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Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In | The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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""What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a concrete way to create more imaginary wealth in the very immediate future," said Thomas Jenkins, CFO of the Boston-area Jenkins Financial Group, a bubble-based investment firm. "We are in a crisis, and that crisis demands an unviable short-term solution.""
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Also, a new poll shows that most Americans don't know what they'd do in hypothetical situations. Thanks, Onion News Network!
- Brian Johns
Although it's aimed for laughs, the statement is more true than most imagine.
- Roney Smith
oil is the next bubble
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
oil is the current bubble. I'd bet on euros, defense equipment, or alternative energy companies as the next one.
- Jonathan Tang
Nationwide Infrastructure development, they should green light nationwide light rail and solar and wind farms. Make solar and wind power mandatory on ALL new construction projects.
- Jason Lowe
how about corn?
- Nathan Rein
Hello, cleantech
- Andrei M. Marinescu
from Alert Thingy
Picturezila - Piracy helps stop global warming - http://picturezila.com/piracy-...
Sujal Shah, Kevin Johnson, Candace and 3 other people liked this
How to take iPhone screenshots - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Accessing Internet at 640Gb/s? - http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergin...
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"Now, here is a quote from the Sydney Morning Herald article. “The device, a photonic integrated circuit, could overcome the gridlock that occurs when information travelling along optical fibres at the speed of light has to be processed by slow, old-fashioned electronic components. This would make almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the internet possible anywhere in the world, Professor Eggleton said. The market would ultimately decide which technologies were introduced to meet the skyrocketing demand for faster and cheaper downloads. ‘But our job at CUDOS is to go out to the absolute limit, and demonstrate in the lab what is possible,’ he said.”"
- Jason Wehmhoener
from Bookmarklet
now just to convince the big guys to implement this technology, or convince the providers to change vendors(much harder challenge). The Internet is only as fast as the smallest pipe it has to travel through
- clarke thomas
like all good Australian inventions, it will be shipped offshore and we'll be the last to get it :-)
- Duncan Riley
If these guys can get Cisco to license their technology, I have faith that the Cisco sales force could sell a few units, and the forces of competition take over from there.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Stuart Cheshire would argue about “faster” vs. “more capacity” – see http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants...
- Amit Patel
PICs are already being used in telecom. See Infinera, a KPCB funded company.
- Ranjit Mathoda
Calacanis at a speech tonight: "It's gonna take a lot of money to build out Mahalo - over $50 million"
Daniel Feygin, Svetlana Gladkova, Alex Hammer and 20 other people liked this
better get that cash soon before we are all paying $10 for a gallon of gas :)
- sean percival
Whatever happened to "we have enough VC to bankroll us for YEARS?"
- Cyndy
What am I missing here? The base is there, there's more content that even Calacanis had hoped for (he's written this), surely the scaling now is only servers etc. Guides aren't expensive, and it's opened up Wikipedia style anyway for even more content.
- Duncan Riley
Duncan: Calacanis doesn't have a yacht like Ellison yet, that's what.
- Jason Wehmhoener
He's making the Slide/Ning-style pitch for funding before it dries up. Luck to him.
- Sprague D
Duncan: It's an entire economy run out of the hamster wheels in Mike Arrington's house. You were expecting logic?
- jeneane sessum
http://www.ustream.tv/recorde... -- here's the video - the $50 million comment comes around the 16 minute mark - the video is worth watching - facebook, wikia search also present. (i think the last few minutes got cut off - the video froze)
- Allen Stern
At what point do VC's actually ask for a revenue model and business plan?
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
over five to seven years that's what it will take probably. of course, the large part of that will come from revenue. remember, we were spending millions of dollars a year building Weblogs, Inc. In fact, over five years at least 15m would have been invested in WIN.
- Jason Calacanis
Wow well best of luck my man!
- Jason Stephens
Jason Carreira, in JCal's defense, Mahalo has always been Weblogs Inc built on Mediawiki. It's a content play with ads, proven model...well as long as the Google traffic comes in for him.
- Duncan Riley
jeneane, I better not go there...already in trouble today :-) Still, no logic at all. Cost of creating content is relatively cheap...unless he's got something else in mind
- Duncan Riley
at least Duncan when I get in trouble I have a little fun:)
- Fred Grott
If it's a proven revenue model, why do they need another $50 million? Shouldn't they be generating revenue by now?
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
I really like the concept of Mahalo. My question is how what search market are you really targeting? If we talking about generic search(google) its keyword and they index bunch of garbage and present it to you. Then there is Nat lang search, where you are obviously search for meaning for stuff and they try o present you meaning full data. Where does Mahalo fit into this arena?
- Akshay Dodeja
Carreira: They may be generating *some* revenue, sure. Enough to sustain them?
- Brent Newhall
No offense to anyone, but I find it amusing the number of armchair quarterbacks on here. How much do any of us know how much money Mahalo spends each month? Or how much revenue they're getting in? Or how much all that will increase in the next 5 years?
