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bckrasnow | 11 years ago | on: A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look

I hate the new logo with a passion. Why keep the place icon in the bottom on of the F and have the swirl behind it if the whole point of this was to take check-in's out of the app? It's saying you're doing one thing and then doing the opposite of that thing.

bckrasnow | 11 years ago | on: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today

To me, there's three categories startups fall into: fun, world-changing, and failures.

SnapChat and Facebook are fun. Google and Tesla are world changing. The failures may be nameless, but they outnumber the rest 5 to 1.

If you're a success story, it doesn't matter to me whether or not you are fun or world-changing. You succeeded. That's enough in itself.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users

I don't think you can get American users to trust Chinese companies with the amount of spying that is done over there.

Though you could probably say that about American companies in Europe now as well.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

Well, the Lytro guys are screwed now. They're selling a $400 camera with this feature as the main selling point.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

"I'm done for a while" my ass.

This is really really smart. I'd guess it's a play for a talented team, and a bet that they can become a leader in an industry that will be revolutionary sooner rather than later.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Stock Falls 5% in After-Hours Trading Following WhatsApp Announcement

MG Siegler has been writing recently about the "great unbundling" of Facebook and how mobile apps are increasingly good at one thing only: Instagram at sharing Photos, Paper for reading the news, and now WhatsApp + Messenger for communication. It's becoming increasingly true as we see Facebook trying to buy the new dominant players in any space that could be a threat in the areas it holds dear: sharing photos, statuses, or anything else it deems important.

I would have to think that the stock drop is due to the price they're paying for a startup that had $8 million in funding.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: Wall Street Unlocks Profits from Distress with Rental Revolution

My question is, what next? What other industries and/or markets can and will Wall Street do this to now? This is greed at its finest. Especially the property taxes comment in Ohio.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you

Transparency takes precedence over everything else in this post, aka the thing you haven't seen US companies doing at all.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

bckrasnow | 12 years ago | on: NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.

I don't know why I still get surprised when the US government consistently screws up, either with surveillance or with finances