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Darn. Deposited a check and now I'm right next to Texadelphia.
Cheesesteak!
- Cara Choate
from iPhone
oh yeah
- Aaron Choate
I was thinking about settings up a private group on FF for the people I work with. I think it would be better than sending tons of emails back and forth, and a great place to collaborate. Has anyone done this? How is it going?
Friendfeed's Francisco, Arvin Dang, Jeroen De Miranda and 14 other people liked this
It would be excellent if you could get people to join and then actually use it.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
We are doing this, it works... But you need to reach a "critical mass". The contributors/readers ratio is approx. 1/10.
- PiccoloImprenditore
There are only 3 of us (including myself) so it shouldn't be too hard to get them to join. I just wanted to see if anyone else has been doing this.
- Shawn Hickman
piccolo, how many people are currently in your group?
- Shawn Hickman
Check out Socialcast - TechCrunch talked about them yesterday - the "FriendFeed for business" http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Mike Bracco
Mike, I was actually just looking at them. Seems pretty cool. I was trying to make FF my central hub for as many things as possible, so I will see how that goes.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn - gotcha :) Yeah FF is becoming my central hub these days too. It's nice to have a service that can integrate with everything else like FF does. It definitely beats having to go to a bunch of different places on the web.
- Mike Bracco
I just need FF to integrate into a client like Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck so I can have the trifecta of FB/Twitter/FF in one place.
- Mike Bracco
That's what I am waiting for too. I would love to have nothing but FF open in my browser all day. I wonder how Google Wave will affect this.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn, we are 10 + many freelance consultants, depending on the project. What I'm really missing now is a way to "open" single threads to externals (customers). Looks like Google Wave might be more effective for this - that would be a problem because I love FF.
- PiccoloImprenditore
Use "YAMMER" http://www.yammer.com/ or Socialcast.
- Alp
piccolo, thanks for the info. It is going to be interesting to see how FF reacts to Google Wave.
- Shawn Hickman
Alp, thanks. I am looking into both. Do you use any of them?
- Shawn Hickman
Yammer is great. We use it for a team of 6 and it's perfect. I even have it set up to come to my SMS so I am reachable when I'm out of the office.
- Ward Seward
We use Yammer as well, and it works reasonably well for us (w/o the 140 char limit). Yet to figure to SMS it, as most of our use is asynch and not time critical.
- K Srikrishna
Mike B: twhirl supports twitter and friendfeed, still lacks facebook though
- Mike Chelen
We have been playing with this in the group that I work with and it does have some use. We have found that some things like task assignments seem to still work best in email. We do find it useful to have short conversations about new sites that we have found and about designs that we are working on. There have been instances deep within a 'discussion' where we really wish we had some threading features.
- Aaron Choate
from Nambu
I do believe FF could become a very efficient collaboration platform for business, but there are only few known success stories. If it worked for you, please tell us how and why http://friendfeed.com/friendf....
- Jérôme
Opinions wanted (because I'm too lazy to go do the comparison myself): what's your favorite site for maintaining your photos? Not necessarily looking for a professional solution because I'm just not that good, but would like something that has good embeddable widget. Anything other than the usual suspects?
Kol Tregaskes, edythe, Jeff P. Henderson and 20 other people liked this
I'm using myphotoalbum.com http://thewallens.myphotoalbum.com/albums...
- G Dub of the Carolinas
I'll stick probably to Picasa in the future, because of integration on our phone :) Plus, I expect that Google will do a one-for-all storage for pics, mail, etc... and I'll have that for everything else. If you aren't afraid of the big G, I think their storage will be the way to go.
- Tim Hoeck
problem with the Picasa is the piddly storage and the cost for extra is high compared to other choices. Myphotoalbum is 20 a year for unlimited storage.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
have you thought of smugmug?
- Ryan Gerritsen
I host most of my photos using Gallery and also use Picasa for a subset of photo albums from my Gallery collection. I also post a selection on Flickr. I have a number of friends that use smugmug and seem to like the service.
- Imabug
Well, integration with the G1 isn't be a make-or-break for me since most of my G1 photos get mailed into FF and then deleted, so those photos would already appear on the site via a FF embed. This is mainly for photos from the DSLR. I've definitely thought about SmugMug but am leery of the pay-only option when so many others offer a paid upgrade (essentially, a try before you buy).
- FFing Enigma
Follow-up question: do any of the sites recommended (or not yet recommended) offer a mail-in option? I'd love to be able to email in a zip file and have it uploaded to the site for me (perhaps wishful thinking).
- FFing Enigma
I use smugmug and like it very much
- J.D. Deutschendorf
myphotoalbum does via email or mms.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Is that for all options, Gunny, or only the paid option?
- FFing Enigma
Not sure /off to investigate
- G Dub of the Carolinas
looks like the free account has the email upload option too.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Thanks for checking, Gunny =)
- FFing Enigma
Posterous is completely free and lets you email images.
