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Is Yelp first US Augmented Reality app on iPhone thanks to secret feature? Turn it on here: (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
ashish, ewing2001akaNicomedy2010, Susan Beebe and 7 other people liked this
How to do this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Installed it, works awesome!
- Kooleido
Thanks Robert!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Just tested it in Vancouver BC, and it works here too.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Do they have one for android?
- Srikanth
Pocket Universe will overlay constellations over a live view of the night sky; that sounds like "augmented reality" to me, and that application has been out for a while. I don't know why people keep claiming that the Yelp thing is the first.
- Glen Mistletoe
I've got Poket Universe, and love it. But it's not a live video overlay, it's just a bitmap of the sky. Which makes a lot of sense when you're out using it in the dark.
- Steve Feinstein
I thought there was one of the planetarium apps that had a live video overlay—they were discussing it at #gnomedex
- Glen Mistletoe
see also TAT augmented ID [etc...] http://ff.im/75zuX
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
After lots of shaking (and starting to think I'd been hoaxed!) I got it to come on and it works - very cool :)
- David Meredith
from iPhone
Google should offer a SecurID (or similar) option on all accounts, and as a domain policy on apps-for-your-domain. I would definitely pay to get this.
Zafer Yılmaz, Umakanthan Chandran, Brian Kenyon and 135 other people liked this
E-trade offers them for $25 https://us.etrade.com/e.... The way it works is that this keychain thing spits out a new number every minute, and you include that number with your password at login. Even if someone gets your password (due to a keylogger or the like), it will quickly be invalid.
- Paul Buchheit
Paypal offers them for 5$
- John Blanton
Wells Fargo sent me one for a business account (free with the package).
- Michael Herf
Blizzard (Warcraft etc.) offers them for $6.50 (except they're sold out currently -- http://www.blizzard.com/store...), or free as an app on the iPhone.
- Stephen Mack
Blizzard almost never has them in stock. Whenever they get a batch they sell out in a few hours. Apparently they work. lol
- Heather
I do not know how reliable they are now but a few years ago, the quartz in this would get out of sync for a non trivial percentage of users, which resulted in a lot of customer support issues.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
bought one for the hubby's warcraft account. he hasn't been hacked since. (nearly once every couple weeks prior to that)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I would pay for this option also and being that I run GApps at work, would also do it for all staff.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
What would keep someone from writing this as an iPhone/Android app?
- Matt Cutts
It would need to hook into the Google auth system Matt. (or automatically change my password every minute, which would probably trigger some abuse system inside google)
- Paul Buchheit
Matt: Nothing, as demonstrated by Blizzard's implementation of it as a free iPhone app already. :)
- Stephen Mack
I wish this could end phishing, but it can't, because "it will quickly be invalid" doesn't help much if it's used to generate a session token the very moment it's entered. Perhaps the key should ask you what OS/browser you're using, how recently you logged in on that machine, etc. -- facts known to Google and associated with your browser session -- and generate different numbers depending on your answers. Tricky business.
- Daniel Dulitz
It doesn't solve all problems Daniel, but it does solve some. The twitter hack for example was apparently due to a guessed password or something (though I'm not up-to-date on the news, so maybe that's no longer the story).
- Paul Buchheit
Frankly, I want an RFID-like chip in my cell phone + ubiquitous RFID readers. The cell phone would also require you to type a password or PIN, so it's something you have + something you know. And there's a fake PIN that looks like it worked but causes a lockdown behind the scenes, so if you get mugged you tell people the PIN is 5555 when your PIN is really 2343.
- Matt Cutts
Paul, it's just a lot easier to make this happen if it solves the _biggest_ problem. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
I think the biggest problem is that people want absolute convenience and absolute security. I have never had any personal information stolen or accounts hacked. It might be because I'm a boring person not worth stealing from, but it could also be that I don't put information all over the place. I only use my phone to make calls, I only download from well known sites, I don't allow porn...
