Tenth Grade Tech Trends

Post by corporalagumbo » Sun, Dec 30, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

jff wrote: post #105

corporalagumbo wrote: post #84

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Wow. You must be lost - Hackernews is, as far as I am aware, a site for intelligent, open-minded people who recognise that valuable information may be found in many inconspicuous, non-intuitive locations. People intelligent enough to realise that kids are historically early-adopters and re-shapers of technology, pioneering uses and social integrations which, while dismissed as trivial by ignorant, hidebound adults, o…

The article describes how these kids are all using free services, and that they won't use the ones that costs money. So I'd say that if you have any business model besides "Ads, ads, glorious ads on our user-generated content!", I think teenagers are probably going to pass by your service, however good it may be.

Post by unimpressive » Sun, Dec 30, 2012, 5:23 AM UTC

notJim wrote: post #93

unimpressive wrote: post #47

I'm going to break the "Don't mention my age." rule to write this post. Only because here it's relevant. What you use and how you use it has a lot of factors besides age. It has to do with your friends, their friends, where you live, what school you go to or what job you have, etc etc. I'd like to share an anecdote about umwelt. A few days ago, I walked into a coffee shop. I sat in that coffee shop for two hours.[0]…

You actually didn't mention your age. I gather from the rest of your comment, you're in high school? You have a lot of good thoughts about the mobile/tablet stuff and I think you're right. Just to add some quantitative info to it, I work for an e-commerce site and a quarter of our traffic is mobile, and that's not including people using our native mobile apps, which means that our real mobile traffic is more than 25%…

Post by ilaksh » Sun, Dec 30, 2012, 5:57 AM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #18

Sure there are a lot of FaceTime like apps. But the problem is none of them have done a phenomenal job marketing to their demographic to really take market share. There are also a great deal of drawbacks to FaceTime which make it expensive. It costs cell data? That's expensive! It takes a lot of bandwidth? Also expensive. The point is that there are so many rough edges around the product that it makes it a pain in th…

Post by tedunangst » Sun, Dec 30, 2012, 6:08 AM UTC

hosh wrote: post #99

ruswick wrote: post #39

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How is he to know if he was "blind?" The fact that one girl exhibited preferences counter to his assumptions does not mean that those assumption are incorrect.

"The fact that one girl exhibited preferences counter to his assumptions does not mean that those assumption are incorrect." <-- is exactly how you do not do customer development. You have stopped listening to the user.

Post by philwelch » Sun, Dec 30, 2012, 6:46 AM UTC

corporalagumbo wrote: post #91

philwelch wrote: post #69

FTA: For me, Twitter is predominantly a link discovery service — admittedly, that is a simplified view, but it’s helpful for these purposes — so I followed-up on her Twitter comments by asking where she discovers links. “What do you mean?” She couldn’t even understand what I was asking. I rephrased the question: “What links do you read? What sites do they come from? What blogs?” "I don’t read links. I don’t read blog…

My impression is the exact opposite: I see people reading and debating more than ever thanks to the internet. I think thanks to the internet we are in a golden era of literacy, but we just don't notice it because we're too busy complaining with other highly-literate people on highly debate-focussed websites such at this one about the more obvious non-literary manifestations of popular culture.