Gibbon

I'm astounded more people don't use HeySpread or TubeMogul to upload their videos to EVERY video site.

Or better yet, make five slightly different versions of the video and upload it via HeySpread.

The more you can syndicate your content, the better off you'll be.

My father, stepfather and uncle were all motorcyclists and they all told me that long time motorcyclists, almost without exception, are eventually in some kind of serious accident.

My stepfather (rode for 50 yrs) drove off a cliff and landed in a tree. My uncle was hit by a cyclist going through a red light and broke many bones in his hand (the cyclist's arm was severed!) My mother, a scooter driver, got her front tire trapped in streetcar tracks in the middle of traffic.

My 70 year old father has a facebook account and doesn't have the slighest clue what do with it, consequently it goes unused.

They may 500 million accounts but they only get 150 million or less users per month. Of that, I bet 50 million of them make up the lion's share of the pageviews. 5 million are complete facebook nutters playing farmville and mobwars 24/7.

If Facebook is a nation of 500 million then the US is a nation of billions, if you count all the tourists and business types flying in/out.

The quick look zoom key commands in the article are goofy.

They work of course, but it's much easier to use command +/- just like photoshop.

I also vaguely remember one of the popular 3d software packages having a bald eagle as one of the primitives.

IMHO Facebook make a colossal mistake when they opened up the service to the entire world.

Now that they've let the genie out of the bottle, there's no going back. With 500 million users, every feature they add is a monstrous engineering challenge and every change they make is an impossible political challenge, guaranteed to piss off a major portion of it's users.

How do you market to 500 million people? How do you govern a sytem with that many users in any meaningful way.. you can't. There's nothing you can offer that many people except for lowest common denominator stuff like advertising.

The biggest challenge in business is finding a market you can clearly define, that can be reached easily. Had Facebook stayed "closed" and only available to college students, that's exactly what they would have had.

Imagine the possibilities.. Facebook would have been a right of passage for freshman students.. you go to college, you get a facebook account. College students and their families are some of the richest people on the planet.. just imagine what you could have offered them?

If a college social network is the primary product.. what are the related products, information, services and media? Dating, food, moving, insurance, travel (spring break!), textbooks, banking, car rentals, housing, used goods, career counseling, job searching, recruiting, training, social events, clubs.. the list is endless.

But with a market of everyone.. which products do you offer? When you picture "everyone" do you have an image of a person in your head? Of course not.. but "college student".. ahh you know immediately what to offer them.

Imagine how many companies would beg to offer their services and products on a college-only facebook network?

That's how you compete.. find a specific niche you can clearly define and build deep relationships with your customers.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain

At the rate the smartphone market is changing, you need a more current report than that.

http://www.changewaveresearch.com/articles/2010/07/smart_pho...

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/15/millennial-media-report-has-a...

Apple now has at least half the market and customer satisfaction surveys indicate that Apple is blowing everyone away.

Here's a good list: http://empoweryou.com/zen_area_res_3.shtml

also check out all the other resources there.. especially the list on networking.

Cat's Cradle was the only book that was required reading in high school that I actually liked, and it's still one of my favourites. As a result I've read just about every one of Vonnegut's books.

Check out the book Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurnce G. Boldt. I just finished reading it and it's really inspiring/helpful in that regard.

I just read that last week.. great book! The end is absolutely riveting.

I suggest signing up for the Challenge (formerly the 30-day challenge). It's just starting now and runs through the end of october.. you'll learn everything you need to know. The right way.

http://www.challenge.co/

How do you know visuals were the only criteria? A flat panel is a hell of a lot easier to clean than a regular light switch.

Or a small number of people who will buy, versus a whole lot of people who couldn't care less.

Here it is: http://www.hugetune.com/workspace.jpg

Nice! I'm moving to New Zealand in about six months.

13" MBP with Arch and FreeBSD for webdev in VMWare.

Mostly they dump bucketloads of money into projects that disappear into blackholes, or morph into other products that are dubiously successful.

As far as talent goes, the Dodgeball founders left, Jaiku founders left, Panoramio, Blogger and Feedburner founders left. That's off the top of my head, there's probably a lot more.

Seems like an expensive and unreliable way to do bulk hires.

Is it just me or do others get peeved when the words complex and complicated are used interchangeably?

To me they mean very different things:

A complicated problem is one that is difficult to understand. A complex problem is one composed of many distinct parts.

A complex problem could also be very complicated, but a complicated problem may not or may not be complex at all depending on the situation.

How has that strategy worked out for them?

I'm not particularly interested in the Ipad myself but my mother was over yesterday asking to send some emails and reminded me I had still not setup my old desktop pc for her.

I said she should just get an Ipad and showed her the video on Apple's site.

She went bonkers for it.

Absolutely loved it.. started saying "I want a MomPad!!" along with lots of "ooohs" and "ahhhs" and a few "oh my gods!"

Come to think of it.. the first computer I ever used was an Apple II at my neighbour's house and he drove a BMW motorcycle.

"Jobs is quoted as wishing that the Apple computer becomes the “Volkswagen of the Industry."

I live next door to an independent Apple dealer and I'd say about 90% drive Volvos.

The dude cannot abide lame websites.

If you have to declare yourself a member of the A-list, you aren't.

Facebook is a usability nightmare. Hide someone in your newsfeed and then figure out how to unhide them.. you'll see what I mean.

Here's a Facebook facelift: http://www.aguynamedvernonmac.com/2009/10/17/facebook-faceli...

I can only dream Facebook would look like that.

I don't see a lot of Barnes and Nobles in my neighbourhood.. so I'm guessing that would be a "yes".

Plug your output into an external amp with a volume knob.

If it's still not loud enough, get a bigger amp and bigger speakers.

Old amps are cheap.

OSX on the laptop but Arch everywhere else, although I'd prefer freebsd if I could find a suitable hosting provider.