Quoted: The Web is built for browsing—not deep reading. Everything about reading on the Web is designed to shorten your attention span. Every link promises that whatever you’re currently reading isn’t nearly as interesting as the thing behind the link.

Handy site for examing HTTP requests/responses

Quoted: view request and response header of a HTTP connection and HTML source

Quoted: It’s possible to instruct Windows Live Messenger to revert back to classic style, where its main window is represented by notification tray area icon. The hack is to run Windows Live Messenger in Windows Vista compatibility mode in Windows 7 in order to move WLM icon back to system tray.

Quoted: Hardware manufacturers may also choose to do new Windows 7 drivers to take advantage of under-the-hood improvements in the new version. But Microsoft claims the Vista drivers will work in the vast majority of cases.

I agree with the following.

Quoted: I have personally gotten real value from Twitter despite that friction. Twitter is an incredible newswire and real time search. Remember the old teletypes constantly churning out news?

It's interesting how many of these "value extraction frictions" are similar to what we experienced at Blue Dot/Faves....although we did address some of them.

Quoted: What, then, is the “Value Extraction Friction” that Twitter faces?

Quoted: Failure to Launch
Introduction
Microsoft Vista
Gateway
HD DVD
Vonage
YouTube
Sirius XM
Microsoft Zune
Palm
Iridium
Segway

Quoted: For the longest time around these parts, industry watchers have talked about building Seattle into a strong number two to Silicon Valley, which has deservedly obtained the reputation as the nation's top spot for tech. Well, according to a report today from bizjournals' G. Scott Thomas, Seattle has a little ways to go. The Emerald City ranked fifth, just behind San Francisco-Oakland and just ahead of San Diego.