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micmcg | 11 years ago | on: Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart Butterfield

"A quick look at HipChat indicates this still isn't possible"

Not currently possible, but officially confirmed as being worked on.

"It’s official: Development is underway for multiple account support in the HipChat clients. Stay tuned because updates are just around the corner."

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: 3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands

Prices are never going to be matched, and why should they? Things made in China are cheap simply because they have a huge population of people desperate to work, so they can exploit this and pay them a fraction of an American salary and have them work under much worse conditions. Until you are prepared to work for the same money in the same conditions, don't expect the cost of something made domestically to ever be the same as if it were made in China.

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: 3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands

People pay lip service to wanting to buy locally made, but they don't vote with the only thing that matters, the willingness to pay more. As long as consumers demand the absolute lowest price, regardless of the exploitation required to achieve it, things will be made in poorer countries with an impoverished workforce.

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: Easy Video Embeds

Can you explain why you think people wouldn't just use Youtube/Vimeo/etc?

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: Easy Video Embeds

^ This.

I don't really understand the model. All you are doing is allowing people to host a video file with you and doing some trivial code snippet generation. How do you make money to pay for the hosting?

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: No bullshit guide to math and physics

Please please please do an ePub version. PDF is great for reading on a computer, but an ePub is miles better on an iPad. I'll buy a digital copy if it comes in ePub, but not if it's only PDF.

micmcg | 13 years ago | on: The lightbulb reinvented

You do understand that you aren't buying a bulb for $70 right? You are funding a startup and in return you get a reward of one of the bulbs. Kickstarter isn't a retail store, so many people miss the point of it. It's the same as when people complain about delays and say they wouldn't have "bought" the product if they'd known it would take so long.

micmcg | 14 years ago | on: Yahoo Axis

It completely tweaks the way you search the web.

micmcg | 14 years ago | on: Yahoo Axis

I guarantee this is the case. If their desktop effort at a "new browser" is a chrome extension, no way is the IOS version anything more than a wrapper around UIWebView.

micmcg | 14 years ago | on: The Long-Tail Is Dead

Yeah this is a misuse of the term "long tail" or at least the assumption that it only applies to "using long tail keywords to grey hat SEO my site". Offering genuine long tail content is not going anywhere, maybe spammy sites will tho, which benefits everyone.

micmcg | 14 years ago | on: Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence

FYI, there's no such thing as "over-arrogant", there's no amount arrogance that is considered a positive, you would just say someone is arrogant. Though given your use of air quotes about the "big guys", I may be wasting my time here.
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