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Information Arbitrage: Where and How am I Investing in Early-Stage Today? - http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008...
David Cancel, Robert Higgins, Nikpay and 12 other people liked this
"Given the uncertainty of ad spending, the tremendous dollars going into digital media, the increasingly competitive landscape and the jittery global financial markets, I have added a few criteria to my check-list: * Initially sells to the enterprise for branding, credibility, awareness and early revenues * Can get to revenues within 6 months, tops * Is sold on the basis of ROI, e.g., helps generate revenues or reduce headcount/costs * Integrates easily with existing platforms and/or programs * Either leverages existing open source programs or can itself become partially or fully open source * Has multiple revenue streams, e.g., software, maintenance, services, etc."
- Andrew Badera
from Bookmarklet
couple stretch items on his list but nice of him to share
- mike "glemak" dunn
I was wondering which ones seem a stretch? I was reading this and it describes a startup I am working with to a "T".
- David Muir
12.5-25x seems a stretch to me ... that's grand slam territory. not unachievable, but not by any means "common".
- Andrew Badera
I tend to agree. But I read through and was trying to glean when the exit for the VC would be; after how many years? According to my calculations, asset value growth of over 30% per year still means a 13 year wait on an initial investment of $1 million to walk away with $25 million.
- David Muir
VC is almost always in terms of a ~5 year exit strategy I thought ...
- Andrew Badera
VC is evil. Smart CEOs do everything they can to avoid this route.
- Geoff Livingston
Everyone would love to bootstrap Geoff, but it's not a matter of "smart" vs. "dumb" it's a matter of practicality and pragmatism.
- Andrew Badera
25x return selling into enterprise space which tends to see rapid fast followers and commoditization is one stretch david... not all vc's are evil geoff but certainly some are - expect it's probably same ratio as general life ;) a huge percentage of today's businesses have leveraged vc funding when in proof of concept phase so they (we) serve a purpose... andrew's pragmatic statement is right on...
- mike "glemak" dunn
here's a few more stretches now that i'm on a laptop & not my iphone - 1) revenue in 6 months along w/ selling into enterprise is a challenge since enterprise sales cycles are notoriously long for any company let alone an unproven startup 2) integrates easily in an enterprise space is an oxymoron - again, its a good post and not all things stated are stretches (plus it is his fund so his call)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
sorry one more, the positive: "intersection of web services, network performance and cloud computing. More and more enterprises will shift portions of their processing, services and storage to the cloud, as the imperatives of cost reduction, scalability and flexibility take hold." - i think this is right on and valid, i'm seeing the same sorts of companies approach me and can't fault their biz models...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Andrew/Gregory, I actually clarified this in another comment thread. What I mean is that it takes no more than $1-$2 million to know if you've got a $25-$50 million business. I take lots of risk. I just want to make sure the business doesn't require loads of capital to know whether or not it is likely to get the traction required to be successful. It may well make sense to raise an additional $2-$3 million in a Series A to help the company execute its growth plan, and I'm ok with that.
- Roger
Gotcha, thanks Roger, makes sense.
- Andrew Badera
Twitter Gadget for Gmail - http://twittergadget.appspot.com/
Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius, Кофе без сахара, manielse (Mark Nielsen) and 84 other people liked this
"Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a Twitter client specially designed for Gmail."
- Alessandro
from Bookmarklet
Excellent!
- Kol Tregaskes
loving it! works in Chrome also :)
- Ivan Zuzak
Blocked for Iranian IPs!!!:(
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
"Your session is expired, please reload Gmail"... but even if i close chrome or clear the cache it doesn't work any more.
- Alessandro
@Alessandro - refresh and then click your picture on the Twitter gadget again. that solved it for me.
- Ivan Zuzak
@ivan, i can't click on my avatar: http://img16.imageshack.us/img16...
- Alessandro
@Alessandro - oh i get it now, sorry. i got the "session expired" message in the main twitter window that shows tweets, not in the gadget itslef.
- Ivan Zuzak
tnx ivan, however! ;)
- Alessandro
thanks... nice info...
- Harry Mahardhika
I could really take advantage of this. Thanks!
- © b e e n s w a n k
Pavel liked your post and assigned it to topic "Twitter" at http://smallaa.com. Start letting Pavel track you: http://www.smallaa.com/user...
- Pavel Senko
This is very nice. Have had some trouble loading though today. Not sure why.
- Kevin Mohr
lol. At a glance I thought the title was "Twitter Gets a Gmail Gadget" - Gmail inside your Twitter!
- Micah Wittman
Two days later Twitter for Gmail still doesn't work for me... It worked only for the first day, then died. I give up. http://bit.ly/2csLz
- Alessandro
excellent
- TrafficBug
It will be a blast if w can save the searches and set preferences for refresh rate. So far, working great. :)
- Jonathan Kong
Yeah, I can't quite get the secure one to work.
- l0ckergn0me
I've been running Twitter Gadget for Gmail for two weeks. Suddenly, yesterday, I started getting "Your session is expired, please reload Gmail." The only thing that gets it back is to restart my computer.
- Marie Carnes
This is hardly news
- lelapin
What are your top 3 favorite paid online subscription services? Mine are Evernote Premium, Lynda.com and Pandora One.
altblog, Andrew Leahey, Adam and 66 other people liked this
Mine: Evernote, Skype and Last.fm
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I think currently NOD32 & Netflix are only online services I pay for
- LANjackal
Netflix
- chrisofspades
Evernote and Pandora definitely....I would add flickr pro to that
- Freddie Benjamin
oh, and flickr.. there are more than 3
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I only pay for last.fm, netflix, and flickr.
- ·[▪_▪]·
The only subscriptions I have are Netflix, Gamefly, and XMRadio. Not sure you'd call any of them online services, though. I'll probably renew flickr when I can more cash flow, though.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Remember the milk, Flickr and Mvelopes. I've been thinking about upgrading to Pandora One but haven't done it yet.
- Ward Seward
Spotify!
- Lasse Johnsen
Netflix, Pandora & Wall Street Journal
- Jay Clark
Evernote (can't live without it)
- petes2cents.com
Rapidshare, remember the milk, evernote, mobile.me, last.fm ...
- Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
ehm.. let add: rapidshare, mobile.me, (a seedbox), and lastpass
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Evernote, Mozy, and Flickr
- Matt
Evernote, Remember the Milk and Flickr
- Brett Kelly
Also Evernote, Mozy and Flickr.
- Oliver Bouchard
Evernote Premium, Dropbox (50GB), and MindMeister
- Jim Tierney
Flickr.
- Morton Fox
Evernote, Jungle Disk, You Mail, Flickr ,Skype, Netfilx
- metalerik
I only have one: reqall.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Mozy, Flickr, Github, Amazon (S3, EC2, SQS), Rackspace CloudFiles, Jungledisk
- Berk D. Demir
Flickr, Backblaze, Tutsplus.com, Lynda.com and O'Reilly's Safari online book service.
- cecily
Cecily: Love Backblaze! - been using it for a couple months. Best Mac online backup solution - IMHO.
- Mike Bracco
MobileMe, Flickr, Google Web Storage (10GB extra/year), SpanningSync, DropBox, DreamHost.
- Nick Humphries
Among some of those already mentioned I use LovelyCharts a lot: http://lovelycharts.com/
- Peter van Teeseling
Mike Bracco: What other Mac online backup solutions did you try and what are the features separating Backblaze from others to be the best?
- Berk D. Demir
Berk, I tried Mozy when it was first released and I just found it slow, and backups would fail. Backblaze was slow too (initial backup took 17 days), but once it was finished, it's been well worth the money.
- cecily
Last.fm, Flickr, Jajah
- Bertrand Doux
Berk: I tried Mozy as well and also played around with a friends machine that had carbonite. I like Backblaze b/c is just works...I literally don't have to ever think about it. It was started by some ex apple guys I believe and it can definitely show in the final product. Very few options - it just backs up in the background. It also stores versions of a file so sequential backups are...
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- Mike Bracco
and Jing Pro
- metalerik
Hosting & Domains (I've set some to auto-renew) ;)
- Nicholas James
Flickr, Zenfolio, MobileMe, and (maybe soon) Animoto
- Victor Panlilio
Evernote, Flickr, Last.fm
- jbrotherlove
I loves me some Lynda. Lots to learn. Evernote and reQall http://www.reqall.com/ round it out.
- Christopher Harley
flickr, photoshop.com, Zune
- John D Reasor
Evernote, Mozy, and Flickr
- Russellreno
Evernote, Flickr, Toodledo, BitDefender
- Wei-Yen Tan
Hosting for my blog. Also pay for flickr, but that wasn't really worth it.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Flickr and Remember The Milk. Hosting accounts: Media Temple and Dreamhost.
- Jorge Gobbi
Evernote is my favorite. It is the one application I will not do without.
- Rob Cairns
Cecily & Mike: I've tried Mozy, Carbonite, Backblaze, iDrive and settled with Mozy for no obvious reason. Pretty much they are all the same. A very similar software, same slow initial backup process, versioned backups, easy restore, scheduling and background backup features, bandwidth throttling, being easy with the system resources and close yearly fees: $49.50 (iDrive: 150GB), $50...
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- Berk D. Demir
I must have tried Evernote five times, but can't really get what is SO useful about it. Maybe it's the "how" - can someone direct me to how they use it and why it's useful to them? As far as paid apps, Pandora, Carbonite and Extra Storage on Google. That's it.
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: check out Evernote's blog http://blog.evernote.com/ as well their tumblr blog http://evernote.tumblr.com/ They have some great use cases on both sites. Maybe that will spark some ideas on how to utilize it. It's one of those things where you have to kind of be conscious of it and make yourself use it - then after a while it naturally becomes part of your workflow - at least that is how it worked for me.
- Mike Bracco
Was forgetting Animoto for which I will subscribe very soon
- Bertrand Doux
Thanks for those, Mike, very helpful. I think you're right... I just need to make an effort to get it into my workflow. I think it may work well to document ASP.NET snippets I use often (maybe).
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: Yeah and what's helpful as Evernote progresses is that the service is getting faster and better integrated into the OS - which makes it less obtrusive and easier to work in.
- Mike Bracco
DropBox, Skype and Pandora One.
- Jason Huebel
flickr, last.fm, rememberthemilk
- Jason Toney
Evernote, Dropbox and Skype
- Sally Church
Mobileme is the only one I pay for right now.
- DGentry
Evernote, Flickr, TinySpell and WinPatrol (last 2 Windows only)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jott, Netflix, Zune. Flickr dropped off the top 3 some time ago.
- Wade Dorrell
Flickr, Zune, Netflix.
- Jordan Hofker
from fftogo
Flickr, Netflix, Dreamhost
- Logan Lindquist
Trying mobileme.
- ashish
Napster, and MobileMe
- Edgar Rodríguez
also, emusic. How could I forget them?
- Jason Toney
SugarSync, Evernote, LastPass
- Johan Bakken
Its got to be Evernote, Flickr and Skype. Noticing a lot of love for Evernote on this list
- Robert Davies
For all you Evernote peeps, if you're not already in it, we have a pretty active room on FF: Feel free to join us! http://friendfeed.com/evernot...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Remember The Milk, Flickr. Thinking about subscribing to Evernote but not sure I really need the premium version. If they add export option to their amazing recognition tool, I may switch.
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Damn me, I forgot the one I use the most: skype...
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
freshbooks is great for small business invoicing. I use Pandora One also and Remember The Milk. trying Action Method (really good!)
- Julian Seery Gude
from BuddyFeed
Spotify.com, ProvideSupport.com, EverNote.com and soon e-tipi.com :-)
- Elian Chrebor
@elian what does Spotify premium brings? I would subscribe for an offline and/or iPhone feature. E-tipi probably but I hope you won't have to pay ;)
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Can someone tell me what lynda.com does? And what do you get extra with a paid Pandora account?
- Mark Traphagen
Mark: Lynda offers professional video tutorials or classes on pretty much any software imaginable (classes are streamed in browser via QuickTime and range anywhere from 2-12 hours. Pandora One is the pay Pandora account. It offers more skipping per day, double the bit rate quality (192 - huge difference from free account) and also a longer timeout period.
- Mike Bracco
I thought the bit rate quality with Pandora One wasn't going to be a big deal but it's night and day...big difference.
- Mike Bracco
Thanks, Mike!
- Mark Traphagen
Hmmmm, $25/mo for lynda.com isn't bad. Wish they had more stuff that was non-Web-related, though.
- Jason Huebel
I pay for Flickr, Plaxo and Me.com
- Boris
Flickr is the only thing I pay for. At work we pay for Wufoo and love it.
- Laura Norvig
Netflix, DeviantArt and that is it. That is all I pay for online besides GoDaddy for web hosting.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
spotify :).
- Tobias W.
I only pay for one at this point: Flickr. I am considering Evernote as well.
- Adam
Likely Evernote. still test driving it.
- Carolyn Chan
giganews unlimited usenet for $25/mo is always tempting
- Mike Chelen
Other than my Web hosting, I don't have any paid subscriptions to online services that I can think of. I tend to gravitate toward ad-supported free services.
- Curtiss Grymala
Google Squared, the ‘Wolfram Alpha killer’ is LIVE! Our initial thoughts. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Laura Norvig, David P., Hanna Wiszniewska and 40 other people liked this
its more like tabulation of pages
- Abhishek Tiwari
I agree with @Bryan. Not the same as WolframAlpha, more like AskJeeves
- John Apps
not the same as wolfram but usefull - lots of info gained from wiki posts
- Matt Stevens
Not very useful IMO. For example, your planet query works, but searching for BMWs lists all car brands, which is nonsense. I'll stick with Alpha, where at least the results bear some relation to the input. Total miss here by Google.
- LANjackal
Google Squared is nothing like alpha, But it's gameable! look up "Programming Languages" and add PowerShell -- it turns out that according to Google squared, PowerShell influenced C#, DCL, ksh, Perl, Ruby/LISP, CL, SQL, COMMAND.COM/ cmd.exe, Tcl ... and unlike other languages which have locations such as "Newark, NJ" "Paris" and "Australia" ... PowerShell is located in \Scripts\old\
- Joel Bennett
But it does not answer the question: "How many beans make 5?". Bing does, amazingly enough
- John Apps
Looks nice. It partly does what Wolfram Alpha but it's a long way off. Certainly something I use though.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's not a Wolfram Alpha killer at all.
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol: My thoughts exactly.
- LANjackal
So when do you think that universities are going to say not to use both of these services?
- Santa CW™
The problem with Wolfram Alpha is that it doesn't have much in the way of popular culture references like Google has. Once it does it will be amazing and possible replace Google for me (but that's a long way off). Google Squared is just putting search results into a simple table. A useful feature, for sure, but is very different to Wolfram Alpha.
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow this makes it easier to get a list of things... http://www.google.com/squared...
- Santa CW™
Something really surprising (for me) when I played a bit with Google squared today, is that I found spam on some results¿? It was like the last place I was expecting to see spam.
- Josue Santos Martin
No it's not Wolfram Alpha, but oh, my, god. LANJackal, try searching for "bmw models" instead. That's a good starting point.
- Kamilah Gill
What I like about google squared is that it allows to add column of info of your choice. It is in developing phase but I hope Google does not keep it buried under other projects.
- ashish
Funny that it took Wolfram Alpha and MS Bing to make google improve their "question" and "topic" handling... No competition had made them slack, imo
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I don't understand people defending it. Their data is so scrambled, you could never trust it. I mean, search for the Secretary of State http://www.google.com/squared... ... and look at the descriptions of these PEOPLE. Half of them aren't even in the ballpark.
- Joel Bennett
If expand that search, get Hillary Clinton on there, and then add the "President" column ... apparently Hillary Clinton is serving as Secretary of State under president Patrick Leahy. :-D
- Joel Bennett
Joel, it's Labs, which is like beta. I don't expect it to be perfectly accurate yet. I like it as an organizational tool. I don't want to bash it too much because I don't want them to give up on it and then have it disappear entirely.
- Kamilah Gill
Facebook Vanity URLs: Rolling Out on Saturday! Let the Countdown Begin - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Seth Greenblatt, Eric Geller, giuseppe ferrante and 43 other people liked this
Sadly its a minimum of 5 letters :(
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
5 letters?
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
zeeee!
- Hiro Asari
ah, gotcha.. :P
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
The planned elimination of regional networks makes a LOT more sense now. With unique usernames it should be very easy to find people without knowing what networks they're in (a task that is currently very difficult)
- LANjackal
gotta be honest...i am GUTTED.
- Zee.
sorry Zee
- Amber, Random Time Lord
zeeme?
- Alfredo
think i'm going to go with /zee.me (you can have dots which is cool)
- Zee.
I agree. Zee.me is cool
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Jorge (....still gutted :P)
- Zee.
FINALLY! :D
- Andrea (Notorious)
Not something I'd be interested in.
- Rustic Thoughts
surely a neat facebook.com/rusticthoughts url would cool no?
- Zee.
Not really bothered. But if i can get it i will, just because i can. :)
- Simon Wicks
Usually us geeks have first dibs on the handles because we are first to the party with all these social networks. In this case with facebook holding out for so long, we now have to compete with the "flock" for the handles - not cool facebook :) haha
- Mike Bracco
@Mike - if you want a better chance at getting your handle and you have Twitter account, you might want to follow @fbname to get a 1 hour reminder before they launch the vanity urls. :)
- arik
arik: thanks for heads up :) Also, I see you co-founded topify. I signed up for invite a couple of days ago with twitter handle @bracco - anyway I can get accelerated on getting an account...thought I would try :)
- Mike Bracco
@Mike - I sent all the waiting invites few hours ago.. you should've received it by now. If you haven't - just email me - arik@topify.com and I will send you one :)
- arik
Arik: Cool thanks. Haven't received yet. If I don't by tomorrow I'll certainly reach out - appreciate it. thanks :)
- Mike Bracco
I think the minimum 5 letters kindof sucks though.
- Nicholas James
you're telling me!
- Zee.
leech.length = 5, phew..
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
It's about time...
- Mark Harai
@Mark: Zuckerberg has already taken your name :p
- LouCypher
@Lou, no, it has to be 5 characters or more... Mark = 4
- Jorge Escobar
is that for fan pages to?
- Randy Ksar
from twhirl
@Randy, yes. But tha pages which have more than 1.000 fans as of May 31
- Ozkan Altuner
TED Blog: Erin McKean launches Wordnik -- the revolutionary online dictionary - http://blog.ted.com/2009...
Sasha Kovaliov(.com), Daniel Rowley, Gerald Neo and 6 other people liked this
"Today, Erin McKean realized the idea behind her 2007 TEDTalk with the launch of Wordnik.com, a dictionary that evolves as language does. On Wordnik, users can add new words and meanings, tag words with related expressions, see real-time search results for words from Twitter and Flickr, discover how many Scrabble points each word is worth -- all on one page."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
Gary, if you're watching this... - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Zach Schneider, AJ Batac, Scott Greiff and 70 other people liked this
haha...
- Zee.
lol, did not expect that at all
- Chris Conway
hehe! i don't think he's gonna call her now after that... :D :o
- Chrimmus Tad
She can call me if she wants!! :-)
- Dave Winer
That was hilarious. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I was expecting her to say something about having an STD.
- Louie
@Dave .... Lol...She is a cutie though eh
- Zee.
Someone is a bit pissed... She is kinda cute though :)
- Michael Forian
Looking forward to seeing Gary in a Youtube video-response ;)
- Migger
OMG!
- ※Fu※
hahahahahahahaaa [Edit] Somebody wouldn't give her his telephone number?????
- Kamath (नमः)
I think an important element to this that isn't immediately obvious (if you don't click through) is that this is addressed to Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, who has started to use a video as an email auto-responder: http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-...
- Mark Trapp
This sniffs of a transparent Lonelygirl15 spoof to promote Gary's book, 'natch.
- joshua fouts
Yes, Vaynerchuk's video response to email is significant, and Andrew's dislike of same. I think the video is great, it may be Rocketboom 2.0.
- Dave Winer
I've fallen victim to Gary's auto email reply, with his video link, before. lol.
- Louie
lol
- Adri Munier
BWAHAHAHA!!! I love it.
- Aaron deMello
liz, message from gary: "please mail it to 586 Morris Avenue Springfield, New Jersey 07081 marked ATTN GARYV URGENT URGENT URGENT thanks will get back to you in two to three weeks"
- Deva Hazarika
lolz loved it!
- Triston McIntyre
lol
- xero
cuty :)
- Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe
from twhirl
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
- Robert Couture
from twhirl
funny...
- Tony
the lead up was a little long but it ended with a bang!
- Morgan
Liz, it's a great ending. too good.
- Sarah Austin
OMG LMAO. LOL
- ZOD
I was getting ready for "I'm pregnant" -- but this was good.
- MattJhsn
O_O O_O <_< >_> @_@ oh...... my.....
- Bwana ☠
She is adorable and that is hilarious! The Triscuit actually makes it funnier.
- Dave Tremel
She hasn't done any videos since :(
- Pat Hawks
Garyvee is a lucky guy.
- Dave Winer
Holy shit this is eight months old! LOL way to resurrect a dead thread! :)
- Adam Turetzky
Microdecisions for Macro Impact - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/davenpo...
Meryn Stol and Ralph Poole liked this
"What many companies don't realize is that microdecisions — small decisions made many times by many workers at the customer interface — can have a major impact on the business. How they are made can be the difference between sloppy and effective execution, and between profit and loss. If you can identify a few key microdecisions that can be addressed and improved, you can often dramatically improve performance."
- V Mary Abraham
Why we need to leverage KM and how Web 2.0 tools help. #KM - http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009...
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“By installing Java, you will be able to experience the power of Java” - Joel on Software - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...
Morton Fox, Ralph Poole, Anthony Citrano and 11 other people liked this
"Just because there’s room on the dialog box, doesn’t mean you have to put something there."
- Neil Bernhart
from Bookmarklet
By installing this software, software will be installed!
- mikepk
While I like the article, I'm not sure this is appropriate for the Apps room.
- xero
Liking for Neil's comment.
- Admiral Anika
@xero... I was thinking "since Java is an app....", but in retrospect, I think you're right.
- Neil Bernhart
never had to remove a post from a room. possible?
- Neil Bernhart
"Java is all-knowing and all-encompassing. Submit before Java destroys you."
- deusdiabolus
Tumblr Releases Version 5! And it is GOOD. #Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Iván Abrego, Daniel Rowley, Marcel Weiß and 28 other people liked this
what's the best source for free tumblr themes? mine is sooooo tired. thanks
- Andy Sternberg
check the post - one of the new features is a "tumblr garden" - which is a theme directory
- Zee.
ah -- found it. very cool indeed! thanks Zee.
- Andy Sternberg
I like this update, interested in what else they have in store!
- Nick
Yeye!!! Finally! The last version was 3, wasn't it?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
More Adults Than Ever on Social Networks - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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LifeStreamBackup #web - http://lifestreambackup.com/
David Foucher, denise, Russellreno and 10 other people liked this
"Each year more of your life is stored online. While many services will back up your desktop, we haven't found anything that will backup your lifestream. So we are building it. In a couple of weeks, we will launch with the ability to manage all of your online accounts in one place."
- Zee.
Waiting!
- Aman
good concept - i've thought about this same thing, that what happens to all of these collections of points of interest - especially when it becomes decades old - it will be interesting to be able to look back on it all 10, 20, 40 years from now... little trinkets of memories that would otherwise be lost forever
- Nathan Chase
Keeping a Copy of Your Posts, Tweets, Photos, and More: LifestreamBackup http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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here is the URL: http://www.masternewmedia.org/web-bas...
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What's your celebrity crush? What famous person do you fancy?
Jim Is Not Smart, Ralph Poole, Steven Perez and 3 other people liked this
The Kates...Winslet and Beckinsale...
- JA Castillo
I used to have the hots for Sandra Bullock when I was a teenager, not so much now. Now I haven't a clue, too many to choose from, lol. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
David Boreanaz, Harrison Ford (yes, still!), Nathan Fillion. They'll do for starters!
- WorldofHiglet
Still Kylie. And she so small too, I could keep her in my pocket and my iphone in the other :)
- Thomas Bøhm
Daniel Craig. And Harrison Ford when he was still in his 40's.
- Helen Sventitsky
I wish to be able to see all my favorite celebrities ... I can't choose between them ! it's really hard .
- Viva Vida
I have a huge crush on Steve Carell. I think he's just dorky adorable, and a man that can make me laugh isn't just a desire, it's a requirement.
- Derrick
Nelson Mandela! Not quite a celebrity, but famous.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
JA, the 2 Kate's are nice. Cheryl Cole (from Girls Aloud) is probably my current fancy. :-) There's a little bit of grit behind that pretty face.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jessica Alba
- David Cook
David, she was cool in Dark Angel. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nicole Sherzinger, Sanaa Lathan, Rosalyn Sanchez, Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Amani
Hugh Jackman, Naveen Andrews
- Jeanine W.
What Jason said. Also, Seth Green.
- Rochelle
More like who do I NOT fancy. I fancy Paul Walker and Josh Hartnett at the moment. hahaha
- *Tiffany Diamond*
Jason, you saw Amelie then, no? :)
- Derrick
Never really had a celebrity crush, but I didn't like Alicia Silverstone in those Aerosmith videos ;-)
- Amit Morson
Jill Goodacre, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Laetitia Casta. Thank You.
- Christopher Harley
Keira Knightly
- Duncan Riley
Brad Pitt, Dave Gahan and Johnny Depp
- Emma
Angelina Jolie
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Nice, Jason (how'd I miss that?) I am a big fan of that movie and glad you liked it too.
- Derrick
Olga Kurylenko
- Eric Florenzano
Rochelle, I'm a HUGE Seth Green fan as well. He's so adorable! Also, Bradley Cooper (the eyes!) and I'm currently crushing hard on Zachary Levi. Girl crushes? Eliza Dushku and Jenny Lewis.
- Lis Miller
Sarah Shahi
- scott anderson
Billie Piper and Kristen Kreuk. Oh and Hayden Panettiere.
- Will Higgins™
Vin Diesel
- Sparky
Jane Monheit. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Steven Perez
I really love Laura Dern in David Lynch's Wild at Heart. The leather bikini drives me crazy. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play Sailor and Lula, lovers on the run from some dangerous whackos hired by Lula's mother (Diane Ladd) to rub out Sailor. Along the way they come across an even more dangerous whacko named Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), and in between we are given an overload of...
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- Ralph Poole
Dean Cain used to be my favorite. Robin Shou definitely got my heart pumping. I don't think I notice celebs much anymore.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
@Will - I'll take Billie Piper too. Especially with her accent!
- Amani
Gosh forgot, current crush is Rachel Bilson, from Jumper - it those eyes that do it for me. And look she's on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachel_.... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Blake Lively, Kristen Bell, Katharine McPhee
- Alejandro
Cindy Crawford.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Christopher Eccleston.
- Nine
It changes. For a long time it was Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. But lately I've been noticing that Anne Hathaway is looking pretty good. @Ralph... Wild at Heart: terrific movie. One of the few Nick Cage movies I can bear to watch.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Just picked up Obama's book. I can't think of a reason anyone in America shouldn't read the thoughts of the leader. It just seems so intuitive. Will let you know what I think.
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I recommend the audio version, read bu Obama himself. Perhaps it will become avail under CC license now that he'll be working for us?
