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ChangeThis :: The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

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JQuery Media Plugin

Monday at 2:17 am - Link

add simple a href links to movies,flash, etc and jQuery embeds it properly. Accessible and super - DC Crowley

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Gothamist: Life on Mars Found in Williamsburg

August 30 at 10:05 am - Link

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FriendFeed Doesn't Care About Mona | CenterNetworks

August 27 at 4:10 pm - Link

possible248, Franklin Pettit, Ranjani Ravi, Yaniv Golan and 18 other people liked this

I care about Mona :). Also, it's not just people who are invited to FriendFeed who never see the "default" list -- it's also anyone who imports their friends from Email or Facebook (which you should definitely do, btw). That said, we definitely want to improve this aspect of FriendFeed, but we just haven't had a chance yet. - Paul Buchheit

I believe you care about Mona. I think Allen believes you do too. But he is more aggressive in asking for change than others are. Given the team's frequency of updates, I'm sure this can get fixed. - Louis Gray

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I don't care about who? - Jim Norris

Hi, Jim :) - Mona N.

Ha! I knew I wasn't delusional! - Jesse Stay

Would be nice if the default list rotated, based on average posts per day - or average 'liked' posts per day. Something like that - people who participate a lot. Making it dynamic would also handle a lot of the complaints about diversity, playing favorites, etc. - flammable

We all use new sites because brand name bloggers like scoble use them. Sounds like a smart move for friendfeed to tell us which brands are on their service. - Andrew Warner

having said that, center networks is tearing it up with observations like this. I love the videos. - Andrew Warner

heard through the vine that MonaNet is in development, a love-based social network where like is only the beginning. - Gregory Lent

Thanks for your comment Paul -- @Andrew, the problem with pimping the big fellas is that what it means is that there will never be change or discovery. The key is that except for Scoble, no one else has come forward to ask to be remove and/or defend the list. Because for some, they need these pimps (not just on FF) to remain on top. It's frankly a bigger issue than just FF. And thanks for the video comments! - Allen Stern

i would signup for monanaet -and pay - Allen Stern

who cares about the list. Sometimes I wonder why friendfeed is better than say Jaiku (in terms of lifesteaming and conversation). The top 1% get the action for the rest of us the conversation is pretty much meaningless in that it always takes place over at their place. It's kind of the same as having a friend you always ring, but he never rings you. - DC Crowley

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FreeMyFeed - Free Your Feed From Authentication

August 26 at 1:42 am - Link

free protected feeds :) - DC Crowley

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Toshiba Camileo Pro HD - TrustedReviews

August 26 at 12:40 am - Link

awesomely cheap - DC Crowley

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Paxman voices concerns over BBC

August 23 at 12:27 am - Link

This puts the finger on an awful lot of pain points about the way we do business. Playing the rules, the use of layers, the money goals... - DC Crowley

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StopTheManga.com | Show Yourself!

August 20 at 10:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Do you know someone on twitter who is offending you with their poor choice of profile image? Report them below! Don't forget to check for updates at http://twitter.com/stopthemang.... - Shey

It's just a fad. By the way, I noticed some non-manga images made the offenders list and that's funny. - Morton Fox

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@Morton yeah it is, it's a fun fad, but it will die soon - Shey

Did you notice that you were reported, Shey? http://www.stopthemanga.com/of... (it wasn't me - honest!) :) - Nathaniel Payne

pratice what thy preaches :) - DC Crowley via twhirl

Wow, I wish I had this much free time on my hands. - Aden

I didn't even have time to make an avatar yet! I protest. - Rachel R.

@Nathaniel yes, I did notice :) - Shey

LOL. I didn't change my avatars except for the one at Kwippy. I prefer my face, unless I can find a real manga artist to do a real manga-style drawing of me. :) - Stephen Shores via twhirl

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camen design · Hello.

August 20 at 12:40 am - Link

html5 in the wild... does not work in IE, but it works 'with some difficulty' in FF, Safari and Opera. Pages must seemingly be served as xml and not html. But in xml any errors render a page unreadable. It's totally unforgiving nature is a total turnoff... and actually rednders it useless because the technology is getting in the way of the content. Even a car with a flat tire can be driven... - DC Crowley

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Novisites Internet Services Ede, internetbedrijf voor het ontwikkelen van uw website

August 18 at 5:55 am - Link

Ik heb 2-3 keer deze jongens aan de lijn gehad. Bespaar jezelf de moeite. Ze kunnen/ willen niets oplossen. Ik heb aardig wat ISP's gesproken in de afgelopen jaren, deze zijn 'bottom 5'. - DC Crowley

