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Design Tagebuch

8 hours ago - Link

Blog, welches sich nicht nur, aber vor allem mit Relaunches von Websites beschäftigt. Natürlich geht es um Themen wie Webdesign, Usability und Grafik. - Torsten Eckert

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August 2008: IE loses more users to Firefox, Safari, Opera

8 hours ago - via Mento - Link

IE looses almost a whole percent again... - Torsten Eckert via Mento

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August 2008: IE loses more users to Firefox, Safari, Opera

9 hours ago - Link

IE looses almost a whole percent again... - Torsten Eckert

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Meedia: Springer: Die Galerie der Beinahe-Vorstände

9 hours ago - via Mento - Link

Gute Übersicht über die "Beinahe"-Vorstände bei Axel Springer, bspw. Philip Welte, Claus Strunz, Kai Dieckmann, etc.. - Torsten Eckert via Mento

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Google - Enter a URL

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Gives an overview about the structure of a website; e.g. things like events, news, etc... - Torsten Eckert

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Meedia: Springer: Die Galerie der Beinahe-Vorstände

9 hours ago - Link

Gute Übersicht über die "Beinahe"-Vorstände bei Axel Springer, bspw. Philip Welte, Claus Strunz, Kai Dieckmann, etc.. - Torsten Eckert

assbach posted a message on Twitter

“picasa 3 rockt. mir fehlt das immer noch aufm mac. die collagen templates sind so geil. 2 klicks fertig.”

19 hours ago - Link

Picasa 3 auf dem Mac... Wer weiß wann und ob das kommt? - Torsten Eckert

Battlestar Galactica: Mark Trapp posted a link

Battlestar Rumors Debunked

yesterday at 5:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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From SciFi Wire: "SCI FI Channel is calling "inaccurate" rumors that the second half of Battlestar Galactica's fourth and final season will be delayed and confirmed again that the original series will return with new episodes in January 2009. Several Web sites, including io9 and Galactica Sitrep, have posted the rumors, reportedly based on comments made by Battlestar cast member Aaron Douglas at Dragon*Con. The reports are erroneous, the channel confirmed to SCI FI Wire. "It is still slated to return January 2009," a spokesman for the channel said. " - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

Mike Fruchter posted a message

“*FriendFeed Poll* Which version of FriendFeed are you currently using, beta or original?”

yesterday at 3:08 pm - Link

Mike Reynolds, bill giltner, Yolanda, Jeff P. Henderson and 4 other people liked this

Beta - Alejandro S.

original here still - embee

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Beta for sure. I hate it when I click on a link and it takes me to the OG FriendFeed. Still can't live without AJ's script on either one. - Paul Reynolds

is there an original? - Zee at WeDoCreative

original - Michelle Martinez

beta - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

beta - Carlos Ayala

Beta - Ray Metzen

beta - Corie Allison

original - Michael W. May via twhirl

original - Laura Norvig

beta? What beta? - Zach Landes

Original. - Mona N.

original - Jason Kaneshiro

original - Fred Grott

beta - Kyle Lacy

original. i get dizzy by the uber-black font on the beta version. - ~C4Chaos

original - Arash

Beta. - Mark Trapp

beta - Hutch Carpenter

beta - Mattb4rd

Beta - atzmon

Beta (since last night) - Timothy Griffin

original - Grant Bierman

β - Peter

beta - Dobromir Hadzhiev

beta - AJ Kohn

beta - Jandy Stone

original most of the time. beta kinks need to be worked out. - Kamilah Gill

No one offered me a beta...:( - Sean McGee

Beta at home, Google widget at work. - Rochelle

beta - Bill Sanders

B E T A - JA Castillo

beta only - LPH

Beta - Rebkin

original - Deborah Fitchett

via Twhirl. Not always the best UI--can't follow new folks, go to the original web UI for that. - John Frenette via twhirl

beta - .LAGizmoto

beta here - Edgar Rodríguez

original - Duncan Riley

original - Hayk Hakobyan

beta! - Sarah Perez

original... not that I don't like the beta... but the old url is always on top in the address bar :D. - Hassan Ibraheem

beta - Robin Hastings

I switch back and forth - Steve Spalding

Beta - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

iphone - Jason Fleming

switcher :) - Naor

I'm a flip-flopper - Kevin Johnson via twhirl

1/2 on original, 1/2 on fftogo. - Ontario Emperor

beta - Morton Fox

twhirl - rudibrarian via twhirl

twhirl... - Sascha Beaumont via twhirl

back and forth. original today - Josh Haley

Original, until I get my Grease Monkey scripts on the new platform iI'm sticking with the old one. - Jeff P. Henderson

flipper : ) - Gaby Benkwitz

beta - Paul Haahr

both - simonpure

both - Mitchell Tsai

Beta - Tanath

beta - Nick Cowie

original - bill giltner

Original flavor - WarMaiden

original. Extra Crispy isn't my style. - Kate Kapetanakis

love the beta. - James Hull

50/50 - Igor Poltavskiy

beta - Joe Dawson

is there another one than the beta? (only a joke) - Torsten Eckert

beta - Gadiel Rivera

beta - Fuad Arshad

beta, but it sucks that I can't use search in either without logging my account out. - Thomas Hawk

Original. Been too busy lately to switch. - Mike Reynolds

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Here's an idea not everyone will like: Firefox and IE should drop their rendering engines and switch to Webkit (used by Safari and Chrome). Then we wouldn't have the added annoyance of targeting three different DOMs.”

Tuesday at 1:53 pm - Link

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I'm sure someone will say something about "competition", but since it's open-source, they can continue to compete, just as Google has with their new JS engine, V8. Since everyone would be starting from the same point, they would all have the burden of not breaking compatibility. - Paul Buchheit

Microsoft would embrace and extend, creating WebKit Expression '09, and Firefox would only use WebKit 520 for the next 3 years, complaining that Apple and Google won't slow down their development to accommodate an 18 month development cycle. - Mark Trapp

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NO -- webkit is at least poorly studied for security vulnerabilities, I don't want to live with swiss-cheese-alike crap from fruity company JUST because some few entrepreneurs want to make their life easier!!! - silpol

if only they would - Robin Barooah

Mark+++ - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Extending the product is a good thing -- it's how the platform advances. As long as it's all open-source, we all win. - Paul Buchheit

It's not that everybody should like it. It's that they should all do it. - Louis Gray

Actually, that's already been discussed as part of the Gears' strategy... simply make Webkit a plugin for Firefox and IE. It's actually not *that* outlandish. - Chris Messina

Paul, the problem is WebKit is licensed under the LGPL; Microsoft could merely create a plugin to WebKit that did all of its extra features. They really wouldn't receive all that much flak about it, either. - Mark Trapp

That makes sense. It will never happen. - Khürt Williams via twhirl

@Chris - I recall that being mentioned at google code. I wonder what it would take to make a plugin for IE or firefox to use complete chrome processes as an 'accelerator' - Robin Barooah

Yeah, an IE "plugin" is the way to go. That way users don't even need to change their habits or UI, and it could potentially fall-back to IE for sites that still don't work with webkit. There's just no advantage to having different rendering engines at this point. It's high cost, low benefit. - Paul Buchheit

Didn't Netscape 9 allow users to choose which rendering engine they wanted to use? - Tony Ruscoe

@Tony: Netscape 8 did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...) . You'll need to manually type the closing bracket, it is being excluded as part of the URL and I can't manually fix it. - nadim

for you all dearst proponents of single engine - go read "1984" book... dependence on one engine (or any subsystem, when it comes to that) for whole world is dangerous... and utterly stupid when it is done for sake of small group's convenience :-/ - silpol

Yes, it would be just like 1984 :) - Paul Buchheit

@slipol - that would be true if we were talking about one engine developed by one company, but with an open-source project with many developers, I don't see how this could be a problem. Do you think that hundreds (maybe thousands) of developers worldwide will all collude to do something evil? Well, if so, some other people will come along and create a fork. In fact, WebKit was forked off of khtml. Let's not forget to thank the KDE folk for the good engine to begin with. - Robert Felty

Why would the two most popular browsers in the world change? - Globecode

Crazy talk! - Andrew Badera

Rob, the problem that silpol is presumably saying exists with a monoculture is that everybody is vulnerable to the same diseases. This has happened in the past where security vulnerabilities in compression and encryption libraries have made huge amounts of unrelated software vulnerable. But Paul has a good point that a dominant platform certainly makes things easier for the developer, which is why there are millions more apps for Windows than any other platform. - Gabe Schaffer

