J.T Dabbagian - Likes

Social Media: Igor The Troll posted a link

Social News: TechCrunch's secret Digg army

August 8 at 3:01 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jonathan Beckett, muratkgirgin, Steaprok and 11 other people liked this

"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 via Bookmarklet

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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 via twhirl

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

they are all dirty. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

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 via twhirl

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 via twhirl

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

appstore: Nathan Chase posted a link

iPhone Sound Synthesizer is Coming from Amidio | iPhone Buzz

August 10 at 6:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Tad, Fool posted a link

Ancient Technology on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

July 29 at 10:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

AJ Batac, J.T Dabbagian, Mark Trapp and Lindsay Donaghe liked this

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 via Bookmarklet

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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

What is that? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

It's a mistake, Yuvi. - Mark Trapp

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

iPhone: fijidaddy posted a link

iPhone Copy and Paste Coming to an App Store Near You

July 28 at 10:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Halsted Mencotti Bernard, Todd, Colide81 (James) and 12 other people liked this

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

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finally! one less thing for iPhone haters to cry about :) - Imran Hussain via feedalizr

copypasta... epic! - fac287

seems to be of limited value as copy/paste between apps is not possible with this app - PF Thaler

My feelings exactly. - Tsega Dinka

Social Media: David Cohn posted a link

The Muppets Explain The Internet

July 27 at 6:52 pm - via Reshare - Link

jambah, Asteris Masouras, Marcello Del Bono and 7 other people liked this

Long live the Muppets! May we never be too old to enjoy them! - J.T Dabbagian

appstore: mike "glemak" dunn posted a link

Palringo Instant Messenger Comes to the iPhone - ReadWriteWeb

July 27 at 12:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jonathon, Steve Sill, Robert Scoble and 3 other people liked this

sweet - via corvida @ rww - mike "glemak" dunn via Bookmarklet

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will be trying this out for sure - mike "glemak" dunn

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 via feedalizr

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

haven't tried it yet patrick - will do it later... - 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 via feedalizr

palringo is http://phobos.apple.com/WebObj... - mike "glemak" dunn

My bad - it is in the App Store, which seems odd because it sounds like a pure 'jailbreak' type app - Patrick Jordan

i just used it - works fine though the no background processing will limit it to doing im sometimes vs all the time for me - mike "glemak" dunn

no way to save chat history once you close the window. - fac287

it does seem to run in background as long as you don't open another app - it did crash on me once already - mike "glemak" dunn

my aim is msdglemak if anyone wants to test - mike "glemak" dunn

it works - fijidaddy

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

Social Media: Shelly Weiss posted a link

Wow! There's a Facebook Group for Moleskines!

July 27 at 2:08 pm - Link

Greg Lexiphanic, J.T Dabbagian, Nick Humphries and Matt Craven liked this

Social Media: Sharon Bray-McPherson posted a link

Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: The Top 10 Features Twitter Should Have, But Doesn't (No, "Uptime" Isn't On The List)

July 25 at 1:57 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

J.T Dabbagian and Neal "thePuck" Jansons liked this

"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 via Bookmarklet

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

All Things Apple: Jonathon posted a link

Mossberg gives MobileMe a dreaded "can't recommend" | 9 to 5 Mac

July 24 at 9:47 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

J.T Dabbagian and Gerard Lagana liked this

"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 via Bookmarklet

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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

Ya think. - Gerard Lagana

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

iPhone: Mark Davies posted a link

An easy way to sync your Google Calendar to your Iphone

July 23 at 11:58 pm - Link

Jon West, Alan Le, Dru Kelly and 6 other people liked this

Cool. - Jonathon

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if you have a mac, just add your google calendar feed to ical, and whenever you sync, voila! - fijidaddy

Yeah this link was mostly for ppl like me on a PC. - Mark Davies

i believe you can add the google calendar feed to your outlook, if you use it. - fijidaddy

apparently this is not a feed but a real 2 way sync furthermore OTA...if this work this is great..anyone tried it? What about the price? - PF Thaler

I'm using it. Free and easy. - Mark Davies

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

Social Media: David Weiner posted a link

Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company’s Ear - NYTimes.com

July 25 at 8:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Danielle, J.T Dabbagian and k00pa liked this

Since when is listening and providing great customer service using technology a bad thing? - David Weiner via Bookmarklet

Leo Laporte posted a message on Twitter

“Enjoying a cup of tea in my empty office. It's nice here when the staff is gone. Reminds me of the days when TWiT was just me and a mic.”

