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"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
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Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links
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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
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
© Time Inc. - Adewale Oshineye
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“Is there a new power law for social media? http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... says there is. Can you see it?”
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1. Almost everyone on this list rarely participates. - Robert Scoble
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
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jkOnTheRun:Why are MSI Wind netbooks crashing Apple routers?
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My AEBSn crashes whenever my wife opens a VPN connection from her Vista laptop to her workplace. - Paul Grav
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
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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
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YouTube - 濡らすねこ。
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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
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
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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
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Marc Canter posted an entry on Marc's Voice
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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
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mashable posted an entry on Mashable!
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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
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“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.”
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Doesn't that make it easy to include some Flash or QuickTime that exploits a plug-in to pwn your browser? - Gabe
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
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Cat Riding On A Roomba Vacuum
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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
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