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Michael Arrington@arrington · CrunchFund, TechCrunch
I just backed this on kickstarter. Really interesting. I think I'd actually like it more if there was no choice involved and everyone saw the same art each day as everyone else. Would certainly start interesting conversations. Jake, if you're raising money from investors, we'd love to take a look at CrunchFund.
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Jake Levine@jrlevine · Founder & CEO, Electric Objects
@arrington thanks michael! the good news is that this thing is as flexible as the Internet, and I expect artists and developers to surprise us with what they do with it. Subscription, curation, group shows... at the end of the day it's a dumb device with a good look, great graphics performance, and a browser. All of the intelligence is in the software layer.
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Luke Kennedy@lukekndy · Founder - Kudu
@arrington Everyone seeing the same art each day? Love that idea. Imagine the discussions
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Love that idea, @arrington. Quick tangent: the Internet continues to become more personalized and "algorithmically" optimized. I feel we've lost some of the water cooler conversation that's inspired when everyone sees the same thing, such as a site like HackerNews ("Did you see that article on HN yesterday? Congrats on hitting the HN front page!" etc.). … See more
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Jake Levine@jrlevine · Founder & CEO, Electric Objects
@rrhoover your describing what happens as communities get bigger, and the effects are totally dependent on the structure of the network. hacker news and old digg, for example, lose some value as they grow in size (the bigger the room, the more people, the harder it is to have a conversation). When you let your network splinter into clusters (Reddit, Twitter,… See more
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@jrlevine 100% agree. HN's frontpage works because it's a community primarily for hackers/engineers/technologists. It makes sense for Medium to to move to a personalized homepage (or at least something that's not entirely homogeneous) to appeal to a broader audience. I think EO's early adopters might be likeminded and small enough to value a universal "po… See more
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