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Would US startups get their start if they were Indonesian?
Many US startups, especially those focusing on free mobile apps such as Instagram, PicPlz, Path, or even Posterous and Twitter would probably fall flat in the face of Indonesian investors and VCs if they had been started here due to the lack of a clear business plan and monetization options in their early stages.
A lot of the pitches and interviews here almost always end with this question: how would you make money? Unless the investors can already see or influence how this process would come about.
This is something that’s been bothering me for a while and my thoughts would branch out to so many different subjects that I probably would need to discuss it with a number of people before I can make a coherent thought or a proper blog post for DS out of it.
If you have any opinion on this and would like to share them with me, blog it and let me know overTwitter.
Secret software logs and reports keystrokes on millions of mobile phones
Supposedly this is for quality control
I wonder if this applies internationally or just for US phones
Cringe as the video shows the software logging each number as Eckhart fingers the dialer.
“Every button you press in the dialer before you call,” he says on the video, “it already gets sent off to the IQ application.”
From there, the data — including the content of text messages — is sent to Carrier IQ’s servers, in secret.
By the way, it cannot be turned off without rooting the phone and replacing the operating system. And even if you stop paying for wireless service from your carrier and decide to just use Wi-Fi, your device still reports to Carrier IQ.
Secret software logs and reports keystrokes on millions of mobile phones
*sigh* I miss Subway.
Sign Of The Times of the Day: Subway announced today that it will soon begin selling $2 six-inch subs in an effort to match fast-food rivals who already offer their customers more “economy-friendly” options.
The deal will only apply to Subway’s meatball and cold-cut subs, but, as USA Today points out, two six-inch subs would beat the $5 price point of the restaurant chain’s popular foot-long.
In what seems like related news, horse meat might soon be back on the market in the US after Congress quietly lifted a ban on horse meat inspection funding that had been in place since 2006.
Analysts can’t figure out iPad sales, pretends it doesn’t exist
Charles Arthur, in Guardian:
Why does NPD ignore the iPad, though? It’s the tablet that is actually selling well. Comparatively well. And as Gruber also points out, the whole “76% of consumers who purchased a non-Apple tablet didn’t even consider the iPad” is a meaningless statement until you know how many consumers did buy an iPad. Then you find that it’s 76% of 11%, or 8.3%. Which means that even among the people who bought a TouchPad, at least half considered the iPad first.
Clearly, people in the US who buy tablets tend to consider the iPad in their purchasing decision.
Analysts can’t figure out iPad sales, pretends it doesn’t exist
screen grabs of the siri vs tellme video. the important parts.
Microsoft’s TellMe vs Apple’s Siri
Facebook: That six degrees thing is now less than five! Twitter: Been there done that.
Much had been said about how everyone on Facebook is now connected by less than five degrees. I think what Facebook does is not much more than show that fact, a reflection if you will, of the many personal and professional connections we’ve made outside of the online social network. A research from Sysomos published last year showed similar results for Twitter.
Perhaps my use of Twitter and Facebook clouds my judgement somewhat but I find that Twitter allows me to connect with more people than Facebook does and those connections are much more meaningful and more valuable. As the saying goes, Facebook is for people you went to school with, Twitter is for people you wish you went to school with.
Honestly, I care little of the connections reflected on Facebook, I have little to no interest in the updates from people that Facebook shows me on its news feed. It’s not necessarily Facebook’s fault though that people I’m friends with on Facebook don’t post content that interest me, and I blame those who litter my news feed with stupid updates such as game requests.
Updates on Twitter on the other hand, are much more interesting to me because they bring new information, amusing stories, facts and discoveries and they made me appreciate the people who deliver those tweets more than those who post updates on Facebook.
Getting back to the research, if we go back a few more years, I bet we would see similar results for Friendster if such a research was done around that time. It’s not Facebook that brought connections closer, it’s the Internet. Facebook only shows it.
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