Waarom bookmark je ze dan? Heel snel vergeten;) - Marcel van der Laan via fftogo

Shey posted a message on Twitter

“My wife won't let me throw out her N'sync and B2K CDs :\”

August 12 at 4:38 pm - Link

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which n'sync cd tho, they had some joints - Richard Lawler via twhirl

I feel your pain LOL - DC Crowley

I think we agreed that BSB just had to go. - Shey

And why would you want to do a thing like that? - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy

i have lionel ritchie, I can't talk - anna

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Mistake Allows Toronto Woman To Fill Tank With Supreme Gas For 14 Cents A Litre

August 15 at 1:36 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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As she prepared to choose her usual 'regular' option at $1.28 a litre, a woman on the pump next to her made a startling discovery. Someone had accidentally set the supreme price to just 14 cents a litre - Shey via Bookmarklet

just like oldtimes... very old times, sniff :) - DC Crowley

What a win for those guys - Shey

almost justifies the 24-hr drive to Toronto - Trent Olson

While I won't call that stealing, it's an ethical line I wouldn't have crossed. Gas stations aren't the ones raking in the profits and the owner there just took a big hit. I think she should have notified them of the mistake. - David Knight

@David I agree. But that's a hard choice to make. Especially with the damage that soaring gas prices has done to consumers (even though the prices aren't the station's fault). - Shey

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter

“wow, my Macbook just told me "screen captures not available during DVD playback." nice.”

August 15 at 11:17 am - Link

I beg to differ :D - DC Crowley

Huh... What's nice about that? That's not nice, that's stupid. - Marcos Marado via fftogo

i'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. nice - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl

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PhotoCalc -- The Photographer's Calculator Application for iPhone and iPod touch

August 15 at 6:13 am - Link

Wolf! You want this!! - DC Crowley

Louis Gray commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: louisgray.com: GMail and Apple's MobileMe Holding an Outage Contest

August 12 at 3:21 pm - Link

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"Nick, looks like your test of the Disqus 2 API worked well from fav.or.it. As for my coverage of it, sometimes I'll let work and other things get in the way. I knew others would have the story first, and that's just fine. I'm not in a race. :-)" - Louis Gray

Still think Apple is winning this hands down LOL! - DC Crowley

dan farber posted an entry on Outside the Lines

The cloud of unreliability

August 11 at 5:19 pm - Link

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Think its funny the standards we set for some companies and not others. Being that gmail is free, I can handle it going down once in a while, but when the ISP, telephone company or power company go offline for a millisecond I become enraged. Guess the answer that the cloud is meant to provide is to diversify our options so that something will always work (using gmail and other account in serial or parallel) - James Fridley

I have to remember too though, how often did my machine / hosting provider go down in the past. When that went down, it was a lot harder for me to get back in the game... instead of waiting for a few minutes. - Dion Almaer

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It's better to let them handle uptime and security and patching than for all of us to try and handle it on our own like we used to. This gives us more time to work on what we excel at. It's a fine example of specialization and of course it's going to have its inconsistencies. Just consider the alternatives. - Ben Turner

"The much-ballyhooed cloud from which Web services emanate is inherently unstable and prone to odd behavior from any number of causes. At the same time, the Internet overall is incredibly robust and redundant. You just don't want to be caught at the intersection of some errant configuration change or badly behaving router. In the case of a Gmail outage, you need to have alternative e-mail services that capture messages from multiple sources to stay afloat." - Adewale Oshineye

There are many things wrong in the above quote. 1-The cloud is unstable: But he doesn't say what he's comparing it to. The cloud is vastly more stable than my desktop, most internal IT and most ISPs. 2-The internet is robust: Read the Renesys blog to hear the ugly truth: http://www.renesys.com/blog/ 3-Alternative email services: It's a good idea to have an alternative way to send email. It's a good idea to use IMAP for local storage but that won't help you receive email if your main provider goes down. - Adewale Oshineye

Good point Adewale...depends on which cloud...if my desktop crashes...I reboot in a few minutes or less....not necessarily so with the cloud...and it turns out the corporate Outlook is quite stable.... - dan farber

sorry I'm late... I actually started sending my important stuff to another webmail as backup about 24 hours before the outage. Reason: Scare stories about being locked out od your google account. I thought time for a plan B - DC Crowley

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DIRECCIÓN ARTÍSTICA PARA LA DANZA | Bienvenidos

August 13 at 3:16 am - Link

el Stephan Hay e Cinnamon Interactive :) - DC Crowley

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Hello darkness my old friend