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- Heather
I disagree with that reasoning Daniel. The phishing problem is real, but today's Twitter problem for example does not appear to have been phishing related, and probably would have been prevented by a device such as this -- is that not sufficient evidence that this solvable problem is worth solving? It also prevents people from using bad passwords, using the same password on multiple accounts, etc, which is very useful in the apps-for-your-domain context.
- Paul Buchheit
As soon as PayPal offered theirs I bought it immediately and like many others, I'm in line to get one for our two WoW accounts. I loved these as a Systems Admin where we required them to get past the firewalls if you were a remote worker.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
+1 Paul, I've been a SecureID user many years at work, and with ETrade, so I've got two, so far, but it makes you wonder if every account you used required SecureID, you'll eventually need a REALLY BIG keychain. ;)
- .LAG liked that
There is no reason why the same SecureID fob can't be used with more than one site.
- Jauder Ho
Matt Cutts: BlackBerry (maybe only BES) has had "password under duress" for a while. When enabled you swap the first and last characters of your handset password, it unlocks but also triggers admin side alerts. Quite cool, but I suspect the only people that use it will be the military :)
- Alex Lomas
jh: yeah, RSA should probably offer this as a service; get one SecurID from them, and you can register it with any site that supports it.
- Tudor Bosman
Paul, no, I don't think the fact that some hacks would be prevented by a method is sufficient reason to implement that method. Apps has supported SAML for quite a while, see http://code.google.com/apis... , so Apps admins can use auth methods of their choice including this one. If I'm going to take your $25 for a token, I'd like to make it more...
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- Daniel Dulitz
@jh, @Tudor: yeah it would be great if one SecureID could service multiple accounts for the owner, but i think each key fob is unique to the account holder and service they're issued for; some foreknowledge of the site/account the fobs will be used for is required. with the one I use at work, I signed some paperwork, sent it to Tech, and then got the fob few days later. Sounds like a potential customer-service nightmare for RSA if they when that route.
- .LAG liked that
They'd probably pick up more paid accounts. Just the concept would probably convince numerous new users.
- Charlie Anzman
Great idea! It's also a great way of branding the name if it's on a key chain of something else cool. Verisign offers it as a second layer of security on their OpenID accounts. They were charging before, but I just checked and it's free now. I'll have to get it for my account. Two-factor identification should be standard everywhere, especially on bank accounts.
- Michael Fidler
I'm waiting for Google to handle all my Internet passwords, all encrypted behind a master Google accounts password and a security calculator/keychain type of mechanism. I wouldn't perhaps need to use that physical extra security code each time I log in. It could be set to once a day, and secure login can be reset at any time during the day (if you don't feel confortable using public web terminal at a netcafe, you can simply activate secure login for any activity done after you logout.
- Charbax
Also, I believe Google should easily show me a complete log of all activities on my Google account, this way I could find out if something fishy is going on. If one is paranoid while using a public terminal, there should be a "monitor in realtime all activity" window so you can see if anything weird is going on while you are logged in and you should imediately be able to cancel/restore/logout in realtime once any of that fishy activity has been detected.
- Charbax
HELL YES.
- Zee.
For $25 -- that's worth the peace of mind.
- CarolAnnB
Matt, regarding RFID: I've seen applications using bluetooth for a similar purpose. If a specific phone comes within range, the computer unlocks/wakes up/launches the missiles/etc. I'm not sure that RFID adds much, though I'm unfamiliar with how easy it is to spoof the identity of either bluetooth or RFID.
- DGentry
in case you weren't aware, there are other options for SecurID other than the fob - like the mobile app http://www.rsa.com/node... or software token (RSA is an EMC company, my employer)
- Stuart Miniman
I have my paypal key, I feel secure because of it. And it only cost me $5.
- Luis
See Arcot's integration with Google Apps: http://arcot.com/product...
- Scott Loftesness
跟我们公司的只是圆形图案不一样…………
- 疯狂的糯米
The future of security is going to include some strong password/identity tools. Agreed on the value of the rsa key, could our smart phones generate similar sequences without risking theft?
