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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Mozilla Geode Released With Support From Pownce and Fire Eagle

October 8 at 3:06 am - Link

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Does anyone really know how the location is actually computed? Almost spooky... - Eric Ortega via twhirl

The plugin, however, will only leverage one method for determining your location - Skyhook’s Loki technology, which uses WiFi to determine your location within a second and with an accuracy of about 10-20 meters. - matiasjajaja

Nick O'Neill posted a message on Twitter

“I think the house is not doing a very good job educating constituents about the rationale & logistics behind this new plan”

September 29 at 11:56 am - Link

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I think they're doing a great job. A lot of so called smart people made stupid bets and now I'm supposed to make my grandkids pay for it. I think NOT! Suffering now will teach us to make wiser choices. - Eric Lewis

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I doubt every Congress man and woman has read the 100+ pages document. Many of them probably voted the same way as the people who sit next to them. It will be a miracle if we can get the bailout plan to pass. - Harry Chen

Agree! Understand that they are pressed, but the comms around the dealings have left a lot to be desired. - Joshua Dilworth

FWIW, there is only one bill in which you can basically prove Congressman have read--the Intelligence funding bill. The reason? It's classified and Members have to sign in to read it. How many do? About 14 or so (believe it or not). I worked for Congress a few years back and always found that depressing. - Andrew Leyden

What's the incentive to educate anyone when they KNOW the sheep will continue to vote them in and always vote Dem or Rep? - Live4Soccer

Eric: the problem is your grandkids will pay for this anyway. What happens if you lose your job? Or your kids lose their jobs? - Robert Scoble

@Robert: that's why we should stop having kids. :-) - Harry Chen

@Eric Lewis. So 2 world wars actually made the US make wiser choices regarding military warfare? I doubt so. Pain does not create better people, pain is just pain, and should be avoided. - Tadeu

@Robert: I don't have a "job". If I lose my source of income I adapt. Nobody bailed me out when I lost my house. Sure my grandchildren already own a piece of the national debt. But I will not vote $1 more on them. - Eric Lewis

@Tadeu: I'm all for you avoiding pain, but don't pain my grandkids to do it. I agree with you on wars, but personal pain has taught me many lessons. - Eric Lewis

Eric: but when everyone else is out of a job they get unemployment insurance. So, you just voted your kids more debt there too (and far more than $700 billion, especially if this goes on a long time). - Robert Scoble

Robert: So I should steal from my grandkids to avoid others stealing more? You're making my head spin. I can only control me. I won't steal. - Eric Lewis

Eric: here's the problem. Our entire economic system is based on credit now. You do realize that, right? How did I buy my car? Credit. How did the businesses I have worked for get money to hire people, buy realestate, etc, Credit. How did I get my house? Credit. So, if the credit system goes into meltdown (it's very close) then they stop loaning money to EVERYONE, not just "flakes." So, who built the Saturn car I bought on Credit? What happens to their jobs if we can't buy more cars? - Robert Scoble

Eric: If the plan is put together wisely and executed well, taxpayers may actually earn money on this deal. No one is talking about giving away $700B. This is a loan. Worst case scenario is probably that we lose half of that. Most realistic scenario? We probably lose $100-200B. - J. McConnell

If the economy melts down, then tons of people, even those who had good credit, get hurt. What happens then? We all go on unemployment. Your grandkids are going to pay a LOT MORE than $700 billion if that happens because when the economy melts down the jobless will be a lot longer and deeper. You have a chance to head that off now, but you are deciding to watch the entire economy burn, baby, burn. That is NOT prudent. - Robert Scoble

@Robert: I don't understand paying off/guaranteeing the bad debts of bankers as being MY problem. I made some bad financial choices in my day and no one bailed me out. You take your chances, you pay the piper. - Eric Lewis

Eric: you don't fund other people and other parts of the economy. These banks do. That's the error in your thinking. - Robert Scoble

Robert: You're right, I don't. But they lost $1 Trillion. Who made the larger mistake in thinking? If I have a vote, I'm not rewarding that. - Eric Lewis

