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Blogworld New Media Expo Special Discount & Coupon Code - http://www.reelseo.com/2009-bl...
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Blogworld is a new media conference packed with sessions from over 300 speakers covering blogging, podcasts, video, social media, and more. The conference runs from October 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and we have a discount special 20% discount code for anyone interested in attending - REELSEO20....
- ReelSEO
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Would have loved to join that but I'm stuck in Amsterdam then. Enjoy the conference! If anyone can write a guest blog post from the event that would be great...
- Boris
Up next: http://www.Trollim.com
Iphigenie liked this
Announced as the coolest company.
- Boris
From israel...
- Boris
This is hilarious.
- Boris
Battle against other developers and show your skills.
- Boris
WTF it is asking me username and password /:
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Great way to find out who are the great developers...
- Boris
Yeah the site isn't live yet. Will be be in a few hours.
- Boris
@Boris Is it your website ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
No it is not my website!
- Boris
Oh, Ok, Sorry :)..can I ask you something plz :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I can see companies persuading their developers to start gaming during worktime on Trollim. This just works...
- Boris
@Boris I see lots of investment going around in social, tech companies, though we are in recession do you think it is safe to invest in social media companies . I mean look at posterous isn't just reinvention of wheel and on the top of that it got funding.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
sorry for the off track
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Hi Sunny: interesting questions but email me for that okay?
- Boris
will do thanks @Boris
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
What was it called were two developers work on the same project at the same time at one computer?
- Boris
Team work ...LOL (Joke)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
pair(ed) programming
- Joel Bennett
Up next: http://CrowdFlower.com ("Labor as a service")
Iphigenie and Matt Ellsworth liked this
What, is this Amazon Mechanical Turk?
- Boris
You can play along here: http://crowdflower.com/techcru...
- Boris
I paid attention but I'm not sure what I would ever use this for...
- Boris
CitySourced.com
Carolyn Chan liked this
Works nationwide with 1900 cities.
- Boris
I'd hate that if I were running the city. ;-)
- Boris
The first company that brings an actual customer to the stage. Cool!
- Boris
Nice management overview for cities
- Boris
Hotdamn. This actually looks great.
- Boris
It seems so simple. Just goes to show that implementation is everything. The idea sounds dull but when you see it work it, well, just works.
- Boris
So Palm is paying these guys to build an app for their platform
- Boris
Affective Interfaces: Emotion Sensing technology.
Next Up: Real Time Dashboards for Every Business: http://metricly.com/
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Sean Oliver and Boris liked this
This is pretty cool.
- Boris
People love stats
- Boris
speak for yourself...
- Zee.
bringing in Google Analytics is cool...but its not real time...Get Clicky on board!
- Zee.
Right. You hate stats?
- Boris
Custom data tool. Might work with Clicky API
- Boris
true - didn't even know Clicky had an API actually
- Zee.
Their motto should be "Lies, damn lies and statistics"
- Boris
Okay, it is cool but boring too.
- Boris
First Up in Business Services: ClientShow (http://clientshow.com) allows creative and marketing professionals to show, pitch and sell their work to their clients more effectively.
Nice UI
- Dave Hodson
Looks polished and all but sounds like something there must be hundreds of similar services out there, right?
- Boris
yeah, that's what I'm thinking
- Zee.
Tim O'Reilly is not holding back. Good questions.
- Boris
Udorse.com (http://udorse.com): Endorse the items and places in YOUR photos. Link your "Udorsements" anywhere on the web. Earn real money from partner brands as a reward for your support. Donate your earnings to charity, or accept them as cash
RuMiKa (la RuMi), Aleigh, Thomas Tracey and Oguz Serdar liked this
This is like adding a note on Flickr?
- Boris
Right, it is like annotation but only linking to stuff that is for sale and only within their site.
- Boris
So I tag my clothes with their respective brands and when Zee click-through and buys the same underwear I get a share of the profit. And with the expensive thongs I'm buying… wow.
- Boris
So it's like Overlay.tv except for photos instead of video, I like it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
At least this entrepreneur is passionate about his product. :-)
- Boris
@Boris :)))
- Oguz Serdar
use tc50 at their site for access
- Boris
Doesn't work in the basic Facebook Photo app.
- Boris
But they are working on a dedicated plug-in
- Boris
Good point from the jury: it would be weird to make money off of your friends by having them buying the same stuff that you are wearing.
- Boris
Although that last point is actually more a problem for women than man. Guys who happen to be wearing the same clothes at a party will end up becoming friends for life. If another girl at the same party wears the same dress then the evening is ruined for both girls...
- Boris
Nah, that's a sexist idea coming straight out of the old concept that girls are pretty flimsy decorative things and not full human beings
- Iphigenie
Reminds me of pixazza?
- TrafficBug
Could be great for word of mouth marketing - get ordinary people to pose with your products and spread them across the web and they will become affiliates. No longer will you have to be a model to endorse products, anybody can choose products to others by modelling what they wear or what they use with pictures.
- TrafficBug
Yext Calls is the first ever service that sends local advertisers pay-per-action phone calls. http://www.yext.com/
He just called a car dealer, asked for an appointment, and then hung up without confirmation. Okay, maybe you should have been there. Was funny though.
- Boris
Sociable Wordpress Plugin Acquired by Startups.com - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Aram Zucker-Scharff, Robert Freeze, Rob Cairns and 3 other people liked this
RackUp.com (http://rackup.com) - Cash and Gift Card Auction Site
site has just gone live...pretty nice to be fair.
- Zee.
Pretty smart actually. All they do is unevenly distribute the discount. The winner gets the highest discount.
- Boris
Of course everything depends on how many people will bother on signing up and playing along.
- Boris
precisely...feels like a headache to me. But, i'm sure the shoppers out there might love the idea
- Zee.
HealthyWage (http://healthywage.com) - HealthyWage rewards health.
Implements health challenges to allow corporations to reward health;
- Zee.
Their first health challenge, the BMI Challenge, pays overweight Americans up to $1000 to lose weight and move from a Body Mass Index (“BMI”) of 30 to a BMI of 25.
- Zee.
Would you get fit if you got paid to? If so, how much?
- Zee.
I think peer pressure works better. But it is an interesting experiment.
- Boris
I think @Boris just summed up perfectly why I love writing for @thenextweb. Sometimes we’re wise, other times… (see both tweets) - http://zee.me/status/109
oh, that link goes to: http://9gag.com/photo...
- Zee.
Glad you enjoyed that...
- Boris
i don't think people quite get why i liked it..
- Zee.
Me, locked in the snow leopard's cage.
Zee. and Eric James liked this
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As you can see there was some champagne involved. They even locked me inside for a few moments after I got in for the photo.
- Boris
I guess some people have a hard time understanding the public nature of commenting on Facebook. Well, at least Tracy had a great time with 'Micheal': http://www.facebook.com/jesuslu...
Tanath, Phil Maxwell, Kamilah Reed (K. Gill) and 2 other people liked this
Scroll down to the comment that starts with "Thank you too,Micheal". Read from there...
- Boris
omg she fucked up lol
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Hope Micheal is the guy she's engaged to.
- Jack&Cleo
Actually if you read the comments more it looks like her account was hacked and she's probably been locked out of it. Blonde born in 1968 = dumb AND bad with technology. Even if she didn't get fucked, she *IS* fucked
- LANjackal
hai
- cgovindaraja
Funny, yet tragic. Highlights the dangers of social networking/media.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Yeah, an exploit in one of FB dating applications was used by 4chan to bring some 'entertainment' to Facebook... http://www.reddit.com/r...
- Marcos
Why you need to be careful with programs that can post photos to Facebook. (full image after the link) [REALLY NSFW] http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Yvonne, Willem (@wim66) ☠, Mahendra (SkepticGeek) and 4 other people liked this
Know what's messed up about that? The person who uploaded the screencap blocked out their own name, but not the name of the person whose schlong that is.
- Anika
that was me and fixed :) The original had nothing blanked
- Zee.
So why did you block away the names? Much more funnier when you do see their names and the info is public at Facebook anyway. Just wondering...
- Boris
eye bleech please. :'(
- Simon Wicks
Just thought it was a bit harsh. You can still see the name, just not the last name. Also, I don't think his page is public on facebook
- Zee.
"I don't think you understand how deep this reaches" :P
- Jemm
Oh, okay. LOL
- Anika
The whole account is gone actually...
- Boris
Check out the "Social Media Addicts Association". Video (with snot alert) included: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Gary Purvis and Martin Bryant liked this
Opinion: The iPhone is more than a horseless carriage http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Martin Bryant liked this
It is actually a comment on the news that the iPhone is now the most popular digital camera at Flickr...
- Boris
My Twitter follower growth has been slowing down http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei... . I'm seeing geek engagement on Twitter going down. How about you?
