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Re: Our Saturday Mixtape’s decade-in-review lands in 2005

shortformblog — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:03:03 -0000

What a nice thing for you to say! :D

Keep an eye out man. We got some great things coming down the pipe.

Re: Our Saturday Mixtape’s decade-in-review lands in 2005

mrshl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:26:31 -0000

I really liked that one, Ernie. So weird that your taste in music and in editorial content mirror my own so much. This is pretty much the one damn blog I actually need to read.

Re: ALL ENERGY

mrshl — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:51:25 -0000

Yes. Everything looks fine now. Earlier this morning it did not for some reason. You might want to take a look in the HTML to make sure your comments aren't part of a div that forces them to appear in center alignment.

Also, I was seeing the band live at the Abyss the first time I heard this song. My experience with the video came later.

Re: We’re calling it: The Amazon Kindle had a good run, but it’s done.

mrshl — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:51:05 -0000

The best mistake they made was trying to emulate the closed iTunes platform. That ensured another clear path for competitors: openness.

Re: TweetDeck Adds New Notification System and New Follower Column

mrshl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:45:11 -0000

Indeed. That's been my primary complaint about TweetDeck and Seesmic. Wonder what's taken so long. It's been especially annoying since even scrolling with the mouse wheel hasn't been reliable with either client. Keyboard shortcuts FTW.

Re: louisgray.com: Designing the Perfect Twitter Client Is Impossible, But Tweetie Is Close

mrshl — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:14 -0000

I dig Echofon on Firefox, and they have an iPhone and Mac application. From what I've seen, Tweetie is probably a better combo for the Mac/iPhone but I use windows. I've not seen any dedicated Twitter client I enjoy more than Echofon on Firefox. I use it on my iPod touch, too, and it's serviceable (with Read it Later integration!). But I've so far been unwilling to pay $4.99 for the pro version so that I can sync my Firefox and iPod accounts.

Re: Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

mrshl — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:33:58 -0000

Wait, Facebook introduced their news feed and mini-feed before FriendFeed. It was, if I remember correctly, Friendfeed who expanded and perhaps perfected Facebook's idea.

Not sure why people continue to suggest it was the other way around.

Re: Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions

mrshl — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:30:04 -0000

"Most importantly, with Zoho’s wide area of products and services, which are all tightly integreated into one another, Zoho is slowly becoming what the upcoming Google Wave (Google Wave) aspires to be: a fully integrated communication/document creation/sharing platform for companies and individuals alike."

Is there a competition to erroneously compare every new feature or web site to Google Wave? I guess because no one's seen it, you can compare anything to Google Wave and the comparison is temporarily valid. Carry on.

Re: Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out

cdixon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:47:12 -0000

That's the New York Times's "last man standing" strategy. I think there is some validity too it. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/business/medi...

Re: Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out

mrshl — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:08:07 -0000

While I agree "there is nothing inherently un-monetizable about newspaper content." It doesn't follow that the money must come from Google (or another search engine). In the bizarro world you describe, where there are only 5 newspapers, those newspapers could probably charge their actual users for access.

It's not like people are just logging onto Google News to get their news. A sizeable number of people continue to navigate to their favorite news sites. In a world where there are fewer news sites, why wouldn't they be able to charge their users directly?

Re: Is Delicious for saving? Or for sharing? Or both?

mrshl — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:23:48 -0000

My understanding is the new version of OneNote (2010) includes vastly upgraded tagging features in addition to a robust web-based version. It might make OneNote my default notetaking option. Afterall, it's not like Evernote's product offering is unassailable.

Re: life is a thrill

mrshl — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:58:11 -0000

I am loving the cowbell, myself.

Re: tr.im gets whiny, shuts down their URL shortener, blames Twitter

mrshl — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:40:49 -0000

Maybe Friendfeed will be a graveyard of shortened links. Can't find hardly anything on Twitter more than a few days old.

Re: Twitter support just got mad hot, son. Tweets... | Tumblr Staff

mrshl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:53:55 -0000

When does this go live? I'm not seeing an option to customize my Tweets.

