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The Top 20 Reasons the World is Against the Left Handed Person - http://lefthanded.cdf-design.com/against...
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Patrick Sweeney, Charlie Anzman, Toby Graham and 34 other people liked this
"Two words: Ink Smears. Whenever we try to write with ink we always end up smearing our writing beyond recognition."
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
Left handers need to unite. It is time that the smarter ones took over the world...again!
- Mike Lewis
That's what you get for living in a right-handed universe (it's true - ask any scientist)
- Kevin L
Obama is a lefty.. Your well on your way to total world domination
- CW™
Here's the big one: Boomerangs. There's just no way a "regular" boomerang will return to a person throwing with their left hand, it's impossible.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I can relate to most of these annoyances, especially the smearing ink. I remember coming home from school when I was a kid with blue ink stains on the side of my hand.
- Evan Brown
Did someone ask for the Leftorium? http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki...
- Wizetux
lol +1 Jason
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Jason, well that clearly depends on how you hold the pen/pencil in your hand more than whether you are left or right handed.
- Wizetux
I was forced to learn Right handed writing. Then I broke my right arm twice, and noticed that I was really liking writing with my left hand (nooo! screamed my teacher) and well now I write with my Right. But I am left eye and hand dominate...Grrrr!
- Susan Beebe
@Shey - there are left-handed Boomerangs (it's just a mirror image), and they fly in the opposite circle :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
@Susan My mom did that with my twin brothers! Since they were babies she was always moving stuff from their left hands to their right
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
This is gonna sound really lame, but I have an attraction to left-handed guys. Something about that unusualness really is sweet and endearing to me.
- Derrick
I'm a lefty and damn proud of it. 2 of my 3 children are right handed but there is still hope that my 3rd child will be a lefty and therefore brilliant, like me :P
- Penny
We lefties are sinister.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Interesting post, and while I agree with some points, not others. For example I don't believe there's a left handed way of eating, I mean how hard is it to hold a knife if your right hand? (I'm left handed and not even remotely ambidextrous). Same with a computer + mouse...a left handed keyboard? wtf?
- Duncan Riley
Ink smears are the worst!
- Head Ov Metal
Southpaw here
- Hutch Carpenter
Scissors should be in first spot though. I still struggle to use right handed scissors
- Duncan Riley
yeah, i surf goofy-foot too! we left-handers are more creative... and accident-prone. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
+1 LAG lol it's true. But that's not because we're clumsy! It's a right-handedness conspiracy to eliminate southpaws
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Duncan I would agree
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm hoping NatSpeak or equivalent gets embedded in small devices so I can dictate. Mad Men secretary bot optional :-)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Left Hand == Right Mind
- Kevin Johnson
I'm a lefty named Wright. Talk about conflicted. I growl at scissors, can't fly in a window seat, and can openers give me the fits. I'm always shocked when someone sees me write and they ask - You're a lefty??! Why yes I am!
- michael sean wright
Damn ink smears. After essay tests I have to use Lava soap.
- Stellina
I got so used to using regular scissors that whenever my teachers would force me to use the lefty ones I'd curse them! (Well, I wanted to, anyway.) Lefty scissors are so backward to this lefty!!
- Oliver Ortega Chua
After looking at the list... I've pretty much learned to live with most of the list. The one I have the most problem with is the playing cards. People always look at me funny when I hold them. Of course, I can't use lefty ones unless I'm playing solitaire. And, oh, now I know why I've never been able to throw a boomerang!! lol
- Oliver Ortega Chua
So Arabic and Hebrew are against righties?
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
lefty, forced to write righty as I grew up.
- mjc
♣genieyclo♣ has a point, blame the english language for not being readable both ways.
- mjc
Obama is clearly better prepared for the foreign affairs issues than economic issues.
PC Easy, Eric Geller, Jon Lee and 4 other people liked this
You think so? I think with the economic issues he sounds more convincing than McCain, but McCain is tearing him apart on the foreign affairs.
- Patrick Sweeney
from twhirl
50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-onli...
