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Interesting device - Matt Devost

It is capacitive touch? - Ryan

Did they recently migrate this device to Android? Found it on Amazon, but it looks like it was released a year ago. - Matt Devost

I don't see this taking off. I stil have a Nokia N810 with buil-in AND external keyboards. Don't use it. Don't see what makes the Archos better. - The Griff

Leo's skeptical on the whole iPad idea? Et tu, Leo? - Christopher Harley

Any comment on Intuit's purchase of Mint? May be more for N@N. http://www.mint.com/press... - The Griff

I'm ready for material like that being developed by Enhanced Editions http://www.enhanced-editions.com/ overtaking anything on the Kindle. The iPad will be a perfect device for this media. - Christopher Harley

Wifi sync is nice on Zune - Andrew Smith

I'm also seriously thinking of getting one if they are ever in the UK - Roberto Bonini

Zune HD seen from the Apple perspective http://bit.ly/Y2Ekc (via AppleInsider) - Still some valid points. - Ron R.

Ah Apple Tv time. - Roberto Bonini

More codec on the Apple Tv would amke it much better to use. Currently I have to convert Everything. - Roberto Bonini

Don't forget that Apple has a $25 Billion war chest. - Roberto Bonini

Sony - Andrew Smith

I would wait until Tech Crunch 50 were over and choose one of the winners or even an applicant. - shelter watch

They could pay for an engineer who could get a camera into the Touch - bobrudge

Apple Tv lacks DVR and OTA functionality. Buy someone why already does that. Like SageTv. - Roberto Bonini

MMS has always worked on Rogers in Canada. Don't really use it though. - Andrew Smith

Many more people use MMS than use email because the vast majority of phones do not have email facilities - bobrudge

Bill Bryson is wonderful. Has everyone read his A Short History of Nearly Everything? - bobrudge

which model Hypermac did Alex buy - Matt Devost

http://www.hyperdrive.com/HyperMa... Should be the model Alex got - Ryan

Evidently, the gay/lesbian discrimination rumor on Emirates might be true: Emirates dodge anti-discrimination laws December 16th, 2008 LGBT flyers in San Francisco are being urged to boycott Emirates Airlines, which has just launched a nonstop service between Dubai and San Francisco. Read more: http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/campaig... - shelter watch

Thanks. Have looked at them before, but liked the form factor of the one he was holding - Matt Devost

The attitude of Andy's - that his protest will make no difference - is real moral cowardice. If we all thought that we'd never change anything. - bobrudge

This is unfortunate about that airline as well: Emirates bans openly gay male flight attendants from its fleet, and women must be below a certain weight and take compulsory beauty and etiquette training. If an unmarried woman becomes pregnant, she is fired. - shelter watch

There's not much you can do. You are kind of stuck, but at least you'll know and can use that information to enlighten others. - shelter watch

I finally have faster speed with my parabolic antenna and EVDO and no Al!! - shelter watch

the ipod touch can do almost as much as a basic pc computer? no wait I think more now - Kyle Case

It's almost as bad as Windows Mobile - David Z

There's a phone that looked like the iPhone but it's by Sprint. I don't remember what the guy told me it was called - €€€€€€€€

David, winmo is pretty bad about that but palm is way worse - mjc

My iPod Touch is pretty solid. Love the iFailWhale? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

stinks that's it so unreliable. Mine is too. But I love the big screen. - Andrew Warner

My WinMo phone may have memory management issues and requires a reboot every now and again but I have never had a need to hard reset it... in fact none of the ones I have had, have needed that. - Ian D. Nock from twhirl

Weird. Mine has not experienced something that needs a hard reset. *knock on wood* - Rom Feria

I've been having huge issues too. Doing a hard restore on my original iPhone and it looks like it won't let me continue without activation (I've been using it just as an internet tablet since getting my new one). - Matt Devost

Outsanity: The Samsung Instinct. Everyone: I've also used WinMo for years and have never required a hard reset. And yet everyone loves to poo poo on WM. Go figure. - Chieze Okoye

The funny thing is that after eighteen months, my Hermes finally has a (enthusiast cooked) ROM which actually works. It very reliable with great battery life now. Doesn't stop me wanting an iFail tho. - mattpovey

I so do not want an iPhone. Are there as many problems with the iPod touch? I do want one of those. - Mattb4rd

I've had nothing but good luck w/ my iPhone. No probs. - Andrew Baron

Well right now - "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity." FAIL - Atul Arora

Matt - Following numerous threads since the launch. Almost all so far 'not even close to Google' - Charlie Anzman

