"Awesome way to get people clicking on the link. Lame article, though. Shows clearly that you don't know what you're talking about." - sebmos

"Enterprise apps aren't found through Google, they are bought/licensed by CIOs centrally, so it's again nothing huge. I still hope that Flash, Flex and whatever is running inside the browser dies a slow, painful death. Proprietary standards are a danger to the web - and companies have every right to fear Adobe, if their implementations of Flash become to popular or compete with their own products. (Adobe forced Microsoft to remove the PDF Export plug-in which is a default feature in OpenOffice, even though it was based on the open specification that Adobe released. Now imagine what happened if Mozilla shipped their own Flash player to make Flash more native!)" - sebmos

"Reminds me of the reports that Facebook blocked the name "Gay" by default, asking people to confirm that Gay is their real name. (They did it to stop abuse, though.)" - sebmos

"It's completely meaningless. Google didn't find a way to index Flash content, Adobe gave Google the technology because they didn't create it themselves, which they could have. There's the SWF Specification out there, on which Adobe's "technology"is built: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/sw... The fact that Google didn't do that themselves clearly shows that they don't consider Flash as important - and they're right. Flash is a good utility for widgets, multimedia players and games - I hope that any other use dies a slow, painful death. (If Adobe thinks they have to contradict the Web's idea of openness, they should do so with Air, where it actually makes sense.)" - sebmos

I can't believe I just subscribed to Duncan Riley's new blog. At TechCrunch, he was one of the main reasons I hated the blog. His new gig is awesome, though. Good reporting, good text length, etc. Go, subscribe to it. It's the best "news blog" I've seen in the past months (or year?). - sebmos via Bookmarklet

You say, I should subscribe? he was the reason why I ditched TC last year after following them religously for the 2 years before (I later went to create a filtered feed to only get arringtons articles). I really hated duncan at TC. but running into articles of him on his new blog now constantly. hmmm - marcel weiss

In his new gig, he's like a completely different person. It seems as if he was pressured in his position of the everything-hater by TechCrunch. His new gig's topics are interesting, because it has fun stuff, too. I like that, beside all the tech- and business-stuff. So definitely: Give it a try. - sebmos

"If they didn't say how much they paid, it wasn't a lot. ;)" - sebmos

"Mainstream media checks facts? I wouldn't say so ;) In Austria, a blog post about Google negotiating to buy a piece of land in an urban town in Upper Austria made its way into several newspapers, some of which claimed that Google wants to build a data center there, or that Google already closed the deal. The blog post was based on nothing but a Twitter message that read "Google negotiating about 0.2 square miles company grounds in Kronsdorf?!?!?!". Not only did newspapers not check the facts or point out that that's a highly speculative rumor, they over-exaggerated the story." - sebmos

"Their performance improved because they shut down functionality and the API regularly. Now not the whole Twitter goes down, just part of the functionality. You could call that "Operation successful, patient dead.". What's the use of Twitter if its already basic feature set is shut down regularly? That's not being up, it's just not being down. (And yes, there's a lot in between.)" - sebmos

"I ordered his book yesterday. I liked his Newsweek-column and the quotes I read here. Thanks for opening my eyes! ;)" - sebmos

"I thought that would be a good idea, but I'm not so sure any more. It would certainly please shareholders, because Yahoo is worth much more than that, but it wouldn't help Yahoo in growing. They have synergies that should be used. It would be more important to split up Yahoo internally in separate groups that are as independent as possible. They should trim the useless executive ranks that just slow down everything. Flickr doesn't need Yahoo a lot, but it makes sense to keep them internally, because they can profit from Yahoo's ad sales unit. The content business (Yahoo Finance, News, Shine, etc.) should be seperated in a business content unit, a personal content unit, etc. Mail (+ Zimbra) and Messaging should be combined to one "social communications" unit. (I think they already are, but they have a lot of other useless stuff in that unit, too.) I doubt they can do a traditional social networking move, without spending a lot of money on an acquisition. Social networks aren't..." - sebmos

Anybody ... please ... doesn't anybody know a bit of the Thunderbird code? :) - sebmos via Bookmarklet

"Copyright law doesn't allow personal use - you're right. But offering RSS, and that's accepted common sense, allows to consume content differently, as long as it's for personal use. That does NOT mean that one can republish the content in any way they want. Google Reader's Shared Item Feeds are something that's pushing the boundaries - they take publicly available feeds and "repackage" them, in a semi-public way. They act legally, because they don't put ads up, don't provide a directory of shared-items-feeds that can be scanned easily and don't allow the shared items-feeds to be indexed. (Although I was shocked to find out that Yahoo doesn't respect the robots.txt on www.google.com, that disallows indexing anything in the "reader/"-subfolder.) ReadBurner and RSSmeme act legally, because they index the feeds, but only show a quote of the article (RSSmeme just changed that a few days ago). They are of course perfectly legally putting ads beside the _quotes_, because that's not a matter..." - sebmos

"Nick, what you said is ridiculous. Your usage of other people's content is not "personal use", but commercial, because you take advantage of the content differently than GReader does. GReader shows content to me, and only to me, whereas you take away the SEO juice from the websites that created the websites originally. This is clearly commercial use, because you do more than just showing content to visitors. You take advantage of the content to get more users yourself, even moving away attention from the original blogs completely. Your back-links are a shame, and you know that exactly. The issue around building communities around comments is a completely different - it's a moral issue. Yes, it's a problem for bloggers that comments are spread all over the web now. That started long ago with Digg (although nobody ever complained, because they prominently link back - different than you). They still link back more prominently than you do. The thing is though: It's a moral issue, not a..." - sebmos

Correction: Mozilla Japan loads - after a few minutes. But it is the closest to being online. - sebmos

""2. A user of NewsJunk asked for a mobile version, so we created one. Not much more to say about it other than it works really well on an iPhone, Blackberry, Treo, Nokia, etc. and looks boring on a desktop computer." It doesn't look much more boring than the normal NewsJunk-website. :)" - sebmos

So funny! :) (It's a pity that I didn't know about that shirt last week, because sending it to Europe costs more than the t-shirt itself. :( - sebmos

What's interesting is: Yahoo! Buzz sends valuable traffic (people comment), Digg tries to keep the valuable part of the traffic (comments, engagement) and sends users only to read the article. Digg's approach is good for an independent company, but Yahoo pleases publishers through this product. Even though they won't make money, because they don't "keep" the traffic, they will profit from the product, through better contacts with publishers and ultimately a better way to sign publisher partners for their ad network. - sebmos

:) yahoo! gets things right sometimes. - edythe