You know, it's mean, cruel and petty, but: my day just became instantly better.
- Steven Perez
very funny. too bad it's not a permanent thing
- Cee Bee
Oooh I went thru that experience when I was 12 yrs old - 45 days - no food by mouth - all liquid diet and vitamins! augh!!! I lost a LOT of weigh and was really starving! awful! This is sorta funny happening to Ann Coulter - wow
- Susan Beebe
How did they get her to scamper down from her web long enough to wire her jaw shut?
- Derrick
OH SWEET IRONY I LOVE YOU. hahahahahahaha!
- Steve Isaacs
And the world breathes a sigh of relief. [cuts eyes at Palin...you're next]
- Anika
"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things." —the Joker in The Dark Knight
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
"While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love." -- Cheers to Sergey and Google for speaking out on this issue. This is an example of what makes Google such a unique and wonderful company.
- Christopher Sacca
from Bookmarklet
By the way, my buddy Blake built this fun site where you can make a button expressing your view on Prop 8 by displaying how many years you have been in a committed relationship (any relationship): http://noon8button.com/
- Christopher Sacca
The site is all over the place. No specific focus or objective. I left the site thinking - What were they trying to achieve or accomplish.
- Brenda McLaren
Context delivery architecture? Social computing platforms? Service-oriented business applications? I wonder if Gartner just threw in some made-up technologies to see if anyone was paying attention.
- Jim Norris
context delivery architectures are important for context-less redundant stateful application development in a cloud based architecture.
- peter
Gartner and their charts..... They have a chart for everything... Surprised they dont have a chart to explain all Gartner charts...
- Sherif Mansour
very interesting quote at the end. “If I could pick any three people in Silicon Valley to start a company,” one source says, “I’d pick Cohler, D’angelo and Ling.""
- David Vasileff
color me surprised. ben ling is a very smart guy.
- Charles Hudson
@David - I noticed that as well - even though no explicit connection was drawn, it was very provocative given that Eric reminds us that they recently left Facebook as well for not-too-well-understood reasons.
- Sanjay
very surprsing news indeed because he presented a lot of the new platform initiatives at F8 just a few weeks ago
- Rajiv Doshi
Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen: Early adopters vs the Mainstream: Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds - http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_...
Andrew Chen does some interesting analysis of SNS/web services using Google Insights queries as a proxy for usage -- see maps for Digg (top left), Twitter (top right), Facebook (bottom). note: i think he's missing some data here on overall population density & broadband penetration, however the data is nonetheless fascinating... nice job andrew :)
- dave mcclure
from Bookmarklet
I dislike taxes as much as everyone else, but I always pay my bills. How else can we as a country pay our bills without the taxes? Debts always come due and the responsible thing to do is to suck it up and pay 'em.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Correction - in Canada ordinary citizens can go bankrupt if they develop health problems - I know people who have. There is NO single tier health care system in Canada. Tell me that the next time you have to pay out of pocket for prescription medication, or hand over your VISA at the emergency or they won't admit you because the ambulance ride costs money...or you have to go to Buffalo for an MRI and pay $$$...sorry to vent but I keep seeing these misconceptions and I'm getting a little tired of it.
- Kevin Cearns
I hate oversimplified commentary like this. I am not going to defend current government spending, because that bugs me to no end. But, the idea that Clinton was responsible for a surplus is laughable. Read this link for a little enlightenment. http://www.letxa.com/article...
- Jeremy Hall
I don't particularly hold to any party vision. And I'm not promoting a version of Canada. I'm merely pointing out fact. It is one thing to aspire to a particular reality, another entirely to assume that reality already exists.
- Kevin Cearns
You as well....Thanks for the conversation.
- Kevin Cearns
"It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more "provocative" than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. "..... Holy. Fucking. SHIT.
- dave mcclure
from Bookmarklet
Wow! That would be something else! For real! Mars Phoenix FTW!!! However, later in the article, they make the following statement: "Scientists are keen to point out however, that this secretive news will in no way indicate the existence of life (past or present) on Mars; Phoenix simply is not equipped make this discovery." Still AMAZING science!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
would our president even know what they're talking about? And why would "the president" need to be "briefed" about this? Because if Martians have oil we'll need to bring them democracy first?
- Adam Turetzky
If Phoenix has detected a carbon signature in the soil samples, it's huge. Provocative, indeed: we'd have to go and look for ourselves, most likely. But if we found life so close to Earth, and under such hostile conditions, it would speak strongly to life being more common than previously imagined.
- Chris Baskind
Wow, this is MASSIVE. :) Very cool to see this story unfold.
- sergiooo
I'd be afraid W might launch a massive attack against mars...
- Internet's Tad
Maybe they found Atlantean technology...
