lol! aww, that's not a positive outlook.. there are plenty of people out there really happy in their marriages. It takes a bit of work on both ends, but it's not impossible to have a happy ending.
- Maria
Lol. The last one with all the babies is the funniest.
- Alan Le
Sounds an awful lot like my daily high school life, I swear. :)
- Zach Flauaus
I'm at stage two still--and its been three years!!
- Terence
Wow thats definitely depressing and most certainly not how I get down.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Thanks... it's *semi* safe, it does include some f-bombs. Wish I could easily shrink it down a bit more. Anyway, it was kinda sad :( I keep hoping things won't go that way... this Exciting Phase has lasted for a solid 6 months so far...
- Kamilah Gill
Reminds me of the joke about the phases of sex... The 1st kind of sex is Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when youfirst meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face.The 2nd kind of sex is Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been withyour partner for a short time and you are so horny you will have sexanywhere, even in the kitchen.The 3rd kind of sex is Bedroom Sex....
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- LogEx
You can very easily get the RSS feed for an entire folder within your GoogleReader. I have a room full of these made from people's bundles: I brought the bundle into GReader, and then made the folder public in google reader, and then grabbed the RSS feed from that linked page. http://friendfeed.com/guruvy-... You could also just do the bundle RSS feed too.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chrstine, I've found the feeds from Google Reader subscriptions don't turn out too nice in FF. So I've manually added my favourite feeds I have in GReader using the original RSS link. It took a while but the results are far better.
- Kol Tregaskes
I try to use Custom RSS/Atom to add it to my group and I get an error. I have no problem importing this feed into NetNewsWire.
- Christine Dattilo
Being that there are about 70 feeds - can I somehow get an OPML file into FF?
- Christine Dattilo
Koi - I’ll try that, feedbuster. Thanks and I’ll let you know if it works for me.
- Christine Dattilo
Christine, is that shared items (i.e items you've selected to share) or just a feed in GReader? If the former how about adding GReader as a service in the group?
- Kol Tregaskes
Christine, yes you can export all your feeds for you GReader account. Select Manage Subscriptions (bottom left of the screen) and then Import/Export.
- Kol Tregaskes
It is just a “Public” feed in Greader. I want to import it into FF as RSS
- Christine Dattilo
I didn't really see the trouble with this method - did you check out the room that I have up? Those are just from the Atom Feed link like on the page you sent us to, Christine. If you want them prettier, you can add that link as the feed link in something like this (which I use to import my blog) - So try this link for your GReader stuff out:...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
If you just copy the above feed-buster link and add it as a Custom RSS/ATOM in your services Christine you should have what you want. I like to import mine like this with descriptions as comments.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob - YEAH! It worked. I tried so many ways. This is what I did, and I don’t know why it finally worked. I clicked the feed-buster link you made, then let it go to NetNewsWire (feedreader). Asked for the Feed URL and copied it into Custom RSS/Atom. When I copied directly it would not work.
- Christine Dattilo
Nor would the feed validate. But when I had NetNewsWire create a Feed URL from the link you gave me - it validated and FF accepted it. Thanks so much for taking the time to convert my feed. I love FF! and you:)
- Christine Dattilo
Sending subscriber love his way. The ingenuity here on FF is amazing. Thanks again.
- Christine Dattilo
thanks Christine and Rob. feeling the love :). let me know if the feed-buster service isn't working out for you or you need any other help with importing stuff into FF. btw, i'm working on a new service that will enable automatic importing of OPML-listed feeds into FF. :) any wishes or suggestions regarding this new service?
- Ivan Zuzak
Ivan - cool do you anticipate the feeds within opml to be concatinated or will they maintain their individual streams?
- mike "glemak" dunn
thanks mike! i'm going for maintaining their individual streams. the probable solution will be to create a new (private) FF group for the feeds, and then import them one by one, each as a Custom RSS/ATOM feed service. as you suggest, another solution would be to use a service like Jumbra (http://www.jumbra.com/) to merge all the feeds into a single feed and the do the import only once....
