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I wasn\'t too concerned with Brightkite and their ilk as the sample size of users seemed pretty low, but once Google jumped in, and added automatic updating and maps integration to boot, then it went to another whole level for me.
I\'m sure it can be helpful to some people, but the potential for abuse is there. As with anything online, you do have to be prudent of who you share with. I could see myself having far fewer friends on something like this than twitter or facebook.
You just wonder what Google can do when they tie your search queries, emails, websites and everything together with location. There could be some really cool applications (giving you a coupon of a place you searched when you drive by it etc.) but it does still creep me out a bit, dunno why.
To each their own I guess. Just wondering when Google turns into Skynet :-)
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Thanks for the comparison. I\'ve been wanting a WHS for awhile, and they have a new version (the EX485) that adds support to use it as a target disc for Time Machine from Macs and can act as an iTunes server.
After your review, I\'ve pretty much made up my mind. Thanks man!
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I wrote that in 1999 for DominoPower. And things haven\'t changed. It was in an article on low cost Domino hosting providers. And there are a couple that will do free stuff for blogs, but I think that kids just don\'t have anywhere to put stuff even if they could try to learn it.
I say give Domino with iNotes away free to high schools and get aggressive about getting it into universities. Exposure to the program will get kids involved.
Otherwise you won\'t see anyone young jumping on board...
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Did Twitter molest you as child?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but one should have an informed opinion after using it for a period of time longer than 5 minutes.
You know I love ya man, but this just seems weird coming from you. At least Rob used the damn thing for awhile before he made well-reasoned arguments against it.
Now excuse me while I go tweet about you hurt Twitter\'s feelings :-D
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Now, I will respond to you! (And for the record, try cocomment again, it\'s a good way to keep everything together)
--Bah! I thought the point was that Twitter was fundamentally different from email and IM? Now you\'re saying it does the same thing, but with fewer characters allowed? No, this is an outdated SMS texting thing, and it\'s a dumb restriction given the data availability out there. In other words, texters should be able to send longer TMs as well.
Think of it this way, if you were allowed to type more than 140 characters, the conversations would get even longer and harder to comprehend. Also, this is a service that many people only use from their mobile phones. Too many characters is too hard to type and too hard to read on a small screen. The 140 character limit is a huge plus to me.
--Sorry, but that\'s just not an accurate analogy. It\'s not like hanging out with friends in a bar at all, it\'s like standing behind a crowd of friends in the middle of a discussion, without them knowing you\'re necessarily listening or not, without exchanging greetings when you walk up, and without you getting the 10 second conversation dump that always happens in those cases.
I disagree, to me it\'s like Kimono\'s. It\'s loud and there are several different conversations going on. You could be standing in the middle and hearing parts of each. You could even hear parts of one conversation while engaged in another. To me, the analogy is more for hearing what\'s going on and responding/ripping on each other. That can happen in IM and email, but you aren\'t going to send something like that on a whim. Whereas here, it is more whimsical.
--tweets are *supposed* to happen several times a day, FB updates are supposed to happen less frequently, and as a result people usually put more thought into their FB updates.
Who are you, the status police? Why are FB updates supposed to happen more infrequently? One of my favorite things was seeing everyone\'s status changes.
Anyway, there is an easy way to filter that too. At the bottom of your facebook newsfeed, click Preferences. You can then add people to the More About this person group and Less about this person group. This allows you to see more of what you want, less of what you dont.
--You\'re kind of making my point for me, though. You\'re tweeting instead of blogging. That\'s a bad thing for the community as a whole, though I\'ll agree it is easier for you personally.
No it\'s not bad at all. The reason why is, I would probably never get around to blogging those things anyway. So, at least this way I got the thoughts out there. And besides, I dunno if I can call this a valid criticism from someone who posts approximately once every other month :-p
The fact that you post so infrequently is bad for me, because I always enjoy reading your posts. Um, so POST MORE DAMNIT!
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