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WordPress mobile Plugin / Theme "WPtouch" by BraveNewCode Inc. My blog http://susanbeebe.com on iPhone looks hawt! - http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch...
Otto, Nir Ben Yona, Kol Tregaskes and 18 other people liked this
"WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device. It comes complete with all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. WPtouch also offers many customization features through a beautifully designed WordPress admin panel."
- Susan Beebe
from Bookmarklet
been using this as well - love it
- andy brudtkuhl
I use it. I like it. Just wish there was an easier way to change the calendar icons and allow for thumbnails. Of course, that would immediately reduce the loading speed…
- Jason Theodor
oh, now that looks good app.
- Malinda Routhier
Wow, so wifi is faster than edge. ;-P Who would have thought it ;-). In all seriousness it depends on the carrier though.
- Richard A.
from fftogo
I've been searching for themes that work well with mobile for the last couple of hours. Thanks for solving my problem.
- Bret Rowe
Bret - cool, glad this helped! let me know if you find any other nice mobile blog themes
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
how does WPtouch compare to wp-mobile-edition? Does WPtouch support all major mobile devices?
- Jeroen De Miranda
Not sure... good questions! I use this on my blog http://susanbeebe.com and it looks fabulous on my iPhone :)
- Susan Beebe
for some reason, I still can't get this thing to work correctly...
- Tim Hoeck
I've used this for months--it's great.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
Alyn William, Rob Fahrni, rowlikeagirl and 69 other people liked this
Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time.
- Dawn
Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site?
- Peter Fletcher
Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service.
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks Brian.
- Peter Fletcher
Nice work but a lil late on this BNO
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link
- Rahsheen the Dream
Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ
- Robert Scoble
"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly.
- Chris Loft
@rahsheen thanks for the tip.
- Peter Fletcher
BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my...
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- Dawn
Amen to that!
- Calvin Ayre
Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff.
- Robert Scoble
BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, community.
- τorƍue
#4 Bacon
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had...
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- Dawn
Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees.
- Dawn
FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully.
- Ian Betteridge
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then
- DC Crowley
"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :(
- ffcode
How to send group emails from your iPhone | RED66 - http://red66.com/2009...
Joshua Schnell, Ron Thompson, Foxarts and 22 other people liked this
Great tip!
- Vince DeGeorge
Glad you peeps liked this tip. It's certainly changed the way I use my iPhone now. Necessity is definitely the mother of invention. ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
from iPhone
@Petr LOL! I'll be more formal next time, ha ha!
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
from iPhone
I've been using this for a few days now and it's working quite well. Sometimes, the email addresses appear a beat funky to the recipients, but so far everybody's been getting their emails. How's it been for you?
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
does the Groups app do this? and if not, why?
- Clint McManaman
from BuddyFeed
I haven't tried the Groups app, though it's been mentioned a few times. I'll check it out now to see exactly how they deal with this issue. One thing, though, my solution is free ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Checked out Groups and it can't do photos yet. The Camera application allows you to email up to 3 photos per message - however you can't interface the Camera app with the Groups app. There's another app called MultiPhoto that allows you to send multiple photos but not to multiple recipients.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
UPDATED: Now works with most email services and eliminates the Invalid Address dialog box.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Stir - All of FriendFeed in your pocket | Structlab - http://structlab.com/iphone...
Kfir Pravda, aozaru, h1ro and 55 other people liked this
Wow, seems incredibly feature-packed and polished. View posts based on geotagging or specific services like YouTube? Looks delicious, can't wait to give it a whirl on the train soon.
- David Chartier
from Bookmarklet
Sorry for the multi-posts everyone, juggling too much and not paying attention this afternoon. I think I cleaned it all up. That said: Stir is pretty nice so far. Scrolls like butter.
- David Chartier
Hey, i'm the author of Stir. Glad you like it! Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions or requests :)
- Aaron Brethorst
Please keep us posted on your tests. I've been searching FF to see if anyone was checking it out.
- metalerik
Installed and playing with it now. Really liking this, top work Aaron.
- Keith Bennett
Thanks, Keith! In all seriousness, comments like yours make the four months I spent writing it worthwhile. Also, to everyone who has purchased it: please help me out by leaving a review for it in the AppStore :) Exposing it to more people generates more revenue which lets me spend more time adding new features to it (like support for direct messages, real time support, and so on)
- Aaron Brethorst
What you mean it doesn't do dm or real time??? Well in that case.... Only joking. I'll add a review for the UK store later. In all seriousness, this is a really cool app. It's looking like my default FF app from now on.
- Keith Bennett
thanks again, Keith :) So, the backstory on DM is that this wasn't even supported for third party apps until the release of FF's v2.0 APIs, which only happened a few weeks ago. By then, I was in to final testing of my app, and didn't want to switch over to a new API version or figure out how to shoehorn in a feature I hadn't originally planned on. As far as real-time goes, I spent a lot...
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- Aaron Brethorst
Good to hear mate, always a difficult decision about when to release something I guess. Keep adding those features. Any chance of an option to send something to twitter in the same way you can with the send to facebook?
- Keith Bennett
Also, any chance of setting up a support/feature request group here on FF?
- Keith Bennett
Twitter's on the list of things to support :) You can find the discussion group here at http://friendfeed.com/stirapp
- Aaron Brethorst
Cheers, will post my requests in there.
- Keith Bennett
I already have BuddyFeed which is a pretty decent app. I'll be downloading Stir too. I prefer the FriendFeed service to any other Social Networking destination but have to admit that, especially from the point of view of posting, I use Twitter more. The explanation is simple, superb third party iPhone apps, especially TwittelatorPro which is really best of breed. If Twitter wasn't served so well by the likes of TP then I'd hardly use it at all. Best of luck with this new application.
- JSLeFanu
Looks cool, gonna check it out now :-)
- Jalada
Yawn, yet another boring iphone app.
- Richard A.
wish someone would make the blackberry app...
- Richard Reeve
Kudos Aaron. I'm using Stir to post this reply, and I'm really, really liking the app. It's well designed, has pretty much all the FF features (and those it doesn't have look like they'll be coming soon), and it's rock solid. BuddyFeed is good, Stir is way better!
- Brad Brooks
Thanks, Brad. I'm glad you like it. If you have a spare minute, please leave a review on the AppStore :)
- Aaron Brethorst
Awesome, finally another FF app to try! I like BuddyFeed, but it seems like the dev isn't going to update it anymore. That the Stir dev seems active here, fielding questions and requests, is promising. Thanks for posting about it here.
