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Twitter makes discovering interesting new people easier than any other social network. When I know someone I "respect/enjoy" @ / message someone else.... I am more likely to click through and subscribe to them. FF, for example does not have the same feature. You have to actually read through comments to find new and interesting people.
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I've noticed fellow @marshallk/@rww fan, & hey, I think I know of someone who has a Twitter crush on Marshall she RT's him to the point where about 50% of her feed is Marshall's
- sofarsoShawn
Totally wrong. On FF, the people who my friends like show up in my feed; I don't have to click anywhere, I don't have to do anything, to discover new people. Twitter, for example, deliberately hides @ messages from me if the @ is at the start of a message. Plus, when you click through to twitter, there's no context: you can't see how the people interact with others; all you can see are their raw posts.
- Mistletoe Glen
That may have been true before Twitter messed up @replies, now I have to actually visit my friend's page to see who they're @replying to. Of course, I get to see @replies to people I'm not following via FF, so that helps a bit.
- Admiral Anika
I agree with glen, I find ff to be discovery tool than Twitter, as i can see posts of unknown users liked by my existing friends or comments by new users - 2 ways to discover new ppl
- Krishna Gade
from FreshFeed
yes but "like" is much less effort than "@"... that means there is a lot more noise with "like"... I have simply turned off the people my friends like. However I do see the @'s on my twitter stream.
- Bindu Reddy
Yes the @ replies won't be seen unless you are following both people... However the @ mentions are what I find useful in discovering people
- Bindu Reddy
Outsourced - http://likaholix.com/bindu...
Vishy, Atul Arora, Krishna Gade and 2 other people liked this
Saw this movie last night on Netflix on-demand. A fairly well-made story of small town india and call centers in India from an american point of view. Liked it quite a but
- Bindu Reddy
from Likaholix
the guy in the movie works in Seattle... It ran for a few weeks in Bellevue cinema
- Krishna Gade
from iPhone
What movie has the best fight scenes or scene?
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Ahsan Ali aka. Slick, Alan Le, alfred westerveld and 38 other people liked this
For me the Bourne movie fight scenes are immense. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf* ... Oh, you mean physical fight scenes... My bad.
- James (!?)
I agree I loved the fight scenes in Bourne - LOL James those were some scary fight scenes
- martha
Hehe, James. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bourne. Where else do you see a pen and newspaper used as lethal weapons?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Jackie Chan's the most consistent fight scene performer for me. For a specific movie or scene, the Bourne trilogy is amazing
- LANjackal
The scene in Ultimatum in Morocco is superb! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The "corridor scene" in Old Boy.
- JazJaz
Yeah, the fight scenes in Bourne are not only immense, but very realistic as well.
- jan geronimo
and brutal!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
The lobby scene in The Matrix where Neo and Trinity demolish half an army.
- Rahul Das
Equilibrium Gun Katas were really wild. loved the idea behind it. used well, in the flick, too.
- MikeAmundsen
Bourne hands down.
- TheHenry
between bourne and bruce lee
- Parvez Halim
Kill Bill
- Greg
The ladder fight in Once Upon a Time in China and Neo vs Agent Smith X100 in Matrix 2 are both great fights but Ong-Bak has the best fight scenes i have ever seen.
- Steve
Matrix! - Agent Smith vs Neo.
- Fırat DEMİREL
The Matrix has some of thee best fight scenes ever. Difficult to pick one.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, you are right. so i did not explain the scenes. ;o)
- Fırat DEMİREL
enter the dragon, bourne series, rocky series...
- Krishna Gade
I liked the over the top gore in the Grindhouse moovies
- Davis Freeberg
Any of the 'Bourne' movies.
- Sean
Transporter (original) is fun.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Definitely the "Bourne" movies.
- TVTechGrl
"They Live". You know I'm right.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
They Live, with the incredibly long fight between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.
- DGentry
yes that long fight in "They Live"
- Alfredo
I would have said the Matrix, but the scenes were just too CGI. I would say the Bourne Trilogy again for some intense action. Special mention to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
The Kill Bill movies.
- Ben Hanten
The Bourne movies. Amazing tension for two straight hours. You feel drained, and that music! To die for!
- Rick Cogley
maximum risk, jean claude van damme vs russian guy at sauna
- ramin
For me it's probably Ong Bak. Crows Zero has some great scenes too (not so far from that corridor scene from Old Boy).
- Brome
One of the best fight scenes was the ending scene from Jet Li's Kiss the Dragon.
- jamar78
The ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA movies. Jet Li without the Hollywood speed bumps for four movies. Teh awesomesauce.
- Steven Perez
from Android
Jet Li's FIST OF LEGEND, Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Tony Jaa's ONG-BAK.
- cdogzilla
Drunken Master 2 (Jackie vs 5, Jackie & Lau Kar-Leung vs 100 in the restaurant). The Protector has an unbelievable 4 minute single shot where Tony Jaa runs up a large building, kicking tremendous ass along the way, and there's those three one-on-ones he has as well. SPL doesn't have a lot of fight scenes, but Donnie Yen vs Jing Wu is outstanding. The Cowboy Bebop movie has some...
