I like you even more now that I know you're a 49ers fan! - Jesse Stay
@Jesse, the blog post shows I'm a lapsed 49ers fan. I'm more a Cal Bears fan than anything else when it comes to football. I just thought this getup was more appropriate for the "staged' photos. - Louis Gray
hmmm..Bears fan, but 49ers fan as well, but then again you're an A's fan - things are edging against you now. You had me going there. ;) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
hao; firefox's paint delay is 100ms in FF3 and 250ms in FF2; if you set your initial setTimeout to 251ms it won't block the page loading in FF2 - Michael J Cohen
Thanks for the tip, Michael! I'll put that in there. - Hao Chen
Wow Chris. I love it. I'm currently working on getting my Business English classes integrated with Social Media and Web 2.0 tools. It's quite a challenge. I live in Frankfurt Germany and even though there's a lot of Web 2.0 Buzz happening in the next two months in and around Berlin, the country and Frankfurt in general still has to cross quite a gap to get into accepting SMP and Web 2.0 tools integrated into their lives (business and social). It's a challenge indeed but one worth taking.
I also teach at KITA (the European Central Bank's school for their employee's children. Most of the parents seem open minded and hopefully this last quarter I'll be talking to the school to start a computer program for the young kids. I use to teach computers to 3 yr olds back in Toronto in 1987! It would be great to be able to set something up like that here in Frankfurt with KITA.
This is a great post and will definitely share the link with my students.
Regards,
Carmen - Carmen S. Villadar
It went exactly as it was expected to, which says a LOT. - Art Lindsey III
Made for some animated morning reading - Mark Dykeman
I must have read a different article. I don't understand why people got so upset. - Rob Diana
If a tool helps my workflow then that's all the explanation I need. I know we need to keep the general web-surfing public in mind as we continue innovating, but surely not *every* tool has to be suited for use by retirees and CEOs and there year olds all at once. - Daniel J. Pritchett
The political description didn't really serve to bolster the rest of the article's point, but I thought the article was pretty spot on. And I usually disagree with everything Mark Hopkins writes. Kids these days. - Mark Trapp
I find the term "early adopter" misleading at best. These people do not adopt "the next big thing" before growth comes. They simply adopt anything, especially what will enable getting more followers. This has nothing to do with the usage pattern of an average user. - MySites
Not all early adopters are doing it to get followers. Some just do it because they can afford it and are complete gearheads. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I think my brother truly likes trying out new stuff, the fact that he has people that pay attention to what he uses is secondary. As far as I can tell, he's driven to do that more internally than externally. Personally, I like having my own professional canary in the coal mine. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I liked the article and am a bit confused over the agressive tone of a lot of commenters. I must be getting old. - Alexander van Elsas
@alex I've always liked your brother, and he's part the reason I tried out a number of tools. the article wasn't a personal attack on Robert. I think I said two or three times that I was describing a stereotype - one I gathered, by the way, by polling folks who aren't A-list bloggers in my personal circle. I was pretty disturbed by the personal attack he made against Mashable in his response. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@mark again, that was something that someone I talked to said "make sure you include that" because it's pretty true for the majority of early adopters. It's just how the demographics skew. If you look at Mashable's own coverage, our Obama posts outnumber McCain posts by at least 5:1, if not more. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Sorry, I should have said in my comments that I was responding to what MySites said. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Checking in from a brief vacation, a bit surprised to see the huge uproar over this post. Perhaps could've done without the one or two lines touching on politics given Mark's known affiliations, but I'm not sure why people interpreted it as such a personal attack. - Adam Ostrow
Mark: I agree that it's true, but it doesn't do anything for the rest of the article: it's just sort of there, getting people upset about you pigeonholing early adopters as Obama supporters instead of focusing on the meat of your article. You could've removed that sentence and your argument would not have been affected at all. Either that or your article could've used a better argument of how early adopters supporting Obama proves how out of touch they are. Or are you arguing that before supporting Obama we should make sure our mothers would use him? Or that he's a time-sink? But hey, it's one sentence out of many, and like I said, I thought you were right on the mark with it. - Mark Trapp
If half of the likely voters are going to vote for Obama, I hardly think that it makes an Obama supporter out of touch. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Alex: sure, but if there was a cogent argument linking the claim that Obama supporters are out of touch to the fact that Obama coverage with early adopters is huge, it'd make more sense that Mark talked about it in his article: it'd be a simple a fortiori argument. - Mark Trapp
The idea of me leaving it in there is to show how the majority of early adopters sort of live in this monoculture vacuum. We talk to other early adopters continually due to the tools we've early adopted, so we think more and more alike. This gradually pulls us away from thinking 'how can i pitch this to my friends" to "how can i pitch this to other early adopters." It ends up pushing our tech into a increasingly smaller concentric circle, instead of wider ones. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I figured I had two choices - I could write another echo-chamber post about how we're in an echo-chamber, and just go super meta on the theme, or I could write something that nudged the early adopters in the ribs and said: "hey - insular cliques are about as annoying to folks who aren't a part of them as they were in high school." It's fun to be a part of them, but if our goal is convincing others to use the tech we like, it's not particularly effective. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Mark: I'm glad you gave 'em a poke in the ribs. They need it every now and then, especially considering how divorced from reality a lot of them are. Secondly, the Obama thing made perfect sense. When you're painting a stereotype, it's always helpful to employ as much data as you have (and frankly, it's true!). I really liked the piece. One of your best ever. - Vincent Ferrari
Now you could go on for days trying to understand what's happening in this picture. What you really need to be concerned about is what's in the box under his bed. Is it something that he's not proud of, like: guns, Guitar Hero and body hair? Or perhaps it's something too good - too good for the world. Yes, that's it, it's something that the world isn't ready for...yet. - Mark Wilson via Bookmarklet
Every detail of this pic is so classy: from the bed frame *giggle* to the hobby collection *cackle* to the hair *blech* to the speedo *explosive puke* - Carmen
@Carmen You forgot to mention that he's holding his "gun" - Lindsey Smith
why understand if one can hit HIDE ? this guy has enough *worms* in his head, let him make one hole in his own skull when time for that comes. - silpol
and what's over the curtain..? (sorry fro my english) - Federica B.
I didn't read all 30 comments, but did anybody point out that it was just plain wrong to post this? (i'm now removing whats left of my lunch from my stomach) tyvm and good day! - acedanger
Where's Chris Hansen when you need him? - Mark Wilson
seriously? 25 people LIKED this? Your posts are magic, Mark. - Tim Hoeck
@Tim what's not to like? A dude in a speedo with a mullet and far too many guns for one man to own who likes to rock out on his baby blue futon! That's not magic, that's just common sense! - Mark Wilson
Actually switching back and forth tonight until I decide if and how I want to set up the Beta. Easy switch right from the address bar. - Charlie Anzman
Life is more fun that way, because ideas seem deeper and come at your faster as their importance builds untl they climax and you reach a moment of clarity - RAPatton
Ha, so that's what I read about FF command line... I like it, but he... I like command lines... - Egon Willighagen
@brandon: yes - activites (i said smart tags before - oops). but i'm not sure they have the same 'angle.' seems like (since i've not tried Ubiquity) is user interface and that activities is a programming interface. - MikeAmundsen
this is yubnub done right. heck someone can make a simple bridge to yubnub :). What will be "dangerous" about this Ubiquity is its viralness. People will immediately shares commands. Hopefully not worm and viruses. - Akhmad Fathonih
Just installed Ubiquity and love it. I've not used IE for years and don't plan to. - Brett Nordquist
I installed it last night and I just love it, go on Moz crew!!! - darussol
IE8 makes all the websites I visit look like complete crap. If they're asking developers to use tags in their HTML so that IE8 will think it's IE7, that can't be a good sign. - Aaron Myers
I've been using YubNub and Slickrun for many months -- I'm not sure yet that Mozilla Ubiquity is a significant step forward. - Sean McBride
What Mozilla's Ubiquity ? Any link to share? - Arjun
UbiQ blows my mind away. Have been playing around with it all day. Just hoping that they imprve usability in the coming versions.
Tweeting from UbiQ is a breeze, I'm guessing this is going to increase load on Twitter APIs like crazy! - Vinodh
I installed Ubiquity late last night, and yes, it does have the WOW factor for me as well. I want to see how easy it is to create commands, after viewing the vid. Nice work. - Henry Burger via twhirl
It sounds great for power users. I was also imagining a sidebar type app that would be suggesting things to do with stuff. Select an address and it would pop up a map and give you the option to email it. This way no need for new users to know text commands or have to think what might be the word to use. - John Cooper
Sidebar is a great idea...also "chaining" commands. What if i want to tinyurl something (or two) and insert into a twit (or email..). Also if you don't use gmail (gasp), launching the OS native URL handlers like mailto:. - Richard Goodwin
Ubiquity looks cool, but is very similar to what can be done with Quicksilver on Mac. - Martin Añazco
if you like ubiquity you'll be sure to love http://www.humanized.com/enso that's Aza Raskin's work before he joined mozilla, so you can see where the inspiration comes from :) - Chris Jones
watching the video for ubiquity @ mozilla labs now .... whoa - JohnBfromMemphis
I am yet to try out Ubiquity yet but your WOW has convinced me to check it out later ha! - Joe Dawson
Where do these smart people come from. Very cool. - Kenley Neufeld
this changes the way I can work... but what motivates me to change this way. - Stewart Rogers
Anybody found a FF Ubiquity command to subscribe to yet? - Grey Drane
help me, the editor is making me want to learn code. ARRRRRRGH! - (teh)Kenny
It's addictive, much like 'Launchy'. - Vinay | विनय
Yeah I love ubiquity too! Wonder what 1.0 will be like! :D - JegerPhil - Phil
If you're running Ubiquity on Linux, I would advise NOT setting the hotkey to SHIFT+SPACE. Esp. if you're fond of capitalisation... - wyclif
@Martin Añazco ya, it reminds me of Quicksilver and the command-line, too. I really love it!!!! It creates an awesome workflow that leads to inspired power browsing. - barce
"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want." - Paul Buchheit
Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top? - Erica Baker
FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps. - Cesar Cardoso
For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
me again - it seems not to be picking up my default CSS values like the other widgets - it still insists on showing up as a white background black text. See http://pflix.com for example. - Mark Bean