- Cheryl Jones
I've posted a review on the AppStore (UK), Aaron. It should be up soon :)
- Brad Brooks
@Brad: Unless your review gets rejected for objectionable content or something. ;)
- David Chartier
@David: Well, you never know with the AppStore reviewers :D
- Brad Brooks
I'm finally starting to use my FriendFeed account now that there is a decent iPhone App available.
- Justin Stevens
Got it yesterday (after reading it here). So far so good. Very good FF client for the iPhone!
- Peter van Teeseling
@justin, @peter - thank you both :)
- Aaron Brethorst
I've bought buddyfeed, but I still buy stir, it's much better. I like it.
- pastas9
Seems awesome bit buggy. For enchance, everytime I hit load more it just adds the first batch of updates again with no older updates. Way better features and interface than any of the alternatives though! Will try it again later, maybe the FF API was freacking our with it.
- Chris White
from FreshFeed
Weird, works fine
- Chris White
Whoops, sorry. Works fine on every feed but everything. It doesn't just not add more either, it addsthe same items already loaded below the current items
- Chris White
Chris- can you follow up with me at support@structlab.com? I'd like to better understand what you're seeing.
- Aaron Brethorst
I just downloaded this app. It replaced FreshFeed as my FriendFeed iPhone app.
- Chris Martin
I really like the UI, but so far it has crashed the three times I've tried using it (once while trying to leave a comment). FreshFeed is a bit more stable, but I just left a comment that got truncated (with no warning from the app). :P
- Cheryl Jones
I've been using amigo for the last few months. how does stir stack up against that app?
- David Miller
Cheryl, Justin - please follow up with me at support@structlab.com. I'd like understand what seems quirky in the ui and get to the bottom of those crashes.
- Aaron Brethorst
I downloaded it, and understandably it's a 1.0 release, but I'm regretting the purchase immediately: the menu system is unintuitive. Clicking on my name doesn't bring up my feed, it brings up my home feed. Clicking the Everyone link brings up the public feed instead of people I'm subscribed to: why is the public feed the top link? There's no link to my discussions page, my likes page,...
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- Mark Trapp
Hi Mark - 'My Discussions' is coming in the next release. Likes and comments can—for the time being—be found through saved searches. Direct messages weren't supported through the FriendFeed API until v2.0, which was released about 4 days before I submitted Stir to Apple. Same thing with Best of Day and OAuth. Can you tell me what you mean by inline commenting? Hide exists; try swiping a...
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- Aaron Brethorst
Aaron - another missing item, or item I've not found yet, is the groups I'm a member of. That and my discussions are two big misses I think. Like others, I enjoy the UI a lot
- Patrick Jordan
got 1 on mine 2
- daveccorey
Hey Patrick - groups are supported from the main page. Choose the Groups item and you should be good to go.
- Aaron Brethorst
"all groups," actually.
- Aaron Brethorst
This is an excellent app! Far superior to what I've been using.
- David Miller
@Aaron: I'll try to use Stir more and see if there's a pattern to the crashes, but so far it has seemed random.
- Cheryl Jones
Cant find it at US AppStore :(
- Kfir Pravda
from iPhone
"we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." http://www.scripting.com/stories...
sofarsoShawn <right here>, A Mitchell, Harscoat and 92 other people liked this
yes!:)
- K.D.
A crowdsourced company. Don't we call that the government? ;)
- Sean Powell
Dave... we have been considering this idea for a number of years, but I think that pulling it together requires more than a geek-army or an open-source collaborative ethos. 'Open' is a mind-set, not a movement... and great egalitarian strategies are possibly best not to be collectively authored, or you can find yourself in the middle of a mega-committee. Its a conundrum... But we are happy to share insights.
- Simon Edhouse
Dave/Simon: someone will do it. Why not get started now?
- Jason Cronkhite
Totally agree... the core idea that Dave is putting forward has been my 24/7 passion since 2006... and maybe Twitter & Friendfeed (RIP) are going to prove to be catalytic forces for this idea. Certainly Dave is a lot more accessible nowdays... ;)
- Simon Edhouse
Simon, maybe with Dave's help we can form a community trust and put the thing together. :-)
- Jason Cronkhite
Simon it would not be like that. I'll write a follow-up post.
- Dave Winer
I would like to understand the financial vehicles to do this. Simon, I also agree that there has to be a structure that allows for users interests to be aligned with business growth for their benefit and the founders. Too often what happens when investors step in for pure financial return is the goal becomes focused on how to turn the company, "the exit", and not on building a sustainable company to enrich lives of the user base.
- Jason Cronkhite
well... to quote Robert Burns, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray"... Firstly I totally agree with Dave's other post (i.e. "Rex, you're making it too complicated..") where he outlines the structure of the Public Company... no problem there. I have reasoned out the same model some time ago. - I see it like a series of check-boxes that have to be ticked... and probably...
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- Simon Edhouse
Understand & agree for the most part. RE: BIG IDEA, don't know if it really has to be earth moving all the time but rather something that enough users can stand to benefit from both of using the product and financially. Simon, how about publishing your checklist and trying to get a following around the movement?
- Jason Cronkhite
The BIG IDEA is crucial... once you see it, you can't stop thinking about it, and that's what is needed to get massive buy-in. - "get a following around a movement" No... I can't drum that up. I am too small a fish, and not living in a VC hotspot. Dave's the man, if he can control his notorious crankiness (we love you Dave)... However, yes, I can add-value, but who am I? Dave has started to pull together this particular cosmic dust cloud. Let's see if he can truly lead it.
- Simon Edhouse
The crowdcorp concept is the way to go, now how do we make it happen? It is tough to manage efficiently the requirements of a community
- Alberto Saavedra
from Nambu
RE: BIG IDEA, maybe so - maybe not...remains to be seen. RE: you're not the one, it takes powers of 2, lots of passion, determination and as Seth Godin would say a Tribe. Sure, Dave may be one to press the issue forward but this notion requires an ARMY. Dave, maybe you can enlist Scoble and the Building43 community to push this effort.
- Jason Cronkhite
[edit] ...There are those on the web that are captivated by their own notoriety, as if being involved in social-networks is a popularity contest. - It isn't. If this project idea falls into the hands of the 'lime-light-seekers', who seem to have short attention cycles, it will rapidly go off-course. (that's my own personal view)
- Simon Edhouse
Ah, Simon. I understand you but, this is where the Power of 2 comes in so handy (you need both - the Edhouse's & Scoble's). Keeping people on course and captivated require different talents. Maybe Scoble & Winer are perfect balances. Maybe it's others but more importantly, you need all shapes, colors and credes to do something like this and the power of collective intelligence and influence.
