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Amazing Mystery Liquid! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Matt Mastracci liked this
This was new to me, the iodine clock reaction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- DeWitt Clinton
I saw a demo of a chemical reaction that alternated between two states in a regular fashion (clear and an opaque color, IIRC) if you mixed it. Wish I could remember more details about it. Edit- probably this one: http://video.google.com/videopl...
- Matt Mastracci
Cool. I like the video you linked even better.
- DeWitt Clinton
Moebius Transformations Revealed - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Joel Webber liked this
Demonstrates how the four fundamental moebius transformations can be visualized as a projection on to a 2D plane through a 3D sphere.
- DeWitt Clinton
chrismessina: SENATE DEMS REACH 60 VOTES FOR HEALTH REFORM http://bit.ly/75XXsX /via HuffPost - http://twitter.com/chrisme...
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a very watered down reform from what it once was though. Was it worth the effort?
- Ian May
60 votes for a toothless bill. No public option, no expansion of Medicare, no ban on lifetime coverage limits, Didn't they also remove the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions?
- Mark Trapp
No they didn't.
- Daniel Dulitz
from Android
@Daniel - really? Damn it. Did I just succumb to "retweet first, think later" myself?
- DeWitt Clinton
From http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009... : "And while insurance companies will be prevented from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions once the exchange is open..."
- Daniel Dulitz
Oh, good. I misread Daniel's comment as a reply to the original post (that the bill will pass).
- DeWitt Clinton
Sorry, I'm replying to Mark who has two things wrong. Not only is there a ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, there is also a ban on lifetime coverage limits. See http://www.slate.com/id... which says that the original Reid bill (with public option) didn't have them but the post-compromise bill fixes that.
- Daniel Dulitz
Also, the medical loss ratio for insurers must be 80-85% (up from ~60% which is required today). So I'm just not getting the opposition to this bill. Put forward another bill in 2011 if you think there will be more progressive votes then.
- Daniel Dulitz
Babysteps. I realize progressives wanted a forced bill via reconciliation, but it seems like it wasn't going to happen because of politics and the mid-term elections. The danger of a half-assed bill is it might make it harder to pass a follow on bill that ads some kind of public option (Snowe's trigger atleast had the promise of making it a requirement) The bigger danger is no bill at...
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- Ray Cromwell
So it seems the pre-existing condition denial ban is in, which is nice (though the it doesn't kick in for adults until 2014). But I haven't been able to figure out what they're allowed to *charge* -- obviously the ben would be toothless if they could charge whatever they want. Anyone know the details on that?
- Joel Webber
Pre-existing ban could be very big deal since they just red line patients based on the most ridiculous ailments. That practice really is the core of the uninsured crisis. Folks who can't get coverage for ANY price. How they cost someone who previously was denied for astma? I dunno some of it was so baseless hard to say
- WarLord
Yup. My brother falls into that category. Diagnosed with epilepsy when he was off insurance (granted, he shouldn't have been without insurance, but he was in that dead zone between being covered by my parents' plan and having a job that provided it). He's been uncovered for 20-odd years now, because no company in its right mind would cover an epileptic. But somehow opponents of reform...
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- Joel Webber
The price is capped at 3X, but they did slip in a last minute pseudo-public option.. The Office of Personnel Management (Government HR agency), will manage 2 non-profit private insurance plans that the public can buy into. With the loss ratios capped at 85%, mandates bringing lots of younger customers in, and the exchange market, one can only hope this will put downward pressure on prices.
- Ray Cromwell
3x? Not cheap, but I guess that's better than nothing.
- Joel Webber
How awesome would it be if Twitter ran a PSHB hub (http://code.google.com/p...) and put rel="hub" in their feeds? http://twitter.com/statuse...
James Tindall, Paul Buchheit, Michael R. Bernstein and 21 other people liked this
Twitter is just a few simple things away from running an open-standards based stack in parallel with their own stack. Neither is wrong, but there are merits to doing it over existing standards as well. Let's start a movement.
- DeWitt Clinton
A movement sounds great. I support you! :)
- Meryn Stol
As soon as Twitter opens up the firehose to everyone, someone can create a "mirror" of sorts that does all the right things PSHB-wise.
- Eric Florenzano
Eric, I don't think they'll provide the firehose for free anytime soon. I think that right now it's an important source of revenue for them.
