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What the hell is OpenCandy?
kartal:
Also this approach will force developers to start using installers more and more. There are many apps that are just simple files. I would hate to see them going away.
I personally hate installers and when you add something like OC on top of it, you have very distasteful menu for the dinner. I am sure you realize that I have a very good point here.
drapps:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I'm never going to be able to change every person's mind, no matter how clear, factual and detailed the information I (we) provide.
As far as the current crop of developers using OpenCandy, they love it. They continue to embrace us and associate themselves with us. It's clear a lot of talented and well respected developers and industry leaders are happy and excited about what we're doing.
Here are a few examples:
This is what the developer of Startup Manager said about OpenCandy: http://startupmanager.org/news/2008/10/15/startup-manager-and-opencandy/
Here is the developer of MediaInfo's comments about using OpenCandy: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Support/FAQ#OpenCandy
Finally, here is what Tim O'Reilly says about OpenCandy (he liked our vision enough to actually invest in OpenCandy through his VC firm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures)
"OpenCandy has figured out a way for the most successful software developers to share the attention flow that comes their way with other developers whose work they admire," said O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly. "It's a unique application of the implicit social graph in the software development community."
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Source: http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/technology/vc-ratings/opencandy-gets-35m-to-spread-t.php
Thanks. :)
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kartal:
I have a simple question. Do you collect data in anyway (including my refusal to install OC or OC recommendations ) If I refuse to install OC and its affiliates offers? In other words would you know if I refuse to install your recommandation or OC toolbar whatever you are offering? DO you set the cookie before or after the OC offer?
drapps:
In my experience with regular (normal, novice, whatever we should call them) users, they prefer installers because they aren't sure what to do with zip files. I'm a techie, but personally I don't have a preference of installer vs. zip file. As long as an application with an installer includes a 'Custom' install option where I can choose where to install the app and select/deselect shortcuts and stuff like that, I'm happy.
Plus (if necessary for some apps, like Spiceworks for example) installers help ensure prerequisites like .Net, VC++ redistributables, Ruby, PHP, Python, certain necessary patches, etc are installed. Nothing worse than trying to run an app and find out you need to download and install something to make it actually run. :)
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drapps:
We DON'T know that "you" rejected an recommendation. We DO know when "a user" who completes installation of an application powered with OpenCandy rejects a recommendation. The way we see/store that information is in the aggregate like this: A computer installing <insert publisher's app> running an English version of Windows Vista located in the USA rejected an offer of <recommended application>. This aggregate information helps us improve recommendations. Much the same way Google AdWords works (but to me in a much less intrusive manner.)
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