Sort of funny, sort of cringe worthy, and it took less than a couple of hours to make YouTube 🙂
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Google pushing Child Prostitution?
Spotted at Mosnews:
Marriage or friendship with women is one thing, but what sort of people are looking for “Polish Girls”? more importantly, what’s Google doing allowing this stuff?
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More Goose, more often from Scoble
Scoble on Photobucket’s ban @ MySpace: Myspace is right, everyone else is bad, parasites even.
BS.
MySpace is the amazing success it is because it gave it’s users a creative freedom other sites didn’t.
My response to Scoble as follows. It will probably get deleted, so I’ll post it here.
I’ll tell you what I think, I think you’re a goose. News Corp’s Myspace has become popular off the back of allowing broad creative freedom to users, and now it’s trying to take that away. Have you actually checked Myspace to see if there’s an easy alternative there to Photobucket’s video hosting? THERE ISN’T. People are using services such as this because MySpace DOESN’T offer a reasonable alternative + they want to run this stuff on their sites. This is literally a case of MySpace bitting the hand that has helped fuel its amazing success, it’s not an argument about whether they should be able to make money off the site, that they should be able to make money is a given, it’s about creative freedom and what defines a given service, in this case MySpace, and its users.
Food for thought.
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Top 100 Australian Blogs
Got an email from Craig Harper today, a Melbourne based blogger and motivational speaker, he’s set up a rather nifty blog roll of Australia’s top 100 bloggers based on Technorati Rank (right side bar). Apparently duncanriley.com comes in at #22. Given that my motto at duncanriley.com is “I couldn’t care less what I post and when” I’ve got to say I’m a little impressed, god help me if I was actually trying here, and not dumping my good stuff at 901am :-), but I also have this thought, if I’m #22 then it’s a sorry state of affairs in Australia, particularly given that I’m not even trying here. Maybe I should try harder…or try full stop? and yet that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun! Maybe I need a new outlet? Food for thought.
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Dan Rather talks plants?
He hates the blogosphere, but it’s fairly clear we won, because Dan Rather has been reduced to doing guest appearances on Martha Stewarts TV show talking about….wait for it….Exotic Plants 🙂
What goes around comes around I guess, a lesson others should prepare themselves for, because I know a couple of people due a bucketload of Karma Kick Ass 🙂
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Google invests in Maxthon: smart move
Michael Arrington @ TechCrunch has the scoop: Google has invested in China based browser Maxthon, which for memory has something like 25-30% of the Chinese market. It’s a very smart move by Google, knocking Baidu off in China and Yahoo off elsewhere as the default search option for Maxthon will exponentially increase their share in China, where they’ve so far failed to make a major indent. Arrington reckons the figure is $1m, that makes the strategic investment an absolute bargain as well.
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Has Twitter passed its peak?
Has Twitter passed its peak? or is it more of an adjustment following the post SXSW hype, a rollercoaster ride of traffic? I’ve got an ever increasing list of friends/ subs in Twitter, and yet the level of posting this last week is actually declined. Might have something to do with Easter…will wait and see I guess.
If you want to join me: http://twitter.com/duncanriley
Nothing too exciting, but I am trying to post the occasionally interesting thing.
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My Google Wishlist
For those not following my posts @ 901am, I wrote yesterday about my switch to all things Google.
But I do have a small wish list of things I’d like Google to implement/ change so I can perfect my experience:
1. Outlook style functionality in gmail
I need folders! The main reason I download my email to Outlook is so I can drag emails into an extensive array of folders. Yes, gmail has tags, but it’s not the same. I’d switch permanently to only using gmail via gmail.com is I could have this feature, if Yahoo can do it, surely Google can as well2. Full screen text in reader
I’m liking Google Reader more and more each day, but the text from the feeds should use the whole screen, not wrap half way3. Firefox bookmark integration
I’m staying with Google Bookmarks for sure, but having two Bookmark buttons in Firefox is stupid. Foxmarks integrates with Firefox Bookmarks, GMarks (which isn’t from Google) doesn’t…and Google’s only alternative is the Google toolbar, which I’m not interested in using. C’mon Google, support your product!There’s probably more things, if you’ve got any suggestions for Google, please share!
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If you’re a games developer and you didn’t back the Wii, guess what?
If you’re a games developer and you didn’t back the Wii, guess what?
Your profits and sales are down whilst your competition is seeing increasing profits and sales.
Dare I say to EA as a Wii owner: sucked in 🙂
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It’s time for people to grow up: Scoble vs Winer
Looks like the Scobles have fallen out with Dave Winer.
I don’t know much about Maryam because I don’t read her blog, but I’ve observed Robert’s behaviour long enough, he’s a “you’re with me, or against me” sort of guy, one who takes a disagreement as being a personal attack, a declaration of war if you like, very much in the same way that a spoilt small child with a chip on its shoulder can’t take constructive criticism either, or agree to disagree civily.
Winer is right, hypocrisy was the only winner. The alleged wronged not only milked the whole threats/ death meme for everything they could, they reacted by trying to incite a mob against good folk such as Rageboy…making them just as bad, if not worse, than the original commenters that started this whole thing. Best still, Winer get its. He gets that two wrongs don’t make a right. He gets that the accused wrong doers have now become the victims, and that someone needs to stand up for their rights as well.
And for this Winer has been condemned by Maryam Scoble, and now Robert doesn’t want to be his friend anymore…sort of, at least he’s now trying to lecture Dave on wrong and right because, OMG, Winer commented publicly on being castigated by Maryam Scoble for not joining a lynch mob.
What more can I say other than: grow up.