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Michael Stearne › Comments
NJ-Gov: The Video Chris Christie Doesn't Want Anyone to See - http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
DO U THINK DAILYKOS will post memo's/videos of Corzines shenanigans while being CEO of Goldman Sachs. Doubt they can be fair & balanced, just Fox News can't be fair & Balanced... People should by now realize neither parties candidates really give a damn bout representing the Peoples interests.
- Baba
You sound like a Republican that runs for office. "All politicians are scum, so I am a politician."
- Michael Stearne
I finally know why I'm so frosted over my layoff and others. There hasn't been any consideration for seniority or performance. People with 10, 20, 30 yrs of Svc ... Gone while ppl with 1 yr stay.
Ontario Emperor, Richard pancakhaus Walker, Hutch Carpenter and 7 other people liked this
wow... that hurts. I wonder if the selections were based on weeding out higher salaries?
- Susan Beebe
:(
- AJ Batac
wow, makes no sense at all... that would be hard to come to terms with - difficult to understand
- Susan Beebe
Loyalty means nothing to most companies. It's ashame.
- Michael Stearne
Bah...
- Michael W. May
One clarification: I'm not saying there were ill intentions in my case. They restructured, my job was gone. Just that it was possible to shuffle around but didn't. Others (not in same company) with many more yrs have simply been let go, without much in severance. I'm one of he lucky ones. Still seems harsh.
- Karoli
from BuddyFeed
We went through something like that. But who was let go and who stayed was based on cross training and who could step into other roles. So we would not have let you go :)
- Christian Burns
President Obama's First Weekly Address - http://airamerica.com/blog...
The government looks modern now.
- Michael Stearne
IBM Finally Admits: Yes, We're Laying People Off (IBM) - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...
IBM just crushed estimates and have a strong outlook for 2009. Why do they layoff 4% of their staff??? When will companies start caring about employees?
- Michael Stearne
A little bird told me that Facebook now has 140 million users and that revenue is higher than most blogs have reported.
Jeroen De Miranda, Charlie Anzman, jswi_jim and 82 other people liked this
Is FB worth $10 per user?
- LogEx
Was it a little bird going tweet, tweet, tweet:)
- James
LOL @ James...
- Dennis Goedegebuure
Revenue higher than reported, as in, profitable? Or just not losing as much?
- Tom Ribbens
Logical: a lot more than $10.
- Robert Scoble
LogicalExtremes: I say yes simply because I can explain its value to my mom.
- trextor
The bird told me he has a Twitter account but rarely uses it to Tweet, though.
- Robert Scoble
Tom: the bird wouldn't tell me that.
- Robert Scoble
Watch the 140 million run screaming as they realise lawyers might start issuing summonses against them on FB: http://www.theage.com.au/nationa...
- mattpovey
Robert how much higher is the revenue???
- Susan Beebe
mattpovey - As someone who libels and assaults frequently... that scares me!
- Andrew
Susan: the bird wouldn't discuss numbers other than to say all estimates he has seen are low.
- Robert Scoble
great news. they've really captured the way people communicate quiet effectively.
- Rahul Krishnakumar
I just can't make myself like Facebook. In part I think it's not really wanting to keep up with old friends. Don't get me started on the stupid apps and the layout.
- BEX
Facebook is really growing in my neck of the woods...TONS of co-workers have jumped on FB now... all happening VERY fast. Transparency is the new reality. I get folks calling me from work asking how all this "social" sh*t works... LOL pretty shocked n00bies!
- Susan Beebe
I wonder if the progression remains "neopets" --> "myspace" --> "facebook" .. both my daughters went through these three distinct stages. IRC was in there for a bit; followed by forums and blogs; and now they just IM
- LPH™ and his dog P™
It is amazing how many customers now you directly communicate with on a daily basis through SMS, twitter and facebook.
- Shaun Haney
Most blogs report $150 m? I would put it between 200-300 M based on back of envelope calculations that assume a low RPM
- Bindu Reddy
Who told you? I am guessing someone from Facebook. They get a bad story, they "leak" to you it's not true, you post it. People believe you. Why don't they just people what they make if they care. Posting like this make you look like a shill.
- Michael Stearne
i never pay a attention to the adv on FB right slider.so the revenue i think should be lower than most blogs have reported:D
- jedorstar
http://www.facebook.com/press... has the user number (140M)
- Ashwin Bharambe
If I could pay ten bucks to insta-ban all annoying app requests and pathetic ads, and more options for designing my front page, I'd go for it...
- Terry O'Fee
When this is anything more than unsubstantiated rumor, I'm sure they'll be happy to put their cards on the table.
