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@appigo You have the best todo app! Have you considered an Android version? Pretty please???
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Push Notifications On The iPhone Are Great, But… - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Yeah a dashboard of all notifications would be great. http://www.kiranslog.com/2009...
- Kiran Patchigolla
In Philly. Got good news that surgery is over and successful. Heading home in a few hours.
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MacBook Pro is in my hands, transferring everything automatically from my Mac Mini. Apps, accounts and preferences. Genius.
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Poll: Do you use Google Reader?
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I clearly do. Scoble believes that few people do...I just think that few people socialize within Google Reader
- Zee.
Only via Feedly (in Flock). Does that count as a no?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
no
- Farshad
Yup.
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah, for sure that counts Ruud
- Zee.
Absolutely -- and sticking with it -- Google can do big things with it
- Christopher Galtenberg
Indirectly, through Feedly.
- Grey Drane
I use it for the few valuable feeds that I can't receive anywhere else...But overall, FF and Twitter have replaced it.
- Chris Rossini
Yep. I agree, few socialize in GReader.
- Tanath
Yup, but through its API in Eventbox. I understand R Scoble says a lot of things.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Yep!
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
yes
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yes, I do!
- Filipe Rodrigues
Yep, but I don't really connect with people there. I just read stuff. If I want to talk about something, I share it here.
- Jandy
Clearly my most used online app, so yes. All the other tools revolve around it in my world. My dad read the newspaper every morning, I read Google Reader all day.
- Bwana ☠
Yes, it's still the best way to track blogs that write about stuff I like.
- arjo
Yes, but only from feedly
- Philippe Mongeau
YEah. I used to use Feeddemon but I like having my feeds synced over multiple devices with the least amount of hassle. Google Reader works perfectly for that.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
I use it, but I don't use it in a social way.
- Lix
Of course! I also use FF a lot, but it didn't actually reduce my activity on Greader
- stanjourdan
Yup
- Simon Wicks
I use Google Reader almost every day
- Peter Stuifzand
Yes. I used to use Bloglines, but I like Google Reader much better.
- Joey Gibson
Yes, by far the best RSS reader I've tried.
- Martin Bryant
All day long.
- Graham English
yes all the time :)
- comix aka martha
No.
- امیر؟
Yes, I do :)
- María A.
how do you you read your news Amir?
- Zee.
Yes, but not directly, I skim entries via my program ( http://ff.im/38Yl8 ), if I am interested I click. So to FF/twitter/gmail/and other urgent feeds
- yjl
Occasionally.
- Son of Groucho
Yep. Still use Google Reader.
- Beau Liening
Yes, quite a bit.
- Dustin Sallings
Yes, since 2006. I used Bloglines and Sage (Firefox add-on) before.
- LouCypher
No. I stopped using it a long time ago when I switched to FeedDemon, then I stopped using that too (keeping up with 200+ feeds was just too much). Now, I use Gmail's Web Clips with 14 feeds (including the feed for popular bookmarks on Delicious). If the item is new and the title is interesting enough, I click. Still, I keep saying to myself: "I should go back to FeedDemon someday."
- Yaser Sulaiman
yep
- Rich
yes
- AJ Kohn
the best app to read news and keep track of favorite blogs ~ Google reader
- Srikanth AD
Duh.
- Louis Gray
Yes a lot
- M F
yes sure, most of the time via feedly though
- Naor Mark
Yes..it's the only RSS reader I use.
- Bill Johnson
yup, Tried a few others but always went back to Greader, now using Feedly to read my feeds with.
- Anthony C.
No, never.
- Ton Zijp
@Louis Gray you say 'Duh' but Scoble doesn't believe so
- Zee.
Yes, I do. Not regularly though.
- Just Katie
Yes, usually daily.
- Antoniu
Occasionally
- Lu Liu
Yes. It's one of the few things I can access from work so sometimes it's my only contact with the outside world.
- Michael Hocter
I use it quite often. Have a widget on my iGoogle home page and still really like the iPhone interface.
- David Imielski
Yes, I read from several different computers. GReader is great.
- David Slattery
Tried it, don't use it.
- Bruce Lewis
I use Bloglines.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Use it occasionally.
- Jack&Cleo
Daily. I love it.
- Andrew
yup
- vijay
I setup google reader with a few local news links, so if I share something it's sent to friendfeed and then twitter. dont use it alot, forget to. I have FF, I let other people find interesting links for me to read.
- Mike Nencetti
Yes
- matthew john ernisse
Yes, love it. Also the mobile version and with feedly.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Yes via Feedly, which shakes it up and presents it magazine style.
- Kate Foy
Yes, sort of
- Will Higgins™
yes every day.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Yes. Best. Feed reader. Ever.
- Jason Mayoff
from Nambu
Via Feedly
- Grant Bierman
Yup from me. Love GR.
- Roger Benningfield
now where's Scoble at? I wanna gloat... :P
- Zee.
Most people say RSS is dead because Twitter takes over by being real time. The issue with that is that we ourselves cannot be available real time, all the time. RSS helps you cache that information to make it available when you cannot be in the stream.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
well said Bhavishya
- Zee.
I use it, but don't socialize with it
- xero
Zee: gloat? With a few dozen comments? Come on, please do be real. I have 89,000 followers on Twitter, 5,000 on facebook, 38,000 on friendfeed. When you get close to those numbers let me know. Then I'll let you gloat.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble How do you mean "what I get close to those numbers?" - can you clarify
- Zee.
Use it, but not as a social tool.
- invariant
Robert: I don't think he wants to gloat about his numbers. It's about the fact that a lot of people still do use Google Reader or other RSS Readers; they just don't socialise with it as much as they do with Twitter or FF.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
Yes, but I feel I'm wasting to much time with it. Browsing entire RSS feeds is not really targeted and Google Reader doesn't filter.
- Oliver Bouchard
I use it for my feedreading, but not socially.
- Scott Bulloch
I'm still waiting to hear what Scoble's crap about "89,000 followers on Twitter, 5000 on facebook and 38,000 on Friendfeed" was about.
- Zee.
Yes I do!
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
Nope
- RAPatton
naa, he'll respond - at least i hope so. Because I'm really hoping i'm wrong about what i think he was implying there.
- Zee.
yes I do = but I am quickly finding FriendFeed and Twitter replacing some of the feeds I used to subscribe to.
- Tony
Yes! I use Google Reader constantly, in my web browser and on my iPhone. I have RSS feeds set up for my common Twitter searches, too. I also use Yahoo Pipes that I've developed over time to have very targeted RSS feeds. But I don't socialize via Reader.
- Kurt Rosenkranz
Yes, I still use Google Reader, voraciously. It has NOTHING to do with comments/followers. Rather, GReader is a tool for being better informed. Sometimes I use my GReader learnings in the real world - in conversation - where we don't formally have followers and such.
- Mike Reynolds
R.Scoble: What do follower numbers have to say in this matter, or at all ? I thought you had a statement about quantity vs quality some time ago as well ?
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I use NewsFire, and occasionally Resc Newws! on my PalmOS phone. I guess I haven't joined the "everything's in the cloud" revolution yet.
- Joshua Lee
<whisper> I've never used it. </whisper>
- Derrick
Thomas: follower users tell you how many people use a service and map pretty closely how many people are using a service, if you can see them in aggregate.
- Robert Scoble
Zee: it's not what 80+ people on friendfeed say. It's how many people ACTUALLY use these services. Google Reader just doesn't have the numbers. My follower numbers are a very accurate indicator of that.
- Robert Scoble
R. Scoble: people follow more people on Twitter than on Facebook because Facebook means you share a lot of information, so I'm not sure if those numbers mean much in the way of that.
- Joshua Lee
@Scoble But how do you know how many people use Google Reader?
- Zee.
I don't use google reader, and I use twitter, facebook, and a bit of friendfeed. ;-)
- Joshua Lee
But Robert, I use GReader EVERY DAY, but I'm not really socially connected with anyone on it. GReader's main function can be used without any social integration at all - so how many people follow you or vice versa isn't really relevant. Even leaving aside the issue of whether number of followers is relevant at all - it certainly isn't relevant when the core function of a service isn't connecting with other people, but consuming content.
- Jandy
Yes: it is a convenient tracking system and I like the email alerts
- Anita Hunt
I use google alerts without GReader
- Joshua Lee
GReader != social
- Mike Reynolds
Yes. It's an essential daily tool for must-read feeds, as well as for discovery. Social media does not give me the same content as my must-read feeds.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Sometimes feeds generate data for social media.... I share a lot of links via email and occasionally facebook or twitter.
- Joshua Lee
No. Currently it does not cater for my feed reader needs.
- Vidar Andersen
I used to use a similar online newsreader, bloglines I think it is called, but after a while I found having to check a website unweildy - the whole point to RSS is to not have to play with your browser to read information.
- Joshua Lee
If you want to follow blogs directly on their site, at least for Blogger, you pretty much have to do use Google Reader. I know I've had that feedback from my followers.
- Fossil Huntress
Yeah, blogger is a bit of a closed ecosystem. Very ungooglelike.
- Joshua Lee
/me uses his best Ronald Reagan impression "Mr. Brin - tear down this wall"
- Joshua Lee
every day for real work needs. for all the rest, FF, Twitter and Facebook
- Giovanni De Stefano
Yes. Daily. But I overlay it with Feedly - www.feedly.com - which makes it rather prettier.
- Stephen Collins
Clearly Scoble doesn't really want to get too involved with this discussion. Which is disappointing considering he was the motivation for the post in the first place.
- Zee.
Google will eventually add real-time and social networking stuff to Google Reader, and especially with algorithms to suggest the best posts to read, then all will use that most
- Charbax
I use it. But I don't share anything with it. I just use it to keep on top of a few news sites and forums.
- Jan Ole Peek
no, but I'm ashamed to admit it. I used to use bloglines.
- Laura Norvig
I live in Google Reader. It's my life line for discovery, digestion and distribution.
- Mike Fruchter
Yes.
- Deborah Fitchett
I do. I could live without FF, Twitter et al but Google Reader is a time/life saver.
- Murray Barton
Yup.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Yes
- Shevonne
Sometimes.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I do.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I do w/feedly
- Dave Martin
I do when I'm bored. It's more a bookmarking spot for me than anything.
- Mitch
Yes, I use google reader and RSS is not going anywhere
- Wayne Sutton
yes, daily
- Brian
well clearly according to Scoble, all of you guys saying that you use it are not part of the majority...and Google Reader is actually a very quiet place
- Zee.
Went from Google Reader to NetNewsWire simply because of the syncing ability between the Mac client and the iPhone app.
- Mike Bracco
Yes - constantly
- Threepwood
Zee: sorry, I had to drive Patrick home. There are a variety of ways to see how popular Google Reader is. Look at Quantcast. Alexa. Compete. Compare referee logs with others, etc. I have kept on top of the usage numbers and Google Reader isn't keeping up with growth in other agregator types like Facebook and friendfeed andthe people I compare numbers with see a lot more traffic from...
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- Robert Scoble
Yes, I love it.
- Kate
Absolutely! Key tool 4 R&D.
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
@Scoble thanks for the clearer and less agro response. I'm really going to dig in and do some research into it because although I definitely believe that Facebook & Co. are growing much faster...as a news source/tool - i still believe it's number 1 and has huge potential for further growth
- Zee.
i do and love its integration into everything
- Zach Scott
Yes. Ugly as it is.
- Robin Barooah
from Nambu
@Robin check this out http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Zee.
Sure. Save the good stuff with Read It Later & Evernote.
- David Hayes
Yes.
- David Cook
Yes - just to read
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Yes. Recently I love to use GReader via feedly.com
- yezi
Yes, especially to share
- Janaree Nore
I'm a long-time Reader fan.
- Kevin Fox
Yes, though a lot less since Friendfeed came along
- JCunwired
I stopped a few months ago...but now I'm back to using Feedly - love the magazine layout, just a cleaner better way to read (for me that is ;)
- Aline Ohannessian
Religiously.
- Steven Perez
Off and on.
- Parth Awasthi
Yes, at least twice a day... every day.
- CJ Guest
no, only a handful of times
- Chris Heath
I just import Robert Scoble's and Louis Gray's .... it's much easier
- Charlie Anzman
don't know how i would get all the rich data w/ out gReader and Feedly.
- michael sean wright
Yes - I don't always read it, but yes.
- Brent - Yes I am
i don't feedread anymore. tired of the echo
- Richard A.
Everyday
- Roger Teh
Yes, probably my second most-visited site after FriendFeed.
- John E. Bredehoft
yes
- Duane
sure
- Alper Umut Çimen
Yes, love it.
- Mark Krynsky
yup
- Alejandro
yes!
- Randy
Yes, every day!
- Jonathan
Yep, I'm an avid user.
- Lode Nachtergaele
Almost as much as gmail. Don't view or need it to be 'social'.
- Arawak
yes. :)
- Laurentiu
extended firefox with feedly this evening -- thank you all for that recommendation, gReader looks so much better, especially where the folders can be customized with different views: magazine stylesheet enhances the readability of content. [I'm looking into the exposure of private feeds when feedly services are used. Comments? It was surprising how they got to my subscriptions without my password.]
- Adriano
[off-topic @cacarr : ditto, cf. extensions like Zotero, It's All Text (w/ vim ;-), or even Read It Later]
- Adriano
Yeap feeds and alerts all in there.
- Jonathan Kong
Yes I do, and I'm also pretty impressed with feedly/firefox, but I use that in addition to slogging through my greader feeds. I'm in the process of re-organizing my feeds so I can "mark all as read" without concern I'm missing something I need to see. "a1_events a2_casts b1_techblogs x9_other" etc.
- Richard Walker
Sure do, but a little les frequently than in the past
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I do.
- Roshan Ramachandran
& my shared items get routed to Friendfeed+Facebook & from FF to Twitter... :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
I do use Google Reader but just to read news feeds not sharing or whatever. The number of updates is getting a bit unmanageable now and I end up bulk-marking a lot as read, but it's good to skim through the headlines or less active feeds.
- By_tor
Yes, but must admit my usage of it has dropped off a cliff since I started using Twitter more (mainly because it was easier to digest content on a mobile), but think the noise ratio is greater on Twitter, so may go back to Reader when I get the next iPhone.
- Paul M Evans
If I share stuff in Feedly it ends up in FriendFeed and Twitter. Someone has to put the good stuff up there to retweet...
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Absolutely! Google Reader is still the first webpage i hit in the morning to read my "a-list" tagged feeds.
- Niklas Sjostrom
absolutely!
- Goktug Gedik
yes i do but since friendfeed came on the scene it gets less and less
- (jeff)isageek
yes but mostly through Feedly, and i do use Friendfeed to replace some stuff too.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Yes.. I would never socialize on it as well, the tool is of course, fantastic..
- Daniel Tal
Yes. I hate to admit it but Google did a great job with Reader. At first I didn't share anything but after some tweaking I got addicted to it. The gadget is great too (when it refreshes of course)
- Carlos Lorenzo
Yes
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
yes, a lot!
- Thomas Lemberger
Fuk yea and how !
- viki saigal
Bloglines seems to be less reliable than Google Reader, but I stick with it because it's much easier to use. Complete navigation with single key strokes. Google Reader forces me to use the mouse. Too fussy. I'd prefer a desktop client, but haven't found one that is as good as Bloglines (on Linux).
- ˈpɛbə
Yes I do
- Sampad Swain
Yes. I have hundreds of RSS feeds that I read via Reader. I haven't found a better Web-based replacement. I do not use Reader for it's social networking aspects though.
- Glenn J. Ward
No, I prefer Bloglines.
- Dimitar Vesselinov
Yes
- Spencer
Yes, for all of the sites I follow.
- Robert Kenney
yes
- Sarah Peterman
Yup. Everyday.
- Stephen
Nope.
- Rochelle
Yep
- Mustafa Tan
Nope.
- Akiva
I was just checking Feedburner actually and noticed that 60% of our subscribers (8000+) at TheNextWeb.com use Google Reader....
- Boris
Yes, every day!
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
Yep!
- ॐ adnan taşkıran
yes
- clarke thomas
I use it and Feedly
- Nathan Chase
yep
- Jayavasanthan J
y, don't get to read everything tho
- Artyom
It's the only RSS reader I use. I've tried several RSS apps on my phone and a couple on my computer and none are anywhere near as good as the web based Google Reader, either on my phone or on the computer. So I just stick with it.
- Nathan Mylott
Zee - thanks for the link - I followed it and found 'helveitreader' which is nicer still. However, I have issues with the interaction as well as the style. (http://ff.im/3d9Np [http://ff.im/3d9Np] is real)
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Every day - on iPhone and Mac ...
- Patrick Jordan
Yes..I push out my shared feeds to a Google Reader widget published on my blog.
- George Dearing
from BuddyFeed
everyday - me also having a dedicated widget on my blogs.
- diego morelli
yes daily
- Lu Tao
yes, daily, for now Twitter and twitter-like services are not replacing it...
- roland legrand
Yes, daily.
- George Brickner
Daily, it is a complement for specialized interests.
- scottnewell
Yes.
- Mark H
Yes. only way to keep track of 250blogs, and its the only remotely Social media style site that isn't blocked by my work IT department. I share stuff not in Greader but on here more so.
- Yant
I use reader, but keep looking for ways to cut myself off from it. I hate feeling that I have to read everything.
- Daniel Zarick
Zee, why don't you use ffpolls? :) http://www.ffpolls.com/
- bilge k.
ffpolls is broken for me
- Robin Barooah
from IM
@Robin Barooah; It's working correctly now.
- bilge k.
Yes.
- Blake
@Bilge: Not for me: http://screencast.com/t...
- Robin Barooah
Thanks Robin, i told about failure to founder.
- bilge k.
Yes, weekly
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Robin can you tell me poll title and poll answers?
- batuhan
I use it every day to skim what is going on but don't use it to socialize
- Sandra
part of my core tool set...
- Richard Zeidel
yup
- docrivs
Sure do
- Andrew Leahey
I use it all the time.
- Pete Gilbert
every day
- chrisofspades
Yes
- OnuRC
yes. (btw @robin: it's fixed i think. can you please try again?)
- Yusuf Nays
Yes, but not actively. I use it to aggregate my favorite newsfeeds into one giant RSS feed, which I feed into Wizz RSS reader (Firefox plugin). Wizz automatically checks for updates at specified intervals, so I stay on top of the latest news from all services. I also use it to search mp3/filesharing RSS feeds that I subscribe to, and to bookmark useful posts.
- LANjackal
Used to use it all the time, but I still check on my feeds from time to time through it.
- i80and
@Yusuf yes - works for me now: http://ff.im/3eQqx
- Robin Barooah
Yes
- Yavuz Karakişi
Nope, i mean i used to but than came FriendFeed
- Majento
All day every day, yes.
- Ms_Krista
Everyday!
- Anthony DCosta
Yes, everyday.
- Cristian
Yes, its my central information repository.Where i aggregate all interesting RSS ( from almost 150 different sources) so i never miss a beat. There are certain desktop apps which are better then Google Reader but whats great about it is its online repository which works for every device i use to access it. Though i clearly think there is a hell lot of improvement needed. In its current avatar it can be pretty unmanagable specially if you read a lot and you can't be online 24*7.
- Abhishek Sharma
jah
- Furkan Tunalı
Everyday. I have it set up so a can create keyword specific feeds to selectively send items to other sites.
- Kevin Shannon
Yes and I cannot live without it :)
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Yes. The best reader out there.
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
Yes, everyday.
- Peter Kruit
yes, I do everyday. I do sharing too. It works like a champ for me.
- Mitchell Hislop
only with feedly otherwise it's clumsy and ugly looking
- Cee Bee
love google reader and sometimes use feedly
- sean808080
via Sharaholic only (to share, and seldom), I've never been to the official site, I don't do browser based RSS/Atom
- Michael W. May
yup its taking over bookmarking....
- cysko
Nope.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
No.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
love it, but wish there were more people on my google social graph
- Saul Howard
I'm inclined to agree about the socializing in the reader. Otherwise, as a reader, it's ace.
- Bronson Harrington
I do however so few of my friends do I do not socialize there.
- Brian Bufalo
yep and I use it with feedly firefox addon
- Adrian
No, I don't use Google Reader.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
yep!
- Gio
Yep! I love GR
- jonas
Yes i use it everyday!
- Brian Moore
obsessively
- Chris Rogers
When thousands of rays are flying under your boat - http://seawayblog.blogspot.com/2008...
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"It was the end of this June when amateur photographer Sandra Critelli, who was looking for whale sharks, found herself in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at its best. Her boat was surrounded by thousands of rays swimming together like autumn leaves floating in a sunlit pond... gently moved by the wind. The images speak for themselves. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters as they follow the clockwise current from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to western Florida in schools of as many as 10,000."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
beauty!
- Iphigenie
Trish, did you know that Laura Botts can't stand certain types of sea food?
- Vicarbott
This is absolutely amazing.
- Michael Forian
I thought the first shot was from a plane....wow
- Toby Graham
Awesome!
- Charlie Anzman
wow. just wow.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Nature is just plain awesome.
- Christian (Simply X)
spectacular nature shots
- CarlC
love
- SteVe C
Amazing !
- Alihan ÇETİN
LOVE!
- David Cook
Stunning! Love <3
- Penny
Really like this. Nice find.
- Richard A.
Sea-magic!
- Jesper Lind
I should have been there.
- Morten Breivik
from twhirl
wow, lovely, i like this blog so much, i have put it on my mail RS feed lol it is great some of the articles!
- Tatty Gibson
that's incredible...
- Rick Cogley
Fremen V
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Too much spice?
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, kinda freaky.
- Mike Nayyar
Muad'Dib?
- mikepk
don't tase me bro :)
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Next step, stain your lips :p
- Ari Braginsky
Maud'Vib
- Veronica
That's no stillsuit...
- Mike Nayyar
tell me of your homeworld usul
- Trish Haley
Freaky! Does Ryan know about this?
- Fee501st
May thy knife chip and shatter! (Dune quotes, they never get old)
- Mike Nayyar
It is by will alone you set your mind in motion (if we're going to start quoting Dune...)
- Ari Braginsky
"I must rule with eye and claw as the hawk among lesser birds." (I can't resist either)
- Fee501st
"Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration."
- Veronica
All of this Dune talk is making me want to go home and read.
- joey
"I have a girlfriend, and she is so blue." - Eiffel 65
- Jason Wong
"You have met the Atreides gom jabbar, Grandfather."
- Steven Perez
Damn the local bookstores for not having God Emperor of Dune in stock. I'm buying each book in order and reading them as same.
- Chris Charabaruk
Now I want to whisper to myself the rest of the day
- Fleagle
Tell me of your homeworld, Veronica. btw, I love that you love Dune. *high five*
- Josh Haley
HI BLUE EYES :)
- Mich D.
i do the same things to my pics lol. Awesome!
- Shawn Miller
Children of Dune - This was Muad'Dib's achievement: He saw the subliminal reservoir of each individual as an unconscious bank of memories going back to the primal cell of our common genesis.
- shayne catrett
you'll need a puppy now http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jay Cuthrell
you'll need a kitty too http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jay Cuthrell
Can I like this post twice?
- Christian (Simply X)
Awesome!!!!
- mjc
wow! this looks great
- Dan V
This picture remember me Dune
- Jorge Mota
wow blue eyez
- w43l
Welcome to Dune
- Özkan Altuner
mmm SPICE!! share!! ;) ...how'd you do the spice effect?
- Susan Beebe
paul atreides. fremen =) so much mel'anj
- Furkan Tunalı
Did you find some way of turning "red-eye" blue? It looks like you were taken at night and exchanged backgrounds. close?
- Melanie Reed
That's a serious Spice look.
- Doug
:D xD
- Özgür KORKMAZ
"He is Mordeep! The chosen one... Barron." LOL
- Drew Lucas
Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds - The CNN Wire - CNN.com Blogs - http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009...
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This solution would have saved tax payors $360,000.
- Dave Gambrill
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Now THIS is how one rebuilds a country! http://www.nytimes.com/2009.... Why can't my people show more of this sort of gumption?
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The embarrassment of American broadband - http://www.macworld.com/article...
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FiOS. You get what you pay for. If American companies raised their rates to improve quality, there would be a public "outrage".
- Mona Nomura
Other countries have managed to do better bandwidth over copper than the US companies... Yes, fiber-to-the-house is the ultimate, but still. (Cringely has gone on about this at length: http://www.pbs.org/cringel... )
- Andrew C (✓)
high speed wireless anywhere I happen to be standing would be the ultimate. :D
- Tony C (Unrated)
Comparing to other countries, picking apart and discussing what is technically wrong is not going to fix anything. Andrew, I read the article and the answer is so simple: "It is an ugly story of greed and poor regulation that you can read in excruciating detail in a 406-page e-book that is among this week's links." It's the epitome of our country, our culture, and the public's desires for instant gratification. Until we fix the bigger problem, all of these little problems will keep springing up.
- Mona Nomura
How do you imagine things get fixed without discussion of the problems? And it's not about "desires for instant gratification". It's about regulatory capture. The telcos and cable cos got the FCC to lay off their little monopolies, and in return sat around and didn't bother to invest in upgrading their infrastructure.
- Andrew C (✓)
Look at the bigger picture. What is the root of this problem? How did we get to this? The closest way I can articulate this, is patches - as in Windows. Even if specific problems are fixed, new ones will spring up. It's a waste of time, energy, and money. Again, quick fixes are only temporary solutions. So the real question is: what is the root.
- Mona Nomura
There's a bigger root than regulatory capture? Sure, tell me what it is.
- Andrew C (✓)
It seems to all be about short term profit and not actually investing to fix problems in infrastructure. People can argue it is gov. sponsored monopoly and whatever they want but we have what we have right now. A great example of what is wrong is this: http://www.dailytech.com/Time+Wa...
- Dean Clark
Also, you can't even teach a starving person to fish until he's at least fed for the day. Sometimes patches have to be made even if they're not the ultimate fix.
- Andrew C (✓)
LOLOL Ok Andrew. You are right and I am wrong. Dean - excellent link. Thank you.
- Mona Nomura
"You are right and I am wrong." I'm not saying that yet, just thinking it real loud. But I still don't get what you think is the larger problem or the real root cause.
- Andrew C (✓)
Have some sympathy for us poor ADSL users down under in Australia. Market dominated by one massive company (Telstra), over priced + under speed = ripped off.
- David Eedle
9 ways to use Evernote for life, work, and school: http://www.the20life.com/2009...
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Evernote is a great place to store your PDF’s of manuals and user guides. - http://evernote.tumblr.com/post...
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Grocery Gadgets is an awesome networked iPhone app for people that shop together. Build list together on iPhone or the site
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@Ed_Dale I follow everyone because Twitter sucks. If you want to DM me, I need to follow you first. I want everyone to do be able to DM
Google uncloaks once-secret server | CNET News - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
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"Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts. [...] It may sound geeky, but a number of attendees--the kind of folks who run data centers packed with thousands of servers for a living--were surprised not only by Google's built-in battery approach, but by the fact that the company has kept it secret for years."
- Simon
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Hmm, I was in a Google data center two years ago (not one of their big ones) and it didn't have individual power supplies and didn't have machines in shipping containers. Seems to me that the shipping container would impede heat transfer and would add unnecessary expense. I'm sure they dont use them everywhere.
- Robert Scoble
Has CNet been "Scobled"? Site's pretty much toast.
- Kenton
Hey Robert, Sun has been doing the shipping containers. Check out http://www.sun.com/product...
- Paul Wade
That's pretty darn cool. Hope it's not an April fools joke.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex: I wonder. The servers I saw inside Google had Seagate drives. These are Hitachis. But I know that Google refreshes all its machines quite often. This looks real and makes sense.
- Robert Scoble
Paul: I know Sun was doing the shipping container thing, but that only makes sense when you need one small data center on premises, or something like that. Building a whole warehouse/data center like that doesn't make any sense.
- Robert Scoble
Plus I know they don't just use one brand of drives.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Google has lots of data centers all over the place, though, and I could see Google using a shipping container in some weird location. Just not in its big datacenter up in Oregon.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, MSFT has data centers that are silos for containers. Makes a lot of sense if you think of having to swap in and out huge numbers of machines every 18-24 months.
- Aaron deMello
Aaron: wild. I'd love to visit one of those huge data centers and see how they do airflow management.
- Robert Scoble
By the way, CNET is down right now (all of CNET, not just the one this article points to).
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, I wonder if it's more efficient in the long run to have separate air and power handling for each container. Probably makes it a lot quicker to build up large server farms. Just connect the modules and download the software.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The shipping container thing could make sense if they were stuffed into a shelving system - open the one end to allow for cooling, plug the whole box full of boxes in, and go. There was one company that was doing prefab hotels in this kind of fashion. build shell, and stuff pre-fab rooms in the slots. Do the datacenter the same way.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, CNET is having problems but it seems to be intermittent.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Like giant Drobos :-)
- Tim Ostler
The most interesting thing to me is the shipping container concept. That's the future model of efficiency. Portable data centers that you can drop anywhere you need 'em.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Robert, each of the large vendors has their own solution to airflow management. Take a look at what Rackable and Verari are doing, quite interesting. Verari's are actually portable and designed to work outdoors.
- Aaron deMello
With these sorts of cooling requirements you'd think they'd bury the shipping containers 20 feet underground or in old coal mines or something.
- Andrew Leyden
The one thing I can tell you is that no Google employee will go near commenting on something like this. It is made *very* clear that anything touching datacenters is super-uber confidential.
- Joe Beda
I think it's a very smart design on Google's part. Years ago, when I worked in the Sprint's Central Offices the telecom battery backups were hideously large and only used when the diesel generators failed. Matter of fact, I think many of those beer keg size batteries were decades old.
- Donna Payne
This "secret server" was revealed in 2006 (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive...). I personally looked at the power cable coming out the back of the power supply, being routed back *in* the case, *under* the mobo and out through the front, and had a Luke Skywalker reaction: "What a piece of junk!" Which I suppose is the cue for Han Solo to walk out of the...
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- Karim
my favorite quote from that 2006 article: " he said that in his first week working [at Google] they flew anyone who wanted to go, to denver to go skiing.... during the work week too ahaha" soooo it's like "super-efficient data centers, scrimping and saving every penny OMG DID SOMEONE SAY SKIING? FIRE UP THE PARTY PLANE!!!" :-D
- Karim
Ok, so how many of you are now trying to build one of these at home? That would be a good MAKE episode.
- Andrew Leyden
I bet all those $15 batteries would be a maintenance nightmare in a typical datacenter.
- Gabe
The article has been updated with additional photos and details: "Google's PUE [Power Usage Effectiveness] scores are enviably low, but the company is working to lower them further. [...] "[From] early on, there was an emphasis on the dollar per (search) query," Hoelzle said. "We were forced to focus. Revenue per query is very low.""
- Simon
Blockbuster: We Don't Charge Extra for Blu-ray Rentals - http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009...
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Evernote for iPhone Hits 2.0 - http://blog.evernote.com/2009...
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For Babylon 5 fans: the birthing of babylon 5 - http://yesthattom.livejournal.com/948625...
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Wow, he had the whole series in his head that early. Wow. What's he up to now?
- Ingo
He wrote episodes of Jericho (on Showtime, I think), wrote some comics, some awful B5 direct-to-video movies, and recently write the movie "The Changling". The wikipedia entry about the film is interesting (search for "Straczynski went through the script with" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... )
- Tom Limoncelli
ShopSavvy Android App Now Displays Local Store Inventory in Real Time - http://i.gizmodo.com/5183577...
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"Beyond scanning a barcode and finding you the best deal either online or in nearby brick-and-mortar stores, ShopSavvy can now tie into major retailers' inventory systems to see if things are actually in stock."
- Shevonne
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This is a big rollout with a bunch of apps in release in the next few months. Love that this is available!
- Dana D
This kind of openness is why Android will eventually win if Apple doesn't do the same. The ShopSavvy developers would love to port this, but just don't have the real-time camera access. I'm considering moving when my AT&T contract expires.
- Ingo
Scary truth about the American Economy.
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Wow, so the beggar has the best Net Worth.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I've often said this same thing and have been scorned to shame... It's true, so true
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Awesome, because it's most likely true. And Anthony yes, people don't like it when you point this out to them, especially those who abuse their credit cards just to keep up appearances.
- Anika
I wonder what that value would be when you include their mortgage. As, technically you don't own your house until you have paid it off.
- alphaxion
Thanks to Mint.com, I can better manage my net worth but truth be told, I probably look worse than many of the characters listed. Just add them all together.
- Damond Nollan
I just learned a few months back that in the Bible, all debts were forgiven every 7 years. I wonder what it would be like today if we had to live in an economy where everything reset every 7 years? How would this change our financial outlook?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
This assumes that none of these people have any assets.
- Amit Morson
Ken, one could argue that the 7 years bit still holds true in current society, as negative credit report items other than bankruptcy are supposed to be dropped from your report after 7 years.
- FFing Enigma
It would bankrupt a lot of money lenders.
- Richard A.
Hmmm... that is interesting, Tina. I didn't realize that little tidbit.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
The primary reason I prefer to shop online is because I don't have to deal with idiots (just got off phone with adultschool.org)
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Hey Evernote: You are, understandably, looking for ways to pry open my wallet for a Premium Upgrade. Bigger upload limits - mild interest. SSL - close. Different file types - I don't get this use case. Here's a thought for you - how about removing the Evernote ads from emailed pdf's in Premium?
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While I definitely see tons of value in being able to put any file type in Evernote (and have made great use of that feature), I agree with you, it would be nice to have some formatting control over the email shared notes. I'd also like to see some formatting control over the web view of public notebooks, and the ability to tie them in to Disqus like you can do with Tumblr so you could use it as a mini-blog.
- Lindsay
6 Ways To Add Your Information To Evernote | MakeUseOf.com - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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I discovered Dial2Do here.
- Russellreno
I was going to check that out since it's so expensive to Jott now. Have you tried it? What do you think?
- Lindsay
I was excited last night. I send email to myself, reminders and an EN post. Today I forgot about it. I must leave my keyboard to truly test its usefulness.
- Russellreno
I didn't know about Dial2Do. I loved Jott, but not their new pricing plan...
- Ingo
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