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LIFE in Israel in 1948 – Part 1 — Ben Atlas - Jewish families being evacuated from city. June 1948. John Phillips - http://benatlas.com/2009...

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kind of deflates Obama's claims about Judea - NoahDavidSimon from Bookmarklet

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Yeah, didn't Obama say that there were no Jews there before 1948? If they were never there, why were they being evacuated from there? >.> - David C. Cooper

yeah it was all because of the Holocaust... lol. their arguments are so formulaic. - NoahDavidSimon

@cooperdavidc so here are Jews being thrown out of Judea. just like what Obama wants today. Ethnic Cleansing isn't good at any date - NoahDavidSimon

@CriticalAnalyst Read the Torah! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

so this is a picture of the Arab Legion pushing Jews out of Jerusalem. but what about the city of Hebron... what happened there? were there Jews in Hebron? http://ff.im/6ofD3 . the argument that Obama makes is that the Jews are occupiers? what a double standard!!!! - NoahDavidSimon

@jidf in some ways it is a miracle that Israel was created when she was because if it had happened today they could say that these photographs were photoshopped. but they have the original film of this at Life Magazine. it is impossible for Obama to be ethical and ask for ethnic cleansing of Jews. let's hope #Mossad is up to the task of defending the real victims and not the media lies. @IgorTheTroll2 is a #Mossad operative. Watch out @Hamas - NoahDavidSimon

so how can Obama ask for ethnic cleansing of Judea? these photos are proof that it was tried before. Jerusalem has been part of the Jewish community for millenniums even when they didn't have sovereignty. the two state solution is a joke - NoahDavidSimon

how about them internet cookies Obama! http://ff.im/6wpgj - NoahDavidSimon

http://ff.im/6ApR4 watch this video. this guy has Israel's history down. someone needs to school the Obama Bigot - NoahDavidSimon

Robert Scoble

Happy Father's Day. My thoughts are with one father. Here's who and why:

June 21, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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My worst nightmare is losing one of my own sons in front of my eyes. Yesterday we saw a father hold his daughter as she died in the most horrific way I could imagine. Those images kept me from sleeping well last night. Neda is her name. Her dad was holding her as she died. He named her Neda, which means "beautiful voice." Yesterday his beautiful voice was silenced. Today he is the father I'm thinking of. - Robert Scoble

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Yes, her eyes looking up at the camera and father repeating "stay with me" strike to the core of life (and death) - Ronald Barnett

"We make a few simple points about the events transpiring over the past week in Iran. The Iranian regime is an evil tyranny. It supports terrorists and terrorism. The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago. That disgrace is not simply a matter of history. It is a disgrace in which Iran's execrable president personally participated. We remember." -- http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive... - Craig Eddy

She has become the face of an entire generation in Iran. I can't even imagine being this father. His daughter's face is going to be lots of places he looks and it won't be a pretty smiling face, but the one we all saw on YouTube yesterday. That's not how I'd like to remember my sons, if that ever happened to me. - Robert Scoble

Craig: I've been thinking about that too. Iran has sacrificed any moral authority it had to tell USA off. Now we see how brutal its government is. - Robert Scoble

Seeing her [Neda] look directly in the camera for her last breath was more sad & horrifying than seeing all the blood rush out of her seconds later. My heart broke at that moment. - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Michael: yup. And she, at that moment, became the face of Iran's new generation and -- I believe -- changed the world forever in a way thousands of deaths couldn't. But what a father's sacrifice it took. - Robert Scoble

Here is a comment by a spectator "At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed... more... - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: that is another thing that has changed. The fact that so many of us have the ability to tell the world about what we are experiencing and show it to others via video has changed the world in ways we are just starting to understand. - Robert Scoble

It's a terrible tragedy for any father to witness the death of his own children. May their sacrifices make it all the more less likely that more people have to suffer in the same ways. This shows that no longer can governments hide tyranny with repression of the people. The people will be heard, and their voices will change the world. Yes Robert, this changed the world forever in ways that a war with thousands of deaths could never. This is much more personal, to anyone who sees it. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

She knew the risk she was taking by being on the street, and thus even by 'standing aside' was taking part. “Those who join the battle are all in the front lines” - Aaman (Clone of FF)

no doubt about it. Now we all can feel the importance of UGC for the future of our world. If we don't have these social movements around you may not even know about the things happening in Iran. (remember CNNFail!?) - Amiroo ™

Michael: for me as well, it was her eyes looking (or not) that has stayed with me vs. the bloodied image at the end. - Ronald Barnett

Aaman: all those who go on the streets are brave. My wife's relatives in Iran all say they haven't left their homes since Saturday. - Robert Scoble

Aaman:There's no battle, there is one sided murder - Amiroo ™

What stayed with me the most is the father's reaction. That was truly horrifying. - Leon Freyermuth

Amiroo: There is one sided murder, but that doesn't mean there is no battle. Those people in the streets are battling plenty. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

My father used to say, to be willing to achieve anything, you have to be willing to pay any price. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Aaman: Your father was right - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob: yes but we hope they don't. The only possible way to win this is by silent resistance (you know like Gandhi). There's isn't any winner when violence steps in. - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: Neda wasn't violent. She was silent and her "crime" was just being in the streets. That's one reason her image has even more power. If she had been violent her image wouldn't have had as much power. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I need to post your first comment. It is heartbreaking, thoughtful and filled with compassion! - Myrna