- Andy Sternberg
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Just picked up Mein Kampf... Not sure if it's available as an eBook or on Audible, yet...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Uh...ok
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Mark and ana, I would agree that everyone should read those books as well. Regardless of how we think of these people, understanding their thought processes can be enlightening (in both good and bad ways). Don't ignore history because something bad happened.
- Rob Diana
Rob, I'll buy that for a dollar. My (and I assume "ana" aka Greg Lent) intent was to refute the original post by providing examples of other books written by prolific leaders of their respective nations.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
@mark you've made me LOL twice now within 2 min
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
@Jeff, Sadly, that's about all I'm good at....
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
That's all Seinfeld was good for. Worked out ok for him ;)
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
I'm in the middle of it now. Although it was written a few years ago, it all sounds like what we heard on the campaign trail. Consistient.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Both his books are really good. I agree we should read books from leaders. Lincoln on Leadership, and Robert E Lee on leadership are two other good books.
- Santa CW™
I would like to read this book and then read another book from him after his term in office on what it was like to be the first African American U.S. President. And then contrast and compare his accomplishments. I am so happy he made it!
- David Cook
David, that will be a great book to read. I look forward to it too.
- Santa CW™
Mark VandenBerg, what did you like about Mein Kampf, I'm an open minded guy, so please explain
- Jeremiah Owyang
it's probably worth a read, but it makes you wonder: when exactly did he find the time to write a book?
- .LAG liked that
still need to read it.
- mikepk
I'm sure obama dictated the message.
- Jeremiah Owyang
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I'm doing a blog redesign, what are your thoughts? The original is at web-strategist.com/blog
- Jeremiah Owyang
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I love this design. I really like the social media icon circles in the top bar as well as the pulling in of the Flickr stream. Also, noticed the FriendFeed icon below the comments. Is that a plug-in or something you're having custom made?
- Justin Levy
I dunno Justin if it's custom, I'm leaning on Mitch for this, he's going to implement it for me. That's why I hired him.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Super clean, professional design. I really like it. I would consider making the text to the right of your logo in "{ }" a bit larger. It's kind of small and should probably fill up that entire box. I would definitely move your contact logos and the rss logo outside of the search bar.
- Kevin Pruett
i do like it, but i would try it with a sidebar transparent background, just to avoid that the eyes go over while reading. -- disclaimer: i'm not a webdesigner :)
- Markingegno - Donato
Hey all, I'm Mitch (the designer) and I'll be around to answer questions / take comments. There's a plugin for WordPress (http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpre...) that I've been researching - seems to do exactly what I want. If the wheel isn't broken, no sense in reinventing it!
- Mitch Canter
Thanks for the link Mitch! The design looks great! :)
- Justin Levy
In general, I like it. The social media icons on the top make no sense, they look linked to search. I assume they are links to your profiles on each, if that's the case they need to be contextualized. It wouldn't hurt to be super obvi and say "Find me on..." above them. The subscribe block looks like a totally different design. Maybe that should include Subscribe via: email, FF, RSS, etc.
- Clay Newton
Good feedback Clay
- Jeremiah Owyang
I would also do something better with the right column. Right now, its left side is very jagged. If all items aligned left and/or there was better visual definition to the separate sections, it would be less itchy. Also, there are too many font sizes over there for similar things. Look at the job links versus popular posts.
- Clay Newton
Clay: Do you mean that the font sizes are similar? or that there are too many different sizes? Just wanting to clarify :)
- Mitch Canter
I like it. Its not too busy. I like the twitter status at the top ... now get back to using it Jeremiah!
- Brett
I like it a lot. Clean design, corporate without being boring. I find the main blog font a bit too small, at least in this photo. Perhaps bump it up a point or two? Mitch, can you do those socmed icons for mine, too?? Now I'm jealous. ;-)
- Connie Crosby
@Mitch I meant that it looks like there are either different fonts or different sizes on the right nav similar type items, like the jobs links and the links to top posts. I think it makes sense to use the same treatment.
- Clay Newton
Clay: that was my intention, I may have overlooked equalizing everything. I'll take another look and will make sure the sizes are standardized. Thanks for the heads-up
- Mitch Canter
there's big empty space around the { Jeremiah discusses } ... I like empty space but somehow this one sticks out - maybe its the gradient that's bothering me a bit. Overall though, its an excellent design.
- Brett
I'll echo some of the suggestions I've seen that struck me as well: 1) Not obvious what social network icons next to search box link two 2) Some kind of division b/t main content and sidebar column 3) Increase font size, including text b/t { } 4) Not sure about displaying most recent tweet in horizontal strip across top. Seems out of place there (especially if you stay on hiatus!). Apart from that, it's a good, clean look. Compliments to Mitch.
- Bryan Person
@Mitch: Have been doing research/testing on WP themes this week (including Thesis) and on SEO plugins that allow for customer title tags and description tags. This might be useful to include for Jeremiah, to give him an additional SEO boost!
- Bryan Person
Bryan: I'm taking the "SEO Plugin" approach and will be utilizing some SEO enhancing plugins. All-In-One is my goto, but I have others that I like. I'm one step ahead of you on this one :) Thanks for the suggestions!
- Mitch Canter
Thank you Jeremiah! http://www.sheysmith.com/2008...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Larger font-size?
- Winston Teo
This theme does not look professional enough, looks like one you buy for 20$. I would change this: 1. rounded design does not function well on your blog - make squared edges 2. bigger fonts, 3. don't like header, 4. too big date icon before blog title (looks realy passe)
- Jernej
Jernej thanks for the honest feedback, in your opinion, what are some modern looking blog designs?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Why is ReadWriteWeb's traffic going down and Mashable's going up according to Compete? Discuss here:
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ReadWriteWeb has been doing some of the most in-depth and interesting blogging on the web lately. Mashable is seeing traffic growth while RWW is going down, though. Why?
- Robert Scoble
i prefer RWW personally....
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
I think its because Mashable has more social networking news, and there is always social networking news.
- Daniel Brusilovsky
I know this isn't the primary reason, but I can't stand the look of RWW. It's really harsh looking.
- Andrew
Daniel: that might be it. Mashable has more "quick hits" too. This isn't a good trend. I always assumed the market would reward great work. I agree with Jeff. RWW has been doing great work lately.
- Robert Scoble
They all look like they are going up, it's just that ReadWriteWeb had a bad October ? No idea why but every blog can have an off month. Maybe they have a friendfeed problem ? However 216.8% up for RWW is double techcrunch and mashable for 08 so they look like they are doing ok.
- Adrian
Adrian: most tech blogs are down in October, so finding one that is up, Mashable, is interesting and worth talking about.
- Robert Scoble
Here's a chart comparing Mashable to VentureBeat and Gigaom: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mashabl...
- Robert Scoble
I enjoy and follow both blogs. But Mashable cranks out more posts, and they're usually social-networking - related news, like Daniel said. And Mashable's posts are short and to the point. Quite a few people do have short attention spans. ;) While RWW's posts are in-depth, people might not want to spend too much time reading (this doesn't go for everyone, of course). - And I personally like Mashable's lists. Just my two cents.
- deepikaur
I did some ad hoc analysis of Compete a while back, and found it to be complete bollocks: http://tr.im/competebollocks
- Darren Barefoot
Robert: One thing that attracts readers other then content is the look of the site. Mashable has a nice site, while RWW has a cluttered site that is sometimes hard to read. I personally just use a RSS feed reader for both plus all my other sites.
- Daniel Brusilovsky
I think it could be the "Long Tail" effect manifesting itself in this space.
- Rob Hoeting
One reason also is that Mashable posts 3 to 4 times more than RWW... More page views!
- Ilan Abehassera
Darren: now THAT deserves a conversation all on its own. How would you compare these sites? What's your data telling you is happening in the tech blogging world?
- Robert Scoble
RWW obviously has some terrific posts, really solid. But Mashable is comfortable, and never snobby or elitist like RWW writers sometimes act in social media settings.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
I don't read Mashable, since it has no value for me. Read RWW regularly. Most people dont't have patience for analysis and detail. That said, RWW seems to be doing fine, so nothing to worry bout there. Plus that last month only matters if it is indicative of a long term trend.
- Deepak Singh
Pageviews are dead. Attention is key
- Chris Saad
the fact that Mashable focuses on lists, lists and more lists has got to be a major factor...lists are link bait, appear high on search engines and remain popular often for months.
- Zee.
I like ReadWriteWeb more than Mashable.
- Veetrag
could merely be cyclical; also mash is kind of good looking & definitely Mashable's 3/4 of a page articles work well for attention span (does anyone know what team he bats for?). I have errrrr a friend...
- sofarsoShawn
Robert: Anecdotally, our clients get more visitors from coverage on RWW than on Mashable. On the other hand, they get covered more often by Mashable. Still, I'm drawing on a reasonably small data set there, so that's not empirical.
- Darren Barefoot
first, don't look at compete when you have real, directly measured traffic stats for RWW, Mashable and techcrunch from Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/profile...
- Andy Beard
Mashable seems to have periods where they go against the trending (Mar 08 going down while the others up, same with a few months ago) - no analysis, just an observation.
- George Smith
Personally, I really like RWW but I think the primary reasons are, which others have also pointed out, Mashable has more coverage of the social networking space which is driving more traffic and Mashables posts are shorter which could be a positive. Definitely don't think their should be any assumption the quality of RWW is going down, if anything it is continuing to get better.
- Steve Zimmerman
rww is up on the year & its growth is far higher than Mashable. Comparison with Microsoft and Google is interesting - Microsoft are down 17% on the year: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/google...
- Russell
Darren: I believe that. I bet that the longer posts on RWW have a more engaged audience who is more likely to click and try stuff out. My videos are the same way. Anyone who'll sit through a 20-minute video is going to be very engaged and interested in the product being discussed, but fewer people will do that.
- Robert Scoble
Andy: Quantcast's charts are a lot harder to read, but seem to me to be showing same data: that Mashable is going up while the others are going down or flatlined.
- Robert Scoble
Another thought, I always hear big voices in the Tech community complaining about Mashable. Maybe this is proof that there is no bad publicity.
- Andrew
Andrew: that is somewhat true. Mashable does a lot of SEO tricks that piss off other bloggers. I don't really care. I look at social networks to see who is getting talked about. What keyed me into this conversation is RWW is getting talked about a lot on friendfeed and twitter in positive terms.
- Robert Scoble
Growth in RSS subscriber numbers doesn't equate to increased site traffic - the more feeds people subscribe to, the more likely they will just mark all as read
- Andy Beard
Mashable is spam, PR and contests and RWW is much the same, just try to read them everyday you'll be bored out-of-your mind!
- paul mooney
I agree w/ Beard, truthfully I just collect RSS feeds, perhaps 80% I read properly
- sofarsoShawn
Between RWW and Mashable, there is a huge difference in content choice for links/traffic, and the SEO and social media benefits are significant
- Andy Beard
How can it be "spam"???? I dont read either daily, or even often lol... maybe once in a while look at them... but thats it... not sure how you (paul) can call a blog spam???
- Rob Sellen :o)
Interesting discussion you started, Robert. I've always thought Mashable and RWW served very different audiences, so hopefully there's room enough for both of us to succeed. Also, so nice to see how many RWW supporters there are in the FF community! That's always nice to hear.
- Sarah Perez
It's just ads with content as a filler
- paul mooney
ha ha.... and you call that spam???
- Rob Sellen :o)
I hope RWW get paid a lot for hosting a Swicki in their sidebar, but links to searches for "funny horse videos" don't do their own internal traffic any good at all.
- Andy Beard
@Andy: +1 for Quantcast and +5 for seeing Mashable SEO strategy. Mashable is working on traffic generation big time and using a lot of SEO 'tricks' (aka - good business strategy) to drive traffic. While I prefer RWW content, Mashable is out marketing them.
- AJ Kohn
I agree to point that blogs like that are just a little content and a load of falshing banners...crap, but they already built up traffic..if you STARTED mashable today, no way would it get to where it is. But to call a blog for being like this spam is ridiculous...
- Rob Sellen :o)
I got a PR realise from some company I never heard of with a product that seamed useless and less then a hour later mashable on Twitter linked to a new blog post and it was THAT PR realise
- paul mooney
interesting. yesterday I observed that gigaom traffic is down 100k plus since October. it's possible lot of user attention turned to financial riot. can't imagine why mashable traffic grow though
- Kiran Patchigolla
Another time on Twitter Richard MacManus linked to a blog post on another blog listing himself as one of the best software developer bloggers, he's not a software development
- paul mooney
RWW is "intellectual" and Mashable is "sexy". I think RWW is really exceptional but sex sells.
- Elliott Ng
paul..whats that gotta do with anything here? :o/
- Rob Sellen :o)
RWW is quality content, commenting and analysis, while Mashable is kind of "just the news". I wonder if that is a generalizable trend.
- George Tziralis
sexy???? elliot, wtf?
- Rob Sellen :o)
I guess RWW will have to have more contests to keep up with mashables. Does mashable ever mash anything? Does Read-Write ever Read Write?
- paul mooney
Mashable currently has 6 list / resource posts on their front page - RWW have list / resource posts in their popular posts links, but some are relatively old - lists and resource posts gain links from a wider number of sources over a longer period of time
- Andy Beard
aside: So no one knows what team Mashable plays for?
- sofarsoShawn
http://bit.ly/162UE Google trends says Mashable traffic's going down. http://bit.ly/fFyt Alexa says it's going up. RWW is more cerebral than Mashable.
- Desire Athow
Between FriendFeed and Twitter you guys should be able to discover bloggers worth reading. The best blogs are written by people who blog about what they do. I've never met a mashable or RWW blopgger at CES or any of the many conferences I attend each year. I think they are fead by PR realise and cash from the companies who give then advertising
- paul mooney
fascinating discussion, thanks Robert for starting it. as for paul mooney, u r full of shit.
