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Business class airfare on Emirates Airlines: $10,000. Five nights at the Shangri-La Hotel, $2500. 18 minutes at TEDx Dubai: priceless.
Anthony Farrior, Josh Wilkins, Charlotte M and 31 other people liked this
Have fun Leo!
- Seth Goldstein
$10k? Seriously? Wow.
- Rochelle
Leaving Alex Lindsay to take your place for the week? Inspired!
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
holy crap. They must really want you. Congrats Leo!
- Chris
Whewwwwwwww
- Justin Gerard
18 minutes that will change the lives of many people. No pressure ;)
- Johnny Makkar
So you're giving a $12,500 speech? Talk about pressure.
- Derek Bender
500 a night for the hotel..sounds like a dive..bring your own t.p.
- Tony Klein
Do you need a personal assistant? I have a passport!
- Jim
What a rip. I got 5 nights at Shangri-L8 motel for $2499.
- John Rubier
Sounds like it will be a blast Leo, cost or no cost.
- rob friedman
Sounds about right, this is what I usually pay... Enjoy it!
- Tyson Williams
$12,500 for a professional speaker is nothing. Some of these guys get six figures.
- David
It's good to be the king...of the internet.
- Cassidy
$12,500 "pay" for an 18 minute speech is $11.57 per second. To avoid cheating your audience, don't inhale.
- Mark Hartwell
My sister's at the "exploratory"phase. They want to know what she might speak about for 18 minutes at TED Long Beach next February. Gulp! General topic is "What the World Needs Now". There are 12 sessions and each of them have a name: Insight, Courage, Discovery, Provocation, Invention, Imagination, Inspiration, Reason, Energy, Laughter, Simplicity, Wisdom. So, suggestions? Her site is http://www.wisdomofwhores.com
- Mark Zip
:)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Have a good one
- Geoffrey de Caires
You obviously are SOOOO worth it! Have a great time!
- Cheryl L.
The airfare makes the hotel price seem reasonable!
- Michael Saylor
Micheal :))
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
I've never understood those ads, because really, it's not priceless, it's upwards to 13K ;)
- anna sauce
I can't get on Twitter and I can't login to Facebook. Either my IP has been blocked are it's a sad day for social media. But wait, there's FriendFeed.
Johnny Makkar, Ruby Sinreich and Soulfull liked this
heh, I just did the same thing.
- Deanna Zandt
I was just wondering about twitter....
- Liz
it's a sad day for social media. twitter is down. :-)
- tiffany
Fun seeing some people freak out http://search.twitter.com/search...
- Johnny Makkar
it was such a strange morning.
- Lynne d Johnson
all i want to do is twitter that twitter is down. sigh. this will have to suffice.
MsJosay, Carlo Nasuti, Johnny Makkar and 2 other people liked this
Feels so weird... so quiet... so little... distractions right now heh.
- Hector
Wonder how long Twitter would have to go down to get people to consider using something else.
- Daniel Sims
Update from their blog: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack.
- Johnny Makkar
hector - yeah i know! i dont constantly look at my second screen which is full-screen tweetdeck haha
- Paul Stamatiou
Banks are starting to make money, hopefully that trickles down all the way to doing more aggressive digital+mobile work. http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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Smartphone App Wars: Palm's Mojo Application SDK Stumbles Into Battle - http://www.fastcompany.com/node...
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TWiT 197: Steal This Diploma - http://twit.tv/197
Cornelius Toole, Zachary TG, Johnny Makkar and 16 other people liked this
Looking forward to updating my pod!
- Kevin J Hatton
LEO: I really enjoyed this episode and the sort of "big picture" look at technology and culture. It made me think of an idea for a TWiT show. What if you created some sort of Digg-esque page on twit.tv. There, people could submit specific big picture topic ideas and the twit army would vote on the topic they were most interested in. Then every month, or whatever frequency you selected,...
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- Mike Bracco
It's amazing I can listen to TWiT right here from FriendFeed. Amazing.
- Michelle McCormack
I really liked the discussion on college and teaching methods. Probably one of the best discussions I've heard about the subject.
