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Question: Consumers often buy on brands --not features. What % of votes will actually vote on issues --not just the candidate brand?
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One tactic is to look at # of independent voters -- those not interested in party affiliation. Vast majority of members of a party will vote on brand. These folks don't really have to pay attention to issues, because they have a general idea of what they're going to get.
- Nathan Hull
Not many will vote on issues. Most will vote on party lines, or based on gut feel of the candidates.
- Louis Gray
why aren't the independents allowed to the same debates and events as the republicans and the democrats? Or are you supposed to believe that the only choice is between republicans and democrats?
- alphaxion
Voting by party makes the choice easy -- understanding the nuiances of each issue takes more time than most could invest.
- Shawn Dahlen
It's kind of a trick question. Brand is a shorthand that encompasses substance. The sum of issues helps define a candidate's brand.
- Michael Markman
Did anyone else find the Tweets on Current TV last night as distracting? When the letters 'floated' up it was overbearing. Man, I'm old ;)
I found them annoying and changed the channel. Too bad, the comments could have worked without the text animations.
- Nathan Hull
Apple Striking at Mobile Games Market - http://www.whattheyplay.com/blog...
Not sure if Apple is about to take a slice from Sony and Nintendo, but it will definitely take a bite. I've yet to be wowed by the iPhone's selection of games, but I've made plenty of purchases. I don't carry my DS everywhere with me during the day, but I do take my phone. So it becomes all about the impulse buy: it's oh so easy to download new games from wherever you are.
- Nathan Hull
Jerry Seinfeld & Bill Gates' first attempt at selling shoes & underwear http://laughingsquid.com/non-seq...
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They sold me on churros
- Nathan Hull
:-( Microsoft un-liked this ( Looks like google have pulled this )
- John Cooper
I don't get it.
- Bryce Roney
14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand - http://whatilearnd.com/post...
Glenn Batuyong, Giancarlo Angulo, Matt Craven and 5 other people liked this
The fact they still don't offer free wifi is ridiculous
- Nathan Hull
I totally agree. Even Peet's in SF offers free wifi, along with a lot of local coffee houses... Starbuck's coffee is always so acidic tasting...
- Ariane
from Alert Thingy
aw man, peets coffee is the business! and like the rest of you, it bites that you have to pay for starbucks wifi...i mean, DAMN!
- Tofu De la Moore
I was a fan of Starbucks' new Wifi strategy until I started explaining it to my brother-in-law and heard how ridiculously complicated it sounded coming out of my mouth. ("You need a card, and you have to register it online and link it to AT&T. Then you need to keep a minimum balance of $5 on it and use it once every 30 days. Okay. When you get into the store you get an authorization screen... ") Because, of course, it IS too complicated. Free, by which I mean really free and simple to use, is better.
- Bill Barol
not to mention the fact that their coffee sucks ass.
- Cameron Reilly
from twhirl
I agree. I want wifi.
- Ryan
And freaking wall outlets. Wifi without power makes me stabby.
- Kevin D. White
give me free wifi, and I buy coffee...otherwise, it's on to the next coffee shop I go.
- Bob Blunk
having AT&T provide its wireless is dumb. I can't stand at&t.
- matt ceniceros
So who downloaded Firefox 3 to help with the world record? Impressions of FF3? I've been using beta for a while and it's damn good!
Seriously love it. Doubly excited to try Flock 2 running on FF3.
- Nathan Hull
What percentage of your work do you do in a browser vs. desktop apps? Other than Office, I pretty much use web apps full time.
Diana Valerini, Sumit Chachra, Sutee Dee and 25 other people liked this
I pretty much use web apps full time too. The only exceptions are my accounting package and development tools - Mail, IM, docs, etc..are all browser based.
- Kevin Cearns
Apart from OO Impress, I use Google docs for everything. If the classrooms I worked in had internet, I'd be desktop apps free.
- Rich
Easily 70% of my work is using web apps, because I am collaborating with people 3,000 miles away to get projects done.
- Liana Lehua
50% Lately I'm seeing some coworkers willing collaborate via Google docs as opposed to work email. I'm also regularly using Wetpaint for school projects.
- Nathan Hull
I prefer web apps when possible.
- Håkan Dahlström
I can't make the jump from offline newsreaders to Greader, no matter how hard I try.
- Drew
80%
- Nikos Anagnostou
from Alert Thingy
command line and desktop apps,
- clarke thomas
I'm in love with web apps, but since browser can crash at any given minute, I turn the most used ones into desktop apps, but still Aviary doesn't replace Photoshop and I can't just code in Google Docs
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
What's a desktop app? :-)
- gfurry
Office and Itunes
- Alan King
Office, Visual Studio, PowerShell, Fireworks, I do lots in offline apps.
- Mack D. Male
Office, AutoCAD, PhotoShop...the A&E fields will never have web apps; too much horsepower required.
- JA Castillo
check out rescuetime.com it'll tell you exactly how much time you spend on each
- Christian Anderson
As few web apps as possible. Mail.app, Tinderbox, Things, NetNewsWire. I find that each is better and faster than its web "equivalent." OS Integration is important. And I am sick..to..death of logging into web apps.
- Jack Baty
Desktop apps are so last millennium.
- Sean McBride
desktop apps. writing API/server code all day will do that to you :P
- David Petar Novakovic
from twhirl
Six days and counting with NOTHING but web apps / browser extensions. Just for fun...
- Kevin C. Tofel
I say about 70% of my work is done in a browser
- Carolina Velis
I'm at 90% browser based. IRC/Skype/AIM are my main desktop apps
- Jason Calacanis
wanting to be 100% browser based, but I'm not. but 100% of my presentations are in empressr!
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
I use web apps a lot, maybe 50%. The other 50% of my computer usage is in SolidWorks & ProEngineer solid modeling/design/drafting software for my Engineering work, and Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop & Acrobat for my photography work. It will be a while before there will be web based versions of these apps with the necessary functionality and horsepower.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I have multiple systems, Vista, Kubuntu, eeePC Linux. The key apps for me are GoogleDocs, RememberTheMilk, GMail, GCal, MindMeister and lately LiquidPlanner. I really want to try SlideRocket for presentations. Not completely happy with GDoc presentations. The offline ability of GDoc and MindMeister are great. Use them in meetings quite often. Comm tools include Meebo, GTalk. Still using Skype and Gizmo for Voip.
- Dave Ploch
is AIR considered desktop or browser?
- Tyler Gillies
Let's see... Gmail, GDocs, GReader, RTM, FF, Twitter, Blogger... Aside from the occasional Office session, I use web apps.
- Voyagerfan5761
And I second @tylergillies' question: Is AIR desktop or web?
- Voyagerfan5761
With the abundance of AIR apps coming onto the sceen does anyone think we are going full circle back to the desktop app?
- John Daly
About 70% browser
- Charlie Anzman
10/90 - the browser is definitely a secondary app for me.
- Steven Hodson
I brows for info but I work in :real" apps. Audio / video editing, development, typesetting, 3D renders, photoshop.... browser apps suck for almost every task I do that is actual "work"
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
I'm spreading this conversation to my blog, I love the topic. I'm about 8% browser...only if twhirl and air apps are considered desk top.
- ryangraves
from twhirl
Almost all my time is spent in Firefox, Celtx, Photoshop, and Premiere, with Firefox monopolizing a lot of my attention.
- Roger Benningfield
I would say 65% web apps, 25% desktop, 10% mobile.
- Alex C. Williams
I split the time 50/50. The browser is always open, but so is twhirl or other AIR apps. I tend to use Google docs for smaller quicker notes, while of course heading to MS for papers and reports
- BCK
I don't have Office for Mac anymore. While I do use Keynote every once in a while, I've now gone to web apps even for my accounting and billing.
- francine
Depends on how you classify AIR! I still use Office, Photoshop, an FTP program, and Media Center, so I'll have to go with 40% desktop/60% web. If AIR is desktop app, then it's 50/50.
- Sarah Perez
The only desktop apps I use are my browser, ichat, excel, ppt, itunes, an irc client, textmate and a bunch of music/graphics apps (Cubase, CS3). Most everything else is in browser
- Deepak Singh
At work it is mostly desktop apps. At home, it is mostly web apps.
- Mike Wills
Forgot about Mindmeister and others. I keep trying them but MindManager continues to be faster and better. Some day the web versions may be as good, but not yet.
