misener's comments

On: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

[misener]

The Canadian copyright lawyer I talked to says no:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/popcorn-time-is-like-netfl...

On: We Need to Talk About TED

[misener]

According to the Livestream embed, "This Event Has Been Deleted"

[api → misener]

... which is the other problem with TED: it's not really an open platform.

On: Ask HN: Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open...

[misener]

Rdio offers "Protected Accounts"

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2012/09/now-available-on-rdio-protec...

On: Kickstarter suspends project 10 hours from success...

[misener]

It's worth noting that their campaign page has been reduced to a simple "Sorry, this project is no longer available" message.

This, despite Kickstarter's claim that projects are kept on their site forever. Their FAQ states that "Projects are not closed or taken down, they remain on site for reference and transparency.

I blogged more about this here:

http://misener.org/despite-claiming-otherwise-kickstarter-qu...

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

Here's an ongoing dump of TKBM's data: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1ecu_DI...

[dwwoelfel → misener]

How do you get the pids?

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

As requested: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1ecu_DI...

The KickBack Machine dumps lots of data into this Fusion Table on an ongoing basis. Please feel free to slice and dice it however you like.

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

That's kind of you to say. Radio's my day job.

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

Indeed, the aggregate numbers are there, but it's extremely difficult to find individual examples of success/failure by category or goal. That's the point of TKBM.

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

It's an incomplete list. TKBM has only been tracking projects that ended since mid-June 2012.

According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of ~44%.

[waterlesscloud → misener]

I've been suspecting their success rate might go up as more people become comfortable with the idea. A lot of small projects should be very do-able if their community is familiar with kickstarter.

On: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

[misener]

According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of ~44%. Successes seem to be increasing.

[jjb123 → misener]

But does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled/removed projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?