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l0ckergn0me posted an entry on Tech Help and How To
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I see Ping.FM as more of a problem than a solution. You didn't mention duplicate content over several platforms. But perhaps I am digressing. I use either Facebook or Friendfeed for my photo storage needs online. - Vijayendra Mohanty
Flickr! - Spencer Scott
I just ditched Flickr today (after many years) for FB. Tagging faces and sharing with your friends are simply features that are "must haves". - Carter Rabasa
I have used shutterfly in the past and currently use Picassa. Anyone know of an easy way to move your pics around? - Tim FitzGerald
I still have some concerns with privacy and digital rights on Facebook. From their Terms "By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. - Stuart Forsyth
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I'm trying to use Mint.com, but it's not going so well. Manually cleaning up the bank gibberish, trying to assign categories without the receipt handy (to see what actually was purchased), the lack of forecasting tools. I was interested in Green Sherpa, but it seems their private beta is never-ending & I'm not invited into the clubhouse. Just heard about Rudder this morning...very interesting.... - Pat Rice
I've tried using it and it although it has some nice features, it does not compare to MS Money. - Thomas Lopez Jr
One of our .Net developers just left us to work for Rudder, so I've heard nothing but nice things about it. I really do prefer Mint. - Jeremy Botter
Too scared to trust so much financial info to a Web 2.0 company. Especially now. - Sprague D
I use it as a dashboard, while the wifey manages the funds. - Mark Rodriguez
I signed up but it's too much work to get everything set. - Patricia
i use Mint and Wesabe... i find they keep me more interested in managing the family finances than when i used to use Quicken... lately though, Mint is annoying me cause it keeps losing the secure connections to some of my accounts - Philip J Beyer via twhirl
I use Mint and love it. It's been way more convenient than other financial software for me and my husband. It's easy to use, easy for both of us to access and has really helped us manage our finances better than we were. - Squirrel Girl
I'm trying both Mint and Rudder out, but can't seem to find the time to set it all up. This isn't their fault, but it still kinda blows. - robwest via twhirl
I'm with Sprague. We use quicken and it's on the desktop, where my copy will last for a very long time. Not gonna trust something as important as personal finances to a new web company. - Jason Kaneshiro
I use Mint to monitor my student loan payments, it's a much cleaner interface and I release much less personal information that going to the Federal Loan pages. I've been using it for about 4 months and I'm quite impressed with their site. - James Fuller via twhirl
I'm trying to use Mint, but there are quite a few kinks that need to be worked out (refreshing accounts is slow, etc). But it really does illuminate your habits. Mark Cuban recently blogged about smarter spending being the best ROI ordinary can get on their money. - Carter Rabasa
I want to but they typically block Canadians outright from using their websites. Personally, I don't want to tie my bank account to a third party service, I'd rather regulate the data I provide. But they effectively block you from using their tools if you haven't tied a bank account to it. - trextor
works well for me - can't get access to my wife's account on quicken without her paying a fee per month but can get to it via mint - Jeff Quinton
hmm :-? - D/\\/IIID
I use them all the time. Mint.com has allowed me to eliminate the use of Quicken. BoA has all of the transaction features I need and Mint handles integration, reporting, and visualization. - Randy Holloway via twhirl
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Denver - The Latest Word - PMSBuddy: A Denver entrepreneur's idea to make your girlfriend hate you a little more
Saturday at 1:14 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
recently launched PMSBuddy.com, which helps men track the menstrual cycles of wives, girlfriends, mistresses, bosses, sisters, daughters – anyone, really, whose body is capable of mass-producing that monthly, much-feared cocktail of terror and inconsolable tear-spewing. - Caroline
I recently read that this site heralded the death of Web 2.0. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
why?lol - Caroline
