"With the credit crisis cutting off access to short-term financing, California has asked the United States government to lend it $7 billion, warning that the state could run out of money in a few weeks without it... Typically, the state gets routine short-term loans in the fall to cover its bases until state coffers refill in the spring from tax revenue and other sources." - Bret Taylor
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I used to have a coin that said "It's a bug" on one side and "It's a feature" on the other side. Came in quite handy in defect triage meetings. - Andy Roth
By the time it gets dressed up the bug probably has a few more legs ;) - Mathieu Ayel
Bahaha, kind of reminds me of how WoW players talk about Bliz "Its not a bug; its a feature" and "Its working as intended!" - David Adam
Chris is a tech superstar that I listen to deeply. He is excited by Google's moves and lays out the poor execution on the Mozilla side of the fence. - Robert Scoble
What I missed in the Chrome comic was a mention of browser add-ons like Firefox's. Surfing the web without Adblock Plus is hard to imagine. - Ole Begemann
or without the delicious add-ons... or the evernote add-on... but at least bookmarklets are (likely?) to still work. - Justin Long
The comic was aimed squarely at devs. There was little mention of what would make end users choose Chrome over IE. - Paul Grav
Best read so far, been waiting for a commentary like this... - Kevin Cearns
Gee, Ole... why wouldn't Google want you running AdBlock Plus? Can't imagine. ;) (Now, I agree, add-ons are cool, but as a publisher, I'm not going to weep over that one...) Anyway, I wouldn't count Firefox out. Obviously, what Google addresses is the performance/reliability side and building around apps. Both FF and Chrome are built around standards, both closely married to JavaScript for what they do next. I think this could be a great rivalry, frankly. - Peter Kirn
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They talk explicitly about plugins on pages 29-32 of the comic so you should be able to have your AdBlock. I seriously doubt Google cares that much about AdBlockers -- which makes up an extremely small percent of the overall market, and which is probably made up of people who don't click ads anyway. - Chris Messina
Chris: I suspect by plugins they mean Flash etc. and not Firefox-style extensions. But I hope I'm wrong. - Ole Begemann
Will they, wont they. Time will tell. Who do you want to hate today? - Steve Blamey
Interesting article. More choice = better for the users. But I think that you are over-hyping the death of Firefox. As far I can tell. Firefox 3.0 is much better than Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 will be better than Firefox 3.0. Multi-process, V8 and native Gears support are definitely a step forward but firefox is part of an ecosystem so I would not count them out (A lot of people said that Safari meant the death of firefox and firefox is doing much better today then back them). I look forward to revisiting this post in 18 months and see how the mozilla team/community proved you wrong! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm, well, I didn't claim to foretell the death of Firefox at all. In fact, Firefox will likely continue to gain marketshare and attention (as the web is still expanding). One of my points is that Mozilla missed the opportunity to be the foundation of Chrome -- and will now have to play catch up -- instead of set the agenda for what's next. - Chris Messina
Do you think that was a technical decision or a control decision. From the last couple of interviews I have seen of John Lilly, I think that he has a really clear vision around performance, usability and ecosystem. Performance is coming in 3.1. Usability is driven by some of the concept Labs has been pushing out and ecosystem come from the fact that there are 100s of extensions to firefox and a really vibrant community around firefox. That is a very unique blend. Chrome has made some good progress around performance but there is not much innovation around usability and extensibility. Google has proven with Android acitivities and cross application data sharing that they are capable of innovating...but it will take before those things make it to Chrome so while firefox might have to play catch up in part of the architecture, Chrome will have to play catchup in others. - Edwin Khodabakchian
I am using chrome right now, and I really miss my shareaholic addon as well as my stumbleupon bar. hopefully the developers get crackin for plugins for this browser. - James Campbell
I'm hoping to see some good progress from Mozilla. I do worry a bit about them fish-tailing and not being able to say no to developers (whose needs are often very different from regular folks). We shall see.
