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This may be true for TED (never been) but for most tech conferences I've spoken at the presenters are still putting together slides for their presentation right up until they talk. This tends to get the latest stuff in. Not to say I'm disagreeing with you -- quite the opposite, in fact. With rare exception, during most of the conferences I've been to the "hallway track" has been more valuable/informative.
there is meant to be a massive amount of images on the page, just a really interesting hobby, that i would in no way have the patience for, but thought others might appreciate the dedication involved
a) seems like a major portion of this article is dedicated for Cuban to coin the "outtie" term.

b) Its pretty striking how Cuban's message is pretty much 180 degrees of Gary Vaynerchuk's, one bends over backwards chasing down the most obscure blogger/twitter to try to repair his brand, before it gets damaged, while the other pretty much ignores the little guys until the problem becomes mainstream
I hate to post something that seems trivial like this, but does it seem like bad form for Adobe to be snatching the "Catalyst" name given that there's already a Catalyst (http://www.catalystframework.org/)?

I know that in the open-source world, generally people don't care if you name your project off their's in a way that shows that you're doing a similar thing in a different project (think PHP on Trax or Groovy on Grails or the *Unit frameworks). However, Flash Catalyst isn't at all the same concept and it's confusing since the differentiation in name doesn't seem as significant. It sounds like there's Catalyst and some prefix it with "Flash" just like how some people say the "United States" and others might say "United States of America" - the "of America" doesn't denote a different entity.

Plus, Adobe already had a name that no one else seemed to be using: "Thermo". It's not a bad name either - instantly recognizable as a word with its Greek root.

I guess I don't see why Adobe couldn't go to Wikipedia's disambiguation page for Catalyst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalyst_(disambiguation)) and see that there's already a Catalyst software product. Am I just making noise over nothing or did Adobe just grab another project's name?
That shit at Masa better be damn good for $400 plus tax & tip.

And what's with the forced 20% service on dinner for two?
Just a note: Although this is in the LA Times, the schools mentioned are located in Oakland, not Los Angeles, as the title incorrectly states.
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"When I was six, I wanted to create twitter apps and new ways to manage your to-do list!"

(No one looks on the flip-side..)
I introduced some of my friends doing a company to Fred, and had one of the CEOs of a current Union Square investment (that is doing well) also recommend them by email. He said to me he would meet with them, and never emailed them back.
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The convenient thing about being evil is that you don't have to check for things like this. You just do whatever you want.
I don't think it's an era of immorality. Some lobbyists managed to convince congress to remove some regulations that turned out to be important. But people aren't significantly different from the way they were in the 80s or 90s.
I am in my mid-20's. I still have a long way to go and I have lots of plans for the future. The thing I have learned so far is that we should all be responsible for everything we do. Be it your job, your small projects or even those quick scripts.

The level of education and facilities in my country are way behind from the US, but thanks to the internet I can learn new things that were not taught in schools.
Four and a half hours of sleep hardly makes you the typical human! How do you manage? Genetics?
Search: Conelly

Show just the results for Conelly.

1. Connelly Skiis

(I then click 'Show just the results for Conelly')

1. Connelly Skiis
Well at least they are not trying to copy google by having a simple UI. The horsehead nebula will not rescue microsoft search.

What a disappointment.
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I had a room mate who transferred to GT from a community college after a semester with a 4.0 gpa (after doing not so well in high school). He said it's surprisingly easier to transfer into GT than it is getting into GT after high school. Look into it.

GT also has several public events where there are profs / researchers showing their projects which you can attend (especially if you are a student) and possibly even work with them (if you can help with something specific). You should definitely come visit and get to know them. When you apply to get in, having a rapport with a professor goes a very long way to getting in.
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Too noisy. With all the extraneous stuff on the page, I keep misreading the name as Bling.

Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won.

It's funny to think that after all the engineering expertise that must have gone into this, they're going to lose because of UI design.
Do Google employees pay tax on their food? Or does Google pay it for them?
Interesting to actually look at this.

6:20am - One year old wakes up. Grudgingly, I do to.

6:25am - Change diaper, PJs if they're wet, make a bottle, feed the boy, try to keep eyes open.

6:40am - Catch up on email on the iPhone while the boy plays on the family room floor. Can't use the MacBook because he'll want to play with it.

7:20am - Make coffee, clean the boy's bottles, change his diaper.

8:20am - Wake up wife so I get to shower. Shower.

8:45am - Send replies that were too long for iPhone. Review where last night left us. Review what I want to get done today. Start working.

10:30am - motivate to the subway to go to the office. Pleasure read on the train.