July 25 at 8:53 am - Link

Vic Podcaster, Aaron Draczynski, Shawn Poulson and 7 other people liked this

You mean there's other goofy geeks running the show?! Keep up the great work, Leo! - Shawn Poulson

iPhone: fijidaddy posted a link

Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's Data Connection

July 22 at 10:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

J.T Dabbagian, Michael Collins, Dru Kelly and 3 other people liked this

Works like a charm! - Michael Collins via twhirl

ProBlogger Room: Dean posted a link

The Obscured Art of Personal Blogging

July 22 at 3:59 am - Link

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WordPress: LouCypher posted a link

Ping.fm now supports WordPress.com

July 15 at 8:36 am - via Reshare - Link

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iPhone: ~C4Chaos posted a link

WordPress for the iPhone is ready to go, launching upon approval

July 21 at 1:27 pm - via Reshare - Link

J.T Dabbagian, Ryan, Michael Collins and 2 other people liked this

Woo, super, might make me blog more if i can do it on the move. - Simon Wicks

AT LAST!!!! - J.T Dabbagian

Marina Martin posted a message on Twitter

“Serious question: Why BlogHer? Lots of males appear to be there. So why the name? It's sexist and exclusionary and makes me angry.”

July 18 at 8:57 pm - Link

J.T Dabbagian, Tad, Fool, Deepak and Anthony Stevens liked this

Supposedly, it's because Blogging is predominantly male...but things like BlogHer only make the rift bigger, IMO. - J.T Dabbagian

Ross Dawson posted an entry on Trends in the Living Networks

Will venture capital keep flowing and when will new exits appear?

July 18 at 10:17 pm - Link

John Budnik, J.T Dabbagian, Matt Hooper and Robert Scoble liked this

All Things Apple: Harold Hart posted a message

“Anyone find any applicaton organizers for the iPhone yet? With all the apps on the iPhone some sort of organizer would be nice..”

July 15 at 2:59 pm - Link

Gerard Lagana and J.T Dabbagian liked this

Have you looked at OmniFocus from the App Store. This app sounds like what you are looking for. - Gerard Lagana

I think he is talking about something to help him organize the many applications on the home dock of his phone. With about 25 or more apps installed myself, I completely understand. - Adam Helweh

Thanks Adam that is exactly what I'm looking. I will checkout OmniFocus in the interim as Gerard mentions. Thanks all. - Harold Hart

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5zaj2s”

July 15 at 6:21 pm - Link

Fred Neil, daniel morgan, Mari Smith and 25 other people liked this

Looking to upgrade to a Kindle from my Sony eBook reader, but I lose my books! $#@$% DRM. - Lon Seidman

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looking forward to this. hopefully it has wifi and the ability to click to go to the next newspaper story.... - Tim Connors

Does the Kindle work for the over 40 set who need reading glasses for books, but not for their computers? - Bob Stemen

Did a comparison of Kindle vs. eReader on iPhone - iPhone looking good! http://bit.ly/1d2HI4 - Cartwright Reed

Well, good thing I didn't get one...Next up, Kindle 3G...oh wait...it already is 3G... - J.T Dabbagian

eReader wins my vote - Julian Baldwin

Will it cost less than $359? - Morton Fox

@ Bob those of us over 40 can read on the Kindle. Morton, the original will probably go down in price not 2.0 - LPH™

I just love all book DRM systems - they show value of customers in true light: you have NO rights behind walled garden ;) - silpol

My contacts say this is bull. A price cut is coming near the holiday shopping time though. - Piaw Na

@Bob: yes, the Kindle early adopter set seems to be full of folks who need glasses for books or who have arthritis. Not the usual, iPhone toting crowd (who probably fall into Steve Job's "People don't read" demographic) - Piaw Na

@Cartwright --- that screen shot of the Kindle is biased. The Kindle is being set at font size 3 or 4. You can get way more text on the screen that that, if that's your metric for success. - Piaw Na

Don't know why but i just can read anything longer than a page on a screen. I HAVE to have a physical form in my hand, more specifically paper. Any document i need to read, i must take a print; I can't switch to reading my morning newspaper on the web, or a book to the Kindle. Maybe i'm just unfit for a digital world in that sense. - Parth Awasthi

can kindle "read" the text? - tanya

@Parth - did you actually try a Kindle or a Sony reader? I hate reading on screens in general as well. Given the demographic of the early adopter set for this product, I suspect that it's a matter of habit (or maybe you just have to get arthritis first). - Piaw Na

The iPhone is the first device I don't mind reading from on a regular basis. I believe it has a lot to do with the touchscreen. Of course there is not enough real estate for extensive reading. Apple: where's the tablet :) ? - simonpure

Piaw Na: Actually, i do concede to your point. Will try using one to read at least one book and who knows if I can finish one, it just might catch on. I have just been generally averse to reading on a screen but you just convinced me to give it a try. - Parth Awasthi

@tanya No, there's no text to speech convert on the kindle. It does play audible.com books and MP3s though, but not as well as an ipod. - Piaw Na

@Parth: yeah, give it a try. I find the the people who have Kindles love them. Certainly the Kindle has ended up getting me to read about 3X more than I usually do. - Piaw Na

I love my Kindle and use it daily. I'm 43 and when my eyes get tired I just bump the font size up a notch. Still read "real" books too, so it's not an either/or deal. - Jack Baty

japan's brother is developing kindle killer for e-paper. http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/... - huixing

I'm a new Kindle convert. Totally ♥ it. Super easy to use and perfect for my totally mobile lifestyle (full time RVer)... only downside is can't get EVDO to work in Alaska... up here for whole summer. So gotta buy online & download w/ USB cable. No biggee. :) - Mari Smith

Mona N. posted a link

Star Wars humor = WIN

July 15 at 8:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... oooo... ooo.. o. Oh. - Haggis (Sean)

hahhahahahha best. caption. ever!! - Mona N.

props to Dolk Lungren. - Carlos Ayala

Thank you! It was sent to me from a friend - Mona N.

ProBlogger Room: an entry from ProBlogger Blog Tips

The Comprehensive Paint-by-numbers Guide to Writing and Publishing Your Ebook

July 15 at 7:01 am - Link

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Social Media: Jason Kintzler posted a link

Twitter Acquires Summize; Launches Official Twitter Search

July 15 at 9:29 am - Link

Nick Humphries, Reem Abeidoh, Anthony Farrior and 4 other people liked this

Wow, big news! - Jason Kintzler

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perfect match. - Ian Cheung

http://search.twitter.com/ - Jason Kintzler

now all the twitter whores can make stalk accusations within the system. wonderful. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Nice. I see they already redirected summize.com to search.twitter.com - Maki

I hear its official. i kinda wish this hadn't happened, simply because Summize was doing a brilliant job already. I hope they got plenty $$ for it ;) - john conroy

http://simonstudiotheatre.blog... TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2008 twitter is social media abuse (@jack @Biz n @EV is under the influence of the leftist bigots of aMANdaChapel PurpleCar and eMailOurMilitary) - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Crap - now Summize is going to break. - David Cohn

more information about the final days of twitter tyranny http://friendfeed.com/e/b2e379... - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

iPhone: Jonathon posted a link

Reach ATT Wireless Executive Customer Service [Call ATT President]

July 12 at 10:06 pm - via Reshare - Link

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For those in need... - Jonathon

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Reach ATT Wireless Executive Customer Service [Call ATT President]

July 12 at 9:09 pm - Link

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Christina Warren favorited a photo on Flickr

MobileMe: Internet Explorer 7 is not fully supported

July 11 at 9:04 am - Link

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Why does this not suprise me? - J.T Dabbagian

Joey Lo posted a message on Twitter

“This guy needs to stop asking me to "fux" him. He's trying to say "fax" but still, it just doesn't sound right.”

July 10 at 11:42 am - Link

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tell him to fux off then.. - Pajama Domain

Kevin Rose dugg a story on Digg

iPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early - download link!

July 10 at 8:57 am - Link

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Adam Turetzky favorited a photo on Flickr

F GOOGL (in Yahoo!'s parking lot)

July 8 at 10:09 pm - Link

Vera, Alexandru Savu, edythe and 5 other people liked this

ironically this pic was taken just before the car was repossessed (sry couldn't resist) - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

ha - edythe

Ferdinand Googl the IV, a new hire at yahoo, could not understand why all the other yahoo employees kept giving him high fives in the parking lot - Ranjit Mathoda

Brian Ries posted a message

“i finally really feel like i GET friendfeed! aaahhhhh.....”

July 3 at 2:50 pm - Link

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Hahaha. 1.Add a shitload of people. 2. Import your sites 3.Comment 4.Make FF native postings 5. Realize you're addicted. - Steve Isaacs