Yay! The graphic has officially been flipped! No need for nostalgia.
- Louis Gray
Kenndy actually makes a good point here... :)
- Roberto Bonini
Merry Eggnog! ... and jeez, what's with the rude comments? It's the holidays. #relax
- Mona Nomura
I think everyone knew exactly what you meant jeremy :)
- Roberto Bonini
Jeremy, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. As a rule, FriendFeeders celebrate Festivus - maybe someone mistook this thread for the Airing of the Grievences ceremony. In any event, I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- John Craft
♥ Both twitter is my little life-blog or as i say nibble log! friendfeed is best place to discuss but now Buzz is winning and taking it all from friendfeed it seems! Buzz is simple so i love it too but friendfeed is friendfeed!
- ffcode
these {friendfeed and twitter} are the only places i am on, on web {love them with all my heart} and a little mobile site mocospace, i might have accounts {don't know where just signed up for seeing what those were} but never liked using them, P.S: got no facebook :)
- ffcode
Yea, me too! But i glad he has a job now! Maybe he can get his car fixed or a new one, and he can pick up Sarah and do a Classic twif back at the cottage!
- Fee501st
I still think they could retain the majority of the audience doing it monthly with extra promotion. I mean, iTunes will just automatically get it when it's available. (as I hum twweeet-beat)
- Dave Friedel
That's adorable, physical media that stores music.
- Jerry Perez
GETZ THE FEE! ALL UNITZ, GETZZ THE FEE! ATTAK!!!
- Dave Friedel
SCOTTLNAD UNIT PWEAS CONTINUE KNOKING TINGS OVER AN WAKIN AMY. DONT FORGETZ STANDS UNDER HER AN TRIPZ FEET. AN OF COURZ BANGZ ON DOR AL NITEZ.
- Dave Friedel
At least I'm safe from the KITTEH take over :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I guess I'm fired from the fan club.
- Dave Friedel
See, when my cats take over my lap during WoW, they get mischievous and try to eat my headphone cables, or punch me in the face. Well, not so much punch...more like tap with all claws out. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Uhhh...I'm not sure I want that kinda responsibility. I'd need to keep you guys in check.
- Amy
Then an outsider perhaps. Someone savvy with social media and needing something to do. Is Martin Sargent still looking for work...?
- Thomas
Fee, do you REALLY want me to show the pictures on Larry King? Think about it. This is your Spitzer moment. Time for mea culpa's and to step down.
- Dave Friedel
Veronica will be doing the Queen's wave... "helllllloooooo royal subjects"
- Dave Friedel
You named your cat after De-evolution?
- Ranger Craig
Swooshy capes? Only if we also can wear top hats...
- Thomas
Fee, we have your palace SURROUNDED. Martin Sargent is ready to launch the catapults! Oh wait, he's on his way, his Cadillac broke down. Ok. Pretty soon, we'll be at the GATES!
- Dave Friedel
Dave: I don't own a kilt. I don't play the bagpipes either, while we're at it
- Amy
I'm starting on a logo and crest for the flags. V, better send me which picture you want or I'll pick one. I'm also making a "Down with Fee" flag that Carlos is knitting.
- Dave Friedel
(Do I know how to completely wreck a thread or what?) LMAO.
- Dave Friedel
How about a golden Bearonica flag, since she's headquartered in SF...
- Thomas
Oh trust me, skiing involves skill! If they give out points for falling and scuffing half your face off then I think I can get us a decent medal for that though.
- Amy
Well, Monday.......... You know when you come to work, open your email and as the flood begins you can see your morning, lunch hour, afternoon and maybe a little into the evening being crammed full of work like a fat kid in a cake shop? Have fun FriendFeed, I may resurface during the day but for now... *dives into work*
Wow. IRC is so crazy. I think the story of the decade is surely mobile and email. The iPhone's popularity is huge for this. Google too.
- Elliot Christenson
@Jeff cool, so no aggregators really?
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew Do you do much filtering on Digg? Just the tech areas for instance?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah the Tech page is set as my starting point.
- Andrew
@Caleb, No, I don't like aggregators. Even for blogs, things like Google Reader and Bloglines annoy me.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - One exception to that is Popurls. That one's handy.
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff Interesting. Is there something in particular about them you dislike?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah I barely look at Google Reader any more, it's just like a huge inbox you have to crawl through now.
- Andrew
@Caleb - Readers don't give me blog comments, for one. I also find that the look and feel of a website will help me remember where I first read something. Blog themes are also usually stripped out and made homogenous by readers. Don't care for that.
- Jeff Harbert
I've gotten nearly all my breaking news this year from Twitter.
- Jeff Harbert
I learned about Twitter on TWiT. TechTV and it's spawn are one important story of the decade.
- Jason R
Twitter definitely provides most of the news/links that I click on. I prefer the layout/design of Original Signal to Popurls, just a shame it seems to have been abandoned. Only annoyance is no way to turn off the popups when you hover on a link.
- Andrew
"we have some deep integrations coming with a bunch of different players and big announcements coming up" --Kevin Rose on TWiT
- Andrew Euell
anyone know if traffic on digg.com is still growing?
- Mark
I think the fire alarm is starting to beep more frequently...
- Andrew
Story of the decade is REALLY TWIT. I agree with Jason Robertshaw. I learned of Twitter on TWIT.
- Elliot Christenson
My last employer had a floppy-drive Mavica.
- Jeff Harbert
we had a mavica for a trip to vegas with the family. BACKUPS could be a story of the decade. Digital is now practical because of BACKUPS.
- Elliot Christenson
I know Carbonite is a sponsor but I gotta say their product for Mac really sucks. It doesn't backup video automatically! You have to manually select video files to backup. I switched to Backblaze. We should try to get them as a TWiT Sponsor!
- Ken Wiesner
Am I the only one that thinks location services like Foursquare are dumb?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff hate to disagree, but I think location is actually a core element to be shared. Just like Photos, Video, Text...location is next.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - but it's so transitory. So I check in at a bar - I won't be there an hour later.
- Jeff Harbert
People recommend you for the "Crunk" badge. :)
- Ken Wiesner
@Jeff that's true, but tweets are similarly ephemeral, but we now have much better realtime alerting systems so you can actually know about that right away.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - And it also does me no good to know where anyone non-local to me is. Scoble is having dinner at the Ritz - I'm across the country, so what use is that to me?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff, bingo - and if you're in a small town, who cares that you just popped down to the gas station in your pyjamas?
- Andrew
@Jeff that might be true for Robert, since you don't really know him, but if it were your son or brother it might be interesting, a conversation starter for the next time you speak.
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew - Exactly, which is why I think these services are dumb.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - I'm actually acquainted with Robert. It still does me no good to know he's having dinner at the Ritz because he's nowhere near me.
- Jeff Harbert
Pet peeve - that's navigation, not GPS.
- Jeff Harbert
Automatic parallel parking is a joke. If you can't drive, don't drive.
- Jeff Harbert
Fully automated cars would be cool though. Real life savers, since most people don't know how to drive safely.
- Jeff Harbert
Robert's is right Microsoft is just not cool anymore
- Kim Landwehr
I'd still like to have a full computer in my car.
- Jeff Harbert
Doesn't the decade begin in January 1st, 2011?
- Héctor
@Héctor - Leo mentioned that in yesterday's TWiG. He said he'd rather get a little email from correct listeners like you than wait a year and get 10x more from people who think it begins 1-1-10.
- Jeff Harbert
Correct. I remember arguing about it 10 years ago, but this time around I don't feel like nitpicking for that same exact reason. Sounds like a good plan.
- Héctor
I don't like the iPhone. I need a real keyboard.
- Jeff Harbert
Thinking of getting a Droid to replace my Blackberry in Sept when my current cell contract is up for renewal.
- Jeff Harbert
Yeah I'm going to drop my BlackBerry Storm - was such a disappointment.
- Andrew
Please stop thinking that electric cars will 100% replace normal cars.