Eric: the thing is, that's not what you're deciding now. Now you are deciding whether the entire economy burns because you want to punish those responsible. There are other people involved here. Get off of the punishment, it won't help you protect your grandchildren. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I'm for punishment?! I'm sorry, from where I sit, loaning money to a losing gambler, because his kids might starve, is not protection I can believe in. I need a better explanation than that. - Eric Lewis

Eric: you are thinking wrong. This isn't a person. It's a series of institutions that loan money to normal people like you and me. If they stop loaning money, WE HURT and the PEOPLE WHO BUILD STUFF FOR US HURT not them. You need to think about the whole economy, not just the jerks who got us here. The one who lit the fire isn't the one who is going to get burned. Put out the fire. Argue about punishment later. - Robert Scoble

FYI, both D's and R's who voted No are from districts that are "in play." When they had to make a tough call that might hurt politically, they chose the safest path for reelection, not for the country. - Andrew Feinberg

@scoble, your comments indicate you believe this is a complete rescue plan, and everything will be just fine after it. have you not noticed no one is putting their head on the line saying this will work? they themselves have no confidence in this, and the fact so few voted indicates no one wants their name on it. - Curtis Cunningham via twhirl

@Eric Lewis: Here is a great explanation of why this bill was important and was more than just bailing out a bunch of greedy bankers who made poor decisions: http://www.frontlinethoughts.c... - J. McConnell

Curtis: we don't know if it'll work. It's like putting water on a fire. You know it will help and you continue putting water onto the fire until it's out. Andrew: exactly. They are willing to burn down the country so they can get reelected. - Robert Scoble

Andrew: do you have a map that shows that? I want to put that on the top of my blog. - Robert Scoble

Robert: You sure sound panicked. I am not. There will always be people with money who want to make more, by loaning to those with sure plans. I will not throw good money after bad. - Eric Lewis

@Robert: I understand you believe credit will stop, but that's an opinion, not a fact. I'm hearing otherwise. Tightening yes, stoppage no. There are many who believe our grandkids will be *better* off if we ensure proper and last resort bailout is enacted. That both corporations and individuals should be held responsible. In many ways, America as a whole is responsible for not being more vigilant. I'm not the enemy, we simply have differing views on what is best and even brainy economists differ. - AJ Kohn

@scoble this crisis was seen coming years ago, and nothing was done. this is too little too late. http://tinyurl.com/they-saw-it... - Curtis Cunningham via twhirl

I've posted that link to my feed so we can discuss it, if anyone's interested. http://friendfeed.com/e/213278... - J. McConnell

Suspending MTM accounting = instant fail. Why would they undermine the entire program by sewing seeds of doubt?? Anyone who is *pro-transparency* should be pretty stoked right now. - Will DeLuca

AJ: well, nothing ever "stops" totally. True. I should use "major slowdown." But, either way, you are deciding to make the slowdown deeper and longer by not putting water on the fire. That's fine, but I wish we would put water on the fire instead of saying "burn baby, burn." - Robert Scoble

Robert: There are also those who think the market will self-correct. Yes, it will be painful, but it will correct. I'm not sure about that, but like you, I don't know all the facts. - Jim McCusker

Who made Robert Scoble the chief economist of Friendfeed?? A bad economist at that. - Mark Bean

Heck Pelosi couldn't even explain it to her own party members Nick 40% of the Dems didn't vote in favor of it. If she had done a proper Whip check in advance of the bill coming to the floor she would have known that and dealt with it. - Thomas Vincent

Mark: my minor is in economics and I went to the World Economic Forum this year. Hey, if Palin is qualified to be President because she "lives close to Russia" then I'm qualified to be FriendFeed's economist! :-) - Robert Scoble

'new plan' ... nothing about that reaching the UK news - PaulJohnson

Great NYT article: An interesting historical perspective about the disaster that has befallen Wall Street. http://tinyurl.com/3vzxc9. Sheds some informed light on how we got here. (By noted biographer Ron Chernow). - JP Adams

