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sweetcell wrote:
people are still paying for domain names?

Huge money (they're essentially considered an asset like real estate).  But the underlying story here is that apparently there's big money in porn and investmentment funds, so I think I'm going to start the first investment fund for the Porn Industry.  Brilliant.

"SEX.COM is set to fetch a record $13m for a domain name on Wednesday October 27th when a Californian bankruptcy court meets to decide on the deal. The domain name last changed hands in 2006 for a reported $14m in cash and shares, but it was put up for auction in July after its owner went bust. This 2006 transaction does not appear on our chart, which compares the highest prices paid for domain names in cash only, and those that can be verified. It does not, for instance, include the purchase of Insure.com for $16m in 2009 because the related website was part of the deal. And the priciest domains may never be known. Many big sales are not made public, and these may account for the largest share of the domain-name market."

The gadgets are completely out of order in their ranking, but the list of gadgets brings back some memories:

Time Magazine's all-time top 100 gadgets

Met a guy on their team last night.  Some pretty smart stuff going here in the browser world:

http://www.rockmelt.com/

Watch the movie for more info….

Did you get the download yet?  If so, any thoughts?

I'm just just installing now…

vansmack wrote:
Met a guy on their team last night.  Some pretty smart stuff going here in the browser world:

http://www.rockmelt.com/

Watch the movie for more info….

nkotb wrote:
Did you get the download yet?  If so, any thoughts?

I'm just just installing now…

Yes, I used it at work on Wednesday and then went on a roadtrip.  It's on my home laptop now and I'll give it a thorough go today.

It's essentially Chrome, which I like, and a ton of links on each side that do a pretty good job of utilizing wasted space.  I love the twitter link on the right hand side.

Yeah, definitely.  Gave a little tour today, and it seems pretty solid.  I haven't gone through it too much, or seen a side-by-side with how it displays site, but the social networking tie-ins are pretty cool, and I imagine will only get cooler.  Still, a little odd to me to have the browser so focused on that aspect of things…but then again, who isn't* using sites like Facebook and Twitter fairly regularly (especially with smartphones, tablets, etc.)?

* Yes, I know, I know.  Rhett, walkonby, etc. etc.  I'm talking about regular people :)

vansmack wrote:

nkotb wrote:
Did you get the download yet?  If so, any thoughts?

I'm just just installing now…

Yes, I used it at work on Wednesday and then went on a roadtrip.  It's on my home laptop now and I'll give it a thorough go today.

It's essentially Chrome, which I like, and a ton of links on each side that do a pretty good job of utilizing wasted space.  I love the twitter link on the right hand side.

One of the things I REALLY like about it, is that I no longer have to keep two tabs open for FB and Twitter.  With the links on the side, it gives you a very clean view of the Newsfeed and Twitter Feed without all the ads and extra crap from the web sites.

I've added a few of my other favorite sites (that it detected automatically) and I basically have ad-free versions of my most visited sites.  Super slick….

A couple of other notes on my new favorite browser….

They keep the right side RSS feeds from web sites across browsers.  For example, I used RM at home over the weekend, added a bunch of feeds, and when I returned to work, the feeds I added over the weekend appeared on my work computer.  A nice feature, but one that I wish I could turn off because I tend to follow different feeds at home and work.  I've suggested that they make that feature optional.

I still have one more invite if anybody wants it, but there's a catch.  You have to be my FB friend for me to send it to you….

do they have it for os x

godsshoeshine wrote:
do they have it for os x

Yes.

sweet. i'm in

Doesn't do much for me, but I'm sure others will be interested:

The Economist to launch on iPhone and iPad later this week

about time

godsshoeshine wrote:
about time

I just hope they do a better job than they did with the Kindle, which I have still held out on due to the increased costs.  The early details say it's free for current print subscribers ($126/yr for new subscribers, though I pay less) and digital subscribers ($110/yr), which is a great start.

The Kindle version ($126/yr) STILL doesn't get you access to the web version or audio version.  Maybe this iApp will fix that…

i keep forgetting about the audio version. i've been into podcasts at work so that might be something handy

on the epl talk iphone app you can stream their podcast directly. its a nice little feature

vansmack wrote:
The Economist to launch on iPhone and iPad later this week

impressive.  didn't think they could, but the economist has found a way to make their readers appear even more over-educated, liberal and elitist. 

by releasing the app, or because they resisted for so long?

sweetcell wrote:
didn't think they could, but the economist has found a way to make their readers appear even more over-educated, liberal and elitist. 

Over-educated and elitist, I will grant you, but a paper that has over a 150 year history of defending free trade and free markets is hardly liberal.

godsshoeshine wrote:
i keep forgetting about the audio version. i've been into podcasts at work so that might be something handy

90% of my Economist "reading" is from the audio version.  I don't use the podcast though as it's one big file - instead I download the mp3 version which is usually 75-95 individual mp3's.  That way I can jump from Kindle to web to car to train to bus and just keep on moving on in the magazine's order.