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You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
SteVe C, AJ Batac :), Brent and 254 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Mark: http://friendfeed.com/bret...
- Casey Muller
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
FWIW this isn't working for me any longer. Perhaps that has something to do with my Gmail settings though.
- Mark J
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I still get them.
- AJ Batac :)
I get these every day.
- CW✔
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath, Nir Ben Yona and 68 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you ff very good :)
- Nimaa
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
I am the winner! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
urdumania1, Stephen Mack, Roberto Bonini and 50 other people liked this
Man, I'm so going to win this game now.
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Wait, it says I won - "Found it - You" :)
- JCunwired
Note to FriendFeed: you definitely didn't make it easy to find the winning combination.
- Mark Trapp
Dammit, just found it in the JS..beaten by Mark Trapp !
- Mo Kargas
Screenshots don't do it justice: it actually pulses different colors. Just in case you didn't like the gray enough.
- Mark Trapp
For those still looking, Paul gave away the most important clue. The screenshot does, too.
- Mark Trapp
so what is it Mark? share, share
- Tweet Feeds
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
Nice !
- Ahsan Ali
Geek!! :)
- Susan Beebe
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
Tsega: likely a jQuery pulse plug-in. Something like: http://enhance.qd-creative.co.uk/demos...
- Mark Trapp
That's weird, the page is suddenly laggy, interesting. /me gone with its 30 lives.
- Zu from AOD
Nice plug-in btw. This is trippy.
- Zu from AOD
That's so awesome!
- Mohamed J
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- Outsanity
Ahhh.. Too bad it don't stay
- Outsanity
coool - it's easter already!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Cool.
- Kol Tregaskes
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
- Johnny
super cool!
- vijay
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome, but I'm seeing it in Firefox.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
:)
- edythe
Worked for me in Chrome, but I'm using one of the older builds.
- Jandy
You have no idea how much this improves the Beta.
- Shey
Groovy.
- MLx
Works in Chrome :)
- Roberto Bonini
:)
- edythe
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months | Wired Science | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
Sorin Lerinti, Don Faulkner, Jeanette Bosman and 111 other people liked this
"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills?
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags.
- Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost.
- Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful.
- Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2.
- Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit.
- Louis Simoneau
Concur with Louis and Paul. Here's an interesting Penn & Teller bit about landfills: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (from their Bullshit episode on Recycling myths).
- Stephen Mack
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong?
- Gabe
Why would you assume that Gabe?
- Paul Buchheit
the carbon in the CO2, perhaps?
- Jack Jones
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street.
- Chris Charabaruk
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle.
- Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!)
- Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist)
- ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full.
- Gabe
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless.
- Stephen Mack
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such...
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- anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about
- Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean.
- Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting!
- Dane Deasy
Lazy online commentators... ;)
- Dane Deasy
What's the risk in providing a specific kind of bacteria an unlimited food source?
- dthree
Old news.
- Will Higgins™
Pseudomonas is living even on tubes used in surgery. It is a major problem. It simply eats the plastic in a wet environment.
- Balint
Nerd Venn Diagram
!lker yoldas. )°(, Shevonne, Bruce Lewis and 42 other people liked this
I think I'm just a dweeb, LOL. I don't really have any unhealthy obsessions. :)
- rowlikeagirl
I don't think the diagram makes a distinction between unhealthy and healthy obsessions, so...
- Vicarbott
I think that makes me a geek?
- LANjackal
Only a Nerd could have analysed this concept, drawn that diagram, and posted it here. Go Nerds!
- Bob Hitching
Nerds FTW!
- Mr. Gunn
Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
İlter Kalkancı, Nils Sandin, scotu ._., and 72 other people liked this
"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I don't want my contact information to be my identifier. I shouldn't have to give a website my email address, just like I shouldn't have to give a store my phone number.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, I think it just takes the form of an email address, but does not in fact have to be one (or could be a "throw away" account).
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if we could get our act together (as an industry) and make this stuff happen. I'd also like to see ENUM deployed to the point that my phone number can be linked to my identity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joe Beda
This is a bad idea in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
- April
If a site wants my email address, it's probably in order to spam me. It's usually a bad sign. If legit sites ask for my email more, it will make it harder to identify the spammers.
- Tim Tyler
Do gmail users seriously still have problems with spam? I don't.
- Robin Barooah
Personally this sounds great - as long as it really doesn't force you to use your actual gmail address.
- Robin Barooah
I loved finger.
- j1m
Does this mean I can have a .plan again?
- Benjamin Lee
Sounds like the .plan which is (again) accessed via an id in email format and returns different information/metadata about a person depending on who's accessing it. Email id is used to do a DNS lookup in order to discover URL for the XRD file (accessed with a HTTP GET) containing the metadata about the person being, er, WebFinger-ed.
- Nenad Nikolic
it is like user authenticating, having two three ids won't hurt ;) well i don't want to be identified, they are going same as gravatar
- testbeta
It's so curious to me that people have concerns that WebFinger would lead to more spam, and yet don't like the "format" of URLs for IDs. Personally, as far as OpenID is concerned, I don't care what the identifier looks like as long as people can remember it — typically email seems easier to recall than URLs (for most people in today's world).
- Chris Messina
Some users who have an email account with Google, myself included, have oodles of incoming mail both standard and secure so it fits the bill to increase security for both vendors and marketers.
- frank burns
I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :(
- J. McConnell
Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned...
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- frank burns
6 Ways Evernote Fails and the 1 Reason I Don't Uninstall It - http://rwv.blogspot.com/2008...
mrshl, Paul Robinson, Andre P. Siregar and 4 other people liked this
"The problem with Evernote is that it is absolutely horrible at taking notes."
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
After spending some time as an Evernote user I'm just fed up. Here's my reaction. I'd like to know: What do all of you use the program for? I feel like the only one whose had any issues with it considering the rave reviews flying around.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I use it as a staging account. It's where I throw stuff that I don't have time to otherwise categorize. I also use it to store info that I know I'm going to need later but I'm in too big of hurry to do anything else. It's also great for screenshots. The best note taker in the world is still Notepad, or at least Notepad++.
- Keith - @tsudo
I do the same thing with OneNote, and if I pull it from the web or another doc, It'll keep a link. Also, it lets me pull up notes without opening the main program, just a blank notepad like area that auto saves and is searchable. This is what I don't get, what does Evernote do that makes it competitive? I feel like I must be missing out on some big secret.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I use Evernote, for work and home. Reason #1 Its free, Reason #2 It works on multiple platforms. (I can find something of interest at work on a PC, and pull that same info and edit on my iPhone, or Mac at home.. try that with OneNote) Prior to Evernote, I was a Google Note book fan, the only problem was that I could not edit notes on my phone, but I can with Evernote.
- Steve Sill
I use Evernote to collect things from the web I want to remember that might go away (Photoshop tutorials are good examples...), I use it to store account credentials like a password manager. I use it to store all the PDFs that I have collected over the years. I use it to store MP3s so I can access them on other computers. I use it to store any bit of text or information I might need to recall later like the stuff my kid's school sends home, insurance policies, credit card emergency contact information...
- Lindsay
You don't have to save the link in the note when you cut and paste from the web, it captures that information for you. You can see the metadata for notes in the Windows (and I'm assuming Mac) clients at the top of each note. You can edit that if you need to but the web clipper or cut and paste from a website does it automatically.
- Lindsay
I guess I don't use it for note taking in the sense of academic note taking and I can see how it might be not as ideal, but it's extremely useful to me and I'm a very happy paid subscriber to the service. My main two complaints are not being able to store zip and other file types and not being able to share notes with specific people/groups. Oh, and lack of an Android G1 app. But I'm hoping all that will come eventually and it's still useful to me in the mean time.
- Lindsay
Lindsay, that's some of the same stuff I use OneNote for. While I do feel safe putting my passwords on OneNote, I don't know if I would with Evernote, considering everything passes through the web. I had no idea you could use it to store MP3s, but that doesn't seem like the ideal solution. The downside to Evernote is if you don't tag something properly it can be very very difficult to browse to.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
This is especially an issue with passwords, you don't want to make them easy for an intruder to find but trying to browse notebooks in Evernote is an exercise in frustration. For stuff on the web, isn't that the whole point of printing to a PDF? I have to admit, I am seeing some legitimate uses for Evernote, but still how often to you use it to go back? It seems to me that most people seem to use it more as a drop box than anything else.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I use or for note since the beginning of 2005, when it was still a desktop only client. Since that time I've used it to store login information, registration information, names and telephone numbers, where I've put certain things in the house (and whereas move them to later because I always forget, LOL), snippets of pertinent knowledge from webpages, events (when did we get the dog?...
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- Ruud Hein
Aram - for passwords, I store those in encrypted notes, so I don't worry so much about whether it's exposed on the web. It's not an ideal solution as I can only decrypt those on the Windows client but I don't have to look things up that often... It's more for peace of mind that I know they are there if I forget.
- Lindsay
For printing to PDF, now that I have Evernote, I don't have to do that anymore, I can just clip straight to Evernote. But I have a huge backlog of them, and now they are in one place, tagged and organized. And I do use them (I was just looking up some information on my kid's upcoming band concert that I'd scanned in so I can forward to my mom before writing this). Search works well for me, and the OCR is great. I don't HAVE to use tags because of that. I actually use tags as notebooks instead.
- Lindsay
I don't like the "folder" model of organizing information. If I use tags and structure them I can look up information in several different "thought paths". Yes, I tag every note, and make a point of it. It's been a while since I used OneNote but all the notebooks and sub-notebooks made it hard for me find things. I like tagging much better... it's flat and deep at the same time.
- Lindsay
I also use OneNote for work. I have a separate account for all my work notes (so I can hand it over when I leave). I use it to document chat sessions (our logs are erased daily) and code snippets and I document processes and procedures (with links to relevant files/sites in the steps). I keep account credentials and other information encrypted there. I use it every single day, probably about 70% adding info and 30% looking it up again (but when I do need to look it up, it's quick and easy!).
- Lindsay
See, the issue I have is that yes, some of this stuff that Evernote can do is good, but I can do the same thing (all of it) and a lot more in OneNote with the exception of the easy sync. I guess part of it is work style Lindsay, I like OneNote's notebooks and sub-notebooks, they make organizing things easy. Like I said before, it seems to me that the legitimate uses of Evernote are more...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
For example: one of the main things I use OneNote for is to build a bible for a game development team I'm on. Within the notebook for that project each topic has it's own section, each section has headings on notes with general descriptions and in-notebook links then when I want to drill down into more detail I pull it into a sub-note. For me, OneNote is a real reference. One that works...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Yeah, I agree, Aram. I don't use it to take notes, but to archive info. I am very picky about tags. I put at least one tag and usually several on every note. I have hundreds of tags and I have those organized in hierarchies. I use the auto-complete feature for filling in tags in the web clipper. Between tags and search I have no problems finding things again. I use Evernote from home, work and my phone and LOVE having access to my info anywhere I am. That's the main advantage over OneNote for me.
- Lindsay
And why would you use Evernote to save websites when Delicious does it better, Google does immediate caching and the Internet Archive saves old versions of the website? I understand that Evernote does this stuff, but it seems to me that there is a whole host of tools out there, many of them free, that do it better. Most of them are also better about increasing content for your social...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Delicious doesn't save any of the content (I have quite a large Del.icio.us archive, btw). Internet Archive has failed me (lots of times) and I have had problems finding things again on Google... Most of the stuff I put in Evernote I don't really want to share with the world (though I would like to with specific people). OneNote is not free, limited to Windows, and doesn't automatically sync with a backup in the clouds and isn't accessible from my phone. For me, it serves my needs better than OneNote.
- Lindsay
I am pretty familiar with the other tools available out there (I am a beta site addict and a digital packrat... if it looked at all useful I tried it). Evernote isn't perfect but it's constantly improving and what's already there works for how I need it. And it's ONE service verses several that lets me have my data where, when and how I need it. It's my digital file cabinet.
- Lindsay
Lindsay, you hit on the very reason why I wish I could use Evernote so much, the ability to have my stuff living on the cloud would be fantastic. Right now my OneNote is being synced up between my laptop and desktop using an FTP solution with my server. Having it automatic with Evernote has so much promise. But I can't use Evernote for notes, or to work with text in the free-form drop...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I guess what it really comes down to was just how disappointed I was in Evernote, I expected to be able to find a solution to my backup issues, but for me, using Evernote caused way more problems then it solved. Also... it did make me consider getting an iPhone, but then I looked at iTunes on a friends computer and my resolve not to get one was strengthened. In the end, the deal is that...
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- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Yep, EN works best as a dump place of lose info bits, for me. ON I use for structured info (documenting work projects esp.). Too, it's the value-over-time. You've been building in ON for a long time, hence you have tremendous value back
- Ruud Hein
You know you can open a note in a separate single editor window right? That's not what you mean by "notepad-style file"? As for the phone use, since I now have an Android G1 and no longer the nice Windows mobile app I've had to make do with Evernote Mobile website and posting via email (for pictures). It's not ideal but it works fine and still lets me have access to things on my phone. There's no perfect solution. I think there's possibilities with Evernote's API if I could find time to write a client!
- Lindsay
Yea, but it doesn't work the same as OneNote's does. I can just hit Windows+N and pop up a little window that is pretty much advanced notepad. It works great. The pop-out window in Evernote (which you have to use to get to the unordered list button) isn't nearly the same. The Evernote website scales down to your G1 well? I'd love to see someone do something really unique with Evernote's API, I think it has a lot of potential.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Ruud, I see your point.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I agree there are several limitations that make Evernote worse than OneNote for capturing and searching notes... but OneNote doesn't run on Mac or iPhone or easily sync across multiple devices.
- Jon Price
Jon, I guess you are right, but for an all Windows user like me, that's not something that really matters to me.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I'm liking Evernote for a lot of reasons but it does have weaknesses. I won't commit to it until they have encryption at the notebook and note level (currently you can only encrypt a selection). Also, ease of notetaking needs to be improved. I want a pop-up window that I can stickpin on top of all other windows.
- Rod Bauer
from twhirl
@Rod - Those three very things are the main reason I can't convert over from OneNote to Evernote. OneNote has them all, Evernote does not.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Let me sum this up for you Aram... you don't like evernote... you love onenote and no matter how good evernote is, you are a onenote zealot... I have read all of your posts above and it is clear as a bell that you dont WANT to give it a chance... you WANT to hate it... you WANT it to fail...
- CasperBoo
but the fact is, outside of academics on windows that have been using onenote since its inception, more people are signing up for and switching to evernote each day than those staying with or starting with onenote each month! You just can't beat reality... love it or hate it, this is the future of note taking... in the cloud with tags... folder structures are a thing of the past... the...
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- CasperBoo
I use it for storing recipes and knitting patterns (web clips and pdfs), primarily. Also, I keep my gluten free menus and lists in there so I can access them at the store or when deciding where we want to eat out. I also put my grocery list in there so no matter who is heading to the store, we can access it from our phone (you don't have to have an iPhone, there's a mobile interface). I hate the text editor, though.
- Lix
If I used nothing but a single Windows machine, I'd use OneNote. But I don't - I use several machines and several platforms. I just throw anything I need to remember on there then sort them out later.
- Trent Hamm
Half of Aram's posts are, "Well I only see the good part being the cloud..." That IS the whole point of why it is good!!
- capnb
A collection of the best guides and tips for using FriendFeed.
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Friendfeed About Page http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed Feedback Room http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed Beginners Room http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed Beginner Guides (via Search) http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Keith - @tsudo
3 Reasons you should be on Friendfeed Now by Hutch Carpenter http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
Did You Make the List? How I Use Lists to Organize My Life-Stream http://www.changeforge.com/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
10 People to follow for the month of "X" by Louis Gray http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Keith - @tsudo
Twitter Fight (Why Friendfeed rocks) by FF community http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Keith - @tsudo
20 Things about Friendfeed by Robert Scoble http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed as a Productivity Tool by Changeforge http://louisgray.com/live...
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
Embed Your Real-time FriendFeed Activity On Your Blog by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
7 Ways To Harness The Power Of Real-time FriendFeed by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed Enhances Podcasting Interactivity With Audio Sharing by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
4 Ways to Enhance Your Blog With FriendFeed by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
7 Ways to Utilize FriendFeed Rooms by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
Top FriendFeed Tips for Twitter Users by Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable) http://mashable.com/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up for FriendFeed by Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
25 Different Uses For FriendFeed by Michael Fruchter http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Keith - @tsudo
My 4 best recommendations for cleaning up your Friendfeed once you are following lots of people by Me http://ff.im/HQek
- Keith - @tsudo
FFHolic.com - Great site for discovering content and people. http://ffholic.com/
- Keith - @tsudo
I joined Friendfeed, now what? by Me http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed Hacks Group - A place to discuss and share about tweaking Friendfeed with Greasemonkey, UserJS, Stylish, or anything to make the FF experience even better. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Keith - @tsudo
10 Useful Tips to Using FriendFeed by Shevonne http://maketecheasier.com/10-usef...
- Keith - @tsudo
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users by Louis Gray http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed as a social media strategy tool by John Haydon http://johnhaydon.com/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
How to Share Interesting Stuff from the Web Using Google Reader and Friendfeed http://www.damondnollan.com/2009... by Damond Nollan
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed Search Examples by Louis Gray http://ff.im/46D9l
- Keith - @tsudo
Real Time Blogging With FriendFeed http://getanewbrowser.com/2009...
- Keith - @tsudo
Advanced Friendfeed Embeds by Building43 http://www.building43.com/web-too...
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed’s Underappreciated Value – The Comment Nexus by Mark Dykeman http://broadcasting-brain.com/2008...
- Keith - @tsudo
How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool by Chris Brogan http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-to-...
- Keith - @tsudo
Five Fantastic Friendfeed Filters for Flow by Steve Rubel http://www.steverubel.com/five-fa...
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed is coming to Seesmic Desktop and web, says Loic (see comments)
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This may get me switched back to using Seesmic but will @loic release a iPhone app?
- Vinko
Vinko: yes. Loic told me he's working on iPhone app too.
- Robert Scoble
Now if only socialscope would put it in their client for Blackberry's.
- Sheryl
Here's another vote for a Seesmic iPhone app!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I still haven't met a FF application I could stand to use for more than a few minutes.
- Craig Eddy
I saw an early alpha of the iPhone app. Looked good. I also saw an early alpha of Seesmic web and the way it advanced between the alpha and launch was dramatic - so I expect the iPhone client will track the same way.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Robert that's really great. I definitely will consider switching back when the Seesmic iPhone app arrives.
- Vinko
Will get me,too, switched back to using Seesmic ;) Looking forward to hear from Loic soon
- Ali BULUT
hurray
- Thomas Power
This might just tempt me away from Tweetdeck...
- Andrew Terry
If they add friendfeed to the web app, I'll maybe use it instead of PeopleBrowsr. But then again, peoplebrowsr has implemented friendfeed in a very good way already.
- Svartling
Great News !
- Jean-Charles
You gotta keep an eye on Yahoo homepage. They have FB integration and someday may integrate Twitter (they have the 'what are you doing now'). Seesmic is way ahead, but Yahoo has mainstream adoption
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, I agree. The new Yahoo homepage is impressive.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Im not sure it's impressive, as it's evolutionary, not revolutionary. When Wave comes out, it could dash the shine that Yahoo has.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I like ff's web design
- kang
Android app, please? :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Where do I sign up! I'm praying your web app will make my life of FF, FB, Twitter ETC more manageable!!!!! W/out crashing my puters AND still let me see my Home feeds!
- Arleen Boyd
I'm thinking that this is the type of post that would be good reason for FriendFeed to have a "Love" click option next to the "Like" click option so that we can register better levels of our emotion towards news we read in others' streams!
- Chris Aldrich
good news!
- Jeroen De Miranda
I have been using Seesmic from the beginning this is GREAT news!
- Robyn Hawk
Great news. Been looking for a good Friendfeed app
- Barry Howell
I'm quite excited for Seesmic's FriendFeed iPhone app.
- wiredgnome
yes yes yes
- Loic Le Meur
Don't forget Android when developing mobile apps!
- Travis B. Hartwell
I agree with Vinko; this would be a good reason to switch back to Seesmic
- Anne Mai Bertelsen
Might be late... but how is the Facebook acquisition going to effect this? I can't stand the way that app takes over Friendfeed.
- Arleen Boyd
Name words that mean one thing to you but another thing to people in other parts of the World:
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For example, I think 'pants' in America are 'trousers' to us Brits. And 'pants' to us Brits are underwear.
- Kol Tregaskes
Apparently oblong has different colloquial meanings in American and British English.
- John (bird whisperer)
UK Jelly = US Jello. US Jelly = UK Jam.
- Mark H
I didn't know that, Mark.
- Kol Tregaskes
Cigarettes, and I believe they call them fags in England. Hope I'm right.
- Michael Fidler
Michael, sometimes but they are cigarettes too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chips to us Brits are what the yanks call french fries, they call chips potato chips, which are our crisps.