- Brent Newhall
With Duncan here. Mahalo has 'legs'. Calacanis is an incredible salesperson (whether you love his 'stuff' or not). No doubt a long term player that needs time.
- Charlie Anzman
Any page created on Mahalo is beyond it's sell-by-date a week later
- paul mooney
How many people here use it? Just curious.
- Cyndy
Good question Cyndy! I don"t..
- Tom Masiero
I don't either, Cyndy.
- Yuvi
Brent, I know they're asking for another $50 million... For a business plan I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face pitching... How much more do you need to know?
- Jason Carreira
Good question Cyndy. It's interesting that I know a few guides that create content for Mahalo but I don't remember any single person actually claiming to use it. Paradox...
- Svetlana Gladkova
svetlana - it's the guides and the greenhouse that drive a lot of the traffic
- Allen Stern
Yes, but I think it's no good for a product if it's only used by the people working on it
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Swetlana do you have a hit count monthly to back up that implied claim or are you just talking out ones butt?
- Fred Grott
Keith-In-Training: Running in the Vibram Five Fingers Sprint - http://www.keith-in-training.com/2007...
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"It is virtually impossible to heel-strike with these shoes on. I thought I'd been incorporating Chi Running in my runs? Oh, so sorry. No. You don't have any appreciation for a soft landing, or picking your feet up, or having a quick cadence until you run with either the Five Fingers or barefoot. If you accidentally heel-strike, you instantly know it, and so do your molars. If anything, wearing these for short runs is a great calf workout."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Nike makes (or used to) Air Rifts, separates your large toe, and the rest: http://www.j600.com/
- Prakash Swaminathan
I've seen once socks with separated toes and they were hilarious! Not to mention they're practical as they keep perspiration at bay. Until these running shoes get adopted more widely, I would stick to more discrete socks for private laughing enjoyment. :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
I just got my classic (strapless) Vibrams; unfortunately the toe-fit seems a little off - it's like the toes are too short, but if they were any longer, my nail would be hitting (and getting ripped off by) the plastic toe-guard. I mostly just bought them to distress my partner - she hates stuff between toes.
- Glen Murphy
I've always wanted to try these out. wish they looked a little cooler though.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
I saw these on a local TV in Japan.
- satoko
More Nerdware. A must-have -- especially is you'll never run in them.
- Chris Baskind
they look like socks
- Pete Delucchi
Twitter's milkshake meet FriendFeed's straw - http://www.calacanis.com/2008...
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thoughts?
- Jason Calacanis
from Bookmarklet
yep jason - here's most likely how you got so many so quickly - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf...
- Allen Stern
the one thing Twitter has it is that it was first before FF in that space. And that brings name recognition to the "masses" and a large inertia that you have to overcome before you can become a true replacement, no matter what technical advantages you bring to the table. I have 5 times more followers in Twitter than FF, and sadly a mass migration doesn't seem to be happening for these folks.
- Daniel Robitaille
Your post to a given site takes on more life when it hits the pages of friendfeed. It's almost like you weigh where you want to "release" a post first knowing that it will get "picked up" by friendfeed.
- todddoubleu
I do not think Twitter will survive as CMS systems that run into message bus systems are the hardest to scale on ruby on rails nd they do not have the money to fight two fronts ruby on rails scalability and new features to stave off competition.
- Fred Grott
good link, allen. some additional default choices would be fantastic. read: better discovery mechanisms. having only members of the echo chamber as default choices makes for a duller feed. no offense to present company. ;)
- Brooks Bayne
I think all this FF > Twitter discourse is seriously, seriously underestimating the power of Twitter's unparalleled portability. It's 100% usable through SMS and has an iPod-esque ecosystem of third party tools and add-ons that hook into it. These things brought Twitter to its throne, and now you guys aren't even factoring them into the equation because of a little downtime.
- David Chartier
i'll post some thoughts on my blog, but one thing that is still annoying is represented in this post... where your friendfeed shows all aggregated iterations of this post here on ff and it just feels silly as i can choose which iteration to leave a comment on. that's an issue. maybe you should turn comments off on the other instances. except that you cannot because its not a feature. also, check out http://friendfeed.com/frendfe... to see some aggregation bugs.
- sull
Jason, that's a brilliant "There Will Be Blood" reference. And so true. I'm afraid that Twitter is just a couple of weeks from being bludgeoned with a bowling pin by FF.
- Frank Roche
I think the removal of a character limit would hurt twitter more than help it. Twitter was never meant as a conversation platform. I think keeping it small and simple makes it much easier for people to use. One of it's biggest strengths is that it's a short form messaging service, and to take that away would make it something that isn't twitter.
- Austin Brown
Jason, I fully agree with what you say here.
- Steve Rubel
I love the fact that there is no premium linked with the number of connections you have. In twitter the greater the number of connections, the higher you appear in the "following" list of your follower. That has become a reason of spam, lowering the quality of the twitter network. Plus, FF works.