Sheree Motiska, Kevin Tunis, Benoit Descary and 16 other people liked this
Plus they've been trying to remove bots and spammers, which has something to do with it, too.
- Robert Scoble
I think my followers are disappointed that I'm more of a Friendfeed person. ;)
- wiredgnome
But I've definitely been getting more engagement here on FriendFeed lately. But that's largely by design in my case.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah. Probably Digg "effect". Geeks moving out.
- karthick
Robert: Quite a few of my follower's are bots and spammers, too.
- wiredgnome
Well you keep sending us here, to lovely friendfeed land
- Mark
I added 40 quality followers yesterday on twitter with 1 good blog..maybe you are just up against your max addressable market Robert, law of big numbers..
- James Watters
Twitter seems to be over-run by spambots and phony profiles
- Wayne Schulz
That's because you don't use Twitter Scoble lol...
- Colin
Colin: that's not true. I'm on Twitter all the time!
- Robert Scoble
My Twitter follower growth is the same as ever: zero.
- DGentry
I think it's simple. The whole Idea of following back to be polite is losing popularity. Therefore the churn is slowing for many.
- Dj Skunk Diesel
Lol, nah, I have to come to FriendFeed to get your attention, so I don't reply to you on Twitter, and others probably do the same.
- Colin
I'd rather ad 1 VP of biz dev, than 1k randoms
- James Watters
I don't even know what my Twitter following is, I've never looked. It's not something I'm remotely interested in.
- Gilbert Harding
I agree quality not quantity
- Dj Skunk Diesel
added 10 execs yesterday...so much more interesting...eddie izzard has 600k followers and mostly does running picture updates
- James Watters
Scoble uses Twitter. Just more in a Friendfeed capacity ;-)
- wiredgnome
noticing the same thing. techies are definitely losing interest due to spam and celebrity overload.
- casey wright
from BuddyFeed
Josh, yes it saves them from having to have any real content!
- James Watters
Is Scoble showing his tech celebrity cards by talking raw #s :)
- James Watters
James: that's why I say it's who you are following that is so much more important than who is following you.
- Robert Scoble
I'm deleting fewer spam followers, so maybe Twitter is getting better at killing them sooner.
- Howard Rheingold
Robert **** +1k! I love twitter for what I read! When I get more followers it just makes me nervous to talk :)
- James Watters
James: nah. But my account growth has -- up to now -- closely tracked Twitter's growth itself.
- Robert Scoble
See yourself for last months. Twitter got rid of thousands of spam bots a few days ago: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Boris
James, so the interesting thing is: is Twitter's growth slowing down? (I don't think so). So, the geek world on Twitter is mattering less and less as mainstream shows up.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I'd agree, and I think your point is interesting. Its like blogs, when the polticos took over the momentum from the geeks :(
- James Watters
Although, look at Compete.com and you'll see Twitter's growth itself has slowed down: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter...
- Robert Scoble
Yes, been going on for awhile. The spammers are a real pain, so I'm thankful they are working on that.
- courtney benson
Josh: I watch early adopter user behavior and I'm seeing less engagement on Twitter. The geeks are getting bored.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: yes, Compete.com is inaccurate, but generally it matches trends well.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: in my case about 44%. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Twitter and FF are amazing if you want to listen...
- James Watters
Maybe they are going back to blogging. Or are on vacation.
- Robert Scoble
look at the trending topics today on twitter - unfort. mainstream entertainment. what a change from a year ago. yes the conversation is now wide - but seems just a shift of medium for fluff. not watching as closely as you are but happy with my monitored subjects of interest - still discovering BIG voices everyday. ff rocks the conversation though!
- michael sean wright
I lost 8% of my followers and about the same number I was following in one day (day before today) on Twitter.. I can't believe all these were bots and I am now "cured" of bots..
- Anindya Chatterjee
Hi Josh, yes really. I get emails every day announcing new followers but I just delete them. I only follow people who are personally recommended to me and who I find interesting. I never look at my profile to see my stats. If people find my inane comments and occasional newsy bits and bobs entertaining, fine. But how many of them are there? No idea.
- Gilbert Harding
Hey did anyone hear that Yahoo is getting a new homepage? I can't wait....
- James Watters
@Josh, just the point )-:
- Anindya Chatterjee
My engagment is about the same on Twitter, seeing as that I still have friends that won't get/don't have/don't want a Friendfeed account.
