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Loic Le Meur posted a link

This Describes Perfectly How We Feel...

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this pic was posted by Svetlana (@profy) just followthe link to read her piece - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

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et ou est le quatrième? parce qu'ils doivent être quatre,:). - Hami

And hear I thought this was a statement on the economy and the election :) - Mel "VOTE NDP" McB

http://photos-h.ak.facebook.co... - enrico

I have a picture of that bench except my daughter is sitting in the vacant spot. In San Francisco I think. - Michael Tefft

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Michael Tefft

génial! - Hami

is this bench in San Francisco??? - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

ha! i have a pic of that bench, too: http://flickr.com/photos/anika... - Faboo Mama

Yeah it's on Grant street, in Chinatown, in front of a store that sells versaille-esque stuff & these brass sculptures. - anna awesomesauce

sequoia venture advise to cut costs - jfayel

anna thanks, I will maybe go and have my pic taken there, it will be totally appropriate - Loic Le Meur

My offics is a block away from there. If anyone wants to take a picture there, come by and visit, coffee;s on me. - David Sifry via twhirl

David: hilarious, I may need a coffee and that picture tomorrow... - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

Awesome Loic, c'mon over! - David Sifry via twhirl

David Sifry posted a link

Me and Michael Krasny of KQED's "Forum"

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Right after I did an hour on Michael's radio show this morning. You can hear it here: http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/... - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

dave mcclure posted a link

Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown

October 9 at 1:07 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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time to get to work. - dave mcclure via Bookmarklet

Yup! I wrote about some lessons from the last bust here: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/ar... - David Sifry via twhirl

obvious but still solid advice - mike "glemak" dunn

Bret Taylor posted a link

YouTube - AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama

October 6 at 1:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Chris Hollander, Sam Harmon, Benjamin Golub and 17 other people liked this

Totally worth watching. - David Sifry

Good message. At times, his delivery me of a professional wrestler. - Daisy

Great, great speech. - Jess Lee

Excellent speech. Makes my heart go warm. I grew up with union activist parents, who kept supporting the steel workers' union until long after they had themselves become entrepreneurs. - Mustafa K. Isik

David Hornik posted an entry on VentureBlog

Wired Teaches us "How To" Get Funded By a VC (and Written Up on TechCrunch)

October 6 at 1:11 am - Link

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Great points, David. Welcome back from Europe! - David Sifry via twhirl

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Strands Lifestreaming Service with Tools for Noise Reduction and a Focus on Social Discovery

October 6 at 1:11 am - Link

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Good post, David. Welcome back from Europe! - David Sifry via twhirl

do you think that Strands eventually will become bigger and better than FriendFeed? Which one do you prefer right now? - Patrik Johansson

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability

October 5 at 11:42 pm - Link

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On Thursday one of FriendFeed's co-founders, Paul Bucheit, will be on a FastCompanyTV webinar with me along with Matt Mullenweg and Nat Brown, the CTO of iLike to talk about how to make a system that stays up and responds quickly, even with millions of users. I can't wait, but I'm also terrified and need your help. - Robert Scoble

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A link from work (Not sponsored, not an ad) for anyone interested. It's related to Robert's topic: http://www.bluearc.com/dataflo... (And don't shoot me for blending the work life with FriendFeed) - Louis Gray

very cool - Zee from WeDoCreative

Thanks Louis, checking it out now. - Robert Scoble

I would like to hear their opinions on Rails and if the scalability issue is a myth. - Mona N.

This website may help with your research: http://highscalability.com - imabonehead

Mona, here's a Google video on "Ruby & Scalable Architectures" (note this also includes Rails) - http://is.gd/3A7C - imabonehead

"Breakthrough Failures That Help Sites Scale" - http://is.gd/3A85 - imabonehead

There is usually a session at mix with the myspace crew. It's Microsofy centric bit might help. - Roberto Bonini

Robert, I left you a comment on your blog post - but maybe it'd easier to catch you here. Come on up into the city anytime this week before your interview, and it'd be my honor to help answer your questions, and take you through what we did at Technorati (and now at Offbeat Guides) with regards to building scalable systems - including all the mistakes we made, some of them not so obvious! Give me a ring at 415 846-0232 or DM me or whatever, we'll set it up... - David Sifry via twhirl

