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What if Strong AI isn't so hard? -> IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain - http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_1380...
Joel Webber, Mark Trapp and Tim Ostler liked this
It's our anniversary!
Ozgur Poyrazoglu, Gajamoo, nakachi and 77 other people liked this
Thirty-one years joined in navigating life's challenges and blessings. Happy anniversary, Jack! <3
- Anne Bouey
happy anniversary!
- Jessie
is this a photo of both of you looking at george? :-P
- Jessie
Awesome!
- Michael Scarpelli
Happy anniversary!
- Admiral Anika
31 years! Wow. Congrats.
- Morgan Haley
Congrats
- ffcode
wait. you guys are MARRIED? ...this is awkward...
- Kristin Norris
yea, when did this happen? And why isn't Tiger in the photo??
- Kelly
Thank you! Jessie, there was a George there so, maybe. Kelly, 31 years ago--no Tiger, no Kelly, no Kristin, no Jessie, no Jim.:P
- Anne Bouey
wow kids having fun with mom :)
- ffcode
Happy Anniversary Anne - you are a saint, and the love of my life. Thank you for 31 great years, 4 exceptional children, and too many great memories to count. Here's best wishes to us for our next 31 years. Amazing how little we've aged from the photo :-)
- Jack Norris
from email
Happy anniversary Anne:) Best wishes to both of you and your husband:))
- Petek(UCB)_
Happy Anniversary!!! That photo is so so cute!!! I love it!!! Congratulations!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Happy Anniversary Anne!!!!!
- Joe
happy anniversary!
- Jim Will Miss SP
Congratulations!!!! and happy anniversary!
- Anna Lynn M.
Happy anniversary!
- Tudor Bosman
Happy anniversary! :)
- Laura B.
Happy Anniversary!!!
- Kevin Fox
Happy anniversary!
- Mark Trapp
Congrats! Have a good one Anne and hubby!
- Derrick
Many thanks for the good wishes!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Anniversary! :)
- Bonnie Foster
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Congrats to the both of you! Happy Annivesary! :-D
- Anna Haro
Happy Anniversary and that photo is amazing :)
- Mona Nomura
Happy Anniversary! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Anniversary <3
- Nia
Awww! How sweet! Happy Anniversary!
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Happy Anniversary :)
- Rodfather
vavvvvv, soo beatiful pic ^^
- mayamisa
Awww, how about that message from Jack!
- Stephen Mack
AWWW!
- Soup
and just because I have to....nice tie dude...loving the rosey cheeks too.... how many shots of Jaeger went down the hatch before the shot was taken? but kidding aside, good job you guys. many more years of happiness and love for you both...and maybe even a couple of years of those things with each other....hee hee
- Morgan Haley
Morgan, it was a cravat! It could have been worse; remember, it was the '70s! As for the rosy cheeks, you'd have to ask Jack...
- Anne Bouey
Happy Anniversary! 31 years is something to be proud of :)
- joey
Thank you, joey.
- Anne Bouey
Happy Anniversary! Jack is hawt in that pic - reminds me of several heartthrobs of the era, but of course the only name that's coming to mind is John Davidson, and he's much better-looking than that.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Ewwwww that's my dad! :)
- Kelly
Wow the whole family is on FF. How awesome. I say one of kids should post the photo to http://myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com/
- Rodfather
Happy Anniversary :)
- Muge Cerman
Happy Anniversary , wish we could reach our 31!
- Mary
Happy Anniversary
- ★ Soner Gönül
Happy Anniversary!
- AJ Batac
Happy Anniversary :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Great photo. Happy Anniversary!
- Josh Haley
@Rodfather - Does that mean that one of us has to go so low as to admit that they were awesome?
- Kristin Norris
Haha yes
- Rodfather
Kristin, what do you mean WERE?
- Anne Bouey
cravat. tie. ok, i'll let this slide.... :-)
- Morgan Haley
Shoot! I'm a day late...oh well, happy 31 years and a day-iversary!
- Janelle Scarpelli
Hey! It's so great and amazing! Happy Anniversary! 31 Anniversary!
- Dominic Yang
Thanks Dominic - hi to you and all your family there :-)
- Jack Norris
from email
The Music Tank Robot - http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/the-mus...
Hüseyin Mert, Stephen Mack, Roberto Bonini and 6 other people liked this
"The latest design from the guys over at Mint Pass, is this fun looking robot which plays your favourite tunes and follows you around, the Music Tank Robot."
- Müjdat Korkmaz
Rocking cool!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Is it available for sale?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Probably not, i guess.
- Müjdat Korkmaz
Are they working on this or it's just a concept?
- Mustafa Türksavaş
Just a concept.
- Müjdat Korkmaz
Hehe. We should send one to the moon in 2020 ;) Astronauts need tunes while they're out working :)
- Roberto Bonini
Free Online Book : Google Wave - Learn How to Use it. | All about Linux - http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009...
Tim Ostler and Willem (@wim66) ☠ liked this
"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is book authored by Gina Trapani (Lifehacker fame) and Adam Pash. This book is freely available for reading online. The book is divided into 8 comprehensive chapters and 2 appendices. A very good book on Google Wave indeed."
