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Re: Yo

#32

Post by jkestner »

ISL wrote: post #16
jacquesm wrote: post #7

> Without ever having officially launched, co-founder and CEO Or Arbel managed to secure $1.2 million in funding from a list of unnamed investors, except for co-founder, angel, and Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, who participated in the round. Stuff like that really gets me. I see tons of start-ups that would have a fighting chance given that sort of investment and then lame stuff like this gets funding. Of course they're ent…

1-bit communication can get a lot done. Not sure? (don't do this) Try calling your local emergency service (911 in the US) and hanging up.

Metadata/context is data.

Re: Yo

#33

Post by esrauch »

rlu wrote: post #18
esrauch wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A very large amount of my phone messages are actually null-content messages: my phone is very often a "I'm here" when picking someone up, or "let me in" or "done shopping, waiting for you" if I'm grocery shopping with someone. Basically any time someone says "message me when..." there is no conversation when I message them. There is just a contentless phone call or text message. This is filling a communication niche…

That's fair. I think you did just find a use case for it? But I think the very fact that you won't install an app just for that (rightfully so in my opinion!) by definition means there is no value there.

I don't think it is fair to say anything I won't install has no value, I won't install WhatsApp or Snapchat either. Pretty much 0% of all apps that have enough value to raise $1m seed funding provide enough value for me to install them.

Re: Yo

#34

Post by natural219 »

Please, please, please somebody buy this company for $10 million. This is the best chance in human history to bring Poe's Law to its absurdist conclusion.

Re: Yo

#35

Post by prawn »

fizwhiz wrote: post #8
fmendez wrote: post #6

I'm not what's more disturbing. The fact that it secured 1.2M or the mental gymnastics that people are doing to justify the existence of this app.

This.

Not sure if this is a typical forum comment or an observation on the meaning that can be given with a single word.

Re: Yo

#37

Post by prawn »

esrauch wrote: post #14
rlu wrote: post #3

I just...what? I don't understand. It's basically begging for you to switch apps after you get the "Yo" push notification. I can't really imagine a conversation which goes like this: Me: Yo Them: Yo Me: Yo Them: Yo ... What I can imagine is getting a Yo from someone, switching apps, and being like "what's up? [p.s. dont fucking Yo me anymore. Just message me using a real app.]". That "wut" app is similar in that you…

A very large amount of my phone messages are actually null-content messages: my phone is very often a "I'm here" when picking someone up, or "let me in" or "done shopping, waiting for you" if I'm grocery shopping with someone. Basically any time someone says "message me when..." there is no conversation when I message them. There is just a contentless phone call or text message. This is filling a communication niche…

It's the equivalent, in those cases, of a missed call or "prankie" or whatever people might call them where you live.

"Prank me when you get close and I'll meet you out front."

Re: Yo

#39

Post by rhizome »

jmduke wrote: post #5

It's Facebook's "poke" feature (which I honestly love) in 2014. There's nothing wrong with it, but I struggle to find anything novel about it.

The innovation, such as it is, is to get a zillion people to install an app that gives the company a direct line into your notification bar. Think they'll never put an ad there?

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#40

Post by WildUtah »

jacquesm wrote: post #23
ISL wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1-bit communication can get a lot done. Not sure? (don't do this) Try calling your local emergency service (911 in the US) and hanging up.

No, really don't do this, you could get someone killed like that (priority traffic causes tons of traffic accidents annually, if they follow up on a 9/11 when there is nothing wrong you are in very hot water, and rightly so). There are a lot of situations where one bit communications can make big changes. Sending a voltage down the wire to the 'launch' relay on some missile will do a lot worse. In the end, any actuat…

A technical note: Twitter carries unicode messages; the limit is not 140 octets but 140 code points [0]. This is especially useful when tweeting in Japanese.

I believe there are more than 65536 code points assigned so a tweet should be able to carry over 2240 bits of information -- 2240+ Yos.

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Incidentally, in Japanese and BEV (probably adopted from jp), the word "yo" has an entirely different meaning.

[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Edit: added endnote

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