This is quite funny, if you have some time to spare and can cope with simultaneous video clips. To be honest, they all look the same to me, quality wise. YouTube has better community, Revver pays you for content, and, erm, Google Video… owns YouTube? That’s pretty much its strongest feature.
Via Scoble: I must get about half my interesting links at the moment between Scoble and BoingBoing. The volume of Scoble’s posts is scary. Oh, Chris Pirillo is the man who made the video.
I remember one incident in 1994 very clearly. I was doing work experience at a development lab in Malaysia, and one of the programmers who was coaching me handed me a copy of the Win95 beta surreptiously. Scrawled in faint pencil on the cover of the CD-Rom was the following text:
C:\> is dead. Long live the start menu!
It was all a bit odd. But to my point.
Scoble asks why Google would need an OS: various people have already commented on ‘web OS’ versus ‘desktop OS’… which I think is perhaps a layer of abstraction too far.
The reality is… Google Search itself is an OS. Think about it; you know the command line interface: how to search for things such that you’ll find them again. How upset are you when you repeat a search and, for whatever reason, the result you were thinking of doesn’t come up on the first page? Ok, maybe not literally upset, but it can cause some frustration.
Search is your gateway to every application you use on the interweb — in fact, you may not use bookmarks anymore, or a spelling checker, or anything… Just fire up Yahoo!, or Google, or whatever, and you’re away. It’s why (I suspect) people show so much brand loyalty to their search provider — when you’ve learned the syntax of one, why would you switch? It’s the same reason many PC users who might otherwise be swayed by the slick appeal of Apple stay put (not me, I have lots of reasons for not swaying from the good ‘ol PC platform).
And it’s why many search engines, at their most basic level, are homogenizing: the neutral, clean look of Live.com etc. mimics the success of Google in (what’s probably the hope!) that people won’t notice they’re not actually using Google when they fire up their browser of choice.
Everyone wants to be the new C:\> (the start menu really isn’t iconic enough for this).
So, it’s been 6 months since I placed the order but I’m finally up to 16 meg broadband. Can’t say I’ve noticed any difference so far, but am anticipating that I won’t have to wait for HD trailers to load off Apple.com anymore. W00t!
I mean, bad, bad, bad memory leak issues. FF used to be bad – I’d leave it on for a few hours and it’d suck up 150MB of system RAM and need to be killed. FF2 seems to be much better than that – still some memory bloating, but relatively stable and I can generally close it before I have to kill it.
IE7 just pumped 350MB of RAM into Windows Live Messenger (don’t ask me how, but it was clearly IE that was the issue because when I killed that… well, problem solved).
Come on, MS. I like you guys better than you deserve. IE7 is beginning to feel like a piece of badly designed bloatware. And if you guys have inked some kind of deal with Intel to make me upgrade my PC just so I can cope with IE7, you’ve got another thing coming. I’ll just go FF all the way, baby, and deal with the consequences on Outlook Web Access and my Sharepoint websites.
I can’t believe I installed this piece of £”*$&£($& £$(*…
Getting into Myspace a little now. Don’t know many people who use it but the fact that Weezer and Weird Al, as well as Ben Folds and a few others, are on The Public Betas friends list is fairly awesome. I mean, I doubt they pay all that much attention to us, but how cool is it that they’re on there? And you do feel ‘connected’ in some way to the band, even if it is just the bands’ interns frantically clicking ‘accept’ on every friend invitation they receive.
Still, I’d say it was at least 6.5 cool.
Having some interesting conversations at work about Wikis and want to have a conversation with a freelance web designer to discuss the possibility of doing some on/off design work with us.
Noticed that Hugh has some Blog/Wiki designers on his Wiki… and, in the spirit of his Wiki (“sort of “An Open-Source ‘Craigslist’ for Bloggers” etc) I’m asking for people’s knowledge and recommendations.
Email me at my work email (armand.davidAT brands2life.com) if you’d like to chat, or leave a comment. Thanks.
…but an awesome vid!
Never ask an opinionated dog a question you might not want the answer to.
So true. Spam does seem to be getting wiser.
Erm, possibly just sponsored one. Ze Frank‘s micropayments scheme for the show is back up with PayPal after Google Checkout disabled his account, as it didn’t support donation sites. Of course, when loads of people, including Lord Scoble, pointed out that this was a big, stupid, evil thing for them to do, Google apparently listened to the people and re-enabled it. Or possibly just convinced themselves that Ze really was selling little duckies.
Whichever way you paint it, I’ve now got a duckie. And that pleases me. It’ll appear around tomorrow’s show. Watch for the one that’s signed ‘division6.’
Update: Mine’s the fifteenth ducky from the left (counting the coloured wotsits).
Discovered this while checking out G4TV’s ‘daily nut’ video podcast (no link love as its really, really terrible, but does point you in the direction of occasional cool web things).
Check out Chad – proper geek humour right here.