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by whatusername 18y ago
bingo. 140 characters isn't a news service. But If you follow 100 people (frequent tweeters) in every city around the country/world, you may get an early warning of something happening. I think scoble had a post some time back - making t
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by whatusername 18y ago
And of course: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes p
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by whatusername 18y ago
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be... This shows the GDP stats even better! Well worth watching
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by whatusername 18y ago
I wonder what percentage of people enter a department store, or a video games shop, and leave empty handed.. I'm sure it's higher than 1-3%
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by whatusername 18y ago
search works well. Found 3 tracks for Sounds Like Chicken - my reference Obscure band. but major FAIL in usage terms.. * I start saving out a playlist - then realise there's nowhere to play it. * Normally I'd leave, but I figured I'd si
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by whatusername 18y ago
Did you ever see this: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/12/12/whats-the-weir... (He "sold" a $22,000 Bulldozer through an Amazon affiliate link!)
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by whatusername 18y ago
actually - from skimming the article it appears that it doesn't.
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by whatusername 18y ago
And for anyone who missed this one lately ---> look at the stakes on this bet! http://www.longbets.org/362
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by whatusername 18y ago
With no itunes store for windows at the time --> it was Windows customers missing out on the service, not "All customers". (Everyone knows Linux users aren't "customers" - :P) With that kind of context, "windows download service" make
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by whatusername 18y ago
I found it strange. Definately interesting and well written, but strange. Wasn't life changing (for me at least) either.
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by whatusername 18y ago
yes and no... Remember one of the common ways of getting anywhere is to type www.google.com in the msn homepage that comes up. And then you type www.myspace.com into the google search box... This "may" be a solvable issue...
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by whatusername 18y ago
An VMWare sharts to chew through my RAM - espeially if you're trying to do something non-trivial in a couple of VM's simultaneously.
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by whatusername 18y ago
How many people work in large corporations? Are there really companies that share data around that isn't PDF? Sure - I'm working at a 3 letter big tech company, but still, This is 2008, PDF is pretty common.
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by whatusername 18y ago
I wonder what Gates position would be? Some products shrink markets. (Easy example in Encyclopedias. Books==$$$$, Encarta/WorldBook==$, Wikipedia==FREE) I think NetDocs would be one of those. I guess the question is - from a business sta
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by whatusername 18y ago
Where does it treat them with the same seriousness? To me the initial SL component was just a screening / outreach process - finding them someone they wouldn't have otherwise found. He then had 11 face-to-face interviews (in two different c
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by whatusername 18y ago
Don't forget about real football.. :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League and there's even a "rivalry round" and another wikipedia page to make your job easier.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL_team_rivalries
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by whatusername 19y ago
Aren't the scaling issues more in the send-to-all cateogry than in the person-to-person? Aka - a scoble broadcast out to 20,000 different endpoints causes challenges - whether it's pushed or pulled..
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by whatusername 19y ago
It is a car that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds.. So I'm not sure that you can charge every km you drive on t against the drivers time.. (Granted - this doesn't apply if you're just driving to work..)
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by whatusername 19y ago
Cayenne = FAIL http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?Article... Well, not quite - but the cheap one does seem to diminish the Porche brand a bit..
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by whatusername 19y ago
I love how you casually mention "Half a billion requests per day"..