- TeraDyne Azurepaw
Best TWIT ever. And I was this close to unsubscribing a few weeks ago when drinking spaced out...
- Peter Nõu
It was a little more pertinent than usual. I don't know if that's good or bad, though :) Wait, was Twitter mentioned?
- randulo
looking forward to This Week In The Cloud
- Christopher Harris
Excellent show this week. Great panel.
- Doug Slater
Fantastic episode. Thank you Leo. Hoping all TWiTs are this good.
- Venu Vedam
from Nambu
I really enjoyed the episode but disagree with some points in the discussion about education. Firstly, standardized tests are a necessity in admissions process. How else to compare thousands of applicants? I understand the frustration associated with SAT (I have never taken it but know GRE all too well) but this is one of the very few objective measures/indicators available for...
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- maciej
listening now!
- andy brudtkuhl
Looking forward to listening to it soon.
- Zachary TG
This explains the 1,000 hits to my site for a post that's a year old: http://www.boingboing.net/2009... - v.odd that he picked up on it a full year later
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Palm Pre Challenges iPhone to a Duel On June 6--Who Will Win? - http://www.fastcompany.com/node...
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text "fan FastCompany" to FBOOK (32665) from your mobile phone, and you'll be added as a Fast Company fan on Facebook instantly
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Bar Serving Alcoholic Mist Gets You Drunk as You Breathe | Design & Innovation | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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O_o
- Derrick
Adventureland - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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VOTE: Yes or no - service icons (favicons) back?
bnoise, Darren Heydon, Johnny Makkar and 109 other people liked this
yes
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
YES!!!
- Alejandro
Yes and bring back the duplicate detector.
- Kol Tregaskes
yes
- Rahul Das
YES
- Alfredo
yes pleaseeeeeeee.\
- Zafarali
No, I think they are unnecessary.
- Andrew Roche
Yes. Put them just before the timestamp, right above where the smiley face shows up if an item has likes, or in the lower right corner of the profile pic.
- Ken Sheppardson
yes, move them somewhere they don't take up a whole column
- Carlos Morgado
Yes please.
- James Ferguson
yes
- Bryan R. Adams
@Carlos, I suppose they they could go inline with the other meta info, then they would not be so distracting.
- Andrew Roche
yes
- march
yes
- Philip Lei
yes
- andy brudtkuhl
no
- Rich
YES
- nicolatbr
yes
- Araceli
yes.
- Helen Sventitsky
Absolutely positively YES.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
yes
- Seth Greenblatt
yes!
- lautaro
Yes. Perhaps in a corner of the avatar picture?
- Gorm
Yes! One million time "yes!" :)
- Numan Arda Çebi
yes
- sunipeyk
yesso!
- Eda Demir
yes
- bilge kagan
yes
- Filiz Koyuncu
yes
- Yolanda
yes
- LogEx
yes please
- Jay
Yes
- Timothy Griffin
yes!
- Mustafa Öztürk
Yes
- Kevin D. White
Yes. Although I'm getting used to just glancing for the text.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes.
- Rochelle
Yes
- Brian Sullivan
Yes
- Kevin Johnson
yes
- Robert DeBord
Yes!
- Eric P
most people want it back!
- Zafarali
yes
- Edward Zwart
Yes.
- Alex Scoble
Definitely yes
- Herb Hernandez
yes
- BCK
yes
- Eric Logan
YES
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
yes
- F. Batuhan Icoz
yes
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Yes.
- Anıl Eren
yup.
- zeroinfluencer
YES
- Davide Leonelli
Yes
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
yes
- binic
yes
- AJ Kohn
yes
- Juan Pablo González
yes
- Alp
YES
- MikeAmundsen
yes, may be next to the text "from ..."
- settolo
yes
- Roger Chen
yes
- Tony Ruscoe
I could say no to be difficult, but yes.
- Sparky
Yes.
- Joey Gibson
Yes, please
- Justin Korn
Yes. Faster to recognize when scanning a page
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Yes
- Deniz Utku
Yes
- JSNFLMNG
yes
- Arthur Guy
Only because I like to filter by service easily
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
no
- acedanger
No.