I'd ask a simple one about the fact that traffic spikes can happen at any point, day or night, how do they deal it? Do they have round-the-clock staff or any type of early warning system? - Cains

I've built several sites for Yahoo! and give conference presentations on website scalability. Would you like to chat before then? - Glen C

http://blog.broadpool.com/2008... some thoughts on scalability. - Glen C

I have a bunch of conference presentations on scalability; let me know if you're interested (might be too technical for your audience) - Glen C

Glen, I guess many of us are interested so if you can share them we would be very grateful! - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

These guys have all answered these questions before and know how to talk about the topic. So I don't think you are on the hook for deep insightful questions. More of just getting the conversation started. Maybe take it from an uber user point of view and ask for stories about how they've scaled, made performant, and made reliable some of your favorite features with special attention to challenges and how they were solved. The proud parents will do the rest. - todd

All this time I thought Glen was just this funny guy on Friendfeed :) Love the anonymity! - Charlie Anzman

There's some excellent videos over at parleys.com, especially: http://parleys.com/display/PAR... and http://parleys.com/display/PAR... - Jason Carreira

http://files.broadpool.com/ has directories for various things. "dcphp2007" was a presentation entitled "Drinking from the Firehose"; "phpconference2008" was on service-oriented architectures; "webinale2008" was on the best ways to bring down your website (and how to avoid them). - Glen C

Scalability is about identifying bottlenecks that keep the system as a whole from achieving the goal of linear scalability (adding 2x as many boxes gives 2x as much throughput). Ask about what typical bottlenecks they avoid, and which bottlenecks they're still fighting. Also, the largest cluster-size they've run, and where the tipping points are for when certain bottlenecks become a problem. - Jason Carreira

todd, -10 for using the word "performant" :-) - Glen C

Allow me to mix together a few prior comments by pointing out this great article: "Scaling Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App " http://highscalability.com/sca... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Glen, Jason: thanks for the links :) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

Anytime Glen. Creative blending of obsfucation and bloviation is a talent :-) - todd

I think a good question to ask would be what assumptions each of them made that ended up being wrong and the most expensive to fix? All developers/architects make assumptions ... about how much traffic they'll see, what kind of traffic they will see, what the most important performance metric will be (the responsiveness vs. throughput question, which anyone building a scalable application needs to answer for their domain) ... Did any of their assumptions in these or other areas lead to big problems? - J. McConnell

IMHO the biggest problems I've seen with up-and-coming web apps is that they tend to think of scalability as something you "add on" instead of something you build in. If you've designed the architecture properly, you can increase the scale by simply adding hardware; any solutions that require additional coding or extra software (i.e., "just recode that using memcached") simply are not properly scalable. - Glen C

Glen, maybe the reason they're up-and-coming is that they're thinking in terms of value to the user, and not thinking, e.g., "how much harder will it be to shard our data if we implement this feature?" - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

Mr. Scoble - If I had one question to ask it would be "How do you BUILD for an predictable spike?" Say you're WalMart.com and you KNOW your biggest day of the year is going to be day after Thanksgiving. Walk us through preparing for surviving the spike and servicing all the transactions. If I had time for a second question I'd ask about the current state of cloud computing (namely Amazon's EC2)? And, a third question would be framework related (ala Ginger or MaryAnn?).... Rails or C? - Gerald Buckley

Bruce, absolutely true; however, it's actually cheaper to build scalability in at the beginning than to add it on later. And it doesn't have to be more difficult (sharding data? no one at Yahoo! does that, so why would a smaller company need to?), just a different architecture. - Glen C

I'd suggest that database sharding is a bandaid solution for the wrong up-front architecture. - Jason Carreira

My main interest in scalability (and the most problematic in my 10 years of experience) is always the database. I'd ask if there's a rule of thumb for the design of databases to support a truly scalable application. - JungleG

Scalability is all about CAPACITY PLANNING. Numerous aspects of systems design (and potential failure) must be examined and well planned in order to avert potential future failures. In an ideal world, you'd know the limits your system will need to scale to. But we don't live in a perfect world now do we. So product managers must work with IT architects to build a system that can "scale" to meet burgeoning demands as their product "takes off". Get your crystal ball out to start forecasting demand. - Susan Beebe