Mihalcea Razvan, Patricia F. Anderson, Sally Church and 39 other people liked this
what about qik?
- kamla bhatt
diigo for bookmarking.
- Tim Hoeck
:) justa wait a week you'll have a new addition
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
I don't see why everybody is sleepin' on Diigo
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Kwippy, Propeller, and Social Median should be added to the list, but Great job Chris!
- Richard Kannegieser
There are 10,974,601 apps I could add. That's where YOU come in. : )
- Chris Brogan
Thanks for the great list. I think I'll use about 3 of them.
- Ricardo Rabago
Agree on Diigo. Great site, we use it to share info across management team.
- Mike Troiano
Hi Chris, thanks for this aggregation, useful. But, what about adding an emerging category named Social Search? Xoost would fit into it. cheers, Felix
- Xoost.com
Thanks, great list, but I wonder should Posterous be in microblogging category? It's more like usual blogging service... And +1 for Diigo =)
- Anton
perhaps instapaper, alexa, sitemeter, picasa, rssmeme ?
- Hayk H.
Awesome list. A relatively new kid on the block: http://www.addictomatic.com - great tool for listening quickly.
- Neil Williams
Great list but techmeme.com needs to be on here! Also rememberthemilk.com is a fun way to keep track of todos.
- Rich Casey
Socialthing! is a cooler alternative to feedfriend http://socialthing.com
- skinflakes
And new ones are coming every day. That is why at mixin.com we are not trying to compete with any of them but integrate them. Because once you found something to do or you have a proposition to make, you need to discuss with your friends whatever social network they belong. And this discussion begins before the event, during the event and can continue after the event with the addition of pictures and videos from these services like Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Qik.
- Frédéric Sidler
@HighTechDad Yeah. I'm thinking that instead of driving traffic to every other service I should just run my own microblog.
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Poll (Be honest ! :) What is your current start-up page set to?
Franklin Pettit, Mike Reynolds, Glenn Batuyong and 7 other people liked this
Google.com
- Andy Murdoch
My daily list of tasks.
- Kirk Kittell
Andy - Google or iGoogle?
- Charlie Anzman
about:blank
- Mark Trapp
netvibes
- Toby Graham
about:blank but I always restore the last Firefox session anyhow
- Nathan Rein
about:blank
- felix
Friendfeed! *puts head in hands*. It..took me by suprise
- Mo Kargas
google with tabs to FF, Google Reader & AOL
- R. Ferguson
gmail | gcal | basecamp | friendfeed in FF3
- Morgan
My blog :P
- Michael Forian
Google
- Michelle Martinez
Friendfeed, LiveJournal, and my Email.
- Nine
Big G
- AJ Batac
iGoogle
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
my.yahoo.com
- MikeAmundsen
Firefox Google start page: http://www.google.com/firefox...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
iGoogle
- Stellina
about:blank
- Jordan Hofker
Remember the Milk
- James (@willia4)
gotApi. as soon as I start firefox I load up gotApi, Gmail, Reader, FriendFeed and localhost:3000 all in tabs.
- John Duff
FriendFeed/iGoogle
- Brian Sullivan
It's dynamic for me. I have Firefox bring up my last session so it depends on what I had open last (usually 8-15 tabs)
- Al Degutis
netvibes (one tab) friendfeed (another tab)
- Sean Sharp
http://tech.walla.co.il - it's where I work
- Didi Chanoch
about:blank
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
about:blank or better my last session. everything else is oriented in my bookmark toolbar.
- Nicole Simon
My homepage is my iGoogle. But, I have it set in Firefox where what ever tabs I had open in my last session are what open when I open FF. So it can pretty much be anything.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
gmail | reader | google analytics | in FF3 | w/twhirl on side
- Peter Troast
empty page
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
iGoogle, although, based on my Most Visited links, it should be FF.
- Jason Toney
I always use a blank home page, but I have Firefox set to load my last set of tabs on startup.
- Kelly Fox
thredr.com--which is something like TechMeme that I wrote, which tracks specific topics I'm most interested in.
- Loren Heiny
Netvibes. I see some people open up lots of tabs, doesn't that cut down on concentration or productivity? I usually have quite a few open, but I start with one in the hope I won't open up a massive amount :)
- Patrick Sweeney
about:blank
- Steven Perez
netvibes
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Well... I admit it. So far one that I haven't visited in over a year - NetVibes. (That was the idea :) For the record, mine is Friendfeed with Duncan Riley's Greasemonkey scripts turned on for Gmail, RB, TechMeMe, Facebook, TechCrunch, Mashable and Disqus. Hmmm....
- Charlie Anzman
news.google.com
- RAPatton
about:blank
- Paul Whitaker
about:blank like it has been for years.
- xero
@rambn which one? :)
- Paul Whitaker
Thinkin' Yahoo hates me at the moment :)
- Charlie Anzman
about:blank
- Vinay | विनय
Depending on browser and system it's either igoogle or nothing
- Alex Scoble
regator.com
- Scott Lockhart
about:time:I:had:a:shower
- Josh Haley
SEO & Tech Daily
- Mike Fruchter
google
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
google reader actually
- Pete Delucchi
from fftogo
about:robots
- raphaeL
blank:
- John Cooper
about:blank
- Wade Dorrell
iGoogle
- DGentry
FriendFeed and Google Reader
- David Cook - 2010!!!
Home - boring FF google start page; Work: techmeme
- Eric Berlin
four tabs: FF, GReader, Gmail, and Techmeme
- Frederic
iGoogle
- richrecruiter
about: blank
- Robert Seidman
blank
- Mitchell Tsai
Google.com
- Steve Spalding
FriendFeed
- Hutch Carpenter
Yahoo
- Outsanity
ff
- Peter Dawson
speeddial FF3 extension. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
Google
- Corvida
blank page. I'm a developer and i want my browser windows to open up quickly.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Yahoo! Finance
- Ricardo Rabago
Friendfeed, of course, I'm an obsessive and this is still the shinest toy.
- susan mernit
iGoogle
- Mike Reynolds
Gmail & Friendfeed
- Bita
Friendfeed or about:blank
- Kevin Fox
about:blank forever!
- Bwana ☠
Man this is getting almost as long as a Mona post! :) Kinda interesting. Little worried about the about:blank'ers :)
- Charlie Anzman
iGoogle.
- Trish R
about:blank with restore the last session
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
protopage.com/virtuallin - perfect
- Cheryl Allin
from NoiseRiver
google
- kamla bhatt
techmeme.com
- ian kennedy
google and youtube
- Jax Dragon
Tabs: Friendfeed,Twitter, Gmail,Techmeme
- Igor Poltavskiy
Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Kathryn, Amber, Random Time Lord, Carolyn and 8 other people liked this
Don't you love how the Times is so way behind the times.....we've had trolls for years now! Cheers to the fact they talk about 4chan, since the entire place is pretty much trolls :)
- Patrick Sweeney
from twhirl
The Rise of the Internet Troll - http://www.scpr.org/program...
- Peter Warnock
I thought this article was brilliant. It was the first time I excitedly told everyone I know to read something on the internet in months! We have been discussing it for days. Very interesting. The first page is a little lacking, but the rest really delivers.
- pixelcrafter
from twhirl
"persistent pseudonymity' - i like it!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
from twhirl
Wonderful article, almost scholarly. Nice to see reporters going "on the scene" still. This guy did a lot of work for this piece and really hit the mark.
- StephenTorrence
from twhirl
@wegues Why not install OpenBSD? In Linuxes I like Ubuntu - it's based on Debian and very polished. Visit http://distrowatch.com for choices
Alan Root, Patrick Sweeney, Ray Slakinski and 4 other people liked this
I ran Ubuntu for a while but have since switched to openSUSE. They are both excellent distros.
- Michael Tefft
I've been using Hardy since beta on a Dell Optiplex. Just last week did they fix a bug to let my stock ATI card work in dual screen mode properly. Not Ubuntu's fault, because its ATI's closed driver, but these sorts of legal issues are stilting desktop growth. Other than that, though, Ubuntu has gone above and beyond any other OS I've used.
