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At least u will know that a new one won't be released tomorrow - Tom Searing

I didn't think you still used Twitter :/ - Bwana ☠

seems we may get it in Uk at xmas. ho ho ho - Chris Thomson

Will you give us a "Pre-view" tomorrow on TTG? - Eric Geller

And we all thought you'd wait 'til the next Mac Break Weekly to open 'er up and brag - Bill Alpert from twhirl

Looks like it works! - Richard Leiter

Does the Palm Pre still sync with iTunes? - Todd K. Edwards

Come on Leo! Give us at least a 140 character review! - Michael Groner

yeah totally agree, full 140 character review is required! - Braden Douglass

I am turning green with envy! - Michael Chang

I was a Palm user back in the black and white days of the Handspring Visor. I've also used the Palm VII (briefly), and the Treo 600. Oh yeah, and the Tungsten E, and also a Dell Axim (obviously not Palm but MS mobile). I liked Palm OS for a long time, but the Treo made me switch to a to a Blackberry 7800 (loved it). I now use a Tmobile G1. It would take some time for me to warm back up to Palm. Interested in how the Pre works out. - Nate

So how's the keyboard? - Mike Nayyar

how many times is Wright going to get out in the basepaths? #mets - Ian McGrath

It came out today? So how is it? - Daniel Schoonover

Any news on availability in the UK? - Adrian Burns

So what time were you waiting in line this morning Leo? - Craig Deakin

It's weird. I've upgraded 4 of my machines (iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacMini) and they're all working fine. I haven't had any of the issues that Zeldman et al have been reporting. - Jordan Brock

I have got 10.5.7 on my MacBook and it seems ok so far. - Tom Horn

I hadn't even heard of any issues until just now. - Aaron Hood

I suspect it's some haxie or SIMBL that is the culprit, and not 10.5.7. Been a smooth upgrade on 4 different machines. - Byron McCollum

No problems here - Matthew Vaughan

As much as I love my Apple-stuff, I've declared a one week moratorium on all updates. - Bill Alpert

I do the same as Bill, wait for any catastrophic failures to appear on the blogs. If nothing after a week, I install so I've had it for 2 weeks now. - dthree

I installed it a few days ago and things seem to be running fine for me. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

no issue so far. - Lu Liu

Same. No issues... MBP17 - Dean Brady

I had to reset the PRAM but not sure if that was due to the ungrade - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

I wish I could blame it for my iSight not working anymore. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

So far no issues. - funkyboy

Lots of problems since 10.5.7 - I agree. - Sterling Zumbrunn from BuddyFeed

My guess is compatibility with something else on your system. Upgraded 3 machines with no problems. - Mike Child

I haven't noticed anything at all. It's running smoothly on my Macbook. - Matt Ruiz

No issues here either... - Rich

Mac Troubleshooting 101: Create a new user and see if problem persists. - Byron McCollum

What Byron said. Create a new user to test if the problem might be your account or some special software installed. More importantly, there have been no broad reports of problems with 10.5.7. Upgrades went smoothly and no wide-spread issues have been presented. More than likely, it's something wrong with your setup. - David Chartier

I have not noticed any problems til this time. - Ashish

My broadband was down for SIX months once. BT was doing somthing ingenious with the phone lines in that time..... grrrr. Dial up never worked either. Thought I'd die. - Roberto Bonini

Find a bottle of wine, and enjoy.... - Scott Hahn

Well.. at least the live stream is still up for TWiF - Anton

Comcast was down or unreliable in many places in Seattle yesterday because of our "scorching" 85-degree heat. Somebody has to review their maintenance plans. - Michel Goldstein

Michel: The hubs were probably overheating due to poor ventilation. - Jason Hansen

My FIoS is running so nicely out here in Virginia. Had to taunt. I hope they get things fixed soon, Leo! - Mike Lewis

Jason: I guess they probably don't design their network ventilation for the week or two of heat the we have a year here... - Michel Goldstein

I've sometimes considered having two seperate providers just to have continuous service. - Robert Hafer