If you can't figure out when I have PMS without a Web app, then god help you. :D - Cyndy
What a bunch of clueless rubes - we orthodox Jewish guys have been tracking our wives and girlfriends cycles for 3400 years! Marital law, don't ya know. Look it up...7 clean days + 5......Mikvah...hello honey. She says, "why are you watching TV when I've been getting ready for 3 hours.??? - Alan Wilensky
alan lol - Caroline
Caroline you are so delightful - Alan Wilensky via twhirl
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Carter Rabasa commented on a blog post on Disqus
October 7 at 6:54 pm - Link
"Wow, that's such a great idea. Anyone with a rock-solid job (government employees, etc) should be doing this. Pre-tax money buying assets at rock-bottom prices. Ka-ching!" - Carter Rabasa
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August 28 at 11:44 am - Link
"It feels good man, you know, to get a second chance and I just have to take advantage of it," Jones told The Dallas Morning News. "First and foremost, I don't want to let myself down, definitely my little girl down. I'm thankful for Jerry [Jones], the fans in Dallas and my teammates for believing in me. I need to keep doing what I've been doing to get reinstated, staying with myself and my teammates and staying away from those knuckleheads and just stay focused." - Carter Rabasa
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August 13 at 3:24 pm - Link
Don't worry, Alex, I'm keeping you in my fave-5. - Carter Rabasa
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August 12 at 12:57 pm - Link
The NFL season hasn't even started and TMQ is back! If you don't read Gregg Easterbrook (TMQ) you don't know what you're missing. - Carter Rabasa
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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr
August 10 at 7:36 pm - Link
What's this FeedFriend thing? - Scott Lockhart
some ways to use it that I hadn't thought of, so thanks! - Kimberly J
Great post. Interestingly enough, the amount of data being indexed in Google due to FriendFeed is ridiculous. Not just from FriendFeed itself, but also from the Wordpress FriendFeed comments plugin. I couldn't believe it when I googled myself today! - Tim Hoeck
my personal favorite way to use it: score some beta invites in the invites room. (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/in...) - BCK
Great tips :) - Jemm
I use and like FF too. There is one interesting question that arises from my point of view. Should I try to use all the above mentioned functionalities or is it better to stick with the core features in order to keep it simple? - Jan Horna
Jan, depends on what ways you can get the best out of it. I'm not there is many people who can use every function, but you can pick and choose, it's one of the great things about FF - Duncan Riley
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Anthony Farrior commented on a blog post on Disqus
August 11 at 6:57 am - Link
"That's Irony: Leave Google, create cool web app, Sell it to Google :)" - Anthony Farrior
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August 11 at 11:40 am - Link
Looks like the perfect app for the golfer, and a great excuse to have your iPhone with you while golfing... - Shawn L. Morrissey
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Gorillas.bas
August 8 at 4:36 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I used to love this game - Eric
this takes me back to my freshman year in HS (1993), screwing around in the computer lab - Carter Rabasa
Takes me back, this and Nibbles - Mo Kargas
Ah, those DOS days relived. - Jonathon
I so remember this, but I never really thought they looked like gorillas, just naked fat men. - Chris Rivait
I learned to program by viewing the source on this and nibbles. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@mark Me too ! - Mo Kargas
w00t!!! The good ol' days... remember those two other apps? like the source for a budgeting app and some database? - Zu aka ElijahBailey
I remember REMLINE.BAS - but I could never get it to work - had to convert my GW Basic programs by hand. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I still have the QBasic source : ) - LouCypher
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Dave Hussein Winer posted a link
August 7 at 10:26 am - Link
Right brain guy here that is also not yet able to reverse the dancer. - Dave Hussein Martin
Neither can I - Royce Mathew
Beginning to think it's a joke. :-) - Dave Hussein Winer
Totally weird, but I was able to see it both ways. - Alan