- Marcello Del Bono
I can see how Twitter is useful for people who post via SMS, but while Im at the computer FF is far more useful and also more fun to use
- Jeff Hoard
from twhirl
I could offer my agreement here on your entry's content, but I'd rather tell you how much I dug the entry's title.
- Donna Mugavero
I'll put it this way, i never used twitter because I'm not part of the technorati community, but I do use Friendfeed because it allows me to bring together all my online content and then share it with the people I want. That alone is enough for FF to beat out Twitter for me.
- Alfredo Padilla
I think one of the things we have missed carries forward or plays forward a Robert Scoble post, see : http://scobleizer.com/2008... ..let me put it in non tech terms as it pertains to start-ups. FOUNDERS MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT FROM AROUND THEIR PRODUCTS! When I state founders I mean also the ones building the product.
- Fred Grott
What it comes down to me is *noise*. FriendFeed is just noisy, what with content from all my social media friends all being dumped into one stream with no organization whatsoever. I look at my FF friends page and I can't make any rhyme or reason to what I'm seeing, even with little favicons to identify which service I'm reading from. Twitter, is clean and organized.
- Stephen Lopez
School of ALL CAPS is a little loud... ;-)
- Mitchell Tsai
I think Center Networks (Allen) has an interesting analysis. I'll be curious to see if the high profile FF users are as interested in commenting on other people's feeds as having their own words commented upon. Twitter just seems like a more democratic forum to me. Personally, I don't care if it is down a couple hours a week. FF only supplements it, it is not an adequate replacement. And I like to write more than 140 characters! Still Twitter is my first choice.
- Liz
PS... Because I use the Flock browser, I get all my social media updates right from the Media Bar and People Sidebar, without ever having to open Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Pownce, Digg, etc... Everything I want is right there at the click of an icon. Flock > FF.
- Stephen Lopez
I wouldn't underestimate twitter's connection through sms. It makes it the first legit mobile social network, and that is significant for mass adoption and use. Most people don't have internet on their phone to use a web app (iPhone Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) or internet (twitpic, friendfeed, etc.) to send email to update or submit to services. But they are very likely to have sms service, and are used to using it.
- Tony
Liz I comment on tons of feeds.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, but you seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
- Robert Seidman
Jason, good post. I made some comments regarding your five questions here http://seriousaboutcamo.typepad.com/posts...
- Clay Newton
my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
- Tyler Gillies
I agree to what you say but besides Twitter reliability, its major flaw is really the reply (or conversation) system which is close to be useless. I guess FriendFeed gained a lot of people (at least myself) because of its efficient conversation system.
- fbrunel
Jason, I agree with you a lot of the time but not in this case. I think it would be suicide for Twitter to get into a features arms race with FriendFeed. They would lose that battle. Twitter needs to focus on keeping it simple, getting stable, and becoming a short messaging infrastructure - not a destination.
- Mike Doeff
Mike, I think you're right on. Twitter would do better to solidify its differentiation.
- Clay Newton
Agreed. I have flip flopped a couple of times on which service I prefer, but FriendFeed is clearly in the lead. If they launch a great iPhone app next Friday it could be thing that pushes them over the hump.
- Scott Watermasysk
Scott: FriendFeed already has a great iPhone app. http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone
- Robert Scoble
FF's iPhone web app is fun and all, but a native app could offer a lot more functionality without having to wait for page loads and other clunkiness. I'm hoping for a native app too.
- David Chartier
Twitter has become a victim of the success it created for itself. As Twitter gained popularity it naturally creates a market for competition. Its poor performance allowed FF to grow. Many of Twitters power users have begun to migrate communication, and followers to FF wanted to see what it is all about. Twitter has lost its first movers advantage. I would not have been able to even make this post on Twitter. FF invites conversation and dialogue. Sorry Bezos, you may have made the wrong investment.
- Fred Neil
Agree. Twitter just isn't built for the type of robust sharing and conversations that make FF really interesting. Twitter is like shouting into a canyon, FF is like being at a noisy bar. Sorry, but too many Tweets are just status updates: You're going to Subway for lunch, whoopee! FF gets a lot better when you hide non-commented on Tweets. As for FF enhancements, I'd like a merge function so the same content from various people/feeds are collapsed into one master. That way I can see all comment streams.
- AJ Kohn
I agree. Great post.
- jonn
Keep in mind that twitter was not initially made for replies, the whole @ sign reply came from users wanting a way to reply and Twitter then started to support the method
- Ray Slakinski
from twhirl
Nice way to put it!
- ChaCha Fance
Looks like Twitter has lost the first mover advantage, and now FF has the first mover advantage with its features. Though since Twitter was the first mover in the beginning it still has a bunch of people who are on it and not on other sites and also has a familiar interface and more third party applications that are compatible with it than Twitter does. Favorite thing so far about FF is the new Seesmic feature to reply to a seesmic post from within FF, really killer.
- Andrew Fielding
I'm still one of the few that want's Jaiku to get back in the game! Google is dropping the ball there!!!
- tomit
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