11:15am - get to the office. Talk to office mates. Get situated, try to get back into the groove. Put off lunch as long as possible.

Lunch - try to find something cheap. Generally fail.

Rest of the day - work, have sessions with our mentors. Maybe get some dinner.

9:45pm - head home. Pass out on the subway.

10:30pm - Catch up with wife until she goes to bed.

11:00pm - 1:30am - Work.

Rinse, lather repeat and never second guess giving up that good 4 day a week job I used to have to start my own business.
Reminds me of those little contracts they give high school kids promising not to drink or have sex. You can't fight nature, I don't care what that little laminated card in their wallet says.
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Actually... i took it thru some paces... search some obscure mysql error messages, python function names, my name, unit conversions, etc..

The results are exactly what I expect, as good (or nearly so) as Google.

The only exception being advanced query syntax: wildcards in phrases, the ".." range operator, etc. But that's something I can forgive on day 1...
the homepage is nasty, and the search results page looks like the default spam 'search' page a domain squatter uses. the hover-triggered contexts, though, are pretty fantastic.
how to view business as more than a money-making enterprise, but part of a large social community

False dichotomies, how I loathe thee.
I write because I like to participate. I think lots of people do. Not everyone cares about being "discovered". Not everyone is hungry. Some of us just want to participate.
Am I the only one seeing a Snow Leopard as the background image?
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Thanks for that. My mistake.
Great advice. Have a friend who went to SPSU for his undergrad after dropping out of school. Let me know if you want to get in touch with him.
Logo is well and truly terrible. It communicates nothing and belongs on a the sign of a crappy downtown bistro than a professional web app.

Functionally it's disappointing. The context and use case-sensitive thing that is hinted at in the preview video seems almost entirely absent. The preview vid suggested that they will aggregate hotel information, flight information, etc, to create a grander unified experience - I have not seen any of this. Searching for hotels in a city doesn't give me anything except your traditional search results.

The categories are well thought out - but undifferentiated from Google's search term suggestions as it is.

Sadly, this launch seems a bit like the cuil launch - functionally incomplete, but in the web world you really only get one launch.
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The background images are different for different markets.
http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-us
http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-uk
This is what my first query returned:
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5466/query1.jpg
This was an oddly prescient paragraph. The lighthouse he refers to is the famous lighthouse at Pharos. He wrote this in 1996, five years before 9/11/2001.

"The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over. But it took only a few seconds, and if you were looking the other way when it happened, you might have missed it entirely - you'd see nothing but blue breakers rolling in from the Mediterranean, hiding a field of ruins, quickly forgotten."
Google has scanned more than seven million volumes from several university libraries. ... The settlement ... provides for a way for Google to sell digital access to the scanned volumes.

The authors and publishers said Google is stealing our content, violating our copyright. So Google replied that their intent is benevolent. They didn't want to harm the publishers or take their money, they didn't even want to make money. They said they were scanning these books to create searchable knowledge. Then they strike up a settlement so they can sell those scanned in books? Now they want to compete with Amazon to sell ebooks...

It was a lie from the start. They were just scanning in these books because they knew they'd be selling them one day. They wanted a head start. They lied about the race to give themselves an advantage over Amazon now. This doesn't sound "not evil" to me. Lying is not "good." Maybe it isn't evil, but is "not being evil" the standard now? Shouldn't companies rise above merely "not evil" ??

They lied, they violated the law and the copyright holders and now they are going to be allowed to profit from this illegal behavior.

Their words are not matching their behavior and that is a real negative sign in my opinion.
Or the Connelly Skiis page is in the index under "Conelly" legitimately? (via text on the page or, most likely, the text of links pointing to it)
Too complicated. Anything worth having should be explainable in 30 seconds. I watched the first ten minutes of the Google Wave presentation, and still didn't understand what was going on. Maybe it has some cool features, but I think that it will go the same way as Google base and Google coop.
Ok.. i'll bite... what's so spectacular about the Google logo?
Maybe it's the removing of the DRM that is evil? I mean, it is there to protect the producer and help the producer ensure a stream of revenue and an incentive to produce more content for you in the future.

Would you want a future without content worth buying? Why can't you just live with the DRM?
Much like XMPP extended IMPP (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2779), Google Wave Federation Protocol is an extension of XMPP. While XMPP went through the RFC process (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3920), the google wave protocol is merely being termed as an open extension. Although I trust Google to believe that they are going to be doing the right thing, I am curious what is IETF's take on this.
Fun to contrast with Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conelly

Hey, look at that, it works.
Searched favorite obscure techno band. Returned Obscure Band homepage. Compare Google: returns wikipedia page. Damn, everything I love is going mainstream. Anyway, mildly impressed. Click top Bing result. Dead link. Accept Google's suggestion. Redirected to actual live page. The end.

PS: My girlfriend asked if it they called it 'bing' because it makes a 'bing' noise when you search. I laughed but then I thought this would be amusing. Anybody know how would I set about doing such a thing? I'm not a web coder.
There's a lot of comments here saying that you need to "get some perspective", but I recently got into the exact same situation, and have had some of the most terrible months of my life.

Before this year, I had never been turned down for any job I interviewed for. Now, I'm getting rejection after rejection, and it's shattered the confidence that I could apply my skills to benefit society, and generally made me feel worthless. The thought of being broke doesn't keep me awake at night, but thinking that I might be useless does.

It was painful having to send out my first job application (because I'd gotten every other job through my network), and my confidence was so low that I applied for jobs that were way below my skill level. Not getting them made me feel even worse, and I quickly got into a downward cycle.

After a couple of months, though, my initial panic started easing, and I've had a chance to get a better perspective on work and life. I've found that I can stretch out my money a lot farther than I imagined. People are a lot more willing to help me out than I thought. Instead of using the downtime to worry, I can spend it learning new things.
And, most importantly, I've learned that it will take patience to wait for the really worthwhile opportunities.
Poll: Compare Bing and Google using at least five not so popular queries.
Bing was generally better for my queries.
Google was generally better for my queries.
They were about the same for my queries.
Results vastly different from Google. I decided to compare the query I've just run in Google:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effects

http://www.google.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effect...

There's very little overlap in the first page results, and freesound.org, #1 in Google, doesn't even make Bing's first page.
it isn't intuitively different from Google, and that is a disappointment.
I understand that they have done a bunch of UI stuff which is supposed to make it a better search service, but what exactly are these?

The hover-triggered contexts don't really provide me with much more than the summary below the title. Seems redundant.

The left navigation bar I thought was supposed to have a bunch of cool features. I'm only seeing my search history. That may be a nice to have, but it isn't a game changer.

The snow leopard is awful, and isn't that the Mac line of products?
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Microsoft's cash coffers give it a few exceptions to the "only one launch" rule. Cuil's total funding of $33M (crunchbase) is a third of Microsoft's marketing budget for Bing.
I see freesound.org as the #1 for both engines.
I see freesound.org as #1 on Bing. I'll be honest, though, the first two pages of results on Bing look as good -- or better -- than Google's results.
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First thing I did as a good SEO nerd/startup CEO was to see how Bing treated http://www.dawdle.com - and I have to say I'm mildly impressed, but disappointed overall.

On the plus side for Bing, the hover-over shows the information we want the user to see, and manages to highlight our five most popular platforms. (Not the first five in our header, which is very impressive.) Google doesn't do the site links for us, even though we've obeyed their best practices. This is good for Bing.

But Bing doesn't do as well with restrictive searches - for example, Google does significantly better than Bing for a search on [dawdle.com] - Bing strips out the .com and treats it very similarly to a search on [dawdle], i.e. treating it as a dictionary term. The [dawdle.com] search on Google brings up a number of news/blog articles about the site.

Also, Bing utterly fails on e-commerce searching, even though they bought Jellyfish and are pushing Cashback heavily. I tried [dawdle zelda] on both, then clicked on "Shopping" for both. Here are the results:

http://www.google.com/products?q=dawdle%20zelda&oe=utf-8...

http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=dawdle+zelda&mkt=e...

I don't care what you say, a null set is just wrong. Now, yes, we do feed Google Product Search, but that's Microsoft's fault - they shut down the free feed test they had in favor of their paid Cashback search. Dawdle doesn't participate in Cashback, so they don't get a feed. But to fail on that search is crazy; it's on Shopping, and the user's inputted a product search term and indicated a store preference. Google gets this exactly right. (Bing should slurp the GPS feed anyway - the URL is indexable.)
While the submitted link is a great example of what you've made, a little context never hurts.

Seeing as you've already written a write up on your blog, why not point to that instead?.

http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/jquery-form-valida...
as in the law stating if you around in during the commission of a felony, you're just as liable as the real criminals? sure, thats valid. the point i'm trying to make is that facilitating the crime makes you just as guilty, period. underage drinking isn't the topic at hand.
its a huge improvement over previous live search. One more to add to my 'search sources':

google, wikipedia and now bing.
A sidebar does not make the UI terribly more complex. Google even added one, but it's hidden behind a 'Show options' link by default.

And a pretty photo versus the occasional Google Doodle is just a matter of taste. I like the photo myself.
Also living in such a city (silicon valley), I see what you mean.

If I live near a bus/light rain/caltrain line whose terminus is also near work, then it's not such a big deal. Also, if I go during commuting hours it can be comparable, but not always.

If I lived in south-central San Jose, then it would be better to get a car, perhaps even during commute hours. If I lived in Tracey or Stockton, taking the ACE train would be much preferable, even if it were longer since I could read, do what ever; a car would mean 90+ minutes of commuting. A co-worker has recently taken to practicing electric guitar on the ACE.

Of course, this is all anecdotal, and so is your statement. I have no idea how it works in non-US cities.
I've always thought Buenos Aries seemed like a good city to move to.
I see 5 results from creativecommons.org as the top in bing, but thats as an Australian. When you switch it to US, its freesound. Even as US bing shows 3 results from dvguru that appear to be spam. It also shows 3 results from creativecommons, 2 of which appear to be somewhat un-useful, and the 1 other useful one appears on both google and bing.

I'd definitely call that search a win for google. There are far more useful sources of creative commons sound effects in google's first page.
I like a lot of their ideas. They promote teachers on merit, they don't emphasize political correctness, failing students don't advance to the next grade, and so on.

But, it seems like their teachers don't know how to teach science:

"Zika switches to science. With no lab equipment and an emphasis on textbook learning, it is hard to imagine that American Indian will turn out the next Darwin or Edison. The students have brought in paper towel tubes and, after a discussion of the American space program, Zika leads the class outside, where they have about five minutes for a rare experiment: making rockets. It doesn't go well. With so little time, the experiment more or less fizzles, and then it's lunch."

The most important thing about science is learning how to design and run an experiment to prove something.

And they severely punished a student who stayed home, with his parents' permission, to watch Obama's inauguration. I've got to say that's a kind of short sighted stance. In two decades, what do you think will be more important to the kid - what he learned at school that day or watching the inauguration with his extended family?
It's not bad. It's worth trying out anyway and appears to be much better than the previous Live search.
Yeah, it's exactly the same results as from Live. No wonder they are spending $100 Million to advertise it. From what I have seen of it thus far, it's the same old search with a new url and a new skin.

Big disappointment...
Oops, my bad wrong URL. Can't edit the link now.

Also, this isn't mine at all. Just found it on Reddit's web_design and thought somebody here would find it interesting. I was just rewriting a web form where I did my own inline validation.
There suggestions sucks and its full some basic UI issues.

Whats the obsession with nebula?

The image searcher is decent though.
> because it makes a 'bing' noise when you search.

I can't help thinking of the Monty Python sketch about "The Machine that goes 'Ping'".
Did anyone else who is using FF3 on Windows Vista w/ Flash Debugger installed get crashes when you try to mouse-over a video preview on a music video/artist search?

I think the issue is caused by improper exception handling in the way that Bing's video preview tries to retrieve frames of preview thumbnails, but it can't find any for the source. The QA might not have caught it with a release version of Flash, but it's an issue for web dev's with the debugging version of Flash player. I know that Bing is in "preview" edition, but someone should file the bugs with Microsoft.
I think one class of mistake we are going to hear all the time is that arguments from music applied to ebooks.

One example is the case for against copyright protection for authors.
In fairness did you search for question mark, door, question mark, question mark?
I took it through the paces.

As usual, it is good at finding queries where not many pages apply.

But for competitive search terms, they don't sort the it right.

Better than Live though... give it 5 more years.
I had a booking for last Friday, but my wife cancelled it just before the deadline for fee-free cancellation. I'm still disappointed, but the money we saved in not going literally afforded us a last-minute weekend in Hawaii instead.
I'm in Australia, but using the 'show all' results (not the 'only from Australia' option), and freesound.org is #11. #1 is wiki.creativecommons.org/Free_​Sound_​Effects_and_​Loops
Although I disagree with your original statement, I'm not the one who down-modded you.

I think it would have helped if you had included your additional commentary into your original reply. The short version was basically redundant to your poll response.
The core algorithm is the same as Live's, but there is more to a search engine than ten blue links. Did the marketing actually say it was a whole new algorithm/indexer?

It'll be interesting to see if the extraneous features catch on or not. The treatment of large companies is nice: http://www.bing.com/search?q=fry%27s
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If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
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Works ok for me:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=ijigg&go=&form=QBLH

(I'm running FF 3.0.10 on ubuntu...)
Well, .. I'll give it a second look. Maybe they know it'll take $100 Million to explain why it is better to people, including me. I can accept that possibility.