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This is fantastic. Must-read for a newbie entrepreneur. I found it 500 times more useful than the stuff you find for "how to incorporate" on Google. :-) - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
I agree. Wish I would have had someone explaining things to me BEFORE I hired a lawyer to help. It was still a good idea but not COMPLETELY necessary. - Dave Ploch
Typical rww style - simple, essential info. Very helpful indeed. - Jamie Dool
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August 11 at 9:54 pm - Link
I like this for the Argentinean economy. Less debt equals a stronger economy. However, while this will reduce inflation and increase the purchasing power of ordinary Argentinians, this may make it more difficult to sell Argentinean products abroad. - John Budnik
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@Mario Sundar and @Robert Scoble: Damn the video is gone. What did it reveal? - Nicholas Helke via NoiseRiver
You can get to the video following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - John Budnik
I just watched Oprah on Youtube. What was I thinking? - possible248
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Camera Ready - How Small Businesses are Using the Power of Online Video to Build their Brand
August 11 at 7:41 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Once limited to companies with the resources to hire advertising agencies and production companies, online commercials are now within the reach of smaller firms. Software and services sold by companies such as Spot Runner Inc., Mixpo, PixelFish Inc., TurnHere Inc. and Jivox Inc. allow small companies to create, deploy and monitor video ads at a fraction of the cost of hiring an ad agency to do it for them." - Morgan via Bookmarklet
this article features my company, TurnHere - I'm super-excited!!! - Morgan
This all makes complete sense. If I'm looking local and I'd like to know more about a contractor or craftsperson, I'd like to get a little more than just the company's hours of operation and their location. Give me some substance and let me hear from the owner or the employees. Content like this makes me a very curious customer and the more I can see, the more likely I am to follow through on my purchase. @Morgan Congratulations on the mention. - Christopher Harley
Thanks Christopher. That's the idea. Instead of making a salesy :30 second TV commercial for the web, we create a profile of the business that meets the viewers information needs. It gives the viewer the opportunity to make a decision based on what they see and then take action should they choose to. Instead of an over-produced sales pitch it's an authentic look at a local business that let's the viewer gain more info and helps the small biz stand out from the competition. Thanks for the comments! - Morgan
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August 11 at 6:09 am - Link
It sounds as though the facts are starting to support my hypothesis that the lack of available credit would help correct the inflationary trends. I even said that I believed 'the worst was over' regarding inflation, but this has yet to be proven definitively by the markets. - John Budnik
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Was this any surprise after the crack down on 'preferred lenders'? - John Budnik
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I never met him, but Bernie Mac just seemed like a warm, genuine guy. I'm sorry to hear about his passing. - John Budnik
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This is great advice for anyone who has to make presentations, whether in tech or not. - John Budnik
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"Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet
I thought noncompete agreements were already unenforceable in California. What did this decision change? - Tudor Bosman
Hope that stands and expands. I've seen some particularly onerous noncompetes in the radio business: employees making at or near an area's median income -- not even managerial people -- prohibited from working anywhere within 100 miles of their current homes for 6 months to a year. Outrageous. - Chris Baskind
That's right: even if you signed a noncompete at friendfeed, it's unenforceable and shouldn't prevent you from coming back to your friends at Google. Just remember lawyer Eric Kastner's condition in that article, "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information", that is, secrets still have to stay secret. For example, as a former Microsoft Employee I'm not allowed to disclose the location of the secret army of evil monkeys. http://www.bbspot.com/News/200... - Jorg Brown
Jorg: :) Google's secret army of good robots would totally pwn Microsoft's evil monkeys. - Tudor Bosman
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Great Moments In Journalism: Google News informs us that the Russians are invading the South
August 8 at 3:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
