Thomas Marban
@thomas
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Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Current: https://t.co/5fHcsu3fBx ✕ @mcuban
Joined November 2006
@lavern_spicer If you're looking for a reason to delete your post, you can call my grandmother who lived throw both times. She'll explain it to you in simple words.
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@thesamparr @ShaanVP Doesn’t hurt if you have a million followers to get to 50k subscribers….
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@thesamparr What's the purpose of 200k followers when they have no taste?. Cayenne Turbo GT with Dakar decals.
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@profgalloway Buying Twitter is like buying an old man's classic Jaguar — Timeless car but open the engine hood and you’ll find yourself in a snakepit that’s very expensive to fix.
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@ben_mckenzie "That hacker has returned one ape, 31 ETH and a couple mutants.". Imagine reading that sentence a decade ago 🤣.
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So far, @CNNplus feels like a weird mélange of in-flight entertainment packed into a confusing UI but @profgalloway was promising enough to not cancel it right away.
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Best thing about this solar eclipse is that it will be the last one that's being streamed via Flash players.
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@_alexbrogan I created Upstract 20y+ ago but apparently there are still two or three people who’ve never heard of it.
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@browser_use You know, if websites simply followed basic accessibility standards and used things like ARIA labels, we wouldn’t have to keep funneling money to companies that profit off fixing problems that never needed to be there.
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Proof that fancy note-taking tools are overrated. [And nothing really matters].
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After wasting millions in venture capital, the micropayments industry could have simply employed a single psychologist and saved us from a decade of micropain.
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AI takeover is real — Just witnessed another autonomous robot attack.
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@profgalloway My 2008 statement ‘You don’t buy an Android device for someone you love.’ still holds true.
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Brilliant episode 👇🏻.
Silicon Valley isn’t delivering products that actually improve people’s lives anymore — and you’re right to be angry about it. This week @edzitron joins @parismarx to discuss the state of the industry and why the AI hype makes no sense. Full ep:
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Just 24h after launch, Adobe Firefly is already feature-complete. It can render dogs and pizzas. Thanks @scottbelsky
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Dear fintech startups: 95% of your business is building trust. Chatbots, UX, anonymity and lower fees are no arguments unless your goal is to run a playground for toy money.
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The only constant in life is a new Beatles song every 50 years.
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The fact that these video games turn 30 this year just proves that we peaked as a society in the mid nineties. - Doom.- SimCity 2000.- Syndicate.- Day of the Tentacle.- X-Wing. H/T @dosnostalgic.
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famous last words: dropped my iphone in the pool and before it died the >this accessory is not supported by your iphone< message popped up.
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Think I've clicked on more crosswalks in Captchas than I've ever walked over in real life.
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Twitter needs neither decentralisation pipe dreams nor a single owner with the pathetic need to be in the press every 24 hours. It works great for what it is, and if you can’t handle the load that reflects the mess that is life, go look at wallpapers on Pinterest.
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A week ago, 99% of Twitter didn't even know where Ukraine is located and here we are with 101% opinions and armchair commanders.
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✅ ChatGPT Plugin to pull in finance news is done. Waiting for approval.
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Pretty clear that german car makers are going to supersede the cult of Tesla. Better engineering, materials, history, support, network, trust and an actual taste for design. Bonus: Leadership teams that don't post Crypto gibberish.
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If everybody complaining about Medium on Medium would create actual content, it would make my membership a lot more valuable.
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After taking care of Uber, the EU could perhaps regulate some basic fraud, politeness and cleanliness standards for regular cabs.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really an expert as long as you split a tweet into a thread.
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@katie_robertson @MikeIsaac @nicoagrant There are alternatives to (social) gatekeepers and tastemakers. | 🙋♂️ @mcuban.
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@scottbelsky Too bad I kept all my pre-Cloud Adobe CDs but not a single copy of the pre-2022 Web 🤔.
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Bold predictions for 2021: Newsletter services will offer web-based reading because people can no longer handle the email load. They will call it blogs. New services will emerge that scrape those websites and deliver them via email. RSS will watch from the sidelines.
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Drone footage with tropical house music is the new Youtube spam.
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This perfectly aligns with Zuck's style switch to a corporate kingpin.
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"Conquer the boardroom, navigate the corporate maze" — CEO Quest is out now.
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“If it were possible to die from cringe, LinkedIn’s demented hustle culture and vapid thought leadership would be the terminating trigger.”.
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In every 20-year-old search engine, there are code fragments that ask themselves: What happened?.
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@wallstreetpro “I'm standing in front of a burning house and I'm offering you fire insurance.”
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Disregarding the underlying tech, I wonder how the payment industry would look like had it seen the advent of Amex subsequent to Cryptos. Global acceptance, real-time transactions, low fees, buyer protection, flight miles, status symbol? Count me in.
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