Got the "We'll be back soon" message. +1 @ Atul - BeeLing

How does Cuil compare to Microsoft's search engine? - Adewale Oshineye

On the other end of the spectrum, do site:http://www.cuil.com/ in Google. It has crawled the new cuil pages and they appear in the index and search results (including the unvailable page. - Atul Arora

it doesn't seem very relevant. My blog is not indexed yet :( Is the database exhaustive enough to be meaninngfull? - Jnuk: acidweb.fr from twhirl

try searching for your name on Cuil. Charlie Anzman has a great photo up for that - Sidharth Dassani

Charlie/Sidharth, I don't know why some images don't match the search results. - Matt Cutts

Nice to see you on FF! I promise not to Ban/Block/Delete you! Enjoy! lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I actually quite like it, it sorts out stuff on the page in a more readable form than Google and quickly found stuff on other Sally Church's I didn't find in Google. Medical terms need writing out in full though, eg it returns zero for CML but useful stuff on Leukemia. I like the UI, it will get better with time. - Sally Church

Seems pretty crappy to me. My search returned results for sites that have not been in existence for a year (an old index maybe?), and one of the top two results on Google search for the same term wasn't even on the first page of results for Cuil. - Matt Devost

I really like the UI, the diversity of results, and the categories features. I think that I'll like the pictures as soon as they reliably match up to the correct search results. (I am not Kevin Scott Collins, for example.) Looks like they're having some issues crawling wikipedia given the number of broken wikipedia results I've seen. Overall relevance doesn't seem as good as Google. I'm guessing that will get better soon now that they've launched and are able to gather data from real users. My $0.02. - Kevin Scott

It's nice to see an alternative to the usual list of results. It's clean and easy to use. The relevancy of results however isn't very good compared to Google, and in fact it's also dished up some rubbish as well. The service has been down as well today. It feels like a beta to me. Mind you, maybe it's unfair to compare to Google results really, because this is us assuming only Google can deliver the right answer. - Ceejay

The interface is brilliant and truly fills a gap left wide open by Google (design can move beyond minimalism), Duplicate links need to be lumped together, this should improve the relevance of the searches dramatically. - Jamie Ginsberg

Most searches I did returned a bunch of porn despite beign in safe mode. When I turned off safe mode, the adult stuff went away. - Mike Seidle

i like the old way better - fijidaddy

My blog wasn't in it but fortunately a chinese spammer's copy of it is. - Sam Pullara

Matt - At this point, I'm just suckin' up all the different takes. It's already gone from interesting to just fun ?! :) - Charlie Anzman

The results are bizarre, even humorous at times, but we need to remember what yardstick we're using to measure the results. If it gives the exact same search results at Google, some will deem it a failure because it's unnecessary. If it gives different search results from Google, some will deem it a failure because they're "not standard." My only quibble is that in my vanity search, items in my blog seem to be drawn from last year. Perhaps a database refresh is all that is needed. - Ontario Emperor

Not impressed with cuil. Did some searches of my company keywords, results were not as smart/relevant as what I find with a google search. Also, I am not thrilled with the 3 column format, especially when the 3 columns are not aligned, which makes it hard to scan and find relevant links quickly. - Greg Bogdan

Very long way to go. There is no real regional specific search results. The world is a bigger place than just the US. To say that they have indexed 10 times the amount of pages is also silly. The good search engines will find the good/popular sites. If a site has not been found its fair to say that it just not that good (excluding brand new sites of course) More pages will not equal better results. - Shane Osborne

First take of cuil.com: they are not nearly prepared as they should have been at launch. It is irrelevant how many web pages they've indexed... if you can't respond to a user search query with relevant, useful results. In reality live.com does a better job than cuil.com. And we all know where live search stands. - Pre Priyadarshane

Results didn't match my expectation (which isn't neccessarily a bad thing), but the main gripe is the layout and point size of the results page. That blocky texty boxy results style isn't easy to scan and I think the point size is too small. Speed etc is something that can be fixed with hardware so just a temporary issue I'd say. - johan

I like the layout personally, and the categories on the right, except that the results are mostly rubbish and the categories don't actually work sometimes (links point to an error page saying there's no results). They say they're using contextual search...really? I'm not seeing it. For "Australian visas" the government website doesn't even show. The images are all mixed up, displaying logos from the wrong companies against the wrong result. Oh dear...what a catastrophe! - Ceejay

I tried searching for diggnation and the only result on the first page actually linking to diggnation webcast was a link to episode 57. The first 2 results were wikipedia. I think they have a lot to do as far as results are concerned. Maybe this is the next big failed launch after Wikia Search - Sidharth Dassani

