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Spotify iPhone App: First Impressions - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, Pete Delucchi, Rob H. and 27 other people liked this
So cool
- Johni Fisher
Made it onto Techmeme baby! :)
- Zee.
is that a zee finger?
- Allen Stern
lol, no - the top button on my iPhone is buggered. So i can't take screenshots :)
- Zee.
yo so guys, I would seriously consider packing up and moving over to either the UK, Sweden, France or Spain. Spotify is *that* good. :)
- Zee.
based on business card quality, uk wins out of your countries zee - then france, spain and the sweden due to umlauts
- Allen Stern
it's crazy...i can search for say all eminem tracks on my desktop. Save all 100 of them to a playlist. Then can download the playlist to spotify on my iphone to play whenever i please...incredible.
- Zee.
playing around with the iphone app and loving it like Zee - but I'm also dubious about becoming dependent on this subscription model, particularly since cancellation of my subscription leaves me with no more playlists on the go! Is it worth £120/year...?
- Franz Sittampalam
The sound quality on all of the iProducts is so bad, I literally can't use them for listening to music. No one else in the universe seems to mind, but my iPhone's tinniness hurts my ears. (All eq tricks applied, yes.)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Did you already have a premium account Zee, or did the availability of the app make you make the change? Interested to know :)
- Simon Wicks
Service does not seem to be available in Canada. How good is it to have an iPhone app if you can't use the service?
- Marcelo Pinheiro
@marcelo huh? the iPhone app is available to people in specific countries. The US and Canada unfortunately aren't included yet
- Zee.
Need a way to have it in the USA
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Need a way to have it in Canada. LOL.
- Zachary TG
I've run out of space on my iPhone after offlining countless albums
- Franz Sittampalam
from IM
@zee, need it in Canada hey! Competition is good and iTunes needs some competition. Like I said, nice iPhone app but it does not do anything for those in Canada yet.
- Marcelo Pinheiro
I don't feel sorry for our north american friends who have to wait, it's about time we got something BEFORE you guys! In the meantime I shall continue to gloat
- Franz Sittampalam
from IM
Augh, WHEN are we in the US going to finally get Spotify (and said iPhone app)? I keep seeing these articles, but none about US arrival. Grrr.
- Cheryl Jones
A Spotify Premium account would be worth its weight in gold if they had the same library as Last.FM. (I want my Japanese & obscure gamer music goddamnit!)
- CannonGod
Ok. I've officially had my fill of spotify reviews. Let's just write about them when they enter a new market from now on, ok?
- Joel Bennett
Spotify also available for Symbian devices( S60 version 3 and version 5) as well.
- FFTornado
Foursquare Mayor Drinks For Free - http://lslinks.laughingsquid.com/foursqu...
Damon Clinkscales, Gregory Cohen, Sean Oliver and 6 other people liked this
Excellent marketing for everyone.
- Daniel Dulitz
More places really need to do this. Of course, I'm mostly saying this b/c I'm mayor at far too many watering holes. :-D
- Damon Cortesi
Sprint Offers a Netbook for Under a Buck. Will AT&T & Verizon follow? - http://jkontherun.com/2009...
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Gregory Cohen, Anika, Mark Nassal and 2 other people liked this
$199 with a 2 yr contract is not enticing to me. However, I could see Sprint getting some good business for the $0.99 deal.
- W. Brant Kesseler
Steven Sings the Muppet Show Theme - http://www.seesmic.com/video...
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Haggis (Sean Loyless), Katie: Whelmed Overly, Janet and 29 other people liked this
Because Mark started it: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Steven Perez
WINage!
- Johnny Worthington
Steven, you're a trooper!!! That was awesome! :)
- Her Lindsay-ness
I was thinking of doing this one too!
- ♥patricia♥
you are so not going to regret this!! incredible. the voices were the best part :)
- Mark Wilson
That was fanfeckingtastic!
- Ian May
YES!!!! Way to get into it!
- Josh Haley
Nope. I'm just naturally goofy. :)
- Steven Perez
"And the Oscar goes to.....Steven Perez for The Muppet Show Theme." - awesome acting, awesome vocals, in short all kinds of awesome!
- Toby Graham
Yes!
- Rodfather
a clear winner!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Super epic WIN!!! I was cheering and clapping while I watched. Your goofiness, sir, is awesomesauce squared. :-D If I weren't already engaged to Scott, I'd be madly in love with most of the guys on FriendFeed!
- Ladybug Heather
Oh you should regret that AT ALL! Don't tell Lindsey, but I now crown you the winner!
- Carmen
LOL! Brilliant, dude. You do a good Fozzie, too, btw. Wocka, wocka.
- Pete Delucchi
omg - thanks for making me smile this early morning..hahaha-you have a Broadway career ahead of you!
- Janet
*bump* ftw!
- Rodfather
OH NOES! RODFATHER IS BUMPING ME! MOM, MAKE HIM STOP! :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Sucka!
- Rodfather
wait whut?!?
- Steven Perez
Twitter poll: Who is in the lead at this point in time, Seesmic Desktop or TweetDeck?
Madhav Tripathi, Gary Gannon, masstrovato and 16 other people liked this
TweetDeck, until Seesmic stops consuming so much memory
- Jesse Stay
TWEETDECK.
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
That said I don't use either any more
- Jesse Stay
Seesmic is sucking more RAM than Tweetdeck? Now that's just silly.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Rahsheen it takes me 5 seconds to type anything on Seesmic. TweetDeck it's instantaneous. That's on both a MacBook and MacBook Pro.
- Jesse Stay
from email
Looking at my processes now, Seesmic is at 88,352K
- Mike Fruchter
I am still testing seesmic, and the multiple twitter account support is really cool. I will choose the first one that uses the "all friends" list as those people that are not in any other list :)
- Rob Diana
Tweetdeck is at 87,744K. There about equal on this pc, agreed though both are memory hogs. They run about the same here. Tweetdeck is a smidgen faster.
- Mike Fruchter
In a recent poll PeopleBrowsr beat both of them out. http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2009... :-) RAM consumption is a little higher, but there are more features, more networks accessible, and you can have more columns of data (I have 40 columns in mine much of the time)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Seesmic Desktop is rough on my netbook.
- Christopher A Carr
Tweetdeck is in the lead hands down.. the average person has only heard of tweetdeck.. they have gotten a lot more press than Seesmic has.
- Jason Pollock
So far, none of the many options is perfect, so I keep switching between Tweetie and Nambu at home (Tweetie is stabler, but Nambu has groups and saved searches), and between Seesmic and Twhirl at work (Twhirl is stabler, but doesn't have groups or saved searches). Tweetdeck is a non-starter for me now, because it doesn't have multiple account support.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Scott: I tend to agree, been testing seesmic, but its just not doing it for me. Probably go back to tweetdeck, but I'm tempted on a return to twhirl
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Choice of tool really depends on what you need from it. I just don't get enough out of Seesmic or Tweetdeck, and both of them are just too taxing. And yes, Tweetdeck still has the most users, but I think that's going to change.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
TweetDeck.
- Louis Gray
I don't think either compare to Tweetie. If the desktop and iPhone app could stay in sync it would be perfect.
- Justin Luey
Do any of these apps yet store friend-groups in the cloud? Any of 'em recognize existing Facebook friend groups?
- Adam Lasnik
Adam: PeopleBrowsr does. And it will import your Tweetdeck groups if you've already got those. (via the AIR version) But it doesn't recognize FB friend groups yet (But you can search FB updates)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ah, interesting, thanks, Rob :)
- Adam Lasnik
PeopleBrowsr is the one for me.
- Russ Jackson
Thanks Russ & Adam. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions you have. FriendFeed group is here: http://friendfeed.com/peopleb...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
TweetDeck
- Angus Burton
I tried them all, and deleted them all.
- Sean McBride
Tweetdeck
- Nicholas James
Tweetie for me. I just don't like AIR apps and avoid them whenever possible. And Nambu doesn't quite cut it yet.
- Grey Drane
Oh, and PeopleBrowsr isn't quite ready for prime time, as far as I'm concerned, and seems to suffer from feature bloat. The developers keep adding features and can never seem to manage to get the app out of alpha.
- Grey Drane
Grey -- feature bloat is directly antithetical to the core aesthetic of Twitter. It seems to miss the point of Twitter entirely. The Twitter UI should be ultra-simple and ultra-light -- which is why I always find myself returning to the crisp and clean Twitter homepage UI after playing around with the alternatives.
- Sean McBride
Am I the only one who still prefers the old plain but featured @Twhirl ?
- Giovanni De Stefano
from fftogo
Giovanni -- even Twhirl feels a bit too cluttered and heavy to me -- but that's just me.
- Sean McBride
Sean -- Yeah, now that the Twitter home page does search and saved searches, it is actually a viable alternative, and I find myself using it sometimes, too.
- Grey Drane
I'm with TweetDeck!
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
tweetdeck, eventbox and tweetie - each has pro & con... but no seesmic!
- Arne Krueger
Tweetdeck. The best for pc. Tweetie for iPhone
- Baard @ Pixum
Grey: PeopleBrowsr beta launch is this week.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I really like seesmic for how they handle user froups.
- Sean Oliver
I have both but rarely use either. Twitter with its new interface is gd enough for me & I have no memory problems :)
- Roger Kondrat
it depends on who u ask... if you've been following scoble's tweets then i think that you'd pick seesmic.. scoble has been a seesmic evangelist as of late.
- Jason Pollock
Tweetdeck, though with every update I give Seesmic my time (and use it when checking additional accounts). Seesmic is getting close, but still needs a lot of polishing.
- jcunwired
For me it's still Twhirl...
- Ralph
TweetDeck
- browneyes
Nambu. :)
- Ryan Miller
from Nambu
Ryan, how did you manage to get FF support through Nambu? The most recent Beta doesn't allow me to use it.. EDIT: oh, is it form the Nambu iPhone client?
- Angus Burton
Currently Seesmic but its eating incredible memory : 160MB
- Jacque
Joke review boosts T-shirt sales - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Simon, Karl Rosaen, Laurence Gonsalves and 10 other people liked this
""When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me! Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt," wrote one wag, while another said that "the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt gave me a +10 resistance to energy attacks, +8 Strength... and I have successfully solved 7 crimes in my city". Amazon's senior manager of community content, Russell Dicker, said the T-shirt was currently the top selling item in their clothing store. "The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt recently moved up 2,300% in sales rank," he said. "We are grateful that our reviewers are so passionate." ... "We appreciate humour as much as the next company, but we don't approve of some of the remarks. "Not everyone can start out at the top and not everyone from our neck of the woods lives in a trailer or cruises Walmart to hook up.""
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I came across this yesterday on Digg and fired it around the office, well funny!
- Joe Dawson
Is Walmart really a good place to do that? Could I park my trailer out the front?
- Chris Loft
So i came across this on friendfeed on monday or tuesday, read the first two reviews, and thought to myself... 'when will i hear about this from the mainstream media?' - only took a day or two
- Chris Heath
Paul ,I sent you a Direct message pls have a look thx
- Johni Fisher
The maker's web page: http://www.themountain.me/ -- "Four Wolf Moon coming soon"
- ⓞnor
So Apple (finally!) responded directly to Microsoft's Laptop Hunters commercials. This is getting good! http://movies.apple.com/media...
Cem Ozkaynak, Nicholas James, Paul Stamatiou and 58 other people liked this
oh snap
- Jay
can Apple really advertise "no crashes"? Microsoft's ads are leading too but damn
- Richard Lawler
She's cute
- Rodfather
Richard, the only things that ever crash on my Mac are Microsoft's office products.
- David Eedle
and my pc never crashes, we can all play this game. crashes and lockups happen all the time, on all different platforms. I just want to know who will have my refund when a kernel panic happens. If they said "less" it would be one thing, but they didn't.
- Richard Lawler
Yeah, I've managed to lock up my Mac Pro a few times. Not very often, but it's possible.
- Tom Harrison
I agree with Richard. I really honestly just don't understand the Mac vs. PC debate anymore. They're essentially the same thing now, you just get things done a little differently.
- Tyler Hayes
I'm a Megan
- Johnny Worthington
I married a Megan: http://www.twitter.com/megruth
- Luke Stay
Tyler: it's not a Mac vs PC thing anymore it's Mac vs Windows (which can be reduced to Mac vs PC) but at it's core, it's apple vs microsoft ... plus the mac is a Personal Computer, but since Microsoft has given PCs a bad name they tried to brand the Mac as not a PC as to not muddle their brand's image.
- Chris Heath
Great commercial - it's that simple!
- Medical Alarm Concepts
That was great
- Abbas Haider Ali
I love it. I'm a PC ... but I want a Mac.
- Angela Schelden
the posted link is never working for me...Nevermind, found it on youtube.
- JoEllen
Dear Apple, I have a PC that also does not crash, doesn't have viruses, and is not a headache to deal with. It's called, Linux. Thank you, and I am a PC running Linux.
- Wizetux
Dear Apple, I have a PC that also does not crash (as long as I keep it free of dustbunnies), doesn't have viruses and is not a headache to deal with...It's called Windows XP. I'm a PC.
- Alex Scoble
This is funny, but continuing the same campaign isn't a big enough response. They need to come up with a campaign that resonates as well as the Laptop Hunters series.
- Stephen Mack
I'm a PC and I'll stay that way. I've built my own for about 15 years now and can't even remember the last time I crashed.
- jcunwired
I'm a PC. I like having that $1300 in my bank account instead of Apple's.
- Piaw Na
this is a pretty good response to the MS ads
- Jamie
MS cant compete with hardware or commercials. Apple always ups them.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Commodore cassette - http://ffffound.com/image...
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Luciano, Gregory Cohen, Carmen and 14 other people liked this
I had the Atari equivalent of this device, 25-ish years ago.
- DGentry
I played "Crush, Crumble, & Chomp" and "Temple of Apshai" on C64 cassette. Hard to fathom how I could wait that long to play those games in retrospect.
- Nathan Chase
The TRS-80 version was my first data recording device.
- Peter Ghosh
Denton, was that for the Atari 400 or the Atari 800 by chance?
- Mark Wilson
I never had a tape drive for anything we had. Consequently I consider them the height of awesome.
- Joe Pierce
It was for the Atari 400, in fact.
- DGentry
LIKE!!!! I remember having no storage device for the Vic-20, but used this for the Commodore 64. I bought a tape for the role-playing game Telengard and it took 45 minutes to load, which included turning the tape over. And there's nothing quite like the tape counter. You could store various programs on a tape and scribble down their numeric location on the tape.
- Mike Reynolds
I had the big brown 5.25 disk drive for my C-64. Never had cassette.
- Jeff Quinton
Jeff Q - When those 5.25" C-64 drives came out, I didn't think things could get any better. And then years later we had full megabyte drives.
- Mike Reynolds
I remember when I got my first 5.25" Floppy drive and bought Wasteland, it was like the most amazing thing ever! And Wasteland is still today one of my top 10 favorite games of all time.
- Nick
The Relationship Translator - http://www.holytaco.com/relatio...
Elliott, mjc, Zaki Manian and 72 other people liked this
this is you? edit: nvm saw the post
- Alfredo
No way - I translate a lot of boy-girl talk for my friends LOL Now, I'll just point them to this post.
- Mona Nomura
LOL! This is great.
- Michael Forian
This makes relationships so much easier.
- Andrew Trinh
You are crazy
- orionstarr
It can get complicated!
- orionstarr
Brilliant !!!
- Eric Logan
LOL its funny...because its true!
- Nicholas James
Why can't men have friends AND a significant other?
- LarchOye
someone once told me there are 3 sexes.....men , women & colleagues
- viki saigal
Too funny.
- Victor Panlilio
Is that boy talk for calling me fat, Victor??? :P
- Mona Nomura
lol this is hillarious
- Darren Heydon
Mona - watch Mens Brains vs Womens Brains on YouTube.
- Victor Panlilio
hahahaha! this is so funny :P
- Michael
SO true!
- Rick Cogley
I love this...Must have struck some nerves, I got yelled at for Liking this out to twitter. omg.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Disturbing Strokes - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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edythe, Andrej Kyselica, Michelle Martinez and 10 other people liked this
"The Different Strokes titles with alternate music, and slightly edited in terms of colour and ageing filters... This has turned out far more creepy than I thought it would."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
eek
- Carmen
Pedophilia feel to it.
- Janet
"now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you may not be right for some..."
- Cee Bee
Even after reading the comment, I expected this to be cheesy, but this was freaky good...it worked with the alternate music.
- Scott of Two Countries
super creepy
- Cee Bee
Just goes to show how effective good music is for horror/suspense flicks...really, it makes the picture.
- Carlton Hackett
This is so on point. The bluish tone also goes a long way in adding to the creep/suspense factor.
- Tsega Dinka
Unfortunately, no one can be told how awesome FriendFeed's Matrix 10th Anniversary logo is. You have to see it for yourself: http://friendfeed.com/e...
Henru, Jonathan Betz, Under 5 Feet and 10 other people liked this
MORPHEUS: "I can only show you the URL. You're the one that has to click through it."
- Karim
Copied to rave reviews :) http://twitter.com/Stammy...
- Paul Buchheit
I am 22 likes away from hitting the big 20K. Give me something to enjoy, people!
Josh Haley, Gavin, Rick Cogley and 32 other people liked this
I don't know if I can help you there (though I'd like to) - but I will say that this comment is my not-so-big 1,000th :)
- Patrick Jordan
holy cow! 20000! that's OVER 9000!
- vijay
I got nothing. But congrats!
- Michelle Martinez
sounds like a grind...
- Rafael Robayna
Just go to the main feed, filter by last.fm and then if you still need to, by pandora
- Michael W. May
Michael, that's too easy, LOL!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
i liked this just so i could check my own stats
- Cee Bee
Just find every mention of SXSW. :)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I see you hit 20k! Congrats.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Well, I did my part. :D
- Steven Perez
wow. Who's the 20,000th?
- vijay
congradulations :)
- chaz2b
Vijay, i wasn't paying attention...mmm...I think it was that Blog Around The Clock link to Jon Stewart that did it...Love me people! :p
- Helen Sventitsky
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
you got it beeyotch! Lolcats coming up!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Bring it!
- Helen Sventitsky
I'm 32 away from 80,000 myself.
- Morton Fox
nice work. 80,000 is unreal Morton. I have no idea how you guys do so much.
- Thomas Hawk
Morton, you da man!
- Helen Sventitsky
for the love of friendfeed, keep doing what you're doing
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Whitehouse lawn = A Swing Set for the Obama First Daughters - http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/dc...
Gregory Cohen, Ladybug Heather, AJ Kohn and 3 other people liked this
LOVE that a swing set is at the Whitehouse.
- JoEllen
from Bookmarklet
SO much awesomeness!
- AJ Kohn
Too cool!
- Ladybug Heather
That is not a knife... - http://naurunappula.com/z...
Alfredo, Nia, Парадокс Смейла and 9 other people liked this
...this is a knife!
- Jemm
from Bookmarklet
o_O
- Manuela
Did you fly here in a corporate jet (Dilbert)? - http://dilbert.com/strips...
Roger Chen, Alfredo, Abbas Haider Ali and 18 other people liked this
Love this.
- Will Higgins™
well put
- Joshua Schnell
Classic...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Dogbert ftw!
- Rick Cogley
SMOLEY HOKES!!! My glasses normally run me anywhere from $350 to $425 at the big chains. Zenni Optical is saying $75. Dude.
AJ Batac, Morton Fox, Josh Haley and 12 other people liked this
Pictures!!!
- Mona Nomura
And that's with their super skinny lenses which I have to have other wise I look like my grandpa with his coke bottles.
- Yolanda
$75 bucks with the skinny lenses too? Zenni Optical - note to self. And I am TOTALLY a coke bottle Paul from Wonder Years person too LOL
- Mona Nomura
haHA, you girls are legally blind in 17 states!!!!
- B. Hatin
Zenni rocks hard. Check out glassyeyes.com for some other sites. I've bought three pair from Zenni for about $70 total.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
from fftogo
I ordered my glasses from EyeBuyDirect but any online eyeglass store is a lot cheaper than Lenscrafters. Just be careful to measure your PD accurately.
- Morton Fox
Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch are full of shit" - http://blog.last.fm/2009...
Carolyn, Daniel Iniguez, Kevykev and 8 other people liked this
When you signup to Last.fm and scrobble what you listen to, you are trusting us with your listening data. We take this very seriously. The old-timers on Last.fm who’ve been with us since the early days can attest to this – we’ve always been very open and transparent about how your data is used. This hasn’t changed. We never share personally identifiable data such as email and IP addresses. The only type of data we make available to labels and artists, other than what you see on the site, is aggregate data of listeners and number of plays.
- Leo Laporte
Yelp offers to remove bad reviews for monthly fee! - http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news...
vb100, Andrei M. Marinescu, Nicholas James and 30 other people liked this
wow, they're on the take!
- Pat Kitano
Wow Michael, I had no clue that BBB did that.
- Shevonne
Their algorithm has always confused me and SF Yelp is extremely unreliable - defeats the purpose of the entire site.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
goodrec.com seems to be a more reliable source of information than yelp.
- Jeremy Brooks
Yelp used to do full RSS feeds then they cut them to partial. Fuckers.
- ld
I wonder if one could review Yelp on Yelp.
- ld
I did: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
To be fair, the Yelp CEO responded here: http://tinyurl.com/bbuvfa
- Mona Nomura
Wait, what now? That's not even right.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I think that we should only be able to post good reviews; places that aren't that great should just be blank.
- Kim
Kim, are you serious? :(
- Mona Nomura
wouldn't that be extortion?
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose of reviews? They are focusing on revenue rather than providing great service to their customer (yelp users)
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
that kinda brings their whole integrity into question.. If something is bad, you should as a public service be allowed to say so.
- alphaxion
Well like most review sites, it should be taken with a grain of salt. I've read reviews where a person crapped on an entire business because of personal problems (something about how another customer in line was rude to him) - but of course, the last bit was at the very end. Yelp is unreliable (to me) since NYC and SF are totally saturated.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
BTW I'm not a fan of Yelp because of their "Elite" cliques. If you notice, the Elite Squad rave about the same places and rant about the same places - but that's personal observation.
- Mona Nomura
I do still use Yelp from time to time but don't take the reviews for anything but to get an idea of where I'm going. Having time to write reviews is a whole other issue...
- Tamara
Is there any reason to believe that the extortion calls came from Yelp? Here's a (presumably profitable, although possibly illegal) business model: Step 1: I team up with 20 of my closest friends, and start writing negative reviews for a few businesses. We write these reviews as well as we can; we actually visit those businesses so we we can mention specific details, and so the reviews won't look canned. We spread this out over a period of a few months, so as not to be detected.
- Tudor Bosman
Step 2: I start calling up these businesses and offer to remove the negative reviews. They don't know that the reviews were written by my little extortion racket, and they pay up. We remove the reviews (slowly) and maybe write some positive ones, also with lots of specific details. The businesses see measurable benefits and so continue to pay.
- Tudor Bosman
Step 3: PROFIT! This hinges on the ability of a small group of people to significantly affect the yelp score for a business, and that seems definitely doable -- most businesses have less than 500 reviews.
- Tudor Bosman
Isn't that like blackmail or extortion or something?
- Martha
Depends on the area you are in, Tudor. SF and NY is a mess. The system is all screwed up, beyond the problem of who and what gets displayed as the top reviews on Yelp.
- Mona Nomura
Martha: yes, I believe it is extortion. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear; the original article claims that Yelp tries to extort money from businesses by offering to remove bad reviews for a fee. I provided an alternative explanation -- this may be the work of a different (criminal) enterprise that is not associated with Yelp at all.
- Tudor Bosman
Mona: I'm in SF, and yes, I can think of a few ways that the Yelp system is messed up. Extortion and blackmail ratchet things up a notch, though.
- Tudor Bosman
Hmm... well extortion and blackmail won't fly (imho), especially with so many tech savvy business owners in the bay. My issue is with the Yelp community itself. I've seen more than a few suspect activities.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
PC World covered it too http://www.pcworld.com/article... and here http://www.pcworld.com/article...
- Mona Nomura
from IM
apparently the register covered this back in august - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
- alphaxion
What Tudor says, but if Yelp sells ads to the same businesses that are reviewed on the site, there's a conflict of interest, and it raises a bit of a red flag re: the neutrality/authenticity of the reviews. "Real People. Real Reviews (tm)".
- dario
dario: Google sells ads to businesses but won't alter its search results for the benefit of the advertisers. Yes, there's a theoretical conflict of interest, but Google's reputation hinges on staying neutral here. And they're not evil. :) I don't think Yelp is any different.
- Tudor Bosman
#EvernoteTip 7 Use Cases For Highly Effective @evernote Users: http://tr.im/evernote - http://twitter.com/cleverw...
Gregory Cohen and CW™ liked this
Winners of the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year contest - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
Bill Romanos, Gregory Cohen, Steve Olson and 6 other people liked this
"A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition Jury members said the strength of the photo by Anthony Suau for Time magazine was in its opposites - it looks like a classic war photograph, but is simply the eviction of people from a house"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Would you say this is the best photo you have seen in the press last year?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes. Definately. Its a powerful commentary on the last year fir us all, neatly summing up all those emotions and fears, dashed hopes and dreams. It's all you want in a photo.
- Roberto Bonini
So is 2009 going to be more of the same? Who is to decide? Who can change the decision? Who will be next? What happens those who are homeless? Do we care?
- RetiredTeacherD
Offline also available in Google Calendar - http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009...
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Woo hoo! The last piece in the puzzle. GDocs + Gmail + Gcal + RTM. Now I can set up a fully syncronized, cloud-and-browser based system that will keep my netbook and other computers connected, for free. Who needs heavy client apps like Office and Outlook? Not me!
- Josh Bancroft
Read only alas.
- Gregory Cohen
Doesn't work for me :-(
- Stanislas Jourdan
@Stanislas. It's only for Google Apps acccount (not the Gmail ones). That's why the post is on the Google "Enterprise" Blog.
- Jérôme Flipo
First Class vs. Coach http://jasoncalacanis.posterous.com/first-c...
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my secret time saving email tip: change your desktop email signature to "Sent from iPhone" - then write 1 sentence replies! sshhh
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That's GENIUS!
- Chris Saad
I do that all the time. Helps if you don't capitalize words and make misspellings too--looks more authentic.
- Andrew Leyden
sweet. I'm going to start doing that so people will think I have an iPhone.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
My secret too. Be careful not to type too much w/o errors or it will raise suspicion.
- Craig Mische
That is genius actually, I like it.
- xero
how many of us do this? (and probably have people do it back to us ;-)
- Tobias Peggs
OMG. brilliance.
- Anthony Baker
LOVE THIS!
- BEX
Don't do this with people that know what the X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5G77) email header means.
- Lars Trieloff
THAT IS AWESOME!!!
- Keith - @tsudo
Especially don't do it in a reply to your boss when you are supposed to be at your desk.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I like it a lot. My emails have become shorter and shorter anyway, so used to twitter.
- jjprojects
smart :)
- Sebastian
Just don't ever attach anything! You'll give yourself away.
- Gregory Cohen
BRILLIANT!!!!
- Paul
Classic
- Nina Morena
Simple for me, mine does come from an iPhone 98% of the time.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
wow...that is a great idea!!!
- Brian Appleby
Kevin... stop fooling around... go and roll out some new digg features already!
- Eddie
Oh.... that's GOOD....
- Ciaoenrico
I wonder if people would think I'm never in the office ;-) Double benefit!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I got the Wii unboxed and we're boxing. Hey, it's pretty fun! Ordered a second Wiimote & Nunchuk, and the Nyko charger, but no games yet.
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If you can find one in stock.. you gotta get a wii fit.
- Joe K
Tiger Woods Golf is also really good on the Wii
- David Ward
hope you're not playing it on an HDTV.. looks pretty bad/pixelated even with component cables. I sold my Wii b/c of that.. http://paulstamatiou.com/2009...
- Paul Stamatiou
hi leo! my family has had our wii for a little over 2 years now and we love it! we have quite a few games that most everyone in the family can play and of course some for dad too. but i recommend carnival games and the mini golf carnival games our kids ages 6 & 5 love mario kart dad likes NPPL paintball game and mario party and mario galaxy are great too! recently played a new game at a friends house played family game night that was good fun and those are my recommendations hope it helps you! :)
- casie
My girlfriend finally beat me in boxing..... She was so excited.
- Joe K
If you want a kick-back, exploring, non-game, Endless Ocean looks cool.
- Rodfather
BOOM BLOX, Steven Spielberg's first video game for EA. My kids can't play because I take the wiimote away. Very fun.
- Greg
I would recommend not to buy Wii Fit. It's a waste of money/big disappointment. Super Mario Galaxy is quite cool.
- Davide D'Incau
Mario Galaxy is by far the best Wii game to date, Boom Blox and Mario Cart are also good. Wii Fit is only worth while for the *balance board for games like Raving Rabbits T.V. Party and Wii Ski.
- Kyle DeFacis
Wouldn't it be great if you could email documents (WordDocs, Excel Spreadsheets,etc) to Evernote and it would internally convert them to PDF for you..
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Wouldn't it be great if Evernote would support OCR for PDFs?
- Tim Ostler
yes it would
- Eric Dorsett
Both would be awesome. I agree with prioritizing OCR for PDFs above native support of other file formats, though, because it seems like it would have immediate widespread positive impact for existing users.
- Kate O'Neill
My Mac does that for me.
- Steve Sill
Do you have a workflow set up for that, Steve?
- Kate O'Neill
Please do tell, Steve! The lack of OCR for PDFs is not so rockin for me right now!
- Gregory Cohen
I think he means that, on a Mac, you can print any document to a PDF file.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Oh, you mean like what you could do on a PC if you installed CutePDF!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Or PrimoPDF. :)
- Her Lindsay-ness
or PDFCreator
- Nathan Rein
UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini Based on Nvidia Ion - http://www.tomshardware.com/news...
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Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs Women Differences [At The Office] - http://i.gizmodo.com/5132786...
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I love the internet!
- Cameron Yeary
Palm Pre CES 2009 keynote online - http://www.geardiary.com/2009...
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Already on my sixth watch!
- Mona Nomura
This IS the product for 2009 that has the potential to make (or break) two companies simultaneously..
- Wayne Schulz
Each sentence I thought: YES! That´s True!!! Second thought always was: Right, it´s called iPhone... Yeah, what you mean is an iPhone... Nothing special at all...
- Dieter Schwarz
Apple Clock made from Mac G4 side panel - http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009...
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OH... That is so geeky... hmmm... I do have a spare box lying around...
- Johnny Worthington
That is freakin' GREAT!
- Gregory Cohen
Lots of great stuff this morning from Om, Scoble, NakedJen, Gartenberg, Canter on my Friends feed. http://twitter.com/friends...
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