- Simon Wicks
Couch on the west coast and some people call it a Sofa.on the East Cost.
- Michael Fidler
Tennis shoes, Sneakers, Runners.
- Michael Fidler
UK Braces = US Retainers.
- Mark H
I thought UK Braces were US Suspenders.
- Nine
They are nine, it has 2 meanings.
- Simon Wicks
in Saskatchewan, CA they call the hooded sweatshirt a "Bunny Hug" [https://store.usask.ca/store...]
- MikeAmundsen
Coke = soda in parts of US. "You want a Coke?" "Yeah, get me a Pepsi."
- caj needs a haircut
UK Dummy = US Pacifier.
- Mark H
UK Lift = US Elevator
- MikeAmundsen
Line up / Queue up
- Michael Fidler
UK: aluminium US: aluminium (but the US say it wrong)
- Simon Wicks
The same with the word algae
- Michael Fidler
Who says "aluminium?" Simon, you got us all wrong
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Crib to some people means their home to others it's a baby's crib
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
OG (Original Gangster) to some means a gangbanger who's retired while to others it means their mom. Most never heard the term/abbreviation :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
US - diaper. UK - nappy. In the US among black people 'nappy' is unkempt hair.
- Anika
Apartment/Flat?
- Michael Fidler
US pissed = angry/ UK pissed = drunk... if I remember correctly
- Ross Miller
Cookies(US)=Biscuits(UK) (Am I correct??)
- Abhishek
US Randy = a common first name, UK randy = horny
- Stephen Mack
hehe, yes, Stephen, it's common in Canada, too. Men and women often shake my hand and say "I'm Randy." I really try not to smirk....
- WoH: Minding her Steves
We had an interesting discussion about pancakes/flapjacks a while ago that was illuminating: http://friendfeed.com/worldof...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Capsicum (AUS) - Bell pepper (US); Toilet: In the US it would be the actual fixture and we'd more likely say restroom or bathroom, while in the UK/AUS it's a place.
- Jaclyn Bedoya
Spam. Yes, it's a meat product. Yes, it's unwanted mail. Did you know that it's also a large expanse of forehead though? E.g. "look at the spam on that bald git."
- Mark H
I've learned a few things from watching Harry Potter: "git" (jerk I think); "snogging" (kissing/making out); and "completely mental" (completely crazy).
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Americas: cilantro, rest of the world: coriander.
- caj needs a haircut
US= inch, rest of the world= 2.54cm (cept libya and burma)
- Eric Rice
Simon: I'll say "aluminium" when you guys say "platinium".
- Andrew C (✓)
In the US, the word 'fanny' is a gentle word one could use about one's bottom in front of one's grandmother. In the UK, as I understand it, one would never ever EVER use the word 'fanny' in front of one's grandmother, as it's a rather nasty word for a woman's 'front bottom' (which is another expression we don't use in the US, but which, if USians think about it, they'll be able to guess).
- Ladyepiphanybug
US = restroom, bathroom; Canada = washroom. :)
- Ladyepiphanybug
US sweater = UK jumper. In the US, a jumper is like a pair of overalls, but with a skirt rather than pants.
- Ladyepiphanybug
In different areas of the US: soda, pop, coke for carbonated beverages. I've heard "fizzy drink" from Europe.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Lunch/Dinner/Tea - used in various configurations to refer to the main mid-day and evening meals, also light afternoon/late-evening snacks/meals, and the beverage, tea.
- Edward Coffey
The whole scone/cookie/biscuit conundrum. Looking at Wikipedia I see that while a .us "biscuit" is similar to a .au (/.uk/.ca?) scone, they're by no means identical.
- Edward Coffey
Well if you said "biscuit" to me, I would think you meant something not unlike a cookie.
- Bryce Roney
if a biscuit is a cookie, what is a biscuit?
- BEX
BEX: As soon as I work out what your question means, I'll be happy to answer it!
- Edward Coffey
College. Wikipedia goes to great lengths to cover the different usages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Edward Coffey
Thongs and flip-flops!
- Andrew Trinh
fish & sticks
- chaz2b
Bonnets and boots
- Andrew Smith
Thongs.
- Will Higgins™
Biscuit. Gas. Cordial.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
US - toilet = UK - Loo
- Manny
US - Truck/Rig = UK - Lorry
- Manny
US - eraser = UK - Rubber (which is a condom in the US)
- Manny
"Salvage" Rest of the world: save from ruin. Philippines: summary execution
- jan geronimo
How could I forget "root"?! US: root = cheer for, support; Australia: root = have sex with.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Smoke a Fag = 1. smoke a cigarette 2. kill a homosexual
- Joe Dawson
BEX, the closest english equivalaent to a U.S biscuit would probably be something like a scone or rock cake.
- Bryce Roney
Mellissa: that always made for fun times in our maths classes :D
- Chris Lawrence
lol @ Chris: square root *snicker*
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
I always remember my American Aunt telling me when I was little to "sit on my fanny" ... In Australia, fanny is not your bum! Which is why, as a supposedly mature woman, I still giggle when I hear "fanny pack" :P
- Penny
Ditto, Penny, make Enid Blyton's books much more funny.
- Bryce Roney
In the UK, "faggots" are a savoury, meatball type thing, usually served in a rich, thick gravy along with some mashed potato. The most well know brand are Brains Faggots (Brains, btw, is the name of the maker, not a reference to any ingredient..)
- Andrew Terry
Why even wear pants?
- Randy Allen Bishop
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm pretty sure cordial is different here in Aus than the UK.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
I think some people should just stop crossposting all their stuff including @s and RTs to Facebook, it is pollution in most cases
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I post ev ererything from FriendFeed to Twitter to FB. Keeps the followers to those who are interested
- Steve Gillmor
Oddly, no one has ever acknowledged the massive number of entries that Friendfeed pumps into my Facebook stream.
- Vezquex
Agree! Especially if u use @peoplebrowsr like me ;) really need to clean up the autopost mess. Wish somebody could invent some smart cross posting strategies and share their wisdom :)
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
I do it selectively, see http://www.jeffsandquist.com/synchro...
- Jeff Sandquist
I don't feed any of the SM stuff to facebook, waste of time, both for others and myself.
- Richard A.
Yeah, I'm with Gillmor, using FF as the primary tap into the SM hose. Figure it will eventually build brand and traffic back to FF.
- Thom Kennon
I agree with Loic and disagree with S.Gillmor, as much as I admire him, crossposting is broadcasting. Each of these services have their own flavor, a different set of friends. A different interaction is appropriate in each. It works best when we respect the differences and create unique exchanges on the various services we use.
- stephen harlow
Steve, problem is that you don't get the replies and FB comments so you don't really interact except on FF comments right?
- Loic Le Meur
Here's how I do it, Loic: http://www.slideshare.net/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
loic, I do get the replies via Twitterspy and FB comments via email. When track returns I'm all set
- Steve Gillmor
i don't mind getting stuff twice, makes it less likely i miss something
- Christopher Harris
What's Facebook?
- Richard Carter, FCD
@Richard Carter, FCD - I think it's something like this:- http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/photoal...
- Graham Steel
I found something very interesting. I posted almost nothing on Facebook for the past year, so I didn't lose any of my high quality followers (which include CEOs and big name press from across the tech industry). But then I tried putting friendfeed/Twitter in there and I started getting complaints, so I stopped it. I now post things specifically for my Facebook friends on Facebook and try to let everyone know that my main place of posting is friendfeed now.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still trying to find the optimal ratio of posting. The problem is there simply isn't enough technology to do what I want. I may write something if no one accomplishes what I need for this.
- Jesse Stay
I never used facebook extensively and like to keep my accounts separate. I think friendfeed is the most intelligent of all social web apps.
- Ashish
Agreed. I've been more mindful of cross posting and never did it with my FB status.
- Mark Gehrke
I agree with Loic in cases where people use Twitter primarily as a tool for one to one or fragmented communications and the fact that he used "some people" and "most cases" leads me to believe some people don't fit the mold. I find myself being one of those. I currently cross-post >90% of my stuff to FF/FB/Twitter. That said, I consciously make an effort to put context in every one of my outbound messages & if something doesn't warrant cross-posting I don't do it.
- Mark Krynsky
A discreet compromise would be to use something like the Social RSS application in FB to show your routine Twitter traffic on a tab separate from your main page.
- Paul Robertson
When you get multiple duplicates of the same message on friendfeed because it's also posted to tumblr, thats the worst.
- Matt Robson
thank you all for your feedback. Looks like there are very different styles and the comments here are mostly from friendfeed lovers (which I understand why they like it), very different pattern from what I see from non friendfeed users though
- Loic Le Meur
and your point?
- Steve Gillmor
Have you seen Jimmy Fallon's dupes, he needs to get his PA on it ASAP it's the social media equivalent of stuttering
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I had some problems with duplicate posting at first, but once I figured it out, it's been fine. FF is my principal gazinta, and it aggregatges all my gazoutas, but it doesn't multipost. That said, I try to keep the signal to bullshit ratio high....
- Alan Chamberlain
I like to be able to select (from FF0 what goes to FB like we can with Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
Loic 1 Gillmor 0 Let's keep them channels separate, they will find you if they love you. I love your Gillmor Gang however Steve! That's a sweet channel everyone should check out.
- Chad Harris
Araceli: How did you set that up?
- Garin Kilpatrick
Twitter should not be fed directly into Facebook in most cases, FB and Twitter are two completely different animals. Despite this bringing Facebook to Twitter is okay. The @replies are what pollutes the Twitter/FB Integration.
- Garin Kilpatrick
I agree with Loic and Scoble. Facebook is more real life friends and I share more personal and less techy stuff. Twitter is sort of like my id. Although now I'm giving friendfeed a go for a week so I may be making the switch full time. But, for the most part, I consider friendfeed and twitter to be the same result by different means. For me though, it remains to be seen which means I like better.
- James Poling
Garin: I use http://apps.facebook.com/twitter... to publish Twitter to Facebook. It doesn't post @s. For notifications I bring in this RSS as an imaginary friend for Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notific... and for Twitter this one: http://twitter.com/replies
- Araceli
I'm with Gillmor - post here, almost exclusively, feed all to FB and Twitter.
- Thom Kennon
Tumblr users...what's your experience with google rankings for your blogs? The one reason I don't use Tumblr properly is because of generally poor search engine rankings. Am I imagining it or are they definitely worse than standard wordpress blogs?
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no thoughts on this anyone?
- Zee.
Mine are fine. Google PageRank says I have a 3 but I only launched it a few weeks ago. If you search for internet detour (the site is http://internetdetour.com) it comes up first and I can find my stuff on some other searches. Not terrible at all.
- Sweyn Venderbush
I don't track search rankings for my tumblr blog.
- jbrotherlove
@Sweyn, what about for individual posts? I tried searching for a few of them and couldn't find one on google when just searching by the post title
- Zee.
There's something wrong with Tumblr rankings for sure. Even my empty "coming soon" page with the same address was GR:2 now I'm on tumblr and it's GR:1! Seems like Google is punishing everyone who opts to use Tumblr. The subject domain is http://mindcast.org for example.
- Berk D. Demir
Zee, even with the juice of a newspaper linking to my tumblr blog, it performs so poorly in search results (and this is with custom page names) that I've stopped caring about page rank entirely. What matters is the content being available for easy importation into other services (Friendfeed) and websites (mine or other like minded ones).
- Brandon Mendelson
Shocking Brandon...I need to dig into this and find out why
- Zee.
Some SEO may be needed. See the following. Replace BLOG TITLE as needed.
- aptjauder
<title>{Title}{block:SearchPage}, Search results for: {SearchQuery}{/block:SearchPage}{block:PostSummary}, {PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary} - <BLOG TITLE></title>
- aptjauder
<meta name="title" content="{Title}{block:SearchPage}, Search results for: {SearchQuery}{/block:SearchPage}{block:PostSummary}, {PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary} - <BLOG TITLE>">
- aptjauder
{block:Description}<meta name="description" content="{block:PostSummary}{PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary} {MetaDescription} - <BLOG TITLE>" />{/block:Description}
- aptjauder
Try using these and see how they work for you. YMMV.
- aptjauder
Hey thanks apt, it's not really for me, because i'm quite happy where I am. But i was considering writing a story about why it was the case and how it could be fixed, so that will still help - thank you
- Zee.
My poorly setup and maintained non-SEO optimised WP blog far exceeds hits than my regularly updated Tumblr.
- Threepwood
It's partially about how certain things are set up which matter a lot to Google. For example, mindcast.org uses a consistent title across the board for all posts which makes it very hard for Google to tell them apart. Optimizing <title>, <h1>, meta title and description tags *should* help.
- aptjauder
I am with Jbrotherlove - I don't check the google stuff on it.
- Brent - Yes I am
A Wordpress blog, even a bog standard one without any SEO plugins, is search engine friendly with a simple custom permalink.
- Gilbert Harding
One thing to note. I think WP does generate a sitemap and afaik, there is no way to generate/submit one for tumblr. If someone else knows how to...
- aptjauder
Another reason is that the rss generated by Tumblr cannot be used to submit as a sitemap. The short urls result in a 301 to the long url which google does not like. Complain to tumblr if you care about this. You can see this if you use GWT and look under sitemap details.
- aptjauder
Tumblr is a lot of noise. Most Tumblr blogs are about lolcats and random Rick Astley crap. I could understand how a search engine could dismiss *.tumblr.com as low quality. For best pagerank always have a full yourdomain.com URL so your content can stand alone in indexes.
- Sparky, lurking
Sparky, many folks, including myself, are using full domains for our Tumblr blogs and still getting poor results.
- Brandon Mendelson
Tumblr itself is PR 7 so pretty good. Keep in mind many tumblr blogs do not contain a lot of text which also accounts for lowered results.
- aptjauder
Just found http://tumblrmap.net/ which will generate an xml sitemap of your tumblr blog - I'm trying it out now and see it makes any difference.
- Tyler Wainright
Tabasco Gallon - http://www.thedieline.com/blog...
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Whoa!
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
YES!!!!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Beautiful
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Dang. If I had a gallon of tabasco sauce, i'd be set for life.
- Jonathan Hardesty
from Android
What? No one in the South actually uses this stuff. It's like going to Australia and asking for Fosters.
- Akiva
Have you ever been to the South Akiva?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
we use it in Texas..we LOVE it in Texas!
- Duliece
I <3 your bio Dulie
- Daniel J. Pritchett
WANT!
- Tamara
I love a few liberal dashes of Tabasco on some crispy fried catfish...
- Derrick
I was raised on the Gulf Coast where Crystal's is king.
- Akiva
Tabasco : Hot Sauce :: Bud Light : Beer
- Akiva
IOW it's cheap and it works? :P
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm with Akiva, though I can't say it's not popular. But ya, damn, a gallon.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Pretty much, yeah. You can use it, and it's not bad, but you're selling your food and tongue short.
- Akiva
I grew up 90 miles from the Gulf coast and I still see plenty of Tabasco here and there. I haven't lived right on the water as a townie though - perhaps I've missed out.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
For some reason, I really don't like Tabasco. It just tastes like vinegar to me. I will, however, put sriracha on just about anything.
- joey
My favorite Southern hot sauce is probably Red Rooster and/or Crystal's. That stuff is the business. I like sriracha alright, but not more than I do that stuff.
- Derrick
Hah, don't get me wrong; I'm just having a laugh here. I don't have anything against Tabasco and it's certainly prevalent down there. I was just raised on Crystal's and definitely prefer it. Hell, I'll drink Crystal's right from the bottle. (Okay, that's a lie (no it's not))
- Akiva
Melinda's is my favorite. Not super hot for a habanero sauce, but man is it delicious. :)
- mikepk
Well, Crystal's and Louisiana Hot Sauce.
- Akiva
Be careful about going to that site. When I did, about three "null" files downloaded automatically...
- Spidra Webster
Damn, now I want some catfish and grits.
- Derrick
I've never been able to get my head around grits but I used to love me some catfish. Alas, no more: thems ain't kosher.
- Akiva
Dude, cheese grits and shrimp.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Shrimps ain't kosher neither!
- Akiva
Daniel, we could totally be eatin' buddies.
- Derrick
Over. Kill.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'd take a gallon of the chipotle flavor. Otherwise, gimme Frank's
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Red Hot, Ha3rvey? I'm down with that. WHY NO BODY MAKING ME NO CATFISH?
- Derrick
I know a great place for catfish, Derrick, but you'd have to get here first. Seriously: me, you, and an eating trip across the south. I got the time now!
- FFing Enigma
Dang, Derrick. We totally have to hang out next time I'm out that way. DO YOU GOT ANY BREAM?
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
I know what I'm gonna be getting my wife and father for Christmas now. Thanks Derrick!
- DB - Just DB
I use Tapatio and Tabasco and sriracha depending on the meal but almost always use one of them with almost everything. for ejemplo, Tabasco on loco mocos, tapatio on buffalo wings, and sriracha on stir fry.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
*googles "loco mocos"*
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
those photos are making my colon weep.
- Joe The Sausage
Do those come in 55-gallon drum size?
- Steven Perez
FUCK YEAH TABASCO! It may be a soft Hot Sauce, but it's sooooooo good!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
LOL, it is a soft Hot Sauce-but so good!! LOL-Steven Perez....great, Derrick, you rock, AGAIN!!
- Harold Cabezas
a gallon is overkill, baby...but i still love it!
- .LAG liked that
my brother needs this! where can I get this..
- Anna Lynn M.
DAYUUMMMMM
- Shevonne
@Anna you can buy them from tabasco.com
- Imabug
Chipotle gallon....MUST HAVE
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Tapatio is better. I put Tapatio on everything. mmmmm...
- Bryan Zirkel
Oh SWEET! Finally, the amount of Tabasco I need!
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
bump for Kendra K.
- Derrick
Will Cunchpad deliver the apple user experience that its design seeks to imitate? Love the idea of a $200 tablet though. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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You just answered your own question with a couple of nos. Nobody can deliver equivalent level of immersive interaction without a sizable investment. Which Arrington hasn't got. And you can just about forget the idea of a $200 tablet, it won't be happening. This was a gross miscalculation of TC team once upon a time based on cost of components in somewhat midsized batches of the product...
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- ianf ⌘
How do you know Arrington doesn't have the investment money? He frequents the VC crowd. Are you suggesting that the whole venture was created on a whim without any prior market research? Surely this is not a 'vanity device'?
- Andrew Eglinton
Will it only run a browser? Would be nice to run maybe Adobe AIR apps or something. Like tweetdeck.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
That's exactly what I am saying, a badly researched vanity project against better judgement. It's all well and dandy if TC manages to come out with an initial, still-imperfect batch of these, and then sees the goodwill towards the product crumble. What Arrington hasn't really thought through is that in order to compete in the commodities market (as any $200 web-appliance device...
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- ianf ⌘
I think the initial spec spoke of somewhat modified FireFox browser only, with some plugins and linked Skype, etc. No OS would be needed. Then they must've realized that FireFox, even a very stable release, is a glutton for memory, and a constant future vector for user complaints why it can not be extended by this and that favorite plugin, and must have reconsidered its use. I don't...
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- ianf ⌘
ianf - These are all solid arguments you make here. Another point that comes to mind is to do with form factor. Do we really need a large touch screen device when the tech world has been perfecting portability for the past 60+ years? The iPhone (and its competition) is shaping a large swathe of today's digital landscape, so while it may still seem desirable in 2009 to provide more screen real estate, it's soon likely to become a non-argument.
- Andrew Eglinton
Actually, CrunchPad's "oversized" form factor is of little consequence to its portability, as the device has apparently been designed for use within easy reach of a recharging socket. Consequently, I do not expect any great battery life from it, perhaps 2hrs on full charge (that's what one could depend on from Compaq, then HP TC1000/TC1100 tablet with similar form factor). If it turns...
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- ianf ⌘
[December 2nd, 2009] For the record: here's the official "Demise of the CrunchPad" by Arrington himself http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... plus a lame attempt at explaining away the colossal non-future of this ill-conceived project: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009... Ah, well, it was entertaining to read about while it lasted.
- ianf ⌘
Stunning Images of Herds from Above #shareit - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...
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"Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal herd fleeing from a predator. When seen from above, animal herds seem to follow intricate and intriguing patterns."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
When we watch Planet Earth, I'm always amazed at the sheer numbers of herds. I like to think of herds as >1000 (is that less than?), but we saw one doc that showed something like 25K gazelles. Amazing. Or the one with the gigantic flock of birds. WOW.
- Anika
Planet Earth is an amazing documentary. I guess Nature's Great Events are on their way to the US soon too. That's another great natural history doc from the BBC.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, I've seen NGE, but seriously PE is infinitely better, visually speaking. The only thing that bugs me about PE is the constant, "Thanks to our brand-new, super-expensive technology we were able to be the first to capture this fish swimming." or whatever. Enough with the dick-stroking just give me facts.
- Anika
Yeah but there isn't much of that to be fair and is completely overshadowed by the quality of the images and documentary. Both NGE and PE are excellent. We get so much of that from the BBC, it's great.
- Kol Tregaskes
You don't think it's a lot? The other night we watched the PE marathon on Discovery. In each hour show, Weaver must have mentioned it 3 - 4 times. That's a lot to me. :) I can't wait to get both series in a boxset, but we agreed that we'll wait until we get a better TV.
- Anika
Anyone know when the new Planet Earth is coming out, i heard they were filming it a long time ago but i know it takes years to make those?
- SteVe C
Steve, I had no idea there was even a new one in the making. How exciting.
- Anika
Steve, I just realized that the Planet Earth marathon I was watching was narrated by Sigourney Weaver, whereas the old ones were narrated by David Attenborough. Maybe these are the new ones, which explains why I was confused over some of the topics thinking, "Gosh I don't remember that one."
- Anika
New Planet Earth? News to me. I think there is a "movie" coming out or even out but I've not heard of any new series.
- Kol Tregaskes
In the U.S. Discovery cut the episodes and redid the narration with Sigourney. Same footage.
- Stephen Mack
Ah you can't beat David Attenborough - who could ever replace him?
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll have to look it up, but I thought it was in like Discovery magazine that they were making the next set of series. I was wrong once in like the second grade, so I guess it could happen again.
- SteVe C
Seriously? I liked Attenborough's narration.
- Anika
Anika. That's what I meant. There's no one better IMHO. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
David Attenborough is the king. Nobody else comes close. He's an incredible man- Parkinson did a great interview with him.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
And Attenborough says he has no plans to retire. Yippee for us. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Are those walrus?
- LarchOye
Yep, them there walrus. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Funny; just ordered the Planet Earth Blu-ray set today.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Anthony, well worth it!
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm a cow, mooo.
- Will Higgins™
Hehe, Will. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Chrome OS will help kill Silverlight and other non-open tech, preventing msft and others from recapturing the web. (though I expect that it will support Flash by necessity)
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Good point.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it doesn't. After all we need good media delivery platforms.
- Swaroop
yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it.
- zio bonino
Chrome OS might be a compelling case for SVG/<canvas> + <audio> tag replacements for flash. Dunno what SVG's perf is like on WebKit tho.
- Matt M (inactive)
Microsoft will port it. It's all about codecs & DRM. Ogg Theora isn't all that great.
- Rodfather
Is that Steve Jobs disguised as Zio ?
- Swaroop
@Swaroop Yes, we do. Like HTML5.
- Benjamin Dobson
@Swaroop eh eh, I've got flash disabled on all my systems :)
- zio bonino
@Benjamin I'd prefer HTML web apps over native apps anyday. But it'll take time for it to mature
- Swaroop
Rodfather, I don't think that will be an option for msft :). If Chrome is built the way I would do it, there is no installation per-se -- everything runs in the browser and the config in stored in the cloud (and cached locally). The computer is a pure appliance.
- Paul Buchheit
@Zio You're the real Steve Jobs
- Swaroop
Microsoft moves much too slow to force new standards these days.
- Louis Gray
@Louis: IE8 flunking ACID test :)
- Swaroop
What about more standard codecs like h.264? That isn't open and is in hardware already.
- Rodfather
h.264 is established and must be in there, but it's not a platform like Silverlight is.
- Paul Buchheit
A world with no Flash and Silverlight. I can't wait.
- Paul Grav
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't open-source it. This stuff with Mono is silly -- if you want to make a real standard you need to make the real implementation be open.
- Paul Buchheit
MS are about 10 years too late with Silverlight. And they'll most likely be dragged kicking and screaming into supporting HTML5.
- Paul Grav
Zio sez (hopefully humorously): "yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it" -- have you ever watched a single YouTube video in your life? Like seventeen gazillion other people across the wired world. yeah, you're right, nobody needs Flash. ha!
- .LAG liked that
Remember Dave Clark in 1992, "We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
- Guy Vander Heyden
.LAG: most YouTube videos are playable without Flash now. My iPhone plays most of them and it doesn't have Flash. Certainly by the time the Google OS came out YouTube would be converted completely to non-Flash capability.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: The youtube flash application helps read the flv files on Youtube's servers and provides a UI (decoder too).
- Swaroop
Even Google admits they're not sure I'd bit for bit html5 video is less bandwitj consuming than flash. And flash isn't just media delivery, also interesting games and apps like tonepad, splicemusic.com's online sequencer, etc (I'm musically inclined, so most of my examples will be along that line) and please don't suggest we redo it all in java
- Ed F
from Nambu
Does this mean the next Silverlight release is codename Seppuku?
- Jay Cuthrell
Maybe we'll see commercials encoded in movies if everything is open.
- Rodfather
Flash is too established to kill off right now, so I'd be surprised if Chrome didn't include flash support. It will take many years to get rid of that thing. First they need to fix the standard browser to not be so broken (lack of video, multi-file upload, etc), then they need everyone to switch to the new html5 solutions.
- Paul Buchheit
Scoble ...that may be true, and YouTube plays on my Pre without Flash (yet)...but that doesn't mean that "nobody needs Flash." really? what would replace it?
- .LAG liked that
So Google's NaCl http://code.google.com/p... (now integrated within Chrome/Chromium) was just a temporary workaround, right?
- Jérôme
Use HTML 5 instead!
- Minh Bui
Is it just me or does Native Client (NaCl) remind you of the Microsoft Active X approach?
- Daniel Chow
But who prevents Google from taking over the net?
- Andreas
youtube videos play on iPhone/iPod Touch as they are higher res mp4 files NOT flv files. It was a big deal when Steve negotiated that deal with youtube.
- vijay
You have Moonlight to run Silverlight applications in Linux. Not perfect, but then an application made on Silverlight is "not perfect" by definition
- Marcos Marado
The point here is that Google has no motivation to include Silverlight on these machines, and installing software likely won't be an option (it's a web appliance), so it will be absent from a lot of netbooks, just as it is absent from iPhones. That cuts into market share, which is a bad thing for a platform that is trying to compete with more universal tech like Flash and HTML....
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- Paul Buchheit
@DanielChow: NaCl has very little overlap with ActiveX, apart from running native code. It runs in a provably safe way, and explicitly does *not* allow it to access arbitrary host APIs. But it can be quite useful when you need to run code that would be too slow in Javascript (even on v8): e.g., heavy encryption/decryption, possibly codecs, definitely game physics, and so forth.
- Joel Webber
There is a time and a place for Flash and Silverlight so I hope it will run it. There are simply some things you can do which aren't possible, or practical in html/css/javascript.
- Steve Temple
Paul: why wouldn't Chrome OS come with Moonlight? And if not, why wouldn't you be able to just install it? And third, why the hell would people want Moonlight for? I never installed it and not even once felt the need to!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
because of moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlig... the potential userbase of silverlight is greatly improved, agree that projects which don't consider compatibility are limiting their potential
- Mike Chelen
@mindboosternoori Ryanair site uses silverlight: http://www.ryanair.com/site... that's the only website I know that uses it - for this you would need moonlight :)
- Ihar Mahaniok
Flash is needed for the google os to be useful in education. Many education based websites are flash based.
- Willowdale
@Paul "Google is probably paying OEMs to ship with this OS, so instead of paying $x/machine to include windows XP, they will get paid $y/machine to include Chrome." - paying present tense, already? Isn't it enough for OEMs not to have to pay hefty licenses to Redmond, etc., while being able to ship with a free, stable OS+browser combo; they need to be paid to do that as well?
- ianf ⌘
I sure hope so. I think the wide array of JavaScript libraries have been killing Flash for years. Silverlight was never really a player. The only think keeping Flash afloat is video
- Scott Radcliff
I don't know what's under the hood of Silverlight (nobody knows), but Flash is basically a sprite engine controlled by Actionscript, which is basically an adapted version of Javascript anyway. It's nicely packaged though, and has an army of developers, so it won't go away that easily, at least not until there are Flash-to-Canvas/ HTML5 porting tools/ translators and the like.
- ianf ⌘
to follow that logic...photoshop is needed as well
- Chris Hofmann
somebody call me when http://playboyarchive.com is working in Chrome OS (it's currently implemented in Silverlight)
- Karim
If it gains any traction at all, MS will just make Silverlight version that will run on Google OS. Sure google could block it, but they haven't done so with the Chrome browser.
- Jeff Weber
Interesting. I doubt the Google OS will get that big anytime soon though.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
Silverlight doesn't have a chance now...I wonder what would Adobe Air do.
- Saad Kamal
not really, if google want to be open then they will need a plugin architecture for it and then MS could just port for it. I really don't see this troubling mainstream users any time soon.
- Darren Stuart
Though I agree with the view that MS monopoly may erode as alternative devices get adoption over PC/Notebook, and these devices will mostly run on open source OS, but it may take years to create a significant change in every day usage of normal users. In the end, OS choice is mostly done by manufacturers, and they would be happy to get paid by open source vendors for putting their OS on...
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- Kaan Bingol
People want media. Hulu, Netflix, Kindle, iTunes, etc. They need to address that or they are DOA.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, what makes you think it will lack media support?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't think it will lack licensed media support but what deals they are able to make will be crucial.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, i thought you were going to say that Netflix was using Silverlight. ;-)
- Karim
Yes, they are, what is their deal with MSFT? Can they do non Silverlight distribution?
- Hayes Haugen
i believe the Netflix non-Silverlight distribution is a format called "DVD" that works over the "Snail Mail" protocol. ;-) but clearly if Google is paying OEMs to install Chrome OS, they can pay Netflix to go back to Flash which Chrome OS will probably support "by necessity" ;-)
- Karim
How can Google make money from Chrome OS? Or does it want to make money from it except through advertisement? I still can not imagine that all software and service are free and sponsored by advertisements.
- Derek Wei
All Chrome OS questions are answered by today's Fake Steve Jobs ;)
- Hayes Haugen
Is there a need to make money? If more and more people eschew desktop offline applications in favor of online web based apps, it means more pageviews, more eyeballs, more advertising inventory, plus has the side effect of undermining a big competitor's cash cow.
- Ray Cromwell
That's the key, Google wants everything online. They figure the more people online, the stronger they become, and the more money they make. At least that what was said at the Chrome launch.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
I'm amused that the "backwards compatibility" argument against alternative operating systems has slowly turned into "does it support flash", and when you unpack that it really means "does it play YouTube". I suspect Google will make sure ChromeOS cna play YouTube and they don't need Flash to make sure of it.
