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Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“So fun to see the Twittersearch results for "earthquake" pile up in real time: http://tinyurl.com/67sjuo”

July 29 at 11:52 am - Link

Chris Kim A, Ryan Junee, Adam Turetzky, AJ Kohn and MG Siegler liked this

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Anyone else ever feel a phantom pocket buzz from their mobile phone even when its across the room? Sigh. I think I need to get offline.”

July 24 at 4:58 pm - Link

Kevin Cearns, Crystal English, Adam Turetzky, Brian Fioca and 2 other people liked this

all the time - Christian Anderson

yep...happens a lot...and I don't even get that many calls/texts - Adam Kazwell

It's quite common, there was a study done about it. It's a real syndrome or something. - Adam Turetzky

Nik Cubrilovic posted a message on Twitter

“all social media tools should have a super-complicated captcha to filter out drunkeness”

July 19 at 4:04 am - Link

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Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.”

July 16 at 5:03 pm - Link

Chris Maughan, Rachel Garb, Daniel Dulitz, dario and 36 other people liked this

There's something in this statement that explains why people love to use tools like Twitter but are unwilling to pay for it and hate to use complex app's like SAP but are more than willing to pay for it. - Mike Doeff

I wonder if this has anything to do with Stockholm syndrome? - Robin Barooah

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Perhaps the most successful companies are the ones that break this rule. Apple, Google, etc. - Brian Glick

Well, I would not say complexity is easy to build but rather obtaining/maintaining simplicity is harder to build for. - Jauder Ho via twhirl

very well-said - Neal "thePuck" Jansons via twhirl

I think some of the complexity of enterprise apps like SAP comes from their decisions to address multiple niche use cases that people are willing to pay for. - Kris

It seems like there's a lot of effort involved in simplifying things, it involves a global perspective of what you're doing and ultimately you may have to move slower down a narrower path than if you simply added complexity, but perhaps the results are more stable and more valuable. - Robin Barooah

Wow - well put! and soo true! - Susan Beebe

This is a good statement - vey good statement. DO the credit's got to you ? - Peter Dawson

Could be that complexity adds a non-financial transaction cost that makes the money a much smaller part of the TCO. Companies are willing to pay it because the benefit they get is presumably greater than complexity cost + financial cost. Simple companies like Google and Apple are profitably able to go after more marginal niches. - Jonathan Tang

when a firm calls themselves a Solution Provider, you can be sure that they are really a Problem Provider. They get you to exchange an acute problem, the need to manage information, for a chronic problem, complexity that must be outsourced. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

@Peter Dawson - I came up with that after spending a lot of time this afternoon thinking about a startup with whom I have been working. (Not Twitter, btw). Thanks to all the nice things people have said and even more thanks to folks who keep the conversation going. I love that about FF. - Sacca

@Sacca, thanks for that. I sent the Linky to my friend in UK. He runs a blog on simplicty which is ranked Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs" by HR World :)- http://simplicityitk.blogspot.... - Peter Dawson

Dave Morin posted a message on Twitter

“Cafe 220 in Palo Alto has delicious gyros. And, the guys who own the place are really great.”

July 15 at 2:44 pm - Link

Ryan Junee, Andrei M. Marinescu and John Furrier liked this

right on .. been there..i agree - John Furrier

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“It is always a hoot to visit the guys at Omnisio.com. Especially because we get to pass off watching goofy vids as "work."”

July 14 at 7:24 pm - Link

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Aydin Senkut posted a link

Angel Investors - Who Fund Startup Companies

July 14 at 11:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Ryan Junee, Levent Bali, Atul Arora and Erhan Erdogan liked this

Aydin: Glad to see your name in it. - Erhan Erdogan

Ambar Pansari favorited a video on YouTube

This is How We Roll in India

July 13 at 10:36 pm - Link

Aaron Wangugi, Nick Lothian, Paresh Jain, Aditya Desaraju and 20 other people liked this

He is texting his supervisor: so the results collated last night confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson... - Bret Treasure

The latest outsourced design for a hands free set!!! - Roberto Bonini

Nik Cubrilovic favorited a video on YouTube

Sunsets (Acoustic) - Powderfinger

July 13 at 7:17 pm - Link

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I had an awesome powderfinger acoustic DVD but I lost it... doh - Ryan Junee via Alert Thingy

Sacca favorited a video on YouTube

Western Spaghetti by PES

July 9 at 10:14 am - Link

Jeremy, Crystal English, Dario Salvelli, April Buchheit and 11 other people liked this

