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Bradley McSpinn
Re: Traktor Scratch Pro – Review - http://170bpm.net/2009...
"Ben - There is built in streaming, through Traktor Scratch Pro itself. You can set custom proxy, full server settings (ogg/vorbis is default) and set your own URL/descriptions/meta. It seems to be a pretty complete streaming system, though I wish that it would allow mp3. In fairness, it might. I just haven't done much looking into it, since we use a custom Shoutcast-based broadcasting solution for Bassdrive." - Bradley McSpinn
Zee.
Woohoo! We're way past Techcrunch Europe on monthly uniques now...Making us the most popular tech blog in Europe! So chuffed. A long way to go though...(updated: this is old. They've caught up this month, but not to worry, we'll surge ahead again soon! :) )
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Well done, Zee. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
congrats Zee! - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM
congrats :) - alphaxion
Nicely done, Zee. I've watched you grow this site over the past year, and I'm very well impressed.. - Bradley McSpinn
thanks Bradley, much appreciated - Zee.
Congrats Zee. I've enjoyed being able to contribute a piece every now and again. Great progress! - Ken Camp
Well done! I must say I didn't really know about TNW until I subscribed to you on FriendFeed, and now I'm really impressed by your content. So congratulations :) - Jalada
congratulations Zee! - Jeroen De Miranda
We'll see. - Mike Butcher
Good work! They need competition. I hope Mike appreciates what you're doing for him. - Dave Winer
Congrat's. Well deserved! - Michael Fidler
Well done Zee - Amit Morson
nice one - Allen Stern
: ))) pushing that line up is a lotta work. way to go Zee. - vijay
I really enjoy TNW, so well done man! :) - Nick
Congratulations Zee! Doing great work! :-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Congrats! - Kevin Mohr
:) They've caught up this month, we've all been on holiday - but its all good. No excuses, we'll step it up a gear :P - Zee.
congrulations zee, bc u have perfect content - Aykut Karaalioğlu
Bradley McSpinn
Re: DJ Abraham from L.A.O.S. June 2009 Mix - http://doddiblog.blogspot.com/2009...
"Massive. Just freaking massive. Airing on my show this morning, on Bassdrive. Thanks for the support!" - Bradley McSpinn
Bradley McSpinn
Re: The Cycle - 2 Year Anniversary! - http://170bpm.net/...
"Hey guys - Sorry, but the B-Complex portion won't be on the archives. There's a conflict, with there being too many unreleased tracks from the forthcoming Hospital Sick Music compilation. As for the rest, you can find it at http://www.BassdriveArchive.com" - Bradley McSpinn
Andrew
ZAPPOS IS THE BEST!! - http://www.zazlamarr.com/blog...
When I came home this last time, I had an email from Zappos asking about the shoes, since they hadn’t received them. I was just back and not ready to deal with that, so I replied that my mom had died but that I’d send the shoes as soon as I could. They emailed back that they had arranged with UPS to pick up the shoes, so I wouldn’t have to take the time to do it myself. I was so touched. That’s going against corporate policy. Yesterday, when I came home from town, a florist delivery man was just leaving. It was a beautiful arrangement in a basket with white lilies and roses and carnations. Big and lush and fragrant. I opened the card, and it was from Zappos. I burst into tears. I’m a sucker for kindness, and if that isn’t one of the nicest things I’ve ever had happen to me, I don’t know what is. So… - Andrew from Bookmarklet
This is the coolest story about a company I've ever heard. - Andrew
Yeah. REALLY good article on Zappos in this month's Inc. - Bradley McSpinn
July 2007 - i wonder if whoever chose to send those flowers have any idea how much good feeling they caused :) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
l0ckergn0me
No Flash Media Encoder (FME) for Mac OS X. What a crock. Hell, they even have it for Linux. Why should *I* support Adobe?
Absolute complete fail. We've had trouble with this at the office - Mo Kargas
Man. Odd decisions in the past few weeks. No Blu-Ray option from Apple, either. Sad, for me, because I'd LOVE a Mac HTPC. - Bradley McSpinn
do we know whether or not apple and adobe are at odds over this? blaming adobe is easy, but what if it's apple who are being complete *sshats? how can we know? and for the record: i'm a mac. - .LAG liked that
Blu-ray is a still born technology, unless government keeps helping telcos artificially limit available consumer bandwidth and content owners artifically hold back license rights. 99 currency units per month for unlimited access to a library in sky of high fidelity music, movies and television from all time FTW!! - Jon Price
have to agree. With Job's known past grudge with Adobe, I wouldn't be so fast to assume Apple is not at least in some way the reason for this. - Chuck Boyce from twhirl
I agree we need FME for MAC - Craig Shipp
FME for MAC now!!!! - Craig Shipp
I just loaded a PPC w/ Ubuntu last week and ran into the know flash drama. Got it working with two alternatives but still not the same. I showed the client how to hijack the video flash videos to there hard drive and they were happy with that. The client actually emailed me and said they liked Ubuntu better then Tiger and comped me w/ a bonus check. Adobe needs to work this out for MAC... more... - aerobroken
...agree with @ChuckBoyce: perhaps Adobe and Apple have some disagreement that's preventing them from working together that we just don't know about. it doesn't make sense that they'd shun a platform that is favored by lots of creatives who'd be using Macs to author and create Flash content... - .LAG liked that
Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
What browser are you using? Firefox? Chrome? IE? Safari? All of the above? None of the above? Why or Why not?
