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Lil Wayne sez: "Safe sex is great sex, but better wear latex, because you don't want just laid text, that 'I think I'm late' text." Werd
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Clearly Lil Wayne is all that and a bag of chips.
- ComicList
Lil' Wayne has a problem with the lean. I can point you to some rappers that actually make sense.
- Eric
Perhaps this is also some form of Old English????
- Kevin Shannon
It's probably just my translation.
- Leo Laporte
word
- Grant
If it gets more people to wear condoms, I'm all for it.
- xero
Lil Wayne... the man, the myth... the linguist.
- rykos
from twhirl
Lil Wayne also sez: "Gangstas and pimps, Love lobsters and shrimps, Kool-Aid and chicken, Flashy things and women. " - These are a few of his favourite things.
- Johnny
a better sermon than my pastor's
- Andrea Baker
I actually thought you meant to type "weird" cause in my head that made more sense.
- Ryan Cates
He drinks cough syrup all day, babbles incoherently on a mic, and people eat it up like he's the best rapper ever. It's amazing.
- Rah-PM 2012
women and chicken! excellent off rhyme!
- edythe
Not gonna lie, the man says some awesome stuff. I hadn't realized 50 was that important as a rapper...HAH. I avoid radio/videos though, so what do I know...
- Rah-PM 2012
Favorite rapper. 2nd best to Jay-Z. He says things that are just...GENIUS! Love him.
- Corvida
So many nuggets of knowledge built into Tha Carter III, Leo. This is one of many, my friend.
- Liz
andrea: ! :)
- edythe
I'm still a BTH man myself, but then again I most listen to rock/alternative.
- xero
Leo foshizzle!
- Jim Bednarz
That's a misquote. It's really: "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex / 'cause you don't want that late text, that "I think I'm late" text"
- Hashim Warren
One for true techies: "I got game like EA, but I wanna let you play."
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
@brian norwood - Leo got the line wrong...Hashim corrected him. It makes plenty of sense and it's promoting safe sex. Not sure why that's worth ignoring?
- Angel Smith
Thais pretty fly, Leo.
- Mike Lewis
Yeah, I mean. Sometimes I do feel like kicking Wayne in the chest...watch him fall into a bottomless pit...but that's just me :)
- Rah-PM 2012
It's just depressing how much money he'll make from this...
- Brooks Guthrie
from twhirl
ACtUALlY liL WAYNE SAYZ 'SAfE SEX iS GREAt SEX; bETteR WEAR A lAtEX kCAUSE YUh dONT WANt tHAt lATE tEXT tHAT i THiNK iM lATE tEXT !!' dUhh ACtUALlY liSTEN tO thE lYRiCS. ANd YES liL WAYNE iS thE bOMb LiKE tiCk tiCk(=
- Dawny
lmfaooo u don't know what your talkin about. i agree with dawny. that is what he says
- gef
damn if yall gonna make fun at least quote the lyrics correctly......
- tae chills
love leo and love weezy! I wanna hear Leo bust out some lil wayne raps
- Casey Reed
HI to the crew good show HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY 4 TH
- daveccorey
it does make sense "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text." its not laid its late
- Yocelin Martinez
Since so many guys could care less about whether or not they knock some girl up, I'd go with "Safe sex is great sex; better wear a latex; cuz you don't want to kill and infect someone and ruin either their lives or their entire family's you inconsiderate jerkwad."
- Fleagle
The Apple Store Is Down - http://store.apple.com/uk
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Snow Leopard coming?
- Paul Grav
from Bookmarklet
I never understood why they take their online store down just to add new products. There must be a significant amount of lost sales each time they do it.
- Paul Grav
But in turn, there is a very significant amount of hype generated for the newly released product which probably outweighs the lost sales.
- Brandon Titus
They take it down for hype. People will tell others - just like you're doing here - and then people will pay more attention to the store for a while.
- Trent Hamm
If that's why they do it, then it's amazing. I don't know of any other retailer that does such a thing.
- Paul Grav
The US Apple Store is down as well.
- Khürt Williams
Its back up
- Ryan
Snow Leopard is indeed released on the 28th.
- Paul Grav
I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...
caj needs a haircut, حُسین آفلاینـ, Christine Chan and 398 other people liked this
It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives
- Jonathan Hardesty
Haha. ROFL
- Roberto Bonini
is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better?
- Craig Shipp
I'm with you Leo.
- Oracio
It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway)
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people.
- Dan Lessard
I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last.
- Ken Bauer
And we keep following Leo all over the place!
- Robert Scoble
When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken?
- Nate Pilling
so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams)
- abdellah
Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner!
- Elizabeth K. Barone
I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction.
- JCunwired
Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service.
- Ken Sheppardson
But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making.
- Bill Rodman
Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means!
- Matt Cassem
I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments
- Mark
Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me.
- Fleagle
Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in.
- Leo Laporte
And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet.
- Leo Laporte
Yet being the operative word.....
- Roberto Bonini
sounds like a country song to me
- gavin
As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts?
- Craig B.
I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible.
- Louis Gray
^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out.
- JCunwired
Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come.
- JCunwired
The only way to have control is to use your own URL
- Craig Shipp
Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =)
- Cynthia Yildirim
what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out.
- Jordan Brock
from BuddyFeed
What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me.
- Craig B.
And many times you cheated Twitter, she was always loyal to you. Thats mean someting!
- Jacque
from m.ctor.org
yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them
- Thomas Power
Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for.
- Rachel R.
Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;)
- Daynah
Play this thread off, keyboard cat.
- Fleagle
You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo.
- Dave Winer
Screw you, Friendfeed!
- Andrew Leahey
Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :)
- Mrinal Desai
I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.)
- oliver gassner
Love Stinks.
- shelter watch
Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated."
- Randy Shapiro
Damn thats complicated
- drmacintosh
Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them...
- Steven McGurn
I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later!
- Amy Flynn
very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one
- Bryce Campbell
Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again!
- Arleen Boyd
Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening.
- Anthony Marco
Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P
- Sam Ehsan
Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior.
- Paul Chaney
lmfao, its so true leo, so true!
- Derek Bender
Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"...
- Dennis Jernberg
And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL
- Technogran
I think it's back to the TWiT Army!
- Paul Salzman
It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A.
- Steve de Mena
it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative.
- Denise Young
the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-)
- Thomas Lee
Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho.
- Rick Cogley
Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good!
- Kenneth Reitz
No mention of Microsoft Vine?
- Robert MacEwan
I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way...
- Mark J
Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better??
- Craig Shipp
Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side.
- John Flinchbaugh
from IM
Social Networks are sluts?
- TheDiva Rockin
It sure is.
- Jason Hill
I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go.
- DogPatch
Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog...
- Kenneth Reitz
It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
More like "As the worm churns"
- Houseofmax
한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :]
- HealingBrush
One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time...
- Aviva Gabriel
Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit...
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- Jan Simmonds
I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man".
- Mol, FF Music Lover
@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be...
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- Lindsay
Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there !
- Ahsan Ali
@Jan You're an asshat.
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better.
- Casey Petersen
Haiku Laporte
- Outsanity
that was cute! :O)
- Jeanne
@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you!
- Jan Simmonds
Maybe they're just not that into you.
- Elizabeth Johnson
Wait... who's on first?
- Michael Rosenau
Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce
- Gary Purvis
wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues!
- Justin Bradshaw
there there, Shawny's here...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"The idea is simple, take tweets and thread them together to form conversations, adding context. This works by using the a tiny thread site to both start new conversation threads, and add your comments to old ones. After authenticating via OAuth, your comment is then sent back to Twitter, with a link back to the a tiny thread conversation page."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I like how the non-toplevel hostname http://a.tinythread.com/ is enough to indicate it's running on AppEngine.
- Casey Muller
Love this
- Michael Wiley
Friendfeed already offers much superior conversational tools, so why bother.
- Sean McBride
I missed the "login" link because it was WAAAAAY to the right of the page.
- Craig Eddy
I saw Leo laporte use it earlier today. Did not know it was from him
- Chris Heath
from iPhone
Wow... almost like a chat room. Really? A chat room. What an amazing revolutionary idea. Hey 1980. Good to see you again. Where have you been?
- Patrick Allmond
How does this compare with http://www.tweetworks.com/? I've used neither yet.
- Craig Eddy
@Casey you can't cname and easily geo optimize a 2nd level domain, thats why they don't support it.
