"NBC is waiting to show the ceremonies until prime time, one of several marquee events not being shown live. Unofficial video, though, has popped up on other sites." - tech.newsjunk.com
The best part about living on a border town like Detroit is that I have already seen the CBC coverage of the opening ceremonies. SPOILER ALERT: There were fireworks. Lots of them. - Derek Coward
I'm still trying to figure out a reason to use identi.ca. Playing around with it. We'll see. - Dennis Jackson
I don't understand why it was launched WITHOUT a Replies tab in the first place... - Mark Douglass
I agree with Dennis Jackson, minus the "playing around with it" part. - ChaCha Fance
Yes, it lacks some basic features, especially if people are looking at it who are coming from twitter. Not having replies really annoys me, enough not to use it. - jjprojects
GOOD, that is an essential feature... neat to see it growing so quickly - not only with users, but also features - Susan Beebe
Yep - looks like identi.ca has been built correctly so far too. It *appears* to be scaleing up nicely after a few slow days early on. - Jonathan Beckett
@critics: Identi.ca is worth supporting, because it is open source. The very reason means that it has the potential of attracting third-party developers that create plug-ins, improve the platform or simply host their own Identi.ca-installations. That's a huge thing. Think about Firefox: It is based on Mozilla/Netscape's code, which was created. AOL didn't do anything with it, but others came and created Firefox (and Flock, Sunbird, Songbird, etc.) because it is open. That's Identi.ca's biggest feature. - sebmos
sebmos: I'm still learning about Identi.ca. Your comment kind of pushed me back on the site to research it a bit. I can see this going somewhere. :) - Dennis Jackson
Replies tab on Indenti.ca is big. I'd also like to be able to export my subscription lists. Edit/delete would be nice too. - Jeff Evans
Nice to see this feature already. I was talking to the dev yesterday and was asking if I can jump in and provide a solution for it. Cool to see that the guy already did it himself :-). - Alex Popescu
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Mark Douglass - Twitter launched without a replies function as well, you know. And it took a lot longer than a few days for it to arrive. - Earle Martin
So if we wildly extrapolate identi.ca's usability increase, it could potentially surpass Twitter in 3 months and Friendfeed in 6. The question then is: will users migrate and become critical mass on the new service? By now we know that critical mass is more important than QoS, as evidenced by the bird and the whale. - micronauta
identi.ca is irrelevant. It's a step backwards from FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
Whoa, that must of been some seriously shitty software before now, but still shitty I see? - Andrew Baron
This still is not the distributed version you wanted Dave. And I -with all the respect I owe to its makers- don't think that it will success if all the twitter crowd come in. I hope I'm wrong - directeur
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I think Replies is a setup in the right direction. In fact. it might be the main step. Awesome. - Andrew Ruess
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Agree with Alan Le. identi.ca doesn't seem like much of an upgrade. It's a distraction from a better solution - getting everyone over to FriendFeed. - Jon Galloway
Yep, i'm with Jon there... I really don't see the fuss Identi.ca . Why are we getting excited over replies...ridiculous. - Zee from WeDoCreative
These products are all so new. There's plenty or room for experimentation. - Harry Myhre
Thanks, Dave! And thanks to everyone who had comments and critiques. I know that people have a choice in which service to use. I'd like to make sure that a) the software has features equal or better to other µblog sites b) the architecture is truly scalable -- from small commodity web hosting to >1M user megaservices. - Evan Prodromou
Does not do much for me as I have Firefox clean out my private data every time I close it out. Very useful tip though. - JA Castillo
Awesome. I use Wakoopa to track (and publicly show) the time I use each application. Unfortunately, it shows what I already knew: I use Firefox 99% of the time. It doesn't tell me HOW I use FF. I wonder if there's a way to locally capture how much time is spent on each site in FF... - Kevin C. Tofel
This is one of the reason I moved my bookmarks back to the browser with FF3. Loving it so far. - Sean Brady
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“Added about 1,000 new FriendFeed subscriptions yesterday. If you were following me as of yesterday I'm now following you. Adding a thousand new FF contacts certainly does pick up the pace of the experience. I like it.”
Yeah, thanks for subbing me. I really enjoy your photos and I might never have seen them otherwise. - Akiva Moskovitz
thomas - how long did it take to add em all? did you have some script do it for you? - Tad
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That's some serious adding. I find that it's not terribly easy to reciprocate after the fact. What methods did you use? - Bwana McCall
TH - love your pics and your favs too - Dave Martin
Sweet, you are following ME now! Now who is the mouse and who is the cheese! - J·Phil·Glockner
Wow - I use Friendfeed the opposite way. - Steve Rubel
why would you do that? Seems like way too much... I've been moving in the opposite direction - removing people I've been following so I can have far less noise - Jonathan Greene
I went from 10 to 100 a little over a week ago and it certainly made things significantly more interesting. FriendFeed is taking a lot of my attention away from Techmeme, and providing a much broader view of what's going on out there. - Larry Rubin
Tad, it took me a long time, maybe 3 or 4 hours. I don't have or know of a script to auto add reciprocity. I think Scoble had one for Twitter but I don't know of one for FF yet. Basically I went to who subscribed to me and then cmd-clicked them all into new tabs and one by one went through adding people. - Thomas Hawk
Jonathan and Steve, there is no need to remove anyone when you have the "hide" feature. If someone is too noisy you just need to hide whatever is causing the noise. I'm discovering lots of new interesting people this way. I love it. Even when someone twitters in a language I can't read for instance I can hide their twitters but still get their great flickr photos or flickr faves. selective hiding by service rocks. - Thomas Hawk
Want to add your Twitter follows to Friend Feed? Use Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer. http://tinyurl.com/4rr2fl I am looking for a scrip that will check FF against my Twitter follows. - Russellreno
Welcome to myself!! Mmm, that didn't sound right. - Daniel Llacer
That is _A LOT_ of followers. I just hit 1,500 total, and it took me more than a day and a half! - Louis Gray
please add me - www.FriendFeed.com/vmjr - thanks! - Victor Ryden
I"m still not sure how you can possibly keep up with the information blitz that comes from 1000+ contacts. I get Scoble's meme about 'noise' over 'news', but I don't know how you sort out the useful nuggets from the rubbish. - Daniel Norton
Daniel, you can't, not when you're subscribed to that many. It's like a firehose. The info just keeps coming. I honestly have no idea why Thomas and Robert and others do this to themselves. You'd need to do nothing else all day but to watch the FF or Twitter page if you wanted to keep up with it all, and even then I think you'd miss a lot of updates from people. - Raoul Pop
I don't follow thousands of people on FriendFeed or Twitter, but even with the hundreds that I do follow, I feel like I'm dipping my toe in a rushing stream. Luckily, there is search. And in FriendFeed, comments and likes keep things bubbling. - Ontario Emperor
Is there an easy way of doing this in bulk, or did you click subscribe on 1000 accounts? - Duncan Riley
At what point does it become too much to handle? - Morton Fox
Duncan, unfortunately there was not a way to do this in bulk. Morton, I'm not sure it will ever be too much to handle thanks to hiding things. It's a balance. - Thomas Hawk
رفقای ما اصغر اکبری و تقی نادعلی و ایناس , رفقای مریم کوین فاکس و براد پیت و بیل گیتسه :دی - Mil∂d
@milad آخه این کوین و برد و بیل نمک گیرم شدن! یه قرمه سبزی با هم دیگه زدیم توپ!! :دی - Maryam Ardakani
Good choice! I picked one up after K decided she was happy w/ hers (and after she let me play w/ it for a while). Although not perfect, I think it's the best choice on the market. - Paul Wilcox
I ordered one last week, much to my wife's disapproval, and it's been great. I even managed to convert some of my O'Reilly PDFs with satisfactory results (if you can overlook the graphics.) - Daniel Norton
Meh. I played with one but was kinda disappointed. It tried to make me pay for TechCrunch. The nerve! - Braden Kowitz
"It has been proven that no firearm can penetrate 14 inches of water, not even the magnum .50 cal sniper rifle with steel-jacketed bullets" - Alejandro S.
That's awesome. It's good to keep in mind though that the slower weapons, like muskets and older revolvers, will penetrate more (up to several feet) than the high-powered, high-velocity bullets. Water is a beast. It will not fight you as much if you're slower, but if you're fast, it will act like a nasty super-viscous wall. And if you're really fast, it'll turn into impenetrable concrete. Such an interesting substance. - Raoul Pop
With all the high-speed and specialty cameras they've used on this show in the past, why oh why couldn't they show us the bullet tearing apart underwater in high speed footage, that would have been pretty impressive. - cmiper
I'm in the habit of deleting feeds that starts to feel like aggregators. I would rather see original content in my feed reader even if it's not all that inspired. - Daniel Norton
I deleted that Scoble guy. He is too noisy! - Robert Scoble
I actually did this today. If i do not like the sorts of stories they cover or how, I toss'em. - Geoff "Maverick" Schultz
Actually deleted many feeds because it was info overload. Paradoxically, now it is constant twitter - Crystal Clear
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I have, but I'm more likely to delete them for redundant content than anything - Chuck Lawson
I have. Unfollowed a very popular blogger/tweeter because 99% of his posts were promotion for another of his endeavors. His right to post. my right not to listen. - Michael Pardee
I have deleted feeds when theres too much noise, like Digg, Reddit, Engadget, Gizmodo or when the blog has lost my interest. - Erik Weese
Most of my deletions have been because of slowdowns/cessation of content. I'm already doing a lot of manual noise avoidance in my reader; I have a "wide net" philosophy when it comes to RSS, and never really feel compelled to get it to zero. It's just one more starting point for me. - Ryan MF
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Occasionaly, though mainly when someone is either a) too self serving or b) signal to noise is to weak. - Greg
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Occasionaly, though mainly when someone is either a) too self serving or b) signal to noise is to weak. - Greg
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I had .some of them had cool posts at first and then after a while ....also there are a group of blogs repeating others especially non-English blogs and obviously I'd delet them as soon as I find the original source! - shandiz
I really need to filter the amount of content I get on my feeds. So if the content is not amazing, I unfortunately have to unsubscribe. But also if there is just a ridiculous amount of content that is irrelevant to me, like 600+ posts a day, like Gawker, then I have to unsubscribe as well. - Alana Taylor
The best example of this for me would be when I deleted Scripting News. Too much Wining. If Dave has someting to say that is important, I know it will be picked up on by other blogs I read and I can read it then. - Jeff
Funnily enough, I also deleted Scripting News for the same reason. There's a lot of content out there, so I seek out the best. - David Sim
So we all deleted Scripting News, but how long ago? That was my first delete from my first feed reader. May have been 2003? - Cyndy
I need to check out smugmug. I've been reading Don MacAskill for a while, and I love that they are leveraging Amazon S3 for their storage. I just never saw a need to move from flickr. - Daniel Norton
In a related story, the time loop the LHC will create in 15 hours will mean this page of FriendFeed will be repeated forever.... Better make it good, folks :-) - Chris Reed
Two hours left. Cool death or even cooler glory awaits! - Cyvros/fyc
@Chris: That can mean only one thing: Scoble. Forever. - Cyvros/fyc
Actually, the page now says that the countdown clock isn't correct and there are some delays. When we got the tour it was clear things were running behind schedule, so I guess we'll have to see what the news actually is. - Robert Scoble
Party-pooper. :P Neat vid, too. Heh - I like the bit on the countdown page about how "recent events show that CERN wont be dividing by zero until much later on in the year". Reminds me of this - http://farm2.static.flickr.com... - Cyvros/fyc
I agree you always need your dslr. My worst photos are the ones I never got to shoot because I did not have one of my cameras with me. - Jon Erickson
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I can't wait to get a DSLR - but how do you manage to carry around something so big? What are the better compact ones? - Shey
I carry around a Canon SD100 with me all the time--I can't carry my DSLR around with me, but I can carry my little camera. It takes fabulous photos for such a tiny camera. - Kris Millering
I carry a Canon XTi almost everywhere. Once you're used to it, it's not a big deal. If you want something smaller to carry everywhere, check out the Canon G9. It's not an SLR, but it can shoot RAW and has manual controls. - Jeremy Brooks
I'm using a Powershot S80 right now, and while I have a lot of manual controls, I'm still missing out on a lot of great DSLR capabilities. I just shudder at the thought of having to lug around a big camera everywhere I go. - Shey
I carry a Canon S5 IS, but I might need a smaller one for my belt clip. My small one broke a screen on "Year 2 Day 2", just out of warranty. - Mitchell Tsai
I carry my Canon G9 everywhere now. I love my 5D and those L lenses but I just can't carry them around all the time. - Michael Hocter
Hey Thomas, you mentioned that you had your first 5D stolen. How did that happen, and what do you do differently now? - Dave Roth
Dave, I had my 5D stolen in the Bahamas. I had it in my backpack and wrapped the backpack in a towel under a chair that I was sitting in at what I thought was a fairly safe resort with security. I was watching my kids at the pool and went in just for a second thinking I was keeping a pretty good eye on it. Later that night when I opened my backpack I realized it was gone. :( I'm even more careful now watching it. - Thomas Hawk
Thanks for the follow-up. I definitely don't want to become a victim. - Dave Roth
Shey: In a nice bag. I use a Crumpler messenger bag for day outings, and a Crumpler backpack for traveling. - Tom Harrison
Thomas: I had a compact camera pick-pocketed from me in Belgium. A Mediterranean guy pretended to do a martial arts move on me while shaking my right hand. His left hand pulled my camera out of my velcro case (I now use clip/zipper cases), and I didn't know for a few blocks. I checked my wallet & pockets for lost money immediately, but was new to carrying a camera. He was SMOOTH, very impressive... Our US thieves aren't so classy - just a knife or gun. ;-( - Mitchell Tsai
Unfortunately, if I forget my camera, I'll have to settle for my cameraphone. It's not too bad, actually, with the right lighting and some fixups in Photoshop. - Morton Fox
I carry a PowerShot S3 IS with me whenever I go out, and make sure it's always on a zipper bag slung around my shoulders. I'm pretty good at this - am yet to lose it once, though I once dropped it out of a moving bus (later jumped out of said moving bus and recovered it). - Yuvi
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