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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr
The Inquisitr is now in the Technorati Top 1000
24 hours ago - Link
way to go boss :) - Steven Hodson
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3 weeks to spare....won't lie, I was starting to bite my teeth :-) - Duncan Riley
w00t, w00t, congrats Duncan! - Dobromir Hadzhiev
congrats - it's a mark i hope to hit one day! - Allen Stern
Congrats. You should link to more of your stories on FF, along with Google Reader it's the primary way I consume news these days. - trextor
Trextor, everything from Inquisitr is here based on the RSS feed. Several people share stories from there as well using Google Reader. Most likely, you are just missing them due to traffic on FriendFeed. - Rob Diana
Dude, that is such great news...as you can see in related entries - i've over the moon for ya. Well deserved. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Great job Duncan! :-) - Sid Yadav
Congrats Duncan!! wooo hooo!! - Susan Beebe
Congrats Duncan! - JodyUnwired
Cool! - Mitchell Tsai
High EFin FIVE!! Morning, Duncan! :) - Mona N.
Kudos Duncan! Awesome stuff. - Stu Andrews
Nice Duncan! Congrats! - Randy
w00t!!! i remember when I was in the Technorati 500. That means I'm OLD. - jeneane hussein sessum
many thx. Jeneane, I can remember the Blog Herald scrapping into the top 100...but it was so much easier back then :-) - Duncan Riley
Congrats! - Igor Poltavskiy
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Mathew A. Koeneker posted a message
“Does anyone still use their local and/or public libraries?”
24 hours ago - via fftogo - Link
Yes - a little something from me on 12seconds on last night, if you like, http://12seconds.tv/channel/ki... - Kirk Kittell
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Of course. - JMakesAwesomeSauce
lol, this is friendfeed... librarians rule friendfeed ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
I do. - Michelle Martinez
Absolutely! - joshua m. neff
Yes. I still use libraries. - possible248
all the time - RAPatton
lincoln center has the most amazing music/dance library. i totally nerd out there. not often, but when i do, it's on! - Melissa Maskevich
Good question...I haven't been recently, but with recent economic downturn, I bet libraries start to get a lot more activity. Who doesn't want free resources like books, music, movies, etc? - Pete Delucchi
Studies show that libraries do get busier in hard economic times. Not just because of the free stuff, but people also need resources on finding jobs, managing finances, etc. - JMakesAwesomeSauce
yes - Bored
Yes. That way I don't have to figure out how to pass the book along (or whether I should) when I'm done. - Jeanine Walters via Alert Thingy
Aw, this thread warmed my little public librarian's heart. :) - ☺ Cecily ☺
heck yeah! - lisa-k
I couldn't even tell you where my local library was :-) - Duncan Riley
Yes. Beside books - especially for my 5-yo - it has a reasonable selection of music CDs. I use this to try out music that I wouldn't buy straight away. - Warren Butler
My library has a barrel for disposing of old batteries. - Michael Hussein Markman
Haven't used one since I got out of college. There are very few good libraries in India. The British Library in Pune is the best there and that sucks bigtime. On a completely different note, I like keeping books - irrespective of whether I liked or disliked them; if I read it, I should keep it. But yes, I would like to *have* a library, by the time I am 50. - Parth Awasthi
I use libraries quite often. Best place for research ever is a library with a quite room and a high speed internet connection. Every type or reference you could ever want right at your fingertips. - Aaron Krug
Absolutely. I just got home from the library, in fact. - Wendy
It's great for the public wifi and general hanging out. For research, not so much. - Sid Yadav
Sid, it depends on what you're researching and whether you're in a large city. However, whatever you can't find in your own library can usually be borrowed from another library thanks to the magic of a little thing called "interlibrary loans". And don't forget - librarians are there to help you with research. We don't just keep people from talking loud. :) - ☺ Cecily ☺
Yes. - Nine (werepanda)
My local library allows you to "borrow" digital copies of books. They also have the cheapest DVD rentals in town ($1/ 3 days) And libraries are still the best and cheapest way to get a hold of a copy of an older, out of print, and hard to find book. - April Russo
yes - Arash