The quality and depth of results seems thin and the images are just wrong. Now, if they can fix that then there are a few interesting issues, particularly from an SEO perspective. A left to right format may change the click yield for different positions. Is it as imperative to get to the first position, particularly with an F pattern eye-tracking standard. Conversely, the weight of the first page of results (text and images) makes me believe few would go deeper than page 1, increasing desire for page 1. - AJ Kohn

Some interesting observations from Bindu Reddy - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Atul Arora

Atul, good link. In my opinion, Bindu's absolutely correct that the "Explore by Category" entries are entirely from string matches with Wikipedia category pages. - Matt Cutts

In particular I found the description/page summary text poor. Google appears to have refined that well over the years. Cuil concentrates way too much on including the search term in the results as many times as it finds it, which makes the results look like scraped pages (even if they arean't). Truncating the titles and URLs also makes a difference to understanding what the page is... more... - Richard Crocker

Wow that is an ugly site! I would have just ponied up the money and bought Mahalo if i were Google. We know JC has a price... LOL - Eric_T

Ric: when Google does what you're doing it just increases the value of your startup. There are 30 spots on the first three pages of a Google/Yahoo/Live.com search results and we need to just be one of them for 50-100k pages. if we make 50-100k amazing pages it doesn't matter if we are #2 or #3 in the rankings behind Wikipedia and Google Knol. As long as we rank well and help people we're fine. - Jason Calacanis

Jason: Thanks for the qik reply. Been a long fan - did you know I created a similar startup http://mySearch.Org back in 2002? My tech was based off bookmarking in IE though we migrated to 'preferences' but got spammed. LOVE Mahalo! - Ric Johnson

MyOpenID -- don't really know why - Shey, Jamaican of FF

myopenid, they have a lot of cool options that I may want to use in the future - Bwana ☠

I use myOpenID because it was the first to come out, but Clickpass looks really simple to use. - Hao Chen

Ive always gone with ClaimID, no reason why. Though I really like how they work. Check it out, http://is.gd/ZCX - Colby Olson

claimid - worked fine so far (knock on wood)... - mike "glemak" dunn

MyOpenID and LiquidID. I actually have liquid connected to the other. I like liquid because of the aliased email it provides. that's a nice feature. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Yahoo, because I already had one with Flickr. - James (@willia4)

Checking out MyOpenID. I've been using MyVidoop, but it's so slow: I hate having to leave the site just to log in, and I wish it were more embedded. - Mark Trapp

MyOpenId - no complaints - Mikael Pittam from twhirl

I use Livejournal for the same reason as Morton, but I also have a Yahoo one...somewhere. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

http://erhanerdogan.myopenid.com; It's the first better one. ; ) - Erhan Erdogan

MyOpenID for the same reason as Hao it was the 1st, have half a dozen others, but I use the one I started with. - Nick Cowie

Me! http://siege.org/project... (not my site, just use the script) - Kevin L

I'd have to say myOpenID as well. It was the first. It seems to be the most compatible, and it supports Windows CardSpace. - Dave Dugal

ClaimID - it was the easiest to use during the early days of OpenID madness. - Susan Beebe

am I the only one who uses aol? :p Since I have had the aim ID for years just seems easy enough. - Robert Cooper

Yahoo..figured it was time for me to get my own MyBlogLog account (instead of using my husband's) and it asked about OpenID at the same time, so I signed up... 30 mins ago actually. - Jasmin Smith

vidoop or certifi.ca because they represent non password openid which is the only way to do it - Tyler Gillies

I understand the security benefits of using the grid instead of a password, but it adds like a good 5-6 seconds to my login process, on top of the time it takes to leave the site and load up Vidoop. It breaks my workflow tremendously. There has to be a balance of security and usability: I think passwords are still that balance. - Mark Trapp

I used MyOpenID. I like having my own http://openid.[mydomain.com]. - Harry Chen

Using your own domain at MyOpenID is a great idea. Thanks for the tip. - Matt Devost

I prefer websites that allow me to log in using my Gmail account. My second choice is Wordpress, but they don't remember me as frequently as I would like and I have to keep signing in. - John Budnik

MyOpenID - Ravindran Navaneethan

Like mel, my own domain with phpMyID - does the trick, and the URI will be around as long as I remember to renew my domain reg (note to self) - Micah Wittman from twhirl

I delegate off my own domain to wordpress.com or any other OpenID 1.0 provider. I tried yahoo! and it broke some stuff. - rob friedman

AOL. I think have a bunch of SNs floating around through AIM. - Steve Spalding

MyOpenID for now. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

yahoo.com is what I use - Rahul Das

myopenid - was one of the first to launch and I just got it - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

MyOpenID here as well - simply because this was the first name I could remember when I finally had to sign up for an account. - Svetlana Gladkova

Using LiveJournal, since I've had an account there for years. - Woodrow Jarvis Hill

myOpenID, back then I believe they were the only one, registered with a few more later on, but never moved - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I prefer Verisign. The company has already earned the trust of internet users with their certificate services and now they have built a Firefox Addon called Seatbelt. I really like their service. http://twurl.cc/2zk - Keith - @tsudo

Interesting - will we start to see replies "MySpace" here in the near future. How many people will actually want to use them for OpenID? - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

hand raised here. There are a lot of freezes and hiccups where it seemingly takes a little break. - matt hollingsworth

2.0 is definitely flaky / unstable - apps crash more often, more spontaneous reboots, more freezeups etc. - Apple have supposedly got an update coming soon - can't be soon enough - Patrick Jordan

Once mine starts stalling, it's only a few minutes away from an auto-reboot. 30min-1hr of constant use in multiple apps will bring about a reboot. - ·[▪_▪]·

It's definitely more sluggish and less stable than 1.1.4. The price we pay for more choice and complexity on essentially the same hardware? - Kevin C. Tofel

Yup. Mine too. Lots of little hiccups in my iPhone 3G. Especially, web pages quitting for no apparent reason, returning me to home screen. - Len Edgerly

what bothers me more then anything, is the whole 1 hour backup that you have to cancel out of, holy ted whats up with that - Socom

mine happens the worst when i'm trying to use the keyboard. doesn't matter if it's for a txt, notes, or email. takes about 30 seconds or more to type. - Veronica

Keyboard was hella lagging earlier, i was words in front of it and having to sit back and wait for it to catch up. Restarted and all ok again now. - Simon Wicks

No problems here. It's been working like a charm (so far) - John Frenette from twhirl

major reboots for me on app launches. I had a period today where 3rd party apps would open then close - Matt Devost

Mine reboots if I play a video podcast without explicitly using the "video" tab. Before 2.0 it would just play the audio fine from anywhere. - Dwayne

Yeah, that and my passwords show while I type. That's ungood. - Alan

Mine is getting very bad signal...actually have an appt to get it looked at Friday. - Jay Martin

*hand* - l0ckergn0me

Yep its buggy when dealing with apps. Needs an update. - Sean Davis

mine is very sluggish..hopefully we will see an update very soon..hopefully there is a software issue with draining the battery too so well see better battery...at least i hope! - iJohn from feedalizr

yep. when mine was jailbroken it worked like a champ, now it hangs in the breeze whenever it wants. - grant fox

make sure you have the official release not the pre-release from the night before & try turning off push data - mike "glemak" dunn

Raising hand for the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware. Some of the Apps have crashed too. Tho I noticed that several apps have updated within the past couple of days. Rumors suggest that a newer firmware is being readied. - George Brickner

I find certain apps are causing problems (memory leaks, etc.) and that I have to reboot daily. If I don't use any apps other than Apple's, it runs pretty stable. - Jim Bergman

It's crashing almost as much as it did when I jailbroke it. Almost. - Bwana ☠

See James' take on why this happens here: http://bit.ly/1eHvyQ - Sergio Cruz

Sergio, I've tried holding the home button for 6 seconds to "force quit" applications in order to attempt to free memory by that assumption. It hasn't made *that* much of a difference, but it does help some with memory intensive apps like Mail, Safari and iPod - Bwana ☠

@Veronica I have had the same keyboard issues. App crashing not that bad. - Andy Lewandowski

Day 6 for me with no lock ups, freezes or crashes. Had a couple free apps that won't run but only those 2. - Al Degutis from twhirl

I love my iPhone for everything that I can use it for, but someitmes I just want to chuck it out the window - and then I remember I waited in line for 8 hrs :/ - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

I have been experiencing smi-frequent Safari crashes. No random lockups as of yet though. - Patrick from twhirl

I've noticed too, on my iPod it's painful typing anything at times. - Josue Salazar

I've had apps crash to the homescreen, but only one reboot so far. What annoys me more than that is that iTunes wants to back up the phone every time I plug it in. Also, why is the contacts app so slow? - Frederic

No: seems fine here. - Chris Baskind

I find when my keyboard slows down if I hold down the home button (not just press it) until it resets to the home screen and then reenter my app or txt it is much more fluid. 2.0 needs some definate stability work. - Sidney

Yup ... freezes every couple days. Sometimes it even reboots. - Jeff Smigel

Really good stuff - nice free client ... - Patrick Jordan

VNC!..No...must resist IPhone purchase *sigh* - Mo Kargas

Now if we could only get SSH coded. - Matt Devost

Very cool - Eric Haber from twhirl