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Who has the best SEO/SEM info? Post URLs here:
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Google webmaster blog is well-known as reputable: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
- Matt Cutts
Live has a good webmaster blog too: http://blogs.msdn.com/webmast... Their most recent post about getting out of the penalty box is quite good.
- Matt Cutts
It is important to get back to the basics once in awhile and I am rebuilding my blog from the foundation up, which is why I am asking.
- Robert Scoble
Is SEO/SEM still relevant?
- Mona Nomura
Google also just started a video channel for webmasters: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW... Over 30+ videos already up to answer common questions.
- Matt Cutts
I'm a big fan on http://www.seobook.com (Aaron Wall) and http://highrankings.com (Jill Whalen)
- Jason Kane
Thanks Matt! Does anyone have a good checklist?
- Robert Scoble
The Yahoo equivalent is the Yahoo! Search blog: http://ysearchblog.com/
- Matt Cutts
SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com AND SEOMoz: http://www.seomoz.org
- Vinny
http://blackwaterops.com
- Brandon Wirtz
I am not shocked that a Google employee was the first to answer this, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
@Mona: ...can you expand on your question? What has made optimizing content and Web sites for search engines less relevant?
- .LAG liked that
The only SEO that has been able to show me actual results is http://NowSourcing.com
- MarkCarras
SEOmoz for sure.
- mjc
@virante.com (http://www.virante.com/seo-too...)
- Mark Traphagen
Mona: yes. Techcrunch tells me 60% of it's traffic comes from search.
- Robert Scoble
http://centuryhouse.net/ upcoming SEO Blog
- Robert Enriquez
This post will open the floodgates. Another vote for SEOMoz here however
- Mo Kargas
Let's see. There's my blog of course: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . For search news, Search Engine Land is quite comprehensive: http://searchengineland.com/ . I often check Google Blogoscoped http://blogoscoped.com/ or Google Operating System http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/ for other interesting news.
- Matt Cutts
Robert -- while not a one place checklist, visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/. I've implemented some of their recommendations thus far and I feel like it's already making a difference.
- Aanarav Sareen
I've recently heard Google changed their algorithm, plus with aggregating sites indexing for us (FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter), there are many outlets and methods of people reaching our media -- that is, if we remember to segregate to keep various audiences interested. ie: staying away from ping.fm like services.
- Mona Nomura
And then there's the HTML documentation that we offer for webmasters: http://google.com/support... plus our help forum http://www.google.com/support...
- Matt Cutts
Thanks, Robert.
- Mona Nomura
I'll let other folks suggest additional outside info. There's everything from Eric Goldman who talks about legal aspects of search http://blog.ericgoldman.org/ to SEO by the Sea http://www.seobythesea.com/ which talks about patents related to SEO/SEM/search. It's a really broad field. It's almost like asking "What are some good sources for information about blogging?" :)
- Matt Cutts
What a timely question Robert :) I'm just studying up on this whole subject for my own site, and didn't really know where to start. Nice
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yes, another vote for SEOmoz here. This checklist is pretty comprehensive: http://www.seomoz.org/dp...
- Craig Bailey
Must read SEO blog: http://www.thegooglecache.com/
- Mark Traphagen
"Does anyone have a good checklist?" We wrote an SEO beginner's guide at http://googlewebmastercentral.... that I proofread before it went live. You can also do searches like [wordpress seo guide] and there are several good resources in the search results.
- Matt Cutts
http://delicious.com/search...
- Jay Neff
Mona, Yes. something like 90% of all traffic starts with a search engine, so unless you are a destination site ,you rely on search to send your traffice. There are times when RSS Subs can be more valuable, like when you are doing loyalty building, but generally NEW users are finding you through a social media or through search. More people are in search than social media..Ergo its still relevant
- Brandon Wirtz
Aanarav, I would recommend some caution regarding Digital Point. Some of the more aggressive stuff that gets pitched in corners of DP can get you in trouble.
- Matt Cutts
I am a fan of Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com Great advice and solid writers.
- Ross Dunn
The sites listed here are (mostly) excellent for sure. I'm also kinda partial to the SEO Success Pyramid (since I wrote it). http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/the-seo...
- Matt McGee
I'm adding all these to http://delicious.com/jayneff... thanks! :)
- Jay Neff
TR: http://www.seoteknikleri.com , http://delicious.com/wolkanc...
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
This is a MUST read in my opinion: SEOMoz http://www.seomoz.org/article...
- Doug Lawrence
Of course Google is going to be the Dali Lama of SEO but there are many gurus of interest: http://www.searchengineacademysc.com
- Laurel Phelps LaFlamme
Not that I'm biased, but LinkMoses http://www.ericward.com/article... and the Link Building Best Practices QandA http://www.ericward.com/bestpra... are on my must read list.
- Eric Ward
@seomoz great docs, great tools, and a fun and informative blog & community
- Julie Bovee Hill
Interesting how few SEOs seem to hang out on FF. On Twitter this would be a massive swarm of link dropping.
- Matt Cutts
For WordPress I recommend http://www.yoast.com
- Erno Hannink
Matt: this went to Twitter too. I have good PR's on both friendfeed and Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
What about excellent content? Is that still important? I mean, useful material for human beings? Shouldn't that be well ranked by search engines? And of course, a usable and web standards compliant site.
- Alexis Bellido
me
- chaz2b
Thanks Scoble! I've been looking for this info myself, actually.
- Adam C.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog for technical specs on SEO and http://www.seobook.com/blog for business insights in relation to SEO
- Dave Fuentes
Thanks for this list. It finally showed me that value of FriendFeed over Twitter and Facebook. Good answers. Rock on. :-)
- Martin Seibert
I just want to mark this for building43 which I just did with this comment. Oh, I wish I had invisible comments to add metadata/metatags to items like this.
- Robert Scoble
Leather: I never liked delicious. It isn't setup to have a conversation like what happened here.
- Robert Scoble
Leather: when I search friendfeed for building43 I want this post to come up. Here, take a look: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... No need to create another item in delicious.
- Robert Scoble
www.SEOmoz.org, www.SEObook.com , www.SEOquake.com and also www.webpagefx.com is quite useful.
- Hayk H.
As Alexis Bellido says, "a usable and web standards compliant site." I recommend http://www.w3.org for brushing up on the compliance side of things (even if it gets a bit technical). It's the standards by which the web runs, from the horses mouth, so to speak.
- David August
You may want to try #Neil_Patel & his #Quick_Sprout outfit http://www.quicksprout.com/about... See his post: "How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines" http://bit.ly/JeXq1 - informative & good free advice. I've been digging into this subject myself for the benefit of a product one of my companies is incubating and this chap and his firm keeps rising to the top of my list. I am also fairly certain that he will advise you for free in return for a good word to your "subjects" ;) @AAinslie
- Alexander Ainslie
This post and more importanly the timeline of the replies are in and of themselves useful as a measure of which SEO/SEOm firms are paying attention online. Not that this is an automatic measure of capability or quality, but you gotta question how good any site is that doesn't link drop on this particular post, be it a self drop or otherwise, given who the author was/is. I*'m, amazed there haven't been more. This might be tell us a thing or two about FF and the SEO community.
- Eric Ward
Just a comment regarding Digital Point, they commonly recommend greyhat/blackhat techniques, and offer lots of stupid stuff for a price. The same advice can be had for free on BlackHatWorld.com. Information wants to be free. ;)
- Lee Ingram
http://www.seobook.com with Aaron I rate highly, digital-point is probably a good place for short term success on splogs but nothing sustainable long term for a proper business.
- Mark Edmondson
If this is about your blog vs SEO in general, that's a bit different. For blog SEO you might try Aaron's lengthy article on SEO for bloggers, http://www.seobook.com/blogger... Joost DeValk's Blog http://www.yoast.com or Matt Cutts favorite commentator: http://www.wolf-howl.com
- Lee Odden
Some of my favorite WordPress SEO recommendations are from Yoast: http://yoast.com/article... - and this is an outstanding presentation on WordPress Blog SEO: http://wordpress.tv/2009...
