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Athios — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:50:19 -0000

I come here first!
I definitely prefer off-beat stuff. And I like odd/interesting that can actually be bought.

Personally I'm less interested in reading about the 'standard' gadgets (e.g. cellphones, PDAs, etc.) since they all have other blogs devoted to those items/topics already.

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CortJstr — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:51:55 -0000

I actually prefer this blog because it *doesn't* update once an hour. I like the number of posts I see now. It's basically boiled down to just the really interesting stuff without 19 extra posts I feel obligated to read even though I don't really care about them.

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Brad — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:45:24 -0000

I visit this site and engadget daily via RSS. If this site started doing more mainstream stuff I would probably drop the engadget feed and just come here.

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JT — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:11:17 -0000

I come here first. I would prefer ALL relevent new tech. As a senior technology leader in the entertainment industry, I look here mainly to make sure I don't miss something that may help us be first to market by utilizing something in a different way. Thanks for keeping it going.

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Nagga — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:26:44 -0000

OhGizmo is in my main blog/article clicking serie (it earned a IE shotcut-button) . Im not into RSS: i like site-viewing experience and faster click-trough-ability.

I like the offbeat/weird stuff most, but dont mind where it comes from (source or repost), and purchasability is irrelevant for me (dont have lots of $$ to spend on gadgets), so more expirimental/cutting edge would be great.

Reposts arent bad imho: nobody can browse every site (if lazy :), so seeing some item repsoted here or there is a small price to pay to for the insurance to see more (overall). I recon you could post more from the smaller, more specific sites (if its in the OhGizmo topic-range oc).

Your style of writing is very good, so thats probably what attracts me most anyway.

One feature i'd like to see: video's directly on front-page, by using some javascript or something to hide/write it (meh lazy :)

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Proo77 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:26:40 -0000

I come for gadget news, but also hoping something unusual has been posted like that fountain that glowed and it looked like it was flowing backwards. that was awesome

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Cel — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:24:55 -0000

Great! :-D

I'm looking forward to see what you've come up with :)

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dponce80 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:59:48 -0000

Hi Cel. Don't worry. To us, ads are a necessary evil, and we try to separate them from content as much as possible. In the new site,the article column is wider, not narrower. And site navigation is moved to the bottom, in a nice footer all by itself, and not interspersed with ads, as it is now. There will be no ads between articles. We could have done that a long time ago, but always believed it took away from the user experience. The site is too crowded with ads as it is...

But you'll see. We've taken the things we believe work best about this layout, and kept them. And, hopefully, polished everything up a bit. :)

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Cel — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:56:44 -0000

I usually come here first, and out of all the gadget sites I visit, yours is the one I like the most.

To break it down, a site is nothing without content. However, all the sites have content, but you know how to deliver it properly.

And I'm not just talking about the way you express yourself, your witty writing and all that, thats great. But your site is very well laid out aswell.

When I read that you're releasing a new design of your site in the near future I got a chill down my spine heh, cause this is a good layout. I dont come to a gadget site to look at the pretty design, I come for the content and the style of the site in general.

The layout of your site is great. The text collumn isn't too narrow which is often a problem on blog/news sites. There are no ads or other disturbing elements between articles which makes the site easy to read and navigate.
To me this is paramount. Nice design without functionality on a site like this is a catastrophy, please please PLEASE keep this in mind for the new site. I can not stress this enough.

Keep up the good work!! :)

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Anonymous — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:42:53 -0000

I come here first because i like the filter you guys have here. you have only the best stories that are interesting and don't include all that technocrap like engadget. Keep up the good work and please don't change anything!

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DENOMOLUS — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:29:52 -0000

I try to check in once a day. Usually here first, then New Scientist. OhGizmo stuff is definitely the more interesting of the two.
I pass on cool/funny/relevent stuff to friends.

