I just signed up. Has anyone tried this? - Jon West
Trying it out. It's only SF restaurants in here! It's bad form, beta or not, to have no communication to the user that the service has no restaurants beyond their local area (and therefore zero value for us in LA). - Bryan Landers
That's too bad. I was ready to sign up too. They do say additional cities are planned for the near future. Hope that's sooner than later. - Tsega Dinka
@Bryan You do realize that unlike SF, L.A is one big f*ing city with multiple areas with different dinner delivery services, right? - J.T Dabbagian
Haha @J.T sure is! But, how is it different for CityMint to build their database in LA vs SF? Looks like they're hooking up partnerships with individual restaurant owners (maybe in addition to adding them manually). You could knock down the bigger chains pretty easy and then go where there's the most user demand (they should start on the westside...Santa Monica, etc, since early adopters are likely to be there). Hook it up! I look forward to ordering Thai from a local restaurant in LA... - Bryan Landers
"How do TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends, of course. Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, now a foe of editor Michael Arrington, posted a screenshot from his inbox revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear; two from TechCrunchIT, Arrington's incomprehensible enterprise-tech spinoff; plus two or three interns." - Igor The Troll
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Holy crap! If that is true and diggs team knows that, I think techcrunch url maybe banned/punished. - k00pa
No, TechCrunch URL certainly won't be banned, no way, really. We have been banned once and I know it does not happen to sites like TC. - Svetlana Gladkova
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Yeah Kevin Rose is Captain Crunch boy! LOL - Igor The Troll
I wonder if Kevin will ban TechCrunch for a few days to get some hype for Digg? He definitely will get some PR out of this! LMAO - Igor The Troll
you can actually buy diggs -- i 4get the website but you pay $20 plus 1$ per digg. - john conroy
@john: Really? You mean you really-really can buy diggs? That's an amazing surprise to me! - Svetlana Gladkova
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this has been written about, speculated about ... true? not sure... and don't care enough about digg'o to investigate - Gregory Lent
gregory: It's just that I've seen tons of places and people trying to sell diggs. But it is just so obvious that all these patterns are penalized that I am surprised anyone still bothers. - Svetlana Gladkova
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i happen to submit there stuff to digg, but thats b/c i like it. interesting stuff, will look into it. - Leximo
shocking news; explains alot of stuff tho. ;) - ♣genieyclo♣
This should be no surprise, all the big players are starting to do this. Chicago Tribune employs a Digg spam force. - John Wesley
@John - shouldn't it mean social bookmarking is on its sunset boulevard? - Markingegno - Donato
Had a couple of problems with early versions of it, but the last couple of upgrades it has been very reliable. Certainly beats doing a manual upgrade. - Richard Peat
It's excellent, beats doing it all manually - Kol Tregaskes
Avynn just found this and found it extremely funny. This HUGE thing only held 135MB! I think it cost us $60+ back in 1997 or 1998. Yesterday I bought a 2GB tiny USB thumb drive for $10. Avynn thought it was hilarious that almost 20 of these things would fit on that tiny thumb drive... - Tad, Fool
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That was mine... I have the drive somewhere in our boxes of old electronics. - Lindsay Donaghe
Oh god, this is bringing back repressed memories. I remember the horrors of my syquest drives. We were so happy to replace them with Zip and Jaz disks when they came out. - Mark Trapp
Wasn't that the time of Zip and Jaz drives too? - Holger Eilhard
Ahh, back in the day. I remember my first computer having a whopping 750 MB Hard Drive! HUGE! - J.T Dabbagian
One of my first computers had a 250MB hard drive. I was so mad that Aldus Freehand 7 was bloated at 17MB. The SE/30 I had before that computer was even smaller. - Mark Trapp
A particular group at the newspaper I worked at thought that the proper way to deal with a Syquest disk that wouldn't unmount was to unplug the SCSI cord connecting it to the Mac. I became a king thanks to Norton Utilities. - Wade Dorrell
