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Virtual fencing - A new way of corralling cattle is being tested in New Mexico - http://www.economist.com/display...

July 4, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Victor Ryden, Karim, Mitchell Tsai and 8 other people liked this

"One question for Ear-a-round is whether it can be made cheaper than fencing. At $600 a cow, that is not obviously yet so. Dr Rus, however, is working on getting the price of the hardware down to the $100 that farmers will pay. Meanwhile Dr Anderson is about to start working out how many cows actually need to be fitted with Ear-a-rounds to control an entire herd. He hopes that, by identifying a herd’s leaders and fitting out them alone, this number can be reduced to a handful." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Just like people. - Paul Buchheit

"OLPC" after this? One laptop per cow? : ) - Erhan Erdogan

Just like shopping carts. - Amit Patel

That's just calling out for a good WiFi hotspot caption, but I've got nothing. - Ken Sheppardson

Of course, once you put this thing on the head of a herd leader all the other cows will laugh at him. Maybe it can be concealed under a top-hat. - Ethan Jewett from twhirl

Oh. I pictured virtual cows mooing 'en garde!' - Andy Wibbels

This is less sophisticated technology than an iPhone. I'm sure with an AT&T subsidy they can get the cost to $199 per cow (with 2 year contract). Seriously, though, this has other implications -- changes in movement could be provide diagnostics for cattle illness (moving slowly, not roaming as far, etc.), or telemetry could be added (temperature, heartbeat)... whole "cattle drives" could be conducted over the web... at least until the hackers break in and steer your herd onto an interstate... :-D - Karim

Paul - lol "just like people." so there are cow "influentials?" - Karim

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Why decentralizing Twitter is so important. http://www.scripting.com/stories...

May 4, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Sumit Chachra, Mark Interrante, Ethan Jewett and 3 other people liked this

Loic Le Meur

@aqualung added me in last.fm and now his page is in French this is hilarious. Let me see if I can switch to english...

April 27, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Philippe, Ethan Jewett and Susan Beebe liked this

:-) Well, this happened to me as well. It's a diferent URL, though, so I guess all you need is change it (from lastfm.fr to last.fm) - Terence Reis from Alert Thingy

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ZOMG! Fat chance! I even deleted the cookies and my profile (I mean, mon profil) keeps returning to french! - Terence Reis from Alert Thingy

weird, I just switched my language when i landed on loic's profile to english using the language toggle - Chris Jones

We've just pushed a change live which should fix this issue! Three cheers for bugtracking 2.0. ;) - Matthew Ogle

Same thing happened to me! Changed it back to english manually, seems to have worked - Garrido from twhirl

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