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- Andrew C
If you're going to include the Matrix lobby scene, you might include a few other gunfight scenes - The Killer, Hard Boiled, Shoot 'Em Up.
- Andrew C
Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935). He also directed the Adventures of Robin Hood and Casablanca.
- Zach Landes
IDK i think if we are going on raw fighting film talent Bruce Lee is pretty epic. Bourne really has a lot more to do with the filming of the sequences that enhance the feeling of the action.
- Geoff Schultz
The corridor fight in Old Boy--it's visually stunning and raw: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ubqtous
Kill Bill, Volume One.
- Mycaptain
"Big Boss", Bruce Lee
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The Matrix, Kill Bill, 300 and House of Flying Daggers (the bamboo fight sequence was brilliant)!
- Frank Da Silva
Jet Li's 'Kiss of the Dragon' is one of my modern favorites. I've heard that they actually had to slow down the footage, because Li was simply too fast.
- Will Higgins™
FIST OF LEGEND with Jet Li. Sorry, the others don't hold a candle to the final two sequences in this movie.
- Andrew Leyden
The Bourne Films for the striking realism and They Live for the sheer length of that scene. Honorable mention to Ong Bak
- Robert Davies
The greatest fight scene in movie history and it takes until this far into the comments for someone to identify it? Sheesh - The best scene ever is clearly the Sword Fighting scene in The Princess Bride. It's inconceivable that I'm the first one to mention it.
- Bill Rawlinson
@Bill: !ha! good pick.
- MikeAmundsen
The first Matrix, Neo vs. Agent Smith.
- Eric P
I agree with Andrew Leyden, Fist of Legend - Jet Li !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Happy Gilmore
- michael sean wright
Introduction to Vipassana Meditation by Mr. S. N. Goenka http://video.server.dhamma.org/video...
insightful reading http://www.dhamma.org/en...
- Krishna Gade
Who has the coolest job? I vote for @newmediajim because he is NBC's camera guy in the White House. More:
Scott Kingery, Rui Pereira, Jim Connolly and 20 other people liked this
@garyvee runs a huge wine store. Who else?
- Robert Scoble
Me, the Permit Guy - http://austincitypermits.com/blog...
- Gary Etie
Me, I sell happiness.
- Mike White
Pilots for the Google corporate jet?
- Gary Etie
Do we have Astronaut twitters?
- Esteban Panzeri Glas
My vote goes to @leolaporte. He gets to do all day what I can only do on the weekends... netcast. He also gets the cool product reviews that I can't quite manage yet.
- John Fox
Gary: no way. Jim Long's job is FAR cooler. He gets to go on Air Force One
- Robert Scoble
Mike: I gotta hear more about this happiness. It sounds like an Amsterdam tour guide.
- Robert Scoble
It's better than Amsterdam because it all occurs locally. No travel!
- Mike White
Robert, I think YOUR job is pretty cool :-)
- Pablo Melchor
John: sorry. Leo wasn't drinking Sake with @garyvee today. Unless he has supermodels sitting on his lap his job his isn't that cool. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble has to be one of them. In geek heaven most of the time... :)
- Amit Nangare
Pablo: Agreed. Anyone who gets to deal with tech and social media all day is cool in my book.
- John Fox
Mike, you might have fun selling it, I'm a librarian who thinks it is even more fun to give it away.
- Carolyn Wood
Robert: Well, when you put it like that... ;-)
- John Fox
I gotta go with Leo Laporte as well
- Kashif Khan
Carolyn - I give it away as much as possible, but I have to pay the bills!
- Mike White
Pablo: I can't argue. Hanging out with @garyvee rocks!
- Robert Scoble
Mike, if you are feeling guilty you are always welcome to volunteer @ your library!
- Carolyn Wood
yes being a photo/videographer with great access to important events would be really cool, I had little tastes of it while freelancing for nyt, ap, national geo. but most importantly, you get to play with all the latest digi-toys :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Carolyn - No guilt. I volunteer every week.
- Mike White
I am sitting next to the CEO of Intermec Pat Burn in UA 95.
- Robert Scoble
As I once told @karaswisher, anyone living in the Valley or on the West Coast is spoiled with being in tech's back yard. Nothing interesting ever happens here in Indy, except for BlogIndiana.
- John Fox
Sorry, take my job and multiply it by 100x and you have @newmediajim's job.
- Robert Scoble
There's no competition. Barrack Obama. Fancy plain, gets to call anyone in the world and get called back. Media exposure, travel, awesome house and the job comes with a private plain, helicopter and military force. He's the leader of the free world and when he speaks, everyone (even those that despise him) listen. That job rocks. Tough... but rocks.
- Jason Nunnelley
Leo, Patrick and Martin Sargent came to Houston once ... nothing techie really happens in Houston either
- Kashif Khan
I have 2 extremely cool jobs: I work in craft brewery 't IJ in Amsterdam. And I work in 1 of the best assorted beerstores in the world, de Bierkoning, with more than 900 different types of beer.
- Ton Zijp
Once heard a guy talking about his job as a professional whiskey taster. They provided him a driver. I'd work for any Islay whiskey producer in that position.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Ton, I will be moving to Amsterdam soon... where can I try those 900 beers?
- Gianfranco Chicco
I meant spoiled in a good way, of course!
- John Fox
Robert's job is long hours and hard work. I don't want it.
- Jason Nunnelley
Gianfranco: Well, I work in a beerstore. So you can't drink them there (although I am allowed to do that). You have to buy the bottles at de Bierkoning (just behind the Palace) to take them to your hotelroom & drink them there.
- Ton Zijp
how about this guy http://www.islandreefjob.com/ ?
- Kashif Khan
Jim's might not be the most exciting or adventurous job out there, but he certainly provides some very interesting insights and things to look in on.
- Dean Clark
Jason I haven't worked an hour in the last few years.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry guys, but this man has the coolest job in the world http://bit.ly/zd4nk.
- Nir Ben Yona
@AstroMike is the NASA astronaut Twitter-er. But my vote is with Nir Ben Yona. That's a killer job right there.
- Aaron Turpen
Nir: my friend Bill Storage has had naked super models in his house. I would still rather have Jim Long's job.
- Robert Scoble
I like my job, personally. I get to be home with my family all day and set my own schedule. Heck, I'm going to Boston in 2 weeks and don't need to request any time off work. I'll just work from out there!
- Jesse Stay
I think Paul Therotte has a pretty cool gig. I dont know what he makes but seems like a good gig.
- Spirit 2.0
I wouldn't take Barack Obama's job for all the tea in China. I love my own job: helping entrepreneurs get started and grow. As my kids used to say, "my mom thinks on the phone for a living." Now I think online:-) No complaints here.
- Francine Hardaway
It isn't new but a guy I know rode a boom camera for the Donnie and Marie Show (yeah I know) and said it was the most fun he ever had.
- Bob Calder
from twhirl
There is a guy who works for Sports Illustrated who's job is to brush off the sand from the backside of the swimsuit models. I saw it once on a documentary. That would be a pretty cool job.
- Andrew Leyden
We get to travel around the world filming the best organic food, eco-accommodations, exotic locations and some of the true top chefs on the planet...just saying.
- HippyGourmet
The person who loves what they do the most of course... or an eccentric rich guy with no formal responsibilities, that's my dream job.
- Mark Essel
Mythbusters crew. They get to do all the coolest things in the name of good tv.
- John Ford
John, I've got to admit the blowing stuff up (w.out hurting people, cause the pres gets to blow stuff up) is pretty cool. I'm voting on Mythbusters crew. Good one.
- Jason Nunnelley
l'd love to be an artist - musician/painter/cartoonist if only I had that much talent :(
- Krishna Gade
Sorry, the coolest job in the white house has to be Pete Souza's, Chief Official White House Photographer. One of my favorite Souza photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos... or google "obama haircut son"
- Steve Wilhelm
Photographers seem to have hell of a time. They meet new (even famous) people, travel constantly, and have a creative job. Win. Fashion Photographers have even /more/ fun, from the sounds of it ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Kevin, I couldn't agree more
- Arvind
Not *the* coolest, but mine ain't bad. Recently started driving cross-country in a 1986 RV meeting people and telling their stories on video. http://thehardestyear.com
- John
Robert: I have the collest job in the world, because it was designed by me, so that I get to spend every day, doing what I love the most. I'm just trying to figure out how to get paid to watch re-runs of The Big Bang Theory show too - then it will be perfect!
- Jim Connolly
Jim: anyone who has a job that they love is in a great place, I agree. We're very blessed there.
- Robert Scoble
To me right now, any job that pays enough for me to keep my house is the coolest one in the world. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any of those around here.
- Scott Ohlemacher
Name one thing you are learning, that you are bad at.
Thierry R. Andriamirado, David Cook, Alfredo and 24 other people liked this
ruby on rails.
- anna sauce
cello.
- anna sauce
life.
- Steve C
Advancing my own interests at work.
- Ayşe E.
being a manager (not sure if I'm bad or not yet...I'd like to think not)
- Justin Korn
empathy
- Alex Scrivener
Discussion last night at dinner that people don't let themselves be bad at things- that we have to be, to learn something. We want to learn it in private then magically be amazing at it. It's a problem with the creative cycle- folks are too busy perfecting and not just finishing and letting it go.
- anna sauce
Life.
- Andy Bold
Andy more specific pls!
- anna sauce
Logic. Going back to school was a wake-up call.
- Jess
sculpting.
- Andrew C
waking up
- Jim Norris
Communicating with women.
- Alex Scoble
computers
- YoYo_P
Applying make up and other girly things I should have picked up in adolescence. Sigh.
- Heather Solos
Partying
- Jemm
managing relationships.
- vijay
Alex, that's a lifelong journey ;) anna, heh - OK - singing :)
- Andy Bold
jazz chords on piano
- Nathan Chase
Guitar. Again.
- The Letter M
diplomacy
- Sebastian
Patience.
- Mona Nomura
Tact.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Sympathy.
- Mona Nomura
guitar
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Applying liquid eyeliner.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Exercising.
- Mona Nomura
Waking up in the morning
- Rodfather
piano
- martha
meditation
- anna sauce
Self control.
- Mona Nomura
Patience.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Consistency.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Forgiveness. (Man I have a lot of flaws)
- Mona Nomura
Assertiveness.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Anna - Can I print out your comment (#6) and keep it above my desk at work?
- Mitch
knitting socks
- Janet
Patience and Focus.
- Eric Logan
Zipping it.
- Sharon McPherson
Replacing a roll of toilet paper
- Rodfather
Sure, Mitch
- anna sauce
Also Mitch- credit goes to my friend Johnny last night who was criticized for enthusing so much about golf, when he just learned it a year or so ago. "I don't care that I'm bad at it, I'm learning, and you have to be bad at the beginning!"
- anna sauce
Golf and sex are a lot alike in that you don't have to be a pro to enjoy the activity.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
But a decent set of woods helps you have more fun...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So does practicing with your putter.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
MVB why did I think of a hole in one when I saw your comment?
- Sharon McPherson
Eating fried rice with chop-sticks
- Rodfather
MVB: well depends on who is the receiving end. MIxing in football a bit.
- anna sauce
Lol MVB
- Mitch
LOL Sharon! And anna, there is always the thought of a few lessons to improve your stance.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Managing the finances of a small business. I used to be good at math, but my brain just has trouble computing lately.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Being truthful with myself
- Kamath (नमः)
Mindfulness.
- Amy℠
Procrastination
- orionstarr
Speling. (Wink to orionstarr.)
- Amy℠
I know that to!
- orionstarr
guitar hero
- chrisofspades
Madden
- orionstarr
People skillz.
- Russellreno
Not being too nice.
- jcunwired
photography
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
german
- Helen Sventitsky
paying attention
- Eric Nakagawa
Concentrating on one thing at a time.
- Steven Perez
Photography.
- joey
Humility
- Jason Huebel
being my team's manager, imho
- Marco Frattola (sbarrax)
not taking responsibility for everything
- Katy S
imo, being a parent...but for some reason everyone who knows my kids thinks otherwise.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Setting boundaries.
- felicious
stopping before I rage out
- esther ♥ ♫
Viola da gamba. Still easier than a cello, though.
- Joel Webber
German language
- Andrey Ivanov
spanish.
- felix
To be silent.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Update: To accept to be silent!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
sitar, waking up, relationships
- Krishna Gade
In that order? LOL
- anna sauce
sprinting uphill
- Mary Rosberg
mandarin, GTD
- viki saigal
rank world historical thought leaders by influence
Russ Jackson and LogEx liked this
"Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? ... Morons."
- LogEx
Is that a quote from someone? :) A religious fundamentalist might say that.
- Sean McBride
Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine should be on the list.
- Sean McBride
I vote for Thomas Jefferson or the entire bunch of Founding Fathers
- Russ Jackson
Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tse, Machiavelli
- Todd Hoff
Shakespeare, Plato, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Marx, Jefferson
- William Harryman
The entire bunch of founding fathers? Seriously? Because thinking that slavery is a good idea automatically drops you from the list.
- Alex Scoble
Sean, the quote is from the movie The Princess Bride.
- LogEx
Darwin, Gallileo, Buddha, Marx, Gandhi, Voltaire
- Krishna Gade
Rebuilding the list of candidates: Aristotle, Augustine, Bacon, Buddha, Cervantes, Chaucer, Confucius, Copernicus, Darwin, Descartes, Einstein, Emerson, Euclid, Freud, Galileo, Gandhi, Hegel, Herder, Herzl, Hess, Hobbes, Homer, Jefferson, Jesus, Jung, Lao Tse, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Machiavelli, Marx, Mohammed, Moses, Newton, Paine, Pascal, Paul, Plato, Shakespeare, Smith, Socrates, Spinoza, Thoreau, Trotsky, Voltaire
- Sean McBride
Rajeev Motwani passed away, may his soul R.I.P http://gigaom.com/2009...
hard to believe it, had read many of his research papers when i was grad school. One of the most influential cs researchers of modern times ( prof of Sergey & Larry at Stanford )
- Krishna Gade
OK, the video preview at Bing gets ★★★★★!! http://www.bing.com/videos... more on this Techcrunch story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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I am not a search expert at all, so can someone briefly explain the benefits of BING. I am pretty happy with google, and its gotten better in recent months at getting me exactly what I am looking for. So what is BING's advantage....
- Zachary Adam Cohen
Zachary: you have to try it. Lots of little things are better. Better video search. Better travel search. Better shopping (you get money back) but lots of things aren't better, either. I'm still not liking some of the results I'm getting as much as Google and Google is just part of my online life now and will be hard to remove (my iPhone has Google, for instance, and I've used Google so...
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- Robert Scoble
@Zachary. Here're a few. 1 - Bing wins in some segments travel, video, image. Esp, I love travel as it suggests tips whether to buy the tickets now or wait. 2 - Core search is comparable to Google, table of contents on the left pane helps you navigate to related quieries quickly. 3 - Shopping search is pretty awesome, added to it you can get cashback for microsoft for stuff you buy from there.
- Krishna Gade
@Scobleizer and @Zachary, have you seen? -> Important food for thought re:big brotherly suggestions in: "Bing, Wave, & Other Painful Attempts to Change Culture" - http://bit.ly/DbaXr "...Bing brings "the best match to the top," not the most popular. In other words, Microsoft is overriding the democratic approach for an elitist, we-know-best approach. # The demo video shows a search for...
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- Alex Schleber
Robert S.: Thanks for the comment. I am def going to try to incorporate BING in any way I can. I actually care less about which service is brought to me by MSFT and which one by GOOG. What I am interested in is finding what I need when I need it, which is the most basic premise of search. I definitely think that there is room for a search engine that "does more" in the sense of video...
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- Zachary Adam Cohen
I really, really, really love Bing. But I won't use it. Why do I love it? Competition for Google is a GOOD thing! Read why I won't use it:
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I am using Google less and less and when I do it's from my iPhone's interface.
- Robert Scoble
Or from a browser's interface. Google is "good enough" and it'll take more than "10% better" (which Bing is in places) to rewire my brain from Google to Bing.
- Robert Scoble
There are some exceptions, though. Verticals. I could see using the video search. Or the travel features. They both are very nice.
- Robert Scoble
And I will consider the "cash back" for shopping. But it's going to be tough to get me off of Google, how about you?
- Robert Scoble
Agreed. Does not feel different enough. Google is safe for a few more years.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: yeah, and I don't like the "look" of it. I think that's because Google is burned into my brain. It's going to be difficult to get that unburned. On the other hand, I can see the hundreds of millions of people on Hotmail trying it, if it's integrated well.
- Robert Scoble
How much will the 'well, it's the search engine that came on my computer' play into it. My sister still uses MSN search
- Johnny Worthington
Robert Scoble saying I love Bing is a good start compared to their previous attempts. So far I have had positive results. Will I change my habit of typing google without even knowing it? not sure.
- Vaibhav
And it is definitely a credible effort on all the searches I've tried so far. That's a HUGE difference from older search technologies Microsoft put together.
- Robert Scoble
Vaibhav: I know that having a credible competitor will keep Google innovative for a lot longer than if there were never any competition from anyone else. Now Google has some fire underneath them. No longer can Google's executives ignore the main search experience, which hasn't seen much innovation for a while.
- Robert Scoble
Bing has done a great job in its UI as well as for some other features (excerpt on results, image, map, videos, etc.). I'm still waiting for comments on how good their indexing/ranking is. I hope it'll be better than before.
- Dave Fuentes
For that I love Bing, big time.
- Robert Scoble
I'm just impressed the results are not the subpar crap from before. It's as good as Google down to even the minor computational stuff I've thrown at it.
- Adi
I have the same feeling as for the Google and competition. There is no silver bullet, and there shouldn't be one BIG and SMART and whatever else company. Wish there would be email solution better than Google Apps. Wanted to pay for Apple's MobileMe but I think almost nobody is using their Web mail. And they still do not do custom email domains. So, Google is a winner for now... though, I beg for competitors :-)
- Olexiy Prokhorenko
You can't use things like "comfort" and "what you're used to" as reasons, kids that aren't used to anything, and are better at picking up new things will see Bing for what it really is. Now what that is, I still have no idea, we'll see how it performs the next time I need to find something I guess.
- Colin
Does anyone know when Mahalo 2 will be released?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I think Bing's novelty as a fresh face will wear off soon, and there's really nothing earth shattering about it as a search engine. I definitely think competition with Google is a great thing, because it's competition between two entities like Microsoft and Google that could really drive innovation (hopefully in OS building someday?). But I guess framing "Bing" as a competitor is a...
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- Victor Barrera
From the little that I've tried it out, it seems to be work fine; not better than Google, but mostly on par. But, like you said, after years of using Google exclusively, I won't be switching search engines unless something that is clearly better comes out.
- 321
The Snow Leopard on the front page is amusing.
- Diego Barros
There was a time when AltaVista was the king and I couldn't have imagined to use something else... I don't see why I couldn't make a switch again.
- Jemm
Found the T&C document for the cash-back: "You can participate in the Live Search cashback service if you are 18 years or older, reside in the United States..." and there I stopped reading.
