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Yard Sale Treasure Map - A Yard Sale Planning Tool - http://www.yardsaletreasuremap.com/
Lester Greenberg, Mike Beahm, George Dearing and 6 other people liked this
Cool mashup that finds garage/yard sales and plots them on a map. Pulls data from Craigslist.
- Kevin Mullett
One of the more useful mashups I've ever seen
- Keith Barrett
Plurk the next big thing? @digitalfilipino asks the question. It's big in the PHL that's for sure. Maybe more content centric? #snebc
Freddie Benjamin, Toni @ NavinoT, Hutch Carpenter and 4 other people liked this
I liked Plurk when it launched...maybe once there is a full API it will interest me more.
- Neal Jansons
I also liked it and used it when it first launched. It was very popular in Hong Kong too.
- Vinko
Big in PH like Friendster. Who uses Friendster? :D
- Rom Feria
Plurk is definitely better for conversations compared to Twitter, maybe that's why it's more popular to Filipinos.
- Jonas
it's quite popular too in Indonesia
- Toni @ NavinoT
You've got to use Twitter apps to enhance conversations. Plurk is based on conversations, but with the search abilities of Twitter, it's going away from a pure person-centric model
- Paul Papadimitriou
What's amazing is the popularity of Multiply in the Philippines
- Paul Papadimitriou
Plurk is a big mess
- Francesco Marconi
watching a thunderstorm over the Gulf of Mexico
Morton Fox, Christine Cavalier, Susan Beebe and Franklin Day liked this
There's rain in the forecast here tomorrow.
- Morton Fox
Bush releases last Presidential Pardons list - http://www.inquisitr.com/9508...
Morton Fox, Franklin Day and Alex Haar liked this
I don't know anything about any of these cases but the choices seem to be rather random and many deal with offenses that occurred quite a while ago.
- Robert Banghart
When Is Social Networking Kosher In The Office? : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...
Melanie McBride, Vishy, Franklin Day and 2 other people liked this
"Yammer is a company that takes the basic idea behind Twitter and moves it to the workplace."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
On MSNBC a helicopter shot of a line for early voting in Atlanta, 8-to-10 hour wait. Mostly African-Americans. I've got goosebumps.
Rob Diana, Atul Arora, Mark Edwards and 17 other people liked this
FiveThirtyEight.com ran a neat chart linking early voting with racial demographics: http://bit.ly/2uoVPv
- Daniel J. Pritchett
my Iranian brother-in-law was excited last night. Never seen him like that.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, it's pretty amazing. Hey are you going to be in the Bay Area on Tuesday night? Sent you an invite via email (I know you sometimes don't check email).
- Dave Winer
Was there dancing involved? Surely you caught a video for us!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
It's interesting, could we see a whole new wave of people voting because for once they see someone that kind of looks like them, speaks for them, etc. For ages it's been choosing between the white guys ... and that might have turned a lot of people away
- AJ Kohn
Great info, FiveThirtyEight.com is such a great resource
- Justin Yost
You make it sound like African-Americans in Atlanta never vote.
- Tony Kanzia
There are a lot of irregularities in early voting here in MO.
- Robert Hafer
Dave, my wife and I voted there. 90-minute lines all day, every day, for two weeks. Watching several Spelman students cast their first vote was very special.
- John Craft
Early voting via absentee (mail-in) ballot is the best. Cast my vote for Obama here in Florida a few days ago. So did my wife.
- Mike Reynolds
Dave: yeah, got your email. Thanks! Not sure yet where I'll be. We're leaving for China the next morning, might make it to Berkeley.
- Robert Scoble
Google's Brin says the OS is toast because of Chrome: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008... . Maybe, but sitting on a Mac, I wouldn't know.
Franklin Day liked this
My baby is 6 today - http://skitch.com/duncanr...
Hakim, Mitchell Tsai, Andrew Baron and 61 other people liked this
OMG he's so adorable. Is that his school uniform?
- Cyndy
thx. yes, full blazer + tie for winter
- Duncan Riley
Congrats, thank god he looks like SWMBO ;-)
- loren feldman
Loren, lol :-) Not all that good though, he has his mothers chin
- Duncan Riley
I'm telling you... all kids should wear uniforms. I did and hated it but now I know why my mother loved them so much.
- Cyndy
Happy birthday, young man.
- Frank Roche
not wearing a uniform isn't an option here, even in State schools.
- Duncan Riley
+1 for Duncan! Great photo. My son is 2 and getting more handsome every day. Cheers!
- Morgan
Congratulations. Isn't that fun!
- Franklin Day
from fftogo
awesome! 6 is such a beautiful age. My son Will is 6.
- Thomas Hawk
My eldest is 6 too, she's starting to get really independent now
- Glenn Slaven
My younger son is 6-1:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Nice. My son is going to be 1 soon. I can't believe it, I can see this is going to go very fast. And yes, I think he does look like you Duncan, I can see that.
- jjprojects
Fantastic Duncan, congrats! :)
- Steve Spalding
Cutie pie :)
- Mohamed J
Mine turned 7 last month ... They grow too fast! *cry*
- tj hanton
what a handsome little guy. my girl turned 5 in april and is already talking about all the 'big girl things' she'll do when she turns 6.
- Admiral Anika
It seems a million years ago that mine were young and cute. My "baby" turned 17 last month and I can barley remember that I love her between bouts of wanting to strangle her!
