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Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect as Vista's - http://news.slashdot.org/article...
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#ces09 Microsoft releases new tag system for cell phones
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http://www.Microsoft.com/tag This is the coolest thing I have seen so far. You can add these color tags to things and any phone can read them. They released an iPhone app today! Free!
- Robert Scoble
from email
Cool, if people will use it. Kind of like web slices, it has to be implemented. We'll see.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
is that like those QR codes?
- David
I like this idea. It's the same principle as scanning a supermarket barcode. We need more of this; Japan has it, after all! Thx for the post.
- Allen S.
Interesting but do we really need another one? I have three of these apps on my phone already. Barcorama seems to be the most versatile but I doubt it will have MS's new stuff. These "Smart pox" systems have been around for years in Asia, do we really need to reinvent the system?
- Kalidor
after looking at the site, it is like the QR codes, except colorful and by proxy hip
- David
yeah, QR Code is already well established in Japan.
- Toni @ NavinoT
Oh, neat! Just wish there was support for crappy old WinMobile devices like mine. (Mine runs 2003SE, and I can't afford to upgrade to something modern at this time.)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This was actually one of my startup ideas from a while back. Seemed inevitable. Print Biz card with QR (or QRcode like) and use the cameraphone to scan. Additionally you would never be without a business card if you had your phone since you could use the screen to display the code, the other phone takes a pic of your screen presto.
- mikepk
also, you use the geo data in the phone to assign a location to when / where you "met" the person
- mikepk
meta data gets attached by the very act of scanning
- mikepk
chris, that was one of the things I thought was cool about this startup idea, you don't need a fancy phone (although it helps). Just snap a photo with cameraphone and email it to an online service to process. (or upload after the fact) makes it much more accesible.
- mikepk
very cool spin to something that is already in wide use in Japan. Kudos to Microsoft for seeing the applications of this. I'm going to have to try this on my phone.
- Bryan
the zune tattoo guy is going to need some more ink :-D
- Karim
++ Karim LOL
- Mona Nomura
Would this not be just like 2d bar codes that nokia has been doing for some time? http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/ Cool but not new for the masses just new for Microsoft possibly.
- Sloan Bowman
I thought this failed years ago...
- Bwana ☠
Hey, I was the second follower of their abandoned-looking @microsofttag account. This program looks cool but appears to be a typical MSFT rush job on all ends. Program launched a blank website, and when I tried to report the bug the form said "Special characters (< and >) are not allowed in full name." (Of course there are none in my name)
- Carl Black
Another iPhone app from Microsoft. I grabbed it, but oh yeah - I don't have any of these brand new proprietary tag images around to try it out...
- Josh Bancroft
Worked the very first time on a BB 8330 with what I thought would be an inferior photo. Very interesting. I think I'll try making a tag.
- Dave Holle II
David: yes, these are like QR codes but that work much more accurately and can be far smaller than QR codes.
- Robert Scoble
Here's a video demoing it: http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Robert Scoble
I'd like quantification of accurate and smaller. QR codes can work with over 50% of it damaged, and I have once working that are 3/4'" on each side? I wouldn't mind seeing smaller if it becomes a standard. I notice MS's website doesn't have this info? What do they say?
- Kalidor
What is the name of the iphone app?
- Amani
Kalidor: the microsoft tags are smaller in size and can be read without special lenses on your cell phone. They seem to work a lot more accurately here.
- Robert Scoble
Not sure what you mean by special lenses, the Moto V220 I got from Rogers for free (so you can imagine the quality) had no problem with those squares on salty posters in TO streets? Do some phones need wide angle lenses or something then?
- Kalidor
Amani ... it's TagReader (you can also find via search on 'Microsoft')
- David HC Soul
Absolutely cool, this thing rocks. Tried it on multiple tags and it is able to recognize most of the tags easily. With even 2 MP camera phone it works great. Now the question, how do I make my own tags??
