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Re: Nabeel Hyatt • The company was on the rocks. We had zero revenue.... - http://nabeelhyatt.com/post...
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"Hah! That's awesome."
- nabeel Hyatt
Tweeting :)
Alfredo, gmarketer, Antonio Sotomayor and 272 other people liked this
Funny!
- Robert Scoble
too true
- James Miao
Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Heh
- Charlie Anzman
Hey! I resemble that remark!
- Chris Messina
funny and true :)
- Ali
Very clever.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
LOL
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing
- Katy Barrilleaux
I love that!! :D
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos
- Zax Stevens
LOL :D
- zsafwan
That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)!
- Chris Myles
Go Chris!
- Charlie Anzman
ROFL!
- Darren Heydon
Haha! I have this on my facebook :)
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
: D
- Taylanov
Awesome!
- Ladybug Heather
Haha!
- muratt
ahahha! brilliant
- Jacque
That's about right.
- Josh Haley
thats funny lol.. where did u find it
- Nicholas Skinner
that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :)
- Peter Renshaw
I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/
- agent x
agent x, I like you. Bookmarked.
- Dennis Jernberg
Woohoo! We're way past Techcrunch Europe on monthly uniques now...Making us the most popular tech blog in Europe! So chuffed. A long way to go though...(updated: this is old. They've caught up this month, but not to worry, we'll surge ahead again soon! :) )
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Well done, Zee. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
congrats Zee!
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
congrats :)
- alphaxion
Nicely done, Zee. I've watched you grow this site over the past year, and I'm very well impressed..
- Bradley McSpinn
thanks Bradley, much appreciated
- Zee.
Congrats Zee. I've enjoyed being able to contribute a piece every now and again. Great progress!
- Ken Camp
Well done! I must say I didn't really know about TNW until I subscribed to you on FriendFeed, and now I'm really impressed by your content. So congratulations :)
- Jalada
congratulations Zee!
- Jeroen De Miranda
We'll see.
- Mike Butcher
Good work! They need competition. I hope Mike appreciates what you're doing for him.
- Dave Winer
Congrat's. Well deserved!
- Michael Fidler
Well done Zee
- Amit Morson
nice one
- Allen Stern
: ))) pushing that line up is a lotta work. way to go Zee.
- vijay
I really enjoy TNW, so well done man! :)
- Nick
Congratulations Zee! Doing great work! :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Congrats!
- Kevin Mohr
:) They've caught up this month, we've all been on holiday - but its all good. No excuses, we'll step it up a gear :P
- Zee.
congrulations zee, bc u have perfect content
- Aykut Karaalioğlu
After signing the papers :)
Ozer Wrzl (EN), can catalyurek, Pelikan® and 499 other people liked this
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- jcunwired
What's with the fists, Paul? :)
- April Buchheit
congrats Paul
- Zee.
I thought it would make a funny picture April.
- Paul Buchheit
Secret backyard meetings FTW. :)
- EricaJoy
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:)
- Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up?
- Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair
- Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :)
- Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with.
- Jesse Stay
Congrats. Happy for you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Must have been exciting, congrats.
- sean percival
Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next.
- Chris Baskind
Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Congrats to you guys!
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :)
- Susan Beebe
:-(
- Jim Hearts FF
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal?
- Mitch
Mitch, feel free to use the photos.
- Paul Buchheit
where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
SWEET!!! Congratulations!
- Chad Lester
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this.
- .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
- Jeff Stannard
Don't forget: http://www.labnol.org/wp...
- Altan Tanrıverdi
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :)
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money!
- laosan
Congratulations guys!
- Diego Barros
I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too.
- Drea Lester
Congrats!
- Christopher Golda
Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations.
- ashish
LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. ->
- Alex Schleber
Hahaha! Funny Alex..
- Bill Heslin
congratulations! keep the innovation coming...
- ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team.
- Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward!
- xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF.
- Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :)
- Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :)
- Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats!
- Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational -
- mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made?
- seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news
- Nayan
Congratulations!
- Made Adi
*cough cough* Douchebags!
- Mark Wilson
++Mark
- David Cook
Awesome! Congratulations!
- michael silverton
Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain
- Lindsey is Fierce!
hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!!
- K.D.
+Lindsey
- Kamilah Gill
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders"
- Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters.
- Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge?
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they?
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations to all of you!!
