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(sheepish) "government contractors," I meant to say. SAIC is a contractor.
Is Netflix the Worst Company in America?
Netflix has been paired up with GameStop in round one of the Consumerist Worst Company in America contest. Two years ago, Netflix seemed to have the world in its hand. It had millions of customers who loved streaming videos and having a few DVDs coming in every month for a very reasonable rate...
What the hell does "worst" mean anyway?
You've got companies that are responsible for thousands of families losing their homes illegally (I'm looking at you, Bank of America); You've got companies that are responsible for billions of dollars lost by investors (yeah, Goldman, this song really is about you).
You've got gas companies fracking the Northeast and causing cancers and health defects while trying to sue documentarians to stop them from talking about it.
You've got government agencies getting caught running massive scams and having to pay half a billion dollar fines (hi, SAIC!).
You've got megamarts which underpay their employees, keep them at 32 hours a week so they don't get benefit, force them to use public assistance, stop them from unionizing, and refuse to even follow the law in paying them overtime.
And NETFLIX is worst in America?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Is Netflix the Worst Company in America?
Netflix has been paired up with GameStop in round one of the Consumerist Worst Company in America contest. Two years ago, Netflix seemed to have the world in its hand. It had millions of customers who loved streaming videos and having a few DVDs coming in every month for a very reasonable rate...
yo dudes,
has anyone confirmed this? you can find a ton of people claiming that netflix is advertising with rush, but the closest i've found is http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/04/1070965/-ATTN-dKos-Netflix-users which seems like it's a recording of a netflix advertisement approximately four minutes before the beginning of the rush show.
right now, what i'm seeing is one of those "some people on the internet said its true, so some more people on the internet said its true, so it must indeed be true". anyone have a recording of something that clearly shows a netflix ad in the middle of a rush show?
"Netflix doesn’t purchase advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show."
I've tried to avoid mainstream politics on this blog, but a number of readers alerted me to a story on The Atlantic Wire that claimed that "Netflix was sticking with Rush." However, a Netflix representative told HackingNetflix, "Netflix doesn’t purchase advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show."
@Keep it reel,
If a very large library of DVD's was all that was necessary to make Netflix a success, Blockbuster would still have three stores within a mile of your house.
But they don't. Because it's not about how many DVDs you have.
Vanity Fair Takes a Close Look at Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Vanity Fair has an interesting article about Netflix, Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall. “We weren’t doing the price change to raise profits or something,” he elaborated to me. “We were doing it because we were so focused on becoming the streaming company and the global streaming...
The only downside to this is that, potentially, Netflix could be put in the awkward position of streaming the Twilight movies.
Netflix Might Get Access to Twilight Movies Because of Lionsgate Summit Purchase
Fool.com reports that since Lionsgate bought Summit Entertainment, Netflix & Redbox might have access to the Twilight movies. There should be champagne corks popping in the headquarters of both Coinstar's Redbox and Netflix over the SummitsGate announcement. Both movie-rental specialists have d...
@david,
They don't pay market rates -- they pay either top of market, or above market. That means that when things work as they should, any Netflix employee should be making more on a given year than they would be able to make in straight comp + bonus elsewhere. The stock option stuff is confusing, and hard to compare.
So how do they incent staff? Mostly they try to hire staff that isn't particularly incented by the next bonus they may get. High performers, huge impact kinda people who expect a fair compensation in excahenge for moving mountains. Works pretty well for them, most of the time.
Netflix's Adrian Cockcroft Explains Innovation at Netflix
Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix's cloud architect, posted his notes from #defrag where he explains how Netflix gets out of the way of innovation. If you haven't experienced a high performance culture, think about what it's like to drive flat out at a race track. Some people will be too scared to dea...
these days, the api is also the system used by netflix's own systems to get information about movies, etc -- they're eating their own dog food, as the saying goes. it's a critical component of the service -- if the api's down, streaming's going to be down.