- Richard
fwiw I'm happy with RWW's traffic growth, Nov was our best month yet. that compete data isn't right. I do agree that mashable's traffic is fantastic right now. A smart SEO strategy, some fortune with google keywords, and sheer quantity of posts all helped. good luck to them, as Sarah said there is room for all of us to succeed, in our own ways.
- Richard
It's because RWW puts long posts over two pages. People don't like that so they're staying away from RWW, even though it is better. :-) Who knows? And it doesn't matter. But Mashable is USA Today and RWW is NYT.
- Dominic Jones
Just a thought... Mashable's higher page views don't seem very compelling in light of their higher frequency of posts. Looking at a ratio (for comparison), or something like average views per post would be a much more informative number. Or maybe unique visitors (but these are still mediated by number of posts) or new subscriptions. Comments per post is also something to consider. The road to erroneous conclusions is paved with page views (examined in isolation, without regard to any other variables).
- Kim G.
Where is Sean McBride? He's going to flip when he sees this discussion not happening on twitter & with SCOBLE nonetheless ~ he hates twitter
- sofarsoShawn
Fascinating thread. Happy to confirm that Mashable's traffic is surging at the moment. I'm also a huge fan of RWW. Assuming your general case is true: one of these sites is for tech industry analysis, one is for early-adopting web users. One of those target audiences is bigger than the other; both approaches create value.
- mashable
I prefer RWW to Mashable (seems smarter and more thoughtful to me), am viewing this discussion on Friendfeed, and do indeed still fail to understand why anyone uses Twitter when there are much better choices available (Friendfeed, to be precise).
- Sean McBride
Twitter can be updated through SMS for one. Plus, most of my Twitter updates are done through Ping.fm
- MarkCarras
Maybe the quality of RWW is too high for many users to manage. They don't want to be forced to use their noggins. I'll bet that's it.
- Sean McBride
Geeks Radio - Music For Your Inner Geek! - http://www.geeksradio.fm/
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Its great. FREE! It has also finally launched.
- Stephen
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5 Tips for Startups and Entrepreneur's - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Supergrass PumpingOnYourStereo - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Winner All the Way - http://www.laughitout.com/2008...
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internet advertising, yes.. all round powering the internet? not quite.
- alphaxion
obama wants you to invite your friends - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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FriendFeed Blog: View your FriendFeed in real-time - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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I am going to spend all evening in the real-time version of the debate room at http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... You can view your real-time feed at http://friendfeed.com/realtime
- Bret Taylor
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MG: you can also embed a real-time feed for a room in other web pages, so you can embed a real-time view for your next liveblog event (we thought of you when enabling that feature).
- Bret Taylor
Amazingly awesome. If friendfeed were a person I'd have the hugest crush on it.
- EricaJoy
gotta say it's immensely satisfying to use the share bookmarklet in one page and see it pop up instantly on the mini window
- Karl Rosaen
I LOVE this new feature: http://scobleizer.com/2008... but damn, now I'm really not going to get any work done!
- Robert Scoble
Time to watch FriendFeed scroll on ... and on ... and on ...
- Great Scott!
It probably does make a person more likely to post a comment or reply, because you know the other person just posted what you're commenting about. Shorten the feedback loop, increase the throughput...
- Ranjit Mathoda
Nice work guys. You've re-invented crack.
- Ryan Kuder
+1 Ranjit
- Great Scott!
Popping out the live window is really useful because you can click through and see the original post in it's entirety.
- Frankie Warren
interesting to see the debates in RT. only problem is that i couldn't deal with twitters election site because it moved so fast.
- Admiral Anika
@scoble, re:"This is also functionality that Facebook or MySpace does not have" facebook does have a "live feed" feature
- Karl Rosaen
Really? Where? I never have seen Facebook's live feed.
- Robert Scoble
i just noticed it last night, tab next to 'posted items' on the home page. it has 'log mode' and 'full stories'
- Karl Rosaen
On your home screen Robert, News feed, status updates..... live feed
- Simon Wicks
It's called live... not so sure it actually is. it's on the homepage up in the tabs for the newsfeed.
- Frankie Warren
It is live. Stuff I posted right now appears within a few seconds.
- Robert Scoble
The comment link isn't big enough. I have too many Friends. Keeps scrolling.
- l0ckergn0me
pardon my language but this is fucking crazy...
- Zee.
Sorry Robert, I was referring to Facebooks "Live Feed"
- Frankie Warren
Agreed, I've had to chase the Comment link down 3-4 times already.
- xero
all about the lists Chris
- Zee.
This is AMAZING, and FAST.
- Dave Gilbert
Yah, chasing the comment link is annoying. I am working on something for that now. The update rate was not exactly this high during a lot of our testing ;)
- Bret Taylor
Am I missing how to embed the realtime somewhere?
- Ryan Kuder
You can use an iframe!
- Gavin
True, good point
- Sherif Mansour
Although, it would be nice if the comments appeared in-line tot he initial post, instead of a new post
- Sherif Mansour
Ryan: on any room you can see the embed link: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... for instance.
- Benjamin Golub
to keep congruence with the normal page, i'd like to see 'likes' show up here too
- Karl Rosaen
can u imagine the redraws if that were the case? I was thinking about this myself and it seemed a good idea till I actually implemented it.
- Prolific Programmer
yeah, i suppose so, glad to hear it was tried out (i assume u work at ff?). maybe 'most liked' graph on the side or something that would update as the votes came in... or not
- Karl Rosaen
FF Team, you guys rawks!
- AJ Batac
Thanks, Benjamin. I've now got a realtime feed embedded in a post on my blog. It looks awesome: http://ryankuder.com
- Ryan Kuder
crikey- that is cool...
- Zee.
Is there a way to just watch one persons feed in realtime? not their friends just them.
- Shawn McCollum
I have to respectfully say I'm not a fan. While I suppose it could be interesting for live blogging, etc... I'm a proponent of thoughtfulness over speed and quantity. We already have enough twittering in the world, enough 24-hour live news coverage. We don't need to know more sooner. We need to understand more better.
- Adam Lasnik
Fantatic.
- Russellreno
@Adam Atleast it's there in case you ever want it
- Gordon Swaby
You guys are the cats pajamas.
- j1m
But wait, how do I flip it? I want new things to arrive on the bottom, like in all my other chat clients. I have a much easier time reading from top to bottom. (Also, can it auto-pause when I'm not scrolled to the live end of the feed? And if not, can the pause button stay in view when I scroll?)
- j1m
I didn't see the real-time update here,maybe my office computer is too slow,or maybe it is the issue with IE6.
- Steve Chou
Now it is working,and it is awesome...
- Steve Chou
Also, why no list of accumulated Likes? And I miss the More button. (As you can tell, I'm completely addicted.)
- j1m
WOW! WOW! I like it ;)
- Kyle Weller
Mine doesn't seem to be updating... is it possible it can only handle a couple of feeds at a time. The room I'm embedding probably has 3 or 4 dozen feeds. I know it's gotta update more often than once an hour. Ugh.