- John Fox
I think it's picking up here though.
- Steve Rubel
James, the new page is up already.. right now in "trial" on Yahoo US page
- Anindya Chatterjee
OMG its so cool! yahoo is so relevant!
- James Watters
If I was better versed in the virtues of Friendfeed, I'd do an article about it. But I'm really not the person to "sell it".
- John Fox
Josh: yes that whole thing was an inside joke to an earlier FF RS has about Yahoo's new home page..I'm just being silly...see ya'll around..
- James Watters
I'm converted this time - 1st time round, I didn't get it, but some friends still only Twitter
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Josh, there seem to be a lot of obsessives on here and Twitter.
- Gilbert Harding
Anyone here amazing at App engine btw?
- James Watters
i did spring cleaning in my twitter account today as well. it's about quality not quantity, robert. the true geeks are staying with you
- jeanette okwu
I think It's to Twitter's benefit if the stop the spammers. Not a bad service but with all the spam it makes it less enjoyable.
- wiredgnome
Am I wrong? When Twitter took away the option of following @replies, it made it a lot more difficult to find new people who extend out from your network. If you look at the traffic charts (Alexa, Scoble's, etc.), the slowdown started right about at that time. While Twitter execs say that only a fraction of people opted for that function, it really looks like a lot more than coincidence to me that follower growth declines started then.
- Ed Moltzen
Robert: Maybe. But Twitter is a type of blog, It's a micro-blog.
- wiredgnome
I find new people by using Twubble - it basically replicates the effect of finding people by following @ replies. See http://www.crazybob.org/twubble
- Trent Hamm
I have never re-followed people out of courtesy. I look at what they're saying if they follow me, but I don't follow if it doesn't look interesting. That's why I have about 7K Twitter followers and am following less than 500, I guess.
- Trent Hamm
Definitely the engagement is dropping, I've noticed. But I think spam is a big contributor to the problem.
- wiredgnome
Come to think of it, I've never understood the philosophy of the courtesy re-follow. It seems dishonest to me - once you reach a certain point, you can't follow the thousands and thousands of conversations around you. Following someone else feels like a promise you can't keep. Why do this at all?
- Trent Hamm
Trent: you can't DM me unless I follow you. Since I require having DMs with a wide variety of people for my business, I have to follow everyone who follows me.
- Robert Scoble
I have noticed it too. It is sometimes hard to get around "brain fart" type of tweets that are on the surge...lowering the geek factor
- Ghada
Could be FriendFeed, lol.
- Hugh Isaacs II
well that explains why I'm seeing less content.
- clarke thomas
From my experience, TwitterCounter is a little slow when updating follower numbers. Just make sure it's accurate.
- wiredgnome
yeah. TwitterCounter takes a day or two to update. Not that I check very often...
- Robert
True my twitter following slows down 2
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine also. And so many new followers are spambots, ugh!
- Molly Gordon
@Scobleizer will have 155,650 followers in 1000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://bit.ly/19FHOw
- Mark
@Scobleizer will have 661,900 followers in 10000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Mark
@aplusk will have 8,095,169 followers in 365 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/aplusk...
- Mark
Mark: that's cause aplusk is on the suggested follower list. He won't earn those followers, he's being gifted them by Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert in my opinion Twitter had 2-3 weeks that followers went down and much porn as well , in the last week or so the positive count is back
- Johni Fisher
In Europe, we call these kinds of slowdowns "holidays".
- Bernie Goldbach
Yup
- Thomas Power
Robert maybe you can help me.....http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009...
- Bob DeMarco
Well, I'm personally happy to see geek engagement go down. That means more geek for me. Most of those nitwits don't even know what the hell is even going on and just RT guys like you to ride the wave of the Scoblenami. I always used to get scolded for @ing zaibatsu, 0boy, and the_gman when I was just a peasant w/ 300ish followers who hadn't tweeted a word in 6 months. The whole "get...
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- Sheree Motiska
Twitter just got rid of bot accounts your followers went down! Thats Twitter's epidemic problems!
- polou/indigo_bow
Social Media dirty talk...haha - http://jacquijade.tumblr.com/post...
