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Jonathan posted a message on Twitter

“@jallen285 you're lucky! back when i was in school in evanston (zomg i'm ancient) there *was* no movie theater! or shopping! (just a gap!)”

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Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader

Is YouTube the Next Google?

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This isn't as crazy as it sounds, and it's not just kids doing it. In the past couple of days, I've had three different adults tell me that they researched 3 different things on YouTube: quitting smoking, tattoo removal, and yoga. That's stuff I would have googled. All 3 people are what I would call "mainstream" computer users, too. - Sarah Perez

My co-worker told me to search YT for videos on how to pick up a downed motorcycle. It was right there! - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I read so much faster than anyone can vid, it doesn't make sense for me to 'YouTube' something unless I specifically need a moving visual aid (as is helpful in learning how to pick up a downed motorcycle) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I have looked for recipes on Youtube. It's helpful to see recipes on youtube because they demonstrate how to cook it, so you get a sense of how it's really done, and whether it's easy or hard - moreso than with a recipe. - Justin Long

Logical Extremes posted a link

Privacy.org - The Source for News, Information, and Action

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"The First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a New Hampshire law that bans the sale of prescriber-identifiable prescription drug data for marketing purposes.... there is a substantial privacy interest in patient data" - - Duh. Is there any good reason this shouldn't be law across the entire US? - Logical Extremes via Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Back home in Half Moon Bay, working on expenses, getting over jet lag”

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Katie liked this

Small world, my best friend lives off of Kelley. - Katie

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Katie: my favorite restaurant, Tres Amigos, is on Kelley. - Robert Scoble

Yes yes...good stuff! We walk there when I visit! - Katie

I used to live right by Tres Amigos. Loved that place. Who needed to cook? - todd

Exactly. I think we eat there at least twice when I visit and I visit once a year at least. And we spend at least every morning at the Coffee Company not as much for the food as much for the meeting spot. - Katie

Katie and todd: makes me think we should do a FriendFeed meetup there soon! - Robert Scoble

If I get up there, I"ll have to mention it. I was hoping for the holidays but I may have to work. - Katie

in shanghai, no jet lag at all :-) - Gregory Lent

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“One visual that sticks with me from China: Going across Hong Kong border they scanned my temperature in 1/8th of a second. Wild.”

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Do they still show your own full body image as you walk by? When SARS was on everyone's lips, it was interesting watching people go by... some wanted to stop and look, while MANY others wanted to race by without seeing for themselves. It gave new insight to me on the meaning of the cliche "whistling by the graveyard" and how prevalent the desire to hide from the truth is.... and just how wide spread the practice of ignoring symptoms of treatable diseases (until the disease is no longer treatable) might really be. - David HC Soul

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No, the lady walked over, aimed something that looked like a gun, then moved onto the next person in the car. It went so fast I didn't have much time to be freaked out until she was gone. Our driver explained that it was a new kind of thermometer that looked for SARS victims. - Robert Scoble

Too bad... I was fascinated by the image and where all the "hot spots" are - I was trying to decide whether the left side of my face seeming to be distinctly warmer than the right side had any significance when they asked me to move along as I was delaying the line a bit. - David HC Soul

You know how many moms would kill for a thermometer like that? That's even easier that chasing a kid to use that thermometer that goes in the ear. We sure have come a long way from the glass rod with the mercury that goes in the mouth for 5 minutes that was used when I was a kid. - April Russo

sars got that tech going .. disaster=progress - Gregory Lent

Rodney Rumford posted a message on Twitter

“just got done with a meeting with our creative people on the video creation & stroryboarding for www.sociallybranded.com”

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Kevin posted an entry on HighTouch

Freerange Tools: Workstreaming

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Is it possible to be a part of something and not fully understand it? I like the summary of "syndication exposes, aggregation combines, and filtering exposes". Although I keep thinking filtering is more... maybe personalizes. - Floyd Davenport

Floyd - oops that needs editing. Filtering is the intelligence. My bad! - Kevin

Thanks... that makes sense to me... - Floyd Davenport

You ask a good question. I think it's hard for people to relax in a freerange enterprise if they don't grok the culture. It's also important that their family understand that life is different. Freeranging can be stressful on the family where an SO expects a person to leave work at the office. - Kevin

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Brian Carter posted 30 messages on Twitter

“LOL RT @seanmaguire - your meme is running out of steam. It's become a bit Spati.”

