Apple's likely to roll out a whole new line of camera-toting, newly-skinned iPods at a 10am PST launch event, and the online Apple Store is already down for service, as it typically is when new...
- Me
Apple's likely to roll out a whole new line of camera-toting, newly-skinned iPods at a 10am PST launch event, and the online Apple Store is already down for service, as it typically is when new...
- Me
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Looking for a quick and easy way to repurpose some old, unused notebooks while simultaneously decluttering your cords? (Who isn't?
- My.Digital.Life
"A bathroom, restroom, goldfish graveyard, or whatever you call it can be a great place for a photograph, clean or dirty. Here are a few unique photos that may spark your creativeness for your next photo session."
- Mel Buckpitt
from Bookmarklet
Must be weird. But I think you'll soon feel right at home. In any case, if I was a regular Facebook employee (other than - say - MZ himself) I'd be in awe. :) (with which I mean that any regular facebook employees who are NOT in awe to see you are plain dumb - just tell them that I said that :P)
- Meryn Stol
I noted Paul's Google shirt as well. I have that one. (And some FriendFeed shirts) So... gang? Facebook shirts are a must!
- Louis Gray
Best technology acquisition Facebook has EVER gotten! We're expecting more greatness - good luck!
- Mike Koss
Alex, no doubt about that. Facebook will be in good hands.
- AJ Batac :)
You will never have the fun you had in here. But that's the nature and beauty of progress. Keep up the good work. Glad you made it up to here.
- M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
from Android
Step in the building by using your right foot. Its believed to bring luck! (Turkish tradition)
- Jacque
from fftogo
all the best, good luck, enjoy the success and the money :)
- onderkiremitci
Hope you guys can continue the open houses over at Facebook. Those were great fun.
- Hutch Carpenter
Bret: With so many people fearing the worst about FriendFeeds long term future, I'm guessing there's NO WAY you will tell us here, now, if we are wasting our time carrying on as FriendFeed users? ....I'm not gonna get an answer am I
- Jim Connolly
This is a hand pump for pumping out the bilge of a small boat. I'm sure it is good for that purpose. However, what it does better than anything else I have ever tried is to pump off a sports field after a downpour. Many fields have no power access for electric pumps. With this hand pump you can dig a small hole, let the water drain into it and then pump it off quickly, into a bucket or just off the field, to help it dry. I travel around with this bilge pump during baseball season in eastern Massachusetts, and it has probably given my teams three or four games extra each year, by making inundated fields usable. It's not hard to work the pump -- in fact, I had my nine-year-olds pump it this year -- and the design is simple and industrial. It has a small crosshatch filter to keep material out of the mechanism and the outflow rate is pretty good if you pump it steadily. -- Benjamin Grassly West Marine Manual Bilge Pump (24-in. pump with 72-in. hose) $33 Available from and manufactured by...
- Jay Niemann
This is a hand pump for pumping out the bilge of a small boat. I'm sure it is good for that purpose. However, what it does better than anything else I have ever tried is to pump off a sports field after a downpour. Many fields have no power access for electric pumps. With this hand pump you can dig a small hole, let the water drain into it and then pump it off quickly, into a bucket or...
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- Jay Niemann
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** At first glance, today's featured workspace might appear to be yet another so-hip-it-hurts, ultra-spartan Mac workspace. This spac
- My.Digital.Life
With tr.im going down, it's another reason to look at creating your own url shortener service like myself and others have done. Read how to here: http://s1w.us/createshort
...this is good. shortening URLs is great. but someone essentially owning your permalinks, is not. thanks for sharing. let's see where this goes.
- .LAG liked that
When can I automate the transfer of funds from Paypal to my Bank Account, and why can't I make that transfer immediate in this real-time world? I can with my other bank accounts.
- Jesse Stay
Their new API stuff is interesting to me - and how it has to do with subscriptions.. it's always been lacking in the past - wonder what they've done to improve it. http://siliconangle.com/ver2...
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Why won't they get their web payments standard system to work with .NET? The PDT (Payment Data Transfer) sends duplicate query strings.
- Barry Wise
Funny how @moldor and @ronproulx don't get the point that I wanted them to ask the question here on FriendFeed. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
PayPal product dev Roadmap question: iPhone app + RSS Token - in future plans?
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Why can't I use money in my Paypal account to pay my Paypal credit card? It doesn't make sense to xfer $$ from Paypal to Bank a/c and then back to Paypal credit card.
- janziff
How has the engineering philosophy and culture changed since the acquisition by eBay?
- Lou Paglia
from iPhone
+1 Jesse Stay. I'd also like to know why it takes anything up to 2 weeks (in the UK) to transfer money into or out of a PayPal account and a bank account...
- Tyson Key
Their take on the future of micropayments.
- Mel Buckpitt
I've been using paypal for ages for transactions totaling under $500/mo. Just this month, I've noticed they've started charging fees--but I didn't get any notice saying they were doing this. would love to know more about their fees.
- JessicaW
I don't know about Canada, I know they do in the US. I use it every day.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Lou - Aren't they using JSP or ASP.NET? I know they use a lot of XSL, from looking at the generated page source, though.
- Tyson Key
@Perre-Armand - We have the PayPal Credit Card, and the PayPal Top-Up card (presumably a stored-value debit card) in the UK, too.
- Tyson Key
ha Tac, paypal started out for cell phones but then everyone luved their web prototype...
- mal
Ask them to please stop changing their web UI every few months :P
- Alex Knight
PLEZZ ask when they are going to master getting rid of those imposters who send me emails everytime I make a transaction on Paypal. There's a glitch in the system. How do these other dudes know everytime I use it? Thanks!
- Judy Martin
When will I be able to use my phone to make payments at stores and vending machines? What's with the ridiculous fees?
- Nitin Gupta
from iPhone
When are Paypal going to launch a fully fledged payment solution app for the iPhone?
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
How about, What is it like not being able to communicate with your customers via email?
- Kevin Gamble
I really miss the old "Palm" to "Palm" transmission of funds...
- Chris Abraham
+20 for suggestion by @SoMuchMoreThanAMom
- Bill L
Also, how about improving the navigation for merchants--2003 called and they want their website back!
- Bill L
Kind of a general q: What are they currently doing and how do they deal with it when people try to game the system?
- wiredgnome
from iPod
any plans for paypal POS systems:)? hey I want to use my email to pay at a grocery store!
- Kiran Patchigolla
from Nambu
How many users are using their tokens to authenticate? What are they doing to make more users aware of their existance? When will they offer these single use "credit card" numbers in Germany/outside of the US?
- Holger Eilhard
from iPhone
"Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?": Of interest to those researching Open Access: One of our Har.. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node...
Only had a chance to skim through it. Pull-quote "Eliminating academic copyright also seems feasible from a political perspective because of its likely endorsement by universities, academics, and students. One would expect universities to support abolition of copyright because of their general desire to promulgate knowledge, their wish for faculty to be able to assemble teaching...
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- Graham Steel
"I suggest that a change in law may therefore be needed to end academic copyright if that goal is sought." There was a time when *anything* produced with public dollars was in the public domain. It wasn't that long ago. We need to go back...
- Kevin Gamble
Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don’t have Internet Explorer 6 installed on my computer, so I can’t verify this first hand, but illogical it seems not and a simple Twitter search shows multiple people confirming the news. Heck, some are even downright ecstatic over the news.
- Shey
from Bookmarklet
What!?!? You mean that I won't be able to watch my videos with my Netscape Navigator Gold any more. That is bull shit! If I can still see google with it, every web site should support it.
- Wizetux
Although we can all debate about watching Youtube at work, I thought I remembered seeing something that said that IE6 still had a very considerable share of the browser market recently, mainly from corporations that didn't want to bother upgrading to IE7/8. I wonder if this will spur any of them to upgrade. :)
- Bryan Zirkel
That's probably very true Bryan. And it probably won't make a difference since it's hard to present a business case for why you should be allowed to watch Youtube videos at work. :P
- Shey
I was about to say the same, Shey ... IE6-bound IT admins will probably rejoice at this news since for all practical purposes YouTube will be blocking itself
- LANjackal
these are situations that call for about 10 like buttons. liking once just isn't sufficient.
- chrisofspades
From the article: "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
An interesting read. Rolling Stone tends to have quite the slant, of course, but I find some of their longer essays compelling.