- Deepak Sharma
Isn't this what ShotCode has been doing for at least the last two years? http://www.shotcode.com/home
- Christopher Harley
Oh, please. QR code are exactly the same, they work perfectly well. No news here. And more: it seems that after a period of free beta, creating tag will cost you money. Oh, dear, QR codes are free, instead. Nice try.
- Federico F.
Federico: they are not the same. Look into it. And not everything Microsoft does is evil.
- Robert Scoble
I'm not saying that this is evil. Just I don't get how this is different from QR codes (except for the fancy colours). But, don't get me wrong, Robert, I'm happy for this idea. QR rocks in Japan, but never really made their way in the rest of the world. Maybe Microsoft will be able to get this technology to spread. I think it's great for games.
- Federico F.
The Adobe TV demo of Flash doing this in a browser with a regular web cam is very cool. http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f15... Long video but worth it. Jump to 41:00 min and 49:00min
- Andrew Smith
Created my first tag, posted to blog, took unbelievably blurry photo with my iPhone from the blog page on notebook (hand shaking, balanced on lap & low light) it took me successfully in the Safari browser right to the page. Wonderful. I'm looking at incorporating this for a Sports Hall of Fame to link exhibits to a virtual archive with supplemental information.... this will integrate a Second Place of Learning" with a virtual "Third Place of Learning" so that the two can be combined into one experience!
- David HC Soul
This is at least 7 or 8 years old technology. I have early versions of such cards laying in the bottom of boxes in my office somewhere. 2009 off to a rockin' start.
- michael silverton
michael: old cue cat scans weren't designed to be used by blurry cell phone cameras.
- Robert Scoble
I was thinking of printing bar code info on business cards that could be scanned by the G1 code reader. If this works, way cool!
- Greg Birch
I'm impressed, I work in the sign industry and this could have some interesting applications if enough people start to use it. The dialer tag worked quickly even when blurry and slightly crooked.
- Patrick Looney
mkay. but i'm sure you'd agree there's a fairly bright distinction between 'breakthrough' and 'refinement' right? why are we still awake? tomorrow will be a huge day! goodnight! ;-)
- michael silverton
Robert: QRcode worked as a charm with my E61 camera, which is not the best around (2 megapixel, more blurry than the iPhone one).
- Federico F.
I personally am a MS fan but have to say that in my opinion adding some colors doesn't really mean anything related to innovation. I think the size and ability to be read are depending on the resolution of the consumer device more than the underlying technologies and do you really think that changing the items from squares to triangles and adding some color could increase quality? Is there any academic paper about this issue?
- Kivanc Toker
And why to market a total new product from scratch rather than working together with Nokia? Theye are already embedding 2d barcode readers to their new products supporting the 2 widespread 2d barcode technologies which are QR and Datamatrix.
- Kivanc Toker
QR codes can be scanned, recognized, and stored while working offline. Microsoft tags require Internet connectivity, and they have to go through Microsoft server to be useful. It makes them only marginally better than cool, easy to type domain name.
- andrei_c
QR Codes are also in many products in Asia. Here in Hong Kong almost all products from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Japanese cosmetic brands have QR Codes on them. BTW: @Leather the Google project is called ZXing http://tr.im/36xc
- Vinko
Can't get it to install on my non-fancy phone ;-) Guess I'll have to stick with QR codes for now!
- Nick Jones
it requires an internet connection meaning the data in the tag isn't really stored in the tag itself whereas QR codes hold all the data in their respective code. it's color also so forget about kids using this to advertise their band's party on campus using their cheap black and white printers.
- Stefan Constantinescu
@andrei_c, @Stefan The tags *could* hold all the data in the code; but less data is necessary if everything's routed through what's essentially a "tinyurl" service. I think that's what's going on here. I'm sure using tinyurl or another shortening service w/ QR yields a more legible QR code. A tag of any kind, QR or otherwise, is no good if it can't be read.
- Wade Dorrell
But QR codes *can* be read.
- Federico F.
@Federico These can be read too. But at what angles? In what lighting? On which camera, at which quality setting? What URL, a long one or a short one? All I'm saying is using a shorter URL probably increases the odds that the code can be read, and I should say, read quickly & easily, both for QR & this tech.
- Wade Dorrell
CueCat, anyone? Still, it seems like an interesting take on QR Codes, and the 2D barcode "data pointer" concept in general.
- Tyson Key
Very cool!
- Matthew Bishop
Never had a single problem with the E61i camera (which is a pretty standard 2mpixel) in every lighting condition. The scan is fast and reliable. I really don't see the need to use a third party server just for a small increase in the reliability. Japanese are using QR for a long time now, it is an open and affordable technology. Microsoft is proprietary and less economic, with few appreciable advantages.
- Federico F.
I like it, set up a few myself. Will put on my blog that i never seem to update. Showed a friend and he set his twitter picture to it which sends the user to his blog. Be interesting to see it around.
- Simon Wicks
WARNING: PISSING & MOANING - Why must Microsoft pull this crap. There areW codes like QR which are used all over the world. Just because it hasn't caught on in America, Microsoft has to go and create their own tag that they can license for profit. This is why America is behind in tech coolness. Standards exist. Look at Japan, Finland, etc.. I'm envious of what they have and I'm pissed because it's the Microsofts of America that are preventing us from having this kind of tech.
- Pete Barry
Pete, how does Microsoft Neapolitan ice cream "prevent" us from having somebody else's vanilla? :-) if Google was on top of things, they would have rolled out QR and *integrated it with AdWords.* Print ads that drive to website = $$$$.
- Karim
[light bulb goes on over head] now if you'll excuse me, I have to go file a patent. lol
- Karim
wow -- very cool. I wonder what's going on with Google's QR
- Mike
I just wrote up my thoughts here - http://www.centernetworks.com/microso... - this is very disappointing -r eminds me of facebook connect - i really like where qr codes are going and now we get this new microsoft tag?
- Allen Stern
@waded I agree and understand, however, as long as there are places like airplanes, trains, rural areas, foreign countries with expensive roaming, etc, routing through server is a deal breaker. We aren't going to have truly ubiquitous Internet access for at least a decade. And I don't even want to start on how this limits range of devices that can support tags. Basically, it rules out everything except smartphones and laptops with attached cameras.
- andrei_c
I just tried it. It launches the IE browser on my phone (HTC Fuze) instead of the much better Opera browser. Make sure to uncheck the "Always launch IE" in settings to get it working with your default mobile browser. They should have made this the default, at least until they improve the mobile browser.
- Jim Cahill
@yesthatkarim You are absolutely right. There are choices. My fear is that the general public will go with the one that is publicized and that will be MSFT Tag. There are a handful of QR code readers for the iPhone which I've tried out and they work great. I just tried to create a MSFT Tag to try their iPhone app and they required a login. That's a big FAIL. It's just sad to see some tech companies embracing openness while others keep their doors locked.
- Pete Barry
http://www.microsoft.com/tag... for some discussion of QR vs. this tech.
- Wade Dorrell
Benefits for end-users here: http://www.microsoft.com/tag... and publishers here: http://www.microsoft.com/tag...
- Wade Dorrell
@andrei_c supposedly the application can store the scanned tag for later use in a disconnected situation; I read that somewhere on microsoft.com.
- Wade Dorrell
There are some benefits to what Microsoft is doing; less space used for the same amount of data compared to QR/DataMatrix codes., tracking, lots of $ to push the effort. But the BIG problem I see is that Microsoft will be able to track all of these codes. QR and DataMatrix codes embed the ACTUAL data in the image. The Tag just embeds a code that the MS site uses to redirect the browser. Come on MS, just get behind a proven, public domain standard like DataMatrix.
- Mark Simonds
a young girl (10? 12?) is demoing how to "play" kodu - the programming game for Xbox - she's quite good! #ces09
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Five things Steve Ballmer won’t tell you about Windows 7 - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott...
Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James, Matt Cutts and 6 other people liked this
Nice post, you make some good points. I think the main problem that MS will face here is that Win7 isn't enough of a paradigm shift from Vista to really convince people that the waters are safe (even though a lot of the wrinkles have been ironed out in Vista SP1). A more efficient OS is certainly good, but from the end-user perspective, a new taskbar and improved configuration UIs won't be enough to sway the average Joe.
