Eddie LeBreton - Discussion

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

August 9 at 12:46 am - Link

"Hey Fred, This reminds me of a similar syndication/aggregation issue I currently have with Tumblr. I've emailed Tumblr support and Marco directly with this suggestion. Perhaps hearing it from you will get the ball rolling. I'd like for Tumblr to offer a second RSS feed that contains ONLY a users posts that are not imported from other sources (i.e. direct submissions to Tumblr and reblogs only). I'd use this feed to avoid double posting when syndicating my Tumblr activity to other all-encompassing social aggregators (primarily FriendFeed and Facebook), where I already import the feeds I throw at Tumblr (my blog, twitter, and select flickr photos). Due to this double posting issue, I DO NOT syndicate my Tumblr activity anywhere, which greatly reduced the utility of Tumblr and, likewise, my inclination to use Tumblr. This is a shame. Tumblr is a great service and I really appreciate the ease with which it allows you to share a variety of content. If Tumblr gave me a "Tumblr Only" version..." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Playing the race card (Scripting News)

August 4 at 10:20 am - Link

"Wait, I thought Sharpton had the race card... http://www.newsgroper.com/al-s......" - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton posted an entry on blog.efliv.com

Howdy

July 23 at 3:26 pm - Link

First post to blog.efliv.com. - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton published a review on Yelp

Esquires of Wall Street (4)/5)

July 23 at 2:54 pm - Link

"Great place. I've been going there for almost 4 years and they rarely disappoint. Good conservative, but not stuffy haircut. Ask for Steve." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Intense Debate

Feld Thoughts : Glue and Comments

July 22 at 9:57 am - Link

"That's a great feature for intensedebate. One question: with Facebook emulating FriendFeed's imported items commentary feature, will intensedebate (or Disqus) be able to pull those comments as well, or are they blocked by the Facebook wall?" - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton posted a message on Twitter

“Bracing myself for the onslaught of Twitter/Summize commentary...”

July 15 at 9:10 am - Link

Carter Rabasa liked this

No kidding... although I actually am disappointed. Once upon a time I thought Summize might be useful for searching ALL microblogging services (providing something short of pure federation). Now? All Twitter, all the time. - Carter Rabasa

Agreed. But I think their opportunity is/was greater than just microblogging. What about comment searching of Disqus/Intense Debate? Also, Summize search is not a perfect substitute for Twitter's old "Track" feature. Has Twitter given up on Track? - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: cubanlinks - Styling Your FriendFeed Badge

June 27 at 10:54 am - Link

"Where'd you find the CSS tags for editing the widget? I can't find them on the FF site." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: What is whoisi.com? (Scripting News)

June 27 at 9:05 am - Link

"Interesting site indeed. Given it's anonymous, wiki design, I'm interested to see if certain personalities get associated with negative search terms, for example "dickhead," "arrogant bastard," "douche," etc. It will also be interesting to see if the community reinforces these terms or keeps the profiles clean. One could create a sister service for monitoring and cleaning up their crowd-sourced online profile. I wonder if changes to a user's "alias" set will be included in the RSS feed, once it's inevitably added to the profile pages." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Losing A Phone - A Social Media Security Breach?

June 26 at 10:03 am - Link

"This is exactly why I use a pin on my iPhone. I originally used it when traveling to Spain & Portugal, worried that if the phone was lost/stolen, I'd be forced to pay some hefty roaming fees. Once I got back to the States, I decided to keep the pin. I've stored far too many passwords in the browser to feel comfortable leaving it unlocked. Friends laugh at it, but at least it's secure." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Losing A Phone - A Social Media Security Breach?

June 26 at 10:03 am - Link

"This is exactly why I use a pin on my iPhone. I originally used it when traveling to Spain & Portugal, worried that if the phone was lost/stolen, I'd be forced to pay some hefty roaming fees. Once I got back to the States, I decided to keep the pin. I've stored far too many passwords in the browser to feel comfortable leaving it unlocked. Friends laugh at it, but at least it's secure." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton posted a link

"It's one one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt, for one moment, the capacity of the people he's leading to realize whatever he's dreaming."

