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Louis Gray
Silicon Valley early adopter, tech geek blogger, and dad w/twins
Old friend and Mac fan @shtick says an actor in the new Target commercial has a strong resemblance to me. What say you? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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woah...
- Jesse Stay
Wow. That's kind of awesome. :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Of course, I disagree, but what can you do? :)
- Louis Gray
Psh.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I see it.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I can if I try, but I have some personal bias.
- Louis Gray
He is not as cool...
- Jemm
Just can't listen to the voice. That ruins it.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
He parts his hair on the wrong side. :)
- Louis Gray
I can see it
- Molly, "sorry"
to be similar to Louis, she would have to open the box and inside is a google reader invite
- Allen Stern
woah I saw that commercial yesterday and didn't see that..
- Jay M
Hey, yeah! He's right.
- Dawn
Thanks to transitive relation, Louis has now a slight resemblance to Christopher Walken - and this is my Christmas gift to him (Louis) ;-)
- Opensource Obscure
The Five Ecosystems I’m Watching in 2010 (iPhone, Facebook, Twitter, AppleTV, and Google) - http://www.charleshudson.net/the-fiv...
Thomas Power liked this
and the LG-Ecademy ecosystem too surely?
- Thomas Power
I don't know that Charles is focused on that ecosystem, Thomas.
- Louis Gray
Google's 'Open' definition: Simply brilliant business, but is it evil? - http://www.betanews.com/joewilc...
"The news business is being disrupted now.Google will disrupt software products or Internet services, too. The RIAA, Hollywood studios and stock image companies should watch their backs for a Google knife. Google's power isn't so much the open philosophy as the free business model it empowers. Bill Gates asked the right question 33 years ago: "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" It's the question everyone should ask as Google's free business model expands." Amen! And, yes, Google is evil.
- Dawn
Ever read Watership Down? Instead of rabbits eating carrots, geeks are fed free toys to play with and choose to look the other way because of it.
- Dawn
Dawn, you are being grumpy tonight! Entertaining, but still grumpy. :)
- Louis Gray
Dawn, the news business is being interrupted way more by Craigslist or the internet in general than by Google. I think Wilcox gets irresponsible toward the end when he implies that only people who believe "your worldview is that all things -- all information -- belong to everyone" think that Google isn't evil. C'mon.
- Matt Cutts
does that make us evil? (those who believe that all info is everyone's info)
- chaz2b
Louis, "tonight"? I'm very consistent in my disdain for Google and have been for quite some time. :) Matt, to me, Google crossed the evil line when they started giving millions of dollars to Congress in a sleazy, greedy attempt to get the Orphan Works bill.
- Dawn
Reforming copyright to deal with the issue of Orphan Works IMHO is a public good, so bravo to Google. You can argue about the specifics, just like you can with Health Reform, but it needs to be done, ditto for the patent system. The people going hyperbolic over bookscan indices or news summaries need to take a chill pill, especially the French. I'm somewhat saddened that Google's going...
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- Ray Cromwell
Ray, watch this short video imagining that you're an animator who creates dozens of drawings in a day and then tell me it's a "public good" to make you pay a corporation for every one of them before you can say that they are actually yours. And if you don't pay Google to catalog them in one of their multi-billion dollar server farms, they get to take them anyway and put ads on them and...
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- Dawn
The private sector is expected to provide copyright registries, which don't exist yet. Can't everyone just become their own copyright registry for their own works?
- Andy Bakun
The prior state of affairs for much of the history of copyright was that you had to register. If it costs 1 penny to register, I doubt it would change the opposition, since I think the fee is a red herring.
- Ray Cromwell
How I Spot Valuable Engineers - http://teddziuba.com/2009...
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The meaning of open - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Yes! Open! Let's make it happen. Big support from Google. Will Facebook, Twitter and others follow suit?
- Louis Gray
I'll believe Google's commitment to Open when they disclose all Adsense percentages.