Chrome for everyday. Firefox for what won't run in Chrome. - Bradley McSpinn
Firefox. - Rochelle
Webkit. - Akiva Moskovitz
Firefox and Chrome. I use FF at home because I have a Mac, and both at work - FF for work stuff, Chrome for fun stuff. And IE7 when the web designer makes me do a cross-browser check on something. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Firefox with IE 7 for MS specific sites like OWA and SharePoint. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Firefox on Vista, MS 7 and Mac OSX - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 Beta and Chrome 2.0.176.0. I have different passwords saved in different browsers. A few weeks ago I used Safari a lot, now I think Chrome is the most used. - Faraz Mullick
Chrome for everything, except work. For work I have to use Firefox. - Candace
Chrome...it's fast, but I also use IE 7 because some sites for work (or MSN Money) don't work well with Chrome. - Alex Scoble
Using the FF beta as my day to day brower.. tend to use all of them across win and OSX for browser testing - Bastard Operator From FF
Firefox until Chrome gets an effective ad blocker. - Tech Introvert
Tech Introvert, AdMuncher? - Rochelle
Opera 9.6 for the built in email and the fact I can throw Stumbleupon, Friendfeed, and my blog's backend into the sidebar. Occasionally, have to check Firefox because it handles my RSS. - Jimminy
Chrome and Firefox - LPH™ and his dog P™
all of them. work = IE, home = firefox - Chris Harris
Chrome, what browser are you using, Rah? - Kol Tregaskes
Firefox - Russ Jackson
Camino at home on Mac and occationally Firefox, Firefox at work, S60 Browser or Ozone on my S60 mobiles, basically A variety of Browsers mostly Mozilla Gecko and Webkit based, but never IE. - LonelyBob from twhirl
Firefox when using OS X, Safari on my iphone, and Chrome when I fire up XP. LOVE Chrome which is a big deal considering how much I love Firefox--can't wait to see something for it for the Mac. - Kelly W.
Chrome at home and Firefox at work. - Baard @ Pixum
firefox because I am used to it. opera when FF gives me trouble. not crazy about safari. on those rare occasions when I fire up my PC I use chrome if it's just for something quick. firefox if I am doing dev work. FFs tools just work too well for me and because it's cross-platform I only have to keep one set of keystrokes straight. - tiffany
Restricted to IE at work. Firefox mostly, Safari occasionally at home.Will eventually try Chrome - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Firefox, for the extensions. Ones I depend on everyday: AdBlock, WebDeveloper, Firebug. Others I use frequently: Delicious, Identify, Pencil, Operator, CodeTech, FireSpider, YouTube Comment Snob, Live HTTP Headers, Read It Later. - Michael R. Bernstein
Safari. I have Firefox installed and fall back to it if I suspect a site isn't working well with Safari. - DGentry
fan of vim editor, I use firefox with vimperator plugin - David Foucher
Safari 4. - Louis Gray
Mac OS = Safari 4; Windows = Firefox - 321
Firefox. - Ron Bailey
Firefox. I don't even have IE. - Tanath
Wyzo. I don't know. It runs smoothly and has great download tools - Matthew Allen Horton
Safari 4 pretty much exclusively. I use Firefox 3 on the work computer. - cecily
All, due to web dev purposes, but FF is my staple. - Mo Kargas
Safari (Webkit's nightly updates actually) on mac at home, Chrome at work. - Brome
Chrome at (80%) because of the side by side “panels” + Safari & Firefox depends of the need. - <<futuRINÔ>>
all of the above - IE + Flock and Camino. - vijay
Camino - ursi
Firefox mostly. Chrome for when i'm sick of Firefox's huge memory footprint - Roberto Bonini
FF and IE8 - aerobroken
chrome - metalerik
Firefox 98% of time, sometimes IE or Chrome when special needs on purpose. - A.T.
ff 3.5 all the time - Kirill Bolgarov
Firefox all the time, IE when I need to test stuff. - Mike Templeton
Firefox all the time - sometimes w IEtab - I love compact menu too - Phil Wain
Firefox 3.5b4. It seems fast enough now to compete with Safari. It's still a little slower, but for all of the value that addons provide, I can manage. - Chris Thomson
Firefox, Chrome and IE...although mainly Firefox - Nicholas James
Firefox 3.5b4 (and IE8 when I have to) - Jason Williams
Firefox 3.5b4 right now (Speed with almost no addon--can't stay far from ubiquity) else Chromium / Chrome and regular Firefox, go sometimes with K-Meleon / Maxthon / QTWeb. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Zee.
Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.
karoo for me. - alphaxion
America Online...wait...no. Prodigy! - Candace
WebTV. - Rochelle
sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time. - Tsali, The Native of FF
Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail. - Bradley McSpinn
AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it. - Tyler Hayes
First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout! - Jared Smith
wisc.edu - Dave Winer
ecu.edu - Beebo Wallace
Prodigy. - Oliver Ortega Chua
citiz.net - yagami
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol - Cardeen Martinez
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these... - Zee.
A BBS in Morgan Hill. - Rodfather
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984. - Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email. - Bob Morris (polizeros)
wow, very impressive Jason...and Don! - Zee.
Hotmail was my first email provider. - Andrew Trinh
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today. - Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now! - Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier) - Brandon Mendelson
AOL. I shutter at the thought - BCK
PSU.edu, 1989 - Dave Roth
Toronto FreeNet. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Michigan State University - Steve Lowe
Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore. - TkFromWestSide
My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984. - Gary Walter (gwalter)
Hotmail - Tim Keneipp
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy. - Adam Turetzky
Prodigy, then AOL - Robert Kenney
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-) - Ladybug Heather
AOL - Derrick
<- AOL - Costa Walcott
AOL then Juno - Violet Mae Lim
drexel.edu and compuserve - Peter Ghosh
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992. - dthree
Pixi.net - Trish Haley
I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC. - Matthew
75106,3139 - Leo Laporte
I want to say Compuserve - BASEnet
whats 75106,3139? - Zee.
74127,2227 - Christopher Barnes
Those are Compuserve addresses Zee - Adam Turetzky
AOL - Gabe Diaz
Prodigy - Nick Smith
Oof. CompuServe! - Akiva Moskovitz
ah, interesting - thanks Adam - Zee.
My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu. - Akiva Moskovitz
webtv. - Nation Hahn
Yay Nation Hahn! - Rochelle
aol - Russ Jackson
76020,702 lol, had to look mine up! - Adam Turetzky
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally. - Bruce Lewis
netcom - Scott Slade
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary. - Bob M. Montgomery
Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago.. - David van Sunder from Nambu
Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-) - Dan Dashnaw
I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again. - Diego Espinoza V.
columbia.edu - Morton Fox
geez... I can't even remember. - Jim Hearts FF
umich.edu - Ken Sheppardson
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.) - Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998. - David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Prodigy. - Admiral Anika
tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast. - Jeff
crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though - Steve C
Probably Mindspring. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem. - Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail. - Tom Horn
Compuserve was my first Internet email address. - Gary Walter (gwalter) from fftogo
email.com - Alex Scrivener
Hotmail I'm ashamed to say. - Daniel Drysdale from Nambu
web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U - Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hotmail as well :( - Drew Lucas
Genie - Randy Caldwell
yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno! - BEX
Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin. - Glen Mistletoe
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box. - Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol - Sharon McPherson
CompuServe :) - d4RKrITU4L from Nambu
@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address - Bastard Operator From FF
A local ISP called Jetlink. - Stan Augustyniewicz
Alta Vista - Brent - Loving Life
My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house. - Dustin Sallings
Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that? - David Damore
Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89) - Internet's Tad
rocketmail.com - James Beake
AOL - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed
stanford.edu - Paola Bonomo
aol - David Dudley
Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
My employer, Microsoft. 1983 - Rod Bauer from twhirl
my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail - Monique
Hotmail. - Steven Perez
University in '94. didn't know what email was before that. - mikepk
*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet) - Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times. - zephyrlily
deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/ - coffee
AOL of course - Keith - @tsudo
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything! - Bryce Campbell
yep hotmail - Dobromir Hadzhiev
usa.net - Petr Buben
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr. - Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :) - Mark Krynsky
usa.net (netaddres) - Toni @ NavinoT
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net - Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server. - Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular - Gee Ranasinha
Two at same time, utk.edu for work and hotmail for personal, I actually still use that hotmail acct. - Brytne from Nambu
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk - Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo - (jeff)isageek
yahoo - Alfredo
Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good... - Kristian Salonen
AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college. - mark
umich.edu - DGentry
cmich.edu - l.m.orchard from twhirl
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first. - l.m.orchard from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr). - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face* - Iain Baker
Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think it was yahoo or usa.net - Shamir Ramjan
worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider) - Olivier
CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993 - Michael McKean
Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/ - Ben LaMothe
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com - Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone. - Dušan Šimonovič
Local ISP and then Hotmail. - Kevin Bondelli
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now. - Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail. - Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you. - Eric Fisher
Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER! - John Craft
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now - brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS. - Carlos Granier-Phelps
CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104). - George Brickner
BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number). - George Brickner
Hotmail - Damond Nollan
prodigy, if I remember correctly - Chieze Okoye
yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now - Richard Lawler
AOL, back in the day - Matthew Allen Horton
hotmail - Rudolf Olah
Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago. - Tamar Weinberg
AOL - Nurse Katie
Hotmail :( - Mitra_s
uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :) - felix
mine was hotmail too. - Thom Allen
Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection. - Matt Thompson from fftogo
Juno - Martha
Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox. - Jess Lee
Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then. - howard shippin
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net. - Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP. - Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around. - James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno.... - EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995 - Michael K Pate
My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993. - Lisha Sterling from twhirl
aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff. - Daniel Morgan
cix UK - John Francis
cs.berkeley.edu - Piaw Na
I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail. - Jeremy
AOL *facepalm* - Mike Lewis
I think it was AOL or Compuserve - Shevonne
AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now. - jcunwired
LOL @Leo!! - jcunwired
My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom. - Lorin Olsen
not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com - Gökmen Karasu
Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink - William Harryman
The US government. - Alex Scoble
Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail" - irfan ÖZTÜRK
Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail. - josh neff, geek at large
MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period. - Anthony K. Valley ©
AOL - I HAD MAIL! - Mona Nomura
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net). - Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back) - Jorge Escobar
uh.edu, then hotmail. - Arlan Koizumi
UUCP email on unix .. circa 86 - Peter Dawson
comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny. - mike
starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL - Mike Templeton
Mindspring.com - Darrell Bell from twhirl
hawaii.edu - Josh Haley
Aol huuuh - Marie Jubin from Nambu
Admittedly - AOL. - AJ Kohn
@tamu.edu - Carlos M. Gomes
AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail - Kevin Pruett
first email account was @andrew.cmu.edu & first webmail was with lycos! - Matyjas from fftogo
USA.net - Helen Sventitsky
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today. - Jennifer Mitchell
execpc.com. haha. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed
Hotmail, and I think it was 1995. - cecily
Compuserve - Bryan R. Adams
pitt.edu, then netaxs.com. - B. Hatin
Penn State University - Ernie Oporto
My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
hotmail - Dane Findley
angelfire - Rachel Lea Fox
Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now. - Michael Fidler
Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it... - Amy H.
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it. - Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky... - John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not! - Bonnie Foster
hotmail 1995 - Muge Cerman
mail.com *shrug* XD - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail - imabonehead
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years. - Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99). - Ruud van Wijngaarden
hotmail - Bill Hice
@msstate.edu, my university in 1996? - Phillip Stewart
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL. - John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yahoo. God bless Gmail! - Özgür Akman
"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them. - Marg Uerite
it was either aol or nyonline - Lynne d Johnson
Hotmail. Still have it. - MVB (Grinch of FF)
Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail - Nicholas James
AOL for me... horrible. - Michelle
Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it... - Rich
yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail - Yant
Michelle Marie Miller
I spit on your cheesy hospital dramas! ER? Psss! St. Elsewhere? Psss! Grey's Is On Now!
No spoilers, Michelle. Candace and I have it on the DVR. Just waiting for it to get far enough to where we don't have to watch commercials ;) - Bradley McSpinn
Aaaa what is this 1982? Proudly watching Smallville season finale! - Rick Schmidt
Someone is sick and in the hospital! Spoiler Alert! ;) - Michelle Marie Miller
I don't trust my DVR to watch over Izzy for me. And I haven't seen commercials for so long, they're not half bad! - Jess
If the DVR messes up, there's always "alternatives" *cough cough* - Bradley McSpinn
What happened to the decent music they used to play? The stock hollywood suspense tunes they're using makes me feel like having a heart attack. - Jess
I've noticed that too. SO many great tunes have broken out because of that show. Lately, it's been pretty "meh". - Bradley McSpinn
New Missy Higgins is on it tonight, I believe - Michael W. May
Everyone should have a George in their life. - Jess
Michelle Marie Miller
Controversy over explicit Happy Meal CD - http://www.abcactionnews.com/news...
Oh lord . . . the lyric is "looking" but they thinking it sounds like fucking? maybe they need hearing aids - Lindsey is Fierce!
Actually, it does sound REALLY close. My son got it, and I had to do a double-take when we played it in the car. - Bradley McSpinn
It sounds close because they have goofy kids singing over it. The original song doesn't sound like it at all - Lindsey is Fierce!
I agree totally, Lindsey. - Bradley McSpinn
lol @Bradley -- Here's the link to the excerpt for those that want to hear http://192.238.74.74/extra... - Lindsey is Fierce!
Damn! That's pretty close - Michelle Marie Miller
Trish R
Renting movies from Redbox is cheap as long as you remember to take the movie back. Oops.
We abuse the codes. http://www.insideredbox.com/redbox-... At least then the first day doesn't count when you forget or don't get to it. - Alix Whitmire
Yeah, I used a code, too, and if I would have taken it back promptly, it would have been free. Now I'm in for 2 bucks. - Trish R
If you keep it for too long, you can just keep the movie.. :P - Aaron Myers
It was a pretty good movie: "Taken," with Liam Neeson. - Trish R
Well this is great (not). I went to return it and it won't accept it in their dumb machine. - Trish R
Y'know, I rented from Redbox once. It's too big of a pain in the butt to return, for me. I have to go inside the local Wal-Mart. Probably won't do it again, unless they get an outdoor kiosk. - Bradley McSpinn
This kiosk is outside Walgreen's. I called them and sat on hold for 15 min. They said I have to go back to the machine and call them and they'll make sure it goes in and stays and I wouldn't be charged past today. - Trish R
Ian May
The Great MP3 Bitrate Test: My Ears Versus Yours - Bitrate test - http://gizmodo.com/5251247...
Try it out for yourself. - Ian May
Woo, I always love seeing Pure Prarie League being talked about or even better listened too. Brings an overwhelming sense of family pride to my heart. - Jimminy
Generally speaking, I encode to straight 320 CBR. I'd love to do a more lossless format, but the music software that I use to DJ can only read mp3 and wav (and let's face it, wav just isn't viable). - Bradley McSpinn
Zee.
This is why we’re entrepreneurs. (video) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
This is why we’re entrepreneurs. (video)
really inspiring. honestly. - Zee.
Very very funny you posted that just now. Like...wow. - Candace
lol, why? - Zee.
Because both the boi and I work with start up companies. It's starting to get very discouraging, and we are both debating just going back to a 9-5...which is beyond discouraging in itself. - Candace
don't do it Candace! - Zee.
As long as the power stays on, and we can keep somewhere to live. That's all I want, right now. There's nothing as discouraging as spending a year building something, and then not getting paid for it. Right now, we're just waiting on funding to arrive. Fingers are crossed, but man this is tough. - Bradley McSpinn
I do not want to personally. The last thing I ever want to do is be cooped up in a cubicle again. I'm starting to keep an eye out for more freelancing work, making sure I pick up as much voice over work as possible...you know. The whole deal :) - Candace
Love that vid, but it waaaay overdoes the flying text. Stuff like that should stay in videos like Did You Know? - Tyler Hayes
BTW, for those who didn't notice, this is viral marketing done right. - Bradley McSpinn
yup +1 Bradley - Zee.
Is it Bradley? Who was it marketing for? - Tyler Hayes
I have a thing with always watching videos until the end. The marketing was for Grasshopper. You might have known them as Gotvmail. - Bradley McSpinn
Just making sure ;) A lot of people always talk about funny ads, inspirational ads, etc. on TV but can never remember who they're for - we all do it! Also, noted your sarcasm. Nicely played sir! On that token, I'd like to find a study of how many people watch videos like this all the way to the end (for example, I clicked away as soon as I saw the "It still is" quote at the end, because... more... - Tyler Hayes
Not even a hint of sarcasm there. No, seriously. I really do watch videos until the end lol. - Bradley McSpinn
My company uses gotvmail, and we love it -- this rebranding I guess is all good, and the video is great, but it's not yet clear to me if grasshopper offers services different from what gotvmail offered. I guess time will tell! - Gregory Cohen
Great video. - Daniel Brusilovsky
I don't think that they do, @Gregory. Pretty sure that it's a re-brand, but just the paint has changed. - Bradley McSpinn
Bradley McSpinn
Throwing out the bait once again - If you own a business, and need advertising written (radio preferred, but I will consider most any), here's your ONE DAY shot at getting it for free. One ad per person, please, as the last time that I offered this, I was overwhelmed. Ready? Go!
That's awesome of you =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Someone better remind Brad he does have other work to do tomorrow...someone. - Candace
Psh. I only work til 3. Until then, and after that, it's creativity time ;) - Bradley McSpinn
Candace
The kids just got into a literal mud slinging fight. So much win. XD
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She is BEAUTIFUL. Wow. - Mona Nomura
Yes, yes she is ;) - Bradley McSpinn
Zee.
Has anyone had absolutely zero problems with any web hosting company? Or is that just not possible? Any recommendations?
I'm hosting three dedicated servers on Liquidweb for 5 years now and it's a great experience (we've also tried other hosting providers and sucked) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM
Hahahhahahha!! - Mona Nomura
Amazon AWS EC2 has been flawless for me; I can't say the same for the other 6 companies I've hosted in the past - Jorge Escobar
Not the answer you want to hear: fewest problems I've had is with my own server in a local data center. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
1&1 Internet have been 99.9% good. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
+1 for AWS - I haven't been using it heavily, and I've only been using it since march 2008, but it has been flawless. I also use dreamhost - good value, but they ARE cheap :) - martin english
i've had problems of various kinds with them all except http://slicehost.com - chad calease
What are you planning to host mate? Makes a difference to your experience. ie you probably wouldn't go down the route of using AWS if you just want to host a wordpress blog, likewise you wouldn't use 1&1 for running Twitter. - Keith Bennett
Slicehost - Benjamin Golub
All web hosting companies try to please, as the market has gt competitive - TrafficBug
I couldn't recommend them more highly - Speak with Andrew at Glass Obelisk - www.go1.com.au and mention Lucy Lopez. You'll love his work. - Lucy Lopez
I've had outstanding service for over 4 years from LiquidWeb.com, including dedicated, shared and VPS accounts. Very responsive support on the rare times I need it. - Zack
Softlayer. End of story for me. - Bradley McSpinn
I haven't had any problems with my current one. Downtown host [downtownhost.com] but I am planning on moving to A Small Orange [asmallorange.com] eventually. but strictly because I want some Python support. I also had very good experience with Cernax [cernax.com] - John Wang
Thanks Benjamin, that's a Rackspace company. I don't know about problems, but what defines hosting companies is whether you can get service when you do have a problem. My phone number is +1-425-205-1921 and I, and other employees, will take care of you anytime, day or night. That's my personal cell phone, by the way, and I'm not the only employee to hand that out like that. Do the other hosting companies do that? http://www.rackspace.com - Robert Scoble
Not possible! I definitely DO NOT recommend Advanced Internet Technologies AITCOM.NET They really suck! - Jeff P. Henderson
I've had no issues with RIMU. They really have been a pleasure to use. Though you have to want to be a root admin -- a lot of it is "do it yourself" - Mark Philpot
I had no problems with ServerMatrix, back before the merger. I can't speak for The Planet as it currently exists, though. - Roger Benningfield
For basic web hosting, I've been a Cyberwurx customer for around 5 years and even used them for mission critical apps. Never a problem. The tech support is fast, and they know their stuff. Never had a conversation or request where I was challenged, forced through some step-by-step script, or that had to be escalated. I normally just get a quick email back saying the request is done. - Salim Virani
Never get a webhoster until you do a google of "<company name> sucks". Geeks are pretty consistent in using the word/tag 'sucks' when describing bad hosting experiences. In answer to your question, I was with Datapipe for 7 years without a problem, then in two weeks I had two outages (one due to broken hardware, and the other due to a lightning strike triggering the 'explosion' alarm in the data center). But most hosters I use are more reliable than my own power company (3+ blackouts a year). - Andrew Leyden
Andrew, I do the same thing =) Specifically, I search " *** sucks", " *** rocks", " *** + hate", and "hate ***" - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I have had 0 probs with my hosting provider http://totalchoicehosting.com/ I have the CEO on my buddy list. Tech support is avail on IM too and they're great :) My site has been down only, I think 3 times total in my last 5 years with them. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
No problems with Linode for many years except what I caused myself when I moved DNS to them and ignored warnings. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
not sure if perfection is possible -- on a *long enough* timeline, chances are you'll have a problem with any hosting provider. so support quality and response time are important. specific recommendations would depend on whether you want cheap Linux-based cPanel hosting, ASP .NET hosting, dedicated servers etc. but *anecdotally* i have had good experiences with ORCS Web for Microsoft... more... - Karim
I use simplehost and have never had a problem. My only complaint is lack of PHP5. - Admiral Anika
No problems with Bluehost. I have mulitple sites with them. Good options, shell access, multiple domains in one account. Zero problems setting up blogs, databases, etcs. - Rod Bauer from twhirl
I used to be with ResellerZoom and had no problems. However im now with Mediatemple (both their grid and dedicated) because I needed a more scalable solution. They have issues but they also have the smartest engineers working on some pretty cool new stuff - Anthony Feint
In Europe, we have 4 dedicated servers in Dedibox company, cheap and reliable. I am looking for competency (same price) everywhere in the world, desperatly... - Isabelle Ayel
I've had good luck with hostgator - David
While I cannot speak to hostgator's service, it seems that every other aspect of their company's business dealings is very slow. I am very unimpressed with them as a job candidate. After 3 interviews with them I decided that they didn't have it together enough to work for. I would certainly not hire them. On the other hand my experience with Amazon's ec2 service (while limited) has been excellent. Mosso may be another option. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I have to say I like hostgator too -- with very quick customer service on both technical and billing questions/issues. - David Muir
Zee.