- Jeff Harbert
And btw, good old lead-acid batteries are just fine for electric cars. We don't need a battery breakthrough.
- Jeff Harbert
Thank goodness for holidays - this is the first time I've been able to watch TWiT live, as it's after midday Monday in NZ. Although luckily TWiG falls on Sunday here. :)
- Andrew
If you think about it most people spend most of their time driving to and from work and around town, a perfect use for electric vehicles
- Kim Landwehr
"earthy crunchy" --Leo Laporte on Kevin Rose
- Andrew Euell
@Kim - Exactly. We don't need 350 mile range. 80 is more than enough for most people.
- Jeff Harbert
you DO WANT Rackspace as a sponsor, trust me
- Mark
Blogs aren't history, they've become enhancements & supplements to videos and tweets.
- Jeff Harbert
I like that comment by Leo - why pigeonhole it? It's all content.
- Jeff Harbert
"tough ass particle" --Leo Laporte on the Higgs Boson
- Andrew Euell
great - I could understand all of the previous video vignette's except the bio-tech one ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
....and an overpolluted planet with 15 billion people. Something to look forward to.
- Jeff Harbert
what about a cure for sleep, free of side effects of course
- Andrew Euell
@Andrew - or just make sleep more effective. I'd love to get by on 3-4 hours per night.
- Jeff Harbert
Biggest story of the decade - social media. It changed the societal consciousness.
- echostreamer
it's not Facebook per se, but rather the ability of any company to connect that many people on the internet: Orkut, Twitter, Google Groups, etc
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I noticed on the TWiT youtube channel, Windows Weekly is watched 5-6 times more than the other shows
- Mark
Windows Weekly is 12500+ per show. TWiT the flagship is 2 or 3000
- Mark
The different shows all have different user/viewer profiles for live, re-run, download and now youtube. It's amazing to see the variances
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Whoever did the animated intro for the video, it looks amazing!
- Q-tip
"As if it wasn’t bad enough you had to reach for a sticky note every few minutes in order to remember something, this cleverly designed memo pad also reminds you that you’re probably going to lose your hair, in addition to your memory, as you get older. It was created by the JWT advertising agency in Hong Kong for a hair revitalizer called Pantogar, and I assume if you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on one already, you never will."
- Chris Rivait
from Bookmarklet
"Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Somehow it seems the iPhone will always win on hardware. You know, unless they make a Droid phone brown and able to squirt songs to other Droid phones.
- Алла Сурия Башар о бэс
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
there isn't a casual frame of reference for wave yet. We are still using tech that is 20th century (or oldered) biased. Hands on "analog" in queue interaction is still how most ideas are concevied. Wave is different and doesn't fit in how most people think or even believe.
- Tony
it's funny but when I submitted my app for a developers preview account I said I wanted to investigate the possibility of integrating Wave into the programmers workflow, as a collaborative coding space and the ability to mesh nicely with Version/Source code control schemes. Sadly I did not get an account.
- Andrew Euell
NCSA HTTPd and Mosaic have come a long long way... sort of. :)
- Jay Cuthrell
if someone give me wave invitation then I will also try. some promised but have not given. :)
- Satya Prakash
Web evolved zillions of years ago. Now Wave may spoil the party.
- ThinkEzy
Thanks to this free shirt, Twitter can do no wrong. Twitter is amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect. #ftc
- Louis Gray
hahah cute! I can hear the Superman music now LOL
- Susan Beebe
SuperFriendfeed Guy! (Currently shedding his mild-mannered not-so-secret identity, Dan Hsiao.) Our beloved superhero maintains the same level of transparency as the entity he represents.
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
(To the tune of Sesame Street's 'Captain Vegetable') Out of his not-so secret workstation somewhere in Facebook comes your newest super hero! --- It is I, SuperFriendfeed Guy/ Post your comments in my homefeed/ Sharing cool posts for all my friends is good for me/ And they're good for you, so post some too/ If you can't see, just sub to me/ See videos and pictures that you'll like/ Three cheers for me, SuperFriendfeed Guy/ Like! Like! Like!
