Did I miss the part where they said HTML5 was better? I took it to be more of a slam of the Android fanboys who insist that Android is better than iOS because look! we have Flash and you don't! Reality is, video just plain sucks on mobile, period and until the various lunatics quit pimping which platform is cooler and actually work on fixing it, it's all going to suck.
Facebook have shown that IM on websites is really just a commodity at this point. The technology is not the hard part but them owning the social graph is powerful here. I do believe that Facebook Chat will succeed and I think it already is.
However, chat have never been easy to monetize so right now it's adding to the amount of time that users spend on facebook. Which is good
Classic, and the main reason we tell our daughter that Facebook won't be AROUND when she's 13. All I see are the acai ads (no, I never click on them) and the occasional Pages ad. I'm sure that I need to become a fan of FriendFeed night crew. Useless, useless app, and it's tragic, because they have an amazing userbase that they just fritter away because of clueless management.
Y'all are missing the point. Start-up offers totally unrealistic salary, and gets some script kiddie who couldn't hack his or her way out of a paper bag. Said script kiddie builds the app using toothpicks and glue. App actually gets users and completely s*s the bed. Founders realize they have a great idea and a loyal audience, but now have to spend a HUGE amount of money completely rebuilding the app because the existing codebase is useless.
What's worth more? Scaling your app at the outset and then rolling in profit? Or saving bucks at the outset and then blowing 10x more later on trying to fix the mistakes. Let's ask Twitter.
No actual Skype account is involved. All spoofed. Person B is taking money out of Person A's account and making it look like a Skype subscription payment. Of course, if Person B wasn't a stupid script kiddie, Person B would only hit each account ONCE instead of 10 times in a row, making it obvious that there is a problem.
Allen scores again. Too many CEOs are spending their time socializing and engaging in flame wars rather than doing things like working on a business model or building a company. Valleywag coverage should be a CEO's shame, not a PR goal.
No, a lot of people ARE angry about it, and not because of the money. The Web 2.0 crowd have been singing "It's not a bubble" for years. Some of us who lived through 1.0 knew better. Not taking it seriously, not realizing a company HAS to have revenue to survive, and that VC is not a revenue stream has contributed to this meltdown. It's hubris, and the video is an example of it. Not to mention a Wall Street Journal reporter - WALL STREET JOURNAL - is hanging out drinking with the people she's supposed to be covering objectively and making stupid drunken videos. It's a massive fail on all counts.
It isn't up to someone in QA to determine what a company's product direction is. And no, I wouldn't hire someone who violated an NDA unless it was a serious life-threatening reason to disclose.
