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Smokey Sunsets from Los Angeles | lalawag - http://lalawag.com/smokey-...
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Stunning images!
- Penny
from iPhone
only good thing about these fires :)
- sean percival
How to tell if you are a geek:
quik, Captain Jack, noemigio and 146 other people liked this
Tonight I was faced with this scene at a party in Indianapolis for Monster Energy drink and I figure it is a good way to tell if you are a geek. If you first impulse is to ask the girls for help with your Ubuntu install, you are probably a geek. If you start wondering about what cool iPhone apps they use, you are probably a geek. If you want to ask them where the best places to find wifi in Paris are, you are probably a geek. If you want to invite them to a Facebook party you are probably a geek. If you ask them what they think of Android you are probably a geek.
- Robert Scoble
from email
به به , چشم مریم خانم روشن
- Mil∂d
@scobleizer you follow the scobleizer on here?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
By the way, I am a geek. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ignore them entirely and check out what's playing on the media player in the background, you're probably a geek.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If you can't spell "Ubuntu" do you get your geek cred's revoked?
- Joel Bennett
If your first impulse is to correct @scobleizer on his spelling of Ubuntu in his post . . . you're a geek.
- Michael Owens
So did you have wild sex with them?
- Dave Winer
geek --->
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
slut :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Well Robert, what did they answer to all these questions? <--- Geek.
- Bettina Tizzy
if you dont care, for once, what scoble has to say, and are simply wondering where to find these girls...what are you?
- Zachary Adam Cohen
sluts*
- Michael Owens
If you know for a fact the girls don't care at all about you and are only there as paid advertisements, AND you still don't care and want to gawk and hang out and get photos with them anyway...you might be a geek.
- Josh Haley
Scoble is a womanizer hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
Damn, Josh, why not just go ahead and win the Internet for yourself, why don't you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It might be a new ad for s3.
- Trey Ratcliff
Thank you, sir.
- Josh Haley
Dave: I am talking with you so what do you think? :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Dave + Scoble: That's a yes.
- Michael Owens
Zachary: they are in downtown Indy.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ask them their thoughts on Faccebook acquiring FriendFeed, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
I wonder if Scoble's pickup line is "Hi, Who Are You?"
- Bastard Operator From FF
What the.. Why bother blogging this crap when you could actually be striking up riveting conversation..
- Pogmohoin
Imabonehead: definitely!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
on my way, just gonna fire up my get and break out the Nair for Men
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
oh btw sluts*
- Pogmohoin
"Hi, I'm Robert Scoble, who are you?"
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
You guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. Robert did you ask them what their astrological sign was? and if you did you are a geek who's desperate :)
- Jeunelle Foster
If you immediately turn to your iPhone and write about it on FriendFeed you are a geek
- Jesse Stay
I'm pretty sure I am still a geek, but there is no way any of those questions come to mind when I see this picture. And I think if those questions come to anyone's mind here, it might be time for geek-rehab.
- Bill Grant
Pogmohin: I talked with them for a while. Nice people but didn't know what Android was so I moved on.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
This post is just a cover story for why does Robert have this picture, anyway?
- Jason Wehmhoener
So is "What do you think of Android?" the new Turning test?
- Micah Wittman
thinking you can pick up said girls by telling them you wrote an iphone app and expecting them to get excited about it then you're a geek.
- evablue
Yeah.. I am from FHM mag.. Want to make the big time baby.. Now can the girl at the rear just reach around to the one at the front more...click .. front page Roberts Screen Saver..
- Pogmohoin
Damn. Best photo you've ever taken!
- Mike Flynn
Me: confronted with this scene, I'm a slut first, then a geek. ;) (Mike: hella observant!)
- Dennis Jernberg
You could also be gay, or female, but that would be in a non-geek-centric universe, so I could be wrong. ;)
- Lisa Norman
I have a feeling this is going to show up in the daily "Best Of Your Friendfeed" for anyone subscribed to Scoble.
- Michael Owens
Michael: You're right! This one wins the whole day. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Also, there is an iPod in the background -- clearly these are Apple Fan-girls.
- Bill Grant
"Android? Oh, haven't met him yet. Is he still at the party?" *leaves room*
- Micah Wittman
What were we talking about again?
- Derrich
Bill: Sure enough, iPod, docked.
- Dennis Jernberg
The girl at the right said her name was Ashley. Actually she said she was "Smashley." love that.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ashley owes me money and I better not run into her or her face would be smashley
- Jeunelle Foster
Bill: yup. I picked up on the iPod very quickly at the party. I am hoping Ashley sends me her play list!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Micah -- Me: "No, that's Mandroid. He stayed home. Wasn't cool enough. Android is...(way short explanation)"
- Dennis Jernberg
If you take a picture of three beautiful girls, post it on FF, and your first inclination is to write a caption that includes the words Ubuntu, iphone Apps and Android - OR if you comment on such a post... You are definitely a geek.
