"I just recently surpassed $100,000 of revenue. Balsamiq has been in business for less than 5 months, so as you can imagine this level of success goes beyond my wildest dreams." - Andrew Badera
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Balsamiq is rather good, we're thinking of using it at my workplace :) - Mo Kargas
@Allison: not mine, sorry, didn't mean to imply that. Just quoting the page. :) Peldi I believe is the gentleman's name behind the company. - Andrew Badera
@simon, I just bought a new logitech mouse... my mighty mouse wasn't so mighty. - Joshua Schnell
@joshua yeah, i got min when they were first released, the 'nipple' started causing me problems after about a month, even after cleaning it loads it still never really got back to how it should be. So dont think i'd get another one. - Simon Wicks
probably Final Cut Pro and all the lessons that go with that. - Randy Ksar
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I'm with Stephen. I want to get a MDP-VGA cable as well as a DVI-capable KVM to switch between my Vista workstation and the MacBook Pro I bought a week ago. - Akiva Moskovitz
I-Phone!! Yes It's official I'm the last one here to own one... - orionstarr
orionstarr, you are not alone... im a BB user for so long... - AJ Batac
I don't have an iphone, but i use a BB (work-issued) - imabonehead
The more teething one is the mighty mouse. Faced with the same problem as some of you guys. Scrolling works sometimes but not as often after 3 months down the road. - Jonathan Kong
A NORMAL wireless mouse. I'm sick of this bar of soap of a mouse and this tiny trackball - Outsanity
maybe you know this, but flipping the MM over, and rolling the scrollball -hard- against a surface--way harder than you'd think OK--will break up the crap and dirt that screws these up. We've prolonged the life of many of these since they were introduced. We hate them, tho, for the most part. Scroll ball too small, mouse itself is cramping over time, etc. - abacab
abacab I did that trick loads when I was using it, but it got to the point I was having to try it every hour or so as it wasn't responding. No I didn't just have real dirty hands either :) gave up and I use a small laptop mouse now but want something more hand friendly. - Simon Wicks
"commenter" (comment #8), I can tell you there's no developer bias. Of course though if you do a comparison of an API provider with two consumer apps you will see the websites of the consumer apps are much more traffiked. The whole point of an API after all is that third party websites can tap into their data *without* having to go to a consumer facing website. So your Compete graph really is meaningless, comparing Twine/AB to OpenCalais.
Also, while I agree that both Twine and AB have traction, I would argue against the following statement in regards to Twine: "...both are way ahead of the other companies cited in terms of usability". Usability is precisely the issue that Twine has had most problems with in its beta.
I do think I need to add a "more" to my statement about repeat users for AB. You are right that it probably has a lot of repeat users already (I am one of them).
Re Twine, despite the negative portrayal, I do genuinely have a soft spot for that product. I don't use it as much as I thought I - Richard
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Spock botched their launch by performing an awesome media blitz and then discovering that they could not handle the load. I'm guessing that they are still reeling from this missing opportunity. At least we can learn from that lesson... - Jean-Marc Liotier
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"commenter" (comment #8), I can tell you there's no developer bias. Of course though if you do a comparison of an API provider with two consumer apps you will see the websites of the consumer apps are much more traffiked. The whole point of an API after all is that third party websites can tap into their data *without* having to go to a consumer facing website. So your Compete graph really is meaningless, comparing Twine/AB to OpenCalais.
Also, while I agree that both Twine and AB have traction, I would argue against the following statement in regards to Twine: "...both are way ahead of the other companies cited in terms of usability". Usability is precisely the issue that Twine has had most problems with in its beta.
I do think I need to add a "more" to my statement about repeat users for AB. You are right that it probably has a lot of repeat users already (I am one of them).
Re Twine, despite the negative portrayal, I do genuinely have a soft spot for that product. I don't use it as much as I thought I - Richard
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Sally, I think they wanted to launch with good U.S. accent recognition, but I'm sure that the team will be looking at making it work well for as many people as they can. - Matt Cutts
This would be nice for taking quick notes and reminders too (if it had/has that feature) - Paul Buchheit
How about opening the browser 'internally', like in twitterrific for example, instead of redirecting to the safari app? in any case, great job :) - george tziralis
Paul and george, I'll pass on the suggestions.. - Matt Cutts
Yes, keeping the browser within the app would be great, also the cool thing about the app is when I type one of my contact's name, it pulls them up on the list and I can click to call them -- however, if I speak their name it goes direct to a google search. The suggestion feature is amazing... - Kelly Johns
Great tips Matt, I just asked google what the square root of 1000 was and it told me in less than a second with NO typing, now we need voice for Gmail and Google Talk! Awesome app - Kelly Johns
I just added one more bonus tip that I forgot. :) - Matt Cutts
Kelly, I do like how the voice recognition works with the calculator. :) - Matt Cutts
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Would that be a bad thing? (/ducks!) - Roshan Vyas
shrug. never heard of this guy and i bet i never will. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
Well, I'm sure you've heard of Nike. W+K did for modern advertising what Google did for most modern web technologies. While I don't think that the culture will make a dramatic move away from being engineering-driven, I'm sure there is value in what he believes to be a good direction to go in. It would be extremely arrogant and misguided to assume that, as a company, Google itself is doing everything right when it comes to the marketing of their products. - Andrew Bonventre
This is one of those posts where it would be fun to read the misc thread inside G. - Paul Buchheit
not sure if this has been posted - but today only....I use Comodo [ the free version ] myself + Threatfire for the heuristics engine experience - just out of curiosity. - SnakeDoc
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Digsby app was created right here in Rochester, NY = hotbed of east tech! ha, ha! - Susan Beebe
More importantly, by a fellow RIT alum :) - Andrew Badera
Looks good, but not mac or linux friendly. Who the heck makes a social app that can't be used by macs? Oh god, my sweet, sweet bubble of mac superiority has been punctured nooooooooooooooo! - Soup
Finally tried it out today. Loving it - Mark Wilson
When I was still on Windows, I used Digsby for a while. Loved it, but the Memory leakage sucked the life out of my experience with it. - Helen Sventitsky
memory leaks have been fixed, It now takes about 5-7mb when running in the systray, and for me 25-30mb when opened up. - Pascal
If friendfeed will be integrated, I would replace my Pidgin with this. Looks good. - Ryo
Me too, great app, still needs a few tweaks though. - Kol Tregaskes
I know it's not linux friendly but it's a terrific app, and the memory leaks are a thing of the past. It's ideal to have it on and keep an eye in your email and now with the FriendFeed by IM it's almost better than Twhirl. - Cibeles
I use it on my windows boxes. They need a Mac and Linux client. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Digsby is fine. They did improve mem usage, but it can cause lag when it jumps from idle to active. I still couldn't use it for that reason. It's like David Banner turning into the Hulk everytime you touch it. Stuff gets all ripped up and stuff... - ♫ Rahsheen™
I really don't have a problem with it, to be honest. But I do remember the memory leakages in the past. It so good that I had to close the updates from FriendFeed it was way to much information for me LOL, that's why I don't use that much Twhirl it jumps on you when you are doing something else. - Cibeles
Digsby and Ping.fm are great together - definately need a client for the Mac. My pc is offline and I want my digsby back, great for keeping track of multiple FaceBook, MySpace and IM accounts. - Chris Loft
Agree with others -- with the memory leaks fixed, digsby is the best client of it's type -- and it SHOULD have a linux client. I know the dev team has mentioned trying to make one happen, wonder if it would run in WINE? - Woodrow Jarvis Hill
A bit slow to start up even when I reduced it to just TWO Y! Mails and a Twitter acct. - Adam
I love this. Nothing against Adium but... This is better - Outsanity
Are you saying that Hong Kong would be even more impressive if the world weren't in a recession? I wish I lived in a place where a tourist's first impressions changed depending on the health of the global economy. It sure would be interesting. - Mitch
If you read some of the local newspapers you would think HK is sinking into a hole though. Busy street != good economy :p - Clarence Chiang
Robert I always wondered 'bout Chine but, after your whole feed about there...Now i have an urgent feeling to visit there! China gov. has to pay you for your presentation :) - Olcayto
Olcatyo: it's an interesting place to visit and a LOT cheaper than Paris. You should have seen the club we hung out in last night. As good as any Vegas club. - Robert Scoble
Robert: My wife is also a FF user, so i have to reply as "Good for you" for your comment :) When you gonna share more photos? I mean China. Not the club :) - Olcayto
Olcayto: I gotta run, so no photos right now. Maybe later after we go out and party, but might be a couple of days. - Robert Scoble
Have a great time, I've been to HK many times, it's a beautiful place. The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada! If you have time, take a subway to go around the city and do some shopping and eating. - Alvin
The first portable gaming device I ever bought was in Hong Kong. We used to stop by there often on our way back to the US from Indonesia when I lived there growing up. - Jesse Stay
@alvin "The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada!" - not quite, it depends how you choose to spend your money there. It can be *very* expensive as well. - Kevin Chan
What he may be referring to is that there is a ton of high-end stores everywhere (e.g. Armani, Chanel, etc.) You keep wondering who buys all that stuff. - Paul Rodriguez
@yinkei "What I mean is the local Chinese food is inexpensive, same as in Beiing" - Alvin
It's totally different to Ping.fm. It's not another multiple-service updater. It allow you to follow many social services from a desktop app. - Leandro Ardissone
ping.fm has a desktop app if you have an Im client - TheHenry
an im client is a desktop app.. ping.im offers a bot to use with your IM :) - Leandro Ardissone
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London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet. - Hayk