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"In your average game store, customers do not read reviews. They do not post on forums, they have never been motivated to leave Amazon feedback just to 'send a message,' they do not blog. They do not know which publishers have poor reputations and which ones have good ones. They do not know the names of famous Japanese game designers; they might have Mario Kart Wii at home, but they do not know who Miyamoto is." - fshamsi

"...On your inauguration day, you stumbled on a bank robbery, whereupon you and your security detail chased the robbers down. Mayor Booker, are you the Batman?" - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Most of us would probably say somewhere in the Middle East, but Jon Udell does some number crunching and shows that misconception is false. Canada supplies us with the most oil (according to the US Department of Energy)." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"The first big question for you is: what kind of court? You don’t like Bush’s military commissions. But if you set up special security courts with special, meaning laxer, standards of procedure and evidence, they will be called kangaroo courts too. And if you opt for regular criminal trials or courts-martial you run the risk that they will throw out evidence extracted by waterboard. Dare you let a 9/11 mastermind walk free?" - fshamsi

"Let’s look in on a high-school bookkeeping class..." - fshamsi

"As Muslims and as Americans, we will never let terrorist groups or terror leaders falsely claim to represent us or our faith," - fshamsi

"So how did Facebook help a 23 year old candidate in a district that was more than 80% age 35 and older? Parents." - fshamsi

Obama Weekly Address - Nov 22, 2008 - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"BringIt made the connection between the huge online gambling market and the exploding online gaming community, and has created a site where gamers can challenge one another with cash on the barrelhead." - fshamsi

Any info on Bringit's funding? - Cains

"The above map shows presidential voting at the county level. The more red a county is, the stronger the support for John McCain and similar for Barack Obama and blue. Below is cotton production in 1860. Each dot represent 2,000 bales. That's some strong correlation." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"The company is introducing a new feature called SearchWiki that will allow people to modify and save their results for specific Google searches." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Consumer surveys that suggest that 80-90% of prospective customers would abandon the products of a carmaker that had filed for bankruptcy protection." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted last month on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term as final ballots were counted on Tuesday, giving Democrats at least 58 seats in the Senate for the first years of the Obama administration." - fshamsi

"...he has unearthed evidence that would seem to support his assertion that CBS intended its investigation, at least in part, to quell Republican criticism of the network." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Tambor didn’t know any specifics about the project, but said that fans can be sure it’s happening." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

Nov 15, 2008 Obama Address - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of their latest fighting masterpiece will be coming to North America on Tuesday, February 17th, with our friends over in the more European side of the globe receiving it three days later on Friday the 20th." - fshamsi

"At what point do you have too many friends, followers and subscribers?" - fshamsi

fshamsi: I haven't reached that point yet, so I don't know where it is. - Robert Scoble

fshamsi: I would say you've reached a limit when you have a legit stalker or you literally run into so many people on the street that follow or subscribe to you it's faster to just talk to them instead. :-) - David Bisset

Originally found via Gawker: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gaw... - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

"Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine." - fshamsi

"Back in 2003, the source code for then-unreleased Half Life 2 showed up on file sharing sites. German Public Radio found the documents backing up what many have known for a while, that Valve worked with the FBI's Seattle office to try to lure out the hacker responsible with a job interview. Wired has written a recap of the whole case." - fshamsi

"I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust this settles the matter" - fshamsi via Bookmarklet

Jane Gilles has the patience of a saint - Rebecca Sun

"In each case, the function of the blog is to be a standard bearer, the north star that tribe members can point to as a place to meet or for ideas to circle around. The blog isn't about the writer, it's about the readers." - fshamsi

I completely agree. The big key for tribe leaders, I believe, is that they are passionate about the topic and are routinely providing the latest news, the most in-depth information and the best conversations about the given topic ---- even if that means providing that with links rather than the blogger's own content. - Sonya Smith

But creating content around like minded individuals is hardly a new thing.... - Patricia

I am following lately the emerging scientific discipline - Network Science. some initial postulates point to "Hubs" which facilitate the networks traffic shortcuts and while doing so also absorb "network energy" ( or "network dark matter" ) at a much higher rate than other nodes. Among others, 6 degrees of separation studies point to this - example is "Kevin bacon cures cancer" - http://tinyurl.com/6lo8w2 - ( ABC here is Australia... ) - SnakeDoc

"... Valve has released the Valve Complete Pack on Steam, a compilation of everything they've released since the dawn of time. That includes Half-Life in all its many forms, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and Classic, Portal, and hell, they've even got Peggle Extreme in there for good measure. So how much does all of that run? Only $99, and before you pull out your calculators, keep in mind that the package also includes Left 4 Dead itself, so you're basically getting all of the other games for $50 more...." - fshamsi

"Professors and students at the law school reacted cautiously to Mr. Obama's selection. ''For better or for worse, people will view it as historically significant,'' said Prof. Randall Kennedy, who teaches contracts and race relations law. ''But I hope it won't overwhelm this individual student's achievement.''" - Rebecca Sun via Bookmarklet

I'd say his achievement has overwhelmed his Law Review selection. - Dan Hsiao

"''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. 'It's encouraging. '" - fshamsi

"MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday." - fshamsi

"Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes. And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. " - fshamsi

Note the decal on Obama's laptop. - fshamsi

A little old, but still funny: "The media loves to throw around the term 'mathematical impossibility' but no one can ever explain what exactly what that means to me." - fshamsi via Bookmarklet