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How many do you actually use, and are any of these 95 Apps from Cydia (jailbroken firmware 2.0 installer)? - Shan Gee

Looking forward to the review. I have far fewer than that. - Robert Scoble

how many do you actually use daily or weekly? - Warren Whitlock

Once I got to 4 pages of apps on my iPhone I vowed to never let it grow beyond that. Havnig a hard time deciding what to drop. - Ernie Oporto

just wait until the push apps come out in september.... that'll be another game changer i think - Davis Shaver

My daily include: Tuner, Pandora, and Cuberunner (if I have a meeting that gets boring) - Andrew Leyden

I only have about 10 on my iTouch and the thing mysteriously reboots about twice a day. With 95 yours must crash every 15 min. - Kevin Shannon

What apps do you find useful? - Bob Gannon

I used to have scores of funny (not that useful) apps on my jailbroken 1.4 iPhone, on my new 3G I'm only at ~10 fairly useful apps - what is your top20? - Bo Stern

How might such a script decide if a person on Twitter is the same person on identi.ca? - Rah-PM 2012

@Rahsheen Porter username is about the only way. i don't think you can grab emails from their API's - Chris Harris

Rahsheen - InternetDuctTape already has a Twitter to Friendfeed import program. I used it several months ago. Had a little overload to clean up but overall it was GREAT - Charlie Anzman

Yikes. - Shawn Farner

Had to make a post about that. But I'm sorry, it's in dutch. ;-) http://tiny.cc/tIF0j - Ton Zijp

Everybody is out to eff everybody else. Can't this %(# get done legit? - Robert Barr

Dance off. - Hao Chen

Sounds like there is lot of lack of class going around here. Maybe some skullduggery and fraud as well? - Brian Sullivan

@hao chen. hilarious! - Eric Eldon

LOL @ Hao. That made me think of Starsky & Hutch. I agree, a dance off is the only way to settle this dispute. - Shawn Farner

I think Hao was refering to Colbert vs Rain dance off. http://www.comedycentral.com/colbert.... - Alan Le

I like jason's link but I don't agree with his commentary. Arrington declared war after all. - Alan Le

maybe this is just one example of something duncan didn't like that caused him to leave. if he produces a blue dress "dug" by MA, ima hurl. - Brooks Bayne

+1 for a Dance Off. "You know the rules. Keep it safe. Keep it sexy." http://youtube.com/watch... - Mike Doeff

Duncan does not appear to be attacking his former employer in that post. - Scott Jarkoff

all is fair in love, business and social media boosting - sean percival

note to calacanis: who asked you? LOL - Bwana ☠

It's a clever way of attacking. But it draws blog posts and attention. Sigh, what a world. - Ben Parr

I am really feeling something about Karma these days.... do to others as you wish to have done to you - Ian D. Nock from twhirl

Before we all go breaking out our jump to conclusions mat, let us remember there are always two sides to a story: http://www.duncanriley.com/2008... - Bwana ☠

OOooooo touched a nerve there Duncan! - Susan Beebe

Jason, I didn't "attack" anybody, I simply aksed, on my personal blog, that given that I was cut off, why they kept begging me for Diggs, a reasonable question. Point out exactly where I attacked anyone Jason? - Duncan Riley

I have no horse in this race but I do find it interesting that Jason attacks the whistleblower and not the person actually committing the "crime".( Hmmm. - chartreuse

I'm a bit surprised that TC is still implementing a Digg Army. It's not uncommon to have a group of folks who will Digg stories for you or your site. But it seems like a strategy for a up and coming site, not a well established one. Duncan himself did say that Arrington was one of the hardest working guys he's met. So ... perhaps Mike just isn't resting on his laurels - which isn't a bad thing. I do wonder whether Duncan asked to be removed prior to posting this shot. - AJ Kohn

ahem can we leave the high school lunch room yet? - Fred Grott

AJ, Michael told me never to email him again, so I couldn't asked to be removed. Writing a blog post was my only alternative to being spammed. - Duncan Riley

@Duncan: Understood and that does make (some) sense. I'm a fan Duncan and clearly don' t know all the ins and outs. But ... to be fair, could you have emailed Biggs or Ha direct? - AJ Kohn

Biggs had a hissy fit that I was at Macworld for TechCrunch, and I've never spoken to him since. Ha I don't know. Besides, they weren't sending the emails individually, it was a group email to diggthis@techcrunch.com - Duncan Riley

Duncan, you should be a politician the way you're trying to spin that post as a way to stop spam. :-P You definitely could have emailed another TC or CG writer and they would have passed the message on. You can't tell me you write about social networks and couldn't find one to contact someone on. - Shawn Farner