- Steve de Mena
The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers.
- Steve Gillmor
My comment is because they can see by the flood of responses people are not happy and this post is just a smidge tacky. People are upset and feel betrayed and they haven't addressed that, not that I expected them too. This is pretty much inline with the way they've handled every other major change but before you only had a handful of disgruntles users whereas this time I'd say the majority are upset.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en...
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF.
- Martha
We should start a PhotoShop meme on this.
- Ben Hanten
Millionaire meme
- Bill Heslin
Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air.
- Ben Hanten
++Ben
- David Cook
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :)
- Chris Loft
Congrats! The hard work paid off
- Becca
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb.
- Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow.
- Keith Pelczarski
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nicely put, guruvan.
- Anne Bouey
What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations
- Steve C
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell.
- Shane Gibbons
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done.
- Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
Grats. :)
- Joshua Schnell
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive!
- RateBrain
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne?
- Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now !
- Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Enjoy!
- Paul Mayne
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out
- Ric Johnson
Congratulations! :)
- İdris Cin
hayırlı olsun
- Sinan İŞLER
:O :(
- amin.m
congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move.
- ray
Congratulations guys :)
- Yalcin Parmaksiz
So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird.
- Andy C
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!!
- Mohamed J
Hayırlı işler...
- Onur Selek
You're laughing after doing that? Fuck. This sucks so much.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Congratulations gentlemen!
- Mutimba
Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right".
- Paola Bonomo
Fuck!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again...
- Eran Kampf
from iPhone
cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean!
- Atif UNALDI
Great vibe :)
- Sharel
from FriendFeed API Example
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Clifford Kennedy
I think you guys don't have a clue what this means. You#re just handed over to some very suspicious gold digger. It's over for Friendfeed.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
@Clifford, haha LOL.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Bilseydik biz alırdık :)
- Hamdi Yaman
wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place
- MobilAdam
very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva
- Sangeeta Narayan
valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Who took the pic?
- Marco Massarotto
from iPhone
@MobilAdam + 1.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
@Mücahit +1 :D
- Hamdi Yaman
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin
- Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler?
- mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over".
- özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim
- MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor...
- Zeki Pehlivan
tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!!
- muratt
Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46...
- İbrahim Özdemir
Congratulations! :)
- Ruben Sanchez
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF.
- frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina ++++
- Shevonne
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple
- Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym
- Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed.
- lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still.
- Robert Schultz
Congratulations, Paul!
- Bill Sodeman
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future.
- David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys!
- Jason Pollock
congratulations guys!
- Liam Daly
congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;)
- Valentina*
L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool?
- Giulia B.
Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!"
- Simon May
Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team.
- Arleen Anderson
congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration!
- Katy Barrilleaux
We better run away!
- Constantine
Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties.
- Volkan Özçelik
the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'.
- Jessie
eew, that causes diseases
- Jim Norris
congrats Paul & evereyone !
- Thomas Mader
Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- j1m
CHA CHING!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
congrats guys - well done!!!
- Gerd Leonhard
supper!
- susuzkuyu
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns
- frank burns
Ghostery 2.0.1 - Ghostery Watches the Web Sites that are Watching You. Find out how web sites are watching you acr... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
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Information Arbitrage: Where and How am I Investing in Early-Stage Today? - http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008...
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"Given the uncertainty of ad spending, the tremendous dollars going into digital media, the increasingly competitive landscape and the jittery global financial markets, I have added a few criteria to my check-list: * Initially sells to the enterprise for branding, credibility, awareness and early revenues * Can get to revenues within 6 months, tops * Is sold on the basis of ROI, e.g., helps generate revenues or reduce headcount/costs * Integrates easily with existing platforms and/or programs * Either leverages existing open source programs or can itself become partially or fully open source * Has multiple revenue streams, e.g., software, maintenance, services, etc."
- Andrew Badera
from Bookmarklet
couple stretch items on his list but nice of him to share
- mike "glemak" dunn
I was wondering which ones seem a stretch? I was reading this and it describes a startup I am working with to a "T".
- David Muir
12.5-25x seems a stretch to me ... that's grand slam territory. not unachievable, but not by any means "common".
- Andrew Badera
I tend to agree. But I read through and was trying to glean when the exit for the VC would be; after how many years? According to my calculations, asset value growth of over 30% per year still means a 13 year wait on an initial investment of $1 million to walk away with $25 million.
