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4 months ago

in A Cat Playing The Theremin on Laughing Squid
Too cute. Love it :)

5 months ago

in Twitter Quitter Fitter Happier? on Webomatica
That's the secret to any social app... subscribing to the right people. You have to be ready to unsubscribe if they noise is overwhelming the signal.

5 months ago

in Link Sharing: 3/27/08 on Webomatica
Actually.. I don't use the API at all in any of those scripts.

I've yet to successfully be able to write anything interesting using public APIs only. They're always so limited.

5 months ago

in Is the Long Tail really all it is cracked up to be? on WinExtra Comments
While I completely agree that most long tail markets will not have enough traffic to justify their existence, the guy is smoking something if he thinks storage/bandwidth will be a problem.

Storage is cheap, cheap, cheap and only gets cheaper. Bandwidth not as much, but now traffic no bandwidth.

5 months ago

in Webomatica DVD Give Away #2 on Webomatica
Doctor Strange Love

(again, don't want the prize, I already have it :) )

5 months ago

in Webomatica DVD Give Away #1 on Webomatica
Being John Malkovich

I have the movie, so I don't want to be entered in the draw :)

5 months ago

in FriendFeed Adds Search, I Still Don’t Get It on Social Times
I find it's the commenting feature that I like most.

They are sitting on a goldmine though. They're inches from becoming a very competitive news aggregator.

There's so much metadata about what people are sharing and liking that they can do things with.

5 months ago

in Again: Why I Like FriendFeed on Webomatica
interesting idea... a wordpress plugin to reimport meta comments from delicious/digg/ff back into WP.

6 months ago

in Link Sharing: 2/27/08 on Webomatica
Best Buy will usually tell people to use credit cards instead of debit because of that issue.

You can (and should) call your bank to increase the limit temporarily when you're doing something like buying a car or buying an engagement ring (both things I've done with my debit card).

6 months ago

in FriendFeed: Like a news feed on steroids on Mathew's comments
http://friendfeed.com/engtech
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whydowork would be interested to know your thoughts on this:
http://www.whydowork.com/blog/wdw-insider/216/

(keeping in mind it may be just a tad sarcastic :o)

6 months ago

in Could FriendFeed give Twitter a run for the money? on WinExtra Comments
http://friendfeed.com/engtech

what's interesting is that friendfeed outputs RSS

I just set up a test blog to see what happens if I try to go from friendfeed to tumblr (and maybe overcome the 5 feed limit tumblr added)

7 months ago

in Web 2.0: Please Make It Easier To Quit on Webomatica
Tell me about it.

People often sign up for accounts using the wrong email address -- mine (my personal address).

Trying to get out of that is next to impossible. I've been able to cancel orders, transfer money, cancel business trips and even turn down housing offers because people don't enter the correct email address.

7 months ago

in Movie Notes: MirrorMask on Webomatica
I've been avoiding this one because of all the negative reviews.

7 months ago

in Board Games That Scarred Me For Life on Webomatica
I still play D&D once a week :)

(actually didn't start until pretty late in life... had the rule books but never found a good DM as a kid)

Important life lessons I've learned from D&D:

The most logical result of invulnerability is to become a complete asshole because no one else can do anything about it. Superman? It would never happen.

All it takes is one chaotic evil guy in the party and next thing you know everyone's trying to use "eat the evidence" to cover up the accidental murder of the town guards. This applies to cube dwelling office politics in a way I don't want to think about right now.

re: Operation. The modern day equivalent is trying to give your cat a pill.

7 months ago

in Is it really about the conversation? on WinExtra Comments
Try using http://www.googlealert.com as the source instead of Technorati. It'll work better because it's looking for the words anywhere on the page -- not some specific kind of tagging format.

I wish the "real" Google Alerts supported RSS.

7 months ago

in Movie Notes: The Fountain on Webomatica
the graphic novel is a big load of crap as well

7 months ago

in Apple keynote, Daring Fireball version on Mathew's comments
McAir makes a lot of sense, you can get 4 GB USB keys for a reasonable price, so why do you need a DVD drive?

(other than to play DVDs :) )
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mathewi So far movie rentals and the wireless time capsule -- Daring Fireball
was right on two.

7 months ago

in Interesting: FriendFeed on Webomatica
it really is no work required

i haven't logged into it since i signed up :)

7 months ago

in What I Do When Not Working Or Blogging on Webomatica
Juno was good, but not as good as the trailer made it out to be.

7 months ago

in Could Web 2.0 be the death of web porn? on WinExtra Comments
I don't think that adult sites will have any problem surviving.

I don't think the internet would have reached the massive popularity it now has if it wasn't for the allure of 'free porn'.

That's the one industry that's really cutting edge when it comes to finding new ways to use and abuse technology.

Selling sex is the oldest industry and it still hasn't gone anywhere even though the same product can be had for free elsewhere.
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StevenHodson you're probably correct in your points ... I was just wondering aloud more than anything else and thought it was an interesting question to ask given the two different methods for income generation.

7 months ago

in Goofing off without any guilt on WinExtra Comments
RSS feeds: I usually have about 100+ unread
Games: usually have an xbox/nintendo ds/pc game on the go
Books: usually have 1-2 library books sitting around the house
Movies/TVs: my fiancé is a big time movie buff, so this is always an option
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