really? I am using Iceweasel as browser on Debian, I thought it could be from the browser but in friendfeed beta I see it ok. I took a screenshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/p... - paula simoes
He lived a full life. 91!!! I hope I'm that lucky! - David Cook
a "full life"? A life full of what? Or do you just mean a long life? - Nathan Rein
When I first saw the chrome icon... the first thing I thought of was pokemon. - Yolanda
it's a metrosexual Hal from 2001, but updated for 2008. - Josh Haley
lol...actually, for some reason I thought of the Voltron key things that they used to activate the lions. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's based on a fuzzy memory of what they looked like, though. - Chieze Okoye
"Error Occurred While Processing Request" some of you people get off of the Internet right now please - I'm missing the OMG its a shiny new browser announcement - Steven Hodson
omg google is going to experience its first download/ddos attack in 45 minutes, hopefully it can handle 100+ gig/sec - d e f c o n
I hope I can run/install Google Chrome as non-admin user @ work - d e f c o n
@Nice I'm a Mac user in a Windows user body. All thats keeping us apart is money. - Mathew Ballard
@ Shey I did refresh and it just wouldn't show. But thats ok, thats what IE tab extension is for. :) - Mathew Ballard
Ok, the App feature doesn't impress me. I like to have access to my three gmail accounts in my browser. That is what the gmail extension is for. - Mathew Ballard
I like the fact that if a tab crashes, it doesn't crash the whole browser window - Shey
So, think that it will be available to DL after this? - Mathew Ballard
matthew did you see that you can make your gmail into an app? it seems that you can bust out each account that way, like i have on my cell phone. - faboo mama
The built in task manager is very cool. - Mathew Ballard
@ faboo Yeah, I'll have to give it a try first. Right now I don't have to put in my p/w and I can check all three accounts in less then 5 secs. I just don't think it will be the same. But, I'll give it a try. - Mathew Ballard
I definitely think that Chrome will help Fire Fox become much better. - Mathew Ballard
Firefox could definitely use better memory management - Shey
@Shey Oh yea for sure! I think that is the biggest thing that Fire Fox needs to work on. It improved with FF3, but I think Google has them beat by far. - Mathew Ballard
Well, that was fun. Here is to hoping that Chrome really has an effect on internet browsers. - Mathew Ballard
Indeed, I plan on telling all the IE users out there about it - Shey
there's nothing wrong with being a nerd / geek / dork! revenge of the nerds ftw! - Mona N.
I refuse to admit that an Apple nerd is the second iteration of the original geek. I'd buy that the geek and the nerd both fork from the same dork tree, though. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Also, say that second sentence five times fast out loud. :) - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
+1 Mark. The internet is seemingly filled with 'geeks' who can't fix their own computers. (I said can't, not won't) - Yuvi
Funny >the geek and the nerd both fork from the same dork tree, though. - Russellreno
Very nice! You could replace the D&D by a deck of Magic the gathering in Geek 1.0 - João Almeida via twhirl
Geek 1.5 ("The Transitional"): 1. Trusty Palm V (in all its form factor glory) in hand, 2. Inserted into casual conversation: "AOL! - Pssf! Not even on dial-up anymore -- once you go to BroadBand, you can't go back! And High-waters, w/ pair of scissors applied, have become DYI shorts that are the new source of fashion ridicule. - Micah Wittman via twhirl
If my ADND gaming group is any indication, the game is still D&D, but character sheets are on the computers. I fully believe I combine the best of both worlds; with a Tablet PC my character sheets are both digital and handwritten. I've got to admit the spreadsheet users have it nice, when it comes to stat penalties and recalculating...uh, I think I should shut up, now. - MiniMage
yup, no diggity Lindsay - plus, I've yet to see a really slick windows app anyway... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Wait, why is everyone freaking out (other than the Google fandom)? Opera's had tabs over the address bar forever now. - Akiva Moskovitz
Based on that alone, I don't like it at all. It looks great kid learning to use the Internet, though. - Rochelle
Akiva - it has JIT-compiled Javascript! It' s a mini-.Net! You should be excited! - Lindsay Donaghe
Akiva: it's because this is from Google. Who outside of the tech echo chamber knows Opera? Very few. But who knows Google? Everyone. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble: My mother knew of Opera! Without me even telling her about it, and she's as far away from computer literate as you can get. I'm still not sure how that happened. :p - Daniel Bruce
JIT compiled javascript is incredible. it's omgwtf awesome - Tad - just Tad
it's the first thing in a while that made me think about getting a dinky little slimline windows laptop... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Daniel, I installed Opera for my mom a year or so ago. She uses both Opera and IE (not sure why she flips between the two) but she calls Opera "The O" and IE "The E". - Rochelle
Lindsay, but I'm not a Javascript programmer! Robert, I'm not sure that matters enough. The people outside of the tech echo chamber are the ones who don't see what the fuss about browsers even is; they're the ones perfectly happy with IE. - Akiva Moskovitz
Rochelle, think about it like this: your mother predicted the Google browser. A week or so ago she was having problems with a website but then said that if she opened it up in Google, it worked. 'What do you mean you opened it in Google?' 'Don't worry about it! I opened it in Google and now it works!' 'Okaaay...' - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, you keep talking about eventually needing to become more of a UI guy, and I need to as well. Part of that process includes learning Javascript. - Tad - just Tad
skeptical: there's no search box. There has to be a search box, this is a Google Browser! - Duncan Riley
Tad, you are depressing me. But it's true: as much as I enjoy programming .NET software, I do want to get into more cross-platform technologies as long as that cross-platform technology is not Java. - Akiva Moskovitz
Duncan, it's probably combined into the address bar. Most every modern browser on the planet supports this. - Akiva Moskovitz
That's okay, Brandon. We're here to feel for you. - Akiva Moskovitz
If its fast and doesnt crash/freeze it will be my favorite browser :) - d e f c o n
Just please make it look better than Opera does on the Mac. Opera's good, but the interface on the Mac OS is so bad (and non-intuitive) that I can't bear to use it. - Cecily Walker