August 12 at 10:33 am - Link

nobody gives a shit about freedom - Gustavo Picón

Steve 1 - Mark 0. Don't worry I'm fighting the same fight... I'm a loser too. - DC Crowley

Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

Like the Blog? Leave a Tip

August 11 at 7:46 am - Link

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I think this fine. Like you said no one will pay, but it's nice in theory. - loren feldman

give me what the newspaper does for 50 cents, or a buck, and i will gladly give it to you. a few hundred others with the same feeling, you are home free. so far you have about one column a day, so a bit of the way to go. - Gregory Lent

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I make small donations for free/share-ware software I dig.. And I wouldn't be opposed to pitching in small donations to blogs I dig too ($1 or two) every now an then. More should have a PayPal link for small donations I think. - Tim

I think they missed the boat not going with TipJoy, they could have the same functionality (well almost, Topjoy still needs the abillity to draw cash out instead of Amazon certificates) and drive traffic as well. TipJoy's use of donations as a social bookmarking vote is simple and brilliant. - David Knight

Think all the celebrity stuff is too noisy! - Roberto Bonini

I'd like to hope that people there will be equally generous -- maybe I'm underestimating people's willingness to pay for what could be free. Even so, it strikes me as a case where the site is potentially pulling in cash from the added traffic/ads/etc -- and the person who actually generated the content is getting none of that, instead receiving only what random donations visitors may or may not have chosen to give. Seems a bit unbalanced to me. - JR Raphael

Im going to install it on my site. Will be interesting to see. I know the answer though. - loren feldman

Loren, I'd be curious to hear what you find. Just to clarify, I'm in no way proposing that the tip system in and of itself is a negative -- just that on a major web publication, in the absence of any other compensation, it sets a dangerous precedent that could spread quickly. When fast food chains see that people will work at McDonald's for minimum wage, most tend to match that rate rather than offer anything more. - JR Raphael

I agree JR its fine for Mom and Pop operations,or supporting artists, but on a "major" site it just looks cheap. - loren feldman

Oh not again. Holy 2001, Batman. Didn't anyone learn from Amazon Honor System? Does this mean we can expect 20 new "social economy tipping" profiles that I need to generate and maintain to accommodate the explosion of tip oriented content that will fill my browser? If so, no thanks. Just put a nice note as your sticky article saying that you fund via ad impressions and would appreciate me turning off my ad block filters for this site. I'll just click your banner ads. - Jay Cuthrell

Now all we need is Scoble to do a 75 minute video on how awesome this thing is to see it fall completely flat on its face. - Vincent Ferrari

no one will pay. It's a ploy from Salon so that they don't have to pay these people a decent sum. It's cheapskate and shoddies the Salon brand imo - DC Crowley

I shared a link on FF on a similar but better looking online tipping service (is there a trend of leaving tips online or why do we have mushrooming of these sites?) http://www.tipjoy.com . - Hayk Hakobyan

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Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax « Important Shock

August 9 at 7:15 am - Link

git it! next gen svn - DC Crowley

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A very serious question

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Mark Pilgrim on the iPhone - DC Crowley via Bookmarklet

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Shilo™ Presents We Make It Good

August 6 at 2:11 pm - Link

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Shilo™ Presents We Make It Good

August 6 at 2:11 pm - Link

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Download Amanda Network Backup - Pre Packaged and Tested

August 4 at 2:43 pm - Link

Amanda provides a way to back up a variety of enterprise data sources and applications, supporting multiple flavors of Unix and Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Amanda can encrypt data in transit from client to server, or encrypt data at rest on tape or disk or both simultaneously. Because the software doesn't use proprietary device drivers... See: http://www.infoworld.com/slide... - DC Crowley

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Download Amanda Network Backup - Pre Packaged and Tested

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Microsoft sees end of Windows era

August 4 at 1:02 am - Link

Voyagerfan5761, sirish, Ray Slakinski, Geoff Schultz and 7 other people liked this

Sounds like MS is going for cloud computing. - Tim via twhirl

This is all bullshit. Anyone who knows Windows and Microsoft well is laughing their asses off at these kinds of headlines. Just isn't going to happen. At least not anytime in forseable future. - Robert Scoble

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i like this nonsense, it's like thinking of bread without flour - marcantonio severgnini

+1 @Scoble - sebmos

Windows has been closely associated and branded as THE operating system for all needs by MS. It has also become the main cash cow and generator of its revenues during the entire period of its existence. I don't see how can MS shed off the Windows skin all that easily or in such a short time, especially considering that Vista is just out and it has "Windows" in front of its name. - Hayk Hakobyan