- Sam
My forecaster's "sell" order stands. Or, buy puts, your choice. AOL didn't die in a day, either; in fact, it took one of the greatest value dumps of all time, directly upon the heads of Time Warner shareholders. Please, of course I know it's not public, I'm talking Cred Trend Puts. I can't imagine a single reason for the web needing FB by 2012; it was a cute start to socially stuff and MySpace UI cleanup, but the vast majority of The Normals will use it as a Social Registry and virtually never log in again.
- michael silverton
A revenue of $10 per user per year is achievable - advertising + premium vanity features ought to do it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
As to longevity, I don't know - i dislike all the fluff in FB, apps and games, but I can see it growing into a living family tree - our parents are joining, our children are joining, and I now have a whole multi generational network including my parents' friends, my friends' parents - you get this whole "village" of real connections if you use it that way, quite warming when like you have moved countries a bit, and the value could grow. A grounding space in a increasingly disconnected and virtual world.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@scoble: A lot more than 10$ per user? 1.4+ billion in revenues? Is that whtat we're talking about, or was it just what it worths?
- Martino Sabia
Martini I don't know the numbers. I thought I was being asked the value of each user.
- Robert Scoble
Facebook is becoming pretty common and integrating itself within the non-tech crowd. Is it only a matter of time before they roll out some type of subscription plan? I would be willing to pay monthly (maybe $10) As long as they keep adding new features and keep refining the interface.
- Bob Blunk
there have been stories on FF lately about how poorly ads do on social networking services compared to search advertising. Does anybody have different reports or experiences?
- Davide D'Incau
Doesn't surprise me, more friends of mine are joining it by the day.
- Ed Richardson
incentive ads perform poorly on a CPA basis; conversions occur for the wrong reason and have a high cancellation rate.
- Peter Warnock
It seems to me that FB is more embraceable for low tech people than Twitter
- Craig Mische
It's the apps, after the newness wears offs or the advertisers push back, FB will have to do some real marketing. They have a gold mine of data that they're not using.
- Peter Warnock
@Craig - How in Bob's name is a crazy multi layer, multi threaded, multi page, multi media mess easy for a ludite depression era grandmother to get than a single line where you post 140 characters?
- Matthew DeVries
If Facebook needs to start charging than they've failed at their mission and are leaving way too much money on the table. The power in facebook comes in the fact that they now know what we like, what we hate, who we follow, who we listen to. That is worth so much more to people than the pittance they'd be able to make by charging us a fee at a price we wouldn't run screaming to the hills over. They need to keep it "free" and sell that information to the ad people, the politicians, the entertainers.
- Matthew DeVries
If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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hackr, Oliver Thylmann, Nenad Nikolic and 146 other people liked this
halfway through and rotflmao ...
- Dan Haley
Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys?
- Vince DeGeorge
donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle"
- Ranjit Mathoda
That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again.
- Russellreno
Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure.
- Vince DeGeorge
I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through...
- Kamilah Gill
That's hilarious!
- fbrunel
that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!!
- john conroy
You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-)
- Stuart Woodward
Hilarious!!
- Satya
amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ...
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was.
- Dave Winer
LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis
- Chris Saad
from twhirl
He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL.....
- Avery Tingle
this is hilarious!
- Michael Stearne
from twhirl
Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny.
- Jim Kukral
and so absolutely true
- Jeff Evans
"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious!
- Adam
On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
nice
- Anthony
Arggggg!
- bill giltner
yup
- Marc Canter
:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :)
- Yaniv Golan
Did this win some kind of award?
- Dave Winer
That made my day
- Greg Goodwin
that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work
- Mark Schulz
"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny.
- Maury Estabrooks
LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent....
- David W
makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively
- Pete Delucchi
that was hilarious. wow!
- David Adam
Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta!
- Frankie Warren
LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :))
- Heimana
lol. too funny
- Alexander Marktl
Way too realistic. :-)
- Doug Kaye
you can't arrange by penis
- Tyler Gillies
excellent. thanks for the post Dave.
- Kevin Doohan
STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department.
- Hanan Cohen
So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :)
- David Smith
wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
"Maybe that's not what I meant."
- Kawika Holbrook
The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link.
- Roy Blumenthal
from twhirl
A Classic
- Ken
Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r...
Congratulations Wine
- Michael Stearne
Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network saved, for now, but the time for citywide wireless has past [Wi-Fi] - http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
"...Mark Rupp, a former Verizon executive..." How ironic that Mark Rupp takes it over. An executive from the company that fought to shut down the project in the first place: http://telephonyonline.com/news...
- Michael Stearne
Matthews rips right wing Talkie Kevin James because he doesn’t know who - http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008...
he got owned.
- Michael Stearne
Steve Jobs Travel Update: Private Jet Grounded This Winter - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
What a waste of money. $550,000 to fly around a couple people?
- Michael Stearne
Google Reader sharing = kind of lame - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
this is a test note
- Michael Stearne
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