- Louis Gray
"But Lucovsky may be best known for the role he played in a complete and utter meltdown that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once had. As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge. “Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room. What he apparently said next, will live on forever in Internet history. “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”"
- Roman
from Bookmarklet
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010."
- Igor Sereda
from Bookmarklet
Android allows apps. Chrome OS only allows browser.
- Alexei
But they've already told there's gonna be overlap.
- Alexei
Как раз в этом случае я их понимаю - сущности разные. Это нам-то понятно, что очень похоже внутри будет - а целевой аудитории говорить, что операционка для телефонов работает и на ноутах?
- Alexei
Ну я думаю иначе - с точки зрения промоушна они правы, разводят ЦА по разным каналам, даром что куча общего кода будет. Так у них и с телеприставками тоже куча кода общего - линух как-никак...
- Alexei
Тоже правильно. Хотя с точки зрения упрощения техсаппорта - мечта идиота.
- Alexei
Кстати, они говорят, что там хром будет работать на ядре Линукса, а это значит, что выход браузера хром под линукс уже вот-вот.
- Artem
А я правильно понял, что пока мысль дистиллируется до "напишем оконный менеджер и запускатор браузера"?
- seliv
"With YouTube and other video sites serving up over a billion streams a day, it’s beyond contention that web-based video is not only mainstream, but has become fundamental to the web experience. Why, then, is a huge majority of web video in a wrapped in a proprietary Flash candy coating — essentially making Adobe the gatekeeper of video content? It’s worked okay so far, but it’s hardly a fertile ground for innovation, not to mention the fact that Flash is a real dog on OS X and any kind mobile browser (if it’s even supported)."
- Sets Turan
from Bookmarklet
"Participants to the sneak preview of 'The Ledge,' stand on the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
I'd do a poopoo in my pants but I would do it...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Good stuff. Also: try being on the engineering team at shipping port and having to climb all over 100m cranes (did in 2006). You'll grow an extra pair
- LANjackal
I think I'd go out on it. Maybe. Looks pretty awesome. Love seeing the little girl with no fear. Little kids would zip around fearlessly in jet packs if we had em.
- iTad
I think I would die if I stepped out on that, but I would try anyway.
- Rah-PM 2012
Bear with me a moment while I attempt to retrieve my scrotum from my abdominal cavity...
- Mark J
This is so awesome. I would kill to have something like that in Montreal
- Robert D'Alesio
If I want to fly or levitate I'll expose myself to cosmic radiation like anyone else
- Sean Reiser
You probably couldn't get me to go further than the 5th floor, let alone, the 103rd floor, plus out on a glass floor hanging over the city. Sorry Mr Wonka, but I'll take the stairs.
- Tim Young
I hope they keep a cleaning crew or a mop handy.
- George Brickner
*Gulp* I doubt I'd last even 2 minutes standing on that...
- Tyson Key
My tabby (who looks a lot like that cat, actually) has done similar. When she was very pregnant (meaning, she popped the litter a week later), she caught a full grown bird and brought it in the house.
- FFing Enigma
I know. Me neither. It's fascinating. Another reminder that we're harboring tiny little killers in our homes. Carnivores! rawr
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Whoa! That's wild. I have two cats - a 6 year old brother and sister dynamic duo we adopted 3 years ago. Their greatest joy in life is when "a fly" accidentally enters the house. The female cat (Miss Bootsie the Prancing Jewel) makes it her life mission to catch the intruder. They are too funny to watch in action...but nothing like catching a "bat." Way cool!
- Richard Trader
That is One Awesome Cat! We've had bats in the house a few times. Ours just sits there and follows with her head - like a tennis match.
- Karen Kay
hahah i love this!! that cat is amazing
- Susan Beebe
Hehe I agree, but one benefit I do see is that I can grab the PDF and put it on an iPhone/eBook reader easily for offline reading.
- Chu Yeow
Is there a clean way to sync ebooks onto the iPhone? I still use Stanza to share them via wifi and then get the iPhone to download them. Otherwise, I've started to use Instapaper more actively and it's very nice for offline reading (without images, etc)
- arunthampi
I use Discover and before that, Files Lite, to get files onto the iPhone. Both free, and u connect to them via wifi (WebDAV).
- Chu Yeow