“just finished watching greatest american dog w/ my two dogs (after we got back from a mtb ride) they were fascinated by it - very fun dog/owner reality show”
mine likes animal planet too & the jack russell knows when a dog will be on a commercial just by the intro music - so funny to watch her :) - mike "glemak" dunn
a jack russell with the attention span for tv is truly unique. Teagan you are something. - Peter Troast
well she does bark & paw at the tv when she doesn't "like" a certain dog, just like in the real world ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
my jack just scratched my 65" because of the geico gecco. He hates that damn thing, and I was in the kitchen. Couldn't stop him in time. - shaun mclane
ouch, yeah mine tries to scratch ours (both hd's) & she hates the gecco too, can't fault them on their taste there ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
@marcel, not sure if you were replying to me, but I am just pointing out that these "pay to play" rumors are everywhere. - Rob Diana
Rob, I was referring to Jasons Tweet. such an accusation ins nonsense. these "big names" ar all bloggers. no one in their right mind would ask them to use their site for payment. it just takes one to blog about this and everyone is in deep trouble. and that's just one argument. I smell envy btw. ;) - marcel weiss
Just asking a question. not starting a rumor. - Jason Goldberg
marcel: chill jason/rob: its a viable question of course but the way friendfeed is setup makes it somewhat irrelevant and thus not part of a good business model - both socialmedian & friendfeed are opt in subscription filter based services - so no matter how many perceived "big names" use it folks still need to sub/follow/filter for them which just wouldn't scale enough to positively effect adoption - bottomline: if i saw this in a business plan i'd give it a negative mark as poor use of funds :-p - mike "glemak" dunn
No, but I hear they're paying them to push Twitter over capacity ;-) - Rubin Sfadj
rubin: funny - but that would be identi.ca if so, ff is a different beast than twitter ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Hey all -- sorry if this came across as negative. I actually think it is a viable early-adopter/influencer strategy. Huff Post does this very well and has built their entire site around their contributors. I had heard from a couple of folks that FF might be doing this and thought it was worth asking the community if anyone had any such knowledge. I have nothing wrong with it (although it should probably be disclosed). Anyway, sorry if got anyone riled up -- was just thinking out loud. - Jason Goldberg
very cool social search evolution, but like sellers on eBay over time you will severely disadvantage new sites with no rating - George Lee via twhirl
Those kind of ratings are often open to abuse and misuse - Sally Church
Intrigued by the option of saving my own comments. Anyone know how many characters fit in those comment boxes? - Noah Sussman
Google must have a solution to control abuse - Seth Garrison
I agree with Sally. This looks like it's making it too easy to abuse the search results. From the video I noticed that there were comments from "Unknown" users. If it's THAT open to editing, it's definitely going to be a spam-magnet. Let's wait and see... - Ricardo Vidal
over time an interface like this would really disrupt SEO efforts. - AJ Kohn
It will be interesting to see how reliable these signals are. I know in the early days when the smiley face and frown face were available in the toolbar, there was some debate about whether those ended up having an inverse reliability. Meaning, spammy sites were being voted up by the spammers themselves. - Sacca
I liked it the first time they called it Digg - adolfo foronda
i don't understand the logic of allowing people to vote items down, on DIGG or anywhere else. it just allows for gaming the system. if you only allow voting up, it's much harder to badly manipulate results - Alensa via twhirl
everything that would add humane inteli. to the search results refinements (and therefor reduce SEO manipulations to minimum) will be great. - Naor
Instead of SEO manipulations we'll see marketing manipulations. - HollowMarkeD
Provided that spamming/gaming can be combatted this is a great idea. Think Mahalo with the restrictions: human search filtering but with all the rest of the results available as well. Not just an arbitrary selection based on limited opinion but a socially filtered list. It has big potential. - Colin Walker via fftogo
I've been wondering how Google would approach social search, and it looks very interesting indeed - all the features I would expect seem to be in place...totally agree with all other comments re: gaming though! - Iain Baker
It looks useful and is a decent progression for search - jon
not happy about this.... a search engine should not be a democracy - Noah David Simon
I can't imagine this fully rolled out. Too much invested already in 'quality' returns - Charlie Anzman
this works at a twitter or ff scale, but can it scale to Google search scale? Google already uses a popularity based system, this is just adding another popularity metric. - Brad Collins via twhirl
I just finished the first chapter of the excellent Scott Kelby book. It says: "If Your Photos Aren't Sharp, the Rest Doesn't Matter". Apparently I do just about everything wrong. I feel like I wasted the last 2 years (of taking pictures, that is). I almost got the fireworks right this past 4th, having followed Kelby's how-to, but I did not think about turning IS off on the lens when shooting on the tripod. While the fireworks were bright enough and exposure short enough (3 sec) for the vibration not to matter too much, I was amazed at the waves the perfectly stationary city lights made on my 8-15-second test shots when the camera was on the tripod. - Alexei Tolkachev via Bookmarklet
Pop-quiz compliments of Mr. Kelby. What aperture should you shoot at for the sharpest photos? The smallest the lens will go? Like f/22 or something? Wrong. According to Scott, it's usually two full stops down from wide open. So if your lens is f/2.8 the sharpest aperture is between f/5.6 and f/8. I suppose I could have figured out the IS on a tripod "gotcha" on my own. But how am I supposed to know stuff like this? - Alexei Tolkachev
I've read a couple of Scott Kelby's books. His writing style is clear and easy to understand, with a little humor thrown in too. I can't speak to this book directly, but if it is anything like his Photoshop & Lightroom books, it should be an excellent choice for beginner to intermediate photographers. - Jeff P. Henderson
Alexi: this is a well-known feature of optics. I learned that in high school from my high-school photography teacher. Lenses generally will be 30% sharper when stopped down two to three stops from wide open. But turning off IS? I forget to do that sometimes too (on video). It's amazing when you see things shaking while you are on a tripod. - Robert Scoble
Another top book I would recommend any photographer to read is Understanding Exposure (http://www.amazon.com/Understa...) It's fantastic and was one of the first books I read when getting into this. I actually go back to it from time to time as well. - Nigel Cooke
Nothing worse than coming back from shooting sunsets in Hawaii with results of about 5% good pictures to read Kelby tell me in 2 minutes how to do it better. On the other hand, I got at least one sunset on my own that was good enough to blow up to 20x30 for my wall. - David Thomas
Nigel, funny how Amazon lists "your" book and "my" book as "Frequently Bought Together". I guess that's a vote of confidence on their part, no? Thanks for the tip. - Alexei Tolkachev
Robert, I guess I feel better - about the IS-induced shake. My problem is I almost never shoot on a tripod. Scott's recommendation goes: "In a place that won't allow you to use tripod, do this..." It appears he can't even conceive of a photographer who voluntarily forgoes this most basic (in his book) of necessities. No pun intended. - Alexei Tolkachev
HAHAAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA best video ever! here we are trying to get 82,000,000 friends on facebook and these people don't care about real friends :) - Allen Stern
The other great reality show cliche is when they say "I won't talk behind your - I'll just say it straight to your face". Brutal honesty is not always a good thing ;-( - jeremy ettinghausen
Still crackin up over the title of this as it appears to people on FF. When you first read it, you're like WTF!? - Andrew Baron
This kind of a meme is called a "Supercut" a re-edited run like this full of a single phrase. A common type of supercut will include the same actor or person saying the same words over and over throughout a film or series of films and appearances. - Andrew Baron
Adam, it refreshes on its own. Likely an issue with Twitter's reducing API calls. - Louis Gray
its a really lovely peice of work imo. Actually makes twitter feel slick... - Zee from WeDoCreative
There isn't even a preferences pane for some reason so I have no idea how often it fetches my tweets. Other than that, I like the presentation alot. - Adam Helweh
No preferences??? I think I'll stick with Hahlo and Fluid. - Parvez Halim
It's cool but they need to integrate some more features. But still awesome - Timo Heuer
Its a great start. Not even 1.0 yet. Group idea is great. ( Loving the Digg/TRS group :P ) Integrated search is a plus. Also, the multi-line text field for inputting tweets is great. Wish Twitterrific had that. - Gary Bacon II
twitter say thank you to tweetdeck - finally you have become useful! (thanks to summize too! ;)) - Dieter Schwarz
Just installed it....it is twitterrific on steroids....love the summize integration - ....
