Eckart Walther - Eckart + Friends

6 minutes ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

Aram Zucker-Scharff, Panayotis Vryonis and ageor liked this

"Use the Meraki Wall Plug to cover large indoor areas with unparalleled speed. Simply plug it in to existing wall outlets to expand your network." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

16 hours ago - Link

Peter Johnson, simonpure, Robert Scoble and 16 other people liked this

Why does Google disallow other search engines to crawl these images (via their robots.txt directive, which says Disallow: /hosted/images/ and Disallow: /hosted/life/)? - Philipp Lenssen

2 more comments

Philipp, ohhh :-( - Timo Heuer

Philipp good question. Is it "the world's information" or google's information? - Chris Lamprecht

Epoch is coming back. - Igor Poltavskiy

2 related entries from Chris Messina

rands posted a message on Twitter

“"The point is to love a thing"”

25 minutes ago - Link

Sam Pullara posted a message on Twitter

“I like the goog voice search but it would be amazing if I didn't have to run the app first and it always worked.”

1 hour ago - Link

Agree. Worked great for me in the quiet, but today with background noise it was awful. - Dion Almaer

Sean Flynn posted a message on Twitter

“just got my Amazon delivery. Say goodbye to Wii golf and hello to Tiger Woods '09!”

1 hour ago - Link

Robert Scoble posted a message

“Is there a new power law for social media? http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... says there is. Can you see it?”

2 hours ago - Link

Duncan Riley, simonpure, Matthew Bennett and 10 other people liked this

1. Almost everyone on this list rarely participates. - Robert Scoble

13 more comments

2. Almost everyone on this list is a popular blogger. - Robert Scoble

3. There is a definite tech bent to this list. - Robert Scoble

4. In the first 100 I see only a handful of names that I didn't know a year ago. - Robert Scoble

5. Most of the people on this list have been to at least one conference or event I've attended in past year. - Robert Scoble

And yet the most of use don't really care about them... http://www.ffholic.com/Entries... - Johnny Worthington

So, lessons? 1. it's hard to get onto the top of the popularity lists and wasn't made easier when a new service came out. 2. such lists favor people who network their behinds off at physical events. 3. Participation in FriendFeed helps you move up a little bit, but only if you are both very active and throw interesting content into FriendFeed (like, say, Mona). What else do you learn by looking at this list? - Robert Scoble

Johnny: well, you might claim you don't care about them, but in aggregate I see that most of us follow people who are already popular, not people who actually participate. Of course, since FriendFeed is, at top, an aggregator, just putting your RSS feeds into here is participation, I guess. - Robert Scoble

We do subscribe to them, because they are beacons. But you also have to weigh that list by the amount of 'active' users who subscribe to them. I know of at least 5 people who are members here on FriendFeed, who subscribe to most if not all of the top 20 yet never come on here. The core group is what matters. Those who are recognizable names will always get more follows, but the core of the group http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... is what drives it. Rankings are always skewed. - Johnny Worthington

I think part of this is that many people use FriendFeed as an aggregator. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via bTT

This list just looks like every top 100 for every mainstream (in tech) online service. It shows that in the main, the top 100 don't use friend feed but send feeds to it, I don't think that = participation, at all. - Kevin Dixie

Kevin: there is a participation effect, though. On Twitter Leo Laporte has twice the followers that I do, but not here. Why? The participation effect. I've gathered quite a few followers by participating here. - Robert Scoble

I agree - participation is key to any community see my example here (a userguide to my community) http://www.fuelmyblog.com/inde... Online has the very same rules as offline and glad you are showing that - Kevin Dixie

FriendFeed is far more of a 'community' than Twitter is, participating here counts for far more than almost anywhere else, however, participation (and how much you participate) is also a lot less visible here, in my opinion. FriendFeed (as a system) favors those who create content to import into the stream, not those who contribute to the community. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

The smart people (like you, Tina, Mona, and others) know better. The result is that being active on the community nets your rewards from the community itself, not the system. Is that a bad thing? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Kevin : I disagree, when you are sending feeds in FF, you are pointing at us, poor human, what you find interesting. I think this is a kind of participation. Robert is doing that very well (too well ?). The only exception is twitter for me. I find it very hard to follow a twitter conversation here on friendfeed. - Olivier CASTETS

Dave Winer posted a link

jkOnTheRun:Why are MSI Wind netbooks crashing Apple routers?

6 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

Chris White and Kevin C. Tofel liked this

My AEBSn crashes whenever my wife opens a VPN connection from her Vista laptop to her workplace. - Paul Grav

2 related entries from Dave Winer

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Infoaxe Records Your Browsing Sessions, Lets You Search Your Web History

Monday at 11:00 am - Link

Arnaud Fischer liked this

How did you like Infoaxe, Michael? Did you find it useful? Would love to hear your thoughts and any feedback. - Jonathan

Remember using Squid Proxy with referer enabled to record all the navigation graph, and it was on the "Web 1.0" or it was "Web 1.0.1"? - Sebastian Wain

@Sebastian: Thanks for the tip. Will take a look if its still live. Did it search the recorded content? - Jonathan

Erik Thatcher posted a message on Twitter

“I think I'm going to bring my other bike back here from NY. Need more bikes than @slonie”

1 hour ago - Link

Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world

2 hours ago - Link

abacab liked this

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Nate Silver embarrasses creator of HowObamaGotElected.com and exposes his deceptive push polling

1 hour ago - Link

Paul Buchheit posted a link

YouTube - 濡らすねこ。

2 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

Is this the video that Camilla was talking about? - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Paul, not sure but here's a video of the same cat charging a box repeatedly. http://bit.ly/4eoZpP - Jauder Ho

Andrew Baron posted a message on Twitter

“More Second Life snafu. Decided against running the episode. No desire to deal with SL anymore :/”

2 hours ago - Link

Morton Fox liked this

I don't hear much about Second Life anymore - Christian Burns

I feel sorry for companies that can't handle the basics. Kind of a waste of tech. Think Twitter being down all the time (it was about to kill a great technology, but they rose to the occasion as human's to fix). I also feel sorry for airlines that suck, they have so many regulations to deal with, it must be hard to keep everything running and people happy. Some companies have risen to the occasion. Second Life may need some special people to help keep it alive. Not sure what the deal is, but its broken. - Andrew Baron

Mike Speiser posted a message on Twitter

“What can the Pareto Principle do for you?: Don’t you just love those “aha” moments in .. http://tinyurl.com/679tox”

2 hours ago - Link

Atul Arora liked this

Erick Schonfeld posted an entry on TechCrunch

Thanks Twilio, No One Is Safe From The RickRoll Now

2 hours ago - Link

1 related entry from michael arrington

Jeff Bonforte posted a message on Twitter

“http://bit.ly/xobni Xobni new version available. Integrates Facebook, more LinkedIn, Hoovers, Y! Mail and more Skype. Xobni FTW! Get it now.”

2 hours ago - Link

Russell Beattie posted a message on Twitter

“I'm going to bed. Please tell all the other night owls I'm sorry.”

2 hours ago - Link

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Mark Cuban Can’t Help Himself, He’s Going To Fight The SEC In Public

10 hours ago - Link

Christian Burns and Helen Sventitsky liked this

I do wish Cuban the best of luck. We are rooting for you, its just that the Feds don't play by the rules. Fed Judges work AS the prosecution. - Christian Burns

Unlikely the SEC will fold. Cuban should remember the first rule of holes. - Cliff Gerrish

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Xobni Adds Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, Hoovers, And The Kitchen Sink

3 hours ago - Link

Spyros Papaspyropoulos and Nikos Anagnostou liked this

Xobni is great use it all day long - Craig Carignan via twhirl

1 related entry from Erick Schonfeld

Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

2 hours ago - Link

David Sifry posted a message on Twitter

“Hooray! Finally back at home in San Francisco. 2 weeks out of town is quite enough for me, thanks! Was in Dubai, Stockholm, Monaco, and LA.”

2 hours ago - Link

Marc Canter posted an entry on Marc's Voice

OpenID: technology or solution?

4 hours ago - Link

Cliff Gerrish liked this

I think OpenID needs to stop thinking that URLs are going to work. Skip that part of the workflow. - Cliff Gerrish

Cobblers, Cliff. URLs are the point of OpenID. If we can get people stuck in an email mindset to derive a URL, that's good for adoption, but OpenID means URLs are returned to the RP; that's how we get to the goodness of endpoints for richer data - Kevin Marks

2 related entries from Marc Canter

Russell Beattie posted an entry on Russell Beattie’s Weblog

Retweeting?

3 hours ago - Link

mashable posted an entry on Mashable!

Citysearch Integrates Facebook Connect and Enters Hyperlocal Review Race

4 hours ago - Link

Hyperlocal is cool but sometimes i think we are incredibly always looking justto things we know when we have tools like Google Earth thta let su explore the world. Read my post and vote my poll about it at: Google Earth, are we losing our imagination http://cdmwebguru.blogspot.com... - carlo de marchis

1 related entry from mashable

Offbeat Guides posted a message on Twitter

“Everyone here at Offbeat Guides will miss our college intern @gkoberger who is returning to school tomorrow. We love you, Greg!!!”

3 hours ago - Link

Tim O'Reilly posted a message on Twitter

“Ted Stevens: You might say he went down the tubes. http://snurl.com/5vapp”

3 hours ago - Link

Karoli and Brian Daniel Eisenberg liked this

He was right about the tubes, the internet is not at all like a big truck. - Cliff Gerrish

Massive, massive tubes. - Karoli

Tim O'Reilly posted eight messages on Twitter

“Retweeting @JOHNABYRNE: alternative view on a Detroit bailout by BusinessWeek columnist Shoshana Zuboff. http://is.gd/854q”

3 hours ago - Link

“Retweeting @josephflaherty: Some thoughts on the MIT Smart Mass Customization Seminar (http://is.gd/847x)”

3 hours ago - Link

6 more »

Chris Messina posted an entry on Get Satisfaction Activity for Chris Messina

Kristin, an employee of TripIt, replied to an idea Chris Messina shared in TripIt

3 hours ago - Link

1 related entry from Chris Messina

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Is it safe to allow embed tags with arbitrary "src"? (assuming allowscriptaccess=never) I've read claims that it is not, however facebook and myspace seem to allow it.”

4 hours ago - Link

Wayne, Morton Fox, imabonehead and 2 other people liked this

Doesn't that make it easy to include some Flash or QuickTime that exploits a plug-in to pwn your browser? - Gabe

2 more comments

That's what I'm wondering. I should also mention setting type="application/x-shockwave-flash". The question is if the browsers are reliable enough to only allow flash (and not quicktime) and if the flash sandbox is reliable enough to stop cross-site scripting. - Paul Buchheit

There are some flaws in various versions of Flash that allow malformed SWF files to execute arbitrary code on the client. - Gabe

I'm pretty sure the HTTP Content-Type overrides the HTML type attribute. This would make you vulnerable to things like Quicktime movies with HREF tracks. Also, older versions of Flash don't support the allowscriptaccess attribute, so even if you could rely on the type attribute, users who don't upgrade their flash plugin would still be at risk. - Laurence Gonsalves

Any idea how Facebook and Myspace safely embed flash Laurence? - Paul Buchheit

Kevin Rose dugg a story on Digg

Cat Riding On A Roomba Vacuum

4 hours ago - Link

Brian, Anthony Thompson, Arnaud Fischer and 14 other people liked this

LOL! I just wish my cockatoo wouldn't FREAK OUT whenever the roomba was on. I would be forever entertained if she would ride it. When I was a kid I used to collect remote controlled cars... I set up perches on them and would "torture" my cockatiels by making them ride around. I think the only reason they did was that they were too afraid to let go when the cars were moving. I used to build "ski lifts" for them as well from their cage to my canopy bed. - Lindsay Donaghe

Cool. Kevin U should hire the Cat, will make a great Digger! ;-) - Igor The Troll