- Patrickometry
AAPL is at $91/share. BUY BUY BUY
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not sure, world economy is in the shitter. too fitting that the tornado sirens are going off (albeit just for a monthly test).
- cjmart
Moved everything into treasuries last week. :(
- Moved to Facebook
Ah, I wish I had a stockbroker. But with about $100 in the bank that isn't very feasible..
- Alexander Carlill
Presidential Cookies -Find 'Em By Elmo and Dora! - http://chewonthatblog.com/2008...
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That doesn't even look like McCain! LOL.
- Trish R
OMG... it's like he had a BABY with Cotton Hill!!!
- Cyndy
I hid this from my own feed cuz they're so EFin CREEPY!
- Mona Nomura
That's some pank frostin' on ol McCain's cookie, LOL!
- Trish R
pank > wrank. But look at Obama's teeth! They are ALL sorts of wrong!!
- Mona Nomura
Trish, LOOK AT THIS OMG http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205... HAHAHAHHAHAH
- Mona Nomura
@Cyndy, that's hilarious
- Kate
Mona, who is that supposed to be?
- Trish R
Well, I think they taste like chicken?
- Mona Nomura
That McCain cookie looks so pissed off I wouldn't want any of his karmic energy in my stomach. LOL!
- Trish R
I've been staring at them all morning, Trish. I can't. stop. laughing. !!
- Mona Nomura
Hold up! I'm confused.. do I eat the candidate that I like, or the one that I don't like?
- Tim Hoeck
The angry candidate to put him out of his misery. :|
- Mona Nomura
I think the McCain cookie would taste like war. Just sayin'.
- Michelle Martinez
I'm back to laugh again! McCain has blue eyebrows!
- Trish R
Trish: Please tell me yous saw this http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205... MM: Or it could start a war!
- Mona Nomura
Mona, yes, I was trying to figure out who it was! I had to click over to that site to see it was supposed to be Joe Biden! HAHAHAHAHA
- Trish R
That's Biden?! OMG I thought it was McCain's botox face! HAHAHAHHA
- Mona Nomura
I thought they were Sanford & Son cookies
- Chris Rivait
Obviously, the cookie decorators don't think Biden's face is as pink as McCain's.
- Trish R
LOL @ Chris. It *DOES* look like Fred Sanford! HAHAHAHA Elizabeth! I'm comin' honey!
- Trish R
No, THIS is the hybrid of the two: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
LOL! Now if only that was a cookie!
- Trish R
That looks more like Archie Bunker than John McCain.
- ComicList
Honestly, they should just combine those two and make a black & white cookie - Seinfeld anyone (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)? Look to the cookie! ;-)
- Michael Leuker
michael!!! hahaha.. took the words out of my mouth/keyboard... exactly!
- Melissa Maskevich
omg these STILL make me laugh. Look at McCain!!! He looks like Cotton Hill HAHA
- Mona Nomura
That McCain cookie is WAY too young and healthy looking!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Bec, it doesn't even look like McCain! And his eyebrows are blue. BLUE!! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
Chris Matthews blames McCain for bailout bill failing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is a good point. Not only was McCain unable to act as a leader in bringing the Republicans together, he voted one way and 2/3 of his own party voted another way. I.e. McCain doesnt represent his party, and failed to lead and unite. Oh yea, and then he went on to blame the democrats.
- Andrew Baron
of course he does...It must be McCain or Bush's fault right? Wrong....Government is failing us as it has been for many years. They haven't looked after our best interest instead they just keep feeding the greed machines.
- David Ward
Its not his fault per say, because he put himself in this position, but Matthews has a point. McCain failed to unite his party.
- Andrew Baron
matthews getting tough. i'm surprised by his take
- Cee Bee
McCain didn't vote? When did McCain join the HoR? Also, it goes without saying that not only was Obama unable to act as a leader in bringing the Democrats together, he, along with house leadership, supported one way and 40% of their own party voted another way. I.e. Obama doesnt represent his party, and failed to lead and unite.
- Ben Jackson
BTW, Chris Matthews voted for George Bush in 2000.
- Andrew Baron
Chris is a poor journalist and hasn't done his homework here.
- Paul W. Swansen
How so Paul?
- Andrew
@Paul That says a lot. Allow me: The unicorns are white and the sky is turning, 'O.
- Andrew Baron
Ben - The Dems delivered about 2/3rds of their group. The Republicans delivered 1/3rd. The idea that Republicans voted against national interest because of a speech is a joke. McCain and Bohner (sp?) couldn't deliver the votes and the market tanked. This is a fact.
- Andrew
It's not McCain's job to unite the Republican party. His job is to what is best for the American people. They all need to forget about party lines and just do the right thing, whatever that may be.
- David Ward
@Andrew, 60% is less then 2/3s, also about 12 people changed their vote because of Pelosi's whinefest. The rest were against this bill from the beginning. Always were. *Both* sides of the house knew it was a fragile coalition, and democrats decided to go all political. There are a lot of people (from both sides of the aisle) that deserve blame. McCain isn't one of them, technically, neither is Obama.
- Ben Jackson
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@Ben, then why is McCain blaming Obama for the bailout?
- Andrew Baron
@David "It's not McCain's job to unite the Republican party." Yes it is.
- Andrew Baron
is this clip that funny? ok *click*
- Caroline
Ben - You really think that 12 Congressmen said "Well I was going to do what I believe is right for the country, but Pelosi gave a mean speech. So I'm voting against my best judgement now. That will teach her!" It just isn't plausible to me.
- Andrew
@Andrew We *are* talking about CongressCritters. It was likely more along the lines of "I didn't want to vote for this in the first place. @#$%@#$ this."
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
Do you honestly think those 12 thought this vote was 'right for the country' or in 'their best judgement' in the first place? They had their arms twisted and were going along grudgingly until Pelosi decided to be a partisan first, leader second.
- Andrew Leyden
If you're trying to cozy up to people who dislike you, don't give them an excuse to punch you.
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
David, while I agree its not McCain's job, he sauntered into town like cowboy George, and republicans were giving him credit for putting things together. "Thank God John came back.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham. It falls apart, and suddenly its Obama's fault. Chris Matthews is spot on with his analysis. Neither deserves blame in this issue, and only one candidate is pointing the finger.
- jcunwired
Fact is that the Republicans didn't like what was or wasn't in the bill such as the power it would give to BK judges to lower mortgage balances at will. They want more oversight, not less. If it's McCain's fault then it's Obama's fault as well. Both parties need to put politics aside and come to a resolution.
- David Ward
Obama didn't parachute in as the great savior to the economy though, now did he?
- jcunwired
The NYTimes says "The vote was a catastrophic political defeat for President Bush, who tried to muster national support for a recovery plan in a televised address last Wednesday, then lobbied wavering Republican legislators in intensely personal telephone calls on Monday morning." http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
- Andrew Baron
David - I thought they cut out the authority to Bankruptcy Judges in order to bring the Republicans in.
- Andrew
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