- David Muir
VC is almost always in terms of a ~5 year exit strategy I thought ...
- Andrew Badera
VC is evil. Smart CEOs do everything they can to avoid this route.
- Geoff Livingston
Everyone would love to bootstrap Geoff, but it's not a matter of "smart" vs. "dumb" it's a matter of practicality and pragmatism.
- Andrew Badera
25x return selling into enterprise space which tends to see rapid fast followers and commoditization is one stretch david... not all vc's are evil geoff but certainly some are - expect it's probably same ratio as general life ;) a huge percentage of today's businesses have leveraged vc funding when in proof of concept phase so they (we) serve a purpose... andrew's pragmatic statement is right on...
- mike "glemak" dunn
here's a few more stretches now that i'm on a laptop & not my iphone - 1) revenue in 6 months along w/ selling into enterprise is a challenge since enterprise sales cycles are notoriously long for any company let alone an unproven startup 2) integrates easily in an enterprise space is an oxymoron - again, its a good post and not all things stated are stretches (plus it is his fund so his call)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
sorry one more, the positive: "intersection of web services, network performance and cloud computing. More and more enterprises will shift portions of their processing, services and storage to the cloud, as the imperatives of cost reduction, scalability and flexibility take hold." - i think this is right on and valid, i'm seeing the same sorts of companies approach me and can't fault their biz models...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Andrew/Gregory, I actually clarified this in another comment thread. What I mean is that it takes no more than $1-$2 million to know if you've got a $25-$50 million business. I take lots of risk. I just want to make sure the business doesn't require loads of capital to know whether or not it is likely to get the traction required to be successful. It may well make sense to raise an additional $2-$3 million in a Series A to help the company execute its growth plan, and I'm ok with that.
- Roger
Gotcha, thanks Roger, makes sense.
- Andrew Badera
Although an Apple Fanboy, I've betrayed Apple's iTunes. I've been exclusively buying music from Amazon MP3 for about a year and half. Amazon's had a better bitrate (although both 256kbps now) and it's an MP3 (not AAC like iTunes). Anyone else doing the same?
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almost.
- Josh Haley
I have, or actual cd's. I like having an actual hard copy.
- Justin Yost
Yep, have actually never bought music via iTunes.
- Deepak Singh
I stopped buying from ITunes when I initially converted to Linux about a year and a half ago. Haven't looked back, since.
- Helen Sventitsky
I buy a lot of the bargains from Amazon, but probably average out about 50% from each.
- Timothy Griffin
Helen: Linux...I admire your geekdom - haven't got there yet :)
- Mike Bracco
*raises hand* I haven't bought a thing from iTunes in ages. Amazon all the way. Except for a few indie music purchases.
- Yolanda
I buy all my MP3's from Amazon - so much better than ITunes
- outofmyarse
Thanks for the post - this is good to know!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
For what it's worth a 256k AAC file has a lot more fidelity than a 256k MP4.
- Sparky, a big deal
Well it sounds cool on my Sony X-Series
- outofmyarse
Lala.com, Amazon, Amie Street & Napster on this end
- LANjackal
Yep, even with all my iTunes gift cards, I still buy more from Amazon MP3. Their deals have always been better and I don't have to pay extra to upgrade to a DRM-free higher quality track.
- Cloud
I'm exclusively Amazon Mp3 for my purchases.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
from iPhone
Yeah - I only buy through amazon as well.
- Internet's Tad
i usually take whoever has the album/track i want.. if they both have it i usually go to whoever i checked first..
- Jay Martinez
I never use iTunes. I've been using Amazon MP3 from the beginning...love it.
- Bonnie Foster
Usually torrent music, but I bought a rare Simpsons album at Amazon.
- Vezquex: God of FF
If there's no difference in price, I stick with iTunes.
- ronin
I buy most of my MP3s through LaLa now. In general its cheaper than the other places and its convenient since I'm streaming from there already.
- Neil
I check Amazon every month. They also have several hundred MP3s available for FREE.
- Bill Sodeman
I go back and forth.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I've definitely been doing the same. I especially like the fact that Amazon offers the option to download the Mp3 independently of having to download and install yet another music management program.
- Miss Elle
lala.com for me
- Adam Lasnik
Yup - if I buy music online, it's Amazon.
