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936 Little Blobs

Thursday at 8:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Last month went by pretty quickly, didn't it? One month is not a very long time, but the fact of the matter is that the life expectancy (in the United States) is only about 936 months. Life sure looks different to me when I can see my whole life displayed before me as 936 little blobs." - ⓞnor via Bookmarklet

936 is a pretty big number though, when used to count big things like months. - Alex Mendes da Costa

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@Akazilliona, your puny optimism will be crushed by ⓞnor's pessimism. - j1m

John Maeda's spring counter http://www.maedastudio.com/200... - Shakeel Mahate

I figure I have about 40 years left, and I'm starting to look at 40 1-year projects... what should they be? what would be the most impactful? the most useful to the world? running for political office, McCain's speech aside, is NOT one of them!!! - Justin Long

Well, that would depend on what you're good at... - ⓞnor

...and what you want to become good at. - Kevin Fox

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"about:internets" Easter egg in Google Chrome

Wednesday at 3:20 pm - Link

Chieze Okoye, Martin Rix (Mrrix32), Matthew Gifford, Simon and 13 other people liked this

The tubes are clogged! - Marianne Lenox

Ah, that's why I didn't see anything. All I get on Vista is a gray page. - Philipp Lenssen

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sweeeet! - JA Castillo

I knew that Ted Stevens guy was onto something. - Mike Lewis

so cute - Sarah Perez

Ah. That pipes screensaver takes me back to Windows 95. :-) - Josh Bancroft

Cool - Victor via twhirl

awesome - Chieze Okoye

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Yay Hooray | Google Chrome

Tuesday at 11:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Creative Commons at work. - ⓞnor via Bookmarklet

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives http://creativecommons.org/lic... - Ionut

Well, that's no fun. - ⓞnor

The Goodger one is the best. - j1m

Some people see "Creative Commons" and think that means they're free to do whatever they like. Could it get away with being parody? - Tony Ruscoe

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Mythbusters Paint Mona Lisa With 1100 Barrel Paint Ball Gun

August 29 at 12:12 pm - Link

Mark Derricutt, Robert Konigsberg, Dmitry Chechik, Karl Rosaen and 2 other people liked this

Reminds me of Homer Simpson's makeup gun. - Paul Brown via twhirl

Steve Martin once said, "But not many people know this, the Mona Lisa was painted in ONE stroke." - Robert Konigsberg

Well, maybe he said it a thousand times over the course of his stand-up career. You get the point. - Robert Konigsberg

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Polls vs Markets

August 29 at 9:46 am - Link

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Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android

August 28 at 3:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"The final phase of Android Developer Challenge I is now complete. Out of 50 teams of finalists, 10 teams received a $275,000 award each and 10 teams received a $100,000 award each. All of the teams' hard work during the past several months is apparent in the final 50 entries. The teams have each provided overviews of their applications and the technologies they used to create them; learn about all 50 applications and the teams that created them here in their own words. Congratulations to everyone." - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet

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Software bundling sleaze

August 28 at 11:14 am - Link

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You can pay Best Buy $30 to remove the crap that's preinstalled on your PC - Nelson Minar

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Bubble flow chart of things to say during sex

August 28 at 9:38 am - Link

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iPhone password useless; allows full access to contacts, email, and web

August 27 at 9:52 am - Link

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Ben Clemens didn't like this :( - Ben Clemens

Looks like Apple thought that "security" was just another app :) - samgrover

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“got rid of my 300-400 books and helped a friend! Hooray for Twitter.”

August 26 at 3:50 pm - Link

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Brian "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Collins back on the air

August 25 at 6:33 pm - Link

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Drum Suit

August 22 at 10:51 am - Link

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To friends and family: please remember that Christmas is just around the corner. (Hint, hint.) - Chris Wetherell

be careful what you ask for. - jenna

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Shocker: iPhone 3G Sometimes Faster, Stronger, Better in Ad Than In Real Life [It's All An Illusion]

August 13 at 9:43 am - Link

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TuneWiki: Android’s iPhone-Like Media Player That May Become The Platform’s Standard

August 7 at 4:34 pm - Link

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And you can play music in the background! - Bob Lee

Well, the iPhone will play music in the background too. :) Really my problem with iPhone 2.0 is I can't play Last.fm streams in the background. - Robert Cooper via twhirl

@Robert 3rd party apps can't. :-) - Bob Lee

"Perhaps most exciting is TuneWiki’s integration with location services. Because the player can optionally tell TuneWiki’s servers what song you’re listening to, it can offer an interactive map that displays musical tastes across the world. This could be a huge hit on college campuses, where breakthrough artists tend to be discovered first. It’s also fun to find people in Dubai who listen to Kelly Clarkson (see the video below)." -- Wow, that's the least-compelling location-based service ever. - j1m

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GM Turns Cumulative Profit Clock Back to 1980s

August 1 at 10:16 am - Link

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so sad - Karl Rosaen

if only GM had thought to release an all-electric car back in the late 90s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...) [sigh]. - MikeAmundsen

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Maybe Cuil isn't supposed to be good. They must know that the results are bad, but they launched anyway. Maybe they aren't trying to build a full search engine, but just want to demo their crawling+indexing technology with the expectation that someone will buy the company and plug in better ranking.”

July 28 at 11:20 pm - Link

Alexander Oelling, Torsten Eckert, ~C4Chaos, Chris M and 85 other people liked this

Where "someone" = MSFT, who has already shown that they are willing to pay a lot for non-functional search engines. - Paul Buchheit

That is what I was thinking, too. - Robert Scoble

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You'd think they'd work toward getting something relevant if you search on "cuil launch" - Michael Markman

It's the only thing that makes sense when you look at how bad the results are. You don't roll out something like unless you are just showing off the interface. - Kevin Bondelli

Would also explain the weak branding. Who cares, if it's just going to get plugged into something else? - Chris Baskind

Not very good results at the moment I will say - shinchi via twhirl

It must be so hard to launch something in a realm where there isn't much tolerance/patience for incremental improvement. The bar in this space is high and consumers are very picky. Look at Yahoo. Their search is actually pretty damn good. However, they keep losing share. - Sacca

agree with Sacca - also, I thought the people behind Cuil had already sold some search technology to Google and hence they wanted to try it out on their own this time - so if anything they'd have more intent than others not to flip. - Adam Kazwell

100% agree with Paul .... what they have launched really sucks and I don't think I would be going back again to search .... Sacca seems to be right that the bar is really high in this space and whatever gets launched really needs to work well or it will fail - Raza via Alert Thingy

It is also strange that Cuil has no presence on twitter or friendfeed. There is no friendfeed.com/cuil. There is a twitter.com/cuil account but no twitters there. It would be interesting to hear from someone at Cuil on the FriendFeed/Twitter as to why they launched with the poor results... - Atul Arora

Yahoo's crawl speed is not close to GOOG. - Michael

It's something, and a reasonable first step. Yes, the results aren't that great but they seem reasonably comprehensive. Their make-or-break will be showing continuous visible progress - if they don't, sure, they're just a $XXXm dog and pony show for another company too scared of Google to see straight, but if they do improve, there may be potential for even more upside than that. - David Weekly

Google Killer? I do not even need to look to know the answer - Mike Reynolds

maybe there could be business in opening up their index? - Alex Gawley

I'm not saying that the results are good, but people seem overly critical. I saw one piece on how their name is too hard to spell. But if they did become popular, this would not remain a problem. - Clare Dibble

It's embarrassing IMO. The results are thin and the images completely wrong. Not good is one thing ... Cuil seems a cut below not good right now. - AJ Kohn

There results aren't -bad- but they are in no way great. Worse yet, anytime you start throwing around X-killer, you are pretty much setting yourself up for destruction. - Steve Spalding

can a startup beat google with a link-based algorithmic search engine? msft's cashback.com is an example of changing the game. trovix.com's deep semantic indexing is changing the game. same for thefind.com. mahalo human-powered engine is too. Who else? - Tim Connors

Paul, maybe they launched because they believed gathering data and feedback from the public would help them improve their ranking and other aspects of their service? I don't think that their ranking is anywhere near as good as Google's right now. But, there's no a priori reason to believe that Cuil ranking won't improve quickly. Anna, Russell, et.al. are actually pretty sharp. I for one am excited to see another player in search with new ideas about infrastructure and user experience. - Kevin Scott

They of all people should have known to release with fast results (latency).. The fact that they did not surprises me, and had the exact effect I would expect.. I have no plans on going back, good results or not.. :) - Derek Collison

Does "launch early" work for search engines? Don't think so.. - Jing Lim

One of the nice things about Google is the speed they index. Consider the indexing of a blog post made yesterday: Google already picked up the post and Cuil has not. http://www.cuil.com/search?q=C... VERSUS http://www.google.com/search?h... Google shows 367 results and that is trouble for Cuil. They'll need to work on that quickly to convince people they are being serious. - LPH

it's about as useful as Archie(Gopher ref) - clarke thomas

considering I got server overloaded errors when I tried it at first, I'd have to say launching early was a big error in judgement. - sean808080

The indexing speed of Google and other search engines is pretty good, but another area that needs fixing is when content moves. It takes a long time for Google to catch up. Example: Let's say you move your blog or an early well-praised site goes stale, many search engines have trouble adjusting their rankings to the new site or to push down the older one. - Loren Heiny

Trouble is that indexing and ranking are closely linked. If all you return is a hitlist there's no good ranking that can be done. Can't yet tell whether they're in that situation. What I don't get is why the rush to launch now. - Daniel Dulitz

I read similar thoughts on Reddit yesterday and they made some sense... is there any chance all the negative buzz right now is going to hurt their buyability though? - Philipp Lenssen

IMHO there have to be better ways to show off your very own crawling+indexing technologies than opening up to the public and getting thrashed for not delivering what people expect when you dub your service search engine. I have a hard time believing that the cuil/cuill guys did not know what they were doing though ... Were they pushed to release by financiers? Were they in dire need of usage data? - Mustafa K. Isik

I do think they built Cuil to be bought. The reason they launched is they hoped their valuation will go up with all the press blitz... Which seems pretty well planned.... I think they went overboard selling themselves to the press and did not expect some of the back-lash. Of course, the saying goes - "All press is good press :)". So who knows this might indeed increase their valuation to 100s of millions :). It all depends on what the folks over at MSFT think/know about search :)) - Bindu Reddy

someone cough microsoft cough - Sarah Perez

M$ bait! ah ha!! Bindu and Sarah, you're on to something there!! - Susan Beebe

I liked this thread so much that I blogged it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Erick Schonfeld

As of yesterday, they didn't even have their own name indexed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/b... - Brady Brim-DeForest

actually, they are off to a decent start. They have a nice interface that needs work, and some results are good and many others bad. I can tell you it takes about a year to getting your feet under you and figure out where you can fit in the search ecosystem. They are funded for a three year run it seems, so I would give them a year and see where the product is at. - Jason Calacanis

grabbing contextual images process is too weird! (o_O) - Pınar Yanardağ

great discussion. the more I've read about the various GRAVE screw-ups (with porn images being linked to some people's bios, etc.), the more I tend to agree that they must have known that things weren't ready. It just feels too much like a prototype... Thus the buy-out scenario seems plausible. Who knows, buying their indexing technology could actually give a boost to MSFT or even Yahoo, given that they have a hard time keeping up on the tech/scale side of search. One thing we do know is that Google... - Alex Schleber

... isn't going to buy them :) I wrote a post on the branding aspect of the Cuil debacle earlier today -> http://businessmindhacks.com/p... but now I'm not so sure anymore if they were even serious about the whole thing. Maybe they're having a hearty laugh right now that no one is getting the joke. If they are serious though, it's a horrible launch and horrible branding. - Alex Schleber

Is it possible that they might be taking advantage of the disconnect between mainstream and social media? Cuil has made it in the news but to what extent has the negativity made it to the mainstream? If people get their news outside of the social media circle (which, as we are all quickly discovering, is a vast majority) and only hear that "Google killer Cuil has launched today" but don't dig deep enough to discover its faults, won't Cuil get some real attention? Maybe, but the funny part is that most of those people will be using Google to find it :) - Derick Valadao

I think it is tough doing a PR launch. I think the obsession with dropping a nuke over the PR is an helpful one. Mightily prefer to build it up over weeks and months of relationship building but most importantly great execution and a great product. - azeem

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How to Write 3v1L, Untestable Code

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Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa

July 20 at 5:11 pm - Link

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Scala Programming: an entry from λ Tony's blog λ

Scala exercises for beginners

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Manhattanhenge

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"Manhattanhenge (sometimes referred to as Manhattan Solstice) is a semi-annual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan's main street grid." - Mark Ayzenshtat

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"Take 48": Friday 6 PM to Sunday, 6 PM - John Battelle's Searchblog

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“@plasticbaguk awesome! this iPhone activation thing is working out real well. Everyone pray Android works.”

July 11 at 9:15 am - Link

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iPhone 3G or Millionaire

July 10 at 5:43 pm - Link

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The iPhone's Gaming Mettle

July 8 at 9:35 am - Link

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Adrian Holovaty duets with himself on gypsy-jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 theme

July 7 at 9:23 am - Link

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California's Continuing Fires

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17 photos on The Big Picture that give an amazing look at the wildfires burning in California. - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet

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Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment

July 3 at 7:05 am - Link

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oops. - eric dolecki via twhirl

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Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

July 1 at 9:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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19% for Firefox. :-) - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

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“Completely obsessed with Professor Layton for the Nintendo DS. Incredibly great game. http://professorlaytonds.com/”

June 27 at 11:29 pm - Link

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$78 million of red ink? - Los Angeles Times

June 26 at 11:14 am - Link

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Movie money is SICK money. Hollywood spending is crazed, but Sahara is especially awesome in its burn rate. Its ten writers cost a total of $3.8 million. McConaughey got $8 million. $10 million was paid for the story from Cussler. (Ouch.) A scene of an airplane crash cost over $2 million and was deleted. Meals cost $1.4 million. Bribes in Morocco cost them $237,386. There's more details in the article - I love when Hollywood goes all "Pets.com" on occasion. - Chris Wetherell

according to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01... "Waterworld" may still reign as biggest box office flop, but great article - Karl Rosaen

I love reading about the Movie Business. I have 2nd ed. of "The Movie Business Book," need to pick up the 3rd ed. -- http://www.amazon.com/Movie-Bu... - Brian White