You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
I am experiencing the same thing as Sean McBride - twitter and facebook stopped getting updated via FF on Monday. I just deleted twitter from my ff update list...now i can't get it back. The message - We could not find the given account...appears when I attempt to add it back to the list. What happened?
Yeah, I just noticed the same thing. My tweets are being imported by Advanced Tweets, but when I try to push something to Twitter from FF (IDK if that happens through Advanced Tweets or if that goes through FF natively), it doesn't work.
- Curdy G
Twitter just imported for me! Hooray, it's back!
- Andrew C (✓)
Not back for me on any of my accounts (>20), so I'm moving some of them to dlvr.it. There is rate limted trouble from Yahoo Pipes to Dlvr.it, but at least you get an error message with a hint at what's going on.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
As of the moment, Friendfeed posts are not being exported to Twitter. (But Twitter posts are being exported to Friendfeed.)
- Sean McBride
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks)
- directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway.
- Bret Taylor
Space, I've done this for months and it just started for me! Hopefully it doesn't last because I have to turn off the Twitter connection which in turn means that they don't go to Facebook anymore. I don't see what the Friendfeed guys would have changed to create this behavior unless it was on the Twitter end. Anything to do with new version of Firefox?
- beersage
Double posts from FF to FB -- as well as FF no longer updating FB status; only posting to Wall. Something fishy going on at FF: a surfeit of new issues, and ... no response. At all. Kinda ominous....
- Matthew Weymar
I am getting double posts from FriendFeed to Facebook as well -- sucks. You would think since they are owned by Facebook they could at least get that part right. I agree with Matthew -- this seems sort of like circling the toilet bowl.
- Brian Sullivan
I think it happens only from bookmarklet or other feeds, not with direct posts.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
I've actually cut all connection between FF and Twitter and some items are still going through -- and some are doubled. This needs to be fixed immediately.
- Cliff Gerrish
I'm not having a problem with double posts, but I don't have FB connected to Friendfeed either.
- Karoli
I think this has something to do with FriendFeed's implementation of Oauth with Twitter.
- Cliff Gerrish
Same here, I even have some RSS feeds still pulling blogs I had disconnected earlier this week
- Yann Ropars
Bump for the above comment. All my disconnected feeds are still posting, I think.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"It’s amazing what a little British ingenuity and a shoe-string budget can achieve. These glorious photos of space were taken by amateur enthusiast Robert Harrison, using a cheap Canon digital camera, some duct tape and a helium balloon."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I want recurring tasks in Gmail. My wishlist item #1.
- David Schmidt
Agreed. Google tasks could use a bunch of work. Recurring tasks, tags (or on more than one list), API... Looks like it will be a while yet. http://code.google.com/p...
- Tim Oertel
"Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
"Nerd 1: Come on, Mr. Simpson, you'll never pass this course if you don't know the periodic table. Homer: Ehh, I'll write it on my hand. Nerd 1: Ho! Including all known lanthanides and actinides? Ha, ha! Good luck." /via http://www.snpp.com/episode...
- Louis Gray
I'm pretty sure she knew the blogosphere and the 'gotcha media' would notice that, and she hope it would make her cool and rebel - and I bet it does, her targeted audience will love this... I wish we wouldn't pay attention to this kind of show.
- Jérôme
This seems pretty unbelievable, like someone got punked with a photoshopped picture. But sure enough, there's video from multiple sources. The rabidity of the Huffington Post coverage likely precludes most news organizations from covering it, though.
- Mark Trapp
The "Gay Lord" thing also seems like a Photoshop!
- Gabe
Gabe, I'll say one thing about the Opryland Hotel, the outdoor Christmas lights in December are pretty impressive.
- Micah
a friend of mine proposed a scheme where many people would reserve rooms at the Opryland the weekend of the convention, then cancel before the event (within the hotel's rules for cancellation that would be like a week before or something) ... i told him it wasn't worth the effort, but would be an interesting prank if it could be pulled off
- Chris Heath
"Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above. WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of randomness, nonsensical yelling, and even a unicorn. A portable stereo blared Lady GaGa, while press and people passing by ignored the WBC signs and took pictures and videos of the more entertaining signs. I was also there and turned on the video camera while holding my sign."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
That's why the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is so awesome. When school boards start talking about teaching creationism in schools, you can bet some Pirate are gonna show up and demand that THEIR creation myths are given equal time. :)
- iTad
"Why would I say that Michael J. Fox is faking his Parkinson's symptoms? Why would I find it funny to play a song called "Barack the Magic Negro"? Why would I tell people not to give aid to Haiti?" - http://www.theonion.com/content...
"I live in constant terror and that terror informs my every word, thought, and action. See, the thing is, I honestly cannot control the bilious hatred and filth that oozes out of my mouth. I want to—believe me, I want to—but I can't. And every time I speak, a tiny voice inside my head is screaming, "Stop talking, you stupid, insensitive prick. JUST STOP FUCKING TALKING. All you do is spread hate and fear, and the world would be a better place without you, you worthless, amoral, cocksucking fuckface.""
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This needs the words "drug-addled, draft-dodging," added to the last sentence.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
"The irony is that, even if I did die, the hell I would surely be sent to could not possibly be any worse than the bottomless pool of excrement I already paddle around in"
- Gabe
The Onion is a VERY liberal site. 1. They want to trash talk him. 2. If he had an article to write why would it be posted on a site that opposes his views? Totally fake.
- Jeff Buchheit
Rush did not write it. Hes not that sort of guy. And his Official rush sight does not show one sign of that.
- Jeff Buchheit
OK, Jeff, if Rush didn't write it, then who did? Afterall, it has his name and picture right at the top! Are you trying to imply that this is some sort of parody of Rush Limbaugh? I just don't think The Onion does satire.
- Gabe
I don't know what to say sometimes.Three points. It's the Onion, enough said. Who cares what Rush Limbaugh says but I do agree with him when it is applied to him that drug addicts should be deported. And it's "site."
- Stephan Miller
1. Wouldn't you think that if he was to do that he would do that on one of his own publishing sites or radio show,etc.? 2. If he did that it is highly unlikely that he would still be broadcasting and reporting. That is the sort of article that you just tend to quit after writing. 3. It all makes sense that a site like the Onion would want to put Rush out of the media. They hate him, as do all democrats.
- Jeff Buchheit
I think the imprimatur of the Onion gives this the necessary credibility he might not have had if he just put it on his own site.
- Andrew C (✓)
I see what you mean but on his site people know 100% that it is him.
- Jeff Buchheit
We should export drug addicts? Well, then...where would Rush go?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Jeff: What exactly do you mean by "a site like the Onion"?
- Gabe
AFAIK there are no sites like the Onion. There are a few horrible wannabe copycats, but their grasp of humour is appalling.
- Andrew C (✓)
I really can't place whether some people in the comments here are being sarcastic or sadly serious...
- Jan Ole Peek
I think everyone besides Jeff realizes this Rush piece is quite obviously satire and never thought otherwise. Jeff realizes it's satire, but either thinks everyone else doesn't or is playing a massive prank on us. Since I don't know him and his feed is private, I don't have enough context to make a call either way.
- Andrew C (✓)
Lots of people taking the bait here...did no one expect trolling at this level to occur on friendfeed?
- Mr. Gunn
Well, I encounter enough real crazies on the internet that it's my default guess.
- Andrew C (✓)
"The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas. The guy sitting next to me on the plane asked me to loan him a pen so that he could fill out his customs form. I watched him fill out the form and clearly remember his birth year of 1984, but am a bit unsure about his name. I think it was -----, but in this story, we will refer to him as Pinche."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I just posted a blog entry and I'm pretty sure Google spidered it within a few seconds. I was surprised to see it show up when I was searching on something related a little while later. Big wow moment.
- Matt M (inactive)
He has hundreds of transformers toys (and some Lego toys hanging from the ceiling) surrounding him at every angle. This was part of our tour today of Industrial Light and Magic (the folks who made Star Wars, among many many other movies). When we walked in he quickly hid what was on the screen. Hmmm.
- Robert Scoble
ha...wow...i don't feel the need to clean my office anymore!
- Jim Gray
The computer and monitor need some work.
- Louis Gray
Louis: I was actually surprised by most of the monitors I saw at ILM. I have more glass on my desk. But most did have two monitors with a high-speed computer (and they had a kick ass data center for rendering everything). The models that we saw were unreal. I'll try to upload some of those next.
- Robert Scoble
Geez, I think he has them arranged by series as well.
- Rob H.
His shirt needs replaced, it looks like he got into a fight with a rainbow, and lost after he knocked out green.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Maybe he can only do the work he does thx to his office.
- Ton Zijp
Whoa! Hope his office won't face any EQ soon :)
- Nir Ben Yona
Wondering if he could find what he's looking for on the fly; probably could.
- Mark Evans
Jimminy: to be fair he didn't know he was going to be photographed today for hundreds of thousands of people to see.
- Robert Scoble
That's one my little brother will love. Great shot!
- Zu from AOD
Yeah, I remember similar pics (not of transformers) but of other film work in progress when I was a loyal sub'er to "Starlog" mag. Anyone ever take that here? http://www.starlog.com/
- Melanie Reed
This is such a cool photo Robert. Looks like one you'd see in Life magazine. What lens did you use?
- Mark Krynsky
I mostly only use one lens lately: my 17-40 F4.0 lens on a Canon 5D MK II. This was shot at 6400 ISO. Which is totally crazy. I remember when Kodak came out with 1000 ISO film that was only Black and White and had lots of grain.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, yeah I understand him not being prepared, it's just a very striking shirt, definitely an attention grabber, though the environment pulls you away.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Melanie, I wasn't really describing plaid so much as the colors of it. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy, yeah, I know. I liked your description! Very apt! (for the record I dislike Madras Plaid. I had to wear it as part of a uniform for a job once...every day) ;)
- Melanie Reed
I just noticed he has 8-bit Mario Bros. magnets, that's freakin' awesome.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
My brothers who are both artists (animation and modeling) would love this room.
- Melanie Reed
One advantage the Mac has vs Windows is that Apple controls the whole box, so it doesn't come preloaded with Norton AV and other garbage, poorly written drivers, etc. Maybe Microsoft should do like Google (Nexus One) and compete with their OEMs. They could probably make a much nicer machine than Dell does.
The Mac vs the PC you mean surely? The Mac is hardware and Windows is software.
- Kol Tregaskes
There is the minor issue of anti-trust.
- Brian Sullivan
The hardware is basically the same, but the overall platform experience is very different.
- Paul Buchheit
I'm sure the OEMs would complain, but I don't think there are any actual anti-trust issues.
- Paul Buchheit
I never buy PCs in this way anyway, purely for this reason. I've never put Norton on anyone's machine, even my worst enemy. Preloaded PCs are awful.
- Kol Tregaskes
I think it might end up like PlaysForSure, with OEMs deciding to bail when Microsoft starts to compete with them. Windows is probably big enough for OEMs to grin and bear it, but all it takes is one big mistake to initiate a chain reaction.
- Mark Trapp
I also think you could make the argument now that Microsoft already did this with XBox.
- Mark Trapp
What choice do they have Mark, ship Linux instead?! They're stuck with Windows.
- Paul Buchheit
Right now, sure: but hell hath no fury like a corporation scorn'd. They could all rally around the "kill Microsoft" flag and pull a VHS to Microsoft's Betamax.
- Mark Trapp
They are already building awesome keyboard, mouse, webcams. A proper PC which leverages Windows 7 multi-touch to max will be great.