The government just screwed the country. A lot of people are going to lose their well earned money because they (the government) can't help out. I'll have to say bye bye to the money I invested, which is what I basically life off of, since I can't find a job at the moment. Thanks so much. - Molly, the Vampy Vampire

@Robert: I like that terminology far better because I think it's more realistic and doesn't feed into reptilian panic button response that actually helps create runs. I'm interested though, it will certainly make the slowdown deeper - that's pretty clear IMO - but I actually believe that means it will be shorter, not longer. [cont] - AJ Kohn

[cont] A slower correction is like having spyware on your computer. It just gets slower and slower and people give up on the computer in frustration. A short deep correction is like a reboot, you start over but still have faith in the computer. - AJ Kohn

politicians are only being as transparent as is necessary to ensure your vote in a month...there is too much at stake right now for any real bipartisanship to really happen - George Lee via twhirl

I'm embarrassed to be have been oblivious to this entire conversation - Nick O'Neill

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The loopt debacle

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Those sneaky bastards! - Dan Kaplan

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“In Firefox, try these URLs: about:crashes / about:logo / about:buildconfig / about:cache / about:credits / about:robots / about:mozilla / about:logo / about:license / about:plugins”

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Like about:robots - Hutch Carpenter

You wrote about:logo twice... - Chacha via twhirl

Here's a song about:robots - http://allaboutgeorge.vox.com/... - ☺ Cecily ☺

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

TweetDeck.com - Another Desktop Twitter Client

July 7 at 12:34 am - Link

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I'm using this and like it. I'm going to try it against several of the other popular ones and see which one survives. I stopped using clients because Twitter was down so much and because Twitter's API was just, well, barfing with my data flows. - Robert Scoble

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I really like the column view. I use it since two days now and it really makes it easier for me to stay on track, because I have different groups for different people and a few searches on special topics. - Sebastian Küpers

Everyone is talking about this now. - ChaCha Fance

It's the Sumize integration that rocks. Makes this the killer client. - Kevin

ok, let's try this one too... - luca Filigheddu

For the italian audience, I commented the tweetdek interface here: http://blog.delbono.eu/2008/07... - Marcello Del Bono

I have to say that the Summize integration plus the ability to create groups is really cool - luca Filigheddu

Yes, I agree with luca. Unfortunatley I can't help myself from being uncomfortable with the Air apps look & feel :( - Marcello Del Bono

Looks different from other twitter clients, with that column view, I'll give it a try - João Almeida

TweetDeck rocks! Louis brought it to my attention and I never looked back! Groups, Search, Summize integration, multi-panel view, and slick UI are awesome. Only beef: sucks a lot of memory, but that's sorta my fault for putting multiple searches / group queries in there - gotta tweak it some. Love it!!Se - Susan Beebe

I've officially ditched Twhirl for TweetDeck after using over the weekend. Needs tinyurl though. - Geoff Peterson

Looks promising, however I couldn't run it on PowerPC, the Air installer reports an error. - micronauta

The column layout is really, really helpful. But I'm missing tons of features from twhirl. Would love to see the column view as an option in twhirl. - Johannes Kleske

One of the columns could be FriendFeed - João Almeida

This could be much cooler if each column could be a different feed, it could be the all in one desktop aggregator. Friendfeed column at the very minimum is almost a necessity with Twitter's issues. - Greg Hollingsworth via twhirl

Looks really promising. I don't like that it requires too much space on my screen, but this is easy to get fixed. And I have already suggested quite a few new features. - Alex Popescu via feedalizr

i'm hardly using twitter thes days, but this is a neat app. much better than most of the other clients i've used including my favorite, twhirl - Cee Bee

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Twee60 - Xbox to Twitter

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“I just blocked someone for begging for followers. I will unblock him in 48 hours.”