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Mark - RSA is doing this now, see http://www.rsa.com/node...
- Stuart Miniman
@Charbax: Gmail (and possibly other apps?) does show you when someone else is logged in at the same time as you are, as well as their IP. Not precisely what you're suggesting, but is still quite helpful.
- Joel Webber
surprised these things are still popular. Years ago we used them at GE and perhaps they still do... But wouldn't it be more convenient to add a dynamic part to a password with a question like your wife's age + XX, or day first child was born + XX or year this picture was taken + XX. The variation of lets say 5 questions plus a random addition or subtraction would add enough variation and security no ? curious to see this your comments.
- Bart LePoole
I have the Paypal one, and one for my BofA account. I would definitely get one for Google and for my Amazon account. *HINT*
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
Why would I want one for every account? Why can't I use the same one for all my accounts?
- Gabe
paul, that's a great idea for a start-up (btw user should have *one* item for all accounts)
- Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini
Stuart: thanks cool that rsa is proactive about it. It also looks like Matt suggested mobile devices take on this responsibility earlier in the thread
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
These tokens are mostly based on OTP solutions. Google also must consider the other options; PKI - for maksimum security (e-signatures) - And also, Google's application must be supported with most tokens regarding to its support (PKCS etc.)
- Zafer Yılmaz
My entries/posts seem to have received less interaction/engagement since the new design was rolled out. I didn't actually count (and it's been a short timeframe), but it just feels like there is less response from the people who are following me.
Andy Bold, Andre, Kol Tregaskes and 4 other people liked this
That being said, real-time is almost too real-time. I know I'm missing a lot, and pausing it doesn't help as much as I thought it would. Yes, yes, I need to enable better filtering, but I'm losing motivation.
- Andy Bakun
The whole design just seems really counterintuitive and Twitter-like.
- Jon Ursenbach
I think it takes little bit of time to get used to, but I think real-time is a great tool if you set up your list correctly.
- Oliver Bouchard
Just realized the one thing that really makes me not like this design is no longer having the service icons anymore. That was always really nice, because I could see a list of Twitter posts and skip right over those.
- Jon Ursenbach
I find that the real-time updating has me missing a lot of stuff. I'm not comfortable with the new UI yet because I didn't play much with the beta. Once people figure out which settings work best for them I'm sure conversations will get back to normal.
- Sally: gift wrapper
Jon, if you want to filter out Twitter entries you can use "-service:twitter" in the search field.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't you really "miss" anything in real time (or by pausing) -- at least not more than the old interface which refreshed automatically every few minutes and pushed stuff out of view pretty quickly. There are more mechanisms for finding and sorting information than there were before so I think the potential for *not* missing stuff is better now.
- Brian Sullivan
I always *want* to comment on my likes, but I find that the real time gives me ADD. I.e., "Oh! Shiny! Like! wheresthecommentlink Oh! New shiny! Like! wheresthe- OHOHOH! LOL! LIKE!" :-) I do kind of put my trust in the groupmind to bubble the interesting stuff back to the top though, and that's one of the reasons I am really enjoying Friendfeed.
- Andy Bold
Computing Research Policy Blog: Computer Science Majors Increase at Most Significant Rate Since Dot Com Boom - http://www.cra.org/govaffa...
Lynn, Eran Sandler, Atul Arora and 2 other people liked this
Enrollment in Undergraduate Computer Science is up for the first time since 2001. I guess kids don't want to be Lawyers or Wall Street traders anymore and are trying CS.
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Sad that it's so difficult to find talented engineers even in a recession. :/
- Michael
Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser - http://www.igvita.com/2009...
crazy shit! I like it...
- Jeremy Zawodny
Interview with a Business Owner and Yelp Advertiser... - http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009...
Michael liked this
Joe from Keetsa took the time to sit down with us and share his candid views on Yelp. I hope you find the following clips interesting. I plan on making this a regular feature of our Official Yelp Blog.
- jeremy
Multiple Views in Your Gmail Inbox - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
Michael liked this
Really useful for filtering your mail and getting things done.
- Rob Kniaz
“Soonly” - http://paulhaahr.com/blog...
Bret Taylor, Kevin, Michael and Atul Arora liked this
Shouldn't it be Myeka, then, not Myreka? I wonder how that generative rule works.
- ⓞnor
Sure, but it's funnier if you say Myreka. That must count for something!
- j1m
She's probably parsing as "Your Reka" rather than "Your Eka". I think more nouns start with the r-sound than with the e-sound and if that's true then most examples of "your-eeesomething" should actually be parsed as "your-reesomething".
- Kevin
Yelp Official Blog: New iPhone Ad featuring Yelp! - http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009...
techclunch, Joyce H. Sohn, Nikolay Samokhvalov and 23 other people liked this
"This made me smile, a big thanks to Apple for including us in this cool TV commercial! iPhone Commercial Many more exciting features are in the works... so watch for another update coming soon. And if you haven't downloaded the app yet you can get it here."
- jeremy
from Bookmarklet
Wow, that is pretty awesome.
- Bret Taylor
That is VERY cool. Congrats to Yelp!
- EricaJoy
very cool. i love yelp!
- Shawn C. Reed
Nice, congrats!
- Tom Stocky
is it just me or did it take Yelp FOREVER to create an iPhone app
- anna sauce
hehe just you, it's been there since the App store opened
- jeremy
The Raw Story | Fed won't reveal names of recipients of $2 trillion - http://rawstory.com/news...
Michael, Robert DeBord, Steven Perez and 4 other people liked this
"The Federal Reserve refused a request from Bloomberg News to reveal the recipient of $2 trillion in emergency loans paid for by U.S. taxpayers. After Bloomberg filed an open records request through the Freedom of Information Act, the fed answered by arguing that it's allowed to withhold information, including memos and trade secrets. Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve system as of Friday, demanding the documents be disclosed."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
The Bernard Madoff and Marc Dreier scandals are chump change compared to this.
- Sean McBride
Wow. Thats really bad. Are trade secrets I caan understand, but this IS PUBLIC money here. Hmph.
- Roberto Bonini
One might almost begin to wonder if the American (and Western) power elite is about to implode. Perhaps that is what the intimations of martial law are all about.
- Sean McBride
Holiday Gift Idea: AeroGarden - http://jeremy.stoppelman.com/2008...
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Atul Arora and Michael liked this
"One day I was sitting in my apartment wishing I had a vegetable garden, wondering to myself... why hasn't anyone created a self-contained unit that allows me to grow some of my own food indoors? Well my dream hasn't quite been realized, but we as a society are a little bit closer thanks to the AeroGarden a counter top, indoor garden."
- Michael
Death of VC? Why Paul Graham is wrong... for now - http://jeremy.stoppelman.com/2008...
Andy Bakun and Michael liked this
YouTube - Jizz In My Pants - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Andy Bakun, Michael and Tudor Bosman liked this
Do NOT sing this one to yourself in public.
- Tessa MacDuff
Yelp Official Blog: Yelp for the iPhone Update - http://officialblog.yelp.com/2008...
Michael and Susan Beebe liked this
Let me know if you have any feedback!
- Michael
Google's SearchWiki - a "PR nightmare" [Best of November '08 #2-3] - http://impl.emented.com/2008...
Cankiz ONUR KUM, goutham, Igor Poltavskiy and 18 other people liked this
*chuckles* yeah, it's a PR nightmare for the Internati. The rest of the world doesn't even really notice.
- AJ Kohn
I don't know, AJ. If the comments turn into YouTube type comment chaos, kids will start seeing offensive things when they search for kid stuff. The potential is there for real pr problems.
- Andrew
I've talked to the SearchWiki team, and it's pretty wild how many people are using SearchWiki to customize their results.
- Matt Cutts
@Matt - what percent are changing results? :)
- Michael
I love fixing my results. It's fun and I feel like I'm removing the span.
- Andrew
@matt "t's pretty wild how many people are using SearchWiki to customize their results".... interesting. i wonder if that's the long-term goal of the feature: to collect user's filtering preferences and feed that information into the search algorithm.
- .LAG liked that
Headbanger, agreed. It's a hoot to head out to spammy fringes where there's practically no good content, deliberately look for spammy urls, and then just blow them away for a while. There's an experiment that recorded Sergey doing an explosion, in case you want sound. :) http://www.google.com/experim...
- Matt Cutts
@OH: True, comments could do that, but I don't see comments as being the most used feature. @.LAG: Oh yes, that surely is the goal IMO. @Matt: Care to give some stats on it? Or confirm that SearchWiki results will be fed back into the algo? [self promotion ahead] Here's my take: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/searchw...
- AJ Kohn
Seems like too much work. I don't want to "scrub" my search results, that's what google is suppose to do right? Someone enlighten me on this please...
- Anthony Farrior
@Anthony: Well, the current search algorithm can only go so far. SearchWiki could give it higher intelligence via human feedback. Users would help catch spam and attempts by SEO at over-optimization. And in general, it helps tutor the algorithm and give it a human QA mechanism. If Google pulls it off, the results will get much better and they'll take a leap forward compared to others.
- AJ Kohn
I don't trust human feedback with my search results. That's not reliable to me.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@rahsheen™... but a human wrote the search engine in the first place, no?
- .LAG liked that
@Rahsheen: It won't be just one, but in aggregate and it'll be a factor, not overwhelm the results.
- AJ Kohn
I made my first searchwiki contribution today. I searched for "wordpress themes" and the best theme site (blogohblog.com) didn't show up. I had to press the up arrow.
- EricaJoy
So basically this is what Calacanis should've thought of for Mahalo....
- Anthony Farrior
Not at all, Anthony. It's the algorithm that first delivers the results. But you can comment and customize those results. Whereas Mahalo's results come from humans not any algorithm.
- Andrew
"I don't trust human feedback with my search results." Rahheen, I hate to break it to you, but not only do humans write the search algorithms, but the search algorithms operate on content that people write and the links that they create. Search engines can only work based on the data that people have created, at least until we figure out how to hook up better sensors to the intarwebs. :)
- Matt Cutts
@Matt: Good point. The algorithm is just interpreting what people have written and how they've linked pages together. It's still a fairly blunt instrument which is why getting the ordered feedback from users is ... downright exciting I think.
- AJ Kohn
Isn't it just the meta keyword issue all over again, though? Even if hundreds of thousands of people use the system to customize their results, hundreds of thousands of marketers will use it to push viagra ads and porn sites to the top of the list. I suppose Google could try to counteract that effect with checks and balances, but I don't see this making its way into the main algorithm. Even legitimate researchers have their own preferences which may be useless to any other researcher.
- Laura Norvig
@Laura: Certainly abuse, particularly SEO abuse, is an issue. But ... there are only so many SEO people out there versus the millions of masses who will use it legitimately. Matt seems to indicate usage is high. Couple that with smoothing algorithms and other abuse checkers and I think you can get clean set of data. That data won't overwhelm the algo, but could be another (important) signal.
- AJ Kohn
I think Serp commenting is a really bad idea on google's part. As is, it can and will be abused. Google Finance boards are great example of how Google sucks in moderating content. I remember there was one guy who figured it first - he was spamming GF boards with links to his websites for months - tens of thousands of spam comments - constantly reported by other members - and Google did nothing to stop or prevent it.
- andrei_c
Don’t yell at me [indexed] - http://thisisindexed.com/2008...
winckel, Rob Schonberger, Michael and 6 other people liked this
A needs to overlap the 'B' intersection a little bit. Just because you're shouting into a bluetooth headset doesn't mean you're not crazy.
- Kevin Fox
I need something witty to say about our new logo :)
Emily Miller, Aaron Draczynski, Erick Jimenez and 73 other people liked this
"DOORBUSTER SPECIALS! Enjoy special savings on all Comments and Likes. Today only. All feeds open at 5am. Please, no trampling." Can you do better?
- Paul Buchheit
blackfridayfeed
- sean percival
wicked!
- Shandiz
brilliant!
- Davide D'Incau
Thank G-d it's FriendFeed?
- Cry Zee Die Noh Mite
How about: "Avoid the lines! Follow all your friends in one place! Instant rebates on all Comments and Likes. While supplies last..."
- Wesley Barrow
think that you should be aware that the blackfriday and the turkey thing are american centered only and that most of the users friendfeed is aiming at (I assume) are not american. So it makes it a bit violent (without talking about the bad taste)...
- Oaksun
Does any other country have a shopping day like this? I noticed a "schwarzer Freitag" ad here in Switzerland, but I can't help to think that most people will have no idea what it's about.
- John μller
Black Friday or Yellow One?:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Australia has a similar 'crazy shopping day' on Boxing Day (Dec 26). It's when the after Christmas sales start. In extreme years the bargains on sale have led to riots and stampedes.
- Reto Meier
from fftogo
"Our customer don't camp outside overnight... They camp in it!"
- Johnny Worthington
nooo.... I dont really like it...
- k00pa
@John Mueller: The UK has their "January Sales" but that supposedly lasts for the entire month. Although in recent years, it's kind of been overshadowed by constant sales all-year round. I guess Boxing Day sales are also popular now.
- Tony Ruscoe
how about: "you can try our service for free today?" =)
- Davide D'Incau
no interest for 18 months, sitewide! (the bad kind of interest - plenty of the good kind :P)
- bob
What about "Well, Twitter's for sale, why can't we be?" :P
- Johnny Worthington
Silence might be best. Saying something would compete with the logo's intrinsic wittiness.
- Bruce Lewis
Buy Friend, Get Feed Free! (Actually, you get Friend free too... so I guess that doesn't work.)
- Tony Ruscoe
Interesting new logo. Well it's Fri on a tag, so for FF today it's not Friday it's Fritag!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
I like it!
- Luca Filigheddu
from twhirl
We need a FriendFeed room just for logo messages. That way we can look back and see all them in history.
- Robert Scoble
Fri-EndFeed! For that End of Friday Feeling!
- Tyson Key
We also need a way to publish FriendFeed messages to Identi.ca. They say the ball's in your court.
- Cliff Gerrish
not bad at all..after coming in from working black friday it made me smile
- Samuel Lewis
from twhirl
Put a limit on posts, comments and likes. While stocks last.
- Andrew Trinh
The folks at FriendFeed never tire, they never sleep, they don''t even stop to go shopping on the biggest shopping day of the year. They continue to fill FriendFeed with more and more AWESOME! Thanks guys!
- Josh Haley
"I feed, you feed, we all feed at FriendFeed!"
- Siddharth Deb
@Tony Ruscoe - You hit the nail on the head about sales over here in the UK. It seems that some companies seemingly have a permanent sale all year round (DFS and "SafeStyle UK" come to mind) given by their advertising...
- Tyson Key
Meh - I don't think of black Friday as a holiday or anything worth celebrating. I'm more of a fan of buy nothing day. http://www.adbusters.org/campaig...
- Laura Norvig
I like the buy nothing idea!
- Susan Beebe
Brought to you by "Best Buy" - at least it looks like it!
- Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel: They should have just renamed to BestFeed.
- Rolf Schewe
Scoble++; a room for special logos would be cool.
- Voyagerfan5761
from fftogo
Overhead this in a Tennessee Wal-Mart checkout line: "Now ma'am, you're not going to use that cough syrup to make meth, are you?" :)
Josh Wills, Isaac Hepworth, MikeAmundsen and 2 other people liked this
The Smokehouse (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
Michael liked this
"Woo boy. Awesome late night eats. Just the right amount of grease to help counteract possible alcohol poisoning. Late night visits most likely mean having to deal with other tipsy patrons at an…"
- Andy Bakun
instead of a complement you get a "LIKE"
- Michael
OH TSA screener complaining that his mom made him clean up his room AND took away his PS3 for a month. Threat condition: OMG
Joe Beda (), Mark Foundos, Michael and 3 other people liked this
In case you missed the Baidu news: http://www.reuters.com/article... . Seems like a pretty important story.
Huy Zing, Simon, Michael and imabonehead liked this
That's very bad.
- imabonehead
Newt Gingrich: Kill Sarbanes-Oxley - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Keith Pelczarski, David Vasileff, Sean Kelly and 18 other people liked this
I'd never thought I'd agree with Newt :)
- Bret Taylor
me either. Just goes to show that there is always something we can agree with everyone. The key is to find it.
- CW™
I find myself agreeing with Newt more often than I would ever think. He is by far the smartest of the GOP and he understands the Interwebs.
- JonathanJoseph
SOX has problems, but you can't just go back to pre-Enron accounting regulations. Saying that it didn't prevent the collapse of Lehman is missing the point: no, SOX can't prevent businesses from failing, but it aims to prevent them from lying egregiously about what they're doing.
- ⓞnor
@nor - despite its good intentions, SOX doesn't actually promote transparency. In fact, there's a mounting body of evidence that SOX and other like-minded regulations are keeping companies from coming public, at least here in the U.S., which reduces the societal advantages of public equity markets. SOX has accomplished woefully little that it set out to, whilst destroying a great deal in the process...
- Forrest Cox
Keeping companies private also has advantages to the economy as well. I think being public tends to make companies focus on the wrong things in service to stock price instead of focusing on product and the means to make it better (employees).
- Alex Scoble
@Alex - I agree. Also, the broader discussion you bring up is a really interesting one. I've always felt somewhere deep down that many public offerings were lazy ways to manage capitalization, and that the majority of the headaches suffered by all stakeholders thereafter were simply a "penance" of sorts for that lazy decision. There's got to be a better model that properly aligns incentives and provides for equity-based wealth creation.
- Forrest Cox
Newt rocks.
- ComicList
StateStats - http://statestats.appspot.com/
kenlaw, Misha Dynin, Michael and 8 other people liked this
A fun site that lets you see what's correlated with Google query traffic. For examples, try [shotgun] or [grits] or [prius] or [mittens].
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
I like how ff is correlated with unemployment: http://statestats.appspot.com/... -- but not as much as http://statestats.appspot.com/...
- j1m
Try [hemp] — correlated with long life, low obesity, low crime, low illiteracy, good education.
- Amit Patel
obama gives a 5 minute answer on his tax plan to a plumber - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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this is incredible. we're gonna win this fucking thing.
- Jason Goldman
The plumber was not convinced. He thought the McCain plan was going to help him more, but is not saying who he'll vote for.
- Gabe
The stark contrast between Obama and McCain to me is that I have yet to see McCain answer a question without applying red herring tactics and political spin. Obama is obviously intelligent and more matter-of-fact relative to McCain. I don't feel like I'm at a used car lot when I hear Obama; can't say the same about McCain.
- grant fox
I don't understand how people can say that Obama is elitist, or not personal, or too "cool" (in the standoffish sense).
- Robert Felty
Will the plumber's business be taxed on the net or the gross?
- Beau Hartshorne
Good point Beau. Even if his business has $250k gross, it's unlikely that it would be that high after expenses.
- Paul Buchheit
We all know that Joe has back-taxes, a lien, and isn't licensed to plumb, right
- anna sauce
Have you all read about how Joe is really a McCain plant, who's some distant relative of Charles Keating?
- Gabe
Unfair -- Don't Eliminate Marriage For Anyone - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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