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You can say anything you want to UCLA MBA class who are studying sports marketing and other things. Say it on FriendFeed in real time:
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You're on the screen, so behave! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Sports marketing? You have a very limited career path. Why did you not study proper marketing? *ducks*
- Steven Cains
Read Seth Godin, but don't worship him.
- James Watters
Good luck for your future and try to create a lot of new jobs..
- Amit Nangare
Marketing is a process of embedding your ideas in the larger meta memory of the world, it takes steps and time.
- James Watters
kidding....do as scoble says....but dont do what scoble does
- patrick
USC MBA program is waaaay better. :)
- Vinny
learn empathy
- Tsega Dinka
Fight On!
- Peter Warnock
Should I know who/what UCLA MBA is...? (I'm from the UK so don't shout at me if it's a very well known American institute :) )
- Roy Herrod
Everybody shake hands with the person to your right!
- Will Thompson
Cricket is the future - play it, market it - read Netherland to see why it's a true American sport
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Go Bruins
- Grant
from iPhone
Don't forget to keep learning - find your teachers all over the world (Robert is one of the best)!
- Karen Jackie
Greetings from Cairo, Egypt...we don't have what you guys are studying over there "sucks!" hope y'all are having a great day!
- Ahmed
Please explore, debunk, improve upon these concepts: http://capitalismplusplus.blogspot.com/ and http://apprehendingpostscarcity.blogspot.com/ The future is counting on YOU.
- michael silverton
UCLA MBAs: I want to say one word to you. Just one word: Plastics. ;)
- Otto
EVERYONE IN THE CLASSROOM GET NAKED!!!!!!!!!"come on just like Robert once did
- Jadito
"IMHO, every one of the Sports Marketing Programs, or the derivatives there of, are a HUGE waste of time and resources. It’s the 2000’s version of rocks for jocks or majoring in Phys Ed." Mark Cuban
- Steven Cains
Give Scoble a hug. (That behaved enough? :D )
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
Learn to unplug once in a while...maybe one day a week :)
- Sam Guzman
Wow, so many "thoughtful" comments. Um, NOT. Anyway, here's my question to this class: What's the next step in terms of creating a community around the local sports team? Take the Washington Nationals for example. How do you tackle that marketing problem?
- Emilie Cole
yo
- Kushagra
Hello Hello! Hey no talking, thats right you in the back.
- Manuel Arroyo
I am sure many of the you would be amazed to see these many updates in real time. This is Scobleizer effect :)
- Saurabh Sahni
Getting your MBA is like getting handed the keys to the car and not knowing how to drive. In a field like sports marketing where there is little precedent to be studied, you will do most of your learning out in the work place. Good luck, and if all else fails, just talk about Brett Favre some more.
- Will Thompson
All the very best for your future endeavours! Get into some serious entrepreneurship & kick some a$$ :)
- Sandeep Swaminathan
What does a sports marketer do? Social media marketing for teams and athletes?
- Sam Guzman
We like your kind here where I work. MBA students = Fresh braiiiiiiiiiins...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
How many of you are on Friendfeed, Twitter, and that facebook thingy?
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I'm a UCLA alum, back from the days when we rode a horse/buggy to get to games at Pauley Pavilion. My claim to fame: Jogged around the track with John Wooden.
- Irene Koehler
Hi class! Take good notes and listen to Alex.
- Mark Layton
Please remember me when you get bored doing all that hard work out on the golf courses and feel free to fill the void by sending me event tickets in the Midwest, kthxbye.
- thestaticfrost
Sports Marketing=AlmaMatters.org
- Ryan Erisman
Sports Marketing? They should have attended the University of Oregon. ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
check out www.djpzb.com
- Josh Brooks
Hi Students. Does it bother you that Robert Scoble has once again completely neglected his wife and kids to be with you today?
- jasonte3a
Thank you, this was really great. I think we got a few people to join us on FriendFeed, cool students, too.
- Robert Scoble
jasonte3a: I am blocking you, but before I do, you should know that my son is with me here in Los Angeles and listened to the presentation today.
- Robert Scoble
This was pretty cool! What was the general reaction of the class to FriendFeed?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
OK, I now know not to follow Vinny or Peter;) Greetings Irene & Grant, go Bruins! Friendfeed rocks!
- Rick Bucich
start praying....
- Bob DeMarco
Very strong. Most of the class is on Twitter and tons signed up during the class. I hope they say hi!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Come over here into FriendFeed land!
- Amir
Good luck in the future :-)
- Amir
Stop staring and start interacting
- Jim Goldstein
iPhonus Interruptus.
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It hurts. Think they'll refund the money I paid for overnight shipping, or is that just my stupid tax?
- Matt Griffin
I still don't understand why Apple does this. What does it hurt if a few people receive their phones a day early?
- Justin Doub
Good thing you requested the hold Leo. :)
- Kreg Steppe
oh no!
- Alex Jordan
What? a hold? why?
- Jim Oxenford
Mine still has not shipped yet.. Ordered on the day it was announced from apple.com :(
- Dominick D'Aniello
I got the same f-ing thing! It went from China to Hong Kong to Anchorage (which is only 200 miles from me), then went all the way to Louisville, KY where it's being HELD! Now it has to come ALL THE WAY BACK to Anchorage!!!
- Michael Halstead
It's happening to eveyone Leo. I was suppose to get mine today. I called UPS and they are indicating that it is a hold for US customs and that it is scheduled for delivery by noon on the 18th. (tomorrow)
- Robb McMahan
Crazy and most still waiting just for the 3.0 Update lol
- Aaron Jones
Wonder if they would give it to you, if you showed up at the depot and asked for it?
- Darren Mak
This has been happening all day, seems they don't want the street date being broken.
- Oli from the-iBlog
I don't get it. It says the receiver requested the hold and not the shipping agent
- Darrell Bell
@Matt Griffin --Stupid it as stupid does. I think Apple does stupid a lot these days!
- Michael Halstead
is, that is.
- Michael Halstead
The same thing happened when I was waiting for my Leopard disk. Fedex held all the packages until the Apple shipdate. I remember the frustration.
- Dave Winer
customs problem ?
- John Hillestad
At least the update is coming today for my iPod Touch! Hang in there Leo! It's funny how they blame LEO for the hold...
- Tony
What's the carbon footprint of these iPhones getting rerouted to Kentucky?
- Tom McCoy
This is just comical to me. Shame on you UPS for doing your job so well.
- Jeff Vreeland
I'm a developer and got the 3.0 GM last week. There's not a whole lot of new stuff you can use right now. Actually the only useful things available right now is copy and paste and find my iphone (and thats only if you have mobile me). Other than that it's not even a really big deal.
- Robb McMahan
Looks like the UK gets 3Gs before the US... YAY
- Tim Evans
Serves you right for broadcasting that you were due to get it early
- Alec Brown
only apple would do this
- David Lloyd
@Tom, Louisville is where customs is for UPS. You would think Alaska, but it's Louisville.
- Robb McMahan
Didn't UPS use to have a estimated delivery date listed? Where did that go?
- Ryan Cates
Seriously, how can it hurt if a few people get it early? Is there really a good reason? Maybe Apple needs to have the iTunes server set up for it or something?
- Jeff Anderson
that's just messed up
- Alfredo
there must have been a missed bribe somewhere.....
- John Hillestad
so the receiver is Apple?
- gerald miller
Everyone is experiencing the hold. This is the kind of details Apple goes to to ensure they control the experience for all. It reminds me of one evening during 2001 WWDC when Apple ordered Domino's pizza for everyone for dinner.
- Vinko
I bet the delivery driver has a pre lol
- davehollis
so if you puts your money down Apple can just stop it?sorry I'm naive.
- gerald miller
Apple website states Apple iPhone 3Gs Available June 19.
- Michael Munnis
Robb, I too had been using 3.0 since last week and I wrote a post to help people decide whether to upgrade to iPhone 3G S or not. http://tr.im/oDB5
- Vinko
that's pretty frustrating, At least you already have an iPhone, it's not like you are going to a whole new device, where you would be super excited.
- Calum
Isn't that amazing! You, the receiver, asked to hold the shipment! Sounds like there is a UPS issue.
- Sean Higgins
It looks like Apple doesn't want Leo to get his iphone until the official release Friday.
- Garmon Estes
I was sad to see this when i woke up this morning :( I'm still on the 1st gen iPhone.
- Erik
Denied! This happened with Leopard when they shipped it - some people were getting it early and Apple tried to stop UPS by putting a 'do not deliver before' date on them. Nice try though. At least we get 3.0 before Friday.
- Mike
I ordered mine from AT&T last Tuesday. They claim that it will ship overnight on the 18th, so I'll have it on the 19th. My order status still shows "not shipped" which is consistent.
- Joey Gibson
Why'd they put a hold on it?
- Adam C.
@MuscleNerd of iPhone_dev said this: "Those of you tracking your new iPhone 3GS and see "receiver requested a hold" -- don't worry, UPS says it's just a U.S. Customs thing"
- Brian
I'm pretty sure Apple's shipping rate is based on delivery on a certain day, regardless of when the items get to the hub. It allows the UPSs of the world to plan their resources. And all overnight shippers are based on the hub and spoke system, so it can sometimes feel like they are going out of their way. "Why didn't they stop at my house? They had to fly right over it!" Besides, doesn't Apple deserve to have an actual product launch day? When the phones actually ... launch - not dribble in for a few days?
- Ed Hunter
Wonder if someone intercepted the package first? (as in stolen)
- James Hague
Leo it´s Apple, they heard you had bought one of their products and as usual decided to lower the price. But they couldn't do it fast enough so they needed the hold. LOL sorry couldn't resist.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Appleinsider says that Apple is holding up the phones until it is officially released in stores on Friday.
- gerald miller
Please do not adjust your sets... we are in control of the horizontal and vertical.. your friends at Apple Computers....
- Greg
Yes I think everyone is having the iPhone 3Gs put on hold and will be delivered Friday.
- Michael King
Yup, I have the same thing. THIS close! Ugh. One can hope that the clerical errors that always seem to happen will happen in someone's favor and they will get it early.
- Aaron T. Harvey
wow! leo is tracking his new iphone. NOT SUPRISING AT ALL
- Jonah W. Kemp
Apple is acting very weird based on years of past behavior. In past this type of shipment would arrive early and the Iphone update would have been released late yesterday (stayed up an extra hour to caught the update on the east coast). - new guys running the ship.
- Ed Boutros
I have had this same problem and I am disappointed too, but the real mistake was not that the phone will show up on the 19th, it's that UPS was showing it would arrive earlier. Apple's website claimed it would deliver on the 19th but UPS had scheduled deliveries for the 17th and 18. This one is on UPS in my opinion. As long as the phones arrive on the 19th, Apple has kept their promise and done their job
- Grant
What's frustrating is that the date of delivery is unknown. The phones could still be delivered on June 18 and people could receive the phones on Friday. However, it would be frustrating to receive the phones after Friday.
- Henry
It's get there. Patience shall be rewarded, oh and Wow. Have I truly become a Cross Platform Social Network User? Damn You, Laporte!
- Bill Heald
I would buy the $99.00 with the 3.0 installed!
- earl wallace
That's "exceptional" service. :p
- Josh Haley
well at least u bastards will at least be able to get one. I'm stuck with my nokia 1100.
- Veer Maharaj
Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes | NEWS JUNKIE - http://mynewsjunkie.com/2009...
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Those cell phone companies will have a lot of explaining to do Tuesday when they testify at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on rising text messaging costs. Representatives from Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket will be faced with questions on why those short 160 character SMS messages are costing the consumer too much.
- Leo Laporte
Leo, I believe it was you who reported that based on AT&T's text messaging fee SMS messages cost consumers somewhere around $1500 per MB of data?
- jcunwired
The painful pricing structure of these companies is why I don't really use my cell phone for anything more than the occasional call. I'm not prepared to risk the assorted extra charges that come with SMS, or web use.
- Eoghann Irving
any guesses on what they say will be the reason for these prices ?
- Kashif Khan
http://mobilejones.com/2007... My article on SMS charging hit the front page of digg in 2007. The high cost of SMS has been a known in the mobile industry for a long time. I remember being shocked that many of my web friends hadn't thought of the costs per MB,
- Debi Jones
Not only do they charge absurd prices, but most don't even include texting in the unlimited data plans. I pay 30 dollars a month for iPhone data and pay 15 more on top of that for 1500 texts. THat is outrageous.
- Grant
Interesting that they are questioning Cricket at the same time as the larger carriers. We have Cricket here and they offer unlimited calling including unlimited text messaging for only $40/month. Maybe they want to know why Cricket can offer reasonable pricing while the larger, national carriers continue to gouge their customers.
- Joshua Blevins
They should also be grilled about the cost of data plans.
- Kashif Khan
I don't use text messaging, so I don't have it on my iPhone. That saves me $20 every month. A small victory!
- Paul Ring
I don't have texting either, but got stuck paying 60 cents for two porn spam messages!
- Sandy Curry
I could be wrong, but I thought the reason SMS was so expensive was because they want to discourage people from using it, since texts can saturate the network. You can't really compare it to email, because SMS works like a phone call and doesn't use the data connection.
- Daniel Sims
SMS does use the control channel, but that's it. It doesn't really saturate the network since it doesn't create a connection like an actual phone call. It's a 1-way message and it's not a guaranteed receipt either. Oh, and those that actually look at the cost per MB are incorrect since it's that channel itself isn't used in the same fashion as data connections. SMS uses control channel...
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- Ben Hwang
You have to pay to receive SMS? Which Dodo brain though of that one? There would be a revolt in Europe if they tried that!
- David Wright
from twhirl
New Zealand has two networks, one gives 500/1000 texts 'free' for $10. the other gives free weekends if you spend a certain amount during the week.
- Robbie Steele
actually there are that kind of things in Europe. Some service providers (ringtones for example) may charge your phone bill by sending SMS. You can for exmple have a monthly subscription for ringtones and they are charging you by sending two SMSes. This is ofcourse problematic, as the consumer can not easily deny from paying and in a case of dispute the operator stands in between.
- Jani Kenttälä
from IM
True, but those are subscription services, not "normal" SMS messages.
- David Wright
from twhirl
@Ben: If the SMS uses the control channel, which is in use and always active anyway, why should there even be a charge for SMS? The network infrastructure is already there, so really the extra data does not make an impact.
- Nils Sandin
On an additional point, as mentioned above, regular incoming SMS are not charged in Europe (unless roaming abroad), and outbound SMS can cost as little as 0.09€ (13 cents) on a pre-paid plan (w/o commitment for 500 or 1000 messages you might never use).
- Nils Sandin
It's called Capitalism. No government intervention necessary. If the consumer doesn't like it, they should stop paying for it. In other words, move to a company that doesn't charge so much or stop using the service. The market will then be forced to change.
- Chad McCoskey
I think that's part of the problem -- they've all raised their prices at once, so there's no alternative provider. I used to have a sensible option in the US which didn't charge me for incoming messages, but that's been long gone.
- John Flinchbaugh
from IM
I mentioned the Pre but I think I got away with it!
- Kevin J Hatton
Chad, since the government sells the spectrum licences, they can put some restrictions. Do you remember that http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007...?
- Jérôme Flipo
Tad, so what? We forget that cell service and a whole host of other things we take for granted now are luxuries not necessities. I love my iPhone but if I felt the prices weren't acceptable or if another option was better either a phone or pricing plan, I'd go there. My point is that it's all well and good to complain, but protest with what companies value most: your money.
- Chad McCoskey
Chad, can you list necessities, beyond air, water, food and security? The issues at stake are the four characteristics of the market http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and the government role in preventing tacit collusion. Also, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....
- Jérôme Flipo
Jerome, you're right about the necessities which is exactly my point. We don't all "deserve" high quality cell service for free and in the case of a non necessity, if all companies offering that product charge the same amount then maybe the populace should decide if they should really spend their money on it. If you don't like the cost of text messages then don't use the service and if the majority of people does that companies will either stop the service or lower prices.
- Chad McCoskey
I have an iPhone with no text plan because they are obscenely priced. I'm not happy about $25/mo for unlimited data but I'm doing my best to get my money's worth. I'll just call or send an email rather than pay $.50 for a text
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Daniel, thank you for proving my point. More people should follow suit if they don't like the cost. By the way, I have text on my phone and make sure I don't go over my limit.
- Chad McCoskey
Scoble in the shower
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awe for the love of....
- jeneane sessum
Do. Not. Want.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
.... uh...
- Johnny Worthington
HAAAAAAaaaaahhahahahahaha!!! This and the drinking pic NEED to be paired together!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
For the love of ... oh, man. Now I have to go wash my eyes out! :)
- Tim Hoeck
My eyes are burning!!!
- Jeff
Why? Why would you do such a thing to the friendfeedosphere...it now looks all warped and raggedy.
- Alex Scoble
do...not...want...
- Helen Sventitsky
OHHHHHH MY EYES!!!!! *LOL*
- Molly, New Ears :P
Reboot.
- Russellreno
HIDE!!!!!!
- AJ Batac
Seeming a little needy, maybe?
- Oldengrey (Jay)
what the frick!? This is why sometimes social networking is just TOO MUCH sharing.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
oh no, I'm scarred for life! the horror!!
- imabonehead
OMG!! Happy wet drunk! Ok so what will be the "story"?! And how did you go from Fenway to Cab to Shower!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Thankfully, blessedly, tame. *brain crashes anyway*
- Mo Kargas
At least he's clothed sitting next to me now!
- David Recordon
now you have gone to far, Robert. ^^
- ※Fu※
Oh, weren't you bitching about FF stupid posts not making you smarter last week? Well, here ya go. No more bitching. We get to talk about bacon again.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
new Meme?
- anna sauce
Clay Shirkey: the problem is a failure of filters. Indeed. ;-)
- Sprague D
TMI!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
*cough* TMI *cough cough*
- Steve Isaacs
What on earth. I swore shower was some kind of metaphor - why is this taking place?
- Shawn Farner
Wha???
- Mike Doeff
anna - yes! we need shower pics of everyone! LOL
- Susan Beebe
uhhhhh okay
- Alisha
MY EYES!!! @_@ Meme?!? Just a sec...
- Ron
Bacon :-)
- Robert Scoble
well we know what tomorrow's caption contest will be on Valleywag :-)
- Duncan Riley
Yeah, I don't care how many people take pictures of themselves in the shower, I'm not gonna join in that memefest. No thank you. Besides you've already seen my brother in the shower...Remove some weight, adjust the nose a bit and you've got me too...ugh...that's just so wrong.
- Alex Scoble
Nooooooooooooo!
- WorldofHiglet
I don't even want to know.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
Wait, a shower meme? Oh, ain't no WAY ya'll are getting a picture of me in the shower. EF NO!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"I'm a PC!"
- imabonehead
Wow. lol
- Jennifer Leggio
Tina: Why not? It will be fun. lol :D
- Ron
Hilarious!
- Chris Luckhardt
My eyes!!! TMI
- Paul W. Swansen
scoble bullying the irish spring
- Cee Bee
Whiskey tango foxtrot, Oscar?
- Susan A. Kitchens
someone get this man a hairdryer NOW!
- thomasrdotorg
from twhirl
Tina: I hope they don't do a shower meme. I'm not going to take a picture of myself in the shower, no matter how drunk you get me. *lol*
- Molly, New Ears :P
Is this your entry for the bitch face meme? It's a very disappointingly happy bitch face.
- Pete Delucchi
Why do you hate America?
- Jason Carreira
For the love of God, PLEEZ don't drop the soap.
- Dawn
I've been Scobelized. And I'll never be the same.
- ComicList
Shower blogging is barely one half step above bowel movement blogging.
- Rob Sterling
DISlike! DISlike!
- Joel Bennett
Scoble for VP!!!
- Sean Kelly
why you do me like this Scoble?
- James Neal
*hide*
- xero
Click on "best" and you will see all. Oh my!!!
- Robert Scoble
TMF. Too much flesh :)
- Jonathon
eww no FFing in the shower.
- rob friedman
Hide
- Grant
It's times like these that make me wish real life had a undo button. :)
- Grant Bierman
hahaha! wow Bob.
- Ryan
rough morning, first my head screams and now this!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
way too much information
- Kim Landwehr
I like it - extending to a new audience. You know where the real hits on the Internet lie. Marketing genius.
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
from twhirl
can't I have my morning coffee first?sheesh.
- You.
Really Naked Conversations
- Brendan Cooper
from twhirl
With all that flyin' around, Twittering, and Friendfeeding, he's gotta need 3 or 4 showers a day. The question is ..... Which soap is he plugging ? :)
- Charlie Anzman
I hope it's lever 2000 messing with Valleywag :)
- Anthony Farrior
Here's the link to the Valleywag site with this photo! ha, ha! http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Susan Beebe
Way too much information!!
- Alex Hammer
I knew I started the topless meme eight months ago.
- Robert Scoble
Just with a bit of a time delay.
- Tad
You're forever the innovator!
- jcunwired
topless meme!!
- anna sauce
Eww. Where's the "don't like" link? ;-)
- Brent Logan
I always thought Robert was more a bath man. I stand corrected.
- Derrick
Gah! How did this pop up again?
- WorldofHiglet
GIGGITY GIGGITY.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Man I didn't need to think of that . gag!
- Allan Bunt
The one time I want the BSOD.
- Danny Minick
we all such idiots :-)
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
aahaha.
- Gökmen Karasu
please dont let there be a sequel to this...
- carol alvarez
This picture when viral.
- Keven
gdgt - http://gdgt.com/
gdgt - the new gadgets and consumer electronics site from Peter Rojas and Ryan block, the guys behind Engadget and Gizmodo. Coming soon.
- Grant
GTS Racing is my vote
- Michael Connick
Crash Bandicoot!
- Mona Nomura
Crash!
- Aaron Hood
Crash but cro-mag is great too
- Grant
Crash -3 , GTS 1, Cro-mag - (0.5?) I'm buying the winner app later.
- moogs
crash
- scott willeke
Invites available: 5 Dropbox, 12 Orgoo, 11 Socialthing, 20 Jaiku, 10 Iminta. Request here: http://blog.pb30.com/contact/
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If you have any Jaiku invites left i would be most greatful! electronicbattleweapon7
- Rodreegez
I'll take an Orgoo invite: grantgoodstein@gmail.com
- Grant
FYI, seems grant got one, no one else send.
- Ryan Gallagher
Also have Socialbrowse invites: http://blog.pb30.com/contact/
- pb30
asked for dropbox and got it in a matter of minutes ! thanks !
- Maxime
Dropbox invite please.
- Gregor Munro
Still have Orgoo, Socialthing, Socialbrowse, Jaiku, Iminta. Request here: http://blog.pb30.com/contact/
- pb30
Any invites left for Iminta? gpeterson@generallead.com. Thanks.
- Geoff Peterson
Please send me a Socialbrowse invite, amyers@gmail.com
- Aaron Myers
from fftogo
any jaiku invites left? - brettstark.redback at gmail dot com - thanks!
- EcoAussie
@gregor, i could send you dropbox invite.. please leave your email id here where you want the invite..
- Jigar Mehta
@Grant, I have sent you an Orgoo invite.. enjoy!
- Jigar Mehta
Dropbox invite, please: riddell.dave@gmail.com
- Dave Riddell
if you have a dropbox and iminta invite left I will take one. jeffisageek@gmail.com thx!
- (jeff)isageek
Send invite to me, please: Dropbox, Orgoo, Iminta. ainokaze @ gmail. com .Thanks!
- Кто здесь?
I just learned Ward Cunningham and my brother live in the same city: Beaverton, Oregon. Small world.
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I live in Beaverton, Oregon too. Small world indeed.
- Eddie Awad
I too live in Beaverton!
- Joe Perrin
I stayed in the Extended Stay America in Beaverton for a couple of weeks in 2001...then I got an apartment in Portland.
- Bren -- Designated Driver
I live here too! Tons of geeks, and the tech scene in the Portland area is amazing. I love it! :-) I run into Ward occasionally, but I've still never met Alex. Make sure he comes to Ignite Portland 4 in November! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Hmmm, seems like I need to move to Beaverton, Oregon myself ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
I live in Hillsboro, which butts up against Beaverton. Hillsboro is better. Ha! ;) Brad Fitzpatrick who created LiveJournal did so from Hillsboro. I believe his parents still live here.
- Dawn
Yeah, I work in Hillsboro and so does my fiance (she teaches 3rd grade for the Hillsboro public school system). Hillsboro and Beaverton both seem about the same to me. Still haven't found a good Italian place in either town though. However, not very interested in driving into Portland to find one. :)
- Alex Scoble
Have you tried that Italian restaurant at Orenco? I don't remember the name of it and haven't been there in a couple of years, but it used to be pretty good. I prefer Hillsboro because it's more compact and the city cares more about parks and roads, including the landscaping of roads. Hillsboro is prettier, IMO. Of course, more than half of it is less than ten years old, so most of it is very new and still looks fresh.
- Dawn
Depends on which part of Hillsboro, downtown isn't very pretty. I live near Aloha so there's lots of trees in my neighborhood. In fact that's pretty much all I see out my backyard. I'll have to give that place a try. I think I know which one it is. It's across the way from Swagath, right?
- Alex Scoble
Yep, across from Swagath, which used to be another Indian place that was actually a lot better, IMO. Have you seen downtown lately? They redid the theater there and added a coffee bar/bistro. It's very nice. The city is stepping up efforts to revitalize downtown. I'm hoping to put my business there, where the WellsFargo used to be. It's a block from the MAX train, so employess could come in from all over.
- Dawn
I haven't seen that part of downtown, apparently. But I have seen some efforts to revitalize it. We are getting married at the Hillsboro Cultural Arts Center on 12/09. They did a nice job of renovating that building. And they are tearing down some of the schools and have build 3 new ones in the area. My fiance worked at Peter Boscow Elementary last year but is moving to McKinney this year as PB was closed at end of last term.
- Alex Scoble
Yep, the Cultural Arts Center is very nice. Congrats to you and your fiance on your coming marriage and her new job. I hope she enjoys the new school!
- Dawn
Apologies to the Hillsboro/Beaverton fans, but if you're going to live in the area, do yourself a favor and live in Portland! :)
- Patrick Lightbody
That's great, but then you have to deal with higher crime, more traffic, higher taxes. You can have it.
- Alex Scoble
If it weren't for Voodoo Donuts and Kell's I'd have scant reason to go there. :)
- Alex Scoble
Beaverton, OR is nice. My wife and I are glad we settled here. It's a nice change from the cookie-cutter neighborhood we left in Chandler AZ.
- Kevin Johnson
from twhirl
@dwan - do you mean the Merchant of Venice at Orenco? I had the worst possible meal there - it used to be pretty good in its early days from what I hear, but right now, I tell people to stay very far away from it
- Frederic
Small world but I wouldn't want to paint it - Steven Wright
- Dave Martin
Nonna Emilia's near 170th an TV Hwy isn't bad for italian. nothing special, but pretty inexpensive, and MASSIVE portions. But you're right. I can't think of a really good Italian place in the area.
- Josh Bancroft
Yeah, I have two criteria for what makes a good Italian place. Good gnocchi in gorgonzola creme sauce is 1. Good bruschetta (pronounced bruh-skeh-tuh for the unitiated...NOT bruh-sheh-tuh..."ch" is similar to "k" sound in Italian...you wouldn't pronounce chianti as shee-ahn-tee) is the other.
- Alex Scoble
Some chichi places do bruschetta as half pieces of cherry tomatoes on crusty bread. Nothing as annoying as paying $8 for bruschetta like that...It has no flavor. Best way to do bruschetta is to chop up tomato and lots of basil together. Put oil and garlic rubbed onto toasted pieces of baguette (sourdough for extra flavor) and add a nice mound of the tomato and basil mixture.
- Alex Scoble
home of Nike. Just do it :)
- Grant
if you want good Italian, you pretty much have to go downtown - Nonna Emilia is ok, but indeed nothing special (even though it tends to be packed). In Portland itself, we really like Iorio (http://www.ioriorestaurant.com/) and Fratelli (http://www.fratellicucina.com/) has some good stuff on the menu as well.
- Frederic
Thanks for the suggestions, Frederic.
- Alex Scoble
“POLL: Do you ever click the "everyone" tab on twitter or friendfeed?” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Hisham Sadek هشام liked this
no
- Grant
no
- Mike Hussein Cohen
Ever? Yes. Often? No.
- Sean Brady
every now and then
- Michelle Trent
I do occasionally too, but I don't know why
- Laura Norvig
sometimes
- Hisham Sadek هشام
Seldom, but it's nice to run FriendFeed-wide searches to find new friends and conversations based on common interests.
- Steve Isaacs
Nope, it's usually in Chinese.
- Muhammad Saleem
Nope!
- Tamar Weinberg
i click the nobody tab
- Allen Stern
only late at night if I'm bored and it's quiet, which it usually is after the West Coast goes to bed
- Duncan Riley
only occasionally do I click the 'everyone' tab on FF. I find I tend to do this more in the early days after I've joined a new-ish service. I recall doing this with Plurk and identi.ca in particular, to see what the general topics of conversation are etc
- Matt Hooper
Yes, as Matt said I tend to do this when I'm new and don't know too many people. It's like "mingling" at a party.
- Cindy Bartorillo
heeeeeeeck no
- Kimberly J
once in a while. See what's happening.
- john conroy
good idea, Allen. Blessed silence.
- Laura Norvig
Can't say I ever did - until this question came up.
- Robert Saric
from twhirl
Nope - did it once and it just did my head in.
- Tom Beardshaw
rarely
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
just now -- cause i saw this hed:)
- Jenna Wortham
yes
- Brian Carter
always. i discovered the web usage habits of people from another side of the world.
- Jansen Lu
Sometimes. It's like being in the passenger seat while the car is doing 100 mph and you've got your head stuck out of the window . Exhilarating for a few moments before you get dizzy and want it to stop.
- WorldofHiglet
just once
- Phreak 2.0
yes
- Baard @ Pixum
twice i think and quickly changed back
- Reed Stockman
no
- Ian Cheung
Always!!!!
- Anthony Farrior
Havn't done so since I signed up!
- JegerPhil - Phil
I think I'll do it right now.
- Aaron Baer
Yes, I like to see what the current pulse is like at any particular time.
- Ryne Nelson
Lil Wayne sez: "Safe sex is great sex, but better wear latex, because you don't want just laid text, that 'I think I'm late' text." Werd
Marshall Bose, Sean Oliver, Marcel Weiß and 38 other people liked this
Clearly Lil Wayne is all that and a bag of chips.
- ComicList
Lil' Wayne has a problem with the lean. I can point you to some rappers that actually make sense.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Perhaps this is also some form of Old English????
- Kevin Shannon
It's probably just my translation.
- Leo Laporte
word
- Grant
If it gets more people to wear condoms, I'm all for it.
- xero
Lil Wayne also sez: "Gangstas and pimps, Love lobsters and shrimps, Kool-Aid and chicken, Flashy things and women. " - These are a few of his favourite things.
- Johnny Worthington
a better sermon than my pastor's
- Andrea Baker
I actually thought you meant to type "weird" cause in my head that made more sense.
- Ryan Cates
He drinks cough syrup all day, babbles incoherently on a mic, and people eat it up like he's the best rapper ever. It's amazing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
women and chicken! excellent off rhyme!
- edythe
Not gonna lie, the man says some awesome stuff. I hadn't realized 50 was that important as a rapper...HAH. I avoid radio/videos though, so what do I know...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Favorite rapper. 2nd best to Jay-Z. He says things that are just...GENIUS! Love him.
- Corvida
So many nuggets of knowledge built into Tha Carter III, Leo. This is one of many, my friend.
- Liz
andrea: ! :)
- edythe
I'm still a BTH man myself, but then again I most listen to rock/alternative.
- xero
That's considered incoherent babbling? o_O hahahaha
- Bob
from Alert Thingy
Leo foshizzle!
- Jim Bednarz
That's a misquote. It's really: "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex / 'cause you don't want that late text, that "I think I'm late" text"
- Hashim Warren
One for true techies: "I got game like EA, but I wanna let you play."
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
@brian norwood - Leo got the line wrong...Hashim corrected him. It makes plenty of sense and it's promoting safe sex. Not sure why that's worth ignoring?
- Angel Smith
Thais pretty fly, Leo.
- Mike Lewis
Yeah, I mean. Sometimes I do feel like kicking Wayne in the chest...watch him fall into a bottomless pit...but that's just me :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It's just depressing how much money he'll make from this...
- Brooks Guthrie
from twhirl
ACtUALlY liL WAYNE SAYZ 'SAfE SEX iS GREAt SEX; bETteR WEAR A lAtEX kCAUSE YUh dONT WANt tHAt lATE tEXT tHAT i THiNK iM lATE tEXT !!' dUhh ACtUALlY liSTEN tO thE lYRiCS. ANd YES liL WAYNE iS thE bOMb LiKE tiCk tiCk(=
- Dawny
lmfaooo u don't know what your talkin about. i agree with dawny. that is what he says
- gef
damn if yall gonna make fun at least quote the lyrics correctly......
- tae chills
AT&T just agreed to reduce our bill for satellite calls to @rozsavage by 80% - saving TWiT about $8000. Thank you SO much, Chris!
Christopher Perry, Chris Copeland, Susan Beebe and 22 other people liked this
They were gonna charge ten grand for sat phone calls!!! Ridiculous
- Grant
+1 to AT&T
- Joe Perrin
I've actually found AT&T to be pretty good about customer service. I'm just one though.
- Tal Atlas
Now if they'd do something about their data plan pricing.....
- Steve Gillette
from twhirl
This might be the first time I've ever had anything good to say about AT&T. Nice job.
- Aaron Krug
Don't talk about data pricing until you start paying a dollar a Gig in NZ and lets not talk Iphone pricing either
- Nick Brennan
A welcome contribution I see. Great work with Roz. Good on AT&T.
- Vince Green
Thank you AT&T
- Andrew Fielding
from twhirl
I was using a business calling card to call Roz's Iridium satellite phone. I had no idea it would cost $13.80 per minute until I got the first bill. Of course by then I had racked up over $10,000 in calls. It costs Roz only $1/minute to call me from the sat phone, so that's how we're doing it now. I should have, of course, checked the tariff. I even remember reading some time ago that calling card calls are the most expensive out there. Fortunately, AT&T knocked it down to the lowest rate available.
- Leo Laporte
wonder if iridium phones are used by anyone except "extreme" sports people who climb everest or row across the ocean?
- Wilma Stoneflint
shocked to hear AT&T actually do good... they never part with $$$ ...interesting. Very happy for you Leo, cuz that was one nasty phone bill!! Did you drop out of your chair when you read it?!
- Susan Beebe
Happy for you Leo. The first time I have heard something positive about AT&T. I experience with AT&T was very different though.
- Vic Podcaster
I always thought Nestor Carbonell wore guyliner on his lashes, but he doesn't! What a lucky dude! (Mayor from Dark Knight, btw)
Bryan Landers and edythe liked this
He's come a long way from 'Suddenly Susan', no doubt. Can't wait for next season of Lost.
- Jericho
Yeah, could he have thicker eyelashes? Makes me jealous!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I see what you did there..."guyliner" heh. clever girl
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
and non-aging mystery dude on LOST
- Roger @ CineVegas
um... guyliner? Where's The Fish?
- ha3rvey (business time)
He is a great actor. Richard Alpert FTW. Do you watch LOST, Veronica?
- Grant
Wasn't he the voice of the Taco Bell Chihuahua?
- thepete
Yes, I know he's from Lost too, but people probably most recently saw him in Dark Knight.
- Veronica
ha, i always thought the exact same thing.
- MG Siegler
Are we SURE that isn't eyeliner?
- Sean Oliver
he was the mayor, correct?
- Grant
Grant, yeah, that's in the tweet ;)
- Veronica
Suddely Susan? Lost? We're talking about Batmanuel, people.
- Roger Benningfield
I asked my wife about the "guyliner" when we watched the movie yesterday. She didn't answer, she just put her head down.
- ha3rvey (business time)
"Guyliner" just added to my list of the words I hate next to mandals, murse and manny.
- Alexei Tolkachev
Sorry veronica:(
- Grant
what about bro-mance?
- Gabriel Madrigal
Yeah, that, too.
- Alexei Tolkachev
@vegascabbie Dane and I arrive in Vegas on Virgin America 1777 at 8:45p Aug 13. See you then!
Whatcha going to Vegas fo' Leo
- Vince Green
call for help live from vegas!
- Taiwan Brown
@ Vince - the Podcast Expo - http://www.newmediaexpo.com/
- Jonathon
def'n give us a holla when you're in town! Why is it that in past month @ev @kevinrose and @garyvee have been here too? Movin?
- Roger @ CineVegas
New Media Expi
- Grant
Coach K: US confident, not complacent (AP) - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports...
US will not lose a game this year
- Grant
getting a huge response to my "is google a content company" post... also 200 folks signed up for list after it. www.tinyurl.com/jasonslist
Sidharth Dassani, James Tenniswood and Grant liked this
What happened to the 1,000 limit
- Grant
Grant: i put it on approval only and i'm getting 300-400 folks asking to be on after each email. so, i guess the 1,000 limit is over. hard to say no to folks
- Jason Calacanis
Cuil isn't a content company - http://www.cuil.com/
- paul mooney
Jason has invented a new word - blogmail - blogging through email
- Sidharth Dassani
You should put the content of your email on some sort of blog. That would save you having to approve readers.
- Chris Nixon
Its easy to argue eitheer way. Email means no comments to approve or spam to sort through. And no blog adminstration to boot.
- Roberto Bonini
@foundbypat Yes it does seem to happen when I download apps to the iPhone. I'll stick to installing from iTunes from now on. Thanks!
I've had 2 crashes which lead to restores, both while installing apes. Makes sense now
- Grant
I haven't had to restore but I've definitely had problems with installs not completing when downloading on the phone. I've also had updates to installed apps fail.
- invariant - farewell FF
Installing from iTunes seems like the obvious choice I guess.
- Bob Blunk
It is definitely smoother to install from iTunes here.
- Warner Crocker
had the same problem with some of my iPhone apps - I'm with you. Sticking to downloading on iTunes for now.
- Aaron Strout
I've never had a single problem installing or updating an application directly onto my iPhone (knocking on wood!)
- Michael Connick
World's First Tesla Crash (in SF) - http://hey.com/
Mitch Baldwin, Gavin, Daniel Schildt and 81 other people liked this
Dane's friend snapped this on Friday.
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
oh well
- Marc Canter
this is why you don't buy a car for 125k
- Allen Stern
First electric car crash ... nobody charged.
- Chris Baskind
@Chris - Hahahahaha
- Christopher Sacca
FAILtestdrive
- James Tenniswood
What, they don't include brakes?
- Jordan Hofker
and to think normally you would be "ouch, that was a mercedes"; to think that was the beater in this collision.
- Lou Paglia
Ouch, that really has gotta suck. I would kill who ever hit my car if I spent that much on it.
- Cameron Yeager
from twhirl
Well, at least it was more environmentally friendly?
- l0ckergn0me
Well, I think we can blame this on Calacanis. Probably was yelling about Audible, and crashed.
- ZayneHumphrey
No, Calacanis was probably pitching Mahalo while filming with his n95 and crashed
- @baratunde
from twhirl
Oops.
- Mitchell Tsai
who's Tesla is that? The Google founders just got theirs on Thursday.
- Robert Scoble
oh, and Elon Musk said they crashed quite a few for their official crash tests.
- Robert Scoble
While it's in the shop he should get a golf cart as a loaner
- Andrew Smith
I wonder how much the insurance on that is...
- Tad
They said #9, so than its not Jason Calacanis' car
- Fred Grott
expensive way to change the tires
- sdfx
What a painful sight to see.
- imabonehead
Ouch. Anyone know who was the owner?
- Royce Mathew
Oh god, it hurts my eyes.
- Johan
@Royce Mathew: maybe it was Jason C.'s. I think I can hear him crying all the way over on the East Coast :-)
- Bob Blunk
Was Shia LaBeouf behind the wheel?
- Roger @ CineVegas
ouch!
- Jason Calacanis
Ho damn'...
- Jean-François Amadei
from twhirl
Is Calacanis okay :)
- Grant
- George Aranjuez
from twhirl
who was at faul? It looks like the Tesla was rear-ended by the Nissan and then pushed into (and under) the Benz.
- George Aranjuez
from twhirl
dont worry... i'm fine. haven't taken delivery yet. :-) mine is orange btw :-)
- Jason Calacanis
Lake Louise = magnificent!
Tim Thorpe liked this
Lake louise is the most amazing thing you'll ever see. I was amazed when I was there
- Grant
I love Lake Louise but sadly the last time I was there it was surrounded by forrest fires and had almost no visibility
- Chris Christensen
Your favorite tech blogger is ... (Just one. We know you like others.)
Larry Kless, Imran Hussain, Kenichi Matsumoto and 6 other people liked this
jon udell ftw ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Kathy Sierra. She needs to come back.
- shelisrael1
Nikhil Kothari's Weblog
- Peter Dawson
According to NetNewsWire - John Gruber
- Adam Turetzky
Robert Scoble --despite his shiny syndrome problems, he's a wonderful story teller, human, and a good friend
- Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble here.
- Chris Baskind
You're right, Shel: would be nice to see her back.
- Chris Baskind
I am not really a teche, but if Scoble would get rid of his shinny thing and show his human side more, he would really be good for the tech industry!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Alexander van Elsas - but this is really such a hard pick to make
- Steven Hodson
Robert Scoble. He's the one who brought me to FriendFeed.
