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Those would just add weight and cost and I'm not sure I really see the point. - James (@willia4)

No, the addition of GPS and Camera would not motivate me to buy a Touch. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I would and rest assured that once I buy the current version the gps/camera one will come out - Eric Ortega

camera, yes....GPS, no - Live4Emma (L4S)

yes yes YES - Capn' One Eye - adrift

I'd be happy with the camera. - Steve Spalding

yes - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

I could do w/o the camera. A GPS logger to help geotag pictures taken with a real camera would be nice, though. - Alex von Halem

Darn, just bought the itouch yesterday for gift - now camera?? - Janet

I certainly would but there two simpler things I want too: microphone (for voice recordings) and bluetooth - Nikos Anagnostou

What if they also added 3G and a microphone. And you could make calls with it... Oh, wait... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Interesting range of responses. Personally, the camera would be nice as I like taking pictures and GPS+Wifi would be great for the various geo apps available. - Jauder Ho

Duh, yeah. - Outsanity

@Mark VandenBerg, that would be great :) a real internet device. but steve jobs loves to cut down features of their products, so that'll be a dream for now. - Baturalp Torun

definitely - Leon Ridge-Cooke

sure why not. I have a touch now but those features would be great on it - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

I would like the camera, yes. My only frustration with the Touch is connectivity. WiFi is not as prevalent as I would like, but I don't need the iPhone as work gives me a Blackberry on Verizon which actually works very well. Does the new touch have a microphone, I know it now has a speaker. So I'd like a Touch with constant connectivity, a camera, speaker, microphone - I can live without the gps unless they add software from, or just purchase Garmin. - Michael Pardee

Absolutely! Bring it on. - Bill Sodeman

I've been using it since Download Day and haven't had any problems with it at all. - Kevin Bondelli

I started using it full time when it hit RC2. It's terrific. Faster than Safari. I limit the extensions I use though to a handful. - Steve Rubel

i have noticed that some links that should cause ff to launch make it hang. i have to kill the process and run FF first, THEN click the link(s) - Eric Ortega from twhirl

Using it since early beta. Hogs memory, still. Crashes when loading Flash sometimes (that's a developer problem). Renders really well. 8/10 with IE 7 scoring 5. - Mohamed J

Thanks Rob, Kevin, and Steve, that's enough to sway me forward. downloading now. - Jeremiah Owyang

I've used it exclusively for about a month; testing life solely with a browser / no client apps. Using a ton of extensions. Experiencing a handful of daily crashes on a PC with it. Otherwise, it's fantastic for me. - Kevin C. Tofel

Switched from Safari since release. I use maybe a half-dozen extensions. I find it slower than Safari. Causes my MacBook Air to shutdown the second core occasionally. Never happens with Safari. Still haven't switched back though. - Jack Baty

I'm still waiting. i want all my plugins to be ready to go when i upgrade. I installed one of the late betas and it seemed good -- but having two firefox installs send a couple things (like password manager) a bit screwy - john conroy

OBSERVATIONS: It kept all of my bookmarks, so far so good - Jeremiah Owyang

Observation: The download went smoothly, on this PC I'm using vista. - Jeremiah Owyang

Aren't you off? ;-) - Steve Rubel

I've absolutely loathed Firefox until this new version. Been running it in place of Opera since beta 3, I think, and it's been quite good. No crashes since RC1 for me. (Adding that I'm using it on several Vista machines; 64- and 32-bit.) - Akiva Moskovitz

just using the normal set of plug-ins ff3 is crashing on me 4 or 5 times a day. now i'm trying to figure out which plug-in is craping the ff3 bed. - sean808080 from twhirl

crashes 5-10 x daily and always at the worst times. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I have no problems with Vista, been very reliable for quite some time. - Jeremiah Owyang

FF3 has problems with the keyboard control using Windows XP - sometimes I cannot enter text, especially in the URL-bar. In both, Windows and Mac OS X the application terminates sometimes without notification in advance. In addition, FF3 sucks a lot of resources out of my old iBook. Safari is much faster here... - Ansgar Wollnik

