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stuartjmooreon HTML5 Video With Bumper Ads

I'd like to see a server-side system that spliced video clips together to create a custom, downloadable video file.

Of course, you wouldn't be able to stop users from skipping the ads...

stuartjmooreon Michael Seibel: The Problem With Live Web Video And How To Set It Free

I agree that live broad/podcasts need a very strict schedule, but I don't think that they're not doing it because they haven't thought of it.

I think the problem is either they're not serious enough about their content or that unscripted, live shows are hard to lock down to a single length every week.

When online shows are scripted, filmed, and edited down to exactly 22 minutes, then scheduling will get much better.

stuartjmooreon Will the iPad Kill Reading?

I think the iPad (at least iBooks) is best for people who have no interest in investing the time in perusing book stores or buying a device just to read books. But now that something you wanted has a nice book reader inside of it, you might as well check out a copy (maybe just a the sample) of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

stuartjmooreon Logarithmic calendar view

Just so I don't look like a dick: I don't think he stole my idea. We actually emailed back and forth a while ago (started about something else, calendars came up).

People have the same ideas at the same time. It's always nice to get another perspective.

stuartjmooreon Logarithmic calendar view

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1030989

stuartjmooreon Ask HN: iPad File Sync?

Just synced my iPad and bam: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7653/screenshot20100403at11...

stuartjmooreon The <nsfw> Element

I don't disagree, but a <nsfw> tag while browsing at work would be helpful.

stuartjmooreon The <nsfw> Element

I know this is an April Fools post, but still:

YES, I've been thinking about this kind of thing for a while. But <nsfw> doesn't seem like enough.

What if an entire page or website is nsfw? Maybe some kind of header information would be more appropriate. Or inside the root element (<html nsfw>). How about specific ratings? <nsfw rated:"urn:mpaa:R">

There are still plenty of problems--kids getting around the browser settings--but it's 10x stronger[citation needed] than "what's your birth date?".

stuartjmooreon Twitter Symbols

There are much more typographically useful symbols. I made a Google spreadsheet to keep track of the ones I use:

‘ ’ “ ” — … • ½ ™ Ⅳ and lots of other ones that are much less useful.

stuartjmooreon Would You Pay a Girl to Play Halo With You?

Sadly, I’m always thinking up services like these. What about a company that connects you with a “girl” to SMS with whenever you’re bored?

I know these kind of exist, but would advertising them as friendly—rather than sexual—hurt or help the business? What about the word-of-mouth?

stuartjmooreon Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup prompts more weight gain vs sugar

Fructose in general (sugar and HFCS) is poison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

stuartjmooreon Ask HN: iPad File Sync?

But via built in apps, not an app from the store.

stuartjmooreon Why Japan didn’t create the iPod

They don't focus on UIs? That's what makes the iPod special. Japanese cell phones are know for their terrible UIs (yet awesome features).

stuartjmooreon Hulu on the iPad? Not as Easy as It Sounds

Definitely go for HTML5, mostly h.264, since HTML5, Flash, and iPhone all use that standard (for the most part). Plus, Palm WebOS and Android.

But, if you have the resources, you might as well have an app. Think of the App Store as free advertising.

stuartjmooreon Hulu on the iPad? Not as Easy as It Sounds

DRM.

stuartjmooreon Colbert & Daily Shows removed from Hulu, effective today

Since all my entertainment is through podcasting, I was relying on Hulu's RSS feeds. Now they're gone, I had to "pipe" together my own:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=85fec6c2bde9b5525...

and

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5f8d5d516ff18a791...

stuartjmooreon Ask HN: Where did you go to college?

I love posts where people get to talk about themselves.

Oh, and: University of Maryland (both College Park and University College).

stuartjmooreon Mac Developer license falls to $99/year, Mac App Store coming?

Maybe separate approval if they write a new UI for the iPad since Apple has to approve the UI.

But I'm guessing they won't need it if they don't change a thing and just have user's choose to upscale it. Apple would probably prefer to be boastful about app numbers.

stuartjmooreon Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store

I wrote two apps for the SuicideGirls[NSFW], and one has since been removed.

SG is sexual, but not out right porn. Apple can do what it wants, but it kind of sucks that an entire company's branding is essentially banned or "in review" for 3 months.

Yes, they have Safari, but that harkens back to the web vs native app debate.

If only Android was the popular one...

stuartjmooreon Why nobody talks about Lua

Lua was used in the original Hulk movie game demo, which made it very easy to hack, and thus, actually fun to play.

stuartjmooreon [dead]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/debunk-palm-not-halting-p... Chinese New Year.

stuartjmooreon “Public” should not be the default

Public: bad for you, good for everyone else.

I was thinking about a service that lets you add notes to books last night. My first thought was that every note had to default to public. Why? So you would contribute to the greater community without having to think about it. If you truly wanted to keep a secret, it would be an option.

BUT, this service is very far off from what Facebook let's you upload and share. Though, the point is the same, they're being selfish at individual user's expense.

stuartjmooreon Death to Filesystems

Sounds like he wants to just make the filesystem less transparent and handled solely by the application that uses it.

It's nice, and user friendly, until you want to switch. One of the reasons the Mac vs. PC debate is almost moot is because of how easy it is to move from one to another. A JPEG is a JPEG, no matter where it is. A folder of JPEG files can move back and forth no problem. But moving from iPhoto to Picasa on a PC? Not so easy, esp since you may need to write a specific routine to handle each programs individual "filesystem".

stuartjmooreon Analog to Digital Failure: the Calendar

This isn't a solid design (obviously), but I'd like to think the names of the days would be highlighted well. The week day names do line up in a column still. The weekends, especially, would be colored differently.

The weekends kind of count as an scheduled event on their own, but having "THE WEEKEND!!!!" typed out every 7 days might get distracting/annoying.

PS If you like this, follow http://twitter.com/ImSoOCD so I don't spam HN with every little thing I think up. It's only one update a week.

stuartjmooreon Why Google May Want Yelp

Data.

It's why Google wants everything.

stuartjmooreon Apple's iPhone commands 46% of Japanese smartphone market

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/iphone-nabs-46-pecent-of-...

[About half-way down] The iPhone is less than 10% when compared to more realistic competitors.

stuartjmooreon Apple's iPhone commands 46% of Japanese smartphone market

I think the numbers are fudged because of the "definition" of a smartphone. Most Japanese phones are probably considered media-phones or enhanced-phones.

stuartjmooreon What would you do if you were Apple?

http://gizmodo.com/5256604/iphone-application-sales-are-so-t...

stuartjmooreon A new communications technology disrupted America’s newspaper industry—in 1845

The difference: they figured out how to use this new technology to enhance their business.

They're letting the internet hurt their brands. It has a lot to do with the design, ads, and [citations needed].