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so very close 2 returning iPhone 4 & going droid. plenty of bars but can't talk. apple, at&t, kinda don't care who to blame. just kinda done
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There's a 12-step program for that.
- Louis Gray
Unfortunately droid's not much better - one has connectivity issues, the other battery problems.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, stop following me around. :)
- Louis Gray
I follow everything you do, Louis :-) I'm now at your Grocery Store on Foursquare
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, there's a 12 step program for that too
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, I need to find that one
- Jesse Stay
I need global blockage for Jesse. Is there an app for that?
- Louis Gray
Yeah, it's called ThikSkin, Louis
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I am like air Louis - you can't block me :-)
- Jesse Stay
i tried to find the 12 step program, louis, but my iphone kept crapping out and only loaded the first 2 :)
- dannysullivan
still hit too many sites i can't use on ipad because of flash. hey steve, i don't think they're gonna change. didn't for google, won't for u
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If they don't change we'll stop going there. Already have a list of sites only look for on laptop and that's starting to look like a ghost town list.
- Steve Gillmor
Hey Danny, what do you mean, "didn't for Google"?
- Stephen Pickering
Danny is a Microsoft TRUE BELIEVER, He's just telling us what he wants to happen, i.e. - Apple FAIL. This is what all true Microsofties live for.
- Zato Gibson
I'm a true Microsoft believer? I dumped Windows Mobile for the iPhone. I dumped my Karma Rio for the iPod? I carry an iPad along with my notebook. I'd still be using my MacBook if it hadn't broke -- though yep, I did run Windows along with Mac OS on that.
- dannysullivan
Stephen, what I mean is that for 10 years, search engines have largely been unable to handle Flash. Despite this, developers kept building these crazy all Flash sites. Now I'm on the iPad, and I'm still running into the same sites that I can't use. From major companies. So I'm wondering if they're just going to keep sticking their heads in the sand.
- dannysullivan
i have no problem with big companies sticking their heads in the sand...
- Chris Heath
also @brettaylor of @facebook told me yesterday personalization would only happen with small # of prescreened partners, still...
My Twitter username is actually @btaylor, not @brettaylor
- Bret Taylor
^ EL OH EL
- LANjackal
Bret, so sorry about getting the name wrong. I actually retweeted again the correct name: http://twitter.com/dannysu... -- which was misspelled again, sigh. I'll get it correct next time. Also love to connect offline if you want to send an email or DM me on twitter.
- dannysullivan
Sweet new search engine: http://www.google.com/ - found out about them on a Super Bowl Commercial. Looks VERY promising.
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Might finally switch from AltaVista.
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akebono.stanford.edu
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Dude, but Altavista is still best viewed with Netscape Navigator! Silly Mr Bleeding Edge Early Adopter.
- Micah
Lycos, Infoseek, Excite ...
- Laura Norvig
They're going to need something pretty compelling given all the established players. And that homepage looks really amateurish. Needs a Flash intro or something.
- Bruce Lewis
Nah, looks too gimmicky to me. Dogpile FTW!
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
hard to beat email to archie (pre-web) though - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Amund Tveit
@Bruce: Flash won't run on my Palm VII.
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Google is such a stupid sounding name. It'll never catch on.
- Jack&Cleo
flying toasters? Flying toilets is where it's at.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
15"?! Lucky. Interlaced or non-interlaced?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
RGB or Monochrome?
- Jesse Stay
Wonder if it works in Lynx?
- Computerwhiz1
Apple 13" hi-res RGB FTW!
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
I'm not going to buy any computer that Jeff Goldblum pitches. Sorry. Not going to happen. And while I'm on the subject, WTF is up with IBM using Paul Reiser's floating head in their latest commercial?! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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HotBot is where it's at!
- Richard E. Ochoa
Their logo is totally amateurish. They must have used one of those $99 logo web sites. They could probably get better work from a bunch of school kids.
- maczter
The site is pretty boring looking.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
try search3.com :)
- h011yw00ddigi741
Hilarious :) especially the Alta Vista follow up LOL
- Kevin Cimring
I'll stick with Altavista: this new one, Google (?), will reject Mozilla browser and Linux OS soon ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
LOL
- dannysullivan
That's what I thought, but th@&( !()&(*$(@$_!*(@$&^&*(! NO CARRIER
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Chris, cool - I can see each letter as you type
- Jesse Stay
So help me, Jesse... if you're bragging about your effin' 2400bps modem again, I'm gonna come over there and shove that PS/2 cable where the sun don't shine.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Depends. Are you using the Parallel drive, Johnny?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Not if I block it with my 5 1/2 inch floppy drive. I'll then fling all my Windows 3.1 floppy disks at you.
- Jesse Stay
Real men use OS/2. I guess that means Dvorak is a real man, after all?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
I thought the cool OS was SGI
- Jesse Stay
Of course, Google could have done it better if they did it all in VRML
- Jesse Stay
VRML? Hell no. They should have partnered with Microsoft and made an IE4 Channel.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Dude - that would be the bomb
- Jesse Stay
Somebody set up us the bomb.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
I can't see it taking off, I mean we have newspapers, books and videos these days -besides how are they ever going to finance it.
- Andrew Bleakley
I usually use Bing.. maybe I should give this "Google" a try?
- Jemm
Dogpile is still the bestest meta search engine of choice. It even understands boolean!
- Courtney Engle
Leapfish.com is the best!
- Cathleen Mann
Who needs search engines? People should just learn to remember the websites - I only visit 5 or 10 a week anyway. This concept will never get popular.
- James Kuypers
Facebook's Plan to Build a Real Email System and Attack Gmail Is Brilliant - http://valleywag.gawker.com/5465220...
Tim Tyler, Thierry R. Andriamirado, Paul Papadimitriou and 15 other people liked this
Is this what Paul Buchheit is working on?
- Shakeel Mahate
No.
- Paul Buchheit
Gmail is the original newsfeed
- Christopher Galtenberg
Was going to be cheeky and say "So this means that they'll be copying FriendFeed's direct message system?" But actually no reason why not, especially integrated with their chat system for real-time response... and easily bringing other contacts in to the conversation. It's sortof what people thought/hoped Wave would be anyway.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Main problem will be Facebook's overall problem... people want to keep Facebook and the real-real world separate (ie, work).
- Christopher Galtenberg
What is Paul Buchheit working on?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Not Facebook Mail, apparently :)
- dannysullivan
What I really want from Facebook mail is a way to not have Facebook mail. I've got a regular mail account already. Getting all these message from people on Facebook is like yet something else to tend to. Either forward that stuff to me via POP/IMAP or better, let me send an autoresponse that says I'm not home right now on Facebook mail. I'm never home on Facebook mail. Use real mail to reach me.
- dannysullivan
@danny: Facebook lets you "reply to this email to comment" on pretty much everything now. If you really hate it you can set up a GMail canned response to tell people how much you hate FB every time you get an alert.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Facebook has recently implemented "reply to comment by email", something Friendfeed launched loooong time ago. I guess it has to do with the Friendfeed team/spirit and I hope they will expand the system to FB Mail. By the way, I'd love to know to what extent the ex-FF team influence the FB's roadmap.
- Jérôme
This article is ridiculous (like all 100% speculative articles). "If Facebook produces a crappy email system, no one will use it. If Facebook produces an excellent email system, however, it has a huge opportunity here." Let's try substitution: "If Facebook produces a crappy //electric car//, no one will use it. If Facebook produces an excellent //electric car//, however, it has a huge...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, it's not quite as ridiculous as you claim. FB already has hundreds of millions of users and a communication system similar to email that most of them use. In fact I've heard that there are already people who don't even use email -- the just use FB. It's not much of a leap to suggest that if they improve their communication system, millions of other users would dump their current email for FB's messaging system.
