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[News.com]: Opening ceremonies video online, but not on NBC

August 8 at 10:54 am - Link

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"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

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Paris Hilton, McCain, Olympics, The Pharcyde - TWIYT #8

August 8 at 9:06 am - Link

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holy $h#@!! this one could possibly be my favorite episode. - Percival Carti3r

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NASA: "We have water" on Mars.

August 1 at 6:15 am - Link

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iPhone 3G Coming 8am Friday - Confirmed!

July 8 at 11:54 am - via Reshare - Link

Carlos Ayala, Chris Thomson, Christi Deligiannidou, David Weiner and 5 other people liked this

Not too excited about IT. But am excited about new appstore! - Leif Hansen

Dave Winer posted a message

“identi.ca gets a Replies tab and becomes a billion percent less shitty”

July 7 at 1:58 am - Link

oliver gassner, Evan Prodromou, Harry Myhre, fbrunel and 67 other people liked this

Totally agree. - Robert Scoble

Friend import next please and then it might be useful - sam sethi via Alert Thingy

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http://www.scripting.com/daven... - Dave Winer

sam, I think the point is that if Twitter et al implement Open Microblogging, importing won't be necessary - klecu

It needs some "recommended friends" to avoid looking really lame to newbies. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you just want to get recommended there too. Come on, admit it. - klecu

klecu: nice try, but I've been talking about this before I was on recommended systems here: http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/... - Robert Scoble

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

big feature - Dobromir Hadzhiev

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

Next step must be API. - Sergey Petrenko

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 via feedalizr

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

http://identi.ca/your_nickname... --- for output of your identi.ca subscriptions -- thanks evan - Jeff Evans

this is so effing awesome! - Sarah Perez

(s_dance) - Hao Chen

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 via NoiseRiver

I think Replies is a setup in the right direction. In fact. it might be the main step. Awesome. - Andrew Ruess via twhirl

For me, it's still just idont.ca.re - Alan Le

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 at 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

Gina posted an entry on Lifehacker

See How Often You Visit Web Sites in Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]

June 20 at 4:00 am - Link

Christian Farley, Daniel Norton, Voyagerfan5761, Kevin C. Tofel and 10 other people liked this

Fantastic tip. - Steve Rubel

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 via twhirl

Amir Homaiy published photos on Picasa Web Albums

June 12 at 4:09 am - Link

niveor, Daniel Norton, Mohsen, Farzad and Maryam Ardakani liked this

Internet Explorer is Winner ( For Sure) :D - Farzad

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“MP3 of Keith Olbermann's special comment to Hillary Clinton. http://tinyurl.com/3npuw7”

May 23 at 8:05 pm - Link

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Myth Busters - No Firearm Penetrates 14-inches of Water

May 15 at 5:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Daniel Norton, Vince DeGeorge, Mitchell Tsai, Shey and 3 other people liked this

"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

Cyvros/fyc posted a message on Twitter

“Holy crap, the LHC goes online tomorrow. http://www.lhcountdown.com/”

May 13 at 6:34 am - Link

RAPatton, Alex Power, Dani Radu, Daniel Norton and 8 other people liked this

LHC = Large Hadron Collider. Step back, don't get in the way! - Mike Reynolds

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

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Two hours left. Cool death or even cooler glory awaits! - Cyvros/fyc

@Chris: That can mean only one thing: Scoble. Forever. - Cyvros/fyc

That's awesome, here's the cool part of my tour of LHC: http://www.fastcompany.tv/vide... - Robert Scoble

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

Evan Williams posted a message on Twitter

“Congrats to @stirman for launching http://www.mobaganda.com/ (a ultra-simple Evite alternative). Built on GAE.”