- April Buchheit
Looks like the patent was granted on October 7th.
- Kevin Fox
The barcode is in Code-128 and decodes to Googleg.
- Mark Trapp
Tooltip says 'Invention of the barcode'
- Glenn Slaven
Ahh. My tooltips in Firefox broke when I upgraded to Snow Leopard (no idea why). Now when I read xkcd I have to look at the image properties to get the alt text!
- Kevin Fox
Just saw this on Google. It's one of their better logo's:)
- Michael Fidler
57 years old today and they don't look at day older than | || || |||| || | | ||
- Stephen Mack
"The now inescapable bar code celebrates its 57th anniversary Wednesday - a milestone unmissed by Google, which replaced its home page logo with a bar code "doodle" that translates to "Google.""
- Tim Tyler
Cats take better care of themselves when I'm away.
- Veronica
If you got dogs, it might take care of the cat situation for you...
- Thomas
One time i killed a motherboard by plugging a Firewire motherboard connector in a usb motherboard connector, turn it on and saw blue smoke! But I RMA it anyway ;)
- Fee501st
I like Taylor Swift. (for her musical talent)
- Jim Bednarz
I cracked and almost destroyed the headphone jack of my iPhone in a tantrum where I threw my purse at the ground, and the phone went flying out. It was an unintended casualty.
- Veronica
oh, i was going to say the Original iphone deserved it with its funky headphone jack!
- Fee501st
The only *nix command I know by heart is ls -la
- Caleb
I dropped a 10 thousand dollar betacam videocamera on the job. Was in grass and only busted the light and mount.
- Josh Haley
I managed to snap part of the staircase in my parents' house and 'fixed' it by putting it back together and colouring in the chipped bits with brown crayon (they didn't notice for years). Never did get around to glueing it...
- Amy
I got mad at my mom once when I was a kid, and went to her record collection and picked one, broke the album, and put it back in the sleeve. Never told her. Don't remember which one.
- Veronica
One time when i was a kid, a broke a figurine that my mom love by running threw the house, i blame it on the cat.
- Fee501st
I crushed my hot wheels cars in my dad's vice grip and have terrible pile ups
- Fee501st
I used to hate Shirley Temple movies because I was jealous that she was a small child (I was also a small child) that could sing and dance better than I could.
- Veronica
I refuse to watch any of the Saw films because I don't want my friends to see exactly how much of a wuss I am (I'll either faint, puke or scream like a little girl - the jury's out)
- Amy
I took my parents car when I was 14 and drove all over Connecticut. Broke a sway bar in it try to do fancy spin outs. Admitted I took car but lied about how it got damaged. "Avoiding a bad driver"
- Jim Bednarz
Veronica: what about Zombie movies? like Zombieland?
- Fee501st
Haha, Jim!! I once drove to Mystic from Hartford and didn't tell my parents, and I got lost and had to pull over and cry.
- Veronica
Veronica: Everyone does that (talking to themselves). I have conversations with my friends in my head.
- Amy
Er...to clarify, that's my ACTUAL friends, not imaginary ones!
- Amy
I dont care much for Horror movies either, but dont mind zombie movies
- Fee501st
I will probably see ZombieLand and pass out.
- Veronica
Veronica & Amy: same here i talk stuff out to myself
- Fee501st
Haha! Veronica! Thats too funny. I cried after I broke the car. Didn't know how I was going to to get it home from New Britain to Portland. Ended up just driving it really slow down Route 9.
- Jim Bednarz
Amy: Are you going to go all Tyler Dyrden on us?
- Caleb
I used to take my brother to the skate park in New Britain :)
- Veronica
New Britain is my hometown. Moved to Portland when I was 12
- Jim Bednarz
When I was 5 I moved from NY to CA. Upon hearing my New York accent, my new school put me in the slow kids class for two years...
- Thomas
I the person that keeps playing all WWII FPS
- Fee501st
MVB: It's only when I have something REALLY exciting to say and totally forget to tell people. It gets rid of the 'omg, must tell people nao' feeling. :)
- Amy
I was actually pretty good at sneaking out, I was never caught.
- Veronica
Amy: I think the whole social awkwardness of being a Geek :)
- Fee501st
I used to think The Darkness' song, "I believe in a thing called love" was actually from the Queens of the Stone Age. (Yes, it nearly got me fired!) Also, I used to think all Jehovah's Witnesses were probably black or vice versa. You had to be there. And 8 years old.
- midnightgolfer
I like the smell of a Propane engine also
- Fee501st
I can feel when TVs are on in other rooms.
- Veronica
I got into a drinking contest with one of my 'friends' (he likes to show off) and told him I'd had 1 shot more than him, when really...I went to the toilets and just left it there.
- Amy
Veronica, been on the Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce?
- Jim Bednarz
Nice! One of the best wooden coasters in US.
- Jim Bednarz
Veronica, NO WAY REALLY? I can too, i tell my friends that but they say im full of BS so i have to prove it them! Even new tvs like LCD and Plasmas?
- Fee501st
This is the most interesting thing I've done all day.
- midnightgolfer
Fee501st: Nah, they would delete the files and leave the album information in iTunes untouched. That way the album stays but you can't listen to it >:)
- Carlos Urrutia
Amy- And best of all, it would look like it was an iTunes bork so she'd never know :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Oh yeah, I still haven't gotten around to PROPERLY learning to drive and I find horror movies as entertaining as having something heavy land on my crotch.
- Carlos Urrutia
Deep down in my heart of hearts all I ever wanted to be was loved by someone... okay just kidding. I actually try to live as vapid a life as possible and gauge success by the number of times I get to consume bacon before I pass on to the great dust heap in the sky.
- Jay Cuthrell
The best part about that is the profile picture. This is a man who's SERIOUS about his Gaga.
- Veronica
Veronica, unless you got pics he won :)
- Fee501st
I'm going to repost that picture and then you'll be sorry.
- Veronica
I've yet to complete 90% of the video games I've purchased.
- Carlos Urrutia
I once suggested going to see "Spice World" in the theater. In my defense, I'd been up for 48 hours...
- Thomas
When I was born I had a stroke in the white matter.
- Michael Weems
Matthew - I hated that they changed the theme song in the 2nd season.
- Jason Wong
I saw the Monkees in concert at the Hartford Civic Center when I was in High School.
- Jim Bednarz
And high school was in the late 80's. Not exactly the music of my generation.
- Jim Bednarz
Despite most of my 'indie cred' music on iTunes, if you were to take a gander at my iLike profile, you'd see that "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson is in the top 5 most played in my library.
- Fleagle
One more before bed. I was a huge fan of the Charmed TV series.
- Jim Bednarz
I'd confess something, but it'll go to the confessions room to be private, else I need some sex for so much time now, I almost can't cope anymore, I wouldn't want to be forced on the dirtiest streets with that in mind. ;p
- Zu from AOD
Well, there's one way to stop a thread dead in its tracks.
- Fleagle
When i was a kid the Cacodemon in Doom would scare me!
- Fee501st
When I was a kid I saw 80% of the posidon adventure then was sent to bed (never got to see the 'happy' ending) and cruise ships STILL freak me out
- Amy
I haven't eaten seafood since I was a little kid after I had a nightmare of a giant crab coming after me.
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
Hmm, I haven't looked at Songbird since it launched, so I'll have to grab it again.
- Veronica
It's more stable now, but I've still not braved the ipod plugin
- Amy
Will it sync to your iPod/ iPhones ?
- Fee501st
from iPhone
Fee: Doubletwist will try to sync anything to anything. That's the whole point. It's the type of thing you'd expect from DVD Jon.
- Otto
Otto: cool, thanks im reading about it now, i was on the way home when i posted above!
- Fee501st
songbird has many more features, but doubletwist is very simple and easy, am i wrong v? or has there been a new update in the last month?
- Chris Heath
I think songbird perhaps has a bit too much going on for its own good sometimes
- Amy
I see alot of posts about apps posing as "iTunes alternatives." Is iTunes bad? What am I missing?
- Fleagle