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Evernote posted an entry on Evernote Blog
October 1 at 7:47 am - Link
I'm wondering... how does the XML export work with images and PDFs? Does it also provide the OCRed text representation of images? - Lindsay Donaghe
what about opening up source code for your subsidiary http://ritescript.com/ -- that would be much more powerful step (and costs down) for you - silpol
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Human Genetics is Now a Viable Hobby -- 23andMe Cuts its Price to $399 | Wired Science from Wired.com
September 9 at 3:38 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
*Like* because the service is now more affordable, *unlike* because both Jeanette and I were customers at the previous price level. I think they should have specials for existing customers who want to retake the test with the "new and improved" chip. - Tudor Bosman
I believe they do... $100 off. - Ranjit Mathoda
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Tudor Bosman posted a link
August 8 at 11:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet
I thought noncompete agreements were already unenforceable in California. What did this decision change? - Tudor Bosman
Hope that stands and expands. I've seen some particularly onerous noncompetes in the radio business: employees making at or near an area's median income -- not even managerial people -- prohibited from working anywhere within 100 miles of their current homes for 6 months to a year. Outrageous. - Chris Baskind
That's right: even if you signed a noncompete at friendfeed, it's unenforceable and shouldn't prevent you from coming back to your friends at Google. Just remember lawyer Eric Kastner's condition in that article, "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information", that is, secrets still have to stay secret. For example, as a former Microsoft Employee I'm not allowed to disclose the location of the secret army of evil monkeys. http://www.bbspot.com/News/200... - Jorg Brown
Jorg: :) Google's secret army of good robots would totally pwn Microsoft's evil monkeys. - Tudor Bosman
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Josh McFarland favorited a video on YouTube
Bert & Ernie tries Gangsta-Rap
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July 19 at 4:39 am - Link
So. Damn. Hilarious. I added it to my feed too. Thanks for the link! - Christopher Sacca
Funny stuff, well done. Have you seen the old Crank Yankers clip where the Wu Tang Clan checks into a B&B? Shared it with a friend and he literally snorted his drink out his nose laughing so hard. Good times. - Casey
I LOVE that song, but I love Ernie more. His flow is ridiculous in that video ;-) - Osi
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Karl Rosaen posted a link
July 24 at 2:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Today, we're making it even easier for you to use https to protect your mail every time you access it. We've added an option to Settings to always use https." - Karl Rosaen via Bookmarklet
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Evernote posted an entry on Evernote Blog
June 24 at 5:40 am - Link
Congrats Evernote team!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe
Congratulations ! - Sanji (Jean-Daniel S.) via twhirl
Awww and I still had invites left!! - thepete
For $5 per month (or only $45/year, because we’re bad at math), you can upgrade to a premium account. Premium users have their upload quota raised to 500 megabytes of new notes per month and get a number of other goodies, including enhanced security through SSL for all data transmission (free users only get SSL for login), priority access to the recognition queues (for much faster image recognition, even during peak busy times) and premium customer support. - Jigar Mehta
Woooo hoo.. I love this 40 MB space every month!! Evernote rocks.. Free users will keep all of the features of the closed beta, including automatic synchronization between Windows, Mac, Web and mobile phone clients and advanced image search. There is no limit to the total number of notes that you can store. Free accounts can upload up to 40 megabytes of new notes into the service every month. - Jigar Mehta
Evernote is really very cool and I love the option of accessing my notes using the web interface. You guys really rock! - Sudar
excellent and welcomed news as I use Evernote more intensively for work. I love it. - Eric Sausse
congrats evernote! i´m still not sure when to bookmark and when i should use evernote, but i try to figure it out in my daily experience... - Dieter Schwarz
