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by misuba 18y ago
All Scoble said was it had a better user experience. You can split hairs about whether app selection should be figured into UX - I think maybe it should - but that clearly isn't what Scoble means. Being based on HTML and JS does not mean th
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by misuba 18y ago
Adding Exchange integration to the above is really what makes this platform a contender IMO. It's the perfect finishing move.
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by misuba 18y ago
Does Spotify let you do anything with songs besides listen to them? Put them into mixes, perhaps? Integrate with the web?
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by misuba 18y ago
So there are no innovations left to be made in the portions of the car industry that don't reside directly in the product?
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by misuba 18y ago
Why on earth are those three types of student all in the same class?
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by misuba 18y ago
... but is actually just inferring, and frequently gets it wrong.
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by misuba 18y ago
There's already a Chat pane in the sidebar...
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by misuba 18y ago
Shore up the legal and public-relations status of civil unions against any possible oncoming attacks.
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by misuba 18y ago
We won't know for two years.
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by misuba 18y ago
OpenID does solve a problem, and it's even a problem that average-Joe users agree is a problem - once you spend 10 minutes explaining to them just what the hell the field that wants something called an OpenID URL is supposed to do. The name
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by misuba 18y ago
The old political adage: "If you're explaining, you're losing."
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by misuba 18y ago
No no no; I said _ask yourself._ Don't just repeat what you already know; think a little longer and look a little deeper into where the offense, the _feeling of offense in you,_ comes from.
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by misuba 18y ago
Right, because we never do that ever.
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by misuba 18y ago
And less accurate, yes. Considered asking yourself why something being for women is offensive?
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by misuba 18y ago
The real question is, what's the business model for teaching people Internet literacy? And can that even be done?
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by misuba 18y ago
Emusic has survived for a really long time...
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by misuba 18y ago
Not to mention the recent AppJet stack release! ...which I guess is Rhino and Jetty. Still cool, though. I've even been messing about with some of this fellow's stuff, including a very pretty mini-web framework: http://peter.michaux.ca/ H
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by misuba 18y ago
Why should a GUI toolkit have networking features?
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by misuba 18y ago
Sad but I suspect true: if you really want to appeal to academic markets (as that one pull quote suggests), you'll need to remove the word "wiki" from your sell. The anti-Wikipedia prejudices run deep in academia, and they've attached the w
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by misuba 18y ago
Yes! This was the major mistake that doomed Lifestreams: the whole notion that UI and finding your stuff is an either-or proposition. Let's give people MORE ways to find their stuff, not (just) a different one. (And, naturally, provide a mo
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by misuba 18y ago
The differentiation from songza is in the brand - which, in a market like music, may in fact matter a good deal. (also the differentiation is that songza's more usable. but yeah.)
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by misuba 18y ago
"All I'm saying is that if you're the kind of person who is irrevocably damaged by sending an SMS to someone, then these sorts of social networks shouldn't have been on your slate to begin with." Another way of saying this: all SNSes are to
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by misuba 18y ago
Reason has been tolerating this particular brand of unreason - that is, the climate-change naysaying - for a long time. Hearteningly, it is learning to stop. You don't like a little brusqueness in defense of human life, move to some other p
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by misuba 18y ago
Somehow, fake gangsta-isms are even more irritating coming from Brits. I know, I didn't think that was possible either.
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by misuba 18y ago
Is it awesome or just unfortunate that the book's title abbreviates to LOL?
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by misuba 18y ago
Now, if they added a server-side API to Processing, that might be interesting...
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by misuba 18y ago
For anyone who couldn't figure out what the earlier replies r.e. judging people had to do with anything, the parent reply is an illustration.