- Rob Rose
By the way none of the three had been to Europe so they couldn't help me with good places to get wifi for LeWeb.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you help them sign up for Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
Well they don't look like they know how to boil rice
- Jeunelle Foster
Been to Europe?? Man did they say the best thing that come out of Europe was "The Final Countdown" from their Daddy's "86 with a Bullet" tape!! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Pogmohoin
This scene was the geek's dream while posting this. :)
- Bundit
imabonehead: actually they are already on Facebook. Which says something about how mainstream Facebook has gotten.
- Robert Scoble
All the Facebook friends in my family (except for my brother) are definitely nongeeks.
- Dennis Jernberg
anyone reading this is a geek
- Brendon Wadey
++++++++++GooglePlex, Akiva!
- Melanie Reed
Well I know I'm a geek. When someone like me, who spends a lot of time helping a sexy geek like Marina Orlova of http://hotforwords.com because she speaks geek and is enjoyable to work with. I might even venture to say she's a bit of a computer nerd. When Marina wakes up the first thing she does is check her email. When she gets ready for bed she can be found tweeting before she retires...
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- Captain Jack
Captain Jack: she sounds cool. What apps does she have on her iPhone?
- Robert Scoble
Were they impressed by the size of your lens, Robert?
- Vezquex: God of FF
Raphael: I didn't have that with me tonight. Was going low key. :-)
- Robert Scoble
wow
- EhsanDiary
If Robert had taken that shot with is 600mm, he would have had to have been 3 blocks away and you would be able to see the the flecks of color in their eyes :) You are looking at their eyes right?? -- My first thought was well, they can't be geeks as everyone knows true Geeks drink Red Bull not Monster :P Monster isn't all bad, they are big supporters of Surfrider and International Surfing day ----> Surfing Geek
- Luke Kilpatrick
If you're a geek, why are you asking someone else for help with your Ubuntu installation? Shouldn't you figuring that out yourself? Turn in your geek card, now.
- Andy Bakun
Yeah, they'd have to ask you to help with their Ubuntu installation. Except if they don't know what Android is, they probably haven't heard of Ubuntu either.
- Dennis Jernberg
This Ubuntu question can relate this photo and the Ubuntu logo, then that's a geeky question. (I mean this http://www.flickr.com/photos... )
- Mahmood Padura
Actually, I was going to ask what the gadget was on top of the microwave-minifridge combo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I'm guessing it's an MP3 player (in the slot) and some kind of speaker array combo?
- Jay Cuthrell
I guess the answer is: regardless of whatever you do, you are a geek :-)
- Ethan Gahng
It would be a lot easier to tell if those three people were not in the way of the shiny thing in the back of the photo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I think Robert took this photo just to keep me wondering all night about that mystery device.
- Jay Cuthrell
Geek here :) I'd do a print 'Hello, Girls !'
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
damn it Scoble! I have to like this.
- rob friedman
looks like my weekends
- sean percival
did they recognize you as the "scobleizer" ???
- zʍıɔ
New blog topic: the decline and fall of FriendFeed
- A Mitchell
What's that coming over then hill?
- Nick B.
"Well, hello there, sexy ladies! Would you like to come up to my place and read my @scobleizer feed? Hmm?" -bow-chicka-wow-wow-
- Kevin Leroux
wow. I couldn't even make out what was that thing in the BG. I noticed the additional thumb/thigh in front -so that makes me a photo geek??
- jomarhilario
Oh my! Now I'm sure I'm not a geek! Hahaha they are beautiful as hell!
- Rafael
if you find this picture of these attractive women on this page you are probably a geek...even if you don't read every single comment...including this one.
- Lee Sachs
Some of us geeks know what we're doing with women.
- Tyler Hurst
true dat,, you really can have it all
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
Oh, how gorgeous. You've got to love that Ipod design.
- James Kuypers
I can tell the way the Hottie on da Right is looking at me that she really likes ME a lot!!!
- Billy Warhol
@James I hereby award you the true geek award for your spotting of the iPod in this picture. =P (Special mention to the others who said MP3 player) - Silver iPod Nano I would think.
- Travis Koger
Perhaps you need to add this app to your iPhone: http://www.beakerbreakers.com/nerdale...
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
Admit it: you told them you were Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Maxwell Kennerly
Two things. 1) Geeks do it better AND 2) they're not sluts... they're leveraging their assets... more power to them
- Ankush Narula
davşan kızlara benziyorlar beaaa.
- Pilot23
Really lol Scoble maybe u had been having 2 much fun @ the racetrack & geeks does attract some attractive wolla
- polou/indigo_bow
Funny old world three attractive women in a fun pose at a launch party and it creates enormous interest? Funny how things never really change in human habits, geek yep that's me but this article made me smile a lot, keep snapping away Robert.
- Ian Wright
If you are writing a disclaimer on a picture, you took at a party, because you don't want to be locked out of the house by your wife, you are a SMART geek:)
- Maryam Scoble
from iPhone
double like for Maryam :D
- Alberto D'Ottavi
+1 Maryam
- imabonehead
Best of day.
- beersage
If you ask them how big their racks are, and you mean rackspace server size, then you are a geek.
- Matt Soreco
If you whip out your iPhone, take their picture, and bring them home .... you're a HOT geek !
- Christopher Yeo
Totally....
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Keep up the good work Scoble! :-)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Heh, love that Maryam commented on this. I miss her and my two buddies. I'm just wondering why TechCrunch doesn't have parties like Monster drinks! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you'll just have to bring a case or two of Monster to your next TC visit and see what happens.... just make sure the cam is on.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jeez, I must not be geekish at all — *my* first thoughts are all carnal.
- Hieronymus Murphy
Me, I'm a mutant. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
3 girls 2 cups
- HansVanRock
Only qx...which was your first impulse? I pray for your sake it was to throw down camera & decide where u were going to be in Blonde sandwich. :-)
- Brenda Rothaupt
What Facebook apps would you pay for? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Rui Pereira, Christian Scholz, Sebastian Küpers and 12 other people liked this
Not a single thing. Facebook is nice, but I wouldn't pay a penny for it and wouldn't shed a tear if it went away.
- Internet's Tad
I would never pay for a single facebook app ever!
- TheHenry
honestly nada, the junk ones have ruined any ones with credibility
- Zee.
None... not one. Plz tell me paid FB apps are not the future!
- Walt Ruppar
I don't spend alot of time on FB, so nope.
- Jonathan Kong
I wouldn't pay for any either !
- Ozgur Cem Sen
I'd never pay for a fb app, ever
- Nick
I hate every Facebook app I've tried. It creeps me out to give it all my info just so I can send some craptastic alert to my friends. And the games aren't fun. I really just want to use the social network without being bothered by people asking me to throw text snow balls at each other.
- Andrew
None.
- CW™
0
- Josiah Lau
i will accept some advertising in exchange for an useful app
- TrafficBug
Me ... pay?
- Charlie Anzman
Me... Facebook? =D
- Anton
None
- Brian
None. I may delete my profile one of these days.
- Parth Awasthi
Nope!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Parth- Good luck on that deleting thing. I made a profile when FB first emerged, then deleted because I didn't see the use of it. Then my family went viral with FB so I went to make a new account. They still have my original profile which they recognized via my email account when I went to re-register.
- Kimberly Nolting
here come the subscriptions at last ...we've been waiting expectantly
- Thomas Power
facebook is a social disease...twiiter is a mental illness.
- Russell Wagner
None. I only spend about 15 minutes per day on FB. Just enough to keep in touch with anyone not of FriendFeed or Twitter. Would not pay for apps on it.
- Justin Whitaker
None. Apps are a waste of time. Not at all what I use facebook for.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Facebook is a temporary aggregator for twitter, youtube, last.fm, blogs, etc that is a stop-gap measure until all my friends get on FriendFeed (or a similar open system). Pay for a FB app? FB should pay me!
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
no question: "Would You Do Me?"
- sofarsoShawn
yeebase hat den wlan-AP auch mit 2 yoghurtbechern und einer schnur am netz, so lahm ist die verbindung hier :)
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myON-ID im Detail: Das Adressbuch - http://blog.myonid.de/2009...
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Short article about the myON-ID adressbook.
- Sebastian Küpers
TwitterCamp - http://www.danieldura.com/code...
Charlie Anzman, Daniel Rowley, ewing2001akaNicomedy2010 and 17 other people liked this
TwitterCamp is a desktop application that allows you to monitor tweets from your friends using the popular Twitter service. The application was built for the ApolloCamp mini-conference and uses the Adobe AIR runtime and Twitter Search API. The application is especially suited for running on large displays such as plasmas, LCDs, and projectors at conferences. It is simple to customize the interface so that you can use the application for your conference.
- Sarah Perez
from Bookmarklet
Nice catch, Sarah!
- Melanie Reed
Excellent. I tried it. Very easy to configure. http://flickr.com/photos... Want to try this on my TV.
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Nice!
- Jenny Morman
Do you trust the cloud?
Julia Pichler, Erhan Erdogan, Penguin It's Cold Outside and 68 other people liked this
I mean like really, really, really trust it - enough to keep all your stuff there INSTEAD of on your own computer?
- Sarah Perez
For some things. Not yet for enterprise (GMail aside of course :)
- Charlie Anzman
Not at all.
- Yuval Atzmon
i trust cloudcontacts :-P
- Allen Stern
Only the kind you get to through a magic green pipe.
- Shawn Farner
@Allen LOL, nice plug
- Sarah Perez
no way - i dont even trust my own computer enough to just keep stuff there (learned that one the hard way)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Perhaps I should ask - what sort of things do you trust to the cloud 100%? Your docs? (Google Docs?) Your photos? (flickr, facebook....?) Your contacts (Gmail?)
- Sarah Perez
I trust my own computer(s) more, my (encrypted) backups are in the cloud. (Smartest place for them, IMO)
- Anthony Citrano
I don't trust my own computer at all. Hard drives fail. Houses burn. Earthquakes shake rattle and roll. Most IT departments are far more organized and careful than I am and cloud providers have some very could IT departments.
- Todd Hoff
no, i don't trust it. I'll use it if there's a known backup. Evernote works as I know there's a backup on 2 of my laptops, as well as the cloud (though I do worry sometimes that some bug will wipe the cloud "version", and then without me knowing will wipe my local "version". gulp)
- William Stewart
In theory, yes. In practice, no, not yet. The biggest problem is the gatekeepers. Most things today aren't really in the cloud so much as they are a copy on a single companies' servers. The day when facebook can delete an account and they can't delete the account assets then maybe we can start thinking about trust.
- Todd McKinney
maybe i would trust the cloud (with a double-backup-cloud-solution maybe?) but i don't trust the internet providers too much.. i mean, whenever my net is dow, i can't have *any* of my files? naah...would be another thing with programs, but not all the files
- Le Big Z
Definitely not, especially w/ external hard drives multiple terabytes large & portable USBs at affordable prices, I don't see the rationale in a pay per month service.
- sofarsoShawn
For processing and storage, not for security.
- ·[▪_▪]·
I guess I don't trust "single point of failure" no matter if it's my HDD or the cloud.
- Sarah Perez
I'm with todd. I would prefer not to trust it all to one building (my house). I also would not prefer to trust it all to the cloud. What will Google kill next? Docs? Pics? Mail? How about what happened to Pownce? I had XDrive years ago, too. When I got a new phone from Sprint, they DELETED my picture mail account, and they failed to restore my pics from backup, so I learned that the cloud can fail me. I'm trying to keep my data on multiple services and home PCs, so that one failure doesn't mean total fail.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
@sofarsoshawn - and where do you store these external drives?
- Anthony Citrano
Sarah - It's not failure I'm concerned about. It's privacy and security in the enterprise. Anything can happen once someone else has the keys ... now or ten years from now.
- Charlie Anzman
I trust the cloud _less_ than I do anything else, especially if Google is somehow involved. But that's more due to privacy concerns than anything else.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Yes.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
That's a different cloud Mona :)
- Charlie Anzman
Maybe, who said 'Trust, but verify'?
- Greg Guitarbuster
We shouldn't have illusions here. All your network communication transits backbone networks that have taps on them. Your ISP has access to all your traffic. Are you sure MS and Apple don't have back doors installed? Are you sure your computer doesn't have a root kit installed that's watching your every key stroke and sending back to a bot master? There was a story recently where some guy was living in these people's attic and they never suspected. That could be a lot of us.
- Todd Hoff
Only for things that I'd have no problem with being public. I won't be storing my passwords on a remote server anytime soon.
- Victor Ganata
Is this a blue pill, red pill sort of question cuz I don't get it. The cloud??
- ♥patricia♥
Not yet.
- Bob Gannon
Actually, I back everything up so Im not worried about trusting storage - local, external, or cloud.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Eventually the true cloud will be multiple interacting clouds (instead of equating one service or hosting provider with THE cloud). When we get there, I think there will be more trust because the competing interconnected services will keep each other in check. We're a long way from there yet, but I think it will happen.
- mikepk
Ask former Mediamax users if they trust the cloud -- Mediamax (now Nirvanix) managed to lose a great deal of data for its paying customers. I was one of them. Lesson: always make multiple backups of important data, both locally and in the cloud. Redundancy is the watchword.
- Sean McBride
@citrano sorry never saw that ?, they're just small entirely portable hooked up to your main system through a USB. They're about the size of a medium sized novel you can store them anywhere as such....
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- sofarsoShawn
Business idea/opportunity: automatically manage multiple/redundant backups for customers among cloud services.
- Sean McBride
not yet.
- Sebastian Küpers
Trying to.
- Bryan R. Adams
I had better say yes or my data will disappear...
- Edward Craddock
In soviet russia, the cloud trusts you.
- mikepk
Yes, working on getting more of my stuff off my HD and into the cloud
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
worth a read - http://ascii.textfiles.com/archive...
- Jonathan Greene
As much as I trust anything else.
- Alex Scoble
keep backups on your own drives, always...always! and backup those too
- Adam Singer
@greene the article shares my sentiments re: the cloud, aside from hosting photos I wouldn't store anything in it
- sofarsoShawn
The cloud is to awesome not to trust.
- Kyle
I trust 2 storage clouds a lot more than 1 local hard drive; FAIL is everywhere. to paraphrase: "Trust in Allah, but SYNC your Camel"
- dave mcclure
Genie -- if you are really security savvy, every statement you just made in that public comment should be misleading and false. :)
- Sean McBride
@mikepk I like that idea. For now, though, I wish there were more ways to cross-post data (like photos and files) to free online services. Like something that uploaded to gDocs and SkyDrive, for example. Anyone know of anything like that?
- Sarah Perez
from fftogo
Cloud backups are the only ones I really trust - so I guess I would say yes. What I don't like is "having" to have internet to access them - that is when I get a little panicky.
- Tony
LOLing @genie&sean
- sofarsoShawn
i sure trust my backups on amazon's jungle disk service, and i sure trust flickr. as for contacts and other personal info on fb or gmail, i have less trust. i will have 100% trust when any cloud service i use provides me with very clear and defined control over my stuff, as in how i can export without loosing anything, or knowing i cannot be shut off arbitrarily for example.
- Pascal Bouvier
as A backup, yes--for some things; as the ONLY backup? No, and for private data, no, at least not yet.
- Steve Lowe
@Sarah Perez I've been wondering that same thing. A customizable cross poster would be a very handy time saver. I trust the cloud as a copy like the others.
- Boo
Thus far. I haven't got burned really bad yet...though I'm usually cautious to throw all my data into a platform without any weight behind it.
- Brian Bufalo
So far so good with Office Live and Small Business but I also use Outlook Connector with Desktop Office so I can move items if I want, but nice having Outlook always in synch with 3 computers
- Barbara Duck
Yes.. but no.. but yes! It would need to be a sync with a device at home. It would make sense for the providers of the cloud to brand HDD or even NAS with there service. So that it gives me the ability to "sync" that I wanted to keep accessible.
- Jez Arnold
i trust cloud as much as I trust my own computer : only 50% each ;-)
- Jacopo Gio
Absolutely.
- Håkan Dahlström
@sofarsoshawn my point was, if you're backing up to an external drive that you're keeping on your desk, or even in your house, your data is not protected against a *lot* of possibilities. that's why I back up to "the cloud"...
- Anthony Citrano
yes
- Baard @ Pixum
No, although I trust Google enough with my e-mail. I wouldn't bank on any service lasting more than a few years before the host/parent either goes bust, or discontinues the service, for what it's worth. (See Google Notebook, I Want Sandy and Pownce)
- Tyson Key
Yeah, actually. The cloud has been more reliable than my hardware often is.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I do, but as time marches on I'm starting to feel like it won't matter if I trust the cloud. I'm not going to have any other choice but to use it so, whether or not I trust it will be irrelevant. That's a little frustrating.
- Michael Fidler
I trust it more than my own storage. I guess both would be ideal - the cloud for offsite back-up.
- jjprojects
There's always a nagging feeling of "What happens if Yahoo! gets bought out/goes under, and Flickr vanishes?" or "What if MP3tunes.com gets struck down by the RIAA and takes the supposed "back-ups" of music collections belonging to people with them?"
- Tyson Key
Yep
- Rich
Trust No One. ;) I use the cloud as a useful place to store/access stuff, but I like to have a backup. I'm more reliant on the cloud now I have an iPhone, and more willing to store stuff online with providers who have been around a while, but there's always the danger (in these troubled times ;), that companies disappear and your data goes with them.
- Surferbill
in short - yes. but there are always exceptions. The Google cloud totally because I think they make too much money to be untrustworthy (opposite to most people I am sure).
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Dont know if I trust it. But my "wish" for it to be safe is bigger than my fear that its un-safe...or maybe I'm just naive and lazy
- Peter Efland
I work representing an online desktop model and this is an often subject around in order to get ppl to try the service. What I often honestly recommend and do it myself is, to everybody think about Cloud Computing as an extra option other than only the traditional ones. It came a long way for all of us and it's been truly useful. Still, I don't think we should treat it as a replacement for all data. I'm sure it's just gonna get more reliable, it's a matter of time.
- May
It's no longer going to be a firewall it's going to be an umbrella :)
- Joe Dawson
Much less today, after 3 days of Google's FeedBurner returning 404 on my feed. And before, with Flickr randomly marking my photostream as unsafe. The cloud is great and is the way to go - but we need data portability, and a solid backup strategy that you can rely on if you care about such things. Companies go away, strategies change, priorities shift and the economy defines new rules - you need to take that into account. What is free today can return 404 tomorrow.
- Yaniv Golan
No. The cloud is inherently untrustworthy because the data flows out of your network and into someone elses. You can of course encrypt that traffic, but you still have the issue of trust of the other side.
- alphaxion
I barely trust hard-drives to retain my data, so no. And that's not even going into the privacy concerns.
