DISQUS

I feel your pain of not being in Austin, I for other reasons. So this is why we age going to hold something a little bit different on April 21st. Check out http://blockbustergraffiti.com

thanks for rubbing it it, we just got 6" of snow here in boston last nite

The party line application is getting good reviews....nice job on the interview and the podcast.

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I was at the http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ conference and I bumped into Tom Boilard and he has created a photo Twitter application with http://moborazzi.com.

While the wisdom of crowds has merrit so does asking the crowds what it is that they want and then over delivering to them.

In times like these some people are accountable (i.e. Eliot Spitzer...about to be) and others aren't (i.e. who has gone to jail for the subprime mess)? With so many smart people on Wall Street how could these big banks get in so much trouble? Greed?

Edlemam makes a really valid point, will the advertisers be relevant? (It will take a TON of work for them to be relevant, gone are the dayz of force feeding the consumers with garbarge....well almost) What we are seeing i think is a tectonic shift in media dollars from TV to online. Some estimates are $40 Billion over the next 24 months to online. That so, this is why Microsoft is interested in Yahoo (Media) company. But at the end of the day Yahoo has eyeballs. Eyeballs can be monetized in the right hands.

I think that this could be more of a land grab play than anything else. However it is not how much you sell it is how much you keep, and right now Google is pocketing quite a bit of cash.

As segmented traffic becomes more coveted this looks attractive in the long run for gates and co. In the short run there is lots of room for error merging cultures that are drastically different.

If Dell is actually shipping a trialware free unit I am slightly interested to hear their story on why they created this unit, but highly skeptical of Dell. (In my experience, they love imaging their hard drives with trial ware because it is one of ther best ways to create continuity revenue) I could even be part of the reason they are doing so. I have 2 inspiron machines replaced because they came loaded with trialware and removal of them rendered the systems nonfunctional.

I'm now on Dell unit #3 a Latitude D820 which is 6 months old and ready for a complete low level hard drive reformat. This machine is a huge disappointment with lock up's, browser errors, re-boots, slow boots etc. Could be a Microsoft XP issue and don't plan on upgrading to resource hog Vista. I will probably go MAC and get a cheap desktop PC for Windows apps.

Dell customer service has been excellent but their product management people and lack of flexibility of configuring a unit without trialware (at least in the past) has been difficult especially when they said they were shipping units with out trialware, bloat ware etc. I don't trust them.