We just launched Appsfire (for mac only for now) A new iPhone service that allow you to share easily iPhone apps with your friends. Try it on http://appsfire.com (1000 first arrived first served)
So I can give my friend an app that I downloaded for my iPhone? What happens when there is an update? Can they updated it from their iPhone or computer, or do I need to give them the updated file? Sounds like a pretty cool app.
- Gerard Lagana
Does your iPhone need to be Jail Broken for this to work?
- Gerard Lagana
It looks like it just provides a link to the iTunes store so that they can <b>buy them for themselves</b>. This service just scrapes the list of installed apps and publishes them to a shareable website.
- antonio rodriguez
@Gerard you can share in a convenient way your favorite apps with your friends. Does not list apps that have been installed via jailbreak (cidya, installous).
- Ouriel Ohayon
@antonio. indeed it list apps and enable private or public sharing in a convenient way. Then you can download them (most are free remember). Soon we ll do more
- Ouriel Ohayon
@Ouriel Is your software like Wakoopa for the Mac?
- Gerard Lagana
Ouriel: Congrats man, looks interesting and very useful. Will try it very soon. Thanks for this great initiative.
- Nir Ben Yona
@Gerard not really. this is a service to share your iPhone apps
- Ouriel Ohayon
right on man!!! just spent all weekend devoid of pc/bb/social sites etc with all my time spent on/with wife and our two kids (8 1/2 yr old son and 5 1/2 yr old daughter). BEST WEEKEND ever!!! Most incredible ride you'll ever take bro Congrats!!!!!!!!!!
- Ted Bradford II
Congratulations to you and yours! Happy news :)
- Andy Bold
Babies are just the coolest thing ever. One of my favorite things is that when they start talking, they love to point and say "BABY!" whenever they see anyone even a smidgen smaller than they are. Love that.
- Kathy Fitch
Sheryl will want to squish a baby Scoble next time we're down your way. hehehe
- Ken Camp
Congrats to you and your family! Wishing you the best.
- Larry Roth
Congratulations Robert - you must be proud!
- Jesse Stay
Three boys in this house. It's fantastical! Congratulations again, Robert. Even though it would mean one more web login, I'm holding out hope you'll utilize my social site for baby birth prognostication http://bebepool.com - we could all participate, it would be fun :)
- Micah Wittman
On second thought, it might bring the server down :O
- Micah Wittman
Congratulations to everyone involved. :) We were told that our second child was going to be a girl, the hospital staff were certain. You know what is coming — yep, it was a boy. It was the biggest shock of the night. The second biggest shock (a few moments earlier) was me having to deliver him at home with instructions over the phone from the emergency services. Good luck! :)
- Chris Marshall
"The instructions for constructing this massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce first appeared last month on the Web site of a team of Kansas City competition barbecuers. They say a diverse collection of well over 16,000 Web sites have linked to the recipe, celebrating, or sometimes scolding, its excessiveness."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
looks basically the same when it comes out the other end...
- Scot Mcphee
"no problem to call me stupid if you like, but my name spells Le Meur, not Lemur. Insult me as much as you like but please get my name spelled right at least :)"
- Loic Le Meur
The moment I first heard about Dungeons and Dragons in 4th grade (78 or 79).
- Chrimmus Tad
March 13, 1972, born in the bay area unto two BART engineers and ex-Apollo rocket worker before growing up in Silicon Valley.
- Eric Rice
Not sure if I've become one yet. I'm more of a nerd.
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The entire world knew I was a geek when I got called to the principal's office to reset his new digital watch after daylight saving time ended/began.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I think I've always been one, but the boyfriend helped bring it out even more, so Feb. 2004!
- Kat
Um, when I saw the moon landing when I was a few years old. But, really, when I got into Jr. High in 1977 and joined the first computer club at Hyde Jr. High in Cupertino and got my first tour of Apple Computer (back when it was only one small building).
- Robert Scoble
Birth... the child of English/Drama teachers (one working as an engineer), who were friends with science fiction writers, like Roger Zelazney and the Haldemans. Seeing Star Wars when I was 6 didn't hurt.
- Nine
When I stole mom's copy of Stephen King's "IT" off ehr headboard to read. i think I was 7.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
My mom and I used to play "Trax" on the Atari in the late 80s - it would read the game off a cassette player...I thought that was so cool. My mom would always beat me which strikes me as cooler now.
- Kamath (नमः)
sometime between 1982 and 1984 whenever it was i first made a triangle on an Apple IIe. then my inner geek went dormant until about 1998.
- tiffany
When I bought my VIC-20, in 1983, with my own money.
- Joey Gibson
I suppose it became official on Christmas morning when I was 8 and there was a shiny new TRS-80 under the tree. The next Christmas I got a 5.25in floppy drive and it was the schiznit.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
When I started talking extensively about IP multimedia subsystems, IP protocol, packets, session border controls or heard others speak about it and it made sense to me. last night was an example. IP engineers at the dinner table talking shop and i could completely understand all of it.
