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New gadget integrates Twitter (w/auth) right into Gmail http://twittergadget.appspot.com/
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This rocks - lol
- GlennIsaac
Just installed the new Gmail Twitter gadget - http://twittergadget.appspot.com/ works well. Thanks!
- Rick Bucich
The downside of using offline gmail... takes a little while for lab features to show up once you enable them :)
- Bwana ☠
This is very cool! Thanks for posting.
- Jorg Jansen
Yet another excuse to never leave gmail :)
- Bwana ☠
Wow , this is one nice gadget for gmail. Slowly gmail is starting to resemble the swiss army knife of online utilities. Thanks Steve for the headsup
- Russ Jackson
It's forcing me to reload Gmail more often than not. Seems there's still some stability issues to be worked out.
- Bwana ☠
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"Evernote is becoming a favorite of many people for holding all their stuff. We put things into it. That’s a little vague, if you ask me."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
Hi Seth, there's a room for Evernote if you didn't already know. You're welcome to join us if you want to share the ways you use it: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Thanks, Lindsay. I actually do follow the Evernote Addicts Room, and I was in process of resharing when you posted this comment ;o)
- Seth Greenblatt
A little comparison between twhirl & tweetdeck - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kevin and Alex scheduled for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs...
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Perhaps not an app, but the coolest thing ever. A guy have taken pictures of his CD collection and linked every CD to the corresponding album on Spotify! Awsomeness! - http://s119572668.websitehome.co.uk/cdpics...
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Destroy Today / DestroyTwitter 1.0.0 Beta release (twhirl/tweetdeck killa) - http://www.destroytoday.com/...
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- Nimaa
WTF is this and what happens when I give it my password
- Tyler (Chacha)
it's an air twitter client and it's pretty damn awesome.
- Cee Bee
why should I use this over tweetdeck?
- Susan Beebe
'cause it's compact and FULL of features
- Cee Bee
Cee Bee - what features? I can't find anything new...and it lacks many of what tweetdeck has.
- Zee.
i'm using http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
- Nimaa
Is it just me or are more people using (and more apps allowing the use of) Twitter in place of IM?
- Akiva Moskovitz
no ability to group contacts from what i can tell, but the ui is pretty smooth and allows one to get all kinds of view/preferences with ease. i prefer a smaller window though it should probably be re-sizeable
- Cee Bee
akiva, i was thinking about that just yesterday -- how IM seems to be going the route of the 8-track barry gibb discography
- Cee Bee
Just said WTF because it said Destroy Twitter.. thought it was going to spam the heck out of me
- Tyler (Chacha)
Very Nice App. I wish it was Resizable though.
- Tyler (Chacha)
Cee Bee, I wouldn't even have an IM client installed if it weren't for two friends, both across the country, with whom I talk regularly. But there's no chance in hell I'd get either of them into another instant communication medium, unfortunately, so I'm stuck.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I personally find Twitter unusable as an IM platform. It's too much like a disorganized firehose. I find the @reply too cumbersome to actually use to have conversations with people.
- matthew john ernisse
matthew, that's why apps like this are necessary. They can filter, present conversations as threads, alert you to new DMs and @replies, and so forth.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@akiva I think it's unlikely then that Twitter will supplant IM until it is able to provide IM-style functionality natively. I don't think the mainstream audience is going to tolerate having to find an app to tack the functionality on.
- matthew john ernisse
Oh, I wasn't talking mainstream replacement. I'm just talking about the tech savvy. Twitter's too confusing for Ma & Pa MSN Messenger user, even with flashy little apps like this one.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Tried out their DestroyFlickr app and I liked it. From the site: " I'm Jonnie Hallman. Most of my days are spent destroying today. To destroy today is to make the most of the day—destruction as a form of creation. This is my carpe diem. "
- vijay
I like this a lot, suits my minimalistic style.
- Nick
I guess it depends on what kind of tech savvy user you're talking about. I follow people just for the influx of trivia and random links mostly. I don't use apps with twitter, and have like 3 people I follow set to send SMS to my phone. Since the track function has been broken it's been even less useful since now @replies aren't SMS'd to me.
- matthew john ernisse
matthew, it's just a matter of how you choose to use Twitter. I'm the opposite of you: I tend not to follow people who just post an endless stream of links or who provide one-way conversation. I follow people who I find interesting and might chat back and forth with sometimes. So, it'd be more a viable idea for me than for you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
As has been discussed many times before, Twitter is many things to many people, and there is no 'right' usage or even standard usage. I use Twitter to converse with other local people, I auto-tweet my new blog posts (about the only auto thing I do really), and I often click on links posted I think might be interesting. Like Akiva said above, I think 'interesting' is the key word. I would add informative too perhaps, but even that usually needs to be of interest too!
- Ian May
nod, I think it'd be more likely to attract conversational usage from me if the website offered a better interface for it. I use many different computers and devices throughout the day that an app isn't really viable for me, so I tend to use it in the way the website allows. Much like how I'm more apt to participate in discussions here because of the ease of doing so :)
- matthew john ernisse
matthew, yep, conversations are definitely better in FriendFeed regardless of how apps try to coax it out of the Twitter API. But, back on the subject of this post: I tried this app and didn't like it. If I were to try to integrate Twitter into my daily life more, this is not the app I would use to do it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
what's with the name?
- Paul Whitaker
No you should use #feedalizr to integrate it all into your daily life www.feedalizr.com
- Michael
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
So, what's the verdict? Better or worse that. Tweetdeck?
- Christian Anderson
Looks like a good basic client. Tweetdeck is better, IMHO.
- Nate Pilling
a loverly and simple app.i use it all the time
- Zafarali
another 'killer' app...
- Harry Mahardhika
"Fear sucks because your are concentrating at the consequences of your possible failure. Don't do that. Focus on the positives" #ted
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Great quote by an inspirational speaker...love TED Conferences!
- Jonathan Brown
Levitating Bicycles - Remote-Controlled Wall Mounted Bike Locks Discourage Thieves (GALLERY) - http://www.trendhunter.com/trends...
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"Bicycle thieves beware; this innovative lock system by Dominic Chargreave hoists bikes up 8 feet in the air and safely out of the reach of nasty nabbers. The cradle is mounted on the wall and with a remote control the owner can raise and retrieve their bike with ease."
- clarke thomas
from Bookmarklet
European engineering strikes again.
- Jonathan Brown
Google Earth’s New Release is Unbelievable. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Zee - Thanks. Going down to update the other computer now (You convinced me)
- Charlie Anzman
ha, good good :)
- Zee.
WOW! Looks really cool. I cant wait to try it out. :-)
- Stephen
Love it
- TheHenry
They need to do this for the iPhone version.
- TheHenry
OMG I left my curtains open. LOL nice app
- Jamie
Jamie :D
- shâhin
Jamie: That was you??
- Seth Greenblatt
heard lot of good review about this upgrade. Will try.
- Ravindran Navaneethan
[FREEBIE} Free 1-page Flash (Sycamore) portfolio website for a designer or agency over at Warm Forest. - http://www.warmforestflash.com/product...
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The free version contains a "Powered by Warm Forest" link in the footer and is limited to 7 portfolio projects. It contains everything you need to have a complete portfolio site up quickly with no Flash or programming knowledge required.
- Jonathan Kong
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll be checking it out later on today.
- Jonathan Brown
from twhirl
How Gmail destroyed Outlook. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
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"As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection." Now maybe they can take it out of Beta :)
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I thought Beta was part of the product name, Paul. :-)
- Louis Gray
That's the only logical explanation.
- Paul Buchheit
No, Gmail's not in beta. Google is. That's why the logo clearly reads "Gmail(TM) by Google BETA"
- Kevin Fox
Boo. :)
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
We have Google Apps at work, but my boss is a Microsoft guru and LOVES Outlook. I LOVE Gmail, so I've resisted most of his attempts to get me to pop Gmail down to Outlook. It's a battle every day. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I use the Mail.app in Mac, but everything stays on the server.
- Aaron Hood
Mail.app <3
- "Joey"
Not sure I understand this debate. I use Mail.app to access my Google hosted mail via IMAP. Best of both worlds and Google in no way "destroys" my use of Mail.app. I presume Outlook could do the same.
- Nick in Manila
I love Gmail, but they still need better integration with other apps/platforms. For example, Google contacts needs to sync directly (and for free) with iPhone/iTunes, salesforce.com, etc.
- Peter Ghosh
@Kevin - They're going to rename the company to Google BETA, Inc soon? ;)
- Tyson Key
Sorry, I meant Google Calendar, not contacts . . .
- Peter Ghosh
Gmail is a great consumer webmail, but in no way "destroys" Outlook. How does Gmail allow me to book conference rooms, or recall errant emails, or follow SOX retention policies? Both have their place and are leaders in their own area, but one does not supplant the other.
- Ryan
Great writeup on Gmail.
- Mike Reynolds
gold master gmail!
- MG Siegler
one huge reason why Microsoft HATES Google, outlook is just one of the major pay for software offerings by MS that are being eroded in market share due to Google
- sofarsoShawn
Comparing GMail to Outlook is like comparing Apples to Fruit Salad. :) They're not the same, even if they overlap on a few features.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
I would guess that Gmail is likely destroying Hotmail -- Outlook not so much. Still reason for Microsoft to be pissed at Google though.
- Brian Sullivan
@psghosh, GCalendar has started syncing with iCal for some time now - check google's help for this: http://www.google.com/support...
- Peter Fedin
Creative Destruction - good news for the public!
- GlennIsaac
If you're not using Exchange, sure, gmail's a killer.
- Mr. Gunn
Well done article.
- Micah Wittman
I turned my tom(at)thomashawk.com email address over to gmail and I have to say that the reduction in spam is nothing short of remarkable. Every now and then I check the spam file and feel bad because real email gets trapped in there, but by and large it's awesome.
- Thomas Hawk
Feels like I'm preaching to the choir here but have been using gmail in one form or another since almost the beginning. After spending years using mac mail to consolidate accounts went full gmail a few months ago because it just works better and the extras are great. Don't see how anybody can top it. The only other one I've tried which shows some potential is zenbe.com.
- Mike Elliott
Agreed
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Gmail rocks! Once you start using it there's no going back. Two niggles though: Multiple signatures and blind group mailings, please!
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
Gmail seems great at first - but recently, I have seen several messages disappear from my Inbox while I watch. Sometimes they reappear next time I check - sometimes not. Searching for reports of Gmail eating messages turns up a disturbingly high number of hits. Destroys Outlook? Maybe. Destroys messages? Yes. Not good enough, even for a free service! What use is 7 Gb of space - when it isn't 7 Gb of *reliable* space?
- James
from twhirl
so gmail finally has complete windows compatible keyboard macros, syncs my to my mobile phones, I can do my mailings with them, has an integrated crm system, and more? great. </sarcasm> (and I say this as an avid gmail user ...)
- Nicole Simon
Switched to Gmail from Outlook and never looked back.
- Roberto Bonini
didn't Bucheit invent Gmail according to Louis G? The opening shot in the downfall of Microsoft...?
- sofarsoShawn
He was on the team, yes - and did the prototype for the Gmail Ads, i belive. Don't be modest Paul.
- Roberto Bonini
As much as I love gmail (I've got several accounts), I couldn't use it an office environment yet. Want to covert an email to an appointment or task just drag it to the calendar or task list in Outlook. Outlook also has search folders so I can set up folders for emails I got today. I know there are GreaseMonkey extensions to support search folders but Gmail's date searching is just crummy.
- Andy Davies
I wish people would stop killing the aps I use...I hate that.
- John D Reasor
As far as I'm concerned, Outlook destroyed Outlook: feeble support for IMAP, a tendency toward .pst corruption (chief symptom: messages that hang Outlook when you try to open them), no support for user data migration to new accounts / computers, etc., etc. These days I use Mail.app on OS X and Thunderbird on Windows, and I am much happier.
- Pat Rice
Dukeswharf: POP/IMAP> Thunderbird> Enigmail (PGP) = offline+security+no ads (but no "new" features)
- coldbrew
Nice. I still have more trust in self-administered PKI; is that naive? Are they using asymmetric or symmetric crypto?
- coldbrew
Outlook destroyed Outlook the way MS destroys it's other products (and I have been an Outlook fan since '97): it became bloated and slow.
- Peter Ghosh
I'll still use thunderbird since I have to centralize many different mail accounts (and want them to be clearly separated), but I must admit that Gmail made a good point here :-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Jourdan: Do you use PGP? We should have a key-signing party room on FF. Maybe I'll make one now...
- coldbrew
Gmail is far from destroying Outlook. I still have to use Outlook for plenty of things. It is just a different tool. Feature by feature Google is way way behind Outlook.
- Patrick Allmond
Gmail is the small business solution. Major corporations are way too private to be communicating outside the Outlook box. Yet Outlook has been shown in the past to have vulnerabilities. Security is less of an issue with smaller databases. Suits prefer the worn path, the grey rut.
- Phil Boiarski
Sorry, I meant gmail's encryption. I don't think it has any PKI option. does it?
- coldbrew
As we saw this morning, Google is not infallible. When Outlook fails on one computer, only one computer and one user is affected. When Google fails, the entire world notices. Google Mail is a nice web-based mail service, but that's all it will ever be.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I don't understand that argument, Mark. By the same logic, Google couldn't be anything more than a niche search provider because nobody would trust a search engine that everyone uses.
- Kevin Fox
Speaking of gmail, I've been getting this nagging "Bad Request Error 400" message anytime I've tried to access my mail and it's getting to be irritating. It comes back up if I clear all my cookies and cache but then it goes back to the error message on the next checking of mail. WTF?
- Tsega Dinka
"When Outlook fails on one computer, only one computer and one user is affected." Right, because a software vulnerability in Outlook is programmed and rolled out on a per customer basis.
- virtually
Think of it a different way, Kevin: If Microsoft and Google both declared bankruptcy and shut down every server they have today, Outlook would still work but GMail would not. The odds of it happening are almost nil. GMail is a great web-based mail site. That's the problem it's web-based.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
There's just no way I'll use email software that uses the one-message-per-row paradigm again. The productivity gains from Conversations are just enormous.
- jakebf
Exactly. Outllok is from the last century. It's outdated and obsolete. Everything changes. It's just technical evolution. I know quite a lot of companies which uses this services. Often know own knows, because they use their own domain names. And why not? If I see the many "so-called" admins, harming the Internet with false configs and millions of dollars on setting up unnecessary servers, no wonder IT is going way down. There are admins who know what they doing. But face reality. They are only a few.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
How does Zoho match up against Gmail?
- Kevin Whalen
from twhirl
Outlook has many, many, many problems, for sure. I just see the argument as (A Great Web App)<(A Great Desktop App). Does this clarify my thought?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@mark: that's entirely true, if kind of a moot point based on the probability. If visa went down tomorrow, nobody would be able to pay for much of anything. If Comcast went down, most of us would have no internet connection. It's clearly your prerogative to run all your own software infrastructure, but I'd rather have the convenience of web based software.
- Joel Webber
A lot of commentators are discussing chalk and cheese. Outlook is an email CLIENT / Application. GMail is another Client / Application. How you use each one is entirely up to each user. Most non-technical people think of Gmail as something they access via their browsers, whereas Outlook is a Microsoft Application that runs on their PC. Not entirely true. you can access GMail servers using any client (Outlook/Thunderbird).
- Chris Wright
from twhirl
Gmail+Gcal is an Outlook killer, no doubt about it. The day Gcal started sending SMS to my mobile with the reminders it also killed my old Palm Treo.
- Jordi Soler
What Gmail does is make using Email for the normal non techie person easy. The reality is most home users do not use the power of Ouitlook. The issue with Gmail is good lick syncing a pda or smart phone to it it works well for the calendar but not for contacts. Also Gmail does not give you an e asy way to store messages in tact offliine. Outlook has a PST file for offline storage and backup.
- Rob Cairns
As has been touched on in this thread. Gmail and Outlook are largely orthogonal. Outlook is a client. Gmail is a mail provider with a client. You can use Outlook with Gmail or another mail provider, but either way if that provider goes belly-up you're going to stop getting your mail for a bit. If you're concerned about your mail archives being hosted with someone else, then you should keep a local copy using a POP client, no matter what mail provider you happen to put your trust in.
- Kevin Fox
I went from using internal gmail at google to using Outlook at my new job, and while I think there are good things and bad things about the two platforms, I miss the speed and portability of gmail, but I like some the task/calendar features in Outlook. If I had my druthers, I'd use gmail.
- Ginger Makela Riker
"Gmail+Gcal is an Outlook killer, no doubt about it." Afraid not, Jordi, because GMail Contacts is a big ol' steaming cup of FAIL. When Google gets their act together on Contacts, then Outlook will be threatened.
- John Craft
Outlook is a platform for working with "items"... countless times I have dropped into the built-in macro language to do things with my email, tasks, appointments, contacts, etc., that I could never do with a webmail application like Gmail. I wish I could stop using it, because I'll admit it's a hog on resources, but there is no alternative that will do EXACTLY what I want to do like Outlook will with my custom scripts in it. :)
- Kenneth LeFebvre
GMail via a web browser is just using IMAP to access/control the mail on the mail server. You can set up Outlook/Thunderbird to access GMail using IMAP. It would be more accurate to say that using the GMail web interface has reduced the number of people using other client applications for accessing their email.
- Chris Wright
Why are people comparing apples with oranges here? Client vs service? Thunderbird may beat Outlook, but not Gmail itself. I do recognize the web client is good, but is not nearly as flexible as a standalone. Plus, as has been mentioned by others, I need multiple account processing. Gmail fails at this. Gmail will remain my service of choice in the end. Tbird at home, Outlook at work.
- Vince DeGeorge
I use gmail because of the spam reduction then feed it into Zimbra. Zimbra is an Outlook killer IMO.
- Nation Hahn
@kenlefeb: I'd love if you could enlighten me with the examples of what your custom outlook scripts can do for you, that you can't possibly do with gmail. My blind shot is that you probably can take a look at what greasemonkey scripts can do to muscle webapps, particularly gmail.
- Enver ALTIN
@Vince, GMail does support multiple accounts, see http://mail.google.com/support...
- Shakeel Mahate
@Enver: One example is automatically filling out my weekly timesheet from my calendar. Another example is automatically searching our company's online directory to grab mugshots for all my contacts, so I have their pictures to help me remember who's who... :) This is why I say Outlook is a *platform*. It seems to me that it would be an extraordinary amount of work to use something like Greasemonkey to actually add significant new functionality into Gmail, rather than just enhancing the user experience.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
BTW, I'm not knocking Gmail. I actually use it to host my own email domain... I'm just making the case that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison to put Gmail and Outlook in the same category.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Hotmail offline access has been available for over a year now with Windows Live Mail client. Can't make out why the same feature for Gmail is that exciting. They are not the first one to enable this feature. Zoho and Hotmail has been having these for a long time.
- Amar Shah
Gmail rocks... hate when some old relatives still write to my hotmail and I gotta go in there to get it, just because microsoft won't allow automatic forward to gmail.
- Peter Efland
Engineering Windows 7 - http://blogs.msdn.com/e7...
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The next milestone for the development of Windows 7 is the Release Candidate or “RC”. Historically the Release Candidate has signaled “we’re pretty close and we want people to start testing the release, especially because all the features are done.” As we have said before, with Windows 7 we chose a slightly different approach which we were clear up front about and are all now experiencing together and out in the open.
- Leo Laporte
I Hardly Know Her is a alternative & minimalistic way to view Flickr photostreams. - http://ihardlyknowher.com/
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It is designed to facilitate high quality viewing with minimal distractions. Just add your flickr username at ihardlyknowher.com/yourname.
- Jonathan Kong
Interesting take on an old concept; I like it!
- Jonathan Brown
Forbes.com: The Top Twitter Celebrities - http://www.forbes.com/2009...
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New Twhirl features demoed in video by Robert Scoble - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
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Yeah, count me as a Twhirl convert.
- Kevin Whalen
from twhirl
great! thank you all for your comments
- Loic Le Meur
Finally learnt how to order coffee at Starbucks - http://www.seesmic.com/video...
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That's just crazy! I live in Montreal, Canada and it's the same shit. Each time I got in there I just want a coffee period; and I have to pick a million things. Do they know what the paradox of choice is?
- fbrunel
plus I find their "simple espresso" really bad, this is probably why they want to help us "feel important" with so much choice...
- Loic Le Meur
Entertaining and funny! Thanks for sharing! :-) So true of America, too...
- Jonathan Brown
And I agree, Loic, I think the massive quantities of choice are given because Americans in the culture all strive for one goal - power or money (sometimes both).
- Jonathan Brown
Frankly most of the time I prefer much less choice but quality. I would rather single choice of a good espresso at a terrace in Paris by the Louvre rather than all these fat non fat truffle options
- Loic Le Meur
I hate saying all that Crap ... I just want a coffee .. I say Coffee
- johnpiercy
I wonder if their sales would go down if they had less choice
- Loic Le Meur
Reminds me of this sketch http://uk.youtube.com/watch...
- Steven Cains
Loic, you are a natural
- Bob Sonin
a natural what Bob?
- Loic Le Meur
Starbucks is more like a visit to the mall then the participation in a rich cultural tradition. I learned to love Italian cafes from living in Italy. Living is an art form for Italians and the cafe reflects that. Simple and pure.
- Rod Bauer
http://www.youtube.com/watch... coffee flavored coffee -Dennis Leary.
- Noah David Simon
this is an old animation I did of Dunk'n Donuts... not my best work... but I was thinking likewise http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2007...
- Noah David Simon
Really liked the youtube video! LOL! And it's not just Starbucks, I got into MacDonalds, or KFC etc... There is so much choice in everything that it becomes a poison!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
New Palm phone has best social networking features #ces09
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More on this later but this is very nice for connecting Facebook and other data from your friends.
- Robert Scoble
from email
Will it put them back in the game?
- Simon Wicks
It's going to be an awesome device and perhaps the iPhone killer! RIM has nothing on this device!
- Elijah Nicolas
Nice, but a little late to get them back in the game with the likes of RIM and Apple around.
- Nick
What browser does it use? Anyone say yet?
- Ralph Whitbeck
Palm would need to start a track record of great devices with a stellar OS in order to get back in the game.
- Aaron Eaton
iPhone user here. This looks super cool. Keep in mind it is a demo. As Microsoft has proved in the past. There are demos and then the real world. I hope Palm lives up to the demo. I wonder when it will ship. I hope it ships before the next iPhone or it may not matter.
- gfurry
Charo: I think this gets them back in the game.
- Robert Scoble
I think this gets them in the game and leaps them in front of Apple.
- Ralph Whitbeck
Interesting that we have a different impression not being at the live event. I can't wait to see high quality video of it to make better judgment.
- TheSleepyGeek
Flash for the browser?
- Ralph Whitbeck
This looks cool. Not sure it would get me to give up my iPhone but seems like the first truly worthy competitor. And that's a good thing for the market.
- Kevin Pedraja
suddenly interested in Palm again
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
Actually this might kill Steve off for good, j/k.
- Ralph Whitbeck
Looks OK, but people aren't going to choose this over an iPhone.
- Spencer
I don't know - watching this on Engadget and it looks pretty cool (diehard iPhoner)
- James Hull
Wait - Sprint - wah wahhh - never mind lol
- James Hull
I hope they have a GSM version of this
- Ryan
And then three words kill the entire demo. "Exclusive Launch Partner"
- gfurry
LOL @gfurry - it's only for a few months.
- John Craft
More words to dampen enthusiasm. Available first half or 2009
- gfurry
Good for Palm. Good for consumers.
- Chris Baskind
John: "A few months" exclusivity? I *seriously* doubt it.
- Ken Sheppardson
Did we hear pricepoint?
- Ken Sheppardson
What about an App store? That is the way to go. I remember my treo days it was pretty ugly as far as third party apps go.
- gfurry
gfurry Already revamped: http://appstore.pocketgear.com/palm...
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken, Palm has usually limited its exclusives to 3-6 months before rolling out to other carriers, especially when Sprint is the exclusive.
- John Craft
John: Aha. So six months is "a few". Gotcha. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Needs a FriendFeed integration feature to really make it... ;)
- Tyson Key
As a mostly happy iPhone user, I hope Palm can get back in the game. The phone's OS seems to step it up, but the phone itself seems a bit thick. ANd I didn't catch a price from Sprint. Also, by the time this comes out, the iPhone OS may also get an upgrade. Interesting times. Good luck to all.
- Kawika Holbrook
It looks like a seriously good device. My question is, will there be a new iPhone in the middle of this year, and if so, what would it take for it to make this irrelevant? It seems like incremental software improvements would do that - a better launcher in particular. A cpu speed bump, larger storage, thinner device, and the long-promised notification service, and not a lot else would seem to be needed. Also being CDMA this is likely to be US only for a while.
- Robin Barooah
according to http://cdg.org, there are over 400M CDMA subscribers worldwide, only 150M in North America. Asia has almost double the # of US subscribers.
