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“iPod touch or iPod nano - (phone not an option) which would you pick as a 'want'”
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I'd go with iPod touch. Much more functionality. - Mark Bao
Touch, definitely - Capn' One-Eye ☠
touch - Jamie
16Gb 1st Gen Touch here. Got it when they first came out. I not only don't leave the house without it, I rarely leave a room without it. - Mark VandenBerg
I've got a 1G Touch and I love it. - Bill Sodeman
def. a touch. - Joshua Schnell
Touch. No question. - Nick Reynolds via fftogo
The Nano. If you hate being awesome. - Phil Glockner
If you'll be going running with you iPod, then the Nano is better, otherwise get a Touch. - Paul Grav
Touch. - Roberto Bonini
Touch. After owning one since it came out it has changed what I use to access the internet. I am probably on the Touch 75% of the time and my laptop the other 25%. Game changing for me. But, I am right on the edge of buying the iPhone, not because I need the phone, but because I want more connectivity than I have been able to get with the Touch. I am not surrounded by free WiFi unless I am at home or certain restaurants and airports. That gets frustrating at times. Oh yeah, and it also plays music and podcasts. Thinking about dropping my Sirius subscription in the car since I listen to the Touch 95% of the time. - Michael Pardee
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Ping.fm / Blog / Picture Perfect, They Say
2 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Until now, we just linked to the stuff you sent. Now, when you post a picture through Ping to Brightkite, Pownce, Plurk, Tumblr and newly added Utterli, the picture will show right with the post, making your awesome even MORE awesome." - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
wish friendfeed accepted that - Zee from WeDoCreative
Looks like they put FriendFeed on the backburner in favor of a bunch of services I don't use...LOL. - ♫ Rahsheen™
You can have ping.fm post to OurDoings, then FriendFeed will pick up the photo from there. NOTE: This is only for public photos; don't use ping.fm with unlisted OurDoings sites. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo
What would be better is if Ping.fm had a bookmarklet like FriendFeed has. - ♫ Rahsheen™
That's why I use Pikchur for sending photos, it embeds to those sites and more. The rest it just puts a little link. - Andrew Trinh
That's exactly the conclusion I came to, Andrew. Except that I wanted to link to the site where the picture is, along with a blurb. Just like I would do with the FF bookmarklet. That didn't seem to be how it worked with Pikchur. - ♫ Rahsheen™
For sharing links with pictures, why not just use the ff bookmarklet and let ff update twitter? - Bruce Lewis via fftogo
Rahsheen posts to multiple networks, not just Twitter, so an appropriate service is in order. Pikchur doesn't work like that since you're meant to upload photos through your mobile (main purpose) but it lets you posts via your desktop too. Not so much a link sharing service. :( - Andrew Trinh
Yeah, FF can update Twitter, but there is still Rejaw, Identi.ca, Kwippy, Facebook, Myspace, Hi5, Bebo, Xanga, and LiveJournal to think about...oh..Utterli...I think that's it...LOL - ♫ Rahsheen™
all those other one's are knock offs of twitter, however this one is truly different! It's completely integrable with social media/facebook as welI suggested it as another service in ff feedback - sofarsoshawn
and have you checked out jigttweets.com yet? can post a picture, your location on Google maps, website, rss feed, video, and a ff bookmarklet!!! - sofarsoshawn
Unlike a lot of other people, Twitter is actually NOT the center of my social media universe, so something being a "knock-off" doesn't really compute. - ♫ Rahsheen™
Wow, that's a lot of sites. Does your social media universe even have a center? - Bruce Lewis
This would be it, right here :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
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Fashion Your Firefox
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Mozilla today released Fashion Your Firefox®, a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities. With Fashion Your Firefox, add-ons that fit people’s online lifestyles are organized in easy to discover ways and are available for installation in just a few easy clicks. [via http://www.mozilla.com/press/m...] - LouCypher
Something else to slow it down! - orionstarr
Firefox Barbie! - abacab
Okay I installed some.. what can you tell me about last fm? - orionstarr
It would be nice if you could save a package of you own, so the next you install FF somewhere you'd be able to install all of the addons in one go. - Tobias Verhoog
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“My New Asus N10 Netbook !!!”
My New Asus N10 Netbook !!!
My New Asus N10 Netbook !!!
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congrats !!! - embee
Just received my new 10.2-inch netbook. I can feel the bliss :-) - Nir Ben Yona
Congratulations!! - Mona N.
<3 geek pr0n - Matt Musgrave
Thanks guys...I'm so excited. More pro images of this amazing ultra-mini laptop can be found in this link - http://cli.gs/5s1una - Nir Ben Yona
Sweet (said the netbook addict). :) - Kevin C. Tofel
It has a facial scan technology and an interesting Linux-based feature, called "Express Gate", that allows you to boot the system in 8 seconds for Internet surfing, Emails, Skype etc. - Nir Ben Yona
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"TiVo becomes the latest Silicon Valley company to resort to laying employees off as it “manages through the challenges presented by a difficult economic climate,” as well as what it, perhaps euphemistically refers to as “a rapidly evolving retail consumer market.” Perhaps “devolving” would be the more appropriate verb choice. Or does TiVo know something about other changes in consumer habits, in addition to the evidently growing consumer fad of, well, consuming less." - Chris White
I love snark. - Chris White
Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.
Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox
I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray
Louis, I feel the same way. There are just a handful of products / services that are in the same class as TiVo in my book. - Mike Doeff
The problem TiVo ran into (and WebTV also) was that the cable/satellite companies control everything. Once they partnered with companies with better UIs, they created internal projects to build their own DVRs, and then ended the partnerships. Getting a box from your provider became the default compared to getting a 3rd party product. It's an unfortunate reality of business that there are strategic issues beyond user experience that determine success. It's the primary reason we haven't seen an Apple DVR. - Chris White
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That sounds admirable, but how do you make money off of those things? If you had a billion dollars, this would be fine, but I would imagine you might want more than a million dollars. - Chris White
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“Quantum of Solace!” (at Frank Theatres - Galleria Stadium 12)
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35 - The Size of Africa « Strange Maps
yesterday at 2:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"It shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
The comments there are a treasure too! :) - Alex
It's as big as all the countries of Africa combined! - Gabe
hotbed of innovation and manufacture within 30 years - Gregory Lent
Alex: spot on. lol reading these comments. A dash of pedantry, a little bit of bigotry, some serious lack of geographical knowledge: so much fun! :) - Mathieu Ayel
beg to differ somewhat with Gregory. It might become hotbed of innovation but not any time soon. Conflicts, political instability, lack of decent governance and underlying infrastructures and institutions will not allow it to resonate in a way to become a hotbed of innovation. In small pockets though, it happens even now, especially in countries like Kenya and Ghana in everything from innovative approaches to private education to inventing incredible devices for water cleaning. - Hayk
Moreover, the size and comparison of African continent with other continents and countries is little more than a nice figure illustrative of geography. - Hayk
30 years, hyak, things will move fast, but i know what you are saying, seems nearly hopeless, impossible .. but the world "vibration" will make it happen faster than is logical (my opinion) - Gregory Lent
Gregory, i did not mean logic. Living on this continent since 1.5 years and seeing their mentality and their potential, I believe that nothing short of dramatic consciousness change, to borrow your term, will turn people on this continent into economic machines of production. I generalize, apparently. - Hayk
me too :-) ... i really have nothing to base this on .. except two things .. the creativity they have with basically nothing, even bricks are rare sometimes .. the way they are doing the cellphone thing is a hopeful sign .. and the other is from african art, every culture made masks with some sort of design feature where the third eye is .. there is an innate plugged-in-ness there, so that when it gets a bit stable, it will flow .. and the gates foundation should only do education, malaria will then take - Gregory Lent
care of itself - Gregory Lent
Also, Africa had this "misfortune" of being on top of all kinds of natural resources which became valued at one point or another. As it said in Blood Diamonds, "every time a precious resource is found on this continent,innocent people die, country is plundered." Pouring money only to sustain lives without any solid self-sustainable policies in education or infrastructure is sort of a band-aid. Tackling malaria is what appeals the most to inner sensitivities of Gates :) - Hayk
Africa is the cradle of our species.. says a lot about how out of touch we have become when we treat our birthplace with such distain. No wonder we're raping and pillaging everything we can. Makes you wonder if the attempts at keeping the African nations as undeveloped as possible is to turn the place into the next middle east when the rest of our resources have been spent. - alphaxion
+1 Gabe - Rebecca Sun
Thinking economy is taking out limited resources is wrong... Economy is added value man made... Today wealth comes from service... picking was thousands years ago, agriculture hundreds and industry last 2 centuries... - jfayel
Natural resources have historically made countries very wealthy. - Gabe
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“What's the proper venue for my as yet unwritten guides on getting the most out of FriendFeed?”
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I'm willing to bet a significant number of people would choose an ipod over a zune even if you made the zune free. - Chris White
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