"Niyi: you can do that by using the "send message" button. From there you can post to your profile, send directly to a contact or also post to a group which is neat functionality."
- Lou Paglia
Foursquare is going to be an interesting company to watch because it is clear location data and location based connections are one of the hot frontiers.
- Lou Paglia
"Still wonder whether it is the entrepreneur leaving to go back to their country is the biggest loss for the US or the same thing happening with people in the sciences who get their PhD's in their respective discipline and doing phenomenal research to just have to go back their countries. This happens every year as well and should very much be part of this conversation. Both are big losses for the US and are potentially very correlated."
- Lou Paglia
"This has huge potential. Will they go only B2B against the likes of Hoover's, D, DJ and other players like Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance. There is a real compelling possibility where they could integrate the likes of Gist capability. I'm still not a believer in "enterprise" tracking and "personal" tracking. I want one universal dashboard that I can segment."
- Lou Paglia
"This is a nice approach and one of those that seems "obvious" but is not b/c that is not often how companies think. The typical approach is "we built this API, they should thank us" when the real goal is "use" and a lift to overall engagement, whatever that may be. Very smart of have the developer community "participate" in the revenue model, it is a win-win incentive. As David says below, it is like what Apple and FB does for apps. I'm not sure with the business model of Twitter's API, but as revenue models gear up there, it will be interesting to see if this type of model takes hold and develops diverse set of revenue models on the communication stack."
- Lou Paglia
Looks like the patent was granted on October 7th.
- Kevin Fox
The barcode is in Code-128 and decodes to Googleg.
- Mark Trapp
Tooltip says 'Invention of the barcode'
- Glenn Slaven
Ahh. My tooltips in Firefox broke when I upgraded to Snow Leopard (no idea why). Now when I read xkcd I have to look at the image properties to get the alt text!
- Kevin Fox
Just saw this on Google. It's one of their better logo's:)
- Michael Fidler
Well at least bar codes are older than I am! Happy birthday Bar Codes!
- Mark Jepsen
57 years old today and they don't look at day older than | || || |||| || | | ||
- Stephen Mack
"The now inescapable bar code celebrates its 57th anniversary Wednesday - a milestone unmissed by Google, which replaced its home page logo with a bar code "doodle" that translates to "Google.""
- Tim Tyler
Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
"The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. Developed at the University of Tokyo, the paint could cost as little as £10 per kilogram, researchers say."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
I must have used that paint in my last house without knowing it!
- Lou Paglia
"Max: Matt and Toni have built a company in Automattic that is pretty remarkable that it builds such great stuff and is basically completely virtual. The have engineers all around the world. They have an office in SF which is normally empty except for socials and I think the last I heard their highest employee count in any one city was four."
- Lou Paglia
i will miss training camp in Albany if this is the last year they have it there. it will not be close to the same at the Meadowlands. I enjoyed going up for a few days, hanging out at the fields, etc. Certainly won't do that in East Rutherford.
- Lou Paglia
Those all seem pretty standard for electronic retail, including Apple Stores. Of course, Apple fancies the positions up with nicer sounding titles. What Microsoft calls a “Retail Technical Advisor”, Apple calls a “Genius”. And what Microsoft calls a “Retail Customer Service Associate”, Apple calls a “Concierge”. What Microsoft calls a “Retail Sales Associate”, Apple calls a “Personal Shopping Specialist”, and so on.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
It's just whitewash, though, no? The job's probably the same and the influence possibility probably as well...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yes, I just got home from my Microsoft retail technical advisory appointment and they were able to fix my problem. Rolls right off the tongue.
- Lou Paglia
from iPhone
I love that the fields are different. It makes going to other ballparks more fun and who can deny home field advantage?
- Ross Miller
I agree, the varying field dimensions are a great part of the game. And with places like Coors Field in Colorado, even altitude can play a role.
- Tom Stocky
I like the different stadium designs as well but it is odd that a game so predicated and built on the world of statistics has such a core element that introduces variability
- Lou Paglia
I don't know ... when it comes to statistics, more variables can make things more interesting.
- Tom Stocky
I guess altitude plays a role in the other sports in Denver too, but still... =P I think this is one of the reasons I've never been able to warm up to baseball. Not the biggest reason, of course.
- Andrew C
I think more so for baseball -- I've heard the dry air plus altitude makes the ball travel like 10% farther or something.
- Tom Stocky
at this point, variability doesn't matter, we've seen a switch from day games to mostly night games, new parks in thin air environments, balls wound tighter, cork'd bats, roids. there are so many things that change the aspect of the game in baseball, stadium layout is just one of them
- Lou Paglia
Tom - in sports where the athletes really exert themselves over a prolonged period =) , the thinner air makes a difference in stamina.
- Andrew C
Cheap shot, Andrew! But fair point, I can see how thin air would affect football players, etc. =)
- Tom Stocky
I'm 47% cheap shots by volume, maybe a little less by weight.
- Andrew C
"will it replace BackType. still haven't really figured out how to use that service since it is standalone except for routing all of my comments across the web to a widget on my blog."
- Lou Paglia
Interesting article, I like that our WRs aren't set in stone, so many young guys will be good to see them all get reps and see who steps up
- Lou Paglia
from iPhone
Oh, and forbidding FriendFeed from being bought by Facebook.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I would enforce one standard friend list for each and would provide one multi-faceted open life-stream system for all
- Lou Paglia
I would not enforce anything but definitely provide education.
- ashish
Good civics education - ya know, the kind that would teach people that the President doesn't have that kind of power. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
The original question was going to be "if you were in charge of your country," but I figured this would make it simpler and people would know what I meant
- Becca
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said there hasn't been any progress with WR Steve Smith (knee soreness) or WR Hakeem Nicks (hamstring soreness). He was hopeful to get at least one back today, but that wasn't the case. - http://www.cbssports.com/nfl...
Nicks being out is starting to sound and feel a lot like Manningham last year and many WRs rookies with the GMen of years past. If he isn't back soon, he really could fall behind. At least Barden is making very good progress.
- Lou Paglia
I'm kicking the tires on Streamy as a FriendFeed replacement. I'm looking for people to follow. Let me know if you're using Streamy and would like another follower.