This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Yes, it's me, abusing my baby pictures quotient on FriendFeed again. But in case you wanted to get a visual on Sarah's size, here's one item for comparison - the iPod Touch. Also included, Matthew, sleeping next to the iPod Touch, TiVo remote and Blackberry. It's better than using a ruler!"
- Louis Gray
one day these kids are going to say, 'dad used us as props for his gadgets!'...and then there will be blood! lol
- .LAG liked that
@.LAG, then I'll remind them how when we parked in what I thought was acceptable shade outside Babies R Us today, they both went nuts, and I had to extract them from their car seats and walk into the store (using the exit), with the pair held tight to my chest, to commiserate with their mother. I'm sure I was quite the sight. "Hey! Look at that guy! He's in over his head!" (fingers pointing)
- Louis Gray
Hey! Someone should say you - this is really unhealthy!! : (
- Erhan Erdoğan
@Louis - You definitely look in over your head. However, I was that way with only one. Now my children are 21 and 18 and I still remain in over my head. ; )
- Rex Hammock
This made Maryam crack up and say "that's cute!"
- Robert Scoble
@Rex, I look in over my head? Definitely? Where's the proof on that? I disagree. :-)
- Louis Gray
Maybe good idea to get the RF away from the newborns? Just sayin'. Amazing scale comparison pics though Louis. Thanks for sharing. Now get those radio wave emitting devices away from the generation that will hopefully save us all :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I don't believe you all - Robert, Louis, Maryam, all likes, comments - i urgently need a judge for this photos! : ) Your tech love is get out of control!!
- Erhan Erdoğan
now let's see the Touch duke it out with the Blackberry
- Paulo Elias
from twhirl
I'm so going to do this one day when I have one. haha
- Daynah
@Erhan and Brian, 1) They're not sleeping with the gadgets in their cribs (yet) and 2) I am not worried about that nonsense. I might as well unplug the microwave and TV while I'm at it, no?
- Louis Gray
We always left a computer keyboard in our kids cribs as a toy -- they loved it.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
The important thing to remember is that if Louis were forced to choose between his children and his gadgets,,,well, I'm sure the kids would find a good home. (JUST KIDDING!)
- Ontario Emperor
Yeah, I know I know Louis. I'm just waiting for the time I go to the Dr. to get the "news" after having gone through life carrying 3+ mobiles around in my pocket. It's safe to carry 3+ phones + EVDO + Cradlepoint wifi in my pockets right?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
lmao I'm so reporting you for this. Too hilarious
- Corvida
OMG! that's priceless! I <3 it! Put the device on vibrate and see what happens! I bet it would sooth any crankiness. Can you say iTunes visualizer? Better than Baby Einstein. Makes us AND them drool into relaxation. My son has gumdrop iMac in his bedroom specifically for that reason (glorified nightlight). Hey! We have to do what we have to do, right? Why not have some fun with it? Hellz ya!
- Melissa Davis
from twhirl
You know Louis, most parents use a wall and a pencil to show height and growth, you choose electronic equipment, what comes next? comparisons to the wii and ps3? then a macbook, then macbook pro, then dell blade server, where will it end?!!?!?
- Allen Stern
Oh what beautiful little souls! I'm sure they are very precious to you :-).
- Heather Colman
Total weirdness - the cuteness overload causes the pics to show for me even when S3 is down! It might be just my cache, ofcourse, but I like the first theory better :)
- Yuvi
I'll take the electronics when the kids are all grown up. It won't matter to me that the stuff is decades old.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Ok, from one tech geek to another, that has to be the most cute thing I've ever seen. =)
- David Cook
It's February 21, 2009. I'm in the middle of a music search on FriendFeed and found these pictures from July 19, 2008. How time flies...
- Ontario Emperor
Wow, where'd you dredge this up, Haggis?
- Kevin L
Just showed this to Matthew, and he says, "That's Braden!"
- Louis Gray
If it gets more people to wear condoms, I'm all for it.
- xero
Lil Wayne... the man, the myth... the linguist.