- Internet's Tad
Turns out the ice they previously found was in a glass, with scotch. And there's a seriously pissed off martian who wants his/her/its drink back :D. Seriously, the "wet chemistry" sensors won't detect organic compounds or "life building blocks" like sugars or aminoacids, but there's lots of unexpected things up there, apparently. It seems that Mars is way more Earth-like than previously thought. Time to pick up "Pale Blue Dot" again, folks.
- dario
This time around Bush will tell the public that he was given fals information .......
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Reading a newspaper article this morning - pictures suggested new sediment deposit since last imaging of the same area. Am I right in thinking that means liquid water has moved across part of the surface of Mars in the seven years between missions? That's pretty freaking amazing if you ask me. Dunno about life, but it seems almost inevitable we'll find some kind of organic compounds there sooner or later, even if it IS stuff we've deposited ourselves!
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Bush will never believe there is life in Phoenix; he is a Texan, after all. He won't hear anything after that.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
So there is intelligent life in the Universe, then we could stop pretending we're it :)
- Dani Radu
"Jott for iPhone is the ultimate mobile notepad that turns your voice into notes. Just tap the record screen and leave a note with your voice, Jott will then turn that note into text and add it to your Jott notepad or any of your lists. To get the same satisfaction of completing something on a paper list, cross off any item by swiping your finger across it on your Jott list. No matter where you are, now adding something to your notepad is as quick and easy as saying “Get strawberries for dessert.”"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I've been trying to get Jott to work on my phone since the release, still haven't gotten it going yet. WIsh I could, would like to see what it can do...
- Mike Paul
don't have an iphone, but have been using jott for a long time. worst, though, is using it to email my wife & it translates "hey cutie" as "hey Cindy" (and no, her name isn't Cindy)
- Trent Olson
mike, I had the same issue but when I upgraded it worked fine
- Brian
Mike: same thing happened to me the first time too but I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and it worked fine after that.
- Sally Church
just wish it was possible to use it with the linked apps like twitter and iwantsandy... soon i hope.
- Lisa McMillan
from NoiseRiver
Actually, you can get a JOTT account on any phone. My wife and I have been using it for a few weeks and we love it. you can get it free at: http://jott.com/default.aspx
- Jonathan.Rivera
Always blows my mind that glass is a slow-moving liquid. I *want* to see it move!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My dad had an interesting glass item when I was a kid. It held water and had tubes that came out of the top. Maybe it had something to do with the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I don't know, but his friends would always ask him to get it out and they'd sit around it for hours listening to Machine Head on 8-track.
- Mattb4rd
porn and banking.are the first things that came to my head.
- chartreuse
I hear porn, banking, healthcare, but that even these are becoming social in some ways. @bokardo says "social" may be a 2nd order motivation. So does the user's intention matter?
- Brynn M Evans
wesabe:social banking::google:social search! PornTube:porn videos::YouTube:trampoline videos.
- Chris Messina
its not the 'social' word thats wrong, its that its not being applied to words other than media. my thoughts: http://is.gd/PsX
- Jeremy Toeman
Wesabe makes banking somewhat social. If you could BabyCenter as healthcare it's social. Porn is totally social (AdultFriendFinder)
- Clay Newton
I can't really think of things that aren't social, more like a lot of poorly implemented "social things".
- Clay Newton
Clay: are you saying everything you do online is (or should be) social?
- Brynn M Evans
Chris: you know how I feel about Google as a social search site...Unless you're supporting Clay's notion that these all those categories are poorly implemented "social things"
- Brynn M Evans
Jeremy: True, "social" is a nebulous term, but I was thinking more about listing non-social actions people do online (whether or not through "social media").
- Brynn M Evans
@Brynn: I was mostly being facetious because I know how you feel! ;) Wesabe benefits from people sharing, so it feels social, but I wouldn't say that it IS social. Definitions again...!
- Chris Messina
I'm trying to figure out what I do that doesn't have some "social" component and it's just varying degrees of suck.
- Clay Newton
@chris Wesabe has the whole "Groups" thing and the "Goals" thing... they aren't directly social finance thangs, but they are social components. I was thinking Zopa and Prosper count as two "social" finance services, then there's a whole host of online trading social utils.
- Clay Newton
I could accept that there is a range of "social" online. BUT: do we treat those different social activities differently? Like, do we design technology to support the range of "social" differently? As a researcher, is it important to study the different classes of "social" individually, or lump them together?
- Brynn M Evans
I think the critical thing is that "social" is a series of features applied to an application or utility, and the social aspects that are managed are specific to the type of utility, the implementation and the zeitgeist.
- Clay Newton
It's funny that so many people are willing to talk about a "range" of social and read social aspects into all of our activities. If we say that Google is social and that online banking is social because somehow they involve input from other people, then why shouldn't I call my own personal thoughts social (utilize language, a social convention - often involve a component of internal dialogue).
- Sanjay