Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
aahahahahahahah. its very funny. i love the hat. iam new to friendfeed. could u please suggest friends for me. This is my link jolamps.blogspot.com
- KINGSLEY OSEVWE
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.
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@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Hao, this is awesome! Remember how people were saying in the FF Feedback room, how they'd like services to be linked, but not important the feeds? THIS is the temp. solution. WOW. Are you going to implement a way to filter individually?
- Mona Nomura
It doesn't actually do that, Mona. If your account is in Friendfeed, it goes into your feed. Hao Chen is merely making it easier to get the URLs from FriendFeed.
- Mark Trapp
Looks great. I guess I'll have to look into Social Graph API a bit deeper. It's so much faster than FF API for network data.
- Benedikt Koehler
Oops, I meant UN-LINK services so it'll stop pulling into their feed BUT still enable their friends to link to their respective accounts. Thank you for catching that, Mark.
- Mona Nomura
It should be possible to use the Social Graph API to find services that are not imported into Friendfeed as well as friends' services not on FF. It's a bit tricky because it requires a lot of separate requests. Right now, it's only using the SG API to find your subscriptions across the services you import on FF.
- Hao Chen
Thanks, just don't look at the source code. LOL
- Hao Chen
Hao, this is awesome, this is going to save me so much time! Thanks!
- Shey
Very cool. However, my tiny brain is not grokking " Remove Connections Already Subscribed To". Please to explain.
- Laura Norvig
Laura, it's not very accurate, but it's supposed to remove links to people's accounts on the other networks you already subscribe to. For example, if I already subscribe to Bob on Twitter, it might remove the link to Bob's Twitter page in the big list.
- Hao Chen
very kool Hao....Im finding my fellow FF on other services!
- (jeff)isageek
Hao, this is very cool; I just used it to great success friending last.fm users.
- Pete D
Hao, since I am the lone step child, any idea why it would not work for me. I typed in my ID, nothing happens, no spinning wheel indicating it is thinking. Just looks at my sad face....LOL.
- R. Ferguson
Hoa - This is great. Can you add Blip.fm?
- Russellreno
this is so awesome Hao - great job!!!!!!!! look out for random add notifications from me :)
- Morgan
How does that work?I type in some user name in it,nothing happen...
- Steve Chou
Steve, what browser are you using? Any JavaScript errors?
- Hao Chen
Glad to hear you guys are finding uses for it. @Russell Right now, the list of services it displays is the list of services being imported by people's FF accounts, and since Blip.fm isn't a supported service yet, I can't add that in easily. I'll think about how to use the Social Graph API more effectively to do those things though.
- Hao Chen
This is just excellent, not wholly accurate like you say but brilliant. Now all I need is to add more contacts on FF ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Never seems to work for my own username.
- Andrew Trinh
Thanks, guys. :) Andrew, ah, looks like Social Graph doesn't see your FF subscriptions for some reason. http://socialgraph-resources.g... I'll re-code this using the Friendfeed API to get your subscriptions later.
- Hao Chen
Very cool Hao! I like seeing which less-common services people actually use. My list (and top 25 services) is http://friendfeed.com/e... Does your system count me twice for YouTube because I have 2 YouTubes? (seems like it might, from the Blog counts).
- Mitchell Tsai
It's not working for me either when I input my username.
- Steve Lowe
Ditto steplow. Looks like it should be awesome but sadly it's drawing a blank for my username. :(
- David Young
I agree; JSON is barely human readable.
- Roger Jennings
But on huge sites, JSON may make sense from a price & performance perspective.
- Jim McCusker
why use xml? and more generally what type of API?
- Rob Diana
How 'bout you provide options so developers can use what's appropriate for their application?
- Ken Sheppardson
If you are doing an API that will be accessed from a browser use JSON. XML is the wrong answer. But most people ought to just offer both. It is trivial to offer your API in several formats.
- Sam Pullara
XML isn't supposed to read by humans, it's supposed to read y machines. But I like Same Pullara's point. Returning data in various types isn't that difficult.
- Chris Jones
XML is more generic, but really its only presentation - make it as easy as possible for people to use by offering the output it in multiple formats (RSS, XML, ATOM,...).
