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The 10 Greatest Nerd Roles of Clint Howard - Topless Robot - http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011...
Sprague D and Comics Forge liked this
"Clint Howard has had two major problems during his lengthy entertainment career. One, he's been forever in the shadow of his older brother Ron Howard, whose career has been infinitely more successful, from Ron's early child actor days to his current work as an Academy Award-winning director. Two, he looks like Clint Howard. These two things are probably related. However, despite these problems, Clint Howard has been in hundreds of films and TV appearances. Sure, most of the movies and shows were B-movies or other crap, but while most child actors' crash and burn around puberty, Clint has managed to become one of America's most resilient character actors. Plus, unlike Ron, who gets balder and weirder looking every year, Clint has actually been growing into his face and kind of getting handsomer! Suck on that, Opie!"
- Bluesun 2600
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Stone, Sharon - http://quotationsbook.com/quote...
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If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
- Shevonne
...she would know
- .LAG liked that
Ha!
- Shevonne
Many men are afraid of women who are fearless.
- Sprague D
well thats akin to the worlds oldest profession !
- Peter Dawson
There was a couple here earlier. It became obvious that this was a meeting of two people who connected via a singles site when they began arguing over which person's profile was more inaccurate.
ANJELINABANANA, CarlC, LB so u no it's real and 5 other people liked this
I really missed turning on the Xmas tree lights this morning. The tree went down yesterday, tossed gently into the chipper pile, lights and decorations packed away, the floor vacuumed, furniture slid back into their traditional spots. The old year was thus put away and the new year started. But without the lights...
Sprague D, ☆彡Jazzy-B, just ZONED and 6 other people liked this
We had the same ritual.
- The original Kevin
i'm moving the tree lights into the studio til next Christmas. :P
- Joe The Sausage
While we were taking ours down last night I was tempted to hang the lights somewhere, but we really don't have anywhere to hang them.
- Lix
you can get away with alot when it comes to studio decor, as long as it doesn't take up floor space or contaminate the electrical system.
- Joe The Sausage
Each year I think of keeping the lights up...but then I think without an end to something there can't be the beginning, so away they go...
- Todd Hoff
Tonite going to @Castro_Theatre to see @ADuralde talk with @JenniOlsonSF about Xmas films with & see Gremlins 7pm & Black Christmas 9:15pm
Sprague D liked this
The ROBOT from "Lost in Space" - http://www.lostinspacerobot.com/index...
Full Size, Limited Edition, Fully Licensed Replicas
- clarke thomas
Wish like hell I had the $US25k for this
- Mo Kargas
Fwd: took me a second to see it, lol.
peyton maddock, Robin, adam and 10 other people liked this
Holy cow!
- Vicarbott
douchebag
- Brent
which one, the original small offense (pushing through the guy) or the second reactionary offense (tripping.) ?
- echostreamer
The tripper. Punishment exceeded the crime.
- Brent
guy in tan jacket was going the wrong way thru the turnstile. only one asshat in this scenario.
- Joe The Sausage
hey, he did look back and didn't just go on.
- Harold
only in an effort to make it look like he had nothing to do with it.
- Joe The Sausage
was the punishment he delivered his intent? did he intend for her to fall flat? (if he did, he's the worst offender, if not, remember, she did initiate the conflict.)
- echostreamer
Loved it!
- adam
I cant see any problem here!
- Robin
Even Alien Abductions Save Energy: Alien Abduction Lamp - http://techwag.posterous.com/even-al...
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- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
oh I so want one - might have to be my treat to myself - but getting one anyways.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Neowin.net - Windows 7 overtakes Vista in market share - http://www.neowin.net/news...
Amir, Alex Scrivener, Spencer and 2 other people liked this
"According to Statscounter.com, Windows 7 managed to take 20.09% total market share, while Vista has now sunk to 19.41% worldwide. Windows Vista released to manufacturer in November 2006, and shipped to retail in January 2007. Windows 7 managed to surpass Windows Vista in as little as 12 months, even with Vista being released more than two and a half years earlier, selling more than 175 million licenses. Windows XP still dominates the market with 53.92%, but is quickly declining month-over-month as users are quickly adopting Windows 7. Windows XP has lost as much as 24% over the last year since Windows 7 has been released."
- Jemm
from Bookmarklet
Indeed.
- Jemm
Any negative attitude on the part of others towards you is their pain, not yours.
RT @markfrisk: Why do people think it's a good idea to pipe their mundane 4Square check-ins (grocery, train station, doctor, home) to Twitter? Clutter.
