"It is too early to comment on MS Office web Apps (MS OWA). Let’s wait for its public release. I will certainly continue with Gdocs / Zoho because I have no problem with them. + I can’t find any option to embed files on webpages using OWA. Though, MS OWA has a cool user interface yet."
- Arpit Kumar
"I love Picasa / Picasa web apps, SMS Channels (By Google India), Google Talk, Google Apps (for custom domains) & Gmail. :) Nice to see Blogger in the list. ;)"
- Arpit Kumar
"I love Picasa / Picasa web apps, SMS Channels (By Google India), Google Talk, Google Apps (for custom domains) & Gmail. :) Nice to see Blogger in the list. ;)"
- Arpit Kumar
"Thanks for this interview. I am a big fan of Greasemonkey and can’t imagine browsing w/o it. I guess Adblock And GM are the best Firefox add-ons. Thanks Anthony for this wonderful tool :) Cheers!"
- Arpit Kumar
"After reading few comments above, I have realized that I am using the oldest tool of Internet communication to process online stuff -- the email. Gmail has so many features for importing and exporting information, which makes it the most powerful web 2.0 tool. I save my bookmarks, critical data (read financial data), my documents, chat records, favorite blog posts/articles and almost everything else. I can retrieve the information w/o any problem or special effort -- just type something related and hit the return key. :)"
- Arpit Kumar
"1> Gmail 2> Google Reader - I visit blogs just for commenting :) 3> Twitter - It can replace even the Google reader ...... in future ;)"
- Arpit Kumar
Elementary, my dear Alessandro, it's the well-known case of left-hand not knowing what right foot is doing, doing, done.
- ianf ⌘
They invited you because you asked for an invitation. The invitation form clearly specifies "Please note that Google Voice is only available for sign up in the US."
- Ionut
I agree with you, that Posterous will become a major player, but right now I don't like how a lot of people use it. For a lot of people Posterous seems to be just a plain hub for all their multimedia activities (picture/audio/video sharing) but nothing else. There should be more behind it (IMHO). I like your approach to Posterous, this is the way it should be.
- Georg Mahr
The only feature Posterous really needs to become "the next big platform" is a Backtype-like integration of external comments, esp. from Friendfeed and Twitter.
- Rubin Sfadj
I have to sign up for this. I think i could use it well.
- Amani
I started on Saturday and I really love the feel of it. I think it'll become popular.
- Gus
I'm rooting for posterous because they validate what I think is a big space between media sharing and blogging, a space I'm working to be in too.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I love posterous' simplicity. So easy to use, comfortable but still need some fixations.
- Alif Rachmawadi
Thanks for posting Steve, and I agree with one of the comments that Posterous should add some sort of social commenting.
- Wayne Sutton
I'm right there with you, Steve. It is refreshing to focus on content. Sure, I miss my Wordpress blog at times, but as a designer, I know that beautiful things come from exercising creativity within parameters: twitter capped us at 140 char, and posterous gives us all the same gallery space to make our own, without all the anxiety for the extraneous (putting a widget for here, writing a...
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- Vincent Gallegos
Absolutely yes, Posterous is the best and the most effective and yes, it's already the biggest platform and what will be the first choice of any user. and you will see
- FFTornado
I should get over there and see what all the buzz is about. Is it like Tumbler??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yes, but in other ways better. In some ways worse.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Theming is coming. I am in the beta but haven't applied a theme yet.
- Steve Rubel
from email
geez, i hope so, as I grabbed rex.posterus.com before you started hyping it. Of course, when I get around to doing anything with it, you'll be on to the next shiny next big platform
- Rex Hammock
What are the differences between posterous and tumblr ?
- archi_bald
Awesome service. And you can even post on the go via email!
- Amir
I honestly believe Posterous CAN be at least ONE of the next big platforms. We (us, are they still saying techies?) love to talk the talk about web 2.0 and worlds of Google's Wave, but if anybody benefits from Google, it'll be bloggers who post directly from Gmail to Posterous. We often boast these days that "content is key" is passe, and new language is needed. But the bare bones of it...
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- professor daddyo
nah. Posterous is great and fun, and I´m a fan. But when it comes down to it its all about the quality of your content, not about how fast you can get your content out to various micro-services or if you can post from your Iphone. I think (or hope) we will see a reaction where bloggers go back old school and actually think through what they write, that would be a welcome change... well, good old quality vs quantity I guess.