- David Wilson
Honestly I think if they can set a good first impression that will carry to the consumer to not avoid this OS like some have with Vista. This article does point out failings that 7 will share with Vista and many of them will be out of Microsoft's hands. I do hope 7 will turn things around for them though and from what I've seen of the beta things are encouraging.
- Bryan
When did McDonalds decide to shrink the Yogurt Parfait? WTF?!?
David Cook, Lis Miller, James D Kirk and 43 other people liked this
How big was it before?
- Morton Fox
It looks so tiny! Not even enough for one tooth.
- Yolanda
Used to be about double the size...Now it's like a tootsie pop....a 1....2....3...spoonfuls and its gone.
- Mark Krynsky
Maybe you've just grown?
- Todd Hoff
Thanks Todd....and perhaps that would be true except that these weren't around prior to me hitting puberty.
- Mark Krynsky
downsized servings are not a good sign.
- Carolyn Chan
It's when they put it on the dollar menu. I get two, or a Sausage McMuffin!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
If McDonalds is responding to the economic downturn by reversing the super size phenomenon we're screwed.
- Mark Krynsky
LOL, that expression is classic
- Bwana ☠
Yogurt Parfait? That's an awfully big name for such a little bite.
- Steven Perez
Bwana...that's my WTF face.
- Mark Krynsky
McDonald's is pitiful.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
It didn't get smaller. You got bigger.
- Louis Gray
Hahaha love the expression
- Mo Kargas
Awesome photo...LOL. Priceless expression
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Try potato crisps in the UK. It seems that you get fewer in the bag (and more air) every year, and they keep bring in "New Bigger Size!"/"Share Size" bags with the same amount of crisps as the previous size of "regular" bag, but with even more air... Ridiculous.
- Tyson Key
You gotta post a pic of the potato crisps Tyson. We don't have those.
- Mark Krynsky
Louis that topic has already been covered. Thank you come again :)
- Mark Krynsky
are you sure you didn't go to the McDonalds in Smurfland?
- Andy Sternberg
@Mark - McDonald's doesn't sell them, as far as I know. Although I'm sure that most stores sell them over there...
- Tyson Key
Maybe u grew up!
- BEX
Bex, I'm never going to grow up :)
- Mark Krynsky
Mark I love the WTF face, yeah they shrunk those and the fruit and walnut salads, I do wish more alternatives to fried items were offered in fast food resturants
- Bryan
awww its so itty bitty! haha
- *Tiffany Diamond*
fast food restaurants have found that offering healthy items leads to customers not disappearing because the food is unhealthy AND then the customers continue to get the unhealthy food regardless. Amazing.
- Nation Hahn
Heh, reminds me of McDonald's in the UK selling salads recently, and some watchdog/industry body reckoned that they had as much fat, if not more (because of all the additional dressing) as a standard burger. How ironic, given that they were touting it as a "healthy option".
- Tyson Key
very funny photo
- Cee Bee
I do like the look of disgust. "wtf is this shit?"
- B. Hatin
Bookmarklet Add-on Stand-ins for Google Chrome [Bookmarklets] - http://lifehacker.com/5122220...
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Google Reader API is Coming Soon - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Philip Lei, Paul Papadimitriou, Langley Zhu and 16 other people liked this
Robert, the link is broken. When have you read this? I'm asking because the unofficial API by Niall was there back in 2005!! So? Any serious announcement from google yet?
- directeur
I've had this link bookmarked for over a year now, the unofficial API docs seem quite complete: http://code.google.com/p...
- Eric Florenzano
+1 directeur. I'd love to use the API instead of screen scraping like I do now.
- Yuvi
This is weird. Google Reader shows it in readwriteweb rss-feed but the real article is gone..
- Tapio Kulmala
I had read this on ReadWriteWeb as well when the article was out, perhaps the Google blog will tell us more in the coming weeks. I'm excited to see what can be done to expand my favorite RSS reader.
- Bryan
The article had a link to Niall's post (Dec 26 2005). Maybe Sarah Perez just fell into that trap and withdraw her post.
- Tapio Kulmala
Sarah yesterday: "I am one big FAIL today. I posted on 3 year old news. I was so excited that I didn't see date. Post down. I quit the internets." -- http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ken Sheppardson
Tapio, I bet too ;)
- directeur
And the imminent google reader API (within the month) clearly wasn't. :)
- mikepk
Why people take down their posts when they screw up vs. updating the post to say "my bad."
- EricaJoy
Good news! I bet lots of cool apps will appear using GReader API
- João Almeida
RT: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte LIVE @ 1pm EST Today. http://www.Twit.TV Guest: Robert Scoble http://twitter.com/paulfra...
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Robert will be on shortly
- David Lloyd
Full 16:9 live stream (750K) at http://live.twit.tv/
- David Lloyd
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun | A Hamburger Today - http://aht.seriouseats.com/archive...
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This is the Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, instead of the first Single Bacon Fatty Melt
- Tyler (Chacha)
from Bookmarklet
Yum. I'll have two.
- Louis Gray
I could do with one of those right now to wake me up a bit.
- Tony Ruscoe
Yikes! Now, that's definitely not one for the faint hearted
- Anuj
I'll have two, thanks.
- Will Higgins™
“OK I have a busy day ahead working on my new LOLcats” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Melissa Maskevich, ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod, Veronica and 13 other people liked this
This is so cute and sweet at the same time! :D
- Ron
One of my favorite lolcats of all time. :D
- Vincent X
Sweet!
- Janet
LOL they're almost all my favourites :D it's like trying to pick a favourite child
- sofarsoShawn
That is super cute, the caption makes me the think of Sawyer and Kate when they were being held captive by the others...
- Nicholas Kreidberg
this one totally breaks my heart
- Veronica
@hilarysamsa Hey, we're from Starfleet … we don't lie.
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Still use RSS? Then 160+ RSS Feeds For Web-Designers And Developers: http://spyrestudios.com/160-rss...
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Windows 7 Beta Screenshots - http://www.winsupersite.com/win7...
Windows Live Writer continues to impress - http://www.winextra.com/index...
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Holy Bacon WTF: BBQ Bacon Sausage aka the ultimate bacon horror of monstrosities - http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog...
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O.M.G. *drool*
- Imabug
Are you serious?! That is HORRIFIC!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Is there like a PETA for bacon I could join? Oh wait. I think I already belong.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Just a little Bacon for the holidays! A little bit!!
- tomit
That looks absolutely delicious, and also, horrible for you.
- Jamelle
Now that is a sandwich for a ham radio operator. 73.
- ka3drr
Looks a bit dry.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I am going to make this happen, period.
- Josh Haley
/orders two
- Louis Gray
Gross
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Sometimes as a people I fear that we have gone too far...
- Joe Pierce
hilarious and gross at the same time!
- Gabby
I hope to lord wrapping monstrosities wiht bacon will not be the 09 trend, Joe :(
- Mona Nomura
Please don't tell me that entire thing is bacon....
- Tyler (Chacha)
No - it's stuffed with ground meat. Expand to see the grossness.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
It doesn't seem *that* bad
- Bryce Roney
from IM
I'll take it!
- ::Kristen::
GROSS.
- Mona Nomura
Dats hawt.
- Steven Perez
Windows Mobile 6.1 - http://www.winsupersite.com/mobile...
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Very good post, I'm going to be upgrading to a smartphone in the coming year. All my area can get is Verizon so the only choice I have right now is a WinMo phone or Blackberry. I've tried playing around with the phones in the store and the user experience is absolutely dreadful. Also the prospect of my expensive phone never updating is a major turn off. I like the application support for WinMo when you can find it but seems like Blackberry will offer the better user experience.
- Bryan
Anyone else care to chime in on there experiences? I'm curious to know what others thinks of the two platforms.
- Bryan
I'm in the same boat as you, Michael, and also looking at the same unit. At least Verizon left the WiFi antenna turned on...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I installed 6.1 on my Moto Q9H a few months ago and am pleased with the performance. I really miss having a touch screen so I will be upgrading phones but it will definitely be a Windows Mobile based device. My wife has a Crackberry and I hate it. I really like what I've seen of the Treo Pro but with no contract price, it's way too expensive.
- David Ward
Thanks for the link, Michael.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I can wait a while...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Why can't we deal with the truth? http://www.youtube.com/watch... Peter Schiff was right about economy.
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Because the truth is darned inconvenient at times
- Dennis Howlett
He was dead right. The hubris of the other talking heads who found Schiff's perspective discomforting is simultaneously annoying and laughable.
- Jeff Ventura
people were still celebrating in 2006! fuel prices weren't at the all time high yet and apple just released their god phone! it was fun and too good to be true. 20/20 hindsight for sure
- Elijah Nicolas
Wow... He's like Cassandra... Need to go find out what he's saying now.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
And politicians will now get us out of recession? Not likely. Oh, did I mention Ron Paul? Never mind. Nobody listens.
- Stan Orchard
No matter what happens, someone somewhere "predicted" it.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Loving this!
- Kahlil Lechelt
Does Peter Schiff have a blog or RSS feed?
- Matthew DeVries
yes, but I am not sure I agree with his ideas around having no stimulus packages. Stimulus packages, esp. the one that is beginning to take form is geared less towards consumption and more towards adding intrinsic value like building better technological infrastructure, schools etc.
- Bindu Reddy
But it's going toward infrastructure that is inherently inefficient. Roads and bridges, when it should be for rails and mass tran. A train can move a ton 1000 miles on a gallon of diesel.
- Matthew DeVries
wow, this is frightening how accurate his predictions were. And sad how badly they were mocked at the time. I applaud people's perennially optimistic views, but when it comes to giving advice for other people's finances, these people were dumber than a kindergarten student. Ben Stein's recommendation? Buy financial stocks in 2007? Wish there were more people like Peter Schiff... thanks for posting Scoble...
- adam christensen
Matthew: I don't think we should be building either roads or trains. We need broadband and wifi everywhere. That'll help our economy escape better than building another road. At least the skills people will build can be used elsewhere in the world as the rest of the world wants to build out its broadband infrastructure.
- Robert Scoble
we're a nation of optimists. no one likes pessimism when it comes to the health of economy...
- Lee Hsieh
Delusion != optimism
- Todd Hoff
Hear about Peter on NPR a week or two ago. They guy knows his stuff. Amazing how the echo chamber works on TV for financial news.
- Jim Goldstein
I was listening but I did nothing ... and am now poorer (on paper) than before by a heck of a lot. Even said I'd sell all my equities but did not.
- Robert Denton
Me too Robert. I do that a lot for some reason.
- Todd Hoff
I agree Robert about need to equalize the availability of knowledge, but I don't see that putting nearly enough people to work today, shovels in the ground so to speak. Line crews and wifi techs? Are there even enough of them to put to work? What is the learning curve on those jobs?
- Matthew DeVries
Wow, that video is almost hard to watch. It's tough to be the madman in the wilderness.
- mikepk
what is missed is the fact that the people being targeted by these shows are Nincompoops spread around the country. The people who have any insight into the fundamentals know what is in store and what is true value.Reason enough to not bestow titles of GURU on TOM DICK & HARRY.
- Baba
this interview with schiff is pretty scary. if he's right about this too...wow. part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch... part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Kahlil Lechelt
and the truth shall set you free!!
- Paul
Here's a link to Peter's current thoughts... http://www.financialsense.com/fsu...
- Mike Mikolay
Blog in the Dark Much? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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ff supports feed media like images? anyone have more info on this, seems i missed it. thx
- sean percival
sean - it's been around for a while - all you need is a Media RSS compatible feed - there are some plugins to enable that on your blogs
- Frederic
sean, if you run a wordpress blog, you can browse the plugins for Media RSS and install it with basically a click—I did just that (wp 2.7) last night. It will include the first image used in you post as an enclosure in your blog's RSS feed.
