actualy ok I'm mistaken, dial zero doesn't use a backend service, it just explains to you how to get to the operator. regardless I don't think I'd pay for this given how rarely I talk to automated systems :) - Michael J Cohen
"Do you have so many credit cards that you could sew a pair of pants from them? Confused as how to get rid of them? Try this handy Excel spreadsheet to generate a custom strategy for becoming debt-free." - Leon Ho via Bookmarklet
"Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential." - Leon Ho via Bookmarklet
finally one of the sharing and/or micromedia sites got the simple group thing right - this is working well for us with the Social Media Club room which replaced our mailing list - it is also working pretty well for a research project at my agency we just started yesterday - Chris Heuer
I have added the Friendfeed app to my Facebook profile. I love how I can share something from my Google Reader, then it shows up on Friendfeed, Facebook, Blog Catalog, MyBlogLog, etc. I can have activity in many places with one click! - Mary-Lynn
I have to say, that was a brilliant speech. Fiery...bring it on! - Greg
That speech really touched me. I think it's because it was quite a feminist speech. - Rebecca Briggs
Is it just me or did nobody else buy those fake tears and "I Love You" from Bill. As far as the speech, she knocked it out of the park. - Steve Sebestyen via twhirl
"But when the Internet bubble collapsed, so did the Silicon Alley 1.0 party scene. ... Now, young Internet entrepreneurs, some holdouts from the old days and a few members of the city’s creative class (and underclass) are engaged in a new type of party, which mashes together Silicon Alley 1.0’s camaraderie and optimism, meetup.com’s spontaneity and informality, Burning Man’s home-brewed creativity, and a technology conference’s devotion to unveiling ideas. These days many of the ideas are about producing and delivering video content." - edythe via Bookmarklet
He's not playing the mean game correctly. You're supposed to do it with push poll phone calls from unnamed "polling" comanies, or leaflets on windshields, or 527 ads you can disavow. "Approved by McC?" -- approved by a loser! - Dave Winer
He should really choose The Count from Seaseme Street for his VP... "5,6,7... 7 houses HAHAHA" - John Worthington
it is fine, divide and conquer, this is how the game is played. we don't have a candidate that knows any other way. change is not enough. - gregory lent
That's got to be a new record in the arena of panic-induced manipulative scumbaggery. So it's nice to see the McCain campaign showing a little initiative and really reaching for superiority in *something*. At the same time, that's precisely the sort of tactic that lights fires under a certain type of voter. I'm morbidly curious to see how that plays out for them. - Derrick Burns
Derrick -- right -- be careful about motivating your opponents too well. - Dave Winer
This is how the game works. It's up to the Obama Nation to find a way to handle this without acknowledging this douche-baggery. - Jonathan (Vacation Boy)
I think a McCain-Clinton ticket would wildly amusing. - Mot Faerin
who would have thought an Obama-McCain general election would be so wholly negative? Not I. What the hell has happened to John McCain? Just ambition, is that all? - Christopher Galtenberg
with reference to LBJ's favorite joke, "Let's start a rumor that John McCain fucks pigs... - Steve Follmer via twhirl
Glass houses, bay-bee. Good luck with that. - Chris Baskind
i hear whit romney is mccheney's running mate and they both fuck pigs - Dave Winer
I hope Obama will spend almost every dime on running TV commercials in the small towns of America where people are not "connected" and read local opinion newspapers to counteract this super-low behavior from McCain. - Andrew Baron
the ad aside, i don't think the underlying question is very controversial. why Biden over Clinton? not a surprising question from people who voted for Clinton, so just answer it and have done, i say. - idnan
Just like Obama, Clinton said the same, she's not in this to be Vice President. She wouldn't have accepted if asked. She wants to be President. - Adam Turetzky
this could so quickly descend into playground fighting! "No you!" - alphaxion
@Adam just so, but to assimilate the Clinton voters that needs a little polish and presentation. then this McC attack becomes moot, and we can have a rest until the next campaign sally. - idnan
This is what I hate about the presidential election. The issues are never the issues. - David Finch
@davidfinch ,,, which is why no one can convince me that politics is important - gregory lent
Ah, yeah, McCain, and the minute I see YOU hugging an asp, you'll get my vote! - MiniMage via NoiseRiver
interesting strategy. they totally photoshop'd his turkey chin at the end - Ryan
Smart advertising... sorry "the truth hurts" - Ron Emrick
"Georgian leaders may be blaming Russia for the conflict raging in South Ossetia, but former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday "there is no doubt" that Georgia provoked the clash." - newsjunk.com
So, if Texas decided to secede from the Union....and Mexico was like, "Go for it," would the US be provoking a clash with Mexico by taking control of it's own country? - Sean McGee
S. McGee: I don't understand your analogy -- are you suggesting that Georgia was justified in invading South Ossetia? Are you familiar with the history and current political facts concerning this situation? - Sean McBride
Yup. Jailbroke mine post 2.0.1 upgrade. Qik is nice, though a bit slow even over WiFi. Guess that's par for the course. Just broadcast my first live stream from my iPhone 3G. Not I have to figure out how to delete it. - Greg
Nice Fish Films - I don't think it will ever happen... - Justin Korn
Anybody know why it can't be sold in the AppStore? - Brandon Titus
Call me when it doesn't require a jailbreak... same situation as before - Bwana McCall
It most likely won't be coming to an unjailbroken iPhone. AT&T definitely doesn't want this eating their bandwidth. Same reason for netspace I'm sure. I don't even know if that tethering app is called that. I'm using it on my phone and love it. - Dennis Jackson
I just downloaded last night. My first one is up at qik (teejayhanton). Not sure why Apple wouldn't let them sell through app store, but glad they developed it anyway! - tj hanton
Does this work in Sweden or is it US only? - Svartling
The very fact that you have to jailbreak the phone to get this to work suggests to me that the iPhone Video is just round the corner. A phone with video now that's innovation. - John Cooper
There was a demo of a jailbreak version of Slingplayer for the iPhone but I haven't heard much since a few months ago. - Andrew Leyden
is it impossible to create a native app for locked phone that would allow video? - Bob Blunk
I thought the problem was the iPhone only handle a few video codec, none of which were very popular for streaming (but I'm not sure on that). - Andrew Leyden
I think the problem is AT&T's block on data transfer such as streaming over the cell network. So you could theoretically get your account terminated. (Hope that doesn't happen to me :P). It's in the ars technica article: http://bit.ly/1XzxCz - Brandon Titus
"Xing, a 41 year-old man, was calling from LanTian park in the middle of the night. The lonely and disturbed man had apparently thought it would be fun to have sex with one of the steel sit-up benches around the park." - Kevin Hessel via Bookmarklet
I remember when cell phones were new -- a friend used to refer to these people as Johnny and Joanie Affluent. But douche is non gender specific and more modern. - Brian Sullivan
It's not bluetooth in those cases.. it's douchetooth. - David Worrell
douche on douchetooth? or asshat on douchetooth. there we go. asshat on douchetooth headset. - Mona N.
Have you tried ripping the headgear off his head and stomping it to death right in front of him? - Kevin D. White
Hee hee, douchetooth. I think I am stealing that one! - Michelle Martinez
It's actually an "assclown" on "bluedouche". - Steve Isaacs
Reason No. 89475938 I LOVE FriendFeed. Thanks Steve, next time I'll tell the assclown on his bluedouche to SHUT HIS BACONHOLE - Mona N.
i always have a notebook with me (bad habit) so when that happens i write what i want in large letters and hold it above the asshat's shoulder. i step around and pay when the order is ready, and for all the other person knows i phoned it in previously. - idnan
@idnan That is g*d d*mn awesome and has serious potential as a photo meme. - Kevin D. White
oooh, my first potential meme! a proud, proud day! :) - idnan
idnan: THAT is AWESOME. ps ATTN: JAY WIEGMANN: YOUR AVATAR FTW - Mona N.
welcome to the passive-aggressive tweet club - Michael J Cohen
Good to have up one's sleeve next time a friend asks (or worse yet - does not know to ask) what FF is or does. - Alexei Tolkachev
I put up a FF & SocialThing roundup a little while ago. A lot of people saw them as the same thing when their approaches and uses are quite different. I explained it enough times that I thought I'd commit it to 'paper': http://glark.org/taming-the-so... - David T. Cole
Ahh it's the ultimate guest-Alec Baldwin! Wait was this some double entendre kind of thing? :P - Mark Forman
"I can't help notice, Pete, that your balls are misshapen" LOL - Pete Delucchi
I like, "I love the way your balls smell." :p - Anna Haro
I flove this skit. I especially love their calm and relaxed NPR voices through the entire thing. Love it. - WittyDisplayName
@Monique right?! I swear that's why it's so funny...those NPR voices talking about "tender balls." - Anna Haro
OMG. She said "I can't wait to get your ball in my mouth" @Anna I just watched it again and found myself listening to see if the voices even gave away a detection of laughter, but they never did. - WittyDisplayName
the wedding picture. the guy on the horse statue in the water fountain. omg. hilarious. - Christine Lu
Sorry - Tad's been busy CODING. I only photobomb any photos lindsay's trying to take... and i do that all the time until she punches me... and then a couple times more. - Tad - just Tad
Dude, so what'll happen if photobombers take a group picture? Imagine me, you, Chris P in a picture together? Wow. Terrible. - Mona N.
The girl in the first photo above looks like she is so in to appearances she would literally murder the making the gookie. - Brian Norwood
my favourite is the one with the toilet paper in the foreground -- if you've already got a roll of tp in the frame, why not photobomb it? - Trent Olson
so they are not allowed to make money now? - Jamie
You fail to understand my qualm, Jamie - I take no issue with app developers who charge for their wares, it's when they release an app for free to boost ratings / rankings, then switch to a paid version and land themselves in the top X list instantaneously. It's just as janky when the App Store launched and developers were renaming their apps to appear at the top of the list. It's just *BAD MARKETING* that pisses me off. - l0ckergn0me
Well, good marketing, because it works. But bad ethics. It's basically figuring out a way to lie without actually doing it. Anyway, it's manipulating their way to higher rankings. - WazNeeni
Chris, could you share the app names? - Akshay Dodeja
What you're pointing out is that these "Top" lists are too simple to be useful to you in a highly competitive environment. Any system is going to be gamed. Think about it: my guess is the tallies are going to be biased towards early developers too. A good system will have to avoid this too. - Loren Heiny
Loren...how 'bout Sales (not d/l's) per Month. That would wipe out both of those issues. - WazNeeni
I noticed an app or two doing the same thing. I immediately uninstalled their app. I don't support such gimmicks. - Corvida
I haven't paid for an app yet on my iPod touch. Figured I'd let the market mature a bit. - Bill Sodeman
But you are assuming that THAT is the SOLE reason they switched to paid. How do you know? Maybe the app got popular, and they thought, I could make some money from this instead of giving it away. Should they have instead waited until it was no longer popular, off the Top list, and THEN switched it to paid? :P - Andru Edwards
Andru, c'mon - even you're not so naive to believe that "Crazy Lighter" was worth free two days ago, with other ezone apps going for .99, then suddenly ezone saw the light (no pun intended) and raised the price right at the moment it could outseat the #1 paid app? That's a slimy tactic. - l0ckergn0me
He's gotcha there, Christopher. Maybe they wanted to test the waters to see if *anyone* would want it, with the plan of being a paid app the whole time? - WazNeeni
I dont misunderstand your qualm Chris. I just don't think its valid. Is it taking advantage of a loop hole in the AppStore? Sure. Is it *wrong* to do so? Hell no. Its great marketing and a chance for the dev to make money on his app. Are you honestly saying you would not take advantage if the same situation applied to you? Its effectively SEO what is taking place here. And something as trivial as changing the price of an app is entirely within his rights as the developer. Blame the game, not the player. - Jamie
Jamie: "Is it *wrong* to do so? Hell no." Are you ethically bankrupt? Clearly , no need to answer. No one is saying that he shouldn't make money on his app. Of course he should. I feel like I'm watching a presidential campaign ad that is taking what someone said and spinning it.The bottom line is he's taking advantage of a loophole and gaming the system. Certainly not illegal, but certainly not ethical. Apple should close this loophole by resetting the counter or creating a new counter for paid downloads. - Greg
I agree with you completely .. business or not .. it's just plain shady - Todd Loren Sinclair
@Jamie @Andru @WazNeeni - Looks like Apple agrees with me. The Top 100 list doesn't include "Crazy Lighter" anymore. It must've been removed at some point this afternoon. Hopefully, they've set it up so that when an app goes from free to paid (or vice versa), it also loses its rankings / ratings for that app type. - l0ckergn0me
Bravo Apple. Ethical business practices prevail in spite of those who live off the scraps. - Greg
It seems to be fixed for me. (Canadian iTunes store) - Granteezy
@Chris: sometimes you are birlliant, sometimes you're a donut - this is one of those occasions. - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