- Peter Efland
That's just it. Technology moves forward, and if the old school way was flawless, mico-blogs would have been stillborn. The opposite has happened, babies everywhere, and Posterous might be Bam Bam.
- professor daddyo
I like Posterous a lot, but I'm not sure it brings enough to the table to get me off of Tumblr.
- Brett Kelly
I signed up some time ago then I've not been using it. I love tumblr and I see duplicated features. Anyway people using a social network drives its success, not features!
- Federico Bolsoman
posterous rocks and i like it...i use it to blog through my blackberry when i'm mobile.
- Jim Gray
I created one a few days ago and I can't stop posting to it! It's so easy!
- Jennifer Stocks
It's taken me a while to get round to using Posterous after setting up an account ages ago. We have started using it at work to log docs and messages in a big cross team project. It really comes into it's own as a collaboration tool. I have since started using my own one and it's pretty addictive! http://yellowbag.posterous.com/
- Jonathan Tanner
Thanks dude. Good look, and impeccable timing. It's like you knew I was opening my browser at that moment (Saw it at 0 seconds ago! :))
- Mike Kogelman
this product is interesting.. but sort of confusing and kind of limited. hmm, I'll give it some more time. (i also couldn't connect my twitter account.)
- Jenna Bilotta
Rochelle, it's real-time blog search by topic, not by author or source.
- Louis Gray
Just signed up for it. Figuring it out as I go. This looks interesting.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
connected twitter, delicious and my google reader shared items blog...... now...time to be lazy
- Bwana ☠
Just refreshed the page and it seems to have worked.
- Kol Tregaskes
It keeps telling me that's an invalid code
- Jill O'Neill
"This promotional code has expired. However, we will let you know through this email when we open as public. Thank you for your interest!" =(
- David Cook
Dang. Sorry Jill, George and David. That's why I put it on FriendFeed 40 minutes before Twitter. Hmmm...
- Louis Gray
Jesus Louis why not 300 or 400? They'll already gone.
- Matt Ruiz
Unfortunately I don't keep a friendfeed window open at work, and I missed it.
- DGentry
101??? For me??? Just kidding when can we expect more to be available?
- Cody Heitschmidt
You gotta be kidding! I was late for techcrunch's and yours Louis. Is it really worth a hype around it?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
That's the second time today I missed it. I'm watching Arrington and Robert discuss friendfeed live right now. They're talking about the mob issue on friendfeed. This should be interesting.
- Michael Fidler
LPH -- it is real-time powered blog search based on keywords, not sources. You want it.
- Louis Gray
BEX, LPH, I've only played with it a little. By adding some of your own feeds of your choice (I added Twitter and delicious) it looks at your tags and hashtags and shows you related content. You can also add any tags representing any topic you might be interested in. It's a little hard to explain beyond that, but it has a very simple interface that encourages serendipitous discovery of content on specific topics. I like it!
- Laura Norvig
well, there's a generic "add a blog" where you can put any URL you want and I tried adding my friendfeed URL but I'm not sure if it's working. [EDIT: No, I'm pretty sure that doesn't work.]
- Laura Norvig
it's all about tags. So, for instance, it doesn't bring in all my tweets, only those that I used a hashtag in. And the main "point" of bringing that in is to surface the fact that I might be interested in that tag and might want to see other items from all across lazyfeed with that same tag.
- Laura Norvig
I tried it out. I have a more universal stuff finder thanks to zemanta and google search. It even comes up with contextual advertising. It's getting packaged into something distributable since Google and Twitter aren't necessarily interested in working together
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
out of invites :( want to hook a friendfeeder up? ;)
- Tyler Gillies
The more I use this, I'm finding that it seems to be scraping a number of, well - 'questionable' sources for content. I'm hoping that they'll allow users to remove sources, vote things down, etc. in some fashion as things develop. It's a nice concept, but it definitely needs some serious refinement.
- Dan Dashnaw
Do you think it is scraping the entire blogosphere? Or only blogs added by users? I can't tell.
- Laura Norvig
Safari and Firefox are always running, plus usually Camino and Opera. Sometimes others.
- LogEx
Chrome on everything but my main rig....where I still rock Firefox
- Live4Emma (L4S)
chrome on windows and linux, but... I've been wroking on some patches. :P
- mjc
I've got Chrome as my default browser, since it opens quickly in the event I click a link from an application; but I prefer to do my main browsing in Firefox, since it's better equipped for sharing.
