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What is your Google Reader URL? Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... #greader

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I share all sorts. :-) Lots of photos, photography and tech stuff though. Feel free to sub to me if you like. :-) BTW, you can see who is following you here: http://www.google.com/reader... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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http://www.google.com/reader... - Michael Hocter

Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Müjdat Korkmaz

More often I end up sharing directly through FF even if I find it on GReader, but sometimes I share there. http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.google.com/reader... Just about internet! - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long! - Michael Fidler

Michael, it's not been clear until very recently, you can see notifications here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

Love yr posts :-))))) - Johni Fisher

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lode Nachtergaele

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... ;) - alebaffa from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - OnuRC

thanks for starting this thread - here's mine http://www.google.com/reader... (mostly social media stuff, a little food, and occasional randomness) - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Slater

Kol, thanks! I wish it would tell me when they started following, I'll have to keep a better eye on it now. - Michael Fidler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Mohr

http://www.google.com/reader... - LouCypher

http://www.google.com/reader... - zsafwan 

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony C

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - hope you enjoy! - outofmyarse

Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed? - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steve Lowe

http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - M F

Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Simon Tracey

Yes it's alright I moved here two years ago, I was in West London before that - M F

GREAT FEED - I am finding so many great ppl to follow - this is great. - Liza

M F, I like to move to just over the other side of the stream from you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And your pics are great! I am going to be stuck in greader for a while! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - phil baumann

Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Kim Landwehr

Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - mridul

feedly.com :) - Zach Landes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Bryan R. Adams

http://www.google.com/reader... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

http://www.google.com/reader... #greader #whatsyoururl - Ron Bailey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Parvez Halim

http://www.google.com/reader... but everything I share in reader comes on to FriendFeed. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Daltonsbriefs

http://www.google.com/reader... - the stuff I share there is also on FriendFeed. - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.google.com/reader... mine are mostly science items - Sally Church

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Mostly Tech. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick Humphries

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ozgur Uckan

http://www.google.com/reader... - mixed up content in Portuguese (mainly), English and Spanish. - Marcos

Liza, oooh I love the post on generating Mandelbrot fractals in Excel! - Sally Church

http://google.com/reader... - Anton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Whalen

@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch... - Alex Schleber

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Leahey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Geller

http://www.google.com/reader... - Zachary TG

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lin Yong from NoiseRiver

http://www.google.com/reader... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason A. Nunnelley

http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

http://www.google.com/reader... - Travis B. Hartwell

http://www.google.com/profile... - James (!?)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Warren Butler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Brandon Ball

http://www.google.com/reader... - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Dawson

http://www.google.com/reader... - guilherme

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - dkb

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adi

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mathew A. Koeneker

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alex Scrivener

Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.google.com/reader... Google and other tech stuff, as well as other random things of interest. - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Luckhardt

http://www.google.com/reader... - Peter Ghosh

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/profile... - Kim

http://www.google.com/profile... http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Robin Barooah

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Johansson from Android

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.google.com/reader... - Arthur Guy

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathan Rein

http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek

Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shevonne

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Johnson

No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Roche

LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed. - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Bonner

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vlad Bobleanta

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ivan Pavlov

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

Don't know that I have one, as I eschew most things Google.... - Mike Shields

Not sure if I've already shared it, but my URL is http://www.google.com/reader.... - Tyson Key

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ethan

Thank you guys. - Kol Tregaskes

your welcome kol - Tony C from IM

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I think that I over-loaded my poor G-Reader by adding all of you. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Here is my feed: http://l.clipotech.com/shared - I will try to add all of you on this list :) - Svartling

Don't forget to add all out new contacts in to groups. Otherwise we cant comment on each others shared items. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Almost exclusively tech, including humor/cartoons and productivity. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people. - Dusty Edenfield

Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users. - Dusty Edenfield

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Roberto Bonini

http://www.google.com/reader... - ★Kristy

I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - David Peacock

here's mine! Love some of the new features... http://www.google.com/reader... - tomit

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ken Sheppardson

I don't think I added mine yet: http://www.google.com/reader... - LogEx

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - DGentry

Almost missed this one! http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Arwengrim

http://www.google.com/reader... - Frode Stenstrøm

http://www.google.com/reader... - Aaron Krug

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russell G

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dani Radu

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Remo

I guess I best start sharing stuff, then. :D - http://www.google.com/reader... - Bette Cooper

http://www.google.com/reader... - I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but here's mine. I share mainly technology, photography, design... and other random stuff. - Ryan - @magicofpi

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes! The list I was looking for! I'll get my info on here as soon as I get on my netbook - Kamilah Gill from email

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Hall (Australia)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gtp19

http://www.google.com/reader... - ha3rvey (wants confit)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bluesun 2600

http://www.google.com/reader... - CAJ, somewhere else

http://www.google.com/reader... - Martha

Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did! - Martha

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Logan

The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default! - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tapio Kulmala

Vince, exactly! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nik

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Daryl Hunt on FF

Not sure how I missed this thread. I share lots of tech news, some programming stuff and a little more at http://www.google.com/reader... - Rob Diana

There is also a group that collected a bunch of reader shares at http://friendfeed.com/share-y... - Rob Diana

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick B.