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Armchair Anarchist — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:48:04 -0000

I read most of the big gadget mags, including this one, by RSS, because I like to get the whole spread. I like the more weird things you run, plus your focus on environmental angles from time to time. Plus your articles are more in depth and a lot less fanboyish. Leave the Apple swee and new-laptop hand-waving to the guys who are best at it, and keep with the fringe ideas. Everyone needs a unique selling point, and that's yours, IMHO.

Peace...

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i/o — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:50:36 -0000

i like ohgizmo just how it is.

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Fluffy — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:55:37 -0000

I Come here first, but site speed is Jurassic.
How do you weed out "soon to be extinct inventions
while staying unique? There is a balance between
marketability (mainstream) an being original.
Find that speedy middle ground and you'll make
me horny for more gadgets.

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Ian Weir — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:19:06 -0000

I personally come here first, before other blogs - I'm here more for the offbeat stuff than the mainstream - bicycle powered washing machines, for example. Not to say the odd mainstream thing is wrong or anything.

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Louise — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:31:46 -0000

I only visit OhGizmo! during my lunch hour internet news ritual. OhGizmo! has a great feel to it, much more 'homegrown' than the other two unmentionables, and I like that. It's funny, and quirky. The offbeat stuff definitely does it for me :-)

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CP — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:31:45 -0000

How many of you come here first for gadget news?

I come here first.

Who would be interested with a slightly larger proportion of items already covered elsewhere, with the tradeoff being more relevance and more purchasability (this is not a word, eh?)?

I just want to see cool shit. I'll go shopping somewhere else. :-)

Do you come here for the offbeat, or the mainstream?

Offbeat or cutting edge.

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Tobias — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:00:32 -0000

I come here first for the offbeat.

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SP — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:40:25 -0000

How many of you come here first for gadget news?
This site is one of 5 that I open first every ay

Do you come here for the offbeat, or the mainstream?
the offbeat!

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Josh — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:38:59 -0000

I come here first, as well.

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Bill — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:20:39 -0000

Splitting hairs.

Gizmodo, Engadget and OhGizmo are all in my RSS reader. It updates every hour, and since the other two generally post _something_ once an hour, and OhGizmo is much slower, that generally means I don't visit OhGizmo...

However, since Engadget and Gizmodo are often direct rips of each other, and OhGizmo usually has unique content, that doesn't put you in the #3 position.

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dponce80 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:16:15 -0000

This is great guys. You have no idea how much all this stuff is useful. A lot of positive, but also a good amount of criticism, and it's not falling on deaf ears.

@ Harsh Critic: I hear ya, man. Gizmodo and Engadget are kicking our butt all over the place. Always have, hopefully won't always. We're working on ways of bringing you more content, one of which is increasing revenue so we can afford to pay writers. We're trying to do that without increasing the number of ads, but rather the quality (hence our Federated Media partnership). You'd be amazed at the magical productivity increase you see when money enters the picture. :)

@ James and Rafael Silva: About the layout/design... I know, I know. I haven't said anything because, quite frnakly, I've said this too often... but this time it's for real. We're about a week, ten days away from a re-launch. We're debugging the new theme as we speak, and you should have a shiny new design really soon. Again, money is key, and unlike all the previous redesign claims, this time, some was spent.

To everyone else, again, thanks for the input. It's so incredibly useful. Please, keep it coming!

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tem2 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:00:12 -0000

Other gadget sites? What other gadget sites?

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Harsh Critic — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:47:44 -0000

I used to come here first all the time. I have subsequently found other sites that have more content and who update with a much greater frequency then you do. Sites like engadget, or gizmodo. Your site is usually the last one I visit. It has the least amount of content and is sadly lacking compared to the other sites I mentioned. You boys need to make a hard push to catch up to sites who are quite frankly whupping your asses up and down the information super highway!!!!

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FG — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:30:13 -0000

I come here first. Usually witty writing, and cool stuff. I'm not so into gadgets that I need to be certain that I find it first. As soon as you pick it up is good enough for me.

I'd like to see more posts, even if some of the items are more mundane or covered elsewhere.

I come here for both mainstream and offbeat, but I enjoy the offbeat more.