- Sam Pullara
Wow this is really cool.. has potential. Coincidence that Joshua launched it the day after FF and FB announced the buy? Is there really such a thing as a coincidence?
- Amy Flynn
Nifty, I tried it earlier today. Simple, evolutionary... very cool
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Cool!
- Kol Tregaskes
It's a Twitter hack, but simplicity wins. I like it. Actually the fact that it doesn't push conversations out to Twitter is a good thing. Sometimes you go to somebody's Twitter front page and all you see is @ replies and you don't know what they're talking about because all you see is one-sided conversation
- Andre P. Siregar
I like Tinythread a lot.
- Robert Scoble
I'm seeing a bunch of "XXX joined a thread at tinythread" tweets. I don't think people understand that it spams their stream. If he's not careful, tinythread will accumulate some bad karma by spamming.
- DGentry
DGentry, James T., I guess options wouldn't hurt. Tweetworks is another service that does conversations on Twitter and when you join a conversation there, it would just send @ reply to the originator of the conversation in your Twitter stream. I actually prefer how Tinythread does it compared to Tweetworks
- Andre P. Siregar
The note 'Max Keiser on Face Off - Criminal Banking Syndicates - 06 August 2009' has been added to the drop dailysourcecode. - http://drop.io/dailyso...
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RT @dannychoo: Stormtrooper meets Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son http://tamegoeswild.com/words... My bit is at 4:47
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IceClean - Powerful. Simple. GUI for Unix Core. (MacOsX) - http://www.macdentro.com/MacDent...
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"Powerful. Simple. GUI for Unix Core. Only Unix Built-in System Tasks IceClean is a powerful System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using only UNIX built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly. Version 3.0 is now completely renewed in Scripting and Cocoa Interface for help you in faster and useful Tasks Managing of All Unix Power."
- CantorJF
from Bookmarklet
Apparently, not everyone has GarageBand. Music Software - Indaba Music - http://www.indabamusic.com/landing...
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something a little more fun than a metronome for my student to practice along with
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
from Bookmarklet
I don't know if this will eliminate Audacity for me, but I will give it the "good old college try". It does look really cool. || Shared on Facebook.
- Miss Elle
Last summer I was looking for something like this for my N810
- Tokyo Dan
@Tokyo Dan -- Do you really think this will run on a Nokia device? Because I have an E71 ... Or is my phone going to be too pitiful and out of date?
- Miss Elle
My students see me using GarageBand and are always asking for a windows equivalent. Hopefully this will be good for them.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I welcome other (FREE) suggestions for Windows users.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
RT @TechCrunch Phase 4 Of Facebook's Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... by @arrington
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No retweet ability from profile recent tweets in Tweetdeck for iPhone? That's bad.
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So wait...Apple no longer makes a laptop with a removable battery?
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Not with the Pros. But, for better batter life I'm willing to sacrifice removeableness.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
As a person who supports Mac laptops, I'm not willing to make that sacrifice. Boo Apple.
- EricaJoy
1,000 recharges is way longer than any laptop I've ever owned... would get me 6 years out of it!
- mjc
I have never removed my Apple battery.
- Louis Gray
Are all their machines at 7+hrs battery life? I'll sometimes carry a spare, charged battery instead of a charger just because it's lighter... but if I could get a full day from a charge, I'd skip the removable battery.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken There high end 17" MacBook Pro has an 8+ hour battery.
- Gerard Lagana
Hmm... So, I have to live in a Windows environment for work and whatnot, but I'd seriously consider a Macbook as a Windows 7 box these days... I guess I'm crazy
- Ken Sheppardson
I've replaced my Macbook's battery 3 times now (1st gen)... But if what Apple says is true about battery life (well, as true as battery life gets) I'll still be buying one.
- AudioThru
What do you do on a 17 hour flight from Australia to the USA if you can't swap batteries?
- Cameron Reilly
Bring two MacBooks? It sucks, but I don't think it'll hurt sales at all. I think the majority of people would just live with the longer-lasting but non-swappable battery.
- Jed
Yeah, there are some pretty extreme use cases one can construct, but I think if you plan to take more than one 17hr flight during the time you own your laptop, you could probably invest in an external battery, no? Do those exist for Macbooks?
- Ken Sheppardson
I've been REALLY impressed with my 17" MBP battery life. I think the trade-off is worth it.
- Jay
And if that battery fails in a year? On my 2007 MBP, I could simply walk down to the Apple store, buy a new battery, and call it a day. To be without my notebook for any period of time would be downtime I simply couldn't afford. Same goes for the iPhone.
- Jared Smith
How long does it take Apple to swap out a non-removable battery? Has anyone gone through the process? Do you have to leave it overnight or longer?
- Ken Sheppardson
Why I’m Quitting Social Media - http://tapenoisediary.com/2009...
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I like what you've said, I'll miss your insight and hope you can find a tool that gives you better control (like those we build) so you can balance your attention
- coolblueskies
I didn't see it didn't link up, so I reposted my comment over to the original of JC's site!
- Kay Designer
When it ceases to be fun, it is most certainly time to take a break - or pack it in...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
definitely, I know one of the things that is keeping me from being active is work has gotten very challenging lately, good challenging, but anyone who says developing, designing and running a social media program for a college is easy, I have proof that it is not necessarily true. :-)
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
@kaijuu Recumbent bike's from http://terratrike.com - they sent me one for review now can't get me off. I'm thinking of mounting a PC on it.
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Since you're going to keep it and ride it, invest in clipless SPD pedals and matching shoes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...>. Biggest risk vector on a tadpole trike (=2 wheels in front/ 1 in the back; as opposed to 1/2 delta-type) is, when panic braking, or otherwise, you set down your foot on the ground and get dragged under the cross-boom, with injuries to the knee to follow. Do not imagine that could never happen to you.
- ianf ⌘
You know, I kinda assumed you had a PC mounted on everything already.
- Ryan Whitwam
I could see you using a small swivel-mount like they use on airplane seats, mounting a netbook there, 3G internets...
- Lucavex Ayanami
Try the Garmin 705 Leo https://buy.garmin.com/shop...
- Scott Kraatz
"Banning Fast Bikes From Racing?" Did u know that there's a type of bike that's been banned from racing since 1934 because they're faster than usual uprights? http://www.bentrideronline.com/...
- Tokyo Dan
Are you using your rubber ball seat on the 'bent'. It'd be funny to see you coming down the road bouncing and laughing like crazy.
- Tokyo Dan
Let your "thinking of mounting a PC on it" stay right there, 'cause, whether you ride it a lot or very little (more plausible), you won't have many opportunities to use it anyway. Better you stick a laptop in a well-padded saddle bag on it, after accessorizing it with a back rack: <https://www.terratrike.com/shop...>
- ianf ⌘
Might help if you had the right size bike Leo, but love the fitness motif.
- Kevin J Hatton
iPhoneFAIL » Blog Archive » Temperature FAIL - http://www.iphonefail.org/archive...
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"Although strictly not a FAIL (the iPhone OS hasn’t screwed up), this is a pretty rare occurrence. Thanks to Jeff for finding this one, and The iPhone Blog for confirming its authenticity!"
- David Foucher
from Bookmarklet
It's not actually rare if you live in India. It has happened to me a lot of times. The first time I was like 'What?' Now I'm used to it. =P
- Faraz Mullick
Daily gear deal - Nokia N810 portable Internet terminal for $223. - http://www.gadling.com/2009...
N810 for sale in Tokyo: http://tokyo.craigslist.jp/sys...
- Tokyo Dan
Create Digital Music » Mac USB Audio: M-Audio Says Avoid the Left-hand USB Port, All Ports Not Equal - http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009...
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After reducing power to FireWire ports, now this . What's next?
- georgeker
from Bookmarklet
My macbook pro only has USB ports on the left. They're unavoidable. :(
- Dustin Sallings
"...Use of such devices on the left-hand USB port closest to the screen is not advised because it may cause audio interrupts and/or dropped samples..."
- georgeker
The "address" / location where a device is plugged into a hub also determines it's availability to getting the full 500ma over USB.
- rob friedman
Video Exclusive: Susan Boyle sings live on a Tokyo commuter train - http://tamegoeswild.com/words...