- amygeek
Same here. Have been buying music exclusively from Amazon for about a year now.
- Tsega Dinka
not a fan of AAC. plus, my first purchase experience w/iTunes was terrible. I'm all ripped CDs (to FLAC), AmazonMP3, emusic, beatport and direct artist purchases now.
- jbrotherlove
Only when I have amazon affiliate credit, sadly.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
LOVE the Amazon MP3 store.
- Derrick
Nope. But I buy a lot of music from emusic.com.
- Jeremy Brooks
I buy from the amazon store all the time. Doesn't feel like betrayal at all to me.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Yes. Almost all of my online music purchases are on the Amazon store.
- Alex Scoble
Buying music? Never heard of it. :) (Disclaimer: I am joking.)
- Eric Geller
One of my favourite Firefox plugins: Ghostry. It shows which web sites are watching you - http://www.ghostery.com/
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I hate coins. Pocket change jangling around. And in a cruel irony.... the only way to bring less of it home is to carry more of it around.
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"We just pushed out Shareaholic v1.8! You can get the latest version of Shareaholic from here [NOTE: we're waiting for the Mozilla team to approve and push v1.8 public; should happen soon!], or you if you already have Shareaholic installed, just wait for Firefox to automatically notify you of the update."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
One of the best plugins for firefox ever!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
+1. Although UrlBarExt kinda trumps their URL shortening support via one-click shortening AND copying within the address bar itself. It's all good though, I use both :)
- LANjackal
Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn Overlooking Manhattan Skyscrapers | Serious Eats : New York - http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009...
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Rooftop gardening on a bagel factory. Gotta love it!
- Anthony
Gotta say we saw this coming. TechCrunch inches toward the deadpool. http://www.businessinsider.com/techcru...
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Ugh, I hate Mashable worse than TechCrunch. Solid content, that's funny.
- Tech Introvert
I prefer TC over Mashable
- David Lloyd
I see them more as complimentary not competing sites.
- Chris Heath
don't really prefer either. Mashable looks like a giant ad.
- Will Higgins™
My goodness Steve Gillmor really needs an editor to read his copy :)
- David Lloyd
Annoying To Me. - http://www.kitchensoap.com/2009...
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'If by “ops” you mean “people in data centers racking servers, installing OSes, running cables, replacing broken hardware, etc.” then sure, cloud computing aims to relieve you of those burdens. If you really think ‘ops’ is just that, then you really should put down your Nick Carr book and pay attention to the real world for a change.'
- Jeremy Zawodny
hear, hear!
- Ken Kennedy
/me goes off to print that article and leave it on a few dozen chairs and desktops ...
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
is it wrong that I have Google Chrome's Daily Mac Status bookmarked and check it every day?
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"All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof." - http://www.wildlifemanagementpro.com/2008...
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If she persisted with rain harvesting, she would be subject to fines of up to $500 per day.
- (jeff)isageek
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How can you take the rain like that? Colorado's water rights laws are fucked up, totally deranged.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
this is a bigger than water rights. How can some people change the world when other people are working the system by playing stupid. This is a common trend today in many communities. Remember how AP is trying to figure out a way to charge for news that they get from the web.
- Tweet Feeds
Another instance of government bureaucracy and regulation run amok!
- Chuck Adams
+1 Chuck! You'd think that governments would be happy that people would take it on themselves to improve usage of an already scarce resource. Obviously that's not the case in Colorado.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Uggh, utter ridiculousness. While the case can be made that rain is a tributary to a stream, locking in rain on one person/entity? This is effectively a patent on nature - huge fail.
- jcunwired
Oh the irony of environmentalists bemoaning the government telling them how they can & can't use their property. I guess the shoe is on the other foot now.
- You.
This is as asnine as the city of Tampa fining a homeowner $100 for having an outside water fountain that kept recycling one gallon of water - BOTTLED WATER. http://u.nu/6365
- Sharon McPherson
She can't capture her water to water her plants because someone else at the end of the river wants to buy the water to water their plants. Go figure.
- Andrew Leyden
*sigh* what will the next one be? Breathing too much oxygen?
- Charlotte M
As a european i can only say, this is a joke, right?
- Björn Fritz
As a Canadian I can only say it must be a joke ...
- johnny
As a southern californian I can only say "what's rain?"
