34 secs flat for my latest tweet. Thanks Paul and team for this!
- Jorge Escobar
wow, that makes actually want to use Twitter. I may just go tweet something.
- Mike Nencetti
It should be even faster than that Jorge, but our systems are getting near their limit. I hope to have it down to 1 sec sometime next month.
- Paul Buchheit
Yay! That's fantastic! I was getting really bored of manually refreshing it every time I tweeted. Especially from my phone. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Does this mean that Scoble can get smarter on FriendFeed again?
- Crutis
You are still working on Frienfeed (: how nice !
- Murat Can Demir
^ That's probably the best part of this announcement, TBH. Good point
- LANjackal
from IM
whoa, it took less than a minute. i accdently tested it but it's great :) thnx
- asli subasi
awesome, keep it up guys, i knew you would not let us down
- Iggy Mwangi
Great news, love the efforts still put in to FF.I use Google Reader to share into FF (PubSubHubBub) then FF to Twitter (now Real-Time). The URL shortener is great (ff.im), and so FF is central to my social lifestream. I don't care what Scoble says, FF is technically better and feature-rich.
- Keith Rowland
P.S. Conversations are still better here than on GReader, and you just can't have one on Twitter.
- Keith Rowland
You didn't break the FF Facebook app while you were at it, did you? It hasn't worked since.
- Tim Tyler
Oh, awesome!!! 12 seconds :) I can finally go back to Twitter (...okay no I can't I've turned into a Friendfeed junkie..) but prior it took hours upon hours for me to see a feed. Dumb I am, I never suspected a problem LMAO.
- H0llywoodWh0re
Paul ?? Twitter updates facebook status and then facebook creates a new feed here on friendfeed. So we have same entries both from twitter and facebook on friendfeed. Could you guys please work on how we can avoid duplicate entries? Thank you. ( If there's already a way to avoid this, pls let me know)
- Murat Can Demir
Cool, thanks, Paul! :-) RT Twitter updates have been missed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And just as I say that, I see my tweets are not coming into FF in real-time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol. I just tweeted and it was here before I could get out of Tweetie and launch Safari... It's working :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
The real-time component of Google is like introducing the Slashdot effect to the most popular site on the world. People better be prepared for it, infrastructure wise. Jes' sayin.
- Michelle
Michelle: That's what elastic hosting is for. Cue advert for Rackspace Cloud Sites!
- Jalada
A google fail whale would be sorta cool.
- Cliff Gerrish
@Cliff - it exists. It is called Wave.
- Rob La Gesse
getting them weekly for gmail, igoogle and so on - but they only last a couple of minutes mostly
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
They need one of those cute graphics to really annoy people.
- Cliff Gerrish
Google isn't scared of this stuff at all. Ask Matt Cutts. If it gets big, they'll just buy it.
- Michelle
It's not a threat. The Google ecosystem is much bigger than just search.
- Michelle
Results are changing from links to widgets.
- Cliff Gerrish
the biggest change for google search is that now its more dynamic, fade in's, drop downs and so on
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
scared is a loaded word... let's say concerned.
- Jason Calacanis
@cliff, totally agree with the links to widgets. We're moving back into compound document architectures backed by some fairly sophisticated intelligence.
- Jerry Schuman
Widgets can handle streams of data...
- Cliff Gerrish
Robert, not by name, but I'll bet a bunch of people do what I do...say , gee I sure wish I had that...
- Karoli
@cliff, yep that is absolutely what we've been focusing on here. Stream aggregation that can ID context and conversation are absolutely the next huge implementations.
- Jerry Schuman
read the quantum computing blog post from Google. They're working on this exact problem
- Jerry Schuman
Karoli--that's why they bought the engineering team for this social network!
- Michelle
Agree, Michelle. FF search is the finest I've used.
- Karoli
facebook as an identity platform will go the way of Microsoft Passport if it's 1) not open standards and 2) they don't use the private identity info for corporate gain
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I won't use FB as an identity platform because they have exhibited anti-privacy behaviour
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
my issue with FB was the default to google indexing while giving users the impression they were protecting them.
- Karoli
i think they totally duped the development community beyond what they've done to the end users.
- Jerry Schuman
What was changed was the default for people who had not set them to public or open (i.e. using the FB default which was private)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Congress may care about privacy on the internet, but they don't actually know what that means.
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff I agree with that, but they can sure mess with us a lot.
- Robert Scoble
the difference is the data that people have invested into the Facebook data environment - it's a lot more personal than Twitter could ever collect
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
LOL...jason is a little bit sleep-deprived. he's babbling.
- Karoli
Actually, HTML5 is on 'last call' according to WHATWG, but not according to W3C. So, it's sorta close.
- Cliff Gerrish
the point is that there are implementations in the wild regarding HTML5 in anticipation of a ratified standard. Not much different then what happened to 802.11 N
- Jerry Schuman
ok.. quit stealing my damn thoughts before I can type them out
- Jerry Schuman
That's why you have a closed Chrome hardware play -- you can implement HTML5 in a closed system.
- Cliff Gerrish
I switched OurDoings to HTML5, but I'm only using the parts of it that older browsers can handle.
- Bruce Lewis
Well, since I was there when 802.11 was born, I had to bring up the example :)
- Rob La Gesse
Robert's point is very valid - the app devs will be able to get on board the HTML5 train and enjoy the benefits and hopefully the standards body will avoid tweaking it out of usability
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I want to see a closer pic of Kevin's whiteboard over his shoulder ;-)
- Jerry Schuman
google must be *loving* html5 because they will get all of those apps to be immediatly usable on any new Chrome netbook and also all new Android devices
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
no.. they'll hack up their own solutions in the meantime. Hell Comet/Push was hacked together prior to the standardization of websockets
- Jerry Schuman
Android and iPhone implementations of webkit are different. So, there are different capabilities there...
- Cliff Gerrish
you also have to look at what Google is doing with GWT. It plays a big role on supplementing what they're doing in HTML5
- Jerry Schuman
Randall Stross wrote that for the Times, but it was largely debunked.
- Cliff Gerrish
Hey, Kevin, is there a 140 character comparison of Google Voice vs Ribbit Mobile?
- Ken Sheppardson
Then why does the iphone only have to seem to have the major issues in the US?
- gfurry
Chicago, New York, Dallas (HOME OF ATT!!!) all suck (as does SFO).
- Rob La Gesse
It's because AT&T is the only network with the iPhone. Check Mary Meeker's stats on iPhone use in her Morgan Stanley Mobile internet report.
- Cliff Gerrish
Is Steve Gillmor the new John Dvorak or just another one? Being contrary seems like a life goal -- maybe just their way of appearing relevant?
- Brian Sullivan
at least the TechCrunch commenters addressed the issue. time to take this convo private
- Steve Gillmor
Steve- Visual Studio2010 is written completely in WPF. So its not a completely ridiculous notion to suggest that Office will be written in WPF/Silverlight at some point in the future.
- Roberto Bonini
EH ? was not Vista built on the WPF foundation too ??
- Peter Dawson
roberto of course. but the idea that I missed the HTML 5 memo and that I'm being contrarian is lamer than the comments on Techcrunch which is a promising trend.
- Steve Gillmor
Visual Studio 2010 used WPF as part of its text editor and rendering engine. By no stretch of the imagination is it 'completely written in WPF'. Vista included .NET 3.5 (as an update) which includes the WPF libraries. No part of Vista used WPF directly. Steve is correct that an Office implementation in Silverlight is inevitable, but it's more a question of positioning rather than engineering.
- David Ing
the message at PDC was loud and strong: WPF and SIlverlight are converging - fast
- Steve Gillmor
exactly david - not technology but strategic shift
- Steve Gillmor
I think the message from PDC is more that WPF is 'resting', as in it's in the 10 year support cycle, and certainly the 'tech de jour' for windows desktop apps but that all the release cycle energy is being put into Silverlight. It's interesting in that SL is starting to diverge slightly in that the Win / Mac runtimes are not quite on par, i.e. when Silverlight crosses the line in being 'better on Windows' then it's completely confused the whole WPF/SL story
- David Ing
any divergence will be met with pushback at the highest levels. please document such issues and point to them so we can leverage them
- Steve Gillmor
It seems msft's intent is for much greater synergies between Spoint/Office etc going forward, various techs involved, with silverlight deeper into 'platform' throughout, but still immature and UI layer...
- oliver marks
Peter: there is almost zero.NET code inside Vista. Also, who said Visual Studio was written on top of .NET (IE, WPF or Silverlight)? That's wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Ah, sorry David. Misread which ever article I read that in. Thanks for clarifying it. Nonetheless, Microsoft is using it's own products because they see it as the future n
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Silverlight Office will center on micromessaging, and it will be sooner than robert's 5 years bet
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, the divergence will be COM, i.e. in Silverlight 4 I can automate MS Office via COM, use Text to Speech in Vista via COM - Microsoft have 14 years of interfaces that Silverlight on Windows can now unlock. If Mac had the equiv then I'm sure they'd do the same, but this is an interesting case where you can write a better SL app 'for windows' than without - makes sense?
- David Ing
but linking to old Office is not what I am saying see above
- Steve Gillmor
Yep, I understand, not being contrary, but highlighting that the developers themselves can create divergence of SL if they so choose - so much of world of windows is accessible from COM, and that the Silverlight Out of Browser (SLOOB) is an interesting sweet spot that may have unintended strategic side effects.
- David Ing
Mac compliant apps are the sweet spot. Devs may veer but the trend will be toward interoperability and with Moonlight too.
- Steve Gillmor
I hope so, although mainly just for the 'client' run-time. A big Silverlight for Business Apps push is the updated 'RIA Services' capability. This cements the story that SL is aimed at the business developer with a Windows backend, as in Moonlight and Mono have no RIA service equiv as yet. A large majority of new Silverlight apps being written next year will be for enterprises and be...
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- David Ing
all true but the key apps will support Win/Mac and add point functionality to iphone as demoed in LA.
- Steve Gillmor
The '3-screens' message re:iphone is an odd one, as in if you count Win7Mobile then that's roughly 2.5 screens :). The two iPhone demos at PDC were (1) the mp4 silverlight streaming, i.e. IIS using the SL video codec (more a branding association rather than actual Silverlight) and (2) a web app over the data.gov 'Dallas' store (PHP based ironically). It doesn't take a mac genius to work...
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- David Ing
Robert, Visual studio 2010 is written partly in WPF. Not 2008. Now Microsoft has at least one project with an OS kernal written completely in .net. So Im on steves side on this one.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Oh and Robert, you can tell the difference between the WPF designer in 2010 and the vanilla in in 2008
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
128 gigs is just too small. I can fill that up in a heartbeat and wouldn't want to have to lug around an external data drive all the time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Have you installed Jaunty Jackalope yet? Recomend?
- Jon Tatum
Yeah - I could fill that up in a week :)
- Roberto Bonini
Jon, I did an in-place upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 - no problems at all... ymmv
- Chris Heath
Leo, MCE Technologies has a adapter to replace the optical drive in the macbook pro with a hard drive. This would give you two drives in your MBP. The SSD and the orginal HD http://www.mcetech.com/optibay...
- Joseph Woodcock
Can you install and SSD in the MCE optibay and leave the old HD in place while using the SSD permanently as the startup drive?
- Brian of London
@Brian Yes you can. I'm doing that right now.
- ronin
from iPhone
The speed and quietness are nice but for now I'll stick with more drive space.
- Johann Diaz
from Nambu
Leo, can you write up how you did the install of this drive and the swap of the superdrive for the 500g drive on one of your blogs somewhere?
- Alan Alpar
Leo may chime in here, but I'm pretty sure he picked the Corsair on the recommendation of Allyn Malventano and Ryan Shrout over at PC Perspective as a result of conversations with them on the PC Per podcast / TWiCH. Allyn's SSD guide is here: http://www.pcper.com/article... I think tech's evolved quite a bit in the past seven months or so since Leo did this upgrade, and the PC Per "Dream System" is currently spec'd with an Intel 80GB Intel X25M G2 http://www.pcper.com/hwlb....
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, i'm pretty sure you're correct that Leo chose that corsair based on Allyn's reco -- IIRC, the intel's are preferred, but are pricey, so Allyn reco's the corsair for just about the same performance for a lesser price.... and like you said that was a while ago and tech has evolved and prices have probably dropped as well
- Chris Heath
when system or program caches are too large to keep in memory, an SSD is a pretty reliable way to increase performance
- Mike Chelen
No, it's different, Karoli. I've also used it a bit, and it's more of a "universal inbox" than FriendFeed. It's just a client, rather than a stand-alone service.
- Ken Sheppardson
Is there a recording of the Tim Berners-Lee conversation somewhere?
- Mike Doeff
thanks, Ken. It's one of those services that definitely interests me...if I ever get in. :)
- Karoli
Nick: I still use RSS too. Saying something is dead is dead.
- Robert Scoble
We individually kill and give life to things every day. I don't use Google Reader much anymore, for instance. So to me Google Reader is dead.
- Robert Scoble
I used to think I'd want a universal inbox, but stuff like Threadsy have reminded me that I really want different "layers"/urgency in my inbox, e.g. SMS > IM > email
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert, I still use Google Reader...but only when what I'm seeing on Twitter/Friendfeed doesn't feel balanced to me. I can usually get that balance by going back to GR.
- Karoli
Karoli: lists will bring that balance to Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Ken, I'd definitely need filters or I'd just run away from the inbox screaming...
- Karoli
I still use GR - but I have about 10 feeds - the rest I get supplied by Twitter/TweetMeme
- Nick Halstead
the issue i have with tweetmeme, etc is how easily the echo chamber develops. I love it, but want to reach outside of it for info sometimes.
- Karoli
Karoli: I agree - the core categories will always be full of the echo/main crowd - but we will soon launch the ability for you to build your own channels that are filtered to your 'exact' requirements
- Nick Halstead
Used Threadsy 2 weeks ago, and okay concept, needs work still.
- JimmyJet
In the demo yesterday, Microsoft claimed that their Bing/Twitter search results filter out spam and surfaces quality results based on "social relevance"
- Mike Doeff
because it's a beta for a few 1000s....wait for lists to be rolled out...
- Antonella Stellacci
Mike, they're weighting it based on some kind of authority?
- Karoli
so "normal" people don't want to find new friends who share their interests?
- Jerome Hughes
Whatever it is, it's got to work for 'normal' people.
- Cliff Gerrish
@mikedoeff: Who decides "social relevance"? @Scobleizer Who is to say that this "social relevance' will be a democratic system? How can we prevent a new SUL/TechCrunch to happen, with people being disqualified for having "different" views?
- Antonella Stellacci
They called it "social relevance" but didn't really drill into what that means. Maybe some combination of # of followers, number of tweets, age of the account, verified status, etc.
- Mike Doeff
When will "normal" people get access to Twitter lists? I don't have it on my account. I might start using Twitter if I did.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ah...there's the 'track' ref. It's like coming home. :)
- Karoli
Yeah, I'm not one of the cool kids who get the lists feature on Twitter. :)
- Karoli
Potential issue with Twitter lists: Someone posts a list of CIO's. Sales rep's from Oracle, SAP, etc. use that list to pitch their products to those CIO's with @messages or DM's. Or they could find all of the people inside a company by finding a company list. It'll be like a free version of Jigsaw.
- Mike Doeff
lists =meta-data....so discovery of new users is one of the options...
- Antonella Stellacci
@mike u can DM a list? (sry for the stupid question, I don't have lists :(
- Antonella Stellacci
Is there convergence on a standard for lists, or is it too early?
- Cliff Gerrish
I wonder which will win out: sending stuff out to specified groups/audiences, or just sending stuff out to "everyone", and having whatever permissions you've assigned to specific people determine whether or not they see it. I guess it's the same thing. Nevermind. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Antonella, you can't DM a list but it's an easy way to collect twitter id's in a specific niche. You can go down the list and follow people individually.
- Mike Doeff
Robert, I agree - would be a very bad move if PR firm, sales people, etc. abuse the lists features. They'll end up on a PR Twitter blacklist :)
- Mike Doeff
It centralizes with the user -- not with the services. This ties in to the purpose-centric web and the sidewiki discussion.
- Cliff Gerrish
So Threadsy isn't a service? Where's the line between services and clients?
- Ken Sheppardson
So will we see search come to Threadsy streams?
- JimmyJet
Robert: Click on your entry, click "Edit > Disable Comments"
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: no. I want my curation to be public. Arnie: Wave could be useful.
- Robert Scoble
Ken: if I turned off comments I won't have the ability to type anything underneath the item.
- Robert Scoble
Arnie: Wave would be useful if it weren't stuck in the very lame email metaphor.
- Robert Scoble
But is that all you want to do? Be able to add comments to your post without other people being able to do so? I'm a little confused...
- Ken Sheppardson
Arnie: Wave is something I'm watching a lot.
- Robert Scoble
Ken: I want to curate and put it on MY OWN STREAM. Without you being there.
- Robert Scoble
..or you want to use FriendFeed as a text editor?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: FriendFeed doesn't work for what I want.
- Robert Scoble
Wave traps me...I want the ability to opt out of specific waves.
- Karoli
Ken: Private groups don't do what I want. I want a public curation where everyone can watch JUST ME.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Would "only let me comment on this entry" do it?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: very close. But now we need to go further. Let me post a video there. An audio there. A picture there. And bring in other tweets and items.
- Robert Scoble
The reality is that no one's interested in 'only scoble' -- everyone wants to create their own mix.
- Cliff Gerrish
Robert: So... a room where only admins (i.e. you) can post and comment, but everyone can view?
- Ken Sheppardson
Cliff: absolutely not true. My blog proves you wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I'm only interested in certain posts from your blog. I don't need the whole stream. You're in my mix, you just don't know it.
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff: and to rub salt in a wound. Twitter proves you wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Every time Steve says, "Rob?" - I start to answer :)
- Rob La Gesse
Cliff: that's cool. So you are listening to a group curation then.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That's a pretty minor incremental fix, I'd think. Right now there are three types of rooms 1) Private, 2) Standard only admins can post, anyone can comment, 3) Public. Seems like a fourth type where only admins can post/comment but everyone can view would be pretty easy.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hope Threadsy has security for the UN's/PW's they require for each service??
- JimmyJet
Scoble, yes. I use a microcommunity to filter items -- not full feeds.
- Cliff Gerrish
Ken: even easy stuff takes engineering time.
- Robert Scoble
Threadsy in Chrome gets a basic auth pop up from twitter.com for my API credentials every time it tries to access Twitter :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Cliff: I know. I have seen this. Sort of like how TechMeme works.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Sure, but asking Paul to add a fourth room type sure seems easier than casting out some general lazyweb request for curation tools ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Scoble, techmeme is read only. This is a little different.
- Cliff Gerrish
Ken: FriendFeed has no engineering team working on many new features. I've already asked for new features. I've been asking for this stuff for years.
- Robert Scoble
Ken: Threadsy in Chrome (4): I am no longer getting a request to relog or give permission to twitter. refreshing auto like it should
- amarquart
Does Facebook still prevent developers from caching data for more than 24hrs?
- Ken Sheppardson
Threadsy seems to define the pipe that exists between services. The Oauth issue is critical -- it comes bak to identity.
- Cliff Gerrish
Ken: Windows is Amazon's top seller. I want to be dead like that.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, we are already giving curated content e.g. this channel that is defined by 20 of the top Twitterati - http://twitterati.tweetmeme.com/ - soon these channels can be built by anyone
- Nick Halstead
Ok - i didnt get in on this till now - will it be archived?
- Chris Jackson
Yeah, it'll be published to YouTube in a day or so.
- Cliff Gerrish
Nick: that's not really what I want?
- Robert Scoble
RSS?? (which we all know is dead, ..but still); mp3 ?? Steve, I understand your effort to make a point by inconveniencing us with lack of rss, I get it, but from that stage further it is just pain in the a**.
- Mindaugas Dagys
Thank you to my 50,002 followers. Look through my followers here and compare to my Twitter followers and what do you notice? I see fewer spammers. Fewer bots. Fewer social media experts. Thanks for joining me on FriendFeed! It has been an awesome two years!
You're welcome ;-) A question though, where do you think we geeks will congregate next? I'm thinking that since Facebook now owns the Friendfeed devs, FF will eventually starve to death... hopefully not.
- Roberto Teixeira
But I notice a lot of users interact on FF via Twitter not directly on FF. Also FF faces tough competition from the likes of Posterous and Tumblr which offer more functionality with similar ease of use as FF.
- Roger
Roberto: Not so long ago this very FF post from scobleizer would get something about 300+ likes and 150+ comments. Sadly, FF users are surely looking elsewhere.
- Arvind
FF is ok, but its not the be all and end all Robert.
- Micky
I too think that friendfeed is still a winner... people that left just filtered themselves out of my conversations. They are no longer discoverable here to me. Their loss (imho)
- Chris Heath
Your welcome :). Friendfeed really really is awesome
- alfred westerveld
Yes Robert and Friendfeed is massively technically superior - Makes it even sadder that the platform here's being ignored by the new owners.
- Jim Connolly
Still the best place for discovery to me despite less interaction.
- Eric Logan
Robert - I love the community and friends here on FriendFeed. I am so happy I was on FF in early 2008 and got to experience it's wild and wooly growth path. Chatting with you and all these cool geeks is really fun. I've learned TONS from you guys and I truly appreciate the friendship too! :)
- Susan Beebe
I agree, way less marketing gurus and spammers =)
- Brodie Beta
Wewt! We are awesome, especially me </ego>
- Danny Minick
In my experience, I've been using ff more rather than less since the fb aquisition. I don't see why I would migrate to another community ATM. To me, Friendfeed is king. :) King of social media, that is.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Me, I'm sticking with FF for the foreseeable future. I'm even going to do my part to promote it, at least to my (right now) 1K+ Twitter followers.
- Dennis Jernberg
Friend Feed is the Future Robert and you just may be our Faithfull leader! :)
- PeaceMakersInc
Thank you, Robert. I have learned quite a bit from you-and you have created/moderated some tremendous discussions/issues. Best wishes to you and your family.
- Harold Cabezas
LOL. I agree. I have 413 followers on Twitter. When I ask a question, I get no responses. Same here. Does nobody like me?
- Zachary TG
zachary check their subscriptions against their subscribers and you might have an answer there
- ffcode
yup! there is a decline...don't know what friendfeeders are upto...foursquare might not be the complete answer
- ffcode
I'm still here. I tried doing the Google Reader thing. While it's a great reader, I think it SUCKS as a social platform. I still use it, but I don't expect as much out of it as I used to. FriendFeed and posterous are what I like best for what I do. Facebook is getting a little chaotic for me. I've made lists, but I think I need to start pruning... LONG LIVE FRIENDFEED!
- Kimber Scott
U do like normal folks like us, who does have a life, like having hobbies such as movies, taking pictures, making jokes and listening 2 old radio jokes on the Internet lol...and wondering why spell check doesn't work somedays
- polou/indigo_bow
Has it really been 2 years? OMG that was fast.
- Elliott Ng
ROFL! No bots; just wait! The bots are coming, they always come.
