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Interesting that they decided to launch in New York instead of San Francisco given they are based in SF. Also, I'm not sure how to feel about all the celebrities. I mean, I expect Sarah Jessica Parker to hock hair care products on TV for some giant multinational, not launch a chat system for Facebook. Still I wish them the best of luck!
Interesting that all of the engineering positions require BS or higher in Computer Science when both of the founders skipped college
The best thing you can do is hire people smarter than you. There's no shame in it. Nevertheless, I think it's safe to say the accomplishments of both founders far exceeds the career expectations of a degree-toting computer engineer.
Very surprised that this didn't launch with a native mobile offering. Parker asked where the cool stuff on the Web went. It went mobile. People don't want to be chained to their desks to do something cool anymore. It'd be pretty neat to chat with a stranger while strolling the Louvre.
Please tell me you meant while THEY'RE strolling the Louvre. Please. Because if you're using a web app to talk to a stranger while simultaneously strolling the Louvre (I'm not sure "strolling" is what one does to the Louvre) I believe there's something wrong with you.
For a website created to get people into the service, its terrible that I have to click the tiny-ass 'About' link at the bottom to learn anything about the service. "Create shared experiences with people you know, and people you want to know" sounds like social web buzz-word bullshit. My advice to the web designer - put some real info on the front page, and don't require me to watch a video. If you can't explain it w…
Thats because it is?
So from the About video it looks like it's intended to help you meet people based on shared interests and... showing off neat tricks. That's... nice... but who exactly was asking for this kind of service? Isn't this just a terribly shallow way to make friends - judging by some attractive feature of them instead of how they think or who they are? My hope is one day we have a social network which contains no pictures.…
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I understand (and agree) but you really should watch the video [1]. I'd have a hard time putting most of that into words. Here's an attempt [2] "Airtime is a Web-based application designed to foster spontaneous sharing and interaction with video. There's no download or registration required" [1] http://vimeo.com/43359572 [2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57447417-93/sean-parkers-ai...
> Airtime is a Web-based application designed to foster spontaneous sharing and interaction with video. There's no download or registration required How about this instead: "Airtime is Chatroulette limited to your Facebook social graph. Eg, no more random strangers' private parts, but instead chat with your friends, and meet their friends, via video." It's basically curated Chatroulette, automating the curation with…
I do not know so much about Flash Multicast but this is not IP multicast, right? it is more like: Application Layer Multicast which is peer-to-peer but like a star or mesh or tree type of topology.
If Airtime is one person talking to another it does not really need multicast but just be peer to peer. However, if it is similar to hangouts then at some point (or at some degree of users in a chat room) you'll need to introduce a central server or need a tree type of topology to distribute video (especially when users have asymmetric uplink and downlink throughputs).
Very surprised that this didn't launch with a native mobile offering. Parker asked where the cool stuff on the Web went. It went mobile. People don't want to be chained to their desks to do something cool anymore. It'd be pretty neat to chat with a stranger while strolling the Louvre.
> It'd be pretty neat to chat with a stranger while strolling the Louvre. Please tell me you meant while THEY'RE strolling the Louvre. Please. Because if you're using a web app to talk to a stranger while simultaneously strolling the Louvre (I'm not sure "strolling" is what one does to the Louvre) I believe there's something wrong with you.
Sorta like what we're doing now, but with video. Is that scary to you?
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> It'd be pretty neat to chat with a stranger while strolling the Louvre. Please tell me you meant while THEY'RE strolling the Louvre. Please. Because if you're using a web app to talk to a stranger while simultaneously strolling the Louvre (I'm not sure "strolling" is what one does to the Louvre) I believe there's something wrong with you.
My specific example was you can get more context about something you've never seen before, potentially getting a personalized tour, before you go. Sorta like what we're doing now, but with video. Is that scary to you?