July 6 at 4:36 pm - Link

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Kevin Rose? ;-) - JA Castillo

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does his name start with Nose? - Justin Korn

Begging for followers? - Aaron Myers

gasp! does his name begin with a K and end with a Rose? - Lise

I mean rhyme with "Nose" - Justin Korn

doubt it's Kevin, he's asking how to get rid of followers - clarke thomas

Seems ridiculous to beg for followers. All you have to do is be interesting, right? - Randy Hall

Your people, your rules! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

yeah his name sounds like nose. - Robert Scoble

Scoble cracks me up. Keep up the good work! - Carlos Ayala

Wait, wait... is it Rose? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Ahahahah... ok I get it now. Quick, someone Digg Kevin's tweet and then we can all laugh at how lame twitter is when it buckles under the load of a Digging! - Paul Short

If he paid attention to me, he would have known better. :) - Aaron Brazell

I would have made them stand in the corner and think about what they've done, but I guess I'm just old-fashioned like that. - Daniel Smith via twhirl

Im confused about this. For instance, I've noticed on many occasions where you basically say something like: "Come follow me over on FF, the conversation is over there". Isnt that the same thing? Trying to get people to come follow you? I dont mean to be critical, just trying to understand. - Andrew Baron

:D I unblocked him just to verify, and yes it was him!! - directeur via NoiseRiver

Somewhat relatedly, it's weird that I didn't think twice when Louis Gray asked us to digg a story for him. But in hindsight if it wasn't someone I knew, I would've considered it spamming/gaming digg. Interesting. - trextor

He needs another pole to broadcast actually, he won't participate in the discussions. I hate this kind of mentality. - directeur via NoiseRiver

Andrew I don't remember ever asking you to follow me. If I ever do, yes, that should earn me a block. There is a big difference between saying "here is a conversation" and "follow me." - Robert Scoble

Kevin pissed off the Friendfeed hall monitors. ;-) - Chris Baskind

directeur: exactly. This is my way of helping retard Twitter-style noise here. - Robert Scoble

LOL, I just submitted his tweet to Digg. - Paul Short

Here is a conversation about following me... I wonder if that would fly. :) - Aaron Brazell

trextor: agreed. That is interesting to watch. - Robert Scoble

Aaron: you are always experimenting with my block button. I will call you director of block R&D. :-) - Robert Scoble

Being a good sport gets the Like button! :) - Aaron Brazell

Robert, right. I blocked him before because of this actually. Look at his digg page for example. He submitted only 374 news on Digg ang got 364 popular. I don't know if we see the same thing, but it looks _wrong_ for me. - directeur via NoiseRiver

Robert: I'm directeur! Don't mess with my brand ;-) Aaron is just Aaron! And please follow me! oh wait, you're already following me! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I've seen a few people post follow me messages. I'm here to follow not be followed - LPH™

I just blocked someone for being a total asshole. Can dish it but can't take it. Know what I mean? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

What I don't like is all of his fan base coming over here not even knowing how to use ff, or caring to use ff, but just adding him simply because they like him. Sigh... I was back and forth on the reason you were blocking him, but I completely understand now. - Dennis Jackson via twhirl

Go home, Dennis. You have more important things to do than waste time on FriendFeed anyway, right? - Aaron Brazell

I'm yet to block anyone. I think I just like being annoyed. - Mike Lewis

(Raising hand timidly) How do you define begging for followers? What action signifies that? - Abby Martin

haha, I guess I missed the memo that we entered high school again. I need to brush up on my drama. - Danish Khan via twhirl

Scoble, did you also pass him a note after class? Does this mean you're not BFF anymore? - Matthew Mamet via Alert Thingy

Since we seem to be following high school metaphors- Anyone? Bueller? (I'm seriously curious) - Abby Martin

OMG this is funny and ridiculous all at the same time! LOL - Susan Beebe

I resolve to remain BFF with Robert Scoble even though, upon occassion, IMO he more or less suggests that people follow him. - ron k jeffries

Susan, I'm seeing this exactly the same way, gotta love the friendfeed sagas - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“Just finished my weekly review. Took two hours to process all my email. notes, ideas, projects and tasks from the past week. I am now ready.”

July 6 at 6:12 am - Link

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Weekly reviews are tough. You don't get any points for doing them, and your life isn't *hugely* better for doing them. But your organization tends to slide down the deep end as a result. - Brent Newhall

what does your weekly review entail? Sounds like something I should be doing. - Trixie Ferguson Gray

Amber Mac posted a message on Twitter

“Am I the only one having trouble sending direct messages on Twitter?”

