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Re: Apple iPad

steps — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:42:38 -0000

Gotta agree with you, although slightly less enthusiastically. :-)

While I was slightly underwhelmed I'm not disappointed and will get one. There are plenty of situations where the iPad will serve me better than lugging the MacBook Pro around. I expected it to have decent battery life given what they've done with the latest laptop batteries. I think the days of us worrying too much about battery life are almost behind us. The missing camera and the need for bunch of accessories are slight knocks against it.

When v2 improves on this version I'll get that and pass this one on to the family.

Re: Time Bankruptcy…The Power of NO

steps — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:02:24 -0000

No works. Now if I can only convince my client to say no to the random opportunities that they come across.

Re: When You Wake Up Feeling Old

steps — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:35:23 -0000

day or two late, but Happy Birthday.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

steps — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:11:32 -0000

Congrats on the new blog design and 3 letter home.

I always learn something new when I stop in here.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:54:11 -0000

Happy Independence Day!

Always something interesting to read or new music to find here. Keep up the good work.

Re: Aaron White

steps — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:25:33 -0000

you know, i didn't even watch the video. just thought you made a good post and did a drive-by comment.

and yeah, i'll give you a pass for using the bunny ears. :)

Re: Aaron White

steps — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:04:03 -0000

Gary V has a blurb in an article in USAToday. He's one of five folks who do online videos of stuff they are passionate about. http://tinyurl.com/3nwwhn

Gary V is good. He's on twitter as well @garyvee.

Don't know if I agree with the first mover advantage. I think it might more accurately be described as FIRST TRACTION advantage. Traction doesn't always accrue to the first mover.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:15:14 -0000

You are definitely on a roll. Congrats again!

I'll check out the games.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:41:09 -0000

Congrats!!

Love twitter, except when it's busy. :)

Re: Aaron White - Follow back, y'all

steps — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:48:14 -0000

Not a bad approach to keep the follow-spam to a minimum. I have some caveats with respect to both tumblr and twitter. With tumblr, following lots of people is easier since you can skim the content via the dashboard. For instance lots of folks post music you might like, but not the rest of their stuff. Filter for audio posts and you can scan a lot of content quickly. It's easy enough to follow a lot of people more selectively on tumblr than twitter.

On twitter, I start with people I know or have an interest in and add folks as I learn about them through existing 'friends'. On the other hand, some folks are using twitter to mostly broadcast. In that case, having a bad following/follower ratio is what it takes to get started; follow widely to generate interest. There is really no other way to do it on twitter if you are trying to get a lot of people to follow you for whatever reason.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

steps — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:26:29 -0000

Thanks for the Bob Marley. Reblogged it and stole it for @lotd on twitter with attribution.

Re: A new kind of Twitter outage (Scripting News)

steps — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:14:19 -0000

I noticed it late last night. Figured the folks I follow couldn't all be at seder. Found the parislemon post and it made sense. It continues this afternoon. I saw your tweet on my phone via sms, but not on the twitter web interface. A full blown outage would at least be recognizable. Casual users might not really notice.

This is not a good thing. Twitter isn't mission critical for me, just interesting. However, it is annoying when it doesn't work properly. Are the twitter clients experiencing the same problem as the web interface? There is no consistency between SMS on the phone and the web interface.

I wonder when they get it fixed are those tweets lost or will we be flooded with all of the missed tweets?

Re: Aaron White - FriendFeed & Socialthing: I don't get it

steps — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:55:29 -0000

Aggregators can be useful, but in their current incarnation I find them more annoying than useful. Having all my stuff under FriendFeed would be nice, if it didn't conflate all my streams. Give me easy access to all my online social stuff under one account, but let me choose how to blend them. I don't want to sift through one stream for everything. And the duplicate references are particularly annoying when all under one roof.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:48:45 -0000

Bijan,

As I said on twitter I went with LCD over Plasma. Most of the performance advantages of plasma have been matched by LCD. Generally, there's a price edge for plasma but you can find good deals on LCD especially at the big box stores. I picked up a Phillips 47" LCD with good reviews and decent features (3HDMI, pic enhancment, etc) for $1400 and change. They have a 50" or 52" model. Some of the models suggested in other comments are excellent, but I couldn't beat the price on the Phillips.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:28:37 -0000

I know how you feel. Unfortunately, My two teenagers have shown me that it won't last. Enjoy it while it lasts. :)

Re: Mixing tech industry politics with U.S. politics (Scripting News)

steps — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:13:59 -0000

"You have as little right to ask who I'm going to vote for as you do to ask me who I voted for after an election."

Dave, and anyone else, has every right to ask. It is you who have the right to answer or not. I don't even tell people in my family how I cast my vote, but it's certainly their right to ask. You seem to be saying discussing politics is in poor taste. It usually is when engaged with people who are uninformed, dogmatic, and closed-minded. It is eye-opening when engaged with informed, thoughtful people. This is why watching cable news is so infuriating; no one is thinking and the questions are as stupid as the answers.

"Politics has no bearing on anything outside of politics. " This is a wish. It is not a statement grounded in fact and does not reflect reality. The tech industry fight for expanded H1B visas isn't political? How are green fuels going to make headway in the marketplace? The problem isn't that politics bears only on politics, it's that most of the big problems are too politicized.

Dave's opinions on politics do not reflect on his tech opinions and vice-versa. Just because I might not agree with his politics doesn't mean his opinions on RSS or any other tech issue are invalid. And if we don't like his style, that is a hurdle for us to get over, not him. I like to know that people who express their opinions in public can show they've thought about the issue. Dave does that, whether you agree with him or not.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

steps — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:20:49 -0000

You made the front page on tumblr. And my initial reaction (2sec) was WTF?, but then I remembered the date.

Re: Where did you have your great idea? (Scripting News)

steps — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:39:36 -0000

Like the One Day in America photo books, but with a more focused theme. A very nice idea and could really only be organized online. Sign me up!