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Comment Re: Morale of the Story (Score 3, Interesting) 217

by svanstrom on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:11AM (#49171457) Attached to: How a Kickstarter Project Can Massively Exceed Its Funding Goals and Still Fail

I didn't refer to the paying people as investors!

It's a buy with a (bigger) risk of not getting the thing you paid for.

If you pay 100 USD each to 10 projects, but 1/10 fail to deliver; then your actual cost per delivered product is about 111 USD. You need to guesstimate costs like that before you "gamble" and buy stuff from sites like Kickstarter.

Submission + - Google: Too late for OpenSocial? (news.com)

Submitted by DeeQ on Friday December 14, 2007 @06:02AM

DeeQ writes: Is the search king already too late to the party?

When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web. It's been over six weeks, and OpenSocial — which uses open-source code to allow any participating social media site to implement a common set of application program interfaces (APIs) and create "universal" applications — isn't finished, though developers believe it will be ready early in 2008. In the meantime, a number of partners have launched independent developer platform strategies, and Facebook has announced that other social networks will be able to use its own applications, rivaling what Google can offer.

Comment Re:Number of Cases (Score 1) 556

by svanstrom on Monday August 27, 2007 @01:06AM (#20368365) Attached to: System Admin's Unit of Production?

At least you now can get away with a lot more "that's not a softwareproblem, it's a hardwareproblem"s... which should free up enough time for you to be able to find a new job before the proverbial excrement goes fan shopping.

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