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Not only does this earn orionstarr a block but it earns him a very public one. - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Glenn Slaven, Tyson Key, Shey, Jamaican of FF and 59 other people liked this
I do hope he gets professional help but this is simply inexcusable.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm sorry you had to deal with him not once, but twice. You're right, COMPLETELY inexcusable.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Absolutely inappropriate and I am very sorry this type of response hit your feed. You, Rochelle, Audrey and most especially your sister are in my thoughts during this most difficult time. I don't think professional help would suffice this idiot.
- Janet
That kid is mental and I've seen it come out in all sorts of shitty little ways.
- Christopher Harley
Someday orionstarr will realize what it means to lose a very close loved one .. everyday I wake up and want to visit Mom , but I cant . Its pretty tough stuff .
- johnpiercy
Kid? He's 30!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Yeah, Bec. Sad. I've blocked him now but before I did, I went back through his comments and I see he's intentionally left mean spirited remarks on several user's posts over the last day or two. Sounds like a breakdown. Perhaps I'd have more sympathy for him if I hadn't, in the past, seen him go ape-shit cuckoo on other threads.
- Christopher Harley
Don't know what it is with him. He has turned to very negative comments recently. This one compleatly takes things to a whole new low though.
- Simon Wicks
Wow :|
- Nicholas James
Sad really is the only word for it. I do hope he gets help, and soon.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oh my God.
- Jim Hearts FF
Wow, just wow.
- Michelle Martinez
I saw that and thought it was incredibly strange. He has always been a bit over the top. Now, blocked. Sorry, Akiva. I've been spending much less time here because of crap like this.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
All he does lately is leave snide and negative comments but that was completely inexcusable. And he writes posts whining that no one wants to interact with him? I wonder why.
- Trish R
Damn, I was thinking he was joking on my other thread, but I'm guessing he was actually trying to be hurtful. Blocked.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
For some reason he hates FF and thanks that everyone here doesn't like him and that he thanks that we all think he isn't cool enough to be here. Thats what he told me when I taked to him about it on Facebook.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
6 or 7 hours ago, he said he was killing himself on his FB status, which i just saw on his FF as I blocked him.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Personally I think he as gone off the deep end since he lost his job. Yes I went a bit crazy when I lost my job and was unemployed for 90% of the year, but he is just losing all of it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
He has actually removed that status from his facebook since.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
He's obviously troubled, and has been for a while. What he did was effed up, but if he thinks his problems are related to people on FF not liking him, or him not being cool enough to be here, he's deluded. I think he clearly has deep and untreated psychiatric issues and needs to get his mental illness under control. Akiva, I'm sorry you had to be subjected to that in times like these.
- Derrick
Jay, as you can see in our responses to Akiva, 99.999% of FF is good and balanced people, so please don't dismiss the whole thing because of that one nutcase. I'm also very sorry that you got subjected to that, Akiva.
- Kamilah Gill
When I saw what he was posting after he lost his job I felt really bad for him. He's obviously in a very dark place right now but this comment is not excusable, in any way, shape or form. My girlfriend has been unemployed for 7 months because there's no one hiring for her career in our area right now, but you don't see her telling people off for no good reason. He needs some professional help indeed.
- David Cook
from fftogo
How awful!
- Stormy
So sorry to hear about your mother. What he wrote was inexcusably anti-social and cruel.
- Katy S
I commend your tolerance. I blocked him several weeks ago.
- Glen Mistletoe
The dude has been out of it for a month or so. Seriously think he stopped taking his meds for whatever he has. He needs help.
- Rodfather
</golfclap>
- Christian (Simply X)
Saw this early this mornig and was really hoping he would come to his senses and delete this comment. Sorry you were subjected to this.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I blocked him a week or two ago for starting a fight in some thread or other...but this is a whole 'nother level of wrong
- Louis Simoneau
he probably thinks he's being funny. I hope so, the alternatives are worse. It's not working.