- Edward Coffey
Love the "I think that's because Google is burned into my brain" quote. This is [scary] true
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Cashback service? What was that Edward? They payed people to use Live Search?
- Colin
What has changed at Microsoft? Bing, Windows 7, Zune HD all seem to be getting positive reviews.
- Vaibhav
So far, for me, I am finding that it does vanity searches better. Kevin Fox mentioned somewhere else on FF that it messes with page titles - that piece I an not so hot on.
- Andy Bold
Also, the pr0n biz might feel the heat from the video search it's got. Just sayin'. ;)
- Adi
Did I just see Matt Cutts (http://twitter.com/mattcutts) comparing results for Google with @bing? Hhhmmm that's interesting to follow.
- Dave Fuentes
Google is more famous, and more common, so for now I will stick with google. Bing does have some interesting features though. They are worthy enough to look into, but google is still the one. At least for me it is. Bing will eventually evolve, and who knows, it could become the next big thing.
- TheHenry
I think it is going to be baby steps. If MS get 2 to 3 % increase in market share that will be good enough for now. They have to keep improving though and yes Google needs competition.
- Rohit Harshvardhan
Thanks Edward
- Colin
Once the Wow dies down, Bing will be to Google as what the Zune is to the iPod.
- Diego Barros
hahah. Agreed @Diego
- TheHenry
Simple vanity-searches on Bing for some of my friends and family who aren't famous but have active online presences actually put links to those presences in the first few results. Google prefers genealogy data of long-dead relatives, or the inactive, boiler-plate staff profile pages of university professors.
- Edward Coffey
Edward, I've noticed the same. That's quite nice of Bing..
- Christopher A Carr
Its frustrating that because I'm in the UK, I can't test the service. Would like to put it through its paces.
- Jim Connolly
TechNewsBlog: Why? Not out there yet? I can use it here in Australia.
- Diego Barros
That is pretty weak Tech News Blog, the whole point of the internet is that it doesn't have those boundaries.
- Colin
Christopher and Edward: both search engines put my old blog up top. Really pisses me off, I wish they'd move it down. Google puts friendfeed up where it belongs, though, while Bing has my wife's friendfeed above mine. That's VERY weird.
- Robert Scoble
Tech News, I'm also UK and it's working for me. What do you see?
- Andy Bold
Nice change of direction, i have tried it and the results have been good
- Deepa
Andy: I can see it now - Thanks! On Friday, I just got a redirect page.
- Jim Connolly
Over here, the bing.com domain is active, snow leopard and all, but the search results are just identical to Live Search (see query "hotel brussels" - http://www.scrnshots.com/users... ). None of the fancy stuff from the announcement video's is there.
- Dirk Houbrechts
For me, the biggest issue is that '10% better' learning curve. Until a search engine is SIGNIFICANTLY better/different than Google, it's going to be hard to convince me to chance.
- Cory OBrien
@stuart: I think it changes everyday. Soon snow leopard will be the thing of past (in more than one sense) ;)
- Jemm
I see the same results that Live search gave( when I tried a week back) . I don't find the site "snippet" to be useful as well.
- Krishnamoorthy
@Robert - what do you like bing to do that would make you swtich to it ? I understand core relevance improvements. but what else ? are there any potential directions that you think would make the user do a swtich...
- Krishna Gade
@jemm It might be geographical as well. I don't see the Leopard, I was getting a Nebula and now a bunch of hot air baloons over Turkey. I'm located in The Bahamas.
- Adi
Krishna: real time search that's better than friendfeed would get me interested very quickly. Integrating real time feedback underneath business listings would be even better. Do those two and then you change the game.
- Robert Scoble
The snow leopard has not gone from the front page for me.
- Diego Barros
Bing Maps FAIL http://friendfeed.com/dryligh...
- Diego Barros
Why would you need to rewire your brain? If I like a particular search engine's results, I'll just set my browser to use it as a default search. Do you actually go to the search engine's website and type your query into their search box? Gah.
- Stuart Schram
Robert: Real time search for any search engine is at best difficult. Google as an example has server farms located all over the planet and the databases are not all updated simultaneously. Not all that long ago Google only updated once a month and it took a week. They do it a lot quicker and more frequently now but you can see the implications there for real time search. Plus the...
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- Gilbert Harding
Oh, and FWIW, if I have to choose between the two, I'd much rather a mapping website simply fail to work than get effed-up results from Google Maps that send us more than 3 miles deep into Deliverance country so that I get griefed for the next 15 minutes while everybody in the car wonders if we're going to be made to squeal like piggies.
- Stuart Schram
I will hate the name until Armageddon
- Bwana ☠
lmao @ Bwana :D
- vijay
I liked quite a few features, but it just didn't feel quite as clean as Google, and it didn't produce results quite as good (for my handful of sample searches). The best thing to come out of this will probably that Google learns a few new tricks from Bing & does them better.
- Gurpreet
It looks fugly, and a few quick test searches gave really horrid results.
