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what is your job Robert? i mean, your title, what do you do for a living. I don't mean blogging or twittering. What do your employers pay you do do? - David Lloyd

Mark, he works for RackSpace. EDIT: Read more at http://louisgray.com/live... - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Mark: I am working on something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com - Robert Scoble

Doing what though? they are a web hosting company. What does he do? lol - David Lloyd

DONE - sean percival

Mark: you can see photos of what I was doing on the ship: http://www.flickr.com/photos... (We were visiting as part of a blogger embark that Guy Kawasaki arranged). - Robert Scoble

ooo how cryptically exciting, cannot wait! I wondered what you were up to travelling all over the world. - David Lloyd

"something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com - Robert Scoble" ----- that's my birthday in case you didn't know - shayne catrett

What do I do for a living? I tour the world interviewing business and tech innovators. Rackspace is paying me to do that because we're building a community of people who are fanatical about the Internet. Really why I'm paid is because I have relationships with many of the people who are building the most interesting web sites. Rackspace hosted YouTube before Google bought them. We are looking for more of those. - Robert Scoble

Happy Early Birthday. Imagine how cool it would be just do take a few days and go and hang out on a big ship? Shame the pesky real world has to go and spoil everything :p - David Lloyd

SO is the hope that some of these big upcoming websites might consider using rackspace in the future? You kind of are recruiting big accounts? - David Lloyd

I love how they called it a "fatal" software error. - David Lloyd

I also love the real-time updates on FF. When Google Wave comes out we will be able to see each other typing this nonsense in real time character by character!! - David Lloyd

drat! - David Lloyd

I wonder who will get the exclusive launch info about Building43. What it is etc. Maybe TechCrunch, or maybe GillmorGang - David Lloyd

Tim Elliott

Cool list of street vendors on Twitter; see you soon @chefshack1 http://www.seriouseats.com/2009...

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This trailer will destroy your mind, and IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE. THIS IS REAL. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Meh. - iTad

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what the? is that a real movie?!! - Dee @ Holycool.net

*blink* there are no words... - holly #ravingfangirl

I wish i had blinked i think i'm blind now. - SteVe C

huh? what? - .LAG liked that

Is this a feature length film or a short? - Jack&Cleo

Gary Oldman? - Rob H.

It's from 2003. Went straight to DVD. Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie... - Ken Sheppardson

"Tiptoes was an official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, apparently in their bid to add a TV movie of the week category" HAH... http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews... - Ken Sheppardson

I see trilogy potential... - zeroinfluencer

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Photography United, Photography as Art, Fotograf

41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs - http://digital-artist-toolbox.com/...

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"Believe it or not, all of these photos are of real life-size locations or objects. The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking makes the life-sized look like a miniature scale model. The process involves using Photoshop to fake a shallow depth of field and punching up the color saturation. The results are truly amazing. I’ve rounded up 41 of the best tilt-shift miniature faking photos around to inspire you." - Kol Tregaskes

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This is awesome, I am just doing my first two tilt-shift miniature faking edits right now and getting ready to upload them now. - Matthew Sauer

Your works reminded me of "A Tiny Street Art Project" http://little-people.blogspot.com/ :) You both are really good! :) - Maral

My attempt (singular) at tilt-shifting a shot didn't turn out anywhere near half the look of these. - Nathalie

it is beatifull. - Mehmet {Blog Gazanya} ;

Fake tilt-shift is the new HDR. - michele

would have love a tutorial for this :) - Jean-Charles VERDIE

@Jean: This one's pretty good. http://tinyurl.com/9cfefm - Praveen Vasudev

I've created a couple but not as good as these above: http://www.flickr.com/photos... and http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, mine aren't as good as some of these but I am learning, shot composition makes a difference as well as the edit. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Matthew Sauer

It's amazing how just a bit of blurring on the edges can create an entire perceived scale change. Also tilt-shift miniature videos are awesome. http://xrl.in/25v5 - seda irengü özmen

Wow! I was planning to try that some time, but now I might do it sooner rather than later. - James Myatt

A few of my own attempts here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Daniel Rowley

Thanks for the links, pretty good. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Praveen thanks!! - Jean-Charles VERDIE

this picture on the left really so cool photography lover http://photorelive.com - sherief

Leo Laporte

Thanks to everyone who suggested the free Sun Virtual Box for running Windows on OS X. Works great! http://www.virtualbox.org/

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How well does it do with Boot Camp partitions? - midnightgolfer

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Been thinking about using Virtual Box to run Windows on Ubuntu: http://lifehacker.com/367714... - Jason Heppler

Jason, you should -it works really well - Robert Johnson

I don't know if it works with Bootcamp partitions (like VMWare and Parallels do) but I'm using it with XP right now and it seems every bit as fast as either Parallels or VMWare. - Leo Laporte

Is there any way to run Linux like that? - Kyle

If I already have a license to run VMWare Fusion, what does Virtual Box do that VMWare doesn't? - Paul Grav

@Paul Grav: For instance, you can insert USB devices in a virtual machine! I use it myself to sync the Pocket PC of my sister, works perfect. - Daan Berg from twhirl

@Daan. VMWare does this too. - Paul Grav

Leo Laporte

Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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But it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies. As early as this week, according to people briefed on the online retailer’s plans, Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines and perhaps textbooks. An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, are expected to be involved in the introduction of the device, according to people briefed on the plans. A spokeswoman for The Times, Catherine J. Mathis, said she could not comment on the company’s relationship with Amazon. - Leo Laporte

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What really sucks is that you can't get kindle in Japan. - Carlos Brefe

You can import one, but you won't be able to download anything over the air. No can do because of commercial copyright-zoning agreements. It is even doubtful if Amazon will let you download "non-Japanese" titles to the desktop for the same reason. - ianf ⌘

Wow... a big Kindle would be tough for me to resist. Although I won't make any move until I see if anything comes of the Apple media pad. Color trumps everything else for me. - Roger Benningfield

Guy Kawasaki

How to Quit Your Job and Start a Company http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009...

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Louis Gray

As a security question, AT&T asked "what is your favorite movie". I said, "Pi." It said, "Your answer must be between 4 and 80 characters. Please re-enter." I guess I was wrong.

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Infinite characters? - Hutch Carpenter

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3.141 - Bwana ☠

Hahah. - Rochelle

African or European? - Ken Sheppardson

i loved that movie too!!! - Cardeen winedrunk

LOL it is a great movie - Jim Goldstein

And now I'm reminded of J - "J's List of Sites That Consider "J" an Invalid First Name" http://www.wynia.org/wordpre... which I read years ago on his blog; he's on FF too http://friendfeed.com/jwynia - Micah

Love that film. - joey

You should have said your favorite pie and killed two security questions with one stone: pecan pi - Dawn

+1 Ken. authentication system no doubt coded by the Old Man from Scene 24. - Karim

One of my favourite films of all time. My cat is called Pi but the vet's database wouldnt accept a two letter name so at the vet's he is called Pye. I wanted the symbol...the girl at the reception hadn't even heard of Pi so I was on a loser! - Pete Gilbert

3.1415926 ??? LOL - Matthew Sauer

You'll have to see if it actually sits at #1 on your Flickchart. ;) - Nathan Chase

I'd hate to imagine what an 80-char movie title would be like on a marquee! - Gabe

They're the Phone Company. They know Everything. You must be mistaken in your favorite movie. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Ask Verizon .... :) - Charlie Anzman

Some make a habit of watching this every March 14. This is Aronofsky's break out work -- very good film. - Pete D

Great movie. - Jason Wehmhoener

This movie has everything! paranoia, mathematics, and brains lying around on subway platforms - David Roberts

I guess 42 wouldn't work either then - Jesse Stay

Gabe: http://www.imdb.com/title... (scroll down to "complete title" -- apparently IMDB also has an 80 character limit for the main title) - Laurence Gonsalves

Ha! "Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D" - Gabe

Johnny

Has anyone posted a congratulations thread for the FriendFeed team? I mean, over the past month they have rolled out a new interface and features with not one hint of a Fail Whale (as I can remember). That deserves at least some kudos. I'll start:

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Congrats to the team at FriendFeed... Well done :D - Johnny

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there was a 30 minute ish failwhale during beta. heh :) - mjc

I jumped the gun, but here's my fanboi anthem... https://friendfeed.com/logical... - Tinfoil 2.0

Great job FriendFeed, keep up the hard work! - Jay Neff

Congratulations FriendFeed, you guys rock! - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

Even without icons, it is my place where I dwell. Kudos, FF team. Big ups to all of y'all. - Derrick

Derrick, are you using Firefox? If so, go grab the Greasmonkey script: FriendFeed Service Icons - Justin Korn

Justin, I am...but that sounds like work. I don't know how to go to there. :( NOT TECHY --> - Derrick

FriendFeed team, I down this can of Yuengling Lager in your honor. Great work! - Mark Traphagen

BRAVO! - BEX

well done - Ryan Dadey

Love it, fantastic work FF team! - Janice from fftogo

Nice thought Johnny, i'm thankful on a daily basis... IMO FF's the best of the web for 2008/9 - Majento

Thanks! - Paul Buchheit

Congrats guys! i for one LOVE the new interface. Kudos! - Drew Lucas

+1 JW! CONGRATS FF TEAM! Awesome work! - .LAG liked that

I have no clue how ya do what ya do but thanks. - SteVe C

thank you friend feed team, this is the place i've waited for so long to be :) - chaz2b

<3 - Josh Haley

Hoorah! - Ron Bailey

Well done. - Victor Panlilio

Well done. - Patrick Jordan from BuddyFeed

*golf clap* - Rah-PM 2012

Kudos to the FF team! :) - AJ Batac :)

Like a sweet ball in football (soccer) - we say "well played!!!" - Amani

Props to everyone on the FriendFeed team! - Aaron Draczynski

From the announcement thread, it was a good start. And on this, thanks again, appreciate the efforts. Keep the engine running like that and you'll be kings. - Zu from AOD

Thanks for all ff team - Murat Buyurgan

Yay, FF team! - Anne Bouey

respect! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

GO Team FF, GO! Keep it open, keep it rock solid, and forge ahead on everything else. - Micah

Goes Without Saying. - ianf ⌘

Piling on with my congratulations! - Chris Aldrich

Congrats for a smooth, sexy transition. - Will Higgins™

Well done guys. Thanks a bunch. - Roberto Bonini

Overall great job! (the one <big> stumble with iPhone feed, and the disappointing decision to drop source icons not withstanding, the progress being made is quite remarkable....) - David HC Soul

+1 on the congrats. Friendfeed is nothing if not absolutely reliable. Good job :) - LANjackal

Respect! - Meryn Stol

A big congralutaions goes to the FriendFeed team, loving the new version of the service! Thank you. I have even less of a life now than I did before. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

You know, I never thought of it like that-they never go down. True indeed! - Benin Brown

Great job FF team. Great example of getting new features out with little fanfare. - Lyndon Washington

Just a big *thanks* for all the good time i spend here instead of doing useless things on the internet - stanjourdan

Thank you Friendfeed! - vimoh

Yes it does and it is good for you to point that out, I know they worked hard on the upgrade, so thanks FF folks - if you are in Seattle I'll buy you a cup of coffee. - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

"with not one hint of a Fail Whale" - I posted that on Twitter recently. - George Dearing

Posted one over here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

And What I was most impressed about is the Show of Force from the FriendFeed team when the actual rollout came online. Other services don't have staff that actually use their product. FreindFeed is great in that respect. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

thats, true, good point. Congrats FF'ers! - Peter Efland

there were numerous congrat threads johnny - here's one example http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - mike "glemak" dunn

Congrats! - Jeremiah Owyang

I salute you Sirs. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

CONGRATULATIONS, FF Team. - tehKenny

I miss old UI but congrats anyway. You're awesome. - deerstep

Congratulations Friendfeed team. You really made a great job! - Diego Espinoza V.

Congrats! - Rick Cogley

Well done, friendfeed! Congrats! - Rosemary Sorg

I will 64th that... great job. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Love you guys! FF rocks! - David Cook

Congrats are definitely in order. It's one of the fastest loading, smoothest running apps on the Web. - Mike Elliott

Congrats for an awesome product. - Brandon Mendelson

I am back! This is great! Thank you - Valerie

What a great social media platform. Well done FriendFeed team! - F. Jay Hall

This is a great idea. Congrats on the upgrade and hoping it doesn't stop here :) - Jason Williams

++++ so funny -i was just thinking today "i wonder what twitter would be like if the FriendFeed team was running it" no offense meant to the twitter team who are obviously smart and talented as well but as johnny pointed out the diff is hard to miss - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Congrats to the FriendFeed team. Great job! After the UI change I find myself using FriendFeed more and more each day. - Cristian

thanks for continuing to advance friendfeed in new and interesting directions - Mike Chelen

Robert Scoble

Facebook: still a data roach motel when compared to Twitter and friendfeed? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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Setting the stage for today's Gillmor Gang, which starts at about 4 p.m. at http://live.twit.tv - Robert Scoble

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I think you lost me with the first sentance: "Twitter has done something really remarkable: they have made the entire database of Tweets available to other companies." Select other companies, sure, but it's certainly not "open" - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: it's not totally open, but it sure is a lot more open than Facebook is. Do you know anyone who has the right to get to my Facebook profile updates? I don't, and that's a HUGE difference between Twitter's approach. - Robert Scoble

Ken: it comes down to "who owns my data?" Can I give Twitter permission to see all my Facebook updates? How about Flickr access to my photos? How about Wordpress for other stuff? No? So, do I really own my data or does Facebook? - Robert Scoble

Yeah, I'm settling back in to read the rest, but after nearly a year of trying to get at the full feed from Twitter, I'm just a little jumpy. - Ken Sheppardson

I just joined friendfeed - still trying to figure out what it does. - Colleen O'Donnell Pierce

Colleen: it does a lot. Aggregates. Lets you share stuff with your friends. Is a social network. Is a search engine. is a content-distribution system. We're all still trying to figure it out. - Robert Scoble

Yes, but Twitter is the same compared to FriendFeed...FF rocks! ;) - Nicola Junior Vitto

It's not about defaults, it's about ownership. On Facebook, you are not allowed to give other people access to your data, because your data belongs to Facebook. On FriendFeed or Twitter, you can choose to be public or private, but either way you can still access your data and do what you want with it. - Paul Buchheit

Ken: Twitter puts a lot of restrictions on how friendfeed uses that full feed, too. They can only share stuff in public when people subscribe and add in Twitter here. - Robert Scoble

Coleen, FriendFeed is like a one stop megastore of all your social networking and information sources - rob

"..until after I could change user expectations and get people to build a public instance of themselves. That could take a couple of years." -- Why would that take so long.?.a technology / data portability issue? Not sure about that. - George Dearing

George: when I tried importing my Tweets into Facebook I got a lot of hate mail. The usage model there is VERY strong and hard to change. That's going to be a noose around Zuckerberg's neck unless he figures out some way to get around it. - Robert Scoble

If only 2009 could be the year the phrase "own my data" dies. The way it's used these days it's as if only one party can "own" something that's intangible, has zero replication cost, and can exist in more than one place at a time. I get that you can have *rights* to access data, reproduce it, and distribute it under our current intellectual property laws, but talking about "data ownership" really just obfuscates a bunch of issues we should be dealing with more directly. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, regardless of what words you use, the concept of whether I own/control/have-access-to/have-rights-to/etc my data is a very important question. For me personally, if I put my information into a service, then I want the right and ability to copy it back out. This is why Gmail included POP3 access from the start -- your data should not be held hostage. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: That's the Biggest point Right There: "you are not allowed to give other people access to your data" Exactly.Unless they're my friends, they can't have access to anything I put there (status updates are changed, I can RT those out of Tweetdeck and Peoplebrowsr) -It's not totally an "ownership" argument, but as Ken say a "rights" argument. I should have the right to allow public access to my data. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

On Facebook I can give a small subset (Friends & Networks and maybe Friends of Friends access, but if I want to, say, share my email address and screen names and phone numbers with the public, "everyone" on Facebook -I'm screwed. I can't do it. And I certainly can't share my comments and likes with the world either. This is why I use Facebook mostly for keeping in touch with IRL friends rather than networking with new ones. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Paul: Bingo... I want to talk about rights to reproduce and redistribute. Not some sort of pseudo-exclusive "ownership", as if it can only live in place X or place Y. - Ken Sheppardson

To be clear, while Twitter has some default rate-limits on their API, and restricts access to the full public "firehose" to select partners (mostly for scalability reasons, I believe), I've never heard of a case where they haven't allowed a third-party app to make as many API calls as necessary when done at a user's request. I.e., if someone wanted to write a Twitter export tool and a user triggered the request, they'd let you. This is good. - DeWitt Clinton

I agree with that Paul. No one should hold my data hostage. Regardless of the "ownership" - the "Possession is 9/10ths" argument comes into play. If I cannot "posses" the data, then effectively, I don't really own it, no matter what the ToS says. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I know it's just semantics, but using terms like "owning" and "moving" is sorta like nails on a chalkboard to me. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Exactly Andy..Facebook loses out on me posting the content there. The only things I post there, for the most part are the Status updates and links that post back out here to FriendFeed where I can easily share them with the world. As FriendFeed (hopefully) adds more outbound services besides Twitter, I will use that more and more. And then I will feel like the information I want to put out to the world is REALLY getting there. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

got it..it's obviously hard to predict how fast FB's usage model will evolve..i guess that underscores why some user's Facebook interaction is so 1-way..for me, the only time I'm really creating content for Facebook (alone) is from the iPhone app..and that's mostly mobile uploads and light news viewing..you're right tho..if they give config capabilities around what's exposed, my "I only use it for personal stuff" description would change. - George Dearing

Privacy > * - Ryan Merket

Ryan: I am on the opposite end of that spectrum these days.......Publicity > * - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Andy: Right on. Those are all the reasons why I love FriendFeed, and spen more time here than anywhere else. A mobile client would make me be here all the time. RE: Hashtags see this http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... and make up your mind. I don't totally agree. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

And if I could post a single status update that wnet out to Facebook, Twitter, ping.fm, identi.ca, blellow, plurk, and a host of other site, I would be ecstatic - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I don't know that Facebook is going to lose people, but the rate of increase is and will decline there, as will the average minutes per user per day. I am quite sure that my behavior and that of my friends is an indicator of not only that, but that the opposite is true for FriendFeed - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

FB is just impossible. I hate it because it slices things up (walls them off--literally!) in a way that is utterly inelegant. Every improvement makes it worse. Urgh. - Kathy Fitch

And today when I log into Facebook, I see they added the "EVERYONE" option for sharing my content. hmmmm.....Sorry I missed the show this afternoon. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I remember writing a blog post almost a year ago regarding FB's 3rd party applications and how they were turning the platform into the next chain-letter/spam vector. Even more so today I believe and the new interface doesn't help because you are continuously feed information that you don't necessarily want... - Thomas V. Fischer

If search is the gold mine you suggest, and everyone's data is fed into the same big search pool, how will companies be able to control their piece of the search engine pie? - wannagot

Carver Mead says, "Listen to the Technology. What's the Technology trying to tell you?" I think the internet is definitely demanding to be open, at least in the Social Media context. I think the technology is telling us Open, Granularity, Ease of Use, but still infinite power under the hood. - Web Nex

They have a lot coming down the pike. http://www.neowin.net/news... - Arawak

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk, FriendFeed Feedback, FriendFeed Beta, I ♥ the New Friendfeed UI, FriendFeed Bugs and Ideas

In respect to the duplicate detector and its ability to hide duplicates from different services on the viewable feed, if you could select the order of prioritised services on FriendFeed what would your top 3, or even 5, be and in what order?

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Mine would probably be 1. FriendFeed, 2. Twitter, 3. Google Reader, 4. Digg, 5. media services like YouTube and Flickr and Last.fm. So if a Twitter duplicate came in after a FF share, the FF share would still be the prioritised entry while the Twitter would be under Related Entries. - Kol Tregaskes

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FF, delicious, google reader, others, and LAST twitter. - Ahsan Ali

for me FF, delicious, my blogs, others and last twitter , since I usually send updates to twitter from my blogs. - Carlos Brefe

Flickr has to be above Twitter, since if a Flickr photo is posted to both Flickr and Twitter, FF will show only the link from Twitter but the actual photo from Flickr. I don't really care what order happens beyond any embedded media being visible on FF (that's one of the perks of using FF). - Criz

Friendfeed, Blog, Google Reader, Delicious, other bookmarking services......Twitter. - Alejandro

wil wheaton

New post on my blog: more print-on-demand goodness http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbac...

April 27, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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New post on my blog: clearly, my plan to kill it with beer isn't working http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbac...

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yeah... our brains should join hands and leave us alone! - Carlos Brefe

Guy Kawasaki

Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition http://lifehacker.com/5205629... GR

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