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The NYT has a piece about notetaking tools. What do you use? I use WriteRoom, Gmail and Evernote. - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Claudia, Michelle Tripp, suelibrarian and 23 other people liked this
I am an avid Evernote user. However, sometimes Stickies come in handy. WriteRoom and I never really went together. Love how it looks though!
- Guru Panguji
This is one of the reasons I use a WinMo phone. No more paper notes in my pockets.
- Amit Morson
Evernote, cos of sheer variety of notetaking "modes", plus iPhone version works well. They could improve the clip selection process however, tends to clip the entire page frame rather than just an article.....
- Russell Lack
Used GNotebook until they killed it. :( Use Evernote now,
- Russ Jackson
Used Gnotes (not any more). Use a wikidpad on my local machine. For notes that are shared, I use a mediawiki that we set up on one of our servers.
- Dorai
I've been a paying Evernote user for about a year now, but didn't realize how much I loved the service until I got an iPhone and started using Curio. Great integration all around.
- Sam Harrelson
EditPad Pro...and the Notes/memo function on my Blackberry.
- Alex Scoble
just discovered Curio for the Mac. Superb.
- Jamie
Evernote for me. Have it on my mac at home, my pc at work and my iphone everywhere else.
- Matthew Speicher
Evernote, same as @matthew , blackberry instead of iphone ;)
- Lorenzo Strambi
a notepad or google docs. I like the evernote clipper though.
- SolidSmack
Evernote all the way....also the 'notes' app on my phone :-)
- Freddie Benjamin
Evernote for me. If I am brainstorming or gathering ideas I use Curio (http://bit.ly/6diA) which actually integrates with Evernote. So I create a tag for a current project and then use the Evernote integration with Curio to pull in all those tags.
- Mike Bracco
Moleskine Notebook. :)
- Johnny
@Johnny I love my Moleskines. I've actually found myself taking pics of pages and sending them into Evernote and then using in Curio w/o thinking about how obfuscated of a process it is to do that!
- Sam Harrelson
I hear good things about Curio. It's on my list to try.
- Steve Rubel
from email
I use Windows freeware called Keynote.
- Peter
On a related note, can I seriously ask again why people still use Windows? I'm not trying to be cute or rude, it's just a nightmare.
Louis Gray, timepilot, Kol Tregaskes and 24 other people liked this
It's easy, gaming, comes pre-loaded on many systems, brand recognition...
- Mike Nayyar
os x is a pretty lame interface i think, also windows it easier to fix, if you know what you are doing of course #damn-sf-hippies
- sean percival
some people don't even know something else exists
- Mihai Secasiu
Hey, I've never had an issue with Windows, it works great and I can get it to do whatever I want.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I can buy a decent Netbook for about $400. How much is the cheapest Mac again? (Keep in mind I have three Macs).
- Robert Scoble
Because it works for me. XP is extremely stable.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Solidworks and Pro Engineer do not run on OSX, windows only.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Support for everything I do, I won't shell out that much cash for a mac, and I don't like using the command line to do everything.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I was playing with a friend's PC yesterday and it was a total nightmare
- Bindu Reddy
Because I'm an expert at it, as opposed to any other OS. Linux is too obtuse and I don't own (and probably never will own) a Mac.
- Alex Scoble
Most POS systems run on Windows only. Want to run a restaurant or bar on a different OS? Then you don't want to run a restaurant or bar.
- Alex Scoble
Windows biggest problem is the backend. The OS architecture is just terrible, has been from day 1. But then I grew up on BSD
- Deepak Singh
Not an answer to the main question but fits the discussion: A friend of mine always used Windows since 3.11. A few weeks ago he bought a cheap PC just for fun and installed Ubuntu. He never used Linux before and was totally overwhelmed how simple everything is and Linux updates itself and all the 3rd party software as well. You don't need to defrag or clean anything, just use it.
- Dennis R.
from twhirl
I used to boot into Windows fairly often until I learned how to make ie6 run under WINE.
- Bruce Lewis
yeah i hear everyone, let me just repeat my experience. i loved windows in the 90s, hated apple. then i start using OS X (was forced to for work), and now I'm 100% the opposite. (though windows 7 does seem to be a big improvement based on my use so far)
- MG Siegler
Personally, it's the games. Business? It'll be because there are loads of business apps that run on windows and the way you can get the OS to bend to however you want to as an administrator means it is extremely easy to deploy, maintain and control. Show me how you can deploy customised OSX to machines insitu across TCP/IP then lock them down based on a user or a computer account in AD without resorting to 3rd party apps.
- alphaxion
price ... can upgrade just about every year, versus maybe once every 2-3 years for a Mac
- Adam Ostrow
I have both a Vista laptop and an Ubuntu desktop. When one doesn't do something I need I use the other. Every OS has it's benefits and it's annoyances. So the more operating systems you have the better. Simple as that.
- MarkCarras
When Apple opens up like Ubuntu and Windows the discussion can move forward. Right now the huge double standard people use to support Apple is tiresome and makes most discussion pointless (comes down to fan-ism). I can run VMs of Windows and Linux wherever I want, but Apple says no. I can run Windows/Linux on any machine, but Apple says no. I can discuss Windows programmins and until...
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- Alyx
from twhirl
because it is cheap to build a SICK windows machine that will run circles around your mac. and my audio production software of choice won't run in linux - yes I will take the pepsi challenge with my custom built rig against any of your macs...4GB ram, dual 10K RPM raptors, quad core, the O/S is running as lean as possible...oh, and it cost me next to nothing to build from scratch. plus my case is cooler than the cheese grater :)
- Adam Singer
+++Alyx
- Amber, Random Time Lord
on a related note, when will people stop assuming that their little horizon is what everybody else should have? it maybe a nightmare for you, but that does not mean that other people cannot work with. i have neither the need nor the desire to even come close to OSX. I might use in the middle some shells on linux but other than that, _I_ am perfectly fine with using my tools and setup efficiently.
- Nicole Simon
MG: Beats the hell out of me. Then again, I use Ubuntu.
- Steven Perez
It's what I'm used to. We have two Mac books. I like my PC, hubby likes his Macs.. I'm not into anything that warrants me using a mac. Hubby would like me to replace my pc with a Mac when it's time. I say "Y"?
- BEX
Because the software I use to get things done runs on Windows. Yeah, I can run Windows on a Mac, but why spend the money for a new box in this economy?
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
Because hardware vendors software is quite often Windows only i.e. camera software
- James Harrison
why did this discussion turn into a mac vs pc one ?
- Mihai Secasiu
you can't buy a mac for what I spent on my PC and it wouldn't run any better for what I do and Linux is not that user friendly.
- Richard Lawler
Why do people use Macs? That's my question. I hate mine.
- Tamar Weinberg
It's such a general statement. What about it is bugging you and then we can have a discussion.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I use Windows because it is the environment with which I am most comfortable and familiar, and it's never done me wrong (well...Windows ME was a frackin' nightmare, but we'll just whistle our way past that graveyard). I don't have enough time in my day to fiddle with a Unix-based system, and for the most part I can't afford to own a constant stream of Mac systems (I upgrade...
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- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Nicely put!
- Rich Chuckrey
I have to... It's installed on my work laptop
- Susan Beebe
Well I try to be diplomatic a tad. :) I can fully understand where each OS fan is coming from, and I feel bad when I see the pointy barbs being slung around, when often times it just comes down to personal preference. Though it would be nice for there to one day be an amazing ability to cross-mojinate all OS'es so that there isn't such a blatant delineation between platforms. It can get...
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- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I use windows XP, it's stable OS with all the software I need and good usability. Moreover, Windows 7 is supposed to be even better, so no reason to swtich.
- Peter
Hmm, Windows is really "easier to fix"? It's probably one of the most internally opaque and arcane OSes in existence when it comes to troubleshooting it (I'm not counting lack of access to source code in this). For many issues, you end up having to resort to useless "Wizards" that barely solve the problem 85% of the time, reinstalling the whole OS just to "fix"/get around them, or modify the cryptic but sparsely documented Registry (or trust 3rd party tools not to screw it up or masquerade as malware)...
- Tyson Key
I'm not anti-Windows either, and I support platform diversity (I won't yell "Linux! Linux!" at every turn, despite using it for over 3 years happily), and using whatever works best for any given need/user before anyone decries me.
- Tyson Key
Windows is BY FAR the most supported and diverse platform, and is currently running on an overwhelming majority of the computers in the world. NOT running Windows on your desktop SEVERELY limits the scope of what you can actually use your computer for... While there are of course many alternatives to business standard applications available for OSX / Linux, far too often they simply don't compare in terms of features and usability. (I can think of A LOT of OSX apps that fit this description nicely..)
- LarchOye
And for 64bit computing (which everyone should be doing by now) is WAY AHEAD on the Windows platform right now... As of the release of Adobe CS4 (which is 64bit on Windows only), the major *argument* for doing graphic design in OSX is completely deprecated. (Yes, Photoshop CS4 for OSX is limited to only using 4gb of memory)
- LarchOye
There really are Windows-enthusiastics that really like their platform and who don't hate everything Microsoft does. I also love doing dev stuff with Visual Studio/.NET/Team System etc and nothing comes close to that experience on other platforms or they have to be built from pieces that don't always fit together so well. I love the fact that I can build Windows apps, web apps, large-scale distributed apps, mobile apps and RIA apps using the same language (C# in my case) and frameworks.
- Jemm
my respect for windows comes from having to administrate a global network of about 1000 PC's. Are there things I hate about windows? Sure as hell there is! But there's things I love and hate about every other OS. When it comes to the server room, MS have so many tools that make it easier for me to look after those 1000 machines. As I said, I don't know of any comperable system to something like WDS in the Apple world - tho I have never looked after a purely mac network so maybe there is.
- alphaxion
I suppose I continue using Windows due to familiarity and availability!
- Joe Dawson
Media Center / XBox 360 is a superior home entertainment platform.
- Thomas Hawk
I only use Windows at work, and only because it's required. I hate it. Though I have to say that my experiences with Win7 so far show that it might be getting better.
- Joey Gibson
I'd argue that the AppleTV is the superior platform, at least in terms of home media. Particularly one that's been "boxee-fied". :)
- Ryan
I'd argue that it isn't, especially not for the price / if it's not running boxee, and even if it is, it's still underpowered.
- Richard Lawler
True, Chris...and you don't need Windows to feed media to it. There's software that runs on OS X that will do it.
- Alex Scoble
you'll get live tv /dvr through your media center extender from OS X?
- Richard Lawler
I thought the 360 run on a second generation of the win2k port from the original xbox.. if it doesn't what is it running?
- alphaxion
@Mihai. I was wondering that too. Only took 2 comments before someone mentioned OSX.
- Paul Grav
becuase we cant afford a lovely mac and its not that bad!
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
I switched from the Mac to Windows for personal use in the late 1990s due to compatibility issues, and due to the fact that my home computer is a shared computer. It's like VHS.
- Ontario Emperor
@Chris White - Oh I can. I haven't had the $$$ to upgrade my desktop, so it's been running the same install of WinXP for 8 years now. That install has been moved over 3 HDDs (Thank you Partition Magic), 2 graphics cards, +RAM, 2 sound cards, and 2 network cards. It's survived a lightning strike, being lugged around for LAN parties, a network wide virus attack at my Uni, and an ever...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Outlook
- Murali
@Chris White - No responding to your question about keeping a Windows machine running virus free. The point being that a well-taken care of Windows machine can work perfectly well for quite a while.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Creationism Is Just One Symptom Of Conservative Pathology - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
Nikpay, Jeff P. Henderson, Kevin Hessel and 17 other people liked this
Science blog by a biologist.
- Robert Scoble
I've yet to meet a life scientist who believed in Creationism.
- Sally Church
I might not be the least biased person to make this statement, I am a Christian and believe God created the universe, but this guy sure has a stick up his butt. Very self righteous and angry. My one question would be, what is his definition of a creationist? Is it someone who believes the earth was created in 7 24 hour days 6,000 years ago? Or someone who believes there may have been a big bang but that big bang was part of Gods action that created the universe?
- ChiliMac
from twhirl
The typical definition of a creationist is someone that believes that god created everything. Not that he started the whole chain of events.
- Alex Scoble
@chilimac if you're saying you believe God created the universe, but that creation may have taken longer than 7x24 hrs AND that there very probably was a big bang, then that puts you pretty squarely in the mainstream.
- Christian Anderson
Remember that most of the world's Christians have no opinion on creationism whatsoever. Only 10% of the world's Christians live in North America, and only a small minority of those would believe in a young earth. Most Christians in Africa and Asia wouldn't think about this issue on a regular basis and many (perhaps not most, but a solid minority) don't even have the Old Testament translated into their language.
- Justin Long
There is a whole continuum of Creationisms, with Young-Earth Creationism at one end and Intelligent Design Creationism at the other: http://www.ncseweb.org/graphic... They are still all Creationism, and still all need to be understood as political stands, rather than religious: http://www.ncseweb.org/resourc...
- Bora Zivkovic
The percentage of Americans that believe in a young earth is close to 45% http://www.gallup.com/poll...
- Alejandro
OMG, I got a real, live silly Creationist commenting on that post! Bwahahaha!
- Bora Zivkovic
@Bora Zivkovic: Why are you insulting people, who have different opinions that yours?
- Peter
Creationism is not an opinion. Creationism is an insidious political tool based on ignorance. If you feel insulted, get an education and redeem yourself.
- Bora Zivkovic
This type of "discussion" is what made me unsubscribe from PZ Myers blog. As in any aspect of life, there will be stubborn people that won't accept Evolution even if they give birth to an Amphioxus. The same people that think Palin is an expert in international relations because she sees Russia from Alaska. No matter how many lines you write these people will always believe what they want to believe.
- Paulo Nuin
Creationists are small children who simply can't grow up. They might as well also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Many of them believe that the Second Coming of Christ is due any minute. Infantilism is the name of the disorder. These are the kind of people who comprise the Republican base these days.
- Sean McBride
As usual for this topic (navigated from either end of the narrow mind) this is turning into an opportunity to laugh at people. Of such are persecutions and wars created. I wonder if the next persecution will be "in the name of science and reason" or "in the name of $deity"?
- Simon Phipps
from twhirl
$deity...I like that.
- Alex Scoble
Creationism is usually taken to mean one of two things: "Young Earth" or "Intelligent Design". The former asserts the literal truth of the book of Genesis as having taken place 6,000 years ago. The latter asserts that the world is "too complex" to be explained by evolutionary theory, and thus the only alternative is a "designer". Both positions are flat out stupid.
- Eric P
Google Chrome and Friendfeed: Separated at birth?
Stalyn☂, Vinay | विनय, Siggi Becker and 34 other people liked this
I love that Chrome only has one box for both searching and URLs.
- Robert Scoble
I LOVE application icons. Chrome + Gmail is what I've wanted for years.
- Bradley McSpinn
I love FriendFeed since I get to vicariously hear about Chrome, here...
- Mona Nomura
I just don't get it. Why are people freaking out about the unification of search and URLs? Hasn't Firefox done this forever? And Opera, too? The first thing I do in any fresh install of Firefox or Opera is get rid of the extraneous search bar.
- Akiva Moskovitz
+1 Akiva.
- Olivier
Akiva for some reason I never did that. This is the first browser that forced the issue.
- Robert Scoble
OK, I'd like Gmail Redesigned skin back, and also Remeber The Milk Gmail plug in.. I make real use of RTM, and it's good to have it in the mail. Beats MS Bloatware anytime, and it's in the cloud too :0
- Ian May
But, Akiva, this is GOOGLE doing it. Now stop resisting, you know that "resistance is futile". (where have I heard that before...?) ;-)
- Sprague D
my firefox only has one box for searching and urls. when i want to do a search i type "g" first if it's on google, or "a" if it's on amazon, etc.
- Ranjit Mathoda
Robert, interesting! I just assume that all geeks look for customization options within 10 minutes of installing an app. Perhaps that's one reason why I am very reluctant to embrace Apple: they don't allow me to customize.
- Akiva Moskovitz
browsing from chrome now... it's amazing.
- Brandon
apart for some of the UI which is innovative, chrome best part resides in its core (multi threading, multi process) and the V8 javascript VM. The webkit rendering engine is already used by safari. We can only hope that potential rendering bugs will be solved quickly. And as they are using the same engine on Android they will certainly provide some simple way to sync everything between a desktop and a mobile platform (history, bookmarks...).
- Olivier
Hmm, Chrome almost runs a little too fast on bomomo.com :)
- Philipp Lenssen
Is it just me, or does the "Show best of: day - week" placing look a little messed up.
- Michael Forian
I think it has to do with the size of the screen? I have a 19" monitor and when my chrome is maximized (or wide enough at any rate) the "show best of" is in the far right column. as you reduce the width of the screen, the "show best of" can move into the text box area.
- Justin Long
Akiva, IE since at least IE4 or 5, you can search in your toolbar.
- Admiral Anika
Sigh, just went to FF in Safari (all webkit, right? w3c standards, right?) well FF renders fine on safari, but as evidenced above chrome doesn't get it quite right... which puts me back in my, sigh, another browser to support and billions more (aggregate) out the window to support it frame of mind, i think that will be close to 10 configurations my company's QA team now has to support testing for... though a browsing dream this is my development/testing nightmare
- James Ostheimer
I only use firefix's "awesome bar." love it. Can't wait to try google.
- Andrew Warner
I don't get application icons. What so great about them? I can make Gmail look like a separate application, but isn't it more convenient to have it just in one tab inside browser?.Now, when I want to look at something in the Internet while reading gmail, I would need to start another browser. Or I am just missing something obvious...
- Peter
@Peter, for something like Google Documents which can even work offline thanks to gears, application icons make sense.
- Rahul Das
@Rahul : application icons are just a shortcut to chrome without location bar & buttons. and they are like .url file which are native on windows or shortcuts to a website in Program group. So what is the point with app icons ? Gears ? they built it for other browsers too
- Olivier
I think the app icons are a nice touch because they pick up what the site is in a pictorial way. I don't have to pause to read anything, I can just point and click on my desktop.
- Justin Long
I don't see this here,maybe they had fixed that already
- Steve Chou
What is Your Home Page? - http://chris.pirillo.com/2008...
Susan Beebe, Kol Tregaskes and Timo Heuer liked this
apple.com. no need to change it, really. It can be about:blank for all I care ;)
- Andru Edwards
iGoogle
- Steve Rubel
FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Friendfeed.
- Iain Baker
Google
- Shawn aka ringking
Google
- Shawn aka ringking
iGoogle here
- andy brudtkuhl
One of my favorite things about Firefox is that it opens all the tabs from my last session. No home page needed.
- Aura Mae
about:blank
- LouCypher
Google
- cjmart
woot.com
- Joey Gibson
iGoogle, but i check FF first thing as well.
- Roberto Bonini
Gmail
- Bora Zivkovic
about:blank
- Fa La La La Lindsay
about:blank
- Akiva Moskovitz
Google Reader | Google Calendar | FriendFeed
- Nathaniel Payne
The rss reader I built for myself.
- Shawn McCollum
Blank, Gmail Personal, Gmail Work, FriendFeed.com Lifehacker.com, DailyKos.com, HuffingtonPost.com, My CMS
- Brad Nickel
blank.
- Yolanda
netvibes.com
- nilo ayson
from twhirl
At work, my organization's website. At home, Google.
- Paul Rodriguez
i use my.live.com customized with the RSS feeds I like...
- Chris E. Avis
from twhirl
iGoogle
- Gez
Google
- Timo Heuer
I just restore the tabs from my last session; I can't even tell you what my home page is set to.
- Eric P
iGoogle
- Trae Ruge
about:blank
- Yuvi
restore tabs from last session & blank for new windows
- Erik S
Charlie Anzman thread asking same question: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Hutch Carpenter
I didn't configure my home page, but it is chrome://navigator-region/locale/region.properties
- Morton Fox
With tabbed browsing its many: Gmail, Hellotxt, Flickr and DeviantART in Firefox
- Kol Tregaskes
from twhirl
SFGate. I like to see what's up in the analog world of restaurant robberies, car wrecks, status of the marine layer and tiger-taunting criminals.
- Sue Radd
mine is about:blank. Clean slate. If I open up my browser I prob have something in mind already.
- Daniel Morgan
MyYahoo
- Ron Emrick
iGoogle. Before that it was just about:blank.
- Shannon Jiménez
gmail
- Simon MacDonald
about:blank
- Peter
I have six of them that open at once - techmeme, igoogle, hacker news, Analytics and G Reader and popurls - they change based on how and what I get from them.
- Mrinal Desai
Mine is set to Google right now. Fast, and plain.
- Sean Brady
Blank - I hate the delay of opening a homepage when I'm trying to get to a website.
- Bill Sanders
Techmeme
- Jay
SpeedDial - configured with 30 URLs ready for my click!! (FireFox plug-in - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... )
- Susan Beebe
google
- jeneane sessum
One problem: Who would buy a newspaper? http://online.wsj.com/article...
Mitchell Tsai, Chendur Venkatraman, John Budnik and 3 other people liked this
if "He expects the paper to lose $35 million to $40 million this year." and sites now sell for that much, who will want it?
- Lynne d Johnson
Jeff, not everyone is a print-newspaper hater. I for one like to buy newspaper.
- Peter
Delicious 2.0 Launches. Really. It Totally Launched. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Sarah Perez, Timothy B. Taylor, Naor Mark and 12 other people liked this
Please tell me this is not a joke. I am camped on their page, waiting for the new design.
- Rob Diana
(http://del.icio.us/your_us..., soon to become http://delicious.com/your_us...) from http://blog.delicious.com/blog...
- Phil G
"We’re in the middle of launching the new Delicious! Please check back soon..."
- Outsanity
"we're in the middle of launching the new Delicious..."
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
from twhirl
Ok, it's up now.
- Outsanity
Sorry, Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this URL on this server.
- Mark Trapp
Now I just need to be able to sign back in again :P
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Weird... The sign up page links to a yahoo error page
- Outsanity
I think I got the new toolbar yesterday. Looks like the old toolbar.
- Shawna Benson
Yes, their "in the middle of launching" took some time and made a lot of us too impatient. So finally...
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Was just getting ready to add that I got a 404, went back to get exact message, and login worked?
- Victor Ryden
I got the new interface just now. Cleaner.
- Phil G
I just signed in successfully too!! woo hoo!
- Susan Beebe
I like that it's Delicious 2.0. I hate that this item links to techcrunch
- Alan Le
I have to say that I'll miss the funky patched-together URL a little bit... It looks a little prettier, I guess, but does it do anything new? I don't tend to use it very much any more....
- Kamilah Gill
I'm a tech person and I can't figure this darned thing out, I'm hoping for a better user interface!
- Shayna
from StumbleRead
A typical example of fixing something which is not broken. Even the del.icio.us domain name was more cool that the current one. I am sad.
- Peter
Just had a look. A bit nicer to look at.
- Michael McGimpsey
from twhirl
Poll, which "netbook" I should get: Eee PC (not sure which version since they keep adding more), MSI Wind, or the Dell E.
I will go after either MSI Wind or yet to be seen Gigabyte Netbook
- Peter
Allen Stern is a Slave Driver
Zhey Chua, dave mcclure, Adam and 74 other people liked this
Once again, Matthew fell asleep at the office after putting in a hard day's work. Allen, can't you pay this kid a little OT and stop snaking his snacks?
- Louis Gray
from email
poor guy! :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
i hope he's signed up for a 401k!
- Cee Bee
LOL!!!!
- Mona Nomura
That is so funny and so adorable.
- Candace
wow... it looks like he's already worshiping at the Alter of Apple ;) - but he looks like a cutie! Jeez, you even Web 2.0'd his tush!
- David Silvernail
وای نی نی چه خوشملی:)
- Shandiz
that's it. i'm banning centernetworks. he's running a tech sweat shop.
- Hao Chen
Allen Stern needs to be stopped!
- Mike Doeff
lol ! a much needed laugh
- Wayne Sutton
BEST POST EVER
- Allen Stern
Sad thing is you KNOW Arrington and Calacanis are muttering to themselves "Gotta get us some BABIES! BABIES get the eyeballs to the site."
- Cyndy
@Cyndy ROFLMAO
- Steven Hodson
Here's the CN New Employee Update - http://www.centernetworks.com/new-emp...
- Allen Stern
poor kids!
- Steve Rubel
I still suggest that Matthew use Linux.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Back to work! Now! No napping! ;P
- xero
The radiation is harmful for the baby.
- Chris Qie
Your baby could fit on the keyboard!
- Sprague D
Sleeping or blogging?:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Nice pic. ;) Anyway, I was told that infants should sleep on their backs only - but that's not my opinion, only the advice I've got.
- Peter
I think it's time for a raise
- Charlie Anzman
Nothing better than the short period when you can put them on the couch and walk away, knowing that they have no ability to move or otherwise hurt themselves. Soon you'll be in the weeds because every time a new gadget comes out, you'll have to buy 3 of them (1 for you and 2 for them) "But Dad, Patrick Scoble had one, why don't we each get one?" [Note to readers, I'm relatively certain I read somewhere that PS buys his cool toys himself, but it's a funny anyway]
- David Thomas
Google replaced their icon? - http://flickr.com/photos...
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Sarah Perez, Josh Jenkins, Bjorn Stromberg and 2 other people liked this
Anyone else have this? I do.
- Steve Rubel
I do too.
- Judi Sohn
not yet for www.google.de, but i found it on www.google.co.uk
- Baard @ Pixum
I see too on google.se
- Svartling
It's all over Google Apps too. I like it.
- Stephen Collins
from twhirl
It looks aweful compared to their old favicon
- Simon Whatley
Marissa Mayer explains: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
- Jeff Beckham
I am not a fan. I think it ignores everything familiar and iconic about the Google logo.
- Christopher Sacca
Didn't this happen a week or two ago?
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Yeah this was a while back now.
- John Samuelson
Its been atleast 2 weeks now. I liked the old one!
- Thejesh GN
Happened a couple of weeks ago
- Dave Martin
Yeah noticed that awhile ago. It's kinda ugly me thinks.
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
about a month ago, yes. And it's UGLY
- Claudio Cicali ♋
Well I thought it was ugly at first, now I think it's quite stylish.
- Zio Bonino
glad to see i'm not the only one who thinks is fucking ugly
- murda
I agree with alessandro - at first I didn't like it, but now it's grown on me and I think it looks good.
- Nick
Yes this is rather old already. I don't like it, at first I thought why they put the number "8" there. ;-) I think they will return to capital 'G' letter eventually.
- Peter
Yes, they did. Here is the blog post explaining it. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
- Antonio Altamirano
def prefer the old one
- Samuel Bostock
Twitter se Facebook rozhodl nezabít. Ale FriendFeed jto má sečtené. http://mashable.com/2008...
FriendFeed to nema sectene. FF je cool aplikacia, Facebook je len hracka. ;)
- Peter
Chci dát na youtube video s 1 písní ze včerejšího koncertu. Porušení pravidel, vím. Ale já se chci podělit o zážitek. Dilema. Co s tím?
Hod ho tam a je to. ;-)
- Peter
vyřešila to za mě PRE. Už už to bylo uploadovaný a vypnuli proud (asi čtou můj twitter a chtěli zabránit porušení copyrightu). Tak jsem to zkusil pak znova a zas ho vypli. :)
- Adam Javůrek
TechCrunch is so full of crap. Compare http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... to http://www.techcrunch.com/2008....
Dewald Pretorius, Adewale Oshineye, Ranjit Mathoda and Robert Scoble liked this
Yes, exactly. Especially the claim that in the *weekend*, "NYTimes Article Reverberates Through Yahoo".
- Peter
How to Make Profound and Lasting Change | ThinkSimpleNow.com - http://thinksimplenow.com/motivat...
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"As it turns out, real behavior changes are very difficult to bring about by effort of will alone. Often times you will fail, yet even if you succeeded, there can be negative side effects. A solution to this that brings about profound change is to change our mental models, which will change the way we look at the world."
- Leon Ho
"[solution] is to change our mental models" <- but is this any easier than changing behavior?
- Peter
Do people even really use twitter? I guess I mean in the sense that you actually accomplish some goal, or connect with people you physically know or work with.
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I get a lot of useful info from twitter via news feeds and @reporters
- Anthony Farrior
Yes. Especially when I search for some information.
- Peter
I like how I can use it to integrate with other webapps and update those, like FuelFrog
- Nick Austad
So, is it not useful unless you're accomplishing a specific goal? Can't it just be for fun and human interaction? And why do the people I connect with have to be people I physically interact with? I've made real friends on twitter, and had more constant interaction with fleeting acquaintances made before using twitter.
- Brett Kelly
Prototip 2 - Create beautiful tooltips with ease - http://www.nickstakenburg.com/project...
Create tooltips in CSS.
- Peter
Scoble has a productivity problem - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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I'd love to know how you think I should answer Bob Bly's letter in this post.
- Robert Scoble
there is productivity and then there is productivity. It depends on where you are standing, and how you define it. I always had a bad conscience when checking out Twitter, Flickr or Facebook. But not anymore. I have gathered so much knowledge about social networks. I thought I was being procrastinating, but I was being productive all the time. Now when considering something I say, to scoble or not to scoble :-)
- Baard @ Pixum
i don't get this discussion. Scoble does all the stuff he does cause it's his job. It's like asking a dude who reviews books if all that book reading is a time waster.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
Stan: I was doing it long before it was my job. I've been playing with new things ever since I helped unbox an Apple II in my Jr. High in 1977.
- Robert Scoble
we are doing all of these stuff because we like to do.
- ahmet bulent
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- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
damn twhirl. Anyway, @Scoble: then it was your hobby. Same thing. A guy who's not interested in all this stuff should simply pick and choose what he likes and forget about the rest
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
Totally agree to the meaning of goals and motivation. That's why people are different and everyone is unique.
- Carsten R
from Alert Thingy
Stan: I think it goes deeper than that. People who aren't looking to learn new things bug me for some reason. It's like they are celebrating their ignorance and their willingness to stay ignorant. I had a father-in-law who loved telling me he never touched a computer and never would. I found that fascinating.
- Robert Scoble
Its not his (scobles) job unless he wants it to be his job. I think in Bobs case he might be unproductive if he was engaging in all those activities that Scoble spends his time on. It all depends on what you want to get out of your day/life? It all depends on who you are and what you do. I thin what bob is asking might apply to him or people who are not directly ingrained in creating technology.
- Akshay Dodeja
I'll give you a simple analogy. Let's imagine that you're a car fanatic. You tweak your car every day, and it goes faster. You get to work at least 10 minutes faster each day, however, all the tweaking you do takes many hours of your time. A regular guy just sits in his car and drives, and goes to the mechanic when something goes wrong. Who's right and who's wrong here? No one, I say.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
I've been answering this question a lot lately. Why is twitter better than my message board? Why not just use email? Who has time for that stuff? In my opinion, the fact that they are asking is just another sign that it is becoming more accepted. When my 85 year old grandmother knows what Facebook is, and why my 65 year old mom living in BFE knows what MySpace is, that is the definition of mainstream.
- Robert Peterson
Btw, the nickname i sometimes use, "frantic" comes from my frantic desire to learn everything there is to know about a topic (i get this 2 times per week at least). So I get where you're coming from. But, not everyone is like that.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
Stan: I understand that, but that's not what I'm talking about. I drive a car and don't care about tinkering with it, taking it apart, and all that, but I'm not going to celebrate my ignorance of it. If someone says "hey, here's a way to get more enjoyment out of your car" I'll at least listen and see if it interests me. Even if it doesn't, I'm not going to celebrate the fact that I'm ignorant. Like "I'll never see why we need Hybrid cars, my Hummer works just fine."
- Robert Scoble
Good analogy, Stan. Although if you are tweaking your car, most likely you enjoy doing that. Even though you are loosing "productivity time" while tweaking you are expanding your knowledge. That knowledge has a worth to you as a car tweaker and would be worth nothing to another person. As you said tho no one is right or wrong. Just depends on how you look at it :)
- Akshay Dodeja
Stan, you're analogy is great.
- Timothy Neilen
@Scoble: Well, some people just go through life without knowing anything about anything. Don't think you can change that, either (;.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
This is very normal for those who did not discover the potential of social networks, or whether the same technology. I live here and in Latin America is very common that everyone do the same question as Bob, but you have to have a lot of patience to explain the possibilities that the experience provides. The examples you gave were very good to try to explain to Bob and the list can continue.
- Cesar Sanchez
Stan: a more accurate analogy is I come over with my new car that has GPS and a navigation system and you run on and on about how you'll never own a car with a GPS or a navigation system. I just don't like hanging around people like that. I guess we have Amish who still drive around in horse and carriage for a reason, though, but I won't choose to hang around with them, sorry if that makes me a jerk. I just don't like people who celebrate remaining in the past.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble: those same people who run on and on about not trying new things will buy those same things when they read it in the newspapers. Capitalism: replacing innovative thinking since 19th century.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
I don't think I can improve on the original post (at all) but I follow these things to pursue my ambitions. It's that simple. And my ambitions (video game design) require that I stay current with the times. I just happen to have a blast doing it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to find out what Flickr is.
- Avery Tingle
Bob is sadly very typical in my limited experience. It's like some people are proud of being and remaining ignorant. They have no curiousity and are stuck in their old ways. I'm a scientist; I love finding new things and simply cannot fathom why other people aren't equally fascinated.
- Sally Church
Robert, i think you are being untypically nasty to good old BOB BLY. by the end of your long blog post you might of well called him a beer drinking TV watching ignorant slob. he says: -------"Can you help an old guy from the old school understand what he’s missing? - P.S. Your column is well written and there are obviously a legion of people who get all this stuff. I’d like to see if I could become one of them or at least understand what all the fuss is about."------- i don't think you answered him...
- djp
Your post says it all. Thanks. My experience as someone coming from the non-tech world is that I need to defend the amount of time I spend in social networking on a daily basis. As an artist, I see this is THE new medium, not sure how it will manifest new work but very sure this is it. And that excites me and keeps me listening, talking when I think I have something to contribute, but present most days. Some of my friends don't get it and most don't participate. Oh well. More will be revealed. ;-)
- Mary Anne Davis
djp72: fair enough. So, put yourself into my shoes. How would you answer it?
- Robert Scoble
i think you took it too personally when BOB BLY says "I don’t have any of it — for that matter, I don’t own a Blackberry, iPod, wireless laptop, or even a cell phone — and I get along fine without them."------- your rant doesn't actually prove your point, if i put myself in Bob's beer stained shoes for a second, i'm sure he's sitting there going "i was right.... this is all about nothing...."
- djp
djp72: again. One more time. Answer the damn question then. How would you answer it? Stop attacking me and answer the question!
- Robert Scoble
one last point Robert, imagine if Bob was your uncle, or old high school mate, or someone you knew, i'm sure you wouldn't end up being all sarcastic and calling him ignorant. i'm sure you'd take your time and explain and answer his questions... sorry for the long comment out of the blue, it just struck me as a tad sooky.....
- djp
djp72: again with the attack. Actually, when people get all Luddite on me I usually just walk away because I've learned long ago that you'll never convince someone to join you by fighting with them. They usually come around and if they don't, well, there's that photo on my blog to remind you what happens eventually. I really wish you'd answer the question yourself.
- Robert Scoble
Mary Ann: Well said, that sums up my experience with my biotech peers too - they just don't get it and I spend a lot of time explaining it to them, to little avail. You have to wait for them to get it and the penny to drop.
- Sally Church
The letter was a bit weird coming from a guy who has as a url www.bly.com. A 3 letter .com url? sounds as though he is extremely wealthy or way ahead of the game to me!
- Geoff
Mr. Bob points are perfectly valid, but the question is if Robert is the right person he should address them to. ;-)
- Peter
It's not all about quantifiably productive experiences for everyone, in fact personal progress seems to come when people just do their thing, find their groove..... and if Bob prefers to find his groove without engaging with the Twitters and Flickrs of the world then I say - good luck, enjoy your free time (probably alot of it spent waiting for the post)....if on the otherhand like me...
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- Mia Walczak
Scoble, you write a blog that is read by thousands. You answered your own question! How would WE respond to Bob? HA! That is the very thing: that you can engage hundreds into a conversation about this topic. The idea that anyone has access to this discussion is revolutionary. If you wrote out your blog posts and sent it by mail... where would be the fun in that? Who would be able to read it? Who would be able to comment?
- Alana Taylor
You get excited about the internet because you understand it's potential for COMMUNICATION. Phones, cameras, pictures, blogs, micro-blogs... these are all means for bringing people together. The World Wide Talk Show is what I recall you telling me. A man who doesn't use these tools must not be very interested in communication at all. The irony lies in the fact that he used the internet to ask you why the internet is special. I think he also answered HIS own question: COMMUNICATION.
- Alana Taylor
Really good post Robert, and really interesting question originally from Bob. I get excited about the things that I write about because through some of them, we see glimpses of the future - and, it's fair to say, in some of them I see glimpses of future failures too. The thing is that without playing with this stuff, it's much harder to understand its implications.
- Ian Betteridge
Geoff - Maybe Bob is ahead of the game. Maybe this was his tactic to get his name out and to be talked about. ;) heh.
- Alana Taylor
Robert Scoble is a scout and explorer and he likes telling people what he finds. You need that kind of person in order to introduct and create change. Some people have a natural inclination to do that.
- Mark Dykeman
I think you missed Bob's point here, Robert. He's not attacking your choices, but rather wanting to find out what could be in it for him. The alternative to not engaging in all the social stuff does not have to be getting a beer in front of the TV, it could just as well be writing a book. When I read the question I immediately thought of Don Knuth who is rarely (if ever) online, yet manages to write books and software that will have a long lasting impact.
- Niklas Morberg
Niklas: no, sorry, you aren't a very careful reader. When someone says "It seems to me that all these things — Twitter, Facebook, iPhone, Flickr — are a thundering bore and an utter waste of time" that does NOT mean that the writer is wanting to find out what could be in it for him. It means he's already considered whether or not these things could be useful for him and has decided no. And, further, he's decided to denigrate those people who chose to use their time that way.
- Robert Scoble
Robert Pirsig wrote a book about this wormhole called "Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence"... changed my life
- Peter
if you do it for a living and it puts food on the table and you enjoy it who cares, it's about finding balance to enjoy your personal life too
- Jason
A little historical context here: In late 2004 Bob Bly famously wrote a newsletter dissing the potential of blogging as a marketing & communications tool, mocking it, some would say. Great link bait and blog fodder. He then, surprise surprise, started a blog himself. Talk about built-in attention & controversy. Funny thing, he maintains that blog pretty actively to this day. I'd say he's planning to get on Facebook, Twitter etc. in about 2 weeks & just wants to make sure people are paying attention ;)
- Elisa Camahort Page
Scoble: Did you know the Amish are way ahead-of-the-loop on solar panels. Almost every Amish house has a solar panel. It helps that they are frugal with power.
- Mitchell Tsai
Geez, Robert, what a long winded way to answer a simple question! :-) The short answer is, "It's simply human to want to 1) know more, and 2) be known more." AWARENESS is the key. Without it, there would be no UNDERSTANDING. First comes self-awareness, which is what makes us human. Then comes awareness of others, which is what the web and social software enable in a very efficient way...
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- Lawrence Liu
I'd say: "Bob, 5 billion years have working to make this neat little box. Wanna peak inside?"
- phil baumann
Thanks for the great article. Already added the MarsPhoenix Twitter feed and other related RSS feeds.
- Bill Bittner
Not everyone wants to keep in touch with the latest technology. Some folks just want to sit on a stoop and watch traffic. I don't understand that but I respect their choice.
- Morton Fox
I posted my comment to your blog, but here's a snippet: It all boils down to this: We must *master* our productivity tools (technology included) in order to maximize production of our quality work in a time manner. So how do you use technology to accomplish this? Are you an advanced user that has figured out how to organize, sort, filter and glean the best data from all your tools? The person who is best capable of using each tool with mastery, will achieve the highest productivity ratio.
- Susan Beebe
Great post Robert whether Bly is real or not - people often miss that this is NOT about technology but about connections and learning and PEOPLE. Alas, the problem today for folks like you and I who just freakin love learning new stufff is that well -we have SO many opportunities from so many people thanks to the tech! Well said Lawrence!!
- deb schultz
http://bly.com/blog/?p=333 that's the link to Bob's blog post about this very letter he sent you Robert.
- James Dasher
Great post Scoble...keep going after the interesting conversations!
- Mack D. Male
I *just* had a chance to read the actual article. I don't know Bly, but I couldn't disagree with him more. Your response was dead on. I think Bly has missed the point that these are just tools. I also think his response is like writing in to Car & Driver and telling them they have too many articles about automobiles.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Defining a choice not to use (or more properly) _venerate_ networking tools as "ignorant" is part of the problem. You assume that everything happening in the world is happening in these environments. It is not. And if you really are sitting on a couch watching TV when you're not on Twitter, you ARE missing out. When I was off Twitter yesterday, I was eating ice cream with 5-year-old nieces reading them a story. and being wrestled to the ground by them. I hope your son can look forward to such memories.
- Shelly Brisbin
It's the same old story over and over again. Some will fight against new technology (tools), kicking and screaming all the way. Others will adopt and improve. At some point the tools that make it will have been subsumed into mainstream and we'll laugh about the early resistance. Telephone, yes, and railroad... come to mind. Is social networkiing here to stay? Who knows? But why condemn it without trying it out?
- Alex von Halem
Two things that have really stuck with me from this article over the past couple of days: "Whenever I am faced with a productivity problem I ask myself “what do I want to get out of life?”" which is damned good advice. It might seem selfish but I now think that you can't ask yourself this enough. Too many people go through life doing things they don't want to do just because they ask themselves the wrong questions. Start asking this one.
- william douglas watson
The second thing which I find infinitely for powerful than the first: "The real thing I’ve been doing for more than eight years now is to try to arrange my life so that I have an interesting conversation every day with someone interesting." What an awesome life you have made Scoble. The fact that you have come to a point in your life that this is a feasible goal is just awesome. Wow. Thanks for the inspiration.
- william douglas watson
I think my answer to Bob Bly would be this: 'I was a copywriter. Then, while following Robert Scoble's Microsoft blog, I found out about tablet pcs. And have since become a visual facilitator, earning approximately twenty times more per gig than I ever did as a copywriter. Social media is the most powerful learning tool I've ever dealt with.' (Thanks for turning me onto tablet pcs, Robert.)
- Roy Blumenthal
To me it seems that Bob Bly just wants to hold on to the wistful memory of how things were...freeze time, so to speak. And no matter what you tell him and how you do it, it's not going to make an iota of a difference. What for him is waste of time, is for you a dive into worlds unknown. What for you is old school and ignorance, is for him blissful existence in a world as tangible as the cup of coffee (or tea) he holds. And never the twain shall meet.
- Mansi Bhatia
Great discussion. I started to comment, but it got too long, so it wound up here: http://philcrissman.com/2008...
- Phil Crissman
My coworkers all believe in astrology. The belief that 1/12 of the people in the world are going to have the same kind of day
You don't know much about astrology, do you?
- Peter
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | In quotes: Reporters in Tibet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Tibetans' rage is directed not at communist rule, but the consumerist threat to their traditions and sacred lands - http://shii.tumblr.com/post...
You are wrong.
- Peter
Is the Dalai Lama the political leader Tibet needs? - http://shii.tumblr.com/post...
That's not important..the question is that the world is starting to see the China Communist Party deceptions...(staged riots in Tibet, etc).
- Peter
What in the world is the Epoch Times?
The Epoch Times is basically a newspaper.
- Peter
Anne Applebaum - Olympic Fallacies - washingtonpost.com - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
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Good analysis on the relationship between Olympic Games and politics.
- Peter
List of Google's acquisitions to date. How many would you call a success? Hard to define that too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Marcelo Nobrega, Peter Dawson and Christopher Yeo liked this
thats a good list of Googs acquisitions . thks for sharing
- Peter Dawson
Success: maybe Picasa, Urchin, Youtube
- Peter
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