- Nick Lothian
Is it possible that Microsoft will write Office for the Web using Volta instead of Silverlight? Could be a showcase announcement for their attack on GWT
- Ray Cromwell
I think Microsoft is going to focus less on the front-end of the web and more on the back-end, middle tier and database sides. Azure is a big deal that consumers aren't talking about because it's not flashy but will be pretty important to developers (and especially enterprise-level applications) when it's finally ready because everything becomes an interface to the cloud. Microsoft is...
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- Lindsay
Azure looks really cool. Hint: so did Blackbird.
- Michael R. Bernstein
lol blackbird (scary redmond flashback) - a good example of azure platform utilization can be seen via jon udell's elmcity project - http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Nosense, I want silverlight, flash, html and any other technology in my desktop & mobile phone. Silverlight? yes, there you can develop under Python, Ruby et al, instead of the outdated javascript.
- Sebastian Wain
It looks like with Native Client, you should be able to write your Chrome OS app in any language you feel like. So far, they have some examples in C/C++, but one of the things they ported is a Lua interpreter. If Adobe isn't going to invest heavily in fixing the show-stopping bugs on non-Windows versions of Flash, it's inevitably going to die, and there's really nothing either Google or Apple can do even if they wanted to support Flash better.
- Victor Ganata
...ActionScript3 is ECMASCript-compliant. I know nothing about standards bodies, and shii like that, but what if Adobe dropped ActionScript and said, "You can now use pure Javascript to build Flash applications..." It wouldn't be a big leap. I'm pretty sure that would shut-up all the Flash haters. And to the folks who say Flash is hanging around just because of video...well, video is...
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Actionscript is just the glue for the more advanced what-iffy graphic functionality of Flash. They can not drop it for Javascript, because it contains additional graphic primitives that JS lacks. But it's not the JS-or-Actionscript that makes it a target for hate, it's other things. Nobody denies that it's pretty capable, but it is also badly written, eats up memory like no other, makes...
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- ianf ⌘
I like this post!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
from iPhone
I honestly don't know how necessary Flash is. Apple seems to be doing fine without supporting it. But certainly Gnash and Swfdec should be implementable on Chrome OS. The fact is that without Adobe's full support on a given platform, Flash apps will always be second class citizens on alternate platforms, and so far, there's no indication that Adobe is interested in fully supporting any platform other than Windows.
- Victor Ganata
ianf ...you bring up great points about Flash's detriments, as does Victor, but until there's a better way to bring video to the Web, I can't see it disappearing. Adobe seems to keep improving the Flash VM, hopefully they'll address those CPU-hogging issues and make a more efficent runtime. Yeah, I hate hearing the fans kick-in when visiting a Flash-heavy site too. <sigh>
- .LAG liked that
alternative to flash video such as ... html5 :) (requires ff3.5) http://www.dailymotion.com/openvid...
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Ed, only??? thats one of the main reasons cited for the continued requirement of flash on popular sites like youtube
- Mike Chelen
Ed, those other uses can be accomplished through pure Javascript, video was the last remaining stumbling block
- Mike Chelen
Still waiting on non-Flash recreations of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Well aware of how someone mentioned higher up how you can combine javascript and svg to get nifty flash-like effects. I want apps like that though ^ Only real alternatives I've seen are Java-based ones, and those runs even slower than Flash.
- Ed F
Pardon me, but the OP is a ridiculous conclusion. For that to be the case, Chrome OS would have to kill Windows, OS X, etc altogether. Paul, I understand your viewpoint as being an ex-Google person, but that's just NOT going to happen. Right now the video specification from HTML5 has been dropped because of an impasse, meaning that we may be transitioning from 1 closed-source boss - Flash - to another - H264. Good luck.
- LANjackal
But why do these type of apps have to be written in Flash at all? You can easily do the same thing in C, C++, ObjC, Python, Ruby, etc., with the Native Client API that they're building for Chrome. http://code.google.com/p...
- Victor Ganata
I'm just saying, it's not like Flash is the end-all/be-all. As Apple well demonstrates, some people can live quite well without it.
- Victor Ganata
Victor ...i think the answer to the 'why do these have to be written in Flash at all' question is because Flash is installed on such a significant portion of Web browsers. But I recall that Adobe Flex had a competitor, Laszlo/OpenLaszlo, which compiled apps to SWF or to Javascript. Who's to say that Adobe doesn't have the same capability of making SWF apps into JS ones? On one hand, it...
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Ed, such apps are possible with Javascript and HTML5 multimedia features, the question will be how difficult developers find it, and whether the performance is fast enough
- Mike Chelen
LANjackal, there is a question of degree in that Flash + H264 uses proprietary software and codec, while HTML5 + H264 requires only the codec. while OGV is no longer part of the spec, it can certainly still be used to have completely open video formats, and recent comparisons have shown it performs well http://people.xiph.org/~maikme...
- Mike Chelen
Silverlight's 3 is looking pretty impressive today but tend to agree
- Charlie Anzman
What everybody seems to be missing about Flash is that it works because there is one implementation which is mostly backwards-compatible and the same across platforms. It beat Java because, among other reasons, Java just didn't work the same across JVMs and platforms. The problem with HTML5 is that it will have a different implementation for every browser, and that means your app/game...
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- Gabe
Paul, don't you prefer brutal competition SL vs. Flash vs. standards bring to the table by definition? Or are you more into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - 2020 Google Union - type of ideology?
- Kari Honkanen
Kari, I don't understand your question. Competition is good, but with open-source we get that -- no need for flash or SL.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, no, we don't get the same level of competition with open-source only. As long as there's an opportunity for big gains (like in this case to bridge the gap before html 5 era...to satisfy demand), there will be innovations driven by that. I believe we all benefit from a free market economy that includes commercial, closed source, innovations. I am more scared of the possible future...
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- Kari Honkanen
I wouldn't worry too much amount multimedia. By exposing WebGL, (and hopefully OpenCL), you can offload a lot of compute intensive stuff onto the GPU via GPGPU techniques, and NativeClient is there to take up the rest of the slack, but the for the vast majority of iPhone-like games, I'm willing to bet V8 Javascript on a modern processor is more than enough. That leaves licensing issues...
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- Ray Cromwell
Paul, so are you saying that Google will block both Flash and Silverlight from ChromeOS? That's a new take on 'open.'
- Cliff Gerrish
MSFT next smart move: get Chrome OS (it's BSD licensed), inject IE9 and Silverlight into it and go benchmark against Chrome :)
- Claudio Cicali
MSFT sucks Claudio :)
- Orlando Pozo
Something feels contradictory about a system touted to 'kill' competitors being 'open'. Sounds almost predatory to me.
- Karoli
I'm not opposed to non-open software, but for OS, browser, etc I prefer that it be open. Cliff, Google isn't going to "block" anything, but they can certainly choose what to include, and my guess is that they won't include SL. As Claudio points out, MSFT can make their own version of ChromeOS that includes SL, which is why open source software is nice (it can't be crippled too much or else someone will fork it).
- Paul Buchheit
I have heard somewhere that Fash uses it's own port where Silverlight works over the HTTP port. That's why Netflix works so well. To that, Flash costs more on a sever side because providers can charge more for that port traffic. Could it come down to who is cheaper? (I am fully prepared to be wrong).
- Johnny
Johnny, they both use HTTP -- there's no difference there.
- Paul Buchheit
Is Chrome OS BSD-licensed? I thought it was using a Linux kernel.
- Victor Ganata
@Paul - well, Flash can do P2P stuff over non-HTTP posts, but that is very new (Flash 10 I think). The cost isn't affected anyway.
- Nick Lothian
My understanding is that netbooks would have to be absurdly popular for Chrome OS to make a dent in the popularity of Flash or SL.
- Gabe
it is possible to have smaller groups for open source software, such as google's own gears api http://code.google.com/apis...
- Mike Chelen
How is HTML 5 going to defeat Flash and SL? I haven't used it, but I don't see anything in the spec that looks like it could compare.
- Gabe
@Gabe - what do you think HTML5 is missing? It does video, drawing, local storage, "threading" via WebWorkers. The biggest hole I'm aware of is the lack of access to webcams & microphones. What have I missed?
- Nick Lothian
Nick: When you say HTML 5 has "drawing", are you refering to the Canvas element? I would not consider an immediate-mode procedural raster drawing library to be much of a competitor to retained-mode declarative vector libraries like SVG or Silverlight. Programming with the Canvas tag is sort of the equivalent of programming in assembly language for bitmaps.
- Gabe
@Gabe: I think you've got it upside-down. A Canvas-style API is the fundamental basis on which you can build a retained mode structure like SVG, et al. If a platform includes a retained-mode library as a convenience, so be it. You can build SVG on Canvas, but not the other way around (hacks like IECanvas notwithstanding -- they have horrible performance characteristics and are a nasty abstraction inversion).
- Joel Webber
So, if Moonlight (Mono) runs on linux -- Will google make sure it doesn't work on Chrome OS?
- Cliff Gerrish
Joel: I don't think you said anything contrary to what I said. I just don't understand why any programmer would want to waste time writing an app using a low-level library when I could use a high-level library that implements everything for me.
- Gabe
@Gabe - I agree, and people are implementing those libraries now. See http://raphaeljs.com/ for example. Also, don't underestimate the convenience factor. I don't own any Flash development tools, but my text editor works pretty well for Canvas+JS based stuff.
- Nick Lothian
Nick: Didn't the author of raphael have some massive rant about how bad the Canvas element is? And I don't have any Flash dev tools either, but I use a text editor for most of my Silverlight development. It is incredibly convenient to be able to type something like <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding tabledata}"/> into a text editor and not have to create the data grid myself.
- Gabe
Why is Flash a "necessity" for an OS? I enjoy what flash can do, but it is like putting pimped out leather Oldsmobile seats in a Ferrari. It would definitely be nice, but certainly not a necessity.
- Dan Douglass
Early post goof up. To your original point, I agree. I like how Google is approaching the internet space with web apps that can be run with out a bloated browser.
- Dan Douglass
Dan Douglass: Flash is necessary because so many web sites rely on it. How many people would want to get a netbook that couldn't play FaceBook games or watch YouTube videos? Of course Google is in the unique position of being able to make YouTube work on ChromeOS without Flash, but they probably can't do anything about Hulu, Vimeo, or any of the other video sites out there that require Flash.
- Gabe
Anyone else think Joy is Spam?
- Chris Myles
already reported it yesterday :)
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
from IM
"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
Alyn William, Rob Fahrni, ciw and 70 other people liked this
Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time.
- Dawn
Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site?
- Peter Fletcher
Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Peter - try this: http://friendfeed.com/embed
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Thanks Brian.
- Peter Fletcher
Nice work but a lil late on this BNO
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link
- Rah-PM 2012
Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ
- Robert Scoble
"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly.
- Chris Loft
@rahsheen thanks for the tip.
- Peter Fletcher
BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my...
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- Dawn
Amen to that!
- Calvin Ayre
Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff.
- Robert Scoble
BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, community.
- τorƍue
#4 Bacon
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had...
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- Dawn
Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees.
- Dawn
FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully.
- Ian Betteridge
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then
- DC Crowley
"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :(
- ffcode
What I would love to see in FriendFeed: 1) CC to facebook status (as for Twitter). 2) follow my conversation of facebook here on friendfeed, bidirectional 3) import Facebook contact in FF and see them as FF accounts. In a sentence, I would like not to use facebook anymore :) and this way is easier than bringing all the facebook user here...
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instead of shutting down FF to transfer everything on FB why don't they shut down FB and all its crappy apps and move people to FF?
- Flavio
@Nicholas: I know, I was joking! FB actually got to #3 lately! Anywway, no need to delete those apps as I never installed them, and worthless blocking them as new ones pop up every day and still people send invites over and over. That's one of the things I hate of FB (and I set my notifications so I don't receive emails everytime)
- Flavio
I second this suggestion! :-D
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
great, number one is now in! :) well, almost, is automatic, no choice for now but is fine anyway. as long as that work also for automatic imported items, now if I favorite a video on youtube it will be imported here and then goes on facebook. :)
- Daniele Dellafiore
@Daniele Looks to be limited text though. Try posting a full block of text directly to FF, it only imports the first X characters with a link, just like with Twitter. Not sure why it limits the import, as the full entry can be manually posted to FB. Still, a big improvement over the way it used to be!
- Aaron Kurtz
definetely. I would also love something like importing as imaginary friends some of your facebook contacts. That would be nice.
- Daniele Dellafiore
from email
Twitter graphic same as Silk Soymilk! - http://totallylookslike.com/2009...
Özkan Altuner, Olive Fee+, Peter and 12 other people liked this
lol fail
- Bahriye
wow, that's bad
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Maybe the bird and branches and swirls are part of a clip art pack.
- Vezquex
thats because the image is a stock image. Twitter made a mistake in using it. Anybody can legally use it as well
- Anthony Feint
There's no milk in that soy beverage! (but that's beside the point :)
- Micah
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Custom Themes for Posterous. Also supports Tumblr themes OTB.
Alex Schleber, thegeniusfiles, Nikos Anagnostou and 68 other people liked this
Not official yet I think, but the screenshot is real and provides some info. The "Porting Tumblr" tab explains that you can use Tumblr themes as is, but all Tumblr blocks in the code won´t be supported at first.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Where is the screenshot from?
- Daniel Sims
Looks exciting! I'm glad we'll be able to do completely custom themes from the beginning.
- Andrew
@Daniel: Just add "/theming" to your Posterous url :) (http://posterous.com/theming) Not visible in settings yet though. EDIT: Blocked now.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Shhh guuuyys it's seeecret!!!
- Garry Tan
that'll be great if there comes a WYSIWYG creater tool for this...
- 麦克.疯
At last! Looks great, especially because users can build their own themes! Can't wait to put my hands at work on this!
- Jordi Soler
Can't wait!!!
- Rubin Sfadj
The folks at Posterous are really hard at work. I haven't seen anything exciting coming out of Tumblr lately
- Andre P. Siregar
Wow! That's really cool!
- Svartling
Can we use widgets and javascript code?
- Svartling
I think it will spawn quite a large number of available themes and probably cannibalize Tumblr quite a bit. @Garry: Sorry, but it wasn't a very well kept secret;) Google blogsearch showed it to me on a search I had surrounding Posterous.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from BuddyFeed
@Svartling: No, not at first it says. But knowing Posterous it'll probably come along.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from BuddyFeed
Things just got intriguing...
- JA Castillo
So, when does this theming feature become available? ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
So are we any closer to getting an official date for the launch of custom themes? Or have I overlooked something?
- Andrew Eglinton
They could have custom backgrounds just to tide us over. Full themes may already be possible if the API is good enough.
- Vezquex
where's this exiting screenshot? Please, let me know how's possible to implement my posterous with theming options ..(
- cipriana maiameraime
WOW, nice scoop !!!
- kOoLiNuS
Awesome... just set up two sibling Posterous blogs last night... it will be cool to style them!
- Lindsay
...........that's great !!
- Marco Castellani
Dude, this was not suppose to be leaked
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
But since you did, custom themes is going to be nice !
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
It's been leaking for a while now ... any update on projected availability? There have been a number of new features added since this was posted here.
- Allan Besselink
Theming is live! http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
- Garry Tan
Emptyage — The greatest email I've ever received - http://www.emptyage.com/post...
Simon, Andre P. Siregar, Ginger Makela Riker and 4 other people liked this
This is the biggest load of crock I ever heard, as an excuse for not knowing how to do something --- "But sometimes, in order to believe in yourself, you have to believe that you are more right than those who you admire; that you are more right than those who are smarter, funnier, more experienced and more successful than you are. And without that certitude in your own work, too often you end up imitating rather than innovating. In the end I stuck with my gut, and I think it was the right thing to do. And besides, I didn’t know how to fix it anyway."
- niniane
from Bookmarklet
It seems like maybe it's just a joke.
- Paul Buchheit
More tragic is the fact that the sentiment (being willing to trust your gut in the face of adversity from well-respected others) is good. But the situation he's applying it to is bogus.
- niniane
Oh. I hadn't considered that! Maybe it's like a British dry humor.
- niniane
That is a horrendously stupid piece of advice in this case. (Not Munroe's, the other guy's. Munroe's advice was spot-on.)
- Andrew C (✓)
The surrounding serious text is all written in the same vein, so it seems less likely that it's a joke.
- niniane
Oh lord, the first comment is insanely wrong too! SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET IS WRONG.
- Andrew C (✓)
When I got to that "But sometimes..." paragraph, something in my brain threw an exception.
- Laurence Gonsalves
To be contrary, I actually agree with Mat that BOIYNB is better experienced as random-with-replacement instead of random-without-replacement, although everything that Randall argues is correct as well in terms of usability. The thing is, for some sites, including BOIYNB, it's funnier (to me) to see repeats. Arguing about whether X is more funny or Y is more funny is pretty pointless because "funny" is so subjective. So I actually agree with Mat that for some things, like this, stick with your gut.
- Stephen Mack
Of course pleading ignorance in the last sentence undermines his whole argument pretty thoroughly since it would take him less than an hour to implement random-without-replacement if he spent any time at all thinking about it.
- Stephen Mack
@k2g - this reminds me of jwz's article about the right way vs the easy-to-implement way, more famously known as 'The Rise of ``Worse is Better'''. (and here, I think doing it the right way is the right thing to do.)
- Andrew C (✓)
k2g - I would put the messages in some predetermined order, and show the messages in that order to every user, starting at a random point in the list and cycling around. Only one cookie needed (the user's position in the list, initialized randomly and incremented thereafter). I don't think having a different random sequence for every user is important.
- ⓞnor
It's an interesting problem though: choosing a random permutation of phrases for each user that minimizes the amount of storage needed for the user's cookie as well as the amount of computation time on the server.
- Jim Norris
Perhaps something like double hashing would work: if there are n items, for user u, let the ith choice be (h1(u) + h2(u)*i) % n. The main requirement is that h2(u) should be relatively prime to n. I am however not sure how to easily guarantee that. Of course Dan's solution is simpler and better unless you really need the permutation to be different for different users.
- Sanjay Ghemawat
Mat Honan in particular is an ace at inserting dry humor into long serious posts. I woudln't take anything he says seriously and would always give his humor the benefit of the doubt. I mean, seriously, his Twitter name is 'Fake Mat Honan'.
- Kevin Fox
Still, I believe Randall Munroe's conjecture was meant seriously, that users would prefer not to see repeats. But like Stephen, I'm not so sure. It would be fun to construct a site that uses a with-replacement strategy for half the users, and without-replacement for the others, and then measure the difference in pages/user between the two groups.
- Doug Beeferman
I actually need to implement this. My situation also expires some entries each day and adds new ones. I could regenerate a system-wide random sequence daily and set the users' positions to a new random index for visits on subsequent days, but then they'd see repeats across days. (Wonder how bad that is, compared to seeing repeats in same session.) Or each time I regenerate list, could transfer users' indexes onto new list, but computation for most transfers will be wasted if users don't visit that day.
- niniane
What's so bad about just going sequentially?
- Andrew C (✓)
Many entries get expired each day. If I sequentially go through the same list after many days, most of the entries will be expired and should not be shown to the user.
- niniane
Ah. Fair enough.
- Andrew C (✓)
What would Twitter be like with integrated comments? Facebook Lite offers a clue. --> http://images.scripting.com/archive...
Iván Abrego, ciw, earl wallace and 3 other people liked this
before facebook lite there was pownce, plurk and oh wait friendfeed that already does this.
- Logan Lindquist
What Steve Jobs Actually Said About eBooks - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Facebook Lite Is Why They Bought FriendFeed | Regular Geek - http://regulargeek.com/2009...
Iván Abrego and Andre P. Siregar liked this
"So, if you really want to see the future of Facebook, look at FriendFeed." -- I think this is stretching it too far. In Friendfeed, conversations/interactions revolve around the topic, whereas in Facebook interactions revolve around the person (e.g. comments on your post in FB are visible among your friends only). I think the distinction is fundamental. Yes, Facebook will allow sharing...
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- Andre P. Siregar
Andre, I was talking more in terms of the design. Facebook Lite is more focused around "posts" from your network. When I first looked at a few posts I realized there was very little difference when compared to FriendFeed. You have each post with likes and comments in a stream. Very similar stuff.
- Rob Diana
25 things you might not know about me. here we go....#1
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1. I am an Eagle Scout in boy scouts
- (jeff)isageek
2. Never been out of the United States
- (jeff)isageek
3. Have 1 sister
- (jeff)isageek
4. Have a cat named kittie
- (jeff)isageek
5. Never eaten a bean in my life
- (jeff)isageek
6. Never had a speeding ticket
- (jeff)isageek
7. played the "imperial march" for our wedding party at our wedding reception entrance
- (jeff)isageek
8. the lightsabers in my picture are not real
- (jeff)isageek
9. seen every episode of the brady bunch
- (jeff)isageek
10. have seen the movie "back to the beach" atleast 30 times.