- Carlton Hackett
Firefox for most browsing, although I use Safari 4 for certain things--like flash video. Hi-res flash video in Firefox is about the same quality as a Charlie Chaplin reel, minus the comedy.
- Phil Maxwell
Safari 4b (with the Click2Flash, DeliciousSafari & Safari AdBlock input managers) keeps my MacBook's fan running at its lowest speed (1800 RPM), while FF3 (addons: AdBlockPlus, NoScript, Delicious, CoolPreviews) always makes the fans whirr above 2800, often above 3500 RPM. Safari 4b uses MUCH less CPU % and RAM than FF3. On battery power, Safari therefore rules, while FF3 is slightly more secure (at least according to recently publicised Pwn2Own reports?) and hence fine if my MB is running on mains power.
- Siddharth Deb
Firefox is my default browser on all 3 platforms I use daily: Win, Mac, Linux
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
Firefox on desktop/laptop. I use Safari on iPhone.
- Martha
Firefox and Safari duke it out all day long... Safari with Glims is quickly gaining ground though - but it gets very unstable with lots of tabs open (even more so than Firefox).
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Wow... It seems that Firefox comes first... Guess it's because of the add-ons? Cause they say on the web that Safari is the quickest for Mac. But all of you are using Mac? We don't know in fact. Well, I use Saf.
- Didier Lahely
Firefox latest with greasemonkey, tabmixplus and shareaholic - that's the default setup. Other 3-5 addons differ from pc to pc. Hate macs =)
- Kirill Bolgarov
They want to be your "identity" on the web. You can share your contact info (vcard), use it as your OpenID, and import contacts & activity from other sites (twitter, flickr, blog). The gimmick is that they say you "own your own domain". Which is quaint, but you can't do anything you want with the domain though unless you pay $20 a year to change the DNS records. In summary, they want to be everything and the kitchen sink, but don't do anything especially well. http://sims.mp/
- Daniel Sims
@Daniel : nice explanation. @All : Do you think it would be better than Friendfeed (even in Future) ?
- Arpit Kumar
finally the Invites room can breathe!
- Nathan Chase
@Arpit : No, I think they have totally different goals. Even if they did import more sites, I don't think chimp has any plans on allowing people to interact with your stuff. Chimp's primary goal seems to be contact management, and being your virtual business card.
- Daniel Sims
Thousands of people are constantly posting that they either have invites or want invites for Chi.mp . It is taking up the entire group page! For the sake of others, please use this thread to ask for, or advertise your invites. Thank-you! :)
Please invite me to taobao5168@gmail.com
- xinranus
please send me BETA code for chi.mp, my email:smallyouth@foxmail.com, thanks
- smallyouth
please send me BETA code for chi.mp, my email:lorin.zhang@live.com, thanks
- lorin
cool glade I found this thread other than posting a new topic and annoying people lol, if you got a spare id like to check it out, send me one at defconoii at gmail dot com
- Kyle Weller
I think its better if people who notice the chi.mp invite requests/offers, just post this tiny url link in a comment, will hopefully lead them all to this one! http://tinyurl.com/FFchimp
- md.
I was subscribing to your RSS feed, but couldn't comment on this in Google Reader because we were not formally friends. I'm not sure how useful this feature will really be, since it's pretty much a closed shop, but I'm giving it a whirl.
- Ontario Emperor
This is Google trying to be a combination of Friendfeed and Twitter. To be honest, Twitter is my watercooler for conversation and sharing. Friendfeed is my publishing platform of me.
- Ian D. Nock
@Ontario I have the same problem! I have subscribed to Google reader shared items of many people who are not my friends. :(
- Arpit Kumar
Man, I'm all of the sudden flustered as to where I'm supposed to have a conversation. With the feature, it implies that you *need* to check it (because it's clearly intended for you, they're not public comments), but there are so many places I can realistically talk about content (namely, one or two). I still don't understand Google's friending process, either: but by the grace of God...
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- Mark Trapp
That is so frustrating. Everywhere wants you to comment in their place. I just want to comment in one place, FriendFeed, and have it crosscomment at the original place. Like we can do with Twitter.
- Araceli
A Promise: If someone creates an twitter app which automatically DM's anyone you sends you an autoDM when you follow them (and optionally unfollows them)....I promise I will do everything i can to promote it on as many tech sites as possible.
how would it detect at Auto DM? Maybe an algorithm that factors in the word usage, the presence of a link, and the amount of time accrued since your follow to make a best guess?
- Mattb4rd