- martin english
JSON please. But really it's pretty trivial to do both
- Benjamin Golub
from fftogo
agreed. XML is universal and has things like XSL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery that you can use with it. JSON has no such ecosystem, just a quick and dirty way to parse a string. XML is more than a string. Plus, JSON has no way to validate it, as far as I remember.
- Eric Marden
I like JSON better. It's faster and easier to parse IMO.
- Winston Teo
If you intend your API to be consumed by a browser then please provide it in JSON. Its just so much easier and faster than having to parse XML. And JSON being barely human readable? Um, isn't that why we have computers now? And wow, do I remember the fuss that was made over XML back in the early 90's how that wasn't human readable. We got computers to read it for us as well.
- Troy Forster
from feedalizr
As several people have pointed out the best ideal is support multiple formats. JSON works best if your API is being consumed by a browser or similar platform where javascript is the language. If you're building a desktop app in something like .NET then the native tools to de/serialize XML are fantastic. RSS and Atom are XML with specific DTDs and there are tons of libraries optimized for these formats.
- Troy Forster
Dave, has your opinion on this changed now that you have a JSON parser?
- Original Flavor
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks)
- directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway.
- Bret Taylor
RG, I know you're really aiming for the wiseass response from Rene, but keep in mind, I *am* a capitalist...always have been. I just happen to adhere to the principles of capitalism circa 1880, when it really was still an ideal, not a corporate bastardization. *sweet smile*
- Prosey BUTTONS!
Thanks y'all! @Mo: it's the most stone I could find (3 sides stone!) without going broke. @RG: fish gotta swim ..
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Also, as a socialist, I am doing my part to invest in the economy, to make the capitalist boat that was ran aground by greedy capitalists, afloat again *grin* ( I heart Keynes :P)
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I will have to tell my kids about the anime garage doors; they will appreciate that. I chose to be close to the power lines to maybe get enough energy from them to get through all this :-)
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Wow, seems like quite a few people like our new house. How many of them are gonna come by with trucks & boxes and help us move...? *hint!*
- Prosey BUTTONS!
Hold on a minute, I'm sure they'd expect us to water & feed them ... :P
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Well sure...food and drink AFTER the last box is unpacked and everything is done...including wall hangings and curtains. We'll call dinner & beverages an "incentive" ... :D
- Prosey BUTTONS!
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (30)
- Thomas Power
That was interesting. I'm logged into a business account. I hadn't realized there were some impressive people following that FF account. Connections are 0, 34 & 4 for that account.
- Anika
Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (1049) such as Twitter and FriendFeed
- Thomas Power
Secondary connections (3891) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Thomas Power
It seems to be filling in over the weeks. I only had a handful when I checked a while ago: Direct connections ... (50) Direct connections from links ... (291) Secondary connections (3578)
- Matt M (inactive)
26 direct, 461 from links, and 3051 secondary
- Bryan R. Adams
It only shows 2 direct connections and no secondary or linked connections for me, which is weirdly low considering that account has a big address book. It's probably a result of not using their social services beyond email.
- John (bird whisperer)
On my faboomama account : Direct (6), From links (550) & Secondary connections (2203)
- Anika
35 direct connections, 71 connections from links and 3000 secondary connections
- Chris Myles
Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (3) Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (249) such as Twitter and FriendFeed Secondary connections (1489) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Roberto Bonini
Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (10), Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (0) such as Twitter and FriendFeed, Secondary connections (2255) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Allen Stern
Direct connections and Google chat buddies and contacts (39) - Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (691) - Secondary connections (2884)
- Chris Loft
Direct connections from Google Chat and Contacts (7), Direct connections from services listed on Google profile (1103), Secondary connections (2061) (Note: info inflated by a spammer hiding in my contacts list. Corrected stats posted somewhere below)
- April
* Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (30) * Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (1049) such as Twitter and FriendFeed * Secondary connections (3891) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Thomas Power
Direct = 11, Direct from Google Profile = 116, Secondary Connections = 2969
- Wang Yip
# Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (15) # Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (0) such as Twitter and FriendFeed # Secondary connections (3116) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
so what do the 3 numbers tell us about our "connectedness" LG?