- Jason Cronkhite
LOL... maybe we need a Jason Cronkhite too
- Simon Edhouse
Its a jigsaw puzzle... but, like those super tricky huge jigsaw puzzle's, to complete it, someone needs to have the picture that encapsulates the final vision.
- Simon Edhouse
Agreed Simon! I'm willing to help.
- Jason Cronkhite
OK... next we need a money person... who gets it. Someone who can resource this... Its not going to go anywhere much till that person steps up.
- Simon Edhouse
They are around. I forwarded a pointer to my piece today with a guy I'm working with on another project.
- Dave Winer
Cool Dave. Let's keep the conversation going. I would love to see this happen.
- Jason Cronkhite
I have detailed Info-memorandum type docs, and have sent overviews to John Nesheim (http://www.nesheimgroup.com/) who has given the core-ideas his thumbs-up, and offered to introduce me to VCs etc... John is a great guy, very smart and accessible. We had a long Skype chat a while ago... he gets it.
- Simon Edhouse
Fantastic Simon! Are VC's really what's needed 1st?
- Jason Cronkhite
VCs are probably exactly not what's needed as they (generally) are always thinking of their exit, and being risk-averse by nature they tend to look for 'me-too' plays... (projects that have successful precedents in the marketplace) ... No, an Angel Investor is what's needed. But there still has to be a killer Business Model as money people are always in the business of making more...
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- Simon Edhouse
Not to get ahead of ourselves but, even before an Angel don't we just need a passionate following of people (users of products/services they may want to own)?
- Jason Cronkhite
It seems to me what is needed is a platform to evangelize the concept, get people behind the cause. Of course, a financial plan as to how users might contribute to show tangible interest would help in gaining validation and traction for larger investor types.
- Jason Cronkhite
well... I instinctively take a different view on that. Not to say you are wrong, I am just really aware of the 'politics' of collaboration, the realities of project 'execution', and the realities and importance of I.P. protection for investors, even if it may become a public company (which by the way is a VERY expensive process to go through and carries with it a raft of responsibilites...
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- Simon Edhouse
point well taken simon, agreed. so, let's see if dave wants to help assemble the core group, open discussion, have a meeting of the minds in-person and push things forward.
- Jason Cronkhite
Just opened a private group, "User Ventures" and sent you an invite, Simon/Dave.
- Jason Cronkhite
"Jason assembled a great group of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the Argo. The group of heroes included the Boreads (sons of Boreas, the North Wind) who could fly, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus." http://bit.ly/9LTx9
- Simon Edhouse
Very Cool! :-)
- Jason Cronkhite
Then we all can start IPO's afterwards :) and sell our life-streams to google.
- Chirag Chamoli
Simon, Argo User Ventures is assembled as a group awaiting the rest of the Argonauts :-)
- Jason Cronkhite
LOL at the irony of opening a private group for this.
- Nick Lothian
Nick, do you plan to contribute?
- Jason Cronkhite
Nick, I have no qualms of opening up the group after those who plan to contribute help to establish a framework for the group. Foundations must be part of anything new even user centric organizations. So, if being an active contributor to help users suits you the group needs you and any other user advocate for that matter.
- Jason Cronkhite
This company crowdsourced their funding: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Ray Cromwell
Another axis to think about is whether a particular idea even needs to be owned by a single entity, public, or otherwise. Chances are, if you're inventing another communication protocol/network to piggy back on the internet/web and ship data around, it isn't always necessary to have a single point of failure. Rather, you're taking a fault-tolerant network protocol (TCP/IP) and layering...
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- Ray Cromwell
Ray, just reached out to Charles Armstrong of Trampoline.
- Jason Cronkhite
Interesting points Ray, and yes, the technology idea you outline is in accord with some of the ideas we have been building on... but inventing another open protocol does not necessarily a profitable people's Company make. - and Nick, as regards the irony of a private discussion... Sometimes you have to be smart... and being 'smart' is also about being prudent and careful.,
- Simon Edhouse
I agree, but some things are commodities/public goods and not really something that should be walled off just to try and extract profits. (Which I'm not against, I just think there are plenty of other things to make profits on than setting up more toll bridges) Would RSS have taken off if a single company owned it and all feeds had to be hosted through their domain? Maybe, but I think we'd all be worse off than the current situation.
- Ray Cromwell
Yes... I agree, and this is a very interesting area. - Probably the only way I can get us out of this log-jam is to go deeper and state that I am interested in two key symbiotic projects. One being an open platform, and the other being a separate (and at arms length) vehicle to redefine the way commercial contacts between buyer and seller, or advertiser/vendor and viewer/client are conducted.
- Simon Edhouse
Simon: you are a jerk if you think I do this to "seek the limelight." I shared OTHER PEOPLE'S posts here more than 21,000 times. That is called sharing. I travel the world and point my camera at OTHER PEOPLE. Building communities is hard work and the fact that you have started this project by being an asshole does not bode well for its future.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I went and looked and Simon never even participated here. Two likes. What a jerk.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Mark: I agree, but I won't help a guy who questions my integrity and is a jerk. Maybe if he apologizes. Plus he's already proven he doesn't participate so WTF does he know about building a community? Geesh.
- Robert Scoble
If I may... this is a fantastic political opportunity for all of us (bystanders like myself, geeks and users). I can hardly follow half the things you write (although I google most of it), but I watch the process as an experiment on "Open" Democracy through Open Source. My best wishes on its success no matter who partakes. If there is anything a civilian can contribute, please don't hesitate to ... well poke. :-))
- constantinos alexacos
No, the IPO comes first, before anything else.
- Dave Winer
Read up on public shell companies. http://www.google.com/search...
- Dave Winer
Just to add my two cents: I am a relative small fry here in this big community and have been fortunate enough to have participated in interesting discussions with both Scoble and Dave. Both have found the time (at least to some degree) to engage with me and I have since wondered how they do it (or at least how much time it takes).
- Sean Powell
(Part 2) It seems based on these comments that something like this will need EVERYONE to actually be successful. With the advent of these technologies - friendfeed and (dare I say it) twitter - we now how the ability to truly get everyone involved and weigh in on decisions. That is the key here. Then we can help settle questions like: "Who decides where we go? What we do? Who's involved?" That last question should not even be considered. imho
- Sean Powell
Gee, calling people "jerks" and "assholes" is just too easy in this kind of forum isn't it? But you know Robert, I did not say that you had no integrity. What I was saying was that, if something like this were to develop in an integral fashion, as in [def:] "...necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental", then its not about obtaining mass publicity first off... which...
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- Simon Edhouse
Simon, you wrote, and I quote "Pleeeeeese.... not Scoble. - Its gonna take buckets of wisdom, and patience and dare I say it, integrity."