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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Unilever names DDB as lead communications agency for Flora/Becel brands - Trading Markets (press release) - http://news.google.com/news...
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Snowflake at 300um [photography; nature] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Jackye Chan, sistema428, Derrick and 7 other people liked this
Very cool! No pun intended.
- Tim Raleigh
Google Friend Connect Launches an Array of New Features – Becoming the Anti-Facebook http://thenextweb.com/appetit... [Digg's por favor!]
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Revolving restaurant at top of BT Tower, London to reopen after 30 years - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Myrna, Mitch Baldwin, Mona Nomura and 34 other people liked this
"For years it has stood unvisited and was considered an unfashionable 1960s monolith with an uncertain future. But with the flick of a switch, launching fireworks and a new 500ft-high Olympics countdown screen, central London’s BT Tower has been given a new burst of life. And now it seems the rotating restaurant – its crowning glory until it was closed 30 years ago – will reopen to the public."
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
WOW!! WE MUST GO, Emma! :) hmmmmmmm...... *wonders if one can get there from Baker Street Station?* :p <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
HAHAHA...actually, it's just up the road, so...you're in luck, baby! ;p <333
- Emma
YAY!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!! ....cuz as we ALL KNOW, London begins and ends at Baker Street Station! ;p <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
good for them.....................I do miss London soooooooooo much
- VAL D. Zone
My father treated me to a meal there in 1975 to celebrate my BA in Architecture. Apart from the view I love that weirdness of revolving restaurants where the moving part of the floor meets the fixed part. It feels like standing across an accelerated version of the San Andreas fault
- Tim Ostler
from BuddyFeed
Very jealous, Tim. It's always been my favourite building in London. I've just had the loft renovated in my house in West London, and one of the wonderful things is that I can see it from the new windows in my roof!
- Iain Baker
I live right there! When them fireworks kicked off on Saturday night, they scared the bejesus out of me. So pretty! But lasted for less than a minute :( The spotlights and sparkles treatment on Friday was lovely, too. I could happily fall asleep watching it every night, provided none of the lasers shoot into my eyes.
- Steven Bailey
Ian, when you said you had your loft renovated, i thought you were going to say it now rotates. :)
- Simon Wicks
Simon, I tried, but couldn't get it past the local planners :(
- Iain Baker
DAMN THEM!
- Simon Wicks
Very nice and YAY! recycling.
- Admiral Anika
I think we ate there in 1977 or so -- if I recall, it was amazingly expensive.
- Stephen Mack
Is it Time to Consider Manipulating the Planet? by Jeff Goodell: Yale Environment 360 - http://e360.yale.edu/content...
Tim Ostler liked this
As much as I sometimes wish we could find a civilization-wrecking outcome from global warming, because that would force people to cut emissions very quickly, I don’t believe there is one. I think humans are amazingly adaptable and have amazing powers of isolating themselves from the environment by their technology, and those powers are not going to go away. And even human wants are very adaptable. So while I’m not claiming there won’t be bad impacts from global warming — of course there will be, I spent my whole lifetime writing on that topic — I don’t see it as a civilizational threat.
- Meryn Stol
Added news on socialmedian: Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. - Boing Boing - http://www.socialmedian.com/story...
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The Tree Form Machine | So simple even a bird brain can use it - http://www.tfdocs.com/
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"This is a site where people can create and share interactive forms -- forms that can be used by others to assemble detailed output documents with just a few clicks of the mouse. The Tree Form Machine makes it easy to create: * Legal documents -- by mixing and matching relevant paragraphs. * Business form letters -- tailored to your customers. * Software licenses and EULAs -- with just the terms you care about."
- April Russo (app103)
from Bookmarklet
Main differences between the desktop application (The Form Letter Machine http://www.donationcoder.com/Softwar... ) and web version: * Both share the same basic idea: You design a hierarchical tree-like structure of options, which are used to assemble an output document by mixing and matching sections. * The web version is much more focused on...
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- April Russo (app103)
Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients - http://www.alistapart.com/article...
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BBC NEWS | Business | General Motors cancels Opel sale - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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"GM had agreed to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Canadian car parts firm Magna. The Magna deal had the backing of the German government, which had pledged 4.5bn euros ($6.7bn; £4bn) of loans. GM added that it had also come to its decision because of the importance of Opel and Vauxhall to its global strategy. It said it would now "initiate a restructuring of its European operations in earnest" and seek aid from the German government, and other European states. However, its decision is likely to cause much anger in Europe, where the planned sale of Opel has been dragging on for months." -- do I smell lawsuit?
- Brian Sullivan
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Numan Arda Çebi to Numan's feed, Design (Tasarım), Creative Design, Designers Who Design Things, Ideas & Inspiration, Crazy Gadgets, Cool!, Amazing Things
City Bike Stripped For A Novel Design - http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry...
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Kishore Balakrishnan, FIR ☂, armaganece and 7 other people liked this
adam rahat mı acaba?
- Ëzgi ʚ
Looks interesting.
- Parvez Halim
Ezgi, rahat olduğunu düşünüyorum. Şekilli -sözde konforlu- koltuklar uzun bir sürüş sonrası dayanılmaz ağrılara sebep olabiliyor. :) Kollardaki plastikler (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...) dışında tasarım şahane.
- Numan Arda Çebi
:)))) linkteki örnek şahane yalnızzz!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
- Ëzgi ʚ
:)
- Numan Arda Çebi
güzel tasarım. ama bu tekerleklere bisiklet denmemeli. :)
- Ümit Orhan
Gidiyor mu bu (:
- Caner Özdemir
berbat.. ergonomi nerede? bisikletin en temel ölçüsü bacak boyu ve pozisyonunu nasıl görmezden gelerek bisiklet tasarlayabilirler aklım almıyor.. minimalizmse bu sıçtığı noktadır..
- sadi tekin
Bisikletin tekerini hiçbir makara mekanizması olmadan merkezden çevirmek...Hı hı, çok akıllıca...
- Olcayto Cengiz
дизайнерам следовало бы подучиться механике, хотя бы
- ...и волшебный грех!
evet, soğuk di mi oralar.. vodka güzel gider şimdi.. :)
- sadi tekin
Low Resolution (one clever halloween costume…) - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Vedrana Janković, Ivan Zuzak, attila erbilir and 18 other people liked this
nisam verovao da cu videti mesto gde je ovo prikladan komentar: http://xkcd.com/598/ :)
- Marko Đorđevic
like to Ђорђевиц
- Ej Dragana Dragana
She is totally a dream girl of the nerds
- Ozkan Altuner
xkcd - Movie Narrative Charts - http://xkcd.com/657/
Amit Patel, Shakeel Mahate, Kemal Hadimli and 11 other people liked this
Brian Eno & David Byrne – The Jezebel Spirit - http://www.last.fm/music...
vicster is... and Tim Ostler liked this
TimeLog 4.5.5 - Track project hours w/iCal integration. (Shareware) - http://www.macupdate.com/info...
Tim Ostler liked this
Motorcycle with Hubless Wheels - http://www.toxel.com/tech...
Mathew A. Koeneker, Terris Linenbach, Ahmed Mubbashir Khan and 25 other people liked this
"The Hubless Monster chopper by Amen Design is the world’s first fully functional motorcycle with two hubless wheels. Hubless (centerless) wheel is a type of wheel with no center hub. To be precise, however, the hub is actually almost as big as the wheel itself. Advantages include: decreased weight, lower center of gravity, increased braking leverage, and more accurate steering."
- Dan Freeman
from Bookmarklet
Looks great.
- Eric Logan
killer wheels
- ffcode
Sweet. The guys at OCC??
- Roberto Bonini
Amen Design, in Tennessee http://www.amendesigneng.com/ ... BAD-ASS cryptobikers from teh future! more here: http://jalopnik.com/5139465...
- Dan Freeman
I've seen this one a while ago. It's ridiculous. There's another one out there (I can't remember the name) that's also bad ass and hubless, but it's not by these guys.
- Chieze Okoye
Don't forget Cool looking two, SS a Baaad looking bike Dude, Dream bike for me is a genuine Jessie James from Wilmington CA, This one is all of that caliber or more,
- ThatDBD
yes, undrivable but great mileage for the imagination! Chieze - was this the other one you saw? Sbarro's specimens: http://www.burningart.com/meico...
- Dan Freeman
Dan, no, but that's also pretty awesome. All wheels should be hubless. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
That's the one I want, but in blue.
- Kittyburgers
jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas - http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab...
Daniel Rowley, Jesper Lind, YungSang and Tim Ostler liked this
"Accessible data visualization in HTML has always been tricky to achieve, particularly because elements such as images allow only the most basic features for providing textual information to non-visual users. A while back, we wrote an article describing a technique we came up with to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology."
- Micah Wittman
Whimsley: Netflix Prize: Was The Napoleon Dynamite Problem Solved? - http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsle...
John Lam, Space Cowboy, Tim Ostler and 2 other people liked this
Napoleon Dynamite was still not predicted accurately.
- niniane
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Google Shrinks Another Market With Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Tim Ostler and Roberto Bonini liked this
There are 307,765,520 people in the U.S. On average, one-in-a-billion happenstances will occur somewhere in our country about twice a week.
Mike Reynolds, Micah Wittman, Hutch Carpenter and 15 other people liked this
How many sigmas out do you live? What's the most outrageously unlikely thing that you ever saw or have happen to you?
- Stephen Mack
For most people, being the successful embryo is the most unlikely thing that happens to them. After you've won that lottery, everything else is just gravy. ;)
- Matt Mastracci
+1 Matt
- Kenton
first and last swimming race i'll ever win.
- Mike Nencetti
How often 'one in a billion' happenstances happen depends entirely on how often 'generic happenstances' happen, and how many happenstances are 'one in a billion'. If there's a 'one in a billion' chance that when I shoot a basketball it bounces off a girder and ricochets into the opponent's hoop, but there's also a 'one in a billion' chance that a bird will fly through the window and...
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- Kevin Fox
Kevin, yes, that's what I had in mind. The point that I was trying to make is we all see millions of trials each day, so odds are eventually we'll see enormous coincidences. Some people see these as so unlikely that they attribute the cause to the supernatural (fate or divine intervention or space aliens or ghosts). My point is we should expect one-in-a-billion events to occur regularly, because of the huge number of trials taking place every week.
- Stephen Mack
Yup. The odds of winning Mega Millions is one in 60 million, yet someone wins every few weeks. Every event is an unlikely event.
- Kevin Fox
Though people say it's stupid to play the lottery, I occasionally do so. I figure I've had enough unlikely BAD shit happen to me that I ought to be able to have some unlikely GOOD shit happen to me.
- Spidra Webster
Uhm let me try, getting hooked by a fishhook, in the arm pit, nearly(<2mm) nicking your Axilliary artery, while your at home, in bed, sleeping, and not finding out why you can't move your arm completely until about 2 hours after you wake up.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, OUCH. Spidra, good luck. Kevin, shuffle a deck of cards and deal yourself a hand of 13. The odds of you getting those particular 13 cards were astronomically low -- 1 in 635,013,559,600. Of course, once you dealt them, the odds became 100%.
- Stephen Mack
So, this is what all the "social media experts" in Twitter are betting on? That some of them will actually monetize with their tweeting expertise ;)
- Jemm
Stephen, it didn't hurt as I recall(5 at the time), it was just funny that my arm wouldn't seperate from my side, I could pivot at the elbow and wrist but not at the shoulder. I don't have odds for any of those events, but I'd say it's up there a ways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Stephen, depends how you look at it. Once I finished shuffling the odds became 100%. Of course, since shuffling itself is a deterministic activity, the odds were always 100%. If you're a determinist there's no such thing as odds, just uncertainty.
- Kevin Fox
I heard a good explanation of probability and randomness recently (on NPR.) The explanation related to hitting a golf ball down the fairway on a golf course. The odds of the ball hitting a *particular* blade of grass are incredibly small. Yet the odds that the ball will hit at least one blade of grass are virtually 100%. The notion of "odds" depends upon whether your "point of view" is that of a specific blade of grass, or that of the ball.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Kevin and Mark, excellent points. But even if you're a determinist, odds factor in when trying to predict future unknown events (and to Mark's point, from a particular viewpoint). And odds are easy to simulate and test, so it's a good example of the scientific method in action. But as humans our weakness is in evaluating just how unlikely a particular event is, and then attributing behavior as conscious when it's really just emergent or coincident.
- Stephen Mack
Mozilla Labs » Raindrop - http://labs.mozilla.com/raindro...
Tim Ostler liked this
"Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome). Raindrop comes with a built-in experience that bubbles up what conversations are important to you. You can participate in the experience by writing extensions that use standard open Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Or, use the lower level APIs to make your own experience. You have control over your conversations and how you want to play with them."
- Meryn Stol
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FF > FB ∴ FF FTW
SuezanneC Baskerville, Mitchell Tsai, Martha and 99 other people liked this
Heh, is there going to be an argument over dinner when Paul gets home?
- Stephen Mack
Uh-oh. But you tell him, April!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Stephen: There's no argument. He knows how I feel.
- April Buchheit
This makes me laugh...this is great stuff.
- Alex Scoble
Agreed, priceless. :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
∴ ?
- Kevin Fox
This made my day! Make sure Paul remembers what his team created and don't let FB shut us down. :-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Best post of the day!!! :)
- Susan Beebe
is that "greater than" or "write FF to the file FB?"
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff: Uh, both? :)
- April Buchheit
Kevin: ∴ FF FTW!
- April Buchheit
April rocks. Go FF and go April. :)
- Louis Gray
Cheer section is getting crowded behind April....
- Harold
Updated (18:16 PST)
- April Buchheit
I'm with you April!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I think that's the first time I've seen the therefore sign used on FriendFeed :)
- Glenn Slaven
It's just my way of saying I'll take FF over FB anytime, any day.
- April Buchheit
A to the Men!
- Felicia Yue
Standing ovation.
- Bruce Lewis
Indeed Best post of the day. Simply the truth!. :=)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
April +++++++++++++++++++++!
- AJ Batac
Ooh, hex math. Can I play?
- Mistletoe Glen
Good thing Stephen Mack pointed that out in the top comment. I and possibly others would have missed the connection.
- Raphael, Raphael
♥
- AJ Batac
'April! April!' chant is going on
- Christopher Galtenberg
*hands April the key to the city*
- Micah Wittman
♥
- Mitch
I fully agree.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
But what did the Walrus say?
- Robert Scoble
By the way, lots of Facebook employees say "FB 2010 >= FF 2010 ∴ FB 2010 FTW." Or "FB 2010 (include FF) > Twitter 2010 ∴ FB FTW
- Robert Scoble
liking for Scoble's last comment. I'm seeing similar
- Jesse Stay
I can believe FB 2011 >= FF 2011. If they can pull it off in 2010 I'll be very impressed.
- Bruce Lewis
The big question is whether that will be "greater than OR equal to" or "greater than AND equal to"
- Jesse Stay
awww, you spelled it out better than any social media expert I know of! (exception maybe Mashable just cuz he wants me)
- sofarsoShawn
Sorry - Facebook won't ever rise to the level of FriendFeed unless they let you turn off all the ads, the lame "invites" for bullshit apps and the lowest common denominator feeling. They can add all of FriendFeed's features, but until they make it look like something that appeals to a tech-savvy audience, who cares?
- Chrimmus Tad
It'd be wonderful if, instead of dumbing down FriendFeed (by merging it into FB) they could smarten up FaceBook by removing all the retarded cruft.
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad: have you seen the lightweight Facebook? Or, even better, have you seen the iPhone app? It doesn't have any retarded cruft. I was at Apple's headquarters today. Guess which app was being downloaded faster than almost any other app? Right. Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
Tad, you just made me spit out my soda. HA!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I use Facebook as my sorta, Black Book as old timers say, aka booty calls. I made a list :)
- sofarsoShawn
Both Facebook Lite and the iPhone app pale in comparison to plain ole FriendFeed. Why not just change the banner up at the top to say FaceBook Lite and let that be that? There's nothing at all on FaceBook that I'd like to see show up in FriendFeed.
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad: FriendFeed's infrastructure can NOT deal with 300 million users.
- Robert Scoble
300 million users aren't interested in FriendFeed, obviously. But, if they create a FaceBook Lite that's got all of the existing FF functionality without any of the sline/LCD bullshit of FaceBook Classic, and can handle more users, then I'll be all for it. I'm not going to hold my breath. I think the best we'll end up with is FaceBook Lite updating in real time with hordes of Mafia invites, virtual gift spam and ads for the new Booty Blaster 2010 app. Let's hope they prove me wrong!
- Chrimmus Tad
April FTW - I realize I'm late for that. But yay for the FF wimmin! And the therefore sign! (How do you even do that on a keyboard? Mac please)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
+1 Tad - That's the fear, Facebook will morph the features to an audience that will use it very different than FF. Although I can see how FB can really benefit from the design and features of FF, the community result will change due to the culture FB has already created.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Tad, is the issue a tech-savvy audience or just a non-stupid one? I sure hope, if your vision comes to pass, they intro a Smart Hide feature where we can hide all that crap in one or two clicks, separating stupid content from its posters. AS in, Yes I want to see my niece's new baby; No, I don't EVER want to play even one game she invites people to.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Tad: I never get Mafia invites or virtual gift spam. I don't know why you even care about those things? They certainly never show up on the iPhone app.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, something like that Mary.
- Chrimmus Tad
Robert, I have high school friends and other acquaintances who constantly invite me for Pillow Fights or Mafia games or whatever. I don't really want to know that FriendA just harvested a marsh mellow field or that FriendB just assassinated someone else. My FaceBook smartphone app is full of mostly FriendFeed repeats from my FF friends. Why go to FB to see that?
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad: I just ignore those requests.
- Robert Scoble
I don't care for any of the apps myself and to be honest some people's posts are just plain insipid. If I see a pattern of vapidity from one individual, I hide them. I honestly don't care that they hate Mondays or are hungry and need food. Blah!
- April Buchheit
Also, I've NEVER seen any conversation on FB last as long as this one has.
- Chrimmus Tad
I do ignore the requests, but back to your Living Room analogy. Just as you won't tolerate awful people in your living room are you content to have salespeople in your living room, even if they're easily ignorable off in the corner?
- Chrimmus Tad
Scoble: I saw a great quote in CloudAve today about "follow the people who are changing the world, not milking fake cows". Facebook is one of those places where I have quite a few "real life" friends that....well....aren't changing the world. And I'm OK with that, I think FB was designed to "have fun with Friends" more than many social apps. I also don't think I need to create two...
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
MaryB, I just copied and pasted from Kevin Fox's comment. :) Originally, I just posted "FF > FB" and then Kevin Fox made his comment, so I updated my post accordingly.
- April Buchheit
Right - FB is just a place to catch up with old friends who aren't really tech savvy. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's like Sun City here in AZ. I go to visit my in-laws there, and I'm glad it's there, but I'm not gonna go hang out with that crowd (old, retired folks) all the time.
- Chrimmus Tad
manielse: true. But this is one reason why many people tell me they like Twitter better than FriendFeed: they can control who gets on their screen. Here you really can't. I can show up in almost anyone's threads, which reduces utility for them. That's not true over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
On Twitter, it would have been nigh impossible to have a conversation this rich. It'd degenerate into a lot of u's and 2's and 4's, etc. Twitter has a lot of smart content, but it's in short bursts.
- Chrimmus Tad
That's the magic of FF Tad, it's a hybrid of the tools of today (Twitter, FB) and some we don't talk about any more (IRC, Usenet, Bulletin Boards) that allowed better engagement with a fully public audience.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Robert, you can't control who gets on your Home feed - which is exactly the charm of FF, I think, and I hear a lot of people talk about the serendipity of friends of friends, so I think I'm not alone in that. But I also have heard you talk about collaboration rooms, and Tina about lists, which suggests to me that if we're willing to apply a little elbow grease, we can get pretty specific about who we see and who we don't. So I think that's a bit of a copout for the folks who say they prefer Twitter.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Mary: it's the charm but also what kept FriendFeed from really going mainstream. I heard that over and over and over again.
- Robert Scoble
Tad: Twitter is a great way to tell your audience to go someplace. Lots of URLs there. So, what is wrong with bringing your Twitter audience over here when you specifically want a chat? That's what I do.
- Robert Scoble
The main feed in FB vs in FF is a great point Mary. I use Greasemonkey script Facebook Purity to clean the fake cow\quiz junk btw, a great script!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
You know how I know FB's better? There's more babby shares. :)
- sofarsoShawn
There's nothing wrong with that Robert. I like Twitter for the most part. I just don't like FaceBook, and unless I see a compelling reason to use it a lot, I won't.
- Chrimmus Tad
Best. Post. Ever. Thanks April. (Why do the women always have the sense in the family?)
- Martha
Reality shows remind me of "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" - exploitation of troubled, pathetic people for entertainment.
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That was the best F1 race of the season so far. Button was immense.
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Totally mind blowingly awesome
- Roberto Bonini
Formula 1 Grand Prix in Brazil: Live Chat on #FriendFeed [ 18 October 2009 ] #f1 #formula1 #sport #motorsport
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Feel free to join in the live chat for the race today. Where are you watching the race, who are you supporting, how do you think the race will go? BBC have a live stream here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1... where you can see real-time text updates and if you are in the UK watch it live. You can track the standings via the official F1 site here: http://www.formula1.com/service... and you can watch the tweets come in in real-time on twazzup here: http://www.twazzup.com/search...
- Kol Tregaskes
Hey Kol. I'm watching live for once. This race is going to be very close.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Why is Martin Brundle always having run ins with the Sky News lady??
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I always find those startline tours unbearable as Brundle muscles in on people who are all busy preparing for the race. But his charm somehow manages to carry it off.
- Tim Ostler
I'm on board!
- Chris Nixon
Roberto, cool. I'll be in and out today.
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL, I think she must be really cheesed off for Brundle.
- Kol Tregaskes
So who's going to win? I think it's Webber's.
- Kol Tregaskes
Go!!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Loads of incidents there.
- Kol Tregaskes
WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Button up to 9th. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Fight!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I've not seen drivers go at it light that in years.
- Chris Nixon
Hehe!
- Kol Tregaskes
Fire!!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Fire!
- Chris Nixon
:O
- Tony C
What the heck happened there????
- Roberto Bonini
WoW - what a start, It's all kicking off
- Aron Stevenson
I'm impressed with the Braun mechanics getting Kovi's fire hose off.
- Chris Nixon
Looks like everybody is driving for their jobs. F-1 or Nascar you decide ;))
- Tony C
Yeah. nice of them
- Roberto Bonini
Tony: LOL
- Chris Nixon
3 Cars out
- Roberto Bonini
OMGosh! What a start!
- Kol Tregaskes
You know when Buemi is in 5th something had to happen
- Tony C
Jenson got lucky to avoid all that
- Tim Ostler
Haven't seen a start like this since last years race.
- Roberto Bonini
Yup he did
- Roberto Bonini
Where's Hamilton?
- Tim Ostler
Ah 14th
- Tim Ostler
Safety car in this lap
- Roberto Bonini
Safety car coming in this lap.
- Kol Tregaskes
kubica pulled a nice move there
- Roberto Bonini
Great move by Button.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yup
- Roberto Bonini
Into the points
- Tim Ostler
7th!
- Kol Tregaskes
Ooo nice Button took nakijima
- Roberto Bonini
Button is driving up a storm!
- Chris Nixon
Yep. best driving all season
- Roberto Bonini
Almost got 6th.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is a great race so far! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is already one of the best GPs of the year for sheer racing excitement
- Tim Ostler
8.010 seconds between button and rubens
- Roberto Bonini
Kobayahi isin't half bad, its his 1st GP
- Roberto Bonini
Tim, agree.
- Kol Tregaskes
I agree too
- Roberto Bonini
Webber closing in.
- Roberto Bonini
The incident involving kovi in the pit lane is under investigation.
- Roberto Bonini
I was disappointed to see there isn't more in terms of live F1 chat on Google Wave Kol. Anyone else here on Wave?
- Tim Ostler
Button is definitely trying to win the championship today!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Definately.
- Roberto Bonini
The incident with Kovi, the lollipop was definitely removed before the fuel hose was disengaged. But loved the brawn guys helping.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Kovi was right to go. the lollipop man will get his arse chewed.
- Chris Nixon
Same thing happened to Kimi in malayisa last year. The lollipops are supposed to be the safe system.
