"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 יִצְחָק
from Bookmarklet
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
from twhirl
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 יִצְחָק
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
from twhirl
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
from twhirl
i happen to submit there stuff to digg, but thats b/c i like it. interesting stuff, will look into it.
- Leximo
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
Markingegno - Donato: that is a very interesting metaphor
- Noah David Simon
"Create and control your urban empire with more power than ever! It’s the SimCity™ you know and love, re-created for your iPhone™ to give you the most realistic SimCity experience. And, if you’re new to the Sims universe, prepare yourself for one of the most engaging, addicting games you’ve ever played."
- Devon Campbell
from Bookmarklet
It's damn fiddly, and naturally it's tiny. The thing I liked about SimCity on a PC is sitting back and taking a look at my huge, sprawling metropolis. This iPhone version just doesn't satisfy this Sim City vet :)
- Fox Tucker
I'd rather have Serf City (the sequels are called Settlers) from Blue Bytes. I love watching the little men battle.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
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
from 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
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
from feedalizr
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
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
from Bookmarklet
That was mine... I have the drive somewhere in our boxes of old electronics.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
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
I remember storing data on 40MB versions of those back in the early 90's.
- Gabe
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
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
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
I still have one, right here on my desk. Doesn't work anymore though.
- Vincent X
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
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
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
"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
from Bookmarklet
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
Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: The Top 10 Features Twitter Should Have, But Doesn't (No, "Uptime" Isn't On The List) - http://smithereensblog.blogspot.com/2008...
"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 McPherson
from 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
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
Yup won't see me stop anytime soon, but I think I'm going to start looking for things a little further off the beaten path.
- Steve Spalding
Chasing newest bright shiny web apps sometimes feels like grasping at the wind - illusive and changes course all too often!
- Susan Beebe
It's like hunting quail: you just never know if you're going to strike oil.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Sonciary I think that's a big part of it - fear of that 1 / 1000 shot you'll miss something really, really important.
- Steve Spalding
If you miss something really important, you'll hear about it from someone you follow eventually that day. Just check stuff every few hours. The idea that OMG! I will totally miss something important forever if I don't check FF *right this second* is really really, ludicrous.
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
now all the twitter whores can make stalk accusations within the system. wonderful.
- Noah David Simon
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
this is funny!... cool share, thanks!
- Susan Beebe
i just read this today, because i just found out that Dilbert.com has a full RSS feed, let's just say that i am a little slow on the uptake.
- Nathan Eckenrode