Lode Nachtergaele

Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor

why not use slideshare to provide us all the slides - jfayel

One of the best talks of FOWA. Eagerly waiting to see the new features implemented. - Oren Solomianik

I love the smile on his face ;-) If I was 22, I would start programming an app right now. - Lode Nachtergaele

"If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left. With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000. With AIG, you would have less than $15 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle..."" - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

beer & recycling FTW! :) - Susan Beebe

so the meltdown is a solution for the homeless? - Stewart Rogers

"ONLY one reader’s letter appeared in the first issue of The Economist in 1843. Even today, readers contribute no more than one, or sometimes two pages to the newspaper. But at Economist.com, through comments and debates, they discuss everything from American politics to particle physics. This is just a small example of what Jeff Howe calls “crowdsourcing”: using an enthusiastic community to provide material for websites or solve problems. Mr Howe aims to show that groups of amateurs can often produce better results and do so far more cheaply than professionals. Mr Howe cites numerous crowdsourcing examples: for instance, Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia written by its users; Procter & Gamble asking amateur scientists for a detergent dye whose colour changes when enough has been added to dishwater; and iStockphoto allowing amateur photographers to earn money selling their pictures. Each one combines cheap and widely available tools, the internet for distribution and talented people with time to spare. Pa" - jan van den bergh via Bookmarklet

Nice coverage of Emailtoid! - Chris Messina via Mento

"At one point, in 1985, Pixar, losing money fast, was nearly sold to General Motors and Philips Electronics, which wanted its computer-graphics modelling tools to help design cars and transform medical scans into three-dimensional images. Even when Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple, came to the rescue, Pixar was still in danger. Its pretence to be a computer company was going badly: sales of the Pixar Image Computer were slow. The only significant way the company was earning money was by making cartoon advertisements to sell other companies' products." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

I'm about halfway through "The Pixar Touch" by David Price and I highly recommend it. Great read. http://www.amazon.com/Pixar-To... - Andrew Smith

On the other hand, I think Wall-E was better than the Dark Knight (which was pretty darn good too) ... Cars is the only one I didn't like, but it was still watchable. - Deepak

Also, Chrome is pretty sweet. - Paul Buchheit

I've been wondering where the osx version is too. I wonder if Google avoids being as aggressive on the Mac because (a) they respect Apple's design sensibility so much, (b) the development time isn't worth it when their product isn't solving something that sucks as much, or (c) out of respect since their CEO is on Apple's board. - Ranjit Mathoda

love the new photo viewer that comes with picasa 3 - cjmart

Awesome!! - Ashwin Bharambe

Good find! - Andrew Trinh

by the book! - faste

Is this crazy? I mean, content distribution or not... they make half-life and games? Is this a strike against msft? Or will they be making that Google second life thing more interesting? I'm not sure if I buy this, but it'd be interesting... - felix

Thanks, Bwana, I kinda figured because it was just sooo out there. Finding reasons, interesting as they might be, seemed a bit sci-fi-ey. :) - felix

I was hit by a "wtf" face when I read this. Made no sense at all! - Raúl Colón-Scarano via twhirl

correct link: http://malakun.blogspot.com/20... - Lode Nachtergaele

I got the deluxe edition - came in this cool patterned plastic case - came with a making of DVD, little hardbound book on the art of Spore, a National Geographic special DVD and a poster. - Steve Isaacs

Could you register and sign in the Spore servers on a mac in Belgium ? - Lode Nachtergaele

good thinkin there - krz9000

Congratulations, Ben! - Kenneth LeFebvre

Most coveted job title on Earth right now, huh? So, now you're on the squad, what's the minimum bribe to get you gushing forth to the guys on the merits of being able to tag our own (or each others) posts? - Slippy Lane

Congratulations!! Smart move by FriendFeed. :) - felix

Google Chrome is Google's new open-source browser project. They got the author of "Understanding Comics", Scott McCloud to draw up a description of the project. Looks exciting! - Steve Isaacs via Bookmarklet

@Brad I'm sure its because they wanted to concentrate on getting it working with XP and Vista before they try to get it working with OSX. Like it or not Vista and XP have a much larger user base then OSX. It'll come soon enough. - Mathew Ballard

@Mathew Yeah, you're right of course. I just need to vent :D - Brad Brooks

hilarious, and yes where are they ??? - Lode Nachtergaele

I don't think I'd want to be subject to that enhancement. I've learned to like my imperfections. - Hutch Carpenter

Actually, some of the "enhanced" pictures look distorted. Symmetry is supposedly a vital ingredient of beauty, that and the golden ratio. - Patrick Beard via twhirl

there was a post coming from truemors about a study that broader faced men are more aggressive. so based on that assumption that a more attractive face is ovalesque we can then assume a less attractive male will be more aggressive and therefor sexier to a female. http://www.livescience.com/cul... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

"John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar and Disney, loves playing with the Spore Creature Creator according to Maxis, Pixar’s Bay Area neighbour. But should he show alarm at what is being invented and uploaded online by others or welcome in a whole new generation of animators?" - Chris Nuttall

"Working on artificial intelligence research for a better planet." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Presumably Noam and Georges used modern, electronic randomization (if any). Well, or perhaps they used that Harvey Dent coin. - j1m

So which one of them is the evil one? - Jim Norris