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Tabasco Gallon - http://www.thedieline.com/blog...
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Jeremy (quasimodo), Penguin It's Cold Outside, Upkar Gata-Aura and 53 other people liked this
Whoa!
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
I want to fill one with raspberry iced tea and just walk down the street sippin' on it. Maybe throw in some overalls for good measure.
- Christopher Harley
YES!!!!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Beautiful
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Dang. If I had a gallon of tabasco sauce, i'd be set for life.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
What? No one in the South actually uses this stuff. It's like going to Australia and asking for Fosters.
- Akiva Moskovitz
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 Moskovitz
Tabasco : Hot Sauce :: Bud Light : Beer
- Akiva Moskovitz
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 Moskovitz
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
does tabasco sauce ever spoil? this might not be a bad investment.
- tiffany
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 Moskovitz
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 Moskovitz
Be careful about going to that site. When I did, about three "null" files downloaded automatically...
- Spidra Webster
What about Tapatío? It's made in Vernon, California. Vernon, I'm tellin' ya!
- Christopher Harley
jardine's texas champagne is awesome. i prefer frank's myself. tabasco = the best on oysters and collard greens
- tiffany
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 Moskovitz
Dude, cheese grits and shrimp.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Shrimps ain't kosher neither!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Daniel, we could totally be eatin' buddies.
- Derrick
a near endless supply of heartburn... I mean flavor. I still gotta have it tho.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Over. Kill.
- Kamilah Gill
I'd take a gallon of the chipotle flavor. Otherwise, gimme Frank's
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
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 (aka Tina)
Dang, Derrick. We totally have to hang out next time I'm out that way. DO YOU GOT ANY BREAM?
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
I know what I'm gonna be getting my wife and father for Christmas now. Thanks Derrick!
- Give 'Em DBizness
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 (just a friend)
those photos are making my colon weep.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
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...
Andre P. Siregar and TobiasVerhoog.com liked this
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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Feyzullah DALDAL, calculi, Aperture Image and 78 other people liked this
"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.
- Admiral 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.
- Admiral 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.
- Admiral 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.
- Admiral 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."
- Admiral 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.
- Admiral 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)
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Charles Frith, Vladimir Yashnikov and 149 other people liked this
Good point.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it doesn't. After all we need good media delivery platforms.
- Swaroop
Including GNASH - the open source alternative - would solve that problem
- Bogdan Costea
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 Mastracci
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
I know some of the guys behind silverlight. It is some great technology. Too bad it's from Microsoft and is closed.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
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 Flipo
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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- Fa La La La 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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- .LAG liked that
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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- .LAG liked that
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 Worthington
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...
Rob Fahrni, zʍıɔ, rowlikeagirl and 75 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
- sofarsoShawn
Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
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, I think I love you.
- cecily
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
- 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...
Mike Chelen, Kol Tregaskes, Wei-Yen Tan and 5 other people liked this
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
Flavio: Because, FB is the #5 most visited site on the net ;) Also you can delete those apps on FB by withdrawing their permissions ;)
- Nicholas James
@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...
Ozkan Altuner, Olive Fee, Peter and 13 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.
- Raphael, Raphael
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 Wittman
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Custom Themes for Posterous. Also supports Tumblr themes OTB.
Zachary TG, Cristiana Danila Formetta, Alex Schleber and 79 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.
- Thomas Bøhm
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.
- Thomas Bøhm
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
Finally! Thank god, love this service
- James Tenniswood
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.
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
@Svartling: No, not at first it says. But knowing Posterous it'll probably come along.
- Thomas Bøhm
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.
- Raphael, Raphael
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!
- Fa La La La 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
I love leaks!
- John Graham
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
Cool.
- Zachary TG
A collection of the best guides and tips for using FriendFeed.
'Like' robot (frɐnc), earl wallace, Daniel Mietchen and 89 other people liked this
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
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
philosophically i dislike it when people proclaim they would rather rationalize their bad choices than write new code, but implementing shuffle suddenly requires maintaining state, which vastly increases the complexity of his code. i guess i would implement it with two cookies, a randomly generated user ID (defaulting to IP if no cookie set) and a counter saying how many had been seen....
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- ௸ (k2g)
@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, zʍıɔ, 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
Nispell, Morton Fox, Anna Lynn M. and 7 other people liked this
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
I did not know that!
- Christopher Harley
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!)
- Sandra Large
Nerd Venn Diagram
Ashish Tiwari, Christopher Harley, Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) and 30 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...
- Jim Is Not Smart
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
Holy crap! Anybody notice anything different about Facebook today?????
Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes, Baard @ Pixum and 14 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.
- Moved to Facebook
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, somewhere else
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
im calling it an error too. I have a few status with no likes or new comments
- Giancarlo Caparo
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, somewhere else
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
what browsers are you guys using?
- Giancarlo Caparo
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, somewhere else
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
They must be working on something then... I hope they fix FB chat though
- Giancarlo Caparo
Ben, yup. It's been acting flaky most of the weekend for me.
- CAJ, somewhere else
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, somewhere else
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
It was an error...although it looks like they'll be rolling it out soon. ;)
- Nicholas James
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.
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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...