- Meryn Stol
@Eric, are things like favorites in the firehose? What prompted this is that my favorites feed (http://twitter.com/favorit...) is still not updated on FriendFeed. All Twitter needs to do is stick a rel="hub" in there and run a hub (heck, they could use Superfeedr's or Google's) and sites like FriendFeed would get the fat pings instantly. A few hours of work and immediately the web would be better, faster, and more open.
- DeWitt Clinton
I say - let's do it!
- imabonehead
We can't... from the BirdDog content license - "5.ii.b - No Redistribution. Unless expressly authorized by Twitter, you may not distribute, sublicense, lease, rent or re-syndicate the Content or the Content Feed on a stand-alone basis, or display or perform the Content anywhere except on your Service." -- http://twitter.com/help...
- Ken Sheppardson
This has already been discussed on the Twitter dev list (between myself and John K.) - short answer was no. Looking for that discussion...
- Jesse Stay
Here it is - I was quite bummed by their response: http://groups.google.com/group...
- Jesse Stay
Best solution right now is for us all to develop a standard that copies Twitter's, get that widely used and adopted with open source software that implements it, and then when Twitter is in the minority, tag on a real-time layer to it.
- Jesse Stay
We (Superfeedr) are indeed working on that... it's not quite ready, but hopefully I'll have good news for early next week :) As a matter of facts, it works wuit well with user feeds already :) Search feeds are a little bit harder.
- Julien
Julien, what are you guys doing about the terms of Service? I thought Twitter didn't allow that.
- Jesse Stay
Per my link above, from John Kaluci: "Technically, someone could build a service to consume from the Streaming API and push into PubSubHubBub. This would be against the EULA though. "
- Jesse Stay
"5.ii.b - No Redistribution. Unless expressly authorized by Twitter, you may not distribute, sublicense, lease, rent or re-syndicate the Content or the Content Feed on a stand-alone basis, or display or perform the Content anywhere except on your Service." -- http://twitter.com/help...
- Ken Sheppardson
Here's my proposal - hoping you guys can join me: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse -- good read. Just to frame this, I'll be honest, I'm not all that interested an "OpenTwitter." (Though I am all for a more open Twitter, and have nothing against people that want to clone the Twitter API.) I think what they've done is neat, but it is only a small part of what can be done once we make the web itself better at low-latency distribution of content + federation of identity and social graphs.
- DeWitt Clinton
There's something much more powerful afoot than any single network or any single API. Think what could be enabled with Atom and RSS, PubSubHubbub (or rssCloud), Salmon, ActvityStreams, OAuth, OpenID, Webfinger, and Portable Contacts. That dwarfs any single thing we've seen thus far. In other words, don't think OpenTwitter; think bigger.
- DeWitt Clinton
Seems to me the real attraction of Twitter's API is as a *publishing* protocol, not necessarily as a way to consume streams. For that we have the collection/stack DeWitt mentioned. But allowing someone to push out what they're doing form their iPhone, Air app, etc., sure... OpenTwitter's a good option. And that's how the platforms like Wordpress, Tumblr, etc are implementing it, right?
- Ken Sheppardson
OpenTwitter could technically work on RSS. I'm thinking about a gateway of some sort that reads in RSS/RSSCloud/Atom/PSHB and publishes out in Twitter-compatible format so all the Twitter clients can understand it. I think it could actually work well with RSS, but for Twitter and others to adopt RSS, market forces are going to have to push them to do so. They're much more likely if we make it as easy as possible for the Twitter clients to do so.
- Jesse Stay
* rssCloud insufficient as a base for mublogging federation. * we'll support it for real time updates (as much as we can). * if there's more functionality added to rssCloud / and/or other protocols that we can use, we'll support and adapt to new protocols as they evolve. Regarding: xmpp pubsub * it's heavy (need server, etc.) * we'd like to have it, maybe we should implement, but not a high priority right now. http://status.net/wiki...
- A Mitchell
Thanks for the link to the OMB roadmap, A Mitchell. In general I like that direction -- identify and create the requisite underlying technologies, then build the special purpose (Twitter-like, microblogging, etc) services on top of them.
- DeWitt Clinton
Also, I should add that I'm only suggesting rel="hub" and PSHB support for the per-user feeds. The firehose is a different story -- I'm not asking for that -- it scales differently and has direct implications for Twitter's business model.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I agree, but Twitter didn't make it sound like that was happening any time soon when I asked in that thread above. You should bring it up again on the dev list though - I'd love to see that, yes.
- Jesse Stay
Mario Demo 1.0b | EffectGames.com - http://www.effectgames.com/effect...
"This is a recreation of a few levels from the classic NES Super Mario Bros., copyright (c) 1985 by Nintendo. It is intended only to showcase some of the features of the Effect Game Engine. The game is incomplete, and is just a short demo."
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
Impressive demo via @dalmaer of a JS/HTML5 game engine. But what really made me smile was "View Source" and looking at the uncompressed/unobfuscated script: http://www.effectgames.com/effect.... (Scroll down past the compressed section at the top.)
- DeWitt Clinton
Kudos to RWW for doing some actual, you know, *reporting* on their post about Joseph joining Google: http://j.mp/6VuP3n. Instead of just writing a personal opinion or some hand-wavy speculation about what the future might hold, Marshall talked to *real, knowledgeable people* and quoted their statements. Good for RWW!
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RWW is one of the few tech blogs with good journalistic habits. Even though they're not always (come to think of it, rarely) singing Google's praises, I still prefer Marshall's old-school work ethic over just about anyone else in the business.
- DeWitt Clinton
^^^^^ hmmm, maybe I should read them more often then - I'm old skool in this area ...
- A.T.
Often, as previously noted, such additional effort is not rewarded in a way that benefits the writer. It's recognized by a small, influential, minority, but that doesn't always impact the site or author the way they would like. I am glad that you care.
- Louis Gray
@Louis - I'm more glad that you care. : ) Thanks for investing the time to write about this on your site last night.
- DeWitt Clinton
Growing Grumblings on Tech News Don't Address Incentives - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Louis Gray, Meryn Stol, John μller and 6 other people liked this
"The question is, can we do our part, as publishers and consumers, to somehow reward those that do things right?" -Louis Gray. Good question, and good post.
- DeWitt Clinton
Seems like a challenge that Twitter and Google might be up to. Offering a social media search view that is influenced by "percent of unique content" rather than time since posting would be helpful for anyone who is looking for the greatest, not the latest coverage of a story.
- Bill Strathearn
If you had to consider yourself part of a Tech-Celeb's Halo, one of their minions if you will, whose stable would you be? Arrington? RScoble? Gilmore? (not by any means a complete or accurate list, just a couple names tossed out, don't limit yourself to them)
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I think I'd be a Leo Laporte Flunky......If I really had to pick.
- Matthew DeVries
Honestly, probably Louis Gray and/or Dave Winer (and I'm a big fan of Zee, too).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Kibo.
- Michael R. Bernstein
DeWitt Clinton
- Itachi
Depends on which one would be easiest to dethrone... personally... hmmm...
- Bette Cooper
I could see benefit of being a Louis Gray serf.
- Matthew DeVries
Oh good gravy. Kibo. That's some old school stuff right there.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Okay, fine, if you want someone *current*, then I suppose Doc Searls. ;-)
- Michael R. Bernstein
With a side order of Cory Doctorow.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I would choose Matthew DeVries.
- Louis Gray
You would be batshit insane then, Louis.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That is a narrow choice list. Those guys don't rep all the tech out there.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That wasn't an exhaustive list Eric - Fill in anyone you want!
- Matthew DeVries
None - I choose to cut my own course - but I would be close to Louis Gray and Michael Fruchter than anyone else.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I'm a tech celeb to someone? Wild. I'm flattered. But I'm just a boring old engineer in real life, really. If I had to list someone for myself I'd say Tim O'Reilly. I not only admire Tim personally, but I admire the very wide circle of friends and peers he has attracted.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'd actually take Johnny Worthington... He can keep the throne, I just want to bask in the sunshine of his beard's smile...
- Bette Cooper
I already have a geek crush on Louis Gray, thank you very much. Out of those 3, R. Scoble is the only one I've ever paid even the slightest amount of attention to. The other 2 are almost completely outside of my sphere.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rahsheen - consult the edited top post
- Matthew DeVries
Ned Ludd
- Eric Logan
Steve Wozniak...there's none better.
- Alex Scoble
Alex is lying. He's a flunky for Cristo.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ah, gotcha, MDV :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I be a Leo Lacky!
- Fee501st
For someone to follow? Greg Shields for the Microsoft space. Meaty tech.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
I'm not going to pin myself down, but this year the dark horse for me, and no one's mentioned him yet, is Tom Merritt. My only purview of him were guest spots on TWiT and now the Buzz Out Loud podcast. Even though the show's been on forever (podcasting timescale) and I've been late to the game, his summary and commentary on a broad swath of tech news is honed. You get the sense that next to Leo and LG, he's one of the hardest working tech journalists around (at least among the ones that resonate with me).
- Micah Wittman
Andy Ihnatko
- Johnny Worthington
Not quite on the same level as Scoble or Arrington, but I would say Allen Stern
- Curtiss Grymala
MDV i'm with you in the Laporte camp
- Chris Heath
Joaquin Phoenix´s. He´s tech-blogging now. Says he´s never going to rap again. But I guess that would be an UnStable. a-ha-ha :) Seriously though, Tim O´Reilly comes to mind.
- Thomas Bøhm
I'm voting with Louis Gray and/or Dave Winer too.
- JSLeFanu
Scoble I guess. Only one I've ever talked with for a bit (online that is).
- Meryn Stol
Leo Laporte.
- Jason Huebel
*Very* excited to be welcoming @jsmarr to Google, where he will continue to lead the way toward an open, social web: http://josephsmarr.com/2009...
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Working with Joseph over the past few years has been a blast -- he's one of the true leaders and inspirations in this space. Getting to sit next to him every day will be just that much better. Welcome, Joseph!
- DeWitt Clinton
Heard on NPR: "Just 52 executions in the US in 2009." I don't think "just" is the appropriate word there. In either sense.
Victor Ganata liked this
Story here: http://www.npr.org/templat...
- DeWitt Clinton
Don't worry. Save some time. Your story doesn't need a shred of truth to it. It will be retweeted just the same.
Mark Trapp, Michael R. Bernstein, Dan Morrill AKA Techwag and 9 other people liked this
The problem with everyone being a reporter is that almost no one really is one.
- DeWitt Clinton
That is true. But it is also very hard to solve. Traditional reporting, which takes more time, is not rewarded in this new media environment. Also, criticism of sites or individuals who routinely make errors is often done without names or volume, which doesn't draw attention to it specifically, so they keep going.
- Louis Gray
Today's tech blog world (where I assume this is aimed) rewards speed and humor more than insight and interviews. Opinion trumps fact, and LOLcats or movie posters are accepted graphics more often than original screenshots. I think about this a lot, and it at times impacts my frequency. I don't want to play the game.
- Louis Gray
Louis, you're one of the (much) better ones. But this was less about bloggers and more about "mainstream" tech magazines. I saw a post yesterday that started "Google is ...". Really? Are we? Want to cite even a single source? But that didn't stop them, nor hordes of people from quoting it as if it was grounded in truth. Drives me batty.
- DeWitt Clinton
Purely functional data structures - Chris Okasaki - Google Books - http://books.google.com/books...
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The book as evolved from Chris Okasaki's thesis, available in full at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh... (start with the thesis). Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Purely-.... More of Okasaki's work at: http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs.... Via Rich Hickey on the Clojure mailing list.
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
One of the coolest functional data structures I've seen, but one that is not really covered directly in that book is Finger Trees. I believe the basic concepts that are the building blocks of discovering finger trees are there though. There is definite beauty and elegance in functional programming. (although I prefer MLish/Haskellish syntax to parentheses run amuck), Clojure impl: http://github.com/Chouser...
- Ray Cromwell
Okasaki's blog post about the book 10 years after publication: http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008...
- Gary Burd
@Gary - nice. BTW, we should find a project to collaborate on sometime (in my oh-so-copious free time). Curious what you're up to these days.
- DeWitt Clinton
Open source EtherPad promised 12/5. Open source EtherPad delivered 12/17: http://code.google.com/p.... Wow.
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Via @bear (http://twitter.com/bear...).
- DeWitt Clinton
This also has the distinction of being, I believe, the largest open source contribution of Scala code by Google. : )
- DeWitt Clinton
an amazing transformation from closed-source to open. You can see why Google is interested in them, they were already doing great things in Java and that's primarily what Wave is written in.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Are you sure, Amazon? Frequently Bought Together: Gaming Storage and Furniture Ottoman, Ergonomic Ice Scraper, and Lego Indiana Jones Fighter Plane
Felicia Yue, Laura Lou Who, Mathew™ one of a kind and 8 other people liked this
For certain values of "frequently," such as "once."
- Stephen Mack
For that price, how could you go wrong?
- Louis Gray
It's self-perpetuating. I mean, I couldn't resist ordering after seeing Dan's post. Damn you, Amazon.
- DeWitt Clinton
Pack me that !
- Desirade
Sigh. Someone signed up for a Facebook account with my email address and the "if you think this is an error" link does nothing.
Vadim Spivak, Alex Scoble, Victor Ganata and 11 other people liked this
What's interesting is that Facebook doesn't make you wait until you confirm your email address before you can start using the account. So I'm seeing her add friends, get messages, etc. The "if you are receiving this in error" link in the email takes you to a "Report Abuse" page, which has a button that does nothing but return you to the Report Abuse page.
- DeWitt Clinton
Spectacular fail.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
People have signed up for so many services using my email addresses. I'm amazed by how many services don't require confirmation of the email account — including banks!! I'm getting people's bank statements and the bank ignores my protests.
- Amit Patel
Reported the link not working correctly as a bug. Let me know which email address of yours it was and I'll try to get it sorted out.
- David Recordon
Thanks for looking into this, @David. The email address they signed up with is 'dewitt' at gmail, which I don't use myself, but it forwards to my normal account. But the real bug isn't the Report Abuse form, of course. Why not verify email addresses before enabling the new account?
- DeWitt Clinton
The link is now fixed.
- David Recordon
Rock on. Thanks, David!
- DeWitt Clinton
David, this problem is back. I received another sign up email (this one to a different address). When I clicked on the "If you are receiving this in error " link I got the following message: "The confirmation link you have entered has expired or has been copied incorrectly. Please copy and paste the full link you received in the confirmation mail. If this still doesn't work, you can...
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- DeWitt Clinton
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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"We are now making this tool available to the public on Google Labs. To try it, simply visit browsersize.googlelabs.com and enter the URL of a page you'd like to examine. The size overlay you see is using latest data from visitors to google.com, so this should give you a pretty good indication of what parts of your UI are generally visible and what aren't."
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
Visit the kickassitude at: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
- DeWitt Clinton
There is an odd perception bias with pages that have a floating width layout. If you visit the tool in a very large screen, it makes it seem as though the content is out of the normal view, but if you re-size the browser down to that view size, the content floats back into the visible range.
- Bill Strathearn
why is this not part of the Google Analytics suite?
- Gabe
Gabe, that would be awesome. However, Google Analytics currently only includes stats for screen resolution rather than browser window size.
- Tony Ruscoe
Twitter: A half dozen RT's and a few stars.
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Friendfeed: A dozen likes and several dozen comments.
- DeWitt Clinton
Facebook: <crickets>
- DeWitt Clinton
Facebook would be similar to FriendFeed
- Jesse Stay
Look at my FB stream. Every tenth post gets at best a "like". Those same messages start involved discussions on FriendFeed. And on Twitter, well ... people sure like that "RT" button.
- DeWitt Clinton
Myspace: A half dozen emo's and Rupert Murdoch
- Mo Kargas
Baker's Dozen: 2 half dozen buns and one more
- Mo Kargas
(Haha for your edits, Mo!)
- DeWitt Clinton
LOL I know, I suck :D
- Mo Kargas
Dewitt, you're right - there is much less activity on Facebook than on FriendFeed per capita
- Jesse Stay
at least in my experience
- Jesse Stay
I still think about what FriendFeed did right, and why it was so conducive to building discussion. Three things stand out: 1) long(ish) form comments, 2) blazingly fast UI with instant feedback 3) the ability to edit comments.
- DeWitt Clinton
And starting with a sharp tech-focused community that eventually grew to encompass more of the real world.
- Louis Gray
That didn't hurt, Louis. But there are parts of the FF graph that are entirely unconnected with the original clique (in the graph theory sense of the word) that also mirror the conversation pattern, such as the various thriving international audiences. To me this suggests that the conversations were inherent in the platform itself, not just a reflection of the founders and their friends way of using it.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I agree - I think Twitter got first mover's advantage (FTMP), while FriendFeed took it to a whole new level. They are still early in this level of communication, and others will continue to emulate. It will be interesting to see, with its continued growth, if Facebook sees this and decides to push it as its own product or integrate the technology into its own platform or both.
- Jesse Stay
FriendFeed selling to Facebook was sad. Maybe Gravity will take it the rest of the way. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Tracy
timbray: Now dead: Comet, long-poll, Ajax, keep-alive. Killed by Web Sockets, says Joe Armstrong: http://is.gd/5q9TO - http://twitter.com/timbray...
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Yes and no. Clearly WebSocket provides a clean, efficient implementation of all these things we've been hacking around. On the other hand, we won't be able to throw away the hacks until WebSocket is widely supported. Which will be a while.
