Yes, I use LinkedIn all the time to figure out who in my network knows someone else, so that I can background check someone before I walk into a meeting or ask for them to send a backchannel recommendation. Not for hiring, but for various other kinds of business deals. I don't use it at all for the social network stuff--I find that a complete waste of time. As a network map + living resume of people I'm meeting with it's fantastic.
> Lektor belongs to a separate org and the project does not use any resources only I have access to (other than the domain name and the server travis-CI deploys to).
Really appreciate you starting it out this way from the getgo.
> Because I run so many Open Source projects and maintenance of all of them turns out to be tricky I figured I do this better this time around.
Looking forward to seeing Flask & Flask-SQLAlchemy moved to a dedicated Flask org on github. Ideally with another person or two having Pypi creds for pushing releases.
There is also the "poor man's nest" - the Filtrete 3M 50 which is $89 on Ebay and fully wifi supported with a well-documented API and fantastic Android app:
On the other, who better to say "You just don't understand the power of the platform" than someone who sees the numbers on over 10,000 Facebook pages with more than 1Billion Facebook fans?
If Cuban said "I don't understand the platform" that's one thing, but saying "This platform doesn't work" is claiming it's not an education problem, it's a platform power problem
We live in an attention economy, and Facebook is simply the arbiter of it. If Facebook let all fan pages reach all their fans, it'd be a sub-optimal user experience.
The fact that they have turned protecting against the tragedy of the commons into a monetization model may not make brands happy, but it makes users happy.
on LinkedIn, twitter couldn't control the inventory, so they couldn't monetize the content.
It was their tradeoff of reducing usage while users are on LI, while hopefully increasing consumption on their own site from those users.
It's certainly a gamble, since I'd argue that LI was more a source of new twitter users rather than siphoning off views from already loyal twitter users.
The other possible threat in Twitter's head might have been LI bootstrapping their newsfeed off Twitter (which they'd mostly been doing) and then growing it large enough to actively compete with Twitter.
Twitter wants to "own" the consumer end of the experience so they can monetize it with display ads.
If you watch over the past six months, they've actively encouraged third-party publishers so businesses get more invested in twitter, while simultaneously discouraging third-party consumer-focused clients.
...we had a contest very early on at Apple where we awarded an extra Apple for the unusual use of the machine.
The winner, and what we never realized then, and what we don't think is still true now, is you don't realize how many different ways it can impact you.
The first use was the person that swore by it, a new father who had a new son that the colic, and took the original Apple II, did his own software, hooked up a washing machine motor, the tilt mechanism from a pinball machine, a microphone to the crib. So when the kid was getting restless, the machine would come on and rock the bed.
He actually had statistics to show how much more sleep he and his wife were getting because the kid would partly wake up, then go back to sleep. And that won first prize for a different use of the Apple, and I think that's still true today. People are still finding uses. You put it out in one area, and then it gets out into a lot of others.