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Totemic is interesting to me, since one of my close relatives spent five hours on the floor of their house after falling, as she could never remember to carry her cellphone (hard habit to acquire at 90 years old...). And of course, she could have lost consciousness, which would render the cellphone useless. That said, I wonder how can they have a single device for the whole house, and how it works for harder floors,…
Gopher is a poorly chosen name for a platform - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) Dropleaf (Netflix for indie games) - at $10/mo for a 50-game bundle I can't see how this can attract any of the quality games and devs.
Games sales, like movie sales, are mostly made in the first month. I can imagine like Netflix, lots of people with good 18 month old games might be happy to put them on this service. Further, I might seriously consider using it if they ban in-app purchases (or at least psy-to-win in app purchases), because they are increasingly hard to avoid.
If it is, it's the best typo this month.
They say Pyka already built a plane, so why do they only show renderings? Seems weird to waste that credibility advantage.
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Streaming a movie for 0.9 cent is something I would hardly call a steal seeing how Netflix fee is 9 usd/month and a streamed video isn't something you can rewatch. Also a lot of websites make money out of ads and your personal data but image that build in payment system that I described could be used to pay for my facebook use. All those annoying ads and data collection goes away. Facebook/Linkin/twitter are storing…
Do you mean 0.9 cents or 0.9 dollars (90 cents)? One is equivalent to a tenth of a Netflix subscription, the other a thousandth. If you're talking about the higher amount, I misunderstood you. But why doesn't it "just work"? Why isn't the internet more simple? It comes down to two things: this way is more profitable, and stuff is hard. I don't believe that these companies have a personal data fetish. They have a mone…
I guess it's the same reason why we don't use modularity in operating systems and applications. We have gotten used to how things have been done until now. Recommend reading this article since this ideas have been in my head for some time.
https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay
Disclaimer: this isn't my article.
Doesn't mean that this things can't be disrupted.
"Indexing data is hard. There isn't enough value for every given website to do it."
Well a lot of websites have their own search feature and a modular FOSS search engine wouldn't be out of the question. The database would need to figure out what is the context of the content and then tag those contents. The data could be feed to a repository or pass around different computers if we would use a decentralized protocol.
Given the modular nature of the system you could be hooked to more than one repository and your application would only need to figure out if the data feed is a duplicate and sort the content by metadata.
I'm curious to what would the web look like if a large numbers of websites decided that they don't want Google. A verification system would also be need to verify that no one website tempers with it's data in order to rank higher in the results.
Then again this would be a very modular experience so you would have a lot of choices regarding verification systems,wall crawlers, database repositories. True, the last part is true, that you would have more choices but isn't that what we want? Also i'm not saying that I wouldn't want Paypal and Gwallet to not exist just saying that there is a lot of interesting things out there I would wish to see happen.
I wonder if they're going for SMBs / companies that are deploying video conferencing solutions for the first time.
Ubiq looks interesting, but I thought this space was already quite crowded. I wonder if they're going for SMBs / companies that are deploying video conferencing solutions for the first time.
Verge Sense looks interesting. Is it just a platform for gathering data from sensors and providing insights for facilities? Or do you use their applications to actually do facility management (ie, seat booking, etc...)
I find it interesting that "Honeydue" is in the list, when there are multiple free apps already in existence such as Buxfer and Splitwise that have already been available for years. Both Buxfer and Splitwise serve the exact same functions as Honeydue (splitting bills/expenses with room mates and/or partners), and both of them are free to use. Sadly, neither app has found a way to be all that profitable after all thes…
Splitwise user who absolutely loves it here. I wouldn't think to do budgeting on it at all. Its purpose is splitting expenses, nothing more. It does it great and the single function is a part of why I use it. Hooking up with Venmo, big plus. People here are talking modularity, and those two services are great examples. Honeydue looks to be budgeting and larger finance management targeted at couples. I don't know Buxf…
I certainly appreciate how often applications can grow out of spreadsheets, but I don't see why I need an application to do this kind of thing...