- Vezquex
I like prefer Picasa because the software is freaking awesome.. it will auto-sync to your picasa account (if you prefer).. it also has upload via email (I don't think zip format .. unsure)... by the way, I am not "disagreeing" with Gunny... I haven't heard of myphotoalbum (maybe its a big site) .. but I prefer to stick with someone I know will be around for the long haul, especially for...
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- Tim Hoeck
I've used Flickr before and personally am not a fan: their uploader takes forever. And like I said, this isn't for photos from the G1 (those come to FF 99% of the time), but from the DSLR. Geotagging is of no interest to me. Vezquex, I've got a Posterous but I don't consider it an option because it's doesn't have album capability (nor does it offer a photograph widget that I am aware of).
- FFing Enigma
I'm using Flickr. I was using Picasa, but when I finally had to get more space, they wanted like $80/year. Flickr only charges $24.95/year and this includes unlimited storage of photos and videos.
- Shevonne
Smugmug - I am an absolute fanatic about smugmug.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
I'm giving a spin to ourdoings with my new G1, I like it organizes photos automatically by date http://ourdoings.com
- Jorge Escobar
OurDoings has a slideshow widget. Scroll to the bottom of http://ourdoings.com/jungleg... for an example. It also accepts zip files by email. If you think you'll be doing most of your uploading by email, you can get started by sending an empty message to begin@ourdoings.com with Subject: b
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks for the heads up on OurDoings: I've heard of it but had never really looked at it. Accepting zipped email attachments is really a nice feature, but there's no albuming at all? Hmm...
- FFing Enigma
Yep. Instead of creating an album, you put a headline on (at least) the first day of the events that would comprise the album. It's designed for real life doings, that don't always fit neatly into albums. Disclaimer: I'm biased because I made it.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Hey, nothing wrong with having two asses ;-) (sorry, old Saturday Night Live reference). The only reason albuming (or at least, the option to have them) would be a sticking point for me is because I take photos that are related in subject or location but not time. For example: pictures of my tomato plants as they go through various stages of growth. Chronological sorting only would make it neigh on impossible for me to group those photos together.
- FFing Enigma
You can make a separate ourdoings site for your tomato plants. You just ignore the little paragraph telling you to question whether you really want a separate site because chronology works better than albums for most doings. If you have multiple ourdoings sites, crossposting means just checking one more box.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ahhh, ok. Question then (since I have you here): would cross posting be a viable option from email? I.e. send it to 2 separate OurDoings email address to include it in two different sites? What about organization after the fact: would it be possible to include old photos in a new OurDoings site (say, my azaleas).
- FFing Enigma
You can have different email addresses for different ourdoings sites. Organization after the fact is what ourdoings is really about, so definitely old photos are good. The subtle difference between ourdoings and blogs is that the operative date is when the doings happened, not when they were published.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Thanks for the details, Bruce. I'm taking a look at all the options given so far (except of course SmugMug, since there's no way for me to try them without purchasing =( ...)
- FFing Enigma
I use Flickr. Rocks. If you haven't used the Uploadr recently, there has been much work done on it (it does still have some warts). I personally am using the website one now (it's very capable now). In addition there are about a zillion 3rd party tools that work well w/ Flickr upload API...even if you don't like a particular upload tool, I imagine you can find one you're happy w/. I just email pics and vids from the G1; works fine.
- Ken Kennedy
I use Flickr and like the tagging and sharing capabilities. I haven't tried any of the embeddable widgets, though.
- John (bird whisperer)
We use the Flickr API for the Antarctic site: http://antarctic.fury.com and my personal photo blog: http://stories.phoenixfeather.net I love my SmugMug, but I use Flickr for most of my everyday things.
- Rachel Lea Fox
OurDoings sounds like the simplified solution that would get me taking more pics, but Tina you just made me think a private.room on FF wouldeven do the trick. What do I lose by doing that?
- Edward Zwart
from Android
You wouldn't lose anything, Edward, other than the ability to create an album type setup (thought it could be hacked in by creating another private room, similar to the OurDoings solution of another site). Also, a private room on FF wouldn't be embeddable onto an external site (the room would have to be public, though you could restrict it to just you being able to post). ETA: also, you'd have to do some CSS magic to make it look right even after the embed.
- FFing Enigma
Edward, the main difference would be that FriendFeed orders items by how hot the conversation is on them, while OurDoings keeps them in order of occurrence. I think the best approach is using both: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Right, thanks u2, gonna try the combo.... I really hope this gets me taking more pics.
- Edward Zwart
Flickr no contest. Have images on the Eye-Fi card automatically post photos there as private. It'll automatically create Sets based on the date the photo was taken. From the phone, I have 3 emails addresses set up. One for posting public images, another for private, and another that will create a blog post with the image. For multiple photo attachments, I'm starting to use Posterous but also have it send the images to Flickr.