- Gabe
Gabe, that's a scary thought. Email is about the only virtually universal online communication mechanism out there. I'm concerned that from user perspective, this is just more lock-in (but many people will be short-sighted about it). And given that Facebook is real name only (a problem in itself), if the addresses are valid emails, they will be easily guessable/spammable. I think it's always better to have an email address that is not tied to anything you may want to change in the future.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I agree with Danny that the Facebook messages are an annoyance. Something I have to tend to - the quicker the better. But I'm unsure that's how others feel about it. The new interface Facebook just launched does have a much nicer interface in handling messages. That said, I just can't see how folks will truly use it as an email client. At best it's a asynchronous messaging client. Because - really, are you going to treat real email and mafia war requests the same? It's frightening.
- AJ Kohn
Gillmor Gang recording session live 1PM Pacific - http://www.building43.com/realtim...
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are we going to be blessed with a gillmor show today?
- Chris Jackson
Let's hope so! Lots of stuff to talk about on this episode I'm sure. I'm looking forward to it.
- Kevin Costain
Yes! I'm online. In Gillmor's family room.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew Keen "let me plug my thing in." Sounds obscene. :-) Behind the scenes banter.
- Robert Scoble
To watch this or Calacanis? That is the question.
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen - url for Calacanis ?
- Chris Jackson
thnx
- Chris Jackson
its on!
- Kevin Costain
Danny Sullivan
- Robert Scoble
sounds good to me
- Brian Hendrickson
danny - audio fine here
- Chris Jackson
We will be right back.
- Robert Scoble
Third time's the charm ;)
- Denise Howell
lol... don't get frustrated Steve.. live is better!!
- Kevin Costain
I'm hoping Robert will talk about iPhone personal assistant, SIRI
- r Macdonald
GillmorGang now recording session now live: Danny Sullivan, Scoble, Marks, Keen, Edo Segal http://building43.com/realtime
- Cliff Gerrish
I hope Steve doesn't pre-record it. It is on Building43.com/RealTime and called "Real Time with The Gillmor Gang" :(
- David Lloyd
"Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro..." -- Merlin Mann http://www.43folders.com/node...
- Ken Sheppardson
well thats bullshit (not @ you ken :-) )
- Jamie
flash is dead folks
- Jamie
Trouble is - what is there to replace the ubiquity of flash? It's in more places than Java and I just don't see that HTML5 can replace that. Flash is the cheesy splash screen, the ad the fancy movie site, and movies. Flash is like the cockroach of the web
- Kevin Costain
It's interesting that Flash owes it's ubiquity to Microsoft.
- Cliff Gerrish
as smartphones sans flash start getting traction please believe that the ad networks, exchanges and servers will quickly fix that
- Jamie
Flash never was the write-once-run-everywhere environment.
- Tom Morris
Flash was the write once run lots of places environment - more than other video/vector/animation tech
- Kevin Marks
I've owned a fair few mobile devices. Never had one that had Flash. Had lots that did JavaME or native code (C, ObjC etc.)
- Tom Morris
Leo's live streaming site is built on Flash, but he has today made it work on iphone.
- David Lloyd
60% of adobes revenue is from authoring tools
- Jamie
People are still gonna buy Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and so on.
- Tom Morris
seems there's an early death notice here for Flash since Apple released an iPad - what about the over 90% of the real people that won't care about iPad - there's a huge amount of the web to convert - won't happen overnight
- Don Bonaddio
*Flash* authoring tools? Yeah... what Tom said.
- Ken Sheppardson
Tom: the leverage on getting them to do that is a lot less in a post Flash world.
- Robert Scoble
Don, you think people care about flash?
- Jamie
"Silverlight: MS rebooting Windows as web OS", cool observation
- r Macdonald
They'll still need to make designer-friendly tools for building HTML+JavaScript. Designers aren't suddenly going to go from the Flash Authoring tools to Emacs and Vim.
- Tom Morris
folks wont even notice when they switch out the video for html5
- Jamie
Adobe needs to become innovative again, and build authoring tools for HTML5
- Stephen Pickering
most people have no idea that flash is even being used on the site - they'll notice it's broken however when they try to browse to their favorite sites and see it broken Jamie
- Don Bonaddio
Had an iPod touch for 6 months. Barely noticed lack of Flash.
- Tom Morris
The only sites I've used today with Flash are video sites - ustream, YouTube, Vimeo.
- Tom Morris
Ah Future Splash, we hardly knew ye....
- Cliff Gerrish
Avatar was created with Abode tools...they still do innovative tool dev. but not so much for the web.
- Jim Posner
Tom: Ustream is available on iPhone without Flash.
- Robert Scoble
What about the learning curve a hardcore flash developer would have to go through to use another tool? Especially for the highly interactive flash websites?
- Kevin Costain
Flash ain't dead. It's undead.
- Tom Morris
Robert how do they do that? What is Ustream on iPhone running on?
- Stephen Pickering
That's the question, how do you compete against the cross-subsidy move into your market?
- Cliff Gerrish
Kevin, it was ever thus.
- Frank Paynter
Andrew Keen's comment == WTF?
- Tom Morris
What about them, Kevin? Same thing would happen to them that happened to all the Cobol and FORTRAN developers.
- Ken Sheppardson
Don I know how widespread flash is used, but most site developers built in a way for them to degrade gracefully when the plugin isnt present. even the porn sites are getting on board.
- Jamie
Stephen: Apple SDK and built in video streaming APIs.
- Robert Scoble
Ken ++
- Frank Paynter
Stephen: They're doing h.264 via http. You can see it in action, actually... if you go to http://live.twit.tv/m
- Ken Sheppardson
i think iPads demo it not primarily for techies , use cases are much different for iPad than iPhone, conversion to HTML5 will happen but not in 60 days... more like a couple years
- Don Bonaddio
I hear you Jamie, but that's more dev time
- Don Bonaddio
Ken: I agree, the trouble is there isn't even something to compete with what already exits. Flash is a whole lot more than video.. Im mot aware of anything or any type of development tool that can make some of the more highly interactive flash sites I see..
- Kevin Costain
Hate restaurant sites that use Flash. Can't find a way to make a reservation w/o Flash.
- Alex de Soto
i still use it - some too Steve.... FF For Ever....
- Chris Jackson
It's really simple: you test your site in Lynx. If you've built it right, it'll work.
- Tom Morris
That kind of "I'm just looking for this piece of information" things are going to be handled by services and aggregators.
- Cliff Gerrish
im not saying flash will die out in a few months, or even a few years. but technology has a way of building momentum against certain technologies or services. (webkits a good example). we're at a point where the most important uses of flash 5 years ago finally have open equivalents that are much more efficient.
- Jamie
Tom: so true.. :)
- Kevin Costain
HTML5 video rollout enhanced by MPEG LA's announcement this week that they will continue not to charge royalties for h264 Internet Video that is "free to end users"
- r Macdonald
I hope the plug-in era of the web is near it's end
- Jim Posner
IMO, this is a power move by appl to force developers to create apps to buy through their app store instead of using open standards in a browser
- Don Bonaddio
we're thinking about this a lot. rev3's mobile site pushes to youtube.
- michael sean wright
don, flash isn't really an open standard. HTML5 is
- Kevin Marks
and flash hasn't been on the iphone since day one. way before apple ever envisioned the app store being such a huge success
- Jamie
so I dont buy the "it competes with the app store" argument.
- Jamie
A 'power move'. It's a technical move. Seriously. Run some Flash videos with Activity Monitor open and watch your CPU usage.