July 3 at 6:43 am - Link

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Is that a question you really have to ask? :) - Spencer Scott

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half the time I can't even get updates. twirl acts brain dead... - Eric Ortega via twhirl

I took Leo's advice and basically use friendfeed all the time now - Harry Myhre

I would switch to FriendFeed full time, but 6 followers on Twitter is better than 0 on FF. T_T - DeathByNinja

you can follow your twitter friends on FF. Look for the "imaginary friends" feature. With that feature you can pull your friends' feeds from other services into friendfeed. - Harry Myhre

Harry, I love that feature! I have a bunch of friends that use one or two services so FriendFeed doesn't really benefit them, but at least I can follow them here. Since none of my friends use it, my dilemma falls more in line with people not following me. :D - DeathByNinja

Bwana McCall posted an entry on Bwana.org

An Open Sourced Twitter Emerges: Identi.ca

July 2 at 1:31 pm - Link

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that's the way to go..twitted is an utility and open source Is the way to go to guarantee availability - PF Thaler

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registered as well - Naor

ericortega is on there - Eric Ortega via 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 via twhirl

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

Open source and Twitter? I think I smell awesome. - possible248

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

I hope this works - Alejandro S.

Time to test another site. - Eric_T

Why built another website? There already is Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk. - Andrew Bashore via 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 via 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 via 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 - Chacha via 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 via 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 McCall

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 McCall

If you want more details of the architecture, join the identica room where this has already been discussed - http://friendfeed.com/e/fb158b... - Bwana McCall

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

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. - Nailed Jello

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 McCall

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

@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! - Wolfsbayne

I think the "Replies" feature is out now. Time to update your article. :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

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Thats actually a catchy song haha - Michael Garrison via twhirl

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James Bond / Quantum of Solace HD Trailer

June 30 at 10:32 am - Link

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Sigh, I miss Sean Connery. - Hao Chen

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Daniel Craig is an awesome Bond, way better than Pierce Brosnan He's the first Bond other than Timothy Dalton that I can actually envision killing someone. - Greg Hollingsworth via twhirl

i also miss sean connery... - andy brudtkuhl

when when when? - clarke thomas

I miss Bond girls with really great names...Pussy Galore, Xenia Onatopp, Holly Goodhead, Plenty O'Toole... (ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_girls) - JA Castillo

JA Castillo: I also miss the naked girls in the opening credits - clarke thomas

He doesn't look like a Bond, I just don't see it. - Eddie Ringle

I went to Lake Garda recently where some of the tunnel scenes are filmed - can't wait to see how to drive through them properly! - Richard Bradshaw

ER--I understand, I always envision a strapping man with dark features. I think I'm just so comfortable with Connery. However, I must say that Daniel Craig does indeed do a good job as a Bond. - Anna Haro

The Bond Identity. *marks Nov. 7 on calendar* - ☺ Cecily ☺

I don't miss the girls with sexist names, nor do I miss them in the opening credits. For this girl, Bond movies have always been about the action sequences, and not those that happened horizontally (or, in the case of Moonraker, while weightless in space). - ☺ Cecily ☺

Wow, Craig is great. - marcantonio severgnini

Come back Pierce - Alejandro S.

Jimmy Bond the Humorless Gangster. He does have the cruel streak from the books. Pray he's back to Baccarat and not playing Texas Hold 'em again. - Jericho

Film looks great but still unconvinced about Daniel Craig... - Emma

I Like Craig; more importantly he fit into the scheme of a crude Bond - Casino Royale being the first movie, I kinda liked that he was more blunt than sly; and he fitted that well. That said; no one looked Bond as much as Brosnan and no one can quite sound Bond like Sir Connery. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl

Brosnan had the look, but always struck me as undersized and too slight. Connery will always be the Bond standard. - Jericho

Eliza Sea posted a message on Twitter

“if you listen very quietly in my kitchen, the fridge makes a noise like a submarine radar. ping...ping...ping...ping...”

June 25 at 6:55 am - Link

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strange I noticed the same thing about the mens room at work.... - Eric Ortega via twhirl

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“@teemonster YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!”

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Mea Culpa: I was wrong. Duncan Riley is right about copyright. This video convinced me I was wrong. That said, I'll have more to say on this shortly.

June 19 at 11:47 pm - Link

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Like the candor there Scoble-kudos. - Mark Forman

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whats "Mea Culpa" meaning? I didn't see the link, I just know this phrase is one of enigma's song love - Zahra HB

+5 pts for Robert - Mathew A. Koeneker

Zahra: anytime you hit a phrase you don't understand you should Google it. Here's what I found when I did just that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... - Robert Scoble

Zahra: Mea Culpa = my fault in Latin - Morton Fox

+ 7 pts for knowing Latin. Esto vir. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

thank you Morton - Zahra HB

Like the forthrightness, Robert. Also, isn't there a few browser plugins that will search wikipedia for you if you highlight a word? Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... - Phil Glockner

Bwana McCall posted a link

Official Firefox 3 Download Counter

June 17 at 11:54 am - Link

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Firefox is a record holder alright. - Palin Ningthoujam

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It seems to only be incrementing for Turkey right now?! - cmiper

Oh..just as I said that the other counters started to kick in...nevermind. - cmiper

The rate will probably increase now that http://getfirefox.com is working - Bwana McCall

Didn't Firefox already get a couple of million in one day for Firefox 1? - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

...now the counter page is borked. - cmiper

Yeah, it's wonky on my end too. - JA Castillo

Well, if they are maintaining the rate they were about 10 minutes ago when the counter was working, I would guess that they just rolled past 1 million (3:50pm EST since there are no timestamps here) - cmiper

It's dead Jim. Hopefully they'll get it back up soon - Bwana McCall

The counter is flawed, it's working now, but it picked up just about where it left off almost a half hour ago. :-? - cmiper

They've got 1mill in the bag. Easily. - Andrew Dobrow

Currently showing 870k+ - cmiper

I don't know if they're going to break 5 million or whatever their goal is.. The clock started at 11:17 PDT I believe - Bwana McCall

If they maintain the current rate of +/- 7500 downloads per minute globally, for 24hours they will double that. I would guess that as of right now, they have not spiked in downloads. - cmiper

1 Million! And downloads seem to have picked up now. - cmiper

Whoa...my counter went from 960k, to 1.5 mil... that thing is weird - Bwana McCall

OK..and then it just jumped to almost 1.5 million?! Something wrong there. - cmiper

Counter fail!! :P - Bwana McCall

It was a funny jump...this was one refresh (5 seconds?) then it jumped to 1.5mil. http://i31.tinypic.com/2pql3r7... - cmiper

it's back to 1.1 million now :D - Hassan Ibraheem

Am I reading this right? Is that 7.4 million? - Bwana McCall

7.65M (@GMT+1 time zone), wooot! - Kemal Yaylali

What's the current world record? - Aaron Myers

Bwana McCall posted a message

“Firefox 3 Direct download links”

June 17 at 10:19 am - Link

Alex, Sadegh, ehsan11m and 91 other people liked this

Mac OS X http://download.mozilla.org/?p... - Bwana McCall

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Linux http://download.mozilla.org/?p... - Bwana McCall

Windows http://download.mozilla.org/?p... - Bwana McCall

Wow! Thanks! That worked! - Tad - the Meme Maker via fftogo

This worked for me. Thanks. (I wonder if this counts towards the record). - Ben

That's how I managed to get it. Working great! - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Works for me too, thanks. I am all for setting the record but if those dorks make it hard for me, then I won't bother - Bob Ngu

w00t! - Voyagerfan5761

Thanks a lot! - Wictor Wilén

You da man, Bwana - Rah™

Well done! - Richard Bradshaw

Careful with the overseas mirrors. They will not enable auto-update! - Charlie Anzman

Release candidate 3? I thought this was a final version? - Brian Sullivan

Great - Palin Ningthoujam

@Brian Sullivan: RC3 and Final are identical. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Thanks Bwana! I'm downloading right now :) oh it's finished. see you then. - Kenichi Matsumoto

Yep what the heck, RC3? - Bob Ngu via twhirl

I went directly to the source -> ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/ - Mike Marusin

Shit it forces FF as the default browser -- no option to modify during install it seems. - Brian Sullivan

I guess no one in the tread is participating in the record :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Well done - Jican

ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/ - Will M

Hmmm..custom installation wants Fx in ..Mozilla Firefox Beta 5 folder, is the link really the final release? - Wictor Wilén

Do we know that the FTP links count? - Voyagerfan5761

I would hope so: FTP and direct HTTP downloads are trivial to track. - Mark Trapp

shit - no firebug for rtm yet...B-(. scrambling to remember how to set "ignore compat" switch... - Shawn L. Morrissey

Will, is that RC3 link also? - Bob Ngu via twhirl

@Voyagerfan5761: Mozilla said they don't earlier. If you do get it from FTP, download it from the main site later. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

It just installs on top of the existing version. - Richard Bradshaw

What's the md5? My file (windows) has MD5 = c971bb2273d24d62dd15dcdbd6030ea3 - Richard Bradshaw

Dynamite! thanks bwana!!! - Noah Carter

Is really the final version identical to the RC3 and so the version we are downloading is just a set up for the firefox down(load) day - Guerwan

Thanks Bwana, struggling with server down for minutes :) - Dan H. Racek

I've only downloaded the Mac version, but the md5 matches on both FTP and the link I provided above. Mac OS X md5: 27ff7989db6a206cdfc8989aca9f9283 - Bwana McCall

I cant spot much differences between RC3 and the final version - Palin Ningthoujam

There shouldn't be many differences. But so far so good on my system. Seems a little snappier and uses less RAM than earlier betas. - Robert Scoble

excelent - Ruben Llibre

Updated. Thank you, Firefox team. A vast improvement over FF2. - Chris Baskind

Did it. Can I go home now? :) - Naor

is there somewhere (or some tool) to check compatibility with your addons? I don't want to have to go to each individual addons page and read the fine print. - Tim Hoeck

Palin, the final release of FF3 is identical to RC3. No code changes whatsoever; it's the same package. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

Linked to this from RWW - awesome! :) - Sarah Perez

The welcome page says "Release Candidate 3" after I install from the Mac OS X dmg with an MD5 of 27ff7989db6a206cdfc8989aca9f9283. However, the about page says just "version 3.0". - Fred Yankowski via twhirl

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox... not working - Varun Mahajan

The "about" page has said just "Version 3.0" for a while (or at least it does previous in RCs). I can haz actual release and not RC? - Karim

Shawn, go to http://getfirebug.com. Under releases you can download beta 12. It works with 3. I'm not sure how stable it is, so, as with all betas, installer beware! They claim it to be stable. - Joel Gray

...getting off topic here, but I've been using Firebug on FF3 for weeks and it's very stable. - Daniel Shaw

Watch them live on Mogulus...they just said downloading from mozilla.org counts. http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz... - Bwana McCall

thank you, I can finally download FF3 - Rajiv Doshi

yeah, i've been having a hard time getting the updated firebug for ff3. anyone have an alternative download link? - Ivan Stegic

never mind, i just answered my own question. firebug for ff3 is available on the ftp servers too, in a different directory. go herE: ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1843/ - Ivan Stegic

Thank you very much. - Kevin Porter

thanks for providing the link - Moksh Juneja

Wow, that link made it much todo about nothing. - Russellreno

My Mac OS version also has MD5 27ff7989db6a206cdfc8989aca9f9283 - can someone confirm whether it's really final or RC3 (or provide an official confirmation that final == RC3)? - Chester

For those wondering, the md5 of the Mac OS X download from getfirefox.com and the one I provided above match. Both are 27ff7989db6a206cdfc8989aca9f9283 Those are the official versions - Bwana McCall

Dude. You're awesome! :) - Flora

Leo Laporte posted a link