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Where's Qik or Kyte for new iPhone now that iPhone does video (and is very good, by the way)? Let us know here:
Akshay Dodeja, Daniel Rowley, Susan Beebe and 8 other people liked this
Personally, I'm hoping for an app that allows uploading to Vimeo. But the realtime stuff would be cool too :)
- Brett Kelly
Hmm, good question.
- Manuel Arroyo
from PeopleBrowsr
12second.tv coming out shortly http://12seconds.tv/images...
- sam sethi
I would assume tied up in some sort of Apple and AT&T approval situation concerned around whether just Wifi or Wifi/3G should be allowed to be used. :)
- Tyler Brownfield
I'm sure they're furiously working on it... Qik's instant streaming video is a killer app, and I'm sure they're eager to take advantage of the better quality and performance of the 3GS
- Nathan Chase
@Brett: I'm waiting for Vimeo too. Love those guys.
- Cesar Torres
As far as I can tell from the docs, there's no API access to the video stream, just movie clips recorded in the Camera app. This means either these guys are using private APIs or some other method.
- Hunter Hillegas
Android can upload to YouTube and Picassa for pictures.
- James Hague
How does RedLaser work if you can't get raw stream access? Pre 3.0, the camera data was off limits I thought.
- Richard Goodwin
I don't know how RedLaser works - hopefully we get more info. You can get videos but after they are recorded... It may be that RedLaser is using an undocumented/private API and got through the approval process...
- Hunter Hillegas
From the screenshots, it looks like RedLaser may just instantiate the camera picker controller, take a shot and use that. That's fully supported (always has been for photos, now extended to video).
- Hunter Hillegas
The description says "no need to take a photo" for 12 digit bar codes, but you still have to for 13 digits. Suggests to me they are getting at a stream pre-processing and thus lower quality.
- Richard Goodwin
Qik is following up on the developments of the iphone. We are looking into making Qik work on the latest iphone. If we have any updates, our Qik users will be the first to know.
- Meng Kiat
Any cool Barcode Apps for iPhone? - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Warner Crocker, Roberto Bonini, C. K. Sample III and 4 other people liked this
I can see where the new macro focusing feature will come in useful. This is the barcode on the front of USA Today. Gotta find some cool new apps.
- Robert Scoble
Techcrunch posted this. I wish all these cool goodies were available on Winmo devices! Occipital Brings Seamless Barcode Scanning To The iPhone With RedLaser http://tcrn.ch/4FU by @erickschonfeld
- Perry Espardinez
I saw one earlier that takes advange of the new focus. Think it was called red laser? Don't hold me to that, can't check at the moment.
- Simon Wicks
The autofocus will help explode QR codes in the US. Other phones have had autofocus and barcode readers but never took off. iPhone makes the experience worth it.
- Luis
Redlaser only has 2/5 stars in iTunes.
- Stephen Heron
Redlaser. I'd imagine there will be lots very soon. I'd say delicious library will be next!
- Tom Tubbs
An app that uses http://en.barcodepedia.com/ would be very cool
- Phil Leggetter
But lets make sure this isn't limited to just finding the cheapest price/customer reviews. How about a look-up for the environmental impact of manufacturing the product? Employee-rights rating of the factory where the item was produced? How far is it from the factory to your current location?
- David Sky
TechCrunch just wrote up this RedLaser app http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- C. K. Sample III
They just lowered the price to $0.99 on this app b/c of the TechCrunch press...
- C. K. Sample III
Layers: A pick from this weeks MacBreak Weekly is a pretty cool app. Take screenshot and it places every single screen element as a separate layer in a Photoshop file. http://layersapp.com/
Ryan Cates, Kol Tregaskes, zsafwan and 11 other people liked this
I used this app to create this screenshot of Adium Beta and hide select other windows and elements on my screen. http://bit.ly/wAHg9 It works great!
- Adam Turetzky
Layers is great for editing but you can use Skitch for a Q&D free version if you just want a screenshot of a window...
- mjc
true there are easier tools for quick and dirty screen caps. If that's all you're looking to do this isn't your app. The cool thing about Layers is it's the only app that will let you remove individual menubar icons, or the dock or keep just one window in a specific app. It does this by taking every visual element on the screen and creating a separate photoshop layer for it allowing you manipulate them separately.
- Adam Turetzky
from IM
Top complaint about Kindle: too expensive. Amazon's solution: make an even larger, more expensive model for broke students.
1001 noisy cameras, Mrsth, Ladybug Heather and 50 other people liked this
Academic books are $60 to $120 each and weigh many pounds. If they can get even half of the academic books ported to the Kindle this is a big win for students, even though it is expensive.
- Robert Scoble
I can imagine universities giving Kindles to first-year students or at least offering them to students at a reduced cost. I don't think we'll see a huge reduction in the price of text books, because you will still be paying for publisher costs.
- Nathan Finley
My books from school had a lot of text marked in yellow or pink, to remember what was important. I think it would take a lot to get use to using the Kindle
- Asgeir
Asgeir - you can bookmark, highlight and annotate text in Kindle
- Jamie
scoble: are the text books free then?
- Riaz Kanani
@Asgeir It is really only a matter of a couple of years that students will have NOT known that Kindles and other readers haven't always been around. To them it will be a natural to tag, search, share, etc.
- Jim Espinoza
It really is expensive. And you know textbooks are still going to cost $100+ each.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
If the books are cut down to about half the price because of the kindle, every student will get one. I need to spend 200+ on books every quarter, and that's with buying used and looking for the best deal.
- robbie nakamura
the text books don't have to be *free*. if you spend $900 on textbooks a year (http://www.uspirg.org/higher-...), the Amazon textbooks just have to be 14% cheaper than the paper versions (saving you $126/year) for the Kindle DX to pay for itself after 4 years.
- Karim
good analysis here of why it's good for the publishers, too: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... basically, without printing and shipping costs, they can sell books at lower cost but with a higher margin. Amazon is trying to do to books what Apple did to music. :-)
- Karim
good point karim - ebooks are cheaper typically than books.. so could be good if text books see the same level of discounting
- Riaz Kanani
so what is going to happened to libraries, if books in the future is digital?. Perhaps one day we can rent a book and read it on the Kindle?
- Asgeir
The Kindle is still a novelty until it comes with colour and supports graphic novels/comics, with backing from Marvel and DC. And drops to about $199. Then they'll be flying off the shelves. As it is now it's an expensive gimmick. What amazes me about the DX is you now need two hands to read. Can't be long until the market is flooded with cheaper, smaller alternatives. Or more likely...
more...
- Shéa Bennett
Kindle should come in 2 flavors IMHO... Wireless G and EVDO. I already have sprint internet on my phone. I won't buy a kindle to pay for a connection I already have.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Students already have laptops: they need PDFs not another large device to lug. Physical books sell used @ 50% eBooks are new only
- Tyler Ham
My experience in the UK at least is that the ebook versions are not cheaper, can usually find printed ones heavily discounted. Although we can't actually get the Kindle, only other brands like Sony and have to buy ebooks from Waterstones or WHSmith. Will Amazon launch in UK soon?
- Steven Horner
from Nambu
I pay a $95 fee per class for e-books at the University of Phoenix - if I could get them on a Kindle, for half the cost (assuming a partnership between Amazon and U of P), I'd do it in a blink
- William Harryman
I'd love something that is, well, like a book. Small and foldable. I couldn't take this on the train to read. People are used to reading books why not design to feel like one. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazon is still only aiming this at the American market, once they go global, it will be quite a different story.
- chris demeyere
Is 500$ too much for being able to sit in the sun, save trees and finally read programming papers without code snippets getting messed up?
- Thomas Amberg
If my textbooks were available on a kindle... I'd pay up to a grand for one. The kindle is reusable from year to year... my text books... not so much. I pay just about two grand a year for text books.
- Joshua Schnell
Core texts are significantly cheaper in the UK, and unless you can resell on your core texts second hand (which you don't seem to be able to do with an electronic text in this case), it's going to be a difficult case to prove for the academic text in Kindle
- David Bird
you can resell a second-hand Kindle just like a physical book. :-) i'd guess that licensing on the DRM'ed books doesn't allow resale, but i can imagine a black market for those. how much would a freshman pay for a 4-year-old Kindle that already had every single textbook they were going to need in the next four years on it? :-) and what if the textbooks were already annotated with "this question will appear on the final" notes? NOW how much would you pay? lol
- Karim
Karim, that's genius. Could you imagine universities and colleges building them into their programs? Students would get a preloaded kindle with their course materials in 1st year. Man, that would be a game changer.
- Joshua Schnell
It's a no-brainer for all economic reasons laid out by many above commenters as replacement for dead tree textbooks. So only shoe to fall is MIT, UC Berkeley, CalTech and Princeton (above all- Bezos alma mater) to be part of a discount university marketing program launched by Amazon. Bring it on.
- Lisa thorell
iPanties: Slide to Unlock - http://www.facebook.com/ext...
Tanath, HealingBrush, Rick Cogley and 228 other people liked this
Too bad they're grannies.
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
No.
- Derrick
you call those grannies? Honey, you don't know grannies.
- Laura Norvig
Derrick honey, you are biased. ;) Laura - those are totally grannies!!
- Mona Nomura
Locks? I'm not sure I like the lock idea ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Look at where the slider is positioned, people!
- Mona Nomura
i like 'em.
- ♥patricia♥
You have a sexy, sexy granny Mona.
- Tad
Is it a worry that you had to call out the lock location? And as far as grannies go... they're alright :-)
- Rob Kramer
Where's the t-back version?
- AJ Kohn
those are plain ole' bikini underwear. These are granny panties: http://bp3.blogger.com/_svG_Pa...
- Laura Norvig
@Laurie, Oh man. Those are serious granny panties!
- ♥patricia♥
I'm thinking Mona likes the kind of underwear that covers her womanly bits with dental floss. [EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with that. I bet she looks smokin' in em.]
- Laura Norvig
+1 Laura
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Speaking as a heterosexual male, I think these are great.
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Partial to the floss ;-) and LOL @ Rick
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, you do seem to have the physique to be able to wear floss appropriately...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Or why where any at all?
- Charles Alden
HA! I didn't mean for myself!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I've always liked the bikini cut...
- matthew john ernisse
Charles: the seam in blue jeans can be quite irritating for some people, knickers help prevent that.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
With my luck I'd get the endless, spinning color wheel.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
instructions, pffft...i dont need no stinkin instructions!
- Carlos Ayala
++MVB!! LOL And Laura, those are horrific!
- Mona Nomura
OHHHHH SNAP
- Andru Edwards
*calls wife to ask if it's okay to "like" this*
- ha3rvey (business time)
from fftogo
Hahhahahha! Harvey!
- Mona Nomura
I'm surprised Apple wasn't like, NOPE SORRY. "Objectionable content." Lawsuit.
- Shawn Farner
Charles: Try riding a horse bareback while going commando. You'll become a believer (at least part time!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Wow, Gizmodo faked the model shot. That's dedication to your craft right there.
- invariant - farewell FF
Where's Leather Donut?...weighing in with his intuitive thoughts??? Myself: Granny nope :/
- sofarsoShawn
Me doing my LD impersonation: RAWR!
- ♥patricia♥
Me doing my LD impersonation: easy & easy access double RAWR!
- sofarsoShawn
Wow - I've seen this on a T-shirt, a doormat but THIS is awesome!
- BEX
Awesome.
- Sean Oliver
Bloomers = grannies
- Outsanity
Plus, if they were granny panties, shouldn't a grandmother be in the photo? lol
- Outsanity
1up Outsanity...but, ewwwww
- sofarsoShawn
For Shawn to say ewwww I am terrified of reading Out's comment. So I will not loolllll!
- Mona Nomura
You know you're going to... Your finger is just itching to click the more comments link, lol
- Outsanity
I can slide it with open arms. :)
- Alp
This beats all other iterations of the "slide to unlock" schwag...
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Out, I am not loll! You're freaky deaky dude. And you guys are all missing where the actual slider is positioned. Cha-Chiiiing!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, I know you are hinting at something so but I've been rubbing my screen for the last hour trying to work it out and all Ive done is worn a hole....what am I doing wrong?
- Threepwood
lollll!!!! Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahha!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
I love that people on this thread mimicked another user's comments. That is just so great. And Laura- those grannies are criminal.
- anna sauce
OK random comment, what is the nailpolish doing in the granny pants photo?
- anna sauce
Anna!! I didn't even look at the granny-roos Haha!
- Mona Nomura
notice how everything predicated with an "i" now a days....now iPanties...what's next...by golly?
- sofarsoShawn
iWin7? lolll!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
iAn Ziering started it!
- Joe Pierce
Its all nice but please get it off Celina Jaitley, she is yuck and she talks weirdly. Please photoshop it on someone else. Then I would enjoy it more. =P
- Faraz Mullick
supper :)
- Serkan URHAN
Mona these are not grannies, Laura's url was grannies. seriously!
- anna sauce
These are TOTALLY grannies!
- Mona Nomura
They dont' look granny like to me. I'm just sayin'
- Joe Pierce
whatever you call them they look good on her :)
- (jeff)isageek
@Jeff, yeah, but they'd look even better on her floor! Bah-dump, cha! Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
- Joey Gibson
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- yasin ghasemi
From what Kevin Smith told me, every woman has a pair of granny panties.
- Steven Perez
MONA WINS THE HOLY FUCKING SHIT AWARD!
- tehNewYear
I agree: NOT GRANNIES! SHEEEEESH!! I would call these normal undies :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
want
- Baard @ Pixum
Is there an API for that? ;)
- Jason Williams
Or just an Auto-Lock = Never setting ...
- Patrick Jordan
Aren't those things always permanently on Auto-Lock?
- Kittyburgers
This would sell AWESOME in the Chicks with D*cks/ Wangs demographic (hermaphrodites/pre or /during op Trannies) market, so as to jump the lines at sporting venues etc. & YES they ARE GRANNIES!
- sofarsoShawn
面白い。けど、パートナーがこれつけてたら大ウケしちゃって、Un-lockどころじゃなくなりそう（笑）。
- Sakurai.Catshop
それよりムードが・・・（汗）あはw お初です。萠と申します。てきとーによろしくです☆
- Mona Nomura
これをつけているときはok.のサイン……いや待て、そもそも下着を肉眼で確認できるときは、すでにStartしてるよな……？
- 椎出啓
椎出啓氏：だと思われますw
- Mona Nomura
@mona 初めましてです。monaさんのポストは、よくlikeされるみたいで、実はちょくちょくお見かけしておりました。
- Sakurai.Catshop
from fftogo
ありがとうございます！レス、いつでも大歓迎ですよー 日本語打つ機会あまりないしw てか最近日本語忘れ気味でヤバイです。かなーり・・・（汗）w
- Mona Nomura
With my luck, they'd be password protected.
- Robert Hafer
Mona, if these are granny undies, what exactly do you wear? lol
- Daynah
Anna, apparently the nail polish is there to give perspective on how giant the panties are. Full story (towards the bottom of this post): http://metalia.blogspot.com/2007...
- Laura Norvig
Liked 滑动解锁 裤衩 XD http://is.gd/x2pF
- sG
creative :-)
- Rick Cogley
@Mona - ウケる。これ見たらなんもできないね。
- Rick Cogley
@Mona: checkout http://ipanties.weebly.com. They are real!
- david braginsky
Croh's disease. http://ftcom.me/Gastro... Gastrointestinal issues can be overcome! Autoimmune, stomach pain, gluten
Ryan Cates liked this
another day another hustle.. if you love your hustle please understand how AWESOME u have it, if you don't, START changing shiz!
Ryan Cates liked this
no joke!
- Joseph Rueter
The DiggBar was just the beginning... - http://www.geekculture.com/joyofte...
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William Spaetzel, Dan McFarland, Aaron Draczynski and 16 other people liked this
funny.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't like toolbars, need I say more?
- Richard A.
Very funny.
- John D Reasor
@Richard: I don't like them either.
- LouCypher
I think it's for the old fashioned user ;-). For the modern user there's feedly :-)
- Richard A.
Yeah, that digg bar is annoying. I hate having to escape outta it to share on google reader.
- Blake Caldwell
for diggers like me, this is awesome.
- shaff
Follow for Good: Mashable’s #FollowFriday Favorites - http://mashable.com/2009...
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/openfor... has gotten 200,000 votes in a few hours and is running on Google App Engine. Cloud computing FTW.
Serkan Mutlu, Ric Johnson, Darren Heydon and 37 other people liked this
Aww. I did notice the /gwt/ segment of URLs in a bunch of the javascript right away (thanks Firefox/NoScript!) Thank you for confirming.
- Micah Wittman
It's also clearly spelled out in the TOS when you sign up for an account that Google is used for the poll, but the data belongs to whitehouse.gov. Pretty cool though.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Direct democracy 2.0. I like it.
- Adrian
Populism 2.0 I think, who cares if they use Google App Engine or RoR ?
- Sebastian Wain
Does Google have exclusive access to the information, at any level?
- LogEx
Interesting but how many people know about this. I do not see this in the main stream media. Maybe I am just missed it.
- Zach Scott
Sebastian, plumbers care about plumbing. They'd be wise not to be annoying about it (which is a fair point I think you were making), but they care with as much validity as a populous that cares about populism.
- Micah Wittman
WOW, that is awesome! :)
- Susan Beebe
sweet!
- Jenny Morman
Looking Into the Past - a set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Dave Gambrill, Nia, Daniel Rowley and 34 other people liked this
Awesome Flickr set: "Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. So far, all historical images have been available for free at the Library of Congress."
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
that is so cool.
- Trish Haley
That is an outstanding share, Rachel.Flickr was my all time first for "sharing" info site. It's like a museum of Art in your own home. A few years ago, I became a Flickr-holic. Hubby and I started photographing dandelions at 4am in the backyard and stuff...it brought us closer together - but made us realize photographers WE ARE NOT. True photographers astound me with their creativity & skill, and the way they capture beauty. Great set!
- Laurel Phelps LaFlamme
Wow. so simple. so awesome.
- Ted Roden
Laurel - thanks, I just love what I can find on Flickr. Ted - I'm with you. I love that he keeps his hand in them all as well. My favorite has to be this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Having the woman in there just adds so much.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I just purchased an iMac. This is my fist mac. What standard utilities do you install on a new mac/fresh install?
pastas9, Rick Powell, Laura Norvig and 41 other people liked this
Depends on what work you do with your new Mac.
- Rick Powell
Flip4Mac http://tinyurl.com/5jphmn and Perian http://www.perian.org/ to play certain embedded videos.
- Mark Czerniec
You must get Quicksilver and learn to use it...saves tons o' time and frustration.. i also recommend Growl, Onyx, TextWrangler, MPEG Streamclip (video app), GimmeSomeTune (ITunes app for lyrics, etc.) and Skype, just to get youstarted... That will $285.00 please. (HA!)
- Russell Wagner
Quicksilver (app launcher), Adium (instant messaging), twhirl (twitter/friendfeed), Firefox, Remote Desktop (for windows machines), Disk Inventory X (for finding space hogging files), Growl (for notifications)...that's what I have running now anyway ;-)
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
OpenOffice, Firefox, TweetDeck and AIR, SlingPlayer, iPhoto
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
I like Vuze better for torrents, and adobe air for air apps (Tweetdeck, GMDesk, FaceDesk, etc.) Whe you get really geeky, download SUN VirtualBox and run Linux distros (Winders if you must) stuff like that. Best stick to basics for a little while. iPhoto comes with the iMac. flip4Mac is great too.
- Russell Wagner
AppTrap. Free. Adds a function to the system that should already be there: When you put an app in the trash, it asks you if you want to delete the associated files as well. http://bit.ly/144Dj
- Rick Powell
errr utilities are already installed, so whatever else you need your iMac for, install away!
- sofarsoShawn
Jiggler
- Micah Wittman
perian is a must if you watch divx files
- Jason Dean
Awesome! I'll check all of those out. Thanks for the comments!
- Beau Liening
MagiCal, AppStop and Xee.
- Bill Sodeman
Perian, Quicksilver, Plex, Growl, Adium, Firefox, Adobe AIR
- Raman Ng
I also use Jumpcut every day (http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ - a clipboard copy/paste utility).
- Micah Wittman
Tofu is a small, interesting app for reading documents in eye-friendly columns http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/
- Micah Wittman
Smart reporter, applejack, mainmenu, neooffice, gimp, firefox
- Brian Bufalo
Skitch, Quicksilver, Dropbox, Growl
- Deepak Singh
VLC
- Paul Grav
Caffeine - http://lightheadsw.com/caffein... - Great for when you watch hulu or any long video.
- Jim Williams
Adium (http://adiumx.com/ a multi-services IM client), SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDu... for creating disk image of your internal drive) , Disco (http://discoapp.com layman disc burning tool)
- Vinko
recommended mac apps for switchers: http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008...
- muzo
Yellowdog Linux
- James W McGregor
Perian to play media files, Quicksilver to launch apps faster and easier, Textmate as text editor (scripting and stuff like that). Enjoy your new Mac. :)
- Baris Karagoz
Rather old post, but thought you might find some of the suggestions interesting: http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/blog...
- Vero Pepperrell
Application launcher quicksilver, and coffeine
- Erik Stripparo
from twhirl
Quicksilver is now Google Quick Search Box, Flip4Mac, Perian, Adium, Handbrake, Growl, Twitterific, Skitch, 1Password, boxee, RipIt.app, SuperDuper!, VLC player, Coconut Battery, iStat Pro
- Weldon Dodd
Why do you need to do that? It comes with vim.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Don't forget to install a simple image editor like Paintbrush(http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net) and Seashore(http://seashore.sourceforge.net)
- Edmund Tay
1password
- TranceMist
Thanks for all the comments! So far I've installed firefox, quicksilver, boxee, keepass, growl, and adium. I haven't had much time to install anything else yet though. I'm thinking about openoffice next. I also have to install my printer/scanner on there as well.
- Beau Liening
Oh. And I installed kismac.
- Beau Liening
Did you get I-Life? Its a great thing to have!
- orionstarr
Instead of OpenOffice, why not give NeoOffice(http://www.neooffice.org) a try...it is based off OpenOffice and is more Mac-like
- Edmund Tay
I've found that OpenOffice 3.0 for OSX is not yet as stable and robust as NeoOffice.
- TranceMist
I'll have to take a look at neo office.
- Beau Liening
At 1:22:53 of MacBreak Weekly #131 http://twit.tv/mbw131 Leo Laporte mentioned this thread yet neglected to mention Beau Liening http://friendfeed.com/oheresy who started the thread and Rick Powell http://friendfeed.com/homosup... who highlighted AppTrapp. I hate to split hairs, but we all have names and each of us have online personas that could use the mention. If anything, a...
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- Christopher Harley
Great list sofar. Some additions: Chax (http://ksuther.com/chax/), Evernote (http://www.evernote.com), Fluid (http://fluidapp.com/), Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/), Secrets (http://secrets.blacktree.com/), iStat menus (http://islayer.com/apps...).
- Peter van Teeseling
KCNScrew & Serial Box to get any application; pick and choose, they come out on the 1st & 15th
- sofarsoShawn
I am a Quicksilver dissenter, since it used to crash three or four times a day for me. Paid for Launchbar, which also replaces Jumpcut for me. Beta 5 anyway. Launchbar is very powerful, fast and doesn't crash.Plus QS development is very much up in the air. I don't won't to rely on an app which doesn't have the full support of a developer. Which is another reason why I've started buying premium wordpress themes, instead of using free ones. But that's another thread.
- Rick Powell
btw, I am just impressed that I managed to tell Leo about something he didn't know about before. Information is more important than ego.
- Rick Powell
Amazon - MSI Wind U100-279US 10-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) only $379.99 + Free Shipping - http://coupons.lockergnome.com/rss...
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Already put this on Twitter, but everyone should read. Law of unintended consequences - http://www.wired.com/techbiz...
Sumit Chachra, Bill Romanos, Susan Beebe and 31 other people liked this
Excellent reading.
- Warner Crocker
Very good read: did none of those people have any critical thinking skills, or just didn't choose to use them?
- Ginger Kenney
This piece was a glimpse at what happens when the Emperor's Clothes are woven algorithmically.
- Tom Guarriello
I read this in the print edition. I can almost not believe it myself. But, I think the reasoning behind it was just the greed was too great, and formulas are too easy to fall back on, and use as justification. I mean, hey, if some smart mathematician guy says it right, how can it be wrong? It was easy enough to use this formula to convince those among us that don't want to put the time into researching all the "What-ifs?"
- Danielle Closs
Read print version too. It was a more geeky version of drinking the Kool Aid, but it was Kool Aid nonetheless.
- Karma Martell
The imputation of greed as the metastasizing agent strikes me as facile, especially inasmuch as the argument being made seems to be directed at the ostensible failure of unfettered markets. What is left out of the Wired article (unsurprisingly) is the role played by regulation in fomenting an abundance of risks which the market almost certainly would not have created on its own.
- Eliot Frick
The regulatory system failed, largely because the foxes bribed the watchdogs at the hen-house, i.e. the rating agencies paid to rate these assets ignored real facts or simply refused to examine bank records, and guaranteed these investments were AAA. A bar of lead sprayed with paint was sold as pure gold. Isn't that the assay's fault?
- Phil Boiarski
I am always surprised when people ask "why didn't they question X, or couldn't they see Y"? The point is that the people who overlooked the evidence were benefiting from how things were going, and many of them still are. I suspect that the relative wealth of many of those responsible for all this has gone up - not down, even if the absolute figures look like a loss.
- Robin Barooah
Exactly Robin. The people in Madoff's funds never questioned him, even though they noticed none of the big trading houses traded with him. Just saw the piece about him on 60 Minutes. I think the phenomenon is called "Perceptual defense." You don't see what you don't want to see. And with a mathematical formula, it's just that more difficult, because it's in symbols to begin with:-0
- Francine Hardaway
As my friend @davidsherr says, nationalize DTCC - then it would be simple to know whether or not someone like Madoff had ever traded. All trades go through DTCC.
- Cliff Gerrish
"The regulatory system failed, largely because the foxes bribed the watchdogs at the hen-house." Agreed. So are we all to infer that more regulation will somehow solve this? "When buying and selling are regulated, the first thing to be bought and sold is the regulator." - P.J. O'Rourke
- Eliot Frick
Not more regulation, Eliot. Better regulation. Good enforcement can't be bribed.
- Alex Scoble
I find the exponents of increasing the power of government have always dismissed appeals to the historical failure of same to accomplish the aspirations of said exponents with the same trope: "They all did it wrong. We're going to do it right this time."
- Eliot Frick
Anyway, "good enforcement" which "can't be bribed" strikes me as a function not of the efficacy of the regulations, but the moral compunction of the regulator. Which seems to me a pretty powerful argument for the diffusion of power, not its condensation.
- Eliot Frick
Correct, Eliot. You need more enforcers and better regulations, not more regulation and fewer enforcers.
- Alex Scoble
The thing that is lost is that all of these things are processes. Enforcement is a process. It's not like you build up an organization like the FBI and then you are done. You have to constantly be monitoring them and rebuilding them. It's a constant process. One which we definitely have hamstrung in the last 20 years.
- Alex Scoble
I'm not clear how "diffusion of power" is tantamount to "more enforcers and better regulations". I am suggesting that the quality of the regulations will never eclipse the ability for human depredation to subvert those regulations (no matter how many regulators you throw at it). For an object lesson, see software piracy.
- Eliot Frick
Just because you can't stop something doesn't mean you shouldn't try. It's like the practice of medicine. We can't stop you from dying, but we sure as hell can slow it down a bit.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, agreed. I'm not arguing for anarchy. I'm saying that there are structures under which power can be diffused which should be explored as a alternatives to the greater centralization of power in governmental regulatory bureaucracies.
- Eliot Frick
Francine has a good blog about RSS, Twitter, and information overload. I'll give more of my thoughts here: - http://blog.stealthmode.com/2009...
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Francine is noticing the same thing I am. This past week I overscheduled myself so it was impossible to blog and be on friendfeed or twitter much. What I found is that the important news found its way to me anyway. People would tell me what was happening on Twitter right then. Or techmeme. Or wherever. Overall I'm finding that I'm most productive when I'm not staring at Tweetdeck or friendfeed. I'm even turning them off to avoid being distracted.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
The way we report, and distribute, news is radically changing. I am more likely to learn about a plane crash from a friend (Thomas Hawk was the one I learned about the Hudson plane crash from) than from CNN.
- Robert Scoble
The reasoning I had to blog has been radically changed. Now I'm finding I'm saving my blog for long, thoughtful pieces, rather than quick hit news.
- Robert Scoble
If I totally miss something it generally keeps coming back to me. And, if I really did miss something big (let's say I was in a coma the past year and missed that Obama got elected) it would be easy to figure out thanks to Google and all that. The information is all out there.
- Robert Scoble
My mornings no longer start with a news reader. Instead I start at http://search.twitter.com and friendfeed's "best of day" feature. They tell me what important things have happened overnight (from a popularity point of view). Then TechMeme, Memeorandum, and Google News fill in the rest.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I used to want to blog news stuff as well, however I've always been of the opinion that longer, more thought-out and properly cohesed verbiage is worth 2 in the bush. will check back here later to participate once this gets a bit larger. // on data and informantic overload, I've actually written a little abstract about that. If there's a demand, I'll eek it out later to omfglol.org
- Omar
Attention is a valuable commodity - if you are trying to hear everything, you can't LISTEN to anything. The value of a well built social graph is that the good stuff (to YOU) finds you anyway.
- Brian Roy
I still drop in on Google Reader once in a while but usually use Feedly to read my feeds now and get a "whif" of what's waiting for me on Google Reader. I do miss following specific people, though, and often I find I use friendfeed to read everything that, say, Dave Winer has written in the past week.
- Robert Scoble
Robert-exactly.
- Melanie Reed
I'll keep making noises about it, but the feed reader paradigm is broken. If you don't care that you've got 1000 unread items in google reader, and don't read them all, is that model of reading news useful? Is the read/unread status helping you or distracting you? The best model is Rivers of News, I do all of my feed reading this way. No guilt, no obsessing about counts, just scanned headlines and diving in when I want to (not feeling like I have to).
- mikepk
I don't worry anymore about traffic, or numbers of followers. What I worry about is engagement. Having a great conversation with someone smart. If I do that every day, I find I learn a lot more than if I follow 100 more feeds. Why? Smart people follow other smart people and hear about all the important news. Steve Gillmor, today, taught me more about the crowd computing space than I learned from the top 10 experts in his panel yesterday. Why is that? Because Steve is able to filter out all the intros...
- Robert Scoble
I should qualify, Rivers of News is the best way for me. People argue with me they want to read every post in every feed they subscribe to. I just don't think that's a realistic news engagement model if you subscribe to any significant number of feeds.
- mikepk
...and filter out all the posturing, the product pitches, and get to the heart of the matter and then, but arguing it out one-to-one we both learn more about the industry than we would by reading 1000 tweets.
- Robert Scoble
mikepk: did you ever worry that you didn't read every article in this morning's newspaper? I didn't. I didn't think that model was broken because it presented me with more than I ever could read.
- Robert Scoble
“If the news is that important, it will find me.”
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: the secret is in getting value from the unimportant. Like someone's death (which happened on the Zoho team today). Or someone's birthday. Mark Zuckerberg's sister had a birthday party last night. Or in someone having a tough time (Jeremy Toeman had his appendix out recently). It's those unimportant events that humans find value in.
- Robert Scoble
I would have to say if you find value in it, it is important.
- Brian Sullivan
Robert: exactly. Feed readers were modeled on email, and I think that's a fundamental problem they have. I like RONs because, when I want to know what's going on, I pop them open, scan the latest stuff (get a sense for whats going on) and then close it down. No "news management" just reading and engagement. I also have topic specific RONs when I want to know what's going on in Tech, World News, Science/Engineering etc...
- mikepk
Robert - Exactly. The value is in the relationship (we care about those things because we have/perceive a relationship). There is also value in topics (or context). What subjects do I find interesting (right now) and how do I engage others in conversation about those topics.
- Brian Roy
What I find exciting is taking all of this content - that is context-less - and finding ways to put it in context. Why? Because people engage on two levels 1) relationships 2) interests
- Brian Roy
I do read every just about every post in every feed I subscribe to (although there are some special cases where I just "skim" the feeds); if the signal-to-noise ratio in a particular feed is too high for me, then I just unsubscribe. On the other hand, I don't read every single unread item every time I open my feed reader. On a day to day basis, I just surf the edge to keep up to date, and only dip down into the rest of the content every week or two; but I do get there sooner or later.
- Tristan Seligmann
She's taking the Loic approach to SM, i.e. following via twhirl rather than filtered through tweetdeck.I like that :-)
- Richard A.
I too used to read my news feeds every morning. But I started to realise that most of the items were boring. Now instead I check friendfeed and I still find out the important news but I also get a whole lot of engagement with interesting things outside of just news items
- Benno
Feedly has stopped me being bothered about my buildup of RSS articles, because it is set to only give me the last 3 days. So I read through the last 3 days, feel like I've caught up, even though there might still be 1000 articles waiting for me in Google Reader. Every now and then I go and clear them out. Like Francine, I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
- Jalada
"...you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about." I believe you all know how the rest of the song goes. ;)
- TheMacMommy
7 Ways To Make Use Of Evernote [feedly] - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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AWESOME!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I WANT TO GO TO THERE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Radiohead vs. Dave Brubeck's "Five Step" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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or download the MP3
- Andy Baio
Part of me doesn't care about the changes to Facebook's TOS. Should we really have an expectation for privacy to things we publish online?
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Exactly, If you don't want your private stuff online, don't put it online. My FB info is basic has I could make it.
- Fee501st
For me this has nothing to do with privacy. The issue is control of your intellectual property, that you completely give up when posting or sharing it on their site.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Do you really give up control? Is that what this means? Did we even have control in the first place?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It's more about ownership, yes, but the truth of the matter is that many websites have very, very similarly written TOS. People are getting all worked up over this because it's FB, but there is very little chaance that your content will ever be used to profit.
- Veronica
It is not the idea that there is a little chance of being used for profit. It is that by being owned by a company no one knows what they could do with it later on after the current 'good guys' leave. Or the ability to really shift through what they own increases and it is worth some companies while to aggregate/use it.
- Robert Anstett
Hey, they can do what they want. And I will act or not act accordingly.
- Martha
The issue is about terms of use that are reasonable. The terms are above and beyond what Facebook needs to conduct business. You should be concerned as interpretation of the new terms could mean that any of your content outside of Facebook with a "book mark to facebook" is with in the scope of their terms and rights grab. I understand their intent, but its overdone by their legal team....
more...
- Jim Goldstein
I challenge you to come up with two TOS from social networking, content posting sites with "very, very similarly written TOS".
- jcunwired
Google and Sony's PlayStation site, both on the web and on PSN
- Veronica
Is is more about control than privacy... having reasonable expectations about how your content will be used. But on the privacy side, people need to realize that privacy is far from binary. Yes, information that is posted to a semi-private place could easily be re-posted by someone to a public place, but again, certain social norms and expectations exist that most people follow for how to handle different kinds of information that have been disclosed in different ways. Privacy is very contextual.
- LogEx
Veronica: Which Google ToS? YouTube? Search? Gmail? Link please. :-)
- Kevin Fox
you know what? i'm tired. keep talking about this all you want, but i'm done.
- Veronica
maybe i'm wrong, but my final answer is that it doesn't bother me. maybe i'm just jaded.
- Veronica
I don't think there is a single thing that Facebook could do with my "User Content" that I would object to.
- Ryan Steele
Thanks for the link, and I mostly agree. Google's ToS though has the line "This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services." which narrows the scope somewhat. Sorry Veronica, I'm not trying to pile on or anything. I just care about rights. BTW, I totally voted for you over Woz.
- Kevin Fox
And the video I took of you performing Still Alive is an example of the stuff I want to keep protected. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Kevin Fox
@Kevin, Thanks for the video also :) Funny thing Leo is talking about same thing on live.twit.tv He is having Sarah Lane talking him out of deleting his facebook account!
- Fee501st
I'm tried of hearing about it, hope some other internet outrage takes it place soon
- Fee501st
I think the "privacy" issue is dead. Once it's out there it's out there. I think the bigger issue is a company misappropriating the content it's users post. Facebook's Beacon already showed us they need to be reigned in every once in awhile.
- Chad Albert
as long as i can take care of when to delete my stuff on facebook, i am ok... the public pics, videos and other info i put on facebook is public anyways, so it doesn't matter... however, i would like to have reassurance that once i delete everything, it is deleted from everywhere, and that i am not seen in some photoshopped snuff tape somewhere....
- Anurag Gupta
Oh come on, as if they're going to use photos of people roaring drunk anyways. And I'm no good at legal things but doesn't it say elsewhere that they could be used in agreement with your privacy settings? So essentially if you're sharing with 'Everyone' then yeah, they could use it but if you've got it restricted to just 'friends' then there'd be no point in them doing anything with pictures/videos etc.
- Amy
Ach, they've reverted back to the old TOS now anyway.
- Amy
So... if we were to do a hardcore gadget show (in other words a show about non-computer hardware ala TWiT) who would you like to see on it?
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I wouldn't mind seeing myself on it. However, other than USING gadgets, I'm not an expert. :)
- Randy Hall
I would say Sarah Lane.... or Justine Ezarik. Both are Tech smart, web 2.0, connected, and appeal to your larger audience.... imho
- walterh
Ryan Block or maybe John Biggs from over @ CrunchGear
- Shawn Farner
I agree that Sarah Lane is a good choice. Smart, but not super-geeky. One to ask intelligent questions. Marty seems unable to hold a normal conversation on mic. As much as I like him, too much of a clown. Why not ask Robert Heron? Geeky, but can hold a straight conversation. They might be good counter-points to one another.
- Krash Coarse
Quite honestly, I know very few people who are as into gadgets as @Mona
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Just you Leo, you're the gadget king.
- jcunwired
Kevin C Tofel of jkOnTheRun, Judie Lipsett of Gear Diary, Ryan Block
- Patrick Jordan
Rizzn, Kevin C Tofel, and of course a shameless plug for myself! :)
- Mona Nomura
Me
- Johnny Worthington
Darla Mack comes to mind
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I don't know Mona's gadget writings, but I'll vote for her just for interestingness, if that's a word - and if it's not, I'll still vote for her :)
- Patrick Jordan
Matthew Miller from ZDNet. (And thanks for the mentions above folks; I'm humbled) :)
- Kevin C. Tofel
Ummm... I'd second the nomination of Mona, Leo.
- l0ckergn0me
James & Kevin of jkontherun, Gottabemobile team, Steve 'Chippy' Paine, jkkmobile, Jenn Lee of Pocketables, Matthew Miller, Jonathan Greene, Michael Connick, Thoughtfix
- Rodfather
Ryan Block, definitely!
- Nate Pilling
Ryan Block, but he's already doing GDGT. Would this theoretical new Netcast compete with GDGT?
- LonelyBob
One or more of the editors from IntoMobile http://www.intomobile.com/about...
- LonelyBob
Too be honest I'm not sure. But I love the idea!
- Patrick
Leo, isn't Dick Debartolo the gadget man?
- Jim Adams
I agree with jim it isnt gadgets without dick
- Samuel Lewis
from twhirl
Mona, Ryan Block.
- Colide81 (James)
Leo isn't going to check this thread.
- l0ckergn0me
Is Leo off the FF bandwagon lately, or something?
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Leo, do an audition stunt with Amber and Jason as the other two judges (actually, the thought of my own idea scares me). Chris, Leo bathes in the FF realtime stream, he _may_ see this.
- Micah Wittman
Are you kidding? I have the FF realtime feed open all the time. Thanks for the suggestions.
- Leo Laporte
I'd vote for Cat Schwartz. Not sure if you're able to get her, but it would be great to see you guys do stuff together again. Nudge nudge ;)
- TheMacMommy
from twhirl
I agree with Samuel, it definitely isn't gadgets without the GizWiz, Dick DeBartolo. He's da man!
- Laura Zickus
Unless it causes a rip in the space time continuum, Adam Curry would be a great occasional gear nerd.
- Tom Hofstatter
I think Stephen Fry would be a good one to have on, that guy is a gadget freak.
- Buddy
Yep Stephen Fry
- Susan Beebe
Sounds like a great idea - just love gadgets
- Stephen Dean
Leo, I posted this on Facebook also. Everyone is forgetting the most obvious choice....Yoshi!!!!
- Ryan Cates
from BuddyFeed
another vote for stephen fry. perhaps he can set up a skype session in an elevator? (kidding)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Stephen. He's got like 8 iPhones. Not to mention all his other gadgets. That gadget TWiT show would be full of win.
- Roberto Bonini
Stanley Bing
- Ari Hakkarainen
Yoshi and Robert Heron could cover the spectrum of heavy hardware. You'll need a host to serve as the audience stand-in. Someone who can ask basic questions without looking stupid. Sarah Lane would be good.
- Robert Hafer
Add Chris Pirillo to the show! DO IT!
- Danny Minick
Anyone mention Patrick Norton?
- Robert Couture
seems the stuff ya plug in would be a natural...phone, camcorders, etc. wierd and wacky perhaps...tho maybe done?. and of course a one hour show on the ipod toilet paper dock.
- Matt Kramer
A gadget show would be great coming from the TWIT studios in downtown Petaluma. I would watch it.
- Stephen Dean
David Pogue
- Rob Fay
This blog design is amazing. http://www.alexbuga.com/v8/ via @ajv
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Someone pointed out it may be difficult to enforce, still glad it has been done, transparency may bring them into line
- Ginger Kenney
Not sure about this one. Like the elimination of greed. Don't care for the implications about compensation strategy as an HR professional.
- Michael VanDervort
Too late for the bailouts that have already happened.
- Phillip Stewart
I want to plug my MacBook into my keyboard, mouse and monitor then shut the lid and use it as a desktop replacement when at home. I can't figure out how to prevent it from sleeping when I shut the lid though. Any help, suggestions? Thanks :-)
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Look here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthr...
- Andre
Thank you very much :-) Such a simple solution, can't believe I didn't realize it.
- David Adam
They should just put something under system preferences, I can't believe they didn't already!
- Andre
Thats what I expected. I searched all through the system prefs
- David Adam
They dont need to. If a keyboard is connected, it wakes up automatically whan you press a button on it.
- Murat Kulacoglu
Am I the only one who looks at this version of the RSS subscribe logo and thinks it is someone reading while on the toilet?
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You are NOT
- David Knight
Nope, it's NOT just you.
- Derrick
I had to look again to make sure that that's NOT what it is...
- Tad
I will now
- sofarsoShawn
Yep, I see it
- Shevonne
wow, i didn't realize it WASN'T until you posted this. i had always thought it was a toilet.
- mike fabio
from twhirl
Not just you.
- ♥patricia♥
I thought it was a toilet, really... Thanks to you now I see it's not!
- Jordi Soler
That's the rss icon i use on my blog:P
- Gordon Swaby
shity icon
- sean percival
I like it because it looks like that. Makes people look at it twice.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
ha yeah i think about that everytime i see that.
- MG Siegler
really that should be an iphone in his hand though
- sean percival
I think the same.
- "Joey"
I agree
- Martha
Nope!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Ditto @revrev
- Seth Gottlieb
That's EXACTLY what I thought it was first time I saw it.
- Great Scott!
"There's a hole in the bench!"
- Tyson Key
it's still a lovely icon :D
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yeah lovely, but it' still someone on the bog. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nope. Had to look twice to see what it really is.
- CW™
I saw that too AJ! :-)
- Jim Connolly
No. You're not alone!
- Sean
What is he hiding? What does that plus mean?
- Phil Boiarski
wow, until just now I always thought it was. never really looked at it that close.
- Mike Elliott
Happy Groundhog Day!!!
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My wife hates this movie and refuses to acknowledge teh greatness
- David Knight
Don't drive angry!
- Joey Gibson
David, gasp! How can anyone hate this movie? It's one of the ten best ever!
- Nine
agreed love groundhog day!
- (jeff)isageek
"I got you babe..."
- Jared Smith
"Groundhog Day" is a perfect analogy for life, how can anyone hate it?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I've come across others as well, mostly women. I don't understand it.
- David Knight
I can not get my wife to even watch it. I love it, though.
- Bryan Clark
uh-oh I've got a problem here - Bad: Having the Pennsylvania Polka stuck in your head all day. Worse: It's the version on my 2 y/o's Wiggle CD NOOOOOOooooooo!
- David Knight
+1 David, my wife hates it. I can't understand why !
- Olivier Castets
Phil saw his shadow. Damn - 6 more weeks of winter. Now it won't be Spring until about the 3rd week in March.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I love this movie.
- Parth Awasthi
You really have to admit you could watch this movie over and over and over...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Don't drive angry.
- Ryan Cates
LOVE IT
- Iain Baker
I'm not a fan either but my dad watches it every time it comes on, without fail.
- Katie is Frittering
David, the burden she bears is NOT watching it over and over again. Have mercy :)
- Micah Wittman
I liked this for the fact that it is actually Groundhog Day. I never saw the movie and Bill Murray irritates me beyond belief.
- Derrick
Oh this movie is the best movie ever made. "AmIright? Right! Right! Right!"
- Admiral Anika
Someone once said it was a modern ancedotal version of beauty and the beast. ????????
- Roberto Bonini
Groundhog Day movie TMI http://jwz.livejournal.com/839662... or "Based on evidence presented in the movie, he re-lived February 2 for at least four years."
- Micah Wittman
We Live in Public (and the end of empathy) - http://calacanis.com/2009...
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Nice commentary on the decline of internet civility. Mike Arrington deserves better than he got.
- Peter Kelley
My one little footnote to Jason's piece is that this isn't unique to the internet. It's really the same thing you see any time technology gets between people, whether it's two people in their little four-wheeled metal cages on the freeway at 80mph trying to "get even" with each other or some guy screaming at a Customer Service Rep on the phone.
- Ken Sheppardson
The measure of a person's civility likes in their ability to empathize with their fellow humans. The factors which make each of us more or less civilized are contained in the fabric of our own personal experience. Because that fabric is woven so differently for each of us it will never be possible for everyone to be equally "civilized". Historically, the civilized have had to put up walls to keep out the uncivilized and so it will eventually be in our virtual communities.
- Mike Elliott
Actually, being spat on isn't Internet civility, but real-world civility. No one deserves to be spat upon, but Arrington's claims against other bloggers who urge crazy people to attack him is far less civil than the treatment he is receiving in the wake of his posting about rethinking his career choices.
- Mitch Ratcliffe
from twhirl
Jason, you are such a Troll http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I have to admit, this is deeper commentary than I thought I would be reading...I do not know you very well, of course, but this showed me why I may want to follow more of what you are into, Mr. C.
- TechChic
Jason Calacanis is a Huge Internet Troll http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
@Mitch: I doubt Arrington deserves it, but lots of people deserve a lot worse than merely being spat upon. However, I think it's a positive development when people on the internet manage to overcome the cowardice of anonymity to actually do something aggressively rude IRL. Arrington will get over it.
- Rob Sterling
Arrington is just a Big Cry Baby! He Flames people for PR but cannot handle attention! FAIL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Losing empathy happens in cycles in every civilization. It's a cycle. Not a virtuous one. Thanks for your great post, Jason.
- Paul Papadimitriou
over 60 Apple-themed wallpapers - http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009...
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Is Twitter Killing Blogs and Blogging? - http://www.markevanstech.com/2009...
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"Twitter +is+ blogging."
- Robert Scoble
in a nutshell, yes, its taking attention to satisfaction away from blogging, its an easier, low cost to entry way to your mind out on the web
- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
Blogging is, and always has been, just cheap and easy content creation and management which is pretty different to Twitter. Twitter basically replaces the role of blogs for some of the things that people used to use blogs for when they first appeared - dashing off quick links, status updates, and so on. And disagreeing with Robert, i think it's worth thinking of the two things as separate - they'll play different roles in communications in the future.
- Ian Betteridge
Twitter is microblogging, Twitter enhances blogging and Twitter can be used separately from a blogging platform for many specific tasks, including blogging. Sure, they are separate, but they work together and reinforce each other.
- Chris Loft
I don't think this is a competition, it's quite hard to resume a blog post in a couple of twitter messages and, at the same time, be relevant ... especially when people following you are already following tens, hundreds, <number here> of people!
- Lucian Nicolescu
No, but Friendfeed is.
- Rutger Blom
Agree with Rutger. Friendfeed is more of a blog killer...
- Håkan Dahlström
No, not really: Can I write a 500 word post on FriendFeed? FF is a blog *comment* killer, but that's only part of the story with blogging.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
Ian, it all depends what you want to achieve. If you want to create a discussion or debate I think you can bring it on Friendfeed directly instead of a blog with disqus. The author of the FF-post can if necessary post additional comments to further develop a statement. This is something you see Scoble doing more and more these days.
- Rutger Blom
Rutger, good point. As I mentioned, blogging is really "just" cheap, easy content creation/management. The discussion element is, to my mind secondary - not in the sense of being unimportant, but not really at the core of what defines it. And, of course, what you're describing is basically a freeform discussion forum :)
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
What Rutger said.
- Steven Perez
Ian, that's true. I agree with you that as things are now Friendfeed is a bigger threat to Disqus/Intense Debate than to blogging platforms, but I can see how that can change just by adding one or two more features to Friendfeed.
- Rutger Blom
Twitter is nothing more than IRC, sure a lot of people think it's microblogging but that's only because they use it five minutes a day. Blogging is more interesting than ever now. Friendfeed and the way it's used show how interesting blogging is at this moment. Show me a person that uses twitter as passionately and I may believe twitter is killing blogs.
- Richard A.
Yes: FriendFeed could evolve into a really interesting blogging platform, if that's the direction they want to take - or, of course, offer better integration to existing platforms.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
No, it's helping. Link sharing is the de facto way to be a good community member. The 140 character field is a perfect teaser, and the link is perfect to extend the conversation. FriendFeed is a wonderful enhancement to this process as well.
- timedalkat
from twhirl
Why are we still having this discussion? Microblogging is here to stay. Twitter and Friendfeed *can* make you smarter bloggers. But so can any time you spend away from your own blog and focus on *others* and their work. Seriously.
- Barbara K. Baker
It is killing link blogs and "superficial" blog uses, so overall probably helping in terms of substance and quality.
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
@randy, so it's keeping those that shouldn't blog too busy to post ;-)
- Richard A.
Both Twitter and FriendFeed are sources for information. If you know how to use them, it can enhance your blog. So I don't think Twitter nor FriendFeed are blog killers. I'd say it's the opposite.
- Umit Namli
I don't think so. Two very different media encouraging different types of interface. I think they are complimentary rather than antagonistic.
- Martha
For me FF did (Twitter not so much) -- I used blogging as a catharsis and found FF fufilled that need so I stopped blogging - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
twitter enhances blogging it creates conversations , it stimulates ideas , people share knowledge
- johnpiercy
Umit: it's always worth remembering that media doesn't just serve as source of information, but also engagement through entertainment. People like commenting, because it entertains.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
True Ian.Guess it all depends on how you use Twitter and FriendFeed. But if you'd ask me "Is Twitter killing blogs and blogging", my answer would be "No".
- Umit Namli
Robert - Twitter is a Micro Blog and it gets people talking. This is good for society. I don't believe Twitter hurts blogging - it just enhances it.
- Rob Cairns
Doesn't this depend on how people are using this? I liken this to CNN Headline News vs. The Newshour with Jim Leher...if you want the quick hit of info. to share and/or discover, Twitter is a great platform; alternatively, if you want to dive into a deeper conversation, research, experience, blogs play that role.
- Christian
Robert, Madagascar is going through troubles now. So many people are awaiting for news but events are feeding too fast: Malagasy people is discovering Twitter and FriendFeed's power as writing blog articles take long time and you need to find many infos in ONE page. You can visit http://twitter.com/Madagas... and http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I usually don't have time to maintain my old blog, but I think twitter allows me to share to the community anyway. Combining twitter with sites that allow for comments and discussions give me more value than posting a blog that hardly anyone reads...
- Frode Stenstrøm
I am cowed into speechlessness.
- Moses Kpetigo
I post my tweets on my blog so I see it as an adjunct.
- Phil Boiarski
so twitter as blogging is therefore committing suicide ~ ie this person's next blog post. Ie. someone missed the mark by a long shot.
- sofarsoShawn
I think that it is. It has killed my blogs. Twitter is a lot more interactive and fun.
- Adam Jackson
Twitter is interactive live blogging but I won't say it's killing blogging. Twitter is to blogging what a video clip is to a feature film.
- Donald Townsend
from twhirl
How the Bogus War between Google and Twitter/Friendfeed begins http://friendfeed.com/e...
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Killing blogging, no way. I personally think its taking blogging to an all new level. Not only can you promote blogs on twitter, the readers can now interact with you in a entirely new way. Twitter fills the cracks that the blog leaves behind.
- Sloan Bowman
I've dabbled with "full-blown" blogging but most days don't have the time to write "essays". Or anything to say that's worth that number of words. I like Twitter for its immediacy and the way it makes you express the thought succinctly. Equally I like FF for being somewhere between the two. "Medium" blogging rather than full blown or micro. It's a mood thing yanno.
- CdL Creative
Twitter is blogging -- just 140 chars per chunk.
- David Feng
If we agree that the predominant consumption of blogs is via RSS (as opposed to visiting the site) - then blogs are indeed being superceded (by all the tools that allow you to share media - whether Twitter, Digg, Youtube or Seesmic). They all end up being posts in an RSS feed mashed and consumed in increasingly sophisticated ways.
- Jim
the one evolution that social networking services like FriendFeed and Twitter have over blogs is that we really can't see who's interested in our stuff. we can track RSS views, but we've no idea who they are.
- Jason Salas
from IM
Jason very true.. no easy way to monetize and measure. Athough I think Friendfeed has the right idea with its stats feature and this may be a the next step for Google Analytics/Feedburner. Perhaps this is why the growth and popularity of social network is proportional to the richness and openness of the their APIs.
- Jim
Jim - the closer we get the traditional media demographic data, coupled with the new metrics, the real value of social apps will really shine through
- Jason Salas
The days of stand-alone blogs as a primary revenue source are over
- Bob Sonin
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