- Roberto Bonini
Agreed.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Heidfeld is off
- Roberto Bonini
Nice aggressive move by Vettel
- Chris Nixon
Button passes, then loses the place.
- Chris Nixon
HAHA.
- Roberto Bonini
Yeah, Button went too deep into the corner on the overtake.
- Roberto Bonini
Kimi was also because of Ferrari's traffic light system to right as they weren't using the lollipops in Malaysia right?
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Yep. Ferrari went back to the lollipops after that incident.
- Roberto Bonini
As a test, I've shared this thread on Google Wave here: https://wave.google.com/wave...
- Kol Tregaskes
Button third?
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Go, go, go Button.
- Kol Tregaskes
Go go go go go go go go go go go go go go
- Roberto Bonini
Wheel to wheel racing action here.
- Roberto Bonini
Whoooooooooooohoooooooooooo go Jenson!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Button leading!
- Kol Tregaskes
another incident inolving kovi and fisi under investigation.
- Roberto Bonini
Rosberg has a problem.
- Roberto Bonini
And its race over for Rosberg.
- Roberto Bonini
And hiedfeld ran out of fuel a few laps back.
- Roberto Bonini
Thanks Kol. I get "You are not a participant". Can you add me as timostler (at) googlewave (dot) com?
- Tim Ostler
Ran out of fuel? LOL
- Kol Tregaskes
sorry that should be tim.ostler I think
- Tim Ostler
Tim, in Google Wave? Hmmm, it should be public. Hold up then...
- Kol Tregaskes
Roberto is on there. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Tim, added you.
- Kol Tregaskes
Another crash!
- Kol Tregaskes
Nakijima
- Roberto Bonini
I would jump on Wave, but not good on iPhone =P
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Not at all good on the iPhone
- Roberto Bonini
Ah, OK Travis. It's OK just Roberto so far. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually it is fine on iPhone -- even drops the chrome in Safari. It's just not official
- Tim Ostler
Wish we could sync FF threads and Waves.
- Roberto Bonini
I mean more about using FF and Wave at the same time ;)
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
My ideal ending would be for Rubens to win his home GP, Vettel 2nd fora podium and Button to come 3rd+
- Tim Ostler
Chris, are you on GWave?
- Kol Tregaskes
Crashed
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, agree about the syncing. I wish comments on GReader, Twitter and FB were all synced too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Button is really going for it!
- Kol Tregaskes
I think Wave will get that functionality soon.
- Roberto Bonini
That he is. Buemi nearly spun him round earlier
- Roberto Bonini
Almost at half distance.
- Roberto Bonini
Yeah I'm on Wave: photografr@googlewave.com
- Chris Nixon
Having this FF widget on GWave is brilliant
- Tim Ostler
Indeed
- Roberto Bonini
Added Chris
- Roberto Bonini
How do I link-up. I've not properly used wave before.
- Chris Nixon
I've added you to the wave. The wave should show up in your inbox
- Roberto Bonini
Is there some etiquette about adding someone to your wave contacts without asking first? Oh yeah, travispuk at googlewave.com BTW ;)
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Cool, Chris. Added you to my contacts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
After that little digression into Wave, Back to the race!!
- Roberto Bonini
All the one-stoppers are pitting
- Roberto Bonini
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What have we missed? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kubica is in second. hamilton just pitted and Webber is leading the race
- Roberto Bonini
Button fourth.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Looking good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yep
- Roberto Bonini
Maths and race strategies are melting my brain.
- Chris Nixon
Clouds coming over
- Roberto Bonini
Cloudburst would introduce some fun dynamics
- Tim Ostler
Yes. but don't mention it - :)
- Roberto Bonini
Brawn mechanics are moving#
- Roberto Bonini
Its for Button
- Roberto Bonini
Button in
- Chris Nixon
Beautiful stop
- Roberto Bonini
16 laps to go
- Roberto Bonini
Nice stop by Vettel
- Roberto Bonini
6th is good enough.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kovi is going to pit soon then button NEEDS to over take vettel.
- Roberto Bonini
Iain, 6th.
- Kol Tregaskes
No 7th
- Tim Ostler
Yeah sorry 7th.
- Kol Tregaskes
Its going to be close. I thought 7th too
- Roberto Bonini
Nooooooooo.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
tht will not give Button the championship
- Roberto Bonini
Kovi is due to come in though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Iain, nah. 6th I think.
- Kol Tregaskes
Nope. Close but no cigar
- Roberto Bonini
Close is always how it is for British champions in every sport -- except for Olympic cycling...
- Tim Ostler
LOL @ tim
- Roberto Bonini
Tim, ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Lost the picture for a second there!
- Kol Tregaskes
kovi stops button in 6th
- Roberto Bonini
Me too Kol
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
OK, must be there end.
- Kol Tregaskes
I do get tired of the commentator burbling uninformatively in such a self-important way
- Tim Ostler
Rubens down to 4th.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hamilton takes Baricello
- Chris Nixon
I had forgotten about Rubens!