MarkCarras and Sprague D liked this
Because my people need to know. They deserve to know.
- I like big Botts
from FreshFeed
Agreed. "I just achieved the Cracker Jack level on FourSquare!" News I can't use.
- Sprague D
hehe :)
- Susan Beebe
Johnny's 30th birthday: meat in your mouth all day long!
"Sedat", Sprague D, Vicarbott and 6 other people liked this
Stefan Hayden
watched Saturday Night Live: Digital Short: Laser Cats 5. - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
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Sigourney's got game.
- Sprague D
Validating That Twitter Engagement Has Dropped Off. This solidified my feeling that only real relationships matter. http://blog.steffanantonas.com/focusin...
The Real sofarsoShawn, maxilprof, Jaap Willem and 12 other people liked this
*Real* relationships meaning ... ?
- CarlC
Meaning...with people you actually know, who are aware of you, what you care about, etc and who trust and listen to you. Everything else is a vanity metric.
- Steffan Antonas
If you climb out of the tech bubble long enough to look around, you'd discover you're absolutely wrong.
- Karoli
@Karoli - Did you read my post, or are you just making a statement based on my 140 character tweet? I'm interested to hear your thoughts. I'm willing to listen humbly if you're willing to make a data driven argument that holds water instead of just saying "you live in a tech bubble, and you're wrong". I'm looking at Hitwise Data, blog posts by people who have hundreds of thousands of followers, click through data etc. How about telling me why you think I'm off base. I'm all ears. ;-)
- Steffan Antonas
I read your post. I also realize I'm rapidly gaining a 'cranky lady geek' reputation here, but to say that only REAL LIFE relationships matter is simply ignoring reality. When you begin such an analysis by looking at the SUL as a measure of engagement, you've already hit the metric. No one but entertainers and geeks give a rolling rip about that SUL. Certainly real folks don't. I have...
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- Karoli
Tech blogging ,particularly when viewed thru the lens that is Robert Scoble, focuses on the metric of the next cool thing. Those of us who actually remain, discover community. For 16 years, community on the web has been my business. Political twitterers get it; art twitterers get it; mommy twitterers get it. When it is not viewed through the metric lens, what you discover is that REAL RELATIONSHIPS form, grow and thrive on Twitter. [/end rant]
- Karoli
or to put it in even shorter terms, leave the metrics; look at the conversation. Metrics are gamed.
- Karoli
So you unfollowed all those people who were following you? I'm sure you kept them as followers though. Kind of a huge douchebag move in my book. Yes I read your post and your weak logic for doing so. You're getting what you want to oh well, right?
- Self Deprecate Humor
I didn't unfollow anyone. What are you talking about? I follow those who engage. I'm not interested in following spammers and marketers or link farms.
- Karoli
Not you :P You're awesome
- Self Deprecate Humor
My concern is having all those followers that he followed back and then one day running a script that kind of kicked them all in the balls.
- Self Deprecate Humor
ah, okay gotcha. There are lots of people who do that. I follow the ones who I think are interesting even if they don't follow me, but again, unfollowing is a sign of following metrics...something I think creates false impressions.
- Karoli
Just to add my two cents, the reason you're off base is that people don't stop being "real" when they go online. They're still "real" people and if they engage in "real" interaction, they develop "real" relationships. As one who met a "twitter friend" in "real" life, I can tell you that the transition was seamless, both of us felt completely at ease because we "really" did know each...
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- Mark Welkie
Karoli: I unfollowed everyone because my inbound column in Seesmic had turned totally useless and so had my DMs thanks to spam. Now I've refollowed 16,000 people -- all manually -- and Twitter is 100x more useful today. I'd do it again in a second!
- Robert Scoble
Robert, your inbound stream is unmanageable no matter what. You're right -- the automatic follow of everyone who followed you was a mistake. I follow manually, usually as a result of a conversation. It seems to work.
- Karoli
I can see how one would get overwhelmed by an enormous following, quantity is not quality. The relationships will be superficial. But as one who's spent the last 20 years building relationships by virtue of the written word alone, I will join the growing chorus of dissent. :) Before I was online, I was a pen pal. I wrote to over 50 people, in almost as many countries--by hand,...
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- Deborah
This is a great discussion...Steffan, are you seeing why I answered the way I did now? All the obsession over the SUL is silly, because the SUL, like the new retweet, is a gameable metric. True community is not measured in clicks and follows.
- Karoli
I like how LinkedIn managed the scorekeeping that arose on their site. They capped the visible connections at 500. I think that twitter used the follower count and associated gaming to grow their network. I would love to see twitter cap the publicly visible followers at 500. It would change the community for the better.
- Jim Posner
Love that term-- "Vanity Metric"
- Kirste Mitchell
from iPhone
Is there a short summary of what you're saying?
- Patricia
Yeah, approach ppl like numbers, you get no relationship.
- Deborah
Karoli was batting a 1000 on this thread. :)
- Micah
Hmm so my relationships on Twitter aren't real. Thanks for the enlightenment.
- Mona Nomura
great post Steffan! Agree!
- Alexey
@Mark Welkie - Right on. That's exactly what I'm talking about. I COMPLETELY agree with you, in fact, you've said better what I couldn't above in the third or fourth comment from the top - People don't stop becoming "real" when they're online. Totally the opposite. The beauty of Twitter is that you can create relationships with real people you've never met or would never have had a...
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- Steffan Antonas
@Karoli - Yes. Definitely a good discussion, but I do want to clear a few things up.... #1 I linked to my comment above to illustrate that EVEN the people on the SUL (in this case Anil Dash) do not get inundated with @'s etc - my point was NOT to glorify the SUL in any way. Just the opposite. I have many problems with the SUL and what it does to the ecosystem. The real point is that the...
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- Steffan Antonas
@Mona - That's not what I'm saying at all. If you're talking to people, engaging and having conversations on Twitter - that's real. You mistook the word "real" for "offline". Perhaps my fault, but I live online, so I don't separate "offline from online" when it comes to relationships. It's all real.
- Steffan Antonas
@Deborah - Thank you for that excellent summary. You said in one line what I was trying to say in a 3000 word blog post! See above - "Yeah, approach ppl like numbers, you get no relationship. - Deborah"
- Steffan Antonas
@Karoli - Btw, did you read the actual blog post, or just the comment I linked to. The post itself was what I was talking about when I asked "did you read it", not the comment. I think that's where the confusion about the SUL came from. ;-)
- Steffan Antonas
Steffan, thanks, glad I could encapsulate. I also think there has been a bit of misfired communicating in this thread. I went back and read your whole linked post and see we're on the same page. Your response to Mark makes that even more clear to me. Still, I've met ppl who consider all online interaction as "not real." And because many are using Twitter just to amass followers to whom...
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- Deborah
I read your blogpost and I agree with you 100%. You've echoed my own thoughts and feelings about my Twitter experience. Karoli made some great points as well. I think there was some miscommunication going on there because you are both saying similar things. IIRC, the great follower race began in late November or early December of 2008. Long before the SUL. Having followers just for the...
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- Mark Davidson
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arnaldostream to arnaldostream's feed, All Things Google, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, All Things Mobile
Exclusive: Google Nexus One hands-on, video, and first impressions -- Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2010...
Benin Brown, amarquart, Willem (@wim66) ☠ and 8 other people liked this
"That's right, humans -- Engadget has its very own Nexus One. You've seen leaked pics and videos from all over, but we're the first publication to get our very own unit, and we plan on giving you guys the full story on every nook and cranny of this device. In case you've been living under a rock, here's the breakdown of the phone. The HTC-built and (soon to be) Google-sold device runs Android 2.1 atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch, 480 x 800 display, has 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB)."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
that's a sweet UI - what is it doing there?!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Not sure, but that's probably one of the animated wallpapers.
- arnaldostream
Would be cool if it's some kind of ambient app
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Happy New Years Eve Eve, Friendfeed. *cheers*
CarlC, Lix, mohammadk and 13 other people liked this
cheers
- just ZONED
same to you! ;-)
- AJ Batac :)
Penny: Happy NYE then! :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Happy New Year : )
- liladreams
Feliz Año Nuevo!
- Iván Abrego
Cheers! ;)
- keiko-san
happy new year Nicholas
- mohammadk
BBC News - Animal Collective album tops 2009 music critics' poll - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Nispell, Kol Tregaskes, Sprague D and Demetrios the Traveller liked this
"A record by psychedelic indie act Animal Collective has been named best album of 2009 in a round-up of end-of-year polls by UK music critics. Merriweather Post Pavilion, their eighth studio album, topped retailer HMV's annual "poll of polls" survey."
- M F
from Bookmarklet
I've seen it high on a few lists this year. For me, it wasn't great but a far better album than their previous ones.
- Kol Tregaskes
fuckyeahmarilynmonroe:
thoudostwish:
(via lolatejeda) - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
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Yolanda, Parth Awasthi, Andrew C (✓) and 5 other people liked this
Colbert's Nuclear Explosion - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Eugene Petrenko, Sprague D, Alexey Gopachenko and 6 other people liked this
Removed from youtube in 3... 2... 1...
- Derek van Vliet
Fantastic one!
- Alexey Gopachenko
Bit by bit (via PDR) - http://emmeffe.tumblr.com/post...
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neferteti, Kol Tregaskes, Iván Abrego and 3 other people liked this
follow the yellow brick road...
- Michael W. May
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Microsoft Talk, Windows 7, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Microsoft MVPs to host global Windows 7 summit - http://www.neowin.net/news...
Sprague D liked this
"The summit is going to be held online, and is hosted by 5 Microsoft MVP's who worked closely with Microsoft during the development of Windows 7. The website welcomes you with: "Meet the team that worked closely with the development team in Redmond, built production systems, configured, deployed, hardened, debugged, tested, crashed, modified and ran the new platform through all possible scenarios." The webinar will feature experts from around the world that will perform live demos, in-depth presentations, answer questions, and bring you up to date on what you need to know about Windows 7. The five speakers that will be speaking during the event are:"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Astro Boy Teaser Trailer - http://www.slashfilm.com/2008...
April Buchheit, Iván Abrego, philsmirnov and 5 other people liked this
OMG OMG!
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
wow
- RokhSaare
A Monty Python Reunion! - http://screencrave.com/2009-08...
Sprague D, Rodrigo Jaroszewski, Richard Walker and 8 other people liked this
"On October 15 at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman will be present to support their upcoming documentary. Yes, Chapman will be there in some capacity, even though he passed away 20 years ago. Their documentary is called Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut), and the founding members will be present for the screening and will participate in a Q&A session. A six-hour version of the documentary will have its premiere on IFC on October 18th."
- michael sean wright
from Bookmarklet
this is going to be a great doc!
- michael sean wright
Lawyer's Cut - lol
- Richard Walker
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Talk, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43, Chrome, All Things Google
Microsoft: "dropping support for IE6 is not an option" - http://arstechnica.com/microso...
Aram Zucker-Scharff, Peter, Sprague D and Ryan - @magicofpi liked this
"The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have. As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
YES IT IS!!!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Oh, come on!!
- Peter
@LANjackal We don't have an IT deparment. ;)
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
There are a number of deficiencies with the arguments and assertions presented in this blog. The notion of using the "forced upgrade" as a defense to supporting IE6 is a bit of the kettle calling the pot black. Just ask Windows XP users who are perfectly content using that OS and have no desire to go to Vista or Windows 7. The bottom line is the further away from IE6 the world goes, the...
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- Noah White
I wish there was an inplace upgrade path from XP to Windows 7.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, All Things Google, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Bet on Office Web Apps Over Google Apps, Analyst Says - Business Center - PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/busines...
Robert Scoble, Turner Burns, Sprague D and Martin Bryant liked this
"Although Web Apps may be a better fit for consumers and enterprise adoption of online apps will be slow, the two worlds will blend eventually, says McLeish - and this is where Microsoft will have an advantage over other Web-based alternatives. "The big differentiator here is that Microsoft is providing more options to businesses in the ways which Web-based apps can be deployed," says McLeish. For instance, for businesses licensed for Microsoft's Software Assurance maintenance program it is not a requirement to access Office Web Apps through the Windows Live Online Service or through a subscription-based model. Microsoft is allowing companies with Software Assurance to run Office Web Apps as a free service within the company's firewall, and then give workers access to the apps via the Web. This will give skittish IT managers more control over potentially sensitive online content."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
In other news, as Betanews recently pointed out, the Twitter security disaster couldn't have come at a better time for MS. If CIOs weren't dead scared of data leaving their enterprise before, they are now. Which is where MS' option of hosting Office Web Apps locally within the enterprise comes in.
- LANjackal
Finally, a rational take on this.
- Sprague D
Ironically, the initial breach into the Twitter employee's Gmail account occurred b/c MSFT's "Windows Live Hotmail" recycles dormant email accounts, where a password reset request from Gmail was sent after the Hacker scooped up (re-registered) that Hotmail account. This isn't to say that Gmail doesn't have sec issues as well, but to argue for MSFT's security credentials as superior is...
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- Alex Schleber
The argument isn't about MS vs. Google per se, but on-site vs. off-site service hosting in general. It only just so happens that MS specializes in the former while Google specializes in the latter. Data is factually a lot more secure when contained within the enterprise than when transmitted outside of it. The Twitter attack worked well because so much of the company's internal...
