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Live now: This Week (Year/Decade) In Tech 228 with Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble - our year and decade ender. http://live.twit.tv Dicusss here...
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I beat Johnny.
- Judy Jones
Tease:
- Leo Laporte
@scobelizer the IRC is where it's at!
- Andrew Euell
EFnet ftw ;)
- Jay Neff
exploring the darkside of twitter on NPR http://www.npr.org/templat...
- Carl Golden
I've got to remember to use this service more often.
- Shane Tilton
from BuddyFeed
Blippy certainly is pushing the boundaries.
- Caleb Elston
I think he has something to, like you said Leo adding Netflix, Amazon, etc Affiliate links in for instant monetization
- Jay Neff
Can I get a scale that lies about my weight then twitters?
- Ghworg
It's all opt in, you decide what you want to share, it isn't as big of a deal as I first thought with concerns of privacy really
- Jay Neff
Really want a FitBit
- Caleb Elston
I think I need to take a screen cap of this. No Johnny W liking a TWiT post. Hmmm he must be busy today. lol
- Bill Heslin
Wow. IRC is so crazy. I think the story of the decade is surely mobile and email. The iPhone's popularity is huge for this. Google too.
- Elliot Christenson
Leo busy FF room today. Hey everyone!
- Bill Heslin
Hey Bill!
- Caleb Elston
Hi Caleb
- Bill Heslin
Scoble are you going to talk about TSA restrictions on electronics on plane?
- Peter Trussell
Maybe
- Robert Scoble
Really excited by Square, could really shake up the payments space. PayPal for the real world.
- Caleb Elston
and PayPal sucks lol
- Jay Neff
here we go. iSlate lol
- Caleb Elston
boy if Apple doesn't deliver they are in trouble
- Kim Landwehr
Tablets haven't worked that well in the market, so it makes sense that they'd call it a slate instead of a tablet.
- Jeff Harbert
@Kim, yeah- I actually just sold the rest of my AAPL stock.
- Caleb Elston
All time high, taking profits. Will buy back in a month or so
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb, wish I had AAPL stock to buy and sale (:
- Kim Landwehr
@Kim not really much stock just about 25 shares
- Caleb Elston
The tea leaves for iSlate is the brand new iTunesLP creation tools. All HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Caleb Elston
So where do you guys discover the majority of your technews? (besides TWIT :)
- Caleb Elston
Caleb - Lifehacker, MakeUseOf, MaximumPC, Twitter.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - Digg, The Register, Twitter...
- Andrew
@Jeff cool, so no aggregators really?
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew Do you do much filtering on Digg? Just the tech areas for instance?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah the Tech page is set as my starting point.
- Andrew
@Caleb, No, I don't like aggregators. Even for blogs, things like Google Reader and Bloglines annoy me.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - One exception to that is Popurls. That one's handy.
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff Interesting. Is there something in particular about them you dislike?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah I barely look at Google Reader any more, it's just like a huge inbox you have to crawl through now.
- Andrew
@Caleb - Readers don't give me blog comments, for one. I also find that the look and feel of a website will help me remember where I first read something. Blog themes are also usually stripped out and made homogenous by readers. Don't care for that.
- Jeff Harbert
can someone post the links to the #twitdecade videos leo plays
- Andrew Euell
this guy is annoying
- Mark
news producer guy
- Mark
I've gotten nearly all my breaking news this year from Twitter.
- Jeff Harbert
I learned about Twitter on TWiT. TechTV and it's spawn are one important story of the decade.
- Jason R
Twitter definitely provides most of the news/links that I click on. I prefer the layout/design of Original Signal to Popurls, just a shame it seems to have been abandoned. Only annoyance is no way to turn off the popups when you hover on a link.
- Andrew
"we have some deep integrations coming with a bunch of different players and big announcements coming up" --Kevin Rose on TWiT
- Andrew Euell
anyone know if traffic on digg.com is still growing?
- Mark
I think the fire alarm is starting to beep more frequently...
- Andrew
Story of the decade is REALLY TWIT. I agree with Jason Robertshaw. I learned of Twitter on TWIT.
- Elliot Christenson
those glasses dont suit her
- Mark
I agree with her comment. (Now I just need a piece of inexpensive hardware to switch between USB webcams.)
- Jeff Harbert
I like my Zi8, but the EIS could be better.
- Jeff Harbert
haha! 640x480
- Andrew Euell
I had a cheap HP camera back in the day. Utter crap.
- Jeff Harbert
Heh, my mom had the Sony Mavica! :)
- Ken Wiesner
My last employer had a floppy-drive Mavica.
- Jeff Harbert
we had a mavica for a trip to vegas with the family. BACKUPS could be a story of the decade. Digital is now practical because of BACKUPS.
- Elliot Christenson
I know Carbonite is a sponsor but I gotta say their product for Mac really sucks. It doesn't backup video automatically! You have to manually select video files to backup. I switched to Backblaze. We should try to get them as a TWiT Sponsor!
- Ken Wiesner
Am I the only one that thinks location services like Foursquare are dumb?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff hate to disagree, but I think location is actually a core element to be shared. Just like Photos, Video, Text...location is next.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - but it's so transitory. So I check in at a bar - I won't be there an hour later.
- Jeff Harbert
People recommend you for the "Crunk" badge. :)
- Ken Wiesner
@Jeff that's true, but tweets are similarly ephemeral, but we now have much better realtime alerting systems so you can actually know about that right away.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - And it also does me no good to know where anyone non-local to me is. Scoble is having dinner at the Ritz - I'm across the country, so what use is that to me?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff, bingo - and if you're in a small town, who cares that you just popped down to the gas station in your pyjamas?
- Andrew
@Jeff that might be true for Robert, since you don't really know him, but if it were your son or brother it might be interesting, a conversation starter for the next time you speak.
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew - Exactly, which is why I think these services are dumb.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - I'm actually acquainted with Robert. It still does me no good to know he's having dinner at the Ritz because he's nowhere near me.
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff Touche haha
- Caleb Elston
Love Amazon Prime.
- Jeff Harbert
I love how the book store guy is kicking everyone's ass in the cloud space. :)
- Ken Wiesner
Bezos is a force of nature in business.
- Jeff Harbert
NASA should limit its spending to human exploration related activities.
- Jeff Harbert
Leo is dropping comments about his wealth alot lately
- Mark
@Mark I think Leo is very pleased and confident about the success of TWiT.
- Jeff Harbert
best ad transition to date
- Andrew Euell
Pet peeve - that's navigation, not GPS.
- Jeff Harbert
A TWiT conversation is going to hit best of day. It's been awhile. Love it...
- Bill Heslin
Automatic parallel parking is a joke. If you can't drive, don't drive.
- Jeff Harbert
I love that electric vehicle thing! That would be so cool! And I cannot wait to become popular P:
- Zachary TG
Fully automated cars would be cool though. Real life savers, since most people don't know how to drive safely.
- Jeff Harbert
Robert's is right Microsoft is just not cool anymore
- Kim Landwehr
I'd still like to have a full computer in my car.
- Jeff Harbert
Doesn't the decade begin in January 1st, 2011?
- Héctor
Dave Winer and RSS , Scoble names his child after RSS ...I may have to unblock you Robert...lol
- Bill Heslin
@Héctor - Leo mentioned that in yesterday's TWiG. He said he'd rather get a little email from correct listeners like you than wait a year and get 10x more from people who think it begins 1-1-10.
