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Nonsense isn't it. I suppose the reason Scoble loves twitter so much is that he literally has nothing else to do but use it all day. The rest of us, however, do.

I mean seriously - I don't want to sound too negative but this is just completely out of touch with anyone who actually does real work. Scoble's disappeared up his own Social Media Consultant ass. Meanwhile, back in the real world, no-one cares a jot about any of that stuff and the priority is to Actually Get Stuff Done.

Maybe Scoble would understand this stuff better if he was technical.
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tl;dr: Let's tax carbon emissions and give the money to old people.

Date: 2/11/2003

I recommend downvoting this; it's a fluff piece written by the president of a lobbyist group that wants a cap & trade carbon credit system.
The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have really made it in a big way.
That's how jQuery.noConflict() works.

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In fact, there is http://cloudant.com/ from YC.
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Funny, nowhere in the post he mentions that having an amazing product experience is essential to brand building. Apparently, product doesn't matter to the brand image but being on Twitter does.
Maybe this will work very well. At least I hope so, congrats to this guys, they deserve this success.
The problems are caused by Youtube's extremely heavy throttling and also the rules that Youtube sets on client side buffering, not Flash. Flash allows rather significant customization of buffer behavior; I've equally seen cases where Flash was used for streaming with total latency below 200ms.

At one point early on after the throttling was introduced, it was so badly done that normal videos would buffer all the time because the amount of bandwidth they allocated to the throttler was less than the bitrate of the actual videos.
There's a Firefox add-on with the rather ungainly, but lucid, name of My Weekly Browsing Schedule - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14199 - that you can use for this.
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and

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1) They're shitty at predicting the optimum buffer size

This is set by the website owner, not the FLV player. For many (JW, Flowplayer, etc) it's a parameter in the HTML.

2) They do not continue buffering when paused

I haven't seen a player that doesn't continue buffering when paused. If there is one, it must really, really suck. This might also be the case with using RTMP streaming instead of progressive download, which is just plain stupid for anything that isn't live content.

4) They do not always allow random access in the video, and when they do, sometimes they have to reload a portion of the video that you've already seen.

Random access requires either using hinted FLVs (with FLVtool++) or mod_h264streaming for MP4 files, so it's not surprising that some websites don't do the necessary extra step.

5) On some of my Macs, fullscreen viewing mode is vastly slower and more CPU intensive than just using the zoom feature in Universal Access.

Flash's rendering code is notoriously bad; it does basically everything in software, in part because of the unpredictability of video drivers and so forth. AFAIK, the website owner has to set Flash's hardware acceleration mode on (it's off by default), and even then it only applies in fullscreen mode.
easy as pie.

or piece of cake.

you pick. :)
If you follow these steps you raise awareness in the USA while potentially neglecting your home country of operations. Scoble should not discount the local context.
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Yeah, that's why 500 startups are on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/tech-startups

They are there just to serve me, right? Uh, huh.
How many startups a day do YOU really try? I bet not many.
More Chrome-fu (Windows): Shift+Esc brings up the Chrome Task Manager which shows memory usage of the browser, tabs and extensions. (In line with Ctrl+Shift+Esc for the Windows Task Manager)

This window also has a "Stats for Nerds" link, which opens up an about:memory tab. Nice.
I admit just skimming this, but what benefits does WebGL add to (the very much failed) VRML?

Embedding in HTML pages? More JS hooks? Anything which couldn't have been bolted onto VRML? Or is VRML just too dated to be a reasonable thing to build on? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?

Not trying to be overly critical, but I get the feeling someone somewhere is reinventing a wheel.
Sounds reasonable to me. People have high expectations for video. They've been conditioned on DVDs or traditional subscription television services. One very simple technique that would help is to fade the audio out when the buffer is empty and fade it back in to resume. If not completely then just enough to smooth out the jarring stop/start of audio. To me this is the digital version of nails on a chalk board. I can't stand it.
Dude, this is my sixth time in France and in the past two years I've traveled 260,000 miles: most of that was to places outside of the US. When I attended a conference recently in China they had Twitter running on the screen there. Same at LeWeb (which was in France). It's pretty damn rare and lame that a company isn't on Twitter.
French radio was talking incessantly about Twitter this morning. You are mistaken. You really should get to France and see the local market.
That was implicit in the article. Geesh. I don't treat my audience like preschoolers.
Narrated in this way it looks like:

Google guy 1: we really have to figure how to prevent people from building noscript-alike extension.