Netflix Shares How They're Trying To Make the API Stronger
The Netflix Tech Blog shares some interesting information on how they're trying to make the Netflix API more resilient: Here are some of the key principles that informed our thinking as we set out to make the API more resilient. A failure in a service dependency should not break the user exper...
Seems like there's an easy to figure out how realistic this is -- what did the previous Prophet surveys say? How accurate were they? Were they predicting five years ago that Facebook would be dead by now, for example?
Prophet Consumer Survey: Netflix & 4 Other Companies That Won't Be Around in 2015
It's funny how fast the press coverage of a company can change from admiration to doom, and Forbes joins the fun by including Netflix (and the USPS) on a list of 5 Brands Most Likely to be Gone by 2015. Citing a Prophet survey of 5,000 consumers, Forbes writes: Anyone who even skims the news he...
Netflix's reputation for being a place where people are "unceremoniously fired for little to no reason" is massively overhyped.
Netflix CEO Talks About Recent Events at Dublin Conference
Mashable reports that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, speaking at the Founders Conference in Dublin, discussed the recent price change and move towards streaming: “You have to keep trying,” Hastings told a small audience of prominent startup founders. “You can’t be afraid to make mistakes. Every ent...
Honeycomb? Great! Yeah, yeah,yeah!
Netflix Adroid App Now Supports Honeycomb & Streaming in Canada and Latin America
Netflix announced Netflix app support for Android Honeycomb tablets on the Netflix blog, plus support for Android streaming in Canada and Latin America. If you have an Android tablet or live outside of the USA you can get the updated Netflix app from the Android Marketplace.
the tone of the ode is about spot-on, and its probably true for not just andy but most of the qwikster people who worked their asses off for the last few months to create a real company from practically nothing, only to see their dreams dashed and employment terminated on monday.
and amazon is not entirely a netflix competitor - its also one of netflixs strongest partners, given that virtually all of netflixs production systems run on amazons cloud.
Woot Writes Ode to Qwikster CEO Andy Rendich
Woot has some of the best copywriting, and tonight they wrote an ode to Quikster CEO Andy Rendich in the copy for a Lenovo Notebook computer. You Did The Best You Could This Lenovo Intel Dual-Core Laptop with 15.6” LED Display? It’s dedicated to all those who never got their shot. Andy Rendich...
I'll be surprised if they do games. Qwikster was going to do games when it was going to be driven by Rendich, but Rendich looked like he was more willing to step outside of the very narrrow focus that Netflix overall has maintained. I don't see a reason why, given that Netflix pre-Qwikster didn't do games because of Hastings' "strategy is about what you decide not to do," Netflix is going to turn around now and do games.
Should Netflix Still Offer Video Games?
With the cancellation of the Qwikster DVD & games spinoff, the fate of video game rentals is not certain. A Netflix representative told HackingNetflix today that "We're still considering games." Also, are you willing to pay extra for games? Should Netflix Offer Games? Thanks to Patrick for send...
I got a chromebook from Google as a beta tester. Amusingly, I was sure there was no way I was going to get one, but my wife insisted I apply. It's perhaps poetic justice that she uses it far more than I do.
It's neat. Hellacious (in a really, really good way) battery life, which is very nice. Useful for web stuff. She's run into problems because, obviously, there's a ton of stuff she can't do including Netflix. She also had problems working with her Android phone (connected to the laptop), and dealing with pictures (since Google hasn't really released Chromebook versions of their apps like Picasa).
Overall, if I was stuck using one, I'd probably prefer to find something with a real OS on it so I could install something that let me install apps. That said, especially now that I've got an SSD in my Macbook Pro, I'd probably opt for the more expensive option of getting a Netbook and upgrading the drive to an SSD.
Netflix App for Chrome Notebooks on the Way?
Engadget reports that an alert user noticed a Netflix plug-in for Google Chrome, possibly signaling an upcoming release of the promised Netflix support (and one could wonder if Linux support is also in the works). Does anyone have a Chrome notebook?
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