+ 1 Jeremiah (I am on XP though)... I am loving FF3 - awesome!! - Susan Beebe

There are some issues with crashing that seem to be related to Flash on OSX and I've seen a few others mention it. Hopefully they fix the issue soon, I do love the new improvements. Especially the Mac-likeness. - Daniel Smith

Some of Addons arent working (As expected), youtube is kinda slower - Jassim

I started using FF3 when it was in Beta. Public version is more stable IMHO. I like the overall experience of FF3. The one issue I have had in Mac OSX is that sometimes when you paste a URL in the address bar, it won't refresh and go to the site. Just sits there and does nothing. All of my favorite plugins and add ons are up and running now, which is good. - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

Only a few crashes, which is almost a tradition with Firefox. Surprisingly, Opera is now more stable in Ubuntu. It used to be the other way around. - Alejandro

using the portable versions and can't get links from thunderbird open in new tab. always open in new window. anybody know the solution? - Matthias Henze

Only other issue is the lack of a way to combine open FF windows into one like you can with Safari. - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

Yes - About a week after launch. It crashes too often. But I still love it. - Russellreno

@jowyang, Yes and it's stable for me. - Czar

Yes I have. I've been using Firefox 3 since its RC days. Bugs? Where? I haven't had any problems. - Corvida

I've used it since the first BETA, so I've used the buggy versions. This version has not crashed on my since the first day. It's far superior, far better on the memory, and less likely to crash. - Ben Parr

Downloaded on the day of the launch on my mac; a couple of days later on office PC. Safari still remains my primary browser on Mac; Firefox was always the choice on Windows despite the crashes which are pretty much consistent even after the upgrade. - Parth Awasthi

My friends regularly say about FF3 bugs:( - Igor Poltavskiy

Having problems with ff 3 and gmail. Ff keeps crashing when ever I open gmail - Martin Liechti from fftogo

Using it since early betas. Very slid, very fast, very few bugs. - Patrick Jordan

being using it since beta1, it's been getting better and better, ver3 is nothing like ver2, never made me look back - Dobromir Hadzhiev

problems with Gmail - jonathan

yea i got problems with gmail too. Also once in a while the url bar doesn't work - Josiah Lau from twhirl

It crashes more for me than FF2 does. Might be new extensions, though. - Sarah Perez

@Sarah yeah any issues I've had are with the extensions. FF3 is running sweet and fast - Shey, Jamaican of FF

registered as well - Naor Mark

ericortega is on there - Eric Ortega from twhirl

It's PHP based, which disappoints me for some reason. But the code looks pretty clean. - Fred Yankowski

I'm there - mwsmedia - Matthew Wayne Selznick from twhirl

Port it to python :) http://laconi.ca/ - Bwana ☠

Open source and Twitter? I think I smell awesome. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

and i thought that pownce will benefit ...(from twitter whale) - Naor Mark

I hope this works - Alejandro

Time to test another site. - Eric_T

Why built another website? There already is Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk. - Andrew Bashore from twhirl

How long before @SteveRubel declares FF dead and identi.ca the new google? ;D - Gez

I'm just curious how the distributed part works, how do I connect my install of laconica with yours? So that I can see your feed on the friends timeline of my install. Or is that not how it is supposed to work? - Frans

Does anyone have an answer to Fran's question? - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

This is the spec for OpenMicroBlogging: http://openmicroblogging.org/ I don't think it works like that, Frans. The idea behind it, as far as my understanding goes, is that there's a protocol to allow you to write to identi.ca's data store, and eventually identi.ca will support other microblogging services that use the OMB protocol, but it's not federation. - Mark Trapp

I'm pretty sure everyone's wishing, out of thin air, something that identi.ca is not. All it's really doing is implementing a standard like REST, JSON, or whatever; it's just standardizing the fields so you don't have to guess or rely on a specific API for each microblogging service. I guess you could federate based off of it being interoperable, but it's nowhere near that. For one, identi.ca is the first service that I know of that even implements OMB. - Mark Trapp

fd - Justin Coleman from twhirl

Bwana - You do a good job explaining the potential on your blog. Thanks - Charlie Anzman

Suppose you have an account on server A and you want to follow somebody who created an account on server B. You can subscribe to the remote user, and your server (A) will contact server B to set up a remote sub. After that when the user on server B posts an item, it's also posted back to your server. Sync/decentralization is handled on a user-by-user basis. - Ken Sheppardson

I'm sure Laconica looks very much like Twitter did two years ago when it was just starting out. Simple SQL tables on the back end, basic UI functionality, no API, etc. Twitter's had two years to work on this full time, and they haven't been worried at all about building a distributed network. I'm all for open source, but I'm skeptical. It's not obvious to me that a community-based effort can catch and pass a venture-funded, full-time team with two years of operational experience. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, you highlight two huge misconceptions of this hype: 1) it's not federated yet. It's not even close to federated. and 2) it's not a community project. To make changes you either a) have to get identi.ca to buy into it and push it to http://identi.ca, or b) fork the project and run your own instance. This isn't the power of the internet working against the machine. This is a locked-in cathedral style development. Only one party has access to the final release (the server on which identi.ca resides) - Mark Trapp

Yay Mark! Yes, yes, yes. While anyone can GET the source code, any major changes have to come from a main hub for separate instances to work together. There's always this misconception of Open Source that it's this completely democratic process and anyone can just do whatever they want. - Cyndy

Exactly, Cyndy! You have a huge problem open sourcing a software-as-a-service, especially one that needs to interact with all other copies of itself: there is no way to run a bazaar style development without compromising the security of the main distribution points. It REQUIRES a single development team controlling the project scope and direction. Maybe the guys that run identi.ca are the next Linus Torvalds or the next rms or esr, but the law of very large numbers suggests they probably aren't. - Mark Trapp

What does that mean for everyone else? The exact same scenario as Twitter. One development team who contributes the vast bulk of the code that makes it into the final release. You're still at the mercy of the design decisions they make, and the preliminary reports about the nature of the code does not bode well. - Mark Trapp

It seems very slow - Greg

I definatly think that Identi.ca is extremely slow in loading - Tyler (Chacha) from twhirl

AKA this is not a big deal :) This is the argument I was trying to make earlier but couldn't. This isn't a revolution, it's just a company using everyone else to try and improve their Twitter clone. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

After the server move (if your DNS has caught up), the speeds have improved. It's day 2. I'm treating it as such. - Bwana ☠

I'm confused. Where in my article or in these comments is anyone calling this the next big thing? Why are there so many quick to shoot it down? Seems like a lot of assumptions are being made. - Bwana ☠

If you want more details of the architecture, join the identica room where this has already been discussed - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Bwana ☠

i'm not a fan of being forced to accept creative commons licensing where my content is concerned. - Brooks Bayne

Mark, I give you a +10. I felt like I was spitting into the wind on this one. - Cyndy

Bwana, I'm quick to shoot it down because a PHP app with a database back-end is going to end up as the same mess as Twitter. Adding the shiny "open source" tag doesn't make it any cooler OR more stable. It just makes Dave Winer happy to jump on the bus. - Cyndy

@wolfsbayne you aren't being forced- you don't _have_ to use the service, CC is part of the feature set of the service- some people prefer freedom of content- and as always you still have the freedom of choice. - Nathan Eckenrode

You're assuming way too much. My article's tone was simply to watch it because it's the first major effort that I know of that's open sourced and is testing the waters of OpenMicroBlogging. The point is not whether it'll fail or not, the point is that is taking a different direction. I stated many times that I don't believe open source or federation will automatically equal success. It's ok to use it and not be gung ho that it's going to kill anything. - Bwana ☠

And yes if Dave Winer is happy, it'll get attention. Whether that's right or wrong is irrelevant to my point. - Bwana ☠

@nathan i think it was implied by my post that i wasn't going to use it because of CC. thanks for telling me i don't have to use it. lol! - Brooks Bayne