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Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone
August 21 at 7:10 am - Link
"Fred, re: "Shazam for Places", I like "WikiMe" for that type of application...its does Wikipedia searches on your location for popular categories...I've found it to be fairly useful...here's a description link with more info: http://iphone.iusethis.com/app..." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone
August 21 at 7:09 am - Link
"Type your comment here." - Michael Parekh
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Re: When You Wake Up Feeling Old
August 20 at 8:04 am - Link
"A little paranoia is always good Fred, especially when it comes to age. But you've long been one of the youngest folks I know in the world of tech investing, VC or otherwise. Happy Birthday!" - Michael Parekh
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Re: Thinking About Blackberry Apps
July 13 at 9:13 am - Link
"Good post Fred...my BB Curve app line-up is very similar...but some third-partys apps have made it onto my home screen...ones I use a lot: Google Reader, The New York Times, VZ Navigator (yes, I pay the $7/month, but have found the turn-by-turn service indispensable in the most unexpected places and times). The only build-in app that's in my top ten in addition to the ones you listed is Video camera, which I use more often than expected with a 6Gig memory card (feature/capability still missing even on my 3G iPhone). Am still searching for a couple of killer games on the Blackberry, especially Solitaire and other card games...have tried a few but none have made it to the home stack." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Thinking About Blackberry Apps
July 13 at 9:13 am - Link
"Good post Fred...my BB Curve app line-up is very similar...but some third-partys apps have made it onto my home screen...ones I use a lot: Google Reader, The New York Times, VZ Navigator (yes, I pay the $7/month, but have found the turn-by-turn service indispensable in the most unexpected places and times). The only build-in app that's in my top ten in addition to the ones you listed is Video camera, which I use more often than expected with a 6Gig memory card (feature/capability still missing even on my 3G iPhone). Am still searching for a couple of killer games on the Blackberry, especially Solitaire and other card games...have tried a few but none have made it to the home stack." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day
June 21 at 8:25 am - Link
"Good book Fred. You may also want to look at Parag Khanna's "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order", which comes to some different conclusions. Lots to disagree and agree with in both tomes, and great food for thought. Also, my new favorite TV news show on the weekends is Fareed Zakaria's GPS (Global Public Square) on Sundays. Great for arm-chair policy wonks everywhere." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day
June 21 at 8:25 am - Link
"Good book Fred. You may also want to look at Parag Khanna's "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order", which comes to some different conclusions. Lots to disagree and agree with in both tomes, and great food for thought. Also, my new favorite TV news show on the weekends is Fareed Zakaria's GPS (Global Public Square) on Sundays. Great for arm-chair policy wonks everywhere." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Join my 5000 Facebook friends party in Paris this thursday June 12th
June 10 at 9:50 am - Link
"Wish could join you Loic...sounds like it should be a blast... All the best, m" - Michael Parekh
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Re: The Video Tidal Wave Gaining Momentum…BUT Time to Keep an Eye on Video Spam
March 27 at 8:00 am - Link
"Howard, Enjoyed the video posts...also, great re-design on the old blog. Congrats." - Michael Parekh
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FriendFeed Has Search, And Suddenly Looks Like A Destination Site
FriendFeed Has Search, And Suddenly Looks Like A Destination Site
March 17 at 6:54 pm - Link
Some people have asked "why didn't FriendFeed have search when it launched?" I think it's brilliant the way you guys have come out early and then have been steadily adding features. Each time you add something like this, you get more press. :) - Chris White
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Love the Search. Next desired FF feature: Ability to import Twitter friends and follow them all via FF. - Michael Parekh
Search is a huge feature, bravo. Speaking of FF as destination, anyone planning a Firefox, delicious-style Add On that allows me to share something without coming back here? - Jake Kuramoto
Here it is Jake: http://friendfeed.com/share/bo.... We keep our features mysteriously hidden :) - Paul Buchheit
Excellent, I like magically appearing features. Now, about those bacon cookies . . . - Jake Kuramoto
For some reason Firefox doesn't install the bookmarklet feature for me. Can't drop it on a toolbar? Any suggestions? - Alexander van Elsas
Our wording is imperfect. don't drag it on to a (Google, Alexa, Yahoo, et.c) toolbar. Drag it to your bookmark bar, if you have the bookmark bar displayed. Otherwise bookmark and invoke it via menubar. - Kevin Fox
Perfect! - Kemal Yaylali
MAYBE HAVE SEARCH IS HARD WORK - qian
This is seriously great thing! Thanks for adding search to FriendFeed as it makes this service much more usable and allows us finally search all those Twitter messages. ;) - Daniel Schildt
Why isnt the share bookmark available on the settings page? - Shakeel Mahate
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Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com
How I Tamed My Inbox
March 19 at 10:34 pm - Link
Terrific post, Chris. Thanks for taking the time. - Michael Parekh
I'm a big fan of Archive on Gmail. My friend Randy Dean is a professional email consultant (self-proclaimed "The Totally Obsessed Time Management/PDA Guy"). He has some videos at http://www.youtube.com/profile... - Mike Reynolds
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod
March 19 at 7:21 am - Link
yes, definitely - Devin Anderson
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Yup - Steve Rubel
I think $100 is a very fair price for unlimited music. Most subscription music services - e.g. Rhapsody - charge about $12 per month and sometimes there is an additional fee added for accessing the music on portable devices. Most people will hang on to their iPod for at least a year so that's cheaper than a year's worth of Rhapsody. - Mike Doeff
yes (given that that is about 3 ponds :-) - Alex Gawley
Sure, but what happens when my iPod dies or when I get a new model, or when I want to get a Zune (OK, not likely)? - Rubin Sfadj
@Rubin then you pay again, or maybe they allow a transfer for 1/2 the cost or something. It's like TiVo...they did lifetime subscriptions and on occasion allow people to transfer them to newer TiVo units for a cost - Benjamin Golub
@Benjamin Golub: I see... but how would that play with the iTunes authorization system? - Rubin Sfadj
no ways - Sarah Perez
Nope. Too much free music elsewhere. - Wes Hoogenboom
yeppers, 99 cents a pop has gotten a little old. lots more music I'd like to have and I'm willing to pay for the privilege. - Mike Paul
Not the kid. I rarely buy music. I can buy 5 tracks and I'm good for 6 months. It would be a total waste of money for me. - Bwana McCall
Yes, I would buy a +$100 iPod/iPhone with all you can eat music, but I would also still buy music that I wanted to keep. But it would keep me from wasting money on bad music (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Bitchin' come to mind...) - Stephen Foskett
yes - Charlie Anzman
Yes, me too. If it guaranteed "lifetime", I'd pay 200 extra, and yes, that's more than I'll spend in the next few years on albums. Good idea. - Peter
I'd pay for it. So easier than torrents. - Tim Cooper
heck yes. - carson mehl
Clearly yes. - Neil Vidyarthi
hundred dollar flat fee for unlimited music? That's like 5-6 cds. of course! - engtech
yes - Chris Heuer
yes, as long as they didn't "expire" - tagami
I'm in. - Michael Parekh
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Michael Parekh commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: This is brand new big shit, but
March 7 at 9:48 am - Link
"Fred, the Facebook Web App on the iPhone is already a way to do "social graph" stuff on the iPhone today. Presumably other social networks like MySpace, etc., will have iPhone version of their apps out soon with the SDK. The silver lining in the app store from my perspective is that Apple will distribute third party apps for free. There's a possibility that a lot of third party developers will make free versions of their mainstream applications available on the iPhone, to encourage purchases for PC/Macs, game consoles, etc." - Michael Parekh
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Michael Parekh commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: This is brand new big shit, but
March 7 at 9:48 am - Link
"Fred, the Facebook Web App on the iPhone is already a way to do "social graph" stuff on the iPhone today. Presumably other social networks like MySpace, etc., will have iPhone version of their apps out soon with the SDK. The silver lining in the app store from my perspective is that Apple will distribute third party apps for free. There's a possibility that a lot of third party developers will make free versions of their mainstream applications available on the iPhone, to encourage purchases for PC/Macs, game consoles, etc." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Executives vs Leaders
January 16 at 8:03 am - Link
"Visionaries generally don't do well as second fiddles, so "Clinton picks a good visionary as a VP" doesn't cut it. Except of course you think Cheney was a visionary and a Narcissistic Leader." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Executives vs Leaders
January 16 at 8:03 am - Link
"Visionaries generally don't do well as second fiddles, so "Clinton picks a good visionary as a VP" doesn't cut it. Except of course you think Cheney was a visionary and a Narcissistic Leader." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Executives vs Leaders
January 16 at 8:00 am - Link
""difficult person" goes with being a Narcissistic leader sometimes, no?" - Michael Parekh
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Re: Executives vs Leaders
January 16 at 8:00 am - Link
""difficult person" goes with being a Narcissistic leader sometimes, no?" - Michael Parekh
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Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?
January 4 at 9:37 am - Link
"Yes, everyone should be on a level playing field. Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al should be applauded for allowing the contact exports despite their TOSes. Facebook needs to learn to play fair on this front as well. Especially since it's the right thing to do for the users." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Off To Australia
December 21 at 8:22 am - Link
"Fred, if you're anywhere near Cairns, check out the Hayman Island resort (http://www.hayman.com.au/). It's a bit of a day trip via ferr, but really one of the places I've had a chance to visit. Safe and fun travels." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Off To Australia
December 21 at 8:22 am - Link
"Fred, if you're anywhere near Cairns, check out the Hayman Island resort (http://www.hayman.com.au/). It's a bit of a day trip via ferr, but really one of the places I've had a chance to visit. Safe and fun travels." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Remember the social camera? (Scripting News)
November 5 at 9:33 am - Link
"Obviously not a reality until the feature is standard on ALL cameras/cameraphones. Not sure I'm aware of a standards movement amongst the manufacturers here. It will be cool when/if it's a reality. We may be half-way there though if cameraphones become more popular that standalone cameras. Most cameras do support the emailing of photos/videos...although that is far from the passive "broadcast" model you envisioned in Italy." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Across The Universe
September 23, 2007 at 6:48 am - Link
"It'll be interesting to see if you like it any better in 15 to 20 years. Almost every piece of art changes as we age." - Michael Parekh
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Re: Across The Universe
September 23, 2007 at 6:48 am - Link
"It'll be interesting to see if you like it any better in 15 to 20 years. Almost every piece of art changes as we age." - Michael Parekh
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