Comments on: SQUA.RE – luxurious but locked-down video

By: Asif Ifteakhar Ridoy

Asif Ifteakhar Ridoy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:41:00 +0000

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By: jamescoops

jamescoops — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:31:41 +0000

“Personally, I like to go out, travel and be connected to glamorous people.”

It’s Ernst Malmsen ? Boo.com 2.0 ?

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:05:38 +0000

Andrew – Ooooooooooooooooh, get you! Yes, I am motivated by pure jealousy. Who isn’t!? But seriously, I’d love to know if your networking is landing you any dates with Keira-a-likes.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:02:01 +0000

I visited the website today and I must say i think that your views and comments are affected by the fact that they can afford good suits and you don’t…
Personally, I like to go out, travel and be connected to glamorous people. Squa.re is not just a place to watch videos as you said but you can also open your profile and use it as a “Exclusive” social network.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:07:14 +0000

They should probably sort out their flash stuff to, I have version 9 installed but their site just insists that I need version 8?!?

By: NSFW video search

NSFW video search — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:15:50 +0000

Yes, I agree about the brand name, its all very clever having a cool TLD, but for SEO its a nightmare.

Having said that, they’ll probably get the posh advertisers to drive users to the video pages from their print ads, so sort of an embed code for magazines?

Don’t worry about the content, that cost will get passed onto the advertisers…

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:52:06 +0000

Ok, point taken about the lack of embed codes. So in that case they better get a damn more memorable / consumer friendly URL if they want people to visit. If not then I give them about a year.

By: Vidar

Vidar — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:27:35 +0000

I interviewed with these people before christmas for their head of engineering position, but declined an offer to come back for a second interview mainly because I had options that was a better fit for me – their niche just doesn’t excite me enough – and I wasn’t too interested in jumping straight into another early stage startup.

Mr. Albertini seemed like a very nice guy. Very unassuming and relaxed, and with a lot of passion for what he’s doing. And while I’m sure he owns a nice suit or three, things looked pretty casual around the office.

I don’t know if they’ve moved, or whether your definition of how far Notting Hill extends is very different from mine, but when I visited them right before christmas their offices at Ladbroke Grove, just a minute or twos walk from Ladbroke Grove tube station, a good 20-25 minutes walk from Notting Hill. A very nice converted building, but not particularly upscale, and quite small.

As for portability, “adult video search” is exactly right – they are going for a level of “exclusivity” and status with advertisers that are very cautious about diluting or weakening their brands appeal. Many of them certainly would rather reach a smaller, more targeted set of users than be plastered all over some random persons blog.

Whether it’ll work or not is another issue – obviously to get that level of exclusivity they are losing out on a lot of viral potential – but the lack of portability is there for a reason.

By: Le Techcrunch Wars

Le Techcrunch Wars — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:57:37 +0000

looks like a pissed Arrington is at war with Loic Le Meur. http://twitter.com/loiclemeur now that is news.

By: adult video search

adult video search — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:53:57 +0000

I imagine their advertisers don’t want to appear on your crappy blog!