The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Beykpour: Periscope's biggest mistake was defaulting broadcast retention to persist indefinitely
“I think one of the biggest mistakes we made with Periscope Is we changed the default Sort of data retention to persist indefinitely.”
Hartman: The competition between Meerkat and Periscope is not over yet
“I don't think it's over yet.”
Lipman: Periscope holds a significant growth advantage over Meerkat
“I think Periscope, they have a advantage in regards to growth with, you know, being able to piggyback off of Twitter and using, having such a strong relationship with them, and now actually being acquired by them, but I think that they both can win, but at thi…”
Beykpour: Periscope reduced live stream latency to sub-five seconds
“Technically what that meant is we had to take what was sort of industry standard as like tens of seconds, if not more of latency and bring it down to like sub five seconds.”
Scott Belsky wrote a substantial early seed check for Periscope
“Scott was like, I mean, I want to support you guys. He wrote us, I don't want to share how much the check was, but he wrote us a substantially sized check and was like, I want to be on the team and help you guys make this come to life.”