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A dollar bill taped to the floor of friendfeed's offices: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor.
- Robert Scoble
Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
This is a fantastic idea.
- Jeremy Botter
Wouldn't last long in my office.
- Ralph Whitbeck
Amazing.. think I could use this idea in a few places.
- Roberto Bonini
Clever! i love it.
- Federico [Kurai]
from twhirl
Simple, clever, great idea. That FriendFeed crew is a bunch of smart fellers!
- Brandon Wood
My employer is too frugal to do that.
- Jonathon
Inexpensive risk management.
- Dave Pelland
Ha! Very clever.
- Brent Newhall
brilliant
- mjc
Wow! I'm speechless.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
nice
- Mike Collett
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Tony C (Unrated)
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it.
- April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know.
- Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
Genius!!!
- Joe Dawson
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost)
- Naor Mark
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum.
- Andrew Leyden
wow, that's funny smart!
- Susan Beebe
I stubbed my toe on that dollar.
- Michael Muller
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do!
- Toby Graham
"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time.
- raphaeL
I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place?
- Robert Peña
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Adi
Great idea will have to remember this.
- Laura Gonzalez
Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :)
- Susan A. Kitchens
Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
...since a lot of people are pretty much signing off, I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & all the best into 2009!
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Has Mahalo Found its Hook? - http://mashable.com/2008...
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Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs - Nate Lanxon, MP3 & Digital Music Editor - Technology Blog at CNET.co.uk - http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/natelan...
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These LCD HDTVs will be fully networked, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In fact, Calacanis told me they'll function like a standard TV with an Apple TV box, only without the need for the box.
- Leo Laporte
This doesn't sound likely to me. Few people replace TVs on the same regular basis that they replace their computers.
- flammable
That's true, specially for those of us who already have Apple TVs. There must be more to this story if it is true.
- Ash Matadeen
A STB does sound more likely. Would it need Blu-ray to succed?
- Robert Hafer
I don't think it's a wild-ass idea, it's kind of obvious that they're going that way. Look at it this way -- who needed a portable hard disk that had a headphone jack but no keyboard in 2002? Yet it was one of the products that defined the decade, not just in computers -- but across the board.
- Dave Winer
Gee, I wonder what they are going to be talking about on TWiT this Sunday ;-) // Something tells me Calacanis might be there and Dvorak.org/blog AKA @therealdvorak won't be - LMAO.
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
It's definitely cheaper and easier to replace a little AppleTV box than to replace an entire television. There are still so many avenues Apple hasn't explored yet - iPod/iPhone docks on the AppleTV, for example (for playing movies and music without needing A/V cables handy).
- flammable
If they did it it would be a good idea to introduce it before the Feb 19th DTV switch. I will be in the market for a TV in Feb and and Apple product would make the decision interesting.
- Erik Weese
I don't see this happening at this event at least (and they need to do it at an event). This will be focused solely on notebooks since that's what everyone is expecting. Also, why would people toss the HDTVs they already have in such bad economic times for something they could do with a simple box?
- Brandon Titus
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thought i made my case pretty well. not the tone of response i was expecting from @davewiner: http://www.scripting.com/stories... oh well.
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You must not follow Dave very closely. :-)
- Jeremy Botter
interesting back-and-forth w/ @davewiner in comments here: http://www.samharrelson.com/2008... for full context, read the original: http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Having lunch with Tom from Drobo today. Sounds like they've got some interesting new things coming up. I love my Drobos.
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for the love of god just cut the price already!
- James Tenniswood
i've been putting this off for such a long time. i will need to pull the trigger on one soon. there i go again. /sighs
- Carlos Ayala
I'm thinking about buying one....should I be holding out?
- Justin Korn
I think Drobo represents the best value, easiest way to provide replicated primary storage to photographers available today. It's not a matter of if your hard drive will fail, it's *when*. By replicating your data across drives Drobo dramatically increases the safety of your photographs.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: I totally agree and I currently backup to multiple machines and even multiple drives within a single machine. I'm specifically asking about the "interesting new things coming up." Is there a newer drobo model on the way? Maybe you'll have more info after lunch ;-)
- Justin Korn
Not sure what the "new stuff" is yet Justin. Hopefully will find out at lunch. My guess is that if it's newsworthy though it will probably be embargoed.
- Thomas Hawk
I looked at the drobo video's on their website and I want one... It is a little expensive, but I think it is worth it...
- Robert
droboshare should be built in for the price.
- Andrew Smith
@justin i definitely recommend the product as well
- Jeremy Toeman
hey get the skinny on if some v2 hardware's coming out! enquiring minds want to know. :)
- felix
Drobo needs to watch out for this product: http://video.gearlive.com/video...
- Andru Edwards
I just invested in 2 units, one for work and one for my photo archive at home. I almost hope there isn't something new around the corner!
- Jeremy Hall
I would be very interested in news of a Drobo2 - hoping for Firewire or SATA
- Andy Roth
I donno, they are not available where I am from. But even if they were, I'd still go with my current configuration of custom built cheap machines for backup.
- Yuvi
Hoping for Firewire. Lack of firewire has been the primary reason that I have not yet purchased one.
- Jeremy Brooks
Yuvi, a custom-built cheap machine is going to eat up 75-100W or more, while a Drobo consumes 5-12W usually, and 40W at peak usage. Something to keep in mind if electricity costs are a concern.
- Raoul Pop
@Raoul: Yep. But the custom build machine doesn't have to do just backups, no?
- Yuvi
I just bought one, which means the price will drop any day now, I'm sure.
- Eric P
I've been tempted by the Drobo so many times. But Windows Home Server works so well theres really no excuse to switch right now.
- Sean Davis
hmmmm... just got back from lunch. can't talk about anything right now but stay tuned.
- Thomas Hawk
Drobo looks real interesting, but way out of my budget. I guess I'll stick with JungleDisk and S3 and pray to God that my hard drive doesn't crash with our videos on it.
- Mike Wills
What I would really like to see Drobo add is a faster data link as well as NAS capability. FireWire 800 would be a start Gigabit Ethernet would be even better.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I really, really want a Drobo. Maybe for my birthday or something.
- Matt Donders
@Thomas Hawk: I think we're all pretty much at the edge of our ergonomic office chairs. :)
- Bryan Villarin
What do people think about the Vault feature over at smugmug vs shelling out the cash for a Drobo? I started a new post for discussion here (if it takes away from this chain: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Justin Korn
@Thomas Hawk: can you give an estimated timeline? next week, month, quarter, year?
- clarke thomas
Sorry Clarke, I can't. But stay tuned.
- Thomas Hawk
ok guess I'll wait till late August then. I bought some cheap TB drives to hold me over.
- clarke thomas
Did they tell you about the 2nd gen Drobo with Firewire? http://www.engadget.com/2008...
- Andy Roth
details on the new drobo here: http://thomashawk.com/2008...
- Thomas Hawk
loren says it's over for twitter in this video... it's not over, but the tide is turning big time - http://www.1938media.com/twitter...
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Big time...
- Anthony Farrior
the nice thing about friendfeed is that you can bring twitter with you and the comment threading rocks. Many conversations start in twitter but they now finish in friendfeed.
- jered reynolds
from feedalizr
Agreed. You would have thought the lack of a business model would be their biggest problem.
- Scott Watermasysk
Funny thing about the tide.. It goes out just as fast as it came in..
- mark
I really like ff. So much more interesting here with pics vids links
- loren feldman
And to add to everything: ff just works.
- Holger Eilhard
Isn't the Honeymoon over yet for FriendFeed? It's getting really old. Twitter is NOT dying and they will eventually fix their issues. Also, I don't see how everyone is doing a competition between the two products. They are completely two different products that serve different purposes. I will continue to use both Twitter and FriendFeed they go hand in hand together.
- Chris Rodgers
If Loren says it it must be true?
- Brian Sullivan
Music too Loren. I'm loving the new music I listen to as a result of people sharing Last.fm, Pandora, etc.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I have to disagree. I don't think Twitter is dying. I think Friend Feed is helping Twitter in a lot of ways. I still use Twitter and, update from my phone and other apps. My updates come right onto FF and, people comment. That's the same a lot of us do. Yes, we're all getting tired of Twitter's constant issues. Isn't that the real problem though? Twitter's constant issues it's what is the most frustrating.
- Candace
You guys are drinking WAY too much of the Kool-Aid. I love FF but Twitter isn't going anywhere.
- Mike Doeff
Certainly FF is more stable, but I still enjoy the quick update nature of Twitter. I think that both can exist alongside one another and actually enhance each other.
