- Startups - News Panel with Jay Levy and Brian Kennish - TWiST #290
发布时间 2012-09-22 04:06:57 来源
摘要
1:00 Welcome everyone, thanks for joining us for the News Panel today.
1:45 Welcome Kirin Kalia, our news reader and the managing editor of Launch.
4:30 Thank you to Squarespace for supporting the show. Everyone go to http://squarespace.com/thisweekin to sign up for a free 2 week trial.
8:30 Welcome to Brian Kennish, founder of Disconnect.me. Brian, what is Disconnect?
11:45 Jay Levy is here from Zelkova VC. Jay, how are you doing over there?
12:30 Twitter's latest update removed the ability to use other photo-hosting services like Yfrog. Why did Twitter do this?
14:30 I think a new class of service will come out that's API guaranteed forever.
16:00 Brian, you're a developer, what do you think this all means?
16:45 Explain what building an ad-based business has to do with locking down your API.
18:45 Brian: Mozilla is working on something called Browser ID which is a follow-up to the Open ID stuff.
19:30 Jay, what's your take on this move for Twitter? Is it smart?
25:00 Thank you to MailChimp for being an amazing partner for the show! Everyone thank them @MailChimp.
29:30 Let's talk about the iPhone 5. The tech press was "meh" on it. What are your impressions for far?
33:00 Brian, are you an iPhone user?
34:30 Is this the end of the smartphone cycle? It seems like they can't come up with anything else revolutionary.
37:00 Brian, do you think we can say that the smartphone has been perfected?
37:45 Jay: I don't think the tablet has been perfected.
40:45 What's the biggest change for you for the iPhone 5, Jay?
42:45 Jay: What was Apple's motivation for rolling in their own maps app?
44:15 Kirin: Should we not hold Apple to the same standard for its software that we do for its hardware?
46:30 Jay: Are you saying Facebook should build a phone, Jason?
53:15 Yahoo closed a $7.6B deal with Alibabba this week. Will this money give them the ability to buy any interesting startups?
55:15 Jay, what's the vibe in the venture community now that Marissa is at Yahoo?
58:00 Last story: Yet another exec left Zynga this week: chief security officer Nils Puhlmann. Have we seen the last of the departures? What's going to happen next?
1:01:00 Kirin: Is the gambling business the right one for Zynga to get into?
1:02:00 Brian: Are they working on gambling internationally or just in the US?
1:05:00 Jay, what do you think about Zynga?
1:08:45 Groupon is coming out with a card reader device for merchant use that would compete with Square.
1:09:45 Brian, why don't you think Square is making any money?
1:10:15 Jay, are you an investor in Square?
1:13:45 Jay, are you long or short on Groupon?
1:15:15 Why are we talking about Occupy Wall Street again? What's going on?
1:17:00 Brian: Howard Stern did interviews with the OWS protesters and most people had no idea why they were there.
1:21:30 The data tracking is good because it benefits the user who will see more targeted, relevant ads.
1:24:30 Brian and Jay, thank you both for joining us on the show. Jay, what's your new company, Uproot Wine (http://drinkuproot.com), about?
1:25:30 Thank you to Squarespace and MailChimp, and thank you to Kirin for reading the news today. We'll see you next time.
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