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God Bless the VCs

God Bless the VCs 05/17/2004 01:24 PM

Marc Canter regrets that the company he founded, Macromedia, left the service business. [Scripting News]

Inthe early days of MacroMind - my partner Stuart Sharope and I came up with a way to stay alive.  We started creating these animated marketing disks (on floppy in those days) which would loop in computer stores.  The retailers loved them and soon enough Microsoft, Lotus, Ashton-Tate, Novell - everyone had ot have one.

It was one of the things that made the Mac look better than PCs.  And we could produce them fairly cheaply - something like $30k-$50k per.

Well needless to say when "professional" management and investors came along the FORST thing they said was "get out of that business, you're competing with your customers."

Man oh man - do I regret that decision.  We could have become a $200M company by 1990, never needing to merge in Paracomp or Authorware and I wouldn't have then been kicked out by those same VCs.

Since all they care about is money - they wanted and needed an IPO - but we didn't have enough cash flow yet.  So they merged in these related comapnies, which turned out to add ZERO cash flow, and just diluted me down to almost nothing.

God bless the VCs.  May they turn Friendster into - nothing.

Thread-Bless-0.01

Thread-Bless-0.01 11/15/2003 09:58 AM

God Bless Paolo

God Bless Paolo 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

One more time with gusto - my dear friend Paolo Valdemarin has repaired my blog.

I've been under attack for a week now - receiving hundreds of virus' a day. They figured out some way to take down my blog and I haven't been able ot blog for almost a week.

But I'm back. With a GUSTO!

So what happened in the past week?

ourmedia.org

Blog Business Summit - hanging out with Scoble and lots of others.

Almost got stuck in NYC in a snowstorm.

Kicking butt on a number of fronts. Seriously getting into Drupal. Thanks to Boris et al.

But for now - I'm back!

God Bless Us Everyone... with Some
Vitamin D?

God Bless Us Everyone... with Some
Vitamin D? 12/25/2003 11:28 PM
D iagnosing Tiny Tim An interesting parlor game among pediatricians is to determine the ailment that afflicted the character Tiny Tim from a Christmas Carol. The most likely suspects include renal tubular acidosis or a vitamin D deficiency due to excessive London industrial smog, both of which result in rick ets. (This would explain why Tiny Tim needed a crutch). Given that Tiny Tim's condition was likely curable if Scrooge paid Cratchit more money, this has inspired one r ight-wing contrarian to argue that Scrooge should have worked a little Malthusian magic by letting Tiny Tim die.

Thread-Bless-0.03

Thread-Bless-0.03 12/04/2003 07:10 PM

Bless 0.3.0 (Default branch)

Bless 0.3.0 (Default branch) 02/05/2005 09:33 PM
Bless is a fast and customizable hex editor written in GTK#. It efficiently handles very large files and supports multiple undo-redo actions. There are also plans for the addition of a Lua-based scripting language for binary file manipulation.

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Changes:
This release features multiple tabs, a simple find tool, reduced memory usage, the ability to go to a specified offset in the file, various UI improvements, and many bugfixes. Note that copy-paste works only within the same file. This is a Gtk# bug and will be fixed in Bless as soon as the Gtk# bug is fixed.

Bless 0.3.3 (Default branch)

Bless 0.3.3 (Default branch) 04/12/2005 08:00 AM
Bless is a fast and customizable hex editor written in GTK#. It efficiently handles very large files and supports multiple undo-redo actions. There are also plans for the addition of a Lua-based scripting language for binary file manipulation.

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Changes:
This release features proper copy/paste support, increased speed and GUI responsiveness by moving find/replace and save operations in separate threads, a new docbook manual, a new build system that uses autotools, better desktop integration by adding an entry to the menu of freedesktop compliant desktop environments, and many bugfixes and minor enhancements.

Bless Leucadia's Heart

Bless Leucadia's Heart 08/19/2004 03:28 PM
S&P downgrades Leucadia's credit because of its increased industry risk to the telecom sector.

Will Work for Connectivity. God Bless.

Will Work for Connectivity. God Bless. 07/22/2004 01:14 AM
Y our Tax Dollars At Work! What better way to help the homeless find housing and employment than through a website? Surely the Internet is the solution to all society's problems.

God Bless America Online

God Bless America Online 04/14/2005 12:30 PM
AOL is taking steps in the right direction. When will you notice?

god bless the children of iraq

god bless the children of iraq 04/27/2004 12:24 AM
hier

ryano.net/iraq
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Future-couture sunshades from Bless

Future-couture sunshades from Bless 05/26/2004 12:13 PM
The everfab Hint Magazine points to some sharp, sexy sunshades with which to protect your peepers in style this summer. Not sunglasses, they're shields. At $325 a pop, style ain't cheap. Available online from Bless.
Link to manufacturer website

God bless the clear minded thinkers

God bless the clear minded thinkers 09/08/2004 05:04 AM

Brendon Wilson sent me this note:

Are affiliation relationships another form of micro-content by your definition? See this post for the background....