- Tom Morris
understood Kevin, I think devs need to move there but there is a move for sites to create apps instead of making their sites HTML5, imo
- Don Bonaddio
I think Vimeo has an HTML5 player now. Check out their blog.
- Alex de Soto
I thought that the adoption of web standards was suppose to slow the balkinization of the web.
- Jim Posner
Graceful degradation is at the heart of web front end development done right, Jim
- Kevin Marks
agree Tom that flash is bad, but not supporting a defacto standard ?
- Don Bonaddio
Point being that the companies are looking out for themselves and not the user?
- Kevin Sablan
Kevin, I thought graceful degradation was deprecated in favor of progressive enhancement.
- Cliff Gerrish
was talking with with some espn folks last week, they said that 85% of their web traffic during the weekends come via mobile. made us re-think approach. must be multiple output.
- michael sean wright
He who has the best Skype connection wins.
- Ken Sheppardson
Cliff: graceful degradation/progressive enhancement are two sides of the same coin.
- Tom Morris
so that's fine Robert, so I'll wait 5 years
- Don Bonaddio
lol
- Moobie
This is the real story: it's the rise of the mobile platform. The big money is going to (or already is) invested in mobile experiences and moved away from web-based experiences..
- Kevin Costain
has "best on any browser" morphed to "best on any platform," or will developers just write around the proprietary stuff?
- Frank Paynter
Band sites, restaurant sites, airline sites, car rental sites...
- Ken Sheppardson
Cliff: Sorry, I was referring to the conversation on between the video participants. The idea that these companies are looking out for themselves, instead of _____? There isn't anything wrong with a company not looking out for competitors, but they must look out for customers.
- Kevin Sablan
IIRC the SFO site uses flash. Can't actually navigate it from my Pre
- Ken Sheppardson
The Flash->HTML 'compiler'. Where is it, then?
- Tom Morris
Google's tablet will be totally hooked into (and connected to) their suite of tools.
- Kevin Costain
lmao
- Jamie
no ------- i missed so much.....
- Chris Jackson
haha
- Kevin Costain
was anyone else recording this?
- Moobie
oh no
- Christopher Harris
nice
- Ken Sheppardson
what was taht all about.. haha
- Kevin Costain
doesnt ustream save the recording automatically?
- Jamie
If he had ustream set up it would auotmatically record each show but he doesnt
- David Lloyd
You have to set an option in the admin panel
- David Lloyd
love the live experience!
- r Macdonald
I'm on the Youtube HTML5 beta and the videos look like shit. Why is that?
- Stephen Pickering
my wife doesn't understand Flash or how computers work but she likes to relax playing some simple games online in her browser, guess what, they're all flash - I thought a big demographic for the iPad was everyday people
- Don Bonaddio
youtube is almost 70% of all video consumed on the web. so we are talking long tail here.
- Jamie
You are seeing the mp4 video not converted, so that makes no sense Stephen
- David Lloyd
The same file the user uploaded
- David Lloyd
don, i'm sure she'll find no end of free simple games through iphone / ipad apps
- dannysullivan
don there are 40,000 simple games in the app store.
- Jamie
mp4 with h264 is the new mp3
- Kevin Marks
Google Chrome.
- David Lloyd
chrome is cannibalising FF share
- Jamie
flash is so damn pervasive that I've seen small children's games shipped that ar just a win32 app wrapped around a flash experience.
- Kevin Costain
understood dannysullivan, but that's a transition and most likely an extra cost per app
- Don Bonaddio
Also have you guys noticed that quicktime movies play like shit on Chrome, at least on the Mac?
- Stephen Pickering
I love Chrome, been using it two weeks, and I'm a long time Firefox hater. Really impressed with Chrome.
- Moobie
Kevin! InternetArchive.org already does that for its videos
- David Lloyd
It detects if you have a html5 browser and asks you if you want to use it.
- David Lloyd
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- David Lloyd
Chrome is okay. Lacks all the plugins of Firefox though.
- Tom Morris
I agree, Chrome is my favorite, but if I want to listen or watch a quicktime movie I've got to boot up Safari to have a decent experience
- Stephen Pickering
@stephen chrome on the mac suffers badly for any kind of video for me. both flash & html5 is unwatchable.
- Jamie
When quicktime things play in my Chrome window I get no playback contorls, just a black bar.
- David Lloyd
@tom they have 2,000 plugins already and support greasemonkey.
- Jamie
Jamie: they have 2,000 plugins. The plugins I actually use though aren't there. Also, it is *horrible* on Linux.
- Tom Morris
Well I'm watching this on Chrome and the Flash is fine, but my quicktime experience terrible, right the controls don't even work, can't pause it or anything
- Stephen Pickering
Good episode of GG and only a few hundred of us actually will see it.
- David Lloyd
Chrome is still very beta yet. Give it time.
- Moobie
@tom 2,000 plugins in just a few months is excellent progress. as it picks up market share momentum will increase
- Jamie
Chrome on the Mac doesn't handle the QT plugin well, true
- Kevin Marks
Firefox is also horrible on Linux compared to it's windows and mac counterparts.
- Moobie
linux is irrelevant
- Jamie
Chrome on windows doesn't handle it well either. I play an mp3 on a website and I get a black bar and no contorls
- David Lloyd
oodles
- Frank Paynter
iPad is not a computer.. :)
- Kevin Costain
Ipad jailbreak :)
- David Lloyd
Linux is irrelevant. Except for all the developers that build all the shit for all your gadgets. ;)
- Tom Morris
Ipad is a post-PC device.
- Cliff Gerrish
@tom akin to the sweat shops in india
- Jamie
iPad should come jailbroken right out of the box. in fact, connect the ipad to the free wireless just outside the Apple Store, download a jailbreak and THEN start using your iPad.. that's the future of this device..
- Kevin Costain
Jaiku
- Ken Sheppardson
I checked my social circle on google the other day. wow.
- Jamie
What ever happened to Jaiku?
- David Lloyd
Nitpick: s/social graph/social network/g. Seriously. Robert. Stop it please.
- Tom Morris
David: It's still running... and they've open sourced it - http://code.google.com/p...
- Ken Sheppardson
Nice
- David Lloyd
Jaiku was dumped into the open source bucket...
- Cliff Gerrish
I think social search is the *least* interesting part about these developments
- Jamie
Smile scoble.
- David Lloyd
I wonder how many people have built their own Jaiku engine or status.net/Laconica site...
- Ken Sheppardson
BINGO, Danny! Social + real-time results + BEHAVIOUR =Nirvana
- Kevin Sablan
The social search thing is actually pretty cool for developers. I get content from people I trust. And the people I trust aren't stupid like most people on the Internet are. ;)
- Tom Morris
Yay. Flashfail.
- Tom Morris
Robert: What will be the source of this feed? Twitter/Facebook or something Google is making?
- Kevin Costain
I can see google subsidising their gpads built by OEMs
- Jamie
with the cheap reference hardware perhaps they could give them away for free as a loss leader for the advertising
- Jamie
Gpad with a Gdisk account means no onboard flash needed :D
- David Lloyd
No flash disk needed - until you get into an aeroplane, a railway tunnel or a mobile blackspot.
- Tom Morris
Costain: that was for you.
- Robert Scoble
Google Labs has offline modes for some apps
- David Lloyd
There's Google Checkout
- Alex de Soto
Yeah, and that SQLite store in HTML 5 - where does that go?
- Tom Morris
...and they're dumping Gears for HTML5
- Ken Sheppardson
Gears is basically HTML 5 beta.
- Tom Morris
Tom - sqlite stores a file on your local machine containing the data for future use.
- Chris Jackson
the book format for iPad is ePub, which is HTML inside
- Kevin Marks
yeah its just a file container
- David Lloyd
DRM'able of course :D
- David Lloyd
I have an ebook reader. It's called a laptop with a folder full of PDF files.
- Tom Morris
I agree with Robert, I'm fine with the $16 price point for eBooks for latest books, for which I buy in hard copy for $30
- r Macdonald
I just buy books and put em on my shelf when I have read them so my friends think I am clever. Screw ebooks.
- David Lloyd
I got ya Robert, I just don't see how Google can reliably pull all that feed information into one place when they want user lock-in (just like anyone else). I see them more likely making a Twitter or Facebook or whatever .clone
- Kevin Costain
kinda like appl controlled the price of the 99cents music
- Don Bonaddio
@tommorris you prefer PDF to ePub? Really?
- Kevin Marks
Imagine reading a book on the ipad, youll be distracted every 2 minutes with new emails, and other things beeping and booping.
- David Lloyd
Kevin C: a Google clone of Facebook would be very interesting.
- Robert Scoble
No. But I've got thousands and thousands of papers in PDF. I've never downloaded an ePub file in my life.
- Tom Morris
@david airplane mode
- Jamie
Kevin and Andrew are right, it is about the quality web-connected user experience.
- r Macdonald
Of course its going to be DRM'ed with FairPlay :D
- David Lloyd
iBooks is ePub but with fairplay DRM. we're back to square one
- Jamie
Well in 5 years time the 1 dollar pulp paperback should be out ;)
- David Lloyd
I use this thing called a university library. It works pretty well.
- Tom Morris
me too. Leeds University has 2 greta libraries. NOTHING beats holding real books. Screw ebooks.
- David Lloyd
I don't want to own music. I don't want to own content, in general. I pay ~$15/mo to listen to whatever I want on Zune.
- Ken Sheppardson
People are just reading alot less or NOT reading paper at all anymore..
- Kevin Costain
honestly i prefer ebooks.
- Jamie
@tommorris iPad will handle PDF too, sure, just like iPhone does now.
- Kevin Marks
Holding something 100 years old; the smell.
- David Lloyd
http://www.google.com/s2... Google's Social Circles. Check out your social graph!
- Robert Scoble
you play songs more than once too
- Don Bonaddio
I might buy an ebook reader. For reference books. 900 page XML specs that kinda crap. For anything I actually need to read, paper.
- Tom Morris
Google's Social Circles - I like it - I see that turning into something very useful.. Right now.. not so much.. :)
- Kevin Costain
Yup. Look at all the distractions around us. We cant read books on an Ipad without checking emails, Friendfeed, twitter, bidding on ebay. Downloading music.
- David Lloyd
Watching Daily Show clips, not reading.
- David Lloyd
Kevin C: a foundation of a building isn't very useful either.
- Robert Scoble
when I was at google and testing Social Circle, m'colleagues complained that all they saw was stuff from me (they didn't blog)
- Kevin Marks
I think iPad is a killer form factor for magazines and newspapers.
- Jamie
I prefer the actual newspaper :)
- David Lloyd
the NYT app looked glorious
- Jamie
And i like flicking through the magazines on the news stand and picking one.
- David Lloyd
save the trees david, save the trees
- Jamie
Robert: I agree with you - often the importance of the foundation is lost on people too. i think you're right about Google planning something big in that space. .
- Kevin Costain
hehe
- David Lloyd
I mean, what the hell - you want to make books suck as much as iTunes DRM? DVD CSS region restriction? What a load of crap.
- Tom Morris
Google ePub files available here: http://bit.ly/GOOGePub
- Kevin Marks
The thing is, people will not stop reading paper. There is a backlash brewing (or already here) about how DUMB everyone is getting because they dont read. Check out the PBS doc.. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh...
- Kevin Costain
We can go buy our DRM apple books, then in a few years pay for "ibooks pro" with no DRM :)
- David Lloyd
I'll just buy the hardback and "rip-it" to all my devices :-)
- Don Bonaddio
iPod ==> iPad ==> and coming soon the iPud!
- Frank Paynter
The fact that Amazon can remove books remotely from your Kindle is ridiculous.
- Tom Morris
Is the public library dead yet?
- Ken Sheppardson
Thankfully not.
- Tom Morris
I think the public library (and the private library) are more powerful than ever.
- Cliff Gerrish
proprietary vs open
- Don Bonaddio
I'm surprised Andrew Keen hasn't ranted about the libertarian tech geeks wanting to burn down our libraries. ;)
- Tom Morris
The public libraries are not hurting here in Toronto. I think we Canucks see this as an essential service.. :)
- Kevin Costain
I guess Andrew cares more about making money than the freedom to read.
- Tom Morris
libraries are moving into providing digital books anyway
- Hilary Talbot
I wonder if any libraries let you check out Kindles yet.
- Ken Sheppardson
the move to digital libraries is proving to be quite painful because of copyright issues :(
- David Lloyd
They don't need to. If everything is online, you don't need a library anymore. The Pirate Bay/Rapidshare/BitTorrent is the online digital library.
- Tom Morris
You have unlimited copies digitally versus a few in the library physiclally. Its difficult
- David Lloyd
Neither.
- David Lloyd
You go onto BitTorrent and search for "10000 psychology ebooks collection" and you download a folder full of PDFs...
- Tom Morris
Neither will be on the iPad.. !
- Kevin Costain
Yeah I am sure i'll steal a bunch of crap and buy some too.
- David Lloyd
Silverlight will be on the iPad the day after you can install Safari on your ChromeOS tablet.
- Ken Sheppardson
Apple will come out with their own "standard" for video on the web.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Stranger things have happened. I refer to Apple 1997.
- David Lloyd
The standard is a mp4 file with h264 accelerators :D
- David Lloyd
Did anyone read Seth Godin's bullshit about libraries? What a load of nonsense.
- Tom Morris
it actually cant record video well. very low fps rate on the 3g
- Jamie
no, link it
- David Lloyd
@manielse Apple went with h264 in mp4, and drove the licensing debate so that it was viable
- Kevin Marks
True Kevin...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
David - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b... - and my response - http://tommorris.org/blog...
- Tom Morris
it almost is a web interface
- Jamie
ROFL
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Youtube becoming music search engine - http://www.youtube.com/disco
- michael sean wright
the entire itunes store is now in html
- Jamie
Apple + Lala = web-based iTunes. Distribution of the sales interface.
- Cliff Gerrish
lol Robert
- Moobie
Gillmor Gang uses Flash!
- David Lloyd
Scoble nano vs. ScoblePad
- Tom Morris
I am buying
- David Lloyd
YES
- Stephen Pickering
I'm buying one.
- Robert Scoble
I'm down for the iPad!
- r Macdonald
Yes, i'll buy the iPad.. i will buy two or more!
- Kevin Costain
I have my money set aside already Steve
- Jamie
wait for rev2
- Don Bonaddio
not
- Frank Paynter
Fuck no. iPad is APple's move from computer company to ridiculous bullshit toy company.
- Tom Morris
I'm buying an iPad for sure, can't wait
- Stephen Pickering
will buy iPad because i enjoy the iPod touch.
- michael sean wright
Thanks everyone!
- Kevin Costain
waiting for the competition, JooJoo, Google, HP Slate etc
- Moobie
I'll be getting an iPad so Ribbit can turn it into a phone
- Kevin Marks
Fini
- David Lloyd
My Eee gets 10 hours battery life. I can write whatever the fuck I want for it. All open source. And it has a keyboard.
- Tom Morris
As soon as I can find a good old flip phone that'll let me tether over WiFi, I'lll dump my smartphone and get an iPad.
- Ken Sheppardson
...provided a WiFi hotspot, that is
- Ken Sheppardson
the transition will happen. some folks will need to be dragged kicking and screaming, but it will happen... and very quickly for the key things (video). the peripheral stuff, designer label websites and so on are fine as they are. I dont think people are dying for that kind of content to be accessible on a phone anyway.
- Jamie
@JC Companies will move if it means survival of keeping their audience. Apple has huge influence to that, especially in the consumer space.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Ken, a MiFi + iPad seems to be a big play right now, just as a MiFi + iPhone is a great solution too -- of course the MiFi monthly charge is probably a bit too much for the average person, like myself
- Chris Heath
Depending on your need (mostly near Wifi), the MiFi PrePaid plans may be worth it for those 'occasional' roaming needs. Or I'm sure tethering to phone options will surface...,
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
it wasn't the buzz messages. it was the automatic follows via GMail contacts that was the problem anyway.
- Karoli
I don't want to know what Kevin is having for lunch. I want to know whose lunch Google is eating.
- Michael Markman
HUH? Hasn't Twitter had geolocation for awhile?
- Karoli
I just want to hide it once. Not every single time someone replies.
- Karoli
Yes.
- Michael Markman
Yes, I am going to buy 2. One for my stepdad and one for me.
- Karoli
Yes to iPad... (by when? still unknown)
- Michael Markman
@karoli Buzz has geolocation integrated into a mobile map product.
- Michael Markman
@mickeleh the reason I'm unimpressed is because a) I hate geolocation; and b) it makes me use the stupid map to upload a pic.
- Karoli
Om had a great post today about why he wants one. I totally agree.
- Karoli
Siri is amazing.
- Karoli
Siri is Alan Kay's decades-old vision of agents negotiating on your behalf over the Net.
- Michael Markman
If you twits are wondering if I'm talking to myself...I'm not. I'm watching GillmorGang here... http://building43.com/realtime
- Karoli
Twitter borks so often I can't imagine it doing such a thing. LOL. It has difficulty doing what it does.
- Karoli
Hey kids, what I miss?
- Aron Michalski
Scobuster?
- Aron Michalski
Aron +1
- Karoli
Robert, I love ya but the angle you're at right now is awful.
- Karoli
LOL....Robert caught gaping like a fish...
- Karoli
...wondering when Gillmor Gang will come to my Roku.
- Karoli
disruptive in different ways. iPad is a consumption product; Buzz is a creation/aggregation product.
- Karoli
the item in my hand is far more disruptive than the item I don't have.
- Aron Michalski
I agree w/ Gillmor. It' not either or.. The disruption is multiplied with iPad x Buzz.
- Michael Markman
Excellent show. Thanks to all those who participated and especially those who didn't.
- Michael Markman
really good show. bye bye
- Karoli
Imagine if instead of a blue lego, iPhone/Pad users saw a button to email the site asking for a non-flash alternative?
Hutch Carpenter, Siddharth Deb, Jimminy IS Everybody and 12 other people liked this
Apple already strictly controls what apps can run on these devices. I'm no fan of Flash, but does Apple really need to have their users bully the web into doing their bidding as well? Let's make a deal: they can do this if they also open app development for the iP* devices.
- Laurence Gonsalves
Totally agree that the iPhone / iPad fail helps highlight an overuse of Flash that often is a bad user experience. Just wish it had more to do with Apple actually wanting to improve things for users rather than just being their own little closed world.
- dannysullivan
Apple not supporting Flash is like Mozilla not supporting h.264. ;-(
- Amit Patel
I would end up blocking my site to Safari Mobile users. And I own an iPhone.
- Rob H.
Amit: I haven't really been following the h.264 debate, but Mozilla's reasons for not supporting it seem to be almost a direct opposite of Apple's reason for not supporting Flash.
- Laurence Gonsalves
Well, I don't mean the reasons, but the structure: company A provides product P to end users and favors technology Z, end users want P to support Y because content producers B are using Y, company A doesn't like Y for {insert reason here}, so they make it difficult or impossible for P to support Y. Normally the content producers and end users would pick whether they like Y or Z better. But company A is using their market position to push Z over Y. Okay maybe that's too abstract. Nevermind :)
- Amit Patel
Firefox is a bit inconsistent though. It doesn't support h.264 in <video> but it has no problem deferring to plug-ins for Flash, h.264, and other non-native formats in a page or iframe.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We will eat cereal with chocolate chips in it, but we won't put choc chips in our bowl of cereal. Discuss.
simple. embedded in cereal, we get a mouthful of cereal and chocolate chips in every bite. added separately, they all sink to the bottom of the bowl. you end up eating first cereal, then spoonfuls of chocolate chips. or so i've heard :)
- dannysullivan
don't get me wrong. @billgates totally should be a twitter recommend. just don't see how "engagement" algo would've made that call
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I wonder if it all the mentions made up for lack of engagement. I would think mentions would weigh less than two-way communication
- metalerik
If you read the Twitter blog post, it's all about engagement. Not mentions:
- dannysullivan
the post is here http://blog.twitter.com/2010...
- dannysullivan
I read it before I wrote that but just assumed they were being extremely loose with the term.
- metalerik
Playgrounds From the 70's - DivineCaroline - http://www.divinecaroline.com/22111...
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OMG. The playground near my grandparents had Giganta.
- Spidra Webster
I want a "Miracle Barrel of Fun"!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I played on rocketship ones like that, too. i loved it.
- dannysullivan
USGS now has "real time" listings. sick of twitter beating them to it. it quakes, they show http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqu...
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Twitter may be faster, but it has a really hard time figuring out where the actual epicenter is ;)
- Victor Ganata
Agreed. But actually, USGS seems right up there with Twitter now. That's the point. They seem to be releasing just whatever shake info they have as soon as it is registered.
- dannysullivan
True, real time seismic data is pretty cool.
- Victor Ganata
@parislemon @louisgray @arrington I'm glad you guys are killing embargoes. They are just ways to ensure everyone writes about your company.
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That's one reason. Another is to make sure your code is complete and developers are awake when traffic hits. :)
- Louis Gray
Why are journalists so against entrepreneurs? I don't get the anti-embargo thing. Some times a lot of coverage is a good thing, even if it's repetetive.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: because this is a competitive business. If we always published the same thing as everyone else then you just commodify the news and turn boring and never get a new audience. There has to be a reward for working your ass off, building trust and relationships with companies and executives, and breaking exclusive news once in a while. All this press release regurgitation is just not good for the industry.
- Robert Scoble
The entrepreneurs and PR want a commodified press. It's easier for them to deal with. Why? Because they can just push out messages and get them reprinted on 20 blogs. But the press, if they want to build value, MUST fight against commodification pressures. Arrington knows this better than anyone, which is why he plays games back against PR companies.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, does commodity really hurt the top blogs though? Each one of them has their own unique audience that still needs to hear the news. Why should I have to subscribe to TechCrunch, and Mashable, and Venturebeat, and Readwriteweb all to get the general tech news? Competition can still occur in the non-embargoed stories and the scoops and exclusives.
- Jesse Stay
Also, I think Entrepreneurs need to stand their ground. If someone breaks the embargo, they don't get your stories in the future. If you can't trust a journalist, why continue giving them stuff? I think lack of trust is a huge demotivator - Journalists should have a responsibility as well, and entrepreneurs should stand up for that.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: the thing is that it's a lot harder as the PR industry becomes aligned to find those scoops and exclusives. It was very easy to get scoops and exclusives six years ago, but today? Very very difficult. But, yes, I agree with you. Journalists, if they agree to an embargo, need to stand by their word and it's good they are being outed. But I see them as separate things.
- Robert Scoble
I think it does hurt the top blogs, though. For one, there's a LOT more noise in the industry than needs to be and there's a lot of waste that could be spent elsewhere. Today at Google there were something like 60 journalists in one room. Are we going to get 60 different stories? No way. What a waste of resources that could be spent somewhere else.
- Robert Scoble
I'm fine if you say ahead of time that you're not going to respect any embargoes (I just won't send mine your way), but if you say you will and then break it, that's poor form and deserves more attention that entrepreneurs and news sources can't trust you as a blogger. (you being bloggers that break embargoes, not you, Scoble)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I agree with that.
- Robert Scoble
Bindu: as a journalist I disagree. If I can tell my readers about a fantastic new idea or new company coming, I will and my readers eat that kind of stuff up. They'll even wait for the servers to get turned on. Heck, look at Apple. They showed us the iPhone six months before it shipped.
- Robert Scoble
One strategy I really like is to give one blogger an exclusive, then wait to launch and tip all bloggers that something's launching (with not much more details than that), what the website is, and the time it goes live. Then let them race to be first. It's all about the hype machine :-) Apple does this well.
- Jesse Stay
I agree that bloggers and journalists always like to be first. I get a little jealous when Louis Gray gets the exclusives on products due to the relationships he has with some entrepreneurs. ;-) (note that he does that by building relationships, finding the little guy, making them big, and respecting embargoes when asked)
- Jesse Stay
Bindu, you did the right thing. It is not your fault. Robert is no longer in the news business.
- Louis Gray
Bindu: I'm not saying it's your fault. Just trying to explain that your interests and journalist's interests aren't aligned.
- Robert Scoble
I remember when there was an embargo around IT gadgets in my country. Flow of information, gadgets, media, etc. should be free. Same about current topic - I think spreading of information may happen in numerous steps, but no embargo! And, if there is one - don't break it! It will kill you as a blogger or journalist in a really short time, and doesn't worth it.
- Peter Smulovics
Louis: I disagree that I'm no longer in the news business, by the way. Everything I do is about news. It's just I don't need to be the first to post anymore to cover the news. Sometimes I cover the news just by retweeting your post. In that case it's still nice to know what the news is so I can put it in context with other stuff. But today I helped break lots of news. Launched a company...
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- Robert Scoble
That's true. The UStream connections were very strong. Good work.
- Louis Gray
(says to himself) must stay out of this conversation... must stay out of this conversation
- Allen Stern
Damage is already done. The VentureBeat post was highlighted by a popular tech news aggregator as well today, rewarding the behavior.
- Louis Gray
I really enjoy reading your discussions! Thank you for sharing!
- Anne Haynes
I'm sorry but I thought the whole point of blog embargoes, from the consumer perspective, is to offer the readers multiple perspectives. Not to regurgitate the same press release from one site to the next.
- Benin Brown
Lesson learned: when it comes to launch, the most important factor is the quality of the review. One great review will generate a lot more attention than 10 average reviews. So find out who is doing the best written and video reviews in your space, approach them and give them an exclusive in exchange of their time+the highest quality review possible.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm. Mike had a Nexus One for weeks before the official release, as he wrote in his review yesterday. He never let on that he did, nor do I recall that TechCrunch was reporting stuff official that Mike would have known about. On Dec. 12, they were using pictures from another blog rather than one Mike could have shot himself, if he really wasn't respecting an embargo. It talks about...
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- dannysullivan
"Sorry, but Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t work with this web browser."
J. J. Zepfanman.com, John Wang, rowlikeagirl and 23 other people liked this
Sigh. :)
- Matt Cutts
Which one? Works in Chrome Windows.
- Hayes Haugen
It definitely does not work with Chrome on Ubuntu.
- imabonehead
STOP USING THE BETA!
- Andy Bakun
Guess you don't get to check it out.
- Hayes Haugen
I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu.
- Matt Cutts
Be a man. Get IE8 :)
- dannysullivan
Danny, what would I run IE8 on? I don't have any Microsoft OS software any more. :)
- Matt Cutts
I find it informative to use my competitor's products.
- Hayes Haugen
I keep trying, Hayes, but when AdCenter rolled out, it wouldn't even work on Firefox.
- Matt Cutts
The Web wins again. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Does this mean you've broken your "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge? Or are Microsoft websites excluded?
- Tony Ruscoe
who gives a tard about Chrome :) Grow up Cutts!
- Jose Fajardo
Silverlight used to work with the Chrome Dev beta. Not sure what changed....
- Roberto Bonini
Tony: Microsoft websites are excluded from my challenge. :)
- Matt Cutts
real time spam? google says been fighting spam so long they can stop it almost before it starts :)
I can prove that's not true ;) Shortly after the launch I've logged SERP referrals under totally spammy URIs I've injected into real time search results. There's no such thing as a "bury spam before real time search results turn spammy defense line" yet.
- Sebastian
heh. well, i'm not surprised. where there are search listings, there's going to be spam.
- dannysullivan
Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?
TobiasVerhoog.com, Barbara R. S., Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa and 50 other people liked this
Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary...
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :)
- Susan Beebe
Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends
- Susan Beebe
Floss. :)
- AJ Batac
"It's mostly an illusion"
- Paul Buchheit
Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally.
- Nathan Chase
chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3
- Charles Ying
What goes around comes around.
- imabonehead
I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-)
- Victoria Plautia
Don't panic.
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
from fftogo
Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables.
- Micah
Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read.
- Alex Scrivener
.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters:
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Fear the fail whale.
- Jim Norris
"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer"
- Paul Buchheit
Alex, which Thomas?
- Paul Buchheit
You're a towel!
- Vezquex
Don't fear the fail whale.
- Paul Buchheit
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Everything is transitory.
- John E. Bredehoft
Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts!
- Larry Hosken
"There's always an easier way"
- Paul Buchheit
I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :)
- April Buchheit
April, is that your advice or an observation?
- Clare Dibble
Observation.
- April Buchheit
Stay away from the mohel.
- Leo Laporte
Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women.
- iTad
"Think big. Code small."
- Paul Buchheit
For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Paul Buchheit
Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit
- imabonehead
Just wing it. It'll be cool.
- April Buchheit
Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid.
- pb:
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;)
- Clare Dibble
Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Don't be such an asshole, asshole.
- Rodfather
@Paul, Aquinas
- Alex Scrivener
Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Doug Beeferman
Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required.
- Louis Gray
LCD is better than plasma
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)"
- chaz2b
++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others.
- April Russo
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.
- Laura Norvig
"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience."
- Philipp Lenssen
"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn."
- Grant Bierman
Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-)
- Franc, a rememberer
I dare you to do better.
- Charles Ying
"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length."
- Ray Cromwell
BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3
- Ray Cromwell
There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars...
- Sean Kelly
Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee
- j1m
"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit>
- Kurtiss Hare
Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-]
- Willi Schroll
L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace
- Robert Higgins
That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible.
- Jim #TeamMonique
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- Edward Coffey
"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life."
- Ivo Danihelka
Learn Math.
- Comics Forge
"Context is everything."
- Bruce Johnson
from BuddyFeed
@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;)
- Charles Ying
"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :)
- John Tastad
Seek truth
- Shakeel Mahate
Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...)
- Ordinarybug Heather
Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button.
- Brian Merriman
Ignore advice. You'll figure it out.
- Todd Hoff
I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball."
- Fleagle
Frankie says RELAX
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!)
- Lo
Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches!
- Kevin Fox
Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message.
- Iphigenie
Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling!
- Joe Nickence
"Don't tweet"?
- Marcos
Actually, I prefer FF..
- ★ Soner Gönül
Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara.
- Merlyn Seeley
"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter."
- Ryan Kaisoglus
the world is made of atoms
- bob
Crawl back in?
- dannysullivan
Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper.
- Charles Ying
When the time comes, cut the blue wire.
- David Gaw
There's always something bigger than you.
- Daisy
Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED]
- Steele Lawman
Don't put twinkies on your Pizza.
- Will Higgins™
Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life.
- Daniel Dulitz
Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun
- Bette Cooper
don't play safe gamble every day
- WarLord
Focus, be patient. Never give up. Timing is crucial.
- Jason - The Opaque
from iPod
Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.]
- William 'Bill' McPhe
"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary."
- Otto
Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it."
- Micah
Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you forgot the part about being one.
- April Russo
live!
- Barbara R. S.
Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you.
- Bronson Harrington
Nap.
- A Mitchell
DMV. why do we tolerate these lines & inefficiency? can't we sell the damn thing to someone to run?
Sure we can sell the DMV. The leading bidders will be AT&T and United Airlines.
- Daniel Dulitz
Make an appointment
- Piaw Na
I did, originally. To take my written motorcycle test, the next opening was Dec. 16 -- about a month away. Since I'd actually like to use my Vespa sooner, it was bite the bullet and stand in line in the morning. Still, two hours was better than I feared.
- dannysullivan
Not a Virgin, Just a Fan: http://ma.tt/2009... @photomatt @richardbranson @cubedweller #virgin #necker #twins
Roberto Bonini liked this
Yeah, I was a fan. Then I grew tired of trying to actually use the miles I've earned on his airline to book flights. And other things. All ranted out on my blog. If anyone knows if he really listens, I'll send pointers.
- dannysullivan
Of course, what this really means is that the Yanks will be able to win on their home field...
- Mark Zip
you know you're violating Danny's Law, right? :) http://bit.ly/dannyslaw
- Matt Cutts
i'm only violating the first law. i'm totally in keeping with the second :)
- dannysullivan
annoying that to buy something from google, got forced to create a google checkout acct. just wanted to give me card and go
Serious question: what were you asked for to create a Checkout account that you wouldn't have had to give anyway so that your credit card could be charged? I'll feed back to team.
- Daniel Dulitz
just that it made an account. it forced me to tie my credit card to my google account, if I recall. i didn't have an option. i don't want my credit card stored, and I don't want to have to think if that's happening or not. i just like the choice, that's all.
- dannysullivan
Got it.
- Daniel Dulitz
I use Checkout for everything and haven't had that problem? Mmmmm....
- David Saunders
Guess Who Google Ranks for "Search Engine" - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
3Cinteractive®, L.L.C. and Werner Trotter liked this
"It's kind of difficult to report what Sergey Brin said in a conversation if I don't actually say what he said or how he reacted. But point taken. Next time I have a chance to talk with him on a topic where the focus of the article is his reactions to something, I'll make it "Anonymous person said.""
- dannysullivan
Guess Who Google Ranks for "Search Engine" - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"I suppose because if you are telling the world you have the most relevant search results -- then returning really bad search engines above yourself isn't indicative of that. Not to mention the fact that for whatever reason, we know people do search on Google for "search engine" as well as "Google." I suppose if someone searches for Google on Google, you should give them what, Yahoo? I mean WTF, why rank yourself #1 for that when the person searching is already using your product. Clearly they must want something else, right?"
- dannysullivan
Visual evidence that you live in a bubble.
ŁoſĐ ҒarhaÐ, Kol Tregaskes, Jimminy IS Everybody and 38 other people liked this
From 4 minutes ago. :)
- Louis Gray
HAHAHA!
- Sheryl
I thought for SURE I was the first to notice... :)
- Seth Gray
lol
- Anika
I seriously hope this guy was being sarcastic...
- Joshua Schnell
He just doesn't live in _the_ bubble.
- Micah
<twitter>Facepalm</twitter> Wonders why people think the universe revolves around Twitter. Anyone would think the world had suddenly stopped spinning. FF has kept me amused and informed to a degree that I was only peripherally aware that the whale had failed again - Steve
- CdL Creative
what else is news?
- Houseofmax
This is crap. I demand a full 15 minutes of fame.
- Carter Shanklin
15 whole minutes! It's been 2 hours already. :)
- Louis Gray
awesome. little known fact. i can't believe i'm the first person to notice the sun comes up each day. never seen anyone talk about that, either
- dannysullivan
I twittered my rat's ass over 2.5 hours ago! Didn't anyone get it?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Bonus Points for the subject of the post joining FF just to have his say. Gotta love it.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm sure that is not only visual, but could also be read in Braille. More bonus points.
- Red Label
"Liked" for Carter's comment and what Kamilah said.
- Micah
People saw the Bing drop on StatCounter, but haven't noticed the Net Apps drop for Bing yet: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-... #referrer-vs-panel-metrics
Roberto Bonini and Sebastian liked this
Now you're just rubbing salt :)
- dannysullivan
Not trying to, I promise. I suspect that the panel-based metrics will still show Bing up for September. All of these metrics services should show the estimates of search volumes, not just the percentages. That's the best way to know whether (say) ads have created new/additional trial searches vs. are actually causing people to switch where they search.
- Matt Cutts
Yep, just searched your stream -- NOT a single mention of Bing w.r.t. trusted reliable sources of search share who've been coming out with monthly numbers for years (atleast correctly painting the trend if not nailing the numbers down). If there was ANY doubt in my mind that Bing is a success, you just cleared it. Thanks.
- piyush
I just wish that site would finally upgrade its graph-rendering code to get rid of all the dithering. I mean, seriously -- it's not 1996 anymore. We all got high-color graphics boards a long time ago.
- Joel Webber
Chrome Frame: Run Google Chrome *inside* IE - http://blog.chromium.org/2009...
Aaron Draczynski, Yesudeep Mangalapilly, Jeff Weisbein and 62 other people liked this
Yay!
- Matt Cutts
from Bookmarklet
Awesome.
- Paul Buchheit
Whoa.
- Micah
WHOA!
- Anika
Ewww.
- τorƍue
Now we just need to make the Chrome plugin as common as the Flash plugin :)
- Paul Buchheit
Are commas required?
- dannysullivan
wow, my prediction was right (you totally need to put it in toolbar also): http://www.satine.org/archive...
- Charles Ying
that is cool and cruel
- Thierry Lhôte
Hahaha :) Very cruel indeed. Curious to see if this is adopted, corporate users who have IE may still be unable to even install a plugin... but at the very least this still lowers the barrier to HTML5 enabled pages.
- James Kuypers
It is not even fork, it is inside piracy... this is provocation ;-)
- Thierry Lhôte
Do the people who don't have permissions to install a non-IE browser have permissions to install plugins?
- Sean O'Connor
Sean, think of enterprises who have IE6-only legacy internal apps. CF lets them build _new_ internal apps to HTML5, so that someday they can leave IE6. Otherwise they need to dual-target _all_ their apps to IE6 and modern browsers before they can switch. Painful. Also, many enterprises who feel it's too disruptive to move from IE6 may be okay with installing CF, because it's default-off. Let's say half of all enterprises do. Now the need to support IE6 goes down even more.
- Daniel Dulitz
Fantastic hack but won't take off. Fix the core issue and get people to upgrade or switch, enough with the band-aids.
- Dave Evans
Very cool stuff
- Charlie Anzman
Now what about a firefox plugin? Is this open source chromium or chrome...