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Nencetti

http://www.google.com/reader... - Slappy Line

http://www.google.com/reader... - Sean Brady

http://www.google.com/reader... - Spidra Webster

http://www.google.com/reader... - Or just go to: Sharing settings on your google reader shared items and search for: Avi Joseph - Avi Joseph

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Delucchi

Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader... - Roy Herrod

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steven Perez

http://www.google.com/reader... - edythe

http://www.google.com/reader... - http://friendfeed.com/kevinar... - Kevin Arth

http://www.google.com/reader... - topics include a bit of everything, but there's a fair about of Android-related stuff in there - Chuck Falzone

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

http://www.google.com/reader... - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Reynolds

http://www.google.com/reader... - AJ Kohn

http://www.google.com/reader... - MLx

http://www.google.com/reader... - German - mostly politics and crude funny things. Maybe some new technology - JoeD

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Stay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Grant Bierman

http://www.google.com/reader... - Neal Jansons

Thank everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... I mostly share ART with a little bit this and that thrown in for good measure. - Kimber Scott

http://www.google.com/reader... - michael sean wright

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bryce Roney

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jon, the Beartato of '10

Ryo: Same here :) "completely moved to Google Reader / Twitter / Posterous" All my followers, please subscribe to me on Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader... or my lifestream: http://l.clipotech.com/lifestr... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alexander Kruel

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Hambling

http://www.google.com/reader... share various science research and news - Colby from iPod

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Moga

http://www.google.com/reader... -- nothing shared yet; still learning several social networks & services, so it might take me a while... - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adrian Scicluna

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mark O'Neill

Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back. - Dennis Jernberg

I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries. - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Imabug

easier to just follow and edit groups from search url>http://www.google.com/reader... - Ru Viljoen

http://www.google.com/reader... - John Ladd

http://www.google.com/reader... - Marko Saric

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Gilbert

Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Rob Diana

There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up. - Rob Diana

tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you very much, Rob! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Right now I'm testing it in comparison to Netvibes. It's yet to be seen if I end up making the switch. - Brad Williamson

http://www.google.com/reader... - ronin

http://www.google.com/reader... - Muge Cerman

https://www.google.com/reader... - Mo Hall

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tal Shafik

http://www.google.com/reader... Mainly photography related things. - Sven

It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds? - Paul Jacobson

My shared stream is at http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Jacobson

Paul, can do that but it will be out of date the moment I post it as I'm getting more new users all the time. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

Maybe someone could hook up something via Yahoo Pipes (or whatever) to automatically generate the OPML? - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Yant

Damond, I'm getting that deja vu feeling. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Whoa, hey, I'm late to this. I'm here: http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Jordan Hofker

I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think. - TobiasVerhoog.com

Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Please dont tell me I have to add everyone manually like I did with Facebook yesterday?? *sigh* - Julia Ault

http://www.google.fr/reader... - Olivier Castets

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... link to my bundle with all my feeds that i have in friendfeed too - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p - browneyes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Edmund Tay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jez Arnold

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

spread those tentacles thats what i say (I'm generally sharing comics, animation, and interesting weirdeness) : http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Greer

Exactly, Paul. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gerald Hildebrandt

There are a few people that have not added me to a group and so I cannot reply to some of your comments. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - flaimo

http://www.google.com/reader... - Charles Owens

http://www.google.com/reader... - Johnny

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenley Neufeld

http://www.google.com/reader... - OK I'm in. Late as always. Will post my thoughts, feedback and pleading requests for help over in Google Reader so please follow me over there. Eat your own dog food and all that. - Andy C

MF/Kol = I live in Kingston on Thames. It's OK apart from the traffic (continually gridlocked) and the shops (girls just lurve them). Handy for getting into London both airports and out to the Thames Valley for work type things. Richmond Park and the river in walking distance is great too. - Andy C

phew.. - Paul Greer

Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think. - Kol Tregaskes

Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Customized with numbers - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

@Kol many years ago, we made the mistake of asking an estate agent in Surbiton whether it was any cheaper than Kingston. She replied 'No - of course not. We are on the fast line to Waterloo' and looked at us as if we were dog excrement. - Andy C

I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Enjoy! - Arvin Dang

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com.au/reader... - Threepwood

http://www.google.com/reader... - jcunwired

Mine; http://www.google.com/reader... - S.D.Allen

Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - masstrovato

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... GReader, Twitter, and Delicious (plus my own sites) are my primary hubs now. Y'all please join me on GReader. - Chris Baskind

http://www.google.com/reader... late as always - Raymundo Roxas

Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - barbarars

Trying Google Reader.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (see http://ff.im/6WRIk) - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... - Claude LaFrenière aka climenole :) - Claude LaFrenière

anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site. - David Gross

Nope, sorry can't help you there, David. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Christopher A Carr

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russ jackson - Russ Jackson

Sweet! http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Baer

http://www.google.com/reader... please add! - Brendon Wadey

Jesse, I saw your share of this FriendFeed thread on Google Reader! - John E. Bredehoft

David, I use mobile Google Reader on an older phone with Windows mobile. My bookmark begins with google.com/reader/m/view - John E. Bredehoft

Here's mine...http://www.google.com/reader... - Oscar Antonio Moralí

Aloha! http://www.google.com/reader... - Ryan

check it out...http://www.google.com/reader... - Cos

Will share tech, science and skepticism, and education news stories: http://www.google.com/reader... - TC

in case anyone missed it, mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Irma Vermaat

more cool - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.google.com/reader... - Anthony Citrano

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Ferguson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Otto

I share interesting articles about Internet music, social media, open content and copyright issues: http://www.google.com/reader... - David Holmes

Mike Reynolds

Christmas Shopping for a Laptop: 2000 vs. 2009 - http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009...

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I'm replacing a Dell Laptop I bought in 2003 for $2800 with a Dell Mini Laptop that costs just $350 via Amazon.com. More than twice the memory. - Mike Reynolds

Mike Reynolds

Google URL Shortener - http://goo.gl/

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"gle URL Shortener" - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

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Yeah but it doesnt look like the general public can use it - Justin Long

The name seems a bit long. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Justin: It's not intended to be so; it's only for use within Google services right now, and it's given to you by Google. - Itachi

Cristo

You know you're a geek when:

December 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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You love graph paper. - Cristo

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You've got more boxes of old electronics than clothes. - Cristo

You have 4 TVs, but I don't watch that much TV. - Cristo

PDA does not mean public display of affection. - Cristo

You're more interested in HDMI, RF, and graphics than actually playing games on the Xbox 360. - Cristo

Being more interested in HDMI than playing games doesn't make you a geek since being more interested than playing games on your 360 than getting laid makes you a geek too. - Alex Scoble

No, that just makes you a nerd. ;) - Cristo

Nerd, geek...it's all the same thing. Nerd. - Alex Scoble

Nerds often confuse the meanings of words. Geek does not necessarily mean nerd. Geek means someone obsessive about something, usually technology, although not always. Nerds are generally socially inept. Those things often go together, but not always. - Cristo

No, dorks are socially inept. You need to learn your words, nerd. - Alex Scoble

No, dorks love Domo, sometimes wanting to get laid by Domo more than by girlfriends or wives (or partners). - Cristo

Whatever, nerd. - Alex Scoble

Nerds are people who go to conferences like Gnomedex. - Cristo

Whatever, nerd. - Alex Scoble

Alex, I see your debating skills are elevating. - Cristo

This isn't a debate...it's a useless argument...and only nerds create useless arguments. Nerd. - Alex Scoble

This thread is proof that Cristo and Alex are both geeks. ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Only dorks have bachelor parties without strippers. :) - Cristo

90% of the music I listen to is bagpipe music: I am a bagpipe geek. - T. Brent, technopeasant

... when you are reading this :) - Mike Reynolds

I think Cristo and Alex have self-selected through this thread. - Beti Cung

Jérôme Flipo

This is very, very, very cool

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I fail to understand. - Richard A.

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they scanned a biz card from a Android ... into an Address Book ,. - johnpiercy

Looks like on the fly OCR, properly parsed into contact data. That is win. - EricaJoy

Two weeks ago, my boss came back from a big event with 60+ visit cards. He had a scanner and a software. Guess what I suggested and then regretted? :) - Jérôme Flipo

http://www.google.com/mobile... - johnpiercy

This feature will save a lot of time, for many users, and move many of them to Google Contacts. - Jérôme Flipo

Richard, it's one possible use of the new Google Goggles product http://www.techcrunch.com/2009.... It recognize the text on visit cards and makes it useful. That's a pretty convincing application of Google's mission IMO. - Jérôme Flipo

I was just thinking how much I would like smartphone OCR. - Andrew C

If you have this installed on your Android phone, for fun go to Amazon and start taking pictures of book covers. Its nuts! - EricaJoy

Erica, does it read the book in the language you want? What, not yet?! :) - Jérôme Flipo

Another reason to get an androphone soon, very soon ;-) - Stanislas Jourdan

When is the Iphone vers,,, I want NOW - johnpiercy

I bet they'll merge this Goggles thing with the current iPhone app. If they release their branded phone with Google Nav and Goggles, I'll feel old school with my iPhone. - Jérôme Flipo

Erica, the existing Amazon Android app does book covers. And so does the standalone app SnapTell. =) - Andrew C

;) - EricaJoy from IM

Just DL'ed from Android Market. Doesn't work all the time but very cool! - Mike Reynolds

It's been hit and miss for me, but when I took a picture of a business card, it Goggles scanned it and gave me a list of the contact information just like the picture depicts. It messed up a couple of letters ("e" was "o", etc), but overall did a decent job. It /does not/ do facial recognition. - Jason, Incognito

Took a picture of a bag of potato chips and got some demon wicca sex blogs. But then took a picture of a coffee table art book that's just a figurative painting on cover and it correctly identified it as a Julian Schnabel book. Definitely entertaining but definitely labs level results. - Hayes Haugen

Can't see it in the [Canadian] Market. Does it work with Android 1.5? - Andrew C

Nope, 1.6 and newer. Turning into a trend. - Hayes Haugen

Then Rogers *really* needs to get off their asses and release the 1.6 update. - Andrew C

Ahhhh.so it's for people with crappy input devices ;-). One day will people have forgotten how to type. It's a good idea. We'll see when they make it available to all platforms. - Richard A.

If a device hasn't been updated to 1.6 already I don't think it's likely it ever will be. Everyone has their hands full with 2.0.1. - Hayes Haugen

Ergh, maybe I'll just root the phone then. =P - Andrew C

Mike Reynolds

| GigaDroid – Android Phone and Application Reviews | Motorola Droid’s Android 2.0.1 update goes live | - http://www.gigadroid.com/?p=76

December 7 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"The Android 2.0.1 update crucially fixes the slow autofocus issue but also improves a wide range of elements, including battery life, audio quality both on as well as off wired networks and a new more instant delivery of Visual Voice Mail messages. Overall stability, speed and a new unlock screen may also be part of the upgrade based on first-hand reports." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Cristo to Cristo's feed, Home Theater

Same Wii game playing in 3 different rooms

December 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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This now works for Wii, Xbox 360, TiVo, Blu ray, Apple TV, and I'll be adding the Mac Mini soon. - Cristo

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So when I add the second TiVo and another Apple TV (for Boxee), I'll be out of sources! No room for Vudu or Roku. :( - Cristo

Hrm, I thought the Wii communicates from the remote to the system and the bar is just for triangulation. Do the remotes have enough range to cover your whole house? Likewise, what about Xbox controllers? Also how are you getting around the annoyance of switching disks when the player/system is tucked away in a cabinet? - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin, the house isn't that big (~1700sqft). Most of it is open or partially open, and the media closet is in the center. I've had no problems yet with either Xbox or Wii controllers. As for switching disks, I have not gotten around that problem, and if I do, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to talk about it online. ;) - Cristo

So if you have two screens within wiimote range and you get another ir bar, you could have two people playing multiplayer on different screens in different rooms! Cool! - Kevin Fox

and they say the family unit isn't what it used to be! - Morgan Haley

Kevin, yes. I have 3 wireless bars, but I only have one in the photos. The kitchen makes a great bowling alley, but Beti told me she doesn't want people in there bowling when she's cooking. :) - Cristo

Drool... - Jesse Stay

/invites self to Cristo's house. - Louis Gray

/accepts Louis' invitation to Cristo's house. :) - Cristo

/joins louis, uninvited - Jesse Stay

Maybe we'll have a friendfeed party.:) - Cristo

Add a screen in the bathroom along with a rock band drumset that slides out of the wall and consider it complete. - Rodfather from Android

We have a place in the downstairs bath we were originally going to put one, but it seems unnecessary, and probably takes away from the zen-like atmosphere of the spa-bath. I know. But hey, I live in San Francisco, right? :) - Cristo

Rod, were you planning on playing rock band on the toilet? Not sure everyone would want to use those instruments. - Cristo

And replace the wiibar with candles - Rodfather from Android

Wow Cristo. Zen-like definitely describes that bathroom. Well done. - Steve

Thanks Steve. - Cristo

Here's a nice photo of the bath at night: http://friendfeed.com/cristob... - Cristo

What's your high score? - Mike Reynolds

Mike, I suck at games. I'm doing this for the intellectual challenge as much as anything, and also so people will come to my house so I don't have to go anywhere. :) - Cristo

Hey can I move in with you??? :) - Jan Ole Peek

Chris Brogan

AT&T Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction [REPORT] - http://mashable.com/2009...

December 1 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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"Are you an AT&T customer? What’s your customer satisfaction report for the carrier?" My experience has actually been very good. Whenever I've had to deal with AT&T directly it has always been very pleasant. I have to admit to being surprised. Our AT&T service in the RTP area is quite good. Zero issues for me. - Kevin Gamble

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I've had good experiences with customer service also. And 3G at my house in the quasi-boondocks? Priceless. - LogEx

If Comcast was a carrier, they would be worse. - Cristo

Besides getting caught in the middle of a spat between an AT&T store and AT&T corporate - AT&T customer service has always been incredibly responsive to me too. Much, much, much better than what I experienced with Verizon. And light years ahead what I experienced with Sprint. (Though Sprint was over 5 years ago) - Jason Adam Young

same here; great customer service from AT&T. Still glad i left Verizon...and i didn't leave for the iPhone. - jerobins

I have issues with AT&T's DSL and landline telephone. - Mike Reynolds

Mitchell McKenna to Mitchell's feed, Android

Twidroid 3.0 Launches with Plugin Support - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

November 30 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Now available in the Android Marketplace, is a major update for this mobile application, introducing new features like geolocation, in-app image previews, threaded conversations, and, most notably an extensible plugin platform." - Mitchell McKenna from Bookmarklet

Twidroid is a very nice Twitter app for Android. - Mike Reynolds

Srikanth AD to Srikanth's feed, All Things Google, The Goodie Room, TheNextWeb Forum, Appetite, Friends of Mashable, Social Media Club, Social Media, RWW: The Future of Tech, WebWare24

iPhone or Droid, What is a Better Buy? | Tech Inspiration - http://www.ekoob.com/iphone-...

November 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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prefer Droid - Странник

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but why? - ugurarcan

open source, scalable - Странник

maybe later. not yet tho. good potential but i dont believe it can beat iphone overall. i agree w/ the article. - ugurarcan

think apple better then google? this like microsoft and linux, yeah - Странник

The momentum behind the iPhone is the key. There's so many people behind the iPhone now, better technology can't affect it (and Apple does a good job of keeping the product competitive). Android would be wise to provide a simple solution for porting of iPhone apps. They need the apps. - ·[▪_▪]·

i think this is a little beyond apple vs. google. i agree above, its the momentum behind it. its quite possible droid has many more advantages but as of today also has a lottt to catch up and iphone isnt slowing either. - ugurarcan

DROID - Pavlo Zahozhenko

AnDroid! - atner

right now!! iPhone , Andriod is not ready for primetime yet - Tate DA FF MVP

Bought a Droid last night. Quite nice. - Mike Reynolds

I love the droid keyboard. Once you get used to it, you can't stop the urge to open up the hw keyboard for every single typing task. It's awesome. - Berk D. Demir

Droid - raphaeL

I was tempted to buy my first iPhone. I decided to wait for the new iPhone so the current is only $100. Now I will research Android too. As you can see I really don't need either so I will just wait. - Russellreno

Mike Reynolds to Mike's feed, Android

Swype keyboard coming to Android in 2010 – Android and Me - http://androidandme.com/2009...

November 27 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"TechCrunch is reporting that Swype will be coming to Android in 2010. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most feature phones today (but sorely missing from the default Android soft keyboard)." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Why would T9 be useful, and thus missing, on Android? First off, the on screen keyboard shows all letters, the limits of a 9-digit dial-pad to enter text aren't there, which is the reason T9 exists. On top of that, it shows word competitions based on the prefix entered for each word, which is actually better than T9 because it shows more options at once. - Andy Bakun

Jason, Incognito to Jason,'s feed, Android, Appetite

Sync, Play & Send to Android with doubleTwist - http://www.doubletwist.com/dt...

November 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Jealous of the easy media management of iTunes, but don't use an iPod/iPhone? Then this is the app for you! </tv announcer voice> Seriously, though. doubleTwist is a great app for managing your music, photos and music and syncing them between your desktop (Mac or Windows) and your Android phone. It also converts videos and music files to compatible formats when syncing to your device (I haven't tested this). Also has Amazon MP3 store integration for easy browsing and purchase of unencumbered audio files. Highly recommended. - Jason, Incognito from Bookmarklet

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Works well for synching to Droid. - Mike Reynolds

Yup, I've been really happy with it. - Jason, Incognito from Android

have you figured out how to get it recognize (and keep it reference to) a networked harddrive? - Jeffrey Canton

this looks interesting...but judging from this: http://forums.doubletwist.com/default... I will be waiting a long time since I use linux. :( - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

On my Android device, I just copy files onto the SD card. Why do I need this? - sjjh

Well, it includes Amazon MP3 Store support. It also includes support for moving Photos and Videos back and forth between your Droid and PC/Mac. Never underestimate having a nice, centralized drag-and-drop interface for managing your files. That's part of what makes iTunes so popular-- ease of use. YOU may not need it, but the average user will. Personally, I think Verizon should be... more... - Jason, Incognito

@slayerboy, you could use Amarok. - Jason, Incognito

Hmm. When I plug an HTC Magic or Tattoo into a USB port (without removing the card) on my PC, the device is recognised as a disk drive. I then have a drag & drop interface from Windows Explorer. I agree that some apps should be included though. For example, how about File Explorer on the device? The first app I install is always OI File Manager - sjjh

I use Banshee and it fits my needs, but would be nice to have an "all-in-one" package like this on linux - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

@sjjh, there's no predefined directory structure on the Droid, though. So you could put music pretty much anywhere on the SD card. WE understand that, but the average user is going to wonder where to put their music, videos and pictures. doubleTwist takes that uncertainty out of the equation. That's important to adoption by less technically-savvy people. - Jason, Incognito

@slayerboy, Banshee looks REALLY nice. It supports more than doubleTwist does (for instance, podcasts). - Jason, Incognito

Hmmm, does it support photos? Doesn't appear to. - Jason, Incognito

nope no photos yet.....although Banshee is really frustrating me on ubuntu 9.10....it's a resource hog - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

Meh, most media managers are resource hogs, though. All the cover art, special widgets, etc make it so. I don't really worry about memory usage anymore. Now if it's eating up unnecessary CPU time, that's different. I hadn't heard of Banshee until your mention of it. I'm a long-time KDE user, so I tend to stick to Qt-based apps (don't really have anything against GTK/Gnome, mind you). - Jason, Incognito

Converts video to MP4 format. - Mike Reynolds

Works for Blackberry too. [FWD'ED] - sofarsoShawn

@Mike, forgot about that. Yeah, it does media conversion, if necessary, when you copy from your library to the device. - Jason, Incognito

Mike Reynolds to Mike's feed, Android

Google Listen is an iTunes-like tool for subscribing to podcasts on Android. #android #droid - http://listen.googlelabs.com/

November 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Google Listen seems to work well. Allows user to choose streaming or download of podcasts. - Mike Reynolds

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Someone should *so* make a device that would run iphone + droid at the same time! An iphone virtual machine on the droid (?) would be nice. I so want to try this!!!! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

i am a big fan of google listen, but the feed search could be better. i have not been able to find several podcasts listed in the service. yay! for manual entry, but i wish it was easier. - tiffany

Agreed, feed search needs work. Right now the search just calls up individual podcast recordings with the search phrase. What we need is search that focuses on subscription name. - Mike Reynolds

Mike Reynolds

DoubleTwist + Amazon MP3 Store = One More Reason to Ditch iTunes - doubletwist - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5376389...

November 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"Remember doubleTwist, the very cool iTunes alternative that aims to easily sync any content to any device? Well now the ambitious tool is taking one more step to make iTunes obsolete, incorporating an Amazon MP3-powered music store." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Mike Reynolds

charging the Motorola Droid causing issues? - http://www.forceclose.com/questio...

November 25 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Yes, my Droid UI acts up sometimes it is being charged. Still my favorite phone though. - Mike Reynolds

Cristo to Cristo's feed, Home Theater

It's funny that whenever I search for a question/answer about home theater or home automation, I always stumble upon forums where someone asks a question and there are several replies saying "Why would you ever want to do this?" Most of the discussion ends up explaining (or arguing) about the validity of the request.

November 20 - Comment - Like - Share

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And a lot of the education is not coming from the people asking why this would ever be done, but rather from the original asker of the question and others explaining the possible uses for the request. Of course, the original question is not always answered, because most of the people don't have the knowledge to answer it. - Cristo

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E.g. If you split an HDMI source to route it through a separate audio processor and video processor, will you have problems with HDCP? - Cristo

So why would you ever want to do that?! :) To be quite honest, I have no clue. - Mike Reynolds

There's a huge difference between a tinkerer and a power user, but forums tend to be populated by both types. Tinkerers come up with new ideas, while power users just want the best experience within the framework of what already exists. The OP in the cases you're referring to is the tinkerer. I'm a power user myself, not really much for developing or hacking. I just want a good experience without a great deal of effort - LANjackal

Yes... why would anyone want to ask a forum question about home theater or home automation. - .LAG liked that

LOL @ LAG - CW™

LANjackal, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between your classifications. This question does not involve developing or hacking, it involves finding the right equipment that will do what you want. If someone doesn't know the answer, they shouldn't be responding to the question. Especially not by interrogating the original poster why they would want to do something, and thus implying that it's not worth doing. The reason? Because it isn't helpful to anyone. - Cristo

Mike Reynolds

DROIDIE - http://droidie.com/

November 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"Dave Morhill of the Google Android team confirmed that there is a bug that is tied to the date on the phone, giving the DROID 24.5 days of good camera action and then 24.5 days of bad camera action." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Mike Reynolds

OECD Doubles 2010 Growth Forecast, Recovery to Widen (Update2) - Bloomberg.com - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...

November 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"The economy of the group’s 30 member countries will expand 1.9 percent next year and 2.5 percent in 2011" - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Mike Reynolds

Walt Disney World Restaurants open for Thanksgiving Week - http://www.examiner.com/x-1712-...

November 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"The Tomorrowland Noodle Station, one of the more popular seasonally operating locations in the Magic Kingdom Park will be open from Nov. 22 through Nov. 28, 2009. American style foods will be serves at this counter service restaurant from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. and an Asian style cuisine will be available from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Mike Reynolds

Fed May Not Increase Rates Until 2012, Bullard Says (Update3) - Bloomberg.com - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...

November 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said past experience suggests policy makers may not start to raise interest rates until early 2012, while concern borrowing costs have stayed “too low for too long” may prompt an earlier move." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

clarke thomas

Obama's bow to emperor pisses off conservatives - TOKYOMANGO - http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_m...

November 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"I think they might be thinking of the bow as a subservient gesture, whereas it should probably best be interpreted as the standard form of formal greeting in Japan, much like the handshake in America." - clarke thomas from Bookmarklet

Extremely polite. - Mike Reynolds

Cristo

Go Colts!

November 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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I am conflicted. I want the Patriots to lose because the Dolphins are in the same conference. I also want all undefeated teams to lose at least once. This is one of the few tough remaining games on the Colts schedule. - Eric Logan

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I'm not conflicted. i want the Patriots to lose every time they play. :) - Cristo

LOL. Amazing. WTF were the Patriots thinking going for it on 4th down on their 30? This was almost as good as the 2007 superbowl, although that was sweeter. - Cristo

Colts performance has helped my fantasy football team reach 9-0-1. - Mike Reynolds

@Mike Nice! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

if you run the stats, going for it was the right mathematical decision. That is it gives you the highest probability of winning - Ken Sheppardson

Gah. That was just horrible. I can't recall being angrier about the outcome of a football game. - Kevin Pedraja

Ken, what stats are you running? Almost any coach I've ever seen in the NFL would have punted that ball in that situation. If you don't trust your defense to defend 80 yards of field, how are you going to trust them to defend 30? - Cristo

If you get a first down, you've basically won the game. I think the Pats 4th and 2 conversion rate is ~63%. If you don't get the first down, there's some probability that the Colts will take it in. Let's say from the 30 that's 70%. In order for the Colts to win, you have to go for it, not make it, and the Colts have to score. The probability of that is 0.37x0.70 = .25, i.e. ~25%. If you think there's a better than 25% chance the Colts could drive 60yards and score in two minutes, you should go for it. - Ken Sheppardson

Given that the colts had just gone 79 yards in 1:49 to score against a pretty gassed Pats defense, the odds they could do it again were probably over 25% - Ken Sheppardson

dude seriously? who does trust their defense against the colts right now? Do you trust your offense more to get 2 yards or your defense not to give up 60? Best defense against peyton is to not give him the ball. I don't even like belichick and I'm not knocking him for it. - Richard Lawler

Like I said, I would have punted the ball, but I'm glad they didn't. - Cristo

Most coaches probably would've, e.g Dungy. That's why Belichick has a bunch more Superbowl rings than most coaches: he has a better understanding of the stats and probabilities related to the game. - Ken Sheppardson

If I remember correctly, he lost the last superbowl he was in. Similar sweetness to it too. The guy's kind of a jerk. Maybe he hasn't been videotaping the other teams sidelines enough lately. - Cristo

Yes, I remember he lost the last one. Just 'cause you understand the probabilities and know which way you *should* bet doesn't mean you'll *always* win. Here's a more detailed analysis of the 4th down call http://www.advancednflstats.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

"Super Bowl XLII: After they ran that last play, Bill Belichick, the Patriots coach, walked off the field without speaking to any of the Giants. He marched off the field towards the tunnel with his entourage of coaches not saying a word of congratulations to anyone from the other team." - Nice. - Cristo

I never said he was a nice guy. I said he knows math :-) - Ken Sheppardson

If he knew math better, they would have won the game. :) Why didn't they call better plays for the first 3 downs? - Cristo

Yeah, they really should've gone to their list of plays with a 100% probability of scoring. They're idiots. ;-) BTW, more analysis http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog... - Ken Sheppardson

They should put together a team of mathematicians to play against all the players and coaches in the NFL that disagreed with Belichick's decision and see who wins. :) - Cristo

Y'know, I'll bet if you sat down all the folks who disagree and ask them a series of questions like "If the Pats ran that play 10 times, how many times do you think they'd make the first down?", "If you punt the ball there 10 times, how many times would you expect Manning to be able to drive for a TD?", "If you give Manning the ball there on the 30 ten times, how many times would you expect he's score?" I'll bet their *rational* decision, given their beliefs RE the probabilities, would've been to go for it. - Ken Sheppardson

...but then you've got to consider their risk aversion, i.e. whether they're willing to have all their peers who can't do the math criticizing them the next day. Belichick doesn't care about that part. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Well, I question the validity of the statistics, such as whether they pertain to where on the field the conversion attempt occurs (just outside of the red zone is not enough), the time of the game, and the emotional impact on the other team (It's a huge boost to stifle a conversion attempt on the other team's 30). Is momentum something factored into statistics? Also, there have been a lot of great coaches before Belichick. What would they have done? - Cristo

Anyway, I'm just a fan. I'm not into Fantasy Football or crunching lots of statistics. I just like it when the team I hate loses. :) If I were a Patriots fan though, I'd be pissed. - Cristo

Sure, so... you really don't even need to question the validity of the stats. The flip side is coaches and other decision makers "gamble" all the time. I consider "gambling" to be betting against the odds. You "take a chance" on a 10:1 longshot, for example. In this case it's just that the "gamble" is kicking the ball, which is sorta counterintuitive. If everybody today was complaining that B should've "taken a chance" and punted, that'd be one thing... - Ken Sheppardson

...but they seem to think going for it was the "gamble", when it's quite likely it was the logical, rational thing to do. I'm a pretty big Pats fan, but I'm really not upset with Belichick. I get it. Sometimes you make the right decision and lose. I'm actually more peeved about them blowing the two timeouts so they couldn't challeng the spot on the fourth down attempt, and the replay system in general just blows. So... there's that. - Ken Sheppardson

I question the validity of the stats because it doesn't match my intuition for that particular situation. Could I be wrong? Sure, but so could anyone. I'm not interested enough to do my own study, and there are lots of people smarter than me that have been wrong. Reminds me of the argument that peak oil drove the price of oil to $147 per barrel. What happened to peak oil? - Cristo

Our intuition tends to break down when it comes to conditional probability. You familiar with the Monte Hall problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ken Sheppardson

I'm guessing most great football players aren't doing statistics equations on the field. - Cristo

Yep. But more and more great coaches these days are doing the stats offline in order to do things like generate those play selection sheets you see them using on the sideline that give them lists of the best plays to call in particular situations. - Ken Sheppardson

Oooh... "veridical paradox" I'll have to remember that one... - Ken Sheppardson

Also, you know that thing they always say after investment advice: "Past performence does not necessarily predict future returns." - Cristo

Yeah, and on the flip side, our Decision Analysis prof used to always say "You can't judge the quality of a decision by the outcome." - Ken Sheppardson

Personally, I'm more interested in the outcome than the decision. ;) - Cristo

So, if it is more statistically unlikely for a team to win 17 games in a season, than to have lost one or two and win the superbowl, maybe the Patriots should have purposely lost some games in the 2007 season. - Cristo

Well, there's a non-stats based logic to that you see in training for individual sports like cycling, swimming, etc... it's really hard to maintain peak peformance for an extended period, so you pick certain events in the season for which you plan to peak, then rest, peak again, etc. Take Lance Armstrong, for example. He trains to peak for the TdF every year, at the expense of *lots* of other races during the season. - Ken Sheppardson

If you set up a schedule trying to "peak" for the playoffs and Superbowl, you might not ramp up 'til a few games into the season, or take a "break" during the middle and rest folks. I wonder... if you look at the teams that have won the Superbowl... what's their collective record in the first 2 or 3 games of the season... - Ken Sheppardson

I think I would probably watch a lot less football if the announcers started quoting lots of statistics during the play-by-play. "Looks like they're running a play action. The Browns have been .175 on 3rd down play actions, so I'm not sure that's a good call." It's one of the reasons I find baseball kind of boring. But then again, maybe that's why they do it in baseball, because so much of the game is boring. - Cristo

Well, yeah... with baseball they really don't have anything else to talk about. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Mike Reynolds

Realtors: Housing, economy outlook hopeful - Orlando Business Journal: - http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando...

November 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will probably average 5.3 percent in the fourth quarter, rising gradually to 5.8 percent by the end of next year, NAR reported" - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Alt-A. Option-ARM. - Cristo

Mike Reynolds

My Disney Blog: Disney and ASUS Launch Netbook Computer for Kids - http://www.mydisneyblog.com/my_webl...

November 13 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Launched back in June. - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Cristo

Lisp programmers are pissed off that most of the world's software is written in C or in a language implemented by C.

November 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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Those Symbolics machines really never took off. - Cristo

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Those curly braces are so much more ugly than parenthesis. - Cristo

Indeed. And why are curly braces so important that they get their own lines? - The Letter M

These days, I only give the closing ones their own lines. ;) - Cristo

Symbolics and Lisp was pretty big in the animation business for a while. - Ed Millard

If Lisp was completely erased from history, the world today would be pretty much the same. - Cristo

Not true. We wouldn't have those great memories of emacs vs vi flame wars. - The Letter M

If Lisp was completely erased from history, the world today would be pretty much the same. ;) - Cristo

i(haven't(used(LISP(in(a(long(time))))))) - Mike Reynolds

I'm pretty sure that 'i' outside of parenthesis would be a syntax error. - Cristo

The e-commerce space would have taking a bit longer to evolve. But otherwise true. - Jimminy Fuller

Is BASIC implemented by C? I know there are still quite a few programs written in BASIC and VisualBasic. - Curtiss Grymala

BASIC certainly can be written in C. What do you think it's written in? - Cristo

Quite positive that learning LISP helped me to understand some pretty advanced programming concepts (well, advanced to me at the time), but other than that I think I see what you mean :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Mike Reynolds

I'm in the Twitter Retweet beta. Useful! - http://twitter.com/

November 11 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Hi there, you're part of a beta group receiving this feature, which means you may start seeing retweets in a new way. People who don't have this yet will see your retweets prefaced by "RT"." - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Jesse Stay

Epic Win: News Corp Likely To Remove Content From Google - http://www.inquisitr.com/46786...

November 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Alex Schleber, Bonnie Foster, Brian and 26 other people liked this

Smart move (maybe) - if Google is paying Twitter to get their content, why shouldn't Google be paying others as well? News Corp is a big entity - is it a loss for Google to lose all that content or a loss for News Corp? - Jesse Stay from Bookmarklet

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Since News Corp suck at reporting and Murdoch is a greedy bastard, I say 'Good bloody riddance' - Mo Kargas

I know a whole lotta conservatives that will still bypass Google to get the content - Jesse Stay

Not to mention MySpace users - however, will MySpace users revolt now that their pages can't be indexed (if this goes through)? - Jesse Stay

*bookmark* - Micah Wittman

Also makes me wonder what News Corp is doing with MySpace now - what do they have up their sleeves? - Jesse Stay

Imagine if they too set up a deal with Twitter... - Jesse Stay

to search content, that is - Jesse Stay

Good, it would save me the trouble of having to look to see if something comes from Murdoch's entities. I doubt this will actually happen, though. - Rob Haas

Sorry but most people won't even realize that News Corp content is missing. People will search and they'll find other sites. Sorry, the unibrow of the web wins. - AJ Kohn

So if I link to a News Corp article via Twitter... will that tweet not be searchable? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Johnny, they can block Google spider from news corp sites but twitter will still be indexed as usual. - Amit Morson