- Daniel Bruce
Not me. Murphy lives in the sky.
- Phil Boiarski
I trust the cloud more than my own hardware; companies like Google can afford more redundancy than I can, so I feel safer trusting them.
- Apollo L
Absolutely yes! I trust Flickr, YouTube, Google and Diigo/delicious more than any of my own storage bins let alone DVDs
- Gaby K. Slezák
No, a local backup is always a good idea.It's not the cloud I don't trust, it is the companies I use to get to the internet (e.g., Time Warner Cable).
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I find it hard to trust what is free - for example diigo (which I like a lot) keeps a cached local copy of a page, but it doesnt do it of all pages, and it doesnt keep them - so a site that has disappeared might not have a local copy. No guarantees, no SLA - so I cant trust. Same thing with google - they can lose or remove data or services anytime, and youtube removes things as routine.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I trust the cloud enough in terms of privacy concerns. The key is to deal with reputable companies. That all said I keep copies of everything I use on the cloud on a local backup.
- Rob Cairns
I use it to build redundancy into my backup system. I back up locally and to the cloud.
- Dave Gambrill
I use S3 for backup and I have additional copies on google docs. i don't use google docs for my main document manipulation.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
The 3-backup set method/regime: 1. external hard drive (local) 2. online backup service 1 (automatic) 3. online backup service 2 (automatic)
- Sean McBride
@sean I'd recommend 1. external HDD on site. 2. a couple of external HDD's/Tape offsite in a secure storage swapped at the end of every week 3. online backup. The most important thing that people totally ignore is data ownership - make sure you have access to your data. RAID array external caddies are cheap enough now that you shouldn't rely on the cloud as your main active storage or backup. And for those who don't trust their own HDDs, why would you trust another company?
- alphaxion
Online backup companies like Carbonite, Mozy and Amazon S3 are entirely focused on backup -- I trust them more than I trust myself, especially if I distribute the risk of data loss among at least two of them. I doubt that two of these companies would mess up simultaneously. The best part: set and forget, and restore to any computer anywhere.
- Sean McBride
I'd still put preference on data you can physically get your hands onto - people totally under estimate the worth of data ownership until the fit hits the shan. Personally, I keep all my data on constantly rotating groups of HDD's - as in I'll buy a bunch of hdd's and copy the data over to them. It means I have a copy of the old data and an ever increasing pool of HDD's to recover from or put to use elsewhere in my home network.
- alphaxion
I Love the Cloud...just use trusted sources who aren't going to disappear anytime soon. And follow the same Backup rules you would on any computer.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
alphaxion -- a key issue for individuals (as opposed to companies and organizations) is that they are too lazy to maintain a consistent backup plan. If your backups are being made automatically in the background in real time, without any effort on your part, to at least two reliable online backup services, you are more likely to be able to retrieve your data when trouble strikes.
- Sean McBride
Only if it's Google's cloud.
- Jordi Soler
I do "trust" the cloud. Keeping in mind I multiple back-up my data on separate HDD's in different locations. At work, we go the route of a 2 week back-up rotation.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Only if it's not a rain cloud. /me ducks ;)
- Tyson Key
I think the notion of Trust can be viewed along 2 different angles: 1/ RELIABILITY (not to lose my data, enough up-time), 2/ PRIVACY (my data not accessible by anyone in transit or on server, even system administrator). On RELIABILITY, getting there although for critical data, I would still have a backup somewhere else. On PRIVACY, would say no. What guarantee do cloud providers offer on sole accessibility to the data by the data owner? And how for data in transit? Unclear at best.
- Florent Buiron
Sarah - What about this for a question? http://is.gd/hsck Would really like some feedback
- David Ing
@citrano yeah I was later thinking about ie "acts of God" so to speak, seriously, and I agree, w/ those in mind the cloud becomes more agreeable
- sofarsoShawn
While waiting for our plane Bill Gates sent out his annual letter. What an inspiring piece. 20 pages. Get him a blog!
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Got some time on his hands now :)
- Simon Wicks
got link?
- Kyle Weller
link to the letter ?
- elnatobi
link?? :)
- Johan
I can't copy and paste but visit http://www.gatesfoundation.com and it might be there.
- Robert Scoble
"In early 2009, Bill Gates will send out his first annual letter, a candid look at the issues at the forefront of the foundations work. Sign up to be one of the first to receive the annual letter, as well as other news and information from us." http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages...
- Loren Heiny
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about... has a "Sign up for the annual letter" link so I don't think it's posted yet.
- Peter Curd
Brilliant. Must read.
- Leo Laporte
He should Twitter instead... he needs the 140 character discipline
- Elizabeth McLaughlin
Leo: we won't believe you read it unless you do it live on camera :-)
- Richard A.
Leo: I agree. Must read several times.
- Robert Scoble
It is his first letter so he has a let of pent up thoughts to share.