- Anders Husa
Here's a question Robert, what makes this better than Yahoo search?
- Bwana ☠
Completely agree. I see no reason to switch from Google but it's nice for Google to have someone to compete with.
- John Munro
The only place I would be likely to use Bing is on my iPhone. But guess what? They don't have a mobile Bing site. It redirects to the sorry old Live Search mobile site. Yuck. Microsoft should have had a free App Store app for Bing ready to roll today for the launch if they weren't going to support a mobile version. No matter how much they want to, it makes little sense for Microsoft to ignore the iPhone's popularity.
- Andy
An incremental evolution of search isn't going to unseat Google. Google is more than "good enough", and even if Bing does turn out to be marginally better that's not enough to get a lot of switchers (and Google can easily clone Bing's features). MS needs a game changer and Bing doesn't seem to be it. And while I don't agree with Robert's enthusiasm for "real time" search, I do feel that...
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- Eric P
I like Bing pretty much but hey lets be honest its still half baked as with so many other MS products (unlike Windows Seven)
- Abhishek
It's not a competitor for real if people don't use it, Robert... Be part of the solution, not part of the problem! =)
- Andrew C
Scoble: I am really loving Bing as well. It with this Greasemonkey script (http://blog.mikedavidsmith.com/...) that allows you to add Twitter to the side panel (I really hated Twitter at the very top of the search) is very usable. The problem is that I go to Google for Gmail, Reader, and Calendar among other things. But I might try changing the base search engine of my Firefox awesome bar to Bing and see how it works (http://www.howinthetech.com/changin...).
- Sweyn Venderbush
I don't think I'll be using 'Bing' as a verb any time soon. Google IS search.
- Vince DeGeorge
I'm am finding it works as well as Google as a default provider in Chrome but I agree it will have to be a lot better than Google or have some unique extremely useful features before it will make any serious inroads. But it could creep up on Google search if Microsoft continues to press on all fronts (features, marketing, real time/speed of indexing) and if Google strays doing other stuff like Wave and neglects new search functionality.
- Brian Sullivan
I switched to Bing about a week after it came out; I wanted to take it for a trial run to see if I could leave Google and Yahoo (I was using both of them.) Needless to say, I've stuck with Bing. I really like the picture homepage; I look forward to learning something new every day about some unique place or thing in the world. I also find its interface less straining on my eyes: it's a...
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- Wonkette
Nikhil is back after the break. What I missed: Bing, Indian election results, IPL, Nadal ousted, NBA playoffs etc. etc. But no complaints... :).
that's quite a big list dude... glad that you're back just when we went out public
- Krishna Gade
Very interesting, when you search for another search engine on Bing, it gives you a box to search that engine - e.g. http://skitch.com/bradkel...
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yup, this does not apply just for search engines, try a few queries like amazon, ebay, nytimes and see search within site box in the results.
- Krishna Gade
Pulp Fiction vs. The Empire Strikes Back - http://www.flickchart.com/6275664...
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Pulp Fiction
- Alan Simpson
tarantino always wins...
- esther ♥ ♫
PF of course :)
- Bindu Reddy
Pulp Fiction.
- Kol Tregaskes
Both awesome yet I come back to Pulp Fiction more often than I do to Empire.
- Manuel Mas
Empire of course... :-)
- Kevin Whalen
This is the matchup that launched Flickchart, actually.
- Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy's right - this was the reason we created Flickchart - we both agreed that there's absolutely no way that Pulp Fiction is a better film than Empire - we looked at IMDB, saw Pulp was above Empire, and said that's wrong. We need to build a better ranking system. The rest... is history...
- Nathan Chase
Empire, of course. ;)
- Pete Delucchi
Pulp Fiction...no doubt. Not even joking one iota here.
- Alex Scoble
ESB.
- Richly N. Chheuy
Pulp fiction.
- Aaron Hood
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PF any day...
- Krishna Gade
Empire. Or Pulp. Or Empire. *brain explodes*
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Pulp Fiction had was John Travolta.
- Rob Haas
YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Demo of Google Wave.
- Amit Patel
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Google Wave is the OpenDoc of Web 3.11 for Workgroups
- Amit Patel
What is this Google Wave that you speak of?
- Rob Schonberger
Ha ha Rob!
- Amit Patel
this is quite incredible, I can see google building social office onto of this.... Looks like they don't want to make money with this by selling wave servers to the enterprise as they plan to open- source the protocol... In that case MS will build exchange wave servers..,
- Krishna Gade
CNET review of Bing... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
"Bing makes Google look complacent, and that's not good for Google. For the moment, Bing's on top in this game. Try this search engine. I do not think you will regret it. " – Rafe
- Krishna Gade
Bing - MSFT trying once again... - http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon
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Anyone willing to bet that it will work this time? I am betting on it not working this time either. This kind of search is REALLY hard to do well and they still don't give you a good reason to switch from Google.
- Bindu Reddy
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Yay Microsoft!
