"I am very impressed lately by Google’s commitment to open source. Specifically, I love their strategy of what I call the ‘Catch and Release’ strategy for developing their ecosystem of developers and partners.
They are certainly doing a lot of land grabbing, but they are releasing their innovations and improvements as open source." -John Furrier - DeWitt Clinton
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This is an excellent way of putting it. Thank you, John! Via @timoreilly. - DeWitt Clinton
"Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." - DeWitt Clinton
I like the domain name mapping. I run a domain to serve static files myself -- I'll set it up on AWS S3 and CF to see how easy it is to switch over. - DeWitt Clinton
I've been trying to find where I can add my external services (like, say, Twitter) and haven't been able to find it. My dumb or is it not released yet or does the UI still need work? - Don MacAskill
Don, it's not released yet. What you saw was just the press announcement. Release coming shortly! - Omar Shahine
But I want non-replies posted to Twitter... I don't see a setting for turning off just my replies or something.... - Don MacAskill
ok I turned off including "Comments that I make on public FriendFeed entries" in my `post my friendfeed entries on twitter' section - won't that still send general FF shared notes over to twitter ? let me test. - David Pascoe
A Message I shared from FF made it over to twitter. Comments on twitter entries already imported into FF require me to click "Also send this comment as an @reply twitter from pascoedj " to get back to twitter. This is not what you want ? - David Pascoe
This will exclude all comments of course, not just comments on twitter entries, so indeed these comments I'm posting here don't get to twitter, which is ok I guess. - David Pascoe
Don, are you trying to get me to spend $11 on a book to find out the cure to cancer? I want the answer now, isn't there some sort of snarky web video with the answer? - Jason Shellen
It hasn't stopped hate. Hate should be next week's priority. - Patricia
Short, free answer: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." NYT: http://twurl.nl/3lk34h Now spend $11 and save your life. :) - Don MacAskill
Basically, I installed Windows Vista x64 fresh in Boot Camp on my Mac Pro. Works like a charm, as usual, but I can't get any of the Apple drivers installed because 'setup.exe' on the Mac OS X CD keeps telling me that the system has a 'pending restart' and to reboot first. I've rebooted about 20 times, to no avail. There seem to be plenty of discussions on Apple's message forums about the problem, but no answers. Anyone know what's up and how to get around it? - Don MacAskill
I can help you over here. But I'm running out for 20 minutes. I couldn't DM you on Twitter because you don't follow me. This isn't an unusual problem for Windows users. It's known to happen when installing Kaspersky antivirus. What happens is that a flag gets set in the registry telling Windows it has pending operations to do after a reboot. It either never happens or the information doesn't get erased from the registry. Let me know if using WhyReboot? works or not. I'll check back shortly. :) - Dr. Apps
Don - do you see anything fishy in your event log? Do you have any pending updates in Windows Update? The msiexec log or your eventlog should have clues to help debug this - Sriram Krishnan
Dr. Apps - I'll definitely try WhyReboot in a few minutes. Hope that helps. I haven't installed any anti-virus software (never have in my life) or anything like that - this is a fresh, fully updated Windows Vista Ultimate x64 install. Only app I've installed is 'Steam'. - Don MacAskill
@Sriram Krishnan - After about 10 reboots, finally, no, I have no Windows Updates. Why on earth it takes so many reboots to simply get full updated, I'll never understand, but I'm finally done. I'll check msiexec and the eventlog as soon as I reboot back into Vista. - Don MacAskill
I just brought up Kaspersky as an example of the pending reboot behavior. That example can also be the fuel to search around for solutions. It's funny because I have seen the pending file renames/operations/reboot issue in Vista very often. Used to see it in XP quite frequently. Actually just to confirm, the bootcamp driver intall is a MSI based app, correct? I haven't used BootCamp in a long time so I forget. Good luck. Let me know what happens. :) - Dr. Apps
Apple doesn't listen to social media, unfortunately - Jesse Stay
@drapps WhyReboot says "No items were found". Boot Camp's installer still says "A system restart is pending. Complete the restart and then retry this installation." Any more ideas? - Don MacAskill
I've heard all sorts of horror stories about 64 on boot camp. You're better off with 32 if you can manage. :/ - Josh
Darn. I'm going to have to look into it first hand to see if I can figure it out. I won't have any additional input until tomorrow. Maybe somebody else will chime in in the meantime. I've never run V64 under BootCamp so I don't know how much of a horror show it may be (as Josh stated above). But if that's the case, that stinks. Vista 64 is the way to go if you are going to run Windows on a nice machine. If it doesn't work well under BootCamp then that stinks for power users like Don. - Dr. Apps
“@donmacaskill what I was hoping is that as I upload the CR2, that smugmug would convert to jpg and attach the original RAW automatically (and store in AWS). Does it do that?”