- Mitchell Tsai
Kathy Sierra again.
- Yuvi
Second vote for Phil Plait. What, astronomy isn't tech?
- Yuvi
Scobleizer, but there are a lot of good ones!
- Mrsth
Everyone.
- Outsanity
Are you fishing for compliments, CB?? =P
- Mona Nomura
Kara Swisher and Sarah Perez (tie)
- Louis Gray
If you mean me, I'm not a tech blogger. If I were voting for a green tech blogger, it would be Hank Green.
- Chris Baskind
Meghan Asha
- Fred Grott
iJustine FTW
- Grant
With no disrespect to any of the above. None of the above listed so far are pure tech bloggers other then Jon udell and Nikki . All those mention talk about technology but are not into hard core programming and therefore are not techies per sec !!
- Peter Dawson
The term is pretty broad these days.
- Chris Baskind
"Liveblogging scope definitions: OH NO HE DI'NT" "Top 10 reasons you need to use FORTRAN" "Is LVM killing GCC?"
- Mark Trapp
Dave Winer. He is always challenging and not afraid to speak his mind. He is thought provoking, and has contributed to all our tech experiences. I just wish he would dial back a little on the politics. At least we know where he stands.
- Henry Burger
Hard to say ..... Flog it :D
- JCB
@Bjorn, I understand what you are saying. But the question on hand is one tech blogger. So who are these tech bloggers listed above -I mean as an engineer how many of these bloggers really talk hardcore technology ? Secondly, what do they really know about how it works and the bit/byte , constructor level of ..lets say a c++ complier. What they talk about is the UI, the ways it could be used etc. They are product reviwers not tech bloggers. I'll add Dave W to tech Blogger status !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Corvida
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Steve Gillmor
- Fred Grott
@Chris, thats the problem with terms being loosely or broadly used !! If I were to ask any1 of them to explain precisely what this snip means <ssh $USR@$host w > $OUT> and what is supposed to happen, they will certainly flunk the test. there is big difference between tech bloggers and product reviewers !!
- Peter Dawson
Another vote for Robert Scoble.
- Joanmarie
Tim Bray.
- Michael C. Harris
Big VentureBeat fan.
- Dan Kaplan
Andy Ihnatko - http://www.cwob.com: Absolutely the funniest tech columnist who doesn't write a "comedy column". His appearances on Mac Break Weekly are always the best and his aforementioned blog is wonderful.
- Canyon R
Louis Gray and any "guest star" he has...
- Vince DeGeorge
ugh, just one? Alexander Van Elsas or Corvida. Not sure which though.
- Rob Diana
haha, I just realized that I was logged into mrsth's account when I said scobleizer before. I guess that makes two of us!
- Thomas Hawk
Jacqui Cheng, Julian Sanchez, Jon Stokes, and generally anyone else we employ at Ars Technica ;)
- Clint Ecker
Tim O'Reilly - lots of others are right up there with him though
- Jesse Stay
daveman692, kottke
- Josh McHugh
How can you choose just one?!
- Tamar Weinberg
Robert Scoble,Duncan Riley,Marshall Kirkpatrick,Michael Arrington,Dave Winer,Louis Grey.
- Igor Poltavskiy
The Hawk.
- Russellreno
Paul Kapustka now with http://www.sidecutreports.com/
- A.T.
Wow, I am honored. I don't have one favorite. I used to like Winer the most but he has been writing about politics lately so don't see him as a tech blogger. Love Hawk too. Or is that "two?" heh. I have a bunch of favorites, though, I am with Tamar: it is too difficult to pick one name. Or even five. According to FriendFeed my favorite is TechCrunch and Louis Gray.
- Robert Scoble
that's hard. If you make me me pick I'll go with Umair Haque.
- Kevin Gamble
Robert Scoble FTW!! :)
- Imran Hussain
from feedalizr
Scoble gets a lot of points for participation and conversation and sheer superhuman energy, but I can't say he's actually my favorite *blogger*. I need to think about this a little bit.
- Michael Hocter
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play is simply awesome. Paul Graham / Marc Andreesen / Josh Kopelman / Fred Wilson, when they write are also favorites.
- dave mcclure
scoble. no wait... maybe jowyang.
- john conroy
kottke for sure
- Brandon Blattner
Have 16MB 'burst' Getting 10MB down and 1.2 up. Still better than 1.5 up/down I had on DSL. No FIOS in Oakland.
Pretty impressive. Comcast?
- Grant
Just got cable internet. Fast fast fast.
Mike Lewis liked this
How fast is fast fast fast?
- Grant
Can't beat mine!
- Yuvi
Happy for you.. Whats the bandwidth cap?
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Just moved to 10th in the iPhone 3G queue...its getting... - http://pownce.com/IanMiku...
A tip for FriendFeed: Only put up one microblogging site on your feed. Everything you post is showing up twice, one from Pownce, one from Twitter.
- Grant
Are you Internet famous? http://howto.wired.com/wiki...
My ranking is 1 :(
- Grant
lamest college mascots ever FAIL - http://www.bofads.com/stories...
Bren -- Designated Driver, Todd Jordan, Alexandru Savu and 25 other people liked this
L -> R: Stanford Univeristy's GHETTO tree, W. Kentucky Hilltopper, UCSC Banana Slug
- Mona Nomura
i thought the first was a hemp bud
- Cee Bee
It's the mascot for Stanford. 1. they're cardinals but why is it a tree? and 1. it looks like a 1st grader's art project FAIL
- Mona Nomura
um, a slug?
- Trent Olson
UC Santa Cruz's banana slugs lol
- Mona Nomura
Geoduck is an official mascot for the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington - which also has a (very appropriate) motto: "Let It All Hang Out" http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008... so-o-o-o-o... who wins competition for college mascot deserving public attention? ;)
- A.T.
omg, that is atrocious
- Mona Nomura
darkroastedblend.com is VERY good visual resource for personal entertainment ;) *cough* *cough* *cough*
- A.T.
I'm sorry but the banana slug has to be a huge FAIL -- sorry :(
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
i actually post from there allll the time ;) thanks for the tip, silpol! @Shey: I've had friends turn down UCSC because of the mascot LOL
- Mona Nomura
Stanford is 'Cardinal' the color, a deeper shade of red, not 'Cardinals' the bird. Because we're named after a pigment that would be a pretty hard mascot to create, so the tree comes from the great redwood that's on the official school seal... and the tree's not ghetto...not at what tuition on The Farm runs these days. decidedly upscale. lol
- .LAG liked that
Dude, I'm sorry. But your mascot is all sortsa ugly. Seriously. And for a school filled with smart people, why in the Sam's hill would they choose a pigment for a mascot? Baffling!
- Mona Nomura
I'm sorry but at Penn our mascot was a quaker. A QUAKER! Seriously??! http://images.google.com/imgres...
- Danielle
Ya, it looks like Cpt. Crunch.... =|
- Mona Nomura
but see, that's what people don't understand about the Stanford mascot, the Stanford Cheerleaders, and the Stanford Band: take whatever idea you have of a mascot, a cheerleader, or a marching band... and we're the exact opposite. our mascot is the anti-mascot... and judging from your reaction, it's working. the joke's on you for taking it seriously, because we sure don't.
