ydmos commented on Microsoft's new Google killer is a photo site that doesn't work

"@Nicholas Carlson: Nothing personal, you write some awesome stuff from time to time -- but I'm going to chalk this one up as 'epic fail' :)"

ydmos commented on Comcast backs away from 20-minute delay

""If there was competition, could you slow down your best customers?" The question is predicated on the (false) assumption that the top bandwidth users are an ISP's "best customers", when most of us are well aware that using the bandwidth you pay for makes you, in fact, a terrible customer in the eyes of your cable ISP."

ydmos commented on Microsoft's new Google killer is a photo site that doesn't work

"Photosynth is a search engine? Nowhere on the FT article does it describe Photosynth in terms of 'search'. From my quick perusing of www.phootsynth.com as well as www.livelabs.com/photosynth/ it doesn't even describe *itself* as 'search', by any stretch of the imagination. I suspect the small, markedly out-of-the-way search box on the front page is intended to search among the submissions to the site, rather than searching the web."

ydmos commented on Reorged engineer kills two in hit-and-run

"@Advertising Guru: but they're already dead, hardly likely to generate followup articles."

ydmos commented on Khosla family's vegetable drama hits Facebook

"@Shadowlayer: 1,218 people do!"

ydmos commented on Bill Gates praised Canada's skilled murderer immigration program

"The image alone is worth the article."

ydmos commented on How to crack YouTube's Olympics channel

"@ydmos: of course, it never occurred to me to read the part of the article that says I had to be on youtube's website!"

ydmos commented on How to crack YouTube's Olympics channel

"You may have to do that entire process while at youtube.com -- I couldn't get Firefox 3.0.1 to load the cookie if I ran it from this valleywag page (it'd just not get written at all, and get replaced by a new cookie when I visited youtube's site). Otherwise, it seems to work great."

ydmos commented on Behold the $999.99 do-nothing iPhone App; buy it because you can

"The only difference between this and the Phillipe watch is that anyone can replicate this in a few minutes for $0. Find a way to add that same exclusivity, plus maybe a way to show it off easily, and it'll actually sell."

ydmos commented on Cuil shows the Irish how to spend it like Beckham

"@drinkwater: looks like she's off to a great start; a name change one week before launch, a completely fabricated 'ancient gaelic translation' for said name, and press releases citing facts that remain unsubstantiated by the actual product."

ydmos commented on Does Windows Vista by another name smell as bad?

"I like it."

ydmos commented on Bored journalists hype yet another Google-killer

"@stiletto_the_wise: "Is it a Web 2.0 requirement that your domain name be a partially pronounceable random string of letters?" Pretty sure it is, yeah. Also pretty obvious that this thing launched before it was ready."

ydmos commented on Convicted "spam king" escapes from prison, kills self and family

"All of this over a couple mil?"

ydmos commented on Julia Allison just won't leave

"@bloggerman: refer to previous post for the obsession."

ydmos commented on Julia Allison just won't leave

"news at 11: 100 word nonarticle about nontrepreneur gets more hits than google, digg, facebook, oracle on valleywag's front page."

ydmos commented on "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste"

"@CaliforniaCajun: probably something to do with his stock being worth $4 at the time..."

ydmos commented on Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake -- but the site works anyway

"It may not work at Digg, but it obviously works on Valleywag (or so say 75k hits)."

ydmos commented on Top ten stops on August's memory lane

""The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000 and then figuring out how to make money on it later." Ironically enough, August has been on the internet 'for free' for over a month now."