"Google has announced the official release of Desktop Gadgets for Linux and is distributing the source code under the open-source Apache software license. Although there are still bugs and the implementation is not yet entirely complete, it works well enough for day-to-day use." - Alejandro S.
I hope that it is more staple than desklets or super karamba. - k00pa
If only I didn't have to enter the remote key everytime, I'd use it. - Aaron Myers
Aaron you definitely should not have to input your key everytime (I don't). The cookie is set to last 2 months. Does your phone let you access other sites with long cookies too or do they all break like fftogo? I'd love to fix this for you. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated in 2000 that the Bakken might hold 413 billion barrels. If so, it would dwarf Saudi Arabia's Ghawar, the world's biggest field, which has produced about 55 billion barrels. ... The USGS said in April that the Bakken holds as much as 4.3 billion barrels that can be recovered using today's engineering techniques. " - bob
And even the 4.3 billion barrels would not be as priceless as that guy's jacket on the left. Is that made out of some sort of reptile's scales? - Bret Taylor
It is estimated that there is are significant reservoirs of oil shale beneath the Bakken's 200,000 square miles (520,000 km²). There were first discovered in 1951, but have long frustrated efforts to extract oil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... - bob
heh, I met with those guys at a conference a year ago before the Bakken took off and they definitely had a compelling story then, although they were a bit too small at that point. congrats to them and everyone else producing in the Bakken. they weren't dressed like that either... - grant
"NASA will host a news teleconference Thursday, June 12, at 4:30 p.m. EDT, to announce the selection of the contractor for the Constellation Program's spacesuit system." - Cyvros/fyc
"A simple genetic test could reveal if someone has a body clock that is badly out of step with the ones that tick in other people, so they can refute charges of sloth." - Cyvros/fyc
Now you know why I have Rocky as my producer. The guy has guns. :-) - Robert Scoble
You and Roc should shoot some Qik videos at the range! :) I once streamed on ustream from the range. Quite interesting commentary you tend to get from that kind of venue. heh. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Nice. I shot a glock first time ever a few wks ago, that was fun. - Brian Carter
Didn't get another bullseye, or another *shot*? ;-) - Karim
I use a mixture of vim with python extensions and a souped up .vimrc and for web dev work I also use Coda as a general tool. Google App Engine is fantastic for getting the code to live transition going quickly. - Ian Mulvany
I went from thinking that FriendFeed was a rather boring looking link overload to having it be my #1 site as well. Took about 72 hours. The potential here is really intoxicating. - (steve isaacs)
Are there any third-party clients for FriendFeed yet? - Stephen
Try using rescuetime.com and you can actually measure this. Really cool data result. - Sacca
it is my homepage... but I find I use twitter to feed it still. btw rescuetime.com asks for a credit card. f#(% that... please don't promote that here. talk about a waste of time. like a dumb ass I del.icio.used it before realizing it was a piece of shit - Noah David Simon
Rescuetime does not ask for a credit card unless you are buying it for your enterprise. The personal version is entirely free. - Sacca
facebook is so long to upload with all the apps, friendsfeed is so quick and useful…
Look like that between myspace/facebook/google battle, herecome the Outsider Friendsfeed, so exiting, it will relaunch web 2.0 sites - Marc Dahan
Yes, now the name of the game is apparently being the preferred intermediary to Friendfeed and other social aggregators. For me, it's http://twhirl.org which fronts end both services I care about most (FF & Twitter>) - Dion Hinchcliffe via twhirl
I'm not looking for a site on which to spend more time; I'm looking for one that aggregates what I need to know in one spot. - Francine Hardaway
I like FF a lot. Twhirl is slightly hardert to use for some reason. - Michael VanDervort
How do people using FF deal with Twitter friends who aren't on FF? Read both? I see there are "imaginary" friends, but does that mean manually importing and updating your Twitter friends on FF? - Greg Beck
Best way to deal with FriendFeed is through the browser. The clients make it seem more cluttery. - David Risley
Nothing beats using the browser. Clients are slow and sometimes unresponsive. - Winston Teo
oddly David you are right, but if you'd asked me a month ago I would have disagreed. For some reason FF works better on the web where as Twitter is via desktop client - Duncan Riley
