128 gigs is just too small. I can fill that up in a heartbeat and wouldn't want to have to lug around an external data drive all the time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Have you installed Jaunty Jackalope yet? Recomend?
- Jon Tatum
Yeah - I could fill that up in a week :)
- Roberto Bonini
Jon, I did an in-place upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 - no problems at all... ymmv
- Chris Heath
Leo, MCE Technologies has a adapter to replace the optical drive in the macbook pro with a hard drive. This would give you two drives in your MBP. The SSD and the orginal HD http://www.mcetech.com/optibay...
- Joseph Woodcock
Can you install and SSD in the MCE optibay and leave the old HD in place while using the SSD permanently as the startup drive?
- Brian of London
@Brian Yes you can. I'm doing that right now.
- ronin
from iPhone
The speed and quietness are nice but for now I'll stick with more drive space.
- Johann Diaz
from Nambu
Leo, can you write up how you did the install of this drive and the swap of the superdrive for the 500g drive on one of your blogs somewhere?
- Alan Alpar
Leo may chime in here, but I'm pretty sure he picked the Corsair on the recommendation of Allyn Malventano and Ryan Shrout over at PC Perspective as a result of conversations with them on the PC Per podcast / TWiCH. Allyn's SSD guide is here: http://www.pcper.com/article... I think tech's evolved quite a bit in the past seven months or so since Leo did this upgrade, and the PC Per "Dream System" is currently spec'd with an Intel 80GB Intel X25M G2 http://www.pcper.com/hwlb....
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, i'm pretty sure you're correct that Leo chose that corsair based on Allyn's reco -- IIRC, the intel's are preferred, but are pricey, so Allyn reco's the corsair for just about the same performance for a lesser price.... and like you said that was a while ago and tech has evolved and prices have probably dropped as well
- Chris Heath
when system or program caches are too large to keep in memory, an SSD is a pretty reliable way to increase performance
- Mike Chelen
can you interpret this via the medium of expressive dance? ;)
- alphaxion
Mark: earlier this year Twitter "choose" Bit.ly over other URL shorteners and that caused Bitly's market share to zooooooom up. Is this good for a platform vendor to do?
- Robert Scoble
Oh right. How do these URL services make any money?
- Mark
Twitter had to make some sort of choice. Better bit.ly than tinyurl. I understand why they did it too, public stats.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Mark: today? They don't, they are in audience acquisition mode. TOmorrow? I can think of at least three ways these things can make money. Remember Flickr? In the early days they didn't make money either. Now they charge me to get access to my own photos. Seriously. Are we all that unimaginative that we can't think of at least three ways that these things will make money? Really?
- Robert Scoble
Flickr charges you to store your photos. With that comes the access. Monetizing something like a url shortening service is a bit more problematic. Unlike Flickr you wouldn't actually be buying anything tangible. Just the ability to shorten a URL and how crucial is that.
- Gilbert Harding
"There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it" -- TR.IM Founder. Guess he can't think how it would make money without pissing off users either :)
- Mark
Mark: translation: I can only do interstitial ads on URL shorteners but those aren't viable unless you get to monopoly marketshare. Which Bit.ly just got.
- Robert Scoble
I was just wondering what the business model is for URL shorteners. Of course, its advertising.
- Dan
Selling trending data is also possible. The URL shortener gets a good look at what is popular, in real-time.
- DGentry
I agree with Robert and I said as much in my recent post. The reasons they shut down seem a little weak to me. You may not be able to make people pay just to shorten URL's but you can always use what you have to leverage something profitable. It just takes imagination.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
well yeah but they would have to pump money into it no doubt to do that, and it sounds like there is no money to be raised in the URL shortening area with the way they say they could not even sell the business for a nominal (small) fee.
- Mark
Wow very nice. Now a new shortening service is up and running http://zxc9.com
- vinoth
Slayerboy: good marketers won't get blocked. I really appreciated getting cuts in line at Six Flags because of their Twitter contest.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Good marketers aren't most marketers :)
- Brett Kelly
Only if Guy likes it will they come. Friendfeed.alltop.com and all that.
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Robert: I don't mind good marketers, as long as they're genuine. Too many of them (particular the "social media marketing gurus") are just unforgivably obnoxious and fake in their attempts to pimp their own garbage services/blog. So, I really hope you're right :)
- Brett Kelly
Bad marketers on FriendFeed will survive in search results. Do a search for a couple of terms like 'canon 135mm' and you'll see plenty of entries that are just links to people selling the lens. You're not going to block them all. I don't see that as a big problem, but I suspect they'll be successful enough there to keep them coming.
- Edward Coffey
Start? I've been here for a loooong time. A few of my 'marketing' friends have been too.
- AJ Kohn
Marketers phase has already started in Turkey. Friendfeed is generally used by them, or I think like that...
- Sabri Küstür
we need like a freindfeed costranostra to keep the peace, and make things just poof into the ethersphere
- Robert Higgins
so wish i was a freindfeed coder and i could merge with the stream and provide some community services... :AKA Hiro Protaganist
- Robert Higgins
"Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen" Exactly. Unless the FF core team is over there on the sandbox right now, doing all they can to start the scrambling scrum RIGHT NOW, the big GWave will assimilate all. At least until the assimilation wave after that. FF has maybe a one year window -- if that -- to make it's move, whatever that might be, starting right now.
- michael silverton
Citronella - I like that the spammers are vaporized almost instantly here. Decent built in tools for group reporting.
- BairdWilliamson
If I got here before Guy and I'm geekless does that give me any special designation?
- Kimber Scott
michael silverton: Wave sandbox already looks like Gmail. I bet when they release it, it will be Gmail 2.0. I hope Bret & co. are studying it close...
- sean andersen
Kimber: you are geeky because you were here before...whether you like that designation or not :)
- WorldofHiglet
Louis has more than *one* soul? Or is this a left-foot, right-foot thing. Colour me confus`ed :D
- Micah Wittman
LOL! Well, I guess I could be called an amateur geek...
- Kimber Scott
from email
@silverton, agreed that FriendFeed has a limited time window to figure out what it wants to be when it's all grown up.. in other news, can't believe it took Guy this long to show up here to play. Nothing wrong with a little marketing, especially if it's of the "Moving the Freeline" variety.. +1 Gilbert, LOL.
- Alex Schleber
If I were Guy, or the head of any company, be it a camera shop or whatever, whenever I had a little free time, I'd tweet out, "Hey, I'm going to be on FriendFeed for an hour or so, answering any questions about Alltop, telling you about its features, advantages, and benefits, come join in!" or something like that. That's a vertical that feeds off Twitter and really enriches both platforms, utilizing them both for their strengths.
- Stephen Pickering
With Leo, Steve Rubel, and Guy K now all here .. this landscape is about to change ... agreed.
- Charlie Anzman
I'm reading Crossing the Chasm, only 18 years after it was published. Can I blend in as a "marketer" now?
- DGentry
Well hopefully communities will coexist in open social media, we aren't defined by what or where we login to right? It's just information we share, the platform is merely a pipeline. The communities need to exist beyond the platforms
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
So, do you think the population will tend to shift to more casual people than the creme de la creme people. I feel so, since there are only the innovative, open-minded people on FriendFeed right now; and I think the change is pretty near.
- Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu
Marketing guys have always been here. The difference... tactics and respect. That being said change is always happening and even still I'm not sure Friendfeed will hit the critical mass Twitter has with marketers. The friendfeed brand will likely be defined differently than Twitter and attract different people. Time will tell.
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
why? can't marketing guys and geeks get along?
- kakuei
No. We cannot get along. This war has been waged for too long, and too much blood has been spilled. Most of us no longer even remember why we are fighting, but it doesn't matter. Victory is all that matters.
- DGentry
The marketers are already here, but most of them are totally clueless about how friendfeed works. They somehow think they can dump their stuff here and it will get "found" and when that doesn't work, they just go back to twitter. The ones that do understand how it works either feel it is too much damn work to fake being real to be worth it, or they are the real deal and it works quite well for them.
- April Russo (app103)
April: I think there's some cost-benefit analysis going on there. There's a smaller crowd at FF and it takes a lot more work. Plus, most people here are marketing jaded.
- Trent Hamm
Guy is a marketer, sure, but also a geek. Geeks phase ends when the Celebs show up.
- Garin Kilpatrick
well if they start selling, just dont click "like" or "comment" and they will drop off the page in minutes
- Mark
I think some marketers are already here..but anyway, you think Guy being here will change things much?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Robert, you might have to make a stand for geeks everywhere. Prepare yourself.
- Joe
Robert, "Wanna learn how to get 1,000's of Friendfeed friends in no time. Click here http://somespammylink.com to learn my patent pending, amazing, fantastic, game-changing, and revolutionary way to gain residual income through the magic of your Friendfeed friends." Don't click yet, I was just brushing up!
