Has Black Friday bleed into Thursday? Lots of stuff to talk about today and most of all happy Thanksgiving to you.
MY 120-Black Friday, Jay Zee, Fire Fox 3.0 and Amazon kindle.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Tags: amazon, black friday, fire fox 3.0, jay zee, kindle
November 20th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Gary, your 120 is awesome.
I agree with the kindle thing, and how could they do that without letting people view things like PDFs? are they mad?
What is your view on FireFox vs Safari?
also, i know it’s on wine, and this isn’t your wine video blog, but i just heard that there exist something known as “garlic wine”. Have you ever heard of/tried it?
November 20th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I ordered a Kindle and am already regretting it. The Sony Reader is more stylish and it reads PDFs.
But it’s part of my business, so I feel a bit obligated to get one just to see if I should publish content for it.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
My main issue with Kindle is why it looks like it came here from a time-traveler visiting us from the 1980s. I’m sure the e-ink was very expensive or whatever, but why is it so ugly?
Also, it should come free with a subscription-model website. Like you sign up for something like Audible, get the Kindle for free and off you go.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
@ryptide, I think if it were offered for free it’d be too easy a target to be hacked into a free computing-type-device.
I thought it was comic/tragic that they released Kindle the same day as that report came out from the US National Endowment for the Arts about how recreational reading was down. The most troubling thing about the Kindle and most eReaders is the use of DRM on books. DRM will not help people to maintain or grow any kind of book culture.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Kill a tree- read a book- thats what I say!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Gary, loving the 120 today, I totally understand where you are coming from when it comes down to playing a song to death. I do it from time to time when I find a song that I simply can not find myself to stop listening to.
As for the Kindle from Amazon, I agree, i think it will just turn out to be junk like sony’s e-book readers have become.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Gary,
I tended to listen to music too much also then I got an XM Radio and it opened me up to all kinds of new music. I can not stand normal commercial/talk radio and the commercial free type radio was a real boon.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
thats okay about Jay-Z, last night I made an NES style version of Mussorgsky’s pictures at an Exhibition, all that came to mind of an actual NES video of what could be Pictures at an Exhibition is all of it’s Nintendo surrealness.
I agree on the kindle, it looks like something out of the mid 90’s, appraisers in 100 years are going to have trouble knowing when it’s from.
firefox 3 hasn’t impressed me too much other than using the cairo libs for smooth graphics so you can now you –mozilla-border-radius: in css to produce anti-aliased corners and not have to use images. the favorites manager is an improvement too, egad, I could go on actually. I’m still gonna use flock though.
black friday? I’ve gotten my christmas shopping done
November 21st, 2007 at 12:22 am
tape player walkman’s are talking shi* about the kindle.
Jezz….heads are gonna roll on that deal.
November 21st, 2007 at 5:03 am
love the 120! great great format.
on behalf of the vlog - my comment is i don’t have speakers here, i’ll just have to listen @ home.
cheers
November 21st, 2007 at 8:36 am
Jay Z - Heart of the City is at 132 plays after only 3 weeks in my iTunes.. we’re killin’ the music Gary!!
November 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am
got it, loved it.
i couldn’t agree more,
how Firefox revolutionized my surfing habits.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am
Man! I used to be a careful song player but lately I just couldn’t stop playing “Trentemøller - The Trentemøller Chronicles” over and over again.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Just wanted to drop a line to say I’m enjoying the 120. The curiosity is killing me, I promised I’d avoid Jay Z, he was starting to lose it for me, but now I’m going to have to give it a listen.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:39 pm
(Verse)
first of all i wanna thank my vayniacs
the most important people with all due respect
thanks to the internets the twist-off cap
the online banking for holding all this cash
boys in blue who put gris before the badge
the first pod pusher who ever made the ‘cast
the wine boys in the building tonight
oh what a bouquet I’m sniffin’ out right
thanks to the lame wines with a bad name
thanks to a little fame I’m changing the wine game
bruised grapes’ll stop your bufoonery
thanks to the vayniac rapping at your wine tasting
to lizzie my love and our DHL friend who
carry the wine cross state for the library orderin’
yea, thanks to all the harvesters, and most important to you, the customer
(Chorus)
the wine boys in the building tonight
oh what a bouquet I’m sniffin’ out right
you dont even gotta bring your paper out
we the wine boys of the year vino’s on the house {we in the house}
the wine boys in the building tonight
look at how i’m chillen put the riesling on ice
you dont even gotta bring your purses out
we the wine boys of the year vino’s on the house {we in the house 2x}
November 21st, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Clearly, Gary, you meant ‘blagotubes’ what you said ‘internets’
http://xkcd.com/181/
Also, random: I heard really good things about the Kindle over at Neil Gaiman’s blog, but it could be that he got an advanced copy and didn’t need to shell $400 to try it out.
Last thing: I went four years of undergrad and never heard of this, but APPARENTLY the Wednesday before thanksgiving is called “blackout wednesday” due to the absurd bar hijinx that ensue. Hilarious.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:19 am
Shop it up!
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
HAHAHA, I get the same aversions in my car except I’ll recycle an ALBUM over and over and over again for about 2 months. People don’t know how I do it. Hell, when I buy an album I want to squeeze it DRY before it gets buried in the CD collection.
ToddH: That’s some funny as stuff :).
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I wonder if part of the reason shopping has spread over into Thursday/Thanksgiving, is because people are home, family is all together, and you get it all done while they’re all there and can answer the question of “What do you want for Christmas”.
Funny you should mention playing a song over and over again. I do this all the time and it drives my husband nuts. We were just having this discussion yesterday as I went to the play the new Alicia Keys song No One again for the 3rd time. 3rd time that’s it! hehe. Good to know there’s others out there
November 27th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
OK, so I think that a lot of people are missing the point about the kindle. Could it be that it’s supposed to look low-tech? It’s replacing a BOOK, not a PDA or laptop.
As far as Firefox, don’t fret. The Mozilla team has identified the problem. Check out the comments on this page: http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204200895&cid=nl_tw_software
November 28th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Not only do I already adore you (remind me to tell you about five stories of my wife watching you ceaselessly), but now I found this site thanks to your interview with Josh Cohen of Tilzy.tv. Very cool stuff, Gary. You continue to blow me away. Nice site design here, too.
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
If you like music, try http://www.Pandora.com
It’s all I listen to anymore.
-Paul in VA-