- rykos
from twhirl
Lil Wayne also sez: "Gangstas and pimps, Love lobsters and shrimps, Kool-Aid and chicken, Flashy things and women. " - These are a few of his favourite things.
- Johnny
Not gonna lie, the man says some awesome stuff. I hadn't realized 50 was that important as a rapper...HAH. I avoid radio/videos though, so what do I know...
- Rah-PM 2012
Favorite rapper. 2nd best to Jay-Z. He says things that are just...GENIUS! Love him.
- Corvida
So many nuggets of knowledge built into Tha Carter III, Leo. This is one of many, my friend.
- Liz
That's a misquote. It's really: "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex / 'cause you don't want that late text, that "I think I'm late" text"
- Hashim Warren
One for true techies: "I got game like EA, but I wanna let you play."
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
@brian norwood - Leo got the line wrong...Hashim corrected him. It makes plenty of sense and it's promoting safe sex. Not sure why that's worth ignoring?
- Angel Smith
Yeah, I mean. Sometimes I do feel like kicking Wayne in the chest...watch him fall into a bottomless pit...but that's just me :)
- Rah-PM 2012
It's just depressing how much money he'll make from this...
- Brooks Guthrie
from twhirl
ACtUALlY liL WAYNE SAYZ 'SAfE SEX iS GREAt SEX; bETteR WEAR A lAtEX kCAUSE YUh dONT WANt tHAt lATE tEXT tHAT i THiNK iM lATE tEXT !!' dUhh ACtUALlY liSTEN tO thE lYRiCS. ANd YES liL WAYNE iS thE bOMb LiKE tiCk tiCk(=
- Dawny
lmfaooo u don't know what your talkin about. i agree with dawny. that is what he says
- gef
damn if yall gonna make fun at least quote the lyrics correctly......
- tae chills
love leo and love weezy! I wanna hear Leo bust out some lil wayne raps
- Casey Reed
HI to the crew good show HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY 4 TH
- daveccorey
it does make sense "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text." its not laid its late
- Yocelin Martinez
Since so many guys could care less about whether or not they knock some girl up, I'd go with "Safe sex is great sex; better wear a latex; cuz you don't want to kill and infect someone and ruin either their lives or their entire family's you inconsiderate jerkwad."
- Fleagle
Several have requested that we could star/fav posts please? We could then have a starred/faved post feed and could be used for a kinda read it later or track the posts.
well, isn't that was "Like" is for?
- Nathan Chase
Nathan, gosh no I use "Like" for all sorts of things, to share, to bump, to say I like...
- Kol Tregaskes
And I think the starred posts should be private feeds, or there would be no functional distinction between the two.
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan, I'm not worried about it being public or private myself. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol what I mean is, if they're both public, what's the difference between a Like and a Star ? You can un-like stuff, too .. so the only difference is their names ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan, I use like for all sorts of things like I say above. But if I can star something for tracking and for reading later that would be useful.
- Kol Tregaskes
my solution to this problem was to create a private Friendfeed room and reshare items to it that I wanted to look at later. But resharing seems to have vanished from the beta for now.
- Nathan Rein
Nathan, yeah that sounds like a good idea. Reshares are coming soon to the beta.
- Kol Tregaskes
A like is functional in terms of having an impact on ranking of posts ( for want of a better term). A watch should have no effect.
- Roberto Bonini
@Kol, well I guess the issue is there are power users, like some of us - and then there are people who don't get FriendFeed in the first place. To give them the ability to like, star, hide, comment - it's just too many things that involve comprehension and explanation as to why they should do any of it... it's a fine line for FriendFeed - meeting the needs of information junkies AND people that just share with their close friends and family
- Nathan Chase
Nathan, Roberto pointed out that resharing wipes out the comments are it's only a link to the original so you couldn't follow the comments. I guess the currently solution would be selective with your likes.
- Kol Tregaskes
I always use Like becuase I, wait for it, Like the post.
- Roberto Bonini
Earl, people use "like" for all sorts of reasons. I have multiple purposes for likes (for one it shares it to the people that subscribe to me), to have a way to fave a select few to track would be an interesting addition.