Now I'm hungry. - Cathy Brooks

This is amazing. Ze Frank just shared it too. How did they do all this? - Robert Scoble

One frame at a time. Very cool. - Andrew Smith

This is so utterly awesome. - Josh Lowensohn

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. - dedalusjmmr

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“I'm seriously liking posterous.com”

July 1 at 2:10 pm - Link

Sean-Michael Robinson, Christian Farley, Josh Jenkins, Mike Raath and 12 other people liked this

does it just create a mini blog based on what you send? don't get the appeal, why not just post on your own blog? - Kirsten Wright

i agree, it's pretty neat, could make for a more blogish social im twitter thing - Ruben Llibre

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@kirsten is right, where is the appeal in a cheap unrealistic business model which won't hold out! This whole idea of sending your files by email to Posterous is just a web 2.0 way of sending old fashioned email attachments to yourself! - Josh Chandler

I've been using Tumblr for some time, and while I prefer that service's ability to skin/theme your own site, Posterous seems to have a much better mail-in interface. Why not post to your own blog? Well, some folks want to keep a "professional" blog but still have a way to share snapshots, favorite videos, etc, right? - Ken Sheppardson

@kensheppardson I believe that Tumblr proves far more effective to the end user, then some stupid email attachments to a blog service does. We have to create a shared experience on the web, not the desktop! - Josh Chandler

Not sure what you mean by "effective to the end user" - Ken Sheppardson

Less is more, right? - Rubin Sfadj

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees

June 30 at 6:18 pm - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Brandon Wood, Henry McBride, Ryan Singer and 14 other people liked this

Cool! Trying gridjit now, and finally trying noiseriver - Brian Carter

It is amazing like such a simple concept like Friendfeed could turn into something so complex, so complete. What is even more amazing is seeing how Twitter had it all and was able to go down in such an idiotic way. - Rodrigo Leme

Let me know how you like it! (Gridjit) - Ray Grieselhuber

Refugees unite - tear down the walls of single vendor-ness - break though the barriers of 140 characters - unite in your FriendFeed-liness! - Marc Canter

I tried Alert Thingy most of the day today. I've come back to twhirl... like it... keepin' it! - BlueMoonMultimedia via twhirl

Thanks for sharing this! Glad you enjoyed it. :) - Calley Nye

Noise River: Russellreno posted a link

13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees

June 30 at 5:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Michael Connick, Mike McCallister, alfred westerveld, Shinya ICHINOHE and 84 other people liked this

"There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality. For those of you moving on to FriendFeed’s greener pastures, here are 13 essential tools for an organized, “noise”-free experience." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet

I'm waiting for my gridjit invite. - Russellreno

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I thought about making NoiseRiver a closed alpha (by invites) actually. But then told to myself: to hell with hesitation, let's make it and face bugs together! ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Directeur: Have you check you inbox for all your new followers lately? - Russellreno

Congrats on all the great press! - Patrick Lightbody

@Russellreno : ouch! It's full! I'm subscribing to many of them, maybe I'm skipping some but I'll definitely see that again :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Thanks Patrick! Actually without the great feedback from you folks that wouldn't happen... The first 20 minutes of the launch were really HOT :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

D: BTW there is a GM script that will help you subscribe. Google "Better Friendfeed Subscribe to me". After you load it you go into your "People who scribe to me" tab. It adds a superscribe button. - Russellreno

Thanks for the info Russellreno! I'll download it now :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Sacca favorited a video on YouTube

Lady Spins on an Escalator

June 24 at 4:15 pm - Link

Dewald Pretorius, Adam Lasnik, Lim C, David Th and 30 other people liked this

I love the like to comment ratio on this. It is a lady spinning. Nuff said. - Sacca

a spinner ;-p - Noah David Simon

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

New York In the 1800-1900's [pics]

June 19 at 11:27 pm - Link

Mike Fruchter, Geoff Longman, edythe, Julian Baldwin and 33 other people liked this

really amazing. Great American people. - pastas9

What a great slice of NYC history. - cartoongoddess

It is always baffling to see city streets filled with horses. - Thomas Brox Røst

I dreamt about New York last night. These pictures are amazing. The Automatic Vaudeville, the Comedy-Theatre, I daresay it makes one desire to return to tin smithery! Or perhaps to the days before air conditioning, when people gathered on the front stoop to socialize because it was cooler there. (Sort of like FriendFeed but in meatspace.) - Karim

Just lacks the "New York" feel... we should at least paint the horses yellow. - Rob Reed

ah, meatspace. - edythe

bob posted a link

Pixdaus: God Gave Us Pics!