- Dawn
Why wouldn't Google want "Open"? If nobody else can make money, it guarantees their permanent position as #1 tech company.
- Dawn
Louis, I can't understand why you like Google so much. Take this line: "In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users." ROLLING EYES Over 80% of Google's revenue comes from search. That's what they keep closed tight. They're only open with the rest to control talent, look generous, and make sure the Internet pie they own over 70% of gets bigger and bigger. Google's openess is a calculated monopolistic ploy.
- Dawn
Dawn, it's certainly true today that opening up the code of our search product would lead to more spam and lower-quality search results. You mentioned the problems of limited spam tools in your "top 10 failures of blogging" post. Giving the spammers the ranking code to search engines would make things worse, at least as they stand today.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, why can't Google tell bloggers what percentage of money they are earning from Adsense clicks? How would making Adsense more transparent increase SPAM or hurt users?
- Dawn
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
excellent. I just killed my account 2 days ago.
- Sean Oliver
Glad Google Analytics recently started giving out more detailed info on adsense clicks, because that was my primary use for mybloglog. (told me which pages people were clicking the ads)
- April Russo (app103)
Re: betashop, Thoughts on a Failed Launch - http://betashop.com/post...
"Too bad their comments aren't enabled! I would love to have seen their pitch and who they reached out to. As you know, sometimes, many companies and products are focused on the wrong targets!"
- Louis Gray
"Too bad their comments aren't enabled! I would love to have seen their pitch and who they reached out to. As you know, sometimes, many companies and products are focused on the wrong targets!"
- Louis Gray
Did Yelp's Star Banker George Boutros Just Screw Up The Google Deal? - http://valleywag.gawker.com/5432541...
Christmas down, Valentine's up! Don't waste any time! (at Lucky's today) http://twitpic.com/uq6du http://twitpic.com/uq6dt
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*evil look*
- Santa CW™
Sheesh
- Michelle Martinez
no no no no
- Yolanda
Wow. That's a bit much.
- Rochelle
Maybe someone should send some "War on CHRISTmas" teabaggers their way.
- Spidra Webster
That is just wrong
- Tamara
Didn't even let Santa's body get cold. Jeebus.
- Scott
This is the "Seasonal" aisle. They were literally taking down Christmas and putting up Valentine's Day.
- Louis Gray
Got to stay ahead of the game. The next isle over they're stocking 4th of July flags.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Re: For All the Gloom Around RSS, Readers Continue to Climb in '09 - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Jeff P. Henderson and Bruce Lewis liked this
"I agree that RSS numbers go up due to a lack of unsubscribes. I also believe that Twitter followers go up due to a lack of unfollowing. In terms of engagement, the short-term data I have shows that engagement is flat. Not up or down. Long term data is up, but up less than total count."
- Louis Gray
.@ScepticGeek statistics are "always" wrong for various reasons. The #'s around RSS subs are no worse than Twitter followers, in my opinion.
On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas - http://www.copyblogger.com/fight-f...
Polly Potter, Dawn and Andrew Terry liked this
Wow. Best blog post I've read in a long time.
- Dawn
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archive...
Lizunlong, Rasmus Lauridsen, Peter Dawson and 3 other people liked this
Those numbers in that post have to be way off... 17.28GB per minute of footage * 166 minutes of footage only equals about 2.87TB. If that's only the source maybe, but that can't be the rendered footage, especially since I presume they rendered at 1080 * 1920 (4x4x4). Just an observation. (added the correct aspect ratio of 1920, really ought to read stuff before I blindly post).
- Scott
I'm confused... which numbers do you think are way off, Scott? In which direction?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, the 17.28GB per minute of storage, it just seems way too low. Although my math might be off. The numbers seem way lower than they should, I only work in the game industry and we're talking multiple TB's for rendered footage, not in 3D (yet). Ok, I think I understand where I got off on the numbers now after re-reading that post - My presumption (completely on me) was that those were...