- Jeff Harbert
Correct. I remember arguing about it 10 years ago, but this time around I don't feel like nitpicking for that same exact reason. Sounds like a good plan.
- Héctor
I don't like the iPhone. I need a real keyboard.
- Jeff Harbert
Thinking of getting a Droid to replace my Blackberry in Sept when my current cell contract is up for renewal.
- Jeff Harbert
Yeah I'm going to drop my BlackBerry Storm - was such a disappointment.
- Andrew
Night all
- Caleb Elston
Electric vehicles will fit 95% of everyone's vehicle needs. Yes, you will need a second vehicle.
- Jeff Harbert
Sorry, it's the public holiday here in Oz for Boxing Day... I just woke up and I'm now going for a swim...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Later Caleb!
- Jeff Harbert
Hey Johnny...Was wondering where you were...Enjoy your day!
- Bill Heslin
Please stop thinking that electric cars will 100% replace normal cars.
- Jeff Harbert
And btw, good old lead-acid batteries are just fine for electric cars. We don't need a battery breakthrough.
- Jeff Harbert
Thank goodness for holidays - this is the first time I've been able to watch TWiT live, as it's after midday Monday in NZ. Although luckily TWiG falls on Sunday here. :)
- Andrew
audible = DRM = FAIl
- Mark
hey you know how audible uses DRM, how does that work on a CD since a CD doesn't support digital copy protection does it?
- Mark
(you can burn audible to cd)
- Mark
If you think about it most people spend most of their time driving to and from work and around town, a perfect use for electric vehicles
- Kim Landwehr
"earthy crunchy" --Leo Laporte on Kevin Rose
- Andrew Euell
@Kim - Exactly. We don't need 350 mile range. 80 is more than enough for most people.
- Jeff Harbert
you DO WANT Rackspace as a sponsor, trust me
- Mark
(they are very generous)
- Mark
Esp when Rackspace goes down and takes half the internet with it. Three times now? Or is it only twice?
- Jeff Harbert
meh every host goes down
- Mark
99.99% uptime
- Mark
@Mark - kills the "cloud" argument though. How can a cloud go down?
- Jeff Harbert
well if someone unplugs the power for computers in the cloud i guess
- Mark
What kind of plasma?
- Jason R
If that's the case, Rackspace needs to restrict access to their power cords. ;)
- Jeff Harbert
gotta agree on the HD
- Kim Landwehr
there are a whole bunch of weather/technology metaphors yet to be exploited with this whole "cloud" thing
- Andrew Euell
HD really has made web video in particular much more enjoyable.
- Jeff Harbert
giant women have never been so attractive
- Andrew Euell
has a DVD screener leaked yet hehe
- Mark
Blogs aren't history, they've become enhancements & supplements to videos and tweets.
- Jeff Harbert
I like that comment by Leo - why pigeonhole it? It's all content.
- Jeff Harbert
Yay. Dr. Kiki rocks
- Bill Heslin
"tough ass particle" --Leo Laporte on the Higgs Boson
- Andrew Euell
great - I could understand all of the previous video vignette's except the bio-tech one ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
....and an overpolluted planet with 15 billion people. Something to look forward to.
- Jeff Harbert
aging a disease? Cure that, that would b awesome
- Bill Heslin
what about a cure for sleep, free of side effects of course
- Andrew Euell
@Andrew - or just make sleep more effective. I'd love to get by on 3-4 hours per night.
- Jeff Harbert
Biggest story of the decade - social media. It changed the societal consciousness.
- echostreamer
it's not Facebook per se, but rather the ability of any company to connect that many people on the internet: Orkut, Twitter, Google Groups, etc
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Zachary TG
Fun show, guys.
- Jeff Harbert
Great show, long live TWiT!
- Andrew
digitel yamah keyboeerds and roland key boerds have realy advanced in sound and what u can do with them
- daveccorey
Why is the Tricaster such a POS???
- Ken Wiesner
Leo thank you for another great year....Peace to you and your family...Have a GREAT New Year. We'll B Here!!!!
- Bill Heslin
I noticed on the TWiT youtube channel, Windows Weekly is watched 5-6 times more than the other shows
- Mark
As it should b Mark. it's a great show... :)
- Bill Heslin
Windows Weekly is 12500+ per show. TWiT the flagship is 2 or 3000
- Mark
The different shows all have different user/viewer profiles for live, re-run, download and now youtube. It's amazing to see the variances
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Joi Ito says the key to success is reducing the cost of failure. #tedxdubai
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great advice, my failures are in many case more valuable to my growth and evolution than my successes of which there are many (jk)
- echostreamer
Good news for gays: Obama has ended don't ask, don't tell policy. More on my favorites: http://twitter.com/scoblei...
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@scobleizer but has he replaced it with something more sinister?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
I think he is 'pledged' to ending it but has not done so yet, despite today's speech.
- Andrew Leyden
@penguinsix just like GITMO?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
yay about damn time
- Susan Beebe
Actually Andrew Sullivan just slammed the entire speech. "All I can say is: the president gave a speech he could have given at any point in the last three years." http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
- Andrew Leyden
Sunny (The Geek Lord) to Sunny's feed, Appetite, Bloghology Social Network, Indian Social Media Enthusiasts
Guys wants talk about #District 9, who else watched it join the conversation wiv me. Love to have you thoughts
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I say one should not watch it while having Food :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Uniquely start as an documentary movie showing aliens are part on our planet from long time.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Human cruelty on aliens, actually it shows the cruel side of human being on the other species. Picture showed me an impression that human being can be so cruel to other species if they don understand them weather it is animal or aliens
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Though I love the alien computer systems ..:P
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
@sunny Especially catfood.
- Sweyn Venderbush
Sweyn: And not to mention Nigerians eating aliens to get powers of em
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I forgot the name Michael is it ? the one who was saving em at the end. I wan that kinda robotic system :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
There are obvious parallels to apartheid South Africa of course. It kind of reminded me of the way we treat Haitians in The Bahamas. Can't wait for the sequel.
- Adi
Don't we all human beings think that earth is our own property. I mean look at vanishing rain forest, every minute we loosing some species of animal.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I agree kapoor, while enjoy in dinner, don't watch it...
- LeON
awesome movie....@Adi, great correlation
- Darlene
I teach a bunch of third generation refugees from Burma. They have never known a working society. Watching District 9 touched a nerve for me because the aliens, too, never knew a working society on Earth. No one took the time to explain the intricacies of society. Instead they were just shut out. Similar to these refugees who are now in the US, but if it weren't for the staff of the...
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- Miss Elle
The correlation to apartheid is especially interesting since the movie starts during the 80's when there was still apartheid in SA.
- Amit Morson
Why is this shit in Apps? http://friendfeed.com/welovea...
- LouCypher
@LouCypher is it ? Oh, I am sorry
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Watched again the movies with kid cousins..They said the movies is yucky, whatever that mean :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
awesome movie, especially for me having visited Jo'Burg numerous times it was refreshing to have it asthe backdrop of a Sci-fi flick like this. Anybody hear that the lead actor Sharlto Copley (http://bit.ly/Xj5nu) is set to play Murdoch on the new A-Team movie ? http://bit.ly/Y0EKg
- Tate DA FF MVP
Amazing and awesome
- Amir
Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
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"Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that racial politics played a role in South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress last week and in some of the opposition the president has faced since taking office."
- Atul Arora
from Bookmarklet
sadly, he tells it like it is.