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What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from the Twittering company: Zappos - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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18 things I learned at Zappos yesterday.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: "I’m a fan for life. I wish there were more companies like Zappos. The fact that there isn’t tells us something about us. And I don’t like what I’m learning." What you're learning is that many people are selfish, greedy, and fearful. The only antidote to that is... as corny as it may sound: love. Love what you do. Love helping other people discover what they love to do. Robert Townsend, the former CEO of Avis who wrote the classic Up The Organization 40 years ago, said as much. Tony Hsieh "gets it."
- Victor Panlilio
when I think about places I'd love to work, this is up top.
- SolidSmack
I RT'd this. Just a brilliant piece bro. And yes, what a shame that SO MANY companies, both large and small seem so oblivious to anything resembling the manner in which Zappos cares for their employees and customers. Well done.
- Ted Bradford II
Love it, and it's so very true. I was lucky enough to earn tenure at a great Community College when it had a creative and supportive atmosphere that said, "learn, experiment, try new things, love it, and your students and the school and *everyone* will benefit." When that era ended, and we were moving toward lockstep and rules and so forth, I did the unthinkable and stepped away from tenure. Best move I ever made.
- Kathy Fitch
The most refreshing thing about them is they actually have a business model -- they sell something and generate revenue (and I assume make a profit). That just wouldn't work for many/most? Silicon Valley companies that are busy spending someone else's money.
- Brian Sullivan
Inspiring
- Kiran Patchigolla
"People Relate to People, not Companies." So true.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Good read Robert. Coincidentally I ordered from Zappos for the first time today.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
If I had to vote for what I want Scoble to do more reporting on -- it is these type of companies -- not the dilettante ones living off VC money with very little prospect for long term success other than being bought by somebody.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I agree - I'd like to see more bootstrapped companies, and more outside of Silicon Valley companies
- Jesse Stay
+1 Brian Sullivan
- Victor Panlilio
Robert, I have to admit this is one of my all-time favorite posts of yours
- Jesse Stay
#3 is something all companies should enforce..and paying $2K to someone that admits they "don't fit the culture" is greatness.
- George Dearing
Brian: Zappos started in the same building as Craig's List in San Francisco, which is fun. Jesse, that's what happens when I have inspiring stories/people/companies to study.
- Robert Scoble
Here's the first part of the tour (about 14 minutes worth) where you see the lobby and hear the history: http://www.blip.tv/file...
- Robert Scoble
Discussed on JapanTechTalk - #susanboyle is coming to Japan! No details yet. Stay tuned for details later in the week
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What JapanTechTalk episode was this?
- Tokyo Dan
Episode 6
- Paul Papadimitriou
Dr.Mani: An old favorite of mine! Listening to Susan Boyle's demo tape of "Killing Me Softly"! http://tinyurl.co.. http://twitter.com/drmani...
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Nambu - Webmonkey (HOT Twitter client, tons of people are talking about it, wonder how it competes with new Seesmic Desktop?) - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
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Nambu is not written in AIR and thus it automatically wins.
- Akiva
we need a ff client~
- kang
yeah i wrote a post about it titled "Last night I cheated on Tweetdeck and I liked it." http://thenextweb.com/2009... ...most people seem to love it, but it's not without bugs...it is a preview release after all
- Zee.
Looks pretty amazing, but with no Windows support they are leaving a big segment of users on the table. It amazes me that people still only write to one platform.
- Tim
I was all excited until I saw it was for Mac. Still, anything that's not written in AIR gets my vote!
- Michael McKean
I was mildly excited by Nambu, but I'm STOKED to hear that Loren Brichter (@atebits) is working on a desktop (Mac) version of Tweetie, and that its release is "imminent" - http://blog.atebits.com/2009... . THAT is the Twitter client I'm looking forward to. I've long wished for a desktop Twitter app that could do everything Tweetie can, and be as well designed. I've got high hopes for Tweetie for Mac.
- Josh Bancroft
*None* of these guys are targeting businesses. They all suck. Check out CoTweet when you get a chance (and let me know if you want an invite, Robert).
- Jesse Stay
Nambu has been great. It's about time another client that supports groups came out. I've been eager to drop tweetdeck (it got up to using 1.5gb of memory the other day.) Seesmic Desktop isn't anything special but at least it added group support as well. If you are running OSX give Nambu a try.
- Jeffrey Vanneste
dang, no windows. sheesh.