- τorƍue
Someone actually supporting MSFT :)
- Bindu Reddy
wait for bing 3.11
- Private Sanjeev
for workgroups
- peter
for workgroups?
- Bindu Reddy
Windows humor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- jakebf
bing seems okay, however I'll be more excited when the include the technology they acquired from Powerset (http://www.powerset.com)
- Paul Lindner
Well the seem to have some entity detection. That must be coming from powerset?
- Bindu Reddy
i'm willing to bet that it will work this time, well coz i worked on it :)
- Krishna Gade
Nice Krishna.
- τorƍue
Congrats Krishna!
- Bindu Reddy
@Tim,@Bindu - Thanks !! waiting to see your reactions once we launch :)
- Krishna Gade
Pop!Casts - http://www.poptech.org/popcast...
videos of poptech 2008 presentations
- Krishna Gade
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Xobni Man Walking » Blog Archive » Xobni’s Burn in the Early Days - http://www.xobni.com/asmith...
- Xobni's founder blogs about burn in rate of the company during its early days
- Krishna Gade
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AR Rahman wins the Golden Globe for SlumDog Millionaire - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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where is this man's journey taking him ? from composing jingles in Chennai to Golden Globe - Way to go Rahman, all of India is proud of you !!
- Krishna Gade
American Desi - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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full movie - funny one on Indians settled in America
- Krishna Gade
Hey, PWC, How Are You Going To Explain This Satyam Thing? - http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2009...
PWC, how are you going to explain this Satyam thing? How is it possible for two people to produce enough documentation to hide personal transfers of $1 billion of cash into company accounts, along with massive faked revenues and expenses? Wasn't there some attempt to reconcile subsidiary accounts with consolidated accounts? Why shouldn't investors conclude that this was YET ANOTHER case of an "auditing" firm taking a single person's word for something without doing ANY due diligence?
- Krishna Gade
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“Quantum of Solace movie was worst James Bond movie ever. Storyline went nowhere except in a circle. Plus the end of bad guy was so blase they didn't even show it...” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
agreed. QOS was all action and no soul. After a great Casino Royale, the franchise came up with a dud.
- Krishna Gade
They're running out of villains and that makes plot lines tougher. Great action sequences though. Which is the real reason we go see Bond movies.
- Alan Wolk
I felt like QoS lacked some of the more admittedly superficial hallmarks of a Bond movie - gadgets, the Aston Martin (he wrecked that thing in the opening and it was never seen again), hooking up with the main Bond girl... even his hookup with the other Bond girl seemed kind of forced.
- Brian Chang
@Alan - running out of villians in these times where the world is full of terror ?? Bond franchise can take a leaf out of Bourne to deal with real world situations instead of concocting villians.
- Krishna Gade
Gald I missed it then ( yes, I know).
- Roberto Bonini
Benagali song on Maradona - written and presented to him on his visit to Kolkata - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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here is the english translation
- Krishna Gade
After 1 through 9, finally comes 10, Everybody plays football, but only one is The Boss, He gives two wings to the ball just by touching it... Maradona, Maradona Maradona, Maradona.... Viva Argentina I don't know how far away is your country, However far it may be, I imagined since my childhood that you live in my neighborhood... Maradona, Maradona....
- Krishna Gade
With hunger pangs in stomach, yet sanguine, Hey boy, you fight.... At the end of your journey awaits God of Football. Even if you are hurt, you always fight back. From Cuba to Ghana, You are "Thakumar Jhuli" played on Spanish Guitar (Thakumar Jhuli=a collection of traditional fairy tales in Bengali) Maradona, Maradona, Maradona, Maradona... Viva Argentina...
- Krishna Gade
Even if you are hurt, you always fight back and stand up With you stands up the pride of the Third World It was about to end, but now again started The revolution of your left foot. After 1 through 9, finally comes 10 Spanning the wish-wings towards all directions and horizons, The city of Kolkata saturates in the dream colors of blue and white, and sings, "Maradona, Maradona, Maradona" Viva Argentina
- Krishna Gade
A Plan for Spam - http://www.paulgraham.com/spam...
paul graham's spam filter
- Krishna Gade
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Stanford School of Engineering - http://see.stanford.edu/see...
video lectures for stanford cs courses
- Krishna Gade
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures - http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac...
contains video lectures and online book.
- Krishna Gade
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InfoQ: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang - http://www.infoq.com/intervi...
interview with the creator of ruby god
- Krishna Gade
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Unjoined politics room, unsubscribed to Scoble to improve my signal-noise ratio
no offense guys, I dont want to keep track of politics anymore :)
- Krishna Gade
Who Wants To Beat Google? | Software Development in the Real World - http://www.realsoftwaredevelop...
Live Search + Facebook > Google ? true : false
- Krishna Gade
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How to Rate a Software Developer | Software Development in the Real World - http://www.realsoftwaredevelop...
15 tips to get the promotion you want and the salary increase you deserve :)
- Krishna Gade
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