- Todd Hoff
Loving that letter too...very very nice!!!!! BLOG....yes! http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Susan Beebe
Our plane is leaving but I really hope I get to talk to Bill or Melinda this week about their work. See you in 20 hours!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for posting the link in the comments here. I can't copy and paste on the iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
Enjoy! Yes, please get an interview...that would be terrific!!!
- Susan Beebe
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the "inspired by midmoves - lets geek around" session at mbc09
- Nicole Simon
First photo of President Obama using his BlackBerry in the White House - http://crackberry.com/preside...
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But he's not twittering..
- Simon Wicks
YAY!!! That is really cool!! :) All IT techies rejoice! :D
- Susan Beebe
is it an 8830 model?
- mirko
@Simon how do you know? Maybe he's texting?
- Steve Rubel
"OMG! Guess where I'm writing this from lol!"
- Jemm
He's checking out those cool inauguration day pics on Boston.com
- Susan Beebe
lol @ Jemm
- Meryn Stol
Obama can only use the BB for personal use right?
- Kevin Whalen
from BuddyFeed
think our obsession with Obama's BB needs to lighten up considerably
- Jonathan Greene
@Simon _he_ never was twittering.
- Daniel Shaw
Hört musik aus gambia auf einer ausstellung afrikanischer kunst in vaterstetten. 24-saiten-instrument - da ist ne zither nen dreck dagegen
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Om has a list of ways to watch the inauguration. http://gigaom.com/2009...
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10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect - http://friendfeedlinks.com/show...
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There is No Money in Phishing (But It Still Won't Go Away) - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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"A new paper (PDF) by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio from Microsoft Research argues that the basic laws of economics still apply to phishing. As phishing becomes easier, and as 'phishing kits' are being sold for less than $100, the actual income for each individual phisher has to come down. Phishing has become a 'low-skill, low-reward business.'"
- Frederic
There is no money in phishing but there is money in providing advice, and protecting against phishing attacks.
- James Robertson
@james - and there is money in providing services to phishers...
- Frederic
RT @kevinmarks: so what do we call a 'bait and switch' site that gets you to enter your pw without impersonating the real site? phwhaling?
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10 Russian start-ups that rocked the web in 2008 - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
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The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com - http://www.portfolio.com/news-ma...
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Super spannender Artikel über das Ende von Wall-Street. "The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong."
- Johannes Kleske
from Mento
The New York Times > Science > Image > Speed Cubing - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa...
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that did not help. : (
- Jess Lee
That is complicated LOL
- Mona Nomura
Mona: See the master http://www.youtube.com/watch... and this is a wow here http://www.youtube.com/watch... in 10.56 seconds.
- Erhan Erdogan
Oh yeah, that clears it right up!
- BEX
Back in the day, my record was just over 2 minutes. Now, I can barely solve one side. Don't tell me the brain doesn't decay.
- Martha
Still takes me between 5-10 minutes to solve it. Looks like I need to learn some tips from here.
- Atul Arora
My record was about 5-7 minutes 7 years ago. So slow...
- Ninh Nguyen
Back in my day 23 sec was good. Now it's 7-11 sec. The 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes are fun also. Decades later, I helped Richard Korf, UCLA, with the first optimal solver. Here's an article about Jessica Fridich http://friendfeed.com/e... Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Erhan for the speed-cubing video. Very impressive show of the new side-spin method which allows sub-10 sec solutions. Here's two robot cube-solvers http://youtube.com/watch... MindStorms-Next http://youtube.com/watch...
- Mitchell Tsai
Oh wow. takes me back. I could do it around 20ish seconds. Most people we're impressed. I got a few free beers out of it. What was it? over 25 years ago I think?
- Ian May
I'll keep sharpening other skills instead. I have a feeling those will prove more valuable. :)
- Chris Prince
I could do it really fast... popped the squares off and re-installed them in the right order! LOL I was always very impressed with folks who could do that fast!
- Susan Beebe
I tried to do the Rubik's cube this summer on a road trip across country. I got pretty close, only 3 or 4 cubes off. ARGH!
- anna sauce
If you really want to irritate the hell out of a Rubik's Cube geek, swap two of the corner stickers and see how long it takes them to notice that it's now insoluble :)
- Joel Webber
Where we’re going with Activity Streams - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
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Like, only the html is showing as text.
- Thomas Bøhm
Fixed. Sorry about that!
- Chris Messina
Wouldn't some kind of API get the community to fix things & write plugins of some sort? Open it all up… we will see what happens?
- dK
I love Twitter. It tells me when I'm wrong. http://search.twitter.com/search...
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Ribert - does yours have a "gong" sound too?!
- Susan Beebe
Data Without Borders Episode 3: Vote! (a discussion with 3 openid foundation board candidates) - http://datawithoutborders.net/dwb3...