Tyson Key, Ozgur Uckan, Joe The Sausage and 11 other people liked this
Hope you like my latest Twillustration: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Ozgur Uckan, Bahriye and Will Higgins™ liked this
What are your top 3 favorite paid online subscription services? Mine are Evernote Premium, Lynda.com and Pandora One.
altblog, Andrew Leahey, Adam and 61 other people liked this
Mine: Evernote, Skype and Last.fm
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I think currently NOD32 & Netflix are only online services I pay for
- LANjackal
Netflix
- chrisofspades
Evernote and Pandora definitely....I would add flickr pro to that
- Freddie Benjamin
oh, and flickr.. there are more than 3
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I only pay for last.fm, netflix, and flickr.
- ·[▪_▪]·
The only subscriptions I have are Netflix, Gamefly, and XMRadio. Not sure you'd call any of them online services, though. I'll probably renew flickr when I can more cash flow, though.
- Jandy
Remember the milk, Flickr and Mvelopes. I've been thinking about upgrading to Pandora One but haven't done it yet.
- Ward Seward
Spotify!
- Lasse Johnsen
Netflix, Pandora & Wall Street Journal
- Jay Clark
Rapidshare, remember the milk, evernote, mobile.me, last.fm ...
- Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
ehm.. let add: rapidshare, mobile.me, (a seedbox), and lastpass
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Evernote, Remember the Milk and Flickr
- Brett Kelly
Also Evernote, Mozy and Flickr.
- Oliver Bouchard
Evernote Premium, Dropbox (50GB), and MindMeister
- Jim Tierney
Flickr.
- Morton Fox
Evernote, Jungle Disk, You Mail, Flickr ,Skype, Netfilx
- metalerik
I only have one: reqall.
- Vicarbott
Mozy, Flickr, Github, Amazon (S3, EC2, SQS), Rackspace CloudFiles, Jungledisk
- Berk D. Demir
Cecily: Love Backblaze! - been using it for a couple months. Best Mac online backup solution - IMHO.
- Mike Bracco
MobileMe, Flickr, Google Web Storage (10GB extra/year), SpanningSync, DropBox, DreamHost.
- Nick Humphries
Among some of those already mentioned I use LovelyCharts a lot: http://lovelycharts.com/
- Peter van Teeseling
Mike Bracco: What other Mac online backup solutions did you try and what are the features separating Backblaze from others to be the best?
- Berk D. Demir
Last.fm, Flickr, Jajah
- Bertrand Doux
Berk: I tried Mozy as well and also played around with a friends machine that had carbonite. I like Backblaze b/c is just works...I literally don't have to ever think about it. It was started by some ex apple guys I believe and it can definitely show in the final product. Very few options - it just backs up in the background. It also stores versions of a file so sequential backups are...
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- Mike Bracco
and Jing Pro
- metalerik
Flickr, Zenfolio, MobileMe, and (maybe soon) Animoto
- Victor Panlilio
Evernote, Flickr, Last.fm
- jbrotherlove
flickr, photoshop.com, Zune
- John D Reasor
Evernote, Mozy, and Flickr
- Russellreno
Evernote, Flickr, Toodledo, BitDefender
- Wei-Yen Tan
Hosting for my blog. Also pay for flickr, but that wasn't really worth it.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Flickr and Remember The Milk. Hosting accounts: Media Temple and Dreamhost.
- Jorge Gobbi
Evernote is my favorite. It is the one application I will not do without.
- Rob Cairns
Cecily & Mike: I've tried Mozy, Carbonite, Backblaze, iDrive and settled with Mozy for no obvious reason. Pretty much they are all the same. A very similar software, same slow initial backup process, versioned backups, easy restore, scheduling and background backup features, bandwidth throttling, being easy with the system resources and close yearly fees: $49.50 (iDrive: 150GB), $50...
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- Berk D. Demir
I must have tried Evernote five times, but can't really get what is SO useful about it. Maybe it's the "how" - can someone direct me to how they use it and why it's useful to them? As far as paid apps, Pandora, Carbonite and Extra Storage on Google. That's it.
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: check out Evernote's blog http://blog.evernote.com/ as well their tumblr blog http://evernote.tumblr.com/ They have some great use cases on both sites. Maybe that will spark some ideas on how to utilize it. It's one of those things where you have to kind of be conscious of it and make yourself use it - then after a while it naturally becomes part of your workflow - at least that is how it worked for me.
- Mike Bracco
Was forgetting Animoto for which I will subscribe very soon
- Bertrand Doux
Thanks for those, Mike, very helpful. I think you're right... I just need to make an effort to get it into my workflow. I think it may work well to document ASP.NET snippets I use often (maybe).
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: Yeah and what's helpful as Evernote progresses is that the service is getting faster and better integrated into the OS - which makes it less obtrusive and easier to work in.