I remember storing data on 40MB versions of those back in the early 90's. - Gabe
And I thought the 8 GB Hard Drive my first computer had was small. Makes me feel childish, almost. What IS this thing, btw? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Yuvi, it's one of the first forms of removable storage after floppies and tapes. There were a series of mistakes in the 90s in terms of how to approach transferring large files after floppies became too small; syquest was one of them (Zip and Jaz were two others). They were unreliable, slow, and expensive. Eventually, these formats were all replaced when CD-Rs became cheap to use as a disposable medium. - Mark Trapp
This reminds me how I used to carry my entire semester project in a floppy those days... :) - Sudar
I remember 8 in floppys, dectapes and 5MB 15 in diameter multiplatter disk cartridges. At the time they were wondrous - Brian Sullivan
Yuvi - i think it's a cheap hard disk platter inside a plastic case. Like Mark said, we used it the same way we used CD ROMS later on. By the way, my first computer had 16k RAM and used 3.5" floppies that held, what? 128k per side? - Tad, Fool
I still have one, right here on my desk. Doesn't work anymore though. - Vincent X
Syquest was before Zip and Jaz. I came down with the click of death with a zip drive, resulting in hate and ire toward Iomega for several years. - Jason Kaneshiro
Wow! That brings back memories. My first PC was a '286 PS/2 Model 30 with a 10 MHz CPU and a 10 MB hard drive. - Bill Sodeman
""Does it make it better or worse that the concept artist (who designed the look, characters, everything) is a girl?" Actually, it's proof that a girl's worse nightmare, thanks to society, is to be "fat."" - J.T Dabbagian
You bring up some very good points in your blog. However, I have read the reason why there is a charge for the iPod Touch is because of some Sarbanes-Oxley accounting law; that says that items that are sold without a subscription model such as the iPhone will be charged a fee for upgrades. Now I am paraphrasing this, so it's not the exact quote. If I am wrong let me know. I have paid for both, and now I also own a new iPhone. I will be selling my iPod Touch, so I see the upgrades as a selling point. I also do understand that if you are on a tight budget $10.00 is a lot. I have been there myself. - Gerard Lagana
It's not so much Sarbanes-Oxley (which I'm not defending), but Apple's strict interpration of it. - Dr. Apps
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I guess Apple is trying to keep their nose clean, what with all the back dating options investigations they went through. In a way it kind of reminds me of the Apple II and Mac computers. Steve Jobs gave more resources to the Mac development than he did for the Apple II. - Gerard Lagana
UPDATE: I sent an email to Steve Jobs with this letter. After the call he made to the NYT journalist, I'm wondering what will happen, if anything. - J.T Dabbagian
Wow, Howlett and Scoble agree on something! Anyone see four bizarre horsemen running about? - J.T Dabbagian
Why do we agree? Because I read Dennis' Tweets and he reads mine! Think about THAT for a minute! Hahah! - Robert Scoble
@J.t.Dabbagian: - if you read what I write you will know that I am faor. That meas if Scoble FU's then I ream him. When He fixes it, then I give credit. Problem with that? - Dennis Howlett
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Robert, is that because you voluntarily follow such a large number of individuals? Do you think all the crap merits the 1 or 2 really good things? - Clint Ecker
I put a question ouyt to RS. Why are you guys being such a bunch of limp dicks? - Dennis Howlett
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Clint: it is well worth following so many in my mind, but, no, even if I just followed five people the Tweets are generally pretty crappy Want me to pick five people out and critique them? Dennis, what do you want me to answer? :-) - Robert Scoble
@RS -we're cool, I'm more concerned about those who think the BS peeps like I have to deal with. OK with thiat? - Dennis Howlett
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Not only that, but it's quite apparent that it's the twatterati's excuse to have a load of fawning 'interns' pander over their every request just to garner some kind of favour. - Paul Woodhouse
I think there is too much attempt to do PR on Twitter...most fail miserably because they have not built a community. - Scot Duke
@Paul Woodhouse - I'm sure you won't mind me telling you to fuck yourself re: Scoble. We can discuss this later over a pint. - Dennis Howlett