- Micah Wittman
Power came back on shortly after 10 p.m., so just under three hours of reduced efficiency.
- Louis Gray
Near-final Windows Live Essentials suite is out! http://download.live.com/
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Any word on when these go gold?
- John Denver
I am very impressed by the Live stuff..throw in Gladinet to access SkyDrive locally and you have a great quick backup solution.
- Ryan Tiffany
Analysis: more than 16 cores may well be pointless - http://arstechnica.com/news...
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In a nutshell, the "memory wall" problem is pretty straightforward, and it's by no means new to the multicore era. The problem arises when the execution bandwidth (i.e., aggregate instructions per second, either per-thread or across multiple threads and programs) available in a single socket is constrained by the amount of memory bandwidth available to that socket. As execution bandwidth increases, either because clockspeeds get faster or because the die contains more cores, memory bandwidth has to increase in order to keep up. To put this in simple multicore terms, cramming a ton of processor cores onto a single die does you no good if you can't keep those cores fed with code and data.
- Leo Laporte
I Am Gay - http://learntoduck.com/micah...
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Japanese cat humiliation - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I've learned lots of new ideas, and I'm going to try them all. Muahahahaha
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
For a cat to actually walk straight with *anything* on it or hanging on it's neck is amazing. He must've just given up. ;o)
- Paul Reynolds
25 Different Uses For FriendFeed - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Post by Michael Fruchter: http://friendfeed.com/fruchter
- Louis Gray
Louis obviously has been teaching Michael how not to sleep and just keep writing posts.
- Rob Diana
Like you, Rob, Mike was born with talent that is hard to teach. This is his natural flow.
- Louis Gray
Wait, was that a compliment in there? Sneaky.
- Rob Diana
I'm just counting down the moments until the first "Is Mike Fruchter the New Louis Gray" posts start!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Nicely done Mike - nice blend of cool ideas in there! thanks!!
- Susan Beebe
awesome Mike, ok am gonna hold out on my list for a coupla weeks then. Don't wanna be giving people too many ideas :)
- Zee.
Main: Best tech discussion place.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Haha +1 for Eric.
- Mack D. Male
A lot of great suggestions
- Mason Blake
This is really helpful....still wrapping my head around FF.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Great post. I use FriendFeed as a Yahoo! Pipes replacement. Set up a FF account, bring in all your favorite RSS feeds, publish your FF to Twitter, and get updates in Twitter when there are updates to your favorite blogs. Great for industry specific Twitter groups. Wish you could do this in Rooms rather than having to set up a new FF account. Both the FF and Twitter accounts can be private, too.
- Dominic Jones
from twhirl
IRWebReport, the only thing Pipes still does better is the handling of dupes.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@ aka Tina, I wouldn't know. I tried using Pipes a long time ago and gave up after 10 minutes. This is one case where FriendFeed *is* simple. :-)
- Dominic Jones
Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft - http://www.inquisitr.com/11128...
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Obama Says Internet Key to Economic Recovery http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Glenn Slaven, scott anderson, Bryan and 4 other people liked this
I agree with a great majority of what he said. But the speech was rather depressing, with the incredulous numbers and talk of whether some families will be able to put their children through college or not. About the whole 'America invented the internet' thing: ???
- deepikaur
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Every percentage point increase in broadband adoption creates 220,000 jobs. Since Obama's plan aims to create 2.5 million jobs, heâs probably targeting a twelve percent increase in broadband adoption.
- Mike Abundo
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
@deepikaur America did invent the internet. Your point?
- scott anderson
@Scott Anderson - My bad. For some reason, I was thinking of the WWW.
- deepikaur
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Kitty plays dead on command - http://uk.youtube.com/watch...
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Rick Astley at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ann Coulter breaks jaw, will be silent for some time to come - http://www.inquisitr.com/9646...
Shawn Farner, Bryan, David Potts and 17 other people liked this
is her drivel ever worth listening to anyway?