Cont'd: CAPACITY PLANNING involves all 7 layers of the OSI model. GO from the electrical plug in the wall to the "presentation" layer (screen) of the customer's view of your product. Now consider all the potential SPF (single points of failure) along the way; whether that be core infrastructure issues like bandwidth, load balancing (web servers handling the load), memory caching, DNS, optimized O/S, application design, database design, well structured queries, smart technologies like Java and AJAX - Susan Beebe

SCALABILITY actually refers to the concept of a Production Application running withing acceptable SLA limits without downtime or performance degradation, which can be caused by a slew of offending issues. Volumes have been written about scalability. Focus on key bottlenecks: bandwidth, infrastructure hardware, application design, data storage, especially as it pertains to database / query design. Sometimes large queries, reports, sprocs, batch jobs can hose a good app (needs smart devs to optimize). - Susan Beebe

Where are your users and where are your servers? Scaling globally. When did you move away from managed hosting and run your own racks? What do you consider successful site responsiveness? Have you noticed positive correlation between really quick page loads and user engagement? - Niall Kennedy

Great webinar, Robert, I posted some of my thoughts here http://cli.gs/L4bDzV - JungleG

David Sifry posted a link

Surprising News

October 4 at 9:55 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Taken at Mel's Diner in San Francisco. Clearly something piqued her interest. Note the news about McCain on the page facing the camera... - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

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Diner Vignette

October 4 at 3:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Ah, Saturday afternoon at the local diner. Brunch with my son. - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

David Sifry posted a link

Offbeat Guides Sneak Peek and Beta Update

October 3 at 4:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

With a screencast taking you through a whole raft of new features, bug fixes, and more - get a sneak peek of what's going on behind the scenes at Offbeat Guides... - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

Danese Cooper updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Home in Sam Clam's Disco”

September 29 at 7:00 am - Link

One of my favorite jokes! - David Sifry via twhirl

hunter walk posted a message

“google still has the coolest founders. Re: Android launch: "Sergey wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor."”

September 23 at 11:16 am - Link

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That is awesome. - Bret Taylor

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So it starts a timer when it senses motion, and then stops the timer when it senses motion has ceased? Originally I read this as predicting how long it would take to fall, which involves some physics. - Chris White

Totally awesome. - David Sifry via twhirl

BTW, won't that also tell you how high you threw the phone, assuming you're throwing it straight up... - David Sifry via twhirl

David, if the accelerometer is sensitive enough to detect the change in direction of motion at the top of the throw. - Chris White

but when it hits the floor and shatters, how will you get the data?! better call in Geek Squad. - MG Siegler

At Danger, engineers were constantly taking phones and purposely dropping / throwing them on the floor to see if they would break. - Chris White

@Chris, I think accelerometers measure acceleration, and there's no change in acceleration at the top of the throw. (Then again, I made it to class exactly once during three quarters of physics in college.) - Jim Norris

Jim, not being a physics wizard myself, I would think that deceleration would occur on the way up until the top of the throw, so you could detect the change from negative to positive acceleration as it transitioned to coming down. - Chris White

A must app. Even though that it is crazy…funny *smile*. - ivanandersson

Of course there is acceleration during the throw... constant acceleration. - Mario Romero

Yup, I was wrong. Jim and Mario are right (as is @nor, although technically there is acceleration, even though I'm sure he meant "change of acceleration"): http://answers.google.com/answ... - Chris White

That is so cool. Someone write this for the iPhone, please. Though whether I would actually throw my iPhone in the air is another question entirely. - Roberto Bonini

I once left my phone on my car's roof. I wonder if this app could be hacked to prevent that (or at least prevent me from driving off) :-) - John Mueller

Great app... should incrementally increase phone sales as people smash their phones and have to replace them. - Jason Carreira

Jason: I think that is the point: I'm beting I can throw my iPhone higher than you can throw your G1. - Roberto Bonini

I love it - brilliant and insane! - timepilot

Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“I can't believe it. I'm nearly speechless. Canon had us remove the footage entirely. Press calling, customers gushing, and totally pwned.”