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Other than the occasional helpful or interesting post, its mostly crap from attention whores, But it is like a train wreck, Its bad but you cant turn away - Rodzilla
I want to be clear. Robert S and I agree about few thihngs, But...I respect he at least comes and asks my view on stuff he does, You don't like that then fsck off. Why? Cuz RS doesn't have to take note of anything I say...but he does. - Dennis Howlett
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If you are talking about @Twitter then it should be a bunch of PR. If you are talking about "Twitter" then I think it has to do with who and how many you are following as to how much PR you will receive. - Doug McCaughan
Dennis is the man. I appreciate constructive criticism, I always learn something from it. Dennis gets on my case, but it's always actionable stuff and he praises when I come up to his very high bar too, which some other people never do. It makes me want to reach higher. - Robert Scoble
While there are certainly some users who see Twitter as an extension of their site's RSS feed, I think there are so many more users who type consistently entertaining or insightful posts. Try @hotdogsladies @dickc @darthvader @evskeys @monstro @scottsimpson. A nonexclusive list of folks who crack me up and have zero PR agenda. - Christopher Sacca
@Dennis Howlett The pleasure will be all mine - on both counts. Are you getting the first ones or holding the door open as everybody else makes their way to the bar? - Paul Woodhouse
@Paul Woodhouse - the door is syurely open my friend. Please let - Dennis Howlett
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I agree with that. I used to watch recent/everyone feeds coming in, but there's so many companies on Twitter now soliciting for business that I don't bother anymore. - Carrie
Listened to twit tonight on pocast, very sadend to hear Leo use bad language, will not let my kids listen to twit now. Leo is above this :( - Vincent AKA Netdog
Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... Any social network is going to be invaded by commercial interests. They newness of the media makes it harder to tune out the advertising than "fast forward during the commercials". - Kumeelyun
I like that some BBerry users like to bemoan the iPhone for it's lack of Copy/Paste, among other missing features. It's not as though it aint coming soon, fellas. RIM-BIDDY BYE BYE, as Cyprus Hill once said. - Marko Bon
Actually, I was the conductor for the New York Philharmonic before Friendfeed came out. But mostly IRC, blog comments, Google Reader, Twitter. - Mark Trapp
Twitter & FF usage way up, Facebook way down - Jason Goldberg
Previously, I ran an internet addiction treatment center in South Korea. Now, I'm not only the President, I'm a client. - Dan Kaplan
Google Reader, Facebook and Twitter for me. - Kevin C. Tofel
Google Reader, MySpace (yeah, I said it), FaceBook, Yahoo IM - ♫ Rahsheen™
its been a pretty rapid ramp up for me - facebook opened the doors to twitter, twitter to friendfeed - mostly the net in general before that - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
More time in Google Reader; I've actually trimmed down my feeds because I see some of the same stuff in FriendFeed. - John Duff
err.. my blog. FF definitely cuts in to blog tinkering time. Before that, I mostly read fark and ars technica. All that was missing was the pot habit. - Phil Glockner
greader for feeds but also a lot of the services that are now integrated into ff i'd spend time at checking up on individuals w/in them - much slower and disjointed... - mike "glemak" dunn
Im a fark reader , google reader , techmeme ,, - johnpiercy
I was once the prince of Nigeria, until I surfed the web so much that I lost my throne in a revolution. But my riches are still in a bank account somewhere and now you can help me get it back! - Ernie Oporto
Facebook, I guess. I really spent a lot more time outside, too. - Zach Underwood
it's nice, but Agile Messenger for iPhone has all these features and more, along with running in the background. So that blog post is wrong when it says that there's only one application available that lets you connect to all IM networks. I wrote on Agile sometime ago at http://startupmeme.com/google-... - Imran Hussain
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Looks good, BUT ... there's no iPhone download ink on the Palringo page and using the SMS 'send me download link' results in 'unsupported device' page and no dice either - would be good if the post included info on how to get the app ... - Patrick Jordan