- (jeff)isageek
when i first got on the internet way back in the day I used the name teknokool
- (jeff)isageek
me and allison's thumbs were used for a time under the "thumb wrestling" entry in wikipedia
- (jeff)isageek
opps forgot to number the last 2
- (jeff)isageek
14. can pretty much quote the whole movie "space balls"
- (jeff)isageek
15. skipped 13 on purpose :)
- (jeff)isageek
16. my middle name is alan
- (jeff)isageek
17. I love the dixie chicks
- (jeff)isageek
18. one of my favorite groups is ABBA
- (jeff)isageek
19. live in the kansas city area
- (jeff)isageek
20. like cobra more then i like g.i. joe
- (jeff)isageek
No beans?? Green beans? Black beans? Garbanzos? Baked beans???
- BEX
21. love to play the body drums or the table
- (jeff)isageek
I'm as surprised as BEX.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
22. have a cheese fetish
- (jeff)isageek
23. met my wife allison on yahoo personals
- (jeff)isageek
24. love the show 24
- (jeff)isageek
25. love love love mst3k
- (jeff)isageek
there ya go
- (jeff)isageek
BEX yep...no beans
- (jeff)isageek
unless I guess you count jelly beans :)
- (jeff)isageek
I met my hubby on Yahoo Personals too. Back in '98 when they were free!
- BEX
yeah me and allison met in 2002...had to pay..but it was totally worth it. the whole reason i sign up was so i could message her specifically :)
- (jeff)isageek
I, too, have a cat named Kittie...well, Kittten or Kittie. He barely responds to either. LOL And...what's with the BEANS?! LOL
- Carlton Hackett
just never cared for them and now i think it is part of my identity that i dont eat them so i dont know if i can now :)
- (jeff)isageek
that was fun!
- (jeff)isageek
Secret stuff the FriendFeed team has been up to at Facebook (Tornado, real time framework). Just released:
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From: http://twitter.com/fbplatform Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python http://developers.facebook.com/news...
- Robert Scoble
Check out blog from Bret Taylor: http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
- Robert Scoble
That's really exciting news
- Jesse Stay
I deleted some comments to keep this on discussions about Facebook's new Real Time Framework.
- Robert Scoble
Do I need a Facebook account to use this? I deactivated mine last year, still resisting reactivating
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
More over on Bret Taylor's FriendFeed about this: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Robert Scoble
thanks! great!
- Harold Cabezas
Sounds nice, i'm out to read the documentation :)
- Diego Sana
Oh yummy....
- #alaskareport
Are developers racing to get all of this established before Google Wave launches, or would they be developing it anyway? It's all changing so fast now, this Granny can't keep up with it all, (and I am still waiting for Facebook Lite to be available here in UK. I hate and detest those blasted applications!)
- Technogran
Holy crap! Anybody notice anything different about Facebook today?????
Kol Tregaskes, Andre P. Siregar, Robert Scoble and 10 other people liked this
Maybe it's just an error for me, but Facebook is looking a lot more like FriendFeed. Posts from several days ago are at the top of the feed because new comments or likes have been added.
- Ben Hanten
I have posts at the top of my stream from September 3, with comments added within the last hour. Posts from today are further down the list.
- Ben Hanten
I just noticed that too.
- Tony C (Unrated)
For me it just looks like an error. Some posts aren't showing up for me at all. After a page reload they do, after another refresh, I'm usually back to square one... Also some comments are missing, but show up after a refresh.
- Holger Eilhard
Actually, I'm getting old stuff popping back up with no updates. The newer stuff isn't below the "updates". I'm calling it an error.
- caj needs a haircut
I don't know... It seems pretty weird that all of the posts at the top have comments and likes. Is this more than an error?
- Ben Hanten
For me, there are no updated comments or additional likes. And stuff from earlier this morning is nonexistant. <shrug> I'm hoping they're working on truly real time updates!
- caj needs a haircut
Ahh hell. Now it's back to normal. It did it for me several times, now it won't do it. Maybe they are testing things out, though?
- Ben Hanten
And now it's back. WTF
- Ben Hanten
Let's just say: "There's something afoot" :-)
- Holger Eilhard
Back and forth every two minutes or so. Goes to the old way then back to things with most recent comments and likes at the top.
- Ben Hanten
Chrome.
- Ben Hanten
Same thing is happening in IE
- Ben Hanten
Chrome here as well. I'm vaguely tempted to see what happens when I click "News Feed" versus "Home" versus "Facebook" buttons.
- caj needs a haircut
I did that CAJ. Thought there was a pattern there, but it keeps switching back and forth every few minutes no matter what I do.
- Ben Hanten
Ben, yup. It's been acting flaky most of the weekend for me.
- caj needs a haircut
I haven't seen the new way at all. Perhaps you people are part of an elite test group? ("Hey, Bret, shall we try the new feed on this guy?")
- John E. Bredehoft
Facebook's been doing some sort of maintenance all weekend. Not sure what they're working on or if they're just stablizing their infrastructure.
- Jesse Stay
I just had this too, but after a few reloads it finally displayed all the most recent news feed items.
- Tony Ruscoe
Doing it on Firefox, too. There's not a definite pattern, but it seems like if you hit the "news feed" link to refresh it happens more often.
- Ben Hanten
What's most fascinating to me is that it either is up to date or a certain set of older posts. Like there's a server that's not getting updated or something. YMMV.
- caj needs a haircut
Yeah the more I watch it the more that makes sense to me, CAJ. Still I find it weird that the posts it displays are not in order by original post date, but by most recent update.
- Ben Hanten
I'm not seeing anything.
- mike fabio
I think it's possible that the glitch we were seeing the other day is what "top posts" are at lite.facebook.com Very similar to what we were seeing that day.
- Ben Hanten
iTunes Home Sharing is simply awesome. I'm using it right now to copy/sync all my music to my new laptop and it's working great. It's exactly how I've wanted iTunes to share all along.
Jason A. Samfield, paniaguai, Mike Morris and 28 other people liked this
Step Into My Office Baby...
- Louis Gray
I love it when software updates introduce a tool that I actually use :)
- Ross Miller
I love that too!
- AJ Batac :)
How is this different from sharing the library the way it used to work? Or is this more useful for when you want to disconnect the network and still have access to all the music?
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: exactly. It works like the transfer purchases feature on iPods and iPhones: you don't have to be connected to the home network to play them, because the files are copied to your computer.
- Mark Trapp
Wait, you can finally use the songs you buy on more than one computer without having to jump through hoops? My boss would've loved this feature five years ago. Explaining DRM to him was not fun, he just wanted his $1 songs to be playable on all of his PCs.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Ben, the main advantage is that you can set it to automatically sync the libraries so that a copy of new purchases is on both computers. I'm just using it to copy my whole library to a new computer.
- Ross Miller
So is it possible for me and my wife to share music, on each of our computers, bought on different accounts, before and after we have gotten married?
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Rasmus: I doubt it. This feature, and all the features in the iTunes/iPod/iPhone ecosystem, only allow one active account.
- Mark Trapp
and of files you haven't aquired via itunes?
- alphaxion
But you can activate more than one account in Itunes... I have mine + my wife's two accounts authorized. But yeah it's probably going to be another case of having to still do it manually
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Alphaxion, it just copies them over like any purchases from iTunes. When you open the home sharing center, there's a view to 'only see songs that are not on this computer'. You just select which songs you want to copy and hit import.
- Ross Miller
On a related note, something I've been wondering about recently is the best way to share a library between two Windows user accounts on the same machine. Seems silly to sync them when the files are on the same machine, but I'd like new purchases to appear automatically. Is that possible somehow?
- Tony Ruscoe
from iPhone
Tony, I think you can do that by changing the 'iTunes Media folder location' to be the same destination. Just choose which /Music/iTunes you want to use and set them both to that one. You can change the location from the Advanced tab in Preferences.
- Ross Miller
Thanks. I think I'll have to try that. I did wonder about doing that but wasn't sure whether that would just copy the files to the same folder, leaving the libraries out of sync though.
- Tony Ruscoe
from fftogo
"...wanna give you the job, the chance for overtime."
- Josh Haley
Evolution of Communication
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Monopoly City Streets: Google Launching Online Version of Monopoly - http://mashable.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes, hollyrae, Anton and 53 other people liked this
"This could be very addictive: Google (Google) is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps (Google Maps) version of Monopoly (Monopoly). Monopoly City Streets, which launches Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played. It’s an ambitious venture that we’ll confess to being fairly excited about: players will literally be able to buy any street in the world, and compete with every other player on the “board”. You start with 3 million Monopoly dollars, and can build not only hotels and houses but also football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, reports the UK’s Guardian. Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000, while Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
This'll be a total time-suck. I'm already plotting my strategy in my mind.
- Brad Williamson
Awesome!
- Jason Wehmhoener
Kind of hard to imagine movement across the "board". I guess we'll have to wait and see.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Yeah, something tells me this won't be your Mom and Pop's Monopoly. I'm thinking it'll be more Sim City-esque.
- Brad Williamson
Haha nice, looks kinda more like Hotel
- Maarten
It sounds like online Sim City to me. Or one of the tycoon games (lemonade tycoon, coffee tycoon, railroad tycoon or something of that sort that lets you start your own business and grow it as a game, soon you will have ads for buy monopoly gold and virtual currency just as they have now for WOW gold.
- TrafficBug
This is just awesome!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
This could be really cool or a complete fail, especially if people try to game the system
- Kim Landwehr
The clock it ticking towards launch and the site is down. Hopefully, they're just making some last second adjustments.
- Brad Williamson
Has anyone been able to play yet?
- Brad Williamson
I've been trying to play for 2 hours, I can get to the game screen and it sit goes down. :(
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sad to say Google didn't anticipate the popularity of this. I just enveloped myself with apple news with hopes it would be up, but no luck.
- Mac64
how on earth do they rate penn. avenue in the millions yet the street in which the UK government resides is only $231,000? Bit of an insult really :P
- alphaxion
oh, for you sim city lovers, check out www.citiesxl.com :)
- alphaxion
Official Status Blog http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/
- Mac64
Mac64: Just to clarify, this is in no way a Google fail. This is a Hasbro game that is built upon Google Maps. Google may have helped with a bit of the development, but are in no way liable for the FAIL that is the launch of this game. Blame Hasbro ;)
- Kyle Wegner
Lets see how long it takes before asian clickworkers overtake the Monopoly City Streets market.... ;)
- Birger Hartung
I was able to get in long enough to spend my 3M. It was painfully slow, but I was able to snag streets in my neighborhood that I wanted. We'll see if it gets fun as they increase capacity, but this is a crappy situation right now because the best streets will go to the overly patient.
- Jason Wehmhoener
You see the Terms? It says it will only be open until January 2010 :( Then what?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"...players will literally be able to buy any street in the world..." - literally?
- Stephan Planken
there's a street in Manchester priced at 570million..
- alphaxion
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