You are making a big discussion out of nothing. The hypotesis that if they all use the same basis, that will have the same DOM, they will be interoperable. That has been proved wrong: all the web browsers out there already have the same working basis (Web Standards) and still they messed things up. What makes you believe that this would be different? - Marcos Marado via fftogo

Marcos, the difference is that they all started from very different places and IE and Firefox both have a lot of historical gunk. Web standards wasn't their working basis, the browser wars of the 90s was. The browsers have been converging for years now, which makes web development a lot better than it used to be, but that only emphasizes the uselessness of having multiple rendering engines. The monoculture argument is of course nonsense. Having three engines isn't going to make the world any safer, especially since they use the same base libraries. - Paul Buchheit

I agree!! - Wayne Sutton

This would definitely make life easier on the web developers - however monocultures usually result in a mediocre product. - Josh Smith

I agree - Roberto Bonini

@Paul I can only assume that you proclaim monoculture argument as nonsense only because you've never seen domino effect on large scale, with species of slightly different nature still staying... I've heard same kind of argumentation from Opera people as they were bragging on idea of "one proper engine under one proper standards" only to show them a bunch of weak points in their cardboard architecture, granted I had apropriate tools. But... Whatever. - silpol

The monoculture argument is based entirely on analogy, which makes for nice stories, but is a very weak form of evidence. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, but if they really wanted to interoperate, i.e. If the browser wars were really over, then they would just stop the last few years nonsense and go for standards compliance. Why did Apple fork KHTML? Why does IE insist in not adapting standards? Ultimately what matters for both end users and web developers is that each browser sees the same page in the same way. It's fictitious to say that the way to acomplish this is making them use the same code (why not use your argument for Javascript?): the way to do this is simply to follow the rules - in the web case, standards. - Marcos Marado via fftogo

Why bother with HTML, JS and others such standards then? Let's close up those shops and just standardize everything through Webkit. Which is great, unless if for whatever reason Webkit doesn't work on your device (or until the great Webkit fork). Let's standardize DOM instead, ne? :) - David Lee

Standardization is hard because there's a large amount of pages crafted specifically for quirks particular browsers. Going standard breaks them. - 9000

it sucks that it doesn't work on Windows Mobile yet.... ugh, I'm stuck in the stone age with IE6... - Harold

This conversation is so all over the place, I don't even know where to begin. All I can say is that 1985 wasn't as bad as I would have thought, seeing as it came after 1984. - Chris Messina

LOL hehehehe! - Susan Beebe

What's the point? You're still going to have to support IE6 for a decade anyway, and any new browser has to not break old apps. It's like those people who suggest that MS just replace the Windows kernel with Linux, as if all old apps will suddenly disappear, leaving the slate clean for all the glorious new apps to come. - Gabe Schaffer

that's one idea i love! standardization, baby! - stefan

Until someone decides that engine is crap and writes their own? - Robert Konigsberg

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Google Implements Social Graph API and hCard in Profiles - ReadWriteWeb

yesterday at 12:25 pm - Link

Google builds up a whole new system around the social graph and is starting slowly the integration via the Google Profile google.com/s2/profiles/me[google.com/s2/profiles/me] ) - Torsten Eckert

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“@smheadhunter Mac users are jealous of Chrome? Why not use WINE or Virtualized environment to experiment?”

yesterday at 6:58 am - Link

question is if Google will bring other apps to the Mac like Picasa... - Torsten Eckert

Mike Fruchter shared an item on Google Reader

Chrome is not a Browser, It Is the new Desktop

yesterday at 5:56 am - Link

Charlie Anzman, John Cooper, "Czar" DJ Peterman, Rob Diana and 7 other people liked this

That is one of the more interesting features with Chrome. Create Desktop Apps. - Svartling

Why isn't this page coming up for me? - Kyle Lacy

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it´s like a closed environment and Google is measuring every activity within Chrome - Torsten Eckert

Kyle the page should be ok, I just checked and it was fine. - Rob Diana

I think that we are going to see a lot of "Chrome Apps" Like we saw iPhone apps. Google gears enabled apps that install just by clicking "Yes put it in my menu". All of a sudden installing traditional desktop apps look a little limited and slow. - John Cooper

John's comment makes sense. Google then moves from being a content and search company to a platform and search company - the platform being Chrome. Will the "Microsoft ten years ago" analogy ring true this time? - Roberto Bonini

