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DeWitt Clinton posted a message on Twitter

“@timbray Ooh, the sigma 30mm f1.4 is in stock at Amazon. Only a little more expensive than the Nikkor 50mm.”

13 hours ago - Link

Bought the 30mm on @timbray's advice. Thanks, Tim! - DeWitt Clinton

Mind boggling. 2 hours later I got an email saying it had already shipped from Amazon. Is there any reason to buy anything anywhere else? - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton favorited a video on YouTube

Intro to the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub)

Thursday at 11:04 pm - Link

Adewale Oshineye, haron (ничего личного), 59mm and Dion Almaer liked this

Joe Gregorio, editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol specification (http://bitworking.org/projects...), gives a video introduction to how the protocol works. Great intro to general REST concepts as well. - DeWitt Clinton

Or is that the AtomPub spec ;) - Dion Almaer

I was going to keep calling it AtomPub anyway. : ) - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton shared an item on Google Reader

Alternative blogging hosts?

Thursday at 11:14 pm - Link

"It's looking very likely that LiveJournal will soon start displaying ads on my posts: I'm using their (now-discontinued) "Basic" ad-free level of service, and they're proposing to replace it with an ad-supported service under the same name. It would be possible to pay for a service level that doesn't show ads, but I don't trust LJ management to maintain enough quality in their site that I'd want to pay for it. If they start decorating my posts with ads, I'll remove them and myself from LJ; but what to do instead?" - DeWitt Clinton

Any blog-hosting suggestions for David? He does a lot with mathematical formatting and images. - DeWitt Clinton

If social functionality of livejournal is not an issue, then wordpress.com should do. If I remember correctly, they even have some kind of migration tools for those who're desperate LJ refugees. And blogger.com as a second choice. - 59mm via fftogo

DeWitt Clinton shared an item on Google Reader

It’s Called AtomPub

Thursday at 11:12 pm - Link

ric johnson, Wade Dorrell and Adewale Oshineye liked this

"Next, we need a logo. Might Google or Microsoft, who are taking the lead in rolling out AtomPub-based services, be willing to dedicate some design talent to a candidate or two? Do any indie hackers with graphics skills want to play?" - DeWitt Clinton

Jim Norris posted a link

EliasFanoMonotoneLongBigList (Sux4J 1.0.2)

Thursday at 9:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kevin Scott liked this

"Given a (nondecreasing) monotone sequence x0, x1,… , xn − 1 of natural numbers smaller than u, the Elias–Fano representation makes it possible to store it using at most 2 + log(u/n) bits per element, which is very close to the information-theoretical lower bound ≈ log e + log(u/n). A typical example is a list of pointer into records of a large file: instead of using, for each pointer, a number of bit sufficient to express the length of the file, the Elias–Fano representation makes it possible to use, for each pointer, a number of bits roughly equal to the logarithm of the average length of a record." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Perfect for a posting list? - ⓞnor

lolwut? - Tad Donaghe

Seems like the only way to construct one, which presumably uses byte arrays underneath, is to pass it an iterator to copy the longs from. So you're using twice the space, at least for a while... - DeWitt Clinton

Ah, nevermind, you can add new values in incrementally. And it is serializable, so perhaps you'd persist and depersist it as well. - DeWitt Clinton

Here's the 1974 paper at ACM: http://portal.acm.org/citation... - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a message

“Coming up on two years without taking a break. Love to take a little time off, but have some big things coming out soon. Granted, I really just want a week or two away to write some code without distractions...”

Thursday at 9:10 pm - Link

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Having a couple of days of this week felt like 2 weeks. Amazing what expectations do to you. We need to move to Europe my friend ;) - Dion Almaer

If I can convince Switzerland that I deserve citizenship by virtue of geographic birthright, then I'm cleared to work in the EU and I'm right there with you! - DeWitt Clinton

Just take the time off. There will never be a good time and there will always be big things coming out soon. Two years without a break isn't good for you. - Erica Baker

Dion Almaer posted a message on Twitter

“How long did it take "f.me" to be picked up ;)”

Thursday at 9:09 pm - Link

Brad's easter egg in the Social Graph API is the 'fme' parameter. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a message on Twitter

“Demand better.”

Thursday at 4:06 pm - Link

Erica Baker and Cody Heitschmidt liked this

From airlines. - DeWitt Clinton

From operating systems. - DeWitt Clinton

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From congresspeople. - DeWitt Clinton

From yourself? - felix

From telecos. - DeWitt Clinton

From web browsers. - DeWitt Clinton

From summer blockbusters. - DeWitt Clinton

from Arby's drive through guy. - Cody Heitschmidt

From yourself +1 felix - Bwana McCall

From your environment. - Erica Baker

From your non-English speaking outsourced customer service rep. - Aviv

From your dentist. - Steve Ivy

From your domain registrar. - Erica Baker

From public transit systems. - DeWitt Clinton

From video game sequels. - DeWitt Clinton

Than supply. - Jim Norris

From our students. - possible248

From the EPA. - DeWitt Clinton

Kevin Rose dugg a story on Digg

Watchmen Int'l Trailer

Thursday at 2:30 pm - Link

Neil Bakker, Steve Weis, Dru Kelly, Haggis and DeWitt Clinton liked this

Ross Miller posted a link

Inhabitat » San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal gets the green light

Tuesday at 4:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Andrew Baron, Vadim Spivak, Raymond, Emily Miller and 18 other people liked this

Whoa, sweet - Amber

Does anyone recall any construction projects that turned out as impressive as (or more impressive than!) their concept sketches? - Dan Hsiao

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Golden Gate Bridge - Ross Miller

Great example Ross, I'm so stoked for this terminal! - D rek

Me too! It is definitely going to change the SF skyline... should be exciting! - Ross Miller

And with it being the endpoint of the California bullet train, this place really might become SF's Grand Central Station. It's almost a shame that they no longer have train tracks on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. (Yep, until 1963 when they turned the lower deck into more car lanes.) - Kevin Fox

Whoa. Our office is adjacent to that. So are some huge new fancy condo towers that are going up. Quite a revitalization of downtown SF. - DeWitt Clinton

l.m.orchard posted an entry on lmorchard

lmorchard: Again I discover that I'm probably one of the only weirdos who keeps OS X apps in $HOME/Applications/

Thursday at 11:05 am - Link

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Nope, I do that, too. Everything that I drag install myself I put in ~/Applications/. - DeWitt Clinton

/Applications is the old-school, Macs-didn't-used-to-be-multi-user-machines-or-even-have-logins, but-the-Mac-community-has-roots-there way. Resist the urge. - Wade Dorrell

I do that on work's mac, but not on my mac at home. QuickSilver abstracts my application location so it doesn't really matter. - George Hotelling

I do that. You are the only weirdo who says $HOME/Applications and not ~/Applications :) - Robert Cooper via twhirl

Paul Buchheit posted a link

.ME Domain Name Registration, Domain Transfers. Register your .ME domain here.

Thursday at 1:25 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Karim, AJ Kohn, .LAG, Sean McBride and 19 other people liked this

"Open Registration 7/17/08 8.00AM PDT Domains issued on a first-come first-served basis." I somehow doubt the good ones will be available though... - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

bite.me? - Andrew Smith

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techme.me - jon bradford

porn industry will have a field day - jon bradford

@Paul: You can find a list of reserved and premium names here: http://www.domain.me/index.php... - Mark Douglass

bite.me is already taken. Did a quick count and 3016 domain names are already reserved (for government or premium). FAIL. - Trebor Elbocs

The ones I want are still available. :) - Erica Baker

GoDaddy? Boo. - Jack Carlson

amaze.me :-) - AJ Batac

It seems every good names are already taken http://www.domain.me/index.php... - seman

