We are becoming part of a more generalized entertainment structure in our society. No longer is it defined by the length of time the product presents itself, the depth of interaction it offers, the star being living or made-up, the device in which the interaction takes place – or the time in between each interaction. We are now in a world where those versions of the product can be matched, bundled and even merged to create a whole new ecosystem. We are living in a world where all types of entertainment, big games and small, game shows and reality, information and news, can sit side-by-side, hand-in-hand, equally, through any channel they choose without prejudice or barriers. Your entertainment is free at last, and we are the entrepreneurs that will shepherd it into this new world, slicing through old corporate structures, and short sighted economics, to build a brighter and far more entertaining future.
Month: June 2012
Fake Response Server: Slow response time generator
Here is another quick tool built on AWS. This one is super simple, but pretty handy. Today Twitter went down, and somewhere in our system we were using the Twitter API to display one of our status feeds. Them being down became us being slow.
Well, I wanted to do some quick tests to keep this from happening again, but byt the time I got to it Twitter was responsive again. To fix it I would need to create a bad URL. The crappy thing is I wanted a slow response time, not exactly a bad response/error. Creating a 404 error is easy, just go to some url that doesn’t exists and test. But I want a slowwwww response.
I quickly searched Google for something I could use, and didn’t find one. When I realized I would have to create a fake pause endpioint somewhere I figured someone else out there might benfiift from a quick public version of this system. So, I created fake response server. The first default endpoint available sleeps for a variable time.
and add a sleep param to change the sleep time in milliseconds
https://fakeresponder.com?sleep=500
Nothing major, but why not publicize the tool incase it can help some other shmuck out there like me 🙂
Cheers.
What does coke, the bible, and good business gut all have in common?
On the car ride up from a meeting on sand hill, Daniel Odio interviews me in “the hot seat” on how process plays a pivotal role in your startup’s business success.
My first iMovie: Demoing a product
Here is a vid of the Android demo. It is my first iMovie project so it’s a bit rough around the edges, ut to be honest it was kind of fun to do.
I’m looking forward to making the iOS one, or for any feature for that matter, and taking what i’ve learned to improve.
Some tips, lessons learned that I wish I did.:
– Take you finger away from the shot after every action, it makes it way easier to cut up
– Shoot it side ways so the stage is not taller than wide
– tape the phone down and mount your camera so it doesnt move throught the shot. again, better cutting chances.
make a short movie first and play with all the transitions, and effects and themes. Cut up your movie and add each clip to the stage and add some text and transitions again. Then add some music. I would have saved allot of time on the final if I had known what I know afte the final was made, but by te end of the real movie i was to tired to go back and start over.
Sean Shadmand 