- Rodfather
the ones ive seen the most are (of course) flickr, tumblr, and some yfrog site
- echostreamer
Not sure if they are still offering it, but when I tried smugmug out they had a free trial period.
- Aaron Choate
from Nambu
I'm happy with Picasa, but Flickr was great whilst it lasted. I'd return if there wasn't that little problem of needing a Pro account to store more stuff, without the last 190-something items disappearing into the abyss/becoming unavailable.
- Tyson Key
I love Picasa
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Just checked out Picasa's cost. The first 1GB is free and 10GB costs $20/yr. 10GB is a buttload of space. Probably 10,000 to15,000 screen sized images (1280x1280). Unless you are uploading full resolution images from your 5D Mkii, I doubt most people would be able to use up 10GB of space.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I am using Flickr with the uploader plugin for lightroom. I have a free pro account through my internet provider. I use to use Zooomr but have moved most photos across to Flickr so cant comment on them recently.
- CJPhoto
I use Flickr and had used SmugMug until recently. I really don't like Flickr's policies, so I might go back to SmugMug at some point, but I like the community aspect of Flickr. SmugMug are more expensive though.
- Rick Cogley
Flickr for me. Great features, good community and options for free and pro accounts.
- Kol Tregaskes
I mix it up between Flickr & KodakGallery. My family likes password protected photos, and printing things, so we started at KG early on. Flickr I use for blogging. I kind of hate their interface. But I like having a static link I can refer to, and some of the groups.
- anna sauce
Are the days of the Flash player coming to an end? - Firefox 3.5 Threatens Adobe Flash with Video Tag - Thoughts on social media, the web and technology - jungleG - http://jungleg.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/welovea...)
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There has been a lot of chat about the HTML5 video tag recently. Will there be one standard video format to embed? The HTML5 standard did suggest Theora, but this has been removed. I do not see Microsoft abandoning Silverlight or even Apple abandoning their DRM system.
- Steve
just saw this. yeah - I think I saw an article the other day that clearly stated a disappointment that IE would not support Theora even as an alternative. Which makes it even worse and more useless...
- Aaron Choate
now! with more useless!
- Aaron Choate
Some of the chats with my husband leave me feeling like I'm actually talking to Eliza.
hmmph
- Aaron Choate
<3
- Cara Choate
Would you pay 50-60k for an all electric Mazda3? We're trying to decide whether to offer our last project as a product.
60-80 miles at freeway speeds- more at slower... available ... this year
- Aaron Choate
I keep wanting to click at the top of the browser window and have it jump back to the top of the page... wonder why...
do you also double-click on paragraphs hoping to zoom in?
- Matt
hmmm ... yeah that too.
- Aaron Choate
I want to make an EV version of the Delorean. Anyone in SoCal know someone who build EVs from shells of cars?
Justin Flood @justinflood, Alex, Jason Pollock and Kenton liked this
Here's a conversion that somebody did of their own car: http://www.evalbum.com/1482 - not sure about a company in SoCal.
- Aaron Choate
conversion company will probably need a more powerful engine given the weight of the delorean body
- Lenny Wong
That would be awesome. Of course if you could get a Flux Capacitor in there too that would be even better.
- Kenton
After that all you'd need is a sweet jacket, Elisabeth Shue, and a pair of these: http://bumpshack.com/2008...
- Tanner Powell
Wouldn't the body of that be just too heavy?
- Andrew Leyden
I think you should make an electric version of the Mad Max Interceptor http://www.aussiecoupes.com/max...
- Andrew Leyden
since we're all trying to be green you should probably install a mr. fusion unit
- Lenny Wong
Now will it be decked out all BTTF style or no?
- Justin Flood @justinflood
just ordered AC's birthday present. Ships on the 19th, and I doubt he'll wait until his birthday to use it.
hmmm I wonder whatever could it be... [grin]
- Aaron Choate
Crumpets for Alicia - http://www.examiner.com/x-10866...
Not being gluten intolerant myself, I don't usually get excited about gluten free baked goods. However, Cara shared these with me last night and they were really good!
- Aaron Choate
Dear caplet. If you promise a group of people that your new commuter rail (and freight) won't need to blow it's horns through the crossings in your area, you might want to actually get those crossings working before you give them an every fifteen minute reminder of why they always question your ability to deliver.
Capmet dammit ducking iPhone. [grin]
- Aaron Choate
Especially when those people are trying to sleep. Even a gently blown train horn is still ... TRAIN HORN!
- Cara Choate
that scares me... i fly down that hill on cherrywood on my bike each day and am trusting those crossings to work. sounds like i shouldn't trust them
- Matt
also... you can teach your iphone to say fucking by creating a contact named "fucking"...