- Ian May
Ian: no.
- Robert Scoble
It will be interesting to see what effect it will have on global warming. A sudden decrease in all that hot air has got to have an impact.
- Paul
yeah she "fell"
- Carlos Ayala
ran into a doorknob?
- Ernie Oporto
I know it's not nice to laugh at someone else's pain, but...
- Anna Haro
LOVE.
- Zach Landes
behave.... :-)
- Duncan Riley
The universe *really* wanted her to shut up. Even random events conspired to be non-random to make it happen.
- Kamath (नमः)
Agreed Kamath! Thank goodness! People like her work to drive this world back to war instead of peace.
- Robert Miller
It's not nice to laugh at someone's pain--but that's never stopped Coulter & people like her.
- josh neff, geek at large
There should be no outrage that there are shots being taken at her misery. What goes around...
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I am not laughing as I too busy enjoying the peace of the moment.
- Robert Miller
I just added the FriendFeed app back into Facebook. Figuring out apps on Facebook got harder lately, didn't it?
Tyson Key, Robert Miller, Mathew™ one of a kind and 18 other people liked this
This comment left from inside Facebook. I don't know why I turned this off. Hey, I can add some friends, too. Some dropped out. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
I'm less and less fan of apps in facebook. Usually external apps for the same service are working better.
- Cyril Hanquez
I'm actually thinking of taking it off from Facebook to reduce the noise... I already took Twitter app off from there.
- Orli Yakuel
I did exactly what Orli did: took out twitter and friendfeed. They render the-not-so-useful-anyway news stream of facebook, completely useless.
- Nikos Anagnostou
Orli: I did that, but I sort of want my Facebook Fans to see all the stuff I'm doing here.
- Robert Scoble
I'm trying to filter the content for the Facebook users, using the bookmarklet. (I really don't think they need to see all my activity in FriendFeed, some of it is sometime useless)
- Orli Yakuel
FF and Facebook cover different demographics for the most part. By being able to place FF in facebook I can keep my facebook friends and family informed on what I am writing about and what is going on in the social media realm.
- Bob Blunk
Yes.. it got a lot more confusing in the new Facebook... however the final result is a lot cleaner
- Aad 't Hart
Robert - please add me on Facebook as a friend - you were at 5K limit before. Yes adding apps to FB is more complex. I can't even edit the twitter app, but I do like the new layout better so I am cool with it
- Susan Beebe
Susan: I'm already back at 5,000 limit on Facebook, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
I don't get this limitation on Twitter and Facebook, so it's ok to have friends over the net but not too many?!
- Orli Yakuel
I have the FF app added, but it doesn't work and it won't let me remove it. WTF? Susan, he doesn't love you enough to drop someone else. :)
- Cyndy
I added the Twitter app ok and then removed it, but like Cyndy never got the FF app to load properly
- Sally Church
Requires you to accept third party cookies... ick
- Alex Neth
Cyndy - hahahaa!! true, i feel so unwanted now! ah the shame of it! :) His wife, brother and son like me!
- Susan Beebe
@Robert: I made a random comment the other day that Facebook UI had gotten so bad it was laughable. So yes ... it's very hard IMO.
- AJ Kohn
totally agree. Facebook UI is either hidden or convoluted, in multiple places without clear labeling. basically i could barely figure out where to post something so I now avoid it altogether and use FF to do it for me. :) I have wondered for a while now if I was in some alternate universe on FB and it felt stupid
- Robert Denton
The Facebook UI fails. It is not user-intuitive and really does not present relevant information to the user. I had a friend request hanging for a couple of days (long enough for said friend to ask why I was not accepting) as I really just did not see the request indicator. Somewhere along the way, "Keep It Simple Stupid" was beat over the head by "Flash, Razzle, and Dazzle".
- Robert Miller
I've noticed that Facebook's JavaScript-based "application bar" fails to preserve state in a consistent manner, if you add an "application" to it whilst a page is loaded in one tab/window, and another page is loaded in another tab/window. Pretty grating.
- Tyson Key
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