Yes. We do and a new study (look in my feed, it's there somewhere) shows that library usage is up and something like 83% of Americans have a library card. - AJ Kohn
yes, from time to time I do. Since I started at the age of 4, I've always read a lot. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
Absolutely not. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
No need.:) - Igor Poltavskiy
Yes indeed. If I see a new book I like, I check it out. If I like it, I return the library book and buy the book from B & N. That way I can read it at my own pace. - Jimmy Walker
no. The classics are available for free, I can gets technical stuff off ebookshare.net and get my fiction from Amazon - Ernie Oporto
Oh yes, are you mad? The library rocks! - Bwana McCall
no, haven't been to any library for 8 years at least - Kirill Bolgarov
Always. Can't afford to buy all the books my family wants to read. - Carleen
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Sid Yadav posted a link
Smart Startup Advice: Don't Panic - Profit
yesterday at 7:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Fantastic advice. A "reality" check from the amount of BS VCs and some other bloggers have been spreading to scare entrepreneurs and make their VC business look like it's going to go through a period of scarcity -- driving down valuation and giving them leverage. It isn't. Infact, they're going to invest more, because the deals are going to be in their terms. My advice: take as little as possible in these down cycles, angel rounds at most, so the control stays with you and you never give them too much leverage. Then when YOU have the leverage, take as much as possible and keep it in the bank. - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
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l0ckergn0me posted an entry on Discussion Forum - Geeks!
Steve Jobs rushed to ER?
October 3 at 4:45 am - Link
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Sid Yadav posted a link
tap tap tap ~ Fuck the VCs
August 28 at 12:06 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Yes, F the VCs. - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
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Sid Yadav posted a link
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation
August 19 at 9:57 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Attitudes like these from investors is one of the reasons why I dread VC financing. They look at the company, their % stake, and the biggest potential exit possible for them. With or without you, it doesn't matter to them. You can do a great job getting it to mid-point, only to be found with a replacement when the company "goes big". This, frankly, sucks. That's why I have made a personal policy for my startup to look at high-amount VC funding as the last possible/survivial option, and if we do decide/manage to go through it at some point, I will make sure to only talk to the select few who don't have opinions like these and value the founder/CEO -- and his investment/time/emotional attachment to the company -- as opposed to just the company itself. - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
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Sid Yadav posted a link
Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company - ReadWriteWeb
August 12 at 5:22 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
This is fantastic. Must-read for a newbie entrepreneur. I found it 500 times more useful than the stuff you find for "how to incorporate" on Google. :-) - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
I agree. Wish I would have had someone explaining things to me BEFORE I hired a lawyer to help. It was still a good idea but not COMPLETELY necessary. - Dave Ploch
Typical rww style - simple, essential info. Very helpful indeed. - Jamie Dool
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?
July 31 at 1:41 pm - Link
I do. Sometimes it takes you all day to find a particular site with a certain answer so searching for it again is out of the question. - Ernie Oporto
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I do too. Really helps to be able to find stuff no matter what computer I'm on. - Larry Huffman
delicious plays a nice part in my ecosystem, though I've not been as active recently due to Friendfeed. Here's what's great there: 1) Firefox integration to harmonize across computers, 2) being able to mix and match tags to see relationships, 3) producing individualized feeds by topical tag. It's a great research tool. - Jim Ierley
I still use del.icio.us. I reference my tag cloud a couple times a week. Easier than trying to find the link on Google. - Sonciary Honnoll
Avid Del.icio.us user here (see, I know where to put the dots). - Nick Dynice
Me!! - Susan Beebe
I use Del.icio.us pretty much every day. One of the first extensions I install on a new Firefox install. - Robert DeBord
Oh, gosh, Louis, you subscribe to my FriendFeed so you know I use delicious like a fiend. I bookmark articles on subjects that I'm thinking of writing about, or that I have hard plans to write about. I don't read other people's delicious queues, though. - Mitch Wagner
the firefox bookmark list in my comp is so long as to be unwieldy.. maybe i gots to go to the new delicious again ... ok .... getting broadband changes everything - Gregory Lent
I couldn't live without an online bookmarking service. I use 2 regularly (del.icio.us and Diigo). - Lindsay Donaghe
It's all evernote all the time for me. - Dean Terry
Is it my comp, or is Diigo down tonight? - welcoming Delicious 2.0 btw, just to stay on topic ;-) - Peter Efland via twhirl
delicious works well with me and my coworkers. we share alot of programming related links. - imabonehead
Not me. I have a memory - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
I bookmark like crazy ... that's how I track articles that I didn't write about - Nick O'Neill via twhirl
I find it much interesting to share someting, via Tumblr or FriendFeed or Twitter, than bookmark it. I think the social media movement is what left delicious behind -- they should have focused more on the social aspect than being just a personal bookmarks collection. - Sid Yadav
I scan therefore I bookmark. When I write up briefings or reports, I review relevant bookmarks. Using Friendfeed opens up new information channels about what friends are bookmarking. - Paul Roberts
I do. Bookmarking in the social cloud is convenient. - Bill Sodeman
Don't know where I would be without the D - Nice Fish Films
I have used del.icio.us for years and still find it useful (actually more these days than before) because it allows to find and share content you thought was useful. - Daniel Schildt
I do. I am also planning a mobile app using delicious, may be I am crazy or old fashioned but I find bookmarking pretty usefull. - Arturo Servin
Yep!! still using it! heres my search order.. google.. delicious.. google desktop.. - Jez Arnold
At first I would have answered "I do" too, but come to think of it, I haven't bookmarked much new stuff for a while. But it's still great to have all your favorite websites/services at hand anywhere. - Rubin Sfadj
I still do, a lot! I use it to track articles, blog posts and other stuff throughout the day, because most of the times I can't search my way back to something I've seen, and I've tried that quite often. Search something on 1000 bookmarks on delicious, or other alike, is much different than searching the WHOLE internet. - João Almeida
I have at least 2691 bookmarks in my Delicious account (of them, 2510 are public and 181 are private). - Daniel Schildt
And in FriendFeed, "Like" is like "Add as bookmark". - Daniel Schildt
@Daniel Schildt: "Like" is kind of a real bookmark, because i doubt anyone will check the "Likes" older than a few days - João Almeida
I've got over 5000 bookmarks and consider del.icio.us the most important web2.0 tool out there. I could have never learned what I learned without del.icio.us. I even got accustomed to writing the name with dots. :) - Meryn Stol
too many booksmarks to start, so not spending time describing them - clarke thomas
Couldn't get along without it. - Nick Munson
don't really like the new delicious, but will definitely continue using it, it's probably the most important web2 tool for my daily work, could'nt live without it. - Fabrice Epelboin via twhirl
I do not use it - between FF & Google Reader, I'm good. Does it offer something FF & GR does not? - Ruth Ferguson
Ruth: Yes, thinking. - (later added) Ok that was not a nice comment. Let's say it's good to interact with the content you're reading: Write about it or tag it. Tagging can be easier than writing though, which is why I tag. - Meryn Stol
For some reason or the other I never got used to Delicious. There was always a Furl or a MyWeb or a Diigo that I found more useful. Why should I save just the URL when I can save the searchable snapshot of the whole page. - Vinay | विनय
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Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter
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l0ckergn0me posted a message
“Okay, am... am I the *ONLY* person on the planet who can't *STAND* Twhirl? It's unresponsive, ugly, and... blah.”