- Steve C
Shockingly frustratingly stupid. Some municipalities like Toronto have even encouraged people to disconnect their downspouts from the storm sewers to cut down on the amount of rainwater that is unnecessarily contaminated by traveling through the sewers. Naturally filtered is the way to go.
- Doug Slater
As an American I can only say this doesn't really surprise me.
- mark
Our country is full of idiots. We survive in spite of them.
- Dane Deasy
be ready for lots more of this as the amount of easy fresh water continues to diminish. btw - do you think you have unfettered rights to the sunlight that hits your roof? just wait!
- MikeAmundsen
@bgoodman at Lookery we're going to patent the 15-min weekly dept meeting and most of that is spent waiting for everyone to get there.
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"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man. Let me handle my business, damn." - Jay-Z
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GreaseKit - User Scripting for all WebKit applications - http://8-p.info/greasekit/#
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"GreaseKit is a SIMBL plugin, that adds user scripting to Safari, Mailplane, Diet Pibb.app and all WebKit applications."
- Micah Wittman
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Hey, because of you I had another look at Greasekit's settings. Turns out you have to enable Greasekit for each fluid.app SSB individually. It seems I now have access to greasemonkey scripts within my FriendFeed SSB. WOOT!
- Meryn Stol
What types of functionality does it bring?
- Drew Lucas
Hmmz no joy trying to install http://userscripts.org/scripts... in my FF SSB. The script doesn't show up in user scripts...
- Meryn Stol
Right on, Meryn! Regarding the FriendFeed Service Icons script, it doesn't take much to make it compatible with Chrome/GreaseKit (though so far I've only tested my scripts with Firefox, Chrome) - I think chrisofspades just hasn't had a chance to do it. I'll contact him and see if he's Ok with me jumping in to assist.
- Micah Wittman
Micah, is this a problem specific for this script then? I think greasekit is just bugging... I wonder what kind of other user script I could use to test...
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, any one of my three recent ff scripts are fine test: (friendfeedFilterByService http://userscripts.org/scripts... ), (friendfeedCommentBottomLink http://userscripts.org/scripts... ), (friendfeedCommentMiniAvatar http://userscripts.org/scripts... ). Let me know.
- Micah Wittman
I think Greasekit is bugging, cause when trying to install the same script twice, it does say something about "already installed, override?" but it doesn't show up in the script list under "manage scripts" in the Greasekit menu.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, some possibly helpful forum discussion on trouble shooting Greasekit: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007...
- Micah Wittman
Resource tip for GreaseMonkey / userscript developers regarding compatibility: gm_functions http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Micah Wittman
Hmm, I think I found the trick: You need to install the scripts inside Safari itself, not with a fluid.app SSB. Scripts installed in Safari also show up in the SSB's for which Greasekit is enabled.
- Meryn Stol
friendfeedFilterByService does not seem to be Safari compatible. I'm sure it's running though, because a new line: "DELAY 0.5 seconds, @-replies" is added below the FriendFeed logo.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, there are several configuration settings to adjust based on what you want it to do. Edit the script and read through the /************ Configuration **********/ section, make changes there, save script, reload web page.
- Micah Wittman
More info in comments here, Meryn: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
Ah sorry, thought it was plug & play. :) Thanks, gonna try.
- Meryn Stol
The comment link at the bottom script doesn't seem to work.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Thanks, Gunny. I'll test that next I'm on Safari.
- Micah Wittman
Grease Monkey just makes the internet better.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
I love your CommentBottomLink script. I'm using several of yours at the moment. They're great:)
- Michael Fidler
Anonymous Analysis of Google Charm OffensiveAn anonymous analysis, obtained by Consumer Watchdog, of Google's "Charm Offensive" that Google's using to defend its growth and deAnonymous Analysis of Google Charm Offensive - http://sarahintampa.tumblr.com/post...
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Numbers in April: Twitter and Facebook Shine, MySpace Stagnates - http://mashable.com/2009...
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I am developing a "sharing" problem not that I am a Shareaholic http://www.shareaholic.com/
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Lifehacker - DIY Solar-Powered iPhone or iPod Charger - MintyBoost - http://lifehacker.com/5242814...
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Ramirez Is Banned 50 Games After Positive Test - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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Among VC's... It's vastly more useful to deal with Simon Cowell-types than Paula Abdul-types. Dawg.
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