thafman
Joined 17 years ago
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Comment · 14 years ago
I'm a massive proponent of the Distributed Social Networking Protocol concept, but since Diaspora tanked no one else seems to be picking up the mantle and Google/Yahoo/Microsoft don't look like they're going to roll out anything resembling an open SN protocol any time soon I wonder if it will ever happen.
Comment · 15 years ago
No, unsolicited email is never legal, CAN-SPAM only allows you to send email to people you have a prior business relationship with e.g. they signed up for your service/mailing list. Someone who posted a property to Craigslist hardly fits the profile.
Comment · 15 years ago
"The N97 coulda been an iPhone killer and the N8 and E7 all exhibited potential they might have been big... if Nokia ever really put their mind to it, they coulda crushed the iPhone"
I'll have two of whatever this guy is having.
Nokia doesn't just have a problem with execution it's not just about a features check list of touchscreen, appstore, music and gaming.It's about the attention to detail and ruthless application of quality in hardware build, software and UI. Nokia never even came close.
Comment · 16 years ago
IIRC Google now values YouTube at ~5Bn, and at that price I feel that there are plenty of companies who would bite Google's hand off.
Comment · 16 years ago
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day?
Horseshit, I make a very comfortable, middle class living at an online/mobile travel commerce start-up that does booking transactions in much the same way that a travel agent used to. The travel agent job disappeared, but Expedia, Tarvelocity and Orbitz -to name just the big, public facing brands of this transition- employ tens of thousands of middle class people.
Comment · 16 years ago
A $10 gift card for 10 mins of phone feedback is probably the best investment of time/money that I have ever heard of, I will be shamelessly stealing this idea for years.
Comment · 16 years ago
Affiliate booking revenue
Comment · 16 years ago
The team are proven entrepreneurs, but it's not like other travel start-ups like Kayak and Tripit where the founders all have proven domain expertise, Steve and Adam are hardly travel industry veterans.
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