akosner
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Comment · 12 years ago
Zillabyte radically simplifies the process of setting up a web crawler. More and more data-minded developers and marketers are looking to create custom data sets from the open web and these kinds of components combined with ZBs infrastructure will make it much faster and easier to roll your own big data. One to watch.
Comment · 12 years ago
Follow up post here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/04/04/aha-mom...
Comment · 12 years ago
What keywords did you use? Curious to see how unrelated games might have been related to your keywords.
Comment · 13 years ago
I have a theory. Last week there was a big story about how Facebook was “dead and buried” because teens didn’t want to be on a service that their parents had moved into. Now, when it comes to security, the parents care a lot more than the kids. Could Snapchat be playing fast and loose with the security of their user data as a way of scaring away the grownups?
This would be a clever ploy but for one damning fact. A large share of Snapchat’s users are minor children. Could anyone, from the CEO of Snapchat to the perpetrators of SnapchatDB really think that risking the broadcasting of the phone numbers of 12-year-old girls and boys is a risk worth taking?
For more, see: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/01/01/4-6-mil...
Comment · 13 years ago
The only dog I have in this fight is my iPhone 5S! My big question is whether the problem is hardware or software. The necessity to press the fingers just so and the UI validation giving, in effect, a false positive makes it seem like software. For Apple's sake I hope so. Software updates are a lot easier and cheaper than hardware recalls.
Comment · 13 years ago
Right. That's the point I was trying to make. Even if this little poll has a margin of error of 10% that still would leave more than 10% of people with a problem, but not talking about it yet.
Comment · 13 years ago
See comment above. This is a real story, not "link bait," but thanks for the vote of confidence!
Comment · 13 years ago
A Polar poll shows 23% of respondents complain of "too many fails." (http://www.polarb.com/131862) and certainly that has been my experience. I wonder whether more people are not overtly complaining about it because users feel that they are "doing it wrong," not that the software might have been too fiddly for release.