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- Ivan Zuzak
ivan - agreed i think the first solution would be best and awesome - following now so i can track your progress - no pressure though :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Ivan, ever complete the OPML import? I've sniffed around a bit & believe it might not currenlty be possible w/ FF APIs, due to lack of an API to create imaginary friends... true, or is that old info?
- Wade Dorrell
Hi Wade! Unfortunately not, but it's on the top of my TODO list. :) In the meantime, you can check out a Yahoo Pipe which Lucio (http://friendfeed.com/cantorjf) made - http://friendfeed.com/friendf.... His Pipe combines all the feeds in the OPML file into a single feed which you can then import into FF more easily. Yeah, I know, it's...
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- Ivan Zuzak
Will anybody admit to buying and playing the godawful E.T?!
- TDavid
@Abby that was Adventure in all its blocky castle glory, yup.
- TDavid
Used to love Adventure with the keys and dragons. I never had Asteroids but my friends did. Never quite got the hang of it. I would accelerate too much and end up zooming diagonally across the screen out of control.
- Barak B
I loved Pitfall Harry. And even broke the score where you can send in a picture of the screen and they'll give you a patch. but dang my mom, she wouldn't take a pic of the screen so no patch for me. It was devestating!
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
wow, this popped back up from almost a year ago... dang! Do I have to start doing the E.T. noise again?
- Her Lindsay-ness
I love classic games. I still have an original Nintendo to play Mario:)
- Rob Cairns
I still have an Atari but I haven't touched it in years. I'm not sure if it still works. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to hooking it up again.
- jenali
Tagging Feeds: What about the option to Tag feeds so they are easier to find in the FF ecosystem? This would open up the option for subscribing to Tags and thus aggregate across many feeds at once.
i think FFs searchengine does that allready...for every word :) once we have realtime search everythings good :)
- Chris Hofmann
Yes, but searching (for example) for Roku yields very different results than searching for #Roku if you were interested in the Netflix/Amazon set-top product
- Kevin Kuphal
hm ya ure right. and not always the relevant words are in an article or headline or link. an additional textfield for tags would be sweet (can be tiny :))
- Chris Hofmann
I think there are really two types of tags here: Those that are already part of the incoming feed for each item (ex. blogger has categories, picasa has media:keywords) and overall feed tags that apply to the ALL items and help refine their context. Ex: My Sailing Blog (http://svbillabong.blogspot.com) has tags relating to the country we were sailing in. BUT I would want to add tags like...
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- Chris Myles
"Remember that piezoelectric road prototype we saw late last year? Looks like someone (besides us) thought it was a good idea. According to The Daily Mail, a Sainsbury's supermarket in Gloucester, UK (you've never been there), has installed kinetic plates in the parking lot that use the weight of shopper's cars to pump a series of hydraulic pipes, which in turn drive a generator. The system is said to generate up to 30kw of energy an hour -- or enough to power the store's checkouts. And if that weren't enough, the store is also harvesting rainwater and heating it (during the summer, at least) with solar panels. The next in this store's "eco-friendly evolution?" Might we suggest Soylent in the deli? We hear the "green" stuff is particularly good."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
This is the stupidest 'green' idea I have seen yet! Don't the imbeciles that run the grocery store realize that they are actually stealing energy form their customers to power their store! That's right, everyone that drives over their 'generator' is paying. The energy is not free! It is coming from the gasoline in the cars that drive over this contraption.
- Jeff P. Henderson
But surely they would be driving there anyway, right? I mean, I presume they aren't being forced to drive out of their way to run over the generator, so I wouldn't call it stealing. Possibly indirectly promoting the use of cars, which could be counter-productive, but "stealing"?
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
Yes, it's stealing any way you look at it. The customers are unknowingly contributing 30KWh of power to the store as they drive over the plates. That energy comes from the gasoline in their cars. This is a very inefficient way to generate electricity anyway. Buying power from a coal powered plant is much more efficient as well as being more environmentally friendly.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm afraid you still have to convince me of that. Do you know for a fact, for example, that they aren't passing their cost savings on to their customers in some way? Even if only by enabling them not to raise prices when they might otherwise have to.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
your assuming driving over the plates makes your car more inefficent which I agree it probably is. Could also be very annoying. Sounds like lots of judder bars to me so makes people slow down then speed up causing more inefficency.
- CJPhoto
And if we assume, for the sake of argument, that the system isn't encouraging more driving, then how is it less efficient and less green than buying coal-generated power? It's taking energy that would have been expended anyway and doing something else with it where nothing would have been done before.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
CJPhoto: Possibly, but that seems like a marginal effect at best to me, and I would think that the system could be designed to minimize any change in driving experience.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
In fact, based on the diagram, it looks like the plates are actually underneath a layer of asphalt or something, so there really shouldn't be any significant change in fuel efficiency.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
Grey, no it requires your engine to produce a little more power when driving over the bump, which burns more gas and emits more exhaust. An auto with a gasoline engine is around 15-20% efficient (fuel to wheel), then you have to take into consideration the inefficiencies of the mechanism at converting the motion to electricity. Coal power plants operate in the 30-50% efficiency range.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Grey, they claim to be generating 30KWh of electricity. That energy has to come from somewhere. Remember conservation of energy from high school physics?
- Jeff P. Henderson
The only place that this device might make sense is at the bottom of a hill where you want to dissipate energy to stop your car. But then Prius drivers would complain because it would be robbing energy from their regenerative breaking system.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff: I didn't say the energy was coming from nowhere, and yes, OK, some of the car's kinetic energy will be expended to push the plates down, rather than moving the car forward, meaning a marginal increase in fuel consumption to maintain a constant speed, but surely that effect is negligible compared to the output of the system, isn't it? Given that the car was traveling that direction anyway. I wouldn't recommend driving a car out of its way to generate this electricity, of course.
- Grey Drane
Yes, but it is still getting it's energy from the car in a very inefficient manner. As I stated, it would make more sense to generate the electricity elsewhere at a much higher efficiency. The other issue I have with this concept is that I have read about several proposals to build these devices into public roads. The people proposing them do not understand that the energy is not free and is in fact being taken from the cars that drive over the device.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"surely that effect is negligible compared to the output of the system, isn't it?" No the device extracts 30KWh of energy (actually more if you account for the inefficiencies of the device in converting motion to electricity) from all of the cars that drive over it. It may be small for each car, but what if all of the public roads were paved with these devices? Would you be happy...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
Well, if it cut my fuel efficiency in half, no, obviously that wouldn't make much sense, but do you know for a fact that's what the drop in efficiency would be? Can you site sources that support a claim like that? Because I would have thought the reduction in fuel efficiency would be more on the order of fractions of a MPG. And that I would be OK with if it meant savings and/or environmental benefits elsewhere.
- Grey Drane
Even driving on soft tires only reduces fuel efficiency by about 5-10% (so 1--2 MPG in your 20MPG example). Yes, that ends up being a lot over the course of a year, considering that the tires will be soft everywhere you drive, but presumably, even in public roads, there would only be certain areas where this system would be installed.
- Grey Drane
Grey, you are probably correct that the reduction in fuel economy would be on the order of 5-10%, not 50%. I was just throwing out a number to make a point. So you would be OK with giving up 5% of your fuel economy to let someone else benefit from it? I wouldn't. The real issue in my mind still continues to be that this method of power generation is completely inefficient. I don't know...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
OK, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I don't know enough about how the system works to argue the numbers anymore. But hypothetically, yes, I would be willing to sacrifice a 5% decline in fuel efficiency *in short bursts*, and so as a fairly small fraction of my total driving time, if the net gain from *all* of my car's kinetic energy was greater than that *marginal* loss in fuel efficiency.
- Grey Drane
It seems to me you keep focusing on the *overall* efficiency of the car engine and comparing that to the efficiency of coal, when it's only the marginal decrease in efficiency that really matters to the analysis, since the system is generating power from the car's *total* kinetic energy, the vast majority of which would have been generated by the car anyway.
- Grey Drane
Yeah I have been there actually, but this wasn't there then. Hopefully it sucks more energy than is put into it from the difference in energy between driving over it and normal roads
- Phill Price
I doubt that people will notice that a little bit of their power has been taken as they enter the carpark. They will just hit the accelerator a bit harder and get over the bump. The problem with this system in my view is that it is using petrol to generate electricity and so, while a cost saving for the store, is not a green feature. Would a row of wind turbines not be slightly kinder on the environment?
- John Cooper
Gray, "if the net gain from *all* of my car's kinetic energy was greater than that *marginal* loss in fuel efficiency" This is not possible! The First Law of Thermodynamics dictates that you can not get more energy out of a system than you put into it.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Phill, "Hopefully it sucks more energy than is put into it from the difference in energy between driving over it and normal roads" You are describing a perpetual motion machine which can not exist. Please go read up on the First Law of Thermodynamics!
- Jeff P. Henderson
The first law of thermodynamics, an expression of the principle of conservation of energy, states that energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but it can neither be created nor destroyed. Alternatively: The law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant. A consequence of this law is that energy cannot be...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
Yes, Jeff. I know this. Let me try one last time to explain myself. Our hypothetical car already has a certain amount of kinetic energy as it travels over our hypothetical road or parking lot. And to produce that kinetic energy requires a certain amount of fuel. This is our baseline that exists regardless of whether we have this piezoelectric plate power generation system or not. If we...
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- Grey Drane
Again, this assumes that the car would be traveling over this piece of road or parking lot with or without the power generation system.
- Grey Drane
Grey, I agree 100% with everything you said until I got to "generate more energy by this plate system than the energy generated by the *marginal* increase in fuel consumption." Unless I am misunderstanding you, are you saying that the energy value of the electricity generated is greater than the energy value of the incremental increase in fuel consumption due to driving over the plates? If we apply the 1st law, it would be equal minus any inefficiencies in the plate power generation system, no?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Umm, not piezolelectric unless they have some quartz crystals stuffed in there somewhere.
- tom murphy
Tom, Yea the article is kind of misleading. The headline says piezoelectric, but the actual mechanism is some sort of hydraulic system, but a piezoelectric system would provide the functrion.
- Jeff P. Henderson
OK, I don't know what else I can say. Yes, you've understood what I'm saying, and yet you still insist on equating the extra fuel consumed with the energy the plate system is receiving. But isn't it the _total_ "kinetic" energy from the car the plate system is receiving? Not the incremental increase in fuel consumed? I really don't understand why you insist on ignoring the car's total kinetic energy, which isn't being generated by the incremental increase in fuel alone. Am I missing something?
- Grey Drane
1. Can we have a slider at the top of groups, which would traverse the time history? 2. Can we have some sort, at least rudimentary, of visitor statistics? ..http://www.lijit.com/? ..some local counter? danke.
I have an idea to link users @replies from Twitter which are imported here - providing the user has imported their twitter account - to the actual FriendFeed account. So when you click on the @reply for instance @profitbaron the link will go to http://www.friendfeed.com/profitb...
This would require 'user verification' i.e. using your Twitter password to facilitate this as I've seen other users linking to the Twitter account - to ensure they go to the correct account.
- Nicholas James
I think this would stop people getting annoyed with the @replies being imported here and it would make them useful for instance if I keep @replying to a user then I can follow them on here incase they've got more interesting content i.e Digg Content, GReader etc which they may not be sending to Twitter.
- Nicholas James
“Rather than focus on camera settings and technical tips already enumerated on 1000s of photography websites, we’ll characterize our approach to subject-seeking, shooting, and presentation.”
- Anthony Citrano
"Have you noticed those little links next to blog posts and news stories that say "Share This"? Click on that link and you get a pop-up with options to share an article on Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon or other services. Did you know that ShareThis.com has raised $21 million from venture capitalists for its version of that service?"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"If you think that's crazy - you're wrong. ShareThis is a great example of the kind of company that could become a key foundation for innovation in the next era of the web. If it doesn't sell out to advertisers too quickly or too completely. The company released a new version of its widget today and I took the opportunity to talk to CEO Tim Schigel about where the company is headed in the future."
- Kol Tregaskes
Richard, me too. I wished there was a bookmarklet for it though. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Richard, Kol - Jay from Shareaholic here :) thank you so much for your endorsement! please do shoot me a note at jay@shareaholic.com with your thoughts on the bookmarklet.
- Jay Meattle
Jay, it's simply just get one sorted. :-) Seriously though I have the FFox plugin, all I'd be after is a bookmarklet version that matches this as much as possible so that I can use it in Google Chrome.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jay, I'd say you guys need a bookmarklet too. I'm always telling people to use Shareaholic, but the response back most of the time is, "Oh, it's an add-on." I'm not quite sure why people want cluttered toolbars, but they do. Bonus is that using Shareaholic got 6 bookmarklets off my toolbar.
- Anika
Got it. Look out for one soon-ish! please feel free to email me directly if you ever need help with shareaholic.
- Jay Meattle
Cool! :-) That was easy, now what other features from other developers/services I'd like to see. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I've been using Shareaholic for the last year, Diigo is the only service I use that it does not have.
- M F
Good timing for me on the sharethis new widget. I'm looking into using it soon.
- Alan Le
From my understanding, sharethis and shareaholic are similar but offer different functionalities. With shareaholic, end-users install a browser plug-in and share any site they're visiting. With sharethis, the site owner/blogger enables sharing on his content. If you, as a user, want to share something, you use shareaholic. If you're creating a website, you would use sharethis. Am I wrong?
- Alan Le
Alan Le, ShareThis has an addon and bookmarklet and works just like Shareaholic. Yes I think ShareThis has those features. I don't think Shareaholic does and as you can see has no bookmarklet... well atm. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"If you're looking for an audience, FriendFeed has it. You just have to know how to connect with them. It isn't rocket science, and it doesn't mean you have to spend hours every day on the site. Just follow at least the first three of the following steps:"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Okay Kol its been 5 minutes and nobody is running to my feed ;)
- Moved to Facebook
EEM, your feed is mostly about bacon and other foods. Probably nobody wants to talk about bacon. Sorry. ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
The only thing missing here in FriendFeed is a good writers room. They're all dead.
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, rooms can be conversation killers. Just comment on someone else's writing-related post to get things rolling. Only make a room if you think there's too much about writing on your home feed.
- Bruce Lewis
So if I only knew what "topic" I wanted to own I'd be in. Too bad I have so many interests! (BTW, found you via FriendFeedstats)
- Peggy Dolane
@ Bruce, Everybody loves to talk about Bacon! Infidel! ;)
- Moved to Facebook
@Bruce, makes sense, but I do think it's hard to find other people who are writers. Amazingly http://wefollow.com makes a better job for that!
- Jorge Escobar
Bruce, Jorge, you've given me an idea...
- Kol Tregaskes
Unfortunately for Jim Bob, the whole county found out in due time about his idea for a Starbucks-style moonshine franchise when his latest creation - the Whoo Whee Good Morning - had a less than desirable trial run one late night.
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Tried out the chromium for Mac. and it appears to have the same issues working with Meebo, that Safari has. Wonder if it is a Web Kit issue?
- Steve Sill
When is Google gonna release the Mac version? This starts to get insane.
- Rutger Blom
Read the article. Says Mac version expected by the end of summer.
- Steve Sill
"Clock Clock made of 24 individual clocks, features 48 electronically-controlled analog clock hands which automatically rotate into the proper positions to tell you times. By Humans Since 1982. This prototype will be on display at the Röhsska Design Museum in Göteborg from june till mid of august 2009."
- Dee S.
from Bookmarklet
Agile development is so 2008, 2009 is all about Jenga Software Development, constantly improved functionality at the expense of stability :) - http://twitter.com/Tyraid...
Who do they think they are, a record company?
- Todd Hoff
oy the business world...it's all money money money...
- Aline Ohannessian
Most of these newspapers are getting 30% more then what they get from their online edition (which tend to be free). Would you pay to read the online edition of newspaer?
- Paul
from twhirl
Amazon seems to be working under the assumption that they are the only ones who can deliver the paper in this way. I'm sorry, when did the Kindle replace the cellphone/smartphone/iPhone/Blackberry/etc, netbook, notebook, PSP, name any number of portable net enabled devices here. Sure, they've got some perks going for them, but seriously... those are monopoly numbers.
- Michael W. May
Paul, the whole Kindle DX and newspaper subscription business model says yes, people will pay for the "online" edition. I know (or at least hope) the "Kindle Edition" has something more than those paper's online editions. But is it worth the price of subscription and a $500 device? I for one say no way. Especially in the economic climate of the times.
- Jared B. Luther
"I can't see how an industry that's haemorrhaging money can subsidise a new-fangled tech product in order to lure people back to subscribing for something they are forced to publish for free online anyway," said Gizmodo's Wilson Rothman. - That about sums it up for me right there.
- Nick
I'm not arguing that Amazon is right. They are doing what every good business does filling a need and attempting to charge what the market will allow. Will it work I doubt it. Not as long as I can read the same newspaper online for free. From what I read the Kindle DX is aimed also at textbooks and documents also.
- Paul
from twhirl
"It, along with the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, will offer consumers a steep discount on the Kindle if they buy a long term subscription and there is no home delivery in their area." -- So i can't even use it to buy the Globe as I live in the Boston area. That's another fail right there. I'm pretty certain I'd want a customers money anyway I could get it if my business was in trouble.
- Nick
Dang, that's a pretty expensive newsstand! Newspapers are kidding themselves if they think that Kindle will save their bacon. It's a distraction from their real issues with digital distribution. More at http://bit.ly/eElIO
- John Blossom
I thought it was bad when Apple or Google or whoever takes 30% of mobile app sales.
- pcnerd37
It might be reasonable if Amazon handles all the digitizing; if the 30% was pure profit.
- Robert Hafer
With newspaper revenue going down the tubes, I think Amazon is not going to get it's wish.
- Helen Sventitsky
Tells you where the balance of power is. When you don't have cutting-edge technology to create a valuable venue and your distributors do, you're hosed.
- John Blossom
Amazon might one day get some "anti trust" or "anti competition" investigations - if not over the print-on-demand or physical book business, then over the kindle
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
It's the same cut of revenue as blogs get. " Newspapers are kidding themselves if they think that Kindle will save their bacon. It's a distraction from their real issues with digital distribution." - Agree. I think newspapers should try to put together an "Amazon for news" themselves, through some sort of consortium.
- Meryn Stol
you ppl do realize that kindle is a content delivery platform no? controlling the flow of data is brilliant on amazon's part kindle could be nearly free as a result financed as it were via upsells like the iphone only cheaper and giving content publishers a cut. its a much better deal for newspapers than the telco/cable/google/etc content delivery model offers. I fail to see the...
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- Ryan Underdown
Ryan FibreCos have more costs the more content is used - they dont benefit all that much from usage levels, only the need for a connection- so they tend to want the publishers to share the money back with them, and if the Kindle as a delivery platform takes a cut, why couldn't the cable company. More to the point though the Kindle is not a delivery platform, it is a delivery format -...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Is it me or do some of those motions look familiar
- Corey Brown
Familiar - my other half has had this for a year & she loves it. She is a maths teacher & an intensive user of technology to prepare lessons & teach
- Simon Rogers
Bought my wife one for mothers day and she loves it.
- Russ Jackson