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"In short, Google can afford to give away everything that makes Microsoft valuable." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

BTW, I don't necessarily agree with the premise of the article. MS has been successfully dealing with free competition for years. I'm also not a believer in one-size-fits-all solutions: the future doesn't necessarily belong SOLELY to the cloud, the browser, or FLOSS despite all Google's hollering. Plenty of businesses, such as engineering companies that use massive datasets/CAD/CAE files, are not suited to the cloud - LANjackal

"Before you rush online and plunk down $2.99 a month for Premium Online Service from Sirius, you should know that you won't find Howard Stern on the free Sirius XM app finally released for iPhone. Stern is just one of the missing favorites on board the big golden goose egg laid by Sirius into the App Store after months of anticipation. The wildly popular satellite radio app makes its grand debut with a glorious thud." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

I'm not going to cough up an additional $2.99/month on top of my existing subscription without the Stern Show being part of the package. Any official word from Sirius why Stern is left out? - Kevin Whalen

"AT&T's decision to allow Major League Baseball fans to stream games live onto their iPhones while restricting video streaming using another video application has one advocacy group crying foul. With the release of the 3.0 version of Apple's iPhone operating system this week, subscribers to a popular application from Major League Baseball called At Bat will now get the chance to stream live video feeds of baseball games directly to their iPhones or iPod Touches. The first game was streamed Thursday afternoon, featuring a match up between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox. But unlike other video streaming applications, such as SlingPlayer, the MLB At Bat live video can be accessed regardless of whether a subscriber is connected to the Internet via AT&T's 3G network or whether it is connected via a Wi-Fi connection." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

This reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Bart takes some random source of ADD medication and then is able to hyperfocus. Once he does, he starts to expose a conspiracy which is all tied to Major League Baseball. I'm starting to think that The Simpson's is on to something. - Miss Elle

"In a Facebook blog post, the company announced that a limited, private beta of a new search interface is being rolling out to a small group of folks on the social network. The new interface will allow those fortunate enough to have access to it the ability to search for content from people, organizations, and other public figures as soon as they share it on Facebook" - Kasper Sorensen from Bookmarklet

"This is your definitive list of all apps outfitted with Apple's new push notifications. Badges, sounds and text notifications - find out what apps have them and how they're being used. Check back often as this list will be updated on an ongoing basis with all new push-capable apps." - Baard @ Pixum from Bookmarklet

"Here's a NBC News clip from 1994. In it, correspondent Tom Brokaw interviews a pair of executives: Sun Microsystems's Eric Schmidt and Microsoft's Bill Gates. The topic? "Something called the Internet." We know. Awesome. Anyway, our favorite bit is when Tom Brokaw asks Gates: "Are a lot of people just getting on to the Internet because they feel like they have to get on the playing field, so to speak?" "Well, it's very hip to be on the Internet right now," says Gates -- 12 years before Twitter was founded." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

I almost got on it :] in 1992 ... but they told me i would need some "browser" first, so i let it go .. damn the domains i could have registered! :] .. then, i was on Pegasus(?), America Online, text based BBS - Bulletin Board Services ..... well heck, will have to wait till the next, 3rd industrial revolution - 1. steam/machines - 2. internet - 3. what is it going to be? ... i think... more... - Petr Buben

i cant wait to get my hands on it! cant wait til september... the pricetag is super reasonable, too! - Steven Degutis

It's very fast and seems very stable. I'm running it in a VM using VMWare Fusion. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

Loved that movie -- probably saw it a dozen times once it showed up as a rental. - Rick Reynolds

@fleagle: oh sure, it totally adds to the gestalt of the film! - veo

"This is a private residence for a small family in Japan. It’s a one story that is created by two big boxes joined together by a rectangular space, so it will give you the feeling of interconnection between all the spaces in the house. It’s really nice contracts of the white interior with the natural wood color of the furniture and floor." - arnaldostream from Bookmarklet

Overview of the Palm Pre's user interface, WebOS and distinguishing features. Cards and multitasking explored. Surfing the web, playing video, playing music, viewing pictures. Also cover dedicated keyboard, backwards swipe - Patrick Moorhead

I'd love be be able to get myself a nice 17" MBP - Joe Pierce

You have to cut and send in the UPC and bar codes for the iPod rebate. - Bill Sodeman

Yes! Watching Game 7 at the same time though... - Kevin Mohr

I feel such the opposite of a cool kid, but yes, I'm succumbing to the hype. - Amy℠

I'm thinking I want very, very few apps pushing notifications to me ... - Patrick Jordan

I don't mind pushing at all. - Greg

"Flickr co-founder, Caterina Fake, has co-founded another startup called Hunch, which helps people make decisions and learns from their responses to questions. When Hunch opens to the public on Monday, more than 40,000 people will have already answered 7 million questions over months of private testing. Hunch thinks it knows people pretty well already based on that testing, and it's only going to get smarter - about you." - arnaldostream from Bookmarklet

You may have read our post last week where we talked about how Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch work together. As we mentioned, Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are large enterprises, local school districts or parents make sure they can provide a safe searching experience when using Bing. We made two changes that we think will help. First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be. This makes it much easier for filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off. In addition, we will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this... - arnaldostream

"The March redesign took away the “news feed” homepage, moving photos, events and other information from your friends into a right-hand column called “highlights.” The result, Facebook recognizes, is that people who aren’t on the site all the time have trouble keeping track of everything their friends are up to. Now, information from the “highlights” section will be integrated back into the stream, in some sort of combination of status updates and everything else on the site." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

For me, the problem was that although I have 1400+ friends, I'm not deeply interested in everything all of them are doing BUT I don't have the time to create a Friend List for those I'm interested in either. That's why I preferred the previous iteration where FB automatically selected News Feed entries based on people you interacted with. The current situation is just way too noisy to be useful - LANjackal

Waiting in the grocery aisle to buy all my organic vegetables ;) I was in SHOCK & AWE to see this as Time's COVER story. The worlds most respected and wildly circulated news weekly and a magazine which, he who shall not be named wrote some brilliant features for at one time. Anyways, it's largely a fluff piece IMO (being a social media expert in training): Scoble & Louis Gray (et al) have trounced many of the points made time and again here on FriendFeed or maybe they have more to reply as to this piece. So here for your perusal: - sofarsoShawn

I think that reaction is justified, shrugging Twitter aside for the most part, as it is backed up. However, the general thesis/main point the article comes up with in "How it will change are lives" is in the 2nd last para and a huge item that Scoble, Gray et al have failed to explore or touch on that I know of, is with the term they use "end-user innovation" which I like MUCH better and... more... - sofarsoShawn

"Just days after releasing its latest smart phone, PalmInc. on Wednesday named a former AppleInc. executive that it hired to help turn around the company as its new chief executive. Jon Rubinstein, 52 years old, will replace Ed Colligan, 48, who had been Palm's CEO since 2005. Mr. Colligan plans to join Palm's biggest investor, private-equity firm Elevation Partners, after taking some time off." - Nicholas James from Bookmarklet

Snow Leopard Date, 3.0 Date, and a new Iphone! - Fee501st

Will Google Maps Street View take advantage of the Compass? - Jason Wong

15 minutes to go! - Zee.

5 Mins! My drool bucket it already half full... ;) - Joshua Schnell

w00t! - Evan Travers

hoo boy!!! - vijay