Two Words... DON'T CARE - CW™

Would be a good move if News Corp carried ALL the news (sorry for allcaps). But there are plenty of others wanting for Google love. - Mike Reynolds

When Murdoch and his kind get together to set a price, the Government will step in to stop what is obvious price fixing. His threat is hollow, they won't set a price. - Wallace

Rupert must have been listening to Twist #24. Calacanis suggested he do this. http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009... (somewhere near the end of the episode). - Ken Morley

Calacanis suggested he do this???? It figures.... - Roberto Bonini

He was saying the top ten news oranizations should get together and make an offer to Bing... but that Rupert was likely the only one with the balls to do it; and that Google set a precedent by paying Twitter to index their content. :o) - Ken Morley

Update: Calacanis just posted this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ken Morley

Genius! epic win for sure! - Jason Calacanis

It's curious that he would say search engine referral visitors aren't desired by advertisers. - Rob Sterling

Only way to make money from your content is to control it from the beginning. News Corp gave it away in several ways on the internet, including allowing Google search to go through their websites. Now that it has happened, if they choose to close off key avenues of information to go out to the users that are now used to getting their information a certain way, will backfire beyond... more... - CW™

One word, "Antitrust." Or is that two words? The bulk Twitter feed apparently was not available to the public or it would have already been searched by Google. If content is available to the public now for free, I don't know how you are going to exclude some member of the public (Google) from accessing that content without creating a legal problem. - Jimmy Walker

I love moves that make old media harder to get to, driving those bastards farther behind their walls, marginalizing their impact even further. It makes just that much more space to allow the future to get her sooner. - Matthew DeVries

I guess new media won't kill old media after all. Old media will simply commit suicide. - Victor Ganata

And Jason just sent around an email newsletter explaining. I'd post it but its Copyrighted. - Roberto Bonini

What, this? http://calacanis.com/2009... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Why is he "talking about it"? Couldn't a quick change to the robots.txt file (which Google and legitimate search robots obey) exclude Google? - Brian Sullivan

Jason get rich by flux, it doesn't matter to him who wins, as long as there is change, upheaval and instability. Flat markets are Satan that he must fight. It does not surprise me that he advocates points of view that represent a sea change in the industry. It matters not to him whether new media or old media wins, just that there is a decade of fighting. - Matthew DeVries

For sure they want to be' payd as Twitter, the move to exit from the index is a suicide about advertising, by now it guarantee 100000 imp x day (It's in the answer of google to Murdock). - CantorJF from iPhone

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awesome! - siniradam

you just made my color blind self cry tears of joy - I can now click that to discover all of the links that some crazy color mad designer has "hidden" from me by their color choices - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

wow neat trick - Onur Gündüz

is there a bookmarklet to make hackernews look good on the iphone? - Ivan Kirigin

Add this to FriendFeed and you've got Wave :-) - Jesse Stay

Reminds me somewhat of ClutterMe http://www.clutterme.com/ - they figured out how to make a whole page in-place-editable (javascript of course) - just click anywhere and start typing: http://www.clutterme.com/pages... - Christopher Galtenberg

Nice, discover links obscured by CSS - Orlando Pozo

Cute trick. Not being familiar with java script (at all) what is the void%200 statement there for? - Eric Borisch

Without the void 0, the browser will navigate to a page showing the result of the computation. - Paul Buchheit

Not grasping the %200, though - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

But that's not the case when I just execute it in the (safari) address bar. I take it that's expected? - Eric Borisch

%20 is a space. I'm not sure about safari -- I use ff. - Paul Buchheit

Cool. This + FB + malcontents + screenshots = ??? - Eric Borisch

What is this supposed to do again ?-- it does nothing that I can discern in IE, FF or Chrome (on Vista). - Brian Sullivan

OK I see what it does on FF. - Brian Sullivan

But only in FireFox presumably? - Brian Sullivan

It works on IE - AJ Batac

So it does -- first time I tried IE8 crashed. - Brian Sullivan

Works in Chrome, too - Jan Ole Peek

It doesn't seem to work in 4.0.223.11 - Brian Sullivan

I'm still on Chrome 3.0.195.27 but it says no update detected... this is in Win7. Pretty sure my OSX Chrome is 4.0.223.11 though. - Jan Ole Peek

4.0.223.11 is the latest in the dev stream. - Brian Sullivan

Works on Chrome Mac version here. I added the script as a new bookmark in the menu. - Jesper Lind

Try this instead to avoid the %20 weirdness: javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable!='true')) - Matt Mastracci

Doesn't seem to work either -- maybe a bug in the dev version? - Brian Sullivan

World's coolest bookmarklet, especially those who are creating demo apps. - Mike Reynolds

Wow, this is awesome (works perfectly for me in Firefox 3.5). Simple Bookmarklet code that makes Web pages "editable". Now if only there were save + back buttons or something = Instant Wiki. - Alex Schleber

I realized after playing for a while, some of the keyboard events stop working, like submitting form by hitting Enter .. (FF 3.5.3) - Onur Gündüz

this is the fundamental line of every wysiwyg editor you use. for IE use allowEdit - Tzury Bar Yochay

Clicking it a second time makes it un-editable (and therefore it should respond to events and such). - Paul Buchheit

So how do you discover 'hidden' links.? - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Cool, worked for me (the box is Windows Chrome 3.0.195.27) - ǝuǝƃnǝ

I mean in all open tabs and windows, not just in editable mode. It stayed that way, still no keyboard events (not restarted ff yet) :) - Onur Gündüz

Figured how to make it but what's it good for - pretending to rip other people's stuff to sh*t? - Michael Slattery

Michael - I'm thinking about possible use as a minor webdesign tool. Of course other tools are more powerful, but this is a nice simple one. - Deborah Fitchett

Ok, I finally get it - Michael Slattery

this is the worlds best website - Grant Rhoades

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US tariff history - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

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