not the ui but more importantly separating processes, it is in this case what's up there tomorrow. - [ zu ]-eBailey
if that's really it, i'll stick with flock - faboo mama
Just finished the McCloud comic on Chrome - looks very, very exciting. Can't wait for the Mac version! I'm never one to blindly "stick with ____" until I try the new thing. The early adopter gene I have has always treated me well. If it sucks, back to Firefox 3, which I love, but I will FOR SURE be trying Chrome out on OSX launch day. Google has been way way too good to me so far... - Steve Isaacs
I think so, almost every google app is still in beta. lol - Ron
@Zu: That's the bit I'm really looking forward to - separated processes. The comic (or somewhere else) mentioned something about plugins - if I didn't misread, I hope there'll be some third-party plugins. - Cyvros/fyc
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned FireFox Chrome so far. - Paul Reynolds
lawsuit? Seems easier than out innovating. - Andrew Warner
I always associate "chrome" as something related to a UI of an app, mostly FireFox. Not sure why Google would choose that name. It hurts my brain to try and separate the two. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
All good codenames have been used at least once. We started recycling years ago. - Denton Gentry
Denton Gentry, same problem with band names which is how we got the whole number with name mashup like Blink 182 and Sum 41 - RAPatton
@Robert: I remember that :) it was supposed to use DirectX and other hot things of the time. - Joni Moilanen
"POLICE have arrested a blogger for posting songs from the yet-to-be released Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy online without permission.
Kevin Cogill, who uses the online name "Skwerl", has been charged with violating copyright laws after he allegedly put nine of the band's unreleased songs on his website for visitors to listen to." - John Worthington via Bookmarklet
Axl Rose has... hahaha, I can't possibly start a sentence with Axl Rose :) - John Worthington
Seem like the correct response for putting someones very valuable intellectual property up on the web for free. Even worse since the songs weren't even released yet. This guy will probably be liable to both G&R as well as their label for lost revenue. Could be significant depending on how many times the songs were downloaded. - Jeff P. Henderson
Just a thought: if they were unreleased, then they were unpublished. Theoretically it means that they weren't yet owned by the record label. That means the copyright hadn't been issued yet? A technicality, perhaps, and perhaps erroneous, but this might all fall into the bloggers favor after all. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
This is one time where I have to side with the authorities. He was posting intellectual property with the permission of the owner. And what's worse, he was posting crap from Chinese Democracy. He should have been executed on the spot for helping spread that crap. - jerry
There will actually be democracy in China by the time Chinese Democracy is released! - Chris Rivait
He should be happy it was leaked, thats about the best promotion he'll get - orionstarr
there was a great thing on leaked music on the wnyc soundcheck podcast - Cecil Sandus
@Mark, generally if you are signed to a label, all work you do belongs to them automatically. Copyright is automatic upon creation of works. Registration of a copyright provides the additional ability to recover legal fees. I'm sure any record label worth it's salt would have this taken care of before the release of new work. Probably no benefit to the bolgger. - Jeff P. Henderson
"Hiroko Yoda says she made several attempts to sign up to the popular social networking site but her applications were always met with an error message.
The Japanese author suspected that her distinctive surname – which she shares with the wise, green Jedi Master of the Star Wars film series – may be at the root of her problem." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
FB? Bend over...yep, thats it... *aims foot* - Mo Kargas
Just for today... My surname will be YODA! lol :) - AJ Batac
Women called Yoda? It wasn't mona was it? - Geoff Schultz
the phrase "called" is interesting - I think "named" is a better and more certain verb. I get called lots of things, but my name is only one option. - JoEllen
I was on this site a while before I posted... all of those pictures = mesmerizing. Agreed, Lindsay. It's amazing how photographs can conjure so much emotion :) - Mona N.
Lindsay: You don't even know.. I spent a five weeks in rural Philippines. I pumped water from a well and 'showered' from a water bucket... I've seen starvation and poverty. Some of these things we complain about, is seriously nothing lol - Mona N.
Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer for his photo of the child and the vulture. The sad thing is that as good a photographer as Carter was he ended up killing himself. In his suicide note he wrote, "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." - Thomas Hawk
Oh, I missed it. Thanks mwm :) Funny how we both posted the same link, but chose completely different pictures.@Thomas: The irony =\ - Mona N.
The Palestinian Father photo has been shown to be fake. - Victor Ryden
@Thomas Some people suffer for most of us. Photographers such as Kevin Carter wouldn't fit the typical 'Hero' template but I wouldn't be who I am if I wasn't gifted perspective by images such as these from people such as Kevin. A more cheerful story from a photographer : Rick Smolan's story of a girl : http://tinyurl.com/669yvd - Kamath
Some of those photos I've seen many times before and they're still very powerful. - Candace Holly
Thanks for your comment on Kevin Carter, Thomas. It puts it all into a perspective. - Roberto Bonini
Agreed. Thomas' insight really made an impact, too :) - Mona N.
in the fist picture what womans do? they shooting to some one? or they only practice? - Mahdi Ebrahimi
Caption for the pic is: Veiled Women Men Shoot
In 1986, Iranian men dressed as women shoot using guns in the outskirts of the capital city Tehran. Nothing much is said about this photograph, but it raised important issues to the steps Iranian fighters would take to mingle in with innocent people. - Lindsey Smith
I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson
Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय
This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman
OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind
I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz
Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda
@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao
you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern
@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen
Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen