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“I'm an expert on roadside pollution, one of the litterati.”

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Cee Bee posted a message

“msi wind or samsung nc10 netbook?”

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and can the samsung run osx? - Cee Bee

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is there any way you could send a boxee invite to cj.covell@me.com - CJ Covell

Apple's EULA states that you can only run their OS on their hardware. If you don't get it from Apple, technically you can't use their OS, even if it will run on it. - April Russo

anyone else? lol - Cee Bee

You can tweak either to run OSX, right? Out of those two, I've heard better things about the MSI Wind. - Helen Sventitsky

There's really very little difference between netbooks currently. My sole criteria usually is that the keyboard doesn't have the crippled right shift key (where it's half the size of a normal shift key). These 2 don't so there goes that criteria. =) But I like MSI cause they're very overclock-friendly. Hell their last BIOS update actually gives you the ability to overclock the proc by up to 24% at the touch of a button. - saeba

Erin Kotecki Vest posted an entry on Queen of Spain Blog

Against the Auto Industry Bailout? But Are You As Smart As A US Senator?

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Mo Kargas, simonpure, Eric @ CS Techcast and 2 other people liked this

Well said. I love my Saturn Aura. It's as good as any other car I've owned in its price category (and my dad loves Toyotas, my brother owns a Honda, and my wife has a BMW so the Scobles have a good variety of cars). The Ford Flex I was loaned was a great car, albeit is too big and only got 17 MPG on average (which is good for an SUV). - Robert Scoble

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While I don't think American cars are total junk, I am nowhere near willing to risk $40K and 5 years on it. The shocking thing is that they price their cars as much as their Japanese counterparts. That is just insane! The American manufacturers need to take the Hyundai route... sell them cheap and put a wicked sweet warranty on them. Then we could talk... - John Denver

John: the problem with US automakers is the labor costs and historical costs (pensions, health care, etc) are MUCH higher than in other countries. You really need to visit China to understand just how nice American workers have it. Very little pollution. Decent healthcare. Non-crowded cities. etc. So, when you say "lower prices to same as Koreans" then you really need to understand the impact of what you're asking for. More offshoring of jobs to countries where they mistreat their citizens. - Robert Scoble

Yep, spot on. Brilliant post Erin - Mo Kargas

I've owned 2 Fords, 1 Honda, 1 Nissan, and 3 Porsches. The Fords were by far the worst cars I've owned. In addition, almost all the rental cars that were American made were inferior to the Japanese or Mini-Cooper I've rented. - Chris White

Chris: my Saturn is 10x better than any American rental car I've ever gotten my hands on. Not even close. This is part of the reason why US brands have poor brands here: because they sell their cheapest products to the car rental companies. - Robert Scoble

Fords of old were bad. So were the rest. People don't realize how the Big 3 have changed. Which is exactly why I wrote the post - Erin Kotecki Vest

I doubt there are any US cars, at any price that I would prefer over what I drive now. I remember showing one of my cars to some people from GM, and they were just stupefied how so much power could be packed into such a small space. - Chris White

if the problem is not the cars, not the innovation, not the sales level, then what is the problem? pensions? healthcare? union job-padding? if so, then the auto makers shouldn't get my tax $$$. if the problem is legacy costs, then let's solve the problem - not give the auto-makers billions to keep making the same mistakes. - MikeAmundsen

they had started to turn it around, correcting many of the issues with quality and innovation. the problem Mike is the economy. - Erin Kotecki Vest

Lucretia Pruitt posted 13 messages on Twitter

“@GeoffLiving - okay, you are a hoot!! And that's totally not your personal brand... that's the brand du jour! ;)”

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“@JessicaGottlieb - was that about something I had said? or just a twitterglitch? Was a great point!”

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Leo Laporte posted an entry on socialmedian

Added news on socialmedian: @ITSinsider On to 60! We're counting on you Georgia.