- Chuq Von Rospach
No Chuq . . . he's done this kind of thing before. Goes on a rampage and goes totally nuts. I blocked him for a similar reason months ago.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Yup I had to block him based on some other really uncessary and horrible comments on other threads. Sad.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*sigh* the public block was the right recourse. On a meta note, @Christian (SimplyX) I was perplexed by the implied sentiment of "golfclap". I'm hoping urban dictionary def. 2 is the intended meaning: "Originally, "golf clap" was used to mean a sarcastic applause, for example the kind of applause that is given when someone drops their food tray in a cafeteria. However, it is increasingly being used to mean a sincere show of appreciation, especially on FARK.COM." That's what I'll assume.
- Micah Wittman
Guaranteed to be trolls/griefers on public forums like this. What's surprising is that he's linked back to his Facebook, which allows him to be found pretty easily. Just block and ignore, people like him get off on the attention their abrasive behavior gets them. Remove the "attention" factor and the thrill's gone
- LANjackal
Douche nozzle.
- cecily
Joseph seems to be severely depressed (he made a reference to suicide on Facebook last night). He needs support and I hope he reaches out for it.
- Sprague D
That dude is severely disturbed. I blocked him months ago after i saw him flip-out on some people, even a few who were just trying to offer some helpful advice. The guy needs professional help. I personally think he's a very dangerous person, probably on the verge of hurting people in real life or himself. =(
- ·[▪_▪]·
blech, no need to deal with that jackass.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Way to go. Just Blocked him myself.
- Roberto Bonini
I remember some other problem he caused on here a couple of months ago. I almost unsubbed him then, but I thought I'd give him another chance. Now I'll be blocking him.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
Ya blocking too--not worth my time IMO
- Kelly W.
Sociopaths be gone
- David HC Soul
Woah! What's his deal!? - that terrible! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't even remember why, but I know I banned him in my first hour on FF. Glad he lost his job.
- Matthew DeVries
Simply disgusting. He needs to be removed and banned all together by friendfeed.
- Russ Jackson
So sorry that you're dealing with this as well as the loss of your mom, Akiva. :-( I blocked him a month ago, after giving him a second chance the month before that. Oh, well. Anyone who trolls for attention via the Nobody-Comments-On-My-Posts route earns an immediate block heretofore. Just sayin'.
- Lisa L. Seifert
that bastard is persona non grata as of last night....fuck that noise....do not pass go...DO NOT collect $200
- Live4Emma (L4S)
What the hell?! Blocked him too, that's a horrible thing to say
- Mo Kargas
damnit!
- Alp
That's crossing a line and then burning the line while pissing on it. Completely and inexcusably rude.
- Alex Scoble
Does anyone know this guy personally? If so, please drag him to therapy - stat.
- Mona Nomura
It was the wrong thing to post, and blocking is definitely appropriate. I've noticed his posts and tweets getting pretty anti-social lately (if an online forum is truly social) and i just wonder if he's going through a rough patch in RL. at any rate, sometimes it's best to just say nothing. and to you, @Akiva, I haven't been on as frequently: definitely, condolences and prayers.
- .LAG liked that
yea, what he said was wrong, just ignore him if he bothers you, he obviously is going through some things and doesnt know how to handle it/keep attitude to himself, I wont block him, people have a right to their opinion, honestly if hitler was alive and on friendfeed I would follow him because it would be damn interesting
- Kyle Weller
Some people are just negative, if you can understand why people do what they do you wont hate them as much. I'm sure he didnt mean exactly what you think he did by posting that, he is human and imperfect. Maybe we can stop ignoring things like this in society and start working on helping people help themselves.
- Kyle Weller
Whenever someone said something fucked up to me, It was a learning experience, if you take things personal over the internet you got more problems then him.
- Kyle Weller
Blocking is very appropriate! It's not "hating" or taking "things personal over the internet". Blocking just means there's obviously no reason to read what this person has to say, if he's going to respond like that. Anything else he has to say is irrelevant. It's not like you're killing him over it. Kudos to you for setting that boundary.
- Head Ov Metal
I was about to reply to Kyle's responses but then it appears that Head Ov Metal went ahead and gave the answer that I would've given anyway.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That's sick. They need serious help, though.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
Were the passage in Ecclesiastes long enough, I'm pretty sure their there'd be "A time to help and a time to shun".
- Matthew DeVries
This orionstar guy is the whiniest guy on FF. "Why don't people give me any attention, WAAAH!". What a jerk -- he has now earned a block from me too.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
What's your favorite board game of all time? We're getting tired of Monopoly.
Micah Wittman liked this
RISK!!!
- Deepak Singh
Seconded - RISK is fantastic
- Rajarshi Guha
Scrabble.
- Brian Oberkirch
Settlers of Catan!
- John Dupuis
+1 Settlers.
- Chris Cotsapas
axis and allies
- Andrew Su
scrabble?
- tim
I'm a fan of Puerto Rico
- Shirley Wu
Guillotine is a card game but is quick to pick up, quick to play, and very fun. Some of the german-style board games just take too long sometimes (an hour or more, not including setting up all the hundreds of pieces and explaining the hundreds of rules...)
- Shirley Wu
RISK, I agree. Not the rubbish modern version, though. Settlers is good too but disappointingly non-violent... ;)
- Euan
Risk, definitely.
- Meryn Stol
Euan - only *on* the board.
- Chris Cotsapas
Puerto Rico is my current favorite. Settlers of Catan (w/Seafarers and Cities & Knights) also rocks.
- Don MacAskill
Settlers of Catan! I was "forced" by a friend to learn it on an original German version. I was so lost at first. Then hooked and avid. Then burnt out. Now it's fun again and a classic that my kids always want to play too.
- Micah Wittman
Ra. For board games, check out http://www.boardgamegeek.com/
- Henrik Johansson
Played Puerto Rico a couple of times this w/end and loved it (winning had something to do with that, too). Highly rec'ed.
- Chris Cotsapas
dtplomacy
- Chuq Von Rospach
+1 for Catan.
- Matt Leifer
Scrabble is the undisputed champ in our (extended) family... only one that gets played regularly.
- Chris Abbey
ABC News: Facebook Scandal Version 2.0 - http://abcnews.go.com/Busines...
Cory Brown, tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Bill Romanos and 4 other people liked this
In full-blown legalese, Facebook basically told its users that when they posted personal information to their Facebook pages (including photos, the music they were listening to at that moment, or their favorite movies), Facebook owned that information forever and could use it in just about any manner the company wished.
- Leo Laporte
@michael okay - define "use" in view of "ownership" - even format, platform, biz-model ... $300 mil est revenue for 175 mil accts - are you in favor of upside shared with users not just advertisers? What about liability against ID Theft or misuse of information deemed "private"?
- Scott Moskowitz
@michael I'll comment independent of @moskowitz the user has a definite interest in how their information is "used" or "owned" - not everything is viewed in legal terms - trust is "fungible" - look at the banking system. If "rights" are paramount where is "transparency" & "responsibility"? to assert that changes to terms of service are made solely to accomodate a biz model then the expectation of the provider is suspect - suggest the arguments made famous by dan geer> security as insurance
- Wes Schadenfreud
my thoughts on this here: http://www.chuqui.com/2009... -- my future w/ facebook depends on how they fix this. Their new facebook people blog isn't the answer... I've limited what I put on facebook for a while, it's mostly about keeping in contact with other friends on facebook than it is content creation on facebook. they can own my status updates if they want, I won't miss them...
- Chuq Von Rospach
Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Convention - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Brian and Denise Howell liked this
Just saw First Person Shooter (www.cltc.org) in San Jose last night. Hell of a topic...and worthy of spotlight....and no easy answers.
- Jerry Chacon
And the discussion immediately became about obesity
- Lloyd Budd
Yeah, isn't it wonderful how an off topic first comment can derail a perfectly good blog post.
- Scott Beale
I'll honor the geneva convention when the zombies do. Until then...
- Chuq Von Rospach
Battlestar Galactica has steadily gone downhill since season 1, but Lost, which started to nosedive in season 2, is now better than ever.
Кофе без сахара, Stephen Foskett, Urbansheep and 2 other people liked this
They really need some sort of crossover event. Too late for the Final Five to be Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley and Sun, but I'm sure they could figure something out.
- Ken Sheppardson
Battlestar Galactica was at its worst in mid season 3. the end of season 3 and most of season 4 has been total fan service to end the series.
- Mark Trapp
^^ Love Ken's comment.
- Urbansheep
me, I've enjoyed galactica.
- Chuq Von Rospach
I've heard Lost is just as bad as BSG. Personally, I think MG is right though--BSG started out immensely strong and has been mostly getting worse since then. However, it has had some exceptionally cool moments along the way.
- thepete
I stopped watching after season 2. Can't be bothered watching every single episode just to get the plot.
- Larry Hudson
I not giving up on BG. Lost was Lost a long time ago.
- John Flynn
I like BSG this season, last week's episode was a little weak, but for the most part I've been hooked.
- Justin
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian - https://www.iterasi.net/public...
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Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes, WorldofHiglet and 2 other people liked this
From the article: "Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism....
more...
- Ontario Emperor
Facebook investor "Thiel is more than just a clever and avaricious capitalist. He is a futurist philosopher and neocon activist. A philosophy graduate from Stanford, in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford."
- Ontario Emperor
My opinion - the only problem with the "I won't use this service because I don't agree with the politics" attitude is that if you take that attitude, you're pretty much gonna be a Luddite. For example, Oracle got its start by doing secret work for the Federal government, and the entire Internet itself originated via some work done by the Department of Defense.
- Ontario Emperor
And the author apparently reached a similar conclusion: "For my own part, I am going to retreat from the whole thing, remain as unplugged as possible, and spend the time I save by not going on Facebook doing something useful, such as reading books." Of course, I read the author's article via the Guardian's website...
- Ontario Emperor
of course, the reality is even newsgroups and email were paid for by corporations. or maybe subsidized is the better word. it was more "that way" than you think it was, Jason.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Hmm, what about IRC servers? I'm sure that the largest networks indirectly have corporate sponsors...
- Tyson Key
+1 Ontario, although I've never really thought about the beliefs and politics behind people who run various services, for what it's worth.
- Tyson Key
OH MAN
Anne Bouey, Mike Reynolds, Markus Merz and 30 other people liked this
Eek!
- Bwana ☠
from Friend Deck
Poor guy
- AJ Batac
wow that is insane amount of snow... dang! ok I think I'll be workin' from home today
- Susan Beebe
:-D Nice!
- Éric Senterre
I feel sorry for that... OH HELL... No, I don't. I live in Silicon Valley, where I complain when it gets below 50.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Nice! I want that much snow again.
- Brandon
That's why working from home is nice.
- Jordan Hofker
"ok... i'll wait for spring then..."
- AJ Batac
It's only bad for this guy because he didn't move his car for the snowplow... and now he's caught under a snow drift and behind a wall of packed snow. He put himself in this situation.
- Brandon
oh my word
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
wooow
- Pouya Koushandeh
2 hours later : Oh shit, this is not my car....
- Tapio Kulmala
Tapio, The Other Brian - I almost peed in my pants.
- @CrystalinaB
Tapio, LOL!
- AJ Batac
I had to dig my car out like that once using a dustpan. Took awhile.
- Rob Sterling
Gung Hay Fat Choi!
Gung Ho Fat Boy!
- Chuq Von Rospach
Google Responds to FeedBurner Critics: The Translated Version - http://www.inquisitr.com/16443...
John Honeck, Chuq Von Rospach, Ron Bailey and 2 other people liked this
yeah, pretty much right on.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Questions for people who use two (or more monitors): Are they equal sizes, and do you use them equally? Or is one of the screens your main monitor, and the other one secondary? I have a 24" iMac that's my main monitor, and a 19" second monitor that I use for mainly IM and Twitter.
Steven Perez liked this
I do the same thing with IM and such, but I also use the second one for a different view of whatever I'm working on. IM windows pretty much just float on top of that.
- L.J. Leng
I am using my laptop with a second screen. I use one for Email, Twitter, and Skype and the other one for my browser, ustream client, and itunes. I could use two more monitors though!
- Troy Malone
two different sized screens. One for my "main" work, one for things like photoshop pallettes, twitter, IM, etc. A sidecar.
- Chuq Von Rospach
I have two of equal size (23") on a Mac G5. I use the one on the right as my main monitor of focus, and the one on the left for utilities, Tweetdeck (takes lots of room), iTunes, Photoshop palettes, etc.
- Eric Platt
Sidecar. Heh. I like it.
- Mitch Wagner
I have dual monitors at work, one's 22" and the other is 20" The main one is for "productivity" (Word, web stuff, etc) and the secondary one holds twitter, trillian, google sidebar, and outlook. Firefox switches between them depending on how much attention I'm paying (anything that requires serious attention ends up on the main monitor).
- Chris Weiss
I have a desktop replacement laptop that goes on the road with me. When I'm home, I have an "outboard" monitor. I tend to use the laptop screen then for email and browsing, and the outboard (better) monitor for design, games, graphics intensive, large format tasks.
- Shava Nerad
Feedburner Needs To Get It Together - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Simon Bourn, Oleg Podsechin, AJ Kohn and 6 other people liked this
I'm about a week from going back to my home grown feed. adsense for feeds isn't worth the trouble.
- Bwana ☠
I ended up dropping feedburner in my blog revamp. One more things complicating things for very little advantage. Stats are nice, but reliability wins.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Why has Jan. 22 become "Layoff Day"? - MSFT, Digg, et al? I guess it's time everyone is getting back to business.
Bring focus away from Tuesday's festivities and back to reality, I suppose.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Scoble called it Black January... I call it.... the beginning
- Bwana ☠
layoffs tied to financial announcments, because investors see layoffs as "doing something" to fix the numbers.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Adobe - Nooooooooooooooo! - http://www.crackunit.com/2009...
Ross M Karchner, Kenton, Raoul Pop and 4 other people liked this
I got this email too. It was the Comic Sans that really turned me off.
- Sarah Perez
Oh my god. that is amazingly sad. Please, someone tell me it was a technical mistake...
- Chuq Von Rospach
how are people doing with all the info coming in? too much?
Nicholas James and Susan Beebe liked this
perrfect!
- Susan Beebe
Loving it!
- JA Castillo
its all good
- Keyboardcowgirl
more! more!
- Chuq Von Rospach
keep it coming!
- Frederic
Great so far
- Bwana ☠
okay good
- MG Siegler
No, it's fine... thanks!
- Dan York
MORE!
- Zach Holmquist
Please post ahead of Phil speaking. Go faster!
- Louis Gray
love how quick everyone can comment
- MG Siegler
I was on the verge of moving to Picasa but might hold off..
- bravestface
There's never 'too much' information :-)
- Nick Humphries
+1 Jason! LOL
- Susan Beebe
perfect. keep it that way
- Nico
Feeding my addiction to the point of sedation
- Dave Senior
anyway to get sound? I am a new bee=)
- Enriqueta
Chris's audio feed is great
- Semipro
Love it!
- Teri Temme
FF is working fabulously! yeah!
- Susan Beebe
Great!
- Vinko
Louis - so funny!
- Susan Beebe
@semipro - there is an audio feed?
- Frederic
The real time stream froze up on me once so far, but otherwise FF is doing fine.
- Patrick Lightbody
lovin it!
- Greg
well there are only 112 of us.
- Vinko
@louis, i'm trying to guess his next move
- MG Siegler
more !!
- peter huesken
MG - good !
- Susan Beebe
We're here! Almost time...
Dan Hsiao, Stephen Foskett, Peter Hoffmann and Benjamin Golub liked this
pictures!
- MG Siegler
let's get this show on the road!
- Chuq Von Rospach
Who is your favourite comedian? Stand-up, movie, etc.
Darren Heydon, Trish Haley, Pete Delucchi and 7 other people liked this
Mine is Lee Evans. His stand-up shows are pure genius! He's done a few movies and TV series and its not really worked for me but stand-up is where he's king. He latest tour of the UK was the biggest ever.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jonathan Winters. Amazing at improvisation.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Robin Williams.
- Russellreno
Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller are really great comedians ... and also Robert De Niro when he plays comedy roles such as meet the parents :))) he's really great at any role ...
- Viva Vida
Pablo Francisco and Jim Carrey :)
- Kristian Salonen
George Carlin (followed closely by Eddie Izzard).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Eddie Izzard is definitely up there as one of the best. Peter Kay?
- Kol Tregaskes
George Carlin. Robert Anton Wilson is my favorite stand up philosopher.
- Internet's Tad
Eddie Izzard, easily.
- Rochelle
Chris Tucker especially on old Def Comedy Jam shows, Sarah Silverman, Huggy Low Down (DC local comedian), Eddie Murphy (Delirious, Raw) and Chris Rock (most of his recent stuff).
- Amani
Eddie Izzard, with Steven Wright a close second
- William Harryman
Dave Chapelle. Kat Williams is pretty high up there for me, Chris Tucker is also hilarious
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Oh yeah, Steven Wright. Forgot about him. Put him in third place for me.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, and I like Jeremy Hotz. His delivery is one of the best and most unique in stand-up.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Louis CK and Lewis Black.
- Rob Haas
bill burr ... zach galafanakis
- Kevin Pruett
Robin Williams' favorite is Jonathan Winters. Jonathon was my favorite until Robin.
- Russellreno
Completely forgot, Jack Dee is great too!!
- Kol Tregaskes
George Carlin here as well.
- Alex Scoble
Bob Newhart (OK, maybe not favorite, but the guy is ol' skool funny)
- Hutch Carpenter
I don't get a chance to hear a lot of standup. I like Stephen Lynch and Steven Wright
- Alan Simpson
red skelton. which dates me.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Though he often sat down: Victor Borge
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Peter Sellers, Bill Hicks, Dave Chapelle.
- Ayşe E.
although david larible is up there too. and emmitt kelly
- Chuq Von Rospach
Chapelle, Eddie Murphy, Richard Prior, George Carlin
- Rodfather
stand up: how can one choose? movies: steve martin
- Morgan Haley
Rodfather's picks are mine too, except add a little Zach Galifianakis, some Patton Oswalt, and a little (old) Dane Cook
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Bill Cosby, Stephen Wright, Denis Leary, Pablo Francisco...
- Trish Haley
Introducing the Rails Activist Team - http://www.railsenvy.com/2009...
Boris Mann and Chuq Von Rospach liked this
oh, nice. every open source project/org really needs to think about outreach and PR. Well done.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Palm definitely has me excited about the possibility of ditching my iPhone. Let's see if they can live up to the market's expectations.
LonelyBob, Marcus Beagley, Aaron Draczynski and 6 other people liked this
If Palm gets you to ditch your iPhone then that would be bigger news than anything apple will do.
- Robert Scoble
I won't ditch my iPhone, but I'm considering an HTC Touch Pro when I'm eligible for all the discounts at Sprint.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Palm = fail :)
- Drew Lucas
No can do, no sirree. Palms engineers suck
- mjc
Well, they did have that trouble with Treos synching time with cell towers and DST. Hopefully they resolved that issue.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I used Palm for years--and there are still aspects of it that SMOKE the iPhone. Not the least of which is speed (of internal apps). I won't hold my breath--but I'm kind of rooting for them.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
iPhone heresy hath been spoken (+1), waiting for the daggers to come out (but this is FF, it would be much bloodier elsewhere).
- Micah Wittman
Bet Veronica wouldn't be seen dead with Palm
- Marcus Beagley
heh. If Palm can convince Ryan to stop using apple stuff, apple will probably send them flowers...
- Chuq Von Rospach
What would you add to this list of blogger/CMS/commenting 2.0/forum software? WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, ___? Disqus, Intense Debate, CoComment, BackType, ___? phpBB, vBulletin, Invision Power Board (IPB), bbPress, PHP-Nuke, EzBoard, ___? What big sites or software did I miss?
Hassan Ibraheem, Anne Haynes, Web20Critic and 14 other people liked this
Plone. Rails and Django both apply, but in slightly different contexts.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Matt, why don't you use Google Sets e.g. http://labs.google.com/sets... :-)
- Atul Arora
Atul, I want to see what suggestions come from the crowd. Good idea though.
- Matt Cutts
SMF (Simple Machine Forums), Simple:Press Forums, Vanilla
- Steven Hodson
Textpattern, where is textpattern? :)
- directeur
Mambo?
- John Wang
e107, b2Evolution, Elgg
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
A bunch of non-ISO-Latin 1 centric stuff, I'd imagine. Hatena for JA, Textcube for KO, etc.
- Richard Chen
bbpress
- Om Malik
sezwho
- Om Malik
pligg and roller.
- imabonehead
Elgg
- Jesse Stay
ZenDesk
- Jesse Stay
Laconi.ca
- Jesse Stay
LifeType
- John μller
django, js-kit, smf. it seems there are more options available so there is better specialization, like wiki and issue tracking for coding projects (trac) or cms designed for courseware (moodle).
- Mike Chelen
Text Pattern, Expression Engine,Alfresco
- Phill Price
Nucleus Cms
- anand
My very first message board ran http://www.xmbforum.com/ :)
- EricaJoy
Habari.
- Andy C
How about Login methods and friend-connectors like OpenID, Google Friend Connect, and...?
- Web20Critic
Torrent portal sites also come in CMS &or forum styles.
- Web20Critic
Thanks everybody! People mentioned several that I forgot about, and a few I'll have to read more about.
- Matt Cutts
Name one word only the describes what FriendFeed is NOT.
Kol Tregaskes, Bob Maltais, Susan Beebe and 9 other people liked this
Twitter
- Mike Fruchter
Myspace.
- Mona Nomura
folksonomy
- directeur
Pastrami.
- Internet's Tad
Typewriters.
- Steven Perez
AOL
- Morton Fox
trash
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Mom
- Mitch
dull
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Sexy.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
A stack of pork tenderlions 17 miles high.
- Akiva Moskovitz
3D
- Grant Bierman
crack
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
dead
- Mike Fruchter
Batman
-
Proscuitto?
- DGentry
Facebook
- Hutch Carpenter
babby
- B. Hatin
Google
- Internet Strategist
tapioca
- Chuq Von Rospach
OneWord
- Charles Ying
Beta
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
explainable
- invariant - farewell FF
balderdash
- Nathan Chase
fnord
- Internet's Tad
yomomma
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Intuitive
- Chris Baskind
one-size-fits-all
- Andy DeSoto
money
- imabonehead
bootylicious
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Second vote for 'explainable'
- Patrick Jordan
Failing.
- Louis Gray
Potatoe.
- Chris Messina
42
- Jesse Stay
hacked
- Jesse Stay
shiny
- Laura Norvig
porn
- Duncan Riley
dunno, I can't do it in 1 word
- sofarsoShawn
Easy.
- Rob Spectre
Silence
- George The Writer
Boring
- Charlie Anzman
perfect…
- Daniel Schildt
dying
- Susan Beebe
commercial
- Bob Maltais
close
- Jim Mitchem
Car
- Joe Dawson
[blog post] JPG magazine: Great idea, bad business?: Like many others, I was saddened to hear about t.. http://www.mathewingram.com/work...
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I never understood the point of JPG as a print publication. Perhaps they had that marketing issue everywhere.
- Leslie Poston
I was just getting involved with JPG when they purged the editors; it never convinced me to get involved after that. And I agree -- great idea as an online beast, lousy idea as a print publication at a time when print is dying under the best of circumstances and printing costs for doing a GOOD photo pub are high.
- Chuq Von Rospach
It's Hard Out There For a ... Bookseller | Used Books Blog - http://usedbooksblog.com/blog...
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"Barnes & Noble released third quarter earnings this morning, reporting a $18.4 million loss compared to a $4.4 million profit the year before. Same store sales fell a whopping 7.4%!"
- AJ Kohn
from Bookmarklet
They push the membership because it has been a huge win for them. Yet, I think they're reaching a diminishing returns on it now. And yes, Amazon and ... nearly any other retailer is cheaper. B&N is selling a book buying 'experience' and too few now are willing to participate.
- AJ Kohn
they cut way back on their magazine racks, and that reduced incentive to go in the store in the first place. and if I know what I want, amazon is cheaper, and with prime, convenient. I'm trying to think the last time I was in any bookstore -- and can't, other than digital guru. and Im' a book geek.
- Chuq Von Rospach
I have a feeling stores like Half Price Books will be getting most of the book reader traffic due to the economy, or you will see a rise in Library cards.
- Wizetux
@Chuq: It's odd that they cut back on the magazine racks because that would get you in the store and their mission is to keep you there as long as possible. The thinking being - longer stay = higher probability of purchase.
- AJ Kohn
@Wize: HPB could get more for sure. (The $1 bins are loaded with treasures for readers and booksellers who can turn around and sell them for *a lot* more.) And I very much hope Library usage does go up. That would be a great side-effect of all of this.
- AJ Kohn
I still like visiting a bookstore and scouring the shelves for something that looks intersting. Thats a discovery method that amazon can't beat ( seaarch dosent even come close to it). There is something to be said, still, for the physical over the digital.
- Roberto Bonini
@Roberto: I'm definitely with you there. I still love going to the store, though I seek out independent stores whenever possible because they have more interesting and diverse stuff. The one thing I can say is that LibraryThing has helped me find stuff I might not have found as quickly or at all. I'd love a mobile LT app that told me related authors or titles based on an ISBN I provided.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ would you want to be able to take a picture of the barcode on the book, or just type in the ISBN?
- Wizetux
@AJ you would just need a wrapper app for the ISBNdb.com site.
- Wizetux
@AJ Kohn @Wizetux - this is the stuff that makes having an iPhone so good. if we could get somthing like that, it would be heaven. Even a B&N app wouldn't be so bad.
- Roberto Bonini
@Wizetux: I'd be okay with either format (photo or typing). ISBNdb is good and a few others do have mobile price apps. What I haven't seen is the related data ... that if I like Jonathan Lethem's The Wooden Sea, what else might I want to search out in the store.
- AJ Kohn
Are you sure that is not Jonathan Carrol's "The Wooden Sea"? Also, isbndb.com has a whole section on "Similar Books"...
- Wizetux
@Wizetux: Oh crap, yeah, that is exactly what I meant. (Was deciding between Carrol's Sea and Lethem's Girl in Landscape and mixed it all up.) And does isbndb have similar books? Interesting. Is it actually good? User directed like LibraryThing? Gotta make it an easy mobile app!
- AJ Kohn
Apple could buy Dell with cash - http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008...
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Or Yahoo! Or Facebook, even at a $15 billion valuation
- Glen Mistletoe
but apple won't sell junk. Hmm. maybe apple could buy dell to shut it down and return it's value (what's left) to shareholders
- Chuq Von Rospach
But it would be an awful idea!
- Stephen Foskett
Microsoft SideSight: Should Apple Really Worry? - http://theappleblog.com/2008...
In a related story - why can't Microsoft ever name a product and make it sound cool?
- Steve Isaacs
nah....
- Chuq Von Rospach
They have been able to make cool product names, but they all die when they leave R&D. Silverlight and DeepZoom have been the only recent products to keep a cool name.
- xero
nope
- CW™
Photosynth.
- Sprague D
I don't see this tech causing a large shift in the cellphone market. The only thing you can do with it is scroll or drag something. Pressing buttons still has to be done on the screen, otherwise you end up with the classic ATM button/screen parallax problem. Sure it might make scrolling easier, except when your fingers are in the way...
- xero
Apple doesn't need to "worry," but it is an idea worth exploring. That's what research is all about.
- Loren Heiny
no
- Wes Schadenfreud
Re: Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says - http://www.mathewingram.com/work...
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"i use all these tools. blogging, tumblogging, twittering, facebooking, flickring, disqusing, etc, etc each is good for something unique and worth doing if you've got the time and inclination and that's not going to change anytime soon"
- Fred Wilson
Blogs are over like Email is dead....
- Chuq Von Rospach
Being laptopless is ... I'm still thankful all my data seems to be cool. I want to see easy to get at hard drives in the next round of MBPs
carry a bus powered portable drive. Superduper a clone to it. that way, at the least, you have something you can use on a friend's mac.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Industry Observer: Comparing AppEngine , EC2 and Caroline - http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog...
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via Scott Mattoon -- good presentation on cloud, including definitions
- Boris Mann
from Bookmarklet
good overview, but as any IT person will tell you, "buy electricity, not generators" is false. you buy both, because you need backups for when bad things happen. Cloud computing doesn't change that, it simply changes (and in many ways complicates) the redundancy issue.
- Chuq Von Rospach
The blogging platform of choice for Main Stream Media - http://news.buzzgain.com/?p=81
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We have to evolve from a Alexa site visits and pageviews set of metrics to engagement as a measure for measuring media (all media, social and otherwise). -- exactly.
- Chuq Von Rospach
Ok peeps. Yes, I’m going to go dual system. Nikon cameras are going to join the Canon cameras in my bag.
no! horrors! not -- NIKON? (gasp)
- Chuq Von Rospach
I think the only word I can mutter right now after reading the latest news on the economic stuff is: "wow"
life is getting really interesting....
- Chuq Von Rospach
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