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Do you think iJustine might claim? http://tastyblogsnack.com/2008... - Josh Chandler
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“ok, its official I am a mean blogger, not a good thing to say about the last two companies I reviewed on my blog”
yesterday at 3:26 pm - Link
ok, maybe a slight correction. I did like Tr.im! - Josh Chandler
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This will save every new parent a ton of money on those books you can buy with Baby Names! - Josh Chandler
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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
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“is it right for Obama to be favouring Youtube ahead of say Viddler, Vimeo etc etc?”
Sunday at 2:05 pm - Link
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
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November 13 at 5:22 pm - Link
I wonder why Scoble liked this? - Josh Chandler
Because he likes us. :-) - Seagate
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Friday at 10:15 am - Link
Here is a closer image of the protype: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aut... - Josh Chandler
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Friday at 10:06 am - Link
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
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Svetlana Gladkova posted an entry on Profy
November 13 at 7:15 am - Link
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
My decision is to provide primary e-mail (or any other important account) login/password only in the case that the site is old enough (few years would be enough), have fine reputation and using it is really necessary for me. If not, just don't use this service. - Anton
The most obvious option is to just not sign up for a service right away. Wait a few weeks, months, or heck, even years. If the service was not worthy of your time, it will have died by then. Early adopter behavior isn't always the smartest, and there's a reason it's not the norm. - Jason Kaneshiro
Early adopters do help a little to set the wheels into motion, the early adopters understand the importance of a product being successful and help to create a community buzz around a newly launched site! - Josh Chandler
Josh, absolutely true, being reasonable is the best thing a person can do to protect him/herself from potential scammers so reading FAQ must be a must for us while startups that need to offer things that can be viewed insecure by users should really bother to provide enough answers to the questions that may arise. - Svetlana Gladkova
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
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November 13 at 3:35 pm - Link
How long did that take!! - Josh Chandler
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November 13 at 3:03 pm - Link
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
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“Big Mention, this is NOT a paid advertisment, just a recommendation from a product created by a good friend of mine. Marc Liron has produced a fantastic piece of software called Data Bucket Pro, this desktop application allows really fast uploads and creation of folders in the Amazon S3 service.”
November 13 at 2:57 pm - Link
Currently uploading a .mp3 file to one of my Amazon buckets and it just works great, really really fast. - Josh Chandler
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November 13 at 2:56 pm - Link
I am guilty as charged with this one, although I don't own a nice expensive one thankfully! - Josh Chandler
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“What would the Romans say if they visited in our offices in a time machine and saw us pecking away at computers all day?”
What would the Romans say if they visited in our offices in a time machine and saw us pecking away at computers all day?
November 13 at 2:39 pm - Link
the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ;-) - Valeria Maltoni
@Valeria they would say "if only they ate more of our waffles." - Steve Rubel
That has been my life over the last 13+ years. - Seagate
They would want to know whether they should get Windows or Mac! - Josh Chandler
They'd be honored Google Earth just launched a 3D View of them AND there's a new 3D Roman theater at the Coliseum! - Mona N.
They would be delighted there was so much free porn. - Amber aka SDA
both the monkey and the final guy have pretty bad posture... ;) - Adam Singer
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
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Valleywag's demise shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood | Technology | Los Angeles Times
November 13 at 2:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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
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November 13 at 2:45 pm - via FriendFeed MT Plugin - Link
Totally have to agree with Sarah's choice of Cooliris.com, absoutely love that service. - Josh Chandler via FriendFeed MT Plugin
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“Who here is guilty of not using a cover for their laptop when then really should? http://tinyurl.com/5tak8b
November 13 at 2:41 pm - Link
Pure paranoia if you ask me *ahem* http://tinyurl.com/6oersg - Josh Chandler
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November 13 at 2:04 pm - Link
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
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Svetlana Gladkova posted an entry on Profy
November 11 at 6:55 am - Link
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
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November 12 at 3:44 pm - Link
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
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“In Time For The Penny-Pinching Holidays Comes Yahoo Deals ie Yahoo needs a break from it's amazing (!) work with Microsoft to prove it is THE central hub for all christmas shopping! Screw you Google and Kelkoo and PriceGrabber, Yahoo's in Town!”
November 12 at 3:17 pm - Link
Here is the link to the Techcrunch article on it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Josh Chandler
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November 12 at 1:12 pm - Link
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
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Svetlana Gladkova posted an entry on Profy
November 11 at 3:52 am - Link
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
Depends on what you pay I guess and what the potential is for revenue. I am guessing that anybody stupid enough to follow the spam link is a prime candidate for fleecing. - Brian Sullivan
Brian: True, it is all the issue of costs low enough to make the entire process reasonable with the tiny response rate like this. But unless I see less spam landing in my inbox, I will hardly believe spam is really not profitable. - Svetlana Gladkova
Blaim the Spam on the Chinese! They trying to subvert our productivity! LOL - Igor The Troll
Josh, I'm definitely no mathematician myself but I think the figure is even lower but judging by the volume of spam in my inbox the costs and profits must be balanced enough to make the business economically rational :) - Svetlana Gladkova
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
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November 11 at 12:45 pm - Link
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
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November 10 at 6:05 am - Link
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
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November 9 at 10:50 am - Link
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
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November 7 at 10:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Wow, what a change! - Josh Chandler
Digging the default dashboard look. - TDavid
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