- Peggy Dolane
I used it until last week when it somehow managed to call the FriendFeed API so many times that they blocked my IP address. Of course the really screwed up thing is that the FriendFeed functionality is not even enabled in Nambu. So what the hell gives with that? It took me 5 days to get my access restored thanks to Ana Yang at FriendFeed - she's the one who told me that Nambu overused my FF API limit. So hell yeah... I uninstalled it.
- Ankush Narula
I'm scared to look ;-) Don't want to like it and then face starting from scratch to recreate the groups on my Tweetdeck for hundreds of followers.
- Mark Traphagen
Jesse, I use Twitter (sometimes) for business, and i'm happy with the current clients. What would a "business-targeted" client do? Honest question.
- Josh Bancroft
Josh, see my review of it here: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Ah. To me, CRM is the wrong approach to such a personal medium. @marshallk summed up my thoughts on it pretty well in the last few paragraphs of his post on how @Comcast uses Twitter: http://bit.ly/Cy9sT
- Josh Bancroft
A little buggy but a very nice native client for Mac
- sasamat
Enough with the free crap, make stuff worth paying for - http://www.inquisitr.com/16839...
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I've been fighting "free" for years and have several posts on my blog about it, like this one http://tinyurl.com/cbwldb and this one http://tinyurl.com/cz7uzf This is a new blog I just started in Dec. The other one I abandoned after getting viciously and relentlously attached by the defenders of free. I'm glad the paradigm is finally shifting.
- Dawn
One point people miss about freeware is it can be used by people without credit cards - schoolchildren etc
- Ben Austwick
Louis, I never read your blog before and I only know you from FriendFeed. But after reading your blog I find that we agree eye to eye. And I'm also a fan now because you can put into sensible words what I feel. When I try to put it into words I'm usually hot under the collar and blurt things and sometimes (often?) end up sounding like an idiot.
- Tokyo Dan
hear hear LG
- Thomas Power
Tokyo Dan: Sorry about the link. Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it now.
- Dawn
Re: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media? - http://www.bluecreativestudio.com/blog...
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"You're right, I should have been more precise. I was writing with my iPhone on the train ^^ In South East Asia, I would say that Friendster is a leader, even if MySpace and Facebook are obviously very present. Friendster has opened offices in various southeastern countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore). Hearing that it is still kinda strong in Japan (ok, nothing compared to Mixi), even if it's fading against newly-comer Facebook. As for China, Facebook has had some good successes. There is a government-approved SNS (the name eludes me right now) that is growing rapidly. Same as Facebook: it started as a student thing. In Europe, Bebo is popular amongst english-speaking people, i.e. mainly UKI, even if it offers translations. I've read somewhere that people do not engage as much on it, they tend to quickly check it and then go. Netlog has been growing in other european markets (well, bar my french friends, they're crazy on Skyrock), as its localization services are well done and..."
- Paul Papadimitriou
Should Japan Ignore Tim Geithner and Intervene to Prop Up the Yen? - http://abwblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Tokyo Takes-Will the BOJ Intervene to Brake the Yen's Surge? - http://abwblog.blogspot.com/
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Overseas, investors and Japan observers are surprised that the MOF (who instructs the BOJ to intervene) has not intervened to stem the appreciation of the yen, which is now back above JPY90/USD, given the severe damage this is causing to the profits of Japan's internationally active companies.
- Japan Investor
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- The Real sofarsoShawn
This is great!
- Tokyo Dan
incredibly easy to use and cable news from all around the world right into your computer: I love it
- The Real sofarsoShawn
This is my first Windows 7 message. Everything on my main computer upgraded properly. This is a winner.
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Windows 7 does sound good. I might give it a go next weekend.
- jon
I installed it on my mac, dont know why though
- Simon Wicks
Can you say anything about hardware specs, Robert? I don't know if MS is playing the NDA game with the beta release.
- teleken
Happy too.. so far so good...
- Aad 't Hart
I wanted XP rather than Vista, I really did. Now there's some slim hope?!
- Bernard (ben) Tremblay
I love Windows 7 on my old hardware! Just posted a review on my blog... :)
- carrotmadman6
teleken: if Vista works on it Windows 7 will work better.
- Robert Scoble
David: that's cool!
- Robert Scoble
Why does Robert get so impressed by every new technology ?