- Jack Baty
30% browser. Shell, IDE, and SCM for me ... unix mail even. 100% goof-off in the browser, though!
- Ashton
Today's Topic: What is your Favorite "TECH" Movie. This is open to intepretation to what that means.
Dimitar Vesselinov, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Berk D. Demir and 12 other people liked this
I'll start: MATRIX 1 because of the interesting use of effects, esp 'bullet time' and amazing sound. Sadly, I could have done without Keanu, but oh well. Trinity is amazing, great outfits. And any movie that ends with Rage against the machine has to rock.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Matrix 1 and Minority Report. Only one! Ugh lol umms.................................Matrix 1.
- Corvida
Depends upon the definition but how about Office Space? Oops got to get back to my TPS reports
- Barry Graubart
from twhirl
Short Circuit! Number 5 is alive...
- Dave Peck
Tron
- Bwana ☠
Corvida, pick one!
- Jeremiah Owyang
Barfly.
- Thomas Hawk
An oldie but a goodie - War Games. The concept of a learning computer - WOPR - in 1983 was pretty cool. Plus, I had a crush on Ally Sheedy :)
- Bryan Hunter
from twhirl
Minority Report (like idea mother of MS Surface) : )
- Erhan
The underrated Sneakers..... And for old school, War Games....
- Chris Reed
My two favorite movies are Ali and Spaceballs, and Ali can't be defined as a tech movie. So I guess it's Spaceballs, although it's more of a business movie (promotions) than technology.
- Ontario Emperor
Star Wars... if you count LightSaber as "Tech". Matrix too, albeit I would tend to say it is more philosophical than tech.
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
The First Matrix cuz, for some reason, the technology in it seemed plausible and the Operator desktop with all the scrolly crap reminded me of my Linux setup
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
war games for it's accurate depiction of phreaking in the early 80s, tron since it got me into 3d animation as a career, and BBS: the documentary (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/) because it's brings back tons of memories.
- Doug Brooks
Real Genius (1985)
- Geoff Schultz
What about Jumpin' Jack Flash? She was chatting when no had heard of it. ;)
- Yolanda
Hackers? The Net? Jumper? Johnny Mnemonic? all were so good. ok.. I'll go with Real Genius as my real answer. :)
- Jeremy Toeman
For extraordinary gadgetry, I vote for James Cameron's THE ABYSS (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...).
- dennis d. mcdonald
Three movies popped into my head before I read any comments. Others have mentioned them all.... War Games, Tron and Sneakers. I think we've defined a new move genre. "Tech Films". I guess perhaps, "Metropolis", although considered sci-fi really spoke to what would happen with advanced technology. Maybe we could also add Chaplin's "Modern Times" to the list. One last film that may qualify, "WestWorld". I'm sure there are many more that I'll think of with a few hours to ponder.
- Kevin Shannon
iron man! ok, i just saw it but still...
- Frankie Warren
Minority Report
- Baard @ Pixum
Short Circuit for sure. Such a classic!
- Tom
I'm sorry, but they all suck. Too many of them sacrifice believability for a story point.
- William Beem
For wild speculation about the evolution of the Internet, I'd go for LAIN (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...).
- dennis d. mcdonald
Wargames (drama) and Real Genius (comedy)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I have to go with Sneakers; better than average for techie-type movies. Office Space for corporate tech. And Brazil... just because.
- Phil Crissman
For alternate technology and alternate history, SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...).
- dennis d. mcdonald
For ruminations on technology and machine intelligence, Spielberg's AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...).
- dennis d. mcdonald
ooo, forgot about Sneakers... good call
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Wait William... you mean Hackers wasn't real?? I guess you think Sandra Bullock's movie "The Net" couldn't happen either!?
- Yolanda
First Matrix, bar none. Nothing else competes. @Jeremy Johnny Mnemonic was GOOD? You did read the book first, right?
- Cyndy
While I really like Short Circuit, Matrix is definitely my favorite. Those who know me, know that my "in game" name is Trinity.
- Becca
The Net!
- Steve Rubel
Matrix does do an example job of bringing up issues that I think are important. How far are we willing to become dependent on technology?
- Leif Hansen
from Alert Thingy
The Thirteenth Floor. Better than Matrix, in my opinion. Wargames for sentimental reasons... I actually had my younger brothers convinced for years, that Matthew Broderick was me... (I used a stage name because it was a secret from Mom & Dad that I was acting!)
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Pi (http://www.pithemovie.com/) from Darren Aronofski and the German hacker movie 23 (http://www.imdb.com/title...)
- Matthias Zeller
THX 1138
- John Reese
Star Wars Episode 1, 2, 3 and Matrix trilogy
- wrecks
Office Space. Does that count??
- Sarah
@cyndy - was being sarcastic, the first examples were all terrible. By the way, I'd add in "Enemy of the State" for cool surveillance tech
- Jeremy Toeman
The Last Starfighter
- Gregory Ng
War Games.
- Mike Reynolds
Sneakers
- Jeff Mincey
c'mon...The Fifth Element? Anybody? Totally what the future will be.
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
While I'm partial to War Games and The Last Starfighter (hey, I went to see TLS *musical*...) I have to say that none of 'em top Real Genius.
- felix
Hackers - it was the movie that first got me interested in computers. I have yet to meet a developer that looks like Agenlina Jolie though ;)
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
many favs: Matrix 1, Paprika (anime), and Minority Report
- Carolina Velis
from twhirl
Are documentaries allowed? Startup.com. They could have swapped out govworks.com with any dot com i worked in pre-bust and it would have been the same storyline.
- J.J. Toothman
Real Genius
- Kevin Fox
Wow, no one mentioned Blade Runner? Loved the 5th Element, Marc. Real Genius, great. Sneakers. Matrix 1. Star Wars. War Games, god this list is great! I can't decide. I hope you blog it somewhere for reference. If anyone ever wants to learn about our geek culture, we can link them to the post!
- Christine Cavalier
Matrix 1
- Varun Mahajan
Hell yeah War Games, Real Genious, Fifth Element and Swordfish all great. I am so watching War Games tonight. That totally got me into BBS too. I remember the first time I logged onto a BBS I felt like I was about to hack into something like in war games. I can't remember the name of the movie but it had these robotic bugs that injected people and poisoned them. Well it looks like the...
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- Adam Gershenbaum
The Last Mimzy. Not the best movie, but we get a glimpse of what Intel can power waaay in the future.
- Nathan Hull
What no votes for "Weird Science?" Can you imagine making Kelly LeBrock!! err...well making <insert your fav., I'd have to say Jolie>
- Snay Trivedi
I'll have to go with Bladerunner. Except for the replicants, I think that will be very much our future
- John Frost
Hackers. Loved the part where they are drooling over the laptop with the built-in 56k modem.
- Richie Escovedo
What, no Terminator? I"m sure someone out there is building Skynet as we go about our business. When they finally make Ender's Game into a flick, then we'll have something to talk about!
- Marc Sirkin
When The Matrix came out, I was working in IT as a network administrator. It felt great to see computer geeks portrayed as kung fu badasses.
- Wade Rockett
@Matthias 06:34 Euclid Predicts: Pi will remain the best 06:35 Press RETURN ;)
- Mario Olckers
definitely Office Space. no tech show-off, cheap effects and hackers. pure tech life.
- Berk D. Demir
Matrix I is all by itself on the top
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
The Matrix
- Dimitar Vesselinov
TRON.
- l0ckergn0me
I honestly don't care about any apple breaking news, I can get the highlights tonight, who's with me?
Susan Beebe, Paula Hawk, Tris Hussey and 10 other people liked this
Today I was a fanboy (head hung down)
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
RE Apple news Isn't that really the case with most tech "news"
- Brian Sullivan
I'll answer with a question: why get highlights tonight when you can read it in the newspaper tomorrow?
- Nathan Hull
Nathan Doesn't work for people that don't read the newspaper -- but why not wait til the newspaper tomorrow? I really don't see the rush to know something first or early anyway. "Scoops" were a newspaper phenonmen that were carefully cultivated to sell newspapers. Does that attitude still apply with tech news these days(are any news for that matter)? Having information first or early is...
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- Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan: and by what? 3 minutes without any verification, this isn't real journalism? pfff... come on! And I really liked you analysis! Simple and Brilliant!
- directeur
Why not wait until it's in the almanac? Nathan makes a good point, the speed to information is all relative. Why wouldn't you want it NOW?
- Tim Levad
The answer and real question is, and Brian just gave it, What would you do with that information NOW!?
- directeur
Dont want my life to be filled with highlights, like some fanboy.. deep detail action.. I cant deal with MAC OS.. but i do like this new iPHONE, and even more so ME.COM
- Rif Kiamil
Some events you want to know now and be a part of the hype, community,, ritual...it's human nature. What events you care to experience that way differ from person to person...this is one of mine.
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
I had too work all day... no way I could track Apple all day... letting you guys do that for me ;*)
- Susan Beebe
Brian: the cutthroat rivalry between tech blogs like Gizmodo and Engadget is evidence that speed matters. They see some of the biggest draws when they live-blog events like today. Most of the information we consume isn't actionable, but like Marc says, it's human nature to want to know NOW. Then again, there is something to say about self-discipline. Totally behind on my work because of that damn keynote.
- Nathan Hull
Who would be better for the Technology Industry? Obama or McCain? Please state why, back it up.
Cathryn Hrudicka, Morton Fox, Heather Nasca Dulin and 5 other people liked this
Obama's already said he'd create a federal CTO position for improving infrastructure, broadband networks, and communication between govt. agencies. Haven't heard anything close to this from Mccain.
- Nathan Hull
Obama - Hes the only canadiate that sez "Write Software, Change Washington" :)- go figure .. http://my.barackobama.com/page...
- Peter Dawson
McCain has talked some good talk on green tech, but I have to think Obama, being of a younger generation, will be more agressive with technology. Witness this simple fact: Not only does Obama have a twitter account, but he actually uses it. Other candidates have an account but never use. Obama has also shown a real understanding of the net nutrality issue
- David Jacobs
from Alert Thingy
The tech industry is probably the last bastion of laissez-faire left in America....hence the constant innovation and falling prices...The last thing I'd like to see is for government to jump in and start tilting the tables. So, the best candidate (for tech, at least) would be the one that maintains the status quo and remains hands-off.
- Chris Rossini
Just shared this link from Ars Technica http://tinyurl.com/4jamfz
- jcunwired
I don't want either of them pretending to do anything for us... just get out of our way and let the really smart people build our infrastructure. UPS and Fedex are way better than the Post Office.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Agree with Kenneth. They will both make a bunch of tech promises to get votes and the success of the industry will go on with or without them. Although in the end, they will be around to take the credit. Typical politicians right? =)
- Mike Smith
The digital divide is a big issue, and it's something I hope our next Prez will address. Status quo won't cut it.
- Nathan Hull
Obama, plain and simple. If you want to know why, I would recommend you seeing his talk at Google and it will explain my reasoning pretty well.
- Krishnan Subramanian
@kenneth that is one of the arguments that keeps McCain from solidifying his position on net-neut - as a free marketer he believes you should be paid for a service or product you provide but as a conservative he believes in as little government intervention as possible.
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Any of us would be better for tech than either of them.
- Morton Fox
Obama. I see no advantage whatsoever with McCain. But we have to stop our near-sighted vision and think bigger—who's best for the whole country, all issues, the world as a whole, not just the tech industry! Obama has demonstrated that he is Web and social media savvy, understands personal liberty & Web freedom issues. I get none of that from McCain.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
@Cathryn: To McCain's credit (or more likely, one or two of members of his staff), he's invited liberal bloggers to participate in at least one of his conference calls. I may have even read somewhere that he's planning to do this regularly. That seems pretty smart to me, no?
- Bryan Person
Great moments in technology forecasting -John Dvorak's prediction that the iPhone will bomb http://twurl.nl/mpnv7o
Steve Rubel liked this
I'm convinced his puts his posts through a bizarro filter to drive traffic. Not just with mac fans, but with a lot of other articles he writes.
- Bwana ☠
LOL of the predictions of that Dvorak guy one year ago...
- George The Writer
ya, he meant "it IS the bomb"
- marty nickel
from twhirl
His Fox News article last week, "The Internet is Making Us Dumber" is another winner. He's an entertainer, not an expert.
- Nathan Hull
Beyond Blogs - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then
- Nathan Hull
Beyond Blogs - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then
- Nathan Hull
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