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YouTube - The Guild - Episode 1: Wake-Up Call
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September 6 at 10:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
i hear them, it's good enough for the blind! - so good. - Morgan
oh, yay, something new to watch - I'm loving this and I'm not even a gamer. Felicia rocks. - Laura Norvig
Doorstepped. - Kevin Fox
That was a fun waste of an hour. - Ken Gidley
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September 5 at 11:11 pm - Link
fascinating - Deepak
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Paul Thurrott posted an entry on SuperSite Blog
September 1 at 3:22 pm - Link
Looks fantastic! A little bit scaled down compared to my customized Firefox profile (almost like a browser built for kids), but still very promising and something I will download immediately. - Eric Geller
This is the start of something at least good, and possibly great. - Robert Linthicum
so cool.. - capitano
Can't wait to try it! - Jeff P. Henderson
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Steve Gillmor posted an entry on TechCrunchIT
September 1 at 3:16 pm - Link
Quote: "For their part, Identi.ca and FriendFeed proponents have gone from anger to despair to revolutionary fervor to silence as users offer muted reassurance while at the same time wandering “aimlessly” back to Mother Twitter." - Louis Gray
"Facebook has freshened up its UI and allowed us to personalize the news stream to vaguely emulate Twitter." He misspelled FriendFeed. - Mark Trapp
Twitter can "win" - doesn't matter to me. I prefer FF so I'm staying here. Others are free to do whatever makes them happy. Didn't know it was a contest! - Abby Martin
Wait until he sees I just sent everyone here from Twitter. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
Why is there a TechCrunchIT? - Shawn Farner
Gillmor: Elevating even the most mundane technology events in to a constitutional battle of epic historical significance for humanity... again. - Brandon Werner
Twitter has a better name than Identi.ca, eg. "I just twittered something" vs "I just said something on Identi.ca"? - Shawn Molnar
LOL @ Brandon. I'm with you - I thought TechCrunchIT covered IT related news. Apparently its real purpose is to assemble an anti-Twitter army and achieve global microblogging dominance. - Shawn Farner
Good Post! The only reason I haven’t totally moved to Identi.ca is the network effect of twitter. I am getting far more value out of twitter+twhirl with my current follows than I would suspect at Identi.ca. - Sheraz Mahmood via twhirl
Does TinyURL still hold the strategic high ground? - Elliott Ng
metamark,net is better then tinyurl. customized links! http://xrl.us/aborted =symbolic of an aborted fetus - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
While Abby Martin is here, and I am here, and Robert Scoble is here, we are only three people, and perhaps it DOES matter that Twitter is cited on CNN. To grow, Twitter needs to make inroads with tens of millions of members of the general population. That means we'll see Twitter accounts on cola bottles and cereal boxes and trading cards. (I don't think there's a http://friendfeed.com/gossipgi... yet.) Hopefully Twitter has improved its uptime to deal with this workload. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Robert, good to see you back on FriendFeed. - Steve Gillmor
nah, Twitter sucks with the photos plus conversations are so chopped up. Give it a year. FF will prevail. - Thomas Hawk
And good to see you on FriendFeed Steve! - JodyC
We're racing? I think there's plenty of room for several services. And to compare friendfeed and twitter to is like comparing apples to fail whales. Twitter is like a shoelace compared to friendfeed's professional basketball team. Some people don't like basketball and would be overwhelmed managing a team but most people can tie their shoes. - ·[▪_▪]·
Twitter has that thing we used to get excited about in Web 1.0...first mover advantage. The follow-up attempts have to be more than just competent. For better or worse Twitter is to microblogging as Kleenex is to tissues and Walkman to mobile cassette players. cf Shawn Molnar's comment above. - Andrew Grumet
Um... who wants a winner yet? I want them to keep slugging it out and developing new features. - John Worthington
Twitter's advantage:traffic.FF:discussions - Igor Poltavskiy
bleh... - Rahsheen™
twitter continues to capture the imagination of non-tech people... While I find FF great, I wonder whether it would ever break out into the non-tech crowd and get real acceptance. To me FF is a hybrid of both a discussion forum and social aggregator... its confusing to many. I tried to sell to a few of my non-tech friends and they say that they dont have that many accounts to manage to come to friendfeed. I guess FF should market themselves more as a personalized discussion tool rather than a social aggregator to reach the average crowd - Krishna Gade
People used to say the same types of things about Twitter. - Rahsheen™
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Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit
September 1 at 2:04 pm - Link
I like the collections.namedtuple feature. I'm especially glad that urllib.urlopen() finally has a timeout parameter! - Gabe
How many languages do you know Gabe? - Robert Felty
Gee Rob, it depends on your definition of language. My current project has C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, SVG, and some other domain-specific languages. I know that I don't use regularly, though. - Gabe
Gabe: seems like a longterm project? - Amund Tveit
Amund: I've only had the job for a couple years, but some of the C code originally ran on VMS. Our revision history only goes back to the late 90s, but a lot of the code predates ANSI C. - Gabe
Gee Gabe. Maybe Clare was right. I started programming too late in life to ever catch up with people like you and Paul. - Robert Felty
It's never too late, Rob. The thing is that once you know programming, each new language takes only incremental work. - Gabe
Thanks for the encouragement Gabe. I started learning Python this summer, and it went pretty quickly. I am actually teaching a programming course for linguists this semester, and we will be using python. - Robert Felty
Does that have anything to do with Python, Paul? - Gabe
No, it's JS, but the basics of programming are fairly similar regardless of language, and JS and Python are actually quite similar beneath the syntax. I've been thinking about writing a JS to Python translator actually. It seems like it should be relatively straightforward (though perhaps there are a few difficult corner-cases). - Paul Buchheit
Paul - appjet does indeed look cool, though I think I already know most of the stuff they have there. I am just more impressed by how you and Gabe seem to know all the nitty-gritty about so many different languages. For the most part, I don't really use advanced python or javascript features that would necessitate me to know the difference between 1.5 and 1.8 (javascript) or 2.3 and 2.6 (python). I am confused about python's super though, since I see lots of positive and negative remarks about it. - Robert Felty
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l0ckergn0me posted a message
“We should start a pool as to when Google's Web browser will first see the light of day. I'm guessing: one year from now.”
September 1 at 2:15 pm - via Ping.fm - Link
how about their operating system? - Gregory Lent
as I blogged, this is their operating system. - Brandon Werner
Their OS if I remember well, was something employees at Google were self-doing. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
If Android can finally act on some devices, their Web browser shouldn't be too far. Chris' call is somewhat around what I'd say too. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
I'm going for an official announcement on April Fool's next year. ;-) - Jake Jarvis
How about tomorrow? http://tinyurl.com/chromeisrea... What do I win? - Louis Gray
nice work louis - Tim Wright
lol @ Louis - Earl E Morningwood
touche louis - Jake Jarvis
Beta is Windows only tomorrow it seems - interesting :-) - Brandon Werner
Let me amend... "Mac version." :) - l0ckergn0me
They're serious about this thing, comicbook notwithstanding. I say less than 45 days for mac and linux versions. - Didi Chanoch
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Mythbusters draw a MONA LISA is 80 nanoseconds! at NVISION
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August 28 at 7:20 pm - Link
now if only someone would slap together a 1000 GPU's and make a supercomputer to shame other supercomputers! - Rahul Das
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Pat Buchanan Loved Obama's Convention Speech
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Loved it when he had to hold the text so close to his face to read it. Used to not dig Pat all that much, but he's a damn lovable old coot, isn't he? - Anthony Baker
especially when you have robert novak as a contrast? (respectfully, godspeed to novak) - Wes Schadenfreud
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Benson Miller posted a message on identi.ca
“Not that it's a contest (thank goodness), but I'm pretty sure I've done more UML diagramming than ya'll today. If not, I want to meet you.”
August 27 at 9:34 pm - Link
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Stone Carving Cinci
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This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
August 26 at 9:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Wow! 48GB of RAM! Funny comparison to the Mac Pro in there. What a beast! - Michael Forian
This is a saver. - Amit Morson
Do want! - Andy Murdoch
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Scott Beale posted an entry on Laughing Squid
August 26 at 4:08 pm - Link
Saw this a while back... Absolutely beautiful. - Anthony Baker
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l0ckergn0me posted a link
When Geeks Unite, Wonderful Things Happen
August 25 at 4:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
Techcrunch: FriendFeed Beta Testing New Design, Adds Grouped Friends And Photos
August 25 at 4:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"You can check out the site at http://beta.friendfeed.com/" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Cool, now i can see my comments and likes on one page! Nice! - Tibor Holoda
@Paul does it auto refresh? - Steve Rubel
nice improvements Paul & Co. - feedback seems positive so far - Zee from WeDoCreative
It all looks very well thought out, i like it a lot - sergiooo
looks good. I like the different classifications of "friends"... and the imaginary friend is pretty sweet in a kinda stalkerish kind of way - Scott Lockhart
Steve, it should auto-refresh the same as the old interface. - Paul Buchheit
I'm *really* liking the redesign. - Eric Florenzano
my first thought was "holy FaceBook convergence!" Other than that, I like it a lot, much cleaner & easier to navigate. Particularly like the friend classifications, easy link sharing, and access to rooms. - Jonathan Tang
Great design. Sidebar is awesome.It is definitely going to increase the usability of groups.It is a great idea to present feeds of someone’s subscriptions as a part of the profile page. This will help to discover new people. - Kerem Ozkan
love it :-) - Alex Gawley
well I was only off by about two weeks LOL - Steven Hodson
Looks great! I'm a big fan of the new friends categories - huge value-add for me. I'm disappointed, however, that there is no easy way to discover rooms. Any chance the FF team is working to surface rooms better? - Andrei M. Marinescu
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l0ckergn0me posted a message
“I almost wish I could ban connectivity and computing at Gnomedex. Too many distractions, NOT ENOUGH THINKING. Come on. ;)”
August 23 at 11:49 am - via Ping.fm - Link
That's always a hard call, including for meetings at corporate. If you keep laptops on, do you ever see anyone's eyes as a speaker? And Blackberries... sometimes we'll make it a Blackberry/Cell phone/laptop free zone, but people are itching and cranky and we need to take breaks. - Louis Gray
Brings a whole new meaning to the word Crackberry - Kyle Lacy
...and sometimes having the connectivity actually adds something to the audience experience. It doesn't have to be a distraction. I've found it depends a lot on how compelling the speakers are. Some people, I just /have/ to listen. - Stephanie Booth
I like how everyone at Gnomedex is Tweeting / Updating their blogs / FF'ing :) - Mona N.
How else are we supposed to talk about what is on stage? - Robert Scoble
Robert: hand written notes. - Kyle Lacy
Kyle: Save the trees - Mona N.
Mona: Recycled paper - Kyle Lacy
Stephanie: exactly right. And lots of times I'm not that interested in what's going on on stage. Or I'm very bored. This lets me fill in the gaps. - Robert Scoble
With all the Gnomedex tweets.. I feel like I there with you guys! - Daynah
Kyle: How are you going to get Robert's paper notes to people like me, who can't go to these things? - MiniMage
MiniMage: I'm not there either.... so we are screwed. Robert could scan them. - Kyle Lacy
I suppose I'll have to wait a little longer before I can whisper into a wireless device and have my speech recognized and transmitted to the "e-paper" in front of me. - <wink>reechard</wink>
But the one thing I don't like about Twitter, is that so many people just Tweet without thinking and have MAJOR foot in mouth moments. Seriously, some Tweets are tactless - Mona N.
I'd stop coming. Far too many of my thought processes and conversations take place outside my head. I hate being cut of from those. They ENHANCE the experience. - Josh Bancroft
Personally feel connectivity,computing and thinking can truly go hand and hand. It just the magic rule of excess. If they have connectivity and computing overshadow the thinking then your right.But for the most part I disagree. - Shawn aka ringking
The online part of Gnomedex is half of the conference. - David Risley
One observation: I'm not sure if it's the room itself, or the lighting, but it doesn't feel conducive to collaboration. Obviously though with this many people there's probably not much you can do otherwise, but it's very different to a bloggercon or unconference where everyone is in the level and the conversation can easily move around the room - Duncan Riley
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Barack Roll
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August 9 at 5:50 pm - Link
HAH!!!! - Geoff Schultz
ROFL! AMAZING!!! :D - Michael Forian
Awesome! - Mike Cohen
wow that made my day . so fkn funny - nick
I can't view on my iPhone = FTL!! - zoblue (Zulema)
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Chris Baskind posted a link
Miracle! Apparition of Robert Scoble in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich | snarfd
July 20 at 1:18 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Is it -- or is it not? A bizarre apparition of tech blogger Robert Scoble in a grilled cheese sandwich. Judge for yourself. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet
GrilledScobleizerOnChese! LMAO - Igor The Troll
it's divine, sell it on ebay and make kazillions - Bjorn Tipling
The kid ate it. - Chris Baskind
Try this pic, will look better! Just replace Jimbo with Scobleizer http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... - Igor The Troll
yeah... that's too weird for me. - Orli Yakuel
I'm ashamed to say it makes me hungry. Noting better than a grilled cheese sammich dripping in HP sauce. - Chris Baskind
That's funny, but I'm equally impressed at the side dish you created alongside it. - Trish R
Mmmmmm, Scoblicious. - Sprague D
I think this might be part of Denny's new Social Media Slam breakfast. - Akiva Moskovitz
HAHAHAHA. @Akiva, that's a great comment. - Trish R
They could do a whole social media series. Order the Louis Grey sandwich, get another one 20 minutes later. Order the Chris Pirillo Special, you get PB&J. The possibilities seem endless. - Chris Baskind
i'm waiting on the calcanis canned ham - Cee Bee
I can't stand it. In about 30 minutes, I'm headed to the store to buy three kinds of cheese, great bread, and tomato soup for cheese sammich dinner. ;-) - Chris Baskind
i think there is a market for the toaster inserts. "Social Media Heroes, Collect All 500"... and then Rome began to burn. ;) - Anthony Citrano
Go see Scobleizer and trim a peace of bacon of him! I am sure the Fat Whale can spear some and more! LMAO - Igor The Troll
slow news day! - Robert Scoble
cheesy artwork! ha! - Susan Beebe
Gives new meaning to the term "head cheese." - Mark Forman
Robert, it's *huge* news. You've crossed from the A-List to lunch! - Chris Baskind
The Robert Sandwich! If you cannot follow him, just eat him! lol - Igor The Troll
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Deepak shared an item on Google Reader
July 14 at 2:18 pm - Link
WorldChanging is awesome! - Michael Nielsen
I used to write for them for a bit. Loved it, but just didn't have the bandwidth to continue - Deepak
Very cool. I've gotten to know a couple of the WorldChanging Canada folks a little, and they're great people doing great stuff. - Michael Nielsen
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Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins posted an entry on Mashable!
July 11 at 8:05 pm - Link
BTW, headline mis-spelling fixed. Long iPhone day. This relentless stream of iPhone news is wearing on me. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I like the typo better. It's funny because I mis-read when I first saw the headline and said "WOW Bad typo!" - Candace Holly
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Ňicķ posted a link
Please Teach Your Son to Blindly Accept Authority
July 11 at 2:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Read the whole thing, it only gets better. - Ňicķ
For some reason I keep reading the headline as "Please Teach Your Blind Son To Accept Authority"! - Soup
horrible LOL - Mona N.
(just the same all over the world):) - Naor
My sons will always be encouraged to question authority. Including mine. So long as they do it respectfully and intelligently, they should be allowed to question anything an authoritative figure deems standard. - Nathaniel Payne
I've got a Dead Poets Society vibe reading that. - Hutch Carpenter
OMFG, that happened to me on a few occasions.... - Rahsheen™
So what post did the teacher get in the Bush Administration? - AJ Kohn
Same thing happened to me once in first grade when I was the only kid who could read the instructions for a work sheet. The teacher told us to do something totally different, so I yelled, "YOU'RE LYING!!" That didn't work out for me too well and my mom wasn't so happy either. ;) - Emotion Tad
That reminds me of the time I got in trouble for laughing at a classmate pronounce "prejudiced" as PREE-ju-dissed. - ha3rvey
Public education fail - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy
Harvey, in case you couldn't tell by my last comment, I was an awful 1st grader. I laughed at the kids who struggled to sound out words. Eventually I was banished to the 2nd grade for reading and was laughed at by the bigger kids. ;) - Emotion Tad
Heheh. My parents always laugh about my first-grade experience. I said "fuck" to another student, who told on me. The teacher called my parents and made me apologize to the class. Of course, what did I do? I said "I'm sorry for saying 'fuck' to another student" which compounded the error by about 30 times. - Robert Scoble
I once got detention in a home ed class, we were learning how to make bread. The teacher told us never to eat hot bread, I raised my hand and said "What about toast?" :) - Nick
I've always maintained that an earlier birthdate didn't make a person right. Teachers who tell things wrong should be humiliated in front of their classes, if they don't own up to it. They should be the first to show young people how to admit their mistakes. Abuser of authority fails! - MiniMage
@MiniMage, all that would teach kids is that its okay to humiliate those who make mistakes. I suspect the kid in question got detention because of his attitude whilst correcting the teacher, rather than correcting the teacher per say. - Soup
When I first read the teacher's name at the bottom of the letter I thought it said Adolph Hitler... - Jeff P. Henderson
An imaginary Nuremberg trial quote: "Of course I knew that the orders were wrong. But as a 1st grader I got detention if I did not accept authority. So I learned better." - Alexei Tolkachev
I guess I've had too much of being humiliated by people who had more authority than accuracy. I will amend my statement. The only ones who should be humiliated are those who insist they're right without at least checking their facts. I have no patience, however, for those who insist they win the argument on the basis of their age or employment status. Teachers need to know that they are still learning, too. - MiniMage
This is just sad :-(. - asiriusgeek
Jeff: I think the similarity to Adolph Hitler is intentional. Not only is the name very similar, it's dated on Hitler's birthday. ;-) - Chris Baskind
Huh! Chris you're right! I'd kind of debated in my mind whether it was fake or not, and that would seem to push it towards fake. But I don't think it matters, real or not, its effective none the less, as a little piece of cautionary fascism. ;-) - Ňicķ
Reminds me of a certain High School science teacher. Thirty years later, I still think he was an ass. - Chris Baskind
One kilometer is greater than one mile? What's next? 2+2=5? Won't allow anyone to protest that either, I'll bet. - Morton Fox
Snopes http://www.snopes.com/humor/le... points to this http://ytmnd.com/sites/profile... -- "Status: undetermined" - Nathan Rein
nick, your toast story...:) it's classic, but, boy, as a former teacher... :| - edythe
Dude. Wow. - l0ckergn0me
Outrageous! - Nicholas Kreidberg
A teacher unwilling to learn has no credibility to teach. Anyone remember Lockheed Martin and NASA played out this same routine: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/... Now that's an object lesson. - Micah Wittman
I'd put all my chips on the probability that this is from one of those government-funded schools that have famously high academic standards - wyclif
"Although he was correct, Alex's actions show a blatant disregard for authority and a compete lack of respect for his school." Unbelievable. This is the best note I ever received from a teacher, and it was about standardized testing for the kids to pass to the next grade: http://lonesophist.com/jane/20... - Trish R
Gotta be a fake. Too bad. - Alexei Tolkachev
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Funny: Old Spice Neil Patrick Harris Commercial
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July 7 at 6:55 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Old Spice has a great PR Firm making their ads but their deodorant absolutely sucks. Thanks for linking to the ad though, I hadn't seen it on TV yet. - Andrew Fielding
That was really funny. - jonn
wasn't as good as the Bruce Campbell ones - Ed Cline
fantastic. Their new campaigns are tip-top. The will farrel tie-ins were awesome. But the crowning jewel is "is old spice hair and body wash for me?"http://youtube.com/watch?v=jPY... - halcyon
I have a hard time viewing him gay, he's so funny on How I Met Your Mother. AND he has an iphone ;) - Shayna
Saw that earlier tonight and commented about it on my Twitter. I love how NPH has been making such good stuff lately and can poke fun of the Doogie Howser days. @Shayna - yeah, I found it tough to accept him as gay, but really, it doesn't matter since he's a great actor. - Sally Robinson
That was a REAL good commercial. Everytime I see him in anything I am reminded of Harold & Kumar "Hey! NPH wouldn't do that, 'ight!" @Bunny -- Old Spice deodorant does suck. Degree for the win! - Matt Donders
@halcyon, yeah that one is awesome. My fave part is that the dude at the end has one lag that's covered in gnarly hair and the other is hairless. - Clay Newton
What a riot! - Hillary
Hey I play a doctor on the Internet, and I recommend Old Spice too. - David Chartier
Could be worse, could be some 15 yr old emo kid with an extra large chip on his shoulder. - Glen McFarlane via twhirl
Sorry, wrong posting. See Mackenzie post. - Glen McFarlane via twhirl
I want to see the Bruce Campbell ones - Pete Delucchi
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