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Re: Joseph Smarr has new work info…

nickc321 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:37:33 -0000

congrats. looking forward to seeing your energy and influence at google. I sure great things will be in the future

Re: Nokia Lawsuit Could Cost Apple $1 Billion

nickc321 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:50 -0000

sounds like it will probably run the same course as the NTP v RIM case... will drag on forever... there will be a few heavy blows, but in the end Apple will owe less then they should.

Re: The Oprah Effect: 43 Percent Pop for Twitter

nickc321 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:19:53 -0000

I noticed Ellen is also twittering on her show...

Re: What is a netbook? (Scripting News)

nickc321 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:36:00 -0000

I personally am an any OS guy... that said the desktop is Linux, the notebook is Mac, but the Netbook is XP... why... I'm not the only user and windows just seemed to work...
the netbook I chose was the Acer Aspire One and to get the non-SSD HD I needed to chose an XP setup, 160GB as compared to 8GB, big difference especially since one major roles my netbook has is storing my photos while on travel.

Re: Dell Inspiron Mini gets new name, higher price

nickc321 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:00 -0000

I know its a 'netbook' but 8gb not going to do it for me...

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / Socialthing! In The House

nickc321 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:38:23 -0000

ST only can post to services that they have access to. with Ping you get access to posting to all the sites they don't have access to. Now my long term question is, what happens when ST's list catches up to Ping's?

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / Socialthing! In The House

nickc321 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:34:14 -0000

I'm glad someone was able to say it better than I did!

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / Socialthing! In The House

nickc321 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:34:56 -0000

this is where sites like Ping and SocialThing work well together. Ping helps push your life to all the various networks so that all your interfriends can see them without 'you' having to login to each, and SocialThing does the opposite (and partially the same) where it pulls everything from connected sites so you only have to go to one place... basically SocialThing+Ping brings the everything under one page

Re: Now the Deal is Closed: Plaxo has Become a Business Unit of Comcast Interactive Media

nickc321 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:22:35 -0000

so whats the latest?

Re: Four ways Google could destroy Digg

nickc321 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:25:10 -0000

I'm hoping they leave Digg to manage itself, but I see that highly as doubtful. The examples here are great and pretty truthful. This does not mean that all Google acquisitions are 'doomed', but the 'unloved' category seems to fit. Again if the acquisition does go through.. I just hope Digg is allowed to exist pretty much on its own. As for integration, well besides Google Accounts, I could see an integration of the Google Reader's share and note features being nice.

Re: Yahoo Groups or Google Groups or ? (Scripting News)

nickc321 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:04:31 -0000

well I've used both, liked them both and have not real 'passion' for either. this said, I was recently looking at google sites and the groups integration was leading me to go more that direction, but after @Erhan Erdogan comment on FriendFeed, I think I'll definitely have to give that http://grou.ps site a good look.

Re: The Tao of Mac - It's just a (3G) phone

nickc321 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:42:16 -0000

For the most part I totally agree with you Rui, the iPhone upgrade as with most upgrades to Apple hardware typically overrated. A $0.30 chip upgrade... well that is pretty much par, the fact that it was left out on the first iPhone... we won't get into that. Also why are you surprised they cheered the new headphone jack, it doesn't matter what they release, they always cheer, they are mac addicts.

Anyways, I agree with your assessment of the presentation of the SDK and sample apps, this was old news, but it was spun as if it was new (but you must give credit to the marketing team). That said, the availability of an SDK for a smartphone is what make a phone 'smart'. A user has to have the ability to pick and choose applications that make their smartphone work best for them. Heck this is the main reason that Palm has been able to get away without an OS upgrade in over 5 years.

As for the Push service, now this was news (not unexpected, but news), and about time. I'm really curious to see the affect that the addition of Exchange support will have on the market, an actual product from Apple for the corporate user, hmm.

Re: Comcast to Acquire Plaxo; Pulse to Become Central to Creating Unified “Social Media” Experience Across the Web, the TV (and more)

nickc321 — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:54:01 -0000

well, I guess congrats are in order. All I hope is that Comcast allows the current leadership at Plaxo to continue taking Plaxo to the next level. chances are probably slim, but we can hope and see.