- Sean Powell
I'm so honored to have read this message from scoble. I'm grateful for our "geeks only" days that we've all shared! LOL
- Jason Pollock
No Kidding! Welcome Guy Kawasaki, who ever your are.
- Houseofmax
thats unfortunate, but who is GuyK?
- echostreamer
When the marketer wagon shows up I'll be going private.
- Geoff Schultz
Yeah, Jim Goldstein sez it: those of us from the dark side that stumbled into these sweet precincts have kept a low profile... sorta like taking your hat off when you go to church ; >
- Thom Kennon
he's actually been here awhile, just not posting, mr scoble
- chaz2b
Some ppl cannot be stopped. Like me! Not geeky enough, a girl, too wall st. Watch out, cause tenacity wins every time.
- Liza
well then lets learn from Twitter and not follow every stupid command that celebrities give us to rocket them to the top of friend feed. BOYCOTT ALL CELEBRITIES ON FRIEND FEED to save this from becoming the punchline that twitter. save the whales, then save friend feed plez :)
- echostreamer
Jason Pollock liked this, that is HILARIOUS! He posts the most redundant links on Twitter...a notorious spammer. At least Guy admits what he does, still somewhat annoying. Not sure why Leo Laporte was mentioned, I don't see him fitting that GK mold at all.
- Benjamin Taylor
In retrospect ... it seems to have been a hit and run for now ?? Hoping not. Would be great to see him actively engaging here. A LOT to offer. Marketing crowd? ... No worries - There's always 'block, tackle and hide .....' here
- Charlie Anzman
Robert, I think this is such crazy talk, you're a marketer too ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Umm, I'm pretty sure that Guy is also a geek. Regardless of what his cool cred is...then again his cool cred is totally geek cool cred.
- Alex Scoble
Guy Kawasaki does have magic initials, I will give him that.
- Garin Kilpatrick
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- پـرستووو
from email
'sold my dresser' - is that what kids are calling it these days?
- Sparky, a big deal
from iPhone
Sorry, Sparky. Should I have said "rocked the washing machine" instead? :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
And yes, it was a nice dresser, but I'm not taking it with me to Texas. Too big.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Ah, Craigslist. A buddy of mine arranged a cash-for-Wii transaction in the parking lot of a local Home Depot via Craigslist, literally less than a week before Christmas, when all the standard retail outlets were completely sold out of Wiis. We were slightly concerned that he might end up dead in a ditch somewhere when the seller said he was in Home Depot buying a shovel, but in the end it worked out well for all involved.
- Brian Chang
every time i try to sell something on CL i either get badly low-balled (what don't you understand about "price is firm"?) or the buyer disappears. wtf?
- Joe Silence is not dead
Interstate 10 curves up and out of New Orleans, looping out of the Big Easy and chasing the Gulf Coast towards points east. About thirty minutes outside the city, just after the I-510 interchange, a set of faded blue structures rises on the southern horizon. These are the derelict roller coasters of Six Flags New Orleans, which closed in advance of Hurricane Katrina and has yet to reopen. The park was not so much shut down as abandoned—sacrificed, almost, to the encroaching storm. Merchandise stayed on shelves, electronics remained in place, and the logs in the flume ride were left stuck halfway up their plastic hills. The sole preparation for Katrina seems to be a message on the park’s signboard, still visible more than three years later: CLOSED FOR STORM. The property opened as Jazzland in 2000. Rides such as the Bayou Blaster and The Big Easy Ferris Wheel were sprinkled through lands with similarly local-sounding names, including ‘Cajun Country’ and the ‘French Quarter.’ After low...
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- Cee Bee
"You know that time? That time when you posted that pic of the cute little pudgy girl? And... and she looked a lot like me? You... you remember that? That was awesome!"
- Mark Jepsen
very nice to hear the news from Forrester...you keep raising the bar on us, Jeremiah!
- Zena Weist
Thank you for what you have contributed so far, I'm sure there is more to come. I look forward to watching and reading your next chapter! Good luck!
- David Cole
So I saw. It was your decision, then, to move on? What's next for the big J?
- Ari Herzog
we don't even know what you are up to next but anxiously await the news because we know it will be good for all
- daniela barbosa
onwards and upwards. work out a gig that means you can spend more time at home, and less time washing your hands with steriliser!
- James
Good luck to you! And from a selfish point of view I hope your new gig allows for your insights to continue being published. I know I'm not the only one who's learned a lot from your writings.