- Tammy Cromer-Campbell
Sounds pretty convenient to me. Any time there's opposition, it's because a majority of people opposed must be racist, not because they have a difference of opinion.
- Garmon Estes
"Honest", funny.
- Carlos Ayala
Joe the Slander Wilson, Joe the Plumner. Who's the next Joe?
- Shane
It's one thing for someone like Sharpton to play the race card, but Carter is a fucking diplomat!
- dthree
What a stupid thing to say!
- Michael Kaiser
Right on, Garmon.
- Kurt Starnes
So typical of Carter. President Obama has some terrific ideas. He also has some that are just bad. I don't agree with a lot of what he has to say. Just because I don't agree with everything he says, does not make me a racist. I have nothing but respect for our President. That was true with the all of them. Even Carter. It's a job most of us are not cut out for and it's one that, no matter what you do, no one is going cut you any slack or give you a break. Former President Carter should know better.
- George Gray
My sentiments exactly, George.
- Kurt Starnes
I think a lot of you are reading what he said and applying it to any and all dissenting opinion when clearly that's not what he's implying. He saying some of the opposition maybe reacting so strongly because of their individual racial bias. It doesn't have to apply to you to be true.
- Jon Gosier
from iPhone
@Joe - I hear you. I guess one would have to define "major role (of racism)" regarding the opposition.
- Kurt Starnes
Yea, like it was racial when you were in office only one term. All colors wanted you out!
- JimmyDee
This is called hey look at the racist over there so we can distract everyone from the fact that we are not moving our issues through like we want. Lets tell everyone it is because of racism not because of the actual issues.
- gfurry
/endorse George Gray's comment
- Mattb4rd
What an embarrassment Carter is.
- You.
I'm confused. When Bush was president and the Libs were calling him a lier, and worse, and our brave soldiers murderers from the House and Senate floors, dissent was the "highest form of patriotism." Now, it seems dissent has become the highest form of racism. Which is it, Libs? Seems to me it's YOU who always play the race card when you start losing the argument. It's a mechanism to shut down debate. "You're a racist! Argument over!" Such a shame.
- Don Smith
@Don - show me the posters with Mr. Bush made up as Hitler, or a Monkey. The Liberals, as you stated, disagreed but did it in a respectful manner letting Mr. Bush state his side without interruption. The Conservative attitude seems to be I will yell as loud as I want to drown you out, as your point of view is "hogwash."
- Stephen Christian
@Stephen: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty... It's not hard to find this sort of thing if you actually look for it. Just because you don't remember it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Also see: http://semiskimmed.net/bushhit...
- Otto
Typical response. Play the race card whenever someone agrees with Obama.
- Spencer
@Otto - Thanks, you're right (Hitler comes up too often). As a non-American, looking at it from the outside your country has become VERY polarized and fightening to watch. It appears people don't respect other people's option any longer but go for the yelling over each other.
- Stephen Christian
@Stephen: Keep in mind that only those shouting the loudest get into the press. Especially outside the US; I've noticed that other countries media tends to be biased in this respect, only focusing on the extremists, and ignoring the rest. Those of us actually in the US find that sort of extremism amusing, at best. Also remember that most of those people doing the shouting are idiots, and often don't vote.
- Otto
A hit dog will holler, I guess. You guys act like Carter pointed a finger at you. Also, it's Obama's detractors playing the race card more than anyone else. None of you can deny that there are some who are racially motivated against Obama. It's obvious. How come any time anyone states this fact, you guys come running with your comments about the "race card"?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rasheen The only people playing race is the Obama side. How come anytime someone disagrees with Obama they are labeled a "racist"? Seriously, it's getting pretty old and sad.
- Spencer
Well, look.. Carter has a point, and no doubt some of the opposition is obviously racist. However, at the same time, when somebody *says* that sort of thing, then it creates a grouping in the minds of his supporters. The notion becomes "disagreeing with Obama = racist" which is, of course, not true in the slightest. This is why Carter should choose his words more carefully. If you want...
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- Otto
@Otto: Well, yes the North American Press (which is a part of an enteratinment company) is all about ratings and therefore shocking to get people to not flip channels / buy our paper / visit our web page. So how is Mrs. Jane Average suppose to get the facts and information to make an informed choice? My memory maybe failing me but the right has always seemed to want to out yell the left and I wonder if you cannot get an information - just yell does anyone even listen any more?
- Stephen Christian
@Stephen: Yes, the press sucks. We are aware of this. But I wouldn't say that the right is more vocal. Whoever is not in charge is the most vocal. The left was just as extreme and vocal when Dubya was in office. It's unfair to paint this as one side being more extreme, because that's simply not true.
- Otto
Oh please. The only ones that keep bringing up race are those against him. I have seen no Obama supporters disregarding all rational discussion against him, using race. Look at how this thread developed as an example. Some agreed with the obvious fact of what Carter said while others randomly lashed out against his sentiment as if it's false.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Someone disagrees with Obama, someone from their side comes out and labels them racist. That's coming from their side, not the people against Obama. Wilson called Obama a "liar", which is based more in truth than race. This started even before Obama was elected, and is just getting worse.
- Spencer
Are us folks who now question Carter racists via proxy?
- Kurt Starnes
The point is, just because some of his opponents are racist, does not mean all are, so threads like this just make no sense to me. You can't deny some of his opponents are racist. I think we can agree on that. No one is calling ALL of his opponents racist. That would be stupid. So I don't see why we keep having these fruitless discussions every time someone points out the race factor.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Here's what Carter said: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter told NBC News.
- Kurt Starnes
Rahsheen - no doubt "some" of Obama's opponents are racist.
- Kurt Starnes
"demonstrated animosity" does not mean those who just don't agree with him. It means those who are being blatantly disrespectful and perpetuating blatant lies about him. I'm not sure that covers anyone here.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Heck, I had demonstrated animosity against Bush and Clinton (and I'm a white guy)! :->
- Kurt Starnes
@Otto: As I'm not in the U.S. - What was the Loud Left groups / people during the Bush era? I got the impression you're either support us or your a terrorist lover / american solder hater had pretty much killed the left outspoke groups / people.
- Stephen Christian
@Stephen: The problem with that view is that the right never explicitly stated anything along the lines of "us or them", sort of thing. Several off-the-cuff remarks by Bush were along those lines, and the left took it and ran with it to produce that sort of image. It wasn't true, because quite frankly the right was firmly in power at the time and had no need to make that sort of a fuss. All that impression you got came from the left, not the right.
- Otto
I love President Carter. Very smart! In fact Pres Carter did not name names. He just said that a lot the the criticism of President Obama looks like racism. He explained being an old man from the South he believes he's seen racism and reconizes it.
- MarK
Obviously, some of you never watch and read the "main stream" liberal media. The main topic has been that America is full of "racist" Obama haters ever since the TEA Parties and Town Hall Meetings. It's a lie, typically used by Liberals when they're losing the debate. Those of you who have your shorts in a knot about all the yelling, it's only because it seems to be the only way to get...
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- Don Smith
Bill Maher brought it up as well last night. Bill suggested that it's old southern racism bubbling up in subtle ways. No member of Congress would ever do that to a white president. Similar to why parents wouldn't want their kids listening to an Obama speech about something as simple as a message to stay in school; they're subconsciously afraid of a black man speaking to their kids (This is Bill's words, not mine).
- Fleagle
Oh please. Democrats boo'd Bush, did all kinds of things when he was speaking.
- Spencer
Maher should be reminded of the treatment Bush #2 received during a State of the Union address, IMO. Was it because he was white? 2¢ *Edit - Spencer beat me to it.
- Kurt Starnes
Oh please, Bill Maher? He's the biggest idiot on the planet for Pete's sake! Carter should just thank God for Obama. He finally has a chance not to be the worst President in history.
- Don Smith
+++++Rahsheen But I think you're talking into the wind. These people revel in their victimhood. It makes them feel special...or something.
- Admiral Anika
Don, pretty sure GW Bush has the worst president title locked up for the foreseeable future. A record of failure unblemished by success.
- Kevin Pedraja
Anika, I think you're right. This is actually one of like 3 threads I've been involved with on the same general topic and the result is the same.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
From now on, anyone that disagrees with anything I say is hereby labeled a racist. I'm married to a Mexican-American, and it's a well known fact that racists don't like 'mixed race marriages,' and would do anything to discredit my assertions based on their dislike for me and who I'm married to. I don't care what the topic is, I can recognize racism when I see it. I dare you to disagree with anything I say from here on out now. :)
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Anika, Rasheen - I think some here are making a reasonable case that dissent against Obama is sometimes labelled as racist. Sure, some of it is racist, but not to the extreme that Carter professes. All IMHO, of course.
- Kurt Starnes
It seems he's talking about the overt and ridiculous protests against Obama featuring various racist caricatures and statements on their signs. Not people who just disagree with his policies or whatever. Someone correct me if he said different and I didn't catch it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
If that's what he's saying, then I have no problem with his statements.
- Kurt Starnes
Wow. There's a banquet of stupid on this thread. How did I end up on Digg?
- Fleagle
If that's what he said, I'd be ok with it. He's not alone in saying what he's saying, and what he says characterizes all dissent as racially motivated.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
He is Rahsheen and it's clear that most people participating in this thread didn't bother to read beyond the headline. And then there's the fact that they love to play the victim.
- Admiral Anika
I read the article and don't consider myself a victim.
- Kurt Starnes
Who's playing the victim here? Carter and many democrats are calling people racists, a term that means by definition that they've been victims of racist acts.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Anika: I did read the article, and he makes it very clear: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter told "NBC Nightly News." ---- I fail to see how you could read that in any other way than the most straightforward one. While he is talking about "demonstrators" there, those are not the only people opposed to some of Obama's plans.
- Otto
I also agree with this statement of Carter: "The president is not only the head of government, he is the head of state. And no matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect." This applies to all Presidents, IMO.
- Kurt Starnes
Now I'm confused. His statement is not absolute. He's not calling ALL of Obama's opponents racist. I don't even think most of you are included. What's the problem here? I don't even think "overwhelming portion of intensely demonstrated animosity" applies to any of you.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
"intensely demonstrated animosity" can refer to the passionate response to what many people see as an erosion of core American values that the democrats are trying to legislate right now, and the president is championing right now. Because I do have a guttural reaction to much of that by definition makes me a target of his statement.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
It's a broad set of terms that he put out there, like many others, as a stake in the ground so as to say "be careful how passionately you disagree with the president, because you could get the scarlet letter "R" knitted to your shirt." That's trying to intimidate me from disagreeing with the president and his policies, and I resent that.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Honestly, it isn't much different from what the Republicans did during Iraq, saying "be careful how passionately you disagree with the policies of the president, or you'll be branded 'unpatriotic.'" Except being labeled by consensus as a racist carries much more weight with activists than being unpatriotic. Witness Imus, Loren Feldman, that guy who drew the cartoon about the monkey...
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- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
It *can* refer to a passionate response, but I think his statement is more clear by including "demonstrated." Just because you openly disagree doesn't mean you're carrying around signs with the president dressed as a witch doctor. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it seems clear to me who he is talking about. A lot of people on FF disagree with Obama, but I've never thought them racist for doing so. The people I see protesting on TV, however...well, that's a different story.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I just don't like anybody's opinion being dismissed, and I absolutely hate when people classify other people into groups and then dismiss them as a class based on that. It's entirely too easy to label people into categories and then ignore what they say based on that category, and Carter is not helping by saying this sort of thing. Many of these "racists" as he's labeled them might have genuine and valid opinions that will not get heard. That's not the right way to run a democracy.
- Otto
Interesting, you're upset about people being grouped into a class and dismissed, what about a black class? What about the differentiators are race? Is that then fair?
- anna sauce
@anna: I'm not following you. Are you suggesting that black people's opinions don't count or something? Or what? I'm saying that labeling people is a bad thing, regardless of what the label is.
- Otto
Why is it that, despite recognizing that things like this are in fact racist, some people feel more solidarity with the guy holding up the sign of Obama dressed as a witch doctor than with people who think this is pretty disrespectful and not in anyway a rational argument? Because that's what it feels like when someone points out that things like this are racist, and someone else dismisses it as playing the race card, or accusing everyone who opposes Obama as being a racist.
- Victor Ganata
Kevin - I lived through the Carter years as a married man with three kids. Believe me, things were far, far worse during those four dark years than during Bush's eight years, and Carter didn't have to deal with the worst attack on American soil in history. Bush wasn't perfect, but no other president in history has been tested with such a tragedy so early in his term, and had to send our...
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- Don Smith
I remember reading an article a while back that said when it comes to dealing with issues in America, the majority of whites rarely see race as a factor whereas people of color almost always saw the implications of things being racial. I find that compelling. EDIT: And if that is indeed the case, how the hell are we ever going to deal with this huge chasm between people (throw class in there as well), if no one wants to drop the pretense and talk about this cultural plague?
- Derrick
@Victor: Not entirely sure what you mean by "solidarity" there, but you can agree with somebody's position without agreeing with, or even liking, their tactics.
- Otto
Otto, even if the position is "I hate Obama mostly because he's black?"
- Victor Ganata
@Victor: That's not a position, that's a reason for a position. A position must be on a subject that is in contention, like the health care plan. Somebody might hate the plan because they don't like blacks, I grant you. I don't like the plan because I think it's a bad plan.
- Otto
Sorry, I guess I elided too much there. The position I'm referring to is "I dislike Obama." There are lots of reasons to hold this position, many of which are quite rational. Is it right that people who have this position endorse other people who share the same position, even if they employ detestable and irrational tactics? Is pointing out that these specific tactics are detestable and irrational necessarily "playing the race card" or tarring everyone who opposes Obama with the same brush?
- Victor Ganata
Although I guess I can see the other side of the argument: it's possible to be racist AND still have rational arguments against Obama's policies. But it's really hard to separate that out. Especially when a lot of Obama's policies are continuations of Bush's policies, and these same people weren't very vocal last year.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor - good points. I also agree that many of Obama's policies are continuations of Bush's policies and wonder why there doesn't appear to more outrage from the left - extending warrantless wiretapping and bombings by drones which kill innocents are two such issues which come to mind. I think it's just simple cognitive dissonance on both sides - humans tend to overlook the...
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- Kurt Starnes
Kurt, I think there is a lot of disappointment on the left, but you don't hear about it for probably the same reasons: some people would rather defend the guy who is closer to their own beliefs, even if they find some of the things he does or allows are actually detestable and/or irrational. And it doesn't help that the mainstream media finds the incoherent shouting on the far right much more worthy of coverage than the grumblings of the left OR the intelligent discourse of the more moderate right.
- Victor Ganata
What a dumb shit..He needs to just stay out of the front of a camera.
