A perfect way to bring the hardware innovation wave into the education. Makerbot should be looking into Education sales and training for a next gen shop class.
Totally agree, I think Twitter understands this too, their their recent work in NLP to analyze trends, and grouping tweets to create adhoc discussion board like centralizations of discussions.
Startups may be famous for not punishing failure, but I think this is such an exceptional case that I don't see the same rules applying here. I would not trust someone who squandered this much wealth, and certainly would not trust them if any of these allegations are even remotely true.
2 fold problem: we see that replacing troops with drones could save US military lives, but it would make going to war an easier. This would increase the horrors of war for civilians on the ground (we've seen this from the disproportionate number of reported drone errors).
I don't see these options as mutually exclusive. How is consumption of information canceling out sharing information? Especially with the ability to email tweets now. This seems to run contrary to what Dalton is writing about.
My favorite twitter comment is that you don't have to tweet to use twitter. You can contribute to the news, and you can consume it, Twitter isn't pushing for people to use just pursue one.
The headline is needlessly inflammatory. The bashing was entirely epicurean (burritos & pizza stuff, reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latke%E2%80%93Hamantash_Debate). There were a few interesting points, in that certain areas, because of resident industries, lend themselves to certain businesses. Fashion in NYC is the one pointed to the article, and I've seen similar arguments made for marketing businesses. Love to get the boards thoughts about this for other sectors!
Just saw a pitch in NYC where they said that less than 3% of their users disable push notification, so they reasoned that this means push is the notification of choice. We spoke afterwards, and it seems like outright deletes were low as well (no number here), so it seems like this sort of abuse is not punished (like I think it should be) by users. Unless we get better feedback mechanisms, this sort of abuse will continue.
They are a much smaller operation, which means you'll get the personal touch. On the minus side the API is less robust and there is little to no documentation when you need it, I'd give it a stab if I were you, they made it very easy to migrate over!
Roll out was a huge event in NYC, very cool that Microsoft, Google and FB have all chosen the city to do their big rollouts now. Still a bit worried about FB shifting focus from communication to Ecom, pushing product instead of communication.
I am an eternal optimist, and this looks hugely powerful. Have they released any data about possible catches? Any Maluuba-ers out there can give us some guidance for implementation limitations?
Cool move, youtube has been creating such cool value adds, the concert tickets and mp3 purchasing comes immediately to mind. I think this could easily extend to a compelling second screen experience, where users would be able to buy the furniture in some scene of a show they're watching.
This makes sense of alot of the moves we saw the Obama camp making, the reddit outreach was interesting and way beyond anything I'd seen done on other platforms, and the emails from multiple sources was smart and annoyingly effective. Even if they hit my spam, my friends and I would talk about how they were just emailed by Biden or someone else.
Anyone know if they were using Amicus too? Also, what sectors would the lean startup model not work in? Sees almost universal at this point.
I 100% second this sentiment. I think if users start doing this more often, and reflect this in the reviews in the app store (or if the app store could have an "% of app downloads deleted" or some other metric showing dissatisfied user behavior) that would similarly solve the problem.
I agree that it is easier to game the social influence score than it is to game pagerank. That makes sense, simply from an interface perspective (tweeting alot versus messing with the meta data or link farming). However, I'd love to get thoughts from the community about potential solutions to his circular validation problem, which I think is the largest barrier to making a real Whuffie score.
Great post, and couldn't agree more. I think Bloomberg and Rachel Sterne also deserve credit for their amazing rallying and general scrappiness, which enabled alot of these companies to step up with supportive offers (AirBNB & Uber stand out).
AirBNB did some amazing image work recently, they got the word about this out across NYC incredibly quickly and the Mayor's office has been touting it. It looks like they did indeed make an unregulated landlord exemption, but they have clearly not openly claimed they have done so. This is in line with the recent Uber moves in the city too, kudos to Bloomberg and Rachel Sterne for doing excellent work with the tech community to heal the city!
While I don't 100% agree with the piece, our team just stopped using Twilio and is migrating over to MoGreet beacuse of their MMS capabilities. We already miss Twilio's strong community, but MoGreet has been incredibly responsive and supportive.
The Explorer's Club in New York had Space Exploration as a theme in 2010, it was amazing how excited people got, and entrepreneurs have really taken hold of space travel. People should also check out Richard Garriott's work in the area, he spoke at the dinner and is another awesome space entrepreneur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yiWoY36Ukc