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LastPass: One Master Password [Universal] cross browser, & with portable USB function - https://lastpass.com/feature...
Eric P, Russellreno, Ryan Keiser and 6 other people liked this
Sounds like a great idea but... isn't one universal password like having the same password anywhere?
- lelapin
That or the one-two punch of supergenpass & foxmarks(assuming in Firefox)
- Rodney L.
Universal as in: Windows/Mac/Linux functionality & most browsers: the important one's at least. And yes Firefox being one of them.
- sofarsoShawn
just finished testing it out more thoroughly and it works on ALL browsers/platforms interestingly enough through bookmarklets
- sofarsoShawn
clipperz.com - similar solution
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Exclusive: Sirius and XM Satellite Radio on Your iPhone / iPod - http://chris.pirillo.com/2009...
Outsanity, barbara, Business Blogger【ツ】™ and 6 other people liked this
Human store window in London - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Yinhaiming, HealingBrush, hosseini and 69 other people liked this
Calvin Klein had the hottest store window in London on Saturday because they had real models sitting in the window. This gathered crowds of hundreds around the window.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Oh you're not posting the Victoria's Secret window? ;~)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Lol, that's ridiculous. Must be boring to stand still all day.
- Eric Florenzano
If they are anything like the Dark Garden windows at Dickens Fair in San Francisco (http://darkgarden.tribe.net/), most models only hold the pose for 5-10 min. then shift. Professional live models are trained to hold poses for longer though.
- Ragani Harris
They used to do this @ downtown crossing Boston. Some were incredible holding a pose. People didn't believe they were real until they moved!
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
i didn't realise they were taking photos of me, I was just hangin out in a box...
- Simon T Small
"they told me this was the fitting room"
- Karim
haha!
- Simon T Small
Now that's a boring and repetitive job!
- Rob
If you're looking at it that way, it's worse than repetitive... :P
- Tanath
Well I'm sure they get at least two poses they can alternate between....it's impossible to hold some of those poses for too long lol
- Rob
nah, it's easy for the Queen's Guard. they're used to standing perfectly still not movin' a muscle. it's just that on their day off they prefer to go a bit more casual, don't you know.
- Karim
i think it's creepy, like the guards.
- ernie yacub
this picture is so cool.thx sharing!
- jedorstar
:|
- atalmatal
COOOL!
- MissSaghar
Nice!
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
from twhirl
The reason that I don't think it is nice is the fact that humans are represented as objects... Though it is not a new idea, people think it is brand new. Through ages, humans were being humiliated in this and that means of media... I totally dislike the idea... Am I overreacting?
- Emrah Özcan
Is this the cover of Naked Conversations 2?
- Louis Gray
I saw a similar display at a lingerie shop in London a few weeks ago, you walk past thinking they are surprisingly realistic display dummies until one of them moves!
- Arthur Guy
I did this with my children last year albeit obviously not as provocotive
- Joe Dawson
http://friendfeed.com/e... - My children's version :)
- Joe Dawson
hundreds of people to watch bored models sit about in a window? cant have much of interest in their lives...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: sex sells.
- Robert Scoble
And yet, they remain as human as their plastic equivalents.
- Bryce Roney
Bryce: they outpulled all the other windows (which had no humans) by 10:1.
- Robert Scoble
Firstly, omg scoble replied to something I said; secondly, I was only joking - it is pretty cool. But I want abs like those :(
- Bryce Roney
Robert: you're right, and if they were doing something really sexy I would understand the people watching. But they look as if they are waiting around half dressed looking bored. Which might be what sex feels like for many people, I guess... (couldnt resist, sorry). At least there are 2 men :D But considering the result, it is a brilliant marketing move.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@joelle If this is like the displays I have seen, the interest is absence of action. People staying perfectly still is counter-intuitive, and when they're good at it, it can actually be amazing to witness the concentration. In this case, they're getting thousands to stare at their brand name heading into shopping season and 09'.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
even manikins are now redundant...this recession affects more than just people
- Tate DA FF MVP
awesome!
- Susan Beebe
I love walking through malls and seeing this type of display, it's such an attention grabber for the store!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
were all Gawkers by nature
- johnpiercy
Imagine building a product, getting funding, getting feedback via Twitter, building it, marketing it, shipping it all within days. Wow.
Tyson Key, Ryan Keiser, Stewart Heys and 6 other people liked this
Chris: of course you are right, but you're missing what I'm trying to say. The supply chain that's here now is quite different than ones that existed just a few years ago and that lets you get a new product to market faster AND get all retailers and middlemen out of the chain. Now THAT is disruptive to all sorts of players.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - how connected does one have to be to be able to leverage this machine/model?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
These are the footprints of the new marketing world...
- Olcayto Cengiz
created a new iPhone running harness in under 1hr photos @ www.ryantaylor.me not hard making stuff ain't magic
- Ryan Taylor
Google CEO Backs Obama - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Nicholas James, Bret Taylor, Antoine Bertier and 24 other people liked this
"Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt's push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency. Although the Internet-search company has numerous issues pending on Capitol Hill, Mr. Schmidt said in an interview that "I'm doing this personally," adding that "Google is officially neutral" in the campaign."
- EricaJoy
from Bookmarklet
Hrm....for some...this is bigger than the Powell endorsement
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
"Google employees have contributed $487,355 to Sen. Obama's campaign and $20,600 to Sen. McCain's as of Aug. 31. Mr. Schmidt hasn't donated to either."
- Roshan Vyas
Do you think he'll be better at this than Carly?
- j1m
Wow, those donation numbers seem extremely one-sided even for a Cali-based tech company.
- Rob Haas
@Rob I think this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch... won him a bunch of supporters at Google. Up until this talk, I hadn't decided between Obama and HRC. Note the Secret Service presence even then.
- EricaJoy
That makes sense. I wasn't aware he had spoken there. Of course, it gets a one sentence mention that I apparently missed in the article. McCain spoke there too; I suppose he didn't go over as well.
- Rob Haas
@Rob To be fair, all the candidates did. However Obama had a really good message on technology and you can imagine how that resonated with a crowd full of Googlers.
- EricaJoy
Wow, Google favors Obama by about 48-to-2 in terms of $$$.
- Mike Reynolds
Obama's "Not Bubble Sort" won me over. :-). And speaking of contributions, Ron Paul got quite a bit of moolah from Googlers with Libertarian leanings.
- Thaths
See How Your Surname Dispersed Across the World - http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldna...
dave mcclure, Raymond, Beth Peat and 63 other people liked this
Hmmm... the results for Taylor (my maiden name) weren't very surprising (except, perhaps, for the high concentration of Taylors in Australia-- hi Australian distant cousins!). But I wonder if they are using stats from the whole world. Jimenez shows a high concentration in Spain and Argentina (expected), but nothing in the rest of Latin America. Are there really more people named Jimenez in New Zealand than Guatemala (where my name comes from)? Doubtful.
- Shannon Jiménez
OK, just saw on the FAQ that they only have data for 26 countries.
- Shannon Jiménez
They pull the data from: "The database holds the names of 300 million people in 26 different countries, representing one billion of the population which is approximately one-sixth of the entire world." ...doesn't say where and how they collected it. I may have to do some more research, but thought it was a pretty neat tool. :)
- Mona Nomura
Lool... Every result I get is strikingly similar.
- Brandon
Nice, no result! 8D
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Very very typical French Canadian surname Tremblay, more in the U.S. than in France, really weird!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Sharon, phew. It was an epic fail for my husband's last name. :)
- Cyndy
Ireland #1, which I suspected. But Belgium and New Zealand beat out USA? I had no idea.
- tj hanton
typically we are in Italy, America, and Argentina. Let's see how accurate it is.
- Pete Delucchi
They definitely don't have information for some countries that don't use Cyrillic symbols officially - my last name is mostly popular in New Zealand (understandably, lots of Russian live there now) but is not even present in Russia itself.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Svetlana: The site just launched and has collective data from 26 countries... unfortunately Russia isn't one of them. :\ Perhaps I should've put a disclaimer in the headline. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Hansen is pretty popular in India!!! Who knew? :)
- Baard @ Pixum
LOL!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Apparently Carlill is very popular in the UK. I find this hard to believe, because I've never come across a single person outside my family with that name.
- Alexander Carlill
Mona, thanks for explaining, I think I should have searched for it deeper myself :( It's obvious that Russia is not on the priority list of any startup so I should have known better before trying, just wanted to see if the guesses that it must not have all the countries supported were true or not.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Strange, but it seems my last name does not exist... :/
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Thanks for this Mona. I found this site a few weeks ago. Very interesting. My surname is mainly in the UK but there are a few in the US. Interestingly it tells me there is a low figure in India, Canada, most parts of Europe, Argentina, Japan, NZ and Australia.
- Kol Tregaskes
Mine is more prevalent in the UK and New Zealand than it is here in the states... Interesting...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
boy, it was ... mmmm... not-so-surprising... most probably written by yet another American thinking that Latin is most used alphabet in world :-/
- A.T.
@nlupus I guess you have to use surname Smith -- you will get much better response then , lmao
- A.T.
Hmm, apparently my surname is Greek, and the concentration is ultra low across the world, mostly in Belgium. For the record though, there is no Greek in my family at all, or Belgians. It's a mystery
- Mo Kargas
Mine checks out fairly accurate: Netherlands, USA and Australia.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
trying *traditional* Finnish surname Virtanen - it makes me rotflmao: says it is Finnish but then also says it is used mostly in Sweden... this guys definitely had some stuff sniffed before they designed & implemented service :)
- A.T.
Yeah, this is off... Carreira is a Portuguese name (the "ei" gives it away) but it shows it as Spanish and doesn't even have Portugal or Brazil on the list. FAIL
- Jason Carreira
Mine: UK, NEW-ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, US, IRELAND
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
pretty kool but from others comments it sounds not to be 100% correct :)
- (jeff)isageek
mine was very accurate given what I know about my family history
- Deborah Carraro
from twhirl
Current surname: Spain and Argentina outweigh anywhere else. Maiden name: Ireland, Australia, UK, USA and New Zealand. Both make sense.
- Carmen
More of my name in New Zealand it seems...
- Richard Peat
Maiden name: Ortega. Not surprising: Spain, Argentina, and United States. Surprising: France, Switzerland, and Canada Shocking: Australia, Belgium, Norway, and Austria. Hi super distant cousins! :D
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Not very accurate. It claims the top country for my surname is Japan. Umm no.
- Jauder Ho
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