- Admiral Anika
I'm not missing them, so no
- Bwana ☠
not missing em either...but... whatever like.. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
no
- Maxine
Yes, please add the service icons back. They help for scanning the feeds and quickly focusing specific services
- Walt Ruppar
yes
- chrisofspades
Yes
- mjc
YES YES YES YES YES
- Abigail
just an option to show them would be fine - can be hidden by default, if it's easier on noobs
- Christopher Galtenberg
yes
- NiMA
no
- Mario
Yes.
- Daniel Rowley
yes
- Katy S
Yes.
- Hassan Ibraheem
yes
- Barış ALTUN
Yes!
- Stephen Francoeur
Yes
- Ladybug Heather
I like the icons.
- Bora Zivkovic
yes
- Derek Coward
yes
- Goktug Gedik
Wow, nearly all Yes'. Where would you put the icon? I'd be happy with a favicon size, nothing better.
- Kol Tregaskes
Duh, yeah
- Outsanity
yes
- Maggie
yes, please bring them back!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
yes.
- John Dupuis
Yes.
- Kevin Pedraja
yes
- نجاتی
Yes
- Iván Abrego
yes
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
NO
- MAS
Yes. I suggest either left of the timestamp or left of the source domain (twitter.com, identi.ca, etc.)
- Voyagerfan5761
from fftogo
yes
- Mihai Secasiu
Yes.
- Peter Murray
No
- MAS
Yes
- Russ Jackson
I like the profile pic beside the post, but I'd like a smaller favicon in the mix too. So, take that how you will.
- Christian (Simply X)
Yes
- Keith McCammon
Please, please, please. Pretty please!
- Marco Neves
Yes - Small size :)
- CantorJF
I'm realizing I miss them. But I like having everyone's profile picture there.
- Nurse Katie
Yes
- Joe Pierce
Katie, yeah I like the profile pics too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, Bring them back! I was trying to edit AJ Batac's greasemonkey script to bring them back at least for myself :-/
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Yes please
- Patrick Jordan
yes
- ♥patricia♥
Yes, please!
- Michael McKean
Yes! As well as 'service=' parameter.
- LouCypher
YES
- Kristian Salonen
Yes, think it was nice and unobtrusive in the old ff real-time feed
- Peder Stray
wow. Not if it means not having the profile pic next to the post.
- Jim Addz No Value
Yes, I like the icons. Put them next to the service (digg, etc) and make 'em small! :)
- Amy H.
Can be done by editing AJ Batac's greasemonkey script but it's a lotta work: http://beta.friendfeed.com/zoblue...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Yes
- OnuRC
yes
- Roberto Bonini
yes
- Ömer Enis
absolutely yes!
- Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
No. Rather, I want some "intelligent" content preview. Article, picture, video or audio? How long is the article? From a magazine, newspaper or blog? That kind of stuff would be nice to know. The particular service doesn't interest me much, the type of content all the more.
- Meryn Stol
absolutely yes !
- Murat Can Demir
yes!
- Ricardo Vidal
yes
- Andy Bakun
Yes please.
- Chris Nixon
Yes
- Ton Zijp
yes, please.
- Juras Vetrau
yes 2 :))
- نجاتی
yes please!
- Ebm
absolutely yes!
- Dinçer
I like the favicons -- yes
- Shane Pearson
Yes
- Brian
yes, because they allow me to do a quick filter on the news stream.
- Peter Hoffmann
yes
- Oğulcan Orhan
yes
- Kelly W.
yes
- EricaJoy
don't care
- Victor Ganata
No.
- Larry Hudson
yes
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
YES! It's one of the main things that distinguishes FF from Twitter and Facebook.
- Mark Krynsky
Yes:)
- Nia
Yes, please, at least give the option. By the timestamp on posts would be nice.
- Alix Whitmire
YES. IMMEDIATELY and POST-HASTE!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Yes!
- Andre P. Siregar
Yes. I would like to see the service icons return. But don't get rid of the profile pictures with each post, either.
- Tommy Williams
yes!!!
