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I had a few more, I think I'll save those for a post when Season Two goes up next week. - Ross
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“What are some songs that you used to really like, that now, you can't stand?”
yesterday at 1:19 am - Link
For me, that would be anything from Crystal Waters. At one time, Gypsy Woman and 100% Pure Love were high on the list. I just deleted them from iTunes after years of skipping them. - Louis Gray
Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray
Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner
Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray
Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay
Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw
Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White
I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan
Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez
Louis, I hate you. I now have that as an earworm... la-da-dee-da-da-da, la-da-dee-da-da. ARG! - Cyndy
Most stuff by Sting - Tad, Fool
i used to love Rhianna's Umbrella song - now its turned off as soon as it starts - Stephanie Pickett
any thing by or with Kanye West... Yes he's talented but every time he issues a statement or does an interview I want to slap the taste out of is mouth. Along that line of thinking you can throw "The Puff Daddy" (or what ever the kids are calling him now) to my needs to be slapped up list... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
The eighties. All of it. - Slippy Lane
Almost everything I played when I was on the air. You think YOU'RE tired of the stuff you hear on the radio. After the 50,000th play of "Heartache Tonight," the violent thoughts begin. - Chris Baskind
No such thing! I can go the other direction, but once it's liked, it's liked forever. - Josh Haley
Most songs off the classic greatest hits albums (you know the ones I'm talking about) by the Eagles, Steve Miller, The Doors and Eric Clapton. - Jon Price
I will love Depeche Mode until the day that I die, but if I hear "Enjoy the Scilence" one more time.... - Helen Sventitsky
Finally got rid of the earworm, and thought of one. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" - Cyndy
Louis, usually every sony I like :) I have a bad habit of looping... Like, playing the song 100 - 200 times ...again and again ... eventually the magic wears off and I start hating the song :))) - Alemsah
I'm theorising that great music from 1976 and before has remained great, whilst anything that has been labelled as great since the end of 1976 has, in fact dated. The further we get from 1976, the quicker new so-called great tracks age and cause us annoyance. ;-) - Slippy Lane
Roxanne's Revenge - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
I have to agree that RHCP are pretty crap now. - Mark Wilson
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89, which is apparently high for Memphis. I think some higher-scoring locals use suburbs or jokes for their locations though. - Daniel J. Pritchett
100. :-) But I'm only 156 on the ranking list. I guess I don't Tweet enough. - Robert Scoble
Are you saving up your milliscobles for a big event? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Grades; this IS what makes me hate the word "social". You'll tell me that it's how real life is too. and again I won't agree... this is, in fact, how real life WAS. kings, slaves, blacks, women... - directeur
I personally like the list of Sunnyvale users: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Louis Gray
ha! I got a grade of 74 and a rank of 67,727 out of 367,076... I think I'm happy with that? - Simon T Small
got 90 and I barely use twitter... so, that's simply silly - directeur
94. Not sure what it means, but okay. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl
I got a c-. - felix
99.5 Where's my cookie - Bwana
I like the Mountain View list: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Kevin Fox
I get 75, but what this really means I leave to others to decide. - Grant Bierman
your cookie was blocked by your browser security setting. :) - paisano
All I care is that I'm higher than Louis Gray at 99.7 :-P - Jesse Stay
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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
But we have seen an Apple phone, and arguably the situation is pretty similar there. - ⓞnor
@nor, Apple negotiated a great deal with AT&T, as far as wireless contracts go, but they still had to sign a 5-year exclusive. The cable market in particular is different because it's regional, which just becomes a huge convoluted mess. Better luck will probably come from using broadband than trying to navigate the cable twisty passages. - Chris White
@nor: By that analogy, is Android the generic mobile provider's alternative? - Kevin Fox
Tivo made it impossible for me to cancel my account with them a few years back (no option on their website, even though I had added by cc# there, and an intolerably long wait on the phone). My credit card was about to expire, so I figured it wasn't a problem (just a few extra months of billing), but then they continued to charge me even after the card expired (the new card had the same number with a different expiration date). Anyway, I don't feel too sorry for them, and I don't plan to buy from them ever again. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, the credit card companies are funny about these recurring charges. Even after I've changed numbers on the same account for fraud reasons, I've continued to get recurring charges from some companies. Luckily I've never had a problem with TiVo because I bought out the contract and then gave it away to someone. - Chris White
Just one more useless commodity that needed to bite the dust as soon as home DVR'ing with traditional services was implemented. - tony
I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy I'm seeing here for TiVo. I can understand if their CS department somehow slighted you, but I have not had that experience and I have owned 4 separate TiVo's over the years, some with lifetime subscriptions. Bottom line, the TiVo has the easiest, most powerful platform for scheduling recordings and watching TV that I have ever used. At the very least, I would hope that Scientific Atlanta, etc., would take notes but almost everything else out there is crap (cont'd) - Phil Glockner
Ah, the company that singlehandedly screwed the ad business :) - Patricia
comparatively. TiVo has fought and scraped for so long on a completely slanted playing field, and they are a true underdog. I'm glad that projects like MythTV are starting to mature, and perhaps that is the future of television, but for now I will stick to my Series3. - Phil Glockner
I wasn't snarking, just curious about business models. - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo
Phil, my comments weren't antipathy. I thought TiVo did a great job on user experience. What I was saying was they didn't have a strategic business advantage, and that is often what is necessary for long term success. - Chris White
Thanks Daniel and Chris. Chris, I see what you are saying. If you look at TiVo's history of partnering with companies (like DirectTV) and then getting screwed over by their partners, they aren't trying to be elitist in the market. They are willing to make a deal. But the rest of the industry would prefer to stick with the lowest common denominator, or (like Dish) just rip off their technology without apology. - Phil Glockner
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ROFL. WTF??? That is incredibly creepy and awesome at the same time! - Mark Wilson
whoa - Cee Bee
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Grape stomping lady falls!
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omg is that reaction for real!? - Nicholas Kreidberg
One of my favorite movies EVAR!!! - Leather Donut
This is like the oldest video on YouTube. Sorry, but its true. For me, very cringeworthy. I used to work with a guy (in 2004) who would ROFL whenever he saw it though. - Phil Glockner
oohh ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhhh ohhhh oh ohhhh ohhhh - Nathan Chase
Wow. That hurt. Any idea what happened to the reporter? - Jason Huebel
Damn, I just feel bad for her. Got the wind knocked out. Easy way to break an arm or a collarbone. - Chris Baskind
OMG LOLercakes! - Monique
Phil - I know it's super old. It's still pretty funny. - Mattie Kenny
i can't breathe - John Cozen
I am NOT clicking on that because I will NEVER stop laughing - ♫ Rahsheen™
hahahha that isnt right. hahaha - Shevonne Polastre
IM'd this to coworkers and they all felt sorry for her. Hrm. I was the only one laughing :p - Rodfather
Psha! It's hilarious! But I do feel bad for her. - Mattie Kenny
Stewie parodied this on Family Guy last week. EPIC - Matt Musgrave
She is historical PWN-material. - Terence Washington
Pain! And Phil must be a time traveler since YT didn't even launch until the end of '05. - Anika Malone
Every time I watch it, I wonder if that's how I sound when I get the wind knocked outta me. Then realize, when I get the wind knocked out of me, I don't make sounds. - Mattie Kenny
LOL! That's priceless, Matt! - Mattie Kenny
FF really needs a "do not like" link so I can feel better about laughing at that poor lady. - thepete
Matt beat me to it! Damn you Musgrave! - Mark Wilson
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i also recommend Twitterfon. Most of the same functionality but free - and since it's older, speed bugs have been ironed out. Tweetsville has been having some issues with that in my tests. - MG Siegler
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Adopt Pinky the cat, or maybe not.
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- "Mobile ads tend to perform extremely poorly, except for on the iPhone. Mobile ad network AdMob has seen similar success on the iPhone." - Christopher Harley
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54 unread emails? If that's after spam filtering I'd call it too much email ;) - Pawel Szczesny
Yup, after spam filtering, a week away and big session on the plane still didn't quite get there. Now zeroed :-) - Sally Church
Ah, week away - I thought it's everyday situation. :) - Pawel Szczesny
Pawel, no but I will get back to your email questions tomorrow - Sally Church
I wasn't referring to that (I was only surprised one can get so much email a day). Anyway, thanks :) - Pawel Szczesny
@Pawel FWIW Deepak got ~150 new emails a day while he was visiting VT, not including ones filtered. Death by email, I say. - Chris Lasher
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Sweet jesus. My head just asploded into candy. - stretta via twhirl
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“Bob Marley said it best: "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."”
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