timmaah

I think this quote explains it nicely:

>I used to get a great deal from using Facebook—but I understood it to be a two-way reciprocal arrangement because I was driving traffic back to Facebook as well, and reinforcing their brand awareness with prominent widgets on our blog

Your article is a good one, but the tone towards RV's and living in campgrounds is oddly negative.

>>An RV is basically a house on wheels and isn’t particularly inexpensive or minimalist.

Our was pretty inexpensive, is more minimalist than most US based folks and will hold its value just like the camper vans you mention.

>>If you pay to stay at a campsite, it’s most certainly legal, but then this lifestyle ceases to be inexpensive.

$25-$30 a night is most certainly cheaper than most mortgages or apartments.

Granted I've been in campgrounds the last few months and not near many residential neighborhoods, but my experience is that its more trouble than it is worth.

We have a wifi extender on the roof of our travel trailer. Finding an open wifi is fairly rare these days. Even campground offered wifi is hit or miss on speed. Our 3g data card rocks. 20gig a month gives us a little leeway on streaming. We make due with local news and a stash of Seinfeld and Sopranos.

Great time to be living. My wife and I sold most of our stuff and have been living nomadically the last 4 months while continuing to work full time. Though we are in an Airstream, not a van.

Started in Vermont and currently beach front on the Oregon coast. Truly awesome

http://www.watsonswander.com/

It is turning out to be just slightly cheaper than when we owned a house. Averaged $27 a night the last two months for campground fees and $20 a day on gas.

Built this for the start up I work for. Fun challenge to predict the arrival times.

http://uvm.blirpit.com/ (No buses will be active for the next ~6 hours)

And why would he take lunch in the middle of the transfer?

I'd high tail it from point A to B with no unnecessary stops.

They are making up for it in merchandise.

I have been touring the US this summer and have been amazed by the number of people wearing Angry Birds shirts. Even grown men. Walmart has huge Angry Birds signs right next to established brands like Levi and Nike.

Yeah.. not exactly hackerish..

They did the same shot 100's of times and just picked the one off the shelf that matched the swimmers time.

The "Personal Training" portion of the demo screenshots says 4am, but is clearly in the 4pm time slot.

But thats ~6 hours a day tweeting for $5,000.

$5,000 a month is great, but where is the growth in it? Plus it leaves you little time for much else.

There is little meat on the bone left over if you are paying someone to tweet for you.

It has been on hacker news some months ago..

Best line of the article:

It strikes me how bizarre this is. To a SXSW audience, Turntable is already past its prime, even though during last year's conference, the product didn't yet exist.

At least they understand the issue that Turntable was too much work if you want to participate and tricky to find a room for listening.

I can't believe your the only one in this thread that mentioned shuffle mode. Very neat.

Facebook is not implementing this feature, but a third party developer via a facebook app.

One of these was built recently in my backyard. Looks like great fun and they do good business. (Though I'm not going to pay $100 to tour the woods I hike daily for free)

http://www.smuggs.com/winter/amenities/canopy-tour.php

Another ski area just built a huge indoor waterpark.

There are tons of these types of adventurous opportunities out there. Movies are for the lazy.

What about conversion rate? That looks to be a limited number of pins, so you can't be getting much traffic from them.

My wife just recently started a food blog and along with that found Pinterest. With a site redesign we did, we added a Pinterest button directly next to the Facebook like button. The Pinterest button gets upwards of 10 times the actions as the facebook like.

We were just talking about how it is not considered as acceptable to share as much mundane stuff on Facebook and how that is what Pinterest is all about. Facebook has no way to easily categorize or review what you have shared in the past, so it gets lost. Women especially seem to enjoy this.

One odd thing is Pinterest doesn't seem to combine all pins of a single image together. For a single image, you may have 20 different pins, each of those with their own set of repins and comments. See: http://pinterest.com/source/thinlyslicedcucumber.com/

Same way as people find new tweets. By following others and by having others follow you.

Last week 2.0 introduced me to the world of responsive design. Converted our current project to it. Higher ups are pleased and it saved me from creating a second "mobile" site. I am a fan.

Before you do much crawling of car dealer websites, you should talk to the companies who build the sites. (Dealer.com/Vinsolutions..etc) They have systems in place that package up the car listings for their dealers and send them in csv/xml format to many sites like Autotrader/Cars.com on a daily basis.

My wife uses it. She uses it because there is a button for it in picasa. Mainly to tweak photos for her blog and add text into them.

Nice work.

My suggestion would be the ability to add a simple tag next to each vehicle. I could then scan the vehicles and mark which ones are off the list or I should follow up on.

Not having a demo available is beyond ridiculous. I asked about it in their forums and was told to email sales. I went ahead with the purchase anyway.

It would not take much for them to setup a personal sandbox demo just like spree commerce does ( http://spreecommerce.com/demo )

It can't be that they don't want people to think the product is too complicated before purchase, as their after purchase help docs are limited and they have no personal follow up or checkin.

I am developing a site in Expression Engine at the moment. First time with it and first time using php in a major project. (At the moment I identify myself as a Rails guy with no php experience)

EE is pretty powerful in enabling you to get a site with multiple customized CRUD data up and running quick. Though the makers of EE need to do some serious work on documentation, as it took me about a week to fully understand how all the parts fit together (Our designer is having major issues wrapping her head around it). As with most any other CMS, when you hit the limit of EE, it is a hassle to add that one small item you need.

There is an active 3rd party plugin community. With quite a few being paid plugins.

The overall license charge and additional plugins are just a drop for any major project. It is exciting to know there are a few 3rd party folks making some good money on small EE plugins. I may just write a few of my own.

The ball pickup is ingenious, but I'm not sure about 100% more flingy. The one shot they showed of it actually tossing the ping pong ball went straight into the ground a foot in front of the bot.

The 'Greatest Generation' is just about gone. It is their kids doing the bankrupting.

Thanks.. My laziness gets to me in finishing the projects. I do the fun part of getting it to work, then slack on the polish it needs to be complete.

Just selling the lights would be best. Shipping on the 2 foot by 4 foot panel wouldn't be worth it.

Here is my display.. 98 of them in a 2'x4' box controlled by a nodejs web app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXahEYJX9-g

The cutting board diffuser on this 7x7 display is genius. My diffuser material cost $$.

(If anyone wants to buy 98 on the cheap. Let me know. I'm going nomadic and have no place for my creations)

This is the way I use it as well.

What I would like is some way to tag or bookmark an album. I find I stumble upon a new artist or album I like, but then forget what it was later in the week.

This isn't 3D with a VR helmet, but is 360 degree video with ability to pan/zoom/pause at will.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index...