Thanks, we're looking into the LinkedIn issue. I haven't heard anything about Vimeo. Jesse, can you use the bug form (http://friendfeed.com/about/co...) to report your Vimeo issue and we'll investigate? - Ana
Jesse, your Vimeo profile isn't available at http://www.vimeo.com/jessestay - which is what is linked to from your FriendFeed page and I think that's how FriendFeed grabs the data. You should be able to update this here: http://www.vimeo.com/settings/... (Ana, I think that by default the user's Vimeo URL uses a unique ID rather than their username. Also, it seems their profile URL isn't necessary the same as their username.) - Tony Ruscoe
Tony, ah - I didn't realize you had to create a shortcut profile. FriendFeed wasn't very clear what ID needed to be put in the Vimeo settings. Thanks. (and Ana it's nice to see FF using its own service to track problems - Twitter doesn't do that) - Jesse Stay
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I've been getting reports that SmugMug' s updates aren't coming through, either.... - Don MacAskill
Jesse - Yeah I was very impressed with FF team's use of their own product for feedback / support tracking - Susan Beebe
“@donmacaskill know of any good tools for associating RAW from smugvault with the actual picture during the upload process? (store both, then associate the 2 together automatically)”
SmugMug does this automagically for you as long as the filenames match with different extensions. PHOTO.jpg and PHOTO.cr2 will be automatically associated, for example. - Don MacAskill
so do I have to upload the jpg and cr2 seperately or will it upload the cr2, convert to jpg, and associate the cr2 with the jpg automatically? - Jesse Stay
Why???? I've never had any problems with them? - Roberto Bonini
@rbonini I'm gonna blog about it, but short story is their SAS arrays crash & burn when something happens on their ethernet management port. SO DUMB! - Don MacAskill
SocialToo doesn't seem to do that, though. Or their page is just poorly worded. It sounds like yet-another-service - when what I really want is for FriendFeed to just auto-add my Twitter followers so I never have to go to Twitter again. :) - Don MacAskill
Don, it's probably just poorly worded. I'm still working on content and UI - functionality is more important to me. We added some new features yesterday in fact that put it in competition with Qwitter as well: http://staynalive.com/articles... - Jesse Stay
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Don, are you talking about letting FriendFeed detect your Twitter followers that are on FriendFeed and auto-follow them on FriendFeed? SocialToo doesn't do that yet, no. If FriendFeed doesn't do it it's in my plans though. - Jesse Stay
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Basically, I want FriendFeed to auto-follow the people I'm following on Twitter. If they don't have FriendFeed accounts, I want it to create an Imaginary Friend (great FF feature!). And it should do this periodically to keep everything fresh. - Don MacAskill
Ah Don - we don't do that, *yet*. I've got some cool ideas for FF integration on what FF decides not to do. - Jesse Stay
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this would be so nice. Especially if FF continues to be smart about it and gives options to limit the depth. That was my biggest issue with twitter, I wanted to see Leo and Don, but not all their friends. - Chris Abbey
agree with Don, would love to import all my Twitter contacts into FF as either their actual FF account or imaginary friends if no FF account. I'd also like to see FF auto replace imaginary friends with FF accounts when the imaginary friend joins FF. - Thomas Hawk
Well let's hope this sticks... what a great piece of news!!! - Brian Roy
Hmm not so sure this is good news. Good news for people who hate ip squatters. Good news for copycats. Bad news for people building something to only get ripped off - Phill Price
Phil: No way, you're wrong. I'm building something every day of my life. I'm not scare someone will rip me off - I'm scared someone will claim they own a process of my business that isn't novel, unique, or new and put me out of business. - Don MacAskill
"We want to make it easier for you to share your FriendFeed activity on the web services you're already using. Now you can publish your FriendFeed updates directly to Twitter." - Paul Buchheit
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Only thing is that I wish you could make it easier to get my Twitter and FriendFeed list of friends synchronized in two ways: 1) doing a fresh search and/or notifying me when my Twitter friends join FF, and 2) by automating creation on fake friends in Twitter so that I can use FF.com exclusively for all my Twitter tracking. - Patrick Lightbody
so does that mean that friendfeed entries will be fed to twitter and right back to friendfeed again if one's account is part of friendfeed? - Cee Bee
How do you handle the echo effect of GReader => FF => Twitter => FF? - Pras Sarkar
this is great. But I also second Cee Bee's question. - Tsega Dinka
Thank goodness it's all services except Twitter. Otherwise, there might be an infinite feedback loop. - Morton Fox
anyone know how the folks at Twitter feel about this? - Thomas Hawk
We took into account the echo effects/loops. Let us know if you see any issues (we are aware of and fixing one bug at the moment). - Dan Hsiao
Seems cool, but I wonder if it will interfere with my other networks by reposting my Tweets again, and again :/ Testing now! - Michael Forian
Paul this is huge for your team! Congrats! - Jorge Escobar
Greader shared items are not being reposted to Twitter for me. - Pras Sarkar
@Pras, I don't see any Greader items on your FF feed since we launched the feature 30 minutes ago... Have you had any come in since then? - Dan Hsiao
I was JUST sitting here going, man...it would be nice if people on Twitter could see the cool stuff I'm sharing to FriendFeed...ask ye shall receive... - ♫ Rahsheen™
I gots some people on Twitter I don't want to see how much fun I'm having on FF. Appreciate the option, though. - Derrick
@Dan, odd, I don't see my shared items on Greader making it to FF. I'll investigate. Thanks. - Pras Sarkar
just changed my settings to only include the material I post *to* FriendFeed vs. all the comments I make *on* FF. Comments come across in Twitter out of context and for an active FF person would tend to push too much craziness into their Twitter stream. - Thomas Hawk
Hrm...I hope people don't put stuff like Digg/Stumble/Identi.ca/Greader. Anything that gets bundled up in FriendFeed probably has NO business being piped into Twitter... - ♫ Rahsheen™
interesting...what about enabling this for identica as well? i only post to identica, which then feeds into twitter...since the apis are essentially the same, it should be easy to hook up... - Trent Olson
I don't have a fucking clue how I feel about this. - tehKenny
@Pras, since we crawl for updates, they usually come every 30 min or so. You can always manually refresh to check for updates from your profile page (select the service icon, then click the Refresh link that shows up) - Dan Hsiao
you can pick and choose which services get routed over to twitter. pretty cool - Cee Bee
This is so great. Posting to Twitter was feeling like a bit of a digital chore, frankly. Just wanted to keep my presence happening there, not much more. This makes it so I can be here 100% of the time. Well done. - Steve Isaacs
Wooo hooo!! You guys rock again!! yeah! - Susan Beebe
This is awesome! Now I can spam all my tweeps with my Friendfeed activity! More bending, splicing, and tuning of the firehose. Most excellent. UPDATE: Holy crap. This is a POWERFULLY dangerous new feature. Look out Twitter. UPDATE2: Wow. Just. Wow. That's a scary powerful feature. I did find a minor issue when you comment on a twitter post and check send @reply to twitter - results in duplicate post. user best practice to not check @reply I guess. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
big deal, indeed - trying to figure out what the micro-blog equivalent to power grid "kilowatts" - alas, transforms made possible power grids - yet innovative data tranformations are subject to weak argents concerning "useful[ness], concrete[ness] and tangib[ility]" ... bet they do a telecom split at some point >>> a step in the direction of "willingness to pay" for bandwidth ... Don't understand? You probably aren't paying my bills ;-) - Scott Moskowitz
They will need some native iphone and android g1 apps now. FF not best first comment first engine. - Patrick Moorhead
Go ahead & acquire Ping.fm and then this news goes nuclear:) - Roney Smith
Very impressive, I will try this out now to see how it displays... - Joe Dawson (beta)
Thomas Hawk - same here. I had to go back and tweak my publish feed settings to NOT include all the comments I make *on* FF; just send a tweet to twitter for only the stuff I *post* on FF - Susan Beebe
Saw Gillmore's video of this meeting. The 36 minutes I caught were fascinating. I don't think I saw you ask a question, though. Did you? If so, what was it and what was the gist of the response? Just curious. - James Urquhart
So I was a little unique in the room - I'd already been briefed long ago on Red Dog and had access to the SDK for quite awhile. Ray Ozzie and I have spoken about cloud computing on more than one occasion. And most of the other bloggers there were interested in sorta broad "how will this affect Microsoft?" question. I was interested in deep technical "how will this affect me?" questions - so I asked them later, privately, so as not to take up too much of the bloggers' time. - Don MacAskill
Don: out of all the people who are talking about this stuff you are the one I'm watching the most. Are you going to write up your thoughts of all this stuff? Will you switch SmugMug to Microsoft? (Don is CEO of SmugMug and is one of Amazon's S3's best-known customers). - Robert Scoble
Robert: I'm planning on it, yes, but there's my age-old dilemma: Do I write about the subject or just spend that time actually working on the subject? :) I need a ghost-blogger to take my thoughts and blog them. Haha! - Don MacAskill
Well... that has always been a problem with MS - they attempted to push you into an all or nothing decision. - Brian Roy
This time it doesn't seem that cut & dried. There are parts of WA I can use today, which is really cool, and there are some other things in the pipe that should make my job easier, too. Just don't know if I can talk about them yet. - Don MacAskill
That would be great - finally MS as part of the architecture without turning the entire architecture over to MS - now we just need to work on Oracle :) - Brian Roy
Hmm, Don, are you speaking at PDC? (He's CEO of SmugMug which famously uses Amazon's cloud services, so if he switches to a different cloud supplier it'll be huge). - Robert Scoble
Don, I'm curious--what are you most interested to see at PDC? - Matt Cutts
Sorry guys, didn't check FF until just now. Haven't seen you yet DeWitt, but I'll keep my eyes peeled. :) Matt, I'm interested in cloud computing, and especially competition in the cloud computing arena. - Don MacAskill
I've got a guest post up on ZDNet today about bootstrapping. - Ryan Kuder
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Right there with you... Left Intuit in May (Trickle down from Lars Rabbe's exit) and decided it was my turn to build my own company. Had targeted February as my date to have raised capital... now trying to figure out which strategy (merge, partner, etc) will allow me to keep going through 2009. - Brian Roy
It's going to be damn tough, there's no doubt about it - and i think you're bang on with regard to networking & cutting back to the bare minimum. It's brave what you're doing and heck let's do our best to get you at the least the 1500 members from this room signed up! :) Also, that is pretty nuts the publicity your leave from Yahoo got...just skimmed the post... - Zee.