- Matt
matt: My guess is you are talking about @ Cherrywood. Those quad gates are working. It is the quad at Manor (and I think also at MLK) that haven't been activated yet.
- Aaron Choate
But it's got nothing to do with Shrek. What? <http://www.myfoxlakecharles.com/myfox...>
What? Is it the only CC wedding cake image out there? http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox...
- Aaron Choate
@wolframalpha is now live for anyone to use http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (via http://friendfeed.com/dannysu...)
Bill Romanos, Sampad Swain, sean percival and 22 other people liked this
not on my side Robert, still can't type into the field. Can everyone else?
- Zee.
LIES!
- Pat Hawks
Nope, with Zee, nothing there atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
wolframalpha is not yet working on this side of the atlantic...
- Brad Kligerman
hmmm
- Aaron Choate
Nope. Says launching soon.
- Drew Lucas
"like" [checks web site] [can't get web site to accept query] "unlike"
- Karim
'Launching May 2009'
- Jalada
Not working here in Seattle either.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
sigh, not for everyone...
- Marcelle
I got nothing either. And every time I see that name I try to make it some kind of twisted Joss Whedon mashup of Angel and Dollhouse.
- Jandy
False alarm. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.
- Jason Williams
not for me either...
- metalerik
...only their Twitter feed seems to have gone live (barely) @wolframalpha
- Brad Kligerman
At least we know it's close with Twitter going up and rumors going on :)
- Andrew VanderVeen
Isn't it @wolfram_alpha?
- Jalada
oh i get it... it's a pun... "the boy who cried wolfram"
- Karim
no dice from NY
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Not working in here either, sorry for the false alarm. I shared this because Danny Sullivan said it was public and I trusted him.
- Robert Scoble
nope.
- mjc
just imagine all the clicking this has caused :D
- Iphigenie
they got a good idea of how much to prep for the Scoble Effect when it does go live though ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
box is still disabled here in the UK across multiple browsers
- alphaxion
One would have to click on a link and fill out an application to ask them to grant early access.
- John P
Looking forward to when it eventually is...
- Jonathan Grimes
I hope this isn't the Segway of this decade.
- Stephen Borchert
@Jason Williams: +1
- David Damore
Stephen Borchert: Was thinking the same thing. Totally remember all the hype re: "The Ginger" before anyone know what it really was. ("A scooter? WTF?")
- Sue Radd
Reminds me of the hype for http://www.cuil.com/ Hope it doesn't end the same way. That was sad ;)
- David Damore
No it isn't. :)
- iTad
Let's see just how good this new thing is...
- Gordon Montgomery
Appears to still be in beta, guess I'm not one of the "few select individuals"
- Jim Tierney
*note to self. read comments first*
- Micah
WolframAlpha is a terrific tool for studentes, teachers and scientists.
- ramiromarques
@ramiromarques have you been able to use it already?
- David Damore
ya can't search, LOL. fail. just push it out already #yawn
- sean percival
Not enabled..checking from Bangalore, India
- Mahesh CR
Not yet, Scoble from Mumbai, India
- Sampad Swain
Amazon Reveals Kindle DX and its Plan to Save the Newspapers - http://mashable.com/2009...
e-ink seems to be having an impact - I can see it working well for fiction. But, it seems like if I were looking at this to replace textbooks... the lack of color would be a deal breaker. Yet, I keep seeing that listed as a possible use case for the larger Kindle.
- Aaron Choate
Cool changes coming to Twitter Search (Rafe Needleman/CNET News) - http://www.techmeme.com/090507...
I'll be interested to see how their search/indexing scales once they start pulling in more. I imagine that grabbing full pages/content into the system is a bit different from indexing 140 character snippits. Will it end up being less "live"?
- Aaron Choate
doesn't seem like it would be as peaceful as it is considering how it is nestled up under the highway the way it is. We had fun grilling lunch and exploring across the dam with the dogs.
- Aaron Choate
Ummm. NOT the best bear claw in tx. Don't bother
- Aaron Choate
First drive: Chevy Volt - http://money.cnn.com/galleri...
pretty brief, but actual driving experience - common conception among EV enthusiasts is that 40 miles electric range should be plenty - is that enough for you?
- Aaron Choate
could a "last comment added" date be appended at the bottom of a conversation so we can get a feel for when a conversation was last active
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Aaron, if you hover your mouse over the comment icon on the left it will give you a time/date for each comment.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ah cool - may still be worthwhile to have this at the end of the conversation, but this works for me. thanks
- Aaron Choate
Aaron, yeah maybe but I think it's fine on the tooltip. We don't want too much more on the screen. Hiding things in tooltips or dropdowns is ideal for me and makes the screen tidier. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, cool I hadn't noticed this feature before!
- sandhal
very cool indeed! Thanks Kol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
No worries. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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