cool will check that out too - how is it able to run in the background, i thought that was not supported in the sdk? - mike "glemak" dunn
I guess, they're using methods which the earlier jail break apps used, and because of this, these apps probably aren't in the App Store. - Imran Hussain
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I am not sure why more people do not have Palringo on their iPhones. It Aggregates, all of my IM services (Yahoo!, GTalk, iChat, and AIM) It is as close as you can get to Adium on the phone, and helps to reduce the number of Text Messages you need to pay for :) - Steve Sill
"What a bunch of bullshit...what's the harm in letting the mural stay? It's a popular landmark, not something to be whitewashed at the whim of some organization." - J.T Dabbagian
"Twitter is one of those services that seems kind of stupid until you try it, and then you can't get enough of it. It's kind of like meth in that regard. Ok, bad metaphor. But anyway, the point is most people (my former self included) just don't get Twitter until they give it a whirl (Twhirl?) Then, they're hooked." - Sharon Bray-McPherson
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Sharon, thanks for sharing my post. What did you think - did I miss any must-have features? Others feel free to weigh in, too :) - Daniel Smith
"Walt Mossberg, who often borders on fanboy in his reviews on Apple's products, gave a dreaded thumbs down to Apple's MobileMe service." - Jonathon
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I haven't had a chance to see Mossberg's review yet. But, I was really suprised that he had something negative to say about Apple. Uncle Steve is not going to be happy with Walt. lol. - Gerard Lagana
He's off the Christmas Card list for sure. - Jonathon
It's good to know that Mossberg can give an objective review. But don't get me wrong. I still love my Apple products. - Gerard Lagana
Mac: Oh, hey, what's that? PC: Oh, it's the Wall Street Journal, specifically a review by Walt Mossberg, one of the most respected technology experts on the planet, as you said...well, he can't recommend MobileMe for crap. - J.T Dabbagian
"I just got a personal assistant, but they aren’t saving me any time. What am I doing wrong?
Several people have asked me about this. There are many different issues that could be involved, but I see a lot of people who hire an assistant and then can’t think of what they wanted them to do. Either that, or it turns out their original ideas are all things that really can’t be handed off to someone else." - Joel Falconer
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Sounds to me like you hired an assistant just becuase everyone else has one. Think of tasks that are horrendously menial, tedious, whatever. This is the job for the Office Bitch (Believe me, I was one.) - J.T Dabbagian
@J.T: I think a lot of people do that, actually. I've never hired an assistant, because I've structured my work life in such a way that there is no job for the Office Bitch to do. - Joel Falconer
The only issue I have right now with MobileMe is that it's only push from the iPhone, and not from the desktop or web app. I believe this is being worked on, and will be resolved in a latter release. However, Apple is known to have some bugs in their first run products. It's just now getting more attention because more people are using their products. - Gerard Lagana
Unlike the Apple loyalists that know these issues will be resolved. New customers are expecting the Service or Product to "Just Work" as Apple's slogan goes. Fortunate for Apple they tend to resolve their issues quicker than say Microsoft does. - Gerard Lagana
just set it up...works like a charm..I like this way better since it is sync over air, rather than cable sync,,,,since i use the calendar all the time, this is a great solution, hopefully it will stay around past beta and future firmwares... - fijidaddy
Tried this and it works great. Although I have two calendars now, Google Calendar and my Mobile Me/iCal calendar. - Dru Kelly
I've tried this and it works but... since you can only have one exchange account on the iPhone it defeats the purpose for most who want to sync a personal and work calendar using GCal and Exchange. Bummer about the limit. I currently use BusySync to sync GCal and iCal and MobileMe to push my GCal changes over the air to my (as well as my wifes) iPhone. Pretty sweet but native support would be better. - Jon West