- Greg GuitarBuster
@greg - I stand corrected. I wonder what the global GSM vs CDMA figures are.
- Robin Barooah
GSM users >> CDMA users worldwide. Why isn't it UMTS? I have a bad feeling about this.
- Victor Ganata
@robin - GSM is over 3.5 billion
- Greg GuitarBuster
C'mon, folks - the radio is the easiest part of the equation. if it is popular, drop in an HSPA chip.
- John Craft
Greg: Seriously? 3.5 bil of the world's 6.7 bil people have a GSM phone? Call me skeptical.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: Not an unbiased source I know but the GSMA website claims 3 billion. Here in Europe it's the standard, 3G uptake is very slow.
- Russ
Ken: I got that number from http://gsm.org. I don't know if they were counting total devices or current subscribers. Shoot, I have several of each.
- Greg GuitarBuster
GSM disclaimer "indicative only, estimated from market data collected by Wireless Intelligence. It is not a precise figure, nor usable for legal purposes."
- Greg GuitarBuster
Have to say, the OS looks super cool, I think Palm might be coming back into the game with this one.
- amil
To me this looks like it's better positioned to take Blackberry customers than Apple ones - emphasis on the home/vs work calendars and contacts etc plus keyboard. It could be a straight enhancement for a Blackberry user, where as an iPhone user would have to trade one set of benefits for another.
- Robin Barooah
Hands On Giinii Movit Mini: The Android Tablet USD $149 - http://i.gizmodo.com/5126042...
Numan Arda Çebi, Nikpay, JMaultasch and 45 other people liked this
that looks nice! wow
- Susan Beebe
LIES!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
You need my address to send one to..??
- Cody Heitschmidt
Cute, but I would probably break it. =(
- Shevonne
This is very very H-O-T. It's only a prototype right now but WANT
- Mona Nomura
Mona, if we find the guy who has one, you distract him with your dazzling good looks I will hit him with a chair and then we share it for a while until I get jealous and have to hit you with chair and run off with my Android mistress.
- Cody Heitschmidt
Holy shit I got carried away in that last comment sorry....
- Cody Heitschmidt
LOL Cody, don't worry, we don't have to resort to violence! I'll just ask him to read the Windows 7 installation manual to me which'll put him to sleep!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Damn, you always have a better plan!!!
- Cody Heitschmidt
wow, that is awesome! Hopefully the price point will hold.
- Jonathan Brown
Niiice
- Steve Lowe
This is just a protype but VoIP right out of the box is appealing. Since I have such terrible service, I'm forcing all of my friends to sign up with Skype LOL
- Mona Nomura
Damn, but that IS HOT! Mona, you are definitely getting my gadget lust going, this morning. 8O
- Helen Sventitsky
I might actually buy this. Very intriquing.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Best part: you could see any kind of app on this, it's not sharing a closed application market with a cell phone (like the iPod touch and the iPhone), so you won't have someone denying an app if it isn't in the best interest of the company or wireless provider.
- Shawn Farner
Looks very tempting. I've got a port of android running on my N800 which works pretty well, apart from the on-screen keyboard which is so buggy it's unusable (not sure if that's just because of the port). Fingers cross for a sub £200 price in the UK.
- Russ
Resistive touchscreen = FAIL. And touchscreen != "tablet."
- Karim
Ok then, so what would you have headlined it Karim?
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Uh, how about "Cheap-Ass iPod Touch Knockoff With Screen That Requires Really Hard Press, Minus Ability to Sync Music to PC, Possibly $149 If Everything Works Out As Planned?" :-D
- Karim
hahahhahahahhahahha
- Mona Nomura
Pretty nice form factor
- tony
It's a prototype, Karim :-P You're not going to find this in the store tomorrow. Some companies go to these shows with a video and a device that doesn't even work.
- Shawn Farner
I see your point though. "Android tablet $149" much better linkbait :-D
- Karim
;) And I'm glad I asked for you to re-title. You never fail to crack me up. Shawn - have you noticed a lot of companies are making their products available right away? That sort of "demo" or "prototype will be available JUST in time for Christmas!" mentality is evolving, imho.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Warning to followers: Massive Twitter spew begins tomorrow when I get to Vegas/CES. Will be all over Ballmer keynote. You've been warned.
Jonathan Brown, SnakeDoc, Steve Rubel and Robert Scoble liked this
Will be awaiting that one....hope there is something good there...
- Semipro
AWESOME list of Location Based Social Networking sites | Location Based Services - Business Only - http://bdnooz.com/lbsn-lo...
Morton Fox, Brad Brooks, CannonGod and 10 other people liked this
"A list of Location Based Social Networking sites"
- Andrew Badera
from Bookmarklet
Gmail Launching Themes! - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
Kim, Dave Ploch, Icekahlua and 53 other people liked this
Nice, looking forward to it's activated in my gmail
- Peter Theill
Yikes! My eyes.... they burn!
- Bill Sodeman
why?
- Anthony Farrior
Nice!
- Evan Sims
G.R.E.A.T.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Anyone know if google apps is getting these?
- Matt Harwood
they bloody better do...i'm paying for the mofo
- Zee.
Well, Zee, I'm still waiting on Labs. And that was launched months ago on Gmail itself. I'm not hopeful :(
- Matt Harwood
I SOOO LOVE IT, i'm rocking the ninja theme now
- Gordon Swaby
i managed to get mine eventually...they did say there were issues apparently Matt
- Zee.
Strange antics with the new themes and Gmail Resdesigned - guess there will be a new Stylish script posted soon.
- Paul Nixon
I have Themes now.
- Russellreno
I wonder if anyone on the GMail team is color blind - the default theme is full of blank areas for me.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
It's not happening to my Gmail ATM but looking at the screenshot, some of the themes looked pretty stoked! :)
- Jonathan Kong
Scarlett, I just had to reply to you. It's the GWTW thing. Never got to do that till now.:)
- Melanie Reed
that's pretty strange - I accessed them on my laptop, but they don't work on the very same account when accessed from a different computer. I'm confused.
- maed
that is strange maed...have you tried logging out then in...clearing cache etc...?
- Zee.
Using Sunset myself, which are you using?
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
mountains
- imran
Shiny. Its awesome.
- Roberto Bonini
@Roberto interesting feature, but i select classic theme :»)
- Nimaa
I have it....selected the Beach theme which changes as the sun goes up and down, very cool!
- Beth K
“Not the fries...” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Anthony K. Valley ©, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Jemm and 12 other people liked this
Haha, that's hilarious!
- Jonathan Brown
lol!
- Carmen
Nokia N810 turned into Bluetooth keyboard & mouse remote - http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n...
Jonathan Brown, Cheryl Jones and CW™ liked this
"If you’ve built a media PC and are now looking for a reasonable wireless keyboard and mouse, how about using the Nokia N800 or N810 Internet Tablet instead? BlueMaemo is a port of ReMoko for the Linux-based Maemo OS used on the touchscreen devices, and basically offers the Internet Tablet as a combined keyboard and mouse device via the Bluetooth HID profile. That means you can wirelessly connect the Tablet and use the touchscreen as a trackpad, as well as call up various menu options including video playback control. If you have a keyboard-enabled N810 then you can use that for input; not something to type the next great American novel on, perhaps, but enough for URLs and maybe some instant-messaging. It’s not limited to HTPCs, though; BlueMaemo has been tested with Linux BlueZ, Windows XP (SP2 and SP3), Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows Vista. Brighthand suggest it could be a good way of adding keyboard functionality to a UMPC, but I don’t know that many people who carry both a UMPC and a Nok
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
Great implementation, I like it!
- Jonathan Brown
11 Free Websites To Send And Recieve Large Files Quickly - http://www.smashingapps.com/2008...
Kristian Salonen, Dieter Schwarz, embee and 5 other people liked this
InterfaceLIFT: Wallpaper sorted by Date - http://interfacelift.com/wallpap...
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Lu Tao, Adam Kinney, Nicholas Kreidberg and 7 other people liked this
InterfaceLIFT is one of my fav wallpaper sites.
- Alan Le
Me too! A bit heavy on the landscapes, but that's allright...
- Phil G
InterfaceLIFT is great. Thanks for the heads-up on the wallpapers!
- Jonathan Brown
colorful seashells (900×675) [artemis, Pixdaus] - http://pixdaus.com/pics...
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Jonathan Brown, Shandiz and Corie liked this
Doesn't look too hot in the small view, but the long-exposure effect on the water is nice.
- Mitchell Tsai
Beautiful! I like it.
- Jonathan Brown
Drop.io: Simple Private Sharing - http://drop.io
Jonathan Brown liked this
I use Drop.io all the time to share files with my coworkers. It's a great tool.
- Jonathan Brown
Diggnation - Kevin and Alex Take Over Martin's Shed - http://revision3.com/diggnat...
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Jonathan Brown liked this
That was a great episode!
- Jonathan Brown
Estimate Your Level of Internet Fame - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Joe Dawson, Helen Sventitsky, Marco(aureliusmaximus) and 23 other people liked this
This is hilarious fun. 775. I don't use MySpace. How internet famous are you, Duncan?
- Ryan Kuder
Damnit, I shall surpass even you Mr. Riley! So long as my eyeballs do not fall out of their sockets, I shall persevere. You shall see!
- Ben Parr
109! All I use is Twitter and have a once-a-month updated blog that gets little traffic.
- Bartek Ciszkowski
Duncan's probably asleep at the moment (Australia time) -- but if you click on the default names over on the right, you can substitute in any person of your choosing to see how you compare. Ah, the endless opportunities for at-work time wasting... :)
- JR R.
932 here, without any MySpace presence. Probably time to work on that with the band.
- TDavid
I got 854, but I cheated and used my Friendfeed as the personal website URL. Edit: apparently the friendfeed URL had no effect. 854 without it!
- Mark Trapp
310 -- obscurity rocks!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
4872 fwiw. Now what the heck is it doing? More research needed.
- Phil G
2,772
- Thomas Hawk
I must be at least 100. That's good, right??
- john conroy
MySpace? blarg :P
- Michael W. May
Still no FriendFeed on this thing, WTF?? FAIL! :)
- Justin Korn
1630 with no myspace and a neglected blog
- David Ward
I concur. MySpace = Blarg.
- Craig Ritchie
from twhirl
I think Mark's on the right track here -- maybe we just need to redeclare the MySpace field as a FriendFeed field across the board. That'll probably balance things out a bit better for almost everyone in this space...
- JR R.
If they got this tool right, added a bunch of social networks, FF, Flickr, Facebook, etc. and used more tools RSS subs, Technorati, etc. and then combined this with search terms it could be an excellent tool for PR professionals to use to gage who influencers are around their products. Right now it's too simplified a tool, but it's an interesting concept.
- Thomas Hawk
TOTAL SCORE: 336 (100% twitter)
- Czar
TOTAL SCORE: 1023 (using myspace, twitter, and nathanchase.com)
- Nathan Chase
I think I have the lowest score on Friendfeed - 34
- Sean Davis
239 and I'm a nobody, only used Twitter.
- mark zero (Jason)
@Thomas, agreed. They do say they're working on adding more networks into the equation (today was just the first day of beta release). It's more a fun novelty than anything at the moment, but it could definitely have some broader and more practical uses down the road if it's developed right.
- JR R.
867, but I have no presence on myspace.
- Kevin Fox
46. If I was only a little more obscure, I would be the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
- Steven Perez
Tila Tequila, 4643, owns you all! (Except J. Phil) http://bit.ly/39uowJ
- Hao Chen
Yeah - I win - I have the lowest score of everyone ! a whopping 25
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I believe this is meaningless epeen junk. Try separating out your scores for each of the three URLs -- they don't add up. Of my two blogs, it gives a higher score to the one with fewer daily readers and feed subscribers. Oh, and 64.
- Stephen Mack
262 ... maybe it's only cuz I just follow Shey, Louis and Duncan? :)
- Charlie Anzman
Woo-hoo!! A whopping 9!! Watch out world. Domination is near.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
575 - I get more credit from Myspace (which I don't update or use) than Flickr.
- Russellreno
232. I have no clue how it's even that high. I expected 5.
- Michelle Martinez
MM - Try it again with just Twitter. I don't use Twitter but it is the highest rated of the three.
- Russellreno
Yeah, 227 with just twitter, whoa! MySpace and my junky blog mean nothing!
- Michelle Martinez
22 - oops! URL, not username. I preferred 0 though.
- jcunwired
There must be some irreconcilable aspect to my fame because I appear to have broken it.
- Christopher Sacca
crud 228.
- Sean Oliver
TOTAL SCORE: 2826
- Allen Stern
LPH, not so fast. Here's a 15. Now beat that.
- Vinay | विनय
Vinay, hold on a sec: I score a lowly 9. YES!!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
726. I don't think my Myspace profile contributed much.
- Morton Fox
450
- richrecruiter
ok, WTF? I know I'm not as pointworthy as some of you folks! And Tila will make out with men or women for points.. So I'm gaming it somehow?
- Phil G
The MySpace truth comes out! lol
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
646 (10 pts for MySpace - which I don't use, 176 pts for Twitter - which I barely use, and 636 pts for FriendFeed) Yes, the numbers don't add. It doesn't matter which box you type your addresses.
- Mitchell Tsai
2788 with just FF. Previously it was 575 w/o FF.
- Russellreno
Thawk reported 2772, which I beat by 16 pts. No way. THawk FF score is 16058.
- Russellreno
This makes me feel like I'm in high school again: I won't reveal my score; just like I wouldn't reveal my SAT score.
- Blake N. Cooper
I'm sooo not playing this. :) lol
- Sarah Perez
I made a Top-30 list here http://mitchelltsaitn.blogspot.com/2008... Aside from the "ego" stuff involved, it's a cool way to find people to follow. I discovered some people I didn't know about...
- Mitchell Tsai
Awesome!
- Jonathan Brown
Ha, I never knew I was so famous. 1059 points on the wired-o-meter. But only if I use my FriendFeed instead of MySpace.
- Benedikt Koehler
Ryan (above), I didn't write the post, just looking now....bizarre + great find JR.
- Duncan Riley
rofl 2077 with the Inquisitr, but put FriendFeed in the box 4007
- Duncan Riley
I get pretty much the same number for my blog or my LJ blog (they do point to each other, I think) but using just my friendfeed gives me a number 1000 points higher. All the numbers are 200 points higher than a few hours ago. I don't use myspace.
- Phil G
what does it mean when it comes back with "what was your name again?"
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
it crashed my browser.. me = FAIL
- Mona Nomura
My answer was "You're kidding, right?" ...dang it.
- Candace
If I included my website URL, my score was 148. With my wordpress blog it was 155. I guess I'm on my way somewhere.
- Helen Sventitsky
I got a score of .. 7.
- SarahMarieee
212.MySpace isn't mine
- Igor Poltavskiy
430, but I don't have a MySpace account
- Andreas Gohr
I got a score of 158!
- Joe Dawson
MySpace? Not our kind, dear.
- Chris Baskind
I don't exist... 13
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Very scaled back version of QDos, which I think has a better pedigree
- George Bounacos
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