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well most my friends and i already use google calendar for this type of thing. If we really want to schedule a day out or something. But I can see how this might be popular with like college kids. Try making it a facebook app instead, might be much more useful
It's because people use Yahoo for a ton of stuff. I still use Yahoo Answers when I have no other place to ask a question. My roommate uses Yahoo sports. Some browsers still default to Yahoo. It's huge: its array of services make Google look minimal.

0.3% is pretty impressive, absolutely. It's still not the revolution people've been calling it, and I'd be willing to bet it never goes truly mainstream. I don't think it can while Facebook maintains its grip on college-age kids.
The registration is almost certainly there to improve their ad targeting and CPM rates. If they removed it, it would probably hurt the bottom line.
I'm more interested in knowing if anyone doesn't have a twitter (and if so, why not)

also, http://twitter.com/zadr is mine if anyone's remotely interested.
I don't have a television either, haven't owned one for over two decades but my PC plays movies just fine. No ads either, I really like that.
Joshuarr - I'm still trying to decide if it's a sink hole or not though.
Late response, but...

I really enjoyed the Connections2 series that was available on American cable TV a few years back, but I know of few people who have. I think my country has developed a real hostility to learning the history of anything, technologically or otherwise. I've never watched it, but I've had similarly minded co-worker point out how much the movie Idiocracy rang true as a premise. I weep for the future...
One way to mitigate this would be to allow users to limit search to who they following, or some circle around them.

This might even be the basis of a business model, if Twitter gets its micropayments story worked out: let folks who are good at finding good content charge other users to follow them (something small, 10c a month or whatever). People might pay if they felt like they were avoiding spam and getting good, searchable content.
But Islam is probably forefront in their decision making. It doesn't matter what the governmental system actually is.
You might have had a point half a decade ago. Nowadays it's pretty easy to get stuff done on Linux.
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Jacob's Ladder is one of my favorite movies and for me the most mind-blowing ending ever. More recently we've had many movies that somehow had the same idea for an ending (don't want to mention them so not to spoil Jacob's Ladder) but AFAIK this was the first time that it was used.
I have one, but all it does is parrot my Tumblr account. I don't check it, don't actively use it, and until I got the ability to parrot Tumblr posts, I didn't use it.

Reason being: Tumblr does everything I'd want to do with Twitter, but it's more flexible. I can write more, express myself. I don't see the point in small blurb updates, I don't care to post small, clever quips, and above all I find the interface bland after more than 5 minutes of usage. I tried Twitteriffic, but I had applications that do nothing but connect to the web.

EDIT: /unalone/
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I don't understand what you mean by "Libertarian types" not articulating a "vision for the future", because it seems to me that that's precisely what this article is doing; Philip Greenspun suggests a course of action which would be advisable for Obama to take.

If, however, you mean to say that Libertarian principles don't change with the times, I think I can address that. It's because Libertarian principles are just that: they're principles. They don't change per the circumstance, which is what makes Libertarianism such a robust ideology.

And as far as hearkening back to the 19th century, I'm curious as to what's so bad about that? The 19th century was a period of rapid growth for the US. A couple of ugly incidences excluded, things fiscal were generally Good.
Paul, as usual,you make some excellent points here. Keep up the excellent work!

Here's my two cents. Identity plays a pivotal role in humanity. How much is too little? How much is too much? It's hard to pin-point. I think it has changed throughout history, and, like a lot of things, its usefulness is evolving more rapidly as time progresses. So, it's a balancing act, and it constantly needs attention to do it right.
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I don't, because I don't feel necessary to post every single thought I have, because I might not know what to post, or just basic laziness. But I'll probably get one in the near future.
A pity they had to close the editing of that table due to vandalism - I was going to go fill in checkboxes for Komodo, which I use and love.

It's quick, covers most of the rows in their checklist, cross-platform, free. I take every opportunity to recommend it that I can.
whats the punishment for the private prison that paid the judges? may i suggest a ten minute sentence in the yard at San Quentin, should set those bastards straight.
"Business freedoms lead to human rights and general well-being"

Business freedoms are also a consequence of other rights, like the right to property. They are nice, but not required.
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I dont twitter because I dont care what other people are doing. And so I return the favor by assuming other people dont care about what Im doing.
Can't we just put our twitter URLs in our profiles?
Also +2 for FreshBooks. They rock.
does 'the usual suspects' count or is that too mainstream ? Brazil ?
It's completely serious. Stallman thinks the social harm done by proprietary software licenses is greater than the good done by the ability to use the software. Do you think that's an unreasonable or laughable position?

