was like the worst movie i've ever seen yes i tried watching that holy smokes i could not make it through more than thirty minutes smart me speaking about making it through thirty minutes change now granted their website the web application was as bad as ugly as possible and it's funny if you look at the at this new version of it which we have up on the screen right now yeah it's very high tech i still allowed to screen and it you can look now like it's great because they only show the stuff that is there's no ads which is the rain problem right now with facebook is it's completely ad centric but you look at with color it's exciting because apparently it was facebook and black my prior to that who has a darker sky at the top and for those that are eager to check out the new version because it's not live yet there is a sign up at the a point where they started controlling everything and we stopped caring and went to other things instead and i mean i guess to stay relevant stay ahead of the curve and a mist that curve they sort of started pleasing their customers which i guess the dumbest thing you can do you know be ahead of it instead of behind it but they were not this time again add to the litany of problems mean i don't know about you guys on facebook i have certainly dropped off i've definitely dropped off drastically and it's i've never been a big poster i'm just been a you know just checking out what people are doing creeper but you don't know what you are posting it's the world like you know you attach yourself to al applications and they're just they're posting on your behalf and the only person has no idea what what they're posting you know outside of stuff that you're actually typing in as you are now with this new version you're going to be able to choose your feeds that you want and that sort of thing to people think oh they don't understand why when they send something out and not a raise getting it all facebook determines who gets what and they say it's sometimes less than thirty percent of the stuff is actually coming into your your news feed now this new version going to lie you to choose  feeds exactly like google plus already does with circles where you you can just be looking at those individual feeds but that's exactly the way facebook used to be as well you know i mean hey remember how you liked it you didn't want us to change you want to go back to that four years ago well great now we're finally listening to you but everyone's abandoned ship on the application already find it interesting that just with the limitation of what they like in a senior news feed currently that it's everything they're doing with facebook is trying to  put any kind of dollar value to the user that's there and that's something that they're having a lot of trouble fully grasping aside from having advertisers now in sort of a news feed or taking that information from you so they can sell it to somebody else so they can get some money out of it it's funny that the way that they're deciding to make money is to push companies that are on facebook away from being on the website and having them all right you do this for me shoving money into facebook for them to promote it other than letting them actually be on their web site and using it are aware and comic book land marvel and its online service cosmic comic ology comics all comics ology with an act which with an x which runs the marvel comics app and also they have their own comics announced  believes on friday or saturday that you could download free digital copies of seven hundred first issues of marvel for a limited time which was to be told today i believe is written with their head no one is from three to five blocks  instantaneously crashing the sites and they've called off a promotion i'm sorry halted the promotion for a later time until they figures out two questions i have for you one why do these companies do this stuff without testing their server ability first they always always hearing this stuff about always this sale and crash the site and secondly does this mean the digital is especially for for you does this mean that digital comics are a sick are a growing success or is it just people like free stuff and i think people like free stuff and stuff i mean come on i mean i have i've been on comics ology oh i don't know i want to twenty or thirty times and i'm a pretty regular comics perjurer purchaser i have not i'm sorry i have not bought a digital comic i don't anticipating despite me purchasing a digital comic i think there is a market share there but i am not that market on the other hand when they say hey here's free stuff i say i am on board and i want to size that now at the same time it's an old business philosophy give someone something and they'll come back and take it later on or some of them will mean there is no cost to marvel comics for this that cost is passed it is done it's over so if you're selling something again to somebody or trying to get a couple nickels out of it the cost to them is essentially nil the cost to the corporation comics ology is significant but why are they going to invest in something tons of money in something that's free i mean that's like saying my call center there was one day we were very busy an eight thousand calls but i'm not going to hire more people just to accommodate those eight or ten thousand more people i'm just go of i guess well there's valiant there you go but see there's the good looking for free so but does this help for people that's you know if something's a first edition or whatever or you know number one early on where it's impossible to buy unless you've got no clue box this gives you the ability to actually read the story for three five bucks whatever it is me yes and no i'll agree to an extent but right now most of those first editions are available to people anyway if i walked over to the comic book store there's a marvel treasury edition there's a reprint income there's repurchases i mean i bought seven hundred x men comics for fifty bucks a couple years ago and they've stopped that because they said oh snap there's a one time purchase we don't want that we want to charge them a dollar or two for each one or an online service marvel actually had an op online service i think was like thirty dollars a month or something where you could buy into it and they put a certain number of comics something like thirty percent of their comics available of vice or an h d screen is just beautiful it's an enjoyable experience to read but i can definitely see why someone who goes out and purchases comic books has has their weekly issues or monthly issues that they want to go out and purchase there's not much incentive to view it on the screen whereas if i purchase it in real life i have a hard copy there is more value to that extent