- Will
from Alert Thingy
I'd never run OpenBSD for a desktop solution; that's what FreeBSD's for.
- Akiva Moskovitz
When it came time to upgrade to Hardy, I chose Linux Mint instead. So far I've been very pleased. Mint is an ubuntu derivative aimed at being a little more media friendly than ubuntu is out of the box. I may switch back to ubuntu at some point in the future, but for the moment I don't feel compelled to. http://linuxmint.com/
- will killian
I have been running ubuntu for 2 years now, and I'm really liking it :)
- Tor Erling
Another vote for OpenSuSE
- Victor Ryden
Debian or FreeBSD for servers, in my opinion. Stable. Mature. No nonsense and no license encumberances to worry about.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
I heard yesterday that Dell is now selling PCs with Ubuntu as the OS?
- jcunwired
Linux Mint 5.0 Elyssa has been great for me - based on ubuntu... but better!
- Chris Heath
Ubuntu 8.04 is far and away the best distribution for the desktop user. It has its quirks still, but what it does it does best.
- Patrick Sweeney
I don't care much for Pokemon.
- Gez
Whatabout Open Solaris?
- Ansgar Wollnik
I'm using Ubuntu at work for 3 years now (without a need for Windows!). Rock solid. Only problem is my work using Exchange/Outlook. Evolution doesn't handle calendaring too well.
- imabonehead
Been running Ubuntu for a yr. When I get my latest desktop purchase set up, old WinPC will be the new Linux box; likely SUSE.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I really like to tweak Linux, so I use Gentoo. quick and pretty, easy to pickup? choose Ubuntu. there is a distro of opensolaris called nexenta which is modeled to be like ubuntu. ZFS is the new interesting filesytem.
- rob friedman
@leolaporte I'm a fan of TokBox. Cool service.
Sgt Ret, Patrick Sweeney, Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte liked this
Yeah - I've been looking for a way to get some interactivity on TWiT Live. We've destroyed Skype and Oovoo - they just can't handle the onslaught of calls and friend requests. Maybe Tokbox will work better because it's asyncrounous.
- Leo Laporte
TWiT 150: Hello 206.220.43.92 - http://twit.tv/150
Mike Hunsaker, Sean, Kells and 23 other people liked this
Now that's nerdy. That's viacom.com, btw.
- Andrew Preston
Leo, would like an audio-only feed from TWiT Live to listen in the car, or at work.
- Mike Lerch
Another fantastic episode.
- Patrick Sweeney
Great episode. good job guys.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
That was an awesome episode. Great to hear more about the iPhone coverage goodies.
- Eric Geller
Great show. With 100% less Dvorak
- Andrew Smith
I'll take Dvorak over Calacanis any day. I had the reverse Calacanis experience -- thought he was interesting the first 20 minutes I heard him on the Gang and it went downhill from there.
- H Durer
A good show. But if you're going to devote a segment to energy technologies then perhaps you should invite someone on who really knows what they're talking about.
- Rob Safuto
gave up on twit and gg years ago due to time-to-value ratio - but if you're talking energy rob's the man and I'd listen to him (only reason I commented - otherwise would have hide)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Thx Mike. I find TWiT to be generally entertaining, but sometimes they veer off into rocky territory.
- Rob Safuto
Leo should do picks on Twit like he does not MacBreak Weekly. I love both shows but this would make Twit even better!
- Sweyn Venderbush
from twhirl
Calacanis just likes the sound of his own voice.
- Patrick Sweeney
I've noticed Leo tends to talk over the people he is co-hosting shows with. Other than that, I tend to enjoy the TWiT programs.
- ComicList
Never quite the same without Mr D'. Great nonetheless. Enjoying "No Agenda" hugely, though very different than Twit.
- Ian
Calacanis is overrated :-)
- Jason Calacanis
The number one way I find people to add on FF? Nope, not FFs recommendations, finding little white bubbles next to people making interseting comments in conversations. These are the people that I want more of. Folks that participate intelligently are far more valuable than A listers who don't.
Peter Reavy, Joe, Mitchell Tsai and 141 other people liked this
Agreed, when I find a thread I really like, I tend to add a bunch of commentors from it.
- Phil G
I'm only just now starting to use FF, even though I signed up months ago...and I agree, this tool is far more useful than even twitter.
- Jeremy Botter
I agree 100% Tom. That is how I have been finding a lot of people. I am relatively new to FF so that and friend of a friend posts are the only ways I am finding people.
- Matt Donders
Personally - that's why FriendFeed is differentiating itself from a lot of other sites. It caters to those active people that want to discuss, learn, inform - which makes it a resource that I come back to over and over again...
- George Smith
I'm in absolute agreement but have to admit that I've added some of the A listers just to see who's talking to them intelligently. Granted, the ROI's a little low, but sometimes watching the fawning is reward in and of itself. <insert sarcasticon here>
- Linda Mills
You get what you give
- Dave Martin
Good point, this is one of the reasons why I'm spending more time on FF now - great way to discover and interact with new people that have relevant information/comments to share
- Gabriel Biguria
So very true. My page of "recommended" friends is nothing but a bunch of A-listers that would fill my FF pages with mostly junk, and not a lot of substance.
- Brandon Wood
ditto ditto and ditto - just added Gabriel and Jeremy in fact
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
When I am looking for people that share my interests, I search for a headline I really liked on the everyone tab and check out others who shared it and see what they are all about. It is kind of time consuming but fun.
- Geoff Schultz
we use the same technique
- Fred Grott
I'd also add that you don't have to add a whole lot of people to get quality content thrown into your FF stream. I'm slowly adding people and the value of FF went up 10 fold.
- Otto R. Radke
The goal of adding friends here is to have intersting stuff in your Friendfeed. And you do that by carefully watching the dicussion not just in terms of comments and likes ( as mentioned above multiple times), but what items are posted by people. Thats whats I look for.
- Roberto Bonini
I've been getting annoyed at the amount of junk, repetition, and endless Twitter vs. FriendFeed talk from the so-called "A-listers". It's high time to start unsubscribing and find some new "friends".
- Matt
the ancient toad style of social networking
- Anthony
Actually if you do that you soon realize that there's more content by interesting people here than time you have to read that. Then, the question stops being how to find interesting people (that you'll keep finding and following) but how to reduce the noise...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
So Marcos the task at hand is to become Jedi of the Hide button and learn how to fine tune everything.
- Mark Forman
Hide is awsome, but I'm feeling it is not enough. I hope noiseriver ends up being the solution, but... it still hasn't the hide feature implemented :-)
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
Hah! I just added everyone in this post who I wasn't already subscribed to.
- Thomas Hawk
Ha! Prepare to be inundated with my brand of minutia!
- Geoff Schultz
If the same friend of X comes up often, and I find them interesting, I will subscribe to them.
- Hao Chen
No white bubbles here for me.
- Robert Scoble
Thomas: I do the same thing too
- Sally Church
I get zero comments on FF to my posts. I'm not A-list of course. I'm more like a lesser known Baldwin brother.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
LOL @ Scoble's comment!! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
@Jason Participation is a two way street.
- Hao Chen
amen brutha!
- Scott Jarkoff
I, too, am just getting more involved in this social networking thing ...
- Robert Couture
This taps into what for me is the stand-out experience FF. 'Common Interest' is _one_ facet, but there's more going on in deciding to Subscribe or not. It's like a first impression in person - the brain takes a bunch of behavioral cues builds a profile in seconds upon which decisions (sometimes lasting) are made. To balance the split decision weakness of not enough information, just cruise through the person's feed for 'background check'. All common sense I suppose.
- Micah Wittman
Yeah but I frikin HATE the moment I add 1 person from a thread i like, I get bumped out of the thread & have to go back & search for it again to see if I want to add anyone else.