I was able to see both ways, although clockwise more. - Kat
Not a joke. I can see both ways. - Dan Kaplan
I can see it both ways, it defaults as counter-clockwise. - Steve Spalding
I. can't. get. her. to. go. counterclockwise. It's driving me nuts! - Kirk Kittell
I can see both ways too. The default was clockwise and then when I started reading the post, somewhere in the middle it became counter-clockwise. Cool. Very cool. - Vinay | विनय
I just tabbed back after reading some feeds, and it's going counter-clockwise for me too. - Royce Mathew
If you focus on the reflection briefly, then make your eyes to up, you should be able to see it turn counter-clockwise as well. - Raoul Pop
Clockwise as well but I can make her change direction if I concentrate on looking at a spot to her side. Divide the page into three equal parts and try to follow her movements with just your peripheral vision. - Christopher Harley
I was too busy looking at her breasts. You can just make out her nipples. She wants it! - John W Teggatz
clockwise for me. - Thomas Hawk
Those who are having trouble getting the dancer go counter-clockwise: think something "logical". - Vinay | विनय
I guess, as usual, my mind can't make a decision cause I see her both ways - Dave Cohen
Can't see it any other way than clockwise. Maybe I don't have a left brain! :-) - Dave Hussein Winer
she started out counter-clockwise for me, but i can see clockwise if i look away. - idnan
either direction for me, but clockwise when I first looked. - Mark Anderson
The last time I saw this, I learned to control it at my will.. now I can't anymore :/ (counter-clockwise by default) - Jemm
I can see both - Shey
I see both. That is really weird! - Matt
i see both. but she controls my mind...not me. can anyone try to deconstruct the gif animation and see the frames don't change direction at some interval? - Alberto Escarlate
Always starts off counter-clockwise, but I can pretty much switch it back and forth at will. Occasionally it will get 'stuck' moving clockwise, though. - Derrick Burns
The continuous motion makes me kind of entrenched. If you had a "stop" button I think it'd be easier for people to switch. - anna awesomesauce
The Truth About the Spinning Dancer ... http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/... - Kevin Hessel
Thanks Kevin. It at least confirms that there's no trickery (technical manipulation) with the image. It may not be our brain but eyes. - Vinay | विनय
I don't get it, she spins both ways, first one direction then the other - Henry DeBardeleben via twhirl
took some time, but focusing on the reflection helped - Kingsley Joseph via twhirl
Freaky. Counter-clockwise unless I'm reading the text. Then out of my peripheral vision she starts going clockwise. If I focus on her, counter-clockwise again. - Michael Kowalchik
It was going clockwise, then I looked away just right and she started going counter-clockwise. Of course this was after I read the two columns and realized I was left-brained :) - klecu
surely it's only going clockwise - Duncan Riley
I watched her go one way then another way then back the first way again. That saucy bitch! - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)
Opened the GIF in photoshop and it still did the same thing when I played the animation! One way - other way - back again! http://www.news.com.au/common/... - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)
She spins left then right, then left... etc. for me. Can't seem to make her mind up (or is that _I_ can't seem to make my mind up?!) - Chris Maughan
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Dave Hussein Winer added a movie to Netflix
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
August 1 at 10:58 pm - Link
I wish this would have hit at the box office so the sequel would have been made. - Shawn McCollum
A fun movie that really broke the mold. Great to watch with the kids... - Malcolm Gault-Williams
john lithgow. jeff goldblum. ellen barkin. - Jason Kaneshiro
Gotta love John BigBooty (big bootay!) and John Smallberries. And remember, kids, no matter where you go, there you are. - Tad - the Meme Maker
Laugh while-a you can, monkey boy. - Cyndy
One of my all time favorite movies - love the concept of the rasta aliens. - Tad - the Meme Maker
easily one of the best movies of all time -- right up there with Robocop - mathew ingram
classic movie, lots of fun! - Rachel
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“Pho is delicious”
July 27 at 1:57 pm - via fftogo - Link
Pho'sho! - Mona N.
I have a friend named Brandon Pho, I'll be sure to pass on your comments to him. - RAPatton
what the pho? I kid I kid, I love pho and can eat it everyday. - Alan Le
So THAT'S what the guys says in the voiceover at the end of Ong Bak! "Pho'sho!"...Thanks Mona :) - Rah™ via NoiseRiver
Pho shizzle my nizzle - imabonehead
What's Pho? A U.S. slang? :/ - directeur via NoiseRiver
Pho's okay, at least the pho I had. A little off-tasting, so it wasn't something I'd easily have again and again, like ramen or something. - Kamilah Gill
If it's U.S. slang, it's West Coast slang or something - I'm clueless - Michael W. May via twhirl
It's a Vietnamese soup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... - Vincent X
Thanks Vincent :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Ah, a culture's food missing from my pallet's experience - Michael W. May via twhirl
Damn straight. Pho'ever Vietnamese! - Andrew Trinh
You better watch out; Brandon has a gang called the Pho Fighters. They are bad Mo Pho's. - RAPatton
The Pho Fighters: Brandon Pho, as limber as a noodle; Brandon Faux, a master of disguise; Brandon Foe as obstinate as a Panda. The Pho Fighters. - RAPatton
is it "foo" or "foe"? thought it was "foo" almost like when you say "foot" - Kamilah Gill
where'd you go? I'm always looking for a new place. - Carter Rabasa
Pho is great... if you want to be full for 30 minutes. - Louie
I didn't have to go anywhere :). My fiance is Vietnamese so we get it every once in a while for dinner at her parents house. When we visited Vietnam it would be boiling outside but I'd still have a bowl of hot pho every day. It's just so good. - Benjamin Golub
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Apple is NOT a services company. MobileMe should be outsourced to someone that understands how to run a large scale service. - Omar Shahine
@Omar, do you think they figure "Well, we seem to do OK with iTunes, so we should be able to handle this"? - Ed Bott
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Facebook's F8 event starts at 1:30
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Shouldn't someone create an F8 FriendFeed room? - Carter Rabasa
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July 22 at 2:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
This is bad for both of them, but I expect it from Omarosa! - Rosy
Wow... For a moment I thought some one was going to get smacked.. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
As a black guy, my personal viewpoint is that they are reinforcing the exact same stereotypes that they claim to be against. Two angry black women cat fighting over nothing worthwhile. Shameful and embarassing. Maybe the both of them should watch this... http://tinyurl.com/blackinamer... on CNN. - Darrell Bell via twhirl
That was uncomfortable. - Christopher Harley
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July 22 at 11:42 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc. In a series of cases including In re Nuijten, In re Comiskey and In re Bilski, the Patent and Trademark Office has argued in favor of imposing new restrictions on the scope of patentable subject matter set forth by Congress in § 101 of the Patent Act. In the most recent of these three—the currently pending en banc Bilski appeal—the Office takes the position that process inventions generally are unpatentable unless they “result in a physical transformation of an article” or are “tied to a particular machine.”[1] Perhaps, the agency has conceded, some “new, unforeseen technology” might warrant an “exception” to this formalistic test, but in the agency’s view, no such technology has yet emerged so there is no reason currently to use a more inclusive standard." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
The author of this blog clearly thinks that getting rid of software patents would be bad and would somehow hurt Google. However, I believe that the existence of software patents is a much greater risk for Google (and other innovators) than benefit. Google is about a lot more than Pagerank (and competitors already have comparable if not the identical algorithms). Meanwhile, the thousands of patents that they don't own effectively form a giant minefield that could hurt them at any moment (see RIM). - Paul Buchheit
(grabs papers, runs to patent office) - Karim
Like = trying to figure out the issue. Some software probably should be patentable, but the standards are too murky to sort out. Probably the PTO wants to wash its hands of the mess. - Sean McBride
Looks like it's time to go the 'trade secret' route instead of the 'patent' route. It's kind of nice: If it's something that's obvious from the user experience it should be harder to patent, but if it's something that, even when the service is public, can still be hidden, then third parties shouldn't just be able to copy it. One-click shopping shouldn't be protected, but O(1) search algorithms should be. (Wait, what? If there were an O(1) search algorithm it'd change everything! I contradict myself.) - Kevin Fox