- Aura Mae
smart uniform and cute smile :)
- nouhad
What a handsome young man!
- Skye B.
Wow! Good looking kid! He is going to grow up a lady killer! All girls will love him! Looks much older than 6 years old! Is he blogging already? ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I am thinking Mini Microsoft played a role by exposing management problems.
Dani Radu, Franklin Day, Alberto Lopez and 5 other people liked this
Before you left Microsoft, I said that your efforts, as well as that of Mini-Microsoft, really helped to lend a human face to the monolith. Along with MSFTExtremeMakeover (RIP), Mini-Microsoft has been an outstanding critic and well-written.
- Louis Gray
OK, customer support from Zappos RULES. Every other company should take notes.
Andy Lynch, Liz Pruszko, Tyler Crowley and 13 other people liked this
What is Zappos?
- Mattb4rd
They're really stellar. I ordered boots that had a scuff on them, and so they've sent me a replacement with overnight shipping and a coupon for my next order! Plus, they're having the warehouse check the next boots to make sure they're not scuffed too. Awesome. And this was all over Live Chat!
- Veronica
Zappos is great. I ordered some sandals, wore them for about 2 months and then they started to literally fall apart, the seams just stopped staying together, they let me return them even though they were not in resellable condition and replaced them with a new pair (that i eventually had to return because it didn't fit) Just his week I ordered Ugg Walleys and the first pair was twoo small so they overnighted me the next pair. I love Zappos, it seems I get upgraded expedited shipping everytime.
- Andrew Fielding
I love Zappos service!! They make it so easy to buy and return items that don't fit or that you decide you do not want. Every other on line vendor should take note.
- Jeff P. Henderson
This all sounds great from the customers' point-of-view, but I wonder if it's good for business. Clearly they lost a lot of money on Andrew Fielding.
- Leo Laporte
@Leo, their stuff is kind of expensive - at least full retail price, and considering they don't have to pay retail store rent, they are probably doing OK.
- Laura Norvig
Leo, they actually have now made money off of me. I've posted about how awesome they are on my blog and have ordered expensive shoes from them as well as signed up for their Credit Card with Chase bank. That one act of customer service has made me a loyal customer for life.
- Andrew Fielding
If their business model was not profitable, I'm sure they would have changed it by now. Seems like treating the customer well is almost always a good business plan.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Here is some insight into Zappos business model and what makes it so successful. http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/taylor...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Is the Music Industry Digging Its Own Online Grave? - http://www.inquisitr.com/2492...
Nicholas James, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Sean Ammirati and 30 other people liked this
uh yes? and offline too!
- mjc
I'm just wondering how long until even the big artists don't make a dime on their recorded music. Why is it so hard for them to see the writing on the wall?
- Cyndy
Looks very much like this Duncan, sad developments we are witnessing these days.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Why can they not figure out that by charging outrageous fees and forcing good services to shutdown, they are actually encouraging piracy?
- Rob Diana
but everything is pretty simple. guys are making tons of money on the music and they wouldn't like to loose it. How about music tax? Americans don't dive into this doomed grave :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
from twhirl
One the one hand, they control supply, so forcing distributors' hands is, for them, good, even logical in an evil way. On the other hand, 99% of music is pirated so they better get their act together.
- Vincent van Wylick
If a high percentage is pirated, then they don't control supply
- Jason Carreira
(bring back vinyl)
- Vicky
the future for profit in the music biz will be concerts....cant remember the last time i bought a cd, or any other music content.
- royce
@Jason: that means that they don't control distribution. But they do have some control over artists, the supply.
- Vincent van Wylick
Man, Cyndy is everywhere these days!
- Louis Gray
In electronic music scene these days the record is nothing but a fancy business card. Releasing a CD/vinyl is just as raising a flag saying "hey, here i am, come to see me live"
- Tibor Holoda
well said Tibor :)
- Ben Borges
Matthew, I would disagree with your statement. What NIN and Radiohead did with their online free/premium releases shows that many people are willing to pay for music when given interesting choices. However, if the industry ignores this, then you are completely right.
- Rob Diana
Radiohead and NIN grandfathered into the system based on success carved out whilst using the old system. So, great for them that they're able to offer fans options, but their success doesn't necessarily translate. Furthermore, these examples are a success because fans ultimately paid for the product. So, I stand by my statement, if no one pays, then the music industry is dead.
- stretta
from twhirl
Rob - The Radiohead experiment was pretty much a failure. It was estimated that 62% of people didn't pay for the album. Those who did pay (I was one of them), paid an average of $6 worldwide. When you average it all out they ended up getting $2.26.
- Jim McCusker
industry might be dead soon, at least as we know it, but music for sure won't
- Tibor Holoda
I was just thinking, the recording industry is going down, one way or another. We should just help it along somehow. A caomplete halt on buying music aint gonna fly. Just wish I could think of something. Apple going completely DRM-free is a possibility.
- Roberto Bonini
LOL Louis. I'm trying to be you. Seriously, though... this is a temporary gig. I'm helping Duncan out while he's at Gnomedex. As for the industry, they are at a juncture where they could essentially carve their own path and instead, they seem bent on self-destruction.
- Cyndy
Imagine if I said "good going! high five" to every one of your tweets. It would get old fast.
Dave Winer, Franklin Day, Orli Yakuel and 6 other people liked this
good going! high five
- Suvi-Tuuli
word up! w00t!
- jeