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@igorthetroll I blocked you over on FriendFeed. I don't like talking with someone who is a troll. See ya.
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What's in a name? I don't think Igor is a real Troll ;)
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
from twhirl
A lot is in a name. I want to only see people who use their real names so I know where they are coming from.
- Robert Scoble
wait, you don't know Igor Thetro II... son of *the* Igor Thetro ??
- Alan Cheslow
oh, come one Scoble, my name is Marcus Debonaventure -- what's in a name ?
- General Kafka
I have to agree with Kafka. Why is the name important? What he does and what he writes count more.
- Morton Fox
Morton: I don't like him and I don't like someone who calls himself a troll. Especially since I've found over and over again that the name fit. I want to subscribe and see smart people. Not anonymous jerks. If you go jerky on me I WILL block you.
- Robert Scoble
The fact is, this is Robert's Twitter and FF and he can ban people if they look at him cross-eyed if it bugs him. He doesn't really have to justify that.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
Think it's more that he looks like a troll....
- Rich
If someone harasses me or makes nasty comments, etc. I *might* block them but I would only resort to this if that person went out of their way to be a royal jerk and purposefully make my life miserable, oppress me, slander my name, say terrible things about me, my friends, etc, etc. In that rare case, I would see that they were stalking me and trying to harm my online identity and experience = EPIC FAIL = BLOCK
- Susan Beebe
Susan: there are so many distribution channels for anonymous jerks that I don't feel that I need to put up with that here.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: So true! and I bet they exist in ALL channels available to them...nice. Being able to be selective via a BLOCK feature is therefore essential for folks who are in the limelight like you are!
- Susan Beebe
More important than a real name is consistent identity... if you're "beezlecruft" on every service and your blog, then you're a recognizable persona. This is a good thing. On the downside, you make people around you feel like an idiot by writing things like: "Here's the thing, beezlecruft..."
- Roger Benningfield
There's probably an interesting post in here somewhere on why it's necessary to announce who you're blocking. I do the same thing sometimes and always catch flack for it. Unfortunately, I've been up too many hours to properly defend myself intelligently as to why I do it, so we'll see if I'm interested in this topic tomorrow enough to post on it.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Roger: For years, I posted anonymously on the 'Net as simply "rizzn." Up until about 2 or 3 years ago, I was the only Rizzn in Google. When I wanted to go a bit more mainstream, I wound up merging the nick with my real name, partly so that there wasn't an identity split, partly for the SEO value, and partly so that folks wouldn't have to feel silly and call me Rizzn.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
one of the advantages of having the #24 most common male first name and the #16 most common last name. I can *roll with my real name...
- Jay Martin
"My name is Diego Montoya. You killed my father, not I must kill you." My favorite introduction. I like my name, Micah. Why not use it? Plus most people dont pronounce it right, so I know if you know me.
- Micah Baldwin
"My name is Inigo Montoya... you killed my father... prepare to die!"? Very good line :P
- Chinkerfly
from twhirl
isn't the issue one of transparency, if the handle says "troll" & their actions are trollish, they're a troll, block makes sense
- mike "glemak" dunn
Cains..That's awesome. That's like having the name McLovin. :)
- Hao Chen
from fftogo
er... isn't the whole point of all these SM tools the ability to create your own conversation and experience? To be honest, I blocked "the troll" a few days ago. His comments to me and others were making me uncomfortable. Done, and done. It's not personal, it;'s just the way I choose to shape my social media experience.
- Sue Murphy
I'm with Robert on this one. That guy was the reason why I was looking for a way to block someone's comments from my feed.
- Dewald Pretorius
oops, sorry, I have been using my handle for like ever. Anyways, I'm the ONLY person on the web who uses puckman as a handle ;)
- Gerard van Schip
as I've used my handle for years, I've kept at it; and as I may post things which might be negative about my current employer, I want to make it harder for the HR(non tech savvy) types to find it......add-on to that, my names are not common, google and find me alone + a bunch of dead people with my names
- clarke thomas
I only use a handle because I have quite a common name. I'm not tryin' to hide behind anything!
- Sue Murphy
@scottbourne, I agree - people need to use their real identity online, otherwise what's the point?
- Rich
I had to block igorthetroll too! He was calling me bad names and commenting on everything I said with weird, nasty comments. What a boring life to be "that guy."
- Alana Taylor
A good handle when backed by a real person with a consistent personality should be nothing to be ashamed of. Handles are easier to remember. It's part of the personal brand.
- Chinkerfly
from twhirl
Chinkerfly, it's not about being easier or just as good. It's a principled matter. If you don't want to back what you say and what you do with your identity, you aren't playing the same game as a lot of us are. Speaking for myself and others like me, we're interested in using social media as a supplement to our real-world business, personal, and social relationships, not as a replacement or an alternative.
- Mark Trapp
for the sake of scoble, i've changed my comment name to the name I go by.
- clarke thomas
Just want to point to the fact that nicknames are soooo web 1.0... :-)
- Orli Yakuel
@Orli Yakuel This is oh so true! ^^
- Dan H. Racek
Igor the Troll is just annoying. I'm sure he has good intentions and all, but I can only take so much.
- Ben Parr
I don't see the value behind the whole "real name" push - this happens to be my real name, but how do you know that? What's the real difference between a handle and a real-seeming name that might not be real?
- David Worrell
You're straw-manning the issue, David. It's not just about the name: it's about a verifiable identity. If you can't be tied to an identity offline, you might as well use a nickname as it has the same effect on how people perceive you.
- Mark Trapp
This is so unfair, it's like blocking Loic Le Meur for being too much of a meur.
- Andy Roberts
Take a look (some quick and dirty content analysis): Igor the Troll, Noah David Simon, Israel, Mossad: http://snipurl.com/2iquj | http://snipurl.com/2iqv5 | http://snipurl.com/2iqve
- Sean McBride
So what are you trying to say, Sean?
- George Hall (Australia)
Not sure I like your inference, Sean.
- George Hall (Australia)
I am who I say I am. I'm not hard to find. I say what I mean. I don't need to hide. If some of the sites I use would allow me to change my original name (gmail/google, flickr among others) to my real name, I would. Be yourself, life's better that way.
- Robert Kenney
Re: Thinking Systemically About the Impending Death of Twitter Auto-DMs - http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog...
"Scott, I own TweetLater.com and I firmly believe in choice. TweetLater will continue to offer its auto-DM feature to its users. It's anyone's prerogative and right to automate repetitive tasks and thereby free up part of their day for other tasks. On the flipside, I fully understand that some folks, especially those who follow many new people each day, may get inundated with welcome messages. I have not ignored them or their plea. I have put in place an extremely easy way of saying to TweetLater, "Please, do not send me any auto DMs." To opt-out, a person does not even need a TweetLater account. You do it from within your Twitter account. The full instructions are here: http://www.tweetlater.com/optout What is little known in this discussion around auto-DMs, is that several folks who have opted out, have contacted me via the TweetLater Help Desk and asked to be removed from the opt-out list. Their primary reason was that they felt the DMs gave them a good sense of the kind of person..."
- Dewald Pretorius
Twitter is changing API rate limits. I think this was a shot at friendfeed. Here's why:
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Here's the details on the changes and impact on companies like SocialToo: http://www.techmeme.com/090121...
- Robert Scoble
Friendfeed growth has gone way up because of friendfeed's new feature to import Twitter followers. I'm seeing that in a big way. I bet that looks dangerous to Twitter and that allowing other services to piggy-back on Twitter like this isn't a good thing. What do you think?
- Robert Scoble
Seems fair to me, let heavy users pay for their usage, after all these are businesses not individuals.
- tom sparks
Here's details on the new Twitter importer: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
If FriendFeed is not a replacement to Twitter, why would Twitter expend their finite resources to take a(n indirect?) shot at Twitter? If you ask me (you're not), I'd guess it's more of a pass the buck strategy to charge the API community and let them figure out the revenue model. Twitter can't be bothered with that.
- Matt Albiniak
I foresaw this coming. That's why I architected TweetLater.com's follower processing in a completely different way.
- Dewald Pretorius
Why I think the API limit will lead to a revenue model -> http://tinyurl.com/twitter...
- Nick Halstead
Wrong. Friendfeed doesn't use the API. They're over XMPP.
- netik
netik: for content, yes, but for followers, I'm pretty sure they are using API.
- Robert Scoble
maybe there is a business model in charging for high volume use of the api. There are several apps that I would pay for
- Daniel Patricio
And Scoble is the general of social! If he says "friendfeed" you say "how high, sir"
- Stephen Breen
That sucks big time! but then again twitter will be faster. There is many apps that use well over 20.000 requests per hour yep SocialToo is one of them... I'll have to change my lil twitter mobile app now .... :( http://m.mwd.com
- Live Crunch Blog
The API limit is per IP address: it's easily accounted for using delegates to handle the requests. The lack of notice kinda sucks, but I'm hard pressed to see the insurmountable technical problem with their new rate limit.
- Mark Trapp
This will only affect services that hit the Twitter API tens of thousands of times per hour from a single IP address. Mashups like Qwitter, etc. Totally makes sense. I don't think FriendFeed and other services that get to use the special XMPP firehose had anything to do with it.
- Josh Bancroft
While we are talking about SocialToo, I tried to use that to auto follow all my followers and it didn't seem to work. Jesse, can you call me at +1-425-205-1921 and we'll see if I'm doing something wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Stephen - I just vomited a little.
- Jennifer Leggio
Josh: I tried using friendfeed's new feature and it didn't work. I think it is hitting the API too many times to try to get my 50,000 followers out.
- Robert Scoble
Is Twitter providing API client analytics so that you know how many requests per hour are being made?
- Jim Bergman
Robert - the rate limit hasn't been implemented yet.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I think charging for high volume API users makes sense. At this point Twitter has no revenue model, they need to start making money somehow. I don't know if there are any Twitter clients charging for their service, but it doesn't make sense to me that Twitter doesn't make money from those who can or do.
- Chris Mayer
Mark: that's why I said "changing" instead of "changed." The changes are coming Friday, Jesse Stay reports.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds more like protecting their data than their servers, and I would want to do the same thing in their position. If you allow people unlimited access to all that social network data, you make it much simpler for somebody to write an app that moves entire networks off Twitter onto another platform. As a business, they have a lead in the market they have to protect.
- John
Nick, just read your post and I agree whole heartedly. All these free services can't go on forever.
- Chris Mayer
I really doubt this is a direct response to FriendFeed. I suspect FF is just the tip of an iceberg, most of which is hidden underwater, or in this case... still in development or private testing. I know at least two services that are trying to reconstruct the mythical firehose via rapid polling from whitelisted IP addresses.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Mark Bean - try using the YouTube API - they throttle like it's a treasure down there. Can't seem to get more than 1 request per second.
- Niv
Jennifer: Sorry 'bout that :) There needs to be a facebook group for Scoble the General.
- Stephen Breen
it's much bigger than friendfeed. This could be a shot at many existing applications and more importantly potential future applications. One more reason to advocate for a distrusted open source messaging platform.
- Howard Ross
I wonder if it's time for developers to band together and build a distributed system ala "SETI@Home" that uses spare API call bandwidth to rebuild the data stream for high volume applications. BitTorrent for the Twitter firehose, so to speak.
- Ken Sheppardson
I love Scoble's "here's why" posts.
- Steve Rubel
Steve: it's a new form of interactive blogging. Plus, it gets Twitterers to come over here and interact.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I'm pretty sure that the problem with importing your friends is in our system, not Twitter's. We'll get it working for you very soon. I'm sure that the timing of their rate limit changes is a coincidence. Managing rate limits is an important part of building a stable system, and allowing any one client unlimited requests is dangerous. (we even rate limit our internal services, for example)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: cool, thanks for letting me know. If you ever want to test things out with my account, let me know! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: The fact that you're probably not the only one who has tried to import your friends list...just to, you know, see what happens... probably doesn't help matters ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert, I was going to suggest this as well - it depends how much of the process Twitter is doing on the backend, and how many servers they have it distributed over. If they're able to do it on one server, this could cause issues. The potential is there, however - Apache and other servers make it easy to process more than one thing at the same time, up to hundreds of things, in fact.
- Jesse Stay
But like others I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, not the reason.
- Jesse Stay
Twitter's API changes weren't SOLELY a response to FriendFeed's Twitter importer. Considering how long it's taken Twitter to decide on a business model (did they ever hire anyone for that position), they couldn't have reacted to FriendFeed's Twitter importer that quickly. By the way, the Twitter importer worked fine for me, but I only imported less than 400 (it's smart enough to figure out which Twitter followers are already on FriendFeed, so it doesn't import the whole list).
- Ontario Emperor
hehe, I love these discussions - just another reason why friendfeed is better than twitter
- Peter Efland
@KenShepperdson: Love the idea of 'BitTorrent for the Twitter firehose' & 'developers to band together and build a distributed system ala "SETI@Home" that uses spare API call bandwidth to rebuild the data stream for high volume applications' -- gotta do *something* or charge devs for high volume API calls, right?
- Alex Howard
Alex: The thing is, I thought it was Gnip's mission statement to pretty much solve this problem. But then they dropped XMPP support and things got wishy-washy RE whether they were really going to provide a "full feed", Twitter decided to pull that effort back in house, and things have sorta been scattered ever since. I wonder how many people's machines we'd have to harness to reconstruct everything...
- Ken Sheppardson
I like FF a lot more than Twitter for a lot of reasons. Better for conversations, better visually for photos, better tools to hide/filter/lists, etc. I think it's a vastly superior platform to Twitter. That said, Twitter has the momentum right now and is more likely to make a jump to mainstream. The flurry of celebrities signing up is a very positive sign for this sort of jump for them. I could see where Twitter would want to keep a very close eye on what FF is up to as their most significant competition
- Thomas Hawk
As long as Twitter feels that they are keeping the competition of FF at bay, having as open a system and API as possible continues to build good will with the community. But if/when Twitter feels that FF becomes more significant as a competitor and within striking distance they very well might sacrifice community goodwill for a business advantage. Just speculation on my part. It would be harder (though certainly doable) for FF to grow their business with impeded access to the Twitter API.
- Thomas Hawk
How many Twitter API calls are needed to get a user's follows? Couldn't FFd offload these calls to it's users' twitter accounts if needed?
- Alexandros Georgiadis
I have actual historical usage data of Twitter and FriendFeed posted here - http://tinyurl.com/cq3ll5 - courtesy of the FF API.
- Brandon Watson
TweetLater now tracks keywords in Twitter tweets. It's a scaled-down version of the defunct IM/SMS track feature of Twitter. - http://www.tweetlater.com
Receive keyword alerts via email on a periodic basis.
- Dewald Pretorius
Just when you thought all the good ideas were taken ! - http://bigpicture.posterous.com/just-wh...
A few nice ones and a few worth a chuckle.
- Dewald Pretorius
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Joe Biden Is Obama's Vice Presidential Running Mate - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008...
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"The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning." ROFLMAO! What they meant is that they didn't want to be CAUGHT pre-empting.
- Dewald Pretorius
from Bookmarklet
Re: This is a test (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"This is a test reply. *echo* Hello (Sorry Dave, couldn't resist. My weird sense of humor took over.)"
- Dewald Pretorius
PostLater.com Reduces Its Monthly Subscription Rate to $9.95 - http://postlater.tumblr.com/post...
Thanks to the feedback of users.
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: louisgray.com: Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
"Jesse, I was one of the very early adopters of Laconi.ca and have created http://wheremomschat.com using the software. Not a lot of activity on the site yet, but it's there ready to be used. :) Dewald"
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: louisgray.com: Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities - http://blog.louisgray.com/2008...
"Jesse, I was one of the very early adopters of Laconi.ca and have created http://wheremomschat.com using the software. Not a lot of activity on the site yet, but it's there ready to be used. :) Dewald"
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: louisgray.com: Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities - http://live.louisgray.com/2008...
"Jesse, I was one of the very early adopters of Laconi.ca and have created http://wheremomschat.com using the software. Not a lot of activity on the site yet, but it's there ready to be used. :) Dewald"
- Dewald Pretorius
Your life will be flashed before your eyes | Technology | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though
- Cee Bee
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano.
- RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying
- Cee Bee
Re: this exact gizmo: see Vernor Vinge, "Rainbows End": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Phil Crissman
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work
- clarke thomas
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want!
- Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”.
- Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare!
- felix
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs!
- Hao Chen
wow. so cool.
- edythe
Very neat!
- Mitchell Tsai
WHOA!
- Sarah Perez
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some.
- Mark Forman
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart.
- Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P
- Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey
- Ranjit Mathoda
Interesting technology...
- Daniel Schildt
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply.
- Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve.
- 9000
Re: Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca moving at the speed of light - http://www.inquisitr.com/1799...
"Duncan, My http://wheremomschat.com/ site is one of the first niche implementations of Laconi.ca, focused on mothers. I've also created a federated microblogging directory, where owners of Laconi.ca sites can list their sites in the appropriate categories, to make finding them a bit easier. The directory is located at http://www.microblogindex.com/. Best regards, Dewald"
- Dewald Pretorius
Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca moving at the speed of light - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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I've created http://wheremomschat.com as a niche Laconi.ca site, and http://microblogindex.com as a directory of federated microblogging sites.
- Dewald Pretorius
WhereMomsChat.com - A federated micro-blogging service dedicated to mothers - http://snurl.com/2yqa9
Its powered by that opensource hosting one...isn't it?
- Nicholas James
Yeah, it runs on Laconica, which is what identi.ca uses.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Nicholas, yes, it runs Laconica, which powers Identi.ca
- Dewald Pretorius
Looking for a good, free antivirus program. AVG used to be my choice but it bugs me too much now. Any other suggestions?
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AVG had worn out its welcome. I gave it two in the hat this morning and installed Avira AntiVir. So far, it seems nice. It probably cut 30 seconds off of my XP startup time.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Looked at Avira but it doesn't seem to be free.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Avast!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from NoiseRiver
i use AVG for 3 years and i have never seen a virus problem. i like it so much..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
I've heard Avast is good, too. I grabbed the Avira Personal Free version just a couple days ago.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I'm not really sure how you even compare AV programs. I just snagged Avast! becaus it came up as the primary free alternative to AVG 8.0 (which is no longer free)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from NoiseRiver
Here is a link to the free AVG http://www.download.com/3001-22...
- Russellreno
Have been using Avast for about a year now, and absolutely love it.
- Dewald Pretorius
Another vote for Avast
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
and another vote for Avast from me
- Blake N. Cooper
AntiVir has a free version as well - I upgraded to the full version and haven't regretted it
- Steven Hodson
I use Avast, but I don't know if it's the best or not. It does the job
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm still paying for one ... and doing reviews on freeware ...
- Charlie Anzman
Avast works well for me and also has a Vista version, if you need that kind of thing
- Todd McKinney
My vote is for Avast. Been working great for us for the past 2 years
- Christian Burns
Re: Quick Laconi.ca update - http://www.orient-lodge.com/node...
"Aldon, I guess the \d+ and \w+ is unique to a particular Unix flavor. The [^/.]+ says, take everything that's not a . or a / between the character that preceeds the ( and the character that follows the ). It's more general and should work on all Unix flavors."
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: Upgrading to Laconi.ca 0.4.3 - http://www.orient-lodge.com/node...
"I agree. I just sent Evan a note asking if the source could be put on Subversion somewhere. Then it will be so much easier to contribute code by simply sending him the DIFF files. I've seen the code on Google Code, but I'm not sure how actively that copy is being used and updated."
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: Upgrading to Laconi.ca 0.4.3 - http://www.orient-lodge.com/node...
"That's good to know. I almost had an asthma attack when I saw that my database credentials could be read by anyone."
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: Upgrading to Laconi.ca 0.4.3 - http://www.orient-lodge.com/node...
"Also, it will be really helpful for us who don't actively contribute code, if you could stick to one central tarball. I downloaded 0.4.3 from laconi.ca, and therefore missed the enhancements that you've made. Not complaining at all. Thank you for your great work. I'm just recommending something that I think would make life easier for everyone who is very excited about this software."
- Dewald Pretorius
Re: Upgrading to Laconi.ca 0.4.3 - http://www.orient-lodge.com/node...
"Thank you for the instructions. There's something VERY important to add to the instructions, in big bold letters. Folks must change the permissions on dataobject.ini to 640, otherwise anyone can browse to that file with their browser and get your database credentials. Actually, one should change the permissions on all the .ini files. Alternatively, you guys should change the .ini files to .ini.php."
- Dewald Pretorius
TASCHEN Books: The Big Book of Breasts - http://www.taschen.com/pages...
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[NSFW if you click thru!] "Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes."
- edythe
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Now this is more my style. Thank you, Edythe!1!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
now this seems like a good read...errr...yeah
- Cee Bee
Taschen is one of the publishers i represent...a lot of their stuff is pretty interesting. have you seen the companion book to this, The Big Penis Book? (edit...just scrolled down a bit...oops)
- Trent Olson
@edythe have you noticed how asexual FF is? (your posts aside ;)
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
eric S.: trying to change that, one post at a time! ;)
- edythe
edythe - This is a welcome change of pace.
- Russellreno
Cheers cheers for the equal time, edythe....
- Chris Reed
This is never going to leave the front page of FF, is it? I'm surely not complaining...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
both of these books, would fit fine on the coffee table. same as Madonna's Sex book.
- clarke thomas
Oh dear.
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Interest in the topic is starting to sag.
- Russellreno
+1 For Russell :)-
- Peter Dawson
+2 for Russell hahahahha
- Mona Nomura
I'm now shelving my "lift and separate" joke, because it occurs to me that no one under 35 will get the reference.
- Roger Benningfield
The penis book thread keeps popping up above the breast thread. Insert joke here.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
Dunno why, I kinda like this one better ;)
- Rubin Sfadj
omg, eric s! :D
- edythe
Adding a comment so the boobs stop that big wang from jumping back in the stream.
- Steve Isaacs
Hurry Steve - Bump the breassts!! Oh wait.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
I had to comment because this thread needed some serious lift.
- Dewald Pretorius
Oh oh. The thread is sagging again. <cross-your-heart></cross-your-heart> There, that should keep it firmly up there.
- Dewald Pretorius
Of wartime pin-ups:"Sweaters proved the ideal environment for creative padding."
- Clare Dibble
So the game is afoot. It's a battle between breasts and penises. Whose body part will reign supreme?
- Chris Reed
I think the pandas are in the running too. This has gotten *really* weird.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
strangely enough, and i am probably as surprised as anyone, the penis book has gotten much more play.
- edythe
My - but a comment seems like such a good idea right now, I must say...
- Steve Isaacs
Edythe said "The penis has gotten much more play".
- Russellreno
Steve Martin said "If I were a woman I would just stay home and play with my breasts".
- Russellreno
@Russel Only for lack of a vagina book
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I for one am glad that we are starting to see a bit more of the real world in FF. I had to do my part to tickle the ta-ta thread.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
@Russellreno, about the Steve Martin quote, Personally, I don't limit myself to home. :)
- Anna Haro
Anna - I like the way you think.
- Russellreno
I miss this thread already :(
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
iPhone!
- Eric Schlissel
Twitter's model is very simple: "What are you doing?" What is FriendFeed's model? I suggest: "What is your opinion?"
Avdi Grimm, Eiwe Lingefors, Czar and Cathryn Hrudicka liked this
FF: What's going on? Identi.ca: What's up? (anything?) Twitter: What's down? (everything?) Plurk: What?
- Hao Chen
For FriendFeed to reach mass adoption by non-tech folks, they will have to narrow their focus to an easy-to-understand and very useful mantra. Right now FriendFeed looks overwhelming and all over the place to someone who is not tech-savvy.
- Dewald Pretorius
I think Friendfeed is more like "What are you bringing to the table?"
- Morton Fox
FF: Share something interesting
- Alan Le
Twitter: "What are you doing?" FriendFeed: "What are your friends doing?"
- Pat Hawks
How about a Joan Rivers: "Can we talk?!?!"
- Bwana ☠
LOL Bwana
- Hao Chen
Yes, plus FF keeps it organized!
- Franklin Naval
Identi.ca, open source does not mean, "we develop, you install." When are you going to put the source code in a CVS system so that bright programmers can contribute?
xero and Glenn Batuyong liked this
I'm sure I meant Subversion. Whatever. They're not helping themselves at the moment with their protective approach to their code.
- Dewald Pretorius
I'm just happy we are fragmenting the twitter whore tyranny. before was pure blue state leftist fascism. fragmentation = capitalism = less tyranny = good bye Chris Brogan!
- Noah David Simon
I'm sure you meant Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Doh! Just kidding. Yeah subversion rocks. I sure hope they provide something like Lighthouse for issue tracking.
- Glenn Batuyong
Porn appears on rugby programme - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Rugby Union officials report an unprecedented jump in the number of frustrated married men, who have shown no interest in rugby to date, who want to know the difference between a female hooker and a rugby hooker.
- Dewald Pretorius
from Bookmarklet
Pools gone wild - http://www.latimes.com/theguid...
If you're expecting Jello shots and beer in plastic cups, think again. These 21-and-over, publicly accessible pools are the daytime equivalents of glitzy dance clubs.
- Dewald Pretorius
from Bookmarklet
Re: The inevitable ticking time bomb awaiting Friendfeed. - http://michaelfruchter.com/blog...
Mike Fruchter liked this
"Michael, first off, I don't understand why people criticize you for writing this post. You've raised a valid concern. I've noticed that when someone invites you to a room, not only do you receive an email from FriendFeed, the invite is also stuck on the right-hand side of your FriendFeed page. That's one feature that I won't lose sleep over if they removed it. I trust that FriendFeed folks are working on anti-spam measures, because FriendFeed has the potential to be a spammer's wet-dream. Not only can spammers very easily push their content in the faces of FriendFeed members, they can also abuse the service for getting additional "followed" backlinks to their sites and pages."
- Dewald Pretorius
I wish we had the ability to filter out foreign language entries. Some folks post in both English and their native languages, so one wouldn't want to unsubscribe just because they sometimes post something you can't understand.
Hassan Ibraheem, Rishabh Mishra (p248), Brian Daniel Eisenberg and 6 other people liked this
I meant on FriendFeed, of course.
- Dewald Pretorius
Hi, I created a Greasemonkey script to do this job, would you like to try it out and give me some feedbacks? http://thetinybit.com/Project...
- Yu-Jie Lin
"Any sub-entry of entry is written in language which you don't want to read, then the whole entry will be excluded." Any way you can exclude only the foreign language comment, and not the entire entry?
- Dewald Pretorius
Can't download it..
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey "Install directly" points at wrong place, fixed, please try again.
- Yu-Jie Lin
@Dewald Pretorius That really is important to have, I will make it happen in next version.
- Yu-Jie Lin
@Yu-Jie Still can't download even after refreshing
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey http://thetinybit.com/Project... or download from userscripts.org http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Yu-Jie Lin
Is it just me? None of these links are working for me -- they don't even budge
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I think it's just me -- for some reason I can't install any GM script
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
why filter. . . couldnt we write some code to translate?
- Anthony
If you write code to on the fly translate Persian/Farsi and English back and forth, let me know.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
@Mike W May....i mentioned that a while ago but it never took...I really think FF should just ask you when you sign up, and that language you chose should be the proprietary.
- Anthony
Google Translate has an API. They can just hook into that.
- Dewald Pretorius
Just made an update that supports in-place hidden and few other things. If you are interested in getting latest version of this script, please bookmark http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Yu-Jie Lin
Yu-Jie, I'd be interested in FF translation GM script using Google Translate API...even if it is a bit slow.
- Hao Chen
@Hao Chen, ok, give me few days to try.
- Yu-Jie Lin
I would LOVE to see translation - it's a shame we don't look to that more. It's never the case that I don't "care" what someone says in a foreign language, I may just not understand.
- Vince DeGeorge
FriendFeed Translator: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Yu-Jie Lin
Currently "tweetdeck" is the #1 term on Twitter, according to Summize.com. It's higher than July 4th related phrases.
What does tweetdeck mean?
- dedlam
Googling it now. Sounds promising
- dedlam
Tweetdeck is a Twitter desktop client like Twhirl. http://snurl.com/2tzbp You can create groups to more easily follow people's tweets. Very useful if you're following a lot of people.
- Dewald Pretorius
Another Twitter clone, kwippy.com (http://www.kwippy.com), in invite-only mode. They have details of their scaling plans here http://snurl.com/2tn5d
Jerry Schuman, Alexander Williams, Ken Sheppardson and 8 other people liked this
More are coming.
- Louis Gray
I tried it out yesterday. Good features, UI is a little rough.
- Mack D. Male
Kwippy is nice and the devs are quick to fix issues... http://www.kwippy.com/czar
- Czar
Louis, this is one of two you know of coming soon, right? If you're there and interacting with the devs - word of advice - tell them to just go ahead set aside Scobleizer and avoid all that that involves.
- Vince DeGeorge
Kwippy's feature list looks like FriendFeed applied to Twitter.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Good advice for all social startups Vince!
- Devin Anderson
from fftogo
I'm releasing one soon. without any code. free. opensource. :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Nope. Still not going to work. Not much difference between them and Twitter other than switching Python/Django for Ruby. Next?
- Cyndy
directeur, is it going to be on Google App Engine?
- Dewald Pretorius
I predict Q3 will see 3-6 more clones. The next 2 will get a 5-10K user test drive like indentica is getting. The rest won't. Twitter stability will increase, XMPP and track will come back online. Google will launch Jaiku 2.0 or fold enough features into gtalk to make it a reasonable substitute. Twitter/Google will battle while the remaining effort congeals into an XMPP OSS architecture/ref imp. FF will learn to group by URL rather than tagger, improve their comment sys, and become the common dashboard.
- Ken Sheppardson
This isn't one I was thinking of, but I hear you, Vince.
- Louis Gray
Grouping by URL is THE implimentation change I'd love to see. All referents to a given URL should be in one place, filtered by who I subscribe to and what I like. As is ... there's dupe data everywhere.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
Dewald: Not necesserly. It'll be really distributed. free. standard and open :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
I'm willing to bet money that they use a relational database for this. Nobody seems to learn from Twitter's mistakes. (Of course I have no proof)
- Eric Florenzano
Here we go. The open source, build a better bridge game. I'm going to keep tally and see if the number of Twitter clones matches the number of Linux distributions.
- Bwana ☠
Eric: Kwippy says at Dewald's link "MySQL - a really fast database that can scale, all of us have experience with it hence the default choice." Uh.... yeah... good luck with that.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I really like your prediction. Won't be surprised if it turns out to be spot on.
- Dewald Pretorius
If they all support the OpenMicroBlogging specification (not that I'm sure that's great, but it's standard) then it's great if there are more open source Twitter clones.
- Michael C. Harris
There will be many standards to emerge and none of them will be compatible with each other. When it comes to open sourced projects, I'm a giant pessimist :)
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: You're pessimistic about open standards or open source?
- Eric Florenzano
directeur, don't waste your time with a Twitter clone. You've got a winner with NoiseRiver. It's scalable, being on G Apps. Ferret out every single requested FriendFeed feature, and build it into NoiseRiver. You won't regret it.
- Dewald Pretorius
Dewald: Oh thanks! :) No, Actually what I'm talking about is more a philosophy than a technology. It won't take me more than a week to implement, I humbly think :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Bwana, then we differ :)
- Michael C. Harris
Michael, with OpenMicroBlogging your scalability is not only dependent on your own infrastructure and architecture, but also on the latency of the web connections between your site and other nodes, as well as the infrastructure of those other nodes.
- Dewald Pretorius
+1 Dewald. It's like you have one operating system with SLOW (I say SLOWWW) IO operations
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Dewald: Totally disagree. Your scalability has nothing to do with the latency of your connection with other OMB-conformant feeds. Maybe your performance, but not your scalability. Anyway, you could say the same thing about RSS, but Google Reader et all do just fine.
- Eric Florenzano
Bwana, open source in itself offers no reason to be pessimistic. We're probably talking here on a Linux server. :-)
- Dewald Pretorius
Eric, I hear what you say, but if your performance suffers due to too many concurrent slow connections, isn't that a scalability issue?
- Dewald Pretorius
Dewald: I see what you're saying too, but IMHO you'll only have a scalability problem if you design your architecture poorly. With any of these types of services, you must rely on asynchronous processes to do the polling. So actually, you shouldn't even have performance problems, just maybe staleness issues, which is pretty orthogonal to scalability.
- Eric Florenzano
I like the disclosure of their scaling plans.. But what's with all these clones? They need to bring something extra and different to the table..
- Winston Teo
Eric, the primary scalability challenge with micro-blogging lies in accurately and freshly composing a user's subscribed stream. Unless one does predictive polling (at the risk of redundant bandwidth consumption), I don't see how one can get away from synchronous polling of remote servers.
- Dewald Pretorius
well at least they would have the verb "so and so just kwipped something of interest" - even sight unseen I'd be interested in seeing this one in action
- Steven Hodson
Dewald: Do you think that FriendFeed goes and checks all of my friends' services synchronously every time I visit the front page? No way. They've got asynchronous processes (probably distributed among many different nodes) which aggregate all of the relevant information and stores it in their own systems and data storage clusters. This is the same technique that the federated microblogging services could use--and my argument is that this type of system isn't inherently unscalable.
- Eric Florenzano
Is it time to create some sort of microblogging technology room to consolidate all these convos? Here? Google group?
- Ken Sheppardson
Eric, you're right. The only scalable federated microblogging architecture would be an XMPP PubSub per-user-feed model, with full local replication of the remote "tweets", plus local memcached implementation, so that presenting a user's feed consists only of reading from the cache when the user refreshes their page.
- Dewald Pretorius
Dewald: Woohoo! We totally agree :)
- Eric Florenzano
OK, who's going to set up the repository? Git? Subversion?
- Ken Sheppardson
What if you just use flat file logging for each user+friends feed? You could push items out via SMS and whatnot, but whenver someone requested RSS, Atom, or a web view you wouldn't need to hit a DB, you could just read straight from the filesystem?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: Totally, I'd do a folder for each user, and a subfolder each for their archives and replies. Then, getting their friends tweets is as simple as globbing the directory by date modified. Alternatively to that whole scheme, I actually think CouchDB could fit the bill extremely well too. But Dewald's suggestion of memcached could sit even between that layer, providing an even better performance win.
- Eric Florenzano
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