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Re: what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

Jugendherberge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:36:27 -0000

Well i think that I’m not quite sold on using it myself yet, but they’ve made an incredible step forward in collaborative learning online. Study for the GMAT with your friends, or with any number of people you’ll meet on the site.

Re: what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

Hampers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:32:19 -0000

"...Anytime you want, you get on their website and see how many calories you’ve been burning, what your activity level has been like..." This is awesome, a health check-up in a flash.

Re: what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

tiberiu84 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:40 -0000

Maybe it was just a one in a thousand error:)) Disqus is one of the best commenting systems that a blogger can use at the moment. I had experience with other commenting systems, but Disqus is the perfect balance which offers all I need.
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Re: what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

blakeweb — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:13:38 -0000

Sorry disqus ate your comment, and thanks for letting me know--that's something I should keep an eye out for if I can.

tonchidot: No, I definitely don't think it's really real. I mean, the video isn't fake, but yeah, I agree that it's a hacked demo in that their application isn't really ready at all. They seeded it with perfect data in a perfect scenario, so the video wasn't realistic at all. But it's coming soon, I hope.

swype: Yeah, I skipped them--I never paid attention to them at the event because I have an app on my iphone already as of a couple weeks ago that does what they're doing, called writingpad (http://www.shapewriter.com/iphone.html). So swype's technology didn't look that unique or defensible to me. I like writingpad a lot, though right now it's confined to its own little notepad application rather than subbing in for the default iphone keyboard. That's what swype is trying to change, I guess. Seems like apple and the other phone makers will just do it themselves, and hopefully have it as another option for the way the keyboard works.

Although looking at their website, it seems swype might be targeting actual computer touch screens over mobile devices. That seems like it could be really useful.

Re: what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

ParkerJones — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:29:16 -0000

You'd think disqus would be better about not eating comments.

The summary:

-Agree with you about goodguide. Just waiting for a mobile, barcode-reading app to frontend it.
-You get a feel for whether Tonchidot is for real? Everything I've seen has a very hacked-together-to-make-a-demo look. Plus I'm skeptical about how well this would work. In any case, I think we'd all like to see this technology improve-- the different applications are pretty exciting.
-No mention of Swype, which I think could be a game-changer for touchscreen devices. Just like T9 was for texting