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
Yes
- Tracy Benham
yes. and better, as an option. ..now can we have a "normal" voting/poll facility?
- Petr Buben
I can live with either approach, so small icons and/or user-option to turn on large icons. Also like Meryn's content preview idea, somewhat like cover flow I suppose.
- Micah Wittman
Yes
- David HC Soul
Yes. And also a "comment" link at the bottom of threads. That's the moment I wanna say something.
- Jesper Lind
Yesy
- Glenn Slaven
.::YES::.
- SpAb
__,..( Yes )..,__ Throwing the ball to the next 'yes'.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I would say yes, but where would they go? I think the interface might get cluttered with them in there.
- Aaron Hood
I think the logic behind having them go away makes a lot of sense; makes everything feel much more unified; if there was a unified way to respond to the external service it would be even better.
- Bill Rawlinson
Yes.
- imabonehead
Yes, to me they provide needed context
- Alan Cheslow
Yes, absolutely. Yesterday I posted a screen shot of what can happen without them. http://bit.ly/RM1r
- Rebecca
YES!!!
- Mr. Gunn
yes
- Neil Saunders
yes please
- tim
Yes.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Definitely YES. Unified when you want it is good. When you don't want it, it sucks. Either bring back the icons so you can scan for posts from a certain service or bring back the service filter buttons to eliminate all that you don't want or bring back BOTH so the user has control over their own environment in which to work. Having the small service icons go only TO the service source is a waste and takes you out of the FF environment.
- B.E. (BJ) Johnson
yes. had a post from Facebook that caused confusion because of the lack of them.
- Kamilah Gill
Yes, yes, YES!!
- April Russo (app103)
yes
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
yes.
- Andrew C
Yes. As overlays to userpics. Or placed next to 'em.
- Anton
yes
- Bastard Operator From FF
yes
- Keith - @tsudo
Yes! I'm on my way to Hollywood?
- George The Writer
yep
- sG
It's looking like 95%/5% In favor of bringing the service icons back, with a sample size of almost 200. By no means is this scientific, but we're approaching real numbers here, not even considering all the other items which are also overwhelmingly in support of restoring the icons.
- Mr. Gunn
YES
- Live4Emma (L4S)
y
- kosmar
yes
- abe
yes
- 士慷
yes - tmedak
- Tomislav Medak
yes
- esorhjy
No. Not missing them. I mean who really cares where it came from, it's here now.
- Joe Bland
yes
- Luca Conti
yes
- Jorg Jansen
yes
- pm10
yes
- Neo Lee
Meh
- Johnny Worthington
I'd at least still like to access favicons in case I want to add new feeds to my FF.
- George Hall (Australia)
yes, please.
- Guy Vander Heyden
yes agen
- Zafarali
yes
- 佛徒
No
- Alp
yes
- 布苏湖
yes
- siggimus
Yes,it's necessary.
- boynew
honestly, i havent missed them at all - but seems I am an exception in a world obsessed with service related discrimination
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
yes
- Fake
yes
- K.D.
Joelle, you are not the only exception. After couple of days of using the new FF I don't miss them at all. I've noticed that I really don't care anymore what's the source of the post.
- Tapio Kulmala
yes!!!
- Miyaoka Hitchcock
yes - it's not the icons themselves that I need so much as the ability to filter by service. I often want to see ONLY a particular person's blog posts, or tweets, or photos, or songs, or movies.
- Laura Norvig
Yes.
- 0M0M
yes
- Ian Yang
Yes. But why not make them optional?
- Goran Zec
are we saying in lieu of profile pics? cause then I would vote no... but it would be nice to see them next to the time stamp or something like that.
- Frankie Warren
Right next to the timestamp is the perfect place for them.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
How about this suggestion for if the icons don't come back: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
yes please
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Yes! Please
- Anthony K. Valley ©
yes ..
- ♪♫ halilinho ♪♫
yes--i like the optional idea
- Jeremy Schultz
Yes please.
- Chris Loft
Yes, please. I miss them
- arjo
Yes!
- Nation Hahn
yes
- Michael Hocter
yes
- Valley
doesn't matter to me
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
YES
- Dogan Tuncer
yes
- Peter Ghosh
favicons should smaller
- junrxu
note that you can still filter by service without the favicons being showns...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle - how, exactly? By creating a heap of filters fo each service? That's the only way I can see and it's way less convenient than just hitting the icon.
- Neil Saunders
Yes I am interested as well- how can you filter by service using the new interface?
- Brian Sullivan
YES
- Meredith
Yes!! It's very important.
- BBroker
Yes Man, Yes Man, Yes Man, YES ! :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yes!
- Michael Fidler
yes
- Bertrand Doux
to everyone who is saying yes, I'd say: wait for a week or so with the new interface, and then answer again. But I agree, at first glance the service icons seem to be needed... but most likely, only because we were used to them, and not because they were really needed...
- Paulo Gomes
Yes or a greasemonkey script would be cool
- Sarah Perez
Yes.
- Richard Carter, FCD
YES
- Kamath (नमः)
yes
- Kentaro Goto
Yes
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
definitely yes
- Stanislas Jourdan
yes
- Paul Arterburn
yes
- Rachel Lea Fox
yes
- Burak Kantarcı
+yes
- sofarsoShawn
yes
- Phil Ashman
for those that said yes, a greasemonkey script: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- chrisofspades
FriendFeed Poll customization hack (just a proof of concept that at this point only works for this very "poll post" by Kol): http://wittman.org/project... Place in a GreaseMonkey script or just copy and paste it right into the Firebug console input. It currently reports: Y:204 | N:23 | Other:7
- Micah Wittman
Micah, cool, perhaps post this note here too: http://beta.friendfeed.com/i-the-n...
- Kol Tregaskes
No
- John E. Bredehoft
Thanks, Kol - just did that.
- Micah Wittman
Would someone like to please work up a regex in place of the indexOf('yes') etc in http://wittman.org/project... Thanks!
- Micah Wittman
Yes.
- Jack Frizzell
Yes
- Kazutaka Ogaki
Yes
- Miguel Caetano
yes
- Grant Bierman
no - not necessary. Focus on the CONTENT :) that is what matters most.
- Susan Beebe
Ok, I did up the regex and updated the friendfeedPoll script here: http://wittman.org/project... - the numbers are more accurate now and unknowns are listed so they can be evaluated manually.
- Micah Wittman
friendfeedPoll calculation as of now: (Of 268): Y:216 | N:21 | (?):31
- Micah Wittman
Micah, the stats are certainly useful.
- Kol Tregaskes
yes
- George Arnaoutoglou
Yes
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
YYYYEEEESSS
- aron
YES
- bnoise
Yes we can.
- BBroker
*nod nod nod*
- embee
at least give me the option.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Optional - No, by default
- Nathan Chase
YES.
- D0r0th34
Yes to favicons especially because they help sort/filter the content into respective sources (and so if you want to you can feed a whole heap of twitters, for example, out.
- George Hall (Australia)
Vote yes. Definitely need to be able to filter by source, otherwise it's just not friendfeed!
- aarontay
Yes please.
- Johnny Makkar
absolutely YES!
- hyu
no, although it would be okay as an option
- Mike Chelen
aarontay: service filtering still works, but there are no icons
- Mike Chelen
@MIke - but they *do* exist in the feed, but for some reason they're not displayed. When I was pulling my Friendfeed feed into a lifestream page on my blog, I was surprised to them appear, but there they were.
- Andrew Terry
yes yes yes
- bnoise
boxee blog » introducing the boxee API - http://blog.boxee.tv/2009...
Mahesh CR, Quasar, Johnny Makkar and 7 other people liked this
"the new boxee API enables developers to build sophisticated applications (such as the Pandora and RadioTime apps) using a set of API calls in Python and writing the GUI using XML."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
the xkcd is funny. reminds me of a public service announcement i just saw encouraging parents to talk to their kids about python...
- Karim
Let's see how it does, will you?
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Video recording looks to be a go in the new iPhone. What about the old ones? - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
Nigel Kitchen, Praveen Vasudev, Jeff and 11 other people liked this
finally.
- vijay
Anyone has idea if video recording will be available on current hardware?
- andrei_c
that's what i ask in that too. certainly, it's possible, qik and others have proven that. but i'd guess apple wants it for the new iphone.
- MG Siegler
i can finally go back to a non-jailbroken phone! :D
- Robert DeBord
is iPhone 3.0 going to be available on the 3G as well? Or strictly for the new iPhone?
- brainno722 (Peter)
Well it's about time. I didn't want to hack my phone to use Qik!
- Janet Fouts
Yes! Not that the Ustream App isn't cool, but this is great news.
- Brandon Mendelson
it's the inevitable evolution for iPhone to have native video capabilities... i don't think it's too much of a surprise
- Nathan Chase
Hope it gets ported to the iPhone 3G - that'll stop people looking down on me......
- Roberto Bonini
I am really so surprised at all the 'new' things on iPhones that my Blackberry has had for a year, such as cut and paste, the ability to run more than one app at at a time, stereo bluetooth, and video recording.
- Ian May
To be fair, Apple is the new kid on the block.
- Roberto Bonini
For a bunch of "tech/ early adopters" it is amazing how many are scared to simply jailbreak the thing; you can always revert
- coldbrew
Glad I didn't update to iPhone 3G,, I'm still running the 1st Gen.
- Jeff
We Live In Public - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Victor Panlilio, Aram Zucker-Scharff, Susan Beebe and 8 other people liked this
Met up with both Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner at a Tweetup in Salt Lake City. Really cool documentary and story.
- Ghennipher
Say this last night at Walter Reade Theater and enjoyed it.
- Johnny Makkar
Fast 50 Follow-Up: 10 Companies We Missed - http://www.fastcompany.com/node...
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Facebook now allows you to create family groups http://www.facebook.com/login...
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$700 Billion Bailout Celebrated With Lavish $800 Billion Executive Party - The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/content...
Bing Yan, Tracy, David (slumrig) and 60 other people liked this
""I'm glad we were all humble enough to recognize that we couldn't do this on our own," said AIG CEO Edward Liddy, sitting in a hot tub filled with Cristal and seven dozen endangered-quail eggs. "Having come so close to disaster, it is crucial that I eat these 24-karat-gold-leaf-wrapped chocolate truffles to boost stockholder morale and show all the critics and naysayers that we are carrying on just as we always have." "Do not worry, America," Liddy added. "It's business as usual at AIG.""
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
When did The Onion begin reporting serious news?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Mark I don't know but they have been right on lately.
- Uncle CW™
heh at first glance I thought this was real
- grant fox
Nailing the AIG meme
- Hutch Carpenter
Hey, they should be allowed to celebrate the receipt of the 700 billion in bailout funds...They should have kept the party budget below the bailout amount, but come on people! Which one of us HASN'T gone over budget by $100 billion when organizing a special event?? Let's make sure our houses are clean before we go judging the houses of others...
- Morgan Haley
The craziest thing is that this article was written in December 2008. Good to see that AIG is still keepin' it real.
- Ana
Whats especially (not) funny about this is that The Onion's bailout tab is likely to end up closer to the truth than the one being tossed around presently ($180b).
- Anthony Citrano
Leave it to comedians to cut through the BS and tell us how it really is. There's a reason why a king had a court jester. Look it up... (Jester on wikipedia). I nominate Jon Stewart as Secretary of Jester.
- Eric Thompson
I think Liddy is getting a bum rap. He didn't lead AIG into this mess, he was brought on six months ago to fix it. It's just easy to be mad at him even when the overwhelming majority of angry people don't understand what is going on; they just think they do. http://finalcut.newsvine.com/_news...
- Bill Rawlinson
46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites | Soshable | Social Media Blog - http://soshable.com/digg-wh...
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Interesting, but those are all of the most productive sites in terms of new content generation. I'm not sure what else one would expect to be the case.
- Bryan Danilovich
Yeah, I never really got into Digg for this very reason. Instead of feeling like a resource for unique community-found content, it just feels like I'm just getting The NY Times.