- Joel Webber
Though I suppose if your goal wasn't to support all browsers back to IE6, but just modern browsers, then you could build a specialized service that depends on WebSockets very soon. Clearly something a Google or Yahoo couldn't do, but maybe something a startup would do to innovate quickly with cutting edge functionality. Honestly, if I just wanted to build a fun and functional site for a small tech-savvy demographic, I wouldn't shy away from requiring modern browser capabilities.
- DeWitt Clinton
Fair enough, but to be clear, we're talking about *all* IE's, up through 8. I.e. (no pun intended) 70-ish % of clients. IE 9 TBD, unfortunately.
- Joel Webber
Chrome Frame?
- DeWitt Clinton
Sounds good to me. If we can just get everyone to install it...
- Joel Webber
Socket can be implemented in flash and work in all major browsers (see Juggernaut Ruby on Rails plugin as an example, http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/ )
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
I think application programmers should get together and join a "bleeding edge" consortium that agrees to freely implement the latest web standards and require the latest technology to access it. As is, sites are reluctant to deny access to users with legacy tech because they know those users will jump ship to the competing site. If all the competing sites in one space (social media, news, etc) all made the requirement at once, they may actually begin to make a dent in new browser version adoption.
- Bill Strathearn
Bleeding/Cutting Edge? How about the 'Open Razor Group'?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Its still a shame there is no provision for binary/blob data, this makes implementing stuff like video/audio streaming problematic.
- Ray Cromwell
Incredible momentum for OpenID in 2009: http://openid.net/2009...
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"There are over 1 billion OpenID enabled accounts." That's a lot of accounts.
- DeWitt Clinton
How many actual logins using an OpenID?
- Cliff Gerrish
@Cliff - hard to tell because by nature it is distributed and there is no single place to count them. I use mine wherever I can.
- DeWitt Clinton
Do you think there have been 1 billion users authenticated using OpenID during the lifetime of the standard?
- Cliff Gerrish
I doubt that there would have been 1 billion logins. To get to that kind of number you'd need a lot of OpenID consuming sites (relaying party), especially ones that don't offer other options. But this is a chicken/egg problem, and now there is a chicken :)
- Nick Lothian
What is your XBox Live gamertag?
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I've just signed up and mine is koltregaskes. My profile is is on http://live.xbox.com/member....
- Kol Tregaskes
Add me if you like. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone got a gamertag?
- Kol Tregaskes
I just sent you a request
- Admiral Anika
Kerjo
- Jordan Hofker
Thanks, Anika.
- Kol Tregaskes
Pretty Mattie K
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Susurrant Echo. Just sent you a friend request. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
bizsumpark182, I'll be looking for your request.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Actually I just went ahead and sent you a request.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Matthew I'm going to send you a request.
- Admiral Anika
Ack one day I'll actually get my XB360 hooked up to the LAN. Wish there were more hours in the day. I even have 3 mos of the "Gold" as part of the HD promo.
- mikepk
Thank you all, I've added and requested you guys.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm ricin97. http://raptr.com/ricin
- donato
"podcatcher". Question to ponder for the weekend: what's the significance of the tag? ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
NoNameNoSlogan
- Rob Haas
Keep 'em coming. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
pretty sure mine is ahr19
- Amani
ITBlogger Glad to see you bought a 360...you won't be disappointed. I sent you an invite.
- Alex Scoble
Actually I added everyone else too...so if you see a request to add ITBlogger, that would be me. Hopefully one of you has a higher gamerscore than me...I need a new goal. :)
- Alex Scoble
Amani, there was certainly a user with that username, added. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
unto
- DeWitt Clinton
Alex, added, thank you. Yes Xbox is great, my brother and I have been playing co-op Call of Duty, shame we have to start from the beginning every time - how can the publisher/developer have omitted that feature.
- Kol Tregaskes
Alex, cool! Just got your request, and will respond as soon as I get back to the dashboard. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, you can do it on the Xbox 360 web site too: http://www.xbox.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
I've added you all. Here's my profile: http://live.xbox.com/member...
- Admiral Anika
shreddies
- Joe Dawson
I like shreddies for breakfast, but I don't have an Xbox :)
- Ian May
Thanks, Anika and Joe. Ian, you *need* to get an Xbox, shreddies are no replacement. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Rjcc
- Richard Lawler
Thanks, Richard.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just found this thread - invites heading your way from GiantMarlight
- Andy Bold
I added you too Kol :) - lonelycoo
- Simon Wicks
Lofty Donkey
- Kevin Bondelli
ahr19 is mine.
- Amani
rbml77
- Rutger Blom
jungleg68 here. Some more users here: http://friendfeed.com/jungleg...