- aakash
I think Microsoft (kind of) doing this in their physical stores - a lot of the machines come with a "clean" install of Windows. (I am not sure if it is all of the machines.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Microsoft recently introduced the "Microsoft Signature" brand of PCs which are still manufactured by third parties but don't come pre-loaded with any third-party crapware. More info at http://www.geek.com/article....
- Isaac Hepworth
Interesting, Isaac: who actually makes the Microsoft Signature PCs? Or is it more of an endorsement/certification any manufacturer can get?
- Mark Trapp
hate to say this but for one small shiny moment in time I agree with this.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Mark: the article indicated that Signature PCs come from manufacturers like Sony and HP.
- Gabe
Hey Paul: 1) You do know that some OEMs (HP, Dell, Alienware, for example) allow you to order PCs without any 3rd party apps installed, right? Maybe you should inform yourself before posting stuff. 2) Any 3rd party apps you see on a new Windows PC are the fault of the OEM, *not* MS 3) Economically speaking PCs would be more expensive if it weren't for crapware. Norton et al subsidize the cost of PCs by paying for a spot on new installations. Not everyone can afford a 4 figure laptop.
- LANjackal
LANjackal, you're missing the point.
- Paul Buchheit
LANjackal: calm down. Paul's making a good point -- your average Windows machine is annoying to use because somebody who doesn't care about your experience configured it. Your average Apple is not so annoying because Apple won't let anybody else configure it, and they do care about your experience.
- Gabe
I was pointing out specific cases where the argument breaks down, but if you use the term "average" you're correct
- LANjackal
I like it as long as it doesn't hinder innovation of hardware components by them sticking with certain brands or technology. The ability to build a computer from scratch yourself for cheap is part of the appeal. Microsoft should have a better relationship with OEM's to provide solid drivers.
- Rodfather
Rodfather, OEMs (and anyone else) would still continue producing Windows machines. The only change would be that they'd have to compete with MS, who presumably cares more about the overall windows brand than they do.
- Paul Buchheit
Yes, but if Microsoft creates a machine that is "Microsoft certified", it may cause OEM's to stick to that spec. Like with netbooks. Innovation there is hindered since Microsoft set certain specs a netbook should have to allow Windows 7 Starter edition installed for very cheap.
- Rodfather
That's actually a good idea, but so far MS has only used its own branding in markets in which it needed a huge dent against a formidable incumbent (console gaming, MP3 players). You'd be hard pressed to say that MS needs to make a huge dent in the PC market right now as they're already the formidable incumbent
- LANjackal
from IM
Advantage? Control? these words doesn't come together in the software world. I don't have Norton AV preloaded and have support for more devices than OSX.
- Sebastian Wain
What Jeremy? Neither Scoble has touched this conversation, yet.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Didn't MS give out Acer laptops they had speced and configured (?) at their PDC conference last year?
- Nick Lothian
I think it's an interesting concept. And while a Microsoft "certified" PC might hinder innovation in some way (not sure about that, but I'll roll with it) I don't think a Microsoft produced PC would hinder anything. It's just competition, and that's healthy for an ecosystem.
- Jason Wehmhoener
"We're not a hardware company" -- Bill Gates.
- Eric
Alex - good one, now they just need to go a step further like Paul mentioned. I think it's a good idea! I just bought a new laptop last week with Windows7 and de-installed a tonne of crapware... augh
- Susan Beebe
MS may _care_ about the user experience, but as a corporate culture it is much less likely to get the little details right. Crapware bloat, sure. Really little details, which aggregate to a better user experience? ... probably not. (ref the famous MS-internal "if MS designed the iPod box" video.)
- Andrew C (✓)
I've never bought a branded PC, I always put my own desktop PC hardware together myself. I can't see any reason to change except a competitive price.
- Simon Curran
Just buy from Dell and you won't have to deal with any of the pre-loaded Krap. I just bought a Dell Studio 15 Win 7 laptop from Dell for my wife and it did not come with ANY preloaded crap. Neither did the Dell laptop I bought for my daughter last spring or the Precision desktop I bought 1.5 years ago.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Id buy a MS PC in a second, but Dells are pretty nice as is. You just need to get the XPS line.
- sean percival
Well you're probably using AppleTalk right?
- Hayes Haugen
Not being a wintard, I can't address that, but unix is just as "homegrown" as anything else.
- Hayes Haugen
As we all know in 15 years HTML5 will be finalized and the host OS will be irrelevant.
- Hayes Haugen
Haven't you heard, in the future we'll be all running .NET on the hardware and writing our device drivers with C#?
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Cristo: ports I use on my current laptop that I want on my next one: RS-232, VGA, CardBus
- Gabe
Well, MS doesn't like crapware and sells PCs in it's stores without it. OEMs start to get the idea, and offer crap-free PCs to order through their websites. It might take time for them to make crap-free PCs a default production option.
- Kirill Petrovsky
Wow, in 15 years Unix will be 56 years old. Will we see a true paradigm shift in OS kernels before then? Or will we still be discussing bloatware? I'm thinking the latter.
- Hayes Haugen
@Hayes I'd like to be optimistic and say that we'll have something better but I doubt it.
- Tarmo Aidantausta
By then it'll be biological parts doing the work and have a whole new system that doesn't use binary.
- Rodfather
Cristo, I don't want to walk around with over $100 worth of dongles hanging off my computer. CardBus is the 32-bit version of PC Card (PCMCIA). It has been superseded by ExpressCard (which is only found on Apple's 17"), but I use both on my current laptop.
- Gabe
They stopped putting ExpressCard on 15" laptops around June. They replaced them with SD card slots. Apparently Apple thinks that most people used their EC slots for pulling photos off their digicams.
- Gabe
Wedding photography is a unique combination of every type of photography. Fashion and portrait photography, architectural photography, product photography, macro photography, family and children photography, and sometimes even travel photography are all included under the required knowledge umbrella of wedding photography. In order to deliver a complete wedding photography product, you’re going to need lenses
- prozacfield
from Bookmarklet
awesome list.. bookmarked for future shopping :)
- İyi Aile Çocuğu
"At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off. Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold in boxes of 250 coins, to a credit card that offers frequent-flier mile awards, then took the shipments straight to the bank. They then used the coins they deposited to pay their credit-card bills. Their only cost: the car trip to make the deposit."
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
I was really close to doing this with my cash back card but the ROI wrt time and effort wasn't there.
- Joe Beda
from iPhone
I remember reading about it on flyertalk.com but was to lazy to participate. I'm surprised that the mint cut them off considering it was just a small amount of the total amount sold.
- Carl Haynes
I'm not surprised at all. The Mint was willing to absorb the shipping and credit card fees (1.5-3%) as a promotional cost to get the coins into advocates' hands. If the coins are being sold in a way that doesn't meet these goals, just to take those marketing dollars and give them to people with completely different agendas, I can totally see them halting that.
- Kevin Fox
I love coin dollars and didn't know these had been minted. I am one of those weirdoes who actually likes the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coins (although I'd sure like to see a historical woman on a coin people actually *use*. Guess I'm going to have to wait for rampant inflation...)
- Spidra Webster
"...this will ensure that your photos are way better than those of your neighbors. After all, isn't that what Christmas lights are really about?"
- Andrew Terry
from Bookmarklet
nope, just kinda small stiches otherwise it would be really fast. But still doesn't take too long either. I have a card with the pattern on it, but it originates on this website which has the pattern: http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2007... I made some modifications by using yarn for the beak and eyes instead of buttons and felt as I didn't want anything that could be too easily pulled off.
- Rachel Lea Fox
He isn't very big either. kinda hacky-sack sized.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks for posting the link. I might have to try to make one.
- aden {Chickadee}
Thanks Bash. I'm working my way up to larger kids toys. This seemed like a good starting point. No problem aden. Gotta share the crafty love!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
See-ming and Laura - not meant to be for twitter, but if we attach a note with 140 characters on it and throw him across the room to someone, I'm sure he will deliver the message. ;-)
- Rachel Lea Fox