Jon Price

Now is that saying something about Twitter/FriendFeed or about Microsoft Dynamics? =) - RAD Moose

RAD: talking about enterprise software isn't as interesting as cat photos. - Robert Scoble

Will Re/Max guarantee this "perfect time" claim by protecting purchasers against loss of value? - Ontario Emperor

Heh, my realtor is Re/Max...and no, they won't, Ontario. And the perfect time to buy a home is when you can afford it and are tired of renting...regardless of the economy. No one can guarantee that this is the best time to buy a home, but it's certainly better than it was 2 years ago or even a year ago. If you are buying a home with a shorter than 5 year time horizon to sell, now is NOT the right time to buy...longer than that...10 years...and this is a good time to buy... - Alex Scoble CISSP

No one can guarantee that tomorrow or the next year won't be better...then again if you stay out too long you'll miss the bargains too. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Alex, I keep looking at the San Francisco market, and I haven't seen anything in 6 months I'd be willing to buy at 60% of the price that's offered. I guess that's why we continue to remodel. - Chris White

San Francisco is and always will be a special market compared to the rest of the US. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Alex, what makes SF special compared to NYC or Boston? Is it Silicon Valley, and do you think layoffs could affect the market? - Chris White

I get postcards at home that say "There has been no better time to buy or sell your home." Um, how's that again? - Kevin Fox

SF, Boston, NYC, parts of Hawaii are all special as there is much higher demand than supply as space is limited and it's very difficult to build more housing. Although, SF has a lot of demand due in part to the weather, whereas NYC and Boston? Not so much. The economy will affect such places, but not nearly to the same degree as other places around the country that have been "over-sprawled"...and mind you when I say SF, I mean SF, not the suburbs. The further you get out of SF the more prices will be... - Alex Scoble CISSP

affected by the economy as these are the places that have a lot more sprawl and now unwanted supply. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Easy, Kevin. Because right now is when they want your commission! - Ladybug Heather

Problem is, no one has the money or good credit to buy a home. - Mathew Ballard

Alex, the other thing I've noticed in SF is that almost no properties are moving in the > $2 million price range. I guess these people won't be selling their places. Almost all of the places I saw 6 months ago are still on the market. - Chris White

Re/Max wants money! - Josh Haley

Tad, I diigo'd all of those ASP.NET interview sites you posted awhile back and I have a huge book from SAMS (ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed). I'm actually thinking of gravitating toward UI and away from the data layer. I'd rather do UI than SQL, I've decided. SQL makes me sad. - Akiva Moskovitz

Ultimately, I just wanna write code and solve problems. If that means coding an .aspx instead of a .cs then so be it. - Tad, Fool

Tad speaks wisely...that's exactly what I want to do...I certainly have preferences (there are days I can't stand HTML/JS, and days I can't stand WinForms)...but writing code and solving problems is the best part. - Jonas Bush

SELECT this, that FROM tblAkiva WHERE misery = true ORDER BY magnitude_level; - Josh Haley

I like turtles... - Johnny Worthington

Johnny, so do I! - Mark Wilson

Tad & Akiva - this is the exact move I made just over a year ago. I went from IT Manager (dealing with IT support, servers, etc) to Web Development. Best move I've ever made. - Justin Korn

I can't stand ASP, I'll have to get behind it soon though. I remain a PHP loyalist for the web, but I keep running into scaling problems. - Mo Kargas

Mo: I'm totally with you there...partly because I don't know ASP.net too :) - ♣genieyclo♣

@Shey LOL I'm like, wow, kinda late for that, huh Seth? - anna awesomesauce

yeah, probably right...damn his face looks annoying there... Reminds of Eddie describing the fold in the magazine on Raw "here want me to stir it for you?" - Zee from WeDoCreative

I know that alarm bells go off at Twitter if you're following many more people than follow you. Does anything happen in the reverse, if you're following many fewer people than are following you? - Ontario Emperor

HA! +1, Zee...GI Joe swimmin' underwater...and then a big brown shark came... - Dave

I'll wait until he starts tweeting something before I follow. - Hutch Carpenter

@anna: wasn't he at @sethgodin, the only guys on twitter with zillions of followers and who never follows back? This being said, I like what he writes generally :) - directeur

Well that didn't last long, looks like it's been deleted - Shey

Wow, that WAS quick. Maybe it was unauthorized. - Ontario Emperor

wow...that's strange - Zee from WeDoCreative

That's too bad - I was rather in his corner, staying off of it. Wonder if he'll join everyone else again by abandoning Squidoo too. - Ciaoenrico

hmm - Hayk

Wake me when Seth becomes relevant again. To me, he's been mailing it in for a good while. Brilliant basis and thesis but it's been milk ever since. - AJ Kohn

Who is that? - Mona N.

Yeah, AJ, agreed. If Seth used micro-blogging, he'd blow most of his load with around 10-12 posts. - Christopher Galtenberg

mona, popular marketing dude/writer/speaker. - Hao Chen

Long overdue - Charlie Anzman

Will follow him and see what he has to say. - John-David Lusan

i've been told this could be a fake... - Zee from WeDoCreative

read this http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s... he doesnt use twitter - johnpiercy

yeah, i remember that actually and hence my surprise when he apparently joined...he could have always changed his mind i thought - Zee from WeDoCreative

Heheh, I'm doing a webinar on Thursday with Seth, so I'll find out if this is real. It sure doesn't look real. - Robert Scoble

doesn't use twitter wtf?! - Susan Beebe

Mona, you were kidding, weren't you? - LauraBrarian

i don't think she was Laura and besides he's famous but not that famous - Zee from WeDoCreative

Bad time to admit I wouldn't know Godin from Adam? - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Have you got one more please? proxeiroacount at gmail - endiaferon

@endiaferon unfortunately No :( - Farzad

Farzad is liar , Don't pay attention to him , - Mil∂d

Milad is terrorist (Arab Terroris who use these networks to share their illegal content) - Farzad

Dear Farzad , I think you are racist , i am sorry for you - Mil∂d

How do you call me racist when i am an arab too ? !! For those of you who have called me racist im dein mind : i know milad and his username on P2P networks n i saw his shared content !!!! ex:al qaede execution n etcetera. - Farzad

Dear Farzad you speak Persian and i know you are iranian , for more information check this page : http://www.ffholic.com/UserInf... - Mil∂d

i love you. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Nice idea. I've sorta gotten to used to doing the math and saying GMT +- etc, though. (get off my lawn) - Michael W. May

So had we - and we hated every minute of it. - Alexander Kohlhofer

oh - and I love you, too :) - Alexander Kohlhofer

Nice and simple although you could already do this by inviting people to a meeting in, for example, Outlook. It doesn't do recurring appointments, as far as I could tell. Recurrence is where you need something like this. - Jim Hawkins

we have just rolled out a nice update.. New features, more locations, better interface... - Alexander Kohlhofer

I'm not sure how this works... so I set up several timezones and I want to link to that configuration so I can check times later... where is the url/link for me to do that? Or am I using it wrong? - Lindsay Donaghe

oh... hmm, maybe I get it now... so it's not for you to check what time it is now, but for you to mark a particular point in time. That's cool, but I'd like to be able to set up my timezones so that I can come to the home page (or a url permalink) that shows the current time so I can tell if, say, it's too late in the evening to call my Grandmother who lives 2 timezones away. - Lindsay Donaghe

it remembers your settings automatically (for your computer). If somebody sends you a link it will display that time in your time zones. If you sent a link from yours it will be shown to them in their time zones. - Alexander Kohlhofer

yeah, definitely with you there Lindsay...i actually asked everyone if they knew anything like that a while back and there were a few suggestions..see here: http://friendfeed.com/e/854434... - Zee from WeDoCreative