- Kol Tregaskes
Roberto, "like" are more features than that, of course (see my comment just above here). :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
You could expand this idea to be able to configure multiple "switches". E.g. switches for "like"/"star"/"track"... This can function as a kind of tagging.
- Meryn Stol
yeah, my solution is only a partial solution - it's a way of bookmarking posts I like, but you'd still have to click through for each one to follow the discussion. Not perfect.
- Nathan Rein
I've been looking into an RSS feed for individual entries. Did there used to be that or a way to do it?
- Araceli
you could potentially do what Gmail does with their "multiple stars" add-on in Labs - where you click the star, and it becomes a checkmark - click again it becomes an exclamation point, etc. - the drawback being that you'd have to choose ONE option ultimately... you're either saving it, liking it, or neither
- Nathan Chase
what about rssmeme? or is there too much crawling involved?
- Aviv
technically with rssmeme you could have the crawl super fast if you add all the google shared feeds to google reader and then have AppEngine hit up Reader (although not sure if urlfetch supports cookies). That should make for an interesting hack
- Aviv
I'm going to look into getting RSSmeme on App Engine next, it's just a "bit" bigger than FriendFeed Stats :P
- Benjamin Golub
Nice! Looks like it went pretty well. Of course, that means all the data is gone now :P
- Brandon Titus
Yes, it's gone, I could import it all if people get really antsy, but it's not like it was running for very long in the first place. People won't even notice after a few weeks.
- Benjamin Golub
trying to search user gets file not found- must be that missing data
- Nathan Eckenrode
I wonder how much keeping the screen size has to do with maintaining the form factor for accessories.
- Mark Krynsky
I'd really like to hear the reasoning on maintaining screen size. Even 3.7" would have been nice.
- Mark Krynsky
Consumer device. 3.5 seems to be right. It's still a phone after all. Plus I would assume most accessories would have to change due to the body type etc.
- Johnny
from iPhone
I want the Krynsky-Worthington phone. Let me know when goes to release.
- Micah
Johnny, a 3.5 might be good for you wee Aussies down there, but here in America, we like our phones over 4 inches.
- Louis Gray
Mind you, I haven't seen the keynote yet and waiting a few hours until it's avaiable :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
I've got some sausage fingers and have trouble typing on the 3.5" iPhone screen. I'm guessing typing on a 3.7 or 4.3 is gonna be a beautiful thing.
- Mark Krynsky
Louis, I think Johnny's trying to say that things are a little crowded in there already.
- Kevin Fox
I've been thinking about it for a few weeks and I wonder do I need (not discounting WANT) a bigger/faster/rainbow pooping device? I have wanted a tablet/touch style computer for the past 9 years ever since I started mucking around with them. Now I can get that with things like the iPad and coming Andriod tablets, I kinda just want my phone to be a phone again. It doesn't have to do everything, just enough to get me by...
- Johnny
You guys got Google I/O, I get my Keynote...
- Johnny
I don't feel the same as you...I currently have a 3G and want and would use all the functionality in the new phones. One of my biggest gripes is the current browser experience on my 3G is a pain where I pinch and zoom all the time and feel a higher rez / larger screen will really alleviate that issue. I also want a better camera with flash and video. So I'm definitely upgrading, just...
more...
- Mark Krynsky
For a cellphone 3.5 is more then enough. I don't want a big device in my pocket.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Trust me, as a 3G owner myself, I'm upgrading on the 28th... But I could take it or leave it... I'm getting old I think :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Well Johnny based on your current state of really only wanting a phone...you would most definitely NOT get an iPhone in the US since AT&T sucks balls here and using it for actual calls are it's biggest problem here.
- Mark Krynsky
AT&T isn't that bad. Yes, I've had dropped calls. But, at least in my area and the places I've traveled, it isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Yeah, that's crazy. Here in Oz that's not a problem.
- Johnny
from iPhone
You're the exception Mathew...LA and SF and most metro areas are terrible.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, I live about ten miles away from you and I can't remember the last time I had a dropped call with AT&T. Of course, I'm not a big phone talker, so maybe it's just a matter of percentages. But I've really never had an issue.
- Jandy
Jandy...I have plenty of issues specifically in my house. When you have a location you often frequent and experience issues there it becomes a major drawback. I also don't feel the 3G data speeds are very good and often have connectivity probs that folks who use Verizon or Sprint don't seem to have as much.
- Mark Krynsky
I like the smaller form-factor, personally. The smaller the better. I have my iPad if I want bigger.
- Jesse Stay
Actually, if I had my way I wouldn't even have a phone at all. There would be an implant in my ear that answered calls and surfed the internet. My iPad would just be my interface. Or wait, little contacts in my eyes would do that for me and it would all recognize my speech.
- Jesse Stay
I totally respect people's opinions and both the iPhone and Android platforms are great. I'm just pointing out the things that I have a problem with on the iPhone 4 as a current 3G owner deciding whether to upgrade or go to Android. I value everybody's opinions as ultimately we all uncover things that help us make decisions. yes this comment was triggered by reading Derrick's post from earlier today.
- Mark Krynsky
Which post by Derrick? I am on the fence as well but I am still leaning towards Android.
- Amani
I don't have the pocket space for a bigger phone. Maybe it is because I don't have giant fingers but this size is fine with me. I'm pretty stoked for the new phone.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
from iPhone
Didn't apple make the screen 'smaller'?
- Wayne Andersen
"Want to know what was not found within the GM release candidate of iOS 4? Patched vulnerabilities which make jailbreaking an iPhone painfully simple. msftguy, a man known as a bit of a fixer-upper in the jailbreaking scene, has released a custom bundle for PwnageTool that allows anyone to jailbreak their iPhone 3Gs with the iOS 4 GM candidate. What’s more, the jailbreak preserves the baseband so it’s possible to unlock your iPhone right after freeing it from Apple’s shackles. If you’ve got an iPhone 3GS and have a means of getting the GM release candidate — not to mention know exactly what you’re doing — jump the bump and hit up the read file. For everyone else, we’ve got a short and sweet YouTube video of the jailbreak in action. Awww."
- The Real sofarsoShawn
It's so funny how we started off dancing and singing together and then split off in diff directions. I'm hoping he starts getting some better ggs now that he's with block. Maybe you'll catch him on TV :)
- Rah-PM 2012
I agree. And the themes have improved alot since I last jailbroke my iPhone.
- Fox
Great app and review!! You da man Patrick! ;o)
- Ron Thompson
Ha - thanks Ron. This one really is an outstanding app - one of those 'never give up your jailbreak' types :)
- Patrick Jordan
I'd like to note that ProSwitcher was a memory hog on my iPhone 3G. Not sure how it works on the 3GS but this app ate up a lot of memory. Previously I tried Multifl0w, didn't notice a memory issue with that so I might return to it. Haven't done so yet because I want to try out Kirikae first.
- Corvida
If you like these apps you should also check out Backgrounder, Orbit (Expose-ish) app, and SnowCover
- Corvida
This one relies on Backgrounder for enabling the background-running of apps. All the app switchers I've seen so far rely on Backgrounder for that part.
- Patrick Jordan
It seems more and more that the JB community has some great apps/ hacks for these devices... Slowly but surely some of these are making it into the Apple's sanctioned "app store" Video on 2G and 3G's...? What's next? "Backgrounder, ProSwitcher" Only time will tell? I hate to think 'the Android invasion" has anything to do with the sudden "openness" from the app store?
- Ron Thompson
Yup - I think for some time now - ever since back in 1.x firmware days really - a lot of innovation and improvements are driven by the great work of jailbreak devs. I guess this is far from shocking, since Apple ties things down so tight on the App Store side (though it's loosening a fair bit lately). Even something as simple as search within Contacts was done on the jailbreak side a good year before we ever got it within the 'legit' app.
- Patrick Jordan
And normal people do this kind of stuff over on Facebook (I watch my wife talk to her elementary school friends there).
- Robert Scoble
While the "pros" have figured out you can't get paid for doing work online here or on Twitter, so they just put links to their blogs.
- Robert Scoble
"I think we're just tired of all online socializing" I do it every minute of everyday on FriendFeed.
