Netflix
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- Just the Links … to invest in a show? I mean surely there must be data before Netflix decides to invest in a show and then, uh, cancel it after one season …
- The Collapse of Form … Website versus app exists, hell, the platform upon which a form exists makes a difference, whether from the OS level through to whether Netflix or Spotify or Facebook …
- I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something … dictate commercial terms if you want to deal with it. (Unless you’re Netflix.) I am burying the lede. One way Apple could distinguish CarPlay and, well, put …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … ejecting from the community only for the person to return with a triumphant Netflix special”. But. People have expectations and rooms they want to be in and spaces …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … whether something is a car Automation of choice, like the recommendation systems in Netflix, and used in social feeds Automating access to human labour, like Amazon's mechanical …
- Hands, Brains, Eyes … Netflix, as it started out streaming, plunked down a bunch of money to license IP, so maybe Netflix might do the same? They wouldn't run afoul of …
- Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard … you've got Netflix exclusive, HBO exclusives, Disney+ exclusives, Paramount+ exclusives, and so on. There's several models going on there, too: Some shows/films that are platform …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … Netflix letter to shareholders (PDF), October 18, 2022, via The Verge ↩︎ Netflix has 55 more games in development , Jay Peters, The Verge, 18 October, 2022 ↩︎ Netflix and Video …
- HBO Max is Upside Down; Bits and Pieces … Here's how it appears to work on other platforms like Netflix and Disney+. I haven't checked with Hulu, which is probably a sign that I should …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … Sony PlayStation Plus Extra Premium Super or, weird also-rans Apple Arcade and... Netflix? I mean for how long are people going to actually publish games for, in …
- AQI But For Brain Fungus … under what strategy might it make sense for the NYT to do what Netflix has done (and, in a way, Apple appears to be half-heartedly doing with …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … The first version of this we had was Netflix versus The Old Entertainment Industry: Netflix moved from using the US Postal Service to move DVDs around in a …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … PlayStation could show up and decide to play in the places where people spend time -- Netflix is doing this by playing the game of win at the amount …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … It would be as if you had to buy every film you watched on Netflix. Weird. Some of the boring stuff was going to go away. Not enough …
- Do Not Recommend … Only let them use Netflix or whatever for a set amount of time per day Set different amounts of Netflix time per day, so for example, setting more …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … with, or is being told it will need to compete with Spotify and Netflix and Disney+ and so on and I sympathize with that, and yet this is …
- The Games Google Plays … s in the realm of "hey, you get 12 months free Disney+ or Netflix if you're a T-Mobile or Verizon or whatever customer" and a mutually …
- Three Things … When moat building means your call sheets bring all the crew to your lots Via Hacker News (sorry), I learned that Netflix is setting up infrastructure for Netflix …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … we could see it as an activity that competes for time just like Netflix does, or doomscrolling, or arguing with people on the internet. A game design approach …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … Christina says this is what makes Netflix successful. That said, I have Friends In The Industry who are skeptical about Netflix’s chops in the entertainment side of …
- The ATCR Boundary … Facebook’s feed, for sure. Amazon’s “people who bought… also bought” recommender. Netflix’s recommender. We needn’t even mention YouTube’s. Amy Hoy had some great …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … side and streamed to his computer a la Google Stadia, GeForce Now or... Netflix), but he can go into his office(!) because that’s generated client-side. Hiro …
- My So-Called Content … 3 row Mars rover, like the kind the Robinson family has in that Netflix show! The car has a ridiculously large windscreen which in my opinion can only …
- It's Not Safe To Go Alone, Buy This … Do you want journalism to die? Do you? You're happy to pay for Netflix, why the fuck won't you support news? Have you seen what's …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … Maybe Netflix will pick up a full season this time or something, or we won't have all the production difficulties that plagued last season. Dan
- End of Process … Today is the day that I formally discovered the composer Max Richter, whose work I'd encountered in bits and pieces (the first Netflix season of Black Mirror …
- I'm OK … First, via Twitter, Netflix is going to "trial technology that hands control to viewers", which is an amusing way of missing the lede that Netflix is in the …
- Netflix Should … But, should it? If Netflix created a dating app, what problem would it solve for a) Netflix and b) Netlix's users? I mean, Netflix's job is …
- Random Walk; Black Design … the time, I said "The Peeple "app" is merely the transmedia campaign for Netflix's new Black Mirror series season opener, What If Rating Things, But Too Much …
- OK TO GO … remember when VHS recorders had jog shuttles on their remotes?) through the movie on Netflix[1] I happened upon a whole bunch of scenes where Ellie starts explaining …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … Our Netflix socks are inspired by ideas from Netflix users. If you have an idea about what could make the Netflix experience truly amazing, tell us all about …
- Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s … Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a thing that couldn't get a network deal, but was just fine on Netflix. We'll see more and more of that, and …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … Conversely, the International Business Times (yeah, I know) reckons that Blockbuster had a peak of 60,000 employees worldwide in 2004[4], whereas Netflix might employ around 2 …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … There's that reference of Netflix as a "website" when actually it's about 10 years too early to be considered a "broadcaster" and because the shape of …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … Netflix's customers don't care that Netflix is a website. Netflix *is* now a broadcaster-producer, that just happens to use IP as transport for its content …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … I don't count DNS or hosting among these - they seem somewhat esoteric even now - but instead things like Flickr, Amazon Prime, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Dropbox, Netflix …
- Symptom Masquerading As Disruption (2); The Model Is The Modeled; Labour Not Employment; Superstar Ratings, Here We Go; Not Swarm … On the other hand, yeah, good enough for Netflix. And sure, maybe better than not having any at all. Or, I don't know, the happy face or …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … I can't see what exactly the manifesto is trying to get across here other than, if you're a company like Netflix and Valve and only hire …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … going for the content play. And the point from the linked article remains: Netflix's biggest "original" series, House of Cards, is a remake of a successful and …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … As yet, there is *still* no way to search across competing video providers - only the Tivo comes close, allowing you to search amongst YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and your …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … No, Netflix because: you all saw that wonderful piece by Alexis Madrigal where Netflix reverse-engineered out all those movie and tv micro-genres[1], right? Your app …
- Challenge / Response (3) … this week's newsletter episodes stand fairly good chances of including reckonings about Netflix recommendation algorithms, Apple's post-digital-hub digital hub strategy, why it doesn't …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … daily active users 48 - Xbox Live users 48 - Cable subscribers, United States 40 - Netflix global streaming subscribers 38 - Population of the State of California 23 - Population of Australia …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … design faster than Apple's getting better at software? The perception is that Netflix is killing it in the original content space: series like Orange is the New …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … users") and quickly (Blackberry, Nokia) disrupted. Runkeeper will come and eat their lunch. Netflix will become the next video network. Uber, much as I hate them for being …
- The Desire To Fix Things … Best guess is that Netflix is still at the pre-hockeystick stage of growth, which has the rational market all irrationally excited. Secondly, while Netflix can't compete …