Any future successor "non-Windows" operating system will still be branded as Windows. Precedent is Windows NT. The Windows brand is too important to sideline. - Ian Fogg

These same speculations have been going on for years. Just because Microsoft is branching into developing another breed of OS doesn't mean they are going to abandon Windows. - Amit Morson

@Ian - More your area than mine, but Windows is many things including a brand, a product, a paradigm, an architecture and a platform. MS might keep any combo of those five things, but you're right - the brand is the appealing part. - Rob Sterling

"The Cloud" is simply a word for remote services - not a magical mystery future. The reality is that the personal workstation will in some form always be with us. There will always be advantages to having a local (non bandwidth limited) source of computing cycles to enhance the manipulation or presentation of data in a lot of tasks. That workstation will ALWAYS need an OS of some form. - Soulhuntre

Microsoft is aggressively evolving Windows so that it will be capable of supplying that part of the computing chain. Research projects are playgrounds for that. Those folks who claim that the "operating system is dead" are simply not looking at what they are saying from a systems point of view. They are using the term "Operating System" and "PC" to refer to a type of workstation use case... not a technology. - Soulhuntre

Didn't it already "die" and "everything move online"...like...6 or 7 times already? Each time, people realize that there are places where the internet isn't accessible, isn't fast (relative to the desktop), and isn't private enough. Not to say there isn't a place for web services (obviously -- we're on one), but this whole "The desktop is dead! Dumb terminals for everyone!" hype is just pendulum swing nonsense. - Robert Fischer

Weather it happens or not is irrelevant Robert. It's a plan B and a pretty good one imo :) - DC Crowley

You guys are missing the point here. It's about virtualization. Right now with free OSes like Linux you can bascially run as many computers as your hardware has memory to support on a single physical machine. There are lots of benefits to this. One being you can literally take your desktop from one computer to another. Window's licensing won't allow that. They need to come up with this lightweight OS with flexible licensing to compete. - Lindsay Donaghe

Will it get rid of Windows for most consumers and as the host OS for your machine? Probably not. But it will enable you to use Windows anywhere you want to as long as there's a virtualization product installed that can run your VM. Ultimately they might end up getting more exposure through that since people will stop caring which OS runs on the hardware... just which OS runs on their personal VMs. - Lindsay Donaghe

Whatever apps don't end up in the cloud in a few years will end up on your personal VMs. And you'll be able to take those with you wherever you go (we've already got USB drives that are cheap and hold upwards of 16GB). It's the future. - Lindsay Donaghe

I talked to Microsoft PR yesterday about this. This is an incubation project and will NOT replace Windows. Anyone remember Netdocs? That was supposed to replace Office, too, remember? - Robert Scoble

Just another roll of the dice in Redmond's labs. - Bill Sodeman

Ina got it right. http://tinyurl.com/6xgqjn - jeff

I don't think it's dice. It's generally a good practice to build something from the ground up to learn what's possible and then take those possibilities into an existing project. If you tried it against an existing codebase you get more "can't do that" then "How can we make this work." I do it all the time, probably more then I should. - Shawn McCollum

When PC's started to become available we [old geeks] flocked away from the dumb terminal en masse. I don't envision us going back there anytime soon. - Jody C

Over the top headlines definitely get attention. Take note: anyone looking for hits might want to post an article called "Apple sees end of OS X era." There are sure to be some patents or dubious screenshots that you could use. - Loren Heiny

ReadWriteWeb: Roger Kondrat posted a link

How long until FriendFeed overtakes Techmeme and kills Digg?

July 27 at 4:41 pm - via Reshare - Link

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Not long.. - JegerPhil - Phil

agreed :) - Roger Kondrat

I disagree. Digg's usage is up since the recommendation engine went live. I think that alone will give it a boost and for the moment it's not exactly getting killed. - Avi Kaplan

digg is dead çause I don't use it :) - DC Crowley

@avi I don't think anyone said it was 'getting killed' Jeger was agreeing that with my presumption that 'it will' overtake them. Its a prediction on my part not an assessment of the current situation. - Roger Kondrat

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A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web in Launchpad

August 1 at 2:52 am - Link

mySQL for cloud computing - DC Crowley

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10 Excellent Niche Social News Sites

July 28 at 6:32 am - Link

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Sarah, this is super! thanks - DC Crowley

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Design Float / Popular Entries

July 28 at 11:48 am - Link

digg for designers - DC Crowley