- Don Campbell
Eric, thanks for your offerings. I think that maybe the lack of SEO people here may be down to the fact that we are all working hard implementing all these techniques for our clients. There are plenty of SEO companies who merely do the work, rather than write down what they are doing and share with the rest. http://dragonsearchmarketing.com/blog... , the shop I work at part time is running really hard right now, with 3 new hires in the last 2 months.
- Mark Zip
As to the reflection on the Ff community, perhaps that is because FF is bleeding edge and most work in the trenches of SEO is being done short of the bleeding edge, where there are more "regular" folks.
- Mark Zip
Just joined StomperNet . Not a plug as I am still new with them (1 Week) http://stomping2.com/ and would like to know how others view them. They provide very detailed info through video. Seem to have an impressive staff on board. They are a paid subscription but think it is worth it so far. Would especially like to hear what Matt Cutts has to say about them. Should I cancel my subsription or not?
- Jonathan
Jonathan: I know some of the StomperNet folks, they are very smart.
- Robert Scoble
It does feel special to be using this service and be so connected in such a varitey of topics. Just tried the similar search (after reading comments on Matt Cutts ff) and did my usual search to see how a system works. http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images... Need to get more non naked pics going :)
- Jonathan
Jonathan, that would be a longer conversation than the FF textbox has room for.
- Matt Cutts
Confidential SEO Secrets Book (down to earth and real). ;-) http://www.allenharkleroad.com/Home...
- Allen Harkleroad
Matt Cutts, should i use them or not? Are they doing harm? I am trying to learn but not move into the black hat.
- Jonathan
Various guys: Seobook, seomoz, www.searchandsocial.com
- gareth【ツ】
Black hat is an attitude.
- gareth【ツ】
http://yoast.com/article...
- Sprague D
Killer SEO / SEM info for Small Businesses http://www.flowtown.com/blog :p
- Ethan Bloch
SEOMoz is good, Seobook is good, I would also recommend WebmasterWorld as well. Supporters area on WebmasterWorld has some of the best minds hanging out there...
- Bill Hartzer
Robert - The most recent article I did on free SEO resources is here: http://anzman.blogspot.com/2009... Hope it helps! Charlie
- Charlie Anzman
Here's a bunch. http://www.seomoz.org, http://www.seobythesea.com, http://www.mattcutts.com, http://www.searchengineland, http://www.searchenginejournal, http://yoast.com, http://www.seobook.com, http://www.seoptimise.com, http://www.thegooglecache.com, http://seo2.0.onreact.com, http://wiep.net and of course http://www.blindfiveyearold.com or look at my delicious bookmarks http://delicious.com/ajkohn2...
- AJ Kohn
I found http://www.waferscale.com as the best website which provides meaningful and easy to understand articles on SEO
- Xelios
now if you have a CIALS site the above would be like a fart in a Gail,not much of an impression.
- tomartomartini
Kindle 2 unboxing and hands-on - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"We've already gotten a chance to play with the Kindle 2, but there's nothing like getting one delivered to your door and cracking it open. As with the first version, Amazon has done a masterful job with presentation and packaging. We're going to be delivering a full review of the device in just a bit, but for now, feast your eyes on the galleries below!"
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Some nice packaging there
- Simon Wicks
such a cool device. I just formatted my first book for Kindle distribution.
- Jack Lhasa
why does the kindle have so much space surrounding the screen?
- John O'Day
iPhone coasters = WANT - http://sarahintampa.tumblr.com/post...
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Google Mobile - Sync (This is huge if it works well. Am trying it now). - http://www.google.com/mobile...
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so far, no sync :(
- Mistletoe Glen
It seems to work great. Only 5 Google Calendars though.
