Josh Chandler

Do you think iJustine might claim? http://tastyblogsnack.com/2008... - Josh Chandler

ok, maybe a slight correction. I did like Tr.im! - Josh Chandler

This will save every new parent a ton of money on those books you can buy with Baby Names! - Josh Chandler

Well, I am trying to work out whether Shane Kim is more serious about liking Nintendo (http://tinyurl.com/6mohnf) or outlasting Sony. He can't be both people! - Josh Chandler

Ahead of the main point that Youtube is the most popular, what is stopping the White House from using a widespread of video networks? - Josh Chandler

I wonder why Scoble liked this? - Josh Chandler

Because he likes us. :-) - Seagate

Here is a closer image of the protype: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aut... - Josh Chandler

We have a feeling this is going to happen with increasing frequency as airlines continue to bleed once-loyal customers for extra revenue: Greg Dean, the cartoonist behind Real Life Comics, has had enough of United gouging him. First it was the second checked bag fee, then the first checked bag fee. Then they doubled the pet-in-cabin fee to $175 each way, which works out to more than the cost of a human round-trip ticket. - Josh Chandler

Overall, this seems to be a little bit of internet paranoia. But it does make you think, just make sure you read that privacy policy to check what companies are doing with those logins. Twitterank leave a "reassuring" message about their use for your logins: "I'm not out to steal ur twitterz. Frankly, I wish I didn't have to ask for your account info, but Twitter doesn't offer APIs using any other authentication mechanism (according to the docs). So blame them. Read more about what I'll do with your account info/data in the FAQ. I will not store your password. I will only use it once to calculate your Twitterank." What do you reckon? - Josh Chandler

Anton, it's definitely a very reasonable approach but unfortunately I can hardly remember when I last visited a website that is a few years old (excluding Google and several online presences of some newspapers). So I myself still rely on recommendations from other users looking to make my decision on this or that particular site - or on building some trustful relations with the team behind a very new site in some cases. - Svetlana Gladkova

Jason, very true and I have to agree with you sometimes. And I guess this is exactly why the early adopters often serve as testers to make sure those who arrive later will not be affected by potential threats. - Svetlana Gladkova

How long did that take!! - Josh Chandler

Matt Asay, open source blogger for CNET, got some eye-opening feedback from CTOs about their use of open source. As with many other aspects of business, money speaks louder than freedom alone, but freedom isn't a bad bonus. The whole thing happened at the New York CTO Club, where Matt talked with CTOs from all across the map about open source. What he learned about the way companies use open source might well serve as a model for what to expect if you're planning on offering an open source product. - Josh Chandler

Currently uploading a .mp3 file to one of my Amazon buckets and it just works great, really really fast. - Josh Chandler

I am guilty as charged with this one, although I don't own a nice expensive one thankfully! - Josh Chandler

the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ;-) - Valeria Maltoni

Even Julius Cesar would say "Goodness sakes alive. That Robert Scoble has the most annoying of laughs! Off with his head!" - paisano via twhirl

'From Rome to Chrome' :) - manuscrypts

People just realized that the gossip from Valleywag just wasn't that relevant as mentioned in the link. It seems that for serious discussion to occur we need to omit Valleywag from our minds and continue to focus on forward thinking, I don't want to sound too serious with that point but many people wasted time on that site (2,748,004 according to Quantcast http://tinyurl.com/6ktzhp) and it just simply marred the industry with indecent information. But I am going to miss it all the same! - Josh Chandler

Totally have to agree with Sarah's choice of Cooliris.com, absoutely love that service. - Josh Chandler via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Pure paranoia if you ask me *ahem* http://tinyurl.com/6oersg - Josh Chandler

Online companies such as Twitterank could probably be nothing but a huge scam intended to steal passwords from as many Twitter users as possible and teach Twitter team they need to enhance security to avoid scams with login credentials in the future - Josh Chandler

Our college is still very undecided it seems, because our web filters let it through some of the time and we all use it in incredibly but I think companies need to get it out their head that Facebook is out to destroy their company infrastructure, if they actually went and researched the collaboration behind it, heck the social side of it even works for some new comers to college in the UK (http://www.guardian.co.uk/educ...) - Josh Chandler

Josh, I guess universities and corporations must have different views on use of Facebook but as a rule I believe that it is easier to block something you don't understand and make up your mind later when you finally figure out the dangers it can potentially bring. - Svetlana Gladkova

This is the one innovation hurdle it seems right now companies and intitutions such as college don't want to overcome. Come guys, it has true benefit if used in the right way why can't you find the time to do a little research? - Josh Chandler

Ori, In some ways because a big company such as AT&T have sponsored this study it could add some valuable weight behind the idea, however companies just learnt too quickly that employees waste time on Facebook, Myspace etc etc. However, there was an interesting article today from the Washington Post about how Social networking should be adapted to goverment (http://tinyurl.com/6okrqc), a start right? - Josh Chandler

welcome to the op-ed world. If you wrote that piece in the NYTimes it may had sat for decades until critized, but the Internet-user discovered quickly. Keep posting, stay cheerfully ready to retract. (H) - DeanSMS via IM

Well, I have to be honest if I make a mistake. I don't have a huge wall of articles hiding that content like the NYT, but in all honesty it's just great to get it out into the open when I make a mistake! - Josh Chandler

Here is the link to the Techcrunch article on it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Josh Chandler

I simply don't think that companies are using Bebo for leverage as much as they are Facebook, this move seems like a lost cause to me! - Josh Chandler

And a lightscribe pen for the prize? Come on Beebo - Facebook's giving away $250,000! - Jesse Stay via twhirl

But that just shows who is more serious about leverage surely, Bebo as I mention just doesn't have the correct audience to be implementing this idea. They are cutting down with the prize fund it seems! - Josh Chandler

1 response in 12.5 million is a 0.08% of getting a answer (if my math is correct), that's an odd not worth going for surely? (if my math is right :P) - Josh Chandler

electrons work for free - Gregory Lent

Gregory, I have no idea of what costs are associated with spam network but I guess they also need to write scripts first and there must be some bandwidth issues related to managing all the infected computers. Though I may be wrong, of course. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Last month we bought TheNextWeb.com in an auction at Sedo.com for only $1000. It took a while to transfer the domain to our hosting provider but it worked out and today we decided to take a deep breath and switch our blog from TheNextWeb.org to TheNextWeb.com. - Josh Chandler

I tried to visit twuffer from review but I received http error 400. I visited from a bBerry. I wanted to see how twuffer work with bBerries. - DeanSMS via IM

Oh, well I wasn't aware of that. Make sure you pass on the issue to the support team so they know. - Josh Chandler

Jay Hathaway of Download Squad just did a review of Twuffer, he doesn't seem too positive about it: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2.... What is everyone else's experience with it been like? - Josh Chandler

Specifically, the company must deliver $400 million to lenders in May of 2009, six months from now. The company has only $46 million of cash on hand, and its operations will likely begin consuming this meager balance this quarter or next. The company has been shut out of the commercial paper market, but has a $366 million short-term credit line remaining that it entered into several years ago, when the industry was strong. It has not yet drawn this cash down, and given the current environment and the trends at the company, we would not take for granted that it will be able to do so. - Josh Chandler

Wow, what a change! - Josh Chandler

Digging the default dashboard look. - TDavid