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Jansen Lu posted three messages on Twitter

“@infilmity @thecarol 哈哈~~ 下次見面時你就扮瓦力叫吧”

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“@thecarol 她去年會之前，都考慮是否要電髮，但我同意你的看法，於是叫她保留直髮便好了”

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“今次太太與我一起去年會，有一件事是她不他慣的，就是有朋友會在她不為意是拍了她的照片。當這兩天我再讓她看那些照片時，她感到很「刺激」(不過卻沒有不高興)。”

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“You never hear about Microsoft Dynamics on Twitter or FriendFeed, but when I was in China last week I was watching an entire supply chain switch to it.”

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They picked it because all their developers are .NET ones (PCH in Shenzhen). Big buck deal for Microsoft. - Robert Scoble

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Now is that saying something about Twitter/FriendFeed or about Microsoft Dynamics? =) - RAD Moose

RAD: talking about enterprise software isn't as interesting as cat photos. - Robert Scoble

That's not completely true, lolcatz about enterprise software are fun too :) - Daniel W. Crompton

We are going to start using MS Dynamics for our Help Desk system (Nelnet, Inc. NNI) - Susan Beebe

As a former admin/developer, there really isn't much exciting to talk about - Wayne Arthurton

I kind of wish we'd look into it for our help desk. I hate Remedy (it needs a remedy), and we've already got our heads so far stuck into Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint that it might make sense. I'm no expert on these things, though, so I could be totally wrong. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Define your terms... Dynamic AX? GP? CRM? We use them all and, as a general rule, they are solid. To anyone contemplating CRM, consider publishing the Outlook client via 2008 Terminal Services. It will make your life much simpler. - John Denver

I think the Microsoft Across America events I attended were CRM. I am rather clueless beyond all that. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

It is popular in India too, especially for small businesses. I know a couple of rapidly growing solution providers implementing and customizing Microsoft apps and not able to keep up with the load. - Dorai

It really does work well with Outlook and thus it makes it easier to go through the same processes. Their early versions were a big buggy when it first came out, but in the last year the program just flies and they did good with it, beats the heck out of SAP if you are already using Outlook by all means. - Barbara Duck

Speaking of SAP things must be a little tight there, working on SAP in "Second life", maybe the customers are more friendly there (grin). SAP has software that goes beyond CRM but that is a large part of it..http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... - Barbara Duck

There's a web based version as well which I have not had time to play around with yet, and I can't remember if it is out of beta yet, but I should connect it to my "Office Live" set up which is solid as a rock and works with the desktop applications very well. - Barbara Duck

Not sure why, but there are some sharp MS-platform minds on Twitter, and there are some sharp MS focused folks here of FF. I'm a mostly MS focused guy and our podcast has plenty of info on it from our collective experience with the products. I guess you just have to find them. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Erin Kotecki Vest posted 18 messages on Twitter

“well that took a turn from bailout detroit talk, didn't it? hahahahahaha”

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“@dtanton absolutely! dyke angsty music is totally my thing....no...really...it is...”

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Dave Winer posted a link

Motor city runs on empty as houses sell for £500 | Business | The Guardian

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"What can you buy in America for $1,000? A flat-screen television, perhaps. A weekend break in the sun. Or a three-bedroom suburban home with stripped wood floors and a garage in the country's motor capital." - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet

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When was that Roger & Me movie made again? - Chris White

Except Roger forgot abot the whole "unions choking the life out of the very members they represent" part... This has nothing to do with the auto industry or the recent economic corrections. It has everything to do with corrupt leadership in the "Motor" city. - Mark VandenBerg

Mark, so you think US auto companies have been turning out quality product for the last 20 years? - Chris White

No, but ward after ward of abandonned houses in Detroit aren't caused by plant closings in Louisville... - Mark VandenBerg

Mark, I plead ignorance. I have no inside knowledge of the Detroit landscape. - Chris White

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Brendan Cartledge posted a message on Twitter

“@lstoll @funkycoda as long as TUBgirl isn't invited”

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Apps: Matt Harwood posted a link

Bowtie

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Bowtie is a free application that allows you to control iTunes with shortcuts, submits to last.fm, and is simple / lightweight with a great xhtml+css+js theme system - Matt Harwood via Bookmarklet