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"Arcadiy – you are correct (although that camera has since been misplaced/stolen). The Sony Webbie HD was not worthy of review.. it was utter crap! The sound was horribly clicky, it used the proprietary Sony Memory Sticks, the interface was annoying, the screen was tiny and the video quality was abysmal. And you had to remove the battery to charge it! Avoid at all costs." - Paul Stamatiou

"I got mine 12/5 on Amazon and it shipped with firmware 1.06" - Paul Stamatiou

"Hey Allen – hope things all is well in NYC. As for the price, I was just listing the MSRP, I got it for $140 on Amazon the week after Thanksgiving. I usually list MSRP prices on here so it’s easier for people to compare things with prices of other items. I’m sad to hear you had a different experience with your Zi8. What types of recording did you use it for? (Edit: just read about using it for interviews) I must say that most of my recording was in the outdoors so quality was better than indoor lighting situations.. although even then I recorded this indoors yesterday and it turned out alright (albeit with some indoor lights on): http://www.youtube.com/watch... Yeah the little SDHC flap was slightly annoying. Took me a while to find out how to open it initially. I probably wouldn’t be able to open it if I had cut my finger nails the same day." - Paul Stamatiou

"Well for one – you need at least 9MB/sec (if I recall correctly) or so write speeds to support 1080p or 720p 60fps on this camera, otherwise it stops recording after about 2 seconds as it can’t keep up. But the biggest reason for Class 10 cards is just the speed with which you can suck down all the photos onto your computer! Yeah I have been looking everywhere for that remote control!" - Paul Stamatiou

"Yeah I’m on the latest 1.06 – you’re right in that I hear the last firmware was much more jerky but when using this one I had there was a point where it passed 2X on its way to 4X zoom and it did that in a choppy manner for me at least… and yeah it gets dark at that point as well." - Paul Stamatiou

"Yep you are correct for both of your questions – the audio output is from the PreSonus over USB which acts as an external sound card. You can skip the PreSonus if you like and just connect minijack to TRS if you aren’t a big audio person as you will probably not notice much of a difference. Truth be told I no longer use my PreSonus as I became too attached to adjusting volume with the keyboard controls on my MacBook and did not like reaching over to the volume control knob on the PreSonus Audiobox all the time!" - Paul Stamatiou

"Wow what a great line-up guys!! Atlanta's first WordCamp will be something for the books. :)" - Paul Stamatiou

"Yup, that's the one. The only issue I ran into with install today was that in my unibody 17-inch (latest gen, got it just a few months ago), the bluetooth module does not screw into the optibay (it was originally screwed into the superdrive). There are holes in the optibay for it, but the screws don't fit. Not a big deal though, the module is very small and won't move if left by itself (attached to a larger display cable)." - Paul Stamatiou

"bought myself another 80GB X25-M SSD along with MCE optibay so I can RAID-0 them in my 17-in unibody macbook pro. Also a 32GB Class 10 SDHC card for my Kodak Zi8. And a UI stencil set for making website mockups http://www.uistencils.com/ I got my family a 23andme ancestry DNA test and they LOVED it. Gave bro-in-law & sister a Flip MinoHD for baby vids" - Paul Stamatiou

"goals in general: Market and grow to 50,000 users, find way to hire full-time developers. Keep experimenting with monetizing my blog and grow to $3-4k/month. Eat less red meat and jog more. Pay off more student loans. Buy a laptop/netbook for newborn nephew and get him hooked. Find a girlfriend again. Move my money around (read: ditch Bank of America)." - Paul Stamatiou

"HP has an official reply on one of their blogs. I had twittered about it last week and they replied and pointed me to http://www.thenextbench.com/t5... their follow up http://www.thenextbench.com/t5...... My guess is the people in the YouTube video didn't bother to calibrate the camera, as there is an HP guide somewhere in there showing off the plethora of settings." - Paul Stamatiou

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"doesn't seem like that's possible in OS X due to no /proc natively. I'm going to see if I can do it with MacFUSE & procfs.." - Paul Stamatiou

"Marshall, thanks for stopping by – been reading you since your TechCrunch days! I agree with your stance that a launch should be open for everyone to get the scoop on at the same time. That being said we wanted to spread the press out (and I went to TC first because I had a personal connection there, vs cold-emailing/pitching many others), most importantly as we were worried our site could not handle all the traffic from several large blogs all on the same day, and that if we caught a bug (like the ones we did catch as mentioned in this post, also we caught a Twitter overload error and display a graceful message instead of just failing), we didn’t want it to ruin the experiences." - Paul Stamatiou

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"430s to be deprecated soon. 458 Italias for me." - Paul Stamatiou

"Interesting post and thanks for offering a different perspective to mine! In regards to new users, do you think it's because registration is only done through OpenID (which is great on a tech-heavy site like Stackoverflow) with a not-so-tech-savvy style-centric audience? A massive-to-us 34% of new user signups that day were through Twitter, thanks to a riduculously low one-click barrier of entry. As for contacting bloggers, we only got in touch with TC for launch day and have yet to reach out to my other blogger friends, et cetera. Gonna wait til after the holidays. That being said - you are definitely getting some traction with the 700+ uniques/day. Grats!" - Paul Stamatiou

"Hey Zak, thanks for stopping by. As for pitching/talking with TechCrunch, I have had a prior relationship with one of their writers (Daniel Brusilovsky) as I have been blogging for 4+ years on my own blog and naturally run into and gotten to know them. Skribit was also mentioned on TechCrunch way back when in November 2007: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007... and I had been mentioned on there when my Yahoo! intern project was launched: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006... so they knew a bit about me and were happy to hear my startup launch pitch. I can’t comment on what the process of getting on TechCrunch is like otherwise." - Paul Stamatiou

No kidding. Not only do I not want handprints on the window, but the creaking noise worries me. - Admiral Anika

yeah im worried the glass will not handle that stress over time.. and gah fingerprints - Paul Stamatiou

Just in case you didn’t get the memo; the New York startup scene is taking off. - Paul Stamatiou

"Hey Wayne – just saw your tweet about having WP 2.9 posting issues (which you obviously fixed). I have yet to publish anything on 2.9 but have it installed – what issue did you run into exactly?" - Paul Stamatiou

"This one by Warren Buffett always rings true: “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”" - Paul Stamatiou

"Great interview guys!" - Paul Stamatiou

"There’s always Skribit! haha /shameless plug" - Paul Stamatiou

"Hi Vince – just upgraded your account!" - Paul Stamatiou

"So glad I didn't get a netbook for the holidays! I can't wait for these Atom upgrades to make their way into new netbooks." - Paul Stamatiou

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Paul Stamatiou created a new suggestion: upgrade to the new skribit widget (faster, more customization). - Paul Stamatiou