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Terry Jones #1 http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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There are four parts to this video. One of the most interesting developers and ideas for the RealTimeWeb that I've heard yet. I wish FriendFeed has this search engine's capabilities.
- Robert Scoble
Okay, you've got me hooked, RS. Gimme more, please, Sir!
- James D Kirk
fascinating concept "Fluid Info": "database with a heart of a wiki" ... love his accent! Interesting to give user so much control w/o schemas, permissions, etc. Removes all the structure, limitations....wow
- Susan Beebe
ok where's part 2 at?
- Susan Beebe
Susan: Uploads from Spain are slow.
- Robert Scoble
Faster than China or slower?
- David Feng
from IM
Sorry - wrong comment... I mean, commented to wrong person...
- David Feng
from IM
Gotcha! Time for some coffee although that hot chocolate does sound better :)
- Susan Beebe
David: I think uploads in China were faster. But I think the hotel wifi sucks. Can't blame that on an entire country. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert! And thanks for watching.... I'm a bit of a gasbag.
- Terry Jones
Terry your ideas are amazing... ripping away the layers of db constraints to open up an evolutionary platform for information mining / sharing is simply AWESOME! My db structured brain is having a tough time computing the lack of structures, but my intuition tells me this is right for the future....neat data model design concept for sure!
- Susan Beebe
Hi Susan. Thanks :-) BTW, there are permissions. You can have, e.g., a susan/rating attribute that you're putting onto things, and it's yours - no one else can detect/read/write/delete it unless you let them. OTOH, the underlying database objects have no owner. There are no permissions at that level. So you can put a rating (or anything else) onto any object (that you can find). No-one can stop you. So we're fully writable like a wiki, but with a permissions structure within the object (unlike a wiki).
- Terry Jones
Ooooh got it!!! Ok so you're building a core data model (protected) with objects everywhere (open design) which are available to users who are presented with a highly customizable user profile (detect/read/write/delete ) that can call / manipulate said objects to create the user's *own* data set (which has multiple layers of permissions / attributes / tags? to control sharing, reporting and distribution of data) = fabulous! when can I have it? :)
- Susan Beebe
Terry - is this something like entity/attribute/value? I did something like that a few years ago... but found it hard to do searching - equality in my thing was fine, but greater than, less than etc (ie: with a date range) were a bit harder. How have you overcome this?
- Brad
@Susan. Yes, that sounds more or less right. Yes, your own data is on the objects, as it that of anyone else who wants to put something there. it's all combinable, searchable as you like. Plus you can organize multiply, simultaneously, and arbitrarily (simply by adding more tags to objs & searching). We'll do an alpha release in early 2009.
- Terry Jones
@Brad. Dates are stored both numerically and textually. What gets searched on depends on the query. terry/seen > "Jan 22, 2007" is numeric, terry/seen ~ "Monday" is textual, etc. The query language is dead simple. It took me a lot of thinking to reduce everything to very very simple primitive operations and an easily parallelizable query language.
- Terry Jones
BTW, there are 3 more parts to the video coming up... :-)
- Terry Jones
Part II is now up: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Impressive demo and ideas. I was thinking about similar lines last week using CouchDB (a schemaless document database by Damian Katz). Also the views in FluidDB sound like views in CouchDB. I very much like the idea of sharing data and being able to annotate or enhance the original(!) data. This is Open Data on steroids.
- Berry Groenendijk
Mindnumbing stuff.
- Thomas Bøhm
@Berry Hi. I'm reasonably familiar with CouchDB. It's a very different animal. CouchDB is very focused on documents, and lays out complete documents (serialized JSON strings actually, plus BLOBs) efficiently on disk. FluidDB is not focused on anything :-) And its storage is not done by object, but is instead by attribute (or tag if you like). CouchDB used to not have permissions, but I think that's changing/ed. About views yes, agreed. I hope that makes it clearer. It takes a while to get.
- Terry Jones
Part #3 is now up http://bit.ly/UteO
- Terry Jones
Terry I think I am slowly getting my head around FluidDB. There is still one big problem. The way people tag things. Some people tag things with a x,y coordinates, others with a longitude and latitude, etc. You need consistent tag names (or metadata field names or whatever) to be able to effectively search data. Does FluidDB help you with this in any way?
- Berry Groenendijk
And part #4 http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Terry Jones
Hi Berry. No, there's no help, and nor do I think there should be. Conventions evolve. They become consistent to the degree that it's important they are consistent. If it doesn't matter that you write color and I write colour, then it's no big deal. But if I write S.O.S. and you write S.O.B., it could be very important!
- Terry Jones
There's a lot of evolutionary biology thinking behind FluidDB. Attributes will (implicitly) have fitness. Things that are useful will flourish, become trusted, be heavily used, and their owners will similarly gain. Other stuff will not. This gets at the question of spam too. What's spam? But that's another subject - also very important if you're going to build an information architecture that can survive its own success.
- Terry Jones
Terry I like the way you think about these things. Just viewed part #4 of the interview. I am looking forward to the alpha release.
- Berry Groenendijk
Eager to see Alpha product too! send me invite susan.beebe {at} gmail dot com - thanks! This is really inspiring / disruptive technology!! love it! makes my brain hurt in a GOOD way (i.e. un-doing all the overly burdensome architecture that was imprisoning my data!) :-) Terry is one smart cookie!!
- Susan Beebe
How will you expire certain attributes? Similar to domain name management today, will you have leases on groups (or specific) attributes? This seems to be the way that you're going with the revenue model, and would certainly make sense after you've reached enough critical mass. When will you start allowing people to start reserving namespaces/attributes?
- Davison
very neat project
- mikehedge
@Terry - thanks. I built my thing on a standard relational db - Firebird, but everything was stored as text, so it was a bit difficult... :) So... how do you go about implementing "relationships"? ie: I have a video store, with all these videos, and this person rents these vids, so I'd like to send them an email when there's a new release in the genre that they've hired previously? Would love to talk to you more about this. Thanks!
- Brad
@SusanBeebe - you know, that's exactly right! undoing the architecture! yes, sort of kinda..... :) and freeing one'self from the confines of relational theory... but see me other comment to Terry re relationships. Happy Days! :)
- Brad
@Terry - sorry I can't stop thinking about this. In my thing, I maintained another table that aggregated all the various uses of a "thing". So at a glance, I could tell what the most used credit card was for purchases.... which state had the most sales etc.... this was a way to help the business owner make sense of all the data, and plan for the future. ie: Diners Club had like 2% of sales, yet attracted the highest fees - so that tells me get rid of Diners Club as a payment method? That sort of thing.....
- Brad
@Terry - and all - I had better stop here - I could keep typing all night about this, and then miss the new year! :) So happy new year to everyone. And special thanks to Robert for bringing you to our attention.
- Brad
Hi @Brad. Sorry for my slow replies - I don't get any notification of new comments here. I don't really use friendfeed (yet). I'm not sure exactly what @Susan had in mind with her "undoing the arch" comment, but that certainly captures the flavor. Re relationships, there is NO support for them. It's not a relational model. There's just a (conceptually) very simple architecture and laughably simple query language. You get to do analysis on your own CPU :-) Lots of tradeoffs there, of course.
- Terry Jones
The Kyte videos seem to be dead. Am I just stupid or did they get deleted?
- Steven Walling
The video still works for me.
- Terry Jones
The unfundable world-changing startup - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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All about Terry Jones' Fluid Info, which is really awesome.
- Robert Scoble
I am curious though. If there is no funding for it, is he willing to get some users on it in order to promote the technology?
- Rob Diana
I met Terry a while back. This thing really is awesome. My impression is that he's basically a little concerned with premature exposure. He has this idea of what it is and should be, and is worried that people won't get it. Maybe he's over it now-- joking aside, Scoble featuring is a big promotion. I hope he gets the attention he richly deserves.
- Jeremy Dunck
I really enjoyed the videos. Not only is his idea a possible "game-changer", but watching him describe his work it's impossible to miss how passionate he is about it. I wish him the best of luck!
- Jeffrey Marsh
Robert - please keep us posted on Terry Jones' "Fluid Info" - I think that is simply amazing technology and highly disruptive as it is so dang different! :)
- Susan Beebe
Ha - I just found this thread in Google. Thanks for all the wishes. We're hoping to get an alpha out at the end of June. There's a TON to do before then though.
- Terry Jones
Terry also talked at PGCON recently [ http://bit.ly/9ANOf ]
- Arvind
nice
- Jordi Rivero
Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense - http://www.physorg.com/news850...
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"The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25% for practical use — an unacceptable value to run an economy in a sustainable future. ... This fact, he shows, cannot be changed with improvements in technology. Rather, the one-quarter efficiency is based on necessary processes of a hydrogen economy and the properties of hydrogen itself, e.g. its low density and extremely low boiling point, which increase the energy cost of compression or liquefaction and the investment costs of storage."
- Paul Buchheit
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The efficiency of nature (i.e., photosynthesis) is something like 0.5% (the best number I saw was 6%) so I'm not sure we should really use it as the gold standard. Still, coal burning has a thermodynamic efficiency of only 30%, so I'm not convinced that hydrogen is necessarily a dead-end. And nuclear fusion is likely the holy grail of energy production, so the more practice we get with isolating, storing, and transporting hydrogen, the readier we'll be for the future.
- Victor Ganata
I don't necessarily share opinions on H2 future in energy (in particular I tend to stay with opinion that H2 is bounded to nuclear lobby) but I _do_ like that questions of sustainable energy are raised, discussed and, most importantly, gradually implemented into real life. Fossil fuels must die.
- A.T.
Well, like I said, there's nuclear fusion. That's pretty damn efficient. Unfortunately, the closest natural example is about 93 million miles away.
- Victor Ganata
Of course. The universe is governed by the laws of thermodynamics, after all. But thermodynamic efficiency is a measurable quantity. I'm not convinced 25% is all that bad. Solar is only about 10% efficient, and that's still a viable source of energy.
- Victor Ganata
@aswang: solar is 10% effective when converting solar (unusable) to electricity (usable). 25% hydrogen efficiency is for converting electricity (already usable) back to electricity via hydrogen. Hence, they only say that paying 75% of energy for its transportation is a bit too high
- Лосось норвежской выделки
But but, http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ◄ani625Ξ
Usability is still relative. You can use solar to (partially) power your house, but you can't use it run a car. Hydrogen could theoretically do both. I probably have to find more solid sources for the %. I don't know if they factored it into the 10% but the manufacture and transport of solar panels still consumes already-usable energy. I do think that in of itself hydrogen isn't the end-all-be-all, but the techs hydrogen depends on certainly look like necessary steps to getting to fusion.
- Victor Ganata
All this really means is that a hydrogen economy based on electrolysis doesn't make sense. What about one based on nuclear power plants that emit protons as a by-product of reaction?
- Gabe
@gabe: well, they can indeed build a paraffin distillery to get hydrogen from the protons stuck in the shields. I'm afraid that it's not feasible due to high neutron ratio in the mixture. Possibly harder to differentiate between them than between U235 and U238
- Лосось норвежской выделки
this article nails it.
- MikeAmundsen
Direct sunlight-to-H2 conversion would make sense. But H2 is notoriously inconvenient to store. Probably CH4 or alcohol will be better choices for energy storage, for fuel cells or not.
- 9000
ITER should be the answer
- Лосось норвежской выделки
really? I am not too concerned about the technological challenges faced by NiF, HiPER, ITER, et al., but I am about the economic ones (e.g. the ones rebutted in http://fire.pppl.gov/iter_na...) Anyone have pointers to a clear cost-per-kWHe breakdown...?
- Karim
scarily, the one I have been hitting refresh on is Randell Mills' Blacklight Power (http://www.blacklightpower.com/) I know to some people, that is like admitting you are going to wait for The Great Pumpkin, but... uh... those guys just signed a commercial deal with a commercial power utility. Last week.
- Karim
This article isn't thinking very 4th dimensionally. Why transport it at all? Honda is using solar cells and what not to synthesize hydrogen right at fill stations for the FCX car. That's the way to do it.
- Alex Scoble
+1 to Alex. Localized production sounds like a great idea. Though I do wonder about the economy and scalability of on-premises hydrogen synthesis, since it would be necessary to fit out *every* filling station. Might it be that, in the long run, centralized processing and distribution actually sees greater efficiency and/or lower unit cost? Is their an economist in the house?
- Derrick Burns
Solar, solar, solar, solar, solar, solar, solar. Why in the world would we obsessively focus on anything else? The PHOTONS ARE FREE for crying out loud. It's our local star glaring out at us, "please plug in extension cord here!" And we get to use a wireless extension cord, at that! What's not to obsess about? We can bicker about storage and transport after that. Step one: Get The Whole Damned Grid plugged into the sun.
- michael silverton
See, this is much simpler once you divorce yourself from the idea of your car as primary transportation. Electric buses, electric trains, bicycles, walking, and short-range-EV's are all possible right now and only the short range EV requires any sort of power storage. If we made such a move sooner rather than later, we might have plenty of time to figure out what to for airplanes and the remaining uses of the car.
- Wirehead
Wirehead: buses, trains, bikes, and walking are all great in dense urban areas, but vast numbers of us don't live in dense urban areas. And even in urban areas you need some way to get your kid from school to hockey practice.
- Gabe
SON: So remind me why the polar ice caps melted again? DAD: We had to get you to hockey practice. ;-)
- Karim
@gabe what's wrong with kid practicing his hockey in school?
- A.T.
My understanding was that the difficulty of extracting hydrogen, which is by no means ease compared to say a standard oil drill and conversion process, was around the same as deep sea drilling for oil...and the tech is really only in its infancy. Never say never on improvements, many of the things we take for granted today were thought impossible only 25 years ago. I'd back Hydrogen, simply because there's so much of it, and it has practical uses
- Duncan Riley
Hmm. On-site solar-powered electrolysis. Sounds like a plan. And if you really want to store it for easy transport, there's always lithium hydride.
- Victor Ganata
silpol: Here in the US, hockey rinks are not usually conveniently located in schools. If my kid wants to play hockey, I'll either have to drive her 2 miles from her school to our local rink, or drive her 8 miles to the nearest school with its own rink.
- Gabe
Part of our challenge is trying to plug another energy source into an existing paradigm. There is no reason why most people should be commuting to a J.O.B. five days a week. We could instantly cut energy costs 20% by switching to a four day work week. We could do much better if most people either worked from home or we worked where we lived instead of living in bedroom communities and commuting ridiculous distances in traffic to places of employment.
- Internet Strategist
Internet Strategist: I would hardly say that "most" jobs can be done without commuting. What about a teacher, a waitress, a garbage man, a mechanic, a custodian, a construction worker, a surgeon, or a car salesman? At best you could say "most office jobs".
- Gabe
Gabe: heh, I'm not entirely sure you could take call as a surgeon if you didn't live near the hospital you worked at, although I guess there is remote/robotic surgery.
- Victor Ganata
The issue is how FAR people are commuting, not the commuting itself. If we returned to communities most of those jobs would be very close to home - not some ridiculous distance away.
- Internet Strategist
The Incredibly Poor Timing of Tesla Motors - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
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@davidhund involves some way of splitting GET & POST behaviour in views http://pastie.textmate.org/private...
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Reading through the Google Health API. Looks much easier than MS HealthVault.
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For Lindsay: jQuery Cheatsheet!
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www.colorcharge.com
- vijay
Here's some more jQuery tips/tricks: http://www.webappers.com/2008... via Mark Trapp http://friendfeed.com/e... Thanks Mark!
- vijay
No Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld -- which will be Apple's last http://venturebeat.com/2008...
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No Steve Jobs? Whoa!
- Robert Scoble
yeah, obviously this will kick start health speculation once again
- MG Siegler
and also a potential lack of big announcements this year
- MG Siegler
Think this is due to his health problems they've been trying to play down?
- David Wilson
Prediction: Jobs simulcasts to all Apple stores for in-store event. Numbers outstrip the largest macworld expo.
- Phil Wolff
I think they have very little to announce is all. But yeah, the health thing will flare up all over again, and perhaps deservedly so. If this keynote is any indicator, Schiller is the heir apparent.
- Jeff Ventura
Still, it's a bit strange that Jobs wouldn't do the last keynote, perhaps with a bit of a retrospective or something to highlight what a huge deal they've become.
- Kevin Pedraja
"guess what they all cost $8 bucks to make and I pee on everyone."
- nesman89
That makes it easy. I'm not going now. Wonder what this does to the stock tomorrow.
- Louis Gray
Have to think stock will drop Louis. This will only pump talk of health issues.
- Kipp Bodnar
Why is it the last MacWorld?
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Events are dead. Lindsay, they have been dying for a while. Companies are seeing less and less utility for the money spent on them.
- Robert Scoble
And yet we all still drive to our office every day to climb into our cubicle and get on conference calls... sigh. You want to go green, stop driving to the office, let your company cut their office space in half.
- Brian Roy
Robert - I look forward to seeing fewer 2.0 conferences in my tweet stream next year. This year it felt like a new one every weekend.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
He'll coming running down the isle with a sledge hammer. You watch.
- Andrew Smith
@andrew - hahahahahahhahaha
- MG Siegler
nice, so I can finally fully recover from the new years parties.. without having to be afraid to miss the keynote..
- Jaap Willem
From Apple's perspective, it's probably a crazy time to have a conference. Straight after the xmas holidays, meaning that if Apple wants to release new products, its employees will mostly likely have to sacrifice any chance of having time off. Jobs not appearing probably means Apple doesn't have anything big to announce. Possibly no more than a Mac Mini rev, and a Snow Leopard demo.
- Paul Grav
Paul: hasn't stopped Apple for over a decade. The glorious iPhone itself was announced at MWSF, a week after Christmas. Other MWSF releases were: MacBook Air, Apple TV, Intel iMacs, the Mac Mini, Safari, Airport Extreme, iMac G4, iTunes, PowerMac G4, Aqua, and the original iMac.
- Mark Trapp
Gonna miss those Macworld with Steve Jobs
- Steve Chou
plus, if apple did want to have a big announcement, they can have the press at infinite loop in a heartbeat with loyal fans watching updates online. they no longer need macworld for the attention.
- Brett G
I love watching Steve Jobs' show,Macworld keynote is one of my fav every year,I still can't believe Apple is gonna stop that.Then what? No WWDC keynote in 2009?
- Steve Chou
Community Supported Agriculture - LocalHarvest - http://www.localharvest.org/csa...
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"Community Supported Agriculture Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, meats, or any sort of different farm products. A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall. The number of CSAs in the United States was estimated at 50 in 1990, and has since grown to over 2000."
- Internet Strategist
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Use this site to locate a CSA near you for healthier food than you can buy in a grocery store.
- Internet Strategist
YouTube - Awesome 1930s - http://es.youtube.com/watch...
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A modern version of running up an over buildings is called Parkour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...).
- Berry Groenendijk
YouTube - Under the ruler faster than the ruler - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Awesome! Now, does this guy do obj-c tutorials as well ? ;)
- Thomas Bøhm
Very nice. But, it does not really explain why this happens. Does it? Friction is probably a part of the answer.
- Berry Groenendijk
A Sea of Unwanted Imports - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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"In the 150-acre terminal where Toyotas are unloaded, there is a sea of Corollas, Camrys and RAV4s. The mere presence of so many cars is not unusual, given that Toyota brings in 250,000 cars a year in biweekly shipments. But in a sign that something is amiss, dozens of tractor-trailers that transport new cars to dealers sat empty last week amid the rows of Toyotas. Kurt Golledge, 48, was one of just two truckers loading his green, 75-foot-long hauler with cars last week. Mr. Golledge said eight of his colleagues were laid off this month because Toyota dealers did not want more deliveries. “I was dropping cars in Henderson, Nev., about a month ago and the dealer told me: ‘Take ’em somewhere else and dump ’em,’ ” said Mr. Golledge, who works for a company called Allied Systems. “All the dealers are telling us the same thing.”"
- Paul Buchheit
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This feels similar to when the tide recedes way back before a tsunami. You know something huge is about to hit us but we really can't fathom it. I really hope I'm wrong.
- Tsega Dinka
Gregory, that's only temporary, as soon as things get better those Corollas are going to flood the roads again. People have very short memories.
- Amit Morson
The adjustment will happen only if the crisis is long enough to make that "evolutionary" change. Otherwise the weak will fall and all the rest will live on as usual.
- Amit Morson
What a waste of raw materials
- Mo Kargas
I don't think the crisis will be too long, there are many tycoons sitting on the sidelines waiting for the right time to start buying and get everything at bottom prices. Obviously, one can't know when we hit bottom. At the end, I don't think a large scale evolutionary change will come of it.
- Amit Morson
But really, to that guy who lost his job, lost his house, and is left with nothing, all that doesn't matter.
- Amit Morson
Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama | World news | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world...
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"The lame-duck Republican team is rushing through radical measures, from coal waste dumping to power stations in national parks, that will take months to overturn, reports Paul Harris in New York"
- David Orban
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"going out in style".
- dario
it would have been nice to be surprised about this... I am not
- Riaz Kanani
An Interview With Wolf Camera on the New Canon 5D Mark II, A Thomas Hawk Exclusive - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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You're not alone out there, I pre-ordered with calumetphoto and I'm waiting, waiting, waiting...... I was told 2 weeks ago that I should get it in December..
- meckimac
I'm bummed that I won't have it for Los Angeles. Leo Laporte got his.
- Thomas Hawk
Maybe when I chat back at them tomorrow I'll see what they can tell me about the black spot artifact problems the new 5D's have been having. http://www.slashgear.com/canon-5...
- Thomas Hawk
I paid an extra $300 on ebay, then got $200 back from Microsoft Cashback so I was happy about that. Then, before I got the ebay copy my local Portland vendor calls me to tell me mine's ready for pick up... DOH!
- Ryan
@Thomas, If it makes you feel any better I got an e-mail from Amazon 2 weeks ago telling me I wouldn't receive mine until after 12-25! I called their CS, got someone in India that gave me the same story you got from Wolf, (Back ordered, don't know anything). I've been checking every day since then and was surprised to see my CC was charged last Thurs, the camera arrived Friday. So there is hope. My take is the CS people at these retailers won't know anything until the day your camera ships anyway.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I doubt Wolf will know anything more than what has been posted on the web about the black spot issue. Canon has been very tight lipped about it. They have acknowledged the problem and say they will make a statement about it shortly. The spots are there, in almost all cases you probably won't even see them unless you are pixel peeping at ~200%. I'm quite confident Canon will come up with a fix rather soon.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff, hopefully, I'll find out the same news from Wolf. Hope springs eternal.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, check out http://www.nowinstock.net/digital... - it lists vendors with the 5D Mark II in stock. Unfortunately, there is none at the moment, except for overpriced Ebay auctions
- meckimac
A good resource, thanks for that Meckimac, I'll keep an eye on this. Hopefully I can find someplace else to buy it and cancel the pre-order with Wolf. I tried Best Buy earlier today but they were all sold out in my zip code. Going to keep trying each day until I get one of these though.
- Thomas Hawk
I tell you one thing though. Canon sucks at social media. You'd think that they'd want bloggers doing reviews on a hot new camera. A while back when Bill Wadman shot me for his 365 project I noticed that he had black electrical tape over all the Canon logos on his gear. He told me Canon didn't do anything for him so why should he advertise for them. I'm thinking when I finally do get my 5D Mark II I'll do the same thing.
- Thomas Hawk
If you've seen Wadman's portraits you'd think Canon would be all over this one. Bill did probably the best 365 series I've ever seen. If you want to see work from one of the hottest portrait photographers working today, just click through here and scroll through some of these: http://www.365portraits.com/
- Thomas Hawk
Nikon has a better social media strategy than Canon's, but it's not all that great either. They could both benefit from a higher engagement with their communities.
- Karoli
I've been very unimpressed with the contact I've had with Canon over the years. They frankly could care less about bloggers, blogging, social media and all of that. Nikon is slightly better, you're right your right Karoli, both could use work. Maybe eventually they'll figure it out. But at least Nikon has tried which is more than I'd say for Canon.
- Thomas Hawk
Well, I think and hope they will learn it sooner or later - possibly the hard way. They still consider bloggers and other "new" media journalists hobbyist. Time will be on our side...
- meckimac
Ritz was no better, if not worse, they e-mailed me to confirm shipping info, which I called and did, then e-mailed me again, so I did it again. Then the following morning they called to tell me my camera would ship that day and I should have it in hand in 2-3 days. Well, no updates on my account on the web, so I called them and they reminded me that the camera was on back order like I was some kind of idiot.
- Ryan
I think Ritz and Wolf are the same company. Doesn't surprise me Ryan.
- Thomas Hawk
If only I had a 5d preordered to complain about....
- Roberto Bonini
Thomas, Amazon.com now claims to have the kit version in stock. I'm sure you already have the 24-105 but it's gonna be an easy sell... http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- meckimac
yeah, but it's a rip off. It's not actually from Amazon. It's from one of their vendors and they are trying to sell a $2,800 camera for $5,000. Bad deal. They are sale on eBay too if you want to get your face ripped off.
- Thomas Hawk
it was listed as Amazon direct sale for the official 3499.95 but just for a very short period of time.
- meckimac
ahhh, now that price is better :)
- Thomas Hawk
I'll alert you next time I see it - just let me know how :-)
- meckimac
would love to buy one if you find it. Best three ways to get me. 1. leave a comment on a FF post I make. 2. Flickrmail. 3. email. Thanks man!
- Thomas Hawk
I got mine about three hours ago! I've been playing around with it since then. I pre-ordered mine from Adorama on 9/25 and it shipped last Wednesday.
- donato
donato, that's awesome. I sure wish I had mine. It bums me out that I'm going down to L.A. without it. My goal for myself for L.A. is to come back with 10,000 frames shot. With my current 5D that means 10,000 frames with dust spots, wrong time/date metadata, no shots faster than 1/400th of a second, etc. My old 5D is like an old dog, loved but very broken and ready to die.
- Thomas Hawk
I think Canon has a 100,000 frame life on the 5D and I've probably taken 500,000 on mine.
- Thomas Hawk
I tell you though I'm done promoting Canon though. They don't do crap for you. I've seriously hyped their products for years. When I get my new 5D I'm putting black electrical tape over the Canon logo and I'm going to color the red rings on my L series lenses black with a permanent marker.
- Thomas Hawk
I wonder if Canon has any clue how much profit they've made from the activity happening in social media, on forums, from online gear heads discussing "L fever", or hell even just the exif data displayed on Flickr.
- Tom Harrison
DUDE... Thomas that's hard core :)
- Johnny Worthington
Canon doesn't give a shit. When I grow up I'm going to buy me a Hasselblad and be done with them.
- Thomas Hawk
Case in point: when I decided to buy my first DSLR I went to the Flickr camera finder to see what was the most popular camera on the site. It was the Digital Rebel XTi. I did a little more research to make sure it was a good buy, and bought one within days.
- Tom Harrison
I'm just saying. My flickrstream's been viewed almost 12 million times. I'm always talking about their products. I've blogged for 5 years now. And have been extremely active in the online photographic community. It's not like I'm asking for anything especially special. I'm not asking for a freebie or something. I want to pay. But I can't even get Canon people to return a simple email to me, even after meeting several of them in person.
- Thomas Hawk
I get emailed just about every other day with someone asking me for recommendations on cameras and lenses and I almost always respond to those emails and have mentioned their products to people hundreds of time and they can't take 10 seconds to respond to a simple email request about where to get a camera a month after it's release when I pre-ordered.
- Thomas Hawk
Funny chat, Thomas (or can I call you Tom, too?) I'll ignore your dig on Sony, since those of us outside of the Canikon Collective are used to it. I hope you get your new 5D sooner than Wolf is saying. I'm sure you'll do great things with it.
- Andy Roth
Haha, Andy, Sony's actually make good cameras. Just an attempt at humor.
- Thomas Hawk
Amazon has 3 5D Mark II in Stock NOW - Hurry : http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- meckimac
Review: Flip Mino HD - http://www.pcmech.com/article...
Devon Campbell, Berry Groenendijk, Alex Carpenter and 5 other people liked this
I have a pre-Flip camera (http://www.puredigitalinc.com/press...) from the same company and it's really been a great piece of equipment. The Mino HD looks pretty exciting, maybe I'll get a chance to upgrade one day.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I have been a long time Flip user as well and have been waiting on a HD version for along time now and was happy to see they finally came out with one in the Mino version. Although its 720p, I was thinking they were gonna be coming with 1080p trying to compete with the Kodak zi6. The major problem I see with the HD Flip is still the close-up video, Still isn't where it needs to be like the Kodak is. Overall It's still nice to have HD qualities in a pocket sized video camera and I will stay loyal the Flips.
- Alex Carpenter
Anything similar that supports 1080p?
- Noah White
Lessig at his blog, "The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal." Direct your anger at the Wall Street Journal, he says http://lessig.org/blog...
Berry Groenendijk, David Wynn, Tyson Key and Robert Scoble liked this
It is safe now to say that “Web 2.0” is dead. The evidence is irrefutable and it exposes the twin fallacies the concept of Web 2.0 has depended upon: 1) that people can build their worlds around - indeed, will want to build their worlds around - social networking; and 2) that social networking offers a viable, massively scalable business model. - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-s...
Kelly Johns, Dipankar Sarkar, Burak Arikan and 9 other people liked this
Hmmm. This sounds like the same arguments that were being lodged against virtual worlds as social networks (and Second Life in particular) this time last year. Is it a seasonal thing?
- Brad Kligerman
Quote: And this is the problem with Web 2.0. There is no filter for quality.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
"Facebook is nothing more than a new version of America Online, with lots of calories but not much nutrition." Let me get this straight...since facebook is pegged as having no monetary future, it's dead and by default, social networking and web 2.0 are dead? That's insane. First web 2.0 never existed, we were only experiencing the natural evolution of the internet and we needed a catchphrase to categorize it. And, second, social networking is the future of communication and is only in its infancy.
- Bob Blunk
inductive reasoning does not make the conclusion correct in this case. i do agree with some of the author's criticism re. facebook, but it is missing the forest for the trees to assume facebook et al dead and web 2.0 a failure. maybe it is a problem of definitions and semantics?
- Pascal Bouvier
from twhirl
I love all the "Web 2.0" links under the article, you know, in case you wanna share it in a social networking fashion... The Web evolves. Until we have passed along to a new phase, the current phase remains. So, to say Web 2.0 is "dead" according to "irrefutable evidence" is just a bunch of hooey. He based most of his opinion on whether kids would pay for Facebook or MySpace access? Old-fashioned mindset...
- Gus
If i understand correctly, the basic premise here is that current generation social network properties will fail because "they cannot propagate a sustainable user base willing to pay for its services".... didn't we all figure that out about 8 years ago? the challenge has always been finding effective ways to monetize.
- Chris Hollander
User subsidizing is only plausible if you are providing a service above and beyond "basic" web interaction (i.e., immersive gaming, streaming media, etc), and I think we all knew that banners/adWords weren't sustainable.
- Chris Hollander
lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library - http://simonwillison.net/2008...
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Evernote + Eye-Fi = Instant Photographic Memory - http://blog.evernote.com/2008...
zizukabi, Baard @ Pixum, Mark Ayzenshtat and 2 other people liked this
A good functionality combination - and it will definitely help Evernote to sell premium accounts..
- w0nk0
Hmm... I love Evernote and have Eye-fi, but I don't really see the excitement of this marriage :\. Unless you remember to throttle down the resolution for each pic you send to evernote, you'll use up even your premium allotment in no time (150 or so high-res shots). And for the occasional business card or whiteboard you wanna get into Evernote, why not just use your camera phone? Don't most people have those nowadays?
- Adam Lasnik
LookSmart Thought Leadership Series: Shifting Search from Static to Real-time - http://blogs.looksmart.com/thought...
Berry Groenendijk liked this
Highlights from today's 37signals Live - http://www.dracoware.com/blog...
Berry Groenendijk liked this
I would say Android is a "me too" device the same way Firefox is a "me too" browser.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
I have seen the future of jQuery and it is the past: http://www.outstandingelephant.com/jcquard...
Augusto Becciu, DeWitt Clinton, Shakeel Mahate and 2 other people liked this
New High Rez Wind Power Resource Map Covers the Entire Planet - http://www.treehugger.com/files...
Berry Groenendijk liked this
i love Treehugger.com always so interesting and a great site!
- Vicki Kolovou
Cancer Stem Cells May Not Be the Supervillains We Thought - http://blog.wired.com/wiredsc...
Tyson Key, James Miao, Berry Groenendijk and Toby Graham liked this
"The controversial idea that all tumors are created by cancer stem cells received a setback Wednesday. The theory holds that a tiny percentage of cancer cells — perhaps one in a million or one in 10,000 — are responsible for creating tumors. Like evil relatives of standard organ-forming stem cells, cancer stem cells build tumors. It's an appealing idea because it provides a new, well defined target for treatment. But a new study casts doubt on the idea that only a few cancer cells are able to generate tumors. By tweaking the experimental design other cancer researchers had been using — the new study used a different type of mice — a highly-respected stem cell oncologist found that as many as 25 percent of melanoma cells were capable of reproducing."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Obama belt politicus. Ze denkt dat het poets is. 2x http://www.politico.com/blogs...
Berry Groenendijk liked this
The Pope Is Such A Buzzkill - http://mattmaroon.com/?p=612
Dan Hsiao, Joel Webber, Berry Groenendijk and 4 other people liked this
Drop-dead simple Django caching http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog...
Lode Nachtergaele, Tyson Key, Berry Groenendijk and 3 other people liked this
No problem :) I'm surprised this got some Scoble love! I just can't wait to be done with blog-post-per-day month.
- Eric Florenzano
Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...
Boris (aka electrouncle), Alexander Kucera, Vishy and 15 other people liked this
"That we have slightly more than one President for the moment is mostly a consequence of the extraordinary economic times. Even if George Washington were the incumbent, the markets would want to know what John Adams was planning to do after his Inauguration. And yet this final humiliation seems particularly appropriate for George W. Bush. At the end of a presidency of stupefying ineptitude, he has become the lamest of all possible ducks."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Oh, is he still around?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Perhaps the metaphor should be altered for Thanksgiving (or maybe just to be more appropriate in general) -- ""The Lamest Turkey" ?
- Brian Sullivan
+1 Lame Turkey. Too bad, like that turkey, it's not over for him on Thanksgiving day.
- Daniel Shaw
Maybe he
- Dave Winer
Bush can leave now. I have no problem with Obama taking over. No need to pack your bags bush, we can mail you your personal items.
- Bob Blunk
looking forward to the day when i can say "Bush Who?"
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
Tick tock
- Pete Delucchi
"The Lamest of Ducks" is a devastating portrait of the president "...you never want to see ... looking like that," where the "that" being referred to is being just plain baffled, "going so gently into the night."
- Brad Kligerman
I heard that people wouldn't even shake his hand at that economic conference in Peru...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
first, i voted for obama. second, lindsay donaghe...he had already shaken their hands twice that day right before the event. and third, this place is such a self-fulfilling prophacy (of sorts) for ppl. they bash bush and only see what the want to see...and it's kind of old news and un-intellectual. i understand everybody has their opinions...and i want to hear them! i just wish some of...
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- stanleyyork
"He is less than President now, and that is appropriate. He was never very much of one." Yay Joe Klein!
- Nathan Messer
John Resig - Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Gesture-Controlled Light Switch is Like a Trackpad For Your House - http://gizmodo.com/5099104...
vijay, Cee Bee, Berry Groenendijk and 6 other people liked this
will it constantly "click" when I don't want it to, like my laptop's trackpad? :}
- Craig Eddy
Hahaha...I would think it would be like the gesture-control flood lights outside.
- Shevonne
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