- Jorge Escobar
Rodfather74
- Rodfather
Don't have an XBox, but I do have a gamertag...which I can't remember..
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
My Gamertag is shreddies
- Joe Dawson
JemmFI
- Jemm
Enchanted Dream, but I hardly ever play
- Nia
Added you all, thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nuvalo
- Bwana ☠
bulletRidN
- Kevin Pedraja
Thanks, Kevin. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Added you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for doing this Kol. Good idea.
- Kevin Pedraja
dgrove21 -- This may solve a problem -- only one person I know who has an XBOX 360.
- Danny Groveman
Added a few of you peeps last nite. Don't be shocked by the random invite.
- Kevin Pedraja
I don't have an XBox but I thought it was the same as the windows live thingummy.
- Ian May
Bumping this again.
- Kol Tregaskes
Welcoming Google Fusion Tables to our growing family of developer APIs: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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"Are you a data exhibitionist? Put your data in Fusion Tables and make it available for the world to see!"
- DeWitt Clinton
Rich Hickey and Clojure are raising funds to sustain open source development. I donated. Thank you, Rich! http://clojure.org/funding...
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Rich has given so much to us -- taking a self-funded year sabbatical to create Clojure as a free, open source project -- that I feel it is the least we can do to donate what we can to help him continue. I use Clojure only as a hobbyist, but I still donated. Businesses with a vested interest in Clojure's success should be generous.
- DeWitt Clinton
Glass houses and all, but seriously? How could this get past a launch review? http://blog.plurk.com/2009...
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Lest people accuse me of having a selective memory, there was an earlier case where Google (accidentally, from what I hear) launched a page clearly copying Yahoo: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog.... Though this case is (much) worse -- it looks like the entire app's design -- and the code! -- was copied.
- DeWitt Clinton
Amazon moves the needle yet again: Auction market pricing for as-available EC2 compute resources: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009...
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Genius.
- DeWitt Clinton
2009 has been a good year for languages. Clojure 1.0, Go, C# 4.0 beta, Python 3.0 (and Unladen Swallow).
Vadim Spivak and Tracy liked this
Looking forward to C++0x, Java 7, and ECMAScript 5 in 2010.
- DeWitt Clinton
Which is better to watch Netflix Instant with, Xbox 360 or TiVo? Does Netflix stream 1080p content to any device yet?
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Netflix has "HD" movies that look a lot like 1080i. For streaming, they look great to us. And we haven't had any issues with jerky or pixelated playbacks. Hopefully Comcast won't start to throttle us or something if we start watching a lot of stuff. Forgot to mention that we're on a PS3.
- Ginger Makela Riker
I don't have an Xbox so my opinion is pretty much useless: it works great on the TiVo.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think they stream at 720p. Netflix on the Xbox is great. It has a party mode which is kind of cool. You can watch movies with other people.
- Rodfather
I use the 360. I like that you can search for movies from the interface. Currently theyonly stream 720p I believe. Although can use Zune for 1080p streaming.
- jamar78
oh ok...didn't realize they went up to 1080i
- jamar78
I don't know if it's truly 1080i -- but it feels like a little better than DVD quality. And it's not like watching standard def TV on an HD TV, which is what I thought it would look like.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Interesting. I tried Netflix on TiVo. It works fine, but I'm surprised there's no way to find and play movies directly. You have to put them in your instant queue from a computer.
- Cristo
Chris, my husband said the same thing about no search. Running to your computer to find stuff isn't ideal.
- Ginger Makela Riker
I watch it on my blu-ray player - no fan sounds and pretty good quality
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fan sounds don't bother me these days. I've got all the equipment in the media closet except for the displays. :)
- Cristo
I watch it on my Bu-ray player too but don't care for the interface. Also you can't search.
- jamar78
Cristo, ah, in that case I like the Xbox interface better because of things like the Xbox Live parties, and all-in-one solution.
- Jesse Stay
It sux non HD
- orionstarr
from iPhone
Actually, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p are all considered HD. It's just that 1080p is higher quality HD.
- Cristo
Hey, if you watch part of a Netflix Instant movie through TiVo, and you want to switch to another movie, does it remember where you were in the first movie so you can start where you left off later?
- Cristo
Ahh I see...
- orionstarr
from iPhone
xbox lets you choose movies directly. Just top 50 per category but is much better than when it was nothing. I'm really happy with netflix on xbox. Netflix needs a lot more streaming content though.
- Hayes Haugen
We hooked a Mac Mini up to the TV with DVI/HDMI and run Netflix and Hulu in a web browser. Same price as an Xbox basically, and you get a whole computer, including iTunes. Highly recommended.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, how's the sofa U/X for that? Are you using the Apple remote?
- Cristo
The PS3 Netflix interface is nice. It lets you browse movies via genre, top 50, recommended, etc Quality is dependent on your connection, but I think it will do HD (720p).
- Daniel Sims
Netflix still only does 720p as far as I know.
- Alex Scoble
Ha, no. The apple remote is unusable. We use a Logitech diNovo Edge: http://www.amazon.com/Logitec.... The trackpad isn't perfect, but it's good enough.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I have one of those too. It's huge though. I guess what I was asking was, can you just use Frontrow to drive watching movies, or do you need a pointing device?
- Cristo
Good question. I'm not using Frontrow. We just grab the keyboard and use the DVD player or the browser directly. I found the Frontrow UI to be too laggy to be enjoyable.
- DeWitt Clinton
The Apple TV interface seems to work fine, which I think is based on the same software. In my case, I don't really need to choose just one solution, because I have Mac mini, Xbox 360, and TiVo. I was just curious which people liked best.
- Cristo
You can also use Play On to access Netflix (along with Hulu, CBS, your local lib) through the Xbox, Wii, and PS3. It's not as nice as the Xbox interface, but it's another option.
- Rodfather
I'm thinking of dedicating an old Apple TV using Boxee for Hulu, etc, provided it's available. I don't think I'm blocked from any content, so now it just comes down to how you want to pay for it, and the UI for interacting with it. The only caveat to this would be DirecTV, which we don't have in our building. Being able to watch any NFL game would be nice.
- Cristo
I use Playon for Hulu on my Xbox - love it
- Jesse Stay
plasTeX — A Python Framework for Processing LaTeX Documents - http://plastex.sourceforge.net/plastex...
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"plasTEXis a collection of Python frameworks that allow you to process LaTEX documents. This processing includes, but is not limited to, conversion of LaTEX documents to various document formats. Of course, it is capable of converting to HTML or XML formats such as DocBook and tBook, but it is an open framework that allows you to drive any type of rendering. This means that it could be used to drive a COM object that creates a MS Word Document. The plasTEX framework allows you to control all of the processes including tokenizing, object creation, and rendering through API calls. You also have access to all of the internals such as counters, the states of “if” commands, locally and globally defined macros, labels and references, etc. In essence, it is a LaTEX document processor that gives you the advantages of an XML document in the context of a language as superb as Python."
- DeWitt Clinton
Now Is It Facebook’s Microsoft Moment? - http://daggle.com/faceboo...
Danny sums up just about everything I was thinking, including the conclusion. Though I wouldn't call it a "Microsoft Moment," which is a unnecessarily provocative phrase that means nothing, really. -- it's just a usability/policy/business challenge. Another big one, sure. But not a company defining moment by any stretch.
- DeWitt Clinton
However, if you want to see a company jump over a shark, watch this: http://www.break.com/usercon... : )
- DeWitt Clinton
If Twitter didn't have anything to do with producing that video, does it still count as 'shark jumping'?
- Michael R. Bernstein
@Michael - yes. : )
- DeWitt Clinton
How about this, then?: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Michael R. Bernstein
Or this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Michael R. Bernstein
Or this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch... ;-)
- Michael R. Bernstein
@greggish1 -- I've never seen or heard of anyone claiming a copyright on an API. To me, it's like a contract, and you can't copyright them.
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I lend a little background and color to this statement here: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt.... Technically Dave's right, but there's more to it than that.
- DeWitt Clinton
You *can* copyright an API's docs. And trademark its vocabulary. And hold patents that read on implementations. That's why we have licenses.
I didn't have room for a CC on that tweet, but it is re Dave's tweet at http://twitter.com/davewin.... Which is literally correct (IANAL, but Dave's right in that /implementations/ aren't covered under copyright), but it is looking at the wrong thing, especially in the WordPress use case. While I do believe (at least hope!) that Twitter is going to license the API, and I don't personally think they'd go after anyone today (even though they could), there are several areas of intellectual property that apply to APIs by default. A quick way to understand some of those questions is to read through: http://j.mp/63vjPw. (Only takes a minute, but I think it is pretty clear.)
- DeWitt Clinton
Also, I should point out that Twitter has acknowledged the importance of this, both publicly and out of band. The general counsel of Twitter is a smart guy -- he's not working on this for fun, or to humor people like me. : )
- DeWitt Clinton
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