Google guy 2: hey, I have an Idea! Let's ask the author what are the important API to do so in order to avoid the development of such APIs!

Google guy 1: you are a genius! I'm phoning him just now.

That's not what happened I guess.
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Here we go again with one useless blogger calling other companies failures. As an American living in France I'd like to point out that most of the "hot" web apps he speaks of are basically useless to me because they don't work outside of the valley and big US cities.

The French CEO doesn't hear of foursquare, in fact most Americans don't know of foursquare, because when you type in Paris you get a fuckin crêpe shop in Astoria, Queens as the top result.

And so on and so on. Most of the companies listed only have traction in US, period. Pandora sounds good but I'll stick to Spotify and Deezer because it's available right now where I'm at.

BTW, Twitter is great, but what happened to sending an email if you have questions. I have a hard time believing you can ask a good question or get a reasonable response in 140 characters. Lots of companies are on twitter but it's not their point of contact, just a tertiary channel.
This is cool. They even have classics like X14/Orange. Not a low rez blocky copy like youtube either.

AND they captured the fake truecolour modes correctly.
Time to get out the tasm and tlink for some good old fashioned nostalgia.
Let's add cryptography to that list.
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He has lost sight of the fact that most people, including entrepeneurs and VC's are not actively using twitter. He makes a large point, also in a comment here, of there being '500 startups on twitter'. 500 Out of how many? How active are they on twitter? Has it brought them anything? Do they feel it is worthwhile? In what phase did they start twittering?

Many people, entrepeneurs, companies, etc. that supposedly are on twitter, are not in fact using it. They have a presence, that's it. He mentions that many VC's are on twitter... which means nothing. There is no indication whatsoever that they are actually actively monitoring it.

The rant is also incoherent: the second point is titled 'lame and anemic marketing materials' and subsequently mostly talks about the medium through which the materials are distributed.

Several of his points are based on one case. The robot startup didn't have a demo... well, perhaps it just wasn't finished yet? Perhaps it just had a breakdown?

Then the point about the hot new app or news of the day. Because he feels it is important, it is important? I don't have time to keep track of every new thing everywhere. Hell, I don't even have an i-phone. Somehow that means I'd be a lame entrepeneur? What a silly criterion. I keep track of everything remotely related to my business. Foursquare is not related and I'm not interested in it. I have looked into augmented reality browsing. Does that excuse me or would he still get mad?
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Dell says they make millions of dollars with their Twitter account. I talked with Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh and he says Twitter is so invaluable to his business that they force all their new hires to use it. I could go on, there are tons of books about how good Twitter is working for businesses. There's a reason why businesses from CocaCola to CNN are using Twitter. I guess you have other data, though, and the rest of us are just doing good merlot or something.

If no one is using Twitter why does my Tweet stream move so fast 24 hours a day?

And, as for lame and anemic marketing materials, I figure that people got the point with just those words. I guess I have to post the lame PPT for you to be happy, but I was trying not to personally embarrass the individual companies.
I really, really hate people who are so anal about mac UI guidelines. Get over it people. Mac users like this make me hate apple platform for many years.

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> The most famous line from the entire book are its
> first eight words, which, he says, sums up his whole
> philosophy:
>
> Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

I'm confused - where's the eighth word?

Apart from that, I liked this article. It's not too deep, it doesn't contain Earth-shattering advice, but it has served to re-focus my efforts to get things done in a mountain of tasks, obligations and distractions.

I've put "Find the eighth word" on a list ...
The second half was a very verbose way to say "it's hard to start a marketplace."

Fair enough. It's hard, but there are success stories all the time.

Karma + pay-to-be-seen + leverage-blog-fame is one set of infinitely many jump-starting gimmicks. Many potential job hunters won't bite, but the subset that remains might be exactly what certain employers want.
I remember the 56K (56Flex, and the other one by 3Com) modem standard wasn't set yet. My ISP had 3Com gear and I was using a different chip so the fastest speed possible 33.6k. Some ISPs had 2 numbers so you could get in the right pool for your chipset.