Congrats! You've got one of the best products most people don't know about, and I hope that it really takes off now. - Dana Franks via twhirl
Just setup Evernote on my Windows PC and Mac OSX one - cool application with potential easy aide memoire usefulness for me (my memory is going I'm sure of it..) Going to set it up on the Iphone next to complete the circle. Nice concept so far - David W
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Karl Rosaen posted a link
Presidential Chest Bump
May 29 at 8:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
awkward... - Karl Rosaen
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Josh McFarland posted a link
May 1 at 2:27 pm - Link
For me, this seriously ranks up in the top 10 SNL skits of all time. - Josh McFarland
no way. Top 10? - Christian
not Top 10, not Top 10 - hunter walk
top 10. And I've decided to go as Daniel Plainview for Halloween. - Josh McFarland
Hunter could go as his boy! - Christian
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Nelson Minar posted an entry on Nelson's Weblog
April 30 at 3:39 pm - Link
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Karl Rosaen favorited a video on YouTube
Flight of the Conchords Ep 7 'Mutha Uckers'
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April 27 at 11:54 am - Link
My favorite FotC song is still http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Mark Ayzenshtat
ha, that's a good one too. my friend back in michigan told me they sold out hill auditorium (holds ~4000) in minutes. i had no idea they were that popular - Karl Rosaen
I've already served Karl with SWPL links a couple of times. Ironic that now, I'm the one w-- uh oh, irony's on the list too. - Mark Ayzenshtat
guilty as charged dmitry - Karl Rosaen
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Dylan Parker shared an item on Google Reader
April 20 at 11:08 am - Link
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Erick Schonfeld posted an entry on TechCrunch
April 17 at 12:22 pm - Link
As much as I love Lifestreaming, I agree that there needs to be a better way to filter the firehose of data we are now subjecting ourselves to. Several services have become successful at doing this with RSS. Lifestreaming needs to be next. - Mark Krynsky
We're having a go at trying to solve the problem of extracting the most valuable posts from the microblogsphere. Essentially a Digg for microblogs, please check this out and tell me what you think: http://tinyurl.com/6jfytq. - AJ Asver
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Nelson Minar bookmarked a page on delicious
April 15 at 11:57 am - Link
Talk from a game developer about the challenges of writing games - Nelson Minar
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Evernote published a video on YouTube
Using Skitch with Evernote for Mac
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April 8 at 11:38 pm - Link
Cool - first Jott and now Skitch. I like the surprised tone, too - "Evernote actually found the word 'mussels' right inside the photo of that menu." There must be an art to narrating a how-to video. :) - Mark Ayzenshtat
Just too cool to ignore. - Jack Baty
This IS really awesome. Great job with the how-to as well. - Kasey
I love the idea of taking pictures of menus for latter reference... such a cool idea! - Nathan Manley
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Paul Buchheit posted an entry on Paul Buchheit
March 30 at 8:15 pm - Link
FriendFeed is the perfect opportunity to use Erlang! - Jim Norris
(Edit) Idea * Judgment * Ability + Timing = $$$ - Louis Gray
Is there a difference between "judgement" and "execution" except for the scope of the decisions being made? I'm not sure there's a sharp line anywhere between deciding the structure of a for-loop and deciding what product you're building in the first place. - ⓞnor
Louis, I think Timing is a combination of Judgment and Luck. I've updated the equation accordingly. :) - Paul Buchheit
Dan, I don't know that there is a sharp line, but I think of judgment as deciding what to do and execution as doing it. To use the mountain climbing analogy, judgment is choosing the path, and execution is following it. Maybe I'm misusing the words though... - Paul Buchheit
Your analogy would make a good children's book. Mountains are the new black! If you can figure out how to incorporate a zebra into the story, Pixar may buy it. (according to the ew Shaw Report, zebras are the new "pandas", which were formally the new "penguins.") - Ginger Makela
+ Determination + Persistence - Greg K.