July 28 at 7:41 pm - via Ping.fm - Link
just like windows - fijidaddy
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Nope. I love the sporadic jumping around the desktop too. - Kevin Cearns
I don't really care for it either if that is any consolation -- I really don't see the point - Brian Sullivan
Nope,can't stand it either - Mo Kargas
True that it's slow, while watching the FriendFeed page I see around 2 min. delay between actually receiving posts. Thwirl I really like for design and concept. But for the network-capabilities, it could maybe do better. - Zu aka ElijahBailey via twhirl
i never understood why there needs to be separate instances for every account. and yeah, butt ugly. - Craig Childs
I wouldn't use it myself -- Twitterrific and twitter.com work way better for me. - Jake Jarvis
ugly yes, but the feature set is first class - Duncan Riley
I just use the website. SMS for people I really am following, - Andrew Feinberg
I like twhirltles. Twhirl is my favorite. - Bwana McCall
It's currently the only way to get desktop notifications of @replies in identica on the mac. I'd love for an active Mac OS X native application that implemented these microblogging/status update services at the same speed that Friendfeed implements them. Maybe then I'd stop using just Twitter. - Mark Trapp
I deleted it some time ago. The view was not worth the climb. - Phil Yanov
I'm not the world's biggest Twhirl fan by any means. I think they've been completely unresponsive to new development since Seesmic bought it. Before that happened, you could actually get a reply from the developer and updates were frequent. Since then, updates have become far less frequent and I don't know the last time I've had a response to a tweet about issues. But, in Twhirl's defense, it isn't any uglier than any other app available. And you can skin it, so if it's ugly, it's your own fault. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
I don't like it either, can't match Twitterific. - Oli Kenobi
Yes. You are. Now what?:-) - Francine Hardaway
I've used Twhirl more than most AIR apps, but that's not saying much. - Chris Baskind
Works good for me on Vista, just use the the web based version of Twitter on Mac OS X - Scott
After making an effort to like Twhirl for the longest while, I am now back to the browser for both twitter and friendfeed. The search continues... - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
I think it needs some UI improvements as they add services but I think it's very cool, actualoly. - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl
I like Spaz for Twitter...is there an alternative for FF? - Marc Vermut via twhirl
no, you're not. I don't like it either. - edythe
I don't like it either. - Mack D. Male
I can't stand it, it is buggy, and for some reason, they display comments in reverse chronological order. It is sub-par, but it the best FF client I have found so far, but that isn't saying much. - James Mowery via twhirl
My biggest complaint is that it's a RAM hog. It also occasionally beachballs on me, but I'm guessing that's related to my first point. - Kevin Johnson via twhirl
Me too. - James Clarke
I use Twhirl on my linux box. It's been rock solid and have been running for several months now. - imabonehead
while I agree twhirl is a Memory hog and the interface is getting messier by the day it still seems to be the best app out there - Fuad Arshad
I hated it. Using TwitterFox - Alex C. Williams
Twitterrific and TwitterFox do the job for me. Twhirl's interface just irritates me. - Andrew Trinh
The scrolling behavior annoyed the heck out of me, but maybe I missed a magic key combo. I want it to work like Google Reader, where it always scrolls the next item to the top of the window. Twhirl scrolls to the next item that's not completely visible in the window when using the scroll wheel or down arrow. This always threw me off, so I stopped using it. A combined window is also sorely needed. Tabs would be ok but an option for a single view of all services intermixed would be best. - invariant
nope. me too. i would assume everybody using windows effectivly (not that that are many people) do not like the interface as it is very counterintuitive to what makes windows fast and efficient to work with. - Nicole Simon
I agree Thirl needs some extra work, especially when it comes to scrolling in FriendFeed - but I stick to it to give them time to improve it. Hopefully they will until I start to believe all the haters here. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Man, Twhirl is terrible. It won't stay open more than about 5 minutes for me. It never notifies me. Every interface I've seen using Air requires too much relearning. The standard web page interface for FriendFeed works much better. - Richard Crocker
Yeah, I installed it thinking "Hey, what a great way to keep up with FF" Hell no! It's awful and the scrolling is so jerky! But I do like the notifications... - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)
I'm a fan of Twhirl, but then, I'm biased. I work with Marco (the developer of twhirl) at Seesmic. A number of the issues mentioned here are very frustrating shortfalls of the AIR platform (that we're eager to discover workarounds for.) FWIW, I can tell you that we are very interested in the option for a single window view. I would love to hear any feedback at thomas@seesmic dot com - Thomas Knoll
Thomas, glad to see you here. It's always good to hear from the developer. That used to be a huge plus for Twhirl. But that stopped suddenly when Seesmic bought Twhirl. That's a shame. You're correct in saying that some of the bugs listed here are AIR bugs, over which you have no control. But some of them--the spastic jumping around, for example--are not AIR bugs. They're all Twhirl's. And we haven't heard any explanation and there have been seemingly no attempts to fix it. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