- Mark
Hey Kool Aid! http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mike Doeff
How about Twitter and Pownce coming together, maybe they can make it that way. I think friendfeed is cool, but will it replace Twitter. I'm hoping for Twitter to change!!! Listen to the users!! Twitter!!!
- Jorge
I gotta agree with Chris R. Twitter and FF don't seems to serve the same purpose. I use Twitter for conversation and FF for following the stream of what my friends are doing.
- Robert Chute
Twitter just bought Summize
- paul mooney
saying Twitter is dieing because of FriendFeed is sort of like saying Yahoo IM is dieing because of Adium or Trillian. Two different products. One is a mobloging site, the other is a social media aggregator with the ability to interact with other social media/moblogging services. If Twitter did die out and close it's doors, FriendFeed would lose it's ability to communicate with it.
- The Geek Media
Twitter is still king of micro blogging although with identi.ca's open source platform, we'll see what happens. So far I don't like Plurk and Pownce can't stay up long enough to use it.
- David Ward
Truthfully, I grew tired of Twitter two months ago. It served its purpose during conferences I've attended over the past year, but I just couldn't get enough of my friends to adopt it to make it worth my time. FriendFeed, however, is much more informative, and it seems like I'm finding something new and cool every few minutes.
- Jeremy Botter
twitter's only assets are a user base and a variety of data entry points. That is not an unsurpassable moat. If friendfeed added SMS and IM updates they could steal a significant amount of twitter's traffic.
- Andrew
Prediction - Twitter hits 5 million users by Feb 09
- Sean Kelly
this is for @1938Media ...kiss it http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips...
- Noah David Simon
Friendfeed will outnumber Twitter sooner rather than later because it already controls a significant part of conversation streams. Plus, it aggregate every other webservice produced content that's a main part. Add those features @Andrew Burd is talking about and you will definitely talk about Twitter as something from the past.
- yvons
Yes but people (except JC) still using twitter beside, I would like to use more FF, but people keeps answering me on Tweeter !
- Jean-François Amadei
from twhirl
Taking Bre out to wait until midnight for the big two one. I showed her all your tweet bday wishes -- she says thanks :)
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Awesome! I hope you guys are having a good time. You rock with birthdays :P
- Dennis Jackson
She must be so excited!! Happy bday Bre!
- NSS
Make sure and pick up some hangover pills for tomorrow, haha!
- Dillon K. Hoops
Obama to Deliver Rock-Star Acceptance Speech before 75,000+ - http://www.politico.com/news...
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Does anybody know if DNCC's charging for this? My guess is yes, but I don't know.
- Karen Mohler
This is a very smart move. This is the kind of venue where Obama shines. Plus, you can get a Bronco Dog with onions and peppers! I hope the beer guy will be there.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I want to go. I saw him Jan 2007 in South Central speak to 150 people. I was a volunteer. Such a journey!
- Felicia
Fantastic idea.. Will be interesting to see how the GOP counters this, if they can. Have a hard time seeing McCain getting 50,000 to show up to the Metrodome for his speech. Maybe if it includes a monster truck pull at the end.
- Chris Reed
@Karen: It will be a free event, according to an email sent out by his campaign
- Nathan Reale
I'd just like to see him in a Debate with McCain, sure Obama sounds great reading from a teleprompter or reciting a prepared speech, but lets see him go head to head with his opponent..
- keith
Wish I could be there. I saw him in Houston at the Toyota Center and in San Marcos, and both times were amazing.
- Jeremy Botter
Great commuicator but little substance. Bill Clinton reincarated
- Brent
@Brent: And what is McCain's substance beyond "I served in the Navy, so make me president so I can keep us in Iraq 100 years."
- Chris Reed
90%'ish chance I'm going to this
- Kevin Rose
I agree as well, Brent. People are easily fooled by a smoothly delivered speech. "It's all about the tax rates, stupid"
- John Denver
I totally want to do this. I wish I lived closer to Denver
- Phillip Jeffrey
@John: On the tax rates, you mean you're making more than $500,000 a year? Congrats! The rest of us will get a tax CUT in an Obama administration.
- Chris Reed
Chris, I would love to see your sources on that. Everything I have read has Obama's definition of "wealthy" at about $120K of household income... hardly Calacanis-esque here in SoCal.
- John Denver
This will continue I'm sure. Obama does poorly speaking "off the cuff". Look for more prepared speeches and less debates.
- Robert Hafer
from twhirl
More importantly I want to know more about Digg's spot in the Big Tent....
- Erin @queenofspain
The number one way I find people to add on FF? Nope, not FFs recommendations, finding little white bubbles next to people making interseting comments in conversations. These are the people that I want more of. Folks that participate intelligently are far more valuable than A listers who don't.
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Agreed, when I find a thread I really like, I tend to add a bunch of commentors from it.
- Phil G
I'm only just now starting to use FF, even though I signed up months ago...and I agree, this tool is far more useful than even twitter.
- Jeremy Botter
I agree 100% Tom. That is how I have been finding a lot of people. I am relatively new to FF so that and friend of a friend posts are the only ways I am finding people.
- Matt Donders
Personally - that's why FriendFeed is differentiating itself from a lot of other sites. It caters to those active people that want to discuss, learn, inform - which makes it a resource that I come back to over and over again...
- George Smith
I'm in absolute agreement but have to admit that I've added some of the A listers just to see who's talking to them intelligently. Granted, the ROI's a little low, but sometimes watching the fawning is reward in and of itself. <insert sarcasticon here>
- Linda Mills
You get what you give
- Dave Martin
Good point, this is one of the reasons why I'm spending more time on FF now - great way to discover and interact with new people that have relevant information/comments to share
- Gabriel Biguria
So very true. My page of "recommended" friends is nothing but a bunch of A-listers that would fill my FF pages with mostly junk, and not a lot of substance.
- Brandon Wood
ditto ditto and ditto - just added Gabriel and Jeremy in fact
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
When I am looking for people that share my interests, I search for a headline I really liked on the everyone tab and check out others who shared it and see what they are all about. It is kind of time consuming but fun.
- Geoff Schultz
we use the same technique
- Fred Grott
I'd also add that you don't have to add a whole lot of people to get quality content thrown into your FF stream. I'm slowly adding people and the value of FF went up 10 fold.
- Otto R. Radke
The goal of adding friends here is to have intersting stuff in your Friendfeed. And you do that by carefully watching the dicussion not just in terms of comments and likes ( as mentioned above multiple times), but what items are posted by people. Thats whats I look for.
- Roberto Bonini
I've been getting annoyed at the amount of junk, repetition, and endless Twitter vs. FriendFeed talk from the so-called "A-listers". It's high time to start unsubscribing and find some new "friends".
- Matt
the ancient toad style of social networking
- Anthony
Actually if you do that you soon realize that there's more content by interesting people here than time you have to read that. Then, the question stops being how to find interesting people (that you'll keep finding and following) but how to reduce the noise...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
So Marcos the task at hand is to become Jedi of the Hide button and learn how to fine tune everything.
- Mark Forman
Hide is awsome, but I'm feeling it is not enough. I hope noiseriver ends up being the solution, but... it still hasn't the hide feature implemented :-)
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
Hah! I just added everyone in this post who I wasn't already subscribed to.
- Thomas Hawk
Ha! Prepare to be inundated with my brand of minutia!
- Geoff Schultz
If the same friend of X comes up often, and I find them interesting, I will subscribe to them.
- Hao Chen
No white bubbles here for me.
- Robert Scoble
Thomas: I do the same thing too
- Sally Church
I get zero comments on FF to my posts. I'm not A-list of course. I'm more like a lesser known Baldwin brother.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
LOL @ Scoble's comment!! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
@Jason Participation is a two way street.
- Hao Chen
amen brutha!
- Scott Jarkoff
I, too, am just getting more involved in this social networking thing ...
- Robert Couture
This taps into what for me is the stand-out experience FF. 'Common Interest' is _one_ facet, but there's more going on in deciding to Subscribe or not. It's like a first impression in person - the brain takes a bunch of behavioral cues builds a profile in seconds upon which decisions (sometimes lasting) are made. To balance the split decision weakness of not enough information, just cruise through the person's feed for 'background check'. All common sense I suppose.
- Micah Wittman
Yeah but I frikin HATE the moment I add 1 person from a thread i like, I get bumped out of the thread & have to go back & search for it again to see if I want to add anyone else.
- Mrsth
@mrsth, I agree 110% w/ that. It's easier to open a new tab then scroll down and locate the topic again...
- Czar
Nah...I add completely based on superficiality and looks. :-P
- Live4Emma (L4S)
@Czar- ah I didn't realize you could do that. I'll give it a whirl. Thx!!!
- Mrsth
@Carlos Perez- Ahh. that explains alot. You can only see my legs:-)
- Mrsth
i guess just a 'me too' here would be totally wrong.
- MLx
I think the only way to find those interesting people you don't know is to subscribe to the popular people. I've been finding some interesting folks that way. Otherwise, no one posts comments to your own stuff. Oh, to be unpopular. Sigh.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That's exactly correct. I don't auto-follow. I add people who comment and like and share things I'm interested in.
- Louis Gray
wow, that's a super-excellent observation. i'm taking the hint with a few 'white-bubble' folks here too. altho i wonder if the FF folks shouldn't cue that behavior up with mouse-over info on the bubble icons... i had no clue why the color was showing up at first. (then again, i'm often an idiot)
- dave mcclure
awesome. this reaffirms why i like ff better than twitter. the failwhale is kind of endearing, though.
- Marissa "malouie"
Couldn't agree more! The Fancy Pants people are too fancy, I just want interesting conversation(s)!
- Cheryl
Totally agree!! Wish I could get some of those people as my friends too!!
- ChaCha Fance
I can't stand FF posts with more than 10 comments. I want to filter them out but there is no option for that.
- Sam Pullara
What client are you using? twirhl makes comments on FF OK, but just OK. It's a shame that we're all this way and still don't have clients that support threaded conversations as good as tin or slrn on usenet...
- David Molnar
from twhirl
Good tip:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
david let's agree on 'as good as on usenet' - i never could stand neither tin nor slrn *g* but yes. it is now 10 years ago that most decent usenet clients had a feature set still not rediscovered for everything feedish ...
- Nicole Simon
Agreed as well I look out for the white speech bubbles as well to see what value they add to the FriendFeed community!
- Joe Dawson
and little like icons ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Occasionally I'll wander over to everyone and 'browse'. it's really eye opening as FF grows
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I like doing that too, but we need a language filter badly!
- Hao Chen
The number one trick A-listers use and I never liked? " hey I'm here now on friendfeed, comment on this if you want me to follow you". I don't want them to follow me because they are important. I want them to follow me because they feel I'm important to them!
- Alexander van Elsas
Agreed- when I see opinions I like from someone several times, I check to see if I've subscribed to them yet.
- Brian Carter
My first time on FF and I like the interaction I'm seeing. The "white bubbles" are a great way to find new and interesting people.
- Tom Newman
That's a great way to find friends with whom you can actually talk and count as friends. And the comments are a great feature of FF. I'm just getting to know how to make FF useful for me...
- Dan V
I haven't found FF list of recommendations terribly useful either. Although this is a bad example, because it brought me to this entry.
- TDavid
The criteria of "participate intelligently" is a relative word. What is "intelligent" to you may sound "stupid" to others? I guess the more appropriate term would be "value-adding to the conversation".. But I agree 100% on how "comments" can really uncover hidden gems!
- Winston Teo
I do this too. I consider the comments a kind of signaling (a concept I learned from economics). Too bad there are so little interesting people in FF (to me at least, my interests are a little "off" from the median).
- Meryn Stol
Reading: "Twitter to buy summize? i'm hearing a bunch of rumors... - FriendFeed" (http://friendfeed.com/e...)
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they'd be stupid if they didn't. or at the very least use their own XMPP pubsub and attach a fucking search engine to it. not rocket science
- Ethan Kaplan
@AntiFreeze cracks me up. He's complaining about too much noise. On Twitter. Ooohhh, boy, that's RICH!
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People forget that everyone was making the same comments about Twitter when it came out. No one could understand what it was, nor explain what it did!
- Jesse Stay
See, I think the roles of twitter and friendfeed have settled down in the last couple of weeks. Even Scoble is not using twitter for responses that much any more. Twitter is the real microblog and friendfeed is where you move the conversation to. Great synergy!
- Cem Catikkas
Got to agree with that Cem, both services are starting to make great sense to me now.
- David Smailes
All I want to do is finish the sci fi book I'm writing. Thinking of hitting a coffee shop downtown to get out of dodge and write.
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@TechCrunch that made me laugh. I guess the question is, will you still link to me in the morning? ;-)
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