Chrome is a metalic veneer. Time will tell. - pazzer1

It's perfect for creating small desktop apps. I have one for ping.fm, gmail, evernote. - Svartling

Battlestar Galactica: Torsten Eckert posted a link

Battlestar Galactica: New Battlestar Galactica Pushed Back To April?

yesterday at 5:52 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

this would be bad, another six months to wait... - Torsten Eckert via Bookmarklet

Yep... I think I will tell Sci-Fi and NBC and Universal to *bleep* off. BBC will keep me entertained. - Michael W. May via twhirl

Doesn't look like it (hopefully!): http://tinyurl.com/5mzcdo - "SCI FI Channel is calling 'inaccurate' rumors that the second half of Battlestar Galactica's fourth and final season will be delayed and confirmed again that the original series will return with new episodes in January 2009." - Timothy Griffin

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A List of Social Media Marketing Examples

yesterday at 5:42 am - via Mento - Link

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Liste mit Beispielen, was Advertiser bisher in Social Networks aktiv als Werbekunden gemacht haben. - Torsten Eckert via Mento

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Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples

yesterday at 5:27 am - Link

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Great list. Peter's really shining lately on his blog. - Chris Brogan

Yah, it´s really great. Especially to see this list with all the links to the advertisers and to their actions. - Torsten Eckert

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A List of Social Media Marketing Examples

yesterday at 5:11 am - Link

Liste mit Beispielen, was Advertiser bisher in Social Networks aktiv als Werbekunden gemacht haben. - Torsten Eckert

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Blip.fm | Global Music Radar

Tuesday at 11:51 pm - Link

This is kind of a twitter for Music - Torsten Eckert

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

August 30 at 6:10 am - Link

A really great and worrying text about our reading behaviours and our ability to concentrate in the age of the internet. Quote: "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." - Torsten Eckert

Chris Messina published photos on Flickr

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

jQuery UI - Watch technical and real world demos

August 29 at 3:25 pm - Link

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How to critique your own photographs | Shutterpad.com

August 29 at 3:30 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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MacBlips - Top Mac News, Videos, and Blogs

August 29 at 3:29 pm - via Mento - Link

New Site regarding all the news around the Mac, looks promising - Torsten Eckert via Mento

Jaiku: an entry from Jaikido Blog

We’re back, and invitations are now unlimited

August 27 at 10:36 am - Link

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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

MacBlips and GadgetBlips Launch to Capture Leading Tech Stories

August 28 at 11:30 am - Link

Torsten Eckert, Charlie Anzman, Atul Arora, Brad Brooks and Mike Fruchter liked this

This is pretty cool. I've just joined up, and added to my "Morning" tab group I open every day. Thanks Louis... - Brad Brooks

Brad, glad you like it. I've known the developers behind the two sites for a few years, and, with a good community, the sites can be part of the daily routine for sure. - Louis Gray

Louis, thanks also for the good tip. Bookmarked Macblips and will see how it develops in the near future. - Torsten Eckert

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MacBlips - Top Mac News, Videos, and Blogs

August 29 at 3:08 pm - Link

MacBlips, a Mac news site and social network, finds the biggest Mac stories on the web and lets fans discuss, vote, or submit their own. - Torsten Eckert

Plurk: Kol Tregaskes posted a link

“asks is there a bookmarklet for Plurk?”

August 25 at 5:45 am - via Reshare - Link

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good question, but we still don´t have an answer yet... - Torsten Eckert

Kol Tregaskes posted a message on Twitter

“asks is there a bookmarklet for Plurk?”

August 10 at 9:44 am - Link

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Check out this blog it has links to lots of Plurk apps: http://www.firefoxfacts.com/20... - Annie Rob

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louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions To Improve FriendFeeds Beta

August 29 at 2:37 pm - Link

10 very good points and suggestions regarding the new beta-version of FriendFeed - Torsten Eckert

Battlestar Galactica: Mark Trapp posted a link

****SPOILER OH EM GEE**** 3 BSG Characters Have A Dark Secret In Their Past

August 27 at 5:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Simian DA (Amber), Torsten Eckert, Michael W. May, Kevin Cearns and 2 other people liked this

From io9: "The more we hear about the new Battlestar Galactica TV movie, the more it sounds as though it'll have to reinvent the show's history a tad in order to make sense. But that could be a good thing, as writer Jane Espenson refashions some old continuity to tell a story about some Cylons on a journey of self-discovery. Star Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) was just at a Fan Expo, and he confirmed which characters will star in the movie, and when it's set. Including spoilers, of course." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble posted a message

“FriendFeed's growth rate had stalled for a few weeks there. It's now restarted thanks to new beta version. New features get attention which get new users.”