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In this episode we talk with Mike Kirkwood, Johannes Ernst and Chris Messina, all running for a community seat on the openid foundation board, about the foundation, their goals and the future and issues of OpenID.
- Christian Scholz
from Bookmarklet
European Startups are not out to lunch - My speech at Le Web http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008...
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Everybody needs to take lunch, but when you are excited about something, you always tend to ignore everything else.
- Jayavasanthan J
Open is the new Black - Wie Anwender von offenen Standards profitieren - http://blog.myonid.de/2008...
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Auszug: "In den vergangenen Monaten konnte man in der Presse und Blogosphäre viel über offene Standards lesen. Es geht dabei häufig um den sogenannten OpenStack, in dem wiederum Standards wie z.B. OpenID und auch OpenSocial zusammengefasst werden. Doch was bringt all diese Offenheit dem Anwender? Was müssen Sie wirklich an Hintergrundwissen haben und wie wird sich das Internet dadurch für Sie verändern?"
- Sebastian Küpers
Data Without Borders Episode 3: Vote! - http://datawithoutborders.net/dwb3...
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Really like this episode! It's nice that you had some people on the podcast running for the board of the OpenID Foundation.
- Sebastian Küpers
Big Changes for Big Papers: In 2008 The Web Changed the Media For Good http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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First images of the future HTC G2 - http://justamp.blogspot.com/2008...
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più bello dell'iphone
- Maurizio Goetz
A me il design dell'iPhone non piace. Si può dire?
- Slow
@Slow: dillo, dillo... non piace neanche a me! Ma questo e l'N97 non sembrano niente male.
- Flavio
OK: a me il design dell'iPhone non piace.
- Slow
sbav! però il sistema di slide non mi convince.. mi sembra che ci sia un solo perno e a lungo andare potrebbe creare problemi
- Vincenzo
Piaciucchia anche a me, ma sembra davvero, come dice Vincenzo, che lo schermo sia attaccato da una parte sola...
- Zio Bonino
ok. quanto costa, quando esce sul mercato e soprattutto rispetto agli altri fa anche il caffè?
- SiskaceskaB-InKLady©
boh, sicuramente c'è qualcos'altro dietro che tiene fisso lo schermo, conoscendo HTC confido nella qualità; e del resto non è che l'N97 si tenga meglio. Sui tempi chissà... è ancora un concept.
- Flavio
If this trend continues there won't be much difference between cell phones and my old Jornada 680.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
@Jack: besides the more evolved features, this might be true for business users while for most people there will always be 'normal' phones. Cheap and basic phones are always the best selling.
- Flavio
I don't think just business users will be drawn to this. This technophile is totally loving it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
sweet...
- Jaap Willem
bisognerebbe provare la tastiera...
- Mackley ॐ
Io per il momento vado d'amore e d'accordo con il mio blackberry storm anche se non posso negare che la pecca sia la batteria ... se lo sfrutto da geek estremo mi dura una giornata mentre in modalità più razionale dura tranquillamente di più ...
- Federico "Edo" Granata
Hmmm... "Chromo - Tabbed Java V8 Browsing", and I see Apple's weather widget on one of those pics along with a 3d desktop. Like the large keyboard.
- Robin Barooah
bello, veramente bello. A me piace l'idea della tastiere sotto.
- Stefano Canepa
@Zio Bonino @capitano il display scorre su un binario e scopre la tastiera, che però così orizzontale è comoda solo se digiti con gli indici col cell appoggiato su un piano, cosa che secondo me nessuno fa. la tastiera quadrata stile E61 usata coi pollici secondo me è molto più comoda. non la trovo un'evoluzione molto furba :)
- vanz
Isn't this just a concept ?
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
@vanz, @capitano: avendo avuto i vari Communicator, E90, K-Jam ma anche l'E61 vi assicuro che una tastiera orizzontale si usa benissimo anche con i pollici e senza appoggio.
- Flavio
@Bhavishya: yes, it is a concept. Let's see how the reality will be!
- Flavio
looks like a very nice photoshop job.
- Davide D'Incau
Social Media in 2009: Our Predictions and Desires - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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By Sarah: "Over the past year, we've been inundated with social media. We've seen Twitter go mainstream, lifestreaming take over blogging, and we've tried what felt like a million different applications. We've joined then abandoned new services recklessly, leaving our accounts to wither away on platforms long forgotten. What more could we possibly do in 2009?"
- Frederic
The 5 Stages Of Twitter Acceptance - http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog...
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interesting user adoption timeline showing progression of product usage
- Susan Beebe
Enterprise microblogging tool Trillr goes Open Source https://blog.coremedia.com/cm... via @oliverberger
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gonna play with this over the weekend to try and create a monitoring system for my network.. will document it :)
- alphaxion
ping me if you have results, I can always use that for my microblogging blog ;)
- Nicole Simon
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