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Olympus announces 360-degree CCD sensor prototype, surveillance firms drool

June 30 at 11:07 pm - Link

what is the basic mechanism of a firm drolling :) I dont get it - Dani Radu

Dani Radu favorited photos on Flickr

June 29 at 3:47 pm - Link

I really like Johannes's work - its my personal view, but there's real genuine magic in a lot of his his pictures. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/2...) - Dani Radu

Robert Scoble posted a message

“I didn't realize how much I missed Google Reader. Reading items there I feel a lot smarter than after just reading headlines in FriendFeed. I definitely need to rebalance my reading between the two. Anyone else feel that way?”

June 30 at 9:29 am - Link

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Love Google Reader. I end up with both news and insights that I never would have gotten anywhere else. - BISQ

I can't seem to get away from Google Reader. There's so much interesting stuff in it that haven't been shared to Friendfeed yet. With Toluu, I'm finding more and more things that I like, and just haven't made their rounds on Friendfeed. - Mark Trapp

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I had been neglecting my Google Reader, lots of actual reading to catch up on. - Kevin Cuneo

Google Reader is my everyday start. - Hakan Dahlstrom

I feel like if I don't listen to NPR in the monring I miss the news all together. If I just read the things i see on FF or Twitter I get a whole lot of random web news but not much whole world news. - Whit Scott via twhirl

I always read through Google reader before coming to FriendFeed in the morning. - Louis Gray

I read everything through Google Reader. - Josue Sanchez

Back and forth between the two. - Andrew Smith

Google Reader seems to offer me more control over what I see. Also -- much more variety. FriendFeed offers a wider range of subjects. (Content developers don't need to subscribe to FriendFeed.) Plus -- anything Google I am a fan of. - Charles Barthold

Absolutely. FriendFeed has a bit of a swiss army knife feel to it at the moment, with lots of folks trying to using it to replace a bunch of specialized tools like feed readers, forums/threaded comment systems, IM, etc. - Ken Sheppardson

FF has really cut into my feed reading time. I need to rebalance, too. - Harvey Simmons

yeah FF is just grabbing more and more of my attention - Stefan Hayden

Exactly. Feedfeed is great catching trends but I learn more from my regular readings in Google Reader. - Leon Ho

I used to hit FeedDemon in the morning after email, but now Snackr and Netvibes (thanks to Marshall Kirkpatrick's suggestion) let me get the quick hits and news. I glance at FriendFeed via Twhirl as it ticks by just to see what's up. - Tris Hussey via NoiseRiver

Yeah, but I don't necessarily agree that it is Google Reader as much as it's an RSS reader of your choice, with my choice being NetNewsWire. - Andru Edwards

There's something about seeing the full text of an item that makes reading feeds much more satisfying (and more efficient, because here in FF I have to click on interesting headlines and wait for the item to load to read it). - Robert Scoble

Google Reader all the way. - Andrew Ruess

Actually, at this point I prefer SocialMedian - it gives me a fast view w/ summaries - Lucretia Pruitt

What is it about FF that makes it addictive - that (1) people like it (2) but they still think they are using it too much? Maybe other social media startups need to figure out what the FriendFeed-juice is? - Mitchell Tsai

The key to Google Reader is balancing volume with quality. I'd rather follow many feeds that have only a few entries per day than those that have dozens. - Georg

I am using a mixture of FF/Google Reader and Netvibes - riaz

Feedly is quite nice when I can get it to work through my corp proxy. - Greg

Yes, this is why I really like the practice of using the "Share with a note" feature in Google Reader to quote a relevant part from the original content so that it can appear as a summary comment here on FF - Vlado Handziski

I moved all my RSS reads to Feedly. It's foundation is Google Reader, but served up in a magazine format. I can get through it in less than half the time as directly through GR. - Bob Finch

Google reader, for sure. I like FF for the random stuff it throws at me that I can follow up on somewhere else, but I need Google to feel caught up on the things I need. - K Welch

Good lord, Robert -- I never left Google Reader. GR is vastly more efficient for processing news feeds than Friendfeed. With a few tweaks, FF could bring itself up the level of GR, but so far we haven't seen much feedback from FF developers regarding these suggestions. My lead folder in GR is a stream of pure gold with no dross or distracting trivia. - Sean McBride

FriendFeed is more about specific people. Google Reader is more about feeds in general. We all need to balance the specific and the general. - Mike Abundo