- .LAG liked that
.LAG, I didn't mean to offend you... I was just teasing :\
- Mona Nomura
The Stanford Tree is an American Institution....http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Mona ... no offense taken... should have added LOL at the end... seriously, we made as much fun of the mascot and the band when we were students as anyone outside the school ever did, probably more, because we know who's behind the suit. that's why its so funny to me to hear folks rip our mascot... that's why it exists: to get ripped! Is it ugly? Absolutely. Is it silly? Definitely? Is it lame? Without a doubt, by design! Seriously LOL
- .LAG liked that
Is that one on the right a pikachu?
- Geoff Schultz
phew.. sometimes you can't tell on the internet haha I have friends who went to Stanford and I make fun of them all the time, hey. At least you don't have an unofficial one like Dartmouth. When I saw Keggy the Keg I LOL'd.
- Mona Nomura
Visuals: http://bit.ly/1ybukb
- Mona Nomura
the banana slug is a classic. come on
- Nathan Rein
I agree with nathan. I love the UCSC banana slug.
- Mike Doeff
Wait, it's a slug? I'm pretty sure it's a Pikachu
- Geoff Schultz
I like the slug
- clarke thomas
I like the Slug. The tree has gotta go, though.
- Bill Sodeman
Each Stanford mascot designs his/her own tree costume and also has to perform a stunt. A previous winner ate the heads off of 2 live snakes. There was an interesting article on SI about the selection process
- Grant
If those outfits are avail, I'd like to wear them at Burning Man.
- Sam Lawrence
from twhirl
the banana slug will fucking maul everyone
- The Millionizer
My iPhone has crashed and is stuck on the apple logo when I reboot. iTunes doesn't recognize it. What should I do?
Have you tried holding down both the home button and the power (top) button? That'll soft-reset it. Sometimes that'll clear it up. If it doesn't, check the Apple discussion boards or visit your local Apple store. :\ Good luck!!
- thepete
That's how it got stuck. The iPod was stuttering nothing would respond so I tried the soft reset and now it won't go past the Apple logo
- Grant
@grantgoodstein I actually watched that in HD a few days after it came out. What time does he talk about that? I must have skipped over it
It's the part where Forstall is talking. Not sure of the exact time
- Grant
What is the deal with today's bacon obsession???
Ontario Emperor liked this
two nights in a row lol =\
- Mona Nomura
People are lemmings. The end.
- Louie
Because Bacon is the best thing on the planet -- I should know.
- Gary Bacon II
I lived through that one too. Friendfeed is getting pretty weird :)
- Grant
Wow, everyone thinks Google Knol will kill Mahalo. Very different than last year when folks said Mahalo would kill Google. Thoughts?
siavash, Mitchell Tsai, Andrew Dobrow and 7 other people liked this
Plenty of space for both, no worries.
- Dave Martin
Google Knol doesn't come close to being a killer app. I predict it will be a total bust. Has no useful wiki features.
- Roger Jennings
Jason it's not a killer - it's too strick!
- Anne Haynes
Ironically, Knol's search feature doesn't work. Try searching for Obama. This Knol has substantial Obama content: http://tinyurl.com/59oj4d
- Roger Jennings
Somebody actually said Mahalo would kill google?
- loren feldman
I think a lot of good comments have been made here and that (much to the surprise of some) Mahalo has proved that there is a space for human powered search and has continued to corner that market. I think that it will be interesting to see how all the pieces come to together but I don't see Knol invading Mahalo's space or stealing it's eyeballs. Just my 2-cents.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
is it even possible to kill something that large? That would be like trying to put out the sun with a water pistol...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Wait wait, who said Mahalo would kill Google?
- Andru Edwards
I don't think Knol will kill Mahalo... I think it will likely kill Squidoo.
- Clay Newton
i like ice cream and pizza
- Noah David Simon
I don't know who will kill who but I expect many publishers will be cut/pasting Wikipedia, Wikia and Mahalo into Knol so I would watch it.
- Sam Pullara
But you've got the ace in the hole Mahalo Daily with Leah and Lons
- Andrew Fielding
from twhirl
I think it was just you saying Mahalo would kill Google :)
- James Joyner
Mahalo didn't need anyone to kill it, it was doing just fine at slow suicide.
- Jason Carreira
I made a promise not to go to Knol - ain't gonna do it.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I think Google has spent most of its good karma, Jason. You've got that going for you.
- Chris Baskind
I still say Pizza and Ice Cream is the Mahalo killer
- Noah David Simon
Google provides ads for both Knol and Mahalo. So, they might prefer to kill Wikipedia
- Kerem Ozkan
I don’t see knol been comparable to Mahalo, not even Knol been comparable to WikiPedia. There is only one and unique service in each side of the fence, but Google Knol does not seem to be any killer as its too much "formal" for earlier adopters and that can be a “turnoff” for most users
- Joao
Agree with others here...who said Mahalo would kill Google?
- Hutch Carpenter
You're in big trouble my friend...sorry. They have the R&D and the capital to do whatever they want.
- Ryan
Guys Jason is doing what Jason does and he is doing his best to create controversy which promotes Mahalo by keeping it in the headlines etc. Why do you think he is the one always bringing it up. I love this about Jason, clever guy. I still remember the famous 'how to get a link from Jason' linkbait rules.
- Roger Kondrat
Smoke and mirrors doesn't make Mahalo suck less, though
- Jason Carreira
Knol would have to kill about.com first before it gets to Mahalo.
- Morton Fox
It will go knolwhere :)
- Grant
it will go knolwhere - ahaaahaaahaaa
- Anne Haynes
I don't. see my blog, I even photoshpped ya ;)
- sean percival
once they integrate knol in their search results there's not much of a competitive advantage left for your product
- franzstehrn
As of today, I think it'd be a stretch to say that Mahalo and Knol are even positioned to move on the same target markets. Leaving aside my personal suspicions that Google will bore with Knol and scuttle it before it matures into a threat, at the moment about.com and squidoo are its direct competitors, as others have pointed out.
- Derrick Burns
the team (which rolled out Knoll) has US-centric obsession (see their FAIL with identification), hence it won't get any better soon on global level, so.... looks like another Yahoo service or what?
- A.T.
Given that you are first and foremost a businessman Jason -- what is your exit strategy with Mahalo?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Not worried at all, frankly. I took a look at it and am simply not impressed.
- Andrew Dobrow
I've yet to hear Mahalo was a Google killer.
- Chris Nixon
oh.. scoble and some others said human search/mahalo/social search would kill google. I never said i agreed with that... i don't buy into the whole one company kills another since that really doesn't happen often. Apple is doing amazing without kill microsoft, and microsoft has amazing market share and they are not killing Apple. normally 2-3 companies share a market... and in human powered search we will be one of them. :-)
- Jason Calacanis
Good follow-up.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Why did no one think to Google it? http://www.google.com/search... Is this a Google killer? Nothing is going to "kill" Google
- paul mooney
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