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"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™ one of a kind
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 Fuller
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 cannot seem to get it too work. It still shows the centOS thing.
- Zachary TG
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 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
TwiXtreme – the sweetest BlackBerry client? « EverythingTwitter - http://everythingtwitter.com/2009...
Andre P. Siregar, FFTornado and Jason liked this
Apple event today = fail. The hype expectations have finally caught up with them.
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If you were expecting the Beatles, then yes, it was FAIL. But the new iTunes that lets you reorganize your iPhone is absolutely full of WIN!
- Joey Gibson
Meet my expectations.
- ChiliMac
(rolls eyes) This happens every single event and every single keynote. You have some delighted and many others who buzzed themselves up. The smarter thing to do is be neutral and see what shows up.
- Louis Gray
Totally agree: people talking about Tablets, about an online version of iTunes "à la Spotify"... and what do we get? An iPod Nano with a camera?
- Jordi Soler
SCIENCE.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Obviously some cool stuff, but this is the first iPod announcement I haven't thought "Oooh, I really want get me one of these."
- Jared B. Luther
The speculation about an Apple tablet came from an analyst who admitted it was just speculation. But that was enough for lot of people to bank on it as if it were a fact. If Apple had to deny every incorrect rumor, it'd have to hire its own PR agency just for that. Still, I don't think the event was a fail because it was pretty huge that Jobs ran the show himself.
- Ed Moltzen
Yeah, Steve's recovery was the best part. But you have to admit there was so much buzz for this one that one can't help but feel disappointed. It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade...
- Jordi Soler
Expectations are by definition personal. If yours were low, this event exceeded them. If yours were high, this event was underwhelming. Whose fault is it if the hype is high? Apple's? I don't think so. I'm impressed with the number of things they announced today.
- Stephen Mack
whetes my portable reality distortion field?!
- thegeniusfiles
The headline from the press release for the event should be APPLE SHIPS JOBS 2.0
- Steve Rubel
from email
*It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade... * - hahaha.. love that..
- Andy Connell
I didn't think it was a fail. I thought it was pretty solid. Sure the only thing I was excited about was iTunes, but that is only because I'm not getting another iPod since I have an iPhone. But, I can see the things that people would be excited for.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Agreed. One of the biggest Apple fails ever. WTF were they thinking putting a cam on the nano and not the touch? Does skinny steve know how many apps in the app store make use of a camera?
- Tomy Thomson
Woot! This should have been here all along.
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Exactly what I was thinking! Going to love this feature!
- Josh McConnell
Cool! other then this nothing major? just got home!
- Fee501st
Nothing else major. Oh, except there's a projector built into the new Touch. j/k ;o)
- Paul Reynolds
And they updated the Shuffles to transform into tiny robots.
- Paul Reynolds
Pual: lol
- Fee501st
But really, the BIG news is $149 == FREE. No, really.
- Paul Reynolds
yea thats cool!
- Fee501st
I agree. Downloading now.
- Zachary TG
/like mbgeek comments :)
- Alex Kapranoff
BTW, you'll need to update to the 3.1 firmware before you get the nifty app layout editor.
- Paul Reynolds
Im trying to get 3.1, but the servers must be slamed :\
- Fee501st
If I could upload it here, I would.
- Veronica
LOL, Paul I thought exactly the same thing about the "free" video camera. Wondering if you could just download it and stick on your existing Nano.
- Kenton
thats ok Veronica! I'll get it sooner or later, just tell us about App organizer, it just what you wanted?
- Fee501st
Even from looking at the screen shot I am loving it --
- Bryce Campbell
from iPhone
Yea waiting is the hardest part! I'm also waiting on my copy of RB:Bealtes! Damn you slow UPS man!
- Fee501st
wow ...that is awesome....now we have to wait for the update!!!
- Asif
Asif: its out now! I just got 3.1 and itunes and play around with the app organizer its very cool
- Fee501st
Interesting: Why There Is No Camera In the iPod Touch and Why That Sucks [Apple] http://bit.ly/xWu3Q
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Michael Koby: Properly Using Twitter & FriendFeed - http://www.mkoby.com/2009...
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RT @vhernandezcnn: The story behind the story of the memorable 'crasher squirrel' photo, from MN APJ @cwelchCNN; http://bit.ly/TOzFc
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TweetDeck: The 5 Best and 3 Worst Things About Today's New Version http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... http://www.tweetphoto.com/phwmahz...
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Wow, glad Paul Moss mentioned that search thing, I was completely unaware. It truly is amazing how TweetDeck has yet to build export functionality. I've seen people use custom hacked scripts, but that's a dozen steps too many. It should be one: an export button. Especially, considering they store your lists online so you can sync them among TD installations, that's just mind-boggling to...
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- Tyler Hayes
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I like that you're talking about lock-in by not allowing groups import/export. You seem to be the lone voice advocating data portability in the world of Twitter clients.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
25 Awesome Homeless Guy Signs - http://www.holytaco.com/25-awso...
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American Apparel Ads: the 50 Hottest in Company History - http://stylecrave.com/2009-09...
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from Bookmarklet
The best Google Voice transcript ever! http://twiddle.me/the-bes...
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