brockhand's comments

I jumped over to Feedbin when Reeder announced support for it (I am another Reeder die-hard). My experience has been somewhat mixed. I am excited about the server change but I am a bit annoyed that there wasn't a notification about it (I had to go to the blog/twitter to find out why I couldn't get feeds to refresh).

The update to load starred articles from Google Reader excited me quite a bit. It sounds like the business is sustainable and I'm hopeful for its future.

I have (sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously) wondered if this is the future business model of Facebook. Subscription required to keep private or something along those lines.

Thanks! I've been recommended Fabozzi's book before but with the caveat that it was quite dry (one person said that he felt like he now understood what ADD felt like).

I'll have to check out Guide to Mortgage-Backed Securities.

Do you have any books that you'd suggest?

I guess a big thing that I have to wonder here is how many folks stopped using Reader (or became less engaged) after they swapped many of the built in sharing features out for G+ integration...

Many of the people in my social circle that were big Google Reader users stopped using it because it was much more difficult to share articles that we'd browse while at work.

They also get paid for answering the requests: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/19/cellphone...

I don't know... I think Mr. Whalen knows a thing or two about websites: http://www.rcwhalen.com/

To be less flippant: I can't help but consider that although there are significant clouds over Facebook's future ("How to make money on mobile?" being the biggest question) some of the negativity surrounding Facebook is due to Mark being a young CEO and being product-focused. Like many others I don't know what the best path to revenue for Facebook but there is a very intelligent team in place and I think they are well suited to figure out mobile.

I disagree that critiques from those with vested interests should be dismissed out of hand. I do believe that their points should be reviewed more carefully, though.

I agree. It seems like there would be some opportunity for a revitalized Flickr to integrate with Facebook but also to include the more professional feature set.

Please forgive my ignorance but does iOS provide access for third party applications to Photo Stream? It would be great to provide a mobile application to connect to an Eye-Fi card when the phone is plugged in to automatically upload to different services (Flickr, Photo Stream, etc.)

I hear this comparison often but to me the big difference lies in the order of magnitude of cost difference. A $2,200 laptop is different than a $30,000 car for a few reasons. The largest is probably the difference in purchasing behavior. I might save up for a few weeks to buy a laptop. I might have a car note for a few years.

To me that makes all of the difference.

I think people should educate themselves on the product and if it doesn't fit within their use case then they should find a product that does. I personally think that this is a terrific looking laptop and has enough local processing power that combined with my increasing cloud reliance could be a good fit for a number of years.

I don't use the HBO Go application too often, but what problems did you encounter or what would you add?