@James Campbell:There will be a need for web hooks, no doubt... and places to insert additions or modifications to your browser experience -- I don't really doubt that (some standardization there would be nice too). - Chris Messina
The bookmarklets work just fine. I really wouldn't miss any of my add-ons...but the fact that I can't scroll up with my mouse is a deal breaker. talking about plugins/add-ons/extensions when people can't even scroll up is kinda putting the cart before the horse...just sayin - Rahsheen™
Before you left Microsoft, I said that your efforts, as well as that of Mini-Microsoft, really helped to lend a human face to the monolith. Along with MSFTExtremeMakeover (RIP), Mini-Microsoft has been an outstanding critic and well-written. - Louis Gray
This is really cool... One thing though, the reason I gravitate towards coffee shops that have latte art is that there is a high correlation between latte-art and good coffee... Now with these machines, it might no longer be the case :( - Bindu Reddy
you know who has good latte art? cafe del dogge in palo alto. very creative stuff - Charles Hudson
@Jim Not as good as my Guinness shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day! - Anne Bouey
I love that one of their demo images is the Utah teapot. - seth
Cafe del Doge: Venice, Cairo, Tokyo, Palo Alto. - j1m
"Largest Swimming Pool in the World over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water - Andrew Baron
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That's nutty. The ocean is *right there*. A little redundant (not to mention, the ocean still wins in size!). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
ocean is cold. they should do this in Cananda. Anyone ever been to a Canadian beach? So beautiful.... and clean. but damn cold. heated outdoor pool is a great idea - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
I want to see how quickly Phelps can do a length! - Joe Dawson
Forget the bar, this pool is big enough for an outdoor mall. Shop while you swim. - LiquidLag
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You know how much pee you'd have to get to fill up that pool? lol - Jim Kukral
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@Jim According to Andrew, it would take 250,000 m^3 ;-) - Kirk Kittell
I kinda wish someone would just make a definitive page with all the world record things in Dubai. I have literally seen 4 Dubai-based links in FriendFeed today. - Phil Glockner
We Americans look at Dubai the same way the rest of the world looked at us in the last century. - Chris Baskind
That's an apt assessment, Chris. I still get a kick out of watching public domain footage from the 1939 World's Fair, which I would guess captivated the postwar world. - Phil Glockner
@Chris Baskind You mean as a destination I'll reach from the bowels of a steamship only to find myself living in a rat infested tenement, waking daily to peddle fruit from a horse cart? Hey, Dubai, here's my papers! - Christopher Harley
Dubai?? That swimming pool is in Chile. - Morton Fox
From Sreedhara.com: "The world’s biggest hole is located in Russia.
The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter." "The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now." - Mark Trapp
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Anthony: the wrong side of the internet tracks, next to the pawn shop and the "auto mechanic." You can piece together my tracks by my Google Reader shared items and my Toluu account: 99.5% of the stuff I share via Bookmarklet are found from reading my feeds. I read about 500 to 750 items a day, share about 5% of that, and bookmarklet 1-2%. In this case, Neatorama.com had a story about this, and I dug down to the original source it quoted. - Mark Trapp
There's a hole in our planet, Dear Liza. - Jason Brooks
Carla, both are doing great. We're wrapping up a four day weekend at my parents, and on division of duty, both are at risk of the iPhone camera when I have them. And Chris, feel free to use the photo. - Louis Gray
Cuteness ends to the point when you hear small child screaming all of the nights during week full of work. But to be realistic, that's normal. - Daniel Schildt
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. - Jeremy Brooks
You get in more trouble doing something someone has told you not to do than doing something that nobody has given permission for. If you ask 10 people and one says 'nay' you open yourself up to trouble. Ask as few people as needed to CYA and then do the right thing for the company as you see it. - Kevin Fox
i've heard it's better to apologize than to ask permission - Mister Groonk
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it seems to me this might occur only if you don't know the right person to ask in the first place. but i'm not a permission-seeking type of person, so i wouldn't know. - idnan
Same here... if it feels right to you just do it! - Ricardo Rabago
I like to apologize in advance about something I'm going to do that you won't like. - Amir Gharaat
CYA by sending out your proposal in advance, stored in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory marked "beware of the leopard." Then, instead of begging forgiveness or apologizing, tell the naysayers that it's no use crying about it now. - Stephen Mack
Applies to smaller companies too. Although I admit I also don't ask on occasion. - Royce Mathew
the wedding picture. the guy on the horse statue in the water fountain. omg. hilarious. - Christine Lu
Sorry - Tad's been busy CODING. I only photobomb any photos lindsay's trying to take... and i do that all the time until she punches me... and then a couple times more. - Tad - the Fresh Maker
Dude, so what'll happen if photobombers take a group picture? Imagine me, you, Chris P in a picture together? Wow. Terrible. - Mona N.