- tony
Stay classy!
- Derrick
tony- nice way to add to the conversation.
- anna sauce
otto- way back you were saying that democracy supports racists as well as non-racists, and what I'm saying is that racism is undemocratic- it's saying that one kind of people's opinions are not worth merit.
- anna sauce
I am shocked, simply shocked, that someone would insinuate the presence of racism in the party that has opposed every advance of civil rights in recent history.
- Patrick
Racism and the suppression of civil rights goes hand in hand, and I can't see how the suppression of civil rights could possibly be democratic in any way.
- Victor Ganata
Patrick++
- Andrew C
Patrick, FWIW, before around 1960, the history of Democrats and race is not exceptionally favorable. Again, another case where neither Party has clean hands. *Edit - I just noted you said "recent history."
- Kurt Starnes
Oh for sure. I mean, they still let Byrd be a senator. That's crazy.
- Patrick
Name a few civil rights advances that the party has opposed in recent history Patrick. Please be specific.
- Mattb4rd
@Mattb4rd: Someone might need to define what a "civil right" is before anyone can answered? Maybe I think it should be a civil right to drink and drive.
- Stephen Christian
@Stephen Life, Liberty and the P U R S U I T of happiness.
- Mattb4rd
At least in California, the Republicans have spearheaded a lot of legislation that many racial and ethnic minorities have felt were specifically targeted against them: Proposition 187, 209, 227.
- Victor Ganata
The voters decided those issues, Victor.
- Mattb4rd
It doesn't change the fact that they've had deleterious effects on minorities.
- Victor Ganata
Wrong again Jimmy Carter!!
- Rod Cadenhead
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Evolution of the Video Game Controller
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cool; but, did they really need to draw hands on every controller, obscuring most of them?
- Sean O'Hanley
Well it's likely this diagram came out of a white paper on video game controller ergonomics, so the hand/finger placement is crucial. Actually that's what drew me to this in the first place :)
- CannonGod
LiVES - Because the media should be open. A Free, Realtime, Open Source video editor and a VJ tool. - http://lives.sourceforge.net/
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"LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away. For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards."
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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Excellent.
- Roberto Bonini
It's a little rough around the edges, imo, but it works reasonably well.
- alex falkenberg
I want to really like it, but yeah, it's a bit "rough around the edges". Media is by its nature open. Nothing's stopping me from taking the Friendfeed logo and defacing it! :P
- Ed F
video editing of ANY kind confuses the hell out of me - what with codec choices and all that. So I am hardly qualified to test any of these
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
That's more of a holy war. I for one love a properly formatted mkv, but one of my best friends hates when I send him stuff in mkv.
- Ed F
mkv?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hi.Im - A Nametag For The World Wide Web | Visit hi.im - http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-...
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"In addition to aggregating together the activity on social networks (such as Facebook and LinkedIn) and communication platforms like Twitter, this service also takes into consideration YouTube channels and Flickr profile pages. That is only fit – there are people that complement their every social movement with activity in services like those, it is an not an uncommon scenario in any sense."
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
from Bookmarklet
Is this a very FF-like service??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Just trying it out - http://hi.im/kentonsmith
- Kenton
It seems to only show what you have contributed, not everything in your stream.
- Kenton
Kenton, we're working on how we handle the different feeds. For Digg, it does what you say. For example, we'd like to show what you've submitted AND dugg. Same on YouTube. Right now, it's only what you contribute, but not your favorites. We're working on it. Thanks for trying it out! (Note: I'm a cofounder of Hi, I'm)
- Ryan Kuder
Hi Ryan - How did you find this thread? - from twitter? (I'm just curious how people find mentions of their Co. or brand..)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Lol. I watch FriendFeed and Twitter and blogs to see where questions may pop up.
- Ryan Kuder
Awesome!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I like how it lines up my flickr adn youtube on bottom of page, nice clean presentation http://hi.im/WarLord
- WarLord
I got in last month. http://hi.im/jbug
- Dennis Jernberg
I just created mine... I LOVE it! - http://hi.im/wordsforliving - I'd prefer it to not show everything in my stream because then it would be cluttered. This is like an online business card. Love this!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Love it, Jannifer! One of the things we're working on is what a profile looks like once you've got a lot of feeds in it. We're also working on getting the feeds from more of your services. We're glad you like it!
- Ryan Kuder
Nice Jannifer!
- Iván Abrego
Right now it's just showing Feeds from Twitter and Digg. Are there other services right now that can show the updates? Because I barely use Digg at all. :-/ (maybe I should use it more?)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
We're working on getting the feeds for the other services as soon as we can.
- Ryan Kuder
Hi Im Russell Limprecht aka Russellreno http://hi.im/russellreno
- Russellreno
Addressing Congress on health reform tomorrow at 8pm ET. Sign up to host or attend a watch party with fellow supporters: http://my.barackobama.com/page...
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RT @BarackObama It should never be controversial to ask our students to stay in school: http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediare... via @casinclair
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I Munna Eee Choo - http://geeks.pirillo.com/photo...
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Iran Uprising | June 20th Protests | 6 - http://2ty.org/photos...
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Shandiz, do you still think Obama should stay out of it?
- Myrna
Myrna: yes, Obama should stay out. Otherwise Iran will be able to demonize the protesters.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, that's what I think but some people who are in pain(Iranians) for their friends and family think he should organize EU nations to 'do something'. It appears to them that he's taking it lightly when people are dying in the streets. I read some tweets that people are angry at him that he took his daughters out for ice cream today while people are getting killed in Iran.
- Myrna
yes Myrna/ it'll make it worse if he steps in/ trust me
- Shandiz
I think he's deliberate in his non action, not that he couldn't do something if he thought it would achieve the best outcome of the Iranian people.
- Myrna
Shandiz, you don't have to convince me..you're preaching to the choir here but some Iranians would like to see a stronger reaction from him. I say its just that he has a balanced non emotional affect when he speaks and it looks to some like he doesn't care. I know he does.
- Myrna
I don't have any words to describe it! these ppl are all iranian and killing each other but.....all we need from other countries is to support us and spread the news and let us be heard and seen
- Shandiz
well the history tells something else! US is not just Obama/ how can I forget Afghanistan and Iraq and what US did to them!
- Shandiz
And I think that's whats happening. CNN stopped talking about Iran for 1 hour all day. For the other 23 hours they continued showing videos, pictures and discussions.
- Myrna
You're right!
- Myrna
Obama has played this crisis like a chess master, Myrna, and beating the Persians at the game they invented. The regime is itching to pin this on American meddling. In order for the Iranian Army and some elements of the IRGC to side with the opposition It's absolutely necessary it not appear as if America is taking advantage of Iran's chaos.
- Robert Stevens
I agree.
- Myrna
You said it so clearly as well!
- Myrna
+++Robert Stevens
- Shandiz
This is the problem Robert and Shandiz...who's going to stop this? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Myrna
Leading reformists inside Iran are adamant about Obama being hands-off, but what breaks my heart is the young man on the street in Tehran who said if Obama didn't do something the movement was doomed.
- Robert Stevens
Always 2 sides to every story.
- Myrna
Myrna: the people of Iran have to stop it.
- Robert Scoble
Your heart will be broken again when you see the youtube video i just posted.
- Myrna
I know Robert.
- Myrna
Well, Walid Phares seems to think the movement is much broader than it was even a few days ago. He's predicting that labor and ethnic minorities will become actively involved.
- Robert Stevens
I saw it last night Myrna, I couldn't even cry/ poor girl/ it could be me or one of my frnds :((
- Shandiz
This is a good chance for the United Nations to step in and take over the 'world police' role the US took on years ago.
- Mona Nomura
Myrna: the citizens are already chanting "death to Khamenie" (death to the Supreme Leader). That is the first time in 30 years that is openly being chanted.
- Robert Scoble
what is United Nations??????I can't trust them to be honest/ the only one I can trust is my own ppl, Iranians
- Shandiz
I know good things are going to come out of this Robert, I know!!
- Myrna
this is so courges of them to chanting this as they can execute you in Iran if you insult Khameniei!!!!
- Shandiz
Shandiz, read what an Iranian 'expert' said today: Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour: "It's amazing how much Iranian culture has matured. Iran's population is not like other Middle Eastern countries. Achmadinejad's mere presence is a disaster for Iran."
- Myrna
@shandiz: The ironic thing is Khamenei trying to impose a media blackout but the BBC played a huge part in Khomeini and the revolution overthrowing the Shah.
- Robert Stevens
FYI everyone: Latest rumor is that Rafsanjani's family is being rounded up.
- Robert Stevens
Rumor Robert? Not sure I trust a rumor.
- Myrna
Any Farsi speakers? Tweet on Rafsanjani had this link: http://www.inn.ir/newsdet...
- Robert Stevens
we already tweet the news in Farsi ;)
- Shandiz
Shandiz: Is that report accurate? Has Rafsanjani's daughter been arrested and charged with sedition?
- Robert Stevens
Robert: these days I can't trust anything but I'm just checking it w/ my frnds as they know better than the backgrounds of these news websites and weather they're hacked or not / let u know shortly
- Shandiz
Thank you Penelope and Shandiz.
- Robert Stevens
I want Obama out. His word is a trigger to label these people. On one hand Mousavi is asking people to use "god is great" as slogans, and use relgious flags. We don't want any approval or sympathy from US or Western Countries. If you can get Turky's muslim government to say something pleae do so, but not US with a dark history in Iran
- شوخی
Robert:I asked my frnds / they're saying that this website is related to IRAN newspaper( don't know what side is this paper is) some of them saying its a rumor some saying it true!!!!!
- Shandiz
Thanks Shandiz.
- Robert Stevens
CNN International carrying Mottaki press conference live right now.
- Robert Stevens
that website is not trustable as I can see/ it is linked to Fars news which all know what sort of website is!!!!
- Shandiz
Thank you Penelope.
- Robert Stevens
بابا صورت اینها رو شطرنجی کنید! مدزک دزست میکنید برای اطلاعات؟
- Häbi▓
Obama's involvement would be lethal, but the rational given by his press secretary today was horrific. Massive human rights violations by a regime chalked up as "problem in Iran between Iranians." That is a statement for open ended abuse, in all nations. He needs to push the UN.
- E-Advocate Network
Robert, anything new this morning? Watching news here.
- Myrna
It seems that grandson of Rafsanjani confirms that the the daugther of Hashemi is arrested
- شوخی
Shimon Perez from Israel to Iran young people: "let the yong people raise their voices.."
- Myrna
RT @whitehouse WH Facebook page exclusive: President Obama backstage before ordering Colbert’s head-shave http://www.facebook.com/video...
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RT: @anildash hoping to convince CNN that grabbing Facebook usrnames is called "Facesquatting" so theyll have to say that horible term onair
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face squatting LOL
- Tyler Gillies
Win!
- Mike Lewis
CSS Video Effects - http://ajaxian.com/archive...
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Facebook Connect could become the Web's default login - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol...
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That would be really unfortunate as open standards like oauth and openid already exist
- Hasham Malik
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P021809PS-0069 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I vote that the next time we need a photo of Air Force one that we just have Obama take it himself rather than spend $328,000. He seems to know his way around a Canon body with L series glass well enough.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Yet another reason I didn't vote for him. He's not a Nikon man.
- William Beem
hah, that's an awesome pic.
- Blake Caldwell
It is partisan issue ...
- Clarence Chiang
I always thought Democrats shot Canon while Republicans shot Nikon.
- Thomas Hawk
We should all be about saving $$$$ in this economy!
- Mike Andric
On a separate note, it is sort of cool that the White House has a Flickrstream.
- Thomas Hawk
@thomashawk it's really fricking cool that the white house has a flickrstream
- patrick
What he needs is for Canon to build him a lefty version. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
I shoot with my left eye like Obama.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't squint when I take photos. Both eyes open.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I squint and after a day of shooting, the right half of my face is sore from squinting all day.
- Rochelle
Thomas: isnt he shooting with his right eye here...? may be u meant "...with left eye closed.."
- Roshan Ramachandran
damn, you are right Roshan. I guess I'm not left eyed like Obama.
- Thomas Hawk
Dems don't like Nikon. It's to close to Nixon. :D
- ChiliMac
Canon > Nikon.
- tabbr
I wonder if anyone has the guts to tell him that he needs to use his left hand to support the base of the cam to get less shake :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
*obligatory roll of the eyes to tabbr*
- Anthony Citrano
So what do independents shoot? Pentax, Sony?
- Jeff P. Henderson
At least he is looking through the correct opening in the camera, something I would not have expected from our previous president... ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Ashton Kutcher shoots Nikon.
- tabbr
I may be completely off, but judging by the way he is holding that camera, I can't imagine it is his or that he has shot it much. He looks like he's trying to shoot a P&S.
- Jeremy Kunz
He is holding it wrong. My guess is he would prefer to use the live view function but doesn't know how to turn it on. At least he isn't holding it back to front.
- CJPhoto
tabbr, I don't think any1 cares what Ashton Kutcher shoots (ofcourse he does get paid for it - you have seen the ads right?). Jeremy, CJPhoto, he is the president for God's sake, not a photographer :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Shivanand, you are right, and I'm not intending to knock him down, I'm just observing that I seldom see someone with a camera that is sporting a pro grade lens do that and I'm trying to guess why. I can hold a camera really well, but my pictures... well, that's another thing.
- Jeremy Kunz
he didnt order the crazy photoop
- Petr Buben
"I see cheezeburgerz" LOL - http://www.backtype.com/ricmaye...
- Ric Mayer
Jeremy, most people who didn't learn to shoot with crappy lenses in dim situations with manual cameras, don't go through the rigour of maximising equipment. I bet, the resident photog of the whitehouse, should take it upon herself to educate Mr. president, so we can all enjoy pictures from the viewpoint of one of the great minds of our lifetime.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
i think he's just goofing around here though. it's not his camera according to the caption.
- Nathan Rein
If I were a graffiti artist I'd make a stencil out of this photograph and spray paint it everywhere.
- Thomas Hawk
Anyone know what lens that is? Just curious.
- Patrick Binder
I almost seem to remember a photo of Obama shooting with a photographers camera during the campaign.
- Patrick Binder
Patrick: that's almost certainly a wide prime, either 24/1.4L or 35/1.4L. Probably the latter.
- Gabe
Looks like the 85mm f 1.2 to me.
- Thomas Hawk
that not an 85mm f1.2...unless my last copy was different and i am almost positive its not a 24mm 1.4 either.
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos: You're right that it's clearly not an 85/1.2 (the AF switch in the photo is obviously different than either the original or II version), but I'm having a hard time convincing myself it's not the 24/1.4.
- Gabe
@Gabe the reason i think its not the 24 is because of the distance of the red line and the top edge of the lens. now granted it could be the angle but it seems that the red line is further away (than the lens pictured) if it were a 24. too bad that there are no metadata/tags on this picture.
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos, how would metadata help?
- Gabe
cool!
- Susan Beebe
Any idea if that 5D is a MkII?
- Gabe
Really excited to startup my podcast this week... Friday at 1pm we tape the first live "This Week in Startups" -- website design will be up Thursday http://www.thisweekinstartups.com/.
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The "Re-share" function has been replaced with a more powerful "Share" dialog.
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Also, based on feedback, all the per-entry links are visible by default (nothing appears on hover).
- Bret Taylor
1UP Bret. Wasn't feeling the hover.
- Derrick
By "per-entry links" do you mean shortened URLs?
- Mitch
Mitch: I mean the "Hide - Reshare" links that are attached to each entry.
- Bret Taylor
I just noticed that!
- Anne Bouey
Nice!
- Ken Sheppardson
Yay! I just noticed this before I see this entry. Makes me happy.
- Admiral Anika
Uh, that's not going to be the standard bookmarklet from now? Please say no.
- Admiral Anika
Very cool... and thanks for including the "Share" URLs, particularly the short URL. Is the little "x" in the upper right to dismiss the window missing intentionally?
- Ken Sheppardson
I like the UI change. One minor suggestion: add a close box [X] to the dialog; I found out that you could close it by clicking outside, but I think it would be easier with an explicit action (or even "close this window")
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Nice! I just would like ESC as a shortcut to leave it please (this is my reflex when trying to escape this kind of pop up)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Stanislas, that pop up sucks balls on my netbook screen since I can only see up to 'Post' but clicking off of it helped. Odd there's no 'cancel' button.
- Admiral Anika
wow nice.
- Alfredo
now how about that bookmarklet
- Alfredo
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude... I can embed the chat on my site... WIN
- Johnny Worthington
where is the "cancel" hiding in the share popup ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, looks like there's a bug or something: http://beta.friendfeed.com/directe...
- directeur
can the admins add the friendfeed-beta to the "to" list ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Thanks - great response to the feedback!! I'm very happy to see hide back.
- Robin Barooah
A close button has been added - sorry for the oversight.
- Bret Taylor
Why are those images showing up on every FF post?
- Andrew Leahey
Andrew, this happened to me (added image) and I deleted the post and recreated it.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Happened to me as well. Very strange.
- Andrew Leahey
you could've clicked on the gray area to close it too.
- Alfredo
I think the fact that it hasn't be noticed instantly shows how few people actually post text directly through FF.
- Andrew Leahey
Andrew: this is a spurious error, and we are pushing a fix now.
- Bret Taylor
Bret: What do you mean by spurious error? Was it a user error on my part? Not trying to bust you, just not sure what you mean.
- Andrew Leahey
Meaning it was not happening with all posts - it was an issue with one of our backends and caching. Let me know if you see the problem again.
- Bret Taylor
Gotcha, will do. Thanks for the quick fix.
- Andrew Leahey
I really like the embed feature, I can put a post in a blog post and the comments appear in real time, in the blog post as updates! That's something I haven't seen anywhere. http://breakingnewsviafriendfe...
- Wallace
This is awesome, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
yay!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Can FF get any better? ....just wait 1/2 a day ;-)
- Mark Traphagen
cool; is the comment box gone?
- Anthony Citrano
Wow! This is quite amazing.
- Brandon Titus
This is cool, but I think the Quick Links to the services are superflous.... and the dialog barely fits my firefox viewport (on a laptop).
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
:) A lot can happen in a day: http://beta.friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah Wittman
It's not working for me :(
- Richard Lawler
Works for me! This is sweet!
- Helen Sventitsky
In fact, I think the 'Share elsewhere' section could be collapsed by default.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Impressive ... what is next?? :)
- Amani
cool new function! Just added a blog post with this dialogue - http://www.jeroendemiranda.com/friendf...
- Jeroen De Miranda
That is really great and useful. I liked Short URLs.
- Alp
I'm getting some bad results with short urls not pointing to the long URL it's supposed to, ending up in non-beta friendfeed and some other weirdness.
- Boris Gordon
Cool! Thanks =)
- Anton
Embed - no way!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
I suppose short URL <http://ff.im/2lx3d> will eventually point to the beta site, but how about it should do that RIGHT NOW? ;-))
- ianf ⌘
Bret, this is far better, thank you. I love that we can see the short URL (this could really to with being on the share box and the bookmarklet as well as the embed code. The quick links are very useful too. But it's still just a link to the post not actually opening the post up to new feeds (i.e. with sync'ed comments and likes). Would this be possible please?
- Kol Tregaskes
What I'd like to see is the possibility to share the comments when you reshare it to another feed.
- Brome
In fact you could combine this new share dialog box with edit post options and we could edit/add/remove the images, the link(s), the title and the feeds the post (the ability to remove from existing feeds and add to new feeds).
- Kol Tregaskes
Brome, yep basically open the post to new feeds (or edit existing ones).
- Kol Tregaskes
Really impressed and agree with Kol that this should be the standard dialog across all Shares
- Joe Dawson
is embed realtime? If so it could replace the comment section on blogs easily.
- Rahul Das
Rahul, I'm typing this comment in here: http://breakingnewsviafriendfe... to prove that yes the embed code is real-time. Now that is *excellent*!!! Shame it's in a window though.
- Kol Tregaskes
this is awesome. Now someone needs to come up with some ready to paste code for blogs and we would have an awesome commenting platform.
- Rahul Das
like the share function
- eric
Much better distinction from "Reshare"(RT) which conceptually was more of a like.
- Michiel Sikkes
Give us the ESC shortcut to close the popup window
- Waldemar Schott
Good idea, +1 Waldemar
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Waldemar, agree we really need the ESC as exit.
- Kol Tregaskes
Is it possible to unframe the embed code so it's a little tidier than this: http://www.e-lusion.co.uk/blog...? For instances I have to set a height when I don't really want a limit. Either way, this is superb! And thanks to Wallace (http://beta.friendfeed.com/wallace... pointing this out to me! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Good point Kol. There is a problem when there are so many comments, tho.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, yep but not sure this is possible. It would be nice though. :-) The new way to blog? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe. But I was thinking of doing that watchlist of mine using the embeds. What do you think?
- Roberto Bonini
And did you know this embed updates instantly????
- Roberto Bonini
Loving the new Share, thanks Bret. Would be cool if the Bookmarklet will have these options too.
- Majento
very nice ... It would be even better if the frame was not visible.
- Kevin Nordmand
Roberto, yep it's real-time. Yeah that watchlist would work, just create a private post on your site and add the embed code. A little fiddly though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Bret, thanks. What about sharing via Gmail or email in general?
- Damond Nollan
Now I want the 'edit' form upgraded with the same 'To:' field, so I can add crossposts after-the-fact.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Everyone noticed the retweet icons down the bottom, didn't they?
- Johnny Worthington
I have a bit of a problem, at my resolution of 1366x768, if there's a photo in the re-share I can't see the "quick links" section at the bottom, and there's no way of scrolling this screen.
- Louis Simoneau
Great stuff but now I need this same functionality in the bookmarklet!
- AJ Kohn
sweet!
- .LAG liked that
Johnny, yep. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
ESC shortcut (+1 Waldemar) would be great!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Wud be great & really easy if Mail Invitations link had option for importing & selecting email contacts...rather than typing/copy-paste. Any plans for this?
- Roshan Ramachandran
perfect :)
- Zafarali
I'm having the same problem Louis. Would be great if we could scroll the share window.
- Sharon McPherson
cool
- Adrian
Cool - even cooler if the bookmarklet could do the same!
- Kevin Nordmand
I like it! Would be nice to update the bookmarklet too. And please keep the original comments added to a post.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Edit the bookmarklet to add "beta" to the address :)
- Roberto Bonini
how should we choose the groups to share the item in?
- Mahsa Z
Masha, click the Share link, when the box pops up, click the X to remove "My Feed" if that is not where you want to put the item. Enter the first letter of the group you want to send the item to and you'll see all the groups that you belong to that begin with that letter. Find the group you want and click on it.
- Sharon McPherson
would be nice if you could just dropdown a list of groups, rather than having to type the first letter
- Tommy Keene
You mean "FF should read our minds, one letter is one letter too many?"
- ianf ⌘
The new share function is pretty awesome.
- Andrew Trinh
Sharon, tnx. so we should memorize all groups' names! :-/
- Mahsa Z
Thanks. This is a great feature and makes sharing even easier :)
- Nicholas James
I really like the new Share feature. I wish the "Like" feature had more control on how Likes get sent to Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
I love this! Just discovered it today.
- Brian Bufalo
this is frustrating. More specifically...the retweeting is frustrating. We need to be able to retweet without a (via http://ff.im/2lx3d) at the end and the urls need to be shortened if we're resharing a link from friendfeed. This is driving me bonkers.
- Zee.
Roberto, thanks for the tip!
- Michael R. Bernstein
and a RT is nothing without mentioning the name of the person we shared from
- Zee.
Zee: thanks for the feedback. To clarify, is the fact we prepopulate the textbox with (via ...) what is bothering you? You can delete that text. Or am I misunderstanding? Good point about making the username of the person who shared it more prominent.
- Bret Taylor
I was just clicking on the Share feature, thought it was new.. And it is! +1 to email, that's what I was looking for, sharing the FF entry via email for non-FF users! Promote awareness! :)
- Chris Chua
how do I get this new/improved version?
- Benin Brown
from fftogo
Benin: it is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com/
- Bret Taylor
great! .. more power to you .. :]
- Petr Buben
I don't get any email options @beta.ff – Safari 3.2.1 on OSX 10.5.6. While I'm at it however, please consider making this Share dialog a little more compact. I read FF at 24p font size (tired eyes), and this dialog doesn't fit on my 13.3" (800px vertical) laptop's screen.
- ianf ⌘
This just makes friendfeed even more powerful. Love it.
- Angus Neil
whoa, major Google Reader redesign was just rolled out, they are going for a clean and easy to use look (you may have to restart browser)
Cesar H Castro Jr liked this
Oh hell no, the colors look like friendfeeds
- Cesar H Castro Jr
In South Dakota. Visited Mt. Rushmore last night, Rapid City this morning. Watch the video from Rapid City at http://my.barackobama.com/RC
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Brandon Blattner, Dan N. Moldovan, krug and 6 other people liked this
From the creator of PopUrls
- Steve Rubel
tried that one, pretty nice, but still use instapaper - it's dead simple
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
from twhirl
Have you tried Laterloop? Love the offline capes.
- Steve Rubel
Have to try this...
- Daniel Schildt
Perfect for a geeky grad student trying to keep track of dozens of links to enable my best (or worst) procrastination efforts!
- Philip Ryan Johnson
from twhirl
Some problems with feed importing and also with some other things. I keep getting 502 Server Error from Google time to time.
- Daniel Schildt
I love the gMail features i guess I'll play around with it for a few days
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Why nobody's promoting my app? :)
- directeur
Tsega Dinka, Roger Benningfield, Xavier Donat and 3 other people liked this
fatsecret.com really needs to meet twitter. There are alot of heavy geeks who sit all day and could use the integration.
Cesar H Castro Jr liked this
Take a stand, promote OpenID blog commenting - http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008...
Cesar H Castro Jr, David, Krishnan Subramanian and 2 other people liked this
Fully agree. Its the only way to stop spam and trolls
- sam sethi
from Alert Thingy
My only concern is that OpenID will become the same as an email address, seeing that more and more OpenID providers are popping up left and right.
- Cesar H Castro Jr
from Alert Thingy
Your opinion sought: now that everyone has APIs and platforms, what's next? smart, quick replies to be quoted
timepilot, Devin Anderson, Chris Prakoso and 10 other people liked this
Making APIs and platforms useful to the non "tech elite". Long way to go with that.
- JonathanJoseph
filtering out duplicate information across APIs (twhirl just asked me this question twice - in friend feed and twitter) ...via twhirl
- Sarah Davies
"Smart" social stream readers - filtering the information as it comes in, grouping of similar items (and/or elimination of dupes), tracking discussions, items from one's most interesting friends would carry more weight, filter by groups/services/time frames, meme tracking based on your own social stream, more efficient display of the flow - highlight quality comments from your interesting friends, pay less attention to tweets with no links embedded, etc.
- Aviv
API standards, like OpenSocial and the forthcoming DataPortability.
- Mike Reynolds
Mega-apps!! :-)
- Dave Winer
Better filtering mechanisms to reduce noise and prioritize content. I wrote about this the other day http://twurl.nl/n260oi
- Mark Krynsky
smart clouds
- Steven Hatch
content security, social geo tracking, and automatic trackbacking ...via AlertThingy
- Cesar H Castro Jr
Better platforms like friendfeed, to make sense of all the information and noise from your social networks
- Abhishek
ownership: making the information I store and share in "their" services, really mine. I want everything living in my domain (let's redefine this).
- Panayotis Vryonis
A global dashboard where I will be able to drag and drop services and arrange it like how we arrange icons in the desktop. Using something like Intel's mashup maker, I should be able to create a mashup from any website and drag and drop the service to my global dashboard. This will make Sun's vision of 'network is the computer' a reality for even mom and pop users.
- Krishnan Subramanian
New abstractions: none of the lifestream tools actually look or feel like _streams_. They're just lists.
- Adewale Oshineye
Finally coming back to what usenet and irc already had - intelligent filter and scoring mechanisms?! Allowing me to use tools and services to serve my needs and not have me work the way the dev. of an apps sees fit? I am constantly annoyed on how services neglect to do research in the not so far history and then complain that they get flack for not having certain things. 20 years ago it was fine when you did not have an airbag, today to come out with a modell without is just plain stupid.
- Nicole Simon
Just to put things in perspective: I had a person and keyword based scoring mechanism in my newsreader over a decade ago. Including rating down and up, including having a way to search through articles and mark them read once I was through that, only display new stuff, or stuff in context etc etc. I want that back.
- Nicole Simon
Oh and you should take a look at http://ffapps.com/ - the scripts there are far more important than any api can be at the moment. Because they care about what the User wants.
- Nicole Simon
Nicole, LOL. I love the airbag analogy.
- Ginger Makela Riker
small pieces loosely joined by a mesh, and not just Microsoft's ...via AlertThingy
- dan farber
new apps that use these APIs as the basic framework, like http://urbantakeover.at/ or http://www.fireballapp.com/ -- the most important APIs will be the very basic things, like Twitter (and hopefully competing projects, soon) for communication or Fire Eagle for location.
- sebmos
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