Something fishy is going on. I tried to buy a great .me domain name months ago and my order went through. A few weeks later I was told I couldn't have it. And now it's coming up as a reserved domain name despite it not appearing on the reserved name lists. Hmm... - Tony Ruscoe

godaddy.asplode - Erica Baker

TECH.ME is available. I'm sure not for long... - AJ Batac

feed.me! - Muthu Ramadoss

Waiting for cart.godaddy.com... - Erica Baker

email.me - Igor Poltavskiy

Man, it's slow. And it doesn't seem to automatically stop the domain from being available. I think there's going to be a lot of refunds... - Tony Ruscoe

@Tony Call their customer support and they'll push them through. I just got 2 of my top 3. :) - Erica Baker

@Erica Does that mean one of the ones you registered was already taken even though you got an online order confirmation? - Tony Ruscoe

I just bought 3, got a receipt confirmation... but they aren't showing up on my account management list. hmm.... - Lindsay Donaghe

@Tony Not sure. I guess we'll see eh? - Erica Baker

Same here Lindsay. And the domains are still showing as available so I doubt I'm the only person to try and purchase them. Maybe they're just processing all orders for non-premium and non-reserved domains and then assigning them to the first person before refunding the rest... - Tony Ruscoe

Man, $20? That's a bit steep for a domain I'd likely never use. - Nathaniel Payne

Yeah mine are still showing as available too. Sad. :( - Erica Baker

godaddy is getting hammered. Still managed to get 3 - Andrew Smith

If you need some inspiration - http://wordnavigator.com/ends-... - Andrew Smith

And now I've received my email saying the domains I purchased were already registered. And yet it will still let them me buy them again. - Tony Ruscoe

Argh. Just spent 5 minutes registering a blatantly squatter domain on GoDaddy. I feel so dirty. - Steve Weis

Funny, GoDaddy claims google.me is available while domain.me politely shows whois info poiting to The Google. - Nenad Nikolic via twhirl

Yup. I "bought" authenticate.me, but then it was taken away from my grasps. identify.me is on the reserved list. Too bad. - Patrick Lightbody

I just bought one and have received the order confirmation,but still not on my domain list,and when I searched for it,it's still available for registering,WTF? - Joe Xu

Thought I had clinton.me -- went through the whole godaddy registration process successfully and everything. But an hour later I received an email saying it had already been registered by someone else on July 9. - DeWitt Clinton

Well i definitely got asparta.me but that was just one for kicks. the real one i want went to someone else but is still "available." :( - Erica Baker

Looks like most of the one word names are already taken by domain.me. Pretty pointless now, I must say. - Brenda McLaren

I did get dewittclinton.me. But now I have buyer's remorse. Why the hell would I want it? - DeWitt Clinton

I just spent 30 minutes searching and eventually registered 6 pretty cool domains, but 5 minutes later, 6 emails from GoDaddy saying the domains were already registered. Thanks for wasting my time, GoDaddy... Just goes to show that if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. - Mark Carey

yeah, the first three I registered came back failed... I registered some more in the mean time... and a few more to replace the ones that failed... So far 11 have failed. Still waiting to hear on 2 outstanding, but my hopes aren't high. - Lindsay Donaghe

i just registered ivegottabe.me -- now, to get the rights to the song... - Rob Reed

If it's been 45 minutes and no retraction email, can I safely say refute.me is mine? - Bruce Lewis

The #1 domain I wanted shows that its taken with no underlying registry data. I should hope that GoDaddy didn't do something evil with the .me launch but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. - Erica Baker

Interesting. The domain I wanted was available yesterday. Today? It's up for auction: https://auctions.domain.me/ WTF happened here? - Erica Baker

Benjamin Golub posted a message

“Does the new iPhone do location aware weather? So when you travel the Weather app would always know the weather in your area”

Thursday at 7:38 am - via fftogo - Link

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Holding your hand out the window works pretty well for that, too. - DeWitt Clinton

The weather app seems unchanged from the older iphone software, Benjamin. - J. Phil

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Hehe too true :P - David Adam

WeatherBug (free App) supports location features. - Bwana McCall

Yeah, the free app Weather Bug lets you add your current location. Although, I like the Weather app better - oddly no location awareness. - oops, should have reloaded the page before I commented! - felix

Weather Bug is good..so is wunderground.com iphone formated web pages - Jay Martin

