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  • Stu  == The name “knol” is “a nice, very simple word to remember, and it’s part of knowledge,” Manber tells Wired. == Honestly I think it's a pretty bad name. Does it rhyme with mole or moll? I'm assuming that the K is silent, but that's another thing that will hurt its uptake of recognition. And with little recognition, you can't talk about it without spelling the word out so your listener knows what you're talking about. Meh. And try saying "nahl" a few times, I start feeling like I"m going to accidentally swallow my tongue.
  • • 3 hours ago
    •   Google unveils Knol, its accountable take on Wikipedia
    •   VentureBeat
  •   MG Siegler  ha ha, i agree with that. I'm honestly not even sure the correct pronunciation. I've seen both "nole" and "knowl"
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  • Stu  "Also dont forget about the apple premium. Just becasue its apple..you need to give it credit." :| The hell? Big difference #1 for me is that I already own a Netflix account and am a XBL subscriber: These 10,000 or whatever videos that they're talking about being available don't require any further fees to view them. I've got like 50 items in my streaming queue on Netflix, so the sooner this gets here the better.
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Netflix comes to the Xbox 360. Did Microsoft just destroy the Apple TV?
    •   VentureBeat
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  • Stu  Heh, I'm actually at someone else's place right now that doesn't have Flash installed, and it's been killing me 'cause I'm dying to see Scoble waddling off in a huff!! :D
  • • 1 week ago
    •   The great iPhone 3G iFail: A retrospective with videos
    •   VentureBeat
  •   MG Siegler  A must-see, but the first video blow up is better IMHO
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  • Stu  I'm extremely frustrated...that I wasn't there to laugh in the face of people who've been standing in line for days for this debacle! :D
  • • 1 week ago
    •   The great iPhone 3G iFail: A retrospective with videos
    •   VentureBeat
  •   MG Siegler  It was somewhat entertaining Stu. Watch that first video, it's like that guy had been working on that bit for weeks!
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  • Stu  Hilarious. And people wonder why Apple can't make a dent in the corporate marketplace...
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Are Apple and AT&T failing on iPhone activation?
    •   VentureBeat
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  • Stu  I don't see this putting a dent in text messaging at all. I text someone, I know they get it, I don't have to wonder if they use IM or not, or if they just happen to have their browser open to that specific page -- how many people want to leave Safari open to the Gtalk page 24/7? Meebo already offers a very nice IM client for the iPhone, one which includes the Gtalk, and I've used it to chat with people who were on Gtalk on their computers. But never once when I've been texting others that I know are using an iPhone have I thought, "Hey, let's stop texting and both log onto Meebo and continue our conversation there." It's just an inconvenience, I'd simply freaking CALL them before I bothered. As far as the advantages of the Sprint Everything plan, you might get unlimited texts, but they also charge you 100 bucks a month. I already feel like I'm getting fleeced enough as it is moving to a 3G iPhone, paying another $15 per month. If I needed to pay another $25/month (or $600 over the course of my 2-year contract) on top of that, I'd just say forget it. I imagine you're familiar with Meebo and its support for multiple IM services; does this iPhone version of Gtalk support this too, or just over Google's own network?
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   Google Talk comes to the iPhone, death of the text message approaching?
    •   VentureBeat
  •   MG Siegler  Right now it looks like Gtalk on the iPhone is just for the Goog network, but I'm sure it will roll out to AIM, Jabber and eventually Yahoo (which is part of their search advertising deal). I realize all the other IM clients that have come along and failed to kill text, but as I say, I think this is a first step towards something. Text on the iPhone and this are VERY similar. One is free, one isn't. When the browser open restrictions are removed with an App, I expect more and more people to use IM. It'll be a slow death, but I don't expect there to be texting in 10 years.
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  • n00b  Is there really any evidence that Microsoft wants the tech people at Yahoo? Maybe they just want to get some of their brands and do something with them before Yahoo can completely run any last bit of value into the ground? What have Yahoo's technologists managed to do other than shed their own marketshare and buy hyped Web 2.0 companies? I actually subscribed with my credit card to Yahoo's music service; too bad it didn't actually work and Yahoo thought the best approach was to refund my money rather than lift a finger to even inquire as to what kind of error I was getting. Maybe I just don't get why these people that Yahoo is letting go of (along with the ones leaving on their own) are suddenly hot properties, ones whose departure is decreasing the value of Yahoo and increasing the value of anyone who hires them. Yahoo's in a death spiral, largely due to technology, so where were these people to pull them out of it?
  • • 5 months ago
    •   Yahoo staffers clogging the exits
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  That's a fair point, er... n00b. There certainly aren't many signs of creativity coming out of Yahoo, so maybe some of those people who are leaving are no real loss -- but it's also possible that there's a lot of ability inside the company that hasn't been able to make an impact. Arguably they wouldn't have been able to do so under Microsoft either, so better they leave now, I suppose.
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  • Stu  Internet worked great for me. Oh yeah, guess the blogosphere didn't realize that the vapid circle jerk known as twitter isn't actually the internet...
  • • 6 months ago
    •   Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  Thanks, Stu. Missed you lately :-)
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  • Stu  Translation: "We need to sell an $80 'object' to the hardcore to try to get something back after all those freeloaders downloaded our digital album."
  • • 6 months ago
    •   Radiohead: People still want an “object”
    •   Mathew's comments
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