June 26 at 7:44 am - Link

- Benjamin Zander, TED 2008. I wanted to tweet this but it was too long. Sometimes 140 characters just isn't enough. - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton shared an item on Google Reader

David Karp Provides Tumblr Business Update (video)

June 25 at 9:37 am - Link

Nice explanation of Tumblr's past, present, and future (though most of the future portion was cut off). - Eddie LeBreton

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Google Drives Towards Microsoft and Adobe With Gears

June 13 at 2:08 pm - Link

Vijayendra Mohanty, Robert Scoble, Kunal Malhotra, Brian and 2 other people liked this

great article..! - ricardo valle

Left this comment on techcrunch.com, looks like the conversation has left the site, maybe FriendFeeder's have some thoughts: So, I understand how open-sourcing the next application platform (online and off) will harm MSFT, but I don’t fully understand the upside for GOOG. Where is the revenue from this? Will these apps rely on Google’s advertising platform? How do you serve ads when the user is offline? To be clear, I like the move and think open systems are great for developers and users, but I just don’t understand how killing MSFT and ADBE’s platforms will generate cash for GOOG and its shareholders. Is this just an altruistic move by GOOG for the good of the net? Are they simply trying to harm MSFT as much as possible? Or is there a revenue play that I’m not seeing? I’m interested to hear thoughts on that - Eddie LeBreton

Me think Google just making some noise to keep itself relevant. They make so many initiatives but unfortunately very few of them work. Maybe we are really fortunate I definitely do not trust Google when it comes to data portability. Have you even tried talking to a Googler? Their are in a class of their own! Talk about Anti-Social. If Google wants the Internet Globle Village to trust them, they need to open themselves up to the community and stop building walls around themselves! - Igor The Troll

"Google does no Evil." What a bunch of Bologna! I hope Google is a big FAIL. - Igor The Troll

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“quick question. Are there any books you love so much you re-read them every couple of years? Catch-22 is like that for me.”

June 15 at 4:33 am - Link

Kishore Balakrishnan, thomas elton, Adam Kazwell, Andreas Matern and 29 other people liked this

"I'm working on that", "The Sum of all Fears" and "Contact" - Kunal Malhotra via twhirl

Ulysses by James Joyce. I have read it and then used it as a travel guide on my journeys to Dublin. - Baard (not bored)

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"Foucault's Pendulum" - Marc Dierens

J.D. Salinger - "Franny and Zooey", "For Esmé with Love and Squalor", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". - Bryan Landers

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Greg via twhirl

"The 7 Habits", one of Tom Clancy's books, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "Enigima" - Roberto Bonini

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Keeps everything real. - David Bausola via twhirl

Shogun by James Clarvell - read it at once a year- been doing it from about 87 :)- - Peter Dawson

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. - Timo Heuer

Pride and Prejudice - Mary Anne Davis

The Stranger, Albert Camus - Pedro Fonseca

Definitely "1984" - Jeremy Felt

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Dan Barrett via twhirl

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America http://www.amazon.com/Funny-Fa... - alireza

yellow wallpaper (charlotte perkins gillman), my life and hard times (thurber, hillarious) mark twain and o henry essays/stories - washwords via twhirl

Dune - Doruk

"Nothing, and so be it" by Oriana Fallaci can't help re-reading it almost once every year ...besides a few other titles by her - Selma

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, http://books.google.com/books?... - Dave Winer

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy" by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1998) - Yung-Hui Lim

"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain - caleb phillips via Alert Thingy

Still life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins, for me. - Zio Bonino

Hackers by Levy, The Marketplace by Antinou, Atlas Shrugged by Rand, a whole bunch of short Sci-Fi I read for fun... my reading mix is a bout 15% re-reads - Soulhuntre via twhirl

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis - Rubin Sfadj via twhirl

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and Leadership by James MacGregor Burns - petermello via Alert Thingy

Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoï - directeur

the alexandria quartet by durrell - ryan via fftogo

Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins. - Jack Baty

The Guns of August by Tuchman - Tim Wright

A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell - Edd Dumbill via twhirl

Godfather - Kfir Pravda via twhirl

and "story" - Kfir Pravda via twhirl

I don't usually read books twice. Exceptions: Vonnegut's Player Piano, Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land. - AJ Kohn

Plutarch's Life of Alexander The Great (Loeb Edition, parallel translation) - Phil Gomes

"To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Grapes of Wrath", & Stephen King's "The Stand" - Steve

"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman - Sean McBride

Pride and Prejudice, Wrinkle In Time Trilogy, Atlas Shrugged - Chinkerfly via twhirl

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - Thomas B

Several actually. "Lord of the Rings", "The Foundation" Trilogy, "The Alchemist", Lots of Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde - Deepak

'new' books I may read again: Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Atwood's Blind Assassin and Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (a must read). - AJ Kohn

Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter, 3 times so far and I still don't grasp half of it. - Jack Carlson

I don't regularly read books twice but this is a great list of reads. - Ole Begemann

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Peter Stathakos

I have Ian Fleming's James Bond series that I have to re-read every so often. - William Beem

Christine, The Shining, and Pet Sematary; though since my daughter was born (2yrs ago) i really haven't read anything... - Jeremiah Palmer via twhirl

Midnight's Children - amazing the plot Rushdie weaves in that book - Rishabh Manocha via twhirl

W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge." - Christopher Harley

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh and Cricket in Times Square! - Chris Ridenour

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. He wrote 11 books before he died and there's a ghost-writer working on finishing the last book in the series. It's like Tolkien without the provincial thinking or petty chauvinism but with a dash of the Manichean heresy - Adewale Oshineye

Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series of sailing books... - Glen Campbell

The Deep Space Nine - Millenium trilogy is quite high on my list of books I like to read every couple of years. - Horst Gutmann

if the book is a resident on my shelf there is a strong chance I've read it multiple times and will do so, if I have nothing else to read, I'll simply grab one... the one book that I read the most is probably Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.... - nick carrasco

Many! William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” is a silly book which I keep coming back to. “The Gorilla Game” with Moore, Johnson, and Kippola is another. - ivanandersson via Alert Thingy

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell - always makes me want to go out and change the world. - Peter Dean

The Stand, E. T., Gone With The Wind, I'm With The Band, Helter Skelter, On The Night You Were Born, Thirteen Days. - Michelle Trent

animal farm. Simple and short read but it is such an amazing commentary on life and power that I read it every few years. - Pedram

Hate to do a "me too", but Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Player Piano. Also Fahrenheit 451. - Joanmarie

J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey", Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, and Tad Williams' Otherland series - Michael W. May (Joffi) via twhirl

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Beautiful. Inspiring. Makes me miss NYC so much. - Abby Martin

I second the asimov foundation trilogy, never get's old - Chris Jones

Hitchhiker's guide to the gallaxy - Douglas Adams - Siddharth Mitra

sun tzu - the art of war - Gautham Gauruv Maediratta

dune - ahmet bulent

Confederacy of Dunces. As a native New Orleanian, it captures the city perfectly. - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Intense Debate

Feld Thoughts : I'm Done With Private Beta

June 12 at 9:25 am - Link

"Honestly, Brad, as a long-time reader I enjoyed the post, but when I step back it just looks like a semantic argument to me. As Web 2.0 continues to evolve, so will the lexicon. True, there is ambiguity in the phrasing at the moment, but I imagine it will sort itself out and, even if it doesn't, I doubt anyone is being misled by the disparate use of "alpha,""beta,""limited beta," etc." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced

June 4 at 1:42 pm - Link

"Agreed that the only way to scale local is with user generated content. There's simply too much data for a central body to produce. Along the same lines, I've always thought that Facebook is really missing the boat here. I use Yelp occasionally and it's great, but Facebook (for now, at least) owns my social graph and those are the users who will generate the most significant local content/reviews/information for me. We all know Beacon flopped because of privacy issues, but I think it also flopped because Facebook went after brands when they should have attacked local, small businesses. I realize that's a much more difficult market to corner, but I'd much rather know that a couple of my buddies love a certain Indian joint in the East Village over the fact that they used Blockbuster Video a few times. I'm not really sure if this addresses your point on aggregation vs. production (perhaps it does in that FB's ownership of the graph could be used to create personalized aggregations of..." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced

June 4 at 1:42 pm - Link

"Agreed that the only way to scale local is with user generated content. There's simply too much data for a central body to produce. Along the same lines, I've always thought that Facebook is really missing the boat here. I use Yelp occasionally and it's great, but Facebook (for now, at least) owns my social graph and those are the users who will generate the most significant local content/reviews/information for me. We all know Beacon flopped because of privacy issues, but I think it also flopped because Facebook went after brands when they should have attacked local, small businesses. I realize that's a much more difficult market to corner, but I'd much rather know that a couple of my buddies love a certain Indian joint in the East Village over the fact that they used Blockbuster Video a few times. I'm not really sure if this addresses your point on aggregation vs. production (perhaps it does in that FB's ownership of the graph could be used to create personalized aggregations of..." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: A Commenter’s Rights

May 30 at 6:41 am - Link

"All of this sounds great to me, with one exception: point c in the blogger's rights: "c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent" As a commenter, I don't like the idea of a blog owner editing my own thoughts, whether those edits are transparent or not. Perhaps I feel this way because I can't think of a good example where this would be needed and I'd welcome some examples. In my opinion the blogger should have a boolean decision to include the comment or not, but not to edit it. Further expanding, maybe disqus could make this a setting in the user's profile, something like 'allow editing of my comments by blog owner y/n.' Keep up the good work." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: A Commenter’s Rights

May 30 at 6:41 am - Link

"All of this sounds great to me, with one exception: point c in the blogger's rights: "c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent" As a commenter, I don't like the idea of a blog owner editing my own thoughts, whether those edits are transparent or not. Perhaps I feel this way because I can't think of a good example where this would be needed and I'd welcome some examples. In my opinion the blogger should have a boolean decision to include the comment or not, but not to edit it. Further expanding, maybe disqus could make this a setting in the user's profile, something like 'allow editing of my comments by blog owner y/n.' Keep up the good work." - Eddie LeBreton

Rooms Feedback: Eddie LeBreton posted a message

“Is it possible to add an RSS feed to a FriendFeed room? I created a room for the New Orleans Saints and want to add a feed from the local paper.”

