Frederic Lardinois
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rwwmike all good points.
The thing I don't like about Pando's policy on embargoes is that they insist on exclusives, which doesn't help the startups, I think. You know how it works - somebody posts a story first and if it's "just" a startup, the others will just ignore it. Maybe we can just do away with embargoes as a whole, I'm all for that, but playing the exclusive card just strikes me as a bad move.
My latest conversation: Address Book-Gate: U.S. Congress Members Ask Apple About its Role
GodsAccident Fair point, but for Facebook we actually know that daily engagement is about 50% (that's from Facebook's own data). The fact that Google tried to get people to (falsely) believe that number for Google+ was 60% makes me think it's significantly lower than 50%.
adamson thanks - I can live with that :) I just put it together in a few minutes after I wrote the first draft of this post.
My latest conversation: Apple's iBooks Author EULA: What's the Big Deal?
correct - thanks! jorisw
My latest conversation: Hands-On With iBooks Author: eBook Authoring Made Easy, Not Just for Textbooks
afowler thanks Alex - I was focussing mostly on the blackouts and while I was aware of Mozilla's opposition to SOPA, I hadn't seen any announcements as to how exactly you were planning to participate in the blackouts tomorrow. I have updated the story.
julien51 I never quite got why the Twitter/Google relationship went sour. I always thought it was b/c Google felt it didn't need Twitter anymore. If the price was really the dealbreaker, that definitely puts a different spin on Twitter's own spin...
ChrisPirillo agreed.
ChrisPirillo I guess the way they see it: if it's bad for us, it's also bad for our users... not sure I with them either, to be honest.
CharlayWong it's pretty straightforward: I never had an embargo, so from my perspective, the news is out there at this point. Others took the story down, because they had an embargo and broke it. That's a problem they have to deal with. As a sign of goodwill to OnLive, I took the link to the story down from my homepage, just like PCMag did.
My latest conversation: FCC Chairman Proposes Broadband Subsidy for Low-Income Families in the U.S.
CharlayWong bad luck for OnLive - I got the info from PC Mag :)
randallb Good point. Also: The dart world championship is happening right now. Now that I would watch on YouTube...
klkll I wasn't aware of that one. Thanks!
My latest conversation: U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman: Google’s Blogger Needs a Terrorist-Flagging Feature
I was looking at it more as a fresh start and not so much from the perspective of existing users. That said, pinterest is a pretty cool project and may turn out to be more interesting in the long run than Delicious anyway.
DanielNeumann There is on at the top of the post. Got to add one at the bottom now, too, given that they've actually become useful now :)
marshallk you should. Would love to read your take on it.
StephenHauskins good point. That doesn't let you see more of the headlines, though, or am I missing something?
randallb Good question. I've been wondering about that myself. I'll ask the Pearltrees crew about that.
marshallk true. But isn't there still a huge chasm between clicking a ratings button and learning the Wiki markup language?
zee fair point. I consciously didn't point to any specific blogs or writers here (and as you knnow, I'm a big fan of what you guys are doing over at The Next Web). I'm more interested in what it means in the context of the whole blog ecosystem than anything else and I do think that it shows some of the pressures we all face (myself included).
marshallk Very true. I guess I could have been much harder but I think the story makes the point as is. I'm very glad you guys didn't run with it :)