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  1. Backflip by griffinn · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Social Bookmarking Services Revisited

    Backflip used to work well for social bookmarking. But now its user base has shrunk so much that it's trivially easy to distort the results in the "What's popular" sections.

  2. There are several services by gozar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?
    There are several services online that allow you to do this. Off the top of my head:

    Take your pick.

  3. Use backflip, my good man by mccrew · · Score: 1 · on Portable Firefox and Thunderbird
    For bookmarks, I have had good success by not saving them to any particular machine. Instead, using Backflip has been a really great option - kind of a "bookmark respository in the sky." No matter what machine I am on, it is a simple matter of getting them over the network. No more multiple copies (each slightly different) across multiple machines.

    And they do allow you to download all your bookmarks in a format suitable for import to the major browsers.

    Backflip - highly recommended. (Not affiliated with them.)

  4. Re:Doge Aries K Class by squiggleslash · · Score: 1 · on 10 Ads The US Won't See
    That clips sucks - long pauses with voice but no video.

    Try this though - requires QuickTime unfortunately but it does seem to be the full deal.

  5. Backflip by XBL · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Most Usable Bookmark Managers?

    Give this a try. It's a free, advanced web-based bookmarking service. Lots of features.

  6. Re:no trust here. by mbogosian · · Score: 1 · on A Universal Roaming Profile?

    It already exists. In a number of forms!

    For those of you who like clicking, and not typing (or copying/pasting) here are those addresses again:

    http://backflip.com/
    http://bookie.mozdev.org/
    http://wwwampire.mozdev.org/

    Yes, I am truly that lazy.

  7. Re:Morals by haeger · · Score: 1 · on Pardon, Is This Your File?

    I found an article (in Swedish) here about the fact that "tribal?" people are a lot more generous than they have to be. I'm not sure that I'd like to call them socialist. I'd think that it's more in our nature to share our wealth, food, money or data.
    I can't seem to get the original story (in English), but a few links are here and here.
    You could probably just do a googlesearch for "Joe Henrich" and find better links.

    So what are the morals? Is it really theft? Couldn't it be that the "capitalist philosophy" is flawed?
    I don't know, but I'm sure that there is never a simple solution to anything.

    wbr

    .haeger

  8. Re:This can be done anywhere by WirelessFreak · · Score: 1 · on Making Last-Mile Ethernet A Reality

    Actually, it's being done with fixed wireless around the U.S. (and even in the UK with Consume.net) Bunch of people are getting together and sharing their broadband-based connections (in areas where they can get them) to those who can't via fixed wireless protocols including 802.11. I've included links to a few (including Seattle Wireless, BAWUG and more) here.

  9. Backflip by cafebabe · · Score: 2 · on Ordering the Chaos of Bookmarks?

    I store all of my bookmarks on Backflip. The site lets you categorize your bookmarks, write comments about them, and access them from any computer. New bookmarks can be added by clicking on a button you add to your browser or through their site. The best feature, I've found, is it lets you set access controls for your bookmark categories. That lets me give my co-workers access to my work-related bookmarks, such as Java resources, without letting them see my personal links.

  10. Backflip by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 3 · on A New Tack In Search Engine Formulation

    Gee, that sounds an aweful lot like Backflip, who, by the way, are Fucked.

  11. Cache: a War story by fm6 · · Score: 1 · on The Fundamentals Of Cache
    Ah, another informative link with which to fatten out my backflip.com collection. This is the official reason I spend so much time on slashdot. The real reason is that it's an excuse to share war stories. Like this one.

    Once upon a time, a programmer couldn't figure out why an SGI Origin IPC app was slower with 4 meg buffers than with 1 meg buffers. Buffer size is directly related to I/O performance, right? An impatient SGI development engineer said, "Cache blowout! Next!" A slow-witted tech writer couldn't quite follow what the engineer was saying, and also had his breed's supestitious aversion to undefined jargon. "If a programmer thinks you can increase buffer size forever, he's as ignorant about 'cache blowout' as I am, right?" After a friendly shouting match and a few mild death threats, the engineer finally explained the concept. And they all became friends again -- until the next bug.

    You can read the result at support .sg i.com (free registration required; ignore the request for an SGI serial number).

    __________