May 23 at 8:14 am - Link

Rafael Robayna, Voyagerfan5761, Mitchell Tsai, Lisa and 2 other people liked this

Nice. I will add the room to my list. I created one for the New Orleans Jazz Festival as well. - Mathew A. Koeneker

That's a feature I would like to have too. - Morton Fox

I think they should also give the room Administrator options on how the room uses feeds, i.e. let them choose to allow feed additions by anyone, approve suggested feed additions from the room members manually, open feed additions up to a vote by the room members, or only allow them by the Administrator. - Eddie LeBreton

Dave Winer posted a link

Play thiis when Twitter is down. (There's no words there!)

May 20 at 12:40 am - Link

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the original tape was stronger in showing the anger - pixites

Hahahaha really good actually. And funnier than I expected. - Rex Pechler

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whoa. "max headroom" flashbacks. - Brad McCrorey

That was great! - Angsuman Chakraborty

I love the pencil throw at the end. - Drew Lucas

very funny! good find - acedanger via twhirl

Has any service been able to keep standing after all those falls? - David Álvarez

hehehe. nice! - kosso

I find it amazing that BillO knows exactly how it feels when Twitter goes down! - Dave Winer

Somewhere Philo T. Pharnesworth is pissing himself. - Tom Landini

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: It's Not The Data, It's The Flow

May 18 at 6:06 pm - Link

"This fits nicely with the way I've always thought about Facebook. It's not so much a technology but a willingness, a willingness of it's users to fork over their social network to a third party. However, once people are wiling to give up their info to one site, they won't think so long when forking it over to the next. Whether the user re-enters the data or the new service scrapes it from FB doesn't really matter. It's what you do with the data that matters. I think Facebook broke that mental hurdle for most people and is riding the wave but, like globalization, once the cat's out of the bag you can't put it back in. Also like cats, the willingness of people can be difficult to herd. (One might argue that friendster or MySpace broke the barrier first. To that I say, whatever happened to the former and that the latter groups people around common interests and personal, fantasy posturing, while Facebook has gathered a more accurate picture of the graph, i.e. people's real world..." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: It's Not The Data, It's The Flow

May 18 at 6:06 pm - Link

"This fits nicely with the way I've always thought about Facebook. It's not so much a technology but a willingness, a willingness of it's users to fork over their social network to a third party. However, once people are wiling to give up their info to one site, they won't think so long when forking it over to the next. Whether the user re-enters the data or the new service scrapes it from FB doesn't really matter. It's what you do with the data that matters. I think Facebook broke that mental hurdle for most people and is riding the wave but, like globalization, once the cat's out of the bag you can't put it back in. Also like cats, the willingness of people can be difficult to herd. (One might argue that friendster or MySpace broke the barrier first. To that I say, whatever happened to the former and that the latter groups people around common interests and personal, fantasy posturing, while Facebook has gathered a more accurate picture of the graph, i.e. people's real world..." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton shared an item on Google Reader

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

May 7 at 1:57 pm - Link

I don't want this, I NEED this. - Eddie LeBreton

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“Went shopping for stocks earlier today and bought some S&P500 and Russell2000.”

May 4 at 9:01 am - Link

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Long live index funds. - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Intense Debate

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Wind Power Potential

April 30 at 12:14 pm - Link

"Does anyone know where to get a similar map for solar suitability?" - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Intense Debate

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Wind Power Potential

April 30 at 9:45 am - Link

"Nice. Thanks." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Intense Debate

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Map of Entrepreneurs Around the U.S.

April 25 at 10:07 am - Link

"Interesting, but it would be cool to see this by city, rather than state. For example, Austin, TX has a ton of entrepreneurs but given the population of Texas, it doesn't stand out." - Eddie LeBreton

Eddie LeBreton commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

April 23 at 8:20 am - Link

"Sounds like there was a lot of good, live music last night. The Tokyo Police Club show at Bowery was killer, as well. Great young band from Canada if you haven't heard of them yet. http://hypem.com/search/tokyo%... http://www.flickr.com/photos/e......" - Eddie LeBreton

Carter Rabasa posted a message on Twitter

“@efliv FriendFeed: Part 1 - http://tinyurl.com/5dp4tk”

April 4 at 1:10 pm - Link

Just left you a comment on your FF Part 1 post. - Eddie LeBreton

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