September 23 at 10:26 am - Link

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seems lame on Canon's part but I've never particularly seen them as good at social media and buzz. - Thomas Hawk

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Unbelievable. Sorry, Don. You guys don't deserve that. - DeWitt Clinton

Their Marketing department is clearly living in the stone age. - Mike Doeff

Most big companies are crazy. - Tristan Seligmann

Totally unbelievable, especially since it was greenlit internally. Way to shoot themselves in the foot. - Jeremy Hall

Totally lame. - Robert Scoble

especially since people are clammoring for info on the camera (like me). - Rick Bucich via twhirl

Sheesh. Stupid. - David Sifry via twhirl

and if you had said no? - Gregory Lent

waht really .... suck is tha ... the official vid....eo site .... can't...keep up with the .... demand .... and s buffering, and at lower quality, sigh. - Phill "Snowman" Price

Lameness to the 10th degree, I say. Not really surprised since Canon is a big corporation. It's rather typical of large corporations to act like this. - imabonehead

Aren't there possibly reasonable explanations for this decision? Or maybe not reasonable to us but reasonable to Canon? - ·[▪_▪]·

Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

Technorati numbers highlight the changing nature of blogging

September 22 at 6:02 pm - Link

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Interestingly, there were 3 views: 1 from RWW (Blogging is a Niche!), 1 from CNET (Blogging is Mainstream!) and 1 from Inquisitr (Blogging is Changing!). I like the diversity of opinions on the same data. - Louis Gray

Louis lol. Hopefully I'm right, because I can't see the other two arguments. We know that the distribution points are changing, we just need to be more open in accepting that blogging as we once knew it is evolving as well. What I'm typing here on FF is a type of blogging, when you break it down - Duncan Riley

Just wait - there's some really juicy data coming over the next few days. :-) - David Sifry via twhirl

David, I hope so, and a hearty g'day as well. Hope your new haunts are treating you well. - Duncan Riley

Don MacAskill posted an entry on SmugBlog: Don MacAskill

Amazing Canon 5D MkII HD video footage!!

September 22 at 11:13 pm - Link

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wow wow wow it is gorgeous., thanks for putting it up for me to drool over. - David Pascoe

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Yeah, crazy cool. - Don MacAskill

Beautiful film, amazing camera, and great job working with Vincent to host it on SmugMug! - DeWitt Clinton

Kudos, Don. Great job. Looking forward to seeing the next sponsored film... I wonder if we'll soon need a new name for these cameras or films. philms? - David Sifry via twhirl

Amazing! Don, thanks for hosting it. Very impressive. - Jauder Ho

I know digg has jumped the shark for most of you, like it has for me, but I could use some diggs if you still remember your login. :) - Don MacAskill

Link to the Digg story: http://digg.com/gadgets/Amazin... - DeWitt Clinton

Oh, yeah, a link would have helped, huh? Thanks DeWitt. :) - Don MacAskill

David Sifry posted a message on Twitter

“Freaking amazing. Here's the "making of" video that shows how they did it. http://is.gd/2ZoK It's a DSLR, folks! OMG. $2700.”

September 22 at 10:36 pm - Link

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I want one in the worst way, but can't afford it at the moment. - Robert Scoble

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Wow. That is impressive. WANT! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I just hit "purchase" on my preorder at Adorama. I. Can't. Wait. - David Sifry via twhirl

David: which is better? Adorama or B&H? - Robert Scoble

@Robert, I've bought from both Adorama and B&H. I think they are both good vendors. I personally prefer B&H, no particular reason except I've been doing business with B&H longer. I've probably placed a couple dozen orders with them over the past 5 years and have never had a problem. Everything was shipped in excellent condition as ordered in the promised time frame. I also have been using Amazon more in the past year and ditto for them, excellent service, no problems. - Jeff P. Henderson

This is really impressive. - Holger Eilhard

robert, I usually buy from B+H - they tend to be a bit cheaper, and have never let me down. Adorama is quite good too, but are often a little more expensive than B+H. The problem was that I couldn't do a preorder at B+H, nor could I even sign up for their mailing list. So, this time, Adorama gets my sale. Not to mention, I'm betting that everyone will be selling this camera at exactly MSRP (or even higher!) - David Sifry via twhirl

WOW, that video was amazing... wish i had one! - Susan Beebe

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“My default browser home page is now Techmeme I have just changed my browser settings. What is yours?”

September 22 at 10:35 pm - Link

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my google reader :) - ledretch

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I use Google Chrome and it opens four tabs. FriendFeed. Twitter. TechMeme. Google Reader. - Robert Scoble

Believe it or not, an empty page. :-) Zen. Ommmmmmm. - David Sifry via twhirl

I use Fast Dial on Firefox as my start page - Outsanity via fftogo

FireFox with Speed Dial - 30 pre-set URLs - like FF, Techmeme, twitter, seesmic, work stuff, etc - Susan Beebe

Friendfeed - Glen C

Blank page - Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar

BBC News, although I should probably change it to Google Reader or FriendFeed... - Martin Bryant

about:blank - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

Google Reader, but I also have the following pages open at all times 'My Yahoo', Friendfeed, my Zooomr & Flickr Photostreams, my Photo Blog, and my Web Server monitoring site. - Jeff P. Henderson

My default home page is Google News, with the topics and companies I follow. Better than having Techmeme. - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

Also Techmeme but with the election getting closer I may temporarily switch to NY Times Politics homepage. - Larry Rubin

Larry: for politics you should follow Techmeme's sister page http://www.memeorandum.com -- have you checked that out yet? - Robert Scoble

It's FriendFeed. It used to be Google Reader, and prior to that, My Yahoo!. I get Techmeme updates by RSS. - Louis Gray

no default .. my desires are different everyday, and intuition is driving - Gregory Lent

It's FriendFeed for me too. - Iain Baker

When people set their browser to (open with) a homepage, I always wonder if they don't do anything else. About:blank speeds up browser-loading time and doesn't distract me when I need to use the browser for work. - Vincent van Wylick

blank page under Firefox 2 - Hayk

igoogle but it has the Techmeme firehose. - Steve Rubel

www.weblivz.com ;) european technology setting of course - weblivz via twhirl

I see my "default page" once in a week or two. - Claudio Cicali

defaults to my rss reader. - Shawn McCollum

Yahoo, believe it or not. - Andrew Leyden

Mine goes straight to gReader. - Jonathan Kong

netvibes - Kevin Doohan

igoogle - i have everything in one place - Kurisutein Takagi via twhirl

igoogle - but usually jump out quickly to google reader - Rajiv Doshi

interesting that so many of you switched to FF as home page - Loic Le Meur

My weblog, gmail, and facebook in different tabs - Prolific Programmer

I don't use home page in Firefox...it always opens up the tabs I had opened previously...Two most important for me are Gmail and iGoogle oh and friendfeed...can't live without that. - Wensleydale Scoble

Same as Alex, it opens whatever I saved last, usually Google Reader, Gmail, FriendFeed and NFL.com - Sally Church

I also open the same tabs from my previous session. The three most important are Gmail, FriendFeed and an in-house time-tracking tool we use at our company. I used to have GoogleReader open too but it was too distracting so I set a separate time for it. - Andrés David Aparicio

Speed Dial in FF and the default in Chrome (yeah, I'm in between browsers...) - Philip John

my gmail and my blog - oliver gassner

Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“Looks like we're in the movie producing business. :) Check out this awesome Canon 5D MkII info & footage: http://tinyurl.com/4zeof6”

September 22 at 3:37 pm - Link

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- whoa! :-) - JA Castillo

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I'm sold too. Wow. - Robert Scoble

Beautiful. - Bored Lebowski

Extremely impressive! - Jeff P. Henderson

I'm already in line. - Dean Terry

Totally absolutely hitting "pay" on my preorder. Right. Now. - David Sifry via twhirl

@Dean, so am I, placed my pre-order with Amazon last week. - Jeff P. Henderson

amazing!!! - Susan Beebe

David Sifry posted a link

Giraffe Abstract on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

September 22 at 12:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

I liked the composition on this one - the way the necks flowed, and the patterns on their skin... - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

David Sifry posted a link

naked capitalism: Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal

September 22 at 12:05 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Is anyone else wary of this $750 Billion bailout? I hear that the way these CDOs have been structured is that some of the contracts are more senior in debt to others, meaning that the most senior debt obligations will definitely be repaid, and won't get sold by the banks, however the least senior debt has nearly a 0% chance of seeing any repayment whatsoever. Won't that mean that we, the taxpayers, will get left with worthless paper, and the banks will get all our cash? $750B?!? What am I missing here? - David Sifry via Bookmarklet