The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author. :(( - Javid
:-" who want to send me the .air file ? :ِ - Javid
Javid I get the same error as well. - Mack Collier
Javid I had someone email me the file, and it worked fine. Also noticed that when I DLed the file, it was only 289KB in size, the ver I was emailed (that worked) was 476KB. - Mack Collier
Looking forward to further reviews about this. Looks promising. - Barbara K. Baker
Ok, I'm loving this so far. My #1 requested feature for Twitter is the ability to group/filter by classes of people. Thanks TweetDeck!! - Don MacAskill
I think the group feature is great. But, I'll only use it if it includes friendfeed. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
Can someone tell me why the same thing wouldn't work in Web app that was Gears-enabled? Just wanting to know. I hate having to have a run-time installed to do this crap. - mrshl
I am, hopefully, about to switch into a knowledge management role at work that will include some daily blogging. This is some really great information. - Sean Brady
Great info, just what I needed! Thanks, Chris! - Denise
Wow, great post! I've gotta re-share this... - Chris Thomson
The conversation on cnet's "indecent exposure" photo podcast is a little dry, but its also new. They dont quite have as much fun as buzzoutloud yet. And TPN - The digital photography show is making a comeback, after being down for a month or so. - InsaneNinja
I have just gone looking (briefly) for photography podcasts and settled on the two you are tired of. (I haven't checked them out yet.) I'd be interested to see what you think of the new ones. - J. McConnell via fftogo
I'm not tired of any. TWIP and PhotoNetCast are very good. - Michael Hocter
Ahh, good to hear. Sorry, I misread "growing fond" as "growing tired". I think I'm the one growing tired. Time for bed. - J. McConnell via fftogo
@J, I'll let you know what I think of the new ones after I've listened for a while. - Michael Hocter
I like the Lightroom podcast by George Jardine. It's not only Lightroom focused, but often has general interviews with photographers. http://rss.adobe.com/www/speci... or search "Lightroom" in iTunes Music Store. - Eugene Huo
Are there any photography podcasts in video format online anywhere? There should be more that are readily visible and easy to find. - Roney Smith
PhotoCycle is video and some of the stuff that This Week In Photography is in video. - Robert Scoble
I'm subscribed to Tips From The Top Floor. - Andre Heinrichs
I liked the large group dancing in the rain (in Montreal). - Clare Dibble
This video made me cry and laugh and feel a sense of great hope all at the same time. This video is amazingly beautiful. I wish I could've been there -- everywhere this took place. - April Buchheit
The wonderfulness of this video - amazing. @April, I'm completely with you on this. It shows that no matter where in the world, or what the differences may be, we all would rather just have fun and dance! - Vince DeGeorge
Super-like! I like watching all the videos in this series. It's great to see that he made another one. - possible248
video + April's comment = WOW. Thank you Adam & April. - Robert Seidman
This made my day! And my day's just gotten started. - Sean Hanna via twhirl
I find this particular interesting that matt was a level designer in the game industry prior to doing this. - Doug Brooks
Eeek, I forgot the hat tip! Thanks, Vinny (http://friendfeed.com/vinoaj) for clueing me into this video! I knew about Matt and had seen his prior dances around the world, but wasn't aware of his latest and awesomest piece :-) - Adam Lasnik
Glad everyone loved this as much as I did. I do firmly believe that -- on a related note -- if more people danced (or even just traveled) around the world, there'd be peace on earth :) And hey, do be sure to see Matt's site for other goodie