Heh. Remember when WeatherBug was evil? I still have residual bad feelings whenever I read anything about them. - Erica Baker

Erica - me too. It insidiously hijacked a windows PC and was quite difficult to remove, and was relatively resource-heavy in addition to serving you desktop ads. It was almost as bad as Real Player, or its evil spawn, Real One. *shudder* - J. Phil

Is weatherbug good now? - Mike Wills

It's nice on the iPhone, though I still prefer Weather Underground's mobile website - Bwana McCall

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Did the alchemists actually believe that they could turn lead into gold, or was that just a good way to raise money to fund their labs?”

Thursday at 1:19 am - Link

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I have a similar theory about shamans. "I'm going to need to go on a spiritual journey for a couple of days..." - Paul Buchheit

They did. Like we truly believe in web2.0 - Phil Smirnov

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I think they believed the ancient alchemists could. Too bad we don't have rumors of cave men with iphones. - Ranjit Mathoda

Before people figured out the difference between compounds and atoms, maybe some alchemists really believed they could. I don't remember any concrete discussions of this though. Maybe it was just fund-raising/politics/vaporware? - Mitchell Tsai

Phil, that just hads me laugh. Thanks! - Piaw Na

common theory at one time was the earth was flat and the center of the universe... I guess part of evolution includes loosing faith in what can and can't be done or true - nick carrasco

It wasn't just lead but base metals - it was part of the theory that everything was linked and it was a question of finding the rights answers to transmute things. The other main goal was to find the elixir of life which would cure all illness and give youth. As Mitchell says, before a better understanding of how things were made it was belived that just about any substance could be altered with the correct process. - Colin Walker via fftogo

Sure, they was believed in... - Maysam

Paul, have you read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, particularly Quicksilver? - DeWitt Clinton

Modern-day alchemy is alive and well (or not so well at the moment) on Wall Street. Wall Street firms have made their money by taking typically under-performing assets and slicing and dicing them in to a dizzying array of products that get rated investment-grade (AAA) meaning sellable and gold. Humans will continue to try to produce gold from lead from now until the end of the species, guaranteed. - Morgan

DeWitt: Quicksilver made my head spin. It was an awesome book. Weird in places, but awesome nonetheless. I plan on picking up the rest of the cycle soon. - Harvey Simmons

Interesting question. Maybe the western alchemists were pragmatic but the eastern neighbors were more interested in immortality. I hope this is correct (from memory) - LPH

Regarding Quicksilver - the descriptions of phosphorous and its uses were worth the price of admission right there, DeWitt. - J. Phil

I find it amusing that now we really can transmute lead into gold, using a particle accelerator to knock three protons out of the lead nucleus, but the energy required to do so costs more than the resulting gold is worth. So though we can do it, it isn't very interesting. - Denton Gentry

I used to read Stephenson's books, but then they got too intimidatingly long. I guess I'm not a very fast reader. - Paul Buchheit

/upvotes Phil Smirnov's comment - Philipp Lenssen

Both. They believed that they could meet their goal eventually, if they did things right in the lab. Just like all of us. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

They wouldn't have believed in just about anything that happened over the last hundred years either. Alchemy would have seemed as plausible as a cell-phone or nanotech at the time. - Nicholas Molnar

This wasn't really a historical question so much as a reflection on their mindset. I just wonder to what extent they actually expected to create gold vs liked tinkering in the lab (and creating gold was a good way to fund their tinkering). The same personality types probably exist across different times and cultures, so it's interesting to think about what roles they will occupy in those cultures. - Paul Buchheit

don't know if you're going to get to the bottom of this on FF, but people believed some pretty stupid stuff back then. - Mark Schulz

actually it's been proven that if you smash one more atom of lead into a larger chunk of lead you get gold ... so maybe there were simply ahead of their time? - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

There were no doubt people who liked to tinker and just called themselves alchemists because it was the word that best described what they did, but I would have to assume that most of them thought their goals were achievable (and it is, just not with their technology). I suppose you could just as easily ask if televangelists really think they're acting on behalf of god, or if they just think it's a good way to raise money to fund their lifestyles? - Gabe Schaffer