yesh, i hope there's a google search box.. I also installed duncan's script - Raymond
Me too, its my start page and clients do suck, btw is the friendfeed air client done? - d e f c o n
I spend much more time on Google Reader than Friendfeed because of superior signal to noise. - Sean McBride
I am baffled as to why anyone would think that Friendfeed is remotely competitive with Google Reader for processing highly strategic cutting edge information in a slick and efficient way. The potential is there, I can see that, but actualizing the potential is going to require a great deal of smart code and ranking algorithms. Also, am I the only one bothered by this "forum" interface? It's like trying to play Rachmaninoff on the piano while wearing boxing gloves. - Sean McBride
I think Reader and FriendFeed are useful for entirely different reasons. I use Reader for aggregation on news source and research material for those areas I track. FF enhances that information stream by personalizing some topics, and by giving me an entirely different personal stream . I often have both open and click back and forth betweem them. - Michael VanDervort
@MichaelVanDervort: I use Google Reader not only to aggregate high quality news, research and discussion, but to PRIORITIZE it. With GR I get a continuous stream of intensely concentrated strategic information. So far, after fiddling with all of FF's options, I have not been able to duplicate that experience here. Also, it is easy to use GR in tandem with Yahoo Groups, which provides much more powerful tools for in-depth forum discussions than is available in the current iteration of Friendfeed. - Sean McBride
FF may not be Reader, but it still retains that element of subscribing to others. And yes, FF could be Digg or google News, but its besides the point. GF is Reader in steroids because not only do we subscribe, but we comment, like and manage the noise interactively- none of which Reader does. And we wouldn't want it to since Reader is excellent at what it does. - Roberto Bonini
Just about every time I visit FriendFeed there is another piece of brain candy to consume (or, more applicable perhaps, subsume). I haven't had this much enjoyment since the web started up. - Jody Carbone
I have limited time to spend on these things every day. I find I indeed am spending a lot less of that time on TechMeme and Google Reader lately and a lot more of that time on FriendFeed. I still use the other two, so they are still important, but I have cut way back. - Robert Scoble
To RS: and where, amidst the flood of tweets, does one find time to mull over carefully constructed books, dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, patents and the like, and think visionary thoughts? - Sean McBride
You know, I'm complaining about certain issues with Friendfeed, but I'm here, I'm hooked, I feel the gravitational pull of the thing. Something important is happening here. - Sean McBride
I have a tough time deciding where to spend time - My Google Reader or Friendfeed - Kapil
True - I'm the same, within 2 days I've converted from reader to friendfeed. I like it a lot! - Richard Bradshaw
@diecteur - a mixture of trance, dj remixing, dance, house - Steven Hodson
@Steven: Ah I see, not "my favorite things" to paraphrase John Coltrane ;-) - directeur
Delerium, Adiemus, Enigma, Industrial Monk and similar groups are hard to define with traditional music categories. There are classical elements, techno elements, a bit of rap (Industrial Monk), Gregorian chant/plainsong/polyphony; many traditional forms combined in nontraditional ways. These groups are among my favorites. Check out http://jebers.blogspot.com/200... for an example. - Jack Carlson
the Gregorian versions of In the Air Tonight and Child of Time are probably my most favorites and Enigma is just plain great. @Jack have you heard Enigmatic Obsession yet? - Steven Hodson
I'm such an old-school Delerium fan that I was listening to them before they became Delirium. haha. (I'm a fan of Intermix and Front Line Assembly): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... - J. Phil
Not before now, Steven. I'm off to hear what I've missed. - Jack Carlson
directeur, I was a jazz radio station DJ in college. Jazz is one of my primary loves as well. Emotionally I find jazz quite similar to many classical compositions. - Jack Carlson
@Jack also look for Plastyc Buddha you will probably like them as well - Steven Hodson
Jack Carlson: Indeed! Keith Jarrett for example plays Bach so well, and ... have you ever heard the Köln Concert? You sure have had! :) - directeur
Steven: searching, I also came across Amadas Estrellas, another half-Enigma album. It seems my collection isn't as complete as I thought. Thanks for the suggestions. - Jack Carlson
directeur, I have, and enjoy it. I also like Pat Metheny's A Map of the World. - Jack Carlson