- Brandon Smietana
In twenty years I would be surprised if the bots were not more human than the humans. "Statistical Natural Language Processing: When Humans Fail the Turing Test", coming to a research journal near you!
- Brandon Smietana
just a matter of resources. Most are happy with the video (tip: contains audio)
- Steve Gillmor
YouTube video ain't much good to the working shlub who wants to listen on the commute home. I find Steve's audience hostility to be endearingly punk of him. "Office died for somebody's sins, but not mine!"
- Dave Slusher
Since the return of GG I have not listened (seen)a single episode as when I have the time I don't have the bandwidth and vice versa. I know I live in a cultural backwater and use ancient one year old technology and that it's my fault but I miss the show.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Re: "just a matter of resources" - with Quicktime Pro, you can just "extract audio". Saves all of us downloading unnecessary video. (Thanks to whoever is doing the bootlegs). Also, it's nice to be able to "subscribe" and have new shows just show up.
- Darius Dunlap
Thanks Steve. Seem to be a day late and a dollar short around here...
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Jack is the kind soul doing the bootlegging - i think
- Susan Beebe
Yes I am. It's a non trivial process; 45 minutes to download from Youtube, several minutes to re-encode and add ID3 tags then 20 minutes to upload to archive.org
- Jack
Hi guys, how have you all been? Have to hand it to Steve that he can get all the old gang members in a tizzy that (surprise) he's holding the reins.
- Bruce Lerner
Yeah, thanks Jack. I really appreciate your doing this.
- Ken Morley
Darius after months of transition we are now producing a video show. The show is a different thing than previous versions, and will continue to change as warranted. It may be unnecessary video for you but it takes a lot of energy and resources for us, as well as from our sponsors and partners who like us are investing in the new realtime network. I'm trying to engineer an RSS feed of...
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- Steve Gillmor
In the end, if you wanted to go to the trouble (or some fan could do it), you might have to mash up with another service, like Blip.tv, that has more investment in episodic content to produce a feed with enclosures. Maybe check with Calacanis's guy. They seem to do a dual upload to Blip for TWIS and the Pollack show so they can use the more robust elements in the blip namespaces.
- Amyloo
For what it's worth I like the new video format. In my opinion it's easier to follow who's saying what. I hook my MacBook up to my HDTV and the YouTube video starts playing within a minute via DSL/local Wifi net.
- scott anderson
At this rate, you'll be moving into America's bedrooms by Christmas.
- Matt Terenzio
Steve, not a big deal, but what's the relationship between "the new realtime network" and doing GG in video (as opposed to audio)? Is video more "realtime" than audio?
- Andrew Jaffe
Hey Steve, I thought after the Dylan news, the Gillmor Gang Christmas Album had been put on hold...
- Cliff Gerrish
Andrew I see this new realtime network as something different and fascinating. More than audio, not how I see it. Different.
- Steve Gillmor
Ok, I tried another angle, though resource heavy and space consuming to time align for the mobile hobo... I opened the YouTube page in Firefox with a Greasemonkey script installed and downloaded the file as a .flv, used Visual Hub to convert it to a M4v and then put it on my iPod Touch. By adding time to Realtime, I was able to enjoy the discussion in the cardboard box of my choice,...
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- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
seems like there's a song lyric about that...
- Karoli
16 year old poverty stricken boy runs his own school from his backyard thereby providing basic education to more than 800 children for free - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Interesting as usual, the ecosystem is set to explode with the Listing API and curation is what everyone needs to be working on. Nice to hear more opinions about status updates converging and reading lists trending, as the potential issues with proxy rights to link data and a Facebook App Store. Looking forward for the transcript.
- Alberto Saavedra
Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Bio student asked me to suggest a text editor. Is this every programmer's dream question? Little does she know she's opened Pandora's box. - http://www.onebigfluke.com/2009...
"That Dell is releasing a new laptop for business customers is the opposite of surprising. But the fact that it contains notable features not seen in any other laptops certainly is."
- Jemm
from Bookmarklet