David, I think you've got it. The taxpayers are being taken as the last and greatest fools - Adina Levin

Don't want to be stuck with the bill? Call your congresscritter. I was glad to see Anna Eshoo asking good questions, and sent her a letter today. - Adina Levin

Thomas Hawk posted a link

New Canon 5D Mark II, $2,700, 21.1 Megapixels, Full Frame Sensor, Anti Dust Technology, Shoots HD Video

September 17 at 6:42 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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The new camera will sell for an estimated price of $2,700. It will have a full frame 21.1-megapixel sensor, DIGIC 4 imaging processor and an expanded ISO sensitivity range from ISO 50 to ISO 25,600. It will shoot at 3.9 frames per second (a disappointment to some who were hoping for a faster camera). Canon says that the new camera will be available at the end of November. It will also shoot 16:9 full 1080 HD video. The maximum length for videos on the new camera will be 4 GB per clip or 30 minutes, whichever comes first. The new camera will also have an input terminal for external microphones in addition to it's built in sound. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

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Glad to see it's finally here. Sounds like a great camera - here's hoping it has or improves upon the superb image quality and low-light performance of the original. - Tom Harrison

I'm a "Nikonian" but something like this is would make me very, very happy - João Almeida

I really wish I were a good enough photographer (or wealthy enough) to justify this. It sounds absolutely fantastic. - James Williams (willia4)

How long before you snag one, Thomas? - Jordan Hofker

Been a long time coming. I want one. - Dave Stanley

I'm a little disappointed in the fps but, overall, I'm counting the days 'til I pick one up - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

I'm excited. The 5D is my workhorse camera, this update adds so many cool features, right at the core of the camera. It addresses its (few) weaknesses, too. 25,600 ISO? nice! 3.9fps? Nice - I really didn't need 5fps for sports, even 3 was fast enough for me. Live View 1080p HD video?!?!? Awesome! Now I know what I want for Channukah. :-) - David Sifry via twhirl

$2700? Cha-ching! And yet, if it were a video camera with those capabilities, I wouldn't blink an eye. We're seeing the collision of two photographic schools. Notice, an SLR is still shaped like its chemical-film-loaded predecessors. That's the only thing that makes this a "still" camera. - Rick Wolff

Jordan, I'll buy one as soon as I can from B&H. Not sure if they are taking pre-orders or not yet but going to check on that later this morning. - Thomas Hawk

Dave I agree with you on the 3.9 fps being enough. Personally I'm doing more fine art photography than sports stuff and I rarely shoot burst. It's only been a few times when I've been out there that I've wished for faster frame speed. 3.9 fps is plenty fast for me. - Thomas Hawk

Now I'm kinda pissed about my recent 12mp XSi purchase =/ - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I'm glad this will be around when my original 5D stops working. I was getting worried they might abandon the model and come up with something else that would be a pro upgrade that I don't need. - Tom Harrison

I am $2,700 dolllars away from purchasing this. I wonder how much I can get for my kids. - iMorpheus via twhirl

Most definitely on the "want" list, but having just spent some moola, it may be awhile before this ends up in my bag. - Jeremy Hall

wow! - Susan Beebe

noise? with so many pixels? - Gregory Lent

HD video. Wow. Guys will buy this just to record their kids. - Russellreno

Curious to see in-depth review, but its definitely the DSLR I will purchase. Thomas, any idea whether date is preserved when batteries are changed? :-) No preorder at B&H, first thing I checked when I saw your post. - JodyUnwired

Jeff Henderson found a link to some sample video clips: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/0... - Andre Maltais

Tina, I just got the same camera (the XSi). I'm loving it. And I'll definitely use it for a good long while. Buy good lenses for it and you'll be set when the time comes to upgrade. - Jordan Hofker

Thomas, I'm looking forward to a "hands on" with this camera from you. - Jordan Hofker

Jordan, that's my intent. Still working with the original Canon kit lens and debating on what to get next... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Wow, thanks for the link, Andre. Those videos are pretty impressive. - J. McConnell

I hope Santa Claus will give me one of these this year :) - imabonehead

Christine Lu posted a message on Twitter

“@thijsjacobs @scobleizer, @shelisrael and a soon to be confirmed enterprise blogger so far. thx to Edelman Digital and awesome @ajschokora!”