- Mike Bracco
flickr, last.fm, rememberthemilk
- Jason Toney
Evernote, Dropbox and Skype
- Sally Church
Mobileme is the only one I pay for right now.
- DGentry
Evernote, Flickr, TinySpell and WinPatrol (last 2 Windows only)
- Jack&Cleo
Flickr, Zune, Netflix.
- Jordan Hofker
from fftogo
Flickr, Netflix, Dreamhost
- Logan Lindquist
Trying mobileme.
- Ashish
Napster, and MobileMe
- Edgar Rodríguez
also, emusic. How could I forget them?
- Jason Toney
SugarSync, Evernote, LastPass
- Johan Bakken
Its got to be Evernote, Flickr and Skype. Noticing a lot of love for Evernote on this list
- Robert Davies
For all you Evernote peeps, if you're not already in it, we have a pretty active room on FF: Feel free to join us! http://friendfeed.com/evernot...
- Lindsay
Remember The Milk, Flickr. Thinking about subscribing to Evernote but not sure I really need the premium version. If they add export option to their amazing recognition tool, I may switch.
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Damn me, I forgot the one I use the most: skype...
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
freshbooks is great for small business invoicing. I use Pandora One also and Remember The Milk. trying Action Method (really good!)
- Julian Seery Gude
from BuddyFeed
Spotify.com, ProvideSupport.com, EverNote.com and soon e-tipi.com :-)
- Elian Chrebor
@elian what does Spotify premium brings? I would subscribe for an offline and/or iPhone feature. E-tipi probably but I hope you won't have to pay ;)
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Can someone tell me what lynda.com does? And what do you get extra with a paid Pandora account?
- Mark Traphagen
Mark: Lynda offers professional video tutorials or classes on pretty much any software imaginable (classes are streamed in browser via QuickTime and range anywhere from 2-12 hours. Pandora One is the pay Pandora account. It offers more skipping per day, double the bit rate quality (192 - huge difference from free account) and also a longer timeout period.
- Mike Bracco
I thought the bit rate quality with Pandora One wasn't going to be a big deal but it's night and day...big difference.
- Mike Bracco
Thanks, Mike!
- Mark Traphagen
I pay for Flickr, Plaxo and Me.com
- Boris
Flickr is the only thing I pay for. At work we pay for Wufoo and love it.
- Laura Norvig
Netflix, DeviantArt and that is it. That is all I pay for online besides GoDaddy for web hosting.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
spotify :).
- Tobias W.
I only pay for one at this point: Flickr. I am considering Evernote as well.
- Adam
Likely Evernote. still test driving it.
- Carolyn Chan
giganews unlimited usenet for $25/mo is always tempting
- Mike Chelen
Other than my Web hosting, I don't have any paid subscriptions to online services that I can think of. I tend to gravitate toward ad-supported free services.
- Curdy G
"Victoria Beckham had her implants removed according to the Daily Mail, taking her from a D to her natural B, and my heart from a :D to a :( " http://www.wwtdd.com/2009...
Yuvi, James Ferguson, RAPatton and AJ Batac :) liked this
old and busted
- iTad
When is she going to get her real face put back in?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I seriously think she is better off without those balloons. Big breasts: fine. Inflated fakes: not so fine.
- Boris
Uh oh... :-)
(via http://cultofmac.com/uh-oh-m...)
- Boris
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?
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And yeah I know, not REALLY next web stuff but you just have to love the ingenuity of this one...
- Boris
So...we've had Laptop Updates, Snow Leopard (September), iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS,? What's the verdict? Unhappy, Satisfied or Happy?
Jamie, Susan Beebe, Jennifer Dittrich and 2 other people liked this
Overall I'm happy but the 3GS.. not sure if I'll upgrade yet.
- Martin Bryant
Happy :D
- zsafwan
Satisfied.
- Wes Hoogenboom
Would have liked to see a tablet. Happy with new macbook and price though.
- Ben Newton
Pleasantly surprised by the laptop updates, wish 3GS was thinner and had iChat, and Snow Leopard for $29 is amazing, looking forward to it
- Arvin Dang
one question: will be video for "old" iPhone 3G too?
- FullSite
Not to bad. Good haul of stuff all round really.
- Simon Wicks
satisfied, not really happy tbh. I expected too much of this keynote imo :p
- Frederiek Pascal
Price $29 is just amazing !
- David Foucher
I'll be happy if Snow Leopard is PPC compatible. If not, kind of sad, but understanding.
- Joel Zehring
I'm happy that Apple seems to have reduced their prices across all their products. Exited for Snow Leopard. Wishing the iPhone was with carriers other than AT&T.
- Doug Jones
Nice job of covering this Zee!!! So, do i need to upgrade to 3GS phone to get Video?
- Susan Beebe
improved battery life will make me switch from my windows mobile, hardware encryption is also nice for the IT departement, but not the same excitement as with Google Wave to be honest.
- Erik Jonker
I'm pretty happy - it isn't a HUGE upgrade if you've got a 3G, but I'm rocking it old school with my 1st Gen. model, so it will be a must for me. Thanks for the coverage :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'll upgrade. My battery on my old one is getting tired, and the resell value of the old 3G phone (i.e. which will be unlocked and have no contract) should be decent enough to offset the cost of a new one. I sold my v. 1 on ebay, after one year of use, for the same price as a new v.2
- Andrew Leyden
The new hardware is a disappointment. I liked the matte version we saw a lot more. i don't get it...
- Boris
tech crunch has it :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm with Tad. No upgraded iPod Touch. No announcement for a tablet/big iPod Touch
- Rodfather
Used 3Gs will have some resale value because they can be unlocked. Folks have wanted faster 3G phones but the way they were sold in the US (tied to a 2 year contract at the time of purchase) made it difficult to get them for the unlocked market.
- Andrew Leyden
The Web will be the Death of Google - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Marwan Osman, James Ketchell, Парадокс Смейла and 12 other people liked this
have a read, it's not by me but its a fascinating post
- Zee.
But doesn't this assume that Google won't adapt to the changes? Why couldn't Google simply "steal" what Bing or other search or social engines offer?
- phil baumann
Moving from search to favourites lists will stagnate the web. Search engines allow fresh new content to get found without huge marketing campaigns. I really don't think in a decentralized chaotic medium like the Internet that stagnation like that will be embraced. Search may fragment, but I don't think it'll ever be supplanted.
- matthew john ernisse
@phil baumann: the point I'm trying to make is that Google won't be 'killed' by another, more innovative, search engine but by a changing World Wide Web. I don't search for books at Google but use Amazon. Correct? Google will have to compete with Amazon, Linkedin, eBay and all the social networks.The threat is not better search, is it less searching.
- Boris
Boris - it's a great point. still, Google could enter search biz for books (remains to be seen how their ebook venture goes). In other words, Google doens't have to be solely dedicated to Search. Still, you do raise an important consideration: that traditional search will probably decline in use as other means of finding things evolve.
- phil baumann
The article assumes too much about Google missing the boat, when in truth they have shown to act faster/more decisively than either MSFT, Yahoo, or most others. 1) Google bought YouTube ("the Web") when it became apparent that it was the next big wave. While they are still getting dinged for not monetizing it enough, YouTube already has more SEARCHES performed on it than No.2 search...
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- Alex Schleber
Uh, Alex, @ev already sold Blogger to Google; doesn't look like he's looking to sell again.
- Vezquex
Uh, @Vezquex, how is that a reason for Ev not to sell to them again (unless he felt screwed last time)? Whatever happened to "Each war makes the next one more plausible"? Plus, if the price is right, Twitter's VCs will nudge them to sell anyway. I think it's mostly price-inflating posturing/"courtship" right now..
- Alex Schleber
Have to completely disagree with this post, though it is interesting. If one looks at the examples of other sites cited by the author, one can see that in each case, search is still essential. Yes, much of search can be done from within specific sites instead of from an engine homepage like google. But if google has access to the information and APIs of sites just like everyone else...
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- Zach Landes
a) "This Week’s New Yorker Cover, Brought to You by the iPhone" or b) "This week’s New Yorker cover, brought to you by the iPhone"
Brooks Bishop, Kol Tregaskes, Ton Zijp and Chris Heath liked this
Most of the web's most popular blogs write titles using capitals for nearly all the larger words in the post title. Technically, it's incorrect - but what you prefer as a reader? A or B?
- Zee.
I like the version with capitals a)
- Chris Lloyd
My personal preference is either every word gets first caps or just the first word (old skool typesetting training).
- Johnny
I prefer without capitals and write my blog post headlines without. I've never thought that people might prefer them 'with' - it just looks more 'noisy' with capitals.
- Martin Bryant
For titles I like the all caps font, where the letters that are actually capitalized are just larger.