Shawn, I believe that ultimately they may have still wanted my Diggs, why else would I have been cut off from all the other email lists but not that one. But I'll note again: I didn't attack them in the post, I simply made an observation (calacanis links to Valleywag, not my post). Trust me, if I was going to attack them, this wouldn't be it. I've never been known for subtlety :-) - Duncan Riley

@Duncan: Makes sense. Me, I don't see a problem with the post. Sort of a don't do anything you wouldn't want to see in print type of scenario. Crowd-Digging isn't anything new. Hope you're off the diggthis list ;) - AJ Kohn

I appreciate Duncan's defense but personally I would just come out and say - I'm trying to make TC look like dicks. No one would blame you :) - Chris Ridenour

I'll put it this way - Duncan's the only guy from TC that ever treated me like I was a human from the time I started at Mashable on. After I signed on with Pete, someone at TC went thru and forensically removed all my comments from before I joined, removed references to my personal blog from CrunchGear (they blogged about me a couple times), and generally let us know at Mash thru the grapevine what they thought of us (it isn't very nice stuff)..... - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

... Duncan never participated in that foolishness, and I've always appreciated that. MA declared war first with Duncan, so if he wants to play the game, he can't be too upset when things like this crop up. In short, Duncan's been nothing but classy, in my book. I won't participate in this particular blogfite officially, but I will refute Jason's position that this is indicative of Duncan's class. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I know nothing about nothing, BUT it is usually not cool to air dirty laundry in public. TC could be secret Nazis but it still doesn't look good to say that you can't email them or reveal company tactics. - Andrew

Jason - do you consider what you are doing to DEMO attacks? Pot meet Kettle. - Mark Lepzig

define cussing? :-) - Duncan Riley

Historically speaking, it used to be every other word you Tweeted. Now, I'm saying about every 50th when you are on Seesmic. - Cyndy

I really enjoyed listening in to the conversation for the time I did. Thanks for the opportunity. I might have talked if I was more of the micro-blogger but I still haven't really caught that bug as much as I would like to. - Chris Ridenour

Would you like me to draw you a pic Hao? ;) - iTad

You sir just made my A-List by listening to Bird and the Bee :) - Chris Ridenour

Uh... Well. Cool I guess. - Computerwhiz1 from twhirl

Be careful with this... it's very buggy.. Also, when a stream is started it takes 2 hours for it to end out even if you stop something. It basically renders your account unusable for 2 hours if the XBOX 360 option doesn't work for you. - Brandon

Watch out for the chump MSFT/NFLX DRM that comes along with this. I still haven't gotten it to work for me yet. http://thomashawk.com/2008... - Thomas Hawk

Dugg this yesterday. Can't wait to get my desktop fixed so I can try it out. - David Cook

I tried this last night and got codec error on the 360 when trying to watch any of the netflix movie. - Alan Le

@bret - I'm getting a lot of messages of warning :) But you probably already have Vista installed on a machine so you should be fine. - MG Siegler

@Thomas Thanks for a great followup... HDCP = bad.I like how all video cards/monitors are advertised as "HDCP Ready" or "with HDCP!", like it's this wonderful feature. To me, it can't be a good thing to have hardware attempt to protect content. You are guaranteeing that something is going to go wrong, and it's not going to be an easy fix. - Tim Hoeck

Triple Like. Makes me want to go read Brave New World again. - Mark Trapp

Must be why the world is so full of pseudo-intellectuals, who are just using their faux status to .... - RAPatton

what wrong with discovering somethign new about sex ? I mean the karma sutra would not exist today correct ?? LOL - Peter Dawson

where the hell do you get this stuff?!!? - john conroy

Dont ya just love it when the hotel clock radio goes off at 4:00AM? And you didnt set it? - Alan Wilensky from Alert Thingy

I use my laptop as my alarm. (Aurora FTW) - EricaJoy

I've been using my blackberry alarm as a backup since my regular alarm clock's battery backup started acting up. The BB alarm even works now that I have the BB set to turn itself off between 11pm and 6am. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

But how do you turn off the buzzer on email and only leave the alarm on? - leigh himel

Thanks for the tip Erica. I use http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmcl... ... just cause it was free. It seems to get the job done :) - Frankie Warren

Shoot meant to post this to the spore room. :( Wish there was a "move" comment function. - felix

I am going to check this out and also introduce my children to it so that they can create a character! If they show interest I will buy it! - Joe Dawson

My kids (3 and 5) LOVED the creator. We've had a blast creating characters. - David Worrell

What amazes me, other than the actual software, is that it's so fun and it isn't even the game! I mean, you create these guys and you can't even do anything but walk in a circle with them. How awesome is the actual game going to be? Man. Post some images, David! - felix

Odd I can't get the trial to run on my Mac. Keeps crashing upon startup. - ronin

Your comment about body type is wrong. Its not a flaw with the software, that's just user error ;) - Chris Ridenour

