alexjmann

I received the below email at 10:10pm yesterday (1/16/13), which was the first time YouTube has communicated with me.

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Hi there,

After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational.

If you forgot your password, please visit this link to reset it: (link)

Sincerely, The YouTube Team

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Certainly not a stunt. I don't even know how I'd go about suspending my own YouTube account, which I was only able to access for the first time in over a week after receiving this email.

Thank you to everyone who chimed in on this conversation. Apparently, the right person noticed. My suspended YouTube account has been reinstated. If you want to check out the web series, now you can. http://cwatf.com/

Thanks. In terms of marketing the show, I've been pointing everyone to CWATF.com/xxxxxx, so to get back up-and-running, I would just need to upload the video files to a different video platform and re-embed per URL.

I do regret not backing up each video to another platform while I went. The reason was because I wanted to aggregate all traffic to a single platform, in the case that I started to run ads. I guess I could have uploaded them privately on another platform, only to open up publicly should something like this happen.

In my experience producing web video content (especially if you plan on eventually selling ads against it), it's best to aggregate it on one platform. And traffic and visibility-wise, YouTube is the place to do it.

We're in the process of relaunching our platform, which is why we've temporarily blockaded signups. The sentiment engine described in the blog post will be used on our new version.

When we relaunch in a few weeks, there will be a more affordable option than $999 / month.

I've used the free version of AM Charts. They look nice and work well.

http://amcharts.com/

Exactly.

It was meant to be interpretive. And, the implications of 'addiction' in this case weren't necessarily negative.

Generally, I find the entrepreneurial process addictive in the sense that it fills an emotional need (neither good or bad) that more structured areas of business leave empty.

Palahniuk removes layers from his characters to make this point. I think entrepreneurship accomplishes something similar with business.

I wrote it, and was actually surprised it popped up on Hacker News. What I was trying to articulate is that treating an operation as an entrepreneur, or in this case a startup, is a method of individualizing the business process.

Business has many 'rules' attached to it, many which aren't necessary to personal or financial success. Entrepreneurs can avoid these rules, and that process can become addicting.

Sorry it wasn't clear, and thanks for the comment.

There is so much career crap that comes through the internet, and this is the most practical piece I've read in a long time. So many decisions can be concluded by simply asking the question of the post title.

The best one to make, I assume, is if you can both earn and learn.

I should have been more clear. I was referring to the "waste of time" comment.

Agreed that it's a strange comment. It was about the only thing I disagreed with in that piece.

Surprising too. I often find more inspiration from fiction than non-fiction. Plenty of fiction work has factual elements of science and technology behind them; they are just stylized into a story. Often, it makes the reading more interesting.

I'm looking for a technical cofounder for my company, AM Analytics. We're based and incubated out of Berkeley. Please email me if you would like to discuss details:

alex@amanalytics.com

AM Analytics (amanalytics.com) is seeking a talented web application developer to lead the development of our social media and market intelligence dashboard.

AM Analytics is a web startup committed to building the most comprehensive social media and market intelligence dashboard available. The AM Analytics team is a combination of individuals passionate about leveraging social media to help businesses make informed decisions. Our current team has backgrounds in internet technology, government security, financial analysis, community building, market intelligence and consumer psychology. Although our team's education and experience is diverse, our goal is to deliver a single, integrated social media analytics platform to our customers.

Responsibilities

As the lead web application developer you will own the application design, implementation, and maintenance of the AM Analytics platform.

Requirements:

    * Experience with web scripting and application languages (Python, Ruby, etc)
    * Experience working in an open source development environment (Linux, Apache, SVN)
    * Experience with Model-View-Controller (MVC) web frameworks (Django, Ruby on Rails)
    * Experience with REST(like) API's, XML parsing / handling, JSON, etc.
    * Expertise in HTML/CSS, including familiarity with good information and aesthetic design principles.
    * Experience with Flash / Action Script 3.

Big Plus:

    * Prior social media application development experience.
    * Fun person to hang out with.
    * Enjoy building an innovative web application that makes customers happy.

Interested? Please email alex@amanalytics.com for details.

Tim O'Reilly sent this link out on Twitter. His question was "does this signify a decline in innovation, or the end of a bubble?"

That was my impression as well.

It's interesting when you look at his thoughts towards the television in Fahrenheit 451, which was the new media, or the future of news, at the time. Strikingly similar to his current distaste for the "noise" on the internet. His loyalty to literature has not changed.

I had a similar conversation with the Dean of my business school the past semester, basically telling him that physical textbooks lagged the available technology. He didn't want to hear it because "the number one seller of textbooks on campus WAS the university."

Twinfluence measures the influence of a Twitter user based on their tweets and respective influence of their followers. The tool uses a mix of social analytics and academic theory by that "ranks" each user by their individual influence.

This blog post looks at the Top Twitterers: http://innovationinsight.com/blog/the-top-twitterers-network...

First I've seen of this.

Hey man. I'm looking for a developer for my web startup as well. I'd be happy to discuss details if you could email me at alexjmann@gmail.com