The consequence that it is better to close down the clubs than to let them encourage proprietary software usage is almost inescapable given the above premise.
http://twitter.com/azharcs
I mostly used to tweet content i liked from HN, maybe with more HN users following, i will have to stop doing that :)
I think I do. Honestly can't remember! I believe I set up an account and had something else push some kind of status update to it... perhaps even comments like these... through FriendFeed maybe?

So, uh, who is working on an online service to keep track of all the online services I use? ;-)

Edit: Found it - http://twitter.com/billmoorier
Agreed. Why aren't they looking to the product side of things?

The main business of newspapers was always just getting the info from A to B. I had a reporter friend who used to compare his job to working on the docks. Some fire would break out, and he'd be sent to "unload" the news from the fire department and the usual shocked-and-stunned families and the neighbors, and boom, file his story. And this was when newspapers were actually good.

By the 1990s, newspapers had virtually no useful content left. It was just a habit for some readers, and a local monopoly for certain forms of advertising. Newspapers had been consolidated to the point where local news was dreadful to non-existent, and most of the paper was filled with bland wire stories and syndicated columnists of no particular merit. The one thing you really needed the newspaper for was classified ads, and the internet killed that pretty quickly.

People are willing to pay more for actually rare information. Nouriel Roubini, the economist, runs a paid newsletter to people who want to hear his contrarian views.

Furthermore, there's a huge gap in local news these days. Local government, schools -- all this stuff that really matters to people has no medium any more.
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Of course it's next. It's just a matter of time. This is obviously the natural life cycle of internet forums, and has been since the beginning.

Story quality is directly linked to user growth. When you have a small niche site with "niche-expert" users, you get a high interest and visible actions; as the site grows, individual actions matter less, the niche is expanded into those that may only have a casual interest in the topic, and the forum inevitability changes to meet the needs of the average user - which is not the same type of user that previously existed. As the more windows are broken, the more "decay" is introduced into the forum. But the site is doing exactly what it's supposed to do - mirror the average demographic. It's that demographic that changes.

You simply cannot grow a website like this and maintain a niche focus. So if you choose to welcome more and more people, this is the end result. The sites that have been successful at maintaining focus control either the story submission (/.) or the entry of users (MeFi).

Sites like HN and reddit need to limit growth the same way a small startup shouldn't focus on growth per se if they want to retain that particular environment.

How to do this successfully is another problem altogether.
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I agree that these are issues with the NYT website, but I'm not sure that they'd be a success even if they had classifieds (Craigslist?) or removed registration. Even with registration, they're consistently one of the most popular news sites. Traffic isn't the issue. The problem is that traffic alone isn't worth much anymore.
I see twitter as the 'facebook' of the linked-in and xing crowd, not sure if that makes sense that way to others though.

The reason why is that it's the same people that seem to be sending out invites on all those networks, but somehow it is disjoint from facebook which I think pulled a lot of people in the myspace (formerly the same crowd that was on geocities) towards it as well as a whole slew of people that have just 'established' themselves on the web.

It would be very interesting to see how much overlap there is between those sites.
While it is true that increased wealth means that people have more choice in their lives, it does not necessarily follow that business freedoms lead to general well-being or to what is normally understood as human rights. As a matter of history, there have been very many places and times where business was relatively unrestricted, while labor and political activity were tightly regulated, and where the wealth from business failed to improve the lots of most of the population.

Current examples of some of these tendencies might include Dubai, Singapore, and some parts of mainland China. Examples in the past include Chile under Pinochet, Nazi Germany, and at times, ancient Rome. Places at risk include London.
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Sory, I didn't mean to be obnoxious. Just wondering.
Because my life is just not that interesting I guess, although this does not seem to deter others...
I just started twitter as well, though I’m not very active I created one for one of our products http://twitter.com/errorkey.
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Dividing total printing costs by number of subscribers is very misleading.
http://twitter.com/improvingtheweb
http://twitter.com/sm_spencer

Generally pretty profane and/or nonsensical, but I let the occasional nugget of wisdom slip out.
I find it very nice to be able to sit at a coffee shop or restaurant and read a newspaper without worrying about spilling food/drink on it. You can't do that with electronics.
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Of course I do - http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya
Still trying, but with Twirssi, I found myself using twitter more frequently. me: http://twitter.com/karrisaarinen
Yeah, I'd be curious to see that too. The only problem with that is that Facebook's popular because it's a sort of all-in-one. If you don't care about your online presence, it does everything in one place. Twitter handles a much more limited subset of those things.
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I had the same feeling, initially. Here's what I've found though: there are really two kinds of relationships on Twitter. Allow me to elaborate.