- Johnny
Johnny: the world isn't like you and me. And, anyway, even though you and I do it here, most normal people do it on Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
Most normal people do it on email. Facebook is still a distant 2nd.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Most plans and communication is still happening over SMS and phone calls. I understand I'm not normal. I sat around a table with 9 people last week. Everyone had a computer, 4 had an iPhone, no one knew what Android was, 7 had a Facebook account, 3 had a Twitter account (2 only tweeted less than 5 times) and everyone knew of FriendFeed because of me doing the podcast. We're niche.
- Johnny
from iPhone
The elite players are having secret walled off conversations in Google Reader.
- Louis Gray
Louis: exactly why Google Reader is dead. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert you're awesome for starting this thread. As for your first comment, I'd have to disagree because we're no longer socializing. We're marketing and the shit is about to hit the fan. I can just feel it coming down my Twitter stream.
- Corvida
The (read: my) problem is that with Facebook it's too intimate. People wouldn't understand the things I talk about at home and on a personal level because it's usually race related and people of a different race would feel some sort of way about engaging in such a conversation. Either way, that's not what I want to talk about online.
- Corvida
I want to go back to talking and sharing the topics we're all interested in. I want to go back to discussing the cool little gems we find around the web. I don't want to just review them. I want to DISCUSS them. We used to do that a long time ago. Myself, Louis, Steven Hodson, Jeff, Rahsheen, Sarah Perez, Shey, Frederic and a host of other people. We DISCUSSED Friendfeed. We DISCUSSED Twitter. We DISCUSSED RSSmeme which half the world no longer knows or cares about....
- Corvida
We discussed everything topic related and we loved it. We built our own hype instead of getting sucked into major blogs and what the rest of the kool-aid drinking web was saying. WE did that and it felt good. It felt like a community. Now, I really do feel like I'm screaming in a crowded room...and no one really gives a fuck.
- Corvida
Johnny, we're niche, but not invisible. I want to have conversations with people who have related interest. I don't want to talk about dogs, cats, what your kids did. Fuck that, I hate kids, dogs, and (usually) cats. I want good tech conversations 24/7. That's what the old days used to be like. That's the FriendFeed and Twitter I remember instead of all this marketing BS
- Corvida
This thread remember me the reason why I've started following Robert Scoble or Corvida: not because they were famous or glamour or something like that but because they were able to create deep and brilliant conversations...
- maxilprof
Hrm. I think I have to agree with Corvida here. I was attracted to this whole thing by learning about Twitter on her blog, which led me on a journey to becoming a writer for BlackWeb 2.0. Everything has definitely taken a marketing turn that is kinda disturbing. Even those in the field that are not really marketers still have a marketing approach to it all. Twitter, for instance, is mostly a link farm. I think this is part of the reason I got hooked on FF. People were actually discussing stuff here.
- Rah-PM 2012
Patrik: yes, San Francisco is often two to five years ahead of the rest of the world. For fun I just checked into Feedly again. ALL I saw was stuff I've already seen on Twitter. So, for me (and anyone who cares about the tech industry) Google Reader is showing dramatically less utility than it did a year ago, especially if you've put any time into organizing feeds into lists over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Rahsheen: funny, I tried to get the rest of the industry over here and failed. Why? Most people don't want to have conversations. Tim O'Reilly, for instance, told me he doesn't have time for that.
- Robert Scoble
I agree Rahsheen. The discussions is what got us going on FriendFeed. Too hard to do them on Twitter. How do we get back to those days people?
- Corvida
But isn't all that discussion just speculation until you get a critical mass and some time behind it? I love what Facebook and Twitter have done for me, but feel a great deal of fatigue after only a couple of years. Talking to people IRL is very attractive these days. We've gotten ahead of ourselves.
- John Kress
John: exactly. Plus, now that blogs have real time conversations thanks to Disqus and Echo we can pimp a URL and have conversations over there.
- Robert Scoble
I remember that, Robert. You used to link FF convo's on Twitter a lot. While you're probably correct that some of the big wigs don't have the time or desire to talk, there are still those of us that enjoy discussion. Am I going to notice that people like Tim aren't present? Absolutely not. Just like I don't expect P. Diddy to take the time out to chat with me when I want to discuss the music industry.