August 26 at 2:24 pm - Link

Andrei M. Marinescu, Chris Nixon, Art, David Risley and 48 other people liked this

Indeed, I was feeling the same thing. It really felt like it was stalling. I was having lunch with a friend yesterday mentioning exactly that, but with the beta it seems to have leaped out of the ditch and back into action. I've enjoyed FF much more today than I have in a number of weeks. - Thomas Hawk

funny, I was just drawn back here after a few weeks away having read a twitter about new features :) - Dave Pook

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Robert can you provide a link to where you see the growth rate increase? and which metric are you referring to? - Allen Stern

Allen: since I'm one of the top recommended people to follow I can see when growth on the service slows down or speeds up based on how many are following me. - Robert Scoble

Dude. - Josh McHugh

that's pretty cool, Robert, you're actually a Metric? :) - Iain Baker

no comment - Allen Stern

or because jaiku is down and people are here waiting - sampsa

That's true. Actually, I'm using FF more since the re-design than before. In LatAm, though, Facebook is not (yet) the most popular social network but it's growing super fast. - Martin Añazco

We're like monkeys. New features = bananas! Time to feed the monkeys! - Steve Rubel

Well said Steve. ;) - Nicholas Kreidberg

There is a lot of excitement here, but it is also August so slow growth is expected this time of year. - Russellreno

using twhirl, I haven't noticed any changes. - rambn via twhirl

Everyone I knew was using friendfeed like a month ago. Now I am the only one left. It's dead. Next - PC Easy via twhirl

FF released their beta yesterday and I got my friendfeed shirt today....coincidence!! - Satya Boora

It only looks like new users. They're probably all fake-followers. - Chris Kim A

So FF growth can be correlated with ego growth... interesting - Jason Carreira

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE using small groups of 5 or 10. I can run "best of week" on the small groups & see tons of new stuff. Whether or not I delete someone from my main feed (the "fake follow") is meaningless. People just get swamped out when following 700 people. - Mitchell Tsai

Is it that FriendFeed introduced new features, or is it that people were talking about FriendFeed? For example, if the news reported that Britney Spears mentioned "FriendFeed," would the Scoble Metric show a spike solely based upon publicity for the FriendFeed brand? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

The real question then is why anyone would follow 700 people in the first place. - Cyndy

Cyndy: I don't know, I follow 3,200. I find that the noise level is just right. - Robert Scoble

i guess i am confused - you are ok with being a default and letting everyone follow you but you only care about the people "I follow". - Allen Stern

Allen: I wasn't a default when I started using FriendFeed. I personally don't like being a default. The recommender engine is useless to me too. We need a far better one. But first they need to rebuild their database. There are far more important things to fix in the database. Why can't you see all items that mention Allen Stern and have two or more likes? Because the database needs major work. If that work gets done then all of a sudden we'll get a better recommender page, too. - Robert Scoble

Cyndy: I'm at a dance camp in Maine with 630 people (part of a larger community of a few thousand). If everyone at this camp was on FriendFeed, I'd love to have them send stuff into one folder. This community has been running for 30 years, and people have married/divorced/had kids etc... I'm not interested in following 12,000 nameless business cards, but I enjoy following people with good posts, and there are many here at FF! I'm thinking about making 100 groups of 10, to hear more people. - Mitchell Tsai

Okay, sorry, but gotta butt in and ask: which dance camp? :) - Adam Lasnik

just curious: how do you know that the new beta version brought in new users? maybe it was the blog posts that just brought FF back to more readers that drove new users? - Jeremy Toeman

I am waiting for the next wave of traffic charts. Seems like its been much more than 30 days. Yuvi? Thomas? - Russellreno

Speaking of exciting web apps that have stalled out, what's the deal with Swurl? - K Welch

I've been tracking the compete chart, but it'll probably be another week or so until they are updated with August numbers. - Thomas Hawk