Yeah that's the way to go though such a sad way unfortunately - Amiroo ™

Robert is correct, and that is the sort of non-violent protest that starts and completes great movements. I have not seen many images of violent protesters. I have seen an image of protesters caring for a wounder policeman though. This IS the behavior that the likes of Ghandi taught. To engage in true non-violence protest, you must be willing to pay any price. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Amiroo: It is unbelievably sad, but the power that she and her father bring to this struggle, may just be the power that's necessary to avoid any further large scale conflict, either between the people of Iran and their government, or between the US (or Israel) and Iran. We can hope. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob:Hopefully, but the anger that this may generate between people may lead to violent acts and slogans that actually I think the government needs to block them. I really hope people continue that way they did till now - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: I cannot agree with your statement "I think the government needs to block them" . That is precisely the problem, is the governments around the world trying to dictate what their people can say, do, and watch, and listen to. That is precisely the problem in Iran today. I pray that that image doesn't lead to more violence, but I also understand that at a certain point, there is a necessity to fight fire with fire. Let's pray that the government of Iran can see the light before the violence escalates. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob:If it goes that way it won't be any fight fire with fire it will be punch with fire - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: Don't underestimate the power of the people, and don't overestimate the loyalty of the military to the government. Often it is the combination of these two factors that make violence all the more unnecessary. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Robert Your powerful comment of Neda's face not being what her father wants to remember recalled for me a recent case right here in the USA of a family that has made desperate efforts to get their daughter's fatal car accident photos off the Internet which were leaked by the police. What is this saying about us and our use of the Internet? It's the same argument that was brought against... more... - Melanie Reed

Melanie: I am a free speech advocate. While I would not like it, I am going to defend it. Her face has become one of the iconic images of this struggle. How much has it changed the world? But yes, free speech is not always fun and games. I have to defend speech that often is objectionable if I am to defend our first amendment. - Robert Scoble

this moment is the perfect time to remind everyone that the most successful resistance is the kind that allows you to live for another day; to _continue_ the fight. yes, there are times when tragic things happen, but this is _not_ the goal. martyrdom is not success. i know this video will reverberate around the world. i only hope the proper message will accompany it, too. - MikeAmundsen

Rob:Well the problem is most (if not all) of this violence hasn't made by typical military forces, there are lots of so called Basij forces which are in the same side with the government also I think even if it succeed by fighting violently there would be such a big price to pay - Amiroo ™

Robert, I am as well. Ironically, I am in the midst of writing a piece on this to expose a particular rhetoric that cuts it off. However, as with all things, there is always a line that protects us from extremes (which are very horrific things) while protecting that freedom of speech we cherish. Any freedoms we have, if not exercised with love, become in themselves a prison to ourselves and to those who are hurt by their corrupt exercise. - Melanie Reed

Amiroo: Then let's ensure that all our own thoughts are on the side of success without violence. The more people that think about a given outcome (and talk about it, etc) the more likely that is to become the truth. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Would like to second the early comment about Iran's leaderships lost ability to claim moral authority of any kind. Its clear their oppressive government is more than willing to use brutal, thoughtless, violence to keep control. Imagine what they would do to the world with a nuke. They may not have ordered her killing but they built their power on the backs of brutal militias willing to do it and have not called them back. - James Watters

Good G*d, I didn't know that was her father with her. That is just heartbreaking. :..( - Laserone

I too would like to add to the heart felt comments left here. Nothing quite brings it home more than seeing that innocent young woman lose her life like that. I only viewed it the once as I felt it was wrong to want to view a second time and felt almost voyeuristic in the worst way imaginable. It was brutal, sad and upsetting. Let us think of her family at this time aside from all the politics. - Kevin J Hatton

Robert I have been thinking of: Neda, people who want to "be heard", raising awareness to influence change, and the green overlay on our icon... Why don't we do a "Web Neda's day" vs a "minute of silence" by putting all an overlay of Green on our websites for 24 h (a little bit like Google put a different logo once in a while on its home page) . Her name was Neda, you explained it means "beautiful Voice". Robert You are the incredible hulk, I am sure you could be the one turning the web in green for 1 day. - Harscoat

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mmm bacon

May 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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(Fake) Subway Advisory! - http://gothamist.com/2009...

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I've been on Twitter 886 days. How long have you been on? http://whendidyoujointwitter.com/ Answer here: (I joined November 20, 2006).

April 24, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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I just tried getting on this as you tweeted it and you crashed the site! or did your followers? - Matthew Sauer

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Damn Scobleffect! - Kevin Kuphal

Matthew and Kevin: hah! - Robert Scoble

TechCrunch got on it February 7th, 2007. - Robert Scoble

786 days. Started on 28 February 2007. By the way, it doesn't seem to work on Chrome on Windows. Had to fire up Firefox. - Sam Grover

CenterNetworks got on it December 12, 2006. - Robert Scoble

I got it on August 23 2007, 610 days - Jaffer

758 days! - Matthew Sauer

sir, you just crashed that site. edit - previous attempt chrome, same FF on XP - shayne catrett

I think you just killed their website... - Roy Herrod

I created on March19, 2008. Only 401 days for me. :) - Paul Wade

470 days ago. wow ididnt realize it was that long i've been on twitter - Fuad Arshad

I joined twitter 910 days ago on 27 October 2006 - Willem Karssenberg

I joined on April 23, 2009. - 1 day. Took me long enough, right? - Angus Burton

You don't need to use some third party site, this information's in user info available via the API. Just look for "created_at" in the url http://twitter.com/users..., using your user ID, of course. - Ken Sheppardson

300 days - Thomas Power

I deleted my account at one point, and have subsequently shuffled and renamed some stuff, but it looks like KenSheppardson's been there since November 5, 2007 - Ken Sheppardson

Jul 30, 2007 - Pat Hawks

April 19, 2007 - Joe Buhler

Your account was created on 1 August 2007 - Jay Neff

20 March 2007, to follow @Veronica. :) Even beat @leolaporte by 20 days! - Surferbill

11 August 2007, 623 days ago. - Chris Charabaruk

26 January 2009 - so 88 days ago... not really that long to be honest, I kept avoiding it! - Roy Herrod

756 days ago for me - Donald Matheson

Dec 6, 2006. 870 days ago - Rodfather

759!!! - Iain Baker

568 days ago. - Simon Wicks

799 days. - Morton Fox

November 30th 2007, A year less than you. - Paul Bainbridge

218 days ago. Now how about whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com - Kiran Patchigolla

617 days -- more important though - when was the last time I actively used it (not sure -- is there a similar tool to tell me when I joined FF? :-) ) - Brian Sullivan

775 days johnr99a - John

710 days "only" - Jean-Charles VERDIE

Scoble effect > digg effect - Tim McDougall

Jun 2007 - Zee.

I joined twitter on 25 August 2008, 243 days ago: the rest is History - The Real sofarsoShawn

still haven't and not gonna. - Andrew C (✓)

Joined Twitter 754 days ago - Michael Kreidler

Or just click on your profile in tweetdeck / many other "clients" -- it will tell your joined date. I joined Fri 07 Mar 2008 23:57. - Nicholas Kreidberg

I make it 279 days if my math is correct. - Sharron Field

You're on Twitter? :-) - The Real sofarsoShawn

The website is down at the moment, but I already know the answer. I'll be celebrating my one year Twitter anniversary on May 06. - Sharon McPherson

845 :-) December 31st 2006 :-) - Luca Conti

448 which actually suprised me, must have early adopted then just forgot I had the account. - Richard Tousignant

I've got it going on http://whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com/ - trying to figure out how to point the domain name to it - can anyone help? (What a noob) - Neville Ridley-Smith

665 days - chrisofspades

I joined April 2007. wish I could figure it out # of days...the link above isn't cooperating :( Loving tho that I have been on over 700+ days ;) --- thanks Sharon McPherson for the redirect. It worked - 748 days - enza (aka iVenus)

Neville, I'm no expert, but you can redirect the domain's index page to http://whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com in your .htaccess file. Or you can just use a meta redirect. - Sharon McPherson

I joined twitter 743 days ago I feel so old now :-) - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

752 Days ago. Funny little tool--the app, not me. ;) - BISQ

515 days. Kaspersky is warning of a Trojan downloader on that site. - Elpie

872. Seems like yesterday. - Kevin Gamble

667 days - seen lots of whales - Jack DeWitt Smith

dude, everything you touch, breaks..gettin' a 404 :) - George Dearing

Ok - forwarding has been set up - site is live again - Neville Ridley-Smith

775 days for me. - iTad

I think we need a new verb: The site has been -- robertscobled or scobleized? - dario

it was pretty hosed before he got to it but it certainly didn't help matters! - Neville Ridley-Smith

765 days. huh? didn't know it had been so long - Ted

773. - MikeAmundsen

I joined twitter on 13 August 2006 - I joined twitter 986 days ago! - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I joined 576 days ago (09/26/2007). - Joey Gibson

Looks like i've been on twitter for 527 days. I don't remember using it before November of this year..... - Eric

3-8-2007 (778 days) - George Dearing

I joined twitter 806 days ago - Kim Landwehr

774 for me. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

I joined Twitter 803 days ago (February 11th, 2007). - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

775 - Victor Ganata

April 29th 08: "I'm just killing time at work right now. Looking forward to keeping updates on my friends." http://twitter.com/Skizzli... - David Cook

July 13, 2007 for two accounts, April 10, 2008 for the other. - Kathy Fitch

19 March 2007 - 768 days ago. Just set up an account for my company and was explaining to my coworkers - when I mentioned I'd been on Twitter for about two years, they were like, wait, I thought it was only a couple of months old! *sigh* Funny that my guesstimation was so close, though! - Jandy

April 8, 2007 - rob

I'd sure like to see a personal Twitter timeline similar to coverflow where I can easily go back and forth through tweeting history and see what I've said over the years... - Glenn Batuyong

So I'm the oldest twitterer here? - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I joined twitter on 23 July 2006 - (jeff)isageek

i beat ya by a few days carlos :) - (jeff)isageek

@jeff, beat me by about 3 weeks ;-( - Carlos Granier-Phelps

March 20, 2007 - Shevonne from fftogo

Since September of 2008 - Adam Martin

25 April 2007 crap that's 2 years tomorrow - Rodzilla

Nifty little site, Robert...774 days for me. - Ken Kennedy

I joined Twitter 460 days ago. I joined FriendFeed 556 days ago. - Louis Gray

July 14, 2007 ... 650 days - Stuart Liroff

224 days ago - Ahsan Ali

17 November 2007 - BEX

766 days -- 21 March 2007 - xero

800 days...beat Morty by a day :) February 14, 2007 <3 day.... - Mark Krynsky

1yr 1mo ago ... 24 Mar 2008 - Craig Brownell

524160 minutes. - imabonehead

563 days ago- 9 October 2007 - metalerik

26 August 2007 - 607 days :) That's pretty good, yeah? - Michael Forian

THIS IS MY FIRST DAY ON THE INTERNET! :D - Josh Haley

I joined Twitter 10 days before you, Robert.. November 11, 2006 - Pico Seno

What is Twitter? - Dominic Jones

I joined twitter 767 days. - Paul from twhirl

I joined twitter 1015 days ago - Wayne Sutton

only 261 days, just caught the tale end of twitter's more innocent days. - Mike Elliott

1016 days ago. A day before Wayne! - Kevin Fox

Wow. Kevin, Wayne, and Dave are cooler than me! - Robert Scoble

Is how many days we've been on Twitter the new status bar to measure up to now that there are million+ following @aplusk? (766 days) - Peggy Dolane

421 days. - Sue Radd

yeah, like way back in the olden days... last summer. - Peggy Dolane

08/29/2008 - John Wright

823 - Johnny

848 days. - Lix

762 days - Sean Reiser

807....7 Feb 2007 - Live4Emma (L4S)

1002 days - rob friedman

13 April 2007, 743 days. Though wasn't very active (and still aren't) - Jemm

October 26, 2006, 912 days ago. - Erik S

819 days ago - Rob

twitter 17 November 2007, 525. friendfeed 12 February 2008, 438 days ago - AdamoLanna1(chiuso)

731 days for me - Jesse Stay

I joined twitter on 9 September 2007, so 594 days ago. - Peter Kruit

26 August 2007, or 608 days ago - David Young

less than 1 week. - auburn

I joined Twitter June 18, 2008 - 311 days ago - Tony C

4 April 2008 386 days - Jamie Vidamour

Hah! 1002 days. - vimoh

@bdeseattle joined 825 days ago. @pplpwrd aka @infinitelymeta joined 735 days ago. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

67 days :( - rama mamuaya

777 days! - Roshan Vyas

I joined twitter 507 days ago - Meriç Dağlı

699 days ago, 27 May 2007 - Majento

750 ish - Jamie

A late starter, 419 days, joined 2nd March 2008. - Kol Tregaskes

I've been here for 738 days (April 18th, 2007). - Brome

2 June 2007 I joined twitter 693 days ago - Felter Roberto

I've got a pretty silly question....how do you know when you started using Twitter? - Christian (Simply X)

@Christian: Check out the link on top :) - Jemm

I joined twitter 268 days ago (July 30, 2008), and i just twitter my 802nd tweet.... - Marina

lol oh, durrrrrr. Oops totally missed that. 57 days? w00t! 02/27/2009 - Christian (Simply X)

I joined twitter 714 days ago, on 12 May 2007 - A. T.

2 days before A.T. 10th May 2007 - nouhad

I joined twitter on 8 April 2009 - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ? I couldn't resist any longer, @leolaporte kept talking about it. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

821 days ago on Jan 25th, 2007 :) - embee

I joined twitter on 25 April 2007- happy anniversary to me!! - Brian Sheehan

910 days. Joined in 27 October 2006. - Martin Añazco

I joined twitter 153 days ago on 23 November 2008. On the other hand, I've been on FriendFeed for a year and Facebook for 5 years. - Bora Zivkovic

I joined twitter 309 days ago - DAL

i joined twitter 43 days ago - John Wood

Funny I joined Twitter on Feb 21 2006, the day after you. - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

778 days (March 9, 2007) - Kevin Tunis

My first account 13 July, 2006. My most used one, 12 February 2008. - JCunwired

723 days ago, 03 May 207 - Bill Rawlinson

332 days - Damond Nollan

772 days - i was invited much earlier but didn't see the value for me (in nyc) since it was all about what silicon valley folks were having for lunch, wait has that changed ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

I joined on March 28th 2007 (759 days ago). - Daniel Rowley

769. What's next? Slashdot user numbers are now passe. What's the next measurement of geek coolness? - Andrew Leyden

I joined twitter 223 days ago - OnuRC

I joined twitter on 30 November 2008 - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ? - Roshan Ramachandran

I joined twitter on 23 January 2007, 823 days ago :) - CantorJF

303 days on Twitter, geez, what a newbie - Rick Bucich

769 days ago - Victor Panlilio from Nambu

495 im young compared to yall XD - Zafarali

Joined on 16 March 2007, 771 days ago. (Yes, WDYJT crashed yesterday) - Red Label

714 days - twitter.com/atveit - Amund Tveit

244 days on Twitter so far :) - Frode Stenstrøm

Wow. I guess I joined the same day as you ;). What were we thinking?!? - Michael Lehman

695 days plus the days from an old account thats no longer found - Monique

863 days ago. I joined on 14 december 2006 - Cristian

986 days ago, 13 August 2006 - Sean Oliver

1015 days ago, 16 July 2006 - Dobromir Hadzhiev

886 as well - Michael Specht

funny! i joined Nov. 20th 2006 as well. :) - Eddie Codel

788 days ago. - G Dub of the Carolinas

27 August 2007 - Tony Vota

716 days - Ryan Dadey

Ok, I'll admit it, I've shamelessly hitched a ride on Robert's coat-tail by embedding the feed from this discussion into a page on my website. http://twitclicks.com/rlrn - Sharon McPherson

724 days! Joined during MIX07. - Gregg Le Blanc

I was only slightly exaggerating yesterday. I have been on for 863 days. I joined in December 2006. - Francine Hardaway

I joined twitter 786 days ago on March 1, 2007. - Rajiv Doshi

I joined a day after Scoble (November 21, 2006) - Michael Markman

I beat @techcrunch! But as usual I trail you by a couple of months, Robert. ;) - Denise Howell

782 days, joined on March 5 2007, wow didn't realize it was that long ago - Keith - @tsudo

421 days, joined on 1 March 2008 - I joined twitter and FriendFeed on the same day :) - Susan Beebe

912 days, cant believe I was there before you :-) - Patphelan

563 days - Peter Efland

762 days ago on the 27 March 2007 - Mick Stanic

Took me Twanalysis to finally find it .... Sept 12 '07 Late adopter? - Charlie Anzman

I joined twitter 179 days ago - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ? - Geoff Jackson

Robert, check this out : http://whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com/ - Ahmet Alp Balkan

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Stormtroper Baby - http://lolfactory.tumblr.com/post...

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good stuff - (jeff)isageek

Carlos Granier-Phelps

Summit of the Americas - one of the best cartoons explaining the summit.

April 23, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Law, Order, and a Unicorn - http://72dotsperinch.blogspot.com/search...

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what a combo! - (jeff)isageek

Liked just for that pic :) - Roberto Bonini

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change - http://72dotsperinch.blogspot.com/2009...

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He'll transform the nation! - Martin Bryant

good one martin :) - (jeff)isageek

Laughed out loud! - vimoh

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PostSecret: Sunday Secrets - http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009...

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in light of another friendfeed conversation...*dead* - Jason Toney from Bookmarklet

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Hmmmph. I think a LOT of people want this, which is I'm a very wary of new people. Life is not a movie and I am not your "sassy black sistafriend". - Anika

+1000 and *fistbump*, Anika - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

2 Please! - Rah-PM 2012

LOL @Kaia - Anika

Damn, I don't think I qualify. - EricaJoy

Paul Buchheit

FriendFeed in Nambu on my iPhone

April 11, 2009 from Nambu - Comment - Like - Share

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it's not too bad eh? - Zee.

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The funny thing is that this post is still "sending..." on my iPhone :) (I think maybe my network is having problems) - Paul Buchheit

cool interface :) gonna go get it!! - Susan Beebe

I've tried Nambu, but I uninstalled it after my first attempt. Its UI display so little information, lots of click is driving me mad. - pastas9

I like it so far - Ryan Stanley from Nambu

I have FriendFeed via Nambu on my iPhone too...but since the beta, it tends to crash a bit after roughly ten minutes of use. Perhaps the Nambu crew (and motherfeed developers) need to get an update soon that solves this. Nambu is very good when it's working, even for identi.ca. - George Hall (Australia)

Yea, Its way too slow. And if you config. more than two Accounts then the Interface gets busy.. See, the new Yahoo!, Inquisitor App in AppStore.. They are way too fast and responsive.. - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Yahoo!, Inquisitor??? Is that one or two apps? Haven't heard of Inquisitor. - George Hall (Australia)

not bad... - lemuel

Inquisitor is nice, but it appears to be a search app, not a Friendfeed app. - Paul Buchheit from BuddyFeed

Nambu iPhone client isn't bad so far and might be close to good but I am hoping for great - lemuel

Ingo

The heaviest element known to science - http://bitsandpieces.us/2009...

March 21, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm new to Mac. What are best apps for PHP web development - text editor, FTP, SSH clients?

March 21, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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TextMate. Transmit. ssh is built right into Terminal thanks to the glory of BSD. - Akiva

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Oh, yeah, welcome to the collective. - Akiva

There is almost nothing better than TextMate for editing, Transmit for FTP. Mac OS X has ssh command-line already and is fine in a terminal, (try iTerm). - ·[▪_▪]·

Agree with above: TextMate, Transmit, Terminal. - Graham English

I would say Filezilla for FTP, best for OS X and Windows. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Terminal and Textmate ... cyberduck is also neat as an FTP/S3 client - Deepak Singh

I hear Transmit's the best for FTP, but CyberDuck is cheap like free and is bearable now (not so, say a year ago) - Micah

I put money down for Textmate and my php happens there. But for some odd reason I'm liking my Javascript in Smultron (free). - Micah

Definitely TextMate for editing, particularly web development; SSH is built in - however if you really want filesystem like access have a good look at MacFusion - highly recommended. Also, Finder itself will do FTP, I mainly use that or CyberDuck. - John Collis

Coda for editing, Transmit for FTP/SFTP, and Terminal (built-in) for SSH. - Brad Butner from twhirl

are there any freeware alternatives to textmate? - flaimo

Textmate seems like a really complete product. But it costs $$$. What are the alternatives? - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

I've used Text Wrangler and it's a pretty powerful text editor. I've now got a copy of BBEdit, but it's overkill for my needs. Also, I'm with Brad — I use Coda and Transmit (although, technically speaking, Coda has a copy of Transmit built right in). I also use skEdit (written by a current Apple employee), which has some very clever tricks that Coda doesn't... - Wayne Smallman

I use a small app called HyperEdit for quick and dirty php testing. I have Textmate as well but haven't fully utilized it. - Andrew Leyden

TextMate (Yes, it's worth the license fee!) and Cyberduck (donationware). - Bill Sodeman

coda | http://www.panic.com/coda/ - Shiva

Wow, only one mention of BBEdit, always a must-have for me since its early days. Although I don't code much anymore, I try to keep within a version or so of the current one -- I suppose likely out of nostalgia. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

You could always download eclipse and add the PHP plugins, thats almost a Zend replacement right there. I use that and XAMPP for my Mac php development - Rod Middleton

Terminal - ssh and if you must ftp, then ncftp. Forget ftp, learn rsync. - Brian Watson

I'm guessing "Vimacs" doesn't settle anything http://www.vim.org/scripts... - Micah

TextMate for sure if you don't mind putting down some cash. It's worth it. However if you must have free I would maybe say jEdit. SSH and FTP are built-in, as well as subversion, apache, php, ruby, perl, rails. - Glenn Batuyong

Robert Scoble

I'm building my own server in the cloud, thanks to Dave Winer: http://www.scripting.com/stories... but right now that will have to wait cause Maryam wants me to come downstairs and stop playing on my computer.

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Are you using Rackspace? - Jesse Stay

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I'm not sure I'd recommend EC2 for beginners, even with a HOWTO. There are much cheaper cloud-based alternatives (like Rackspace's Slicehost offering). "Turning it off when you're not using it" isn't a solution. This isn't 1970. - Mark Trapp

Jesse: no, for now I'm just following along Dave's podcast. - Robert Scoble

ReadWriteWeb did the same: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Robert Scoble

After I get it running on Amazon I'll get it running on Mosso. Gotta run, Maryam's getting mad I'm still playing on the computer. - Robert Scoble

Is s3 mounted as a filesystem on EC2 much faster than s3fs elsewhere? I'm doing rsync with s3fs on a linode server and it's taking all weekend. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: how big is your diff? That doesn't seem right. - Mark Trapp

Amazon has Windows servers... which Dave uses in his example. Mosso Cloud Servers and Slicehost look like they are Linux-only for now. EDIT: GoGrid has Windows servers as well, which are even easier to bring up than they are at Amazon. - Karim

I know there is a project that can use EC2 and S3 rattling around my brain, I just haven't been able to find it in there yet. - Mike Flynn

I've fallen in love with all of amazon web services... hard. I have trouble imaging building scalable projects without it now. My current project uses ec2, s3, cloudfront, elastic ips, elastic block storage, simple queue service and simple db. - Ted Roden

Karim: Mosso offers a Windows server (http://www.mosso.com/cloud.jsp) but it's a bit more expensive than leaving an EC2 instance running 24/7. It's hell of a lot easier to set up, though. - Mark Trapp

Great idea Robert. Once you try those, I'm very interested on what I'd get from RackSpace that I wouldn't get from Amazon, or more importantly, what of all those you try out you think is best. I keep coming back to Amazon due to price and flexibility, but I'm always open to new things if they make sense. - Jesse Stay

Mark, I thought those Mosso Windows offerings were Cloud *Sites* not servers -- i.e. basically a webroot where you get to upload stuff? From what I read, the advantage is that they automagically scale, but since it's not a server of your own, you can't log in as Administrator & install stuff. - Karim

Ted, what do you do for load balancing on EC2? - Karim

Karim: and what, exactly, is a beginner non-developer/non-IT/non-sysadmin going to be doing that requires a full server? I don't think people who require full control over the inner workings of a server are the people being targeted, here. - Mark Trapp

"BOBBY!... TIME FOR DINNER DONCHA KNOW" - rob friedman from twhirl

Karim: On http://enjoysthin.gs I'm running one web front end so I don't need a proper load balancer. I split up some of the backend work to separate servers... same with the DB. But the app handles all that. In the past I've used both HAProxy and simple round robin dns. - Ted Roden

Mark, let me ask Dave Winer why poets need servers and get back to you. lol - Karim

Ted, thanks. Roll-your-own HAProxy seems to be pretty popular with the EC2 set. Amazon has threatened to come out with a load balacing solution at some point... - Karim

Karim: they will. Don't get to comfy with any load balancing solution, amazon will come up with something that beats it. - Ted Roden

Do what 'the boss' says ... or you're doomed (and she's right :) - Charlie Anzman

I get that a lot from Amanda. Good to know I'm not alone:-) - Brandon Mendelson

Mark Trapp - Sorry I fell asleep. The diff is less than 10GB. It looks like it might be almost finished now. - Bruce Lewis

Read the comments. It's a pricy proposition, the more you use it. There are cheaper solutions, no? - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

I've been playing with EC2 for a few months now, including creating my own linux images that weren't (aren't?) included "out of the box". This also gives you the legroom when you're going to mount your S3 buckets for your own files. It's a simple and painless task if you know your way around linux/unix systems... - Holger Eilhard

RackSpace has more instance types available than EC2. The lower end ones have less memory so they can end up being a lot cheaper. It may be worth checking out depending on your usage. - Todd Hoff

The Apple Room: TNW Apple: Beau Liening

I just purchased an iMac. This is my fist mac. What standard utilities do you install on a new mac/fresh install?

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Depends on what work you do with your new Mac. - Rick Powell

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Flip4Mac http://tinyurl.com/5jphmn and Perian http://www.perian.org/ to play certain embedded videos. - Mark Czerniec

You must get Quicksilver and learn to use it...saves tons o' time and frustration.. i also recommend Growl, Onyx, TextWrangler, MPEG Streamclip (video app), GimmeSomeTune (ITunes app for lyrics, etc.) and Skype, just to get youstarted... That will $285.00 please. (HA!) - Russell Wagner

Quicksilver (app launcher), Adium (instant messaging), twhirl (twitter/friendfeed), Firefox, Remote Desktop (for windows machines), Disk Inventory X (for finding space hogging files), Growl (for notifications)...that's what I have running now anyway ;-) - Richard Goodwin from twhirl

OpenOffice, Firefox, TweetDeck and AIR, SlingPlayer, iPhoto - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

I like Vuze better for torrents, and adobe air for air apps (Tweetdeck, GMDesk, FaceDesk, etc.) Whe you get really geeky, download SUN VirtualBox and run Linux distros (Winders if you must) stuff like that. Best stick to basics for a little while. iPhoto comes with the iMac. flip4Mac is great too. - Russell Wagner

AppTrap. Free. Adds a function to the system that should already be there: When you put an app in the trash, it asks you if you want to delete the associated files as well. http://bit.ly/144Dj - Rick Powell

errr utilities are already installed, so whatever else you need your iMac for, install away! - The Real sofarsoShawn

Jiggler - Micah

perian is a must if you watch divx files - Jason Dean

Awesome! I'll check all of those out. Thanks for the comments! - Beau Liening

MagiCal, AppStop and Xee. - Bill Sodeman

Perian, Quicksilver, Plex, Growl, Adium, Firefox, Adobe AIR - Raman Ng

I also use Jumpcut every day (http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ - a clipboard copy/paste utility). - Micah

Tofu is a small, interesting app for reading documents in eye-friendly columns http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/ - Micah

Smart reporter, applejack, mainmenu, neooffice, gimp, firefox - Brian Bufalo

Skitch, Quicksilver, Dropbox, Growl - Deepak Singh

VLC - Paul Grav

Caffeine - http://lightheadsw.com/caffein... - Great for when you watch hulu or any long video. - Jim Williams

Adium (http://adiumx.com/ a multi-services IM client), SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDu... for creating disk image of your internal drive) , Disco (http://discoapp.com layman disc burning tool) - Vinko

recommended mac apps for switchers: http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008... - muzo

Yellowdog Linux - James W McGregor

Perian to play media files, Quicksilver to launch apps faster and easier, Textmate as text editor (scripting and stuff like that). Enjoy your new Mac. :) - Baris Karagoz

Rather old post, but thought you might find some of the suggestions interesting: http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/blog... - Vero Pepperrell

Application launcher quicksilver, and coffeine - Erik Stripparo from twhirl

Quicksilver is now Google Quick Search Box, Flip4Mac, Perian, Adium, Handbrake, Growl, Twitterific, Skitch, 1Password, boxee, RipIt.app, SuperDuper!, VLC player, Coconut Battery, iStat Pro - Weldon Dodd

Don't forget to install a simple image editor like Paintbrush(http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net) and Seashore(http://seashore.sourceforge.net) - Edmund Tay

1password - TranceMist

Thanks for all the comments! So far I've installed firefox, quicksilver, boxee, keepass, growl, and adium. I haven't had much time to install anything else yet though. I'm thinking about openoffice next. I also have to install my printer/scanner on there as well. - Beau Liening

Oh. And I installed kismac. - Beau Liening

Did you get I-Life? Its a great thing to have! - orionstarr

Instead of OpenOffice, why not give NeoOffice(http://www.neooffice.org) a try...it is based off OpenOffice and is more Mac-like - Edmund Tay

I've found that OpenOffice 3.0 for OSX is not yet as stable and robust as NeoOffice. - TranceMist

I'll have to take a look at neo office. - Beau Liening

Great list sofar. Some additions: Chax (http://ksuther.com/chax/), Evernote (http://www.evernote.com), Fluid (http://fluidapp.com/), Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/), Secrets (http://secrets.blacktree.com/), iStat menus (http://islayer.com/apps...). - Peter van Teeseling

KCNScrew & Serial Box to get any application; pick and choose, they come out on the 1st & 15th - The Real sofarsoShawn

I am a Quicksilver dissenter, since it used to crash three or four times a day for me. Paid for Launchbar, which also replaces Jumpcut for me. Beta 5 anyway. Launchbar is very powerful, fast and doesn't crash.Plus QS development is very much up in the air. I don't won't to rely on an app which doesn't have the full support of a developer. Which is another reason why I've started buying premium wordpress themes, instead of using free ones. But that's another thread. - Rick Powell

btw, I am just impressed that I managed to tell Leo about something he didn't know about before. Information is more important than ego. - Rick Powell

Susan Beebe

Facebook Getting Serious About Vanity URLs - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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"Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start - users love vanity URLs. When you tell someone your MySpace page, you just say myspace.com/[user/brand/band/etc.] (I’m myspace.com/mikearrington). On Facebook it has always been more difficult. My profile isn’t Facebook.com/michaelarrington, it’s facebook.com/profile.php?id=500065899. Not so catchy, and the result is people need to do searches to find you. MySpace vanity URLs are popular for the same reason people like domain names instead of just typing in IP addresses. Facebook’s policy on this is clearly changing, at least for Pages (where bands, celebrities, brands, etc. have their Facebook presence). Facebook has always had a few vanity URLs associated with Pages, like Facebook.com/U2. They made it clear last August, though, that most people couldn’t get them: Unfortunately we are not currently able to approve requests for vanity URLs. The only Pages that presently have vanity URLs are bands and businesses that partnered wit - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

Chip Hanna

Watchmen: gritty, nerdy, cool action scenes, long, in depth, the anti super hero movie, visually stimulating, graphic, big naked blue guy.

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Dobromir Hadzhiev

Nambu - probably the best friendfeed app out there - http://www.nambu.com

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Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Mark Krynsky

Using Flickr instead of Twitpic to Tweet photos from your phone | Boolean Operator - http://lacrone.info/blog...

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Hutch Carpenter

Please, I don't want your automated DMs after I follow you. This practice needs to stop. I never click your links, it's just spam.

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I don't understand why @twitter doesn't give the option of disabling DM's completely - Keith - @tsudo

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I wouldn't disable my DM, because I do get some that are legit. I think this is going to be a social persuasion. Maybe we need some folks to start a new convention of unfollowing those who send out these automated DMs. Unfollowing is the worst fear of these automated DM types. - Hutch Carpenter

Twitter should allow users to opt out of DMs altogether. I tend to unfollows accounts that send auto-DMs, it immediately diminishes their value to me. Too impersonal -- not what I use Twitter for. I know where your website I'd but I'd prefer to receive your updates via Twitter. Imagine if every RSS feed began with a form letter pitch... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Good analogy on the blog RSS feed subscriptions. And if I've taken the time to look at your tweets and the link on your bio, you don't need to send me anything else. Just keep on tweetin'. - Hutch Carpenter

I don't know why this pisses people off so much. The furor over the DMs to me is more annoying than the DMs themselves. I just don't like the boring pseudo-sincere "let me know how I can help you" ones. I use one and dig it. - Steve Isaacs

Spams are everywhere! XD - Esther

It's annoying in the way spam email is annoying. My Gmail spam filter saves me from dealing with the spam deluge, but does nothing for these spam DMs. - Hutch Carpenter

i think if your twitter account is a business, it's a perfect opportunity to link a new follower to something useful to them - Nathan Chase

LD - SocialToo lets you auto DM? I just use it for stats, not that. - Hutch Carpenter

Nathan - I agree that a link to something useful is fine. Say I tweet about something, and you have a link that is relevant. @ or DM me. But how do you know what's relevant with an automated DM after following? - Hutch Carpenter

If you have one of the "let me know how..." ones, I will let you know, and if you ignore my @, I'm just going to drop you. To use auto-dm to begin convo = not bad, but to not continue convo = fail - Michelle Darnell

@Hutch - for instance, if you follow Flickchart (my startup) on Twitter, it auto-follows and responds with. "Thanks for checking us out! Be sure to sign up for our beta to get your invite soon! - http://www.flickchart.com" - does that seem annoying or misplaced? - Nathan Chase

Agreed. Twitter should review this. It's becoming an epidemic. It diminishes my impression of someone immediately. - Seamus Condron

Nathan - that seems OK. I mean, I'm following a company (Flickchart), so I'd be interested in getting a beta. But there are a lot of marketing types and life coaches who fire these things off. Often after they've followed me and I follow back. Wasn't expecting to get spammed in that transaction. - Hutch Carpenter

I actually don't need DMs at all. If someone wants to contact me privately they can follow the link to my website and contact me through it. It seems that it would be very easy for Twitter to add a "Disable DMs feature." - Keith - @tsudo

SocialToo can help you block many automatic DMs. http://www.socialtoo.com - Louis Gray

Louis: You mean if I join SocialToo I can tell it to not send me auto DMs from other SocialToo users, or is there something more sophisticated? - Ken Sheppardson

I use an auto DM to send silly phrases to people when they follow me. It's the "let's tweet soon" ones that grate my cheese. - Jonathan Hardesty

Ken, it will block DMs from SocialToo users and TweetLater users, for starters. - Louis Gray

What is the biggest complaint about DM's? Is it the links? Number of DM's you get a day? I use an automated DM to aid in being cordial. I got the following DM this morning and thought it was a good one, "Checked out your profile and you are an amazing person! Keep it up!" - Damond Nollan

I didn't even know you could setup auto-DMs...awww and here I was so happy everytime someone wrote to me ;) - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

I can't stand those who send a DM to invite me to become "friends" on Facebook, I've only known of your existence for a whole minute and are we supposed to be "friends"? Mind you, I received a message from someone on Diigo who is looking for a husband and I thought it was a social bookmarking site. - M F

What if it's just a simple "thanks for following me" message and not a link or sales pitch? - Mattb4rd

@Matt, I hate those "thanks for following me" messages just as much as the automatic sales pitches. If someone wants to "thank" me for following them, then follow me back. Or, if that person followed me first, there's no need to do anything. - Joey Gibson

SocialToo is awesome. Also, I've learned to ignore spam DMs the same way I can ignore spam emails. With that said SocialToo makes it easy to reduce the number of them greatly. - Bwana ☠

Svetlana Gladkova

tip @techmeme Yahoo announces Yahoo! Mobile, promises to revolutionize the way we access the web on the go http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press...

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Robert Scoble

Boobs: 5X As Profitable As Footballs (TWX) - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009...

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Friendfeed conversation bait! Go ahead, it's a link to Silicon Alley Insider. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

Of course. Anyone not interested in sports finds that issue intriguing. I mean, it is very general interest. - Alex Wilhelm

Kevin Rose

Amazing Bird Fishes Like A Human - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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The speaker reminds me of Bob Ross. :-) Or rather his parodies, because I've never seen any of his real shows. - Christoph Studer

Ingo

Smackdown: Michael Moore vs. Dr. Sanjay Gupta - http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009...

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Anyone that bashes Michael Moore is great in my book. - Ernie Oporto

Ingo

The Book of Highdef - http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide...

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Corvida

Inaugural Words 1789 - Present: A look at the most frequently used words in each President's inaugural speech. - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

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Mitchell Tsai

Ireland's economic miracle: What is "The Celtic Tiger"? [Celtic Countries - 12/1/04] - http://celticcountries.com/webmaga...

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By the mid 1980s Ireland was experiencing a 19.6% high unemployment, the Irish had the highest debt per head in the world, and the nation's GDP per capita was only 63% of their neighbours, the United Kingdom. The Irish were then known as the beggars of Europe. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

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This situation changed dramatically during the 1990s when Ireland achieved a remarkable rate of economic growth: from 1990 to 1995 Ireland's economy grew at an average rate of 5.14% per year, and from 1996 through 2000 it increased at at an average rate of 9.66%. By the end of the decade, unemployment went down to a 4.5% and the nation's GDP per capita stood at $25,500, higher than both... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Ireland's 1990s and 2000s economic boom is generally referred to as "The Celtic Tiger". The Celtic Tiger term is an analogy to the name "East Asian Tigers" that was applied to Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong during their period of rapid economic growth between the 1980s and 1990s. - Mitchell Tsai

reland is a small but very open economy. Decades of state protectionism and successive economic failure lead to the situation where now the Irish are one of the most globalised economies on the planet. Where Irish people once left to work in other countries, in foreign firms, now those firms have located in Ireland. For the first time in modern Irish history, the Irish now have the... more... - Mitchell Tsai