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Perhaps Testla will have the same fate as NeXT, bought by an auto giant if they fail to go mainstream with their expensive, though great, cars.

They aren't engineers, or designers, so spreading the word on the product, and establishing contacts, it's pretty much the best they can do to help their startup instead of sitting around all day watching others work.

Nonetheless, social skills, or the simple ability to stand out fast, do play as much as big a factor in the success of an endeavour as engineering.

There are lots of these types of sentences by CEOs that just show they don't understand their target market...

Unfortunately the UI is way to bloated, not enought contrast between the elements, like the old layout had. But perfomance wise, it seems that the migration to the PHP Symfony framework helped to speed things out.

Even, as it is the case, the UI doesn't help the user.

You can hear live audio stream. Loopt is now on stage ;)

Arrington tries to disguise such a personal attack on technical terms, while it shows he knows very little about technology and has very low ethical principles. The problem is most people who read TechCrunch will consider the post to be accurate.

Back in the 90s Adobe didn't had trials for their software on their website, and the software was usually lots of MB. Compare that to the old 30MB download of a Dreamweaver trial that you could easly find a crack off. If Adobe had done the same with GoLive (former Cyberstudio) at the beginning they would probably have owned the WYSIWYG HTML editor market.

Also with some different apps, tough Adobe's Livemotion never was a true competitor to Flash.

Rather ugly how this turned out.

"... [Apple] is a company with leadership who has the fortitude to take the risk, find the budget, and push the technology for the single cause of designing compelling user experiences. Apple got it right."

The same happens with other areas, they ask specifically for the software, not the subject. It's the WYSIWYG generation.

Bottom line: he says you can do it to, and he's right, but you have to really know your target market at the start (which he did with targeting Dropsend to the designer/agency market, that he knew well due to his work on BD4D) and have contacts in it to spread the word (at the start, eventually your client demographic expands)... but it isn't as easy as he makes it seem on a blog post based on one of his successes, when that formula didn't work out well for his other projects.

On a blog with the number of comments as TechCrunch posts have, video-comments aren't useful, quite on the contrary.

You can skim fast through text, perceiving value in some comments are reading those more carefully. With video-comments you just can't do that -- are you going to waste minutes and minutes just to 'see' the comments of a post you read in less then a minute?

Shameless hit job.

translation: "Contrary to what we usually do, we decided to announce this still under development features so Google App Engine doesn't continue to steal headlines, or any future clients choosing a platform, from us - you know how the press loves to champion Google innovation."

--- "Last week, Josh Abramson told us that he and Ricky "might start a few new sites [and/or] we might be making a few small acquisitons," but wouldn't elaborate."

They already have a new one -- http://todaysbigthing.com -- and it's actually good, one of those single purpose sites.