Robert Sandie
Viddler is located in Bethlehem, PA and a few of us share our favorite sandwiches that are all less then $5!
As a product guy, it’s been very apparent Myspace has been on it’s way out for many years, mainly due to it’s inability to innovate, and putting advertising efforts clearly ahead of it’s users.
When Jay Leno, a mainstream comedian, uses Myspace as center of a joke, it really questions the mainstream perspective on them.
Myspace is far from over though, and still has a chance to come back.
If I were over at myspace I would do two things to combat this before it’s too late:
What: Make it clear Myspace is going to change attitude on advertising, putting users first. Scrap all ad units and start over with more engaging campaigns. Reinvent itself.
How: Become socially transparent in this effort. Get feedback from users. Turn it into a conversation as apposed to a one way battle.
Update: NBC has pulled the commercial from it’s site. It used to be here and when you still google “Jay Leno new material” you will find it once existed on the site. NBC and Myspace have a relationship on many levels, wouldn’t be suprised if someone asked for it to come down due to it hurting the relationship.
As you may know we relaunched our advertise directory to be completely transparent to help promote content partners that work with us as well as share with advertisers what we are about.
With it you can advertise with some of the AMAZING partners that I personally am privileged to work with including HotHardware, Engadget, Joystiq, Tweektown, iJustine, Phillyd.tv, any many other FANTASTIC partners.
This is just the start. What I hope is that we can spur up small businesses with $500-1000 budgets to find value in this.
Would love your feedback on the guide.
Also to kickstart the program put together my first advertisement I have ever created.
I am in love with my IBM Thinkpad keyboard and how much it saves your fingers. When your on your computer 10+ hours a day, efficiency is everything with the mac red nipple, saving moving hands on mac from keyboard to mouse 1000+ times a day.
There is one thing that is missing though when using it with OSX which is very annoying. What I am trying to get to work is the middle scroll key that you press and when pressing it it allows you to scroll up and down a website page or document. This is very important function for keyboard to work for me.
Alternatively a shortcut for scrolling (Ctrl-J) would be acceptable as well.
Apple OSX’s default keyboard mapping function is pretty simple and isn’t apparent howto get this to work.
If you have any ideas on howto get this to work, please let me know in comments below or @sandieman me on Twitter!
Thanks!
UPDATE: Smart Scroll fixed this problem for me. It’s a payed shareware application but worth it.
Recent Mac commercials (which I always love) share Windows guy freezing 2150 many years into the future. It’s making fun of the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates commercial where Bill hints at next version of Windows. That being said, all this poking and competition has got me thinking on where it will be in 2040 (2150 being too far away).
What are pretty much guarantees:
Dropping prices in hardware
Culture changes at Apple and Windows
Opensource movement to continue to grow
Steve Jobs will die. (sorry folks, everyone does)
Rating past, present, future
Without using any formal metric (market share, revenue generated, etc), I would like to post my prediction of how the market will evolve based on a Wine Spectator point scale. Have made a few notes on why each of the trends.
What do you think?
My little brother, Erik Sandie, proposed to his girlfriend last weekend.
The pressure is on!
Scrappy is building a video hosting service with 1/10th the investment of your competitors.
Scrappy is watching every penny even if it’s $1 beers at local pub.
Scrappy is a dot-com in Bethlehem, PA.
Scrappy is finding amazing talent regardless of what you can afford to pay.
Scrappy is finding top talent wherever it may be located: Poland, Phoenix, Pennsylvania.
Scrappy is innovating while balancing cashflow.
Scrappy is building a REAL business.
At this moment in time, scrappy is making me and people around us think like a company, one that is going to be around for a very long time.
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Hello and welcome to my personal blog. My name is Robert Sandie, a digital entrepreneur, innovating with my second startup, vid.io. Join me as I update this blog on the daily challenges of startup.
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