- Mrsth
@mrsth, I agree 110% w/ that. It's easier to open a new tab then scroll down and locate the topic again...
- Czar
Nah...I add completely based on superficiality and looks. :-P
- Live4Emma (L4S)
@Czar- ah I didn't realize you could do that. I'll give it a whirl. Thx!!!
- Mrsth
@Carlos Perez- Ahh. that explains alot. You can only see my legs:-)
- Mrsth
i guess just a 'me too' here would be totally wrong.
- MLx
I think the only way to find those interesting people you don't know is to subscribe to the popular people. I've been finding some interesting folks that way. Otherwise, no one posts comments to your own stuff. Oh, to be unpopular. Sigh.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That's exactly correct. I don't auto-follow. I add people who comment and like and share things I'm interested in.
- Louis Gray
wow, that's a super-excellent observation. i'm taking the hint with a few 'white-bubble' folks here too. altho i wonder if the FF folks shouldn't cue that behavior up with mouse-over info on the bubble icons... i had no clue why the color was showing up at first. (then again, i'm often an idiot)
- dave mcclure
awesome. this reaffirms why i like ff better than twitter. the failwhale is kind of endearing, though.
- Marissa "malouie"
Couldn't agree more! The Fancy Pants people are too fancy, I just want interesting conversation(s)!
- Cheryl
Totally agree!! Wish I could get some of those people as my friends too!!
- ChaCha Fance
I can't stand FF posts with more than 10 comments. I want to filter them out but there is no option for that.
- Sam Pullara
What client are you using? twirhl makes comments on FF OK, but just OK. It's a shame that we're all this way and still don't have clients that support threaded conversations as good as tin or slrn on usenet...
- David Molnar
from twhirl
Good tip:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
david let's agree on 'as good as on usenet' - i never could stand neither tin nor slrn *g* but yes. it is now 10 years ago that most decent usenet clients had a feature set still not rediscovered for everything feedish ...
- Nicole Simon
Agreed as well I look out for the white speech bubbles as well to see what value they add to the FriendFeed community!
- Joe Dawson
and little like icons ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Occasionally I'll wander over to everyone and 'browse'. it's really eye opening as FF grows
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I like doing that too, but we need a language filter badly!
- Hao Chen
The number one trick A-listers use and I never liked? " hey I'm here now on friendfeed, comment on this if you want me to follow you". I don't want them to follow me because they are important. I want them to follow me because they feel I'm important to them!
- Alexander van Elsas
Agreed- when I see opinions I like from someone several times, I check to see if I've subscribed to them yet.
- Brian Carter
My first time on FF and I like the interaction I'm seeing. The "white bubbles" are a great way to find new and interesting people.
- Tom Newman
That's a great way to find friends with whom you can actually talk and count as friends. And the comments are a great feature of FF. I'm just getting to know how to make FF useful for me...
- Dan V
I haven't found FF list of recommendations terribly useful either. Although this is a bad example, because it brought me to this entry.
- TDavid
The criteria of "participate intelligently" is a relative word. What is "intelligent" to you may sound "stupid" to others? I guess the more appropriate term would be "value-adding to the conversation".. But I agree 100% on how "comments" can really uncover hidden gems!
- Winston Teo
I do this too. I consider the comments a kind of signaling (a concept I learned from economics). Too bad there are so little interesting people in FF (to me at least, my interests are a little "off" from the median).
- Meryn Stol
I don’t feel sorry for Yahoo - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Glen, Bespectacled Elder, Ben Clemens, Nate Koechley and 49 other people liked this
"Yahoo is being burnt to the ground by its current management." Sad, but feels kind of true.
- Hutch Carpenter
Good perspective. I'm hard pressed to feel sorry for a company with that much potential that doesn't even know who they are or what they do. I think that, before they do ANYTHING, they have to establish once again what Yahoo is. Right now, they're sounding like Microsoft when they were first trying to define what .Net was.
- Bradley McSpinn
Agreed. They squandered an opportunity to take their team(s) to a new level. Should've seen Microhoo as a challenge, not an obituary.
- Sprague D
Microhoo or Yasoft?
- Bradley McSpinn
yeah, bye, bye Jerry Yang! http://theanalyticsguru.wordpress.com/2008...
- Marshall Sponder
What's Yahoo?
- Trevor
btw did microsoft ever define .Net?
- Craig Ritchie
from twhirl
I do feel sorry a little bit, even if they didn't manage to do one thing right in the last few years, maybe because I followed them since almost day 1 and because once the MS bid was announced it was obvious that it's The End.
- Naor Mark
@Craig - I really don't think so. I mean, we all understand its implementation, but as for a definition? Not so much. The same is true for Yahoo. I know it's there, I know what it does...but it doesn't mean that I see any real value in it.
- Bradley McSpinn
glass is half full - nice :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Can someone please put me in charge there? I would clean house and get them focused on some kind of core business.
- Shawn Farner
Agreed, Robert. I've got some friends working on very cool stuff whether it's startups, VC, or bigger roles at smaller companies. The Yahoos I worked with are smart, creative, talented professionals. We're going to see some great innovation coming from Yahoo alumni soon. P.S. Glad you like our idea ;)
- Ryan Kuder
Microsoft is a terrible business - we need a little sympathy for Yahoo. Slow extinction or being taken over by MS are hardly rich options. And it's hard to trigger the sense of crisis to fire your board.
- winckel
I could never understand why Yahoo had any value from the beginning. It suprises me little that they in a downward spiral.
- Brian Sullivan
Whether Microsoft gets Yahoo! or Yahoo! merges with someone else (read Time Warner or MySpace) it will be good for search in general and hopefully create an entity that can challenge Google in a meaningful way
- gregory
I don't understand *why* Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo. Yahoo can't even figure out what they are. E-mail? Search engine? Social service? Not to mention the only thing that is lucrative is the search engine. The only way I can see someone benefit from buying Yahoo is if they completely re-vamp what Yahoo does, focus on one category and, market it!
- Candace
yahoo jumped the shark when it started being proud of releasing of the YUI libraries. companies that start treating 'helper tools' as if they were new functionality are on the downward side of the curve.
- MikeAmundsen
@Mike, as a developer, the YUI libraries and developer tools are where the value of YHOO resides for me. I don't personally use any of their consumer products.
- Sprague D
@Sprague D, question - does YUI increase your use of YHOO content/data? or do you use it primarily for your own content/data? my question is aimed at the monetary benefits accrued to YHOO from YUI. I see solid benefits from YHOO's work on Squid, but not YUI.
- MikeAmundsen
Mike, I use their tools in projects that don't leverage their data or content. Point taken.
- Sprague D
YUI libraries are the only thing worthwhile coming from that wretched place.
- Patrick Sweeney
What kills me most about Yahoo is that they had so many of the most interesting and exciting places to go on the internet but then never fully realized that potential. I still can't believe that they paid Terry Semel more money than any CEO in the US in 2006 for such a miserable failure of a job. Pure stupidity. The board that oversaw that needs to go.
- Thomas Hawk
But can you imagine a Microsoft owned Flickr..?
- Sheila Thomson
I'm constantly amazed at how many CEO's get paid for bad jobs. And how often the board will cut employee salaries but not their own. Just look at the disaster at AT&T during the 90s: http://moourl.com/odp4g
- Jason Shultz
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Yahoo! isn't over yet.
- edythe
I'm just happy I don't own stock anymore, though maybe when it bottoms out, I'll buy in.
- clarke thomas
Where's that price history graph post...
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
@Sheila, a Flickr with integrated support for PhotoSynth, Expression Media asset management and Live Mesh sharing/collaboration? Sounds good to me.
- Sprague D
Hey look at the bright side for Yahoo though, their stock was up over 10% today. Helluva day!
- Thomas Hawk
please no MSFT in Yahoo! please no masses of arses!!!
- A.T.
@Michael, this one? http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Sprague D
hehe, yep
- Michael W. May
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