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Charles Hudson commented on a blog post on Disqus
Tuesday at 9:22 pm - Link
"Nick, if you're interested in diving deeper on this subject I'm happy to offer you a press pass to the upcoming Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco in October - just let me know. More details available at http://www.vgsummit2008.com - we have a panel dedicated to social networks." - Charles Hudson
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Charles Hudson commented on a blog post on Disqus
Tuesday at 9:20 pm - Link
"Good article, Eric. We'll be exploring a lot of what makes virtual goods work on social networks and on the web in general at the upcoming Virtual Goods Summit in October (http://www.vgsummit2008.com)" - Charles Hudson
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Chris Messina posted an entry on FactoryCity
Tuesday at 12:30 am - Link
As usual, Chris gets the big picture. - Chris Baskind
Chris is a tech superstar that I listen to deeply. He is excited by Google's moves and lays out the poor execution on the Mozilla side of the fence. - Robert Scoble
What I missed in the Chrome comic was a mention of browser add-ons like Firefox's. Surfing the web without Adblock Plus is hard to imagine. - Ole Begemann
or without the delicious add-ons... or the evernote add-on... but at least bookmarklets are (likely?) to still work. - Justin Long
The comic was aimed squarely at devs. There was little mention of what would make end users choose Chrome over IE. - Paul Grav
Best read so far, been waiting for a commentary like this... - Kevin Cearns
Gee, Ole... why wouldn't Google want you running AdBlock Plus? Can't imagine. ;) (Now, I agree, add-ons are cool, but as a publisher, I'm not going to weep over that one...) Anyway, I wouldn't count Firefox out. Obviously, what Google addresses is the performance/reliability side and building around apps. Both FF and Chrome are built around standards, both closely married to JavaScript for what they do next. I think this could be a great rivalry, frankly. - Peter Kirn via twhirl
They talk explicitly about plugins on pages 29-32 of the comic so you should be able to have your AdBlock. I seriously doubt Google cares that much about AdBlockers -- which makes up an extremely small percent of the overall market, and which is probably made up of people who don't click ads anyway. - Chris Messina
Chris: I suspect by plugins they mean Flash etc. and not Firefox-style extensions. But I hope I'm wrong. - Ole Begemann
But will it support 1Password on the Mac? - Khürt Williams via twhirl
Will they, wont they. Time will tell. Who do you want to hate today? - Steve Blamey
Interesting article. More choice = better for the users. But I think that you are over-hyping the death of Firefox. As far I can tell. Firefox 3.0 is much better than Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 will be better than Firefox 3.0. Multi-process, V8 and native Gears support are definitely a step forward but firefox is part of an ecosystem so I would not count them out (A lot of people said that Safari meant the death of firefox and firefox is doing much better today then back them). I look forward to revisiting this post in 18 months and see how the mozilla team/community proved you wrong! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm, well, I didn't claim to foretell the death of Firefox at all. In fact, Firefox will likely continue to gain marketshare and attention (as the web is still expanding). One of my points is that Mozilla missed the opportunity to be the foundation of Chrome -- and will now have to play catch up -- instead of set the agenda for what's next. - Chris Messina
Do you think that was a technical decision or a control decision. From the last couple of interviews I have seen of John Lilly, I think that he has a really clear vision around performance, usability and ecosystem. Performance is coming in 3.1. Usability is driven by some of the concept Labs has been pushing out and ecosystem come from the fact that there are 100s of extensions to firefox and a really vibrant community around firefox. That is a very unique blend. Chrome has made some good progress around performance but there is not much innovation around usability and extensibility. Google has proven with Android acitivities and cross application data sharing that they are capable of innovating...but it will take before those things make it to Chrome so while firefox might have to play catch up in part of the architecture, Chrome will have to play catchup in others. - Edwin Khodabakchian
I am using chrome right now, and I really miss my shareaholic addon as well as my stumbleupon bar. hopefully the developers get crackin for plugins for this browser. - James Campbell
I'm hoping to see some good progress from Mozilla. I do worry a bit about them fish-tailing and not being able to say no to developers (whose needs are often very different from regular folks). We shall see. @James Campbell:There will be a need for web hooks, no doubt... and places to insert additions or modifications to your browser experience -- I don't really doubt that (some standardization there would be nice too). - Chris Messina
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Monday at 9:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Interesting article on red-flags in start-ups from a product manager's point of view. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
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August 28 at 10:22 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
As someone who wastes a lot of time on fantasy football, i found this highly entertaining. i guess the woman who founded the site is getting a lot of press with the upcoming start to the football season - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
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Charles Hudson posted a link
August 26 at 9:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The story illustrates a troublesome workplace phenomenon that's now attracting attention: employees who quietly cause problems so they can later take credit for fixing them. Georgia Institute of Technology business professor Nathan Bennett dubs the behavior "Munchausen at work," because it resembles a rare psychological disorder in which sufferers seek attention by making up an illness or inducing sickness in others." - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
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August 25 at 8:37 pm - Link
That sounds self-contradictory, almost like an Asian Martina Navratalova - j1m
Jess, I have no idea where you find this stuff but it's always so awesome - Charles Hudson
she might have spiced up olympic table tennis a bit... - Mike Massey
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Look! A Printer For Your Latte
Look! A Printer For Your Latte
August 22 at 10:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Very cool! - Karen Padham Taylor
soon we'll see "hand-made latte art" advertised. - Neha Narula
ok, this is just awesome! +1 - tagami
This is really cool... One thing though, the reason I gravitate towards coffee shops that have latte art is that there is a high correlation between latte-art and good coffee... Now with these machines, it might no longer be the case :( - Bindu Reddy
you know who has good latte art? cafe del dogge in palo alto. very creative stuff - Charles Hudson
@Jim Not as good as my Guinness shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day! - Anne Bouey
I love that one of their demo images is the Utah teapot. - seth
Cafe del Doge: Venice, Cairo, Tokyo, Palo Alto. - j1m
is that true j1m? That's awesome - Adam Kazwell
Hmm, that's awesome. Excellent advertising opportunity - Sam Allan
It looks like it's depositing chocolate or cinnamon powder. Does anybody have more information about how it works? - Gabe Schaffer
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The Largest Swimming Pool On Earth
The Largest Swimming Pool On Earth
August 20 at 12:07 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Largest Swimming Pool in the World over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water - Andrew Baron via Bookmarklet
one big toilet for me to poop in - Noah David Simon
Does it have a bar you can swim up to? - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl
That's nutty. The ocean is *right there*. A little redundant (not to mention, the ocean still wins in size!). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
ocean is cold. they should do this in Cananda. Anyone ever been to a Canadian beach? So beautiful.... and clean. but damn cold. heated outdoor pool is a great idea - Noah David Simon
I want to see how quickly Phelps can do a length! - Joe Dawson
Forget the bar, this pool is big enough for an outdoor mall. Shop while you swim. - LiquidLag via fftogo
Wow, how amazingly wasteful... - Elizabeth
Want ..to..be..there..now. - Charlie Anzman
You know how much pee you'd have to get to fill up that pool? lol - Jim Kukral via twhirl
@Jim According to Andrew, it would take 250,000 m^3 ;-) - Kirk Kittell
I kinda wish someone would just make a definitive page with all the world record things in Dubai. I have literally seen 4 Dubai-based links in FriendFeed today. - Phil (scribkin)
We Americans look at Dubai the same way the rest of the world looked at us in the last century. - Chris Baskind
That's an apt assessment, Chris. I still get a kick out of watching public domain footage from the 1939 World's Fair, which I would guess captivated the postwar world. - Phil (scribkin)
@Chris Baskind You mean as a destination I'll reach from the bowels of a steamship only to find myself living in a rat infested tenement, waking daily to peddle fruit from a horse cart? Hey, Dubai, here's my papers! - Christopher Harley
Dubai?? That swimming pool is in Chile. - Morton Fox
OMG, that is huge! - Ryan
I was going to say that was retarded....but, safe from sharks!! Right on! I'd hate to see the pool cleaner bill. lol. - dafire
evaporation rate? - Gregory Lent
it's pretty cool. you can view it on google maps - Cee Bee
Baskid and the rest of you tree huggers are missing the point. this is in a cold environment and it is heated - Noah David Simon
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Shannon Jiménez posted a message
August 19 at 6:15 pm - Link
Marinara for your brother. - Bret Taylor
Tomato soup ? - Andy C
So you coming up here to get it? :) (Edit: I was talking to Bret, not you Andy!) - Shannon Jiménez
buy lots of bacon and lettuce...you know what to do next! - George Lee via twhirl
I am SOOOOOOO jealous! I am having a very bad case of tomato withdrawal since I have zero this year with my yard under construction. I think I will over compensate next year and plant 20 plants... - Sheila Taylor
Marinara sauce freezes well... - Sheila Taylor
Homemade tomato paste, roasted tomatoes, salsa - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
every august there's an abundance of tomatoes and i absolutely love it. try canning or placing them in jars for sauce. it's real easy to do - Cee Bee
puree the stuff and freeze it - Deepak
If you really had that many tomatoes, you can start selling them to overseas. It's a global economy afterall. :) - imabonehead
Serve caprese salad with every meal. When you finally tire of it, the tomatoes will be gone and it will be winter and you will have many months to wait before you get it again - Sheila Taylor
chop some, dice some, puree some and then freeze the whole lot - you'll be covered in almost every cooking context - Charles Hudson
panzanella salad...yum! Marinara sauce as well...yum, yum!! - Skye Miller
i'm italian we make a lot of things with tomatoes - Fabrizio
Tonight I ended up making stuffed tomatoes, since one of the varieties I planted this year is called "yellow stuffer" and I had yet to stuff any of them. But I appreciate all suggestions, since there are many more left! - Shannon Jiménez
Gazpacho! - Anne Bouey
Your mom grows tomatoes. - Jim Norris
@ fabrizio...all Italians know what to do with tomatoes!! - Skye Miller
salsa - see my recent salsa canning article http://fedibblety.com/house/ar... - Robert Felty
@Robert-- that's a great idea. Think I will try that when I have a new bunch ripe this weekend. Hey Mom, I may be calling for help :) - Shannon Jiménez
Come on over!! - Sheila Taylor
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Chris White posted a message
August 19 at 6:06 pm - Link
Let's say major is > %5 of the market for platforms with published APIs. - Chris White
6: iPhone, Palm resurgence, Windows Mobile, Android, and two that don't exist at all today. - Kevin Fox
5 that matter - blackberry, iphone, some Windows variant, android, and symbian - Charles Hudson
When's the last time we had 5 or 6 major OSs in desktop computing? - Chris White
@Chris: I'd say 1984... - Stephen Foskett
Yeah, http://arstechnica.com/article... seems to indicate that the IBM PC (MS-DOS) started to dominate around 1986. Before then, personal/home computers were an open game. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... the mobile OS share is 65% Symbian, 12% WinMo, 11% BlackBerry, 7% iPhone, 5% Linux(?), ~0%(??) Palm. They don't give a number for BREW. - ⓞnor
So we're at the 1980-1981 level for mobile platforms? That's pretty interesting because neither the Macintosh nor Windows existed yet. - Chris White
1981 level? I'd say the iPhone is the Mac -- I think that makes it 1984? - j1m
j1m, what is the IBM PC? - Chris White
I guess it's the dumb phone with almost no graphical UI. Certainly PC had no graphical UI. And at the time we thought they were really dumb, because they were so much less powerful than a Linux* mainframe. - j1m
* er, oops, Unix. - j1m
Whatever happened to Newton OS? - John Mueller
j1m, I'm not really thinking about experience, more about market share. Remember, the PC went on to be the dominant system, as much as I never waned it to. The dumb phone isn't a platform, it's the lack of one. What is the platform that ends up dominating the market? - Chris White
Good question. If it's market share my vote would either be for iPhone or for something we haven't seen yet. - j1m
in 5 years it will be all commodity ;) - silpol
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ASP = SaaS = Cloud = ?
August 19 at 4:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Courtesy of Brad Feld's blog - I love these kinds of graphs - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
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August 19 at 3:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"“Why is it such a stretch of the imagination,” he said, “to consider that someone overweight or obese might actually be healthy and fit?”" - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
I'm going to have to "like" this one. I'd say I'm in pretty good shape for my raw weight. - JonathanJoseph
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The biggest hole in the world - great photos
The biggest hole in the world - great photos
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August 18 at 9:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
From Sreedhara.com: "The world’s biggest hole is located in Russia. The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter." "The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet
That's one Big Damn Hole. - Jim Stanger
On what side of the internet do you surf to find this stuff? Maybe I need a $300 mousepad upgrade for my optical mouse so I can get on the good stuff? - Anthony K Valley
Anthony: the wrong side of the internet tracks, next to the pawn shop and the "auto mechanic." You can piece together my tracks by my Google Reader shared items and my Toluu account: 99.5% of the stuff I share via Bookmarklet are found from reading my feeds. I read about 500 to 750 items a day, share about 5% of that, and bookmarklet 1-2%. In this case, Neatorama.com had a story about this, and I dug down to the original source it quoted. - Mark Trapp
There's a hole in our planet, Dear Liza. - Jason Brooks
Kinda looks like the death star crater. - Jon Limjap via twhirl
I can't tell a diamond mine from a hole in the ground. :) - Morton Fox
I think you dropped something - Pascal
Mad how it sucked in helicopters :O - Joe Dawson
lol, the hole sucks helicopters.... i somehow find that hilarious... - c010depunkk via twhirl
I blame the Silver Surfer - Joe Dawson
how do they keep it from becoming just another lake? - Richard Lawler via twhirl
The first thing it made me thing of is a model globe -- it's probably where God has to screw in the stand ... - Timothy Griffin
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Charles Hudson shared an item on Google Reader
August 18 at 9:55 pm - Link
one of the more interesting takes on the situation - worth a read if you're a Googler, ex-Googler, or Facebooker - Charles Hudson
I smell more shades of truth in this one than the ValleyWag piece for sure. - Jason Shellen
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August 15 at 9:55 am - Link
my favorite quote (sort of) - "f you have the money you will spend it - whether you have figured out your business model and market or not. " - Charles Hudson
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August 18 at 5:26 pm - Link
i find this strangely fascinating - customs slip-on shoes - Charles Hudson
where are the dude versions? - Kevin Gough
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http://www.zillowblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stan-negative-equity-1b1.png
August 18 at 12:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Yikes, this is frightening data. I also *finally* figured out how to share images on FriendFeed. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
@Charles Hudson You can share images on FriendFeed? How do you do that? - Kol Tregaskes
@Kol - if you have the "Share something" button on your brtowser, click it and then hover over an image - you'll see "Share on FriendFeed" in the upper lefthand corner. There's probably an easier way to do it, but it works for me. - Charles Hudson
The FriendFeed bookmarklet allows you to clip images in: http://friendfeed.com/share/bo... - Bret Taylor
permalink to the relevant Zillow blog posting is http://www.zillowblog.com/look... -- these are some really unbelievable numbers - Nathan Rein
And yet SF real estate continues to stay relatively high. Anybody think prices will fall like in other areas? - Chris White
@nathan - yeah, I should have included the permalink. - Charles Hudson
Never knew about the Zillow blog before. Added... - Brian Johns
@Charles Hudson (chudson): Sorry what I meant is that if you want to share a picture only (e.g. a .jpeg file) it doesn't work :-( - Kol Tregaskes via NoiseRiver
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Matthew hates the fail whale!
August 18 at 11:28 am - via mail2ff - Link
OH my god, the cuteness overwhelms me. And how's Sarah doing? - Carla Thompson
Twitter should use this photo instead. - l0ckergn0me
I almost look like that when I see the fail whale as well. :P - James Mowery
awww - Josh Haley
Carla, both are doing great. We're wrapping up a four day weekend at my parents, and on division of duty, both are at risk of the iPhone camera when I have them. And Chris, feel free to use the photo. - Louis Gray
Oh, but I love it. lol Too cute! - Daynah
Biz and Ev need to pay you to use that as their new Fail Whale - Jesse Stay
caption that photo! - .LAGizmoto
Louis -- can we use Matthew's picture when socialmedian is down? serious - Jason Goldberg
Great photo - Bob
Jason - absolutely. :-) - Louis Gray
So super ultra cute, Louis! - Mona N.
Matthew appears to be doing his best Homer Simpson impression. - Jack Carlson
Jack - totally...."Food goes in here!" - Slippy Lane
Awwww! - Ayşe E.
No soup for you - RAPatton
Cuteness ends to the point when you hear small child screaming all of the nights during week full of work. But to be realistic, that's normal. - Daniel Schildt
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August 16 at 3:02 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I'm dubious that all of this "a la carte" pricing and "unbundling" will benefit me as an air traveler. Until I see unbundled airfares that are lower than what I pay today, I'll remain skeptical. - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet
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