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Cultural differences between the US and the UK
Tanath, Anthony Citrano, Daniel Rowley and 312 other people liked this
The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight.
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Classic...
- Rob Kramer
That says it all
- Darrell Bell
So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!"
- April Buchheit
@April... +100
- Harold
from fftogo
+++April
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it?
- Hiro Asari
You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them
- Ryan Gerritsen
What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean?
- Gabe
Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones.
- Tim Tyler
World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?!
- Benoit Cazenave
"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland
- tomavana
I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it.
- thepete
thepete: passed or failed?
- Gabe
that was really great kevin :)
- Alp
Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list?
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hilarious!
- Vera Hannaford
crushingly depressing. ugh.
- daisy
as a dual national US/UK, I can safely say I'm glad to live here.
- wannagot
from twhirl
World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that?
- ialla
Hehe
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Excellent catch! :)
- Özkan Altuner
The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :)
- Ian
sad, but funny
- Rick Cogley
Proud to be an American! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Don't need no stinkin' facts...
- The original Kevin
But it's got a red button!
- Brian Bufalo
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
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- 拓 | wavesand
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My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Lol Amanda
- AJ Batac :)
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
Flickr Photo Download: Preview: The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Chris Reichow, Ben Turner and Isaac Hepworth liked this
Despite spending a lot of time watching this space, I found this illustration brought a lot to my attention.
- Christopher Sacca
from Bookmarklet
by @jclark: The highest was 20.3% and was between cshirky (Clay Shirky - American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies) and timoreilly (Tim O'Reilly - founder and CEO of O'Reilly media).
Ben Turner liked this
Sunlight made a word cloud of comments on what people want from recovery.gov http://www.sunlightlabs.com/blog...
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Top 10 features you'll love about Android 1.5 – Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology | Geek.com - http://www.geek.com/article...
Kyle Weller, Chris Lasher, Ben Turner and 7 other people liked this
Ooo, can I install it on the iPhone? ;) (I WISH)
- thepete
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Atul Arora, Johan Horak, Susan Beebe and 55 other people liked this
"It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user’s edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are made in absolute real time, something even Google hasn’t been able to do (Google docs update every fifteen seconds). Users can also chat in the sidebar, save versions and make a few tweaks to the settings like removing line numbers. One great feature optionally highlights Javascript syntax (making this a great way to write code collaboratively)"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Try it: http://etherpad.com/FQMBcRK9x2
- Paul Buchheit
Etherpad may be a new tool in the Real Time Web kit. Collaboration on a non-flow basis.
- Cliff Gerrish
Interesting - wasn't sure if AppJet was a worthwhile platform - this makes me much more interested
- Christopher Galtenberg
Getting this for your try it link Paul: "EtherPad is under construction ... Sign up to be notified when we're back"
- Philipp Lenssen
Try again, Philipp (nice icon btw). I think their fail whale is that signup box (not a bad idea, actually)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Now it works thanks Christopher (it shows me as being alone in that document right now though).
- Philipp Lenssen
Nice, a little slow, but I guess they shouldn't be waiting for all this traffic... Should be a nice tool once it adds other wiki-like functionalities (I'm thinking tiddlywiki).
- Paulo Gomes
Love the tiddlywiki shoutout. (When will that tech come back to earth? So much potential)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Oops, system failure again. We think we found the problem though. A nasty deadlock issue -- but hopefully fixable in short order.
- Aaron Iba
Cheers Aaron. It's a huge hit here. And wow, hello AppJet! Nice tech, amigo.
- Christopher Galtenberg
An interesting experience, to have typing and the other party reading be simultaneous... it removes the safety buffer of having to hit return, and has a different feel to it. Your sentence is seen by the other person as you're typing, correcting, shifting it... like when you're actually speaking in a conversation, where you may also correct yourself, look for words, etc.
- Philipp Lenssen
superb substitute for paste in IRC on-the-fly collaborative coding situations: revisions acts as "version control," and multi-color highlighting representing users even works intra-line.
- Adriano
How is the real-time shared editing realized? Similar to http://www.vimeo.com/1195398 or http://www.youtube.com/watch... respectively?
- Mustafa K. Isik
I do just want to point out that this functionality has been around for 25 years with UNIX's talk program. It is definitely not a new idea.
- Robert Felty
Why stop there... Native Americans sent simultaneous smoke signals into the sky. And you thought they were innovators? Nope, just rank copycats. Birdsong. That's where it all began.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Superb execution of an old idea is every bit as good as innovation; perhaps better.
- kris. nuttycombe
SubEthaEdit. It existed years before Writely (Google Docs) and this web app is an almost exact copy of it.
- no name
Bill, Wikipedia says "SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X," so it's not a browser-based app?
- Philipp Lenssen
That's right, SubEthaEdit is a native Mac app, so Mr. Strathearn is completely missing the point, as are most of the "this is nothing new, I used to do this with my 300 baud modem" crowd.
- ⓞnor
Of course the platform is different, but the interface and functionality are obvious copies. http://bit.ly/P5Se. Given the large time-span between the two, I just expected a bit more innovation.
- no name
This. Fucking. Election. - http://thisfuckingelection.com/
LonelyBob, Vezquex, Duncan Riley and 11 other people liked this
This is awesome!! Phew, I read the whole thing!! Saw it earlier this morning and was really impressed with it, except they forgot 1 very key word - NUKULAR!!!
- Susan Beebe
Very cool.
- Phil Brown
from twhirl
I think that www.whitehouse.gov should just show the Fail Whale from now through the next inauguration
Phillip Stewart, Michelle Darnell, Ben Turner and 31 other people liked this
Greatest. Hack. Ever.
- tehKenny
I think it's on the houseofrepresentitives.com right now!!
- Simon May
Maybe you should repost this on 4chan. It might actually happen, then.
- Kevykev
That's too funny!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
As Putin rears his head... on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Richie de Almeida, Jon Parise, Jason Ellis and 24 other people liked this
lol
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
ROFLMAO!
- Anika
awesome!!!
- Susan Beebe
he needs frickn' laser beams coming out of his eyes.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
This picture will launch a new site later today -- mockcain.com. There seems to be a good flow to create a newsjunk-like feed.
- Dave Winer
Jim Cramer Goes Off on Wall Street (VIDEO) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nathaniel Chastain, Harold Cabezas, Eric and 3 other people liked this
Cramer's right...just like his CNBC bit last year. "THEY HAVE NO IDEA!"
- Ben Turner
Usually I find Cramer to be so shrill and full of hot air that I can't bear to listen to him. BUT, he is 100% right about this. (Although I disagree with Ben - he was wrong last year in my view - the Fed should not have been rate-cutting.)
- Anthony Citrano
Bad actor, but entertaining given the bar and channel
- Ryan
Obama should name four VP candidates, and American can vote them off, American Idol style, during the convention. Phone in your votes now!
Ben Turner, mjc, Charlie Anzman and 26 other people liked this
Brilliant!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Convention ratings would be huge. I'd want singing. Bayh vs Biden.
- Hutch Carpenter
AHAHA "So you think you can lead?" LOL Perfect!
- ·[▪_▪]·
@Colby: +4, though I prefer "So you think you can veep?"
- AJ Kohn
Rumor is, Dave Winer for VP!
- Mona Nomura
oh yes, and that's a sure fire recipe to bring back respect for politicians and government :-)
- Duncan Riley
with each phone call you donate $1.99 towards obama's campaign fund. genius.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Gah! No more campaigning!
- Ernie Oporto
So his first major decision should be made by committee?I think that smacks of a poor leader.
- Roger Kondrat
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