I like the fact you added luck. And that I wasn't dismissed outright! - Louis Gray
Good point. This equation keeps getting more complex :) (though I think it's a multiplicative effect, and determination and persistence seem pretty similar) - Paul Buchheit
Is there any way - besides bookmarklet-ing it myself - to get this entry into my FB mini-feed? Nothing hits better than a well constructed visual allusion... Certainly on par with Buffet's Squanderville letter - http://tinyurl.com/2dnkn7 for the pdf - :) - Will DeLuca
Paul's got a 100% hit rate on TechMeme. http://www.techmeme.com/080331... - Louis Gray
"The idea has value because it comes from someone who has a history of being right." I'm not sure that the picking-good-ideas skill transfers over from past successes as much as good judgment or execution. The idea seems like the most nebulous part of the equation after luck. A skilled climber who finds gold at the top might have been a lousy prospector, and he wouldn't necessarily be able to recognize another gold-rich mountain while staring up at it from the ground. Overconfidence from past climbs might even make him prone to quixotic diversions in the future. - Mark Ayzenshtat
William, we're planning to add a "reshare" feature, but for now you just need to either paste the info into the share box at the top of your feed, or use the FriendFeed bookmarklet (or share from delicious, reader, etc). - Paul Buchheit
Mark, having heard product and startup ideas from a lot of different people, it's pretty clear that some people have better judgment about these things than others. That said, the biggest successes often come from people with no history (in part because there are so many of them). - Paul Buchheit
There's one thing with these mountains though: unless you already found gold, you never know if you already reached the top. I.e. it will be almost impossible to know the difference between a bad idea on which you might want to give up trying, and a good idea which you haven't pushed through with long enough. Real mountains have a rather very well-defined top, compared to that. - Philipp Lenssen
Paul, Why is success only measured in pots of gold, couldn't it also be something else, like knowledge, friendship, feel good factor? - Shakeel Mahate
Financial outcome is the standard criteria for startup success, so it's reasonable to talk in that direction. If your goal is something else entirely (like simply keeping yourself and some friends amused, or having a major impact regardless of personal wealth, or getting invited to cool parties), then it's hard to talk reasonably about questions like "so how important are ideas versus execution". - ⓞnor
Liked this post. Good, well thought out and balanced Good job Paul - Mukund
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Nelson Minar posted an entry on Nelson's Weblog
March 28 at 1:53 pm - Link
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Dylan Parker posted an entry on warmbrain
March 25 at 2:17 pm - Link
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Kevin Fox favorited a video on YouTube
21 Accents
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March 5 at 8:45 am - Link
She's good. - Mustafa K. Isik
Hey FriendFeeders, I was going to favorite this video on YouTube, but realized that then there would be a third copy of this in the feed for the folks who are friends with Bay, Kevin, and me. Are y'all working on a way to aggregate links to the same content, or should I get used to redundancy? ;-) (comment stolen verbatim from Keith P.) - Stephen Mack
This is even more interesting than the "how people count money" video. - Brad Lauster
Ditto what Stephen said - Shannon Jiménez
If you all favorite it, it might make it that much clearer to us just how important this feature is. (hint: we know and are working on it really, but favorite away!) - Kevin Fox
It's funny how she has no accent when she does the California and Seattle ones. ;) - seth
Actually, I found that she has a bit of a common British accent on the 'i' in 'twenty-five' in the California accent. Also, I never noticed till today just how My Fair Lady-ish Los Angeles is, but her accent is Santa Monica-Westlake Village. - Kevin Fox
I grew up in Santa Monica, and that's not how people I knew talked. More like Spicoli in Fast Times, or listen to the Dogtown documentary. At least that's how it was in the 70s. I agree she throws a British lilt into a couple of the CA phrases. - Chris White
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and went to school over the hill. There are a lot of UCLA folks who sounded like this 15 years ago, and they were the SoCal folk. - Kevin Fox
Well, I don't want to get in a valley vs dogtown fight over friendfeed. :) - Chris White
Yeah, you don't want me to gag you with a twinkie. - Kevin Fox
I'm going to guess she is originally British, because I find it seeping through on a few of the non-British accents, although she's definitely good. - Chris White
Chris: I think her first and third British accent sound a little bit off. They're good, but if I heard someone talking like that in the UK I think I would suspect they were putting the accent on. For example, the way she says "i'm" and "old" in the first accent is a little unusual for a upper-middle class London accent. Possibly she was born in the UK and left, but if so I think some non-Britishness has crept in one way or the other. - Simon
According to her YouTube profile, she lives in the US, but that doesn't mean she didn't move here from the UK. I can forgive her the slight inconsistencies given how quickly she switches between accents-- she doesn't have the time to really get into any one persona as, say, an actor doing an accent in a movie would. - Shannon Jiménez
Looks like she went to high school in WA and college in Australia: http://www.amywalker.info/ - Chris White
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
March 2 at 2:48 pm - Link
"Every Friday, Justin.tv users now know to expect new improvements on the site, traffic has more than doubled in the past 2 months, and both pageviews and uniques have grown every week for more than 12 weeks in a row." Great post on the value of releasing often. - Ryan Mahoski
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Nelson Minar bookmarked a page on delicious
February 29 at 2:09 pm - Link
Detailed reading of the Google CPC report that showed a possible decline - Nelson Minar
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Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog
February 28 at 12:30 pm - Link
My favorite entry so far: More rounded corner images. Why must corners be rounded? Why, Web 2.0, why? - Frederic
There isn't even such a thing as Web 2.0. It's just media hype. Get over it, and think of the supposed new version of the Internet as a simple increase in understanding and use of advanced technologies. - Voyagerfan5761
Question: What's this crawlmanager status page? Is that an internal thing? It sounds interesting. - Voyagerfan5761
Yup, it's an internal page that allows us to keep an eye on the crawl system. - Paul Buchheit
changeset: 50bb94a18270 user: bret date: 2008-02-26 13:23:50 description: Undo shitty code. - Benjamin Golub
@Paul: Figures. I wanted to look at it. :D @Benjamin (we really need the ability to insert line breaks in comments!): I saw that one. It's quite amusing, isn't it? The things developers put in their version control commit comments... - Voyagerfan5761
Is there a friendfeed-changelog user or should I just imaginary-befriend it? - Urbansheep
I just added it to my feed, so you can subscribe to me - Bret Taylor
Sneaky way to get more subscriptions :) - Glenn Slaven
thx, @bret, you already were in my deck of subscriptions before. :) - Urbansheep
Slippy approves of the phrase "Delicious factor", as well as "better error reporting" when it's immediately followed by "even better error reporting" - Slippy Lane
Oh, and I vote we rename Web 2.0 to Web Country. - Slippy Lane
@Frederic: Sharp corners hurt. Rounded corners are safer for kids. - Amit Patel
So how many cuss words in a changeset description does it take to get filtered? - David Vasileff
At my last weekly meeting my boss asked our group that we not swear in our commit logs anymore; he was concerned about someone reading them and using it as a way to say "John Doe has a history of aggression, look at these logs!". But sometimes you just need to vent when committing at 3am :P - Benjamin Golub
I find swearing in comments and commits admirable and often very funny. - Chris White
I actually got an entire team of folks canned one time because of my variable names and comments. When I worked at Nokia, my team was all under the same contracting agency. I was laid off with about 500 other folks, but a lot of my immediate team members were kept on for another month or so after I left. I had a habit of when I coded using wrassler names for my variables - and one of the Finnish higher ups got a hold of one of our code reviews and slated the rest of my team for removal based on the fact he "didn't find it funny or professional." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mark: lol. @Benjamin, Chris: I agree that venting in commit logs is something that is just fine. I see all kinds of stuff in the revision history (Subversion) of MediaWiki. - Voyagerfan5761
btw, i really like that you can't insert line-breaks in comments. It helps keep them short, and I think the current range of comment lengths is just about right for what ff is. - j1m
Bret, did you really work for 24 hours straight on 2/23? Did that IE spacing bug really take 5 hours to fix? Or do you only need 3 hours of sleep a day? :) - Marc Chung
Love it love it love it! How about letting us see the source code too? Or maybe a write up about the general design? - Neil Dunn
Brilliant. - Philipp Lenssen
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
David Rusenko - The importance of launching early and staying alive
David Rusenko - The importance of launching early and staying alive
February 26 at 2:22 pm - Link
"If you launch early, you can start earlier on the process of acquiring users. Don't launch with a crappy product -- launch as soon as what you have is better than what is out there. But don't wait for a perfect product -- launch as early as you can, get user feedback, and keep improving the product." - Paul Buchheit
Interesting thoughts. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Look at the lower graphs. Who says mainstream media is dead. If anything, mainstream media is the enabler of new media. - Omar Ismail
it isn't dead, but it is dying. it isn't the influence that is the measure of its lifespan, but their ledgers. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Looking at those graphs, my conclusion is actually press doesn't matter, it creates a curiosity pop that quickly goes to zero. What matters seems to be organic growth. Somewhere around July '07, users started sticking, the baseline slope became nonzero, and traffic took off. I guess press pops are good for giving you feedback early on, though. - ⓞnor
Love David's openess. Really interesting graphs - Immad Akhund
where is the friendfeed's various logos to choose from for pasting on blogs? - huixing
slope became nonzero? you mean right after the Time article? Also, why are you ignoring the massive step increase that's precisely synchronized with the Newsweek article? - j1m
It seems hard to believe that the Time article created a long-term positive trend (when lots of previous press had not). The Newsweek step function, maybe could be something. I guess it boils down to what they say: make a product people will actually stick to, and then get some press to start the exponential accumulation rolling. - ⓞnor
The newsweek change is pretty big and crisp, I'm not sure you can explain it away. Poisson model, one process/user, probability of a return-to-site event determined by a stickiness function? - j1m
I'll buy that, plus some probability of word-of-mouth spreading. This is why you really want that "where did you hear about us" survey question. - ⓞnor
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