- Thomas Power
My Google Social Circle is polluted with a major turd. For some reason they are including some spamming splogger as a direct contact from chat & contacts, and I don't have him in my address book or anywhere else, and have blocked him on most social networks. Of course that means I have a ton of crap related to him as secondary contacts. In order to remove him, I have to figure out where...
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- April
No, it's this guy: http://www.google.com/profile... He's the one I outed awhile back for stealing articles from the blogs of people he follows on friendfeed.
- April
I found him & deleted him. Sneaky bastard contacted me by email, from my blog, using the name of one of his websites instead of his real name. I couldn't find him under his name in my contacts to remove him. But a search on all mail turned up the one he sent me asking me how much I would charge to do some custom template work for him. From that, I was able to locate him in my contacts...
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- April
Wow he sure had a lot of Blogger blogs. Yikes!!
- Chris Myles
Direct = 14, Direct from Google Profile = 213, Secondary Connections = 3314
- Harold Cabezas
Direct = 39. Direct from Google Profile = 947. Secondary connections = 2,784.
- Hutch Carpenter
Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (2325) such as Twitter and FriendFeed. Secondary connections (2934) that are publicly associated with your direct connections.
- Kol Tregaskes
Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (25) Direct connections from links listed on your Google profile (782) such as Twitter and FriendFeed Secondary connections (2887) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
- Mike Fruchter
You can use a filter in Gmail to mute this, I have done that alreay.
- Steve Chou
Steve, yes, which is why I use Gmail and not mail.app
- Jesse Stay
When you made a filter, it won't show up on the mail app anymore.
- Steve Chou
Steve, but then I have to use 2 applications. I just want to use one. With Gmail I simply press "mute this conversation" on the iphone and it's gone.
- Jesse Stay
Google would replace my phone and SMS apps if Voice was available in Europe and mail if Gmail could send iPhone photos (as far as I know, it can't).
- Jérôme
from iPhone
I tried it but the Google Voice web app still leaves much to be desired through no fault of Google whatsoever. I need alerts and badges but you can't do those with a web app. You can get around that by using SMS and email to alert you but then you have moved off of the Google Voice web app and onto native apps. When you check your SMS messages in the app they don't come from the contact...
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- Benjamin Golub
Also Google Voice and mobile-to-mobile minutes don't play nice. Again, not Google's fault, but it's holding me back.
- Benjamin Golub
One of the points here against web apps is response. You won't get calls coming in on your phone via a web app. You can only make calls. Secondly, I don't think people will be willing to pay for web apps. It will destroy the income base of developers, unless you do a 37 signals... but would you pay? I'm worried about the limits here. Ideas anyone?
- DC Crowley
The Voice and Gmail webapps don't do the trick for me. They're too slow and unresponsive. I use GVMobile and mail.app instead, because they're just faster and easier. Also, using Google Sync to give me push notification of email is a major thing that I couldn't give up easily.
- Otto
DC Crowley: Google Voice routes incoming calls just fine, so not sure what you're talking about there.
- Otto
The hacks that Google Voice needs to use to leverage the iPhone system are a dealbreaker. It calls a random number to connect a call placed through the web app, so call history is useless on the iPhone. Calls are received through the iPhone's native app, so I have to use two different apps to accomplish one task anyway. That's lame: it's like having a land line to receive calls and a...
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- Mark Trapp
Yes, the webapp's calling functionality is quite annoying. GVMobile does it better with the call-back mechanism. You place the call, you instantly receive a call that appears to be from the person you are calling. You answer, then it starts ringing the other end of the connection. Every call appears like a received call in the history, but that's relatively minor and easy to deal with.
- Otto
Thanks Josh. We were just taking about doing invitations yourself to save money. I'm still proud of this one so I had to post it. I also need to post the baby shower invite I recently made sometime today.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Awesome! Love the playfulness, execution, all of it.
