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Erin I've had the same experience with my fiance over the last two weeks. It's a nice place to be informal and cute. I find it pretty entertaining to run away from her thumb for 30 seconds or so on the thumbkiss screen as well. She might disagree...
As for those saying it lacks a business case, that's ridiculous. An app thats used regularly by many couples has so any potentials for monetization the main problem is picking one to start with. Selling dates/experiences or buying gifts through the app for significant dates are two of the least creative ones.
Lock Paul Carr in a room with only this website and the PandoDaily comments accessible for a few hours every week.
When Sparrow got bought, I would have payed them another $10 to keep developing the product for another year. They should have run a KickStarter campaign as a competing bid. "Google said they'd give us each $250,000 to stop working on Sparrow and work with them. We want to keep working on Sparrow, but the money is too good to pass up. Match it and we'll stay!"
This article made me even more excited to come to town and meet you guys!
The question is how to break out? Even if you know you don't focus on the right things. Do I do this? Yep. Do I know it? Yep. Do I know how to stop doing it? Not really, besides catching myself and stopping as often as I can.
Cool round up of the different sound hacking. I think Apple locked down everything else to force developers to use the screen as primary input.
@davidfrankk Someone made a stink about "who the hell kills Sikhs?!" after that temple shooting, so I read the wikipedia article on them. Interesting, for sure. I'm very much an atheist, but they are my favorite religion.
@david_frankk "Sikhism teaches to respect all other religions (tolerance) and that one should defend the rights of not just one's own religion but the religion and faith of others as a human right." As far as I know, most other major religions adopted 'tolerance' long after they were founded. I believe it came 'factory installed' in Sikhism, but I'm by no means an expert.
Paul, my friends and I (all grad-student poor) all agreed we'd pay $500 at least to have in-flight wifi on every flight in the future for no further charge. I'm curious what someone like you would be willing to pony up?
@dave6 @julien99 If it is, then every religion is basically "hate speech" against all the rest. Save a select few I suppose, like the Sikhs...
Does anyone else wish there was an audio-only Podcast of all these? I've been ripping the YouTube audio myself so I can listen on the road. It seems like Pando is always trying new things (PandoLists, Friday 15, Facebook IPO book, etc).
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Tried to resist, but could not. Hell of an offer, guys.
I think you're right that it's hypocritical Adam, but it might just be they don't want to cater to any more assholes than they absolutely must. Giving in sets them up to receive a flood of take-down requests from all sorts of "offended" people.
Ponzi schemes get busted daily: http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577595773662395922.html
Sounded more NSFWcorp than PandoDaily, but good nonetheless
@childrenfirst It might not be a bad idea still to keep a log of who views alerts. At the very least, if the kid isn't found, you can interview those people to see where they've been, ruling out those areas for where the kid might've gone.
The real issue I think you'll have is getting enough users to be effective in a given area. Since it only works if you hit a minimum density of users per square mile, are you planning to promote it regionally? A good place to start would be new-parent classes in small suburbs where many people know one another.
This is great until Joe Kidnapper downloads the app. "Oh, little Jonny is missing? Better bust out the panel van and go searching!"
@lucianoayres Purchases within an app for a physical good or service aren't charged the 30% - else Uber and Square would never have an app!