- Tim Ostler
Just keep it going Jenson and you have it! Double win for Brawn.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Even if jenson finishes in 6th??
- Roberto Bonini
Hehe, me too, Tim. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
9 laps
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, yep. Button champion atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
I forgot about him too
- Roberto Bonini
Puncture!
- Tim Ostler
Rubens puncture
- Chris Nixon
\Rubens???????
- Roberto Bonini
Iain, best race of the season.
- Kol Tregaskes
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Roberto Bonini
Indeed, best race
- Roberto Bonini
At least he's made it to the pits
- Tim Ostler
Yippee!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Well yeah, good for jenson
- Roberto Bonini
Hamilton caused the puncture! Oh dear.
- Kol Tregaskes
Never count any chickens in Brazil
- Chris Nixon
Chris, agree. 7 laps to go, fingers crossed.
- Kol Tregaskes
Remember Massa's crew celebration last year
- Chris Nixon
Or eggs, chris
- Roberto Bonini
Surely just a racing incident -- not that the crowd will see it that way. That's 2 Brazil GPs in a row that he's sabotaged a Brazilian
- Tim Ostler
So he's won it anyway? As Rubens has gone out.
- Kol Tregaskes
Sounds like that.
- Roberto Bonini
Button in 5th
- Roberto Bonini
:-D
- Kol Tregaskes
The player embed sort of worked
- Roberto Bonini
Rain coming.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hah! "A few drops of rain"..
- Tim Ostler
Oh wait Button not champ yet just needs to finish. 4 laps to go. Come on!
- Kol Tregaskes
Kobayshi took fisi. WOW
- Roberto Bonini
3 laps to go
- Roberto Bonini
I'm pleased for Webber
- Tim Ostler
Roberto, I got the BBC news live commentary feed in GWave working btw.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hope they get Button up on the podium if he wins. It was strange last year with Hamilton not up there.
- Chris Nixon
Chris, yeah!
- Kol Tregaskes
Way to go Kol -- truly you are a Wave guru :-)
- Tim Ostler
Well done KOL
- Roberto Bonini
2 laps
- Roberto Bonini
It needs tidying up and works better with the wave maximised.
- Kol Tregaskes
My wave IS maximised.
- Roberto Bonini
OK. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Should do this for abu dhabi
- Roberto Bonini
Last lap
- Roberto Bonini
I would have liked the FF feed and the BBC feed next to each other.
- Kol Tregaskes
Last lap!
- Kol Tregaskes
Indeed KOL
- Roberto Bonini
Massa is waving the checkered flag
- Roberto Bonini
Here he comes!
- Kol Tregaskes
Nice
- Chris Nixon
Champion!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Button Rules
- Roberto Bonini
We are the champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Great news!
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
Great result for webber, congrats to Button and team brawn - excellent season - world champions
- Aron Stevenson
I feel so happy for him, great champion!
- Kol Tregaskes
My PC... And Wave is upstairs, but my TV is downstairs... I want to see what you guys are talking about on Wave :(
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Button should totally try out for x-factor
- Roberto Bonini
And Brawn too, new team wins the Drivers too.
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL, Roberto!
- Kol Tregaskes
How's he seeing him smile through his helmet?
- Chris Nixon
I vote Kol for Geek Factor
- Tim Ostler
Yeah I just said that, LOL! Stupid commentator.
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't really like him, bring back Murray Walker. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL. Nice to see webber on the podium
- Roberto Bonini
Yep,
- Kol Tregaskes
Martin Brundle makes up for him -- always found Murray Walker too hysterical
- Tim Ostler
I never liked Murray.
- Chris Nixon
I actually think this guy isn't too bad.
- Chris Nixon
Leggared???
- Roberto Bonini
Aye I said it.
- Chris Nixon
Tim, agree.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chris, he feels like he should be working for ITV.
- Kol Tregaskes
OOoooof. Harsh Kol. ITV? You REALLY don't like him.
- Chris Nixon
LOL, no I don't. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
hehe He's not too bad
- Roberto Bonini
I agree Kol.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Ross Brawn almost crying!
- Kol Tregaskes
I see Vettel even pushed Rubens into 3rd place in the championship
- Tim Ostler
Wow, Ross Brawn, very emotional.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Good spy Tim. I hadn't noticed that.
- Chris Nixon
Yeah. i didin't notice that either. Vettel has come along way.
- Roberto Bonini
GG lads. Enjoyable as always.
- Chris Nixon
Does Christian Horner remind anyone else of Christian Bale?
- Tim Ostler
The song that was just on showing all the UK champions - spotify:track:4LvtB7drFpQ4UzmFHcSnCC
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Hmmm, not really
- Roberto Bonini
Thanks guys.
- Roberto Bonini
The Brawn guys are really celebrating.....
- Roberto Bonini
Thanks Kol for setting this up. See you in Abu Dhabi...
- Tim Ostler
Total chaos in the Brawn garage
- Roberto Bonini
See you then, Tim.
- Kol Tregaskes
See you all back here in 2 weeks. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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