I find organic alchemistry more interesting. bring back the dead. we can regrow old tissue? - Noah David Simon

If you are into Alchemist and Anime, you should watch Full Metal Alchemist. That got me started on wiki-ing the history of Alchemists. - Winston Teo

I guess there were at least both types of alchemists: those who expected to create gold and those who expected to monetize the expectations of others. I'm mostly interested in the third type. - Eugene

I have better analogy. Compare turning lead into gold with attempts to create AI - Phil Smirnov

It seems unusual to me that the salesman personality is crossed with the tinkering personality. But maybe it is less unusual that I might think. - Clare Dibble

@Winston - FMA FTW! - Yuvi

Clare: salesman + tinkering = Edison? - Gabe Schaffer

Yeah, just like people whose goal is to cure cancer, help people live forever, prove P=NP or whatever, they have to like to tinker for its own sake, because actually achieving their goal is very unlikely. But the people who just like to tinker, with no goal, rarely accomplish big things because big things are too hard. So I think the wacky goal and satisfaction from the process are both required in order to make progress. - Daniel Dulitz

Your post was surely not a serious question, but there were really many different groups of people which we have labeled "alchemists" after the fact; the quest for transmutation is a stereotype of ours and by no means a universal pursuit of alchemy. As far as I can tell, in those times and places where alchemists were funded, it was usually not for transmutation work but for more immediately useful contributions (explosives, medicines, paints, etc). - ⓞnor

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Nihilogic: House of Canvas - Radiohead meets JavaScript

Wednesday at 11:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"You may know that Radiohead has gone and done the awesome thing of making a music video using not cameras but LASERS and DATA! Rock! Using neat tricks and technology, they made a visualization of 3D data captured by their magic laser thing and turned it into a music video for their House of Cards song. And to make it even awesomer, they released some of the data that went into making this video on Google Code!." and "I figured it would be a nice little experiment to try visualizing this data using JavaScript and Canvas so I went and did just that." Wow! Via Dion. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Link to the JavaScript app with the HoC data visualization: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/r... - DeWitt Clinton

Werner Vogels posted a message on Twitter

“The one-click buy button in Amazon MP3 is killing me. Another 8 albums.”

Wednesday at 5:26 pm - Link

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uh, it's a good thing you work there then! :) - Marshall Kirkpatrick

seems like this is self induced on so many levels werner ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

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Good thing no one else can implement it. (Zing!) - DeWitt Clinton

Marshall: nope, just a regular customer... althought I do believe strongly in eating my own "dog food" - Werner Vogels

DeWitt: anyone can implement it. - Werner Vogels

Werner, you know I love Amazon like family. But I didn't realize it had issued a non-assertion covenant for the 1-click patents. Is that the case? - DeWitt Clinton

I was refering to that others have implemented it (e.g. itunes) - Werner Vogels

Apple paid a licensing fee to do that. : / - DeWitt Clinton

But let's not let that distract from the point -- 1-click buying and DRM-free Amazon mp3 shopping is *wonderful*. I've probably bought 50 albums there already. : ) [Edit, whoops, only a dozen... I thought more.] - DeWitt Clinton

The DRM-free part is addictive. I have multiple players that cannot take wma or aac. Not having to think where you can and cannot play content is the right customer experience. This weekend there was an album I couldn't find DRM free and I reverted back to ordering the CD instead of jumping through the other hoops. - Werner Vogels

I'm a BIG fan of Amazon MP3s. Any plans to move into subscription-based live streaming music? Pandora and Last.fm are cool, but limited mostly to folks in the USA. How do we take live music streaming via subscription-based services to a global audience? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

+1 to DRM free at all costs. If I can't get it on Amazon MP3 store then it is an old fashioned CD and Amazon Prime. Also super happy with the relatively high bitrates of the mp3 store. - DeWitt Clinton

Brian - as usual with questions about Amazon plans :-) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Werner Vogels

nathan posted a message on Twitter

“Twitter poll: what's one thing you do without, that everyone else thinks they CAN'T live without? (If you live in a city, don't say "car")”

Wednesday at 9:23 pm - Link

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bacon. - edythe

TV - Bjorn Tipling

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Television. I haven't been watching TV at home for a few years now. - Morton Fox

yeah, I saw a show about people like that. - rambn

+1 rambn - Chris Baskind

I do without meat, television, or [expurgated]. - Chris Baskind

There's a TV show about people who don't watch TV? - Morton Fox

iPhone? - Jordan Hofker

+2 rambn. ha. - edythe

Jordan: Dammit, man. We're not monks. - Chris Baskind

Diet Coke. - felicia

Moderation - J. Phil

Google News - LPH

Twitter - Mona N

iAnything - Michael W. May

Let me reiterate the ground rules here. NO CARS - nathan

coffee - RAPatton

The internetz? - Brian Ries

Nathan: OK, OK. I fixed it. ;-) - Chris Baskind

Money - Mo Kargas

meat. - Anthony Citrano

@Mo oh boy i can relate to that - nathan

Starbucks - Pete Delucchi

BLASPHEMY! - Mona N

I was SURE someone was going to say "children" - nathan

Television. - Parth Awasthi

Religion! - John McCrea

iPod - Phillip Jeffrey

meat - Doug Brooks

TV - Joe via twhirl

Twitter polls. - DeWitt Clinton

TV - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver

Alcohol - Tony

How fun. OK, I'll bite - a job. - Kim

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“full screen capture video of google's new search interface being tested with users. it's amazing. http://snurl.com/2zu5x”

Wednesday at 6:53 pm - Link

ric johnson, Derek Coatney, Brad Collins, Robert Scoble and 56 other people liked this

sweet! But seems a little dangerous. - shaun mclane

very interesting - Paul Buchheit

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very cool social search evolution, but like sellers on eBay over time you will severely disadvantage new sites with no rating - George Lee via twhirl

Those kind of ratings are often open to abuse and misuse - Sally Church

Intrigued by the option of saving my own comments. Anyone know how many characters fit in those comment boxes? - Noah Sussman

Google must have a solution to control abuse - Seth Garrison

I agree with Sally. This looks like it's making it too easy to abuse the search results. From the video I noticed that there were comments from "Unknown" users. If it's THAT open to editing, it's definitely going to be a spam-magnet. Let's wait and see... - Ricardo Vidal

over time an interface like this would really disrupt SEO efforts. - AJ Kohn

Reminds me of Friendfeed. - Jason Wehmhoener

This has so much potential. Sure it could disrupt SEO efforts, but that's a good thing. - Chris

Having comments must mean that other people can view them.. Anybody see conversations moving to another place? - Varun Pitale

Unnecessary clutter - LPH

Google wants to be everywere in the web and have everything. - Christian Van Der Henst via twhirl

It will be interesting to see how reliable these signals are. I know in the early days when the smiley face and frown face were available in the toolbar, there was some debate about whether those ended up having an inverse reliability. Meaning, spammy sites were being voted up by the spammers themselves. - Sacca

I liked it the first time they called it Digg - adolfo foronda

i don't understand the logic of allowing people to vote items down, on DIGG or anywhere else. it just allows for gaming the system. if you only allow voting up, it's much harder to badly manipulate results - Alensa via twhirl

everything that would add humane inteli. to the search results refinements (and therefor reduce SEO manipulations to minimum) will be great. - Naor

Instead of SEO manipulations we'll see marketing manipulations. - HollowMarkeD

Provided that spamming/gaming can be combatted this is a great idea. Think Mahalo with the restrictions: human search filtering but with all the rest of the results available as well. Not just an arbitrary selection based on limited opinion but a socially filtered list. It has big potential. - Colin Walker via fftogo

I've been wondering how Google would approach social search, and it looks very interesting indeed - all the features I would expect seem to be in place...totally agree with all other comments re: gaming though! - Iain Baker

It looks useful and is a decent progression for search - jon

not happy about this.... a search engine should not be a democracy - Noah David Simon

I can't imagine this fully rolled out. Too much invested already in 'quality' returns - Charlie Anzman

err, this is just like Wikia search - from the founder of Wikipedia - http://re.search.wikia.com/ - Sherif Mansour

this works at a twitter or ff scale, but can it scale to Google search scale? Google already uses a popularity based system, this is just adding another popularity metric. - Brad Collins via twhirl

Kevin Rose posted a message on Twitter

“just got my dungeons and dragons 4.0 books, do @ reply me if you are a DM in the bay area, putting together a pen and paper game soon”

Wednesday at 5:34 pm - Link

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I DM in the Bay Area, and I'm looking for a new game right now - Ryan Singer

Haha! I bought the books too, but I didn't expect to actually play. Just like when I was 11. Sigh. - DeWitt Clinton

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Read some of the books, looked like they are a pen& paper game designed to be a MMO game - Robert Hafer

I haven't played in years. Wouldn't mind giving it a go. :P - Bjorn Tipling

Hey Dewitt, I ran a weekly game in MTV until I moved to Munich. :-) - Piaw Na

I love geeks - Colette

Reminds me of 6th grade recess, would love to play again - Ryan

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

pymox - Google Code

Wednesday at 3:56 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Mox will make mock objects for you, so you don't have to create your own! It mocks the public/protected interfaces of Python objects. You set up your mock objects expected behavior using a domain specific language (DSL), which makes it easy to use, understand, and refactor!" - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

I love mock objects. - DeWitt Clinton

Blog post announcing it here: http://google-opensource.blogs... - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Official Gmail Blog: Updates to Gmail contact manager

Wednesday at 3:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"... we've come up with a solution that's rolling out this week. It separates your contacts into two groups: "My Contacts" and "Suggested Contacts". My Contacts contains the contacts you explicitly put in your address book (via manual entry, import or sync) as well as any address you've emailed a lot (we're using five or more times as the threshold for now).Suggested Contacts is where Gmail puts its auto-created contacts. By default, Suggested Contacts you email frequently are automatically added to My Contacts, but for those of you who prefer tighter control of your address books, you can choose to disable usage-based addition of contacts to My Contacts." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

This is good. - DeWitt Clinton

Steve Weis posted a link

Brief analysis of OSF Breach Data

Wednesday at 10:33 am - Link

Wow. I'm particularly surprised/disturbed about how much data is lost to hacks on external sites. - DeWitt Clinton

There are also a lot of compromised records from lost or stolen media and computers, which can be mitigated by disk-level encryption. - Steve Weis

Don't existing laws mandate encryption for personal records? And if not, why not? - DeWitt Clinton

Existing California laws mandate notification if personal data is leaked, but I don't think anything specifically requires encryption. PCI compliance requires encryption of financial instruments in certain scenarios. SOX generally is concerned with authentication of data, but might have some confidentiality requirements. I don't know if HIPPA specifies any encryption requirements. - Steve Weis

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MobileMe - Unsupported Browser

Wednesday at 2:10 pm - Link

"To make use of rich web applications in MobileMe, we recommend one of the following supported browsers: * Safari 3 or later (Mac / PC) * Firefox 2 or later (Mac / PC)" - DeWitt Clinton

So says Apple's MobileMe to my Firefox 3 on Linux. - DeWitt Clinton

The sad irony being that, because I just upgraded my Windows box to Ubuntu, I can no longer access my mac.com/me.com email. - DeWitt Clinton

Worse, the required credit card to sign up. The "overcast" warning is just the first barrier to me trying the service out. It's very easy for me to NOT sign up, Apple, don't make it harder... - Wade Dorrell

I set my 'general.useragent.override' preference in Firefox's 'about:config' screen and of course it worked just fine. - DeWitt Clinton

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Hulu - E3 '08 Live

Wednesday at 7:38 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Hulu has a great collection of videos from E3. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Of all of these, I'm most looking forward to Fable 2 (http://www.hulu.com/watch/2664...). While it may not be a great game, per se, I like Peter Molyneux because at least he *tries* to innovate and push the boundaries and