- SAM
Here is the place we got the magnet paper we printed on. The place is called Magnet Valley: http://www.magnetvalley.com/index... At the time we did research and ordered sample sheets from them and a few others and picked what we liked and from them the thickness we liked. We went with the 20mil thickness.The print quality was really...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
SWEET! and so much about YOUR life as fantasy - not trying to live someone else's fantasy - OK that got a whole lot heavier than I intended :-p
- Robyn Hawk
Before I got "I Don't Know", I was actually thinking about Integrated Development Kit. It was like I was creating a cross between IDE(Integrated Development Kit) and SDK(software development kit) in my mind.
- Magnus
Ah, that takes me way back to when I worked in survey research software. DK was more or less an official abbreviation in that industry.
- sjjh
Friendfeed has far juicer discussions, debates, and examples of 'civil discource' compared to the rapid fire trading of information in twitter, or 'longer form' content of blogs. The Three bears: "aaaah just right"
Well, one must admit threads can get long & tedious. And trolls are sometimes a problem, but, totally agree w/juicier discussion! ;-)
- Barbara K. Baker
My old strategy have been: longtailing (often gets commentary months after a post and it can re-ignite the discussion) = blogs, noteblocking (commentaries less but is somewhat a way to discus bout an topic that isn't mine but something I have found)=tumblr and shorthand-firing it up (discussion heaten up but dies after an hour or a day and never is shown again) =Jaiku. But after this weekend with Jaiku down Friendfeed is a beacon and I haven't missed Jaiku.
- Niclas Strandh
Glen: FriendFeed is cool because every post can become a discussion spot. The down side is 1,000,000s of "spots" which never get much discussion. It does suck that until you reach some critical-awareness (or "group" of followers) that no one comments or likes your posts unless you get a FofF effect from someone liking/commenting your item. I don't think it's on purpose. Just no one here can follow everything... Join active threads/spots and post good stuff...eventually people may discover you.
- Mitchell Tsai
@Glen Campbell (glenc): I have hope that the more I respond (intelligently, which admittedly is a stretch for me) to the posts of others, the more my own posts will receive responses. I know that I need to do better than I have been doing with my own posts. I can't say I know the experiences of others.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
from NoiseRiver
"eventually people may discover you" - this is a little like the web in general, isn't it? If you want to hurry along the process then doing what @MiniMage suggests is good advice @Glen Campbell.
- TDavid
agree. that's why I have Friendfeed plugin for my WP. getting the best of (hyper)streaming ;)
- ~C4Chaos
"Regarding the Apple invite, and just throwing this out there: what if it’s called “Canvas”? Even without considering the invitation design, I love this name. It looks good, it sounds good, and it evokes the right feelings and ideas: thin, light, clean, crisp, blank, the thing great artwork is made upon. It’s a perfect name."
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Great thought. Or what about Palette? I don't like the trend they're going with the "iEverything" names. Names like that would go well with their announcement advertising.
- Jesse Stay
Good possibility and double meaning could come from the fact that Flash cannot be installed and you need to use HTML5 Canvas.
- Andrew Smith
Canvas is better than Palette, IMO. A canvas is what you paint on. A palette is what you paint with. Plus, palette reminds me of the wooden things that are used for shipping cargo. Here's another thought: what if they went with another famous creative person (a la Newton) and called it something like the Rembrandt? Errrr, never mind...
- The original Kevin
"The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability. Shadows behind windows help us see which window is active. The physicality of the iPhone’s user interface makes the device more natural to use."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
short, interesting and applicable. thanks for sharing
- Alan Le
We were talking about this a few months ago. Especially in how games or websites can get a thumbs down quickly because of lack of "realism".
- Anika
@Anika - WRT games, McCloud's bit on 'masking' might be applicable. (It's in Understanding Comics, talking about how comics like Cerebus or certain manga have very cartoony characters but realistic worlds and objects.)
- Andrew C (✓)
"Protecting your MacBook is a top priority and it’s job one for BookBook. Slip your Mac inside the velvety soft, padded interior. Zip it closed and your baby is nestled between two tough, rigid leather hardback covers for a solid level of impact absorbing protection. The rigid spine serves as crush protection for an additional line of defense. BookBook creates a hardback book structure that safeguards your MacBook like few other cases can. Far better than any floppy neoprene bag ever will. End of story."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet