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Carville, after the 2nd debate, on whether Obama will win: ""I think he's gonna win. Absent some unforeseen circumstances, you can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over." - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
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Team of Mavericks! - Gordon Bowman
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Lil O'Reilly Freak Out - Gordon Bowman
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"But something about the American system unleashed more of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in — there’s never been any — I mean, you have centuries where if you’ve got a 1 percent improvement, then it’s something. So we’ve got a great system. And we’ve got more productive capacity now than we ever have. The American worker is more productive than he’s ever been. We’ve got more people to do it. We’ve got all the ingredients for a sensational future." - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
Warren Buffet gives us a little hope at least... - Gordon Bowman
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All Facebook on how the new Facebook design is killing many apps. - Gordon Bowman
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“Important Investment Advice: If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of...”
October 1 at 12:33 pm - Link
beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg. A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. - Gordon Bowman
I've heard that one before. - Gina K
lol! Gone to my "What to say to the local low-tech tribe" list - Zu aka ElijahBailey
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Fred Wilson's thoughts on Calacanis' "Startup Depression" - Gordon Bowman
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Top Five Reasons Why McCain Refused to Look at Obama During the Debate
September 27 at 3:33 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
When Obama spoke about or made a reference to McCain, he generally looked directly at his opponent. McCain, on the other hand, NEVER looked at Obama throughout the night, even when he was making comments directly about him or responding to a point Obama made. Here are the top five reasons why... - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
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The Facts of the Google / Yahoo Deal (According to Google, that is) - Gordon Bowman
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September 22 at 4:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"What would impress me from Obama? How about this: “The Big Three automakers and the United Auto Workers union want a Washington bailout. The only way they will get a dime out of my administration is if the automakers and unions come up with a joint plan to retool their fleets to get an average of 40 miles per gallon by 2015 — instead of the 35 m.p.g. by 2020 that they’ve reluctantly accepted. I am not going to bail out Detroit with taxpayer money, but I will invest in Detroit’s transformation with taxpayer money, provided the management and unions agree to radical change. At the same time, while I will go along with the bailout of the banking system, it will only be on the condition that the institutions that got us into this mess accept sweeping reforms — in terms of transparency and limits on the leverage they can amass — so we don’t go through something like this again. To help me figure this out, I’m going to keep Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the job for a while. I am impressed with his handling" - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
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“Well the beta has sunk in and it's mostly just rearranging things that were already there before the beta. FF is still missing some things that are perplexing that would be super-easy and would make it much nicer as a reading and writing platform.”
September 15 at 7:00 pm - Link
First thing -- I publish feeds with full text, so why doesn't FF pick that up and do something nice with it. Look at this view of my latest blog post. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/3... Why do people have to go to my site to read the post? This is a feed reader, right?? Why not have a plus sign or a wedge and allow me to expand it to read the essay in place. As an author I have to believe a lot more people would read it. I'm getting comments from people who I know haven't read the piece. That would be less likely if they didn't have to go to another site to read it. - Dave Hussein Winer
Second -- do a ping server. What's the big deal. I would make it so my tools can optionally ping FF. There's already a well-established standard here, all the major blogging tools could instantly be configured to support it. - Dave Hussein Winer
Third -- give me a command in the popup menu for a feed that allows me to say "fetch it now" -- I'd do this when I know I just posted some pics to Flickr or added some items to my Netflix queue. Sure someday all this will be efficient, but for now you have humans who would be willing to do this for you, so why not take advantage of it. - Dave Hussein Winer
All great ideas. - Bret Taylor
Actually, the 1st one is a great way to use all that blank white space on the right, you could view it in a frame like G Reader instead of clicking through to the site. That would increase productivity for sure. - Sally Church
Awesome. I have a lot more where that came from. Here's one. I want to be able to add my own commands to the popup menus. I have no how idea how that would work short of you implementing a scripting language, which I'm sure is doable. I want to shoot things from here to other places, that's usually waht I want to do. Twitter doesn't have the same capabilities as FF, but that's where most of the people are. - Dave Hussein Winer
Friendfeed is *not* a feedreader. - Peter
I agree with Peter Friend Feed is not a feed reader! It's a blogging platforum, it's away to get a message out, basicly away to communitcate and be heard. A feed reader is ussually one sided, and boring. Friend Feed is not boring. - Colide81 (James)
Dave: there is the ability to 'fetch it now'. Add/edit items, select the service in question, click the 'refresh feed' link in the lower right corner of the box. It updates on command. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Peter: Wouldn't be great if FF become a great feedreader at the same time,maybe we could spend less time on Google Reader.And I bet it rocks! - Steve
I agree that #1 would be a great addition. It would let me read a lot more content here on FF and be able to give a lot better feedback. - Gordon Bowman
Dave, we do monitor both the google and weblogs.com ping servers, so any ping sent there should be picked up by FriendFeed within a few minutes. That said, we should probably just create one of our own as well. - Paul Buchheit
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Interesting background on FriendFeed's early days - Gordon Bowman
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Andrew Chen on growing renewable audiences - Gordon Bowman
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New features for Group Blogs and The Lounge - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
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September 8 at 11:05 am - Link
But think about the Facebook generation. My kids are growing up with the news feed as their start page. Not Yahoo's portal approach and NOT google's search box approach. In time, its entirely possible that feeds will be more powerful than search. So to all the people that say social nets can't be monetized, just look hard at the feed and think of the possibilities. There's money in them thar hills. - Gordon Bowman
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September 5 at 10:39 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"What struck me as I watched the convention speeches, however, is how much of the anger on the right is based not on the claim that Democrats have done bad things, but on the perception — generally based on no evidence whatsoever — that Democrats look down their noses at regular people." - Gordon Bowman via Bookmarklet
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September 4 at 5:21 pm - Link
“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died... - Gordon Bowman
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"Wow, absolutely disgusting... yet, still I'm somehow intrigued... :)" - Gordon Bowman
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September 3 at 1:31 pm - Link
"I agree with many of your points here. The user grouping and friend lists are a welcome addition of course. And I really like the filtering by service options being located directly at the top of individual feeds. But I too work mostly on a wide screen and don't like that I have to travel so far to the right just to get my feed. A quick link in the top left to my own feed would solve that for me. Also, I think you're right, I might also prefer for the sidebar to extend only the length of the links to provide an even cleaner look." - Gordon Bowman
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August 27 at 5:24 pm - Link
Mashable's coverage of the BlastGroups Launch. - Gordon Bowman
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August 26 at 10:20 am - Link
Facebook hits 100 Million, 20% of which have embraced the new design. - Gordon Bowman
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Web Worker Daily Coverage on the Launch - Gordon Bowman
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"The BlastGroups Blog - BlastGroups Launches Public Beta!" - Gordon Bowman
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Article about the 15 Second Principle that states you can achieve all of your goals by dedicating just 15 seconds each day. - Gordon Bowman
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Analysis of the different Web Metrics / Analytics companies from The Inquisitr. - Gordon Bowman
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August 12 at 3:20 pm - Link
Mashable on the New DISQUS - Gordon Bowman
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Disqus released a big update today with a new Wordpress plugin, updated API, and a revamped design. Way to go guys. - Gordon Bowman
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