- Rah-PM 2012
Rahsheen: funny, P Diddy is probably over at MySpace having conversations with his fans. I know a lot of musical groups do that. Why there? Because there's money there. Fans buy music.
- Robert Scoble
Patrik: yeah, eventually you'll see that Twitter takes over the world. Even in France most of the entrepreneurs were on Twitter and the media was talking about it a lot.
- Robert Scoble
Rahsheen: the reason I don't link to FF much anymore is because I can have real time conversations back on my blog now. A year ago I couldn't.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: So when does the big backlash come, and what does it look like? (Online vs real life)?
- John Kress
John: a good percentage of divorces are already mentioning Facebook. How do you know the backlash isn't underway?
- Robert Scoble
Corvida, I don't think there is any turning back. Ashton, Oprah, Brittany, and all their minions have invaded the space. Eben Pagan, Mike Dillard, Steve Kern and the like have all discovered social media and are making money off of it. I think it's a lost cause in that regard...
- Rah-PM 2012
Corvida: those conversations have moved over to blogs like those from Louis Gray and Jesse Stay for the large part.
- Robert Scoble
Hrm...I guess most bloggers should be happy about that. There was a time when comment fragmentation and losing the discussion was a serious concern. I wonder what everyone thinks about that now.
- Rah-PM 2012
Robert: I think the backlash is underway. But, naturally, the whip has a long tail.
- John Kress
Robert: Or a short head in this case.
- John Kress
lol @John. Rahsheen we're happy, but that doesn't mean we didn't adjust to the way things have been for the past 2 years before Disqus and real-time web stuff. Twitter WAS the only real-time web, besides FriendFeed, last year. I like that they've moved back to blogs, but I don't talk about every tech topic that comes to mind on my blog. I like the random tech convo's across the web, where either you're there to participate in the convo or you're not.
- Corvida
True, I can't say that I've caught most of the convo going on on blogs. I have definitely become used to the blogs being discussed on places other than the blog itself. Maybe I need to change my strategy...again.
- Rah-PM 2012
Rahsheen: Exactly! Plus, I don't want to crowd my blog with too many discussions in one day.
- Corvida
I'd settle for the days of acknowledging one another.
- Kelli Schmith
I don't have conversations on Facebook and I am normal! (as I am not a professional, just a retired Granny) TBH I hate Facebook! Only on there because family asked me to be on there. I'd rather have a conversation on here or a live chat facility. Its better to discuss things on here or in comments on your blogs. I love blogging
- Technogran
Robert: you are a couple of years ahead. But you also have a different behavior when it comes to news consumption: we are building feedly for people who have the time to check their favorite websites, topics, brands one or two times a day and want to do it through something that looks like their own personalized magazine. Regarding this discussion I agree that the internet has lost a little bit of something since most people moved to twitter and the conversations on friendfeed dried up.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Yeah. LOL. I just made it official, like in the Thriller video...except that I didn't turn into a werewolf and chase her through the woods....
- Rah-PM 2012
Not fair that the lady gets to wear a fancy ring before we even do the church thing. What's the point of being engaged if you can't flaunt it? LOL. Thanks everyone :)
- Rah-PM 2012
Congratulations, Rahsheen! I had a similar thought for Harold when he gave me my ring: "Gee, kind of unfair the guy doesn't get to wear something too until the wedding."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Of course that message could also go to Facebook: "Hey Mark, want inclusion in our Social Search? Approve Facebook in Friend Connect." :-)
- Jesse Stay
Sigh. You guys are really making me want an Android device now.
- Corvida
Isn't it Steve Jobs and Apple who's making you want an Android device?
- Andy Bakun
It really bugged me that cellphones are a zero-sum device. If I want an Android 2.0 device I need to give up my iPhone. Then I remembered the iPod Touch (or an iPhone without a sim card that's nearly the same thing) and I realized that maybe I can have it all...
- Kevin Fox
And maybe some people just want a cool phone... The needs of the many outweight the geeks of the few
- Johnny
from iPhone
Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl