TimboDon posted a photo: Who can go visit a country without a tokin panorama of its capital...well I guess I can't. I wish I had taken a bit more time on checking the exposures as one was a little blurry. Now I can appreciate all those tutorials about sharpness when using a zoom lens. I guess you can get a bit spoiled when always on the wide angle. Anyway, its a 4 image stitch using a Cokin GND8. Got some lines in the sky during the resize/compression as they don't seem to be in the main file. Next time yet again Thanks for looking
Great photo. But Auckland isn't the capital (Wellington is).
- CJPhoto
This is Bruce Lewis founder of OurDoings.com which I use to upload photos here (it automatically adds a map too). He is on FriendFeed at http://www.friendfeed.com/brlewis
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Susan! It's been fun building it.
- Bruce Lewis
Groovy combo Bruce (picture/map point). I think I've seen Fred (Wilson) use this before as well.
- Mark Essel
I've heard that with OS 3.0 for the iPhone you can send multiple photos in one email. Robert actually took two photos. In the other one I was holding up two fingers. But then we couldn't figure out how to make the iPhone do it. Where's Patrick Jordan when you need him?
- Bruce Lewis
Nice, any plans to support video from the iPhone as well? ( I know, I know, we're always wanting more! )
- David Sky
What I add mostly depends on what existing users ask for. Video support would probably be a paid premium service since it uses so much bandwidth.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Thanks Bruce, video as part of a premium package seems more than reasonable. I say as part of a package, as I'm sure some companies will manage to offer video for free for a while. Of course there is already YouTube, Vimeo, Qik, etc... So I wonder if just video would be enough. Looking forward to giving OurDoings a try, though.
- David Sky
"It's important to keep your guests properly hydrated at a party, but it's hard to not feel awfully demeaned while wandering around with a cocktail tray. Since hiring servants is so passe, the solution is Table Robot from Laskmi-Do Corp, a two-wheeled, self-balancing bot that features a particularly unsteady looking design. It's tall and slender, balancing a tabletop on two scrawny little wheels, a feat it showed off at last week's FOOMA Japan, Tokyo's biggest gathering for foodies and related geeks. The natural comparison is to a Segway, but this is a full-fledged robot, capable of cruising around under remote control and, soon, following you around by voice, meaning a fresh and precisely balanced mohito may soon be just a word away. Click on through for the video."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
I thought the Scoble/Swisher debate of last week (or 9 internet months ago) declared Web 2.0 over and we're now in something else, but no one can agree on the name. May as well be giving us way of adapting to the enlightenment or the industrial revolution.
- Matthew DeVries
People always look at me funny when I say his with the Montreal pronunciation. I like it.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: I never declared Web 2.0 over, just that I hope we don't call what's now/next the same stupid name. The web is not a version.
- Robert Scoble
Ah, I thought naming the new king meant the old king was dead (See Kim Jong Il's third son)
- Matthew DeVries
Yea, no one is releasing versions of the web. It is evolving organically.
- Sam Grover
good article but what's with the douchey frame from Alltop? Seriously? Framing other people's content? I thought we were past that. Even Digg gave up on that strategy.
- William Kapes
"Satellite images released by NASA show nearly complete destruction of Rwanda's Gishwati Forest between 1986 and 2001. Deforestation of the forest reserve is largely the result of subsistence harvesting and cultivation by refugees in the aftermath of the country's 1994 genocide. Overall only 600 hectares of Gishwati's original 100,000 hectares of forest remain, a loss of 99.4 percent. "According to UNEP, the reserve's forests were largely intact in 1978, and substantial forest cover still remained in 1986. But in the 15 years that elapsed between these images—a time that spanned the country’s tragic genocide—wave after wave of refugees arrived in Gishwati Forest and began clearing it, often for subsistence farming," wrote Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey on NASA's Earth Observatory site. "By 2001, only a small circular patch of native forest remained—1,500 acres of the forest’s original 250,000.""
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"Eye-Fi has been building out its product line of memory cards that use Wi-Fi to upload photos directly from a digital camera to the Internet. Now it’s going one step further with the Eye-Fi Pro, aimed at professional photographers and enthusiasts. This new four-gigabyte card has support for a variety of files — RAW, JPEG and various video files — and well as other cool features. You can now geo-tag photos, or mark the exact location where they were taken. You can upload in a peer-to-peer fashion, meaning no wireless router is need to upload data to a computer. And you can gain easier access to Wi-Fi hot spots."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
For "pro" photographers? Not many pros use cameras that support SD afaik -- don't all the full frame cameras use CF? And wouldn't 4GB be a bit skinny from a size point of view anyway?
- Brian Sullivan
love my eye-fi card but geo tagging has been availble and working for some time now. wi fi hot spot service has lacked though so cool.
- adolfo foronda
I've been a big proponent of Eye-Fi for some time and will definitely pick up one of these cards. I shoot with the Canon 1D mark III which uses both CF & SD so the card integrates with the camera nicely. All of the 1D bodies take SD and there are adapters for CF that I am told will work. In the past, I've had my RAW files write to CF and .jpg to SD but this opens up many more options...
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- Rick Bucich
I believe that they have an insert to turn this card into a CF compatible one. Not sure though. 4GB is skinny for sure, but the geotagging capabilities seem pretty cool and as far as I know this is the first time that eye-fi has supported RAW.
- Thomas Hawk
Any idea how the geo-tagging feature works? Where does the location information come from?
- Brian Sullivan
I'm not sure how it works Brian. I suspect though that it triangulates somehow with wifi hotspots and pulls geo information from there. I'd think this could be useful for ensuring that photos in a city that you weren't familiar with were geotagged.
- Thomas Hawk
Geo-tagging comes from wifi networks in the area of where the picture was taken so it does not work in remote or rural areas. The location of the wifi router is established by Skyhook Wireless. The only issue I ran into was from a recent move, all my photos at the new house were geo-tagged to the old address. It was a simple process to update the address through Skyhook however.
- Rick Bucich
I still not sure how this works. Sounds a bit Rube Goldberg to me. I presume the wi-fi hotspot location is for commercial hotspots only? In this situation there is no GPS or cell tower access info -- is that correct?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian it's based on MAC address of the access point. Publicly transmitted beacon packets
- mjc
The whole way these cards work is a little quirky. One particularly annoying thing is that a file should just be a file as far as getting it from the card to your computer via wi-fi. For example, when I'm on my home wi-fi network, it will upload photos I've taken, but not videos... I still have to drag out the cable, so its utility for me is diminished.
- LogEx
Had a look at their info flash piece -- so from what I can tell they continuously travel around looking for routers and tag their location some other way (via GPS?) and enter them into a data base indexed by MAC address? So the location of the photos is the determined via the MAC address of the nearest Wifi locations where the pictures were taken?
- Brian Sullivan
I believe you are correct Brian - you can read more at http://www.skyhookwireless.com. Logical -Eye-Fi has added a video upload feature that can be added to prior existing cards on a subscription basis. I have my card set to upload via any unsecure network and send a text message to cell if it finds one, very handy to have all my photos uploaded by the time I get home.
- Rick Bucich
Just adding a bit about how we geo-tag -- some of the comments above are correct. The routers can be open, closed, secured, etc... It doesn't matter. The card will still pick them up since routers have a beacon that usually broadcasts 10 times a second. As long as Skyhook mapped that MAC address, and as long as we've picked it up -- you'll get geotagged. If you're in the middle of...
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- Ziv Gillat
apparently this product is actually not available in CF format, only SD.
- Thomas Hawk
Guys, please don't use the CF adapters. Note our site -- they're not supported, and don't work well for various reasons. We know that they exist, but we've tested them, and due to several reasons, are not supporting nor recommending them. Thx
- Ziv Gillat
I hope older cards can be updated by firmware to support these new features.
- Rodfather
@Logical Extremes: Most Eye-Fi Cards support videos as well, not just JPG's.
- Ziv Gillat
@Rodfather: All cards get the Selective Transfer feature for free. Raw, Ad-hoc and movies are not possible as upgrades. Thx.
- Ziv Gillat
With the iphone tether - thinking it is going to be really hard to lose pictures no matter what the issue or person is.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Oh I bet it's possible. They probably just won't give it to us since they want to sell more cards.
- Rodfather
Is it true that the connection can take up to two minutes?
- Michael Fidler
Perhaps 2 minutes from time the picture is taken to it showing on Flickr or whatever site, not sure. Works pretty efficiently in my opinion. Just uploaded from using my cell phone as a network access point: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Not nearly as speedy as using a wifi router but that is probably to be expected.
- Rick Bucich
very cool Rick. to be expected with the upload speed through a cell phone network.
- Jeremiah Njoroge
Skyhook uses WiFi access point information provided by users. You can check the coverage here http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitwo... and you can also submit the location and MAC address of your own router to add to the database. I did this about 2 years ago and I'm still not listed.
- Gilbert Harding
Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter $0.00 dollars Having Michelle Obama serve your soup $0.00 dollars A homeless person who is receiving government funded meals while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 BlackBerry cell phone… Priceless
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
My work proxy blocked that. Someone wanna explain it frame by frame? :)
- Simon Wicks
Simon, your work also does evil blocking stuff? Kid takes running jump from boat to land on floatation toy, trips and head first to rail and water, flip move over bar. OUCH
- Janet
Janet, yeah. We recently had new proxy settings so we can be checked up on more. Has blocked a load of sites as well now, before we were compleatly unrestricted. Thank you for the explanation. I'll have to watch when i get home :)
- Simon Wicks
and suddenly all is right with the world...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
nice hand stand recovery, could have been a lot worse
- John Hardy
“Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it long, it's too risky. You get a sense of it then you look away.” (Seinfeld)
- mark
Just what _the hell_ was he hoping to do, and did he swallow anything .. like his tongue, or some teeth, perhaps? So many questions...
- Wayne Smallman
What is the white object comes out from his head?
- Alp
Funny, but it's a good thing FF is real-time now, so this GIF will soon disappear from view.
- Grey Drane
Classic clip from 'So You Think You Can Dance'. Good times.
- Quinton
My guess is that he had never actually tried to do that flip before. He was just so full of himself he figured he could. Looks easy, right?
- Internet's Tad
That was the winner from "So You Think You Can SLAM Dance?" ;)
- Jericho
OUCH! The So You Think You Can Dance auditions are always good for at least a couple of these. :) I need to find out when that's starting up again...or I could just calculate based on how many more weeks of American Idol there are, I guess.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Makes it look like he never practiced at all! At least he'll get his 15 minutes of fame, though I'm imagining he didn't want that kind.
- Michael Turner
Trying to figure out how to get animated gifs in my feed so I can get rid of all those pesky followers.
- Hayes Haugen
Nothing better then an animated faceplant
- Will Higgins™
ouch ! :-/ do you know what happened after ? did he break his face? well... that would have been an appropriate move for "break" dance =P lol
- AyDi şeker
I hate watching these videos because I keep wondering what happened after, what was the damage!!.. Damn it there is no point in watching if you dont know the result.
- denizoktar
"Every two years, the Grand Place in Brussels is decorated with over 700,000 begonias that are arranged into a beautiful carpet design. Apparently, after the sod is laid down in advance, the entire thing only takes four hours to execute. Unbelievable."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
that's a beautiful plaza. one of the nicest i've had the opportunity to see in all of europe. it would be amazing to see this flower carpet in person
- Cee Bee
"It was the end of this June when amateur photographer Sandra Critelli, who was looking for whale sharks, found herself in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at its best. Her boat was surrounded by thousands of rays swimming together like autumn leaves floating in a sunlit pond... gently moved by the wind. The images speak for themselves. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters as they follow the clockwise current from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to western Florida in schools of as many as 10,000."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Wait -- we have a war on prostate cancer now, too? Is this the good kind of war (like on drugs, on terror, on moisture) or the bad kind of war (like on Christmas, on moisture)? I just can't keep up with them all!
- Ladybug Heather
from Bookmarklet
because it was a night in a comedy club before?
- alphaxion
Every time I use Zillow (the web app) I end up spending waaaaay too much time on it. It's addictive, it is. Guess I'd better go get the iPhone app, so I can be super addicted. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
"The Grand Daddy hotel in Cape Town, South Africa airlifted several old Airstream trailors to the top of a swanky hotel and is using them as penthouse suites. Adding to the cool factor is the fact that local artists were commissioned to decorate the interior of each trailer. "
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
so cool! the photos on the site make it seem like a real fun place to be. outdoor movies, open air bars & lounge space, ect
- Cee Bee
I've never been to an IKEA store, I guess I've never known true Happiness! ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
You must be confused. The happiest place is either Fry's Electronics or Bevmo.
- Mark Krynsky
It is you who has been confused by my awesome use of sarcasm! Besides everyone knows that Tijuana is the happiest place on Earth
- Alex Scoble
from fftogo
I've never been to an Ikea store, so until I do visit one, I'll have to agree with Mark. Fry's and Bevmo! =)
- Beau Liening
You need to be more specific, it's not just IKEA, but "in front of a plateful of Swedish meatballs" at IKEA. ;-)
- cmiper
How can anyone NOT get the meatballs on a visit to IKEA? Delicious!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I've never had food there, then again I'm not a huge fan of meatballs, but I know that my brother sometimes goes there just for the Swedish meatballs #Robert Scoble
- Alex Scoble
from fftogo
I will admit that I have gone there just for the meatballs too.
- holly
We went there last night on our way home from Boston...admittedly, just for the meatballs.
- cmiper
Vegetarians go to IKEA, but not for the meatballs. I would know.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The only way Lindsay gets me to go to Ikea is to promise me meatballs. That and I get to push the cart - they have the coolest carts ever! Each wheel turns independently so you can spin it around and around just using one hand.
- Internet's Tad
I thought the happiest place on earth is FriendFeed!
- imabonehead
IKEA meatballs rock. I'm not a big meatball person, but I have to get them when I go. I also love their coffee.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
everyone knows about the meatballs. not everyone knows about the swedish elderflower juice box. [whispers] trust me.
- Karim
imabonehead: The happiest place on Earth is at IKEA, while eating the meatballs (assuming one isn't vegetarian), and browsing FriendFeed on a netbook.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
New IKEA web sites: Just drag html elements and CSS-attributes in correct order.
- Jemm
Is there a beautiful woman in a low cut sun dress where you are? If not, than it is me that is in the happiest place on earth.
- Jim Hearts FF
mannn... I wanna go :( I have yet to visit an Ikea. Perhaps we'll get to one next time we're in Chicago (probably during the same week I'm off to see the Earth Wind & Fire/Chicago concert here in Indy in June)
- Kamilah Gill
We just went there to pick up a 6 pack of wine glasses so Cassie can wire wrap the stems for gifts.
- Alex Scoble
We always bought food at Ikea - biscuits, jam, swedish rolls... yummy stuff!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yes, in the US. They sell all sorts of household items as well as do it yourself furniture.
- Alex Scoble
Ya Josh - head downstairs. Their Swedish Meatballs are sold in the freezer section! (Stay away from Smoked Salmon, they're cheaper at Costco)
- Mona Nomura
What's amazing to me is that they actually sell items that are made in the US. :)
- Alex Scoble
The wine glasses that we purchased, for instance.
- Alex Scoble
Adrian Klein posted a photo: Jesse and I headed out hoping for a decent Gorge sunrise. When we got to Rowena the wind was howling, the worst either of us had experienced here. We scouted around for a bit and could not find anywhere wind sheltered that would give us a chance… except one very small area where the flowers seemed to “slow down” for less than a second every so often. I will thank Jesse for sharing this exact spot with me as he had found this bunch first. We both shot comps from here since our options were quite limited. I still had to shoot this at ISO 500 just to get a chance of coming home with something which I prefer not to do but this was better than the alternative! Thanks in advance for all comments. Please Note: My images are posted here for viewing enjoyment only. All Rights are Reserved. Please contact me if you are interested in using this image or purchasing a print. Adrian Klein Photography Adrian Klein Photography - Blog See link below for photography photo...
orvaratli posted a photo: This one is from my last years trip to Thailand. In southern Thailand lies the paradise around the town of Krabi. The town its self is an interesting place for it´s culture but the amazing natural beauty lies in the region around it. Tropical beaches, carzt mountain summits everywhere with plenty of wildlife around. This temple, still under construction was just a stones throw away from our hotel in Krabi Town. It was a much cheaper alternative (for a newly poor Icelander) to stay than the fancy resorts near the beaches.
This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor.
- Robert Scoble
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Moved to Facebook
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it.
- April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know.
- Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost)
- Naor Mark
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum.
- Andrew Leyden
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do!
- Toby Graham
"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place?
- Robert Peña
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Adi
Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :)
- Susan A. Kitchens
Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
"What do photographers want most? Do they want to sell their photos and enjoy the income that their talent can bring? Or is it enough simply show their pictures to as many people as possible and bask in the acclaim and praise of their peers? In practice, of course… photographers want both, and they want them as much as possible. Being told time and time again that your photos are wonderful, that you’ve done a great job and that you definitely have a photographer’s eye never gets old."
- Kol Tregaskes
"Or is it enough simply show their pictures to as many people as possible and bask in the acclaim and praise of their peers?" I think this is why flickr is so full of wonderful amateur photographers.
- Alex Williams