On one end of the spectrum, I follow people who have similar interests as me (Ruby, Rails, Clojure, Arduino, Macs, etc). Lots of them are well-known in their various niche communities. Yes, you do get some degree of "drinking coffe" and "walking the dog" type of notifications, but a lot more "hey, this piece of software is cool", and "I just released this new library" messages. The signal to noise ratio is really pretty good, assuming you are choosy about who you follow. If you follow interesting people, they will help you find interesting things. I wrote about this a little bit, particularly about how I read RSS feeds much less now because of Twitter: http://larrywright.me/blog/articles/209-the-coming-decline-o...

On the other end of the spectrum, I do follow people that I know personally, or that live in the same town (it's small). What I get from these people is different. It's more akin to meeting down at the local coffee shop and catching up. There's value in this as well.

It's very easy to dismiss Twitter unless you look closely. You're right, in a sense: I don't care what a random person is doing right now. But that's not really what Twitter is about, and until you use it for a bit, that's hard to understand.

If you want to try it, find some people whose blogs you enjoy reading, and follow them for a bit on Twitter. I think you'll be surprised at what you find.

If you do, you can find me at http://twitter.com/larrywright
I'm guessing people would put up with a fair amount of advertising if they got a free Kindle. I read a PDF copy of our locale free daily and the ads are still quite noticeable.
I know it's not on a kindle, but if you flip through page by page you are still going to notice things. The ads would have to be reformatted, to be more inline, but that's doable.

And it's twice as cheap to buy a Kindle in year 1. Year two is $644m in savings. That's a lot of ads that don't have to be sold, a lot of sales staff who don't have to be selling it, etc etc.
It is actually more than that. I am following some 150 people and it is very rare that people tweet about what they are doing. When i started using twitter, i was skeptical that it would be of any value. But slowly i realize that it is much more powerful than i thought. It is like speaking on a stage where your followers are listening to you always.

By just putting in 10 or 15 mins of your day, you will be able to generate a lot of value from your twitter account. It is like a brand, better you tweet, more followers you have (how you utilize them depends on you).

Giving you an example, I have around 225 followers, so whenever i tweet a link, i get around 50 views. There are people with more followers like 1000 who i am assuming get around 250 views for every link they post. Mike Arrington has close to 25k - 30k followers, i am pretty much sure he get lot of traffic from twitter and he is also socializing with his users.
I don't. What need do I have for it?

(EDIT - Why would you downvote me for answering his question? Someone explain why twitter is such an amazing tool that I should incorporate it into my already busy life...)
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I don't really think that Aaron was actually trying to get chicks. I think he might have had tongue firmly planted in cheek.
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Of course it's next. It's just a matter of time.

One can always claim this about something that hasn't happened yet. But it's already been two years and 15x growth and the sky has not fallen. So you could just as easily argue that what has saved us so far (killing fluff stories, insisting on civility in comment threads) will continue to work.
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http://twitter.com/andrewhampton
http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch mostly tweets on python, machine learning, general data crunching topics.
My local government uses Twitter. I have been following them for a while now and I'm generally pleased with how it works. They tend to tweet a lot of dull things like links to meeting minutes, but how interesting can local government really be?

It came in handy a while back when I woke up to find out that a street was closed due to emergency water line maintenance. Sure it's just a little thing, but it saved me five minutes of finding out the hard way during my commute.
I feel like thats a common misconception. It certainly not every single thought of mine, and very little substance even. It's nice because the whole system is async, so you can get to it when you can, if you want, care or not care. the barrier to tweet is non existent :)
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At first twitter just seemed useless, but then I figured out what it's good for: "spamming" people. I signed up for rss feeds of various search terms I'm interested in, and when something goes by, zing, off goes an URL. I don't think this makes for very interesting reading, but in any case, I'm here:

http://twitter.com/davidnwelton
If you wanted to pick a warning example, you could have done much better than Singapore.

Singapore was a third-world country when the current ruling party took over in the mid-60s. Today, it has a higher per capita GDP than the United States, and three times that of neighboring Malaysia.

In the dark days of the 60s, Singapore was threatened by the communist plague sweeping over Southeast Asia, racial tensions and riots, and hostile neighbor states. The fact that it survives and thrives today is remarkable.