- Robert Scoble
Dave, the idea of: "...the IPO comes first" baffles me. - IPOs are very expensive, and would only seem to raise the level of risk. - What is the reason that you take that position? - I think great companies are built on great ideas, and without the solid foundation of a 'great idea', I (and other's) would sense that its an ideologically driven foray... Foundations are important.
- Simon Edhouse
That, to, me, says you were saying that I didn't have any integrity.
- Robert Scoble
Simon: but your last statement is better. I still think your first statement was pretty damn rude, though, and when someone calls you on your rudeness, your first answer should be "I'm sorry."
- Robert Scoble
That's what my community website network is all about. See http://Frederick.com for an example. The site is owned by the community.
- Craig Shipp
IPO? The IPO market doors have been shut for sometime. Thanks for the chuckle.
- cheapsuits
yep... I'm sorry if that offended you, really. Loose words... I don't know you, and you don't know me. Over a coffee, we would probably have a chuckle and find quite a bit of common ground. Please accept my apology. It was an off the cuff remark, poorly executed.
- Simon Edhouse
Robert... gee I should have looked at your pic before insulting you! - Lucky I'm on the other side of the planet. ;) (I'm an Aussie, from English stock... fairly reserved, and nowhere near the buzzy west coast of the US. - so on quite a different frequency)
- Simon Edhouse
Apology accepted, now we can move on. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Ok... The trigger for this discussion was Dave's clarion call: ""we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." ~ Its a meme that obviously resonates with many. There's been a shift to user-control, and libertarianism rolling forward for years on the web... and the implied friction-point (which is very real) is the tension between the Web...
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- Simon Edhouse
agreed.
- Thomas Hawk
Simon / Robert: Glad you guys made up :-) ... Simon, I am interested in your points of view and think there is a lot of merit to the visioning process with great leadership. I think Robert is one of the best evangelists for technology there is and letting the Scobleizer do what he does best has a time and place and I think Robert knows this and I'm sure he can move forward once there is...
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- Jason Cronkhite
Forgive me if I don't understand, but isn't the purpose of a company to make profits? Why not create a foundation akin to Mozilla or Apache instead? The closest service-oriented foundations I can think of are Wikipedia and Archive.org. It becomes interesting to me if we're talking about a services-oriented organization that provides end-user services built on top of existing and future...
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- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Ankush, I think the differentiation is that users contribution to these companies are not being rewarded. Why can the users as well as founders not be rewarded when they are essentially building the value of the company together. Companies cannot become valuable without customers so, they need each other and if users/customer bring up the valuation of the company why not have the...
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- Jason Cronkhite
But what's the end goal? Rewards or integrity? You have to find a balance in any for-profit venture. However, non-profits are driven largely by vision and integrity (ideally speaking). So let me ask some more questions. If you're laying down your money as a user+investor, won't your interests change from time to time? If you actually take a company like this public who controls the...
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- Ankush Narula
Brian... Wikipedia is a pretty good example of a company that operates for its users and is almost totally dependent on its users. However, it has no real business model, but retains a hugely valid place in most of our lives. - There is however an answer to the current dilemma/stalemate that folks here have been yearning for, and it is perfect and simple. In a nut-shell I would call it:...
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- Simon Edhouse
...and now its 4.00am down under, and I have to hit the sack... G'night fellow travellers.
- Simon Edhouse
Simon... if we're talking alternatives to client-server the only one that I can think of is true distributed peer-to-peer. So perhaps a collective of such companies working together under an umbrella would be very effective since we would see many various incarnations of user+investor style companies. Interesting...
- Ankush Narula
My only concern there, and its a well researched concern, is about secuity of the core protocol. there's a huge amount that can be 'open' on top, but the base transport protocol, sitting on TCP/IP needs to be super-tight, and solid. best kept as a trade secret, inside an ultimately publicy owned Company, that has rules to prevent corporations ever owning more than 10% of the stock. If...
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- Simon Edhouse
Update, I contacted Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline last night and he's interested to join and learn more about this. He may be popping in soon.
- Jason Cronkhite
Simon... Check out this presentation on wuala's architecture if/when you have time: http://www.wuala.com/en...
- Ankush Narula
Dave ---- If I may comment about your original post sorry!), I found the post pretty inspiring. I advise on social media for an agency (no flames, please) and one of the things I talk about is "sensible" and "realistic" ROI. What I mean is very clear: we're not going to use bullshit metrics like "awareness" or "impressions" to measure whether or not our work had an effect on the brand....
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- Michael E. Rubin
Ankush... had a quick look, but immediately I see a big discord with what I've been thinking/planning. i.e. "You can upload any file of any size"... that is a continuation of the situation that has got P2P systems into so much trouble, and stigmatized the technolgy. Its great in one sense, but it invites Piracy, copyright theft etc etc. P2P is THE logical system for the internet, (its...
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- Simon Edhouse
Public shell looks like a good alternative, is it too early to bring VRM ideas to the promised land scenario?
- Alberto Saavedra
gee, don't get me started on VRM... nice philosophy, but very naive. (uh oh, 4.24am... damn) Bye...
- Simon Edhouse
The users owning it - it's the Open Source model!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
We touched on 'GOOG' & 'Business Models' yesterday... my observation about the prevailing status quo paradigm for web-advertising is summarised here: http://friendfeed.com/simoned...
- Simon Edhouse
hmmm... ok, if the concept of "Web Advertising" elicits such a nonplussed reaction, reflect on this: Contacts between vendor and buyer, and the drawing of these two parties together via promotion or request, is the basic process that 'Advertising' tries to achieve. However, as Danah Boyd highlighted in her December 2007 blog piece, (Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?),...
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- Simon Edhouse
exactly
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
Deposit checks with your iPhone - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
Chad McCoskey, Dan Dashnaw and Peter Ghosh liked this
"Now, the privately-held USAA Bank intends to let customers deposit checks via a pending update to the bank's iPhone app. According to the New York Times, the feature will require customers to photograph both the back and front of the check with their iPhone's camera. From there, they simply send the images to the bank via the app and presto, the check is credited to that customer's account. They can then void and destroy the paper check; it's no longer needed."
- ElStewie
from Bookmarklet
This is awesome!! One of the best things USAA created was deposit@home. Scanning checks to deposit. Now with this I could take checks in the field and deposit them immediately. Fantastic!
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
Hope other Banks catch up...
- ElStewie
It's only a matter of time. The major issue is security. It will be interesting to see how it works out. There will probably be a hold on the deposits until the check clears.
- Alan Morris
The Bank holds all your information, it will be easy to debit and fine the account if the check does not clear. But will it work on older iPhones or only 3GS with better camera.
- ElStewie
We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes - http://wellknowwhenwegetthere....
Ken Gidley, Tudor Bosman, Timothy Federwitz and 4 other people liked this
wow. fantastic post.
- Jenna Bilotta
This is very impressive. A wonderful connection was made.
- Louis Gray
That's just amazing. I'm sorry for Alison's loss!
- Kevin Fox
A really well thought out and delivered post. I'm a huge John Hughes fan!
- Timothy Federwitz
FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free - Free - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5323361...
CannonGod, Roberto Bonini, Dan Dashnaw and 16 other people liked this
Great site design. The mouse rollover pics of apps are very nice .
- sebastian☆rocket brother
This is a handy site!
- Michael Fidler
AppReview for iPhone also does this
- Todd Bouey
from iPhone
Thanks Todd. I'll check it out!
- sebastian☆rocket brother
Clark, definitely! Some sort or recommendation or usage stats/reviews would be great.
- sebastian☆rocket brother
I'm not sure, but I have it set as an RSS feed on my iPhone and I get new updates everyday. Some of them are "Today Only" sale so I'd assume it's pretty quick.
- sebastian☆rocket brother
Foursquare: Why It May Be the Next Twitter - http://mashable.com/2009...
Mac Sharp, Stephen Edgar, Brian and 23 other people liked this
If it is I would be very shocked. But many of the same San Francisco "cool kids" who got me into Twitter are using Four Square.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Maybe if it was available everywhere. It's only useful if it becomes mass adopted and is available in every city - large and small.
- Mike Bracco
On the other hand the article is astute.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Mike: I agree with you. Everytime I try to check in it reminds me I am not in an official place.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I've been trying to check in to Foursquare for the past two hours and it's not working. That's a huge aversion to making me want to use the app.
- Derrick
I love Foursquare. Sometimes it's slow on 3G, but they can fix those problems.
- Eric Florenzano
Mike: I totally agree. I would accept it only if most of my friends were using it and it is has been adopted by many of the big names.
- wiredgnome
from iPod
If Facebook bought Foursquare or provided the same type of service - then that would be really cool! No one wants another platform. It's Facebook, Twitter (and hopefully FF). I don't give much hope to anyone else at this point who is trying to build an app based on mass adoption. In my mind, Facebook is the new Microsoft. It is the next generation OS in a way - one that revolves around connection with others. Like the traditional OS market has shown, only two players can really be viable.
- Mike Bracco
No listings for Toronto? Fail.
- Andrew Currie
Is Friendfeed still the next Twitter?
- Andre P. Siregar
Speaking personally, Facebook has been great for connecting with people I know, while Twitter has been great for connecting with strangers/biz contacts (some of whom I've ended up moving into my Facebook line-up). I work at home and so many of the people I mingle with regularly live inside my computer, and I've wished for a while for a widely-adopted platform that would allow my online...
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- Lisa Norman
They'll have to add more European Countries than just Amsterdam - it's pretty useless to me in the UK right now
- Rob Bell
Apple Tip: Want to put "spacers" in your dock - i.e. group sets of app icons with spaces in between. Check out this (http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article...) link for instructions- it's really easy and it's not a hack. It's great to group similar apps together like I do with my browsers (see screenshot below).
Outsanity, Dan Dashnaw, Ross Miller and 3 other people liked this
How does this person have Google Chrome?
- Matt Ruiz
Matt: It's the Chrome browser :) it's still in beta on the Mac though.
- Mike Bracco
from BuddyFeed
Yea, i know but it's not chromium, which is blue and white, how is it you have it? It's not available
- Matt Ruiz
Matt: hmmm...I'm not sure what you are referring to. if you google "Google Chrome Mac" the second link should be Google developer site where you can download the Mac beta.
- Mike Bracco
from BuddyFeed
Done, it looks very nice.
- Matt Ruiz
Yeah - a crippled, developer's version of Chrome (not Chromium) has been available for Mac and Linux for a while. That's how. It's what I use for pretty much all non-Flash content on my nix boxes.
- Fried Curdys
dirk auer skates down 860m roller coaster - http://www.designboom.com/weblog...
Arthur Guy, Kol Tregaskes, Brandon Titus and 21 other people liked this
I do that every morning
- M F
now that is extreme :)
- Mariela
@M F, are you kidding me? :d
- Numan Çebi
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Kappes Adventure Press und Dirk Auer . :S
- Emre BAHADIR
woa! pure adrenalin
- koraytaylan
holy sh...
- Berk Bayri
Holy Cow.. I tried Roller Coaster before and it sooo scary.. How about this one? It is more scary.
- charles
now THIS is riding a roller coaster! Yeeee-Haw!
- Stephanie Segel
and NO safety lock .. this guys kahunas are bigger than .. well anything
- Steven J. Ram
Okay, I'm doing research on my own here but I'm hoping someone might already know the answer here: is it possible to change the DPI scaling in OS X? Right now, the fonts are incredibly tiny on our HDTV.
alieb, Dan Dashnaw, Scoble, Alex Scoble and Penguin liked this
Did you try holding down command key and pressing + (for bigger) and - (for smaller) ?
- Don Gilmore
Don, that might work in a browser but it has no affect on the desktop itself or other applications such as iTunes.
- Akiva
Right. How about System Preferences, Displays, then choose smaller resolution. Will lose screen space, but font should be bigger.
- Don Gilmore
i right clicked on the desktop and found show view options. increased the fonts from 12 to 16 pt
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Don, that doesn't jive with HDMI displays, unfortunately.
- Akiva
Jay, that works for desktop icons but it has no affect on applications.
- Akiva
Does using the zoom feature help at all? cmd+opt+=
- Andrew Smith
Nope. I need to change the DPI. I know that Leopard can do it and that there is no UI option for it but I've yet to be able to make it work.
- Akiva
Changing the resolution as Don mentioned changes the ppi but I get what you mean. Try opening terminal and typing "defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 2.0"
- Andrew Smith
That works but boy does it tear up some of the UI (Finder windows, especially).
- Akiva
Adjust 2.0 to 1.5 etc. and 1.0 to return to normal
- Andrew Smith
There's some handy stuff in System Preferences > Universal Access for more control over zooming, but nothing really does what you want. You can tweak all sorts of individual font sizes manually using various defaults commands. http://secrets.blacktree.com/ is a database of defaults commands, and you can download a Prefpane there that allows you to access the database from System Preferences and to enable/disable these commands using checkboxes/form fields.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Thanks, Jason!