The girl in the first photo above looks like she is so in to appearances she would literally murder the making the gookie. - Brian Norwood
my favourite is the one with the toilet paper in the foreground -- if you've already got a roll of tp in the frame, why not photobomb it? - Trent Olson
Rather than asking direct questions, why not have a "Poll" option with multiple choice answers? That seems like a logical extension of "Share Something". "Share a Poll". - Louis Gray
I could see a polling method where you answer the multiple choice question AND comment. That way there is a simple numerical result, but also a discussion around the topic. - klecu
@Chris, you win for getting it first, And @klecu, I would assume commenting would still be active. - Louis Gray
Louis, yeah, but you've got more pull than me. It's probably on their whiteboard already now. ;) - Chris White
It would be a lot better than going through 50+ comments all saying Yes! No! Yes! Yes! No! - Sam Pullara
How would this work? Would the poll answers replace Like in the set of options, and be tallied the Likes are currently? - j1m
hmm. i dunno.....one thing i like about FF is it follows the KISS principle. Keep It Simple, Stupid. :) It's not trying to do 402 things. It's clean web activity aggregation plus comments...i love it just the way it is. (Well, some sexier filtering and/or the "close friends" item discussed earlier would be cool) - Jeff Douglass
J1m, I was thinking an embedded rectangular box with horizontal bar charts above the comments, which displayed post-voting, with an option to reveal. They are common elsewhere. Likes would be retained. - Louis Gray
Can you hook up the FriendFeed guys with me? If they want to integrate SocialToo an API is about to be launched for just this. Not just that, but they could just integrate with RSS for a person's "polls" and have those show up automatically in FriendFeed for each new poll. - Jesse Stay
@dave_winer, can you elaborate on how you see the plugin architecture working? I'd like to be sure that's covered in the new SocialToo polling API - Jesse Stay
Jesse, the FriendFeed guys watch the site fairly well, and I don't have any more pull than do you over their roadmap. - Louis Gray
FriendFeed guys, contact me if you're interested in this right away. I can have it ready for you tomorrow, and it's just an RSS feed and flash widget you'd need to pull in. - Jesse Stay
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@louis heh - sounds like me and Facebook. I get that same question for Facebook all the time and I give the same answer :-) - Jesse Stay
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If FriendFeed had a vote we could vote if there should be a vote in FF... - Jemm
Survey integration for FF and Facebook seems like the way to go. It gives both simple poling and complexity as needed. - Pratik Patel
I like this idea! I also want VOTING STARS for posts so we can see how much buzz it generates and who likes an item and to what degree it is liked. - Susan Beebe
Wow, interesting. How common is this? Also interesting is the quote about "Other “liquidity events,” like an initial public offering or a purchase of the company itself, are looking unlikely." - DeWitt Clinton
btw, does any one know how facebook is giving stock options to new employees, is it based on 4b or 15b evaluation. - Krishna Gade
4b, from my understanding. but that's 4b common stock. 15b is preferred stock valuation - Eric Eldon
Very interesting, I never even suspected there were so many female gamers over 35 in the world! What's interesting as well is how this depends on geography - I don't think the situation is similar everywhere. - Svetlana Gladkova
The definition of "gamer" is changing so rapidly that we need to do more gaming research to stay current with this field. I did a graduate project about MMORPGs and even though I've been playing MMORPGs for the past few years the data still managed to surprise me. - Sally Robinson
My wife plays Zuma at least 5 hours per week. This doesn't surprise me. - Eric Thompson
Best. Voicemail. Ever. Words cannot describe. I have never, ever heard such insane douchebaggery. Oh my goodness. I have to listen to it again. - Christopher Sacca
I will never get tired of listening to this. - Mike Doeff