I like the "physical transformation" argument. Computer technology has boomed in spite of software patents, not because of them. - Gabe
I admire the ironically pro-competition and social progress roots of patents. I also respect the efforts of many to equitably apply those antiquated laws on the violently innovative realm of software and the Internet. Nevertheless, I will be so happy to see the USPTO concede the futility of these patents and pull the plug. (Though, depending on what kind of plug and how they pull it, they may owe someone royalties.) - Christopher Sacca
Patents are a tax on small bazaar innovation in favor of big cathedral innovation. In some fields maybe that makes sense. But despite all the patents I've filed for, the things that had the biggest impact on the world weren't patentable (and shouldn't have been). Patents fetishize the "inventor" and the "invention" at the cost of actual progress. - Daniel Dulitz
I wonder if this will put those of us who work on "physical transformations" even further behind. Did you know it currently takes and average of about 15 months from the time an order is placed for a wind turbine (example large equipment) until it is operational? This is part of the argument for patents... you can eventually recoup the cost of this large equipment if it works enough better than your competitors during the protected period. - Clare Dibble
I still can't believe that Yahoo/Flickr tried to patent "interestingness" of social media. Does anyone know how I can find out the status of this patent request from 2006? http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacg... The patent office's search sucks and I can't find it anywhere there. - Thomas Hawk
With equipment/ material costs rising, will this just make software even more attractive relative to say consumer goods or energy? - Clare Dibble
Many large corporations do not file their really key technologies. They just lock them up. This makes it impossible for market competitors to find out what they are up to. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
I support not having software patents. They're like patenting chord progressions. - Chris White
Chris, with respect to chord progressions, I think you are thinking of "copyright" and not "patent" ;-) - Karim
I am so happy to hear this. I want Blackboard to go out of business. O - Akshay Dodeja
Karim, no I'm fine with copyright. From my perspective, chord progressions are like algorithms. I think people should be allowed to build on other people's work or invent something using techniques that are fairly obvious.. However, I'm not okay with people just taking somebody's work verbatim and selling it as their own, as in using somebody's copyrighted song or application source code. - Chris White
was discussing this with a friend and he posited an interesting question: will this make it even more important to keep the employees who work on developing new technologies happy? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
See also http://arstechnica.com/article... regarding the studies of innovation & patents in IT vs BioTech fields, and possible reasons - Nick Lothian
I also think the EFF is a great resource for this stuff. Their Patent Busting project is fantastic. http://w2.eff.org/patent/ I was on the wrong end of one of those Acacia patents once and it made me sick to my stomach. - Christopher Sacca
I think this is great news, especially for big companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Larger companies have more to lose from potshot lawsuits than to gain. Very little of software business success comes from having a patent on a process - it's all about execution, and legal defense prevents those who are producing working software from doing what they do best. - Jon Galloway
Oh please let this mean that the one-click patent can be consigned to the garbage can of history. We demand easier shopping! - Earle Martin
So who would a decision like this be bad for? Besides patent trolls, and maybe patent lawyers... - nadim
i never end up reading the original article that these long response feeds are based on...so even here, the original writer gets no credit for stimulating this conversation. So who's to say people should own anything. The Fugees sampled Enya for "Ready Or Not" and gave her no credit, but I am sure Enya got the idea from somewhere. Again this is cyclical, or tangential rather. But where is the place for barter in this world then? I think the human instinct to barter is always going to trump giving stuff away - Rajesh
A follow-up from GrokLaw: "It's one lawyer's opinion and analysis, one with a stake in the outcome. Would you like to see what another lawyer says about the subject, in contrast?" http://www.groklaw.net/article... - Simon
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Eddie, holy s---! - Carter Rabasa
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