- Akiva
If you use a Mac and don't use Path Finder I don't know how you can survive. - http://www.cocoatech.com/
CannonGod, TS_Rick, zsafwan and 11 other people liked this
Hopefully the new Finder in SL is better but it will never touch Path Finder.
- Mike Bracco
Checking it out now... Thanks Mike!
- Drew Lucas
Drew - pretty much the Finder on Steroids - I couldn't imagine using a Mac without it.
- Mike Bracco
Ok, I have to admit. I've been frustrated with the Finder since the beginning. Thanks Mike for helping me stay in love with my Mac!
- Zackatoustra
Zackatoustra: no problem. any other Mac frustrations. I am a bit app obsessed so would love to help out where I can. :)
- Mike Bracco
Zachary: Don't be overwhelmed though. It took me an hour just to setup my preferences and settings.
- Mike Bracco
from email
I love Pathfinder! Quite awhile ago, I bit the bullet and purchased a license for Pathfinder, and it has been a great investment. I set up my preferences and opened a half dozen or so tabs to oft-used directories, and I have an easy, comfortable environment in which to work. I become visably agitated when I work on a Mac w/o it ;o)
- Seth Greenblatt
Pathfinder is what Finder will be in OS 11
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
iPhone astronomy app, SkyVoyager, free today - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
Jason, Daniel Rinaman, Bill Sodeman and 13 other people liked this
"Today only, Carina Software, one of the premier publishers in the field, is giving away Mac, PC, and iPhone versions of their software for next to nothing. It's in honor of today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. On the iPhone, they are free, for the PC and Mac version, US$00.01. I'll focus on the iPhone offerings, in particular the more advanced SkyVoyager [App Store link]. Carina is also offering SkyGazer for free, which is slightly less advanced and has fewer features. I'd go for SkyVoyager at these prices."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
Wow! Thanks!
- Peter
It's a lovely app, too!
- Ian Betteridge
Great tip. I've downloaded the app...SkyVoyager for the iPhone free today only.
- Rob McNair-Huff
Downloaded today, awesome iPhone App!
- Tyson Williams
Disappointing - the free Mac app is unavailable because of bandwidth spikes.
- Bill Sodeman
D. Missed it by a few minutes. It showed free in the ap store when I started downloading it. As soon as I clicked Install it said I should wait since the ap was being updated. When I went back a secon later it was $14.99
- Anant Gairola
from iPhone
arnaldostream to arnaldostream's feed, All Things Apple, The Apple Room: TNW Apple, Appetite, All Things Mobile
Capture Skype video calls with SkypeCap for Mac 3.0 - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
kazuhiko, Dan Dashnaw and Raoul Pop liked this
"Earlier in the week TUAW reported on the release of Skype 2.8, which allows screen sharing and now provides better video calls as well. There are many different ways of capturing Skype audio & video -- we use eCamm's CallRecorder to record the TUAW Talkcast every week, for example -- but there are other ways to tackle video recording. I use my favorite screen capture application, Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software, to nab Skype videos now, but I find that if I bring up other screens while I'm capturing, I end up ruining the video. The recently released SkypeCap for Mac 3.0 is able to capture both audio and video chats from Skype, and since it taps into the Skype video stream you can open other windows on your Mac without capturing them as well. The application also converts the captured video into a number of formats, including MP4, .swf, and .flv."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
DopplerPad released for iPhone & iPod Touch | Just Another iPhone Blog - http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
ЯIИGҜIИG, Uche Ogbuji and Dan Dashnaw liked this
i'm thinking about writing an article about the public square now being privately owned social networks http://marshallk.com/article... thoughts?
Arcanized Crime, Dan Dashnaw, Jonas Anderson and Burak Arikan liked this
Do you think Times Square is a public square?
- Burak Arikan
I honestly love the concept, and highly suggest that you roll it out.
- Dan Dashnaw
I agree with Dan, in rural Sweden, long ago, the church yard was hub of social life. Not the actual service but the conversation, before and after. social networks could be a resurection of public meeting places. Response: Yeah, I'd read that :)
- Jonas Anderson
Integration Between 3rd Party iPhone Apps – Huge Potential? - http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
Ron Thompson, Mehrdad, Herb Hernandez and 4 other people liked this
Video Goes Open Source on Wikipedia: New Format, New Player, New Editing/Sharing Tools - Great! - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Dan Dashnaw liked this
"Although videos have been part of the Wikimedia stable for a couple years through the open-source Ogg Theora format, the offering has been limited. Now, however, a Firefox 3.5 plugin called Firefogg will allow for server-side transcoding to the Ogg format. In addition to allowing for downloading and editing, the Ogg format also consumes significantly fewer resources during video playback."
- Svartling
from Bookmarklet
FriendFeed releases more new themes! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius, Beth, Jason and 7 other people liked this
Liking Grasslands too, but seriously FriendFeed let me tweak my theme like Twitter.
- CannonGod
Also, what does everybody think to having enforced user themes? Y'know, clicking on different people's profiles shows their uniques theme rather than the same theme throughout?
- CannonGod
Steampunk!!!
- Miss Elle
BOOM. @googlereader has propagated user names to link blogs. For example: http://www.google.com/reader...
Daniel Rowley, Mike Fruchter, Russellreno and 29 other people liked this
Boom!
- Jesse Stay
from iPhone
i get a permission denied...how do you mean?
- Zee.
Oh boo. Let me check.
- Louis Gray
...and then some. ;)
- EricaJoy
There is a 'Like' button in my Google Reader now. Just like Friendfeed's.
- Marcos
Does this work, Zee? http://www.google.com/reader...
- Louis Gray
/me points to Marcos...by jove, he's on to something.
- EricaJoy
That one works for me, Louis. =)
- Beau Liening
Thanks for letting us know Louis!
- Daynah
If you get the permission denied prompt, it's because we aren't full at 100%. Once that happens, it will load.
- Jenna Bilotta
yep, it takes a bit to fully roll out.
- Jenna Bilotta
This is seriously going to impact my Friendfeed time, which is already insufficient.
- Chris Rogers
@chris you are just going to have to sleep less so you can give both services adequate time! that's what *I* do, anyhow. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Finally! Color me happeh
- Bwana ☠
Jenna: lol - what's sleep anyway?
- Chris Rogers
Somebody tell Jenna I want to import a VCF file and find all the people on that contact list with shared link blogs.
- Louis Gray
One thing I'm noticing is that if I like or read the same post in different folders, my 'like' doesn't show up for me when i open the post in another folder. The post also seems to remain unread in other folders even if I've marked it as read elsewhere. Am I doing something wrong?