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- Scott
^^^^^This is why I don't get up early in the morning and shouldn't read tech articles before caffeine^^^^^
- Scott
Microsoft loses patent appeal; Word and Office to be barred from sale starting January 11 - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Someone finally put the cage around the 800lbs Gorilla eh?
- Scott
Google Reader is Wrong - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Google Reader is Right
- Louis Gray
Google Reader is still and will stay, Right.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
*sigh*
- Jenna Bilotta
And in French, "le sigh".
- Louis Gray
Dave Winer is link baiting with this title. It could have also been called: "I'm overwhelmed by my unread count and why doesn't Reader just sort all stories by rev chronological and eliminate every other feature."
- Bill Strathearn
wow winer is on nextweb!
- Allen Stern
I thought it was DEAD
- Johnny Worthington
The strange thing is that the default view for any feed *is* newest first, so I'm not even sure what he's complaining about with the line: "Anyway, Bloglines, Google Reader, Newsgator, etc all embarked down the wrong path, the view that news is email. Sure they added contortions that made it possible to go from story to story in reverse chronologic order. But the primary view, the one that isn’t hidden, is the one that defines the product."
- Brian Shih
Sort by Magic gets me the latest stuff, so it works perfectly fine
- Jorge Escobar
Dave Winer doesn't discuss nascent news recommender system technologies: what is the most important news from the authors and publications on the topics which most interest me? Strange. I suppose there are only so many information technology revolutions one can anticipate, create or grok.
- Sean McBride
Dem's fighting woids, although not to start another tanget, how hard is it to get the number to read the actual amount of articles, huh, huh?!? Jeebus! /me commences ducking whilst putting flame retardant suit...la la la.
- Scott
Open is as Open Does - http://www.abstractioneer.org/2009...
Blippy’s Philip Kaplan on the Last Frontier of Private Info - http://gigaom.com/2009...
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Google Nexus One Gets Extensive Interface Walkthrough [Nexus One] - http://gizmodo.com/5432482...
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via @kevinmarks: https://friendfeed.com/account... is FriendFeed with nicer HTML - bigger faces, black text, microformats.
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I don't see the attraction of bigger faces, I'd rather have a collapsed view like seesmic web does with tweets. Too much real estate gets used up on UI that could be dedicated to information.
- Crutis
who is offering this app?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Elements of a Successful Standard Community - http://hueniverse.com/2009...
Cinch Puts Mini Podcasts In Your Pocket - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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...Is using the 'I thought you were just pleased to see me!" line too coarse? Thought so.
- WorldofHiglet
Would you recommend using Cinch instead of Evernote for interviews? If so, why?
- Amani
Amani, Cinch is a bit more social than Evernote - you can comment on each post, share it to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Evernote, from what I understand, is just for archival purposes. That said, you can save the MP3 and upload to Evernote.
- Jesse Stay
Amani (disclosure: Cinch is a client of mine), I'm finding it fits well in short message situations where you want a little more personality than just text can provide. For instance, at Blog World I went around and asked people one question, and had them answer that question as briefly as possible, but it was people like Robert Scoble and Louis Gray, and Nick Halstead (of TweetMeme). It is the occasions where you'd normally use the tape recorder to do the interview that Cinch makes sense.
- Jesse Stay
In a sense, Cinch makes everyone a journalist by giving them that tape recorder and allowing them to promote it to their own audience.
- Jesse Stay
I get it Jesse. And how will this change how you use Evernote?
- Amani
Amani, it doesn't change how I use Evernote at all. I never used Evernote for audio in the first place, but even so, Evernote has always been a place to braindump. It hasn't been built around anything social so there's no way to promote that braindump in Evernote.
- Jesse Stay
And not sure I want my braindump public :-)
- Jesse Stay
Also, Cinch doesn't require the internet to run. Just call their number, record your Cinch, and you're done. Just a landline is necessary.
- Jesse Stay
Amani, yes, via 2-way calling you could call Cinch, then transfer over the other caller into your recording. I did that with Louis Gray back after the FriendFeed acquisition while I was at Niagara Falls. I was standing on top of the falls, doing a phone interview on Cinch - pretty cool, eh?
- Jesse Stay
that is totally awesome. I have to test that out but that actually REALLY makes my day. So flexible. have the app on my phone already. no more need for those free conference call #'s and recording from a phone. How was the sound quality? And do you use evernote to just keep that interview in an the archives?
- Amani
from IM
We need an Android app for it!
- Jorge Escobar
Amani, you could use Evernote for that, yes - just save the MP3 and upload to Evernote. However, the audio files are all stored on BlogTalkRadio's servers so I'm sure they're pretty safe (probably more so than even on Evernote's servers). Sound quality will always be better if you use the iPhone app, but even by phone it's not bad.
- Jesse Stay
Jorge, technically you do - just add 1-646-200-0000 to your address book, title it "Cinch", and call it any time you want to make a new Cinch. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jorge, Cinch has a great API though - you should be the first to create one! :-)
- Jesse Stay
Oh really? That's interesting!
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Amani, yes, I suggest using the iPhone app if you're able to and need quality.
- Jesse Stay
Jorge - look through the docs here: http://www.cinchcast.com/api... - you can do almost anything via the API that you can do in Cinch.
- Jesse Stay
I meant interesting that you can just call them and they tag you. I don't develop for Android, and I do know the API is very flexible, thanks for that Jesse
- Jorge Escobar
So I tried to test this out but it wouldn't work well for me. I had this running in the background. Someone called me and I hit record but I can listen to the recording. It seems as if it didn't record. Hmmm ... any ideas? This is on an iphone 3G. I have someone calling me in 1.5 hours to do an interview and I need to be sure this works.
- Amani
Amani, I'm not sure if it works that way (never tried that). What I normally do to record a phone call is call the number (above), and set up 2-way calling with the individual and Cinch.
- Jesse Stay
OK, thanks for your help jesse. So I would call the 646 number and then call the person? Or could I wait for them to call me and then call the #? Just a few last minute logistics. LOL.
- Amani
Amani, either way
- Jesse Stay
Yep, I just tested it out and it worked. You are right about the quality. I hope there is no time limit. I read the FAQ and they said none. I am going to give it a whirl and post up my results. If it works like I think it will be a life saver. Thanks for your help Jesse.
- Amani
Oh, I like Cinch. I just tested it again and now that I use evernote it is even more valuable.
- Amani
Twitter's Biz Stone Looks Back at 2009 and Forward to 2010: We're Now an Information Network, People! - http://kara.allthingsd.com/2009122...
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HP Investigating Alleged 'Racist' Facial-Tracking Software - http://www.eweek.com/c...
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The Twitter/FriendFeed Connection Goes Realtime Once Again - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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For All the Gloom Around RSS, Readers Continue to Climb - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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David ++
- Vishy
you might want to include a note that Google Reader's "suggested user list" helps pump up at least one of those blogs - i'm not sure of the others.
- Allen Stern
Allen, as mentioned on the blog, I did say some of these RSS feeds are no doubt bundled. I did not highlight Google Reader's bundles, but that is possible that some are impacted here.
- Louis Gray
thanks Louis - it's interesting that while twitter's SUL gets a lot of chatter - other default lists like GR bundles go basically unnoticed.
- Allen Stern
On “Custom XML” - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing...
Austin Analyst: Foursquare vs Gowalla - http://guidewiregroup.com/2009...
Re: For All the Gloom Around RSS, Readers Continue to Climb in '09 - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes and Allen Stern liked this
"I did mention that "it is also expected that some top blogs here are bundled", but I did not specifically mention Google Reader. It has been a long time since I looked at what they have in their bundled feeds. Worth a review though."
- Louis Gray
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