- Ryan Garns
TWiT 186: TWiTs In Space - http://twit.tv/186
Johnny Makkar, Chris Heath, Daniel Rowley and 2 other people liked this
The Rising Power Of Social Media As A Traffic Driver - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Nicholas James, Timo Heuer, mike "glemak" dunn and 7 other people liked this
Apple stupidly rejects Tweetie 1.3 for foul language in Twitter trends - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Rick Cogley, sofarsoShawn, Will Higgins™ and 30 other people liked this
I would suggest that everyone hashtags #tweetie on twitter for the next few days so that Apple Inquisitors are comfortable with it
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Absurd.
- Clay Newton
It won't stay.
- Christopher Harley
omg I LOVE TWEETIE. damn you apple
- Erin @queenofspain
You've got to be kidding me. I guess they had too many deserving new fart app updates or something.
- Warner Crocker
Apps can't be held responsible for content they don't own. This is ridonkulous. I <3 Tweetie!
- Abbas Haider Ali
What new features are in Tweetie 1.3?
- Kevin Whalen
@Kevin Take a look: http://blog.atebits.com/2009... Lots of good stuff!
- Christopher Harley
Perhaps Apple's problem is with the Russian and German Localization. Some cold war fighter is still holding out.
- Jimmy Walker
Apple apparently changed their mind, is going to allow the app. see http://venturebeat.com/2009...
- Karim
Update is available now on the app store. I just downloaded it. Love the RT (vs. via) style for RT. New dark theme is cool too.
- Abbas Haider Ali
How asinine of that Apple reviewer not to understand that those trending words have nothing to do with Tweetie. I'm glad they figured out their cock-up.
- Rick Cogley
cloud.li - http://cloud.li/
Johnny Makkar and Thom Kennon liked this
this tool is great
- Thom Kennon
Where is cloud.li getting its data from?
- Jayson Elliot
Jayson Elliot: From Twitter of course. :)
- ElbertF
More Mac mini details: soldered processor, drive upgrades - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/apple...
Joshua, Roberto Bonini, Christopher Harley and 4 other people liked this
Throw in an HDMI connection and you'd have a real winner.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dvi to hdmi adapter = $3 not a problem
- Brian Roy
+1 Akiva (and not a hobbled one)
- Anthony Citrano
Brian, last time I checked, DVI didn't carry audio.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seems like the 'audio' thing is an issue people are wanting a solution to: http://tinyurl.com/d6nevr
- Fleagle
The problem is they might cripple the HDMI port due to DRM issues. I hope not.
- Anthony Citrano
Have You Ever Failed? - http://www.feld.com/wp...
Pete Delucchi, Zee., Ho John Lee and 23 other people liked this
I've been reflecting a lot recently on failure. One of the biggest problems with Boston's startup scene is that they don't take failure in the same way as out in Si Valley.
- mikepk
Everyone fails. Multiple times. It's about failing in new and interesting ways, learning from failure and how you accept the failure which is the key to success!
- Mona Nomura
If I had never failed how would I recognize success?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Lessons Learned is a term of art in project management. We value gleening all we can from mistakes so we learn and don't repeat them.
- Susan Beebe
Of course I've failed. And ... remember, fail 6 times out of 10 and you're in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- AJ Kohn
Nope, never.
- Mistletoe Glen
Yes, and it scares me silly.
- Vicky
Yep loads of times
- Thomas Power
Don't most people redefine success instead of declare failure?
- Mr. Gunn
I credit my failures with any success since then. Yep, twice ... both big time
- Charlie Anzman
i fail at trying to get on digg every day
- Allen Stern
The mystery behind FOLLOW and UNFOLLOW on Twitter revealed http://openpresswire.com/interne...
Johnny Makkar liked this
It's Official: Android Market Now Open For Paid Apps - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
Johnny Makkar liked this
Is Silicon Valley seeing an economic turnaround? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James, Yan and 7 other people liked this
does a 360 count as a turnaround?