September 15 at 11:18 pm - Link

Congrats, Christine! We need to make sure that they all get Offbeat Guides for their trip :-) - David Sifry via twhirl

Christine Lu posted a message on Twitter

“@dsifry yup, you've got a great time. and a great product. i'm an Offbeat Guides fangirl. it'll come in handy for the China 2.0 tour. LOL.”

September 14 at 8:23 pm - Link

Come and check out www.offbeatguides.com tongiht - you can see all the updates and changes (and new bugs, heh!) - It's the largest upgrade we've done since launching the company - David Sifry via twhirl

David Sifry posted a message on Twitter

“Getting very excited. Some big changes afoot, very very son...”

September 14 at 4:11 pm - Link

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Details? Other teasers? - Mike Reynolds

We just rolled out a MAJOR update to the Offbeat Guides beta, many new features, bug fixes, UI improvements. Doing QA testing now - but it's live! - David Sifry via twhirl

Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“Having the best sunday: nytimes, espresso, Played bball, now in hot tub, massage next, then off to poker at friend's house. Life is so grand”

September 14 at 3:59 pm - Link

I had an excellent Sunday as well. It was our pastor's 22nd anniversary at our church. So it was a full day at church. Sunday school, morning service, delicious lunch on the grounds, and an afternoon service. Only thing that could have been better would have been cooler weather. - Community Organizer Chuck

Watch out when you play with the computer in the hot tub! - David Sifry via twhirl

Mark Drapeau posted a message on Twitter

“Hey! @JoeTrippi is on Twitter. You know, the guy who _actually_ invented political internet fundraising in the U.S.? Joe rocks.”

September 13 at 4:23 pm - Link

He's been on twitter for quite some time, actually. A true early adopter :-) - David Sifry via twhirl

He is on FF as well. - Bora Zivkovic

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Useful travel web sites

September 7 at 3:41 pm - Link

capitano, Francesco Passantino, Luca Conti and 32 other people liked this

This is a list of useful travel sites that Twitterers contributed to. Got any others to add? - Robert Scoble

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Oh how many posts did you write today! : ) Thanks for again. - Erhan Erdogan

Erhan: I'm done now until tomorrow morning when 100+ companies release all their news on us. Whew. - Robert Scoble

Wikitravel, Yahoo Trip Planner, TripAdvisor for research and ideas. TripIt feeding iCal data to Dopplr (mostly works). - Jauder Ho

Haven't used it but this http://www.tripharbor.com is interesting - Brian Sullivan

Robert's been a busy boy today! :o) Thanks for the good reads! - Susan Beebe

Don't forget http://www.offbeatguides.com/ for personalized travel books. Still in private beta, but more to come soon. ;-) - David Sifry

i use tripit and that's about it these days. most of the times i can buy a plane ticket cheaper from the website of the airline i'm using then kayak and orbitz you can follow my trips on tripit if interested, same username - Jonathan Jesse

especially as it works on my moblie phone - Jonathan Jesse

wouldja add UpTake.com to the list? (and before u bash our home page only 5% of our traffic starts there lol) - Elliott Ng

www.tripntale.com - darwin

http://www.goldentulip.com, working for this chain though.. - Marcel van der Laan

How could I have missed this post? Wego @ http://www.wego.com . Disclaimer: I am a Web Developer with Wego. - Winston Teo

yowtrip.com - luca Filigheddu

http://www.wolpy.com - For tracking your travels - Ana Belén Ramón

http://www.viatribe.com - a travel writer community, and a great resource for quality reviews - Dana

http://www.londontown.com/hote... - All London hotels on a map, real time bookings - James

The easiest way to find where to stay is http://www.seeyourhotel.com. Which is a site we did. For flight it's http://www.kayak.com. - Jean-Francois Noel

This list (+FF thread) is awesome! I also find it entertaining that for once instead of retweeting Scoble, he referenced my tweet :P - Abbas Haider Ali

I'll also add in my vote for TripAdvisor, I don't go anywhere new without checking there first. And Hotwire for hotels (if trip is 100% confirmed). I get ridiculous deals on Ho