I got both an ADSL line and a Wimax service as backup, cant depend on 1 link these days.. - abdulla77

Used to have comcast, we'd get random downtime w/out a warning or a heads up at all. Plus my dad haterd paying so much for verey little speed. Now we have AT&T and it's hardly ever down and it's faster than our old comcast connection. - Patrick from twhirl

im on az and cox sucks here - Đoи яамoη from twhirl

you oughta have to use charter as I do... it really sux - darthdallas

What will we do? - Andy from twhirl

But...NO!...it's Pre...day... Unboxing of Pre? Noo... Nooo.... *sob* - Bwana ☠

Leo's live - Bwana ☠

He hasn't started one yet :( - Bwana ☠

And bitgravity just went down for me - Bwana ☠

lol - I think it's getting hammered - Bwana ☠

it's buffering every 2 seconds - Bwana ☠

I hope there will be some video somewhere. - Jason Remnant

UStream is working OK for me - Steve Hampton

I am sure that Leo is recording and will repeat. Plus, someone from ODTV will eventually get it. - Steve Hampton

But if you believe the commercials Comcast is better than FIOS. I love my FIOS..... - Rocco Biscieglia

Steve Hampton, Leo has no (scheduled) shows on Fridays (TWIF is the only show - so far - on fridays from the TWiT cottage) and the streams are not going out on comcast so there should be no interruption with the streams - Chris Heath

It will be some sort of "legalized spam". :( - Gil Francisco III

I think this would suck. I would be part of the backlash against this. If someone's paid to tweet, it's no longer authentic conversation. There's already too much promotional crap on Twitter already. Even on our i.TV corporate feed, we stopped promoting ourselves so much and started interacting with our users. Believe me, they like it better and so do we. Now we primarily use Twitter to communicate with our community. - Justin Whittaker

This would be a bad idea. It won't ruin Twitter, but It would make it that much harder for twitter to monetize its services. - Dilip Dand

I'm still waiting for the time when we will be able to touch each other's phones to exchange info. - Sasha Kovaliov

looks great! Waiting for the Europe version ;) - Lorenzo Strambi

This looks promising especially for sales people with many contacts and are always on the road. - Lon Cohen

Very sweet. This is the type of app that drives a market. - Fred McClimans

US only :( People - reviews! :) - Sasha Kovaliov

have you seen SnapDat on iPhone? - Goktug Gedik

Trying it out now. - Brian Bufalo

cool idea - Susan Beebe

Grrr! Looks like contact sharing done right, but alas, US-only. :( - Grey Drane

Nice! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Hey Robert, Check out My Name is E, they already handle Twitter, FaceBook, etc. Let's set up a demo when your free. (fyi, I am on their Board) - khrisloux

So is this like a plaxo client for the phone? (i.e. canonical copy held be web service) - Boris Gordon

Looked great but was immediately disappointed that it didn't work in Europe. US only at the moment. - Angus Neil

After using it, it seems to be missing useful features. You can't add a profile picture. You can't add a paragraph to list personal or professional information. Essentially, it's just contact information. Why not leverage the power of this being electronic and add features? - Paul Maez

Why can you only add one IM service and one Social link? No pic either? - Shawn Hickman

I have to wonder whether these types of applications can ever really generate the traction needed to become anything more than a passing fad. If you want to exchange business information why not SMS/email/whatever your .tel address? Or is no-one using .tel? - Gee Ranasinha

To answer and ask you a question, what is .tel? - Brian Bufalo from IM

http://www.telnic.org/ - Gee Ranasinha

Interesting. - Brian Bufalo from IM

No software to install, and works in every country. Here's my info if you're interested http://kexino.tel - Gee Ranasinha

Gee, does that mean that everyone has to buy a .tel address? - Shawn Hickman

err...yes, in the same way that you'd buy a URL. But at about €15/$20 per year it's not that bad. What I like about it is that all your details are stored directly in the DNS without the need for an application, website or anything else and the information is accessible from any device. - Gee Ranasinha