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Dave, the core issue is that enterprises with IE6-only legacy internal apps don't have the resources to run a modern browser. CF fixes the core issue.
- Daniel Dulitz
Dave hit my issue dead-on. Installing a plugin is a cheat when the real issue is educating people on why more modern browsers are better.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from iPhone
Cool!
- Kol Tregaskes
"education" is typically the worst solution to a technical problem.
- Paul Buchheit
yes, education is a slow solution, because most people tend to resist change. better show them there is a better way without forcing them to change anything :)
- George Moga
I'd actually love to see the opposite: IE8 running inside Chrome, just like the IE Tab plugin for Firefox. I use Chrome for almost everything, but Outlook webmail looks and works so much better in IE8, and I doubt that Microsoft will be working very hard to fix that.
- Tudor Bosman
SFPD Officer Threatens to Break Skater's Arm "Like a Twig" - http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...
Anthony Citrano, Jeff P. Henderson, dannysullivan and 2 other people liked this
Youtube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Thomas Hawk
Cristo, indeed, the kid was an idiot for calling the cop that. But being an idiot isn't against the law and as the one with the gun and badge and obligation to protect and serve, the cop acted poorly. If you are going to be given the privilege of a gun and badge in society you can't break down simply because someone is disrespectful to you. Being disrespectful is not a crime.
- Thomas Hawk
MVB, violating the law should not result in that kind of police harassment. Skateboarding is largely a victimless crime, like jaywalking. Not allowing skateboarding in SF by the way is an idiotic law.
- Thomas Hawk
"while also claiming that at no point did he threaten anyone." Um.
- Andrew C (✓)
MVB, the thing is that we have laws though and disrespecting a cop isn't one of them. Even then though threatening to break a citizen's arm is uncalled for. Cops need to have level heads. This guy does not have one.
- Thomas Hawk
"not perfectly fine" != "deserves threats of violence from authority figures".
- Andrew C (✓)
and "valid arrest" != "comes with a side of threats".
- Andrew C (✓)
MVB, I think everyone here would agree the kid was disrespectful and broke the law.
- Kenton
MVB, I don't think disrespect is fine at all. The kid was in the wrong for calling the cop what he did. But disrespecting the police is permitted via the 1st Amendment and until that's repealed I'm not sure it will ever be considered illegal. An unlawful use of force is in fact illegal though, and although the officer did not actually follow through on his threat, threatening an...
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- Thomas Hawk
No he did not. He deserved to be cited for the crime of skateboarding and released on site. It's a stupid victimless crime, like jaywalking. Question. Do you think this *very public* video builds cooperation, support and partnership between the SFPD and the community?
- Thomas Hawk
Insulting a cop is not a crime. Yet.
- Andrew C (✓)
Speeding?
- Kenton
Infractions != misdemeanors != felonies. however, committing an infraction, then acting like a moron can instantly get someone into "disturbing the peace" - a misdemeanor... and incidentally, while i think the cop stepped over the line, i have no idea what it's like to be one and i have absolutely no interest in creating some new set of rules that they all of a sudden need to be super-polite either.
- Jeremy Toeman
"politically correct"? Perhaps you mean _legally_ correct.
- Andrew C (✓)
MVB, it's a crime to park at an expired meter. Do you want to be arrested for that? There's a big difference between crimes that actually require someone to be arrested for public safety reason (say a murder, a flight risk) and a crime that's minor (as a traffic infraction). Should he have called the officer a dick? No, even if he has a protected right to, it's not wise. It just pissed...
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- dannysullivan
@Jeremy - my problem is people inventing "new set of rules" that ordinary civilians basically have to kowtow to police.
- Andrew C (✓)
Apparently, it might not be illegal, either http://sf.metblogs.com/2009...
- dannysullivan
dannysullivan++
- Andrew C (✓)
@Andrew since when does "being polite to those who risk their lives for us" (and yes, they do - not every day/all the time, but that *IS* their job) == "kowtow"? again, why is anyone defending this punk kid's actions? do you think cops should have to be treated this way while doing their jobs?
- Jeremy Toeman
We're not defending his actions. We're upset that a police officer threatened to break his arm. Mouthing off does not = I'll break your arm. He's a minor, right? Give him a ticket. No ID, arrest him to issue the citation, hey, that's fine too. But no, I don't think we need police officers venting their frustration that people might assume they're assholes by acting like them. He gives...
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- dannysullivan
@Jeremy - no, police shouldn't be treated that way. But, yeah, what dannysullivan said. The appropriate response to rudeness to cops is not police violence, nor a threat of it. I could turn it around on y'all - why is anyone defending this cop?
- Andrew C (✓)
See, if the kid had just yelled "you lie," that would have been much better. Imagine the campaign contributions! C'mon, gotta lighten it up a bit around here :)
- dannysullivan
Are all streets in San Francisco considered to be in a "business district?"
- Bill Slawski
I ask because SEC. 7.2.13. NON-MOTORIZED USER-PROPELLED VEHICLES (NUV) (as amended in 2008) of the San Francisco Municipal Code would appear to allow skateboarding on city streets that aren't in a business district. Has the law changed, and the online version of the municipal code not been changed? Or did this arrest happen in a business district?
- Bill Slawski
i want to start company to disorganize world's info & make it universally unaccessible & useless. just to keep google busy
Michael Leggett, Bronson Harrington, Carlo Maglinao and 35 other people liked this
I think we have a new nemesis. :)
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
Does your proposed company have a motto?
- Tim Tyler
This is the wittiest comment I read here on Friendfeed - ever.
- Space Cowboy
Apparently, the company has already been started. I had several replies saying that governments in general seem to make things disorganized and unaccessible :)
- dannysullivan
Suggestions for the name of the company: Spammers
- Shakeel Mahate
Hilarious Danny!
- Greg Bogdan
How about Elsevier?
- Ruchira S. Datta
ARGs generate new information but intentionally make it obscure and difficult to access.
- Chris Bentzel
old skates, new skates. old wheels size of hubs on new ones. so far, no fall down go boom. knock wood. http://yfrog.com/0jldwbj
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Are these speed skates? Or have skates just changed to have bigger wheels? What is it like with the larger wheels?
- Michael Leggett
They are designed for speed. It's my first move into something like this. Previously, I really hadn't thought about the size of my wheels. My old skates are 84mm, and I get going pretty fast already on them. The new ones are 110mm. So far, I can't say that they've taken me faster. But I didn't have the right socks on for the first time use, and my feet started hurting, so I really didn't push myself. I'm pretty sure I'll be zooming in them.
- dannysullivan
@LornaHarris I wanna play - what's the site?
It's http://www.xtranormal.com/ -- way cool. wish i had more time to play myself.
- dannysullivan
wish: one click spam report button that kills twitter spam and forward to google to wipe out the destination page being pitched
Elmira Gazizova, Sebastian, Roberto Bonini and 2 other people liked this
Plenty of scope for malicious use with that idea.
- Gordon Saunders
Well, it wouldn't automatically kill the spam. It would submit it for review. Both Google and Twitter have spam review teams. I want a two-for-one reporting option.
- dannysullivan
Hmm. A little bit of Greasemonkey could get that started.
- Matt Cutts
SocialToo could add something like that easily, I suspect.
- Otto
We already do that with DMs (SocialToo)
- Jesse Stay
couldn't pin down when google started offering to pimp profiles on twitter but been months now & 60K+ have done it http://www.google.com/search...
I think that tweet feature has been live since profiles launched?
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
I think longer than that. Been at least months, from what I can tell on old tweet statuses but can't precisely pin it down. Some issue with Google's date range searching not quite working right :) then again, it's working better than Twitter's.
- dannysullivan
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