"Customers have had to do a lot of leg work to compare the costs of a flexible solution based on cloud computing to a more traditional static model... To that end, today we released a pair of white papers and an Amazon EC2 Cost Comparison Calculator spreadsheet as part of our brand new AWS Economics Center."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Did you know that Leonard Kleinrock's (one of the founders of the internet - he sent the first message via internet 'lo' he would write log in but could'nt ) daughter working for the NY Times?
- Kemalettin Bulamacı
"Over the next two weeks, The Times published more than two dozen letters on the subject of scrapple, which, taken together, form a sort of steampunk prototype for online food discussion. It’s all there: the pseudonymous “usernames,” the off-topic ranting, the preoccupation with pork fat. In short, it’s a modern-day food thread in very slow motion."
- Jérôme Flipo
Wow. What an ending to the Texas game. Kind of boring until the end, though.
My guess would be McCoy gets it if Texas wins, but if Texas loses, I would say Gerhart will actually be the frontrunner. Really happy about the result of the SEC championship :)
- Bret Taylor
CableCard is a failure mainly because the cable industry has done everything in their power to block it. The only people I know who use cable cards are Tivo owners like myself and people who have it built into their TV sets. If every HD set had a cable card slow, then people would jump on that sucker. Of course, another problem with CableCard is that they charge you $50 or so to install it, when it's literally as easy as plugging in the card and reading the resulting number back to the cable company.
- Otto
I went and picked up the cable cards I'm using for Comcast at their Richmond District office in SF. The painful part was trying to explain how to activate them to customer service since they weren't very experienced.
- Cristo
As much as Mel Gibson annoys me, I find that wonderful. And OMG, does Emma Watson have beautiful legs OR WHAT?
- Kate Schmidt
Some of these roles are more iconic than others. I've never even heard of Simon Pegg or Michael Sheen. And Jack Nicholson's been in 20 iconic roles -- which one is depicted?
- Gabe
@Steve - thanks. I think I know what you're talking about, though I've never seen that movie.
- Andrew C
International growth has started to completely dominate on FriendFeed since August. Below is an unlabeled graph of page views on FriendFeed this month, broken down by country. Guess which country is the largest green slice below? (Hint: it is not English-speaking)
where other is proxied users from Iran. ;)
- EricaJoy
If we were not blocked , we would win a big slice for iran :(
- Milad.p
from FreshFeed
Both China and Iran would have been in there if they were not both blocked currently
- Bret Taylor
Is Russia any of the other slices pictured above? (other than gray)
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
That's where Australia is, in the grey :)
- Glenn Slaven
OMG. Friendfeed is going the way of Orkut ;) Btw, is Norway/Scandinavia even visible in all this ? Just curious.
- Thomas Bøhm
@thomas. even though Orkut is Turkish (the guy), it is (site) not big in Turkey.
- Ozgur Demir
i'm sure finland is forbidden long time ago from this list ;)
- Nia
from fftogo
Just look at the public feed for 2 secs or 2 hours - yep, definitely.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Facebook has a very similar story as far as I know.. we are a communicative nation:)
- Neşe Uyanık
Who's Gray? It's Gray, Louis of course :)
- Micah Wittman
Thank you for sharing this graph, Bret.
- Micah Wittman
Interesting - though for the sake of data visualization, pie charts are the worst of all.... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming, a-hem, take a look at your avatar ;)
- Micah Wittman
@Bret, what is the exact number of Turkish people on FF?
- Ozkan Altuner
Ozkan, I'd be curious to know too, but I have a feeling there's an internal policy about not releasing absolute numbers, hence the percentages. But it never hurts to ask :)
- Micah Wittman
@Micah, it's the page view, however, not the number of users :)
- Ozkan Altuner
Good point, Ozkan. But I can't remember Visitor or View counts ever publicly reported before. But today could be the first time! :)
- Micah Wittman
I'm not surprised that Turkey is the green portion. I've seen more and more Turkish posts in my home feed. I thought it was just a biased sample, but perhaps not.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Intense competition between Iran and Turkey occurred :D
- Nimaa
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...MOZAMBIQUE luminous orange l guess
- Pam Gwenzi
the desire to push the boundaries of internet of the turkish is troubling. the possesive tendecies of the turkish can be observed in the currently popular ''ff bu deYil'' (this is not ff) comment. turks are crowding ff, westerners are in panic!
- ferayebend
international growth dominates FF and yet the USA dominates the world. Not always in good ways either. What is the link? I don't think there is one. All I can say is that I love the USA and I love FriendFeed. What does it all mean? More free, cold beer is needed to find the answers.
- Morgan Haley
.. because, Turkish Facebook users are 10-20 years old. FF is very good alternative for older users. (and in addition Twitter is non-useful)
- Murat Tatar
If that is so, can we get some way of filtering by language? I want to follow more international people but be able to ignore them or their friends when they post in what I cannot read :)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Just tried that VMware chrome OS image, it is a SUSE Linux distribution with GNOME, GDM is customized with Google Chrome logo, and also Google Chrome browser, that's it for now :S.
- Orlando Pozo
Arg! I can confirm, it's a fake (the live cd) :(
- Brandon
Let's see Brandon, I am anxious to test this thing :)
- Orlando Pozo
The build is also pretty broken. It is missing a bunch of the Google packages like google-gflags. I am almost done with a build - we'll see :)
- Bret Taylor
I built it earlier, check it out at: http://gdgt.com/google... And we just released a VirtualBox and Bootable USB image (not mentioned in that TC article).
- Jon Ursenbach
I would like to read what happens when his daughter grows breasts.
- EricaJoy
Erica, I think the author is a female... but with a strong foundation of rudimentary critical thinking and contextual thought patterns in place, I wouldn't be too worried. But then again, what do I know? I'm a nutjob ;)
- Mona Nomura
Yeah but we know what happens when girls hit jr. high. Even the best laid plans and parenting have fallen to tween hormones.
- EricaJoy
So what's the jr. high solution? Does being "reasonable" work with kids in that age?
- John μller
This is a good essay, but I feel compelled to point out the other end of the spectrum: A neighborhood full of kids with no parental supervision or guidance just leads to the formation of street gangs.
- Gabe
@gabe: true, but the (sub)urban parents at whom this Is directed are in no danger of coming within miles of that end of the spectrum. But I see the problems described in this post every day.
- Joel Webber
Joel: In the suburban neighborhood where I live, the only kids I see "exploring" are those who seem to have no parental guidance whatsoever.
- Gabe
Does it only seem that way because you expect a parent to be watching them closely?
- EricaJoy
from IM
Gabe: I'm sure that problem exists as well, though perhaps Erica's assessment might go partway towards explaining it. When I was growing up in suburban Atlanta, I'm sure I and my friends looked as though we were running amok, but we had plenty of parental guidance. These things are, as always, more complex than they seem on the surface, but do I see plenty of evidence of "helicopter parents" robbing their children of the ability to, well, be kids.
- Joel Webber
When I was growing up, I basically did whatever I wanted, as long as I was home by dark -- and I was taught to walk on the sidewalk. When driving around my neighborhood at night, it's not uncommon to come across groups of kids strolling down the middle of the street. I tend to think the these are more like feral kids and free-range kids.
- Gabe
Yeah, feral sounds like an apt description in that case.
- Joel Webber
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
I took mine off as well, Ed. Aside from the excess amount of FF content on my FB wall, I also didn't want my IRL friends to pry TOO MUCH into the rest of my online.life. :D
- Helen Sventitsky
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
Read the SF Chron's article about him. They mentioned a humorous Stanford Atheltics video on YouTube which had him trying out for all different sports programs at Stanford. Couldn't find the video, tho. Sounds like it would be funny.
- Spidra Webster
Toby has had an amazing year. But I don't think he stands much chance at the Heisman. He is finishing strong, whereas Cal's Best has done the opposite, but he is not a national name and Stanford may not win the conference, let alone be in the national title hunt.
- Louis Gray
I pretty much hate sports (not playing them but the cult of certain sports in the US) but that article was pretty interesting.
- Spidra Webster
Louis, really? He's been a key component (along with Luck this year and of course, Harbaugh) in one of the biggest turnarounds of an NCAA football team I can recall and he produces yards like nobody's business (got a school high record 2 weeks ago). National name or not, a player that has done that much for a team should definitely be considered seriously.
- Chieze Okoye
Amazing! If it's out of the bag, I'll surely read about it.. X at least will do the job in the meantime. Thanks for the share Bret!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
But the use of X is easy to change at will. Yay layered architecture!
- Daniel Dulitz
"In addition to a specification of the protocol, we have developed a SPDY-enabled Google Chrome browser and open-source web server. In lab tests, we have compared the performance of these applications over HTTP and SPDY, and have observed up to 64% reductions in page load times in SPDY. We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code, and test results, to make SPDY the next-generation application protocol for a faster web."
- scott willeke
While they're at it, I wish Google would look at pushing LZMA over DEFLATE for compression. It offers significant savings and speedy decompression. I believe Yahoo added a JS API for using it in BrowserPlus, but I really wish there was an Accept-Encoding: lzma, gzip that would allow servers to send back LZMA encoded data. Google could also incorporate it into SPDY for header compression.
- Ray Cromwell
Go (http://golang.org/) looks pretty cool. I love channels and interfaces. It captures a lot of the things I wanted to see in a modern programming language.
Interesting that "goroutines" are implemented with heap-allocated stack segments. Does that mean continuations are a possibility? You could use them to implement a kind of exceptions.
- Gabe
Am I the only person who absolutely despises Knuth's "Computer Modern" font? I don't know what it is about it, but it just looks awful to me. And I'm one of those people who used TeX for everything including drawing finite automata and analytic tableaux back in college.
- Jim Norris
I'm with you, Jim. That's why, following the book _TeX Unbound_, I used other fonts in my LaTeXed thesis. From the colophon: "I used mathinst to make a mathematical font family of Monotype Bembo Semibold (from Agfa-Monotype), MathTime (from Y&Y), Chantilly (from Softmaker, similar to Gill Sans), Typewriter (from the Electronic Font Foundry), and a few others, with which I typeset this dissertation."
- Ruchira S. Datta
I always had \usepackage{times} in my LaTeX documents.
- Tudor Bosman
Times is almost as bad though. At one point I figured out how to use Adobe Garamond, but it was kind of flaky.
- Jim Norris
I didn't like Computer Modern or Times. I used Century Schoolbook for my stuff, I think (\usepackage{newcent}).
- Amit Patel
Omg I love it! Lately I've been doing more wireframes than actual mockups, and I wanted them to be team-editable as well, so I was using Google Doc's drawing tool. This is way better. Great find!
- Jess Lee
It's Hypercard! (edit: no it's not)
- Hayes Haugen
Anyone had experience with Balsamiq? Wondering how mockingbird compares
- Adam Kazwell
Nice, but I don't think many clients are going to enjoy being told to 'just upgrade to a PROPER browser!' when they discover they can't view the wireframes in IE
- Duncan
"Proper: Of the required type; suitable or appropriate" Could have chosen a less aggressive word, but it sounds like IE isn't a browser of the required type, so the word is technically correct in this context. The question of whether IE *should* be improper is another matter.
- Kevin Fox
I don't think it's a case of whether it's a proper browser or not, regardless of the definition; the usefulness of the app would be somewhat stunted if one half of team have problems using it. Or at least, I hope I'm not the only one who's had clients who still use IE6, and, for one reason or another, can't upgrade. Anyway, I'll shut up now, this is beta software, just hope that moving forward, they at least support IE8!
- Duncan
There is no sane reason to be developing software for IE6 anymore as it's past for even Microsoft. Yeah, they still make some random updates to it but if some companies are stuck with IE6 (for other reasons than having some software that are binded to that specific version) some might ask if their security policy is working or not.
- Daniel Schildt
It's good to develop software that works in most browsers but there is no good reason go get stuck in the past while creating something totally new. Mockingbird is meant as development tool and if some client does not want to have properly working browser, it's their problem. Wireframes are just the beginning part of UI development so there isn't need that have this kind of software working in ancient browsers (as if developers would still mainly develop everything first for IE6...).
- Daniel Schildt
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock." Congrats to Kevin Scott and the other folks I know at AdMob.
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Stanford LB Clinton Snyder out for the year, to be replaced by FB Owen Marecic. Not good timing with LaMichael James coming to town. http://twitter.com/BFeldma... ... UO 42 - Stanford 23
- Christopher A Carr
Go Stanford! (It's 16-7 Cardinal now)... said the Cal fan.
- Louis Gray
31-14 Stanford nearing the end of the first half. An interesting Pac 10 season, to say the least.
- Louis Gray
Thing of Beauty by Stanford thus far. Wow! Great plan. Great execution.
- Christopher A Carr
So... here's one option... * USC crushes Cal, then Oregon crushes USC, then Stanford crushes Oregon, and then Cal crushes Stanford. Weirder things have happened.
- Louis Gray
This game ain't over. But I love Stanford's plan. Going to be tough for UO to get this back. Spectacular coaching for Stanford.
- Christopher A Carr
I don't know, they might be able to go mainstream someday if they just change their goofy name and boring home page. They need a Flash intro or something.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
@Bruce, Flash intro would be nice, right. They have to use the web2.0 stuff, too.
- Ozkan Altuner
So what are your thoughts on Cal and Stanford this year, Bret? Cal got toasted by both USC and Oregon, but has won elsewhere.
- Louis Gray
Louis: hopefully going to be a good game. Two great running backs, defenses that are inconsistent. It is really hard to predict given how inconsistent both teams have been, though.
- Bret Taylor
Evidently the University of Oregon PK Ducks Pro Team are not well liked by Stanford message board guys...some good comedy there. :-)
- Christopher A Carr