- Wallace Wilson
I'd try it out but iPhone has this odd limitation of only one "Exchange" account at a time and I already sync with my Work Exchange. :(
- Paul Wade
Yes, this is ONLY useful if you don't already sync your iPhone to an Exchange server!
- Stephen Foskett
Love this. Hope that Apple end up supplementing lost MobileMe revenue with increased handset marketshare. Want to know if GoogleSync and MobileMe can be used in tandemn (until MobileMe subscription expires).
- Conor Ogle
Working well on WinMO so far, just needed to backup and import my outlook contacts into Google first. Looking forward to this thing moving
- Tyler Brownfield
Conor, I don't see why not. I have my work exchange server and my mobileme account (along with Yahoo, Gmail (email)) all on the same iphone and it all works great. I just wish I could add a second exchange account for Google.
- Paul Wade
Worked for me on my Windows Mobile, but I couldn't sync my calendar, as i'm already syncing elsewhere!
- Les Zaldor
Thanks. Do you think a one-time sync to get Google in line with MobileMe is going to be enough? I'm concerned about one overwriting the other.
- Conor Ogle
Google sync uses ActiveSync in Windows Mobile. This means I can't sync to both it and my work exchange server... such a bummer.
- Alan Le
Conor, MobileMe and Exchange Activesync are kept completely separate on the iPhone. No data crossover at all.
- Paul Wade
I like the thought, but I won't put it to use. I don't want my personal stuff, mixing with my work stuff anymore... Maybe another time, remember it's beta, but we all know google will keep it beta for like 2 years (i.e. gmail still beta) lol
- Jayson Flint
So what happens to my Address Book?
- Conor Ogle
Working here, fantastic - been waiting for this for a while. If you have multiple Google Calendars make sure to visit m.google.com/sync on the phone (not on the computer) and select the additional calendars you want to sync.
- Ben
I've had this for some time now using nuevasync.com... but, now I can sync directly to google, and remove nuevasync from the equation. nice.
- Neil Bernhart
This is a major game changer IMO. Why would any small business owner want Blackberry or Exchange servers at this point? GMail allows you to park a domain & gives you 7+ gigs for free. With OTA sync, you get the Blackberry-esque features, also for free. If I have 10-50 employees, I have the choice of hosting multiple servers onsite with multiple moving parts along with purchasing CALs, HW & SW maintenance, and dealing with never-ending storage needs. Or, I could let someone else do it for little to no cost.
- Peter Ghosh
oh, and beware... push eats battery life on the 3G like there's no tomorrow. if you can live with getting updates every 15 min, I would stick with fetch.
- Neil Bernhart
NuevaSync has been offering the same service from months on the iPhone and other phones. It can also do up to 8 calendars.
- Chris Williams
Only one calendar is synced from Google. Nuevasync supports multiple calendars.
- Jared B. Luther
Jared, you can sync up to 5 cals with Google Sync. Sadly, none of them can be shared calendars from what I'm seeing. Sticking with NuevaSync for now.
- Kevin C. Tofel
@Kevin - they can be shared. I'm viewing shared and even public calendars with Google Sync on my iPhone.
- Wallace Wilson
Is this one of those things that doesn't work with Google Apps for your domain? It doesn't seem to want to work for me.
- Ryan Anderson
I am a Google Apps user and I am getting nada. Me thinks I will be heading back over to Nuevasync.
- Matt Martin
@Peter, if I was a small business owner, one thing that I'd consider is the security. Google Apps doesn't give you any ability to manage the device. Both BES and Exchange allow you to remotely kill or hobble a device as well as push custom apps and security policies. You can get BES free for less than 10 devices or go to hosted Exchange/BES. Sure it costs you money, but businesses should be concerned about where all that data is going and being stored.
- Kenton
@Ryan, I found the fix. You need to go into the dashboard for your domain and enable the sync.
- Matt Martin
@Ryan and Matt: It DOES work on hosted domains. You need to login to your Google Apps admin control panel and enable sync.
- Peter Ghosh
@Peter, thanks for the heads up. Seems to be working well..
- Matt Martin
I think for individuals and small businesses this is going to be killer in which data security and device management can be a bit more lenient. I wish just sucks I'm stuck with Exchange already at work.
- Brian Bufalo
@Kenton - Good take on security. Given that this is using Activesync, I think the Google Apps-enabled kill switch is imminent (ActiveSync via Exchange has kill switch features). The fact that the domain's Google Apps admin has to enable sync'ing in the first place is a good start.
- Peter Ghosh
btw, 1 hour in and this feature is nerdtastic!!!!
- Peter Ghosh
Thanks for the tip on enabling it via the Google Apps dashboard; seems to work fine for me now.
- Mistletoe Glen
Nice! I didn't know about the activation from within the Admin panel of Apps for Domains, and now it's working great. Thanks Matt & Peter!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Still no news and/or tricks on how to get the calendar to sync to the Nokia symbian phones?
- Henrik Söderlund
I don't have any options for additional calendars on m.google.com/sync, just the iPhone setup instructions. Is this an Apps bug?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Tried setting it up on my HTC Mogul and it no work. Had to change the username to cjwelle%gmail.com for the user name to get the domain to show up. But after that no sync of any information. Not ready for primetime in my book.
- Uncle CW™
Setting up Google Sync now. updating my N82 firmware first. hope it wont delete my contacts list like it does for iPhone.
- Sunil Joseph
Wallace, thanks for correcting me. I wasn't able to see my shared calendars, but after your comment I thought about it. My shared cals are from a Google Apps account and our admin likely hasn't enabled it for that one. Thanks!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I've been using the version for BlackBerrys for a couple of months or so, but turned it off the other day as it kept retracting my appointments during syncs leaving me with an empty calendar and missed appointments! Not sure what was happening there, and it's hard to tell if there's a newer release for the BBs that's come out now too.
- Benjamin Watt
Sounds like a good idea but I can't get it set up. Keep getting "exchange account validation failed" but no clues as to what failed. Are there any restrictions on usage outside the US?
- Mark Warren
I use this on my BlackBerry and it works extremely well for me.
- Christopher Howie
from twhirl
I also found a problem here in germany - if you try to sync more than one calendar it said "this device is not supported" - adding ?hl=en to switch to english helped and I could sync all my shared and read only calendars: http://m.google.com/sync?hl=en
- Frank S.
Works perfectly for me. Now I can stop using nuevasync...
- Jorg Jansen
I've used the BlackBerry version for a few months now. It's great!
- Rob Boek
Well, If you are using and depending on /or can't get around another service, e.g. an Exchange server, in your cross sync calendar and contacts mix Google Sync is most likely not going to do much for you. Las time I checked, Google Sync assumes the dominant position and does not let you specify any sync conditions you'd might come to expect from other syncing apps. E.g. syncing contacts to and from your Google account not optional. I'd like to be able to tell Google how and what I'd like to sync, though.
- Vidar Andersen
If apple would simply support CalDav on the iPhone this would be a moot point. I can have iCal attached to Google Calendar and working off-line... but not the calendars on my iPhone. I don't get it...
- Brian Roy
Proof of the pudding for me will be how it handles alarms. If that works well, bye bye MobileMe!
- Chris Hearn
I wonder if using ActiveSync has any implications for Verizon users who have the $30/mo data plan for "Web Mail/Web Browsing", vs the $45/mo plan which is for "Syncing of Calendars/Tasks/Email/Web Browsing"? Could they be doing any packet capture by protocol?
- Jef
works awesome. i've been using nuevasync since i got the phone but was waiting till google did their own. now i'm happily waiting for them to support sync for tasks with.... ?
- tommy payne
from twhirl
NO, it doesn't work great. It has all the same problems with any other Exchange Sync. Your phone is "slaved" to the "exchange" - once that happens - no other contacts, no other calendars (with Google Apps you only get 1 calendar). The limitations of this pretty much out-weigh the up-side.
- Brian Roy
This is very tempting, except just this morning I was thinking that I need to start extracting myself from excessive dependence on the Google. I guess I could use this if I can figure out some other Google service to jettison.
- Erik S
I've been using Neuvasync for the past 9 or 10 months. It's a free Exchange service that interfaces with your Google calendar and contact store. It worked extremely well providing near real-time OTA synch between my iPhone, Outlook (with a Google account) and the web. I've now switched over to Google's Exchange service. Since Google was already hosting my contacts and calendar there was...
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- Troy Forster
from twhirl
I've noticed that if you setup Google Sync with your iPhone and have the OS X Address Book set to sync with Google, it appears the latter no longer happens. While OTA updates seem to work flawlessly between Google Contacts and the iPhone, if you intend to keep the Address Book in sync with the other 2 then something is in need of fixing.
- Scott Jarkoff
Any difference between Exchange and MobileMe push on the iPhone with regard to battery life?
- Chris Hearn
ilike :) works so far
- videopixil
How is this handling fields that Google doesn't have in Gmail, i.e. birthdays? I'm a little hesitant to just sync contacts specifically, because Gmail doesn't have the number of related fields that the iPhone or the Address Book app does.
- Aakar Shroff
its not new though... its existed on the blackberry for a loong time (and has been working quite well for me)... is the "new" just the version for the iPhone or am i missing something?
- simran
Currently Google Sync only supports Contacts for my Nokia N95 Too bad I use GooSync now for my calendar, but it only updates a couple of weeks ahead. Wish Plaxo had 2 way sync with Google Contacts. And that I could use any address book in gmail.
- nooble
Took a while to get this up and running well, but I've decided to forgo access to my work email/calendar to have my Google Calendar on my phone.
- Bill Glover
I have never been a big fan of Google's contacts system. If contact photos (which I use in my iPhone for caller ID) don't get synced they way Outlook does it, I won't bother. Google needs to overhaul the whole UI and feature set of it's contacts system. Right now it is probably the worst of all the main webmail services.
- Rolf Schewe
youll let us know?
- Richard Binhammer
from twhirl
I have a question for anyone who's used this so far. What happens with conflicts? How does it determine if a contact is the same and which one wins the conflict? Can this be set? It would be nice if the phone wins for phone number conflicts and Google wins for email address conflicts (possibly address, too), but that's a pipe dream, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, what happens with contact images? I don't want to overwrite the ones already on my phone but it would be nice to have some pulled from GChat for the rest of my contacts that don't have them set already (so I guess I would like phone to win contact image conflicts)
- Chieze Okoye
D'oh! only the main calendar on WinMob! Sucks! Oh well, guess I won't be using it now. Switching to Nuevasync, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Redirecting Sunray users to their existing Windows Terminal Server session? - http://blogs.sun.com/brianye...
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iPhone 2.0 Upgrade Walkthrough - a set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Is the actor who played Tatoo in Fantasy Island still around? They should have him sponsor this. Or just have a midget Jello fight at every public event.
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
Tattoo has been dead for a long time...might not go over so well. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- cmiper
@ Earl - Tattoo and Jesse Helms are in different places, tattoo would have to be pointing way down. But i like any small call alternatives.
- Steve C
Midget Jello wrestling it is then
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
No, just...no.
- xero
holy, cheap. are they even making money?
- Hao Chen
@Brian Norwood - LOL, that might actually raise the slumping sales of Surburans
- gregory
I was in India earlier this year when the car was unveiled. It is amazing the number of people who want to buy the car.
- kamla bhatt
Holy crap: http://qik.com/video/125418
Jesper Kjær Hansen, Jemm, Gavin and 24 other people liked this
You should have seen this live. Amazing.
- Robert Scoble
That was really sweet.
- Jordan Hofker
I think Ansel Adams would have really enjoyed this.
- Andy Roth
I want a surface for myself. Seeing that climber is insane.
- Matt Donders
from twhirl
I can't help it... everytime I see Microsoft Surface in action I think http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Robert Gonzalez
The Seadragon stuff is impressive as usual. I hadn't seen the dial UI before. That was pretty cool, in that it takes us back to a day when things were operated with physical dials. I wonder if people will prefer the tactile dials to the ones that are merely drawn on screen...
- Karim
Very cool. Re-posted to blog
- Douglas E. Welch
from twhirl
Karim: I thought those dials were cool. I loved the interaction of the physical with the virtual.
- Robert Scoble
The bridge between physical and virtual is very interesting to me. I just picked up a new LG Voyager that has a tactile feedback touch screen. First one I've ever owned. Cool stuff.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Surface is amazing.
- Nicholas James
when they put the dice on there - reminded me of this: http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/
- Cole Orton
nice little vid. the way all the photos were organized looked amazing
- Cee Bee
A nice application of Surface.
- Daniel Miessler
I just showed this to my wife who thinks this is the coolest thing ever!
- Joseph Ferris
Now I have a reason to save up for Surface!! Way cool, @Scoble!!
- Nathan Finley
British Weather - http://blogs.sun.com/startup...
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Nice photo - it really has been a miserable day today. Bad choice for a week off work on my part.
- Ben
Ward, N0AX stated "Freed from the linear model, operators are free to simply "click around the band", instead of tuning from one station to the next." [ARRL Contest Update]
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Google Labs launch of lively.com. It's cute and fun... and 3D! Go play! (But only Windows for now, sigh) : http://www.lively.com
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Earth plugin == Windows only too. We need to stop doing that... VMWare Fusion is great and all, but man.
- Dion Almaer
Hmm, it is moderately unprofessional to support a single platform. Kind of anti-google behavior.
- Mo Kargas
doesn't work well for me - can't change avatar or wardrobe. But that may just be my sucky Tiscali connection :(
- Barry de la Rosa
Don't forget Picasa. There's no mac version...
- Chris Chua
I guess I am strange. I don't have time for Friendfeed and the work I have to do online. This Lively is a recreational "second life" kind of thing? I am an old fart and painfully unhip.
- Aura Mae
Google Launches Lively, Virtual World Across Social Networks - http://mashable.com/2008...
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I don't know how I feel about Lively...I'm getting too much of an MS Bob vibe from it.
- Zach Underwood
going to fire up Vista so I can give it a try
- Kevin Rose
Only windows - sad.
- Mike
I am disappointed with lively!! may be i need more time to understand it better! :(
- Jigar Mehta
I don't know. Maybe I just don't get it yet, but I'm really not sure why Google is moving into this space. Sure there's some advertising potential, but I just don't get the feeling that this is the next big thing.
- Harrison Hoffman
It's kinda amazing that they built this in their 20% time. How many "20% time" did it take for them to roll this out?
- Winston Teo
it only runs on windows. poo on that!
- Anji Bee
lets see how parallels handles this
- Jesse McPherson
@Bruce I was going to mention that it looked like a case of throw what we have against the wall and see what sticks.
- Harrison Hoffman
Chugged under VMWare Fusion. Totally a beta product. Could have legs tho. Brazil, is that you?
- Ari Braginsky
Kids are going to love this - some adults too once they open it up like Sims2 where you can create custom content
- Cheryl Allin
Everyone is trying to have a virtual world now.........
- ChaCha Fance
Virtual Worlds are so 2007. over it already
- Giovanni Ghignone
Isn't this just like second life?
- Ramon J. Gonzalez
I tried it....and ...I didn't really like it... Well of course its too early now to say anything. But I like the idea of having it embedded on your website.
- Saad Kamal
"Second Life with Ad Sense!" yeah, I passed on SL, I think I'll pass on "Lively"...Google knows too much about me all ready, I don't need them putting a virtual face to the data on top of it...plus, who the hell can do this at work? Twitter and FF is about as far as I'll go to socialize on-line...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I Want My SVG - http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo...
Ben liked this
SVG support is sorely missed in IE. You have to ask yourself why they haven't bothered. Shouldn't it be more of a priority as applications move away from desktops towards the web?
- Ben
Exclusive: Sneak Peek of the 3G iPhone OS | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/gadgets...
Wes Justice, Alex Albrinck, Rey Ramos and 23 other people liked this
I'm liking the location tagging on photos. Hopefully it can be tied in with other apps and sites like Brightkite too, would save time.
- Simon Wicks
searching contacts would be enough for me to switch!
- Randal Leeb-du Toit
@Simon Yeah, it would be a major FAIL if geotagging isn't Flickr compatible.
- Martin Bryant
Interesting. But I'm still bitter there is no stereo Bluetooth out. All the bells and whistles are fine, I appreciate gadgets, but I realize now that MP3/podcast out is more important day-to-day for me than all the rest... If only the Samsung Omnia was closer to being released.
- David Sky
@Martin totally agree
- Rubin Sfadj
Firefox down - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Alex Williams, Brandon, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 20 other people liked this
Indeed! Firefox 3 Success Failure! http://tinyurl.com/4do6q3
- Stephen Pierzchala
Direct download links http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
Not surprising though - and even better publicity...
- Wictor Wilén
So thats what the problem is! I rebooted my computer twice
- Dave Peck
Down With FireFox ! Viva internet Explorer
- Farzad
Failfox? Foxwhale?
- Iain Baker
that reminds me something, uhm twitter?
- Eren Emre Kanal
Firefail!
- Bwana ☠
where is getfirefoxtomorrow.com when you need it?
- Wade Dorrell
I think the last thing they posted was a "Mission Accomplished" banner and a quote from Mozila about large number of downloads -- "Bring it on," I believe they said...
- Karim
FireFailFox?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Well, getfirefox is responding now, at least. Still showing FF2, though. C'mon guys.
- felix
Now they are redirecting www.getfirefox.com to the FF2.0 download. Wtf? I already have FF2.0.
- Jon Erickson
They need Blaine Cook to show them how to scale!
- Pat Hawks
10am Pacific, guys! Be patient.
- Ward Seward
What time do you think it is, Ward?!?
- Pat Hawks
260,000 downloads and counting http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
Looks as if everything just clicked into place - page loading and reloading fine here.
- Ben
Pat, oh yeah.... good point. I guess I can't tell time. I guess I'll join in on the bitching now.
- Ward Seward
@Ward - lol. Really wish I could "like" that comment :-P
- Pat Hawks
Kim: You just won a lol and a subscription. Where are you going now? Disneyland?
- Russellreno
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
- Pat Hawks
So is it worth it?
- Steve Cornelius
Yes, but I've been using it for months.
- Robert Scoble
Pat, just keep trying... it will work. I just completed downloading it.
- Ward Seward
downloading now :)
- David Smith
from twhirl
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" -- looks suspiciously like that Amazon.com outage a few days ago...
- Karim
Installation Success. I just got mine from the mozilla site. But one big drawback, wow a bunch of incompatible add-ons, bummer
- Jon Erickson
I was able to get the browser download but having problems accessing the addons page. :/
- Arlan Koizumi
The addon page is passing incorrect HTTP headers. Some firewalls (ours for example) blocks that sort of thing.
- Joel Gray
According to moz, the addon site is down, but addon updates server is still running apparently... I'm following them live on mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
I just downloaded FF3... proper like also, so I feel proud I have done my bit for the record cause.
- Travis Koger
Finally downloaded. 12,000 downloads per minute = 200 downloads per second * 7 MB = 1.4 GB = 11 Gbit = probably smoking somebody's OC-192. Ok, so I officially cut them a little slack now. ;-)
- Karim
I got it on the work computer. So much faster and slicker so far. Though I had to reinstall of my add-ons. None of them would auto-update. Also causes Windows Live Mail to go nuts (probably MS's fault), but clicking Logout there crashes FireFox. There is no way that's MS's fault.
- xero
got in at the right time! really happy with the speed of FF3. looks great as well, still testing all the new features.
- michael sean wright
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