and you can ask that right i can write sell it but actually of course are good but what does this say as far as having something on this for someone like me that would be casual to a little below casual comic book reader this is a perfect idea for me especially whenever you have ones in the way for free aside from their glaring oversight of how much how many people w come and try to do this specially when you have seven hundred people to try to get all those a one time is selling they're coming in picking and choosing from things this will really publicize to mainstream where i would think that the target for this would be to try to publicize it to someone like me so that i would come back and say oh wait i can read all these here i'm not the one that's going to go into the college bookstore maybe you don't have a comic book store around you you have a device at home that can still access this untapped market that i can see them trying to cannibalize on the avid movie goer on the person that's going to see these big blockbuster more book movies maybe i want to read some backstory about her or maybe i just really like four things in the me check out for issue number one and i just found it very odd that they didn't advertise to that market and it was still too much for them to handwrite well i think the people who responded to it were comic book users like myself and i have you know two three thousand comic books in my home but when they're saying here are seven hundred more i want to all i mean no offense we're a hoarding mentality that's why i've been collecting that's why they've had me for this long and that market is getting smaller and smaller but we're getting more and more boisterous more and more complaining and we're trying to get a casual user but at the same time maybe neglecting how many crazy people their issue number one since time is different issue number one i read the first one of those interesting now i'll buy that series i know i'm going to get another free issue of that but then again if you use just one does that make news where seven granted make as much for news  interesting on the app as well as well as a website i believe you might have just they they still have the link up for if you're trying to get this deal when you go to it it basically just gives you a crash error so you can't really see what's going on with it they haven't updated that yet also their on app they still have a tab for free i don't know if that means they normally give out free comics ok they do but that is not working as well i'm just taking you to a still banner and there's nothing on it there are numerous comics they're giving away all the time look i go into my existing comics it has a bunch of and a lot of like your free comic book day issues that give away a lot of promotional items but there are a lot of companies that have been successful i think walking dead is one i remember they were giving away issue number one issue nineteen which was the first appearance of me shown sort of throw a couple things out there and here you go and even though those flop comics those floppies aren't available they are available in trade paperback so if i'm interested in those not well i'll go buy the trades instead so they're khan academy which is probably the most well known which is free you know three or four thousand different videos available and there's been a bunch of different ones lynda dot com was kind of the big thing last year which allows you to see some of the inside of the class you see some of them for free and then you can pay a subscription fee to get it it's a credit to one or the composer creative live one is kind of interesting because the allows you to watch the class for free live which is one of the more interesting ones is building up its partner with sixty two different universities and they're working towards getting actual credit equivalency for these classes when you think about the future here of online  learning through specified specified courses lynda dot com one was geared mostly towards adobe products and dettori and that sort of thing obviously there's a lot of people doing this kind of stuff but with all the free tauriel for what they're on you tube and some like that i mean you have to do a little more work sometimes to find them is there a space here for a model that is going to allow for that the two things that are quickly coming online for me or first addressing just the whole on being able to view a class online as far as the university or some kind of collegiate level i'd be curious to see how much flak they're going to get from professors or the people that are actually doing the instruction i knew when i was in college there was a there was a service that's they were they would employ students that were a plus a plus you know high high and academia and they would go to the classes and they would actually take notes and then you didn't turn to be able to purchase those notes if you missed classes and were designed for if you missed classes  really just meant people that weren't going the class by the nose right and a lot of the classes there's a lot of lawsuits over that because now you were interned the way that they argued it was you were selling the professors intellectual property that was their class that you were not attending you were just buying the the curriculum from essentially which i don't really understand but i can see a lot of flak coming from that especially if it's somebody that's not technically a student of the university especially if you're actually showing a video of them that you're sign off on the i mean contracted type employee if you're paying to be employed here then you're agreeing to be reported and that is our property but what a lot of people like you have to have somebody sign off on that but a lot of these might not even be professors or affiliated with guess it is i'm sorry is actually allows instructors to build up courses and then they can choose how they they charge for it so i think the market for this at least for a university standpoint is khan academy and skip twelve years of public education and on in the school i think that's already existing i mean let me say some detrimental things about you know collegial or peers or whatever people are going to school at home people are earning degrees on their own now to strongly rebut that if i have two applicants coming into a job and one of them has a degree from the university of phoenix i'm strongly considering the other guy  mean in truth there will be until these people have gone through the ringer and proven themselves trustworthy or that academia proves itself as dependable i don't think it's going to be i don't think it has a prayer of hope and that's that level that collegiate level collegiate level but also