Yes, its government violated "human rights" along the way. In the 60s it aggressively persecuted communists, forbid their literature, and drove communist labor movements out of the country. This offends our Western sensibilities, but it did allow Singapore to avoid the fate of Vietnam and Cambodia. Was it worth it? I think the citizens of Singapore, both then and now, would say "yes".

In most circumstances I am a Western liberal. But I refuse to follow any ideology blindly to the point that it leads me to advocating catastrophe.

Today, Singapore is one of the richest countries in the world. It is regularly ranked by international organizations as one of the 10 least corrupt, often beating the United States. Maybe its people are lacking "human rights", but their quality of life is matched by few peoples of the world, and none in Southeast Asia. The fact that it appears to be an example for the China "communists" gives me hope for the future of that country.
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If that's true, then why are you on the Internet in the first place? If you have no care over what other people are doing and don't care if other people care about you, what utility can the Internet have whatsoever?
just goes to show, that its much easier raising cash when you don't need it
Very interesting and thorough analysis. It's not just someone making wild speculation based on a rehashing of network news, but rather, he seems to be a seasoned small craft pilot with legitimate knowledge and understanding to add.
The only thing interesting about that was the photo. Michael Francis McElroy did a fantastic job of capturing what I would think Aaron is--a man behind a computer, in a dimly lit room.
I have a Twitter account with over 10,000 followers (not my personal account to which I only have 1500 :)) and you're guaranteed about 80-100 clicks within the first few minutes of linking to something (yes, I've used a tracker). Typically, it sees about 250 clicks overall (within 24 hours) with 500 being a record (back when it had about 8000 followers).
>I once requested my FBI record (I'm British). There was no file on me.

Congratulations. There is now. They start a file on you when you request information from them.
It's very interesting to me that so many other people had the same experience with Digg and Reddit that I did. At first, I read it obsessively but now I can barely stand to scroll through the headlines.
HN has gone through a different cycle so far. At first I only read the front page because it had enough of content for me, but now I skip many of the front page stories and go directly to the "lost" gems on the new page.
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Thanks! Some (http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/near-duplic...) looks useful for a project I'm on. And, no, we're not trying to index the Internet or do a Google Desktop search.
Whoa! I just flashed hard on school vouchers. (Prison vouchers!?) All of the arguments I can think of in favor of the one fit perfectly on the other. Scary.

Nice concept. I now have the plotline for a wonderful dystopian movie percolating in my head.
I'm not on Twitter, but I enjoy following the feeds of top entrepreneurs and investors. Here are a few good lists and rankings:
http://www.bigwinner.org/twitter-leaders/
http://buzzmarketingfortech.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-level-twe...
http://twittercounter.com/pages/100
http://twitterholic.com/
The problems you cite were legitimate. All I was suggesting was that prices were still not artificially inflated because they are set by demand. You could say that unsustainable demand was generated by policy, but I don't think that's the same thing as artificial price inflation. People were legitimately willing to pay way too much for these (in my area at least) shoddy McMansions.

And I'm not defending the sequence of inanities that led up to this whole debacle. Voted you up, too, because I think the conversation about renting versus interest is a good one. I sold my house about half a year before the collapse and have a sweet rental at the moment.
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I don't have a twitter profile.

Some reasons:
I see no need for it.
I don't like exposing myself that much.
It doesn't allow for material long enough to be useful.

I also don't have a facebook profile, nor a Myspace, but I will make a Linked-In one.

I stood for election last year, and I wasn't thrilled that I had to make my name, address, email address and phone numbers as publicly available as it was. I guess some folks don't care much about their privacy, and some folks care too much.
Disappointed that Lost Highway didn't make it..

Check out Charlie Kaufman's "Adaptation".. brain bending on a different level..
Bang on. If they can nail natural language search, Twitter will beat Google hands down.
If only links in profiles would be clickable.. (Lazy)
I refuse. It's one of those things that comes along that I know I don't need (time sink), and stick to my guns and ignore it.

Didn't have a Facebook profile for the longest time... then started working with a client who wanted to build a Facebook application. Created a profile, and it snowballed from there :/
http://twitter.com/euwyn

give me a shout (or an @, whatever the cool kids call it these days) if you're in nyc.
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Can I hire you to build a twitter app? :)
One key difference is that HN can be seen as "startup news" not "tech news". This is a much tighter niche, which reduces the appeal to certain demographics. It also means that if HN starts down a "slippery slope" that it starts from a point further away from base, giving more time to adapt/confront it.
I had just made my own when I saw that. It's better then the others for such a silly thing =p