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rdvm··on Google links Apps to Groups for quicker sharing
Right. It is not that.

You can now share a document with the groups that you create in Google Apps. It's right there in the user management panel for Google Apps administrators.

rdvm··on Google links Apps to Groups for quicker sharing
This isn't what the author thinks it is. Google has simply added the ability to share documents and sites with groups that you define in the Google Apps interface.

What it is not is the addition of the Google Groups service (http://groups.google.com/) to the Google Apps suite.

rdvm··on Don't Stop Supporting IE6
Do the numbers. If you think the money you save in development costs is greater than the cost of pissing off or alienating IE6 users than go for it.

Just hope your competitors are as picky about their customers as you...

rdvm··on New Chrome 3 beta with 30% improvement
Run it with --enable-plugins and it will pick up the plugins you have installed for Firefox. I assume the same works on the Mac build.
rdvm··on Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)
Good news - App Engine scales to support ones of users.
rdvm··on [dead]
Replace "Microsoft" with "all cloud operators" and, though still paranoid, at least you won't sound like a raving hater.
rdvm··on Amazon.com: as frugal as ever?
Holy hell. How many vending machines do you have to have to save $20K by turning of the lights?
rdvm··on I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter
I have yet to find "normal" people exchanging non-worthless information on Twitter.

As near as I can tell, the situation can be summed up thusly: People that publish or broadcast are rightly smitten with Twitter since it fits well with the model of one-to-many information exchange.

What that results in, however, is an inaccurate representation of the usefulness of it by the media. I get to hear all day from bloggers and broadcasters how miraculous Twitter is (and for them it is), yet every time I attempt to avail myself of it I'm utterly disappointed with the signal to noise ratio.

At best, Twitter is a mechanism for press releases with a 140 character limit. At worst, it's a stuck open valve from which people dribble their mental diarrhea.

rdvm··on Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)
Bummer - not working for me in Chromium (OSX) any more either. Which is odd since I did about half the development with it. I'll get that fixed soon...
rdvm··on [dead]
Change you shouldn't have believed in...
rdvm··on Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)
Good point. There is currently a 3 second update on the chat window. I'm interested to see how well App Engine scales on lots of little requests. I'll report back on that later...
rdvm··on Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)
Hmm - apparently links in the summary aren't automatically created. Here's the referrer link example again:

http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

rdvm··on Launchly: Help Your Site Achieve Lift-Off (useful tools review)
I guess in the last 15 hours, they've axed the free offering.

http://www.launchly.com/launches/tiers

To be fair - $40 is nothing if it actually gets you some coverage.