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Re: Dopeness Laboratories • Spherical Hen

WJCarpenter — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:41:25 -0000

Do you know the joke whose punchline is "Assume a spherical cow?" If not, it's easy to find it around the web.

Re: http://s0ren.tumblr.com/post/12214929316

Soren Macbeth — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:30:28 -0000

Yes indeed. I've been keeping a keen on them.

Re: http://s0ren.tumblr.com/post/12214929316

Alex Payne — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:17:58 -0000

This is sort of heading in that direction: https://socialflights.com/

Re: Office life

Joshua Ulrich — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:23:05 -0000

Teh gelus. I has it.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Soren Macbeth — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:17:51 -0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for stopping by. Sounds like you guys definitely have your heads on the right problems. These are definitely challenging design and technical problems. I look forward to seeing your progress.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

pxlated — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:44:02 -0000

Don't blame Apple this time, it was Scoble that was the big promoter of it. Apple just picked up on it here with it best iPad list.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Mike McCue — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:21:14 -0000

Hi Soren,

I appreciate and resonate with your feedback. So far, we've worked hard to improve on the way your feeds are presented to you but we have not yet addressed what you are talking about (helping you find the most impt stuff through all the noise). We are in the process of integrating the technology we acquired via Ellerdale and hope to deliver on this soon. The key design problem we are working on solving here is balancing the desire for people to see their entire feed with the notion of showing people a subset which consists of their most important posts. This is more than a technology problem and will require us to iterate our design to find that balance.

In the meantime I hope you'll enjoy Flipboard and look forward to hearing your feedback as we evolve the product. If we eventually manage to achieve "revolutionary" status in your mind, that'll be nice but we'll be happy with "fun to use" too. After all, revolutions are really in the eye of the beholder.

- mike

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Tim — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:32:08 -0000

revolutionary is a word thrown around alot by Apple, so to be called revolutionary by Apple doesn't mean anything

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:21:53 -0000

Spot on Soren. Flipboard needs to (and probably will) provide real value similar to what HOTTO in Japan are starting to do via "ambient" stock chatter analysis: http://bit.ly/gKLN7P and write up in TC: http://tcrn.ch/g3bFv9

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Todd Smith — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:56:56 -0000

Agreed.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Todd Smith — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:55:51 -0000

Agreed.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

@ZekeWeeks — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:52:09 -0000

Good points. I think "revolutionary" is a bad word to throw around for contemporary inventions; nobody doubts that Flipboard is an excellent use of the iPad as a new hardware format, and indeed the reading experience there isn't quite the same as what we have on either paper or keyboarded devices.
As for Flipboard itself, I too have mixed feelings. I do like how it picks relevant content from my streams instead of inundating me with the firehose, but the method fr determining relevance does need to improve both for public feeds like Twitter and for my private Facebook feed, where a lot of important sharing goes on.
I guess I want Flipboard have a magazine's depth into a selection of content - my other stream reading apps are more like news tickers. Both are simply different methods for media consumption, and I don’t think "revolutionary" has to be a part of the equation for something to be a killer app.

Re: Why Scoble, Time, and Steve Jobs are Wrong about Flipboard

Igor Faletski — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:24:26 -0000

Good point. Maybe they should talk to @summify and create a monster information consumption experience.

Re: Transition

Soren Macbeth — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:50:20 -0000

Thanks for being part of the awesome StockTwits Community!

Re: Transition

Soren Macbeth — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:49:56 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Transition

Soren Macbeth — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:49:35 -0000

Thanks Doug, feels like yesterday ;)

Re: Transition

Doug Williams — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:45:44 -0000

I can remember when Stocktwits was just getting started and sucked me head long into this whole Twitter thing. Congrats on the success Soren. Excited for what's next!

Re: Transition

Zecco — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:15:49 -0000

Thanks for taking StockTwits from a great idea to an even greater source for daily stock trading ideas. Good luck with your new venture!

Re: Transition

faithmight — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:59:03 -0000

Wow, Soren, good for you! Thank you for StockTwits! It has opened up tremendous opportunities beyond trading for so many us. Good luck to you in your next endeavors!!

Re: http://s0ren.tumblr.com/post/631747423

gbattle — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:06:23 -0000

Thanks for the reblog love Soren.

Had dinner with Howard last night. Man, ST is the awesome sauce now. Ya'll are killing it.

Re: Productivity Tip Of The Day

Rob L. — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:28:26 -0000

Hell yes. I turn off all notifications from whatever e-mail app I'm using -- sometimes I'm on OS X and sometimes Windows at work; it all depends on the project -- and just have about four 15-minute e-mail sessions per workday, and it's a huge boost in getting actual work done.

Re: Soren Macbeth's Tumblr | Ask me anything

Soren Macbeth — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:55:08 -0000

Yes, Absolutely.

Re: Soren Macbeth's Tumblr | Ask me anything

maddie1234 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:48:31 -0000

Does ST have a plan to provide a stream wherein a person can ask a general question about trading, greater than 140 characters, to the pool of ST talent (i.e.yr suggested stream or experts/experienced traders). Like an "All Experts" stream where someone can ask a question,( the question may be categorized), and one of ST's experienced traders can provide their response for all the ST audience to see...an open forum of questions/answers that may take more than 140 to ask. A free flowing, completely voluntary, not about an particular stock, an active/real time intellectual learning sorce for ST users.

Re: The APInternet

Steve — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:07:39 -0000

Wasn't this the point of the SOAP family of protocols? I haven't heard much about it lately, though.

Re: The APInternet

Soren Macbeth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:11:21 -0000

Yes, exactly what I am thinking. Well said. I was a huge lego fan as a kid :)