- Morgan Haley
Paid Apps Enter Google’s Android Market - http://mashable.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James, Johnny Makkar and 3 other people liked this
Had a nice breakfast with about 100 San Francisco business founders this morning. Being around entrepreneurs sure makes you optimistic!
John Furrier, Sinan Ata, Nurse Katie and 18 other people liked this
I interviewed Craig Newmark about what he's seeing happen on Craig's List due to the economy. That video should be up soon.
- Robert Scoble
just curious: What did they say that impressed you?
- William Mougayar
Entrepreneurs are optimistic because they are always under a squeeze -- I think being squeezed causes entrepreneurs to be creative.
- Robert Scoble
When I was a kid and just did things that 'created' something which included clean revenue, I was at my best. Then I learned the word entrepreneur, an it got much harder.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
indeed. They were built for pressure and eat "You can't do that" for breakfast.
- Josh Haley
William: they see opportunity due everywhere they look due to lots of people on the street and a lot less competition.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, imho, nowadays "entrepreneurs" are not really creating new "stuff", they're creating money, and yes that's different :)
- directeur
directeur: sorry, entrepreneurs now are creating products, not money. There's not many people making money in this world.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, isn't a product -by definition- about money?
- directeur
directeur: I think Robert got the first part right... the second part is that entrepreneurs are back to starting with a value proposition for their customers. All of a sudden I hear a lot less "people will want it because it is cool".
- Brian Roy
Brian, I see, and I actually agree with Robert that entrepreneurs make you optimistic. (I am a modest one btw) What I mean, is that now, generally people create (or let's say the word "imitate") to make money.
- directeur
I think being an entrepreneur has always been about making money. People that make things with no regard to making money are called hobbyists.
- Brian Sullivan
My Opinion, for what it is worth: The good ones create (innovate, replicate, or improve) to create value for some group of people. If they do that well they make money. If you start with the end of "making money" in mind you become Enron or Bernie Madoff (sp?). If you look to add value/solve important problems you become Intuit or Apple (if you get really, really lucky and work very, very hard).
- Brian Roy
+1 Brian Sullivan! Entrepreneur from the verb "Entreprendre" (french one) and Entreprise (company) -A company is about money AND "pérennité" (which in french means to to ensure the continued existence of)
- directeur
Brian Sullivan - or inventors.
- Russellreno
A large part of that 'optimistic feeling' either felt or observed comes from passion many entrepreneurs pursue their endeavors with (in good or bad times)
- Lyn Graft
I'm suggesting there is a difference between the measured outcome metric ($$$/Balance Sheet) and HOW you run the company to make that happen. A company is about money - but HOW and WHAT you do to get to that matters. If you don't create value for customers you won't generate revenue, if you don't generate revenue you can't be profitable.
- Brian Roy
"Value" though is a malleable soft subjective word. Profit and revenue are hard metrics.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian S - Yes, value is malleable. But if you don't create value in the minds of your target customers - you will not generate revenue - and you are done. I didn't say we shouldn't measure the output metric - and use that as a measure of our success - I said entrepreneurs (the really good ones) are about the customer value proposition first, not money first. They know if you do the former the latter is a question of execution.
- Brian Roy
Brian R -- not disagreeing with you -- just clarifying.
- Brian Sullivan
Ah... gotcha. Something I'm fairly passionate about... so excuse my fervor.
- Brian Roy
Me as well.
- Brian Sullivan
To some of us it would be insult to say entrepreneurs are just creating ( or trying to create ) money. The feeling I get from creating something means much more to me than money. The freedom of doing what I love means much more than money.
- jkkmobile
jkkmobile - Nobody said entrepreneurs are trying to "create" money. "Making money" is not "creating" money -- it is producing something (generally something new or innovative) that people are willing to pay for while paying less for the making -- that is making profit. I don't know why you would be insulted. You may get a great feeling creating something and doing what you love but that does not make you an entrepreneur -- an artist, a hobbyist, an inventor maybe but not an entrepreneur,
- Brian Sullivan
Optimism needs to be passed to our kids. They're reading and hearing all this stuff. They need it more than anyone...
- Charlie Anzman
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