Chris, really? It wouldn't be the first time. :) I couldn't figure out how to lumpify the torso, how do you do it? @saeba really? that's wierd, ran ok for me out of the box. :( - felix

what is this stuff? - NoahDavidSimon

aw, they're so cute. - edythe

been along time since a good god-game made a mark on my pocketbook; this shall - Michael W. May from twhirl

Felix, I frequently just worked with the torso I was given, but I seem to remember highlighting a spinal segment and rolling the mouse wheel would expand the torso around that spinal segment. There may be an easier way, though. - David Worrell

@felix Yeah, still can't get it to run even after rebooting and cleaning my disk permissions. Bummer. - ronin

Cool. I can't wait to try this out! - Craig Eddy

David, thanks a lot! That was just the ticket. I wonder if any other parts respond to the mouse wheel. - felix

Where's George? users such as myself also appreciate this. - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

I wonder how this affects the merchant agreements gas stations have with credit cards, which requires them to accept credit cards for any transaction. - Mark Trapp

I wonder when will it happen here. Funny how the banks try to get every cent at least 5 times at each usage. - Roland Hesz

I don't know about a Flash-killer. It's a different focus than Flash/Silverlight. - Paul Reynolds

looks very interesting, though the name sounds more like an angry vegan music genre - Benton

Enough with the "killers" flash has become the standard, good or bad) no one will develop for anything else unless the new one is light years ahead of Flash. - Mike Wills

I think the timeline aspect of Flash shouldn't be forgotten. But when focusing purely on RIAs they do have a point when it comes to the more open standards of HTML, Javascript, and CSS. - Ari Braginsky

I think Flash for video is unstoppable, but as an app platform.... I think a combo HJC is best because they are open. - Joe Mac Stevens

Flash (or Silverlight) may dominate, but as Daniel points out in his post on Roughly Drafted, who wants Adobe or Microsoft to own the platform for rich web apps? Market dominance kills innovation. Let's not make that mistake again. Open or nothing. And, by the way, Sproutcore is a fully MVC framework ala Rails, Cocoa, etc. Devs like dat. - Leo Laporte

It also comes down to the IDE for the developer ultimately. Flex Builder and Microsoft's suite of tools may be better than whatever comes from open source. - Ari Braginsky

I don't see this as a Flash killer. It's a serious application framework for Javascript. - Eric Hamilton

It's just another tool to be used or abused. No one's gonna care if your RIA is open-source if it stinks. Besides I think Flash has video and animation going for it where other frameworks are focusing on only the application development. - Andrew Smith

Wow. This is EXACTLY the wrong direction. The Javascript engine will always be fragile, bug riddedn and inconsistent because it is implemented by many different teams - why rely on it when you don;t have to? Flash / AIR or Silverlight are definitely the way - they INSULATE the developer from browser craziness and versioning issues and have much better access to the OS when the sandbox allows. Apple doesn't do many stupid things - this is one of them. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

I spent a lot of time at Microsoft in the past few days. I seriously doubt they are bluffing. - Robert Scoble

I think there is a kill fee: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... 250Mil is no small change for MS to payout on top of the share buyout - Glenn Slaven

Don't think so!! Deal seems to be well and truely dead. - Roberto Bonini

that scares me - MG Siegler

I am in the midst of a super duper Summer electrical storm over here in Rochester, NY... watching big bolts of lightening strick the surface of the Irondequoit bay... awesome laser light show!! with loud thunder to go match - Susan Beebe

Susan, I miss that. No thunderstorms in California. - Jason Wehmhoener

@Jason @Susan - me too. Grew up in Virginia, plenty of storm action. I'm sitting in some fog here in San Francisco right now. - Hutch Carpenter

@Jason, Tim Russert, staying hello. - washwords from twhirl

I grew up in CA and LOVE these summer storms...totally awesome!! I should video this! - Susan Beebe

I lived in Austin for 12 years and saw some good storms. In NH we're pretty much thunderstormless, and I miss them too. - Joanmarie

Amazing. - Chris Ridenour

What would we learn from this sort of timeline? - Brent Newhall

When Scoble is sleeping or eating BBQ like I am now. - Robert Scoble

I CAN HAS PONY? - Karim

I think better threading on FriendFeed is further down the line. Just not TOO far I hope. - CannonGod from twhirl

I love the networked thing, click here, oh comments went there follow them, hey! nice post there! It's an island in the web - directeur

gives Plurk an ultimatum: become useful or the girl dies. - Noah Carter

I'm already sad for the girl - directeur

Sure a timeline in FF would look cool, but I am still to get the real use of one in FF - Murali

@Brent I don't think we'd learn much but how our days go. To me that's a pretty cool thing to see. - EricaJoy

You had me at "Screw Plurk". - DeWitt Clinton