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811.
by seldo 17y ago
Also, while I'm bitching... http://www.buzz.com/ The logo looks like somebody took the bing font and merged it with the technorati icon, with a near-fatal dose of compression artifacts. Sorry, AT&T is not my favourite company :-)
812.
by seldo 17y ago
I'm sure given AT&T's laudable history of building huge-scale, world-class websites and their sterling reputation for dealing with customers in a human fashion this site will do excellently.
813.
by seldo 17y ago
The integration is a complex 2-year process; six months have passed so far. Don't expect results to change before 2011. (I'm a Yahoo, but this is public knowledge)
814.
by seldo 17y ago
If Microsoft were to announce tomorrow that they were shipping Windows with a copy of Firefox, but the default search engine was Bing, what would the reaction be?
815.
by seldo 17y ago
Well, it's a rev share, so it won't make them any money if you switch back to Google.
816.
by seldo 17y ago
Worldwide it became (as of today) the highest-grossing movie of all time: http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ However, inflation-adjustment is harder for the worldwide figure since inflation varies by country and you'd need to know th
817.
by seldo 17y ago
Wow, where's that? The glasses were free when I saw it in SF.
818.
by seldo 17y ago
Interstitial ads are incredibly user-hostile; these ones actually have a bug right now and so fail to respect the original URL -- so you try to visit a particular article on TC and get bounced to the front page. Awful. Either TC is having p
819.
by seldo 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079109
820.
by seldo 17y ago
In all seriousness, option (1). There's no upside to leaking this 24 hours in advance of actually announcing it when hype is already at fever pitch. And if you need examples of hilariously incompetent CEOs I refer you to the automotive and
821.
by seldo 17y ago
Even with all the free/bundled subscriptions, they admit that traffic is way down: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/newsday.com/ The paywall actually only went up at the end of 10/2009, but even so it's clear that audience loss accelerate
822.
by seldo 17y ago
This seems to be conflating two issues. One is that Facebook has changed their default profile privacy recently, which is a real issue that got a lot of press. The second is specifically their album privacy settings, which are not a million
823.
by seldo 17y ago
It's hard to take these companies seriously when every claim of their success is couched in language like "rumour has it" and "I hear". The reason you never hear about these companies is because they have apparently not officially said how
824.
by seldo 17y ago
> The fact that it is easier (less expensive) for a company to settle a case for $1K, rather than fight and win a case while costing themselves $10k gives the companies no incentive to fight back. Of course, that works both ways -- debt
825.
by seldo 17y ago
Drones already kind of look like they were built by Apple: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2006/H... A few too many dangling peripherals though; if it were really Apple all that stuff would be flush with the surface.
826.
by seldo 17y ago
I realized when I got this email this evening that I have pre-ordered both the WakeMate and the FitBit. When I get both I shall have to run side-by-side feature comparisons, seeing as I've blown the money already anyway...
827.
by seldo 17y ago
I don't understand. Why would the Iraqis buy these devices? Nobody else is using them and there's no evidence it works. It's not like they're idiots. Are they just desperate for anything to improve the situation?
828.
by seldo 17y ago
I lived in that house for 6 years and until the day I moved out was still turning on the damn light instead of the disposal.
829.
by seldo 17y ago
Please insert the missing T in "quitting" before my OCD brain gnaws its way out of my skull.
830.
by seldo 17y ago
For the cost of an iPhone, you can save a lot more than one life. Donate right now! http://clintonbushhaitifund.org/ http://awe.sm/helphaiti etc.
831.
by seldo 17y ago
To borrow. He's married (Hence the dog. Dogs are like training wheels for people planning to have kids.).
832.
by seldo 17y ago
As usual, I would love to see the same-sex data. I'm willing to bet that gay men are MUCH more interested in good abs.
833.
by seldo 17y ago
I fired off an email to my dog-owning friend the moment I hit that graph.
834.
by seldo 17y ago
I for one have got a lot more strict about flagging things that are interesting but off-topic.
835.
Is the iTablet a peripheral instead of a standalone device?(seldo.com)
1 points by seldo 17y ago|0 comments
836.
by seldo 17y ago
Neat! I have recently been needing exactly this, as I have been obsessively checking Avatar's box office totals to see if/when it will overtake Titanic: http://webnumbr.com/avatar-box-office-total
837.
by seldo 17y ago
The most obvious pleiotrope that I can think of associated with startups (possibly all businesses) is that CEOs tend to be, putting it bluntly, jerks. The same qualities that make for a successful CEO -- ruthlessness, tenacity, the ability
838.
by seldo 17y ago
This kind of clear, accessible relation of everyday observation to real science is what Dawkins became known for, excels at, and what I wish he would stick to. His strident anti-God rhetoric elsewhere does much to damage the reputation of e
839.
Google and China: Flowers for a funeral(economist.com)
14 points by seldo 17y ago|10 comments
840.
by seldo 17y ago
Thanks! Here was mine: Hello - I was very concerned recently to read of your school being forced to evacuate after finding a suspicious device in the backpack of one of your students, as reported here: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/20

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