Re: Wired editor Chris Anderson: Total prick in interviews.

mrshl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:39:41 -0000

I was going to call this dude something, but I've decided I don't use the word "douche" anymore.

Re: Lawsuit Happy Landlord Horizon Realty Responds to Twitter Controversy

mrshl — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:48:13 -0000

Their full response seems measured and coherent. Not sure why all the hate.

Re: Addendum to my earlier post

mrshl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:36:24 -0000

Interesting. But I have to respond the same way I responded to recent criticism that Google received when they asked artist to contribute free themes for Chrome: the answer can only be found in the answer. If Microsoft and Google can identify an adequate, or even superior, supplier then they win. Pure and simple.

Markets are multifaceted, and sometimes the buyer is uniquely positioned to expand its choices, and thereby reduce its costs. We shouldn't begrudge them. Because it remains an arms' length transaction.

You say "devalue" but arrival at a cash price is only one of many indicia of a song's value. For example, Guns N' Roses licensed one of it's songs to The Wrestler, when they could have charged much more. They did so with the film's budget concerns in mind. Did that devalue the song? I would say not.

There were other forms of value to be derived, not insignificantly the involvement of pals, the prestige of Aronfsky, the likelihood of positive buzz.

I've seen the counter-argument: Google and Microsoft are huge companies. Why are they extracting discount prices from artists who could badly use the money. That point is not without its appeal, but at that point we're talking about charity rather than a true market dynamic. We already know buyers on the order of Microsoft and Google can pay much less for identical quality. So what do we call the surplus?

A subsidy. Not fair compensation, but a donation.

Re: moof: A Free iTunes for the Web?

Christian Mejia — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:59:41 -0000

I like spotify but it's not available in the states. LALA conquers in my book. The music is crystal clear and affordable. About 75% of the music in my LALA collection is directly from my hard drive. Moof, its cool and free but like you mentioned, too noisy. LALA.com gets my vote.

http://www.lala.com/#member/17527@12755

Re: moof: A Free iTunes for the Web?

esjay — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:54:55 -0000

Lala is seconded. It also will go ahead and upload the MP3s that you have but it doesn't to its server and host/stream it for you. YouTube has a lot of music, but I know it doesn't have a version of every mp3 I own. Lala also makes it dead simple to get *new* music legally for 10 cents a song, and that's the real clincher.

Re: moof: A Free iTunes for the Web?

mrshl — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:45:17 -0000

What about Lala.com? That's as close as I've seen anyone come to iTunes on the Web. Full management of your songs, ratings, playlists, and even scrobbling to Last.fm.

Does moof do any of that? Doesn't sound like it.

Re: Techcrunch: Ditch Delicious for some dude’s side project

mrshl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:54:15 -0000

I thought, and still think, that Diigo was a bit too slow for my tastes. And its Firefox add-on doesn't hold a candle to Delicious Bookmarks. So I've stuck with Delicious. I'm not adverse to a better alternative. I just haven't seen one.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But It’s Not Fixing Outlook

mrshl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:59:11 -0000

This isn't so bad. Preserving a great experience for their Office customers makes perfect sense right now. Want them to change? Do what Google is trying to do.

Beat them at email.

Re: This is why we’re working on a redesign that simplifies things

mrshl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:58:37 -0000

Honestly, I've got no idea. I have my own Tumblr blog with a ton of pals who read every day. But the short items aren't very good at starting conversation.

Not even sure I'd have comments if I were you. Instead, I might focus on making things easy to share and rate (e.g., 1-5 stars, like / boo!). Allow your comments to reflect the ethos of your chosen short form.

Re: This is why we’re working on a redesign that simplifies things

shortformblog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:45:59 -0000

Not disagreeing. Most of them respond via Twitter and FB.

Since it's just me, it's not easy to do the audience cultivation needed. If you have any thoughts on audience-building, as a fan, I'm all ears.

Re: This is why we’re working on a redesign that simplifies things

mrshl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:31:45 -0000

You guys could actually use a few more "fucktards". Love the blog, but it's a ghost town over here.