- Patricia
At my cousin's house, walked into a room and instead of TV on TV, saw PONG! Did I mention I would soon be wearing an orange sweatband on one wrist and a calculator watch on the other? <nostalgic sigh>
- Micah Wittman
When I realized I knew more about computers and QBasic, than my teacher in Middle School.
- Michel Bechelani
from twhirl
I’ve always been a geek and proud of it. :) I’ve seen every Star Wars on opening day. I always did the extra credit for fun in school (ok, maybe sometimes because I was just plain bored). Knew all the words to all the popular Broadway musicals when I was a kid. Played D&D every weekend in high school. Cried at the ending speech of “Revenge of the Nerds” - c’mon you know what I’m talking about. And so on and so forth…I love that my geek passions make me who I am. Embrace what makes you strong, I always say.
- Michelle Snow
Assuming its a solid product, the software could make or break its widespread adoption
- Zach Landes
Hmm, I was looking for something like this last year, only I wanted it to track my temperature. Does not look like this will do that. looks more like a motion detector. I wonder if it would register my office job as sleep ;)
- Clare Dibble
The temperature tracking one is slightly more uncomfortable to "wear" ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Kevin: you want it to track lusting or are you lusting after it?
- WorldofHiglet
Anyone think Nike's going quickly incorporate a similar feature set in their Nike+ line? It wouldn't take too much evolve the product into a fitbit competitor or hell, just buy em'.
- Steve Sebestyen
from twhirl
Plus, according to Viz (that great British comic of high taste and decency), the most sweary word in the world is 'fitbin' - and this is a little too close to that. Imagine the embarrassment when they find out! :)
- WorldofHiglet
But, doesnt the new iPod nano have a motion sensor...? And wouldn't I get more exercise hip-hopping up and down to those tunes?
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Hmm... tying this thing to my wrist? Sounds like that could be uncomfortable and might disrupt my sleep :o
- Adam Lasnik
This is just the beginning of a host of sensor based apps that we'll see, particularly in the health sector. Look for trends that will end up placing some of these sensors in handsets.
- Dean Terry
I'm really interested in the sleep tracking. I know that I wake up *a lot* in my sleep but I'd love some real data.
- Benjamin Golub
Social networking data around fitness will create some healthy competition. :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
I hate myself just a little for how badly I want this thing.
- Alessandra Novak
the hell with that thing. What you want is Alex Chiu's Immortality Rings. This dohickey is gonna just take up valuable finger real-estate. Damn, do I have to tell you people everything? http://alexchiu.com/
- john conroy
Anthony... try emailing to a non-gmail account that you have access to. Doesn't work for me, but incoming email still does via POP
- Jim McCusker
I just came in my office, looks like my open session is still working as well as my mobile session. EDIT: won't let me send e-mails. bah.
- Aaron Myers
@Louis Gray Or FF and Twitter (when it's up).
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
just got this. google word's it as if it's my fault that my account is "experiencing errors." afraid to say that systemwide errors are occuring?
- Andy Sternberg
from twhirl
Just tried logging in secure. Not working.
- Roberto Bonini
HTML mode is apparently working. Add "?ui=html" to get to it.
- Ambar Pansari
I tried to set up Gmail IMAP in Outlook today, so this could be my fault... it was pretty wonky when I did it, but overall was a huge fail. Thunderbird also fails with IMAP. Sigh. I blame Google overall - the IMAP reliability factor is garbage.
- Vince DeGeorge
check out js-kit for integration - Loic - talk to Khris at js-kit and get Seesmic integrated for comment re-integration
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
Disqus automatically integrating FF comments would be great.
- Kevin Bondelli
I don’t believe it is ethical to claim comments back from people who write them on FriendFeed. This means imposing power on your readers. If people want to comment on your blog, they can do it but that is not their preference. And you are not asking people if they want their comments to be seen on your blog.
- Kerem Ozkan
I don't care where it takes place. I', just happy to have a good conversation.
- shelisrael1
Though, if it weren't for friendfeed, many folks like me probably wouldn't see it to start with.
- adam christensen
but to comment on FF is so much more easier and faster...it's Twhirl fault !!
- Jean-François Amadei
from twhirl
Yeah, the same for me. I've installed the WP plugin, but it keeps telling me there aren't comments on FriendFeed.
- Gianluca Neri
from twhirl
Guess it might be too late to capitalize on my Disqus-friendfeed comment combiner, huh?
- Kevin L
(there are cut outs and stuff.. but shhhh don't tell anyone ;)... Oh, and we (Japanese) learn kniving skills in school and parents. ie: how to cut carrots like flowers, etc
- Mona Nomura
On second thought, after my all salad/veggie day today on my diet, I think I couldn't resist chomping into one of these... especially the froggy apple. I'm so hungry!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
@Mona they really teach kniving skills? That's cool. Wish I'd learned kniving skills in school.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Ya, I attended 3rd and part of my 4th grade in Tokyo. We got graded on peeling fruits and veggies. No parring knives, just.. regular old huge knives lol. wow. I just remembered that. Thanks Lindsay haha
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you mean you peel veggies and fruits with a samurai sword?? :P
- imabonehead
That's ninja sword, thank you very much! ;)
- Mona Nomura