- Matt Hooper
@Louis tell her yerself! ;)
- Jenna Bilotta
Oh... and would somebody else tell Jenna that having the Like in my Share space throws me off? I had a system! Now I have to move my mouse a centimeter to the right! (After almost 9,000 shares, it was automatic)
- Louis Gray
Love it
- Tyler (Chacha)
Louis, I would have thought you would use Keyboard Shortcuts for that. Shift S!
- Tyler (Chacha)
Shift S --- that's two keys. I only use J K and L
- Louis Gray
What does L do?
- Tyler (Chacha)
J = Jump ahead. K = go bacK. L = Like.
- Louis Gray
http://www.google.com/reader... - Huzzah!
- Nathan Chase
http://www.google.com/reader... (but Friendfeed doesn't recognize this new address yet, although the link works for me)
- Stuart Miniman
Cool: http://www.google.com/reader.... Thanks for pointing that out, Louis. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They propagated much more: http://ff.im/5i3G9
- Panayotis Vryonis
It's not automatic: "Since you have already customized your URL for your Google profile, you can choose to use a similar URL for your Reader shared items." It only applies if you created a vanity link for your Google profile
- Bwana ☠
If I were you, I'd make my shared items protected
- Bwana ☠
The last time I shared with GR was March 30 2009.
- Russellreno
Posterous adds Google Maps integration – the service now automatically retrieves the geolocation information in your photos and embeds Google Maps below the photo. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Brian, Svartling and 56 other people liked this
Robert Scoble: Are you still going to use http://ourdoings.com/ after this update?
- Mike Bracco
you know whats interesting...i can disable comments on this post...I wonder if thats because its in a couple of the rooms i admin
- Zee.
That is pretty sweet.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Oh snap, Scobleizer has a choice now. I might actually have to be nice to him. :-) But seriously, congrats Garry and the rest of the Posterous team on a great feature.
- Bruce Lewis
If anyone auto-posts from Posterous to FF and elsewhere I would love to know if the google map is included int the post - post links to examples here.
- Mike Bracco
It's a shame really, I like to edit and add filters to my iPhone pics rather than post raw with naff lighting. Also, does anyone know if this is by default? Because I don't want my home location being broadcast when posting pics from around the house :-\
- CannonGod
Jake: it should be off by default. you can set what occurs when you post a picture by going to your settings page.
- Mike Bracco
from BuddyFeed
Mike: I can't say I can see where abouts :-S As an idea, could one set a 'safe zone' around your house so that all GeoTags from their are not published, but otherwise they are? That would be neat :)
- CannonGod
Jake, great minds think alike. I implemented that feature months ago: http://ourdoings.com/2009-02
- Bruce Lewis
I'm not sure I understand why someone would want their Posterous photos to be geo-tagged. How does that feature add to the entertainment value of a particular piece of content? Obviously it's informative, but, even with that, I still don't see why someone would want to have maps accompanying all the photos on their blog. Just curious ;-)
- Brad Williamson
Brad: I hear you. To your point, the Google Map doesn't appear below the photo UNTIL you click the location link below the photo to have it expand out.
- Mike Bracco
from BuddyFeed
Is this more for mobile phones?
- Outsanity
Brad is right, the link is quite discreet. Regards necessity, I know an Archaeology friend who wanted this feature as he was keeping a travelling journal. Personally I like the option, though most of what I post doesn't need this extra information - generally I'll be telling people about the place I took the photo as part of the post. I rarely post photos with no accompanying text to make sense of them :-p
- CannonGod
Phoenix Visit La Interface - Video - Stereogum (3 videos of songs, 1 of interview, for you Phoenix fans) - http://stereogum.com/archive...
SteVe "Glory Juice" C, RAPatton and Dan Dashnaw liked this
"In addition to speaking in sexy French accents, here Phoenix perform "Lisztomania," "1901," and the older "One Time Too Many." You've likely already seen performances of those tracks, but things get stripped down in the Spinner studios -- acoustic, no drums -- which adds a janglier feel to the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and It's Never Been Like That songs. If you stick around for the interview, you'll see them talk about why they chose bands like Passion Pit and Chairlift to open for them, what they like about Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, and the best thing about being in a band."
- Michael W. May
from Bookmarklet
The impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase - http://www.taptaptap.com/blog...
Corvida, andrei_c, raQuiam and 2 other people liked this
Email ‘n Walk Brings Transparency to the iPhone - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com - http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Parth Awasthi, Richard Akerman, Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart and 3 other people liked this
"Which is amazing. (Though why only e-mail — wouldn’t texting be even more useful?) Of course, because the feed only shows what’s in front of it, there’s no protecting you from the many other dangers that lurk around you. Then there’s the argument that the e-mailer’s focus is on their e-mailing and not what’s in front of them, so even if they were to have a transparent background as their guide, they still might not tune in until it’s too late. The company even warns that it “can’t take any responsibility for your stupidity.”"
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
Android’s are getting more real than ever. Are you ready? - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Bluesun 2600, Jeff P. Henderson, Mark Krynsky and 13 other people liked this
These things are deep in The Uncanny Valley... Creepy.
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
Want.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Hello Kitty, the preferred mascot of androids!
- Miss Elle
she's looking manly
- Eric Nakagawa
2 words - Carpool Lane
- Morgan
I saw the the ones on the right at the Wired Nextfest a few years ago. Pretty amazing.
- Mark Krynsky
Best quote from the article "It’s also the potential for where these androids are likely to see most uptake. I hesitate to say it, but the sex industry is the first to come to mind. Like with most new technology, if there’s any way it can be put to use by pornographers and sex toy manufacturers…it will be…and that creeps me out."
- Jeff P. Henderson
Praveen Vasudev to Praveen's feed, iPhone, All Things Apple, The Apple Room: TNW Apple, TheNextWeb Forum, Crazy Gadgets
Flexible Mini Capsule iPhone 3GS Microphone - http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/flexibl...
Corvida, Noah White, Greg Birch and 18 other people liked this
If you want to record video on your iPhone 3GS and aren’t happy with the built in microphone, then you could add one of these Flexible Mini Capsule iPhone 3GS Microphone’s. The Flexible Mini Capsule iPhone 3GS Microphone lets you position the microphone in a variety of different angles, and according to the guys over at Brando it will give you ten times better reception.
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
The capsule costs you $14 at Brando :O
- Praveen Vasudev
It definitely is!! But this claims to have 10x the qualtiy :D
- Praveen Vasudev
That's the maximum it can get on iPhone :D
- Praveen Vasudev
Boxcar: Twitter Push Notifications Done Right - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Dan Dashnaw liked this
"Browse trending topics and share news" | PeopleBrowsr for NewsRoom: Pretty cool! - http://news.peoplebrowsr.com/
Sean McBride, Dan Dashnaw, Rahsheen the Dream and 3 other people liked this
Just discovering this NewsRoom page. It's potentially very cool, and I especially like the hashtag stats, but it does underscore the need for more intelligent tag and topic tracking for the statstream.
