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jamesk2

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    Comment #2228076

    This would make a nice video campaign for Pandora. Various different types of people saying "It's all my music." with references to the music they love.

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    Comment #2154290

    "Our manufacturing technology has to equal or surpass that of Japan." Good thing China's manufacturing technology is equal to or better than of Japan's!

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    Comment #2080476

    Another reason for being exclusive in the Mac App Store: Getting to the top of the Top Paid/Top Grossing lists which help more customers discover them and provide social proof the …

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    Comment #2076533

    The app store significantly reduces the friction needed to discover and install apps. In the first 10 minutes of using it, I discovered 3 useful apps and installed them all without…

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    Comment #2056984

    I know many more people who have Kindles or iPads and nobody who own a Nook or a Tab... I live in the SF Bay Area but still, it's an oddly different market where you are... where a…

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    Comment #2032097

    CS4 was widely panned and coupled with the poor economy, many companies skipped it. Adobe took a loss this quarter last year. The article doesn't state it but many CS3 owners have …

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    Comment #1889121

    The Android vs. iOS marketshare race is one in which iOS is hobbled because of iOS's exclusivity. When the iPhone 4 hits Verizon next year, $199 Android phones will take a massive …

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    Comment #1795549

    Amazon has a kindle version for 99 cents. I downloaded the sample chapter to my Kindle for Mac. http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Advertising-ebook/dp/B003Z4...

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    Comment #1795507

    Facebook has said that they don't want to put in features that would discourage participation. If someone updates their status and lots of people "dislike" it, they might not want …

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    Comment #1670648

    Try some Yerba Mate. Tea is made from the roots of that plant and has enough caffeine to give you a nice kick when you need it.

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    Comment #1592497

    As a Skype user, if Apple made iChat video for windows and connected it to facetime users, it would make iChat really compelling.

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    Comment #1578811

    Yes, we need to pay attention to our international users. Unicode is too much fun to ignore. :-)

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    Comment #1578776

    Thanks! We'd love to hear about any ideas to make it more relevant.

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    Comment #1578775

    We sort the tweets you'd normally get by relevance rather than chronologically so if you are actively looking at every tweet already then you'd have already seen the tweets we reco…

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    Comment #1578702

    Sure, try this out: http://keytweet.com/celebrity/categories/ Let's you see top tweets for other people. We've got one for "The top tweeters from hacker news"

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    Comment #1578614

    Thanks for the suggestions, we'll definitely have more people review the copy. And you're right, people who don't follow very many people don't need this app and people who are on …

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    Comment #1578503

    KeyTweet's blog is on Posterous which had a DoS attack.

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    Comment #1551649

    Season and location are factors too. In the winter in the SF bay area, it's very unlikely your skin can make enough vitamin D. After one winter here, I my D levels were at 20 ng/ml…

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    Comment #1440836

    It's behind a registration wall. Why isn't there an iTube?

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    Comment #1433790

    Is there actually a benefit from doing this for Mahalo? Wouldn't google just recognize that their content is duped all over the place?

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    Comment #1292446

    Core i5 and i7 windows laptops were available for 6 months before similarly equipped mac laptops. It kept me from buying a MacBook Pro when it seemed like I'd be paying a premium f…