Back in 2004 I saw some of the first draft-n routers and decided to hold off buying until a standard arriver. I didn't think it would take 5 years. I'm sort of glad I didn't buy at the time because I doubt those early models, despite saying they were upgradeable, would have the hardware to meet the spec. I doubt the manufacturer even cares anymore and EOLed a lot of them.
Journalist in France and in Spain talk a lot about twitter, but here, in France and Spain, very few people use it. Only those that think that hype means building something. Hype is hype. Vapour. Nothing. That's the main view here.
Very nice work. Good to see some graphs clearly presenting the data rather than obfuscating it with flash.
I talk all the time to CEOs via Twitter. I guess they found a way to answer in 140 characters.

As to Paris, it's only been turned on for two weeks and I didn't see a crepe shop in Astoria, Queens, but I guess I missed that cause I don't like crepes. The rest of the tips left were freaking awesome, though, and I greatly appreciated the few people who left them.

Um, the whole post was actually about companies doing it right if you looked at it the right way. I didn't name a SINGLE company who was doing it wrong. Glad you are such a careful reader!
Google maps style mousewheel zooming in/out would be nice.

Double clicking to zoom out took me a while to discover.

Otherwise excellent
"Everyone else is doing it" is hardly a spectacular decision making strategy.

Just because something is popular, doesn't mean it's important to your business model. Twitter can be a powerful tool for some, but for others its still just a toy.

We used to (and still do) see people who don't have a flashy website as old and outdated. Maybe I'm wrong and this same scenario will happen again, only this time with Twitter. Personally, I have my doubts.

Regardless, that hasn't happened yet (certainly not in Europe).
Ahh, ye olde "hype is bad" argument. Sigh. I guess you programmers are all working at companies that are growing as fast as Facebook, huh? Well, keep doing what works! Almost every startup and major company in the world is using Twitter now. I guess they are all wasting their time creating hype.
Let Google ask you specifically if you are ok with that. You get fast search, and you give up some privacy in return. A clear and explicit exchange.
> Consider also the absurdity... ..inherently insecure communications channel...
This is not only absurd but also irresponsible, irresponsible in a sense that could be made valid in court.
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The idioms you're familiar with and the idioms the parent is familiar with may not be identical. I've heard "easy as cake" used reasonably widely.
157 French Startups that are on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cgiorgi/french-startups

I guess they are all hyping and wasting time, at least they are if you listen to the people typing here.
http://twitter.com/cgiorgi/french-startups 157 French Startups that are on Twitter.
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Ok, need some good advice with this.

Part of my new startup is some sorta marketplace where i will need to be able to charge clients using something like authorize.net and make payouts to sellers.

I had too bad experience with PayPal before so I am not going to go that way again. So I am going to use Authorize.net with merchant account.
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I think this rant boils down to the battle for power: does the entrepreneur have the power or does the media covering startups have the power?

If you think it's the entrepreneur, then you can ignore everything Scoble says and be happy it about. You might even disagree completely and call it a rant.

If you think the media has the power, then Scoble's post is a to-do list to be followed like the gospel truth.

Personally, I think the truth is somewhere in between, and a lot closer to Scoble's view than not. Regardless of what we the entrepreneurs think, the media has a limited bandwidth and it's regularly saturated. If you want to differentiate yourself, you gotta market and feed the media the info you want them to cover in the format they want you to use.
Chrome has the feature too.

More importantly, Firefox and Chrome preserve browsing history. That, along with good keyword searching, is why I never switched to Safari and waited until Chrome's Mac Beta.
Yes, I'm a graphics programmer, and VRML sucks. I won't touch it.

A fresh start is definitely needed here.
Woo, inverse <video>. Sounds lovely. Currently the only way to access a video stream from a browser is via Flash (since the Gears API does not provide for streaming). This would certainly be nice, might enable realtime video stuff like the Flash-based camera games but without the Flash performance and platform limitations.
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I don't understand what we're supposed to do with 500 twitter feeds. Surely you don't read all those?

And to be perfectly honest, I usually can't stomach reading to the end of the typical TechCrunch article, let alone reading an entire week's worth just to impress a journalist.

Do you really expect engineers to read blog hype day in and day out?

You make me feel like one of those old people who uses his mouse to click "Search" on Google.
Dell says they make millions of dollars with their Twitter account.

Have they explained how? Did that explanation make sense? Could there be a reason or situation in which the person you spoke would just say this?

I talked with Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh and he says Twitter is so invaluable to his business that they force all their new hires to use it.

And anyone, including you, can name a dozen companies that are doing very well, despite not being on Twitter or even considering it.

I could go on, there are tons of books about how good Twitter is working for businesses.

The number of books is not a good indication for the success of a technology. I'd even say that the more books that need to be written to convince us, the less likely it is to be true. Smells like an attempted self fulfilling prophecy.

There's a reason why businesses from CocaCola to CNN are using Twitter.

There's a reason why dozens of other succesful business are not using Twitter?

If no one is using Twitter ...
Straw man.

I figure that people got the point with just those words.

But in fact people are getting confused, because the words do not describe what follows. The paragraph hinges on two thoughts, which may leave the casual reader with 'he didn't actually support that claim'. I was interested in discovering what you considered 'anemic' and didn't find it. That's bad.
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Know of a good <canvas> implementation that runs at the server and generates an image resource? Otherwise this doesn't appear to be usable as a progressive enhancement. In fact the demo renders nothing whatsoever unless you trust their javascript.
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Oops, I was about to upvote, but I hit the wrong arrow. And there's no undo. Sorry!
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I read them every day. It's one page. I get tons of useful things and see how companies are evolving. You should follow your own list. Maybe it's just your five competitors. Maybe just follow techcrunch. I even follow Hacker News in one list. A Twitter list, by the way, is NOT 500 separate feeds. It's one feed on one page but is a mixture of 500 feeds.
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I was trying to google, sure. Nothing.
In my last year of school (1999), I created the web site for our journalism program's annual publication by mimicking the layout of Salon.com, which I liked because it had clean lines and its design was reasonably easy to recreate in Notepad.

From what I recall (and I hope a View Source of the HTML corroborates this), I didn't simply rip off the Salon.com HTML verbatim - instead, I first pasted in all the text I needed on each page, and then added the paragraphs, fonts, tables, and images by hand, because I didn't want to bring along any unnecessary scraps of code. I didn't know CSS at that time, so the HTML was really simplistic, to say the least.

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Whether you agree with him or not, some people are not following the "would you say it to his face?" rule. Go ahead, criticize, but do so in a way that's professional and polite.
I was planning to copy a CSS layout for the first time, ever, and I was going for Shopify's. I am not fucking kidding. It was either Shopify or this http://www.plenus.hr/?locale=en_US

See how similar the two sites are? I have been scoping them out for more than a month now :-/

What does it say about me when the one site I wanted to plagiarize is already in the news for being a victim of plagiarism? I am pretty much a Kansas teenage waitress who lost her virginity to Tiger Woods 2 weeks ago.

This is not cheating. It takes vision to clone others' work, mainly a vision over their shoulder.
A programmer's version would probably be: Write code. Not too much. Mostly think.
Agree with you on the 2 splash screen. I am not defending, but all the 'Available on appStore' badge all over the web always takes you to the iTunes. Its an expected behavior, but I know it can be irritating for some!
Guess it IS a lightbox. If you click on any of those thumbnails, it opens a lightbox slideshow.
That's an excellent idea, but their contract/royalty accounting side really isn't set up for it. Internally, when the word came down to set up an ebook division, I am told that $BIG_PUBLISHER basically set up a "virtual warehouse" that duplicates the printing/distribution workflow of physical books -- right down to handling unsold returns! -- which sounds surreally stupid, except that it was easier than getting in touch with all their authors and haggling over updated contract terms (especially to books they already had the right to publish, on backlist).

If publishers sold direct to the public, doing something like starting ebooks at $20 and then depreciating them by 5% per month to a floor of $2 would be practical. But they sell via distributors such as B&N, Fictionwise, Diesel, and the Kindle store, and I've got a horrible feeling (I need to do some digging to confirm this ...) that what they sell these stores is a right to sell X units of book Y, for a fixed price minus a wholesale discount. (Which would mirror how they do things with physical books, hence plugging in to their accounting system ...)
Yea, I agree with you a bit - the reflective thing is little way too much done!