high schools i mean i can't tell you how many times i've wanted to say to anyone you know homeschooling is still an option that exists for you but that option isn't taken for a lot of reasons it's inconvenient that person perhaps doesn't have the best information best ability to pass that along etc so it  is there it exists but it has to be tested by the real world and and i don't see that transitioning over for quite a period of time and i still think that interaction with people is there now my wife will disagree that she thinks education is a field is gone on the next fifteen to twenty years it's going to be extinct i think it'll be altered significantly if you like that robot to marshal not necessarily people you know robot in themselves and but interact with one hundred people or worse yet one way communication i don't see that as a predator and they're the other side of the agreement of course is the students or whoever's going to be taking these classes i think it's going to take a very mature level of student or somebody that's very driven so to for and these courses successful a lot of times now this would be my perspective would be outside of high school so the next level from high school yes there's extenuating circumstances were on line is beneficial for certain people where they don't have the means to to physically go to a classroom or if they're sick that kind of stuff you know to make up as a complimentary to a physical classroom is a great idea the only way i see it working as a stand alone is potentially the person working on their second degree or somebody that's going out there just to take a couple of classes or a handful classes a person that has that that desire to learn whatever the curriculum is the person that's actually going to do the additional reading assignment do the dish and work that can be they can hold themselves accountable for what's going on if you do not have the face to face interaction in my opinion where you're inside the classroom communicating with your students having the back and forth of with the teacher there's a whole different aspect of it is just left out that you may not consider that there's not even brought to light to you as far as the curriculum and i don't think you fully understand it and makes a lot easier for you to slack off from that just to do what is specifically required to grin and bear and there's just all these other distractions of being at home you have an internet window wide open to you at all times and every test that can be open book every you can have a chat room opened up where you can talk with other people that are taking the online class there's a lot of ways that you can that you can get your grade that's just paying for it without really doing the work if you wanted to that's why i think it would be a lot of a lot of burden placed on the student for it to be successful it's going to a small market to actually see the benefit behind it well i can remember going to a masters degree program graduation and during the ceremony one of the speakers bragged there are a few students receiving their master's degree that this was their first time ever on the campus and that to me is terrifying that someone would say they would grant this advanced level of degree someone with whom they've never interacted i mean after local search so basically they're going to go head to head with yelp on this can foursquare get out of the trap of just being i mean is that we talk about we joke a lot about facebook you know trying to be everything everybody kind of thing you know foursquare they've got you know they're known as the place you check and sometimes you get you know discounts whatever i mean they do this really well is this something that they should be expanding upon to help you find the stuff is local s whereas you see that you get a lot of everything every week on our show we talk about how we don't like this we're just talking about people up in arms about any kind of change that is done to facebook same thing can happen with with foursquare foursquare is known for this and it's not like it's just came up last week you know like oh track those check ins that kind of stuff without changing their user services so they're still doing the exact same thing but they found a way to make money it's what i think the problem with all these sites is they're getting a lot of pressure from whether it's a public site if it's going to the stockholders or anything like that they need to have show growth they need to show change everything always has to be going up and up whereas these companies typically don't have a long shelf life so if you keep forcing to go up and up a lot of times you can be cutting the head office thinking you're so only shortening the lifespan of it but i think you've got two options i mean these are companies that exist either for free or minimalistic advertising to the consumers so they're having to do a lot of things or more things for individual users not well or the other option is to start charging for something if there was frankly a kind of a feature they would have the ability to check in on all of those and bring those back i consider paying for it let's say for example there was something you interact with all of my social networks and bring that information together and i think windows eight is the first good attempt i've seen to do some of those things but as so many weaknesses things that can't interact with or won't interact with things that have been a part of my history of that's problematic i'm setting up our new computer and trying to get the email feed for example through there and i can't bring in my comcast mail it's got to be forwarded from somewhere else to go to a g mail account and then come through there don't do that to make it interact with everything's set up to do all of that bring it all together social network interaction a little better it's got that twitter google plus if that kind of stuff comes in i would pay for that i'm buying it i'm in but that means that corporation has to charge people and on a revolving basis it has to sign up for a fee or a service and it's going to be difficult for a network or a program to be able to do that or do it well without charging people ahead of time so you've got two options either companies in my opinion and i'm looking at this they don't they don't know what made them successful there's a lot of people that just got lucky they know how to program something i mean look at twitter who went to a business meeting to holders and was like i got a my space and facebook if you were betting on one of those horses where would you put your bet in my space yes absolutely and for whatever reason it's it was more complex to interact with it had more things to do with more features but people didn't want