- Chris Heath
Capital B).
- Ton Zijp
If the NYT can do (a) for its headlines, I will too. Unless I forget.
- Andrew C (✓)
lol +1 Andrew
- Zee.
Definitely b). The first one is noisy and unnecessary, and mostly just seen in US media AFAICT.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
definitely b)
- TrafficBug
In this case I'd say B. But it depends on a lot of factors. If you have a short title that needs emphasis I like A sometimes. It all depends on how 'poetic' the title is really...
- Boris
Twitter to launch a TV Series!?! (updated with details of Leo Laporte's TWiT copyright) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Tv Series, Snehasis Patra, Alex Schlotzer and 31 other people liked this
this is unreal
- Zee.
interesting...checking the story out now
- (jeff)isageek
... It would be a bit weird to say the least.
- ralphsaunders
guess it cant be worse then some of the crap on tv now :)
- (jeff)isageek
It'll be interesting to see how they resolve the trademark issues with Leo Laporte and TWiT. There's also a http://twittertvlive.com already, which should get a cease and desist any day now.
- Ken Sheppardson
aren't they already resolved Ken? I agree though about TwitterTVLive - thats just one big mess
- Zee.
Zee: No, Leo's trademark applies specifically to streaming video/TV/etc. Since Twitter's not in that space, it creates no confusion in the marketplace, so there's been no "conflict". If they get into video, however... BTW, Leo was just talking about this on The Tech Guy radio show yesterday. The general TM issue... not the fact that they're talking about doing TV. That part didn't come up.
- Ken Sheppardson
ah i see, really interesting - might just add that to the post. Thanks Ken
- Zee.
unreal? Insane!
- Boris
A bizarre turn of events for sure.
- Martin Bryant
As I understand it back in 2007 Leo left Twitter for Jaiku, in part to avoid TWiT/Twitter confusion. http://leoville.vox.com/library... He's back on Twitter now, since you really have to be if you're a broadcaster these days.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, poor fella has had to come back with his tail between his legs. Clearly he's a little pissed with the similarities in the name...as i would be
- Zee.
Well supposedly everything is cool between them as long as twitter doesn't get into streaming video....
- Chris Heath
I guess the Twitter TV episodes will be light on content, but fast and edgy?
- DGentry
Seems like yet another vehicle for celebrities
- Raj Advani
yep +1 Raj, i think the celebs are going to end up winners here
- Zee.
My trademark is in ALL video, not just streaming. We've been negotiating mainstream TV deals, as well. A Twitter TV show might well quash any broadcast deals I might make due to the confusion.
- Leo Laporte
Leo, thank you so much for commenting. I'll update the post
- Zee.
This is bullshit. Twitter is clearly infringing. Besides, CNN is turning into a Twitter show anyways, lol.
- Andrew VanderVeen
it's about *core competencies*. when you think about twitter, you don't think (at this moment) of a tv show. twit's main focus is on video. it's what's twitter's planning to do that this is about. confusion exists. ask any noob. lol i think leo has to do what he has to to defend his investment in his trademark. again, it's more than just about the name.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Perhaps Twitter should buy the TWIT trademark,then Leo could really expand. Leo is the brand not TWIT. Without Leo, TWIT is exactly what Twitter is: a simple group of followers that generate content, most of which is consistent of a Twit
- Gary Sanders
from BuddyFeed
yeah, I'd agree with you Gary...i think thats a great idea
- Zee.
They're leaving Leo no choice in the matter
- Bwana ☠
Please no.........the beginning of the end, sides we already have you tube et al
- Kevin J Hatton
Is this a joke? I can't even take this seriously
- Angus Burton
PC Easy: maybe they're hoping to make money from spin-offs like TV shows and books rather than the core product. Not a wise move in the long term if you ask me.
- Martin Bryant
Twitter TV Live has 3 shows live 5 days a week - it's based out of hollywood and the prodution quality (at least the audio) is just horrible! (turn your speakers down if you click this link) http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
- Chris Heath
The kindest thing I could say is that it is amateur and feels rushed. Admittedly I need to work on some of my own content but on balance work much harder to produce something of quality. http://www.ustream.tv/recorde...
- Kevin J Hatton
honestly i think they are hoping to succeed at showing other shows how an interactive component can be added with Twitter. They aren't entering the TV market as a content producers they want to enter as content expanders... When I think Twitter I think texts...when i think TWIT i think Leo....I don't see a case here.
- Sidney
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