@satjot - can "they" detect what's installed on your smartphone? If yes, I can see how deep-linking would be a great feature for apps that have high value repeat purchases.
@allantyoung there are a few ways Facebook can compile this data :
(1) They could make calls to app url schemes that are publicly known (i.e. http://handleopenurl.com/) to check for a response
(2) Facebook will become the largest data set of app url schemes as more apps register their url schema with Facebook when enabling deep-linking
(3) Facebook bought Parse, and over 100,000 apps use Parse and many of those apps use FB connect, so Facebook knows which apps those users have
On Android, though, app developers just have to register open intents for their urls, and Android takes care of the rest. No special schemes necessary, and falls back to the browser if the user doesn't have an app installed to handle it. What exactly is wrong with that setup that necessitates a whole new set of schemas that will result in urls that can only be handled if you already have the app installed?
Downtown Oakland is awesome. Lot's of good food around especially if you don't mind walking a few blocks to Chinatown and you love Chinese food. BART gets you to Berkeley, San Francisco or further east if you're looking for cheap housing.
If you're ever near the Oakland Tribune Tower, ping me and I'll buy coffee/beer.
I feel the same way about Oakland. It's a few minutes from a major university in Berkeley that cranks out research, technology, and talent. Bryan, if you're ever near the Oakland Tribune Tower, let me buy you coffee or beer.
Darius and I were in the same batch at YC and he was one of those guys you just thought would outshine everyone else.
My takeaway from this excellent post was that once you start fundraising, you need to be on the hunt 100% of the time. I see too many co-founders sharing fundraising duties and product development duties at the same time. The idea is that you should have already spent enough time building a product that is at least partially compelling and showing some traction. Once you set out to raise funding, you can't effectively skip between building product and talking to investors.
In that case "useful idiots" is a bit harsh (and not accurate from my reading of [1]).
The creation of this much open source software is a true public good. The people producing it (both at small companies and big ones) may be working away at misguided projects, but it's wonderful that as a byproduct they're producing software useable by everyone. In the future, it may be obvious that the open-source side-effects of this SV generation were more value-creating than the businesses created directly.
If this company can pull it off, it'll have something far more substantive than a resume or profile on LinkedIn. As an art, software engineering lends itself to opinions and kudos from the community. As a science, software engineering lends itself to measurable outcomes and approximations of difficulty and impact. I'd much rather look for talent through Geekli.st than through Monster, Craigslist, or LinkedIn.
Disclaimer: I know the founders and am crossing my fingers for their success.