June 6 at 3:55 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

mhmazidi, mahmood ramzani, igor, Anne Bouey and 14 other people liked this

Did anyone else think of "Paraduxx" when they saw this? Thirsty ... ;o) - Ocean

Always :) - Paul Buchheit

چقدر زيباست.خدا لعنت كنه همه اون كسايي رو كه پيكس‌داوس را فيلتر كردند - mhmazidi

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Dru’s Blog » New Web Site in Objective-C via Javascript

June 6 at 2:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Aviv, Ashwin Bharambe, nadim, Alex Barbara and 4 other people liked this

"Essentially, they built a web version of Keynote and they are calling it 280Slides. It looks really slick/nice and they did a great job with the UI. Out of curiosity, I called up Firebug to see what Javascript framework was used. I was quite surprised to find a lot of requests for ‘.j’ files. It turns out that these guys loved Objective-C so much that they wrote their app in a form of Objective-C which I am assuming is translated to Javascript." - Paul Buchheit

Sanjeev Singh favorited a video on YouTube

Antares 20E at ILA Berlin 2006

May 29 at 10:56 pm - Link

Nick, Ryan Junee and Paul Buchheit liked this

A full charge only costs $4 and takes you almost 100 miles. - Sanjeev Singh

They should give it regenerative breaking so that you can find a good thermal or something and use that to recharge the battery in-flight. - Paul Buchheit

Did you know the ILA 2008 is this weekend? I'm off to go there in a few minutes. Thanks for putting me in the mood. - Ole Begemann

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Welcome to Mail 2 FF!

May 29 at 11:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jeroen De Miranda, Nesta Campbell, Stoyan Zhekov, Eugene and 55 other people liked this

"Post a message to FriendFeed by sending mail to nickname+key@mail2ff.com where "nickname" is your FriendFeed nickname and "key" is your FriendFeed remote key. Type your message in the email subject and comments in the email body. Mail 2 FF handles photo attachements. Trying emailing a photo from your iPhone!" - Paul Buchheit

This is a cool feature and worthy competition for twitter + photo-sharing sites geared towards it. - Mustafa K. Isik

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cool - kartik vaithyanathan

Thanks Paul. Kudos to Gary for a cool application! - Mitchell Tsai

Gary Burd (http://friendfeed.com/gburd) created mail2ff, Mitchell. - Paul Buchheit

Yea Mail 2 FF! - Kevin D. White

Awesome, I have been waiting for this app. - Bret Taylor

Wondering if FF will permit audio attachments some day too. - Bernie Goldbach

This is really nice I've been trying it out a little bit and so far so good ... :) - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

Jason Shellen posted a message on Twitter

“Pilot just announced that the fuel for this JetBlue flight to SFO will cost $18,500!”

May 29 at 9:24 am - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Jennie Lin, Niranjan Tulpule, Louis Bourque and 4 other people liked this

JetBlue's A320-200s hold 150 passengers and 6-7 crew. Jet fuel is running $5.50/gal. That's roughly 3,363 gallons of fuel. (Capacity is 6,300 plus an auxiliary tank.) Assuming a full plane, that is 21.5 gallons per passenger. I assume you are leaving from Boston? Seems like high efficiency to me. ;) (before anyone berates me, yes, I agree that planes spew all kinds of filth into the atmosphere and that Shellen should stick to videoconferencing with all those funny talking people in Massachusetts.) - Sacca

wow, that could pay rent for like 3 months in San Francisco. - Thomas Hawk

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Is he asking for gas money? - Casey

Assuming that 3,363 gallons are used for the 3,098 miles, that's 0.92 MPG. However, translating it into more practical terms: to travel that many miles in a car, assuming there were 4 passengers and each passenger was allotted 21.5 gallons of fuel for the journey, you would need to get 36 MPG to break even. Makes the $18,500 seem reasonable to me. - Jeremy Brooks

This is why we need solar electric planes! :) - Jason Shellen

Solar produces nowhere near enough power for airplanes. :( @Sacca: the filth that planes spew into the atmosphere might slow global warming! - Amit Patel

Amit - I was *totally* kidding. I do have some solar flashlights I would like to sell you though. ;) - Jason Shellen

I just shared a couple of solar powered airplane videos. - Paul Buchheit

Simon posted a link

Adoption of New Technology since 1900 at Visualizing Economics

May 16 at 1:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Baron Mok, j1m, Michael C. Harris, Roger Chen and 24 other people liked this

Not sure how reliable the data is, but it's an interesting graph. - Simon

It's more like: electronics spreads faster than machinery. - ⓞnor

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Dishwasher in 2005: same level of adoption as internet - Jason Kaneshiro

Radio's adoption back in the day looks like the Internet today. Our grandparents were pretty tech savvy, weren't they? - Hutch Carpenter

You could do a similar graph on social networking sites, but instead of decades, you'd have to use weeks. - Louis Gray

@ Louis - I don't think so. The bar on the left is % of us households, not people who are early adopters on the internet that read Techmeme :) You might have weeks on time scale but the height of those sites' lines would be very low. It would look quite different. - Jason Kaneshiro

Fine... then the vertical scale would go up to 2%. - Louis Gray

Strange how a few things have had big drops. - Tanath

Telephones and VCRs are starting their downward slope. I'd like to see charts for 8-track, cassette, and phonograph players. - Kevin Fox

What is the rate of adoption of Edward Tufte, I wonder... ;-) - Karim

Why is it that nothing has happened since 1990? Maybe portable MP3 players should be in there. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

This family thought they were building a playground for the kids.This is what they saw from the upstairs window the next morning[PICS]

May 14 at 1:10 am - Link

Joe Beda, Jennifer Taylor, Ranjit Mathoda, Dan Hsiao and 28 other people liked this

Ivan Kirigin posted a message on Twitter

“amazing wall animation video http://tipjoy.com/joy/12968/ (via @laughingsquid)”

May 12 at 11:48 am - Link

Ryan Junee liked this

Paul Buchheit favorited a photo on Flickr

Rainbow House On Clipper St.

May 9 at 5:32 pm - Link

Mark Rodriguez, ixfx, Thomas Brox Røst, Joe Dawson and 10 other people liked this

Very cool. - Aaron Myers

Great photo and colors. - pankaj

WOW,So beautiful. - 李华顺

It's like plastecine! - Joe Dawson

Rami Bitar favorited a video on YouTube

Guys backflip into jeans

May 8 at 8:07 pm - Link

Adam Kazwell, Kevin Gough, Vince, Joe Beda and 2 other people liked this

Nivi posted a message on Twitter

“"Silicon Valley is a place where 'it's never been done before' is a compliment." – Naval Ravikant, http://venturehacks.com/naval”

May 1 at 3:11 pm - Link

Amit Patel, nadim, Ryan Junee, Atul Arora and 4 other people liked this

nice - Mitchell Tsai

Paul Buchheit posted a link

'Technology Is at the Center' - Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress

May 1 at 1:03 am - Link

Nikpay, Vishal M, Bret Taylor, Atul Arora and 4 other people liked this

"There are obviously dangers in these technologies. But I think Joy’s approach would actually lead to the future he fears. If the virtuous people relinquish these things, it means that they will be developed by the evil people, and that seems to me to be a recipe for these technologies going wrong. ... what we need to be doing is to be pushing the accelerator further and harder. What I fear is that people working in free countries, where I think these technologies are likely to be developed in a more benign way, are being blocked by bureaucratic regulation and by cultural ideas that we shouldn’t be doing this. We are on this technological arc. We don’t know where it’s going to go, but I think the best trajectory is for us to just hit the accelerator really hard." - Paul Buchheit

Liked his approach to philanthropy: "There is a category of things that would benefit all of humanity but where the benefits are very diffuse and the costs are concentrated. Maybe it’s very long-term. So I focused my philanthropy on things with a 20-, 30-, 40-year horizon. The horizons are too long for a for-profit company to take advantage of, and the government and universities are not pushing things because maybe it’s too unconventional or it doesn’t easily fit into a particular political agenda or vision of the future." - Ryan Junee via Alert Thingy

What I thought was most interesting: "I don’t think that death and life are inextricably interconnected in some sort of Eastern mystical sense in which for everything white there’s something black and there’s always a yin/yang type of thing. Every myth on this planet tells us the purpose of life is death, and I don’t think that’s true. I think the purpose of life is life." - Ranjit Mathoda

He's one smart, interesting dude. - JonathanJoseph

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Greg McAdoo, Partner at Sequoia Capital, talks at Startup School 08

April 21 at 12:42 am - Link

Ryan Junee liked this

the contrast with DHH was the best part..... - Michael Staton

Nivi posted a message on Twitter

“"YC has set new lows for seed round valuations. And set new highs for helping seed stage companies." – VH, http://tinyurl.com/65trr2”

April 17 at 8:08 pm - Link

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