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Comment on Gmail users tweet twice as much by Juniper

Juniper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:11:17 +0000

I use gmail for my primary email but all of my social sites and what not use yahoo. By using yahoo for business etc I get far less spam to my primary business/family email address. I am somewhat saddened that my gmailedness is not represented in the sample, but I will survive.

Comment on Is Twitter In Trouble? by What (almost) made my evening | Val Vladescu

What (almost) made my evening | Val Vladescu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:32:30 +0000

[...] me explain that a little bit: Twiter’s API openness led to lower trafic onto the homepage. Which makes sense. Less and less users are old-school and most of us leave the webif in favor of [...]

Comment on How Mozilla Makes Money and Why It Had Better Start Exploring Other Options. by What (almost) made my evening | Val Vladescu

What (almost) made my evening | Val Vladescu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:32:27 +0000

[...] be also closely following the Supertweet** implementation. I foresee a Mozilla-like business model for the apps like Seesmic and Twidroid.That goes too for the Desktop-based [...]

Comment on Ping! is an instant messenger exclusively for iPhone users by G

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:22 +0000

This is should fix it as well. Requires SSH.

http://www.facebook.com/topic......opic=10881

Comment on Facebook costs Canadian Woman her Insurance by Oyvind Solstad

Oyvind Solstad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:34:58 +0000

This is – sorry to say – lame. It’s perfectly possible to be too depressed to go to work and still be able to go outside and have fun with friends. It may sound difficult to understand but it’s a question of choice and and personal control. I guess she could have tried what we have here in Norway called “partly sick”, where you work as much as you feel you can – like 20% or something. This is to keep in touch with your work, to not lose it completely. Maybe that’s not an option in Canada?

Comment on The Next Web’s Weekly Recap by Tweets that mention The Next Web’s Weekly Recap -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention The Next Web’s Weekly Recap -- Topsy.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:21 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Michael Bracco and Mike Darnell, Matthew Ellis. Matthew Ellis said: RT @TheNextWebUK: The Next Web’s Weekly Recap http://bit.ly/58FLYw by @bracco [...]

Comment on Mac Attack Of The Clones Ends In Tears For Psystar by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:41 +0000

[...] long battle with clone maker Psystar finally ended as a court ruling prohibits them from selling computers running OS [...]

Comment on Introducing The Next Web Middle East, UK, Australia, Poland, Italy, and Bulgaria!! by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:15 +0000

[...] were really excited this week to announce that The Next Web is coming to the Middle East, UK, Australia, Poland, Italy, and Bulgaria. Check [...]

Comment on Twitter Slapped with a Patent Infringement Lawsuit by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:12 +0000

[...] companies as well as regular users have been asking for for a while. In legal news, Twitter was once again sued for patent infringement by Cooper Industries. The company is calling for Twitter to pay a license [...]

Comment on Yes, we are serious: Twitter is no longer interested in what you’re doing! by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:05 +0000

[...] on Twitter? In addition to the big Twitter geotagging API news, Twitter also made a small but noteworthy change to their site by replacing the question “What are you doing?” to “What’s [...]

Comment on Internet Explorer 9 – First Information, Future Direction by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:54 +0000

[...] 4 was available (Adobe also announced the release of AIR 2.0, their competing technology). Microsoft also revealed that they are still serious about building a world-class browser and promise that Internet Explorer [...]

Comment on Google announces the Google Chrome OS by The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:39 +0000

[...] closer look at Chrome OS The press coverage Google’s Chrome OS has received since it was announced back in June likely rivals the speculation to actual knowledge ratio that Apple products receive. [...]

Comment on Hashtags are dying – here’s how to save them by hip hop twitter etiquette | tofu916.com - its all here.

hip hop twitter etiquette | tofu916.com - its all here. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:23:56 +0000

[...] create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. heres a direct quote from thenextweb.com that fits [...]

Comment on Gmail users tweet twice as much by Snir David

Snir David — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:37 +0000

It’s highly understandable.
Since most of Gmail users are technology early adapters, compare to those who still let themselves use Hotmail.

Comment on How Mozilla Makes Money and Why It Had Better Start Exploring Other Options. by Twinkle Toes

Twinkle Toes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:30 +0000

Last note:

Chromium only offers web applications.

An Oracle FireFox OS could offer Java Applications. Java has a strict security sandbox. Oracle could further restrict the security sandbox of Java. This would allow Java Apps to work on a FireFox OS.

Who knows about the Java App Store? No one! Hell, I don’t even know if it’s online yet :D
But an Oracle FireFox OS would give Java Developers and the Java App store a big boost.

Comment on How Mozilla Makes Money and Why It Had Better Start Exploring Other Options. by Twinkle Toes

Twinkle Toes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:26 +0000

Larry Ellision was always big on thin client computers.

He must be pissed that Google is now offering what he always envisioned. A simple ‘thin’ client computer that would connect to Oracle applications on big servers.

FireFox could become HIS chromium.

Oracle, SAP en MS are all fighting to control the ultimate stack: OS, Database and ERP.

SAP and Oracle are betting on Linux as their Operating System. With FireFox, Larry could offer his own version of ‘Oracle Linux’ in a browser.

Comment on Does Last.fm have the balls? by kim

kim — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:52:12 +0000

wow I am looking for this balls for a long time, just in one colour, where can I order them!?

Comment on How Mozilla Makes Money and Why It Had Better Start Exploring Other Options. by Twinkle Toes

Twinkle Toes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:47:27 +0000

Possibilities:

1. Start pimpin’ the home page.
Show banners on the default FireFox home page.
Users are already used to advertising, so this is a quick and easy way to make a buck.

2. Sell to a BIG company
Oracle hates MS and Google.
Oracle could become a major benefactor of Mozilla or they could simply buy FireFox.

This would give Oracle a position to drive technological innovation that would be more in line with Oracle’s line of products.

Flash and Silverlight are competitors of Java FX technology. Now that Oracle basically owns Java, they could start pushing Flash FX technology big time!

ThunderBird would also give Oracle a great e-mail client that can compete with Outlook.

3. IBM
And then there is Big Blue.
Big Blue has dropped off the face of the planet. They need something that will place them in the spotlight again.

IBM has several office collaboration type of products out there. These are all web based offerings. By tying these offerings into the FireFox browser, they could ride on the success of FireFox.
IBM could also, once again, get a more public face/persona with FireFox.

4. Nokia
A phone without a browser these days is worthless. Nokia could be buying tech and brand recognition with this move.
Nokia is Opera’s biggest (only?) client. But Opera hasn’t got the same brand recognition as FireFox.

Comment on The most amazing, beautiful and realistic piece of computer art I have ever seen. by Spenser

Spenser — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:56 +0000

You got made skills my friend. Very well done!

Comment on The most amazing, beautiful and realistic piece of computer art I have ever seen. by Spenser

Spenser — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:07 +0000

Wonderful artwork and even better music. Something to listen to tonight.