Hey Gregory, sorry, the past months have been full of coding work, and I have to admin, my responsiveness to user questions wasn't as good as it should be. Apologies, I'll try to catch up on that. As you mention the jumping windows bug, it is indeed a problem of the AIR platform, not twhirl's. We are trying to find ways to avoid it, and as our tests show, it has become better, but we are not fully able to work around it yet. - Marco Kaiser
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Jason Calacanis posted a link
reading: A VC: Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup
July 23 at 12:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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Sid Yadav posted a link
Trends in Legal Terms in Venture Financings
July 22 at 3:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
If you're looking to raise VC or have been curious: READ THIS. God damn preferred stock! - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
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As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual - NYTimes.com
July 22 at 8:00 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Very cool -- future is more closer than you think. - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet
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FriendFeed News: Paul Buchheit posted a link
FriendFeed Launches Rooms: Mini-FriendFeeds for All - Rev2.org
FriendFeed Launches Rooms: Mini-FriendFeeds for All - Rev2.org
May 22 at 6:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"it’s a great way to classify news on particular subjects — for example, to people who care about Soccer, it’s a good way to share and get updated on the latest news." - Paul Buchheit
I care about Soccer but come on it's Football, only the States know it as Soccer ha! - Joe Dawson
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7 Hottest Unacquired Web Startups
April 4 at 1:05 pm - Link
List of the 7 hottest unacquired web startups ranked by "valuations." - Sid Yadav
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7 Hottest Unacquired Web Startups
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List of the 7 hottest unacquired web startups ranked by "valuations." - Sid Yadav
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Old Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers
October 3, 2007 at 9:14 am - Link
"I feel like sending a thank you note to Bill with a CC copy to Jobs." - Sid Yadav
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Sid Yadav commented on a story on Digg
Old Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers
October 3, 2007 at 9:11 am - Link
"I feel like sending a thank-you note to Bill with a CC to Jobs." - Sid Yadav
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iTodo.de - ToDo-Listen - Für iTodo.de registrieren
September 10, 2007 at 5:38 am - Link
Check out AJAX reg system - Sid Yadav
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iTodo.de - ToDo-Listen - Für iTodo.de registrieren
September 10, 2007 at 5:38 am - Link
Check out AJAX reg system - Sid Yadav
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How to Speak French - Mahalo
August 10, 2007 at 1:38 am - Link
Awesome guide from Mahalo on how to speak French. Will try some of them in the weekend. - Sid Yadav
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Scratch | imagine, program, share
August 5, 2007 at 7:48 am - Link
This is supposed to be a programming language for kids like Lego, and apart from the ridiculous loading times, half of them aren't any worse than something built with Flash. - Sid Yadav
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich - New York Times
August 4, 2007 at 10:18 pm - Link
So, making the first million isn't enough any more? :-( - Sid Yadav
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Bebo: An In-Depth Look - Rev2.org
July 31, 2007 at 3:56 pm - Link
To most Americans, Bebo, which is the third most popular social network in the world in terms of users and pageviews, would be unheard of. The social network, which was the most popular search term on Google for 2006, has caused a storm internationally. - Sid Yadav
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Last one out please turn off the lights.... (cartoon)
July 31, 2007 at 3:50 am - Link
Web 2.0 ended when Jason Calacanis turned off comments? Hilarious. - Sid Yadav
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I Fought the Law - New York Times
July 30, 2007 at 6:36 am - Link
Great profile on Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone and how he got there. - Sid Yadav
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A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope - New York Times
July 30, 2007 at 4:36 am - Link
Interesting writeup in the NYT on Pownce, Kevin Rose's new side-project. He declined the interview - wonder why? - Sid Yadav
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Books? What Books?
June 18, 2007 at 3:11 am - Link
As a format, the book is becoming less and less popular in the modern world. The arrival of the Internet, and the boom that is Web 2.0, has provided citizens with access to dozens of new types of reading materials. - Sid Yadav
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bubbl.us - brainstorming with style
January 27, 2007 at 3:41 pm - Link
awesome ajax brainstorming thing - Sid Yadav
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