Brendon

So that definitely caught my attention. Brendon works for PGP and seems like a really smart dude.

So here's Brendon's post......

Clicking For Dollars

A couple weeks back, I mentioned to one of my co-workers that he should check out the special features on the "Wag the Dog" DVD. About five minutes later, he passed by my cube and mentioned that he had looked at the information on my blog and added the film to his Netflix queue. The importance of this moment didn't strike me until Apple's more recent announcement of an affiliate program for the iTunes Music Store.

It occurred to me that my friend had been forced to go through a circuitous route to add the movie to his Netflix queue. Rather than simply clicking a link within the review on my web page, he had to log into his Netflix account, find the movie and then add it to his queue of movies. What a pain.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of the Amazon Affiliates program - it seems almost obvious that Netflix should incorporate a similar affiliation system to allow web sites to provide users with an easy way to use the Netflix system. Such a system would enable Netflix to embed itself into the web - and all it would cost is a little web plumbing and whatever credit they give to referring web sites. Netflix gets a way to leverage the blogosphere, the blogosphere gets a way to further build useful content and value for its readership, and the bloggers gets a way to get mildly compensated for their effort to create value.

But the prospect of multiple affiliation systems raises an interesting user interface obstacle (oh, where art thou OK/Cancel?): what happens when affiliation systems collide?

Picture the scenario: a user comes to your web site to read your review of a kick-ass new independent film about an underground band you're interested in checking out. Does the link to the movie go to Amazon (and hence, contains your Amazon Associates ID) to allow the user to buy the DVD, or does it go to Netflix to allow the user to add the film to their Netflix queue? Does the link to the album go to Amazon to allow the user to buy the CD, or does it go to iTunes to allow the user to buy individual tracks in a digital form? What if you prefer to buy digital music from Real? Or movies from Barnes and Noble?

Although Amazon is the only real player with enough momentum to draw significant link-love from the bloggers, they can't be all things to all people. Inevitably, as demonstrated by Apple's affiliate program announcement, there will be new entrants, each striving to carve out their particular niche by leveraging blogs to enable customers to be "self-selected", for lack of a better word. But it'll have to get easier - blogging tools fail abysmally to simplify the process of leveraging other web services, like Google's Adsense (assuming they don't smack you down in the process). Making it easier will require a standard mechanism to interface with affiliation systems. Hmm, makes me wonder - would Marc Canter consider affiliation relationships another form of micro-content?

[Brendon Wilson]

I then responded with this comment to his blog:

God bless the clear minded thinkers. Right on.

Here's my take on it.

There are APIs and schemas. As long as something can have a permalink and be subscribe able to... via an aggregator - it's micro-content.

But what you bring up - are web services. The combination of various types of technologies (in your example's case - it's a movie (media) being added to infrastructure (NetFlix) via a blog (the ORIGINAL form of micro-content).

So what you've taught me today is that it's MORE than just APIs and schemas. It's infrastructure and web services too.

Thank you.

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Postscript: Brendon's suggestion for NetFlix is EXACTLY what I told them - six months ago. Offering end-users ways to make money is key. These affiliate programs can be part of the Web OS infrastructure.

Or shall I say "a business model for digital lifestyle aggregation?"

God bless the magnetic ribbon industry

God bless the magnetic ribbon industry 12/28/2004 05:28 PM
My Ribbon is Bigger Than Yours. The magnetic ribbon backlash begins. (See also: AntiMagnet.)

"But bless this poor man's heart - did
you see what he wants t..."

"But bless this poor man's heart - did
you see what he wants t..." 05/01/2004 09:06 AM

But bless this poor man's heart - did
you see what he wants to do with the
proceeds?

But bless this poor man's heart - did
you see what he wants to do with the
proceeds? 04/29/2004 01:23 PM
Fun with eBay: SIZE 12 WEDDING DRESS/GOWN NO RESERVE

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343#ebayp hotohosting
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During the singing of "God Bless
America" in the seventh inning, an image
of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard.
It was greeted with booing, so the
Yankees quickly removed the image

During the singing of "God Bless
America" in the seventh inning, an image
of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard.
It was greeted with booing, so the
Yankees quickly removed the image 07/01/2004 09:03 AM
Proud To Be A Yankee Fan .. into this story instead

nytimes.com/2004/06/30/sports/baseball/30pins.html
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