<story><title>San Francisco Bubble</title><url>http://blog.larrold.com/2016/01/29/san-francisco-bubble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbooth</author><text>Unless microtransactions for content take off, and they haven&amp;#x27;t, ad tech is necessary to incentivize content on the web.  90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in.  Hacker News, being one big ad for ycombinator, doesn&amp;#x27;t need to bother.&lt;p&gt;So he&amp;#x27;s doing a real thing that provides real value to the web.  And it&amp;#x27;s actually a sustainable business, to boot.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there&amp;#x27;s absolutely no need to get so personal -- if his article offended you, discuss the article.</text></item><item><author>YuriNiyazov</author><text>Yea no kidding.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AppNexus helps brands connect with consumers, empowering agencies and advertisers with a uniquely powerful approach to programmatic online advertising.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for working on Ad Tech, the very thing that powers this bubble by trading attention as a commodity. Other people work on silly startups, but this shit is akin to HFT.</text></item><item><author>thelarry</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very hypocritical.</text></item><item><author>philfrasty</author><text>&amp;quot;Engineers are particularly spoiled. They can take an arbitrary sabbatical from work...&amp;quot; &amp;lt;---&amp;gt; (on the about page) &amp;quot;...Currently a principal engineer at AppNexus on sabbatical...&amp;quot; ???</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YuriNiyazov</author><text>See, whether a startup is silly or not is an opinion. I happen to have an opinion that adtech is evil. Whether it has a side benefit like allowing &amp;quot;content&amp;quot; to exist is tangential.&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;usually&lt;/i&gt; keep that opinion to myself because it&amp;#x27;s not a popular one, but in this particular subthread we are not discussing the article, we are discussing the author who volunteered his &amp;quot;I am very hypocritical&amp;quot; comment.&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in this comment thread I discuss the article.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Francisco Bubble</title><url>http://blog.larrold.com/2016/01/29/san-francisco-bubble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbooth</author><text>Unless microtransactions for content take off, and they haven&amp;#x27;t, ad tech is necessary to incentivize content on the web.  90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in.  Hacker News, being one big ad for ycombinator, doesn&amp;#x27;t need to bother.&lt;p&gt;So he&amp;#x27;s doing a real thing that provides real value to the web.  And it&amp;#x27;s actually a sustainable business, to boot.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there&amp;#x27;s absolutely no need to get so personal -- if his article offended you, discuss the article.</text></item><item><author>YuriNiyazov</author><text>Yea no kidding.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AppNexus helps brands connect with consumers, empowering agencies and advertisers with a uniquely powerful approach to programmatic online advertising.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for working on Ad Tech, the very thing that powers this bubble by trading attention as a commodity. Other people work on silly startups, but this shit is akin to HFT.</text></item><item><author>thelarry</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very hypocritical.</text></item><item><author>philfrasty</author><text>&amp;quot;Engineers are particularly spoiled. They can take an arbitrary sabbatical from work...&amp;quot; &amp;lt;---&amp;gt; (on the about page) &amp;quot;...Currently a principal engineer at AppNexus on sabbatical...&amp;quot; ???</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ktRolster</author><text>&amp;quot;90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s ok. The internet would be better off without most junk websites, and the ones I like, I&amp;#x27;m willing to pay for.</text></comment>