- Matsis
Everyone will be waiting to hear what the next gig is and all will be following as usual. Your shoes will be hard to fill at Forrester but I know that they know they had quite a guy and will do what needs to be done. Best of Luck to a real professional social media guy!
- courtney benson
looking forward to your next move - Best of luck!
- Bill Sanders
Wishing you the best, Jeremiah! You've made a major contribution to the social media space. It will be exciting to see what you're up to next.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Best of luck Jeremiah! I hope we will continue to benefit from your insights in your next venture.
- Kaan Bingol
"Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who is a a staunch champion of the religious right and an opponent of President Obama on all things under the sun, has a new line against the Democrats on health care: Keep the government off my body!"
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
from Bookmarklet
Except for her uterus, of course... ""That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress," said Bachmann, "and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.""
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Wow, she walked right into that one, didn't she? Every time she pops up on TV, I'm embarrassed for my government.
- LogEx
Someone needs to tell Bachman to read the bill.
- Karoli
Holy freakin' hell. How STUPID is the far-right? Damn.
- Internet's Tad
Now they're using lines from the pro-choice movement? Sweet.
- Andrew C
I saw that, Russellreno. And O'Reilly's tantrum clip never gets old.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Liked so I can watch and listen to all audio and video (am on a very slow hotel internet connection) ... but yeah, she is not the swiftest boat in Her Majesty's Fleet.
- Rene Wirtz
Suddenly, with a Democrat in office and healthcare reform on the national table - NOW she wants to say that her body is not the government's place to dick with - talk about phenomenal hypocrisy, given her voting record. I don't know who is the bigger idiot - her or Palin. Of course, they seem to love congratulating each other.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Perfectly anti-abortion record, you mean?
- Kamilah Gill
healthcare reform or not, doesn't the government already dictate many aspects of your body? what chemicals can be sold and used in food, what drugs are legal for use in treatment/recreation, what medical procedures may be performed in hospitals...
- alphaxion
Apparently, her plastic surgeon already has control of her body - or at least her face.
- Amy℠
Kamilah - yes, perfect from the perspective of the anti-abortion organizations. I noticed that all her interest group ratings on that issue were either 100 or 0.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
FriendFeed'den mail geldi. GoDaddy grubumun adını alıyorlarmış, trademiş markmış. Atın bir 2 milyon dolar desem mi? Zaten değiştirmişler bile: http://friendfeed.com/godaddy...
Bende de http://gmail.blogspot.com adresi vardı. Blogger ekibinden, eğer kullanmıyorsam kendilerine adresi verip veremeyeceğime dair e-posta almıştım. Ben de vermek istememiştim; sonrasında aynen bu şekilde, cebren ve hile ile aldılar.
- Yiğit
Özer, postanı silmişler, bir de "Comments disabled" yapmışlar :)
- Kaan Ertürk
uvv sansurun bu kadari. @wrzl, altinda kalmamali bunun. un-like.
- Oğuz Serdar
@wrzl, hatta bunu yazalim abi bizim olay icin.
- Oğuz Serdar
çok ağır giydirmek gerekiyor da nerden başlamak lazım onu çözemedim ...
- halit altunterim
@özer, boyundan global işlere kalkışmicakmışsın demek ki abi :) Şaka bi yana, süreç sorgulanmalı bence. Twitter'da nasıl işliyor süreç sizce? Çok bilmediğimden soruyorum.
- Taci Yalçın
Bence /godaddy odasini bizim Turk usulu bi isgal edelim bakalim istiyolar mi tekrar :)
- Cem Catikkas
Taci, benzer. Hatta daha net. Marka - kisi yani hesabin asil sahibi Twitter ile irtibat kuruyor mu bu onemli. Sallamiyorlarsa, Twitter da sallamiyor. Marka - kisi ilgiliyse mevzu ile hatta Twitter kullanmayi dusunuyorsa / kullaniyorsa catir catir kapatiyorlar fake accaountlari.
- Oğuz Serdar
"Bu feed'e erişim Mark Zuckerberg kararıyla engellenmiştir." yazıyor.
- Barış (beyn.org)
Altıner: Valla adamlar sildi. Oğuz: Yazalım bunu da nasıl yürüyor işler görsün millet. Peki hadi benim soyadım Godedi olsaydı, godedi'nin geçmişi 35 yıl olamaz di mi? :)
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
sahte nufus cüzdanı çıkaralım Özer Godaddy Jr.
- Soner TÜMER