""i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on."" - MG Siegler via Bookmarklet
Yeah this is sadly humorous - Jason Kaneshiro
I was waiting for something like this - Can you imagine the panic if that kind of headline had appeared in the 50s? - Frederic
News Fail - Morgan
that is unfortunate, but it think Red Dawn foretold this happening. Better call the wolverines. - Blackopsmanners
I regularly encounter issues because of my alias "Ontario Emperor" (which is named for the California city, not the Canadian province). But I've never been the target of an invasion. P.S. Is there really a city in the nation of Georgia with the name "Java"? As if the country didn't have enough confusion already... - Ontario Emperor
I've never found a proper source but have heard some urban legends (or would be it be rural legends?) that local farmers flooded downtown Warsaw, North Carolina in 1939 after radio reports and word spread about the German invasion. - qthrul
That's what I immediately thought! I thought that the Russians were killing our Georgia! - Nate Pilling via twhirl
OMG. And they said WE were the Northern Aggressors. - Cyndy
@Cyndy, no that's just ya'll Yankees - Jason Carreira
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August 8 at 11:04 am - Link
Maybe the Y Combinator model is too messy for a big company like Microsoft, but Google seems to be doing a good job of promoting innovation through their app engine. Google and Amazon (even with the recent challenges with S3) are helping developers reduce the time and cost of bringing new ideas to market. There may be some way for Microsoft to explore creating external pipelines for new ideas that are not as labor intensive as is Y Combinator. - John Budnik
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This is a great look at old Las Vegas. What I liked most was the sense of elegance the town exuded. - John Budnik
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I have been very disappointed with the TV shows and movies I can get on iTunes. Hulu is better, but I've probably been spoiled by NetFlix, which has just about any program I could want. - John Budnik
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I'm a mindmanager junkie. Lately I've been experimenting with mindmeister, doing real-time collaborative mindmapping with clients --what a great way to grow ideas visually while talking on the phone! - Leif Hansen
Hmm mindjets mindmanager has online functionality as well those days.. haven't played with it yet though - Marcel Ekkel
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“Do you have a blog that is NOT about Tech/Social Media? What's the URL?”
August 5 at 6:54 pm - Link
http://bibliotech.livejournal.... mostly about ranting/fandom and sci-fi type stuff. - eve shot first
ummmm - Mark Dykeman
http://tvbythenumbers.com mostly about television metrics with some ranting/fandom type stuff - Robert Seidman
http://www.ProProductivity.com - Productivity & Lifehacks. Online & Off. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I've got <strike>two</strike> three personal blogs. Do they count? - Helen Sventitsky
http://www.blownmortgage.com/ - mortgage and finance - Morgan
my jewelry (and randomness) blog: yolanda.vox.com - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes
Personal Blogs definitely count...unless you don't want anyone to read it...in which case...nevermind :) ...Just trying to get a glimpse outside of the box I'm in right now :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
hee. - edythe
mrontemp covers social media, music, religion, business, soccer, and whatever else strikes my fancy. http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/ - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Why, how kind of you to ask =) http://www.isthisstupid.com which is, obviously, about things I find stupid. This does occasionally include tech and/or social media, but that's not the focus. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I need to make a blog about my travels in Narnia. - Ben Parr
Ben, I lol'd...srsly - ♫ Rahsheen™
http://biesnecker.com/stream -- it has some techie stuff, but it's mostly (going to be) about language/language learning. - John Biesnecker
If you like photography here's my daily photo blog http://capturedimagery.blogspo... - Jeff P. Henderson
Ahhh...ok. You asked for it, LOL!! Home blog: http://bigstarlet.wordpress.co... , poetry blog: http://treaclepoetress.wordpre... , and music blog: http://treaclemusicality.wordp.... Enjoy! :) - Helen Sventitsky
In case anyone is refraining from sharing because they don't want to be in a blog post about blogs not about tech/social media...this is not that kind of party :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
I am not smart enough for it to be about tech/social media. just opinionated so it focuses on the 2008 election, with a few other tings thrown in www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com. - Ruth Ferguson
I'll be revitalizing an old blog but it will very very little to do with tech/social media - Steven Hodson
Sean does *some* social media stuff, but does a lot of pop culture and general comic geekery at seanpaune.com. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Rahsheen, I'm refraining from posting a few because I'm embarrassed at their state :D - Mo Kargas
Rahsheen! Finally enough of Social Media! LOL http://www.igorthetroll.com/bl... - Igor The Troll
@Mo Kargas: That's just not fair! I posted mine and it's in utter shambles, thrown together between work and 2 side projects. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Wow some nice sites here, even a few I already visit (Snarfd by Mr Baskind for instance) @Stupid Blogger *sweeping em under the carpet and hoping they go away* :D - Mo Kargas
http://pete-suite.blogspot.com... is a bunch of business links and some personal stuff - Pete Delucchi
This is one of my favorite non-tech blogs: http://poobah.tumblr.com/ He always finds interesting/hilarious stuff. - Lindsay Donaghe
http://krynsky.com/ is my personal site which covers many topics including my poetry although some tech does sneak in. - Mark Krynsky
Well, since you asked: http://billbarol.tumblr.com - Bill Barol
http://emergingpastor.com its a resource for new pastors and stuff natch ;) - Steven
not that i'm actually blogging as much as I'd like but http://jasontoney.com is rarely about tech. - Jason Toney
My friend has one, http://davincisbloglog.com ....... oh yea & forgot about my tumblog http://layoutsbychacha.info. - ChaCha Fance
Oh, another good non-tech blog: http://almostfearless.com - about a woman who recently quit her job to fulfill her dream of moving to Spain indefinitely. - Lindsay Donaghe
(switching FF identities) The two Empoprises blogs: http://empoprise-ie.blogspot.c... for the Inland Empire of California, and http://empoprise-ntn.blogspot.... for NTN/Buzztime games. More focused than the mrontemp blog mentioned earlier. - John Bredehoft via fftogo
http://www.peat.me.uk primarily a personal blog, is a bit of tech, but also sci-fi stuff, plus some posts for family/village/church events and such. Main topic in recent days has been posts in support of Dave Walker, a British cartoonist and blogger who has been the subject of some legal bullying from a Texan lawyer over seventy-five posts reporting on the collapse of the SPCK bookshop chain that the Texan bought. (see http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da...) - Richard Peat
http://randomaccesslife.blogsp... I know, it's not in english, but this is not only an english world - marcantonio
yup! http://balutpress.com/zhey - it's a personal Chrisian blog, a lot of apologetics and Christian resources, downloadable sermons (mp3 and pdf/word files), stories of struggles, pains, joys and basically, Gospel. I hope you guys hop by and if you do, please, feel free to leave your marks :) - Zhey Chua
Personal blog http://davidrosam.co.uk. Food blog http://mealsonblogs.com. Photo blog http://thefirstcut.co.uk. Even my business blog is only peripherally about social media/tech http://dangerous-thinking.com - David Rosam via twhirl
http://www.penguinsix.com/ I do talk about tech, but also a fair bit about national security matters around the world and politics (my pre-tech careers). Occasionally a posting about whatever sails past my window. - Andrew Leyden
My blog is rather generic and reflects my interests, which are not limited by tech/social media stuff. http://lotanbr.blogspot.com . - Hayk
Home Ec 101: What you wish your mama taught you. http://www.home-ec101.com - Heather Solos
I keep trying to stick to random tech-related stuff. It focusses the mind. But I;vebeen putting some photos up there as well. http://rbonini.wordpress.com - Roberto Bonini
Urban planning & geography (maybe a little tech in there too) http://www.lowflyingcars.com - Zach Underwood
If you ever wondered How Real Estate Investors make money with no risk, then read my blog. I'm laying out the daily activities that keep me in business: http://dealsonwheels.wordpress... - Jonathan (Bad Robot)
I write a blog dealing with narrative, it touches on social media and technology, but the focus is on how we tell and read stories. It's actually touched on social media more these days because that's what I get on Friendfeed. http://rwvblog.org - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
Mostly politics and world affairs: http://outsidethebeltway.com - James Joyner
http://www.expeditionamazonas.... these guys trekked and paddled the length of the Amazon River and blogged about it - David McDonald
Several. Here's a group blog I contribute to on virtual worlds and gaming: http://www.vtoreality.com/ - TDavid
http://silas216.com. A little bit of everything. - Steven Perez
I've just started blogging about economics and monetary police at http://www.johnbudnik.com/blog . I'm not sure that anyone will find it particularly interesting, but I have gotten a few people following me on FF based on earlier comments on monetary policy. - John Budnik
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August 3 at 11:23 pm - Link
it would be far more useful if i didn't have to go to a third-party site to search...without search, FF is limited in usefulness as it doesn't give me great ways of easily discovering new people and/or groups if just starting out - Aaron McCullough
It would help if there were an index ordered by ((sub-)sub-)category. Creating a room should require to assign a category to the room. - Peter
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Svetlana Gladkova posted an entry on Profy
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very misleading title - you are actually planning on integrating friendffeed as your commenting system, correct - you're not claiming that ff is actually "stealing" your comments intentionally, that would be silly and highly provocative of you svetlana - ff can do more good for you than you would do for them... - mike "glemak" dunn
@mike: I don't really think it's all that misleading, I wanted to point that we now integrate FF comments right within the discussion on Profy instead of having it on FF only. And there's no doubt FF is great and can give us a lot, otherwise we would not have bothered to integrate it. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
so why not something less negative like "profy is redesigned, now with improved integration of friendfeed comments" - by saying that you were losing comments "to" ff you've implied that they were taking them from you - which of course they weren't... - mike "glemak" dunn
@mike: This is exactly what they used to do and this is exactly why we argued for so long that FF is damaging conversation on blogs seriously. I don't think it's negative, really, I think it just points out that we have found a way not to lose the comments. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): Svetlana, you never lost those comments. To lose them you'd have to either own or possess them. Your commenters put them where they were most convenient to THEM. You don't own them. Never did. So, yes, your phrasing is not only misleading, it's vaguely insulting. As glemak says, FriendFeed was never taking them and suggesting they were even implicitly just echoes in the original tin ear. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
i never bought into the damaging conversation issue but i do see the way you've implemented this thread on your blog, which is very cool - most likely i would never have entered into this level of conversation w/ you on your blog prior to friendfeed because profy was just one of ~900 feeds i had in my reader - but friendfeed has allowed this to occur easier i supposed - the fact that its fully represented here and on your blog spliced in w/ your blog-only comments is very slick - well done :) - mike "glemak" dunn
WTF? Semantics! Viral title on point! Since Friend Feed bloggers commenting here not on blogs! So where is the title wrong? - Igor The Troll
Same as Mike said(plural) and Alexander. Good integration Svetlana. - Mark Forman
This seems incredibly useful. Looking forward to the WP plugin making its way to all my favorite blogs. Stealing, fragmenting, losing, whatever you want to call it: the old system didn't work. - Nicholas Molnar
@mike: Thank you, glad you understand why this has been done even if you don't believe the fragmented conversation is in any way damaging for blogs. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Igor: Can I please ask you to keep a milder tone now that the comments are both here and on Profy as well? Appreciate your support a lot! - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Mark Forman: I'm not the one behind the actual coding but thanks anyway and I am glad that you like the integration. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Nicholas: This is exactly what we think and this is exactly why we had a developer working on it for almost a month. Hopefully it will be finalized soon so that we could distribute it to other interested bloggers as well. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
I tend to think opposite - if FF creates environment which draws comments from blogs to them, then there _is_ problem for blogs as it turns into mere place-to-cast-your-raw-brain, while blog shall be place for conversation/discussion. you can talk a lot about commenters leaving their comments where it is good for them, but for blogs it is still situation "lack of oxygen pillow is lack of oxygen pillow no matter what others say you about that" - silpol
@Alexander: I don't own the comments by our readers and I don't claim to but since the comments are around the content that we create I believe that it would not hurt having them on our blog as well. BTW, the existing FF plugins already do the same - they just keep them in a separate block under each post. We have chosen to combine them, that's basically it. And I know that the issue of who owns comments is still too acute but it's an old discussion that I'm not sure if I want to go in again. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
It's funny. Everyone on platforms besides WP cried because they didn't have a plugin...now most other platforms have more advanced features than the WP plugin - ♫ Rahsheen™
@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): I'm totally for the comments being replicated down. From a technological and personal perspective, it's long past time there was a unified comment distribution mechanism and if FF or even Disqus or an unholy hybrid can do that, all the better. No, what I object to is the provocative titling. Profy NEVER lost comments to FriendFeed. Not once. Those comments are of the natural ecology of FF. The implication that, by right, those comments belong to Profy is my objection. (Orthagonally, if most of the comments on/about your site aren't happening on your site, that's a reason to consider more than just how to import them.) - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
without dipping in to the comment ownership fray here the integration is really well done. it leaves me hoping that disqus will roll out similar functionality at some point. - Morgan
@Morgan: Thank you and I myself hope that Disqus or SezWho will roll out something similar soon because obviously it will have better chances for wider adoption. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Alexander Williams: Ok, I guess I misunderstood you initially and I now see that you are more uncomfortable about the title only and actually support the integration of comments. I can see how the title can be misleading but since this is exactly how I felt I chose to use it. But it is too difficult discussion about who actually owns discussion around content and I don't really want to go into it if I can find a workaround. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
@Svetlana Gladkova (profy): Actually, at least in the US, it's very easy to determine who owns the discussion around any content: the writers. I maintain that such is the only reasonable approach to such things as well, else you're asserting authority over someone else's work merely because it's ABOUT your content, which is hard to defend. FriendFeed doesn't own my commentary; I do. Once you start with that understanding, a workaround is purely a technical thing and never touches the social, which makes it much easier. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
I just commented on this Profy blog post and it did not show up here! I guess you have to fix that! - Igor The Troll
@Alexander Williams - unfortunately you demonstrate classical US approach "everything shall be US-alike just because /inseart-name-here/ has no other experience, even if there is no indication of US around" ... I happen to live in EU (in Finland when it comes down to details) and I tend to think we shall not artificially bound us to USA legislation and "order of things" even if we have too many loud mouths which tend to think everything around shall be US-centric. - silpol
@Alexander Williams unless you explain why on Earth I shall expose myself to one of the most wrong jurisdictions in world, I'd rather to call you suggestions silly, ungrounded and shall-be-ignored. - silpol
Igor, this is exactly what is supposed to happen. There are a few bugs that our guys are fixing right now since this is not exactly stable. As for FF cookie, I am not quite sure it is absolutely possible but I'll check with our guys, of course. - Svetlana Gladkova
Igor, looks like fixed finally - my previous comment has been sent from the post itself. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Now fixed? - Igor The Troll
Ok it send the comment here but does not post it on the blog! Did you turn moderation on? - Igor The Troll
Also when you comment here it does not go to the blog! It use to! - Igor The Troll
Also when I commented on the blog it brought the comment here but it also brought it to my FF page! I do not know if you want to feed the commentator's FF page also? - Igor The Troll
Fixed from the blog to here but broke vice versa, working on it right now - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
It is strange! Commenting here send the comment to FF but it places the comment on the blog post in the wrong order! - Igor The Troll
Let's all use UTC and forget about different time zones! ;) - Markus
@silpol: I actually have a really good reason, sil: Because if the default ownership of a thing is he who created it, you can give it up or keep it as you will. If it's owned by someone else, you have no choice in the matter. From the early 60's, the Net has functioned on the underlying assumption that ideas, writings, creations are the possession of the author and that while redistributing them can be OK, claiming possession is bad. Locking things up is bad. Thus open email architectures, open web architectures, and open RFCs. I suppose the Finns might have tried to create a competing environment. If they were capable. Experience suggests they weren't, and didn't. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
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