Would you rather have a sandwich or a snickers bar for lunch? I love the snickers bar, but most days I will definitely choose the sandwich, if I must choose. - J. Phil

I'm a netvibes man, it enables me to peruse 90+ article titles on one page/tab and I have 7 tabs. The sharing option on Google Reader makes me jealous though. - Toby Graham

For me, FF is good for tech geek stuff, but my GReader is much more science focused so I balance the two probably more in favour of GReader atm - Sally Church

At one time, I tried reading all my feeds through FriendFeed, but quickly returned to Google Reader...they serve different purposes. - Chris Rossini

Feedly is quite nice - LPH

I've never stopped reading in my RSS reader (spoonfeedr.com). FriendFeed is much more manageable there than on their website. - Sam Pullara

I second BSCQ - Martin Liechti via fftogo

Starting to use Feedly rather than GReader - it's perfect, stops me reading so many articles without being boring. I looooove it! - Richard Bradshaw

I find that I read articles on FF that don't show up in Google Reader and everything else in Reader. - Roberto Bonini

Totally. Plus I have full text and robust filing systems. - Steve Rubel via fftogo

Pretty surprised that you even considered ditching a newsreader to begin with. Sure you're feeling ok? - David Chartier

Google reader is my main RSS feed reader. I'm totally addicted. I just added Feedly and now I get recommeded feeds which add another dimension of social news aggregation. - Larry Kless via twhirl

I spend quality time in Google Reader. Try Feedly. It displays your Google subscriptions nicely. - Michael Tefft

Feedly & FriendFeed are the ticket, gReader alone seems like a one sided conversation. - Roger Penguino

Yes. I find myself scanning FF for blog posts. - Andy C

I'm all about the netvibes: www.netvibes.com/kdoohan - Kevin Doohan

I honestly don't know what I did before Reader. It is the best thing out there for me, for sure. Plus I can use it on my phone! - Ann Coleman

I can't stand gReader's inability to start FF-style "conversations" around shared items. And I can't convince my gReader buddies to move over to FF :( - Jake

I've abandoned Google Reader and all RSS Readers at this point. Traditional RSS readers are dead as far as I'm concerned. Social filters are much better at delivering content than RSS readers. Every second spent in an RSS reader is a second spent away from a socially filtered news and information experience. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk: I think that you are right. This is why all RSS readers have evolved towards social filters. Let's not forget that Google Reader invented the concept of shared feeds. - Edwin Khodabakchian

If you subscribe to the right feeds and blogs, you get a better perspective on the topics you care about. That's something that these services can quite do it as good as a feed reader. - Jay Cruz

did You try Feedly? It works with GReader, great! - Luca Conti

Its like reading a newspaper and talking about it. One won't replace the other, so I'm happy with the serious Google Reader _and_ the friendly cosy FF. Thanks to "best of day" I can balance the time spent with both. Not sure I want one app to rule them all :) for now, a mix of GR and FF is quite ok. - Dani Radu

I'll have to give feedly another look, but lately I've been subscribing to my FF RSS feed in gReader, so almost best of both worlds in one - nick carrasco

Hey now that you're reading feeds again, how about doing a shared item feed just for new tech products, or features of tech products, or reviews of tech products, even ones that aren't new. I promise I'll use the feed and give you credit of course. I'm going to ask Marshall to do one too (I bet he already does). - Dave Winer

I jump between the two anyway, I wouldn't abandon one over the other as they both have many plus points!! - Joe Dawson

yes, deep breath. as awesome as friendfeed is, it's not going to replace google reader, it's not going to replace twitter, it's not going to replace _______ . it makes all these services more useful, but you need a starting point. google reader is one of them. - MG Siegler

Google reader, never leave home without it! Friendfeed is definitely not a replacement. I see feeds on my reader that don't make it to the Friendfeed universe. - Alexander van Elsas

Although, I use GR less, I could never do away with it. FriendFeed does help a lot because I find myself marking a lot of stuff read (wish there was an easier way to do that) and being able to move on to to other content. - Shey

None of these services are an either or thing. They joy is in how they all work together. - m.0

can't get enough of Google Reader especially when I can find more exciting, techy blogs in the "Discover" section which I cannot live without. In respects to reading Friendfeed headlines, I don't really see this site as a news site. More as a conversation ABOUT the news! - Josh Chandler

I suffered your pain. Then, as some kind of experiment, I spent some time creating imaginary friends and tweeking feeds and the list of people and rooms I subscribe here. Awsome, now I cannot think about swapping FriendFeed by something else like an RSS reader. I still have to better manage my FF, specially trying to reduce the noise, but this is definitively better than the "old way"... - Marcos Marado via fftogo

I just found 44 items from you on your Google Reader shared items feed. I guess you're back. :) Google Reader allows me to more easily see things from a particular person; if I had to rely on finding them in their FriendFeeds, I'd probably miss them. - Ontario Emperor

Here's my balance: http://friendfeed.com/e/6250a4... - Bwana McCall

I don't know if I feel smarter when reading google's reader, but I feel like I am smart when reading it. - Mike

@Robert start using feedly with Firefox 3. Now that feedly has integrated Friendfeed into their plugin, I'll never leave Google Reader. - Chris Rodgers

yes - rambn

Robert - a combination of http://mionews.com + creating a private room with your RSS feeds in it may get you best of both worlds. Though I know you don't like that mioNews isn't a river-of-news, but we're working on that :) - Patrick Lightbody

I feel the same and I like it even if you did not like me saying thanks to friends saying that they liked my roadmap video - Loic Le Meur

Yes, I'm reading both. I read a lot more than I have time to share, but it helps to have both Google & FF formats available. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I'm using both, but for different purposes. Add Feedly, which is getting some of my casual browsing. - Chris Baskind

I agree but the issue is if I find something there and want to then ind the conversation here about that post I can not easily do so. I can post my own link but it would be nice to find the relevant posts here for any given item in my Google Reader. - Joel Ordesky

I've been wandering away from Reader for a while. See too many headlines that don't interest me. - shelisrael1

I've always felt that Reader did a fantastic job of presenting the content I want to read. - Trevor Carpenter

I tried giving up reader for a day - FF just doesn't replace what an rss reader can provide - Jesse Stay

They serve two totally different functions in my workflow. Google Reader gives me the news from the outlets I value while FriendFeed gives the news (and other stuff) of the people I value (I wouldn't consider all you internet celebs friends, sorry!). FriendFeed complements Google Reader. - Dennis Laumen

Yes. In fact, I read my Friendfeed through GoogleReader. For me, FF is a subset of Google Reader. Just another "Outlet." - Francine Hardaway

FF is great for finding things you may have missed in GReader, but it's no replacement. - Sarah Perez

Adding my 2 cents to the many comments here - I read both - Google Reader is a must for me and I don't see anything replacing it. FF is the conversation for me. - Kevin Cearns

GR is news, FF is conversation. They serve different purposes for me. - brian junyor via twhirl

GR is daily homework, FF is hanging around with friends - Nikos Anagnostou

get the cream from Friendfeed and then go on with gReader - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Absolutely, I get my best ideas from some of the great feeds I subscribe to. I realize too that I tweet and share much less when I don't go through my reader. - Sonciary Honnoll

First of all,FriendFeed & Twitter - Igor Poltavskiy

Friendfeed needs j + k shortcut keys like Google Reader. It'd make scanning through things much easier. - Martin Bryant

binic shared an item on Google Reader

Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards

June 30 at 12:27 am - Link

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Sometimes standards come first, other times modders makes them :) - Dani Radu

i'm looking forward to this as from last Saturday I own a ATI 4850 card - cata b

Oooh, nVidia aren't gonna like that! They get irksome if you try to unlock features on their own cards, so they'll probably break out the big guns for something like this! ;-) - Slippy Lane

ATI users will try everything once :)) then they get nVidia - Dani Radu

Being a linux user, I'm not particularly over-enamoured with either ATI OR nVidia. I'd be happy if either one would just release a set of functional linux drivers for their cards - especially as they seem to be the only two damned graphics chipset manufacturers on the planet </rant> - Slippy Lane

binic shared an item on Google Reader

North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September?