Update again - I guess it must store those in cookies... looks like they were there when I came back to the page. So in that case a couple of feature suggestions, be able to choose different configs (say I have AZ, Central and Pacific because that's where my family lives, but another one for AZ, London, Sydney and Dallas where my business contacts are...). Also, be able to add a note or description to the zone so it would say "Central - Dad, Grandma, Uncle Norm" or something and be easy to spot... - Lindsay Donaghe

if you go to permatime.com it does just that. It shows you the current time across all your time zones :) - Alexander Kohlhofer

true - if you save the create permatime url as a bookmark...it's a great way to quickly go and insert any time in a particular place... - Zee from WeDoCreative

Any chance for those other suggestions, Alexander? - Lindsay Donaghe

Allowing custom labels is definitely on our list. I am not so sure about some more clock like features as there are plenty of good world time clocks out there. Permatime is all about sharing points in time - a definitive need with no good solution - till now ;) - Alexander Kohlhofer

We added custom labels a little while back. We have just added drag and drop, and easier date entry for the week ahead. For the keen or geekily-inclined, there's an indication how to construct your own permatime urls at http://permatime.com/about - Tim Diggins

I love snark. - Chris White

Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.

Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox

I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray

Louis, I feel the same way. There are just a handful of products / services that are in the same class as TiVo in my book. - Mike Doeff

The problem TiVo ran into (and WebTV also) was that the cable/satellite companies control everything. Once they partnered with companies with better UIs, they created internal projects to build their own DVRs, and then ended the partnerships. Getting a box from your provider became the default compared to getting a 3rd party product. It's an unfortunate reality of business that there are strategic issues beyond user experience that determine success. It's the primary reason we haven't seen an Apple DVR. - Chris White

But we have seen an Apple phone, and arguably the situation is pretty similar there. - ⓞnor

@nor, Apple negotiated a great deal with AT&T, as far as wireless contracts go, but they still had to sign a 5-year exclusive. The cable market in particular is different because it's regional, which just becomes a huge convoluted mess. Better luck will probably come from using broadband than trying to navigate the cable twisty passages. - Chris White

@nor: By that analogy, is Android the generic mobile provider's alternative? - Kevin Fox

Tivo made it impossible for me to cancel my account with them a few years back (no option on their website, even though I had added by cc# there, and an intolerably long wait on the phone). My credit card was about to expire, so I figured it wasn't a problem (just a few extra months of billing), but then they continued to charge me even after the card expired (the new card had the same number with a different expiration date). Anyway, I don't feel too sorry for them, and I don't plan to buy from them ever again. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, the credit card companies are funny about these recurring charges. Even after I've changed numbers on the same account for fraud reasons, I've continued to get recurring charges from some companies. Luckily I've never had a problem with TiVo because I bought out the contract and then gave it away to someone. - Chris White

:( - Josh Haley

Just one more useless commodity that needed to bite the dust as soon as home DVR'ing with traditional services was implemented. - tony

I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy I'm seeing here for TiVo. I can understand if their CS department somehow slighted you, but I have not had that experience and I have owned 4 separate TiVo's over the years, some with lifetime subscriptions. Bottom line, the TiVo has the easiest, most powerful platform for scheduling recordings and watching TV that I have ever used. At the very least, I would hope that Scientific Atlanta, etc., would take notes but almost everything else out there is crap (cont'd) - Phil Glockner

Ah, the company that singlehandedly screwed the ad business :) - Patricia

comparatively. TiVo has fought and scraped for so long on a completely slanted playing field, and they are a true underdog. I'm glad that projects like MythTV are starting to mature, and perhaps that is the future of television, but for now I will stick to my Series3. - Phil Glockner

I wasn't snarking, just curious about business models. - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo

Phil, my comments weren't antipathy. I thought TiVo did a great job on user experience. What I was saying was they didn't have a strategic business advantage, and that is often what is necessary for long term success. - Chris White