May 13 at 2:30 pm - Link

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Thomas Hawk posted an entry on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

12 Ways to Never Miss a Photo Opportunity

May 13 at 9:35 am - Link

bhavesh, Yuvi, Morton Fox, Dave Martin and 19 other people liked this

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 via twhirl

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

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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

Gina posted an entry on Lifehacker

Convert Word Documents to Cruft-free HTML [Microsoft Word]

April 28 at 12:00 pm - Link

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Google App Engine + Google Data APIs: A Match Made on the Web

April 23 at 8:26 pm - Link

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Paul Buchheit posted an entry on Paul Buchheit

Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think

April 17 at 2:17 am - Link

AJ Batac (Yoda), nadim, Paulo Gomes, Alex Barbara and 36 other people liked this

I agree with the potential, but I wonder how social network sites that hog the data could also exploit that without getting into trust issues. It would be more effective to exploit that knowledge outside of the network itself, especially when the user is going to make financial transactions (e.g. buying something on the web). - Alexander van Elsas

You made me rethink (momentarily) my assessment of ChaCha, an Indiana "human powered" search engine from the brain child that brought us voice mail Scott Jones. There are some smart people working on it and there is potential there, but this identity thing is important. I doubt stay at home moms making 5 cents a search will be better at finding things online than me. - Clare Dibble

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Facebook's biggest opportunity is . . . identity management? I don't think so. - Erick Schonfeld

Identity ownership ...via AlertThingy - Omar Ismail

"Ebay has had a relatively solid lock on the auction market due to network effects, but with billions of dollars in profits, a $42 billion market cap, and 10 years of not innovating, I'm willing to bet that won't last." -- So you're saying Facebook is the new ebaykiller? - j1m

I'm thinking about advertising. For example, when you search, getting served ads for relevant products that your friends use/have raved about in the past. I would be much more likely to click an ad for a product if I knew it was based on a friend's recommendation. - David Adam

Facebook's biggest opportunity is . . . making users mad, IMHO. It's made me mad more than once. - Voyagerfan5761

Someone is going to kill ebay. Google (because of it's massive distribution) and Facebook (identity info and significant distribution) are the most likely candidates. - Paul Buchheit

Interesting point. I recently deleted my Facebook account. I *might* sign up again if it were an absolute economic necessity, meaning, you have to have an account to buy something online. But they have an extremely long way to go before earning my trust back. - Jason Kaneshiro

Erick, I'm not sure what you mean by "identity management", but knowing who people are is very valuable. It's how every organization that really cares about security works. Think of FBI background checks, except instead of manually finding and talking to your family and friends, it's done automatically. - Paul Buchheit

I think Amazon is in the running too. I've heard more people are using the 'buy it now' feature on Ebay, which is more up Amazon's alley, although they don't currently have a very robust social networking component. - Chris White

Facebook will use micropayments, I'm pretty sure about that. Not only will that open up new opportunities for application developers, it will open up an enormous revenue stream for that. This isn't exactly "identity management", but it will work because Facebook's users are real people and it's a trusted environment because of that. People will trust their money into Facebook's handy. MySpace, for example, won't be able to do that. - sebmos

I guess that eBay will be "killed" by Amazon and Craigslist (and other similar platforms). Craigslist for auctions, Amazon for e-commerce. But eBay has its own Craigslist-clone running, Kijiji. So who knows. I doubt that Facebook will kill eBay, though. - sebmos

There are things that are valuable. There are things that are profitable. And the two are correlated. But there are (sadly) things that are valuable but won't bring profit, and thus will be underdeveloped, and there also are (sadly) things that are worthless but bring profit, and thus will lead to bogosity in the world. - Amit Patel

Great article! Too bad about the ominous sounding title though. I think it's nothing but positive that the distinction between online and offline behavior is blurring so much. (Obviously you do too Paul, but I still rue the title!) But I agree with Alexander's comment that a more publicly accessible model will help a lot too. How to let it live outside the network, but remain protected from exploitation by cheaters? - Ed Zwart

I have a large and valuable social network. If an application can unlock the value there (not just to me, but to my employer as well, for instance), then I think Facebook can justify its huge valuation. - Piaw Na

Maybe I'm weird but I've never bought anything on Ebay. It seems to require me to put too much trust in random and unaccountable strangers. Now if Facebook were to make their Marketplace into the ultimate combination of Amazon's Used&New and Ebay but backed up with a decent attack resistant trust metric system then they'd be able to justify their valuation. - Adewale Oshineye

Decided to react to Paul's post and thought of 5 ways for Facebook to start justifying their $15 bln valuation: http://tinyurl.com/3szhdh It's interesting to see what other ideas float around about that. The are infinite possibilities, but it's a balancing act in my opinion. - Alexander van Elsas

The line about eBay not having innovated in the last 10 years was interesting to read. Perhaps you could elaborate on that a bit. I don't watch eBay closely and only mostly use it for "direct buy" stuff (I don't like the added info noise of having to track an auction, even though I understand that is exactly what's exciting to some about the service) so I don't know much about it. - Philipp Lenssen

@Adewale trying to overcome existing general problem of uncertainty in trade? trade people were trying to do that for ages :) - silpol

re: phillipp; My thoughts exactly! - that ebay line struck me as the single most important/intriguing sentence of what was a very cool post. Paul, any interest in writing further about the ebay dilemma?? Just how vulnerable are they and why?? Consumerism (linear) is obviously a major issue in america right now - and yet very few bloggers seem willing/able to work the topic into the discourse of the day (re: dots have yet to be connected). - Will DeLuca

Kevin Fox posted a link

Cutest kitten in the world

April 14 at 11:22 am - Link

terry radford, Adam Barker, viviangel, Garry Tan and 49 other people liked this

I REALLY want this kitty!!! I'm in terrible need of a kitten fix! I need foster kittens soon!!!! - Rachel L Fisher

calico bread mix. very tasty... errr sorry. cute - Alex von Halem

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Cute! - Mike Reynolds

but does it play theremin? - Allan Hough

So little. :) - Alejandro S.

is it just me or does it look a little deformed.... (please don't kill me for saying so!) - Nick

It's just the breed. The mom (visible in a couple of the photos) looks the same way. - ⓞnor

It's mostly the breed. Its ears are folded back so its head looks disturbingly round. It's more pronounced in kittens (all baby animals have rounder features). - Kevin Fox

so cute 'n innocent:) - shandiz

Its cute, face looks a little unusual, is this a special breed of some sort? - Christopher Yeo

More kittens ... but this guy (girl) is really cool :) - Charlie Anzman

I can't help it, every time I scroll down my friendfeed these catch my eye again and I just think "I WANT THAT KITTEN!" *sighs* - Rachel L Fisher

If I have one, I am in terrible that my bigger kid will eat it :-D - terababy

I'm with Nick. Its face looks squashed, like a Pekingnese dog but a cat instead. - Jess Lee

Outstanding. All I can say is http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - Amir Gharaat

So small! - funkyboy

My FriendFeed needs more cute overload. Awwwwwww! - Jeanne

Amazing! - Sandosh Vasudevan

so cute - harry

Small is better - priyanhere

Bret Taylor posted an entry on Bret Taylor's blog

Experimenting with Google App Engine

April 8 at 5:18 am - Link

terry radford, Jon McAlister, Daniel Norton, Thomas Brox Røst and 46 other people liked this

I'm not a developer, so I'm curious what the engine means for app consumers like me? What kinds of cool stuff can you do with this? - Ginger Makela

@Ginger: I'm in the same boat as you. What it means is that we can expect to see a wider number of choices for web applications. Things like this and the Amazon AWS offerings allow more developers to turn their web app ideas into a reality. - Rob Safuto

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I've got FriendFeed Stats up and running (locally) using Django + Google App Engine, this is really cool. Spoke too soon - can't use sockets which means I can't use urllib2...grumble grumble - Benjamin Golub

I think it means we'll see lots more small apps that try to do one thing well. They won't need to make as much money or get as many users to stay in business and so there will (hopefully) be a greater diversity in the range of people who build these apps. - Adewale Oshineye

Benjamin: yeah, those restrictions leave no choice but to use EC2 and the likes, especially when it comes to crawling. But nevertheless, AppEngine is actually fun. I personally still prefer a more traditional setup for a web service/product, but it seems ideal for smaller pet projects. - Aviv

Thanks Adewale -- I'm all for diversity and smallness. - Ginger Makela

Django integration is pretty smooth - just wrote a short tutorial: http://blog.broxrost.com/index... - Thomas Brox Røst

I like the integration with Django - Sandosh Vasudevan

I'm going to give Django a 2nd chance sometime - haven't used it in a while. I like the bare-bones feel of web.py - Aviv

Soon, creation of web apps and services will be available to the same subset of computer users who still have to phone up the family techie every time they forget their XP login password. I'm changing my phone number. - Slippy Lane

@Slippy: haha, I doubt my mom or grandmother will be using App Engine any time soon. :-) - Voyagerfan5761

Nice post Bret. Keep it up. Seems like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn Python... What the best book I can buy for a weekend crash course? - Alex Gawley

@Alex, I learned Python from the 2nd ed. of "Python Essential Reference" by David Beazley. If you liked K&R you'll like this book (I did). - ƃuɐʞ

GAE looks very interesting. The many restrictions are a problem, though, as many others have said. I had an idea for an app that would need to use some of Python's networking libraries like urllib2. UPDATE: Ok, I saw here: http://code.google.com/appengi... that GAE has an URL fetch service - that may work. - Vasudev Ram

sweet blog bret, Its amazing that you did it under 100 lines of code, im sure you could even shorten that a bit, do you have any advice for future web app developers on what to read? Thanks for sharing your knowledge! - d e f c o n

I've suddenly realised that this is going to lead to a new PerlGolf style game: reimplementing popular online services in as few lines of code as possible. See: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?Shortes... for where this eventually leads. - Adewale Oshineye

Benjamin Golub posted a message on Twitter

“http://friendfeedstats.appspot... it's alive!”

April 8 at 12:25 pm - Link

Chris White, Vasudev Ram, accesine, Daniel Norton and 9 other people liked this

Nicely done. I suppose you POST crawl data into it or...? - Aviv

Nope, I hit a special URL (using curl via cron from my server) and App Engine does the crawling - Benjamin Golub

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Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense - Aviv

Yes, and it's crazy fast! - Benjamin Golub

what about rssmeme? or is there too much crawling involved? - Aviv

technically with rssmeme you could have the crawl super fast if you add all the google shared feeds to google reader and then have AppEngine hit up Reader (although not sure if urlfetch supports cookies). That should make for an interesting hack - Aviv

I'm going to look into getting RSSmeme on App Engine next, it's just a "bit" bigger than FriendFeed Stats :P - Benjamin Golub

After DNS propagates the old URL (http://www.friendfeedstats.com) should point to the App Engine...I hope - Benjamin Golub

Nice! Looks like it went pretty well. Of course, that means all the data is gone now :P - Brandon Titus

Yes, it's gone, I could import it all if people get really antsy, but it's not like it was running for very long in the first place. People won't even notice after a few weeks. - Benjamin Golub

trying to search user gets file not found- must be that missing data - Nathan Eckenrode

Yup, if it doesn't find you then it 404s, use FriendFeed more often and it will find you! http://friendfeedstats.appspot... works for instance - Benjamin Golub

Only my stuff for April is on FFstats now. Will this be fixed? - Corvida

I'll look into importing the old data from my server to App Engine....but it might be a little while (or never). - Benjamin Golub

Wow, appengine is turning out to be painfully simple to implement. Congrats on such a quick port! - Bwana McCall

It's simple to port if you originally developed in Python :) - Benjamin Golub

Does BigTable prevent you from doing complex db operations? It seems like the inability to join or use "OR" is limiting? - felix

Ya, it is limiting (and that's why I doubt RSSmeme will be ported to it) - Benjamin Golub

very interesting - accesine

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“CEO of SmugMug on Google's Web Services: http://tinyurl.com/636k6n”

April 8 at 11:12 am - Link

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This is one of those FF entries that you "Like" right away because you know you would for sure do it after actually reading the linked article - Aviv

Aviv posted a link

Mark items on FriendFeed with "Read Later"

April 3 at 5:33 pm - Link

David Bausola, John Lam, minus-one, Bryan Tsai and 22 other people liked this

FriendFeed Read Later is a Greasemonkey script that allows you to mark entries to read at a later time, easily accessible in a custom tab. - Aviv

The script adds a "Later" button for each entry. Clicking it will make that item available inside a custom "read later" interface tab, and also simulate a "Like" action for it. To remove read items, simply click "Done!" - Aviv

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Alas, Greasemonkey can't work with FF3. - Roger Chen

Looks cool. Where does it store the data to retrieve items marked for later? - Voyagerfan5761

Greasemonkey storage (ie. GM_setValue). Next release will have the option to store it on FF (hack on top of the imaginary friends feature) - Aviv

very cool! I do something similar with google reader using the star system - Nathan Manley

Great idea and I'm sure some users will like it. I almost never revisit backwards so not sure that it's for me. In any case, I'll still install it because the execution looks beautiful. - Mike Reynolds

@Aviv: Ooh, I'll be sure to examine your source code in that case. I'm working on a GM script for my school webmail system, which is infinitely inferior to Gmail yet they insist we use it. (POP is disabled, otherwise I would just pull it into Gmail anyway.) I want a notification of new mail, so the storage should come in handy. Perhaps a hash of the page content... :D - Voyagerfan5761

Way cool! But how come FF doesn't have this as a feature. I think its a must have - Christopher Yeo

Christopher's suggestion ++ - Voyagerfan5761

Thanks Aviv, now I can stop using "like" as a bookmark - Devin Anderson

I'm sure it's in the works, and that's why I didn't go fancy with color labels and all that... which would be a very nice addition to such feature. When a native flagging/bookmarking feature is implemented, I'll make sure items can be imported easily. - Aviv

Roger, you can install a version of GreaseMonkey for FF3, search for it in the GM Google group (I don't have the URL on me) - Olivier Tharan

Thanks, Olivier. I grabbed GM 0.8pre1 from Google group. It works fine. - Roger Chen

Kevin Fox posted a link

I feel Comcastic

April 1 at 12:54 pm - Link

timepilot, Alexandre Solleiro, j1m, Devin Anderson and 37 other people liked this

I tried to order Comcast internet last night. After 'completing' my order a chat window popped up unexpectedly. This is the transcript of my conversation. - Kevin Fox

Do you like pictures of Tony Danza?!? - Michael Leggett

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Oh that is *awesome*! I have two questions: 1. Were your prepared to send over photos of Danza and 2. Did this chat session resolve your problem? - Jason Shellen

I'll try to work "Do you like pictures of Tony Danza?" in all conversations with CSRs from now on. - Tudor Bosman

I think you should have requested pictures of Tony Danza FROM him. He's probably trained to provide spectacular customer service! You should have at least requested his favorite Tony Danza links. (Though looking at the transcript, it almost looks automated) - Cyrus Lendvay

Were you able to buy modem for your internet successfully? - ⓞnor

I like the part were you told him that "That is comcastic." - Stephen Mack

I'm now going to call them up and demand that self install kit #277433364 be sent to Siberia. - Stephen Mack

What a strange and surreal experience for you. Personally, I'd have screamed "Argh! Hacker!" and thrown my boxen out of the window. - Slippy Lane

I love the fact that he WANTED pictures of Tony Danza. He obviously doesn't bought modem for his internets yet... - Slippy Lane

"I'm sorry. I have to go now" - hahaha... :) - minus3

This brought back memories of AOLiza. - Ragani Harris

I LOLed - for real - Fred Oliveira

Haha, awesome! - Jan Vaes

I do not like photos of Tony Danza, but I love your use of "Comcastic" ;) - Kerah