June 30 at 12:27 am - Link

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Santa will... drown!!!!! - Dani Radu

No, but seriously, ouch. - Dani Radu

I've said it before and I'll say it again: meh. - Slippy Lane

binic shared an item on Google Reader

Pi or 2 Pi – that is the question

June 30 at 12:27 am - Link

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OMG No, if 2 Pi then all we ever calculated is ... wrong ? :) And I was almoust to think the world is gonna end because of oil and greed :D - Dani Radu

binic shared an item on Google Reader

iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching

June 30 at 4:11 am - Link

kool - binic

WHEN it works, yes :) - Dani Radu

cata b stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

&&&&&&&THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE&&&&&&&

June 30 at 4:19 am - Link

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Sweet ideea. I would have liked all locations in one single page attached to the same clock, but nontheless - sweet. - Dani Radu

Alina bookmarked a page on del.icio.us

samsung people floating

June 30 at 5:12 am - Link

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I'm thinking 15 years form now. Who's gonna be the first company to install bio visual cognitive eye aparatus that will lifestream for real ? (samsung already have "where is your mind" as a line) - Dani Radu

cinty posted a message on Twitter

“@cefaceana te astept cu sufletul la gura pentru o actiune care are nevoie de energia & energiile tale. iuhuuuuu... cand cand cand?”

June 30 at 6:58 am - Link

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grija mare cu energiile anei, daca n-ai infrastructura solida pt respectiva actiune, o sa se reverse peste tot universul :) - Dani Radu

Mihai Tarmure shared an item on Google Reader

Why Less Is More And How To Unlock the Web

June 30 at 6:31 am - Link

Like Microsoft lost the internet train in the late 90's early 00's, I wonder what other trains are to be lost and what other big corporations will. - Dani Radu

Dani Radu had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Working without distractions is like siting in the bus station and waiting for a bus that its late”

June 30 at 6:57 am - Link

... when its cold, raining, not enough light to read and there is a noise from the nearby <insert noise source here> - Dani Radu

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wicked photographs

June 30 at 6:43 am - Link

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.....and another feed that I'll keep my google reader's eyes on. - Dani Radu

Second Life: Gaby Benkwitz posted a message

“Hmmm - imho the addition of the "World of SL" feed doesn't work for me in this room :-( I liked the room because I'd find postings that other like-minded people found interesting enough to share them here. Now it looks like a random SL news feed (which I have elsewhere). What do you think? ”

June 29 at 6:30 am - Link

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I guess someone could do 'maintenance' on those entries, deleting some and commenting others. - Dani Radu

this is called -self aggregating LOL - Ramesh Ramloll

It doesn't work for me either. - Opensource Obscure

agrt. - Hao Chen

Removed for now (without asking Tao, who enabled it - Tao, feel free to reenable it if you think it's appropriate). - Opensource Obscure

wow that was a quick democratic process in action ;-) now we have to share interesting stuff ourselves again :-D - Gaby Benkwitz

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Dutch relaxed about pot smoking ban - CNN.com

June 28 at 4:56 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Michael Veling, owner of the 4-20 Cafe and a board member of the Cannabis Retailers' Union, said he expected a small decline in sales as smokers are forced to separate their nicotine addiction from their marijuana habit" - Dani Radu via Bookmarklet

To me, it looks just like the end of an era. The tipping point. - Dani Radu

Slippy Lane posted a message

“I would like to be able to create "profiles" on friendfeed - each one subscribed to a different set of users. At the moment, the signal:noise ratio seems to go up disproportionately once you have over about 20 or 30 subscriptions”

June 28 at 2:03 pm - Link

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Agreed. However, I've found using the hide tool to customize/prune each subscription is very helpful. - Jonathon

http://ffapps.com/filters/ - "FriendFeed Filters: Friends & Groups is the first Greasemonkey script in a series of upcoming filters and enhancements - specially-designed for FriendFeed noise-reduction!" - Dani Radu

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I agree the hide tool is useful, but doesn't cover what I need. The list of friendfeed users I regularly monitor is now at about the 100 mark. I would like to be able to sort them into groups of subscriptions so I can see the streams I want in some kind of context. I don't want to just hide noise, I want to sort it. - Slippy Lane

Totally recommended. Personally I find the groups of friends script the best companion to FF, meaning that I freak out when I end up on a browser without it :) - and you're right, above 30 subscriptions things pretty much revolve around "best of day" and a fine selection of some 10 subscriptions or so :P - Dani Radu

@Dani - Greasemonkey scripts don't work in Prism apps. - Slippy Lane

I like your "sorting the noise" concept... - Mitchell Tsai

The more noise control tools the better -- including "profiles" (sounds good). - Sean McBride

just realised I can use the "import feeds into rooms" feature to replicate some of this functionality, although partaking in conversation would require clicking through to the original feed - Slippy Lane

Scratch that last. It's a mess. - Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane posted a message

“A challenge. Find your bitchmeme of choice and link it in the comments on this post....”