- Sidharth Dassani
Robert: Understood. Now the question is whether I drop it in Parallels on the MacBook, or go for broke/masochism and see how the Inspiron Mini handles it. ;) There's the real acid test for a new Windows OS.
- teleken
teleken, I have it on Fusion and on my netbook. Both work amazingly well. The only problem with using it on Parallels/Fusion is that you will not get Aero and hence won't get all the nifty Aero-dependent desktop features like Desktop preview, the preview panels etc.
- The Fat Oracle
What are the minimum memory reqs on it?
- Jason Wong
Is it a winner because it actually installed correctly, or because you're impressed with the new feature set...
- Shay Frendt
Also, try left-clicking on a taskbar item and then dragging upward.
- Akiva
Shay: both.
- Robert Scoble
Looking forward to the release after posts like this. Read that idle W7 uses appr. 600-650 MB RAM. Anyone confirm those numbers?
- Migger
The real killer feature for Windows 7 would be a little dialog box at the beginning of the upgrade process that simply says "If you proceed with this upgrade, you will lose N days of productivity to trying to troubleshoot drivers, software incompatibilities, and reinstallation of incompatible programs; to re-learning simple UI tasks; and to experimenting with superficial cosmetic changes, all for marginal UX and performance gains . Do you want to continue? Yes / No"
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason: I don't know what the hardware requirements are but it uses fewer resources than Vista. So, just go with the hardware requirements for Vista.
- Robert Scoble
I've had Windows 7 running with just 128mb RAM in a VM - Excellent memory management.
- Nigel Kitchen
Tips for VMWare Fusion install http://friendfeed.com/e...
- michael silverton
Will Windows 7 fit on an 8GB netbook SSD?
- Ken Sheppardson
teleken: My MacBook is running it fine, no problems so far, although I've only really been playing around with settings and stuff, not installed any big software to try with it. I used VM Ware to do it, Parallels always gave me problems so i switched.
- Simon Wicks
Since I have both Vista & Ubuntu I think I can wait until all you early adopters work out the bugs. :D Seriously, I will wait until it is forced upon me when I buy another computer. That should be about 3 years from now.
- MarkCarras
REALLY tempted to run the beta on my laptop...a bit nervous to run any beta on my main rig but i think it wouldn't be so bad on my laptop....hmmmmmmm
- Live4Emma (L4S)
dual booting 7 with vista and 7 is running so much faster than vista. i'm happy that they cut down the min. req.
- Aaron Eaton
Stay away from AVG under Windows 7...triggers a heinous BSOD in tdx.sys...
- Mike Dove
I have been unable to download the Windows 7 image from Microsoft's site. I think they're a bit overloaded at the moment!
- John Bellone
John, have you tried since Saturday? My download worked like a champ Saturday afternoon. Also Brandon LeBlanc @ Microsoft is reporting that extra capacity was added and the download site has been working smoothly since Saturday AM. Also they have removed the 2.5 million limit on the number of beta testers -- as long as you get it before January 24, you can get a product key: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
- Karim
I installed Windows 7 64-bit and Chrome doesn't work at all. GRR.
- Phil Glockner
Whoops, someone figured out how to fix it: http://www.blogsdna.com/1900...
- Phil Glockner
I got it here on my HP Mini 1000. Running good so far... not doing much though
- Bwana ☠
Phil, have you run the compatibility wizard on it?
- Akiva
Akiva - nope but that command line switch I just linked to did the trick.
- Phil Glockner
@Vaibhav Perhaps you are getting lucky. I believe I was triggering it with the Outlook Email scanner portion of AVG, it may be that for normal operation it is fine.
- Mike Dove
Karim, What link did you use? MIcrosoft's site seems so slow.
- John Bellone
When attempting to download Windows 7 I click "Download Now" and nothing happens.
- John Bellone
Windows Weekly mentioned that there's quite a nasty MP3 truncating bug in the beta. If you value your music collections, it's probably best to avoid using WMP. Apparently there's a hot fix available.
- Paul Grav
Awesome news.... I hope MS Windows 7 is a winner...that would be great!
- Susan Beebe
Whats the timeline before it expires on you? how painless was the upgrade?
- Stephen Smyth
Stephen, it expires in August which means a Beta 2 or RC1 in July (or a hotfix to extend the death date).
- Akiva
Been running Windows 7 for about a week. Loving it!
- David Andrzejewski
A friend just loaded Win7, she is upset that she can't find a way to make it Classic UI. It will be a long long time before I upgrade in that case.
- Tina Clarke
I've heard someone saying he was expecting something new in Windows 7 and literally got the same Vista OS, just a little faster. Don't you think Microsoft is re-selling the same system (only a bit improved) instead of giving us a new one?
- Nir Ben Yona
I think I'll be waiting for the BETA-tag to go away. I have tried vista and xp in beta and I regret it, so..this time I'll wait for the FULL and not beta version of Windows 7.
- @LarsenTweet
In case anyone cares, I threw Windows 7 on a late 2006 Compaq V6600 laptop with a Turion 1.8GHZ processor. This was one of those Vista capable machines. It was running XP (it never had Vista on it) and Windows 7 runs better than XP did. It has 2GB RAM. It's not a low powered laptop nor is the CPU/chipset that old but it's nice to see Windows 7 run so smoothly on it. Windows 7 installed...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
John - if you are using the technet download link (the one with the serial number) , it will try to invoke a downloader app which only works in IE. If you find one of the many blogs with the direct download link, those should work with any browser.
- Phil Glockner
Previously as a test, I upgrade installed the Windows 7 6801 beta on a Vista 32 machine that was heavily used (over 1400 installed applications) and was shocked to see it that not only did everything still work (Zonealarm, LogMeIn, MICROSOFT FINGERPRINT READER!), but it was MUCH snappier and startup and shutdown was significantly better. Not that I would ever recommend an upgrade...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Great to hear the upgrade worked. I hate when computers fail...
- Mitchell Tsai
Like it so far. Install was a bit difficult, but thats probably my fault (dual boot machine). Snappier than Vista, cleaner than Vista. Uses about 20% less RAM on my machine.
- Chad Albert
Dr Apps mine took hours too. I ran it while I slept.
- Robert Scoble
Fresh install took me < 30mins to login prompt. Upgrades take a lot longer.
- Chris Johnson
Clean install to Lenovo 510 went very smooth. Loading some apps shortly, but first impression is that it is noticeably snappy. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- George Rogers
John, I am using the regular Technet link: http://bit.ly/NJJb If you're seeing "Download Now" I assume you have gotten past the Live ID logon, profile update and gotten your Product key? The download uses an ActiveX control or Java applet download manager. Assuming you are on Windows :-) try your download in IE, and allow the ActiveX control to install.
- Karim
I have Windows 7 beta running on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4000+ with 2 Gig of Ram and it runs better then Vista Home Premium did. The only issue is I can not get my Netgear SC101 NAS box to recognize. Does anyone have any ideas?
- Rob Cairns
Peter Simard: That's awesome! I'm sure you backed up first, but were quite relieved it all went well. :) Rob Cairns: I didn't even know the SC101 worked with Vista in the first place... I gave up on that thing so long ago. That is probably the only piece of hardware I've ever regretted buying. Though it sounds like you've had a good experience with it if you're still using it. I'd say wait a few days and see if anybody comes up with a solution. I took a cursory glance and didn't find any info...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Robert - Using it since late yesterday. On two boxes, more stable than the original final releases of Windows NT and/or Windows 2000. More drivers supported up front than in Vista. Think MS learned something and the download limit drop will bring a lot of embedded techies. It's a win.
- Charlie Anzman
Thanks for being on the bleeding edge, just about to load the Windows 7 beta myself.. Good to know it upgraded properly for you.
- TechMama Beth Blecherman
I'm going to download it tonight Can't wait!
- Michael Fidler
It was a long upgrade for me... but overall I like it.
- Jason Womick
Been very happy with Windows 7 so far. Many subtle improvements add up to a much better product than Vista.
- Jim Bednarz
I am happy with Windows 7. Fresh install was effortless, but after the install and adding all possible board drivers, four "System Interrupts" entries remain yellow. At least the LAN connectors worked immediately.
- Robert Miller
I put win7 on a Toshiba Satellite a65 from 2003 and it works better than xp did
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Stephen : The upgrade was painless 90 minutes or so and a couple of reboots later. The only issue I had as previously mentioned was my Netgear Sc 101 issue - it did work on Vista. It expires in August
- Rob Cairns
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