I recently came across http://www.palringo.com/ which has a free multi-protocol IM client for the iPhone. Search for it in the app store. Pretty sweet so far. - Jon West
@Jon West I totally missed palringo, I’m checking it out now… looks promising. - ben bloch
For PHP, CSS, HTML, etc, I use Panic's Coda. For everything else, I usually find myself sshing into the server and using vim. Nearly all of my web development revolves around PHP, database administration, and server administration. - Mark Trapp
I use Eclipse for Java... I'd prefer IntelliJ, but then it's not free, so. For pretty much everything else I use Gedit (woo Linux) hacked up with some sake tasks to make development easier. - Tommy Morgan
I stick w/ textmate as much as possible, but I have to develop in .net... so obviously visual studio, which, for me is way too heavy for a web platform ide - ben bloch
From time to time I have used Dreamweaver mostly because of it's autocomplete but use many different tools depending on where I work. - Daniel Schildt
My time is split between Textmate, Vi and Flex Builder. I enjoy using Textmate and Vi. If I could, I'd rather not use Flex Builder/Eclipse. - Paul Grav
Vim, although it's not really an IDE. - Morton Fox
Frontpage... It's the most idiotic program on earth... - Luke Martin
this was my first thought, great idea, could become a noise machine without the right pruning. - Tsega Dinka
I'm not planning on it. The concept does not fit well with the few rooms I moderate. - Kevin D. White
For some reason I can't get a shared items feed from Google Reader to work. - David Owens
I did it for the Achewood room (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ac...). Chris Onstad has feeds for each of the characters in the strip, and it lends itself really nicely to it. - Mark Trapp
Others are talking about doing a FF search on the public feed and adding that to the room (I have a Formula 1 room -http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fo... that I have added a search for "formula 1" rss to to see what happens) - Brian Sullivan
I've added several feeds to my two rooms. The twitter room has the twitter status blog, which just seems too perfect, and my mac room now has a few mac feeds for news and software. Seemed appropriate to me. - Brad McCrorey
Brad, those seem like appropriate uses for room feeds. I couldn't imagine that a feed would be beneficial to this room. - ben bloch
i think you have to carefully deliberate on what feeds to bring in. what would you bring in here? - Brian Breslin
we could add the feed from every other room and make a master friendfeed rooms room (just kidding) - ben bloch
Just added a feed to the Zune room I created. I'll have to see if I like that or not, as I usually Share posts into the room from the feed I added anyway. So it seems that if the feed has lots of posts Shared in the room, there's room for lots of duplication... - Craig Eddy
Consensus in the Environment room was "no." But i think the feed feature will be useful to a lot of people. - Chris Baskind
Interesting idea. Including the entire netvibes: WorldDemocracy into #democracy kinda. - MattisManzel
I think it's a good addition to the rooms, whether too much will lead to overkill remains to be seen! - Joe Dawson
For sure, Will be very useful if used properly, there is allready rooms centered around all users including their feed ex. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sh... - Tony C.
I have a room (lastfmfeeds) that is entirely built around the feeds that go into it. Over a dozen of us have shared our last.fm "recently played tracks" RSS feeds, allowing commentary on the tracks that show up. One person is also feeding the usual last.fm "loved items" feed. Only administrators can add feeds, though (which is probably a good thing overall, but was a little time-consuming in the beginning). - Ontario Emperor
“The number of rooms and therefore moderators is growing quickly. Eventually moderators are going to need a place to discuss issues. This is the place.”
Excellent. Learning to moderate can be scary but also extremely rewarding. There are lots of questions and very few, if any, absolute right answers. Every moderator develops their own style. It is absolutely fascinating to watch it evolve. - Kevin D. White
“I have 5 Brighkite, 20 Evernote, and 5 Aviary invites. Post your email. Also, if you happen to have any for Orgoo, FireEagle, or Socialthing. I am looking :-)”
If you can moderate, does it mean that you have to take responsabiliy for all the comments of a room ? ie for not moderating offensive comments ? - Merrill
Interesting, I've had to delete some shares here due to spammyness, I'm sure it's a matter of time before I need to remove spammy comments. - ben bloch
If you are going to actively moderate you should lay down some simple rules or principles for members to follow. Moderation by surprise is always bad. If the room you moderate already has a lot of activity then you should open up a discussion about guidelines and level of moderation people want. - Kevin D. White
Yes, the abilty to moderate confers responsibility for other people's words. How would we create an unmoderated room? - Andy Roberts
The "don't spam the room" rule should be implicit. A guideline for discussion is provided in the room synopsis. So far there has been very little moderation, for the most part people keep it relevant and spam-free. - ben bloch
agree w/ mack, not a fan of twitter and delicious digest posts, I think blog posts should remain "pure", let aggregators combine feeds from different social nets. - ben bloch
Ah.. then you guys haven't seen how I'VE done it. Not a part of my main feed. Have used it as a SEPERATE category on my blog. Only those really wanting to look at it can. Not in your face the way most people use it (and yes, I get annoyed when I look for posts on a blog and all I see are Tweets). - Robert Sanzalone
Robert, much better approach. Mainly, I dislike seeing tweets and delicious links (among other things) in my rss reader. I want to be able to subscribe to just the blog content. - ben bloch
I just tried Plurk and deleted my account immediately. Too many horrible UI decisions and restrictions on profile info (most notably the name; I want to be known as "Voyagerfan5761", nothing else). - Voyagerfan5761
I got the Nikon d40 w/ the 18-55mm lens, a bunch of people in my office have the same one. - ben bloch
Fantastic. Post your next Flickr upload in the Photowalking room. - Russellreno
Nice. Great start! I'd get the 50mm 1.8 prime lens next. Awesome for portraits and low light. - Tris Hussey
@Tris Hussey: I'd second that. It's also a bargain. - Victor
@Victor & Tris Hussey: Ditto that...great lens for cheap. - JA Castillo
Agree, a cheap 50mm should be the first lens anyone buys in my opinon. f/1.4 if you can afford it, otherwise f/1.8 is fine too. - Thomas Hawk
Used to be a 50mm 1.8 was the standard "kit" lens for slrs (back in the day) - Brian Sullivan
My daughter was just given the D40 (she's 10) so I've been playing with the 18-55 lens. It's a good one for sure. She's using my 18-135 mm. @Thomas, I looked at the 50mm 1.4, but the $400+ price tag was a lot more than the $130 for the 1.8. I the 50mm is my fav lens and I love learning with it. - Tris Hussey
ok, so I'm posting my first few pictures in my "learning" set on flickr until I get the hang of it. feel free to critique and advise. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b... - ben bloch
What do you like using D40x? Is it good enough for you? I have been thinking if it's enough for me or would it be better to get something more expensive. - Daniel Schildt
"Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world, both of them acting robotically, and both of them hundreds of million of kilometers away." - Russellreno
The photo wasn't posted. Defeats the purpose of the room. - Russellreno
@Russellreno, the best way to post an image in this room is via the bookmarklet. - ben bloch
Ben: I did. FF even reports that - 4 hours ago - via Bookmarklet. Some photos are blocked though. Flickr is that way. - Russellreno
Yeah, I had a chicken (and a rabbit and a dog and a turtle) when I was young. Fond memories of Silicon Valley life as a child. - Robert Scoble
So, when will Milan receive his first chick or rabbit from the Feed and Fuel?? And, more importantly... will you let him name it/them himself?? - Lisa L. Seifert
Unfortunately we travel too much and don't have a good yard for raising animals. I have a feeling a cat is in our future due to a little rodent problem we're having lately, though. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
Probably not but withhold a final decision to see if it can be stabile for 2 consecutive weeks. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Depends. Maybe a small amount for some sort of Premium feature - possibly in a subscription format. Set it & Forget it, you know? - Jake Fudge via twhirl
I realized today that many of my tweets are coming from FriendFeed and how little I'm using Twitter. A week ago I would have said yes, today, no. - Shey
I would if they could guarantee uptime. Say a month without going down and every month it went down I got my money back. And even then I would pay at most maybe 10 bucks a month tops. - Jason Kaneshiro
Yes. I am wondering if there could be deals with cell carriers so that (for example) you would get a Twitter subscription bundled in with a data package. I think that cell companies that sell data packages benefit from services like Twitter because they increase the value of the data package. - Seth Gottlieb
I know 2 weeks probably is being a tad overly optimistic. :) Half full vs half empty. - Mathew A. Koeneker
20 comments here. 1 on the blog site. A trend? - Seth Gottlieb
@Seth This is where FF can mop up. They need to get their API to feedback into various site's comment systems. Then it will own :) I never post replies on Flickr, but I have been leaving replies here when I see a nice piccy. Shame it doesn't update the Flickr page :( - Jake Fudge via twhirl
Not until service can be guaranteed - and that's an unofficial opinion - Julian Baldwin
Yes (for API Access) and No (For basic usage) - Yuvi
P.S. By API Access, I mean "unlimited" API Access - Yuvi