June 28 at 1:45 pm - Link

http://friendfeed.com/e/814e0f... but of course, its weekend :) - Dani Radu

http://friendfeed.com/e/a53c22... I think is my favourite - Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane shared an item on Google Reader

Parking Fail

June 28 at 5:02 am - Link

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Anti-theft system WIN! - Slippy Lane

Damn. I keep forgetting NOT to use Google Reader's share button. Note to self, click through and share on friendfeed - that way you can share the image too! - Slippy Lane

I wish the FF bookmarklet would be aware of google reader. Once used, it would share on FF (including the pic/text) _and_ in reader (only the text), while the 'agents' that process ff services would ignore the ff entry and augment the reader one :) or viceversa. - Dani Radu

Dani Radu shared an item on Google Reader

How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos

June 28 at 1:13 pm - Link

http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.h... - both flowgram technology and what's in about facebook's technology is worth watching. I am off facebook since ff, but it's amaising how they serve 400k pics/second at peek. And it's explained there how they do it. Pretty amazing stuff - Dani Radu

Dani Radu shared an item on Google Reader

Google Reader Is Feeling Lucky

June 28 at 1:13 pm - Link

subtle features like this makes a good product better - Dani Radu

Dani Radu shared an item on Google Reader

Wall-E Review: One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies in Years, Disguised as a Cartoon [Movies]

June 28 at 12:45 pm - Link

The inner child is jumping up and down in anticipation for this one :) - Dani Radu

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sprayers

June 27 at 4:54 pm - Link

Interesting read. - Dani Radu

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UniqueDaily.com - Helium Jeans

June 25 at 2:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"What happens when you put baggy jeans, duct tape, and helium together? A bunch of awesomeness, that’s what!" - purple freedom via Bookmarklet

If that would only be possible :) - Dani Radu

Mihai Tarmure shared an item on Google Reader

Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting

June 27 at 3:15 am - Link

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this is the sort of features that photoshop needs - Mihai Tarmure

pretty impressive (i mean come on - paint with cloned collor differences), but I doubt the will make it to photoshop. Unless Adobe buys them :) - Dani Radu

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MyTextFile(editing)

June 27 at 1:30 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Gorgeous use of google engine. 0 social features, but starting now my destkop will be spared from the ocassional "new text document" :) - Dani Radu via Bookmarklet

binic posted a link

When we're going to see the movie?

June 27 at 1:06 am - Link

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Modern heists freak me out :) - Dani Radu

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The Website Is Down

June 25 at 4:38 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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A funny short movie - cata b via Bookmarklet

Its not short, but its amazingly fun. Seriously. For all you people out there that are into making this damn things work (computers) watch this. - Dani Radu

cata b posted a message

“Daca azi-noapte te-a mancat in cur dimineata iti pute degetul (vechi proverb chinezesc) ..”

June 26 at 5:34 am - Link

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. " Confucius - Dani Radu

Dani Radu planned to read a book on Goodreads

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

June 26 at 11:41 am - Link

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it was weird but good. I need to read more Palahniuk - Stefan Hayden

Choke and especially Fight Club are good. I've also heard Palahniuk compared to Max Barry, so you might want to try those as well. - K Welch

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I want to read _Fight Club_, but I'm waiting until the images of Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, etc., fade from my inner eye before I do it. Not that I'm a super purist or anything -- I liked the movie a lot -- but I hate not being able to form my own images of the story... - Kirk Kittell

Don't read Lullaby, just don't. - PauloNuin

His latest stuff hasn't been as great. I recommend Choke and Invisible Monsters - Jay Cruz

I have Fight Club and Rant waiting to be read. @Kirk It's tough to make those two images fade from memory. They were stellar performances. - Lindsey Smith

You know, this is exactly why I love friendfeed. Now I have a fair share of 'what to get' knowhow for my next visit to the book store. :) @Kirk, if you manage to work around the visuals of the movie while reading the book, I will ask for the receipt - Dani Radu

binic posted a message on Twitter

“pygmentize -l tcl file.exp pygmentize -O full,style=manni -o setup.html extr.py”

June 26 at 6:45 am - Link

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You're still having console good fun, arent you. Some people just wont quit :) - Dani Radu

more than ever - binic