Douglas E. Welch

Flickr should give me this view natively. I love to see which of my photos have made it to Interesting or Explore. Cool little web app! - Josh Bancroft

I've used this before to check out some of my stats. It's unfortunate that Simon Blint is staring back at us in your "Most viewed from the past 30 days" section, but I guess it's good to keep bringing notice to the story. What a tool. ;) - Chris Luckhardt

...and since we're sharing: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/... - Chris Luckhardt

... and http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/... - samgrover

... ok me too :) http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/... - Jason R. Hunter

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/... - Veronica

Like the "ego surf" part at the bottom. :) Been a while since I checked it, kinda cool to see some of my photos being used by people. - Jason R. Hunter

awesome sunsets Coreburn! - Thomas Hawk

Flickr DNA rocks :) - Mike

First time seeing this - very cool. (And Thomas - no surprise, your photos rock!) - Kim Mahan

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/... - Henrik Johansson

Wild :D - Mo 'Killer Sauce' Kargas

Can already see the looks on my ferals faces if they were confronted with this! - Penny

If only I could be the person my dog thinks I am... :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

yes...wow, you are? that's amazing. - edythe

oh, another good one, Lisa... that we can never attain - Michael W. May

Yep I am so much better for others than I am for myself. Part of he human condition? Possibly - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

Great looking build. - Ken Kennedy

Awesome attention to detail. - Hao Chen

Is this another Ordinal Malaprop sim? - Mark Forman

Second Life has come a long way. Nice. - xero

I have to admit, almost makes me want to login again for the first time in a year. - Steve Spalding

I guess we can all live with that...right ? - Jassim

I'm heartbroken. - Trish R

jeez, Bush doesn't even use the "hate" word. - Andy Sternberg

So he hates commentators based on their favoured medium? Does he also hate artists who sculture (as opposed to paint) - Craig Thomler

Nice to know that hate is still part of his platform. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

me not know use computer, me hate computer people. - Amit Morson

You'll hate as more as we get closer to November. Keep saying stupid stuff. - Chris Baskind

The feeling's mutual. - Bryce

I'm sure " - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

I actually watched the video -- it was obviously a joke. I take anything I read on C&L with a grain of salt anyway. - Shey

Seemed like he was joking to me - Bjorn Tipling

is this the kind of un-web 2.0 kind of guy we want running our country as we attempt to build our information worker dominance? ... I think not. - Shawn Smith via Alert Thingy

The things said in jest are often the most truthful things we utter, Sort of like In Vino Veritas. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

what a dumbass - Susan Beebe

hmm maybe he cannot find them on Internets? - Fred Grott

After seeing McCain with Jon Stewart 13 or so times, watching him back in 2002 on SNL as a hippie high school teacher, and seeing him on SNL in the last few months making fun of his age, I sorta get the impression he has... well... a sense of humor. He can be a funny guy. Hasn't anybody else noticed? - Ken Sheppardson

The company we keep. - Warner Crocker

A great divide in contemporary American culture: crony capitalists vs. creative capitalists. Crony capitalists hate creative capitalists and feel threatened by them. That's the subtext here if you dig deeply. The Bush 43 administration (of which McCain is a part) is the last angry gasp of a particular class of crony capitalists who want to annihilate everything that they can't understand or control. The Internet is full-throttle creative capitalism -- it drives these people nuts. - Sean McBride

Or maybe he was making a joke. - Ken Sheppardson

I think he is THE joke - Susan Beebe

Ken - How can a guy this deadly serious, with that rictus grin and ever-present rage, ever make a joke? Does he look like he gets the Internet? - Sean McBride

Unfortunately his jokes tend to be about hating people and bombing countries. That bomb Iran song was a hoot. - Kevin Bondelli

Sean : http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi... - Ken Sheppardson

This was on December 7, and the clip leaves out a part where he is using a blog as an example, so it is tough to determine whether he was being playful or not. I think the selectiveness of the clip is unfortunate. Anybody know where the whole piece is? - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

Ken: I watched the video. McCain can be charming and likable in spurts. He's also a very angry man who is going to push the same war agenda in the Middle East as Bush/Cheney, at the behest of his neoconservative and crony capitalist puppeteers. If you think "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" is funny, along with $200 to $400 a barrel oil prices, you'll be impressed by McCain's wit and brilliance. Joseph Lieberman, who knows McCain well, praised him as a "Maccabee" -- an Old Testament holy warrior. - Sean McBride

More evidence that McCain may, in fact, have a sense of humor: http://video.google.com/videop... - Ken Sheppardson

Sorry, I meant December 2007 (it was the 29th) - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

@Robert Scoble: McCain's hatred of bloggers is evidence of blogger power. If a guy who can't use a computer feels the impact of bloggers, it's a cause for celebration, no? - Michael Hussein Markman

@Sean McBride: pedantic nit: Maccabee doesn't appear in the Old Testament. He appears in the Apocrypha. - Michael Hussein Markman

There's a massive lack of any kind of a sense of humor going on in this campaign, especially when it comes to McCain. He used a crack about beating his wife when he felt that a reporter asked him a "Have you stopped beating your wife yet, Senator?" question, and he got beat up about it. There have been many similar instances, and maybe this is one, too. I don't particularly like John McCain, but I think everyone needs to stop jumping his shit about trivial crap. - David Worrell

Michael: a man who attends to the details -- I like that. :) Let me rephrase: the Maccabean meme -- the archetype of the ethnic nationalist holy warrior -- is a product of the Old Testament mindset or culture. (And there are many fine things in the OT -- I am not using the term in an exclusively pejorative way.) In any case, Lieberman praising McCain as a Maccabee doesn't inspire confidence in me about McCain; nor is it a tribute to McCain's sense of humor (or even sanity). - Sean McBride

Note: Joseph Lieberman is also a big fan of Christian Armageddonist John Hagee, a fanatic who wants to set the world on fire, starting in the Middle East. Apparently Lieberman sees signficant similarities between Hagee and McCain. - Sean McBride

Sean: wow, that explains a lot! yikes - Susan Beebe

John McCain is definitely aware of the Internet. - Alexander Carlill

Sounds like he doesn't like people who express their opinions either - Judy Jones

November is going to be catastrophic for the GOP, I think. - Alexander Carlill

Susan: Lieberman, Hagee, neoconservatives and Christian Zionists/Armageddonists are counting on John McCain to expand the Iraq War to Iran and the rest of the Middle East -- that is why they are promoting him. Notice how many belligerent and threatening statements McCain has made on the subject. He's a fanatic, not a comedian. This entire political bloc also hates political dissent and often smears political opponents as "terrorists" -- hence their hatred of the free-wheeling and intellectually independent Internet. - Sean McBride

"I hate the bloggers." So, he hates the ability of people to express themselves without censorship? Seriously, even in jest, this is disconcerting. And remember the adage - never truer words spoken in jest. - AJ Kohn

AJ: One of John McCain's chief promoters, Joseph Lieberman, is also a sponsor of the Homegrown Terrorism Act, a piece of nasty legislation that is moving in the direction of censoring the Internet along neoconservative standards of political correctness. Make no mistake: these people really, really hate the Internet and diversity of opinion. "They hate our freedoms." :) - Sean McBride

And I hate the Interwebs, too! - David Gutelius

Ignore Lieberman. A few Senate victories and the Dems will kick him to the curb, he'll lose his seniority and the GOP won't take him either. He's a religious zealot and a total opportunist. Picking him as VP was possibly Al Gore's worst decision since he stole all of Vint Cerf's ideas and invented the Internet based on his unfinished plans... - Andrew Feinberg

Seriously folks - he was kidding. I'm not going to defend the man as a technology pioneer but I think we can all agree that "bloggers" in the most general sense are not beloved far and wide - I don't know where Yglesias gets off calling the laughter 'tepid' either. There are PLENTY of substantive issues to disagree over - I'm ignoring ridiculous "Obama doesn't wear a flag pin" memes - no need for anyone to grab their e-muskets over this one either... - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I'd say the Democrats have pretty much kicked Lieberman to the curb already. - Ken Sheppardson

He's still Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, and the leadership has to kiss his ass lest he go Jim Jeffords on them. With 12 Republican Senate seats open, give the Dems a few victories and Joe gets the boot. - Andrew Feinberg

Hey, just dug up this from his Liberty University commencement address back in 2006. Summary: He really does hate bloggers ;-) http://kshep.posterous.com/mcc... - Ken Sheppardson

he also hates puppies, lollipops pigtails and sunlight - I mean ANY sunlight - if elected President he has a secret plan to detonate nuclear devices on the sun so that he may plunge the world into eternal darkness mwahahahahahaha Oh and he met my grandmother once (sweet, sweet lady) and he slapped her because she didn't get up when he entered the room (she was wheelchair bound at the time). - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

LOL at Marco. Need to be able to "Like" comments as well. - Robert Stribley

@ Shey, i think he's serious, but he just let it come across as being a joke - Gordon Swaby

@Gordon he's not despite whatever other problems people may have with him he genuinely enjoys a free and open exchange of ideas (simmer down - no flaming that comment folks) for well over a year now (and long before ANY other candidate followed suit I believe) he has hosted regular conference calls directly with bloggers where every two weeks or so he jumps on a conf call and takes their questions. It is undeniable that he provides journalists far more direct access than Obama - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I couldn't help but comment more extensively on Sean McBride's "creative capitalism" comment on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/5sj5qf After looking further at Sean McBride's FriendFeed, I can see the delusions don't stop at "creative capitalism". - Jason Huebel

He was clearly joking during that clip. Senator McCain gives unprecedented access to bloggers and to all media types unlike Senator Obama. http://tinyurl.com/677vds The main benefit of web 2.0 is that it gives us a better view of how people think and what they are really like, but in this election Senator McCain is the only one with an open access policy. Senator Obama is restricting access to all but a few media outlets while Senator McCain is letting small town newspapers ride on the Straight Talk Express which gives them the opportunity to ask the candidate questions. - Michael Beach

Jason: I read your interesting blog entry. Let me clarify a bit: "creative capitalism" -- new successful and profitable businesses based on original intellectual property and fresh ideas, not necessarily restricted to the Internet or information technology. "Crony capitalism" -- businesses based on financial manipulation, no-bid contracts, oligopolies, monopolies and the like. See, for instance, Halliburton's Iraq War profiteering. Creative capitalists tend to gravitate to the Democratic Pary; crony capitalists to the Republican Party. Halliburton is a very different kind of enterprise (and culture) than Google. - Sean McBride

John McCain's script is being written by the same neoconservatives at the AEI, JINSA, WINEP and other neocon think tanks who have come close to destroying the Republican Party and the conservative movement. They are urging McCain to expand the Iraq War to Iran, thus McCain's "joke" -- "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" -- a little ditty that was also sung by neocon James Woolsey from the AEI. Is there anything funny about the prospect of $10 or $20 a gallon gas? Chaos in the Mideast? Try nightmare. - Sean McBride

Throughout the nineties I got the strong impression that old school crony and vulture capitalists were utterly baffled and enraged by the smart ass kids from MIT, Stanford and other hotbeds of radical imagineering who created the Internet revolution. They saw the entire cultural shift as mystifying, subversive and threatening. McCain is definitely old school in this kulturkampf. Ancient. - Sean McBride

Kulturkampf: geeks vs. geezers. - Sean McBride

cool toy but didn't work for me. I got this: Warning: file_get_contents(http://...@twitter.com/statuse...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/steppek/public_html/Spyndle/TwitterFF/index.php on line 54 - Thomas Hawk

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/steppek/public_html/Spyndle/TwitterFF/index.php on line 58 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/steppek/public_html/Spyndle/TwitterFF/index.php on line 80 - Thomas Hawk

I am working on it now. I think it is because of the API Rate Limit. - Kreg Steppe

looking forward to this if you can get it working :) - Thomas Hawk

Ah, the good ol' Twitter API rate limit. Twitter Karma knows it all too well. :-( - Dossy Shiobara

Dude... you rock! Worked like a charm. Like you stated, it's iffy, but iffy-or-not, it saved me a LOT of work! Nice job! - Kevin Devin

Nice, worked. Not fully automatic, but it's a good start. Keep it up, Kreg! - Mark Trapp

hmmm.. still not working for me. Getting the same error code above. Maybe I've got too many contacts. - Thomas Hawk

After I waited a bit, I got it to run again. I had to wait out my API limit. Thomas, try it again in the AM after you haven't used Twitter in a while. - Kreg Steppe

another tool use, http://internetducttape.com/20... - clarke thomas

Clarke, the fact that we've all used that tool and it no longer works with the current FF API is why Kreg did this one. - Dave Slusher via twhirl

...and besides...mine is Platform independent. - Kreg Steppe

sounds good. I'll try it again in the a.m. Thanks. - Thomas Hawk

Worked GREAT for me. I've just found dozens of Twitter friends on FF. Yay! - Leo Laporte

Sweet! Glad it worked Leo. - Kreg Steppe

hmmm... still not working for me this morning. Maybe Twitter's still mad about the whole shark eating the fail whale thing. Same error request above and I've posted nothing to Twitter in over 12 hours. - Thomas Hawk

Sorry Thomas... that's the TH filter that Kreg put in place. ;-) - Kevin Devin

Wasn't able to try it last night, but just did. Got five warnings (similar to above) but under that was a nice long list of results. :) - Kevin C. Tofel

Tried it .Liked it. Worked. Added a few new people on FFd (to avoid confusion with Firefox) - Dom Barnes

I'll spend some time working on this later...now I must work. I'll send out a new message when I have some progress. Not sure about your problem Thomas. - Kreg Steppe via twhirl

i think it is hitting an api limit - "Warning: file_get_contents(http://...@twitter.com/statuse...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway in /home/steppek/public_html/Spyndle/TwitterFF/index.php on line 54" - Chris Harris

also a cool feature would be a select all and subscribe checkboxes next to each name. i was on page 4 and already had 50+ users on FF not subscribed to hehe. - Chris Harris

cool, working well for me. Thanks. Glad I saw this. - Nathan Rein

Chris: I am looking at the subscribing feature now....I think I need to use something other than the API. I didn't see that in the documentation. - Kreg Steppe

The Ruby thing I looked at was using API for most stuff and reverting to parameters in a post to a form page for actually subscribing to FF people. - Dave Slusher

i'm excited to see what they roll out for gmail. there has to be a time they take it out of beta though right? i mean 10 million users and still in beta, really? - Morgan

well i know what the friendfeed is gonna look like tonight - Anthony

snake? really? ok, yes, I will try it :) - Tim Hoeck

They have way more than 10 million users Morgan. - Paul Buchheit

Ooh, this is cool. Google really knows how to cater to their power users. - Eric Florenzano

I think this is huge - not just for users, but I think it'll really inspire Googlers to do a ton of really great stuff. And thus innovation is born! - felix

A bit underwhelming at launch but I could see a lot of potential in this. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo

looks like the 10 million figure was from Techcrunch....."There are currently about 10 million active Gmail users." - Adam Kazwell

I'm curious about this... - Kemal Yaylali

still don't see it on my main account, but all lesser accounts now have it - MG Siegler

I see it but I'm still wonder what all the "excitment" is all about - Steven Hodson

looks like they're still rolling it out - doesn't show in any of my accounts yet. The official GMail blog has the announcement up now, though: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/... - Frederic

I still don't see it. - Morton Fox

Steve Hodson - the excitement I find in this is Google moving the evolving edge of the engineers' 20% time out to the market while the paint is still wet - to more directly involve the participation of the user-base as to the evolution of the product. It is a more direct-democracy, a more intimate relationship with the evolution of the software.. a decentralization and greater inclusion for the decision making process. - sedgewick

Its already available - See here - http://myblogposts.com/what-is... - Diana Valerini

Mine has shown up, 11pm pdt - Anthony Citrano

@sedgwick .. wow does that ever sound like marketing speak .. well if that is the case I sure hope they are using their 20% time to come up with something a little more eviolutionary that random signatures. That one must have left the engineer with at least 9% left of his/her 20%. - Steven Hodson

Steven - really? marketing speak? ...perhaps I should apply for a job. ;p - sedgewick

agreed, I like it alot... whiteboard and all! woo hoo! I am seriously thinking of using this for managing my virtual teams and for collaborating on project management documentation. still too early to tell... but I like the rich feature set and the UIX is sweet! - Susan Beebe

Yep! Folks at the office are gonna like this, no doubt. I love it when these services help me be the Big Damn Hero! - Jim Stanger

I just used this quote on my blog at http://scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble

Yeah they're finally going after the web app market in a big way. This single handedly ends my need for Campfire. - Jon Gosier

I created some screenshots here --> http://www.flickr.com/search/?... - Susan Beebe

Holy crap is right! Its a webex killer too. That's the ConnectNow piece. Amazing. And it supports live video and desktop sharing - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Disclaimer: I'm a huge Adobe fanboy since I first started using Photoshop in 1991. (Bonus: Anyone else a veteran user of Macromind products? ;) - Eric Rice

I'd no idea they did an office suite! Personally I like Zoho - john conroy

Eric: I won a prize for reporting the most bugs in Acrobat 1.0 (they gave me a $1400 laser printer back in 1995). I love that team and am glad to see they are doing great things. - Robert Scoble

Hey Eric, Scoble's got your cool post on his blog!! very cool indeed! I am really liking Adobe's new Acrobat.com!! :-) - Susan Beebe

macromind? pwned by ur question. Looking forward to this adobe suite. Long time adobe fan-glad they're finally making some strides in the cloud. - Mark Forman

do you need acrobat 9 to use all the features?...via feedalizr - Dieter Schwarz

screencaps and a review here http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/0... - Jon Gosier

Dieter: No, it's flash-based (flex?flash?)... I read something Adobe AIR version as well, but I'm dealing with a drooling problem right now. ;) - Eric Rice

Mark: hehe the stories I could tell you about Marc Canter in 1991 would probably, well, be the same as the stories I could tell today hehe. - Eric Rice

I think this is build on Flex (Pods, etc.) - Susan Beebe

Robert: Did you ever get into tug-of-war battles with those huge rolls of printer cellophane for dye-sublimation printers? That stuff was stronger than titanium, I swear. - Eric Rice

I remember that stuff. Woz had one of those printers. Cost $40,000. Now a $50 printer does a better job. - Robert Scoble

I'm really impressed! - Guillaume

I don;t see much that connect gives me that SharedView doesn't. Any help? - Soulhuntre via twhirl

Glad you like it Eric! I think it's one of the cooler products we have. - Ryan Stewart

You can even remote control a user's desktop. That's just amazing! - Alexander Marktl