surprisingly, people who have contracted a low speed internet connection seem to be already aware of his connectivity limitations and are not much of a problem. However, the ones who have good connections are not aware of the peering agreements his provider might or might not have with other networks[2]. Some might be even suffering from bandwidth throttling without even knowing.

[1] https://KiteBit.com

[2] We use AWS Cloudfront CDN. We've talked with other netflix-like services, and although they use other CDNs, they still suffer from the same problems like us.

EDIT:: The formatting got corrupted when I posted the comment. Feel free to contact me and I'll send you the format by mail. marc /at/ kitebit /dot/ com

* CUSTOMER2 NAME Contact details Where we did find about him * ---> who_contacted_the_customer DATE CONTACT_CHANEL (mail, phone...) Description of what we talked about

---> ---> who_contacted_the_customer DATE CONTACT_CHANEL (mail, phone...) Description of what we talked about

* CUSTOMER2 NAME Contact details Where we did find about him * ---> who_contacted_the_customer DATE CONTACT_CHANEL (mail, phone...) Description of what we talked about

---> ---> who_contacted_the_customer DATE CONTACT_CHANEL (mail, phone...) Description of what we talked about

We have the plain TXT files stored in dropbox shared location.

Easy, slick, cost 0, and accessible by search through OSX Spotlight. Also, we don't depend on third parties (we can move disconnect from dropbox at any time)

One of the big drawbacks when I first started my nexus5 was that I was being spyed. Why the hell do I need a gmail account to get started?!

I wonder if it would be possible to install this Android flavour in a Nexus device ?

I've been programming on a daily basis for iOS even before the SDK came out (ohhh those reverse engineering days...!). Two years ago I left the job and since then I've always wondered what were the relevant changes in the SDK, just in case I get back to programming iOS again. And here we have it!

Not in the lean-startup movement!

One of the problems here is that there are many middlemen involved between the artist and Spotify. The label, the manager, the aggregator. Everyone gets his piece.

Also, there is problem regarding how much it takes for an artist to get the same from Spotify than they used to get from a song sold from a service like iTunes. Some artists claim that a song has to be listened up to 60 times in a streaming service in order to the same as a song sold in a digital music store. And here there comes the big issue. Have you ever listened 60 times to a song you buy in iTunes.

Music artists obviously have the pain of not getting enough from streaming service. Also physical and regular digital downloads are falling... So there is a cash flow problem in the bands not being in relations with the very opaque majors.

So now KiteBit offers a service for artists/bands who already have a loyal fan base who is willing to pay for the contents they produce. Not just for the sake of the contents put on sale but appealing to the emotional relationship they have with the artists, and using pricing models like the "pay what you want" that improves revenues by 12% goo.gl/N0oOeD

All in all, KiteBit it's like a bandcamp for Pros that can be used to sell music, concert tickets, or link their merch to digital downloads to retain customer loyalty. The trick is that the service wants to be transparent to the audience so that there's no feeling of any middlemen in the buying experience. that's why you won't see any marketplace in the KiteBit's site.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of this company.

Please, don't let this become something bad as happened with ChatRoulette when it became viral.

But, if you are a startup, just starting I mean, I don't think you need to be a security guru at all. Whatsapp started sending messages in plain text and look how many users they got. That's because users didn't matter about security until the company was so big that security became a real threat.

So, the vertical integration Samsung has in the manufacturing process is not great competitive advantage. However, Apple is strongly vertical integrated in the retail side. This makes a difference.

However, there's one major pain I got with the new UI I'd like to share. The new passcode lock screen is also much different than before, and this for me was a BIG problem at the beginning.

Surprisingly when I saw the passcode screen for the first time in iOS7 I absolutely forgot which was my code and therefore I could not unlock the phone. Try after try the phone puts it more difficult for you to enter new code combinations by not letting you try again after failed attempts. So I had an unusable phone for many hours in a row. I was in anger, how could I have forgot a that?

I discovered that the passcode code was something I had buried in my subconscious. Before the upgrade, I could type the code even when I was completely asleep at 3AM in the morning without even thinking, never failed in all this years.

Typing the code was a sort of reflex action for me. But the different lock screen UI made me absolutely impossible to perform it again. The code was not in my memory.

After several tries, and several hours, I met with my wife and she told me my own code so I could finally regain access to my phone.

Now the pin code is back to my memory and not my subconscious.

Anyone else had this sort of problem?

Also, Safari and Chrome will promt an anti-physing message when clicking the link

I've talked with SendGrid support. They are working hard to fix this.

I foresee more changes in Nokia than in Microsoft (being Microsoft the acquirer that shouldn't sound strange).

But, is this the most desirable?

Beyond the notion that fish farms are a sustainable source of fish meat, the fact is that fish farming needs a fodder supply to feed the fish. Fish eat fish, remember? This means in its majority the fodder produced nowadays comes from wild fish, probably a cheaper one to catch than de one in the farming nets. So wild fish still needs to be catched.

But it's even worse than that. Much worse... In order to grow fish in the farming nets the fish needs to eat much more than its weight in order to grow a little,just like any other animal. This means that it is much more ecological for us to eat the fish that is processed to make fish flour (fodder) than eat the fish that comes from fish farms.

What a nonsense isn't it? But still, we want tuna...

We have a URL forwarding set to www that points to out root domain so we are completely down.

Unfortunately, DNSimple is now the weakest layer of our stack. And at http://KiteBit we are suffering it right now!

[1]https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#root-do...)

[1] http://goo.gl/vagAt A survey comissioned by Google for the American Assembly -research center at Columbia University- has been published recenetly where it basically concludes that users who download content from peer to peer sites buy 30% more than the ones who don’t.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of KiteBit service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQ

I just found this by using the "last hour" filter mmastrac suggested.

EDIT: It doesn't seem to be a crater caused by a meteorite. By looking at the youtube video "cfn" (comment below) looks like it's a gas explosion in 2007. Still, amazing.

I've been amazed by how huge the explosion is being so far away from the meteorite crash.