Many people here don't understand refer.ly because they aren't the target audience.
Referly is all about getting influencers and trendsetters paid. Thats it. Existing affiliate programs are broken and a UX that caters to that category is important for adoption. Its as simple as that.
Its current phase is only to build out the product and get their name out there to the smaller influencers from bloggers to those with relatively small following. The real money will come in when you start seeing Shaq's tweets with referly links.
> Existing affiliate programs are broken and a UX that caters to that category is important for adoption.
But if they pass 100% commission to the affiliate, who is their customer then?
> The real money will come in when you start seeing Shaq's tweets with referly links.
Why would Shaq replace generating referral links with a guaranteed salary from Adidas. Let's say Shaq gets x% for every shoe he successfully refers. All of the sudden, you start noticing that after every game, Shaq sends a tweet "Great game tonight, all thanks to my new Adidas <Insert Cool Shoe Name>"...Every...single...game. Do you think his fans are going to appreciate that?
Also, a lot of athletes and high profile personalities act like CEO's for their brand. They simply hire a head of sales (usually a PR person and/or agent) and say "make me money". They can't be bothered because it's not their core competency to negotiate their worth.
Note - I realize Shaq doesn't play anymore and isn't sponsored by Adidas.
I would add health/physical debt. Many people discount the impact of those extra pounds gained during an unhealthy streak of eating. They not only put you on an unhealthy trajectory that requires a ton of effort to reverse, but they also have many hidden and side effects that unfortunately we can't measure/identify until later on. And that, I guess, is why we discount the health debt.
Gez you beat me to it! I just wanted to +1 this, in launching our company, one thing that has been killing me has been my health. I've put on weight, started drinking more, eating more and exercising less...
Today i went for a run, i think it'll make me more productive tomorrow. Get disciplined is the plan, but i'm not sure how easy it'll be...im going to write about this next week.
Yaaa....I think this flew over your head. You are saying that, for example, Wolfram Alpha is like Google. They are completely different: One gives you links that you still have to go through to reach what you need and one gives you a direct answer. Even Woz said in his interview on TC...we don't need search engines, we need answer engines. To say Siri is a search engine with voice to text is a great mistake. Voice recognition is just the outer layer that makes the experience a human experience.
I don't take the words of the author as a prophecy but I see where he is going; and isn't that what science fiction authors kinda did 20-30 years ago? They dreamt; and I wish more people can dream of greater possibilities.
And I think that my post flew over your head. Wolfram Alpha and Google are different, sure, but at the end of the day they're simply algorithms that take requests, process the data to find the best answers they know how, and return results. That's it. To call those, Siri, or anything else more than that is intellectually dishonest.
Siri might be a great interface, and I bet it's really handy to be integrated into applications. I'm not hating on the concept or the product; it just annoys the hell out of me when people pretend it's something it's not. It shows a lack of understanding about how these things work.
Remember the hype about the Segway? "Walking is obsolete!" some people proclaimed. It turns out people didn't end up liking it because it made them look like lazy idiots. Do you really envision having a conversation with your phone, saying things like "I feel like Italian food today"? I don't. If I feel like Italian food, I'm going to ask my handy device where I can get some. And my phone does that without the "magic" of Siri.
Yes but they are not generally seen as mere transportation. If you use it as that you kinda look like you are a overgrown teenager. If you use it as a platform for tricks and jumps it is again fairly dangerous. This time not in lives lost but in bones broken.
When I see Tony Hawks Segway Pro in the shelves because people want to do those tricks but are afraid to break their bones, then maybe then Segways will be cool. All I see on the horizon is "Ride your Segway like Woz" the iPhone App that really only plays 3 videos (But you know how hard it is to get a video into iTunes).
You use a reasonable amount of energy skateboarding. I would guess 300-500 cal/hr depending on what you are doing. You'll notice there are no fat skateboarders. The Segway didn't take off for a combination of factors. It looks lame, there's no place you can ride it legally, it costs the same as a motorcycle but you can't finance it, etc.
Sorry about that, I had a callback error in the cron job that prevented call requests from being deleted. Should be fixed, and I thought the calls that got backlogged were only my test calls.
i think in general thats the issue with a lot of these services asking you to enter in a phone number. Even apps that ask for contact list get denied. The last thing I want is to be the cause of this kind of bug, or bad case of selling my phone number and contacts numbers to solicitors.
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In downtown where cars are bumper to bumper, the location of the green laser would require a sharp downward angle to see it; which begs the question, does this just add another spot that drivers need to check now?
I can see it working in more open roads where this would be easy to see up ahead, but when space gets narrow, the visibility angle becomes tough.
