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Oh, good to just see this since I just asked about cameras :) - joey

I love these guys. They do amazing work with low-cost tools. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Damn impressive - Mo Kargas

Tony: Facebook is now to the status that you HAVE to be on it. I have no idea how you survived so long already. Even the prison warden is on it and he's a late adopter type. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Thanks! I'm leaning towards signing up. - Tony C

Hehe. Im not on Facebook. Mainly becuase none of my RL friends are on. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

Wow - Tony and Robert are now officially the first people I've met with Twitter accounts that are not on Facebook - Jesse Stay

Jesse, I wouldn't have one either, but the account deletion is so hard and complicated, I removed all my friends and info once in '06 and again in '08, though I didn't get rid of the friends that time. - Jimminy

Rob: I'm on Facebook and have been since the very beginning. Do I put much effort into it? No. Twitter is FAR superior for what I do. - Robert Scoble

Robert - why would you not put more effort into Facebook a fan page would be a great way to reach a whole new set of people. - Rob Cairns

Rob: I will do that. I just find that anyone who is anyone in the tech industry reads Twitter. - Robert Scoble

But I will put more time into my Facebook Page soon. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I tend to agree a lot of people are on Twitter in the tench industry no question. It is just hard to sometimes get your point across in 140 characters. - Rob Cairns

Robert, I don't read Twitter - I do read FriendFeed and Facebook (and hopefully your Twitter comes over here if you want me to see it). - Jesse Stay

I do check my replies and have searches delivered to me from Twitter though, as I do everywhere on the internet. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: it does so you do read my Twitter. And when lists get here you will switch. I guarantee that. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I already have lists on Facebook. The only advantage Twitter gives me is I can subscribe to an entire list. I'll use lists on SocialToo, for sure - I see the benefit for those that prefer Twitter. I just don't see enough reason for lists to pull me over there though. Maybe I'm wrong though - I just heard some news that will definitely make me think twice (it will be announced next week). - Jesse Stay

Jesse - Good idea:) It makes life easy does it not. - Rob Cairns

(think twice about Twitter) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: cool. Can you call me? +1-425-205-1921 - Robert Scoble

Jesse why are you thinking twice about Twitter - Rob Cairns

What control do we have over what we see in the Facebook News Feed and Live Feed? FB changes things faster than I can learn the old system. I saw maybe 20 messages in a row regarding one person's rejection of various events. It would be nice to be able to turn that off. - SuezanneC Baskerville

Suezanne, use friend lists and filter by friend list - Jesse Stay

Differences: 1. Facebook is a walled garden, Twitter is mostly public information (so is Friendfeed). 2. Facebook has reciprocal friending, Twitter is non-reciprocal (so is Friendfeed). 3. Facebook allows commenting on updates (so does Friendfeed), Twitter is just tweets. - Michael Slattery

Now if I (as a regular nobody) want to be heard - other than by someone checking their vanity feed - I have to go to Facebook or Friendfeed. I use Twitter just as a reader - in place of RSS. - Michael Slattery

Michael, is it really walled if everyone is a member? In that regard, isn't the internet itself a walled garden? - Jesse Stay

really i will see that site...please visit my site http://ipod-video-gallery-idha... - idham ubaguru

Jesse, I've been trying to find a link I saw recently, an article where the featured person explains that Facebook will stay a walled garden because that obliges everyone to come to them. What is walled off is not the members - as you say, everyone will join - but the content. - Michael Slattery

Jesse Stay, make that 3 people now. I'm on Twitter and FF but not Facebook. Originally it was that I was concerned about privacy. Now it's mostly that I am more interested in learning and tracking information. Since not many people know me IRL, I'm not sure how it would work out with the reciprocal friending so Twitter and FriendFeed seem best for my use. If Robert and you didn't know and have as part of your work knowing so many people more personally, would it still be the same for you? - metalerik

Meta, not sure I understand your question, but the reason I like Facebook so much is because it allows me to get to know people more personally. There's no better networking than getting to know people in real life, and Facebook encourages that. Yet, at the same time if you want to remain more anonymous you can do that as well. - Jesse Stay

Thanks Jesse. I'm always interested in learning new tools. - metalerik

Does anyone here use Facebook in a more anonymous way? I remember after Facebook bought FF, people were talking about how they use FF and Facebook in completely different ways and with an almost entirely separate group of people. - metalerik

I check both compulsively. Entirely different audience for me. Fb = rl friends. I hardly add anyone that I don't know. Twitter = rest of the world. Sometimes I'm quite annoyed by the noise coz a lot of my friends try lots of apps, and I spent atleast one day a month hiding all that noise :). It matter less on Twitter - Shivanand Velmurugan from Alert Thingy

Meta, anyone using a Facebook Fan Page is - Jesse Stay

They actually just make me realize what a slob I am, seriously my place is a BARN! & I won't let the cleaning lady in cuz she messes up my system - sofarsoShawn

LOL :D - Praveen Vasudev

Post a link or upload a snap of your workstation, if you got one =) - Praveen Vasudev

Yeahhhhhh fffffing right...lol maybe - sofarsoShawn

I'll have number 20, please! - Tim Tyler

Amazing. Number 2, 4, 5, please. I need more Macs, I on;y have the latest iMac 24" with 2.96GHz processor. I need an Apple LED screen and a MacBook Pro. Please? - Zachary TG

Holyshit that's awesome! - k00pa from iPod

Workstation's one thing, but you also need to think about good chairs. Really good chairs. - Sung W. Lim

I only have an iMac and an iPod Touch. I need more! LOL - Zachary TG

There's a few ways they can do it. All of the ones I can think of involve hooking the events in the browser using javascript. Hooking clicks, selects, drags, and keypresses. I assume it works for the various methods of invoking copy/paste? - mikepk

See http://www.tynt.com/tracer... - I wrote about this on MakeUseOf: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag... - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

interesting - i wonder if there are ready made scripts for this kind of thing - Zee.

I'm using the Noscript plugin with Firefox and don't see this behaviour . - Andrew Terry

Testing, it works for selection + menu and selection + key shortcuts but not for select + dragging. - mikepk

Mahendra - thank you! Going to dig into it now - Zee.

Tried to debug it using FireBug but darn if it's not locking up my browser. - mikepk

no worries Mike, i'm guessing it is Tracer or at least something like it - Zee.

Mahendra, out of curiosity, how come you don't use it? - Zee.

Zee: might sound surprising, but I don't host my own site yet. <Scampers to hide his face...and poof! he's gone!> - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

If only Hulu content could be viewed outside the U.S. - S.D.Allen

I use the hulu desktop all the time, and find that it works well. As for hulu outside the US, blame the content companies that don't realize we are a worldwide community at this point. - John Fogarty from twhirl

What's ludicrous about all this is the same content can be viewed on CableTV here so the content has been often been approved to be shown in my jurisdiction. I notice the same damn thing with PBS.org video site. They broadcast their programs here on cableTV but can't view the same content online. - S.D.Allen from email

App has been clunky and slow for me. Boxee it is not. - Fleagle