Overheard Online

For those who haven’t noticed, we’re electing a president and vice president, not selecting a winner on “American Idol.” Ms. Palin may be a perfectly competent and reasonably intelligent woman (however troubling her views on evolution and global warming may be), but she is not ready to be vice president.
NYTimes on Palin

Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not as easy as the optimists say it is. There’s a reason why feelings scare us.
Gapingvoid on New Ideas

Businesses have been using Windows, well, since Bill Gates was a teenager. Imagine millions of workers not finding the Start button on the desktop computer. Imagine a company spending huge amounts of money to retrain everyone. Imagine all the work hours lost. Although Linux is free - it has a price tag: knowledge.
How to Geek on Linux

In what has to be the tamest Apple release ever, everything was more of the same. The new Nano is just like the old tall Nano, the new Touch is almost exactly the same as the old Touch, the Classic gets a little bump, and iTunes merely collects more bloat — par for the course. What the hell, Apple?
CrunchGear on Apple

But think about the Facebook generation. My kids are growing up with the news feed as their start page. Not Yahoo’s portal approach and NOT Google’s search box approach. In time, its entirely possible that feeds will be more powerful than search.
A VC on Feeds

Google has become the 8000 pound search Gorilla. During their meteoric growth there has been a trend that people’s expectations have gotten higher and their attention span shorter. There was a time when people would click though a page, two or even three of search results, but that is not so common any more. Today, if you don’t rank in the top 3, searchers will barely notice your listing.
Grok on Google

I can’t helping thinking that, before we transcend the human condition and upload our brains to computers, a reasonable first step might be to bring the 17th-century Enlightenment to the 98% of the world that still hasn’t gotten the message.
Scott Aaronson on the Future

I get where the argument is going about web apps being more dominant than desktop apps. That prediction is a crock of shit. A 2007 survey found that 73% of Americans have never even heard of Google Docs, and 94% have never tried an online office suite. Yeah, desktop apps aren’t going anywhere.
Ted Dziuba on Web Apps

You work a decade to build a trendsetting browser, even the first with tabs, and what happens? In two days you’re kicked aside for a Johnny-come-lately that doesn’t even have a sidebar, let alone one with more options than any other browser. I’m talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat to Google’s mere 2-day-old infant of a browser, Chrome.
AppScout on Opera