- Grey Drane
from Bookmarklet
Wow! This IS cool.
- Svartling
Thanks for the tip.
- Svartling
I must look in to this more and post about it.
- Svartling
Yep. Definitely an intriguing service. It'll be interesting to see how it matures.
- Grey Drane
I don't think many knows about it yet, so lets hope more users finds it.
- Svartling
Have you tried creating a new stack? That doesn't seem to be working yet. At least not for me.
- Grey Drane
from IM
I've tried to create a "favorites" stack and it worked for me.
- Svartling
Does this mean it's time to check out PeopleBrowsr again? Guess so!
- Michael Fidler
Whenever I try to create a new stack on the news page, I just get an empty stack with a link in the header and "No posts published yet" in the stack. Clicking the link in the header just takes me to an empty PB search (?) page. What did you do exactly?
- Grey Drane
Perhaps I should wait:)
- Michael Fidler
The 10-minute hashtag stats are cool. You can hover over a tag and see if it's trending higher or lower over the past hour and a half.
- Grey Drane
I'd like to see the PB devs add a "Topics" category to their stats drop-down which uses some fancy algorithm to tease out the "real" topics from all the noise. Now THAT would be serious awesomeness!
- Grey Drane
Or how about a third setting to limit the stats to just the people we follow. Or to our "network", i.e. extending it out to people we follow and people they follow. Rather than showing the stats for the entire Twitrix.
- Grey Drane
Another idea: limit stats by hashtag. So for example, restrict the stats to just tweets with the #news hashtag to see what specific news in trending. Then the keywords found in conjunction with that hashtag could be used to get related statistics from the tweetstream as a whole.
- Grey Drane
Yeah My new stacks are empty too.
- Svartling
Michael Fidler: You should try the normal PeopleBrowsr. It works great for Friendfeed, Twitter, RSS Feeds and a lot more in real-time!
- Svartling
I think you can create your own newsroom this way and publish news in it so you can share it with others. Can you see mine: http://news.peoplebrowsr.com/newsroo...
- Svartling
I don't get this newsroom feature. Why should I create a stack and publish news into it when I can not share it?
- Svartling
from PeopleBrowsr
OK, yeah, I see what you mean about using the "Publish" button, but like you, I don't get it. Sharing a news stack must not be implemented yet?
- Grey Drane
BTW, you can get the same "live trending" stat box on http://search.peoplebrowsr.com. Here, when you click on a term, you're taken to a separate search page. I think it would be better if the search results appeared below the stat box, though, rather than on a new page.
- Grey Drane
I'd also love to see this stat box accessible from http://my.peoplebrowsr.com. Maybe in the same sort of way that the search and post fields can be displayed and hidden. Then clicking on a term would open a new stack right in MyPB.
- Grey Drane
Yeah sounds cool. PeopleBrowsr don't work for me at the moment, blank screen. Does it work for you?
- Svartling
Seems to be working fine for me.
- Grey Drane
from IM
Strange..
- Svartling
It works in other browsers but not in Chrome anymore.. Maybe a caching problem?
- Svartling
OT ("off-topic") -- Don't know. I've been having strange random problems connecting to some sites over the last couple of days. In my case, though, they seem like DNS problems. Browser says it can't find the servers. Sometimes refreshing fixes the problem, sometimes not.
- Grey Drane
Yeah sorry for being off topic, but now PeopleBrowsr works again. It was because of the different extensions for Chrome I've tested. I remove them and it worked again.
- Svartling
No worries about the OT. I was just marking it for ease-of-scanning purposes. :)
- Grey Drane
Yeah I saw http://search.peoplebrowsr.com/ I searched for "clipotech" on of my brands, and it shows a normal Twitter search. When I search locally, some users shows up that definitely not tweeted around me. One from Argentina for example.
- Svartling
Cool that you can choose which service to search though.
- Svartling
And "Live trending" is really cool and useful.
- Svartling
I would love to be able to embed one of these live trending searches on my http://ff.clipotech.com/ :)
- Svartling
This looks intriguing, but publishing stacks isn't working yet, right? At least not for me. And Svartling's link above produced an empty page for me.
- Sean McBride
You can create your own newsroom stack but I can not find a way to share it yet.
- Svartling
Prowl: get any Growl notifications via push on the iPhone. - http://theappleblog.com/2009...
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"Growl, in case you aren’t aware, is an open notification platform for OS X that supports a wide variety of applications. Basically, it alerts you via an on-screen pop-up and/or sound when one of its supported applications receives a message, finishes a task, and so on. So, for example, using a Mail plugin, I receive a Growl notification whenever I get an email, or when I’m mentioned or receive a DM on Twitter via Tweetie’s built-in Growl support. It’s a very handy tool to have, especially if you keep your dock hidden, as I do, or if you’re working with many different applications on multiple screens."
- Andrew Trinh
from Bookmarklet
posted about this earlier.
- mjc
Never saw it, saw this while on the iPhone and starred it for later sharing when I got to the laptop.
- Andrew Trinh
This is probably the fastest I've ever spent money on an application. I've bought very few iPhone apps.
- Dustin Sallings
It makes push notifications a lot more useful, can't see any reason not to purchase it. Besides not having a Mac. Dustin, I revisited the TwitterSpy site and noticed a link to im@twitterspy.org. Is this the new XMPP bot or are we still using the old one?
- Andrew Trinh
Wow. that's got potential.
- Rick Cogley
Andrew: (It's got two JIDs. The new one generally performs a lot better. Just add it and it'll move you over automatically.) It'd be nice if I could actually get some twitterspy matches to push through. It's probably best to do that from twitterspy itself. That would require more backend support from prowl, which I'm really hoping he's up for.
- Dustin Sallings
But do note that you don't need a Mac for this. I offered to collaborate on the backend some. I think it's weak right now, but to be completely useful, you effectively need to reproduce the growl config on the server so you can do application and time based filtering on alerts.
- Dustin Sallings
This was the perfect solution for me when it comes to using OmniFocus on the go. I can now get updated when tasks become available while Im out, rather than until I get to the office. Genius.
- Joshua
Do you have to have your Mac running for this to work? I still don't get the mechanics behind this. You install a plugin for Growl and then as stuff happens on your computer, it gets pushed up to the cloud and then to your iPhone??
- Michel
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