Whats the best free file hosting site? I'm uploading a file which i expect will be downloaded by a few thousand people...where's best to put it that's hassle free?
One of your sites servers, you're all paid up for those, and surely have a whole bunch of bandwidth? - Simon Wicks
that's the best option eh? hokay - Zee.
I'm a fan of MegaUpload, fwiw. - Bradley McSpinn
MediaFire. - Vlad Bobleanta
What kind of file? - Admiral Anika
Drop.io, Mediafire, Megaupload, Rapidshare... - Kristian Salonen
Imageshack.us works very well for images - Vin Turk
depending the kind of file. but if it is a small file (less than 50mb) then skydrive is the answer. - Avatar X from FriendFoo
megaupload, zshare and drop.io - Cee Bee
I'd say its your best option yeah, you dont run into the problem of the file expiring because of to many downloads, users wont have to wait 60 seconds after they hit download, pop up ads etc. I've not really tried many file sharing sites, but the ones i have, have all had those problems. Like other people have said though, what type of file, and what sort of people are you expecting to download it? - Simon Wicks
Put in the public folder of your Dropbox and send the link to everyone. - Rahul Das
Drop.io by far. Also Dropbox if you want syncing capabilities - LANjackal
Droplink is awesome. open something in the app and it creates a 24 hr URL http://droplink.me/ - newmedias
Dropbox for me too. Or you can use you idisk if you have mobileme. - Keith Bennett
Dropbox, box.net, fileqube, mediashare, zshare. - LouCypher
jetbytes - TrafficBug
drop.io, dropbox, rapidshare, mediashare, megaupload, torrent. - Alfredo
Megaupload, mediashare and rapidshare - María A. from twhirl
Drop.io, Mediafire - Doug
l0ckergn0me
Rupert Murdoch: “Internet Will Soon Be Over” http://www.infowars.com/rupert-... -- BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Clueless.
Murdoch should rephrase his opinion and replace ''Internet'' with ''myspace'' - Carlos Ayala
Did you read the article, Chris? "He was making reference to the fact that corporate media websites cannot continue to survive under their current failing business model." C'mon, man. If you're going to go for snark, there's so much better material for Murdoch. - Bradley McSpinn
Sounds like he is taking his ball and going home. Myspace is losing traction to Facebook and the Kindle has him tight. - Rolf Schewe
People see the infowars domain and immediately dismiss... I frequent the site and look at their sources and try to determine if its bologna or not. Lot of the time, their sources are public domain - which makes me think. - Bwana ☠
The Guardian article referenced in post says FREE Internet will soon be over. In any case, Murdoch seems to have missed something during his briefing with his advisors. The man is clearly clueless as to what the Internet really is. And he just doesn't know how to monetize his companies besides charging advertising fees. - Will
Will - sadly, that's a big monetizing strategy for a lot of companies on the internet - I think that's his point here. - Bwana ☠
I would have worded it differently personally, but I wouldn't call his claim "clueless" - it's not that far fetched - Bwana ☠
He *IS* clueless. With the resources at his disposal, he could make any one of his ventures successful - so long as he stops relying on traditional models. *sigh* Clueless. - l0ckergn0me
I'd better sell my internets before the price goes down! :o - Jemm
Bwana - advertising isn't the ONLY monetizing strategy News Corp can come up with. Heck, it's News Corp we're talking about here. I guess it's just the idealistic jerk in me to expect something big from someone with a lot of clout. - Will
T-minus two years till this becomes fodder for Jon Stewart (if that). - Paul Balcerak
He does state the "current" internet, meaning the current dominating business models. In my mind, his statements encourage one to monetize using other methods. I don't know, I just see it differently. It's not different than saying podcasting is dead in my mind :) - Bwana ☠
Just like today will be over in about 9 hours and 45 minutes the Internet will be turned off tomorrow for maintenance. - rob friedman
And -1 to infowars for a terrible headline - Bwana ☠
Candace
Hi.
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Who's the douchebag? - Bradley McSpinn
Some guy. - Candace
ZOMG CUTE - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
l0ckergn0me
Is Palm's Pre the first true iPhone competitor? http://www.lockergnome.com/osx... {I'd say yes...]
Am I the only one not at all impressed by this phone? Sorry, Palm. Too little, too late. I sang your praises for years, til I bought a Blackberry and finally "got it". - Bradley McSpinn
good morning chris - Caroline
I'll be impressed with it when it comes out - Bwana ☠
Candace
For the fellow voice over people. Do you find maintaining your appearance just as important as say...a screen actor? Or, do you slack a bit?
Psh. I'd answer this, but looking at my t-shirt, shorts, sandals self sitting about 10 feet from you gives it away. - Bradley McSpinn
You don't count. I live with you. - Candace
And for having to deal with this, I apologize to you :P - Bradley McSpinn
It was more a question for Twitter anyway. I just used ping.fm because...I can. - Candace
Trish R
Everyone I know gets UPS and FedEx deliveries in the afternoons, around 2 or 3 p.m. (or later). Does anyone get a morning delivery or are there just gangs of delivery men who only work from 2-5 every day?
Abby, maybe so! :-) - Trish R
Depends on if it's FedEx regular or FedEx Home, for me. Home comes by 9am, regular by 4pm. UPS? They MIGHT show up by 7pm. - Bradley McSpinn
We've had packages come from two different drivers in the same day. There's a number of divisions in FedEx I think: Regular, Home Delivery, Freight, etc. We usually get FedEx Home Delivery in the afternoon but UPS in the morning. - CAJ, somewhere else
What's FedEx Home? I've never heard of that. There's a different Fed Ex for residence vs business delivery? I receive more UPS deliveries than FedEx, so I'm less familiar with their services. - Trish R
It just depends on the service level it was sent with. If you are remote, not all service levels may be available. With UPS, I've had three separate trips in one day (last holiday season) - that's just crazy. - LogEx
It also very much depends on whether the delivery is going to a business or a residence. Businesses are always, always delivered first. - felicious
Brown says it's a pain. Some of his packages he can't deliver till 3pm. Others have to be delivered by 10am. If the same places gets a overnight and a afternoon delivery, he can't deliver both at the same time. Seems like an incredible waist of time. - Michelle Marie Miller
I thought people chose afternoon delivery just to save money. I wouldn't mind if an afternoon delivery was early, but maybe not with something that's time-sensitive. - Trish R
Our UPS guys usually show up after 5 PM, but then we have a distribution center just down the round from us. Ergo, we're their last run. - Great Scott!
I'm also in Canada and I get almost all my deliveries in the early evening. During holiday seasons, however, they add night shifts and sometimes I get stuff around 7pm - Soup
Eric Rice
I hope the divide between the Left and the Right keeps getting nastier, meaner, more divisive, because that's the only way we can get a solid third party. Maybe get Apple in the mix to do the sociopolitical industrial design? /smirk
Yes, that's all we need. A party who berates all others who don't agree with them, makes really pretty decisions that won't work for what the masses want to do and generally raises the cost of existing with them to something close to the unreachable. No, wait...we already have two parties like this. - Bradley McSpinn
More choices for what sucks less. - Eric Rice
Bradley McSpinn
Bradley McSpinn
Re: The Cycle Archive - 17 Oct 2008 - http://170bpm.net/...
"The archives are fixed. :)" - Bradley McSpinn
Billy Fairchild
Upgrade Your Verizon Blackberry Curve to OS 4.5 And Unlock Your GPS!!!! - http://www.tw3nty3ight.com/2008...
And people wonder why I hate Verizon. I despise their UI, I hate that they cripple their phones. Viva la Sprint, thanks. - Bradley McSpinn
Zach
Ask yourself: When is the last time you used Microsoft Word for anything?
Every single day? - Jordan Hofker
Years. OpenOffice.org for at least the past couple of years, and no it's ENTIRELY Google Docs. - Bradley McSpinn
Bradley McSpinn
BassdriveArchive » Download This - http://bassdrivearchive.com/#
FREE MUSIC! Archives from 25+ live shows on Bassdrive.com. Get your drum & bass fix here, with exclusive tracks you won't hear ANYWHERE else. Oh, and mind the Google ads, won't you? Bandwidth ain't cheap :P - Bradley McSpinn from Bookmarklet
Bradley McSpinn
BassdriveArchive » Download This - http://bassdrivearchive.com/
FREE MUSIC! Archives from 25+ live shows on Bassdrive.com. Get your drum & bass fix here, with exclusive tracks you won't hear ANYWHERE else. Oh, and mind the Google ads, won't you? Bandwidth ain't cheap :P - Bradley McSpinn from Bookmarklet
Bradley McSpinn
bang the box: Video // Hustle Simmons - Everybody - http://bangthebox.net/2008...
Bang the box is written by my friend Jorge. He brings the best in REAL hip hop, drum & bass and electronic music. This video is proof of the freshness that he brings. Do yourself a favor - subscribe to his feed. - Bradley McSpinn from Bookmarklet
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