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- LANjackal
from IM
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, All Things Google, Chrome, TheNextWeb Forum, Windows 7, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Spite Is Not a Business Strategy - http://gigaom.com/2009...
Brad Jackson, Ho John Lee, MikeAmundsen and Sprague D liked this
"Count me among the skeptics who see Google’s Chrome OS announcement this week as, first and foremost, an effort to induce pain in its longtime rival Microsoft. And a pointless one at that."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
I think anyone that thinks google is making a business decision based on spite isn't giving the situation much thought. Google has slowly been building or aquiring every common dektop app but online. Making a simple is that expedites access to these online tools seems pretty reasonable to me and can be justified without needing spite
- Bill Rawlinson
from iPhone
GOOG's biggest problem is that they haven't mastered the 80/20 rule. they release their apps at the 80% done (beta) stage. and take forever to finish off the 20%. for "online" this has been acceptable (i.e. gmail) for desktop not so much (Chrome continues to unimpress, Andriod has very low adoption). an OS will be even harder to finesse. MSFT has lots of problems, but they know how to ship (even when shipping is not advisable).
- MikeAmundsen
I understand the Google lashback, but I just don't see this as spite. I can't imagine anyone at google as seeing the Google OS as better than Mac and Windows for most things. This OS, like The browser, targets a vey specific need: a very lightweight wrapper to make very powerful web applications beyond what is capable in browsers today. If they can spur innovation in standards in the process, well that's just an added plus.
- Scott Loganbill
from iPhone
The Chrome OS move by Google is a nod toward LINUX, toward open source, and toward the open Web with HTML + JavaScript as the key software stack (that is what the Chrome browser was/is all about, fighting off proprietary solutions like Adobe Air and MSFT Silverlight by massively increasing JS performance). Can’t see anything wrong with that.
- Alex Schleber
Mossberg on Chrome OS, Arrington and more - http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009...
Sprague D liked this
Uh oh... looks like the puppets are turning into a mob.
- Sprague D
Today's women's creed: Men are like linoleum. If you lay them right the first time, you can walk on them for 20 years - OUCH!!!!
Paul, Sprague D, Michael Fidler and 4 other people liked this
Yikes!!
- Mo Kargas
LOL...yowza!!
- JA Castillo
i really hate that I agree with Mark Cuban, but i do when it comes to free http://blogmaverick.com/2009... $$
Sprague D, AJ Kohn and Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
So true. Free isn't sustainable.
- AJ Kohn
Funny how he is saying free is not sustainable on a Wordpress blog.
- Derek Coward
He's not saying that free isn't sustainable, he's saying that companies that make a business from free cannot sustainably do so. Bit of a difference there. For customers free is sustainable as we will go from one free product to the next. For most of these services we won't pay for it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
His blog post is about how companies that use free as part of their business model won't stay on top, but then again don't ALL companies face that same problem? Free really has nothing to do with it. Plus, the guy just bugs me for some reason.
- Derek Coward
@Derek, I believe word press makes its money off professional services, no?
- Patricia
Patricia, exactly. Their professional services are helped by all the eyeballs that are brought to the company because of the free, not despite of it.
- Derek Coward
Derek- agreed completely. Patricia- Wordpress would not be nearly as successful as it is if it was not free AND open-source. They built a HUGE community around a free product and then added features over time that they can charge for and make more convenient for their average users. Oh, and advertising helps supplement their self-hosted blogs.
- Daniel Zarick
What we need to realize is that people pay for convenience. Someone who understands tech stuff will host their own blog, therefore using a free CMS (ie: Wordpress). Someone who isn't familiar with hosting services will pay for similar things that Wordpress offers for free on the open-source version. This is the same with most everything: you pay for a plumber because you can't do it...
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- Daniel Zarick
So offer something for free that is pretty broad and easily accessed, but charge for the part of your product/service/whatever that makes life more convenient and better for your customers.
- Daniel Zarick
Am I alone is occasionally using "like" as a bookmark so I can use "My Discussions" to later find a post I want to read more about?
Carlton Hackett, Sprague D, Derek Coward and comix aka martha liked this
No I do the same thing :)
- comix aka martha
I do it too, and for ones I know I am going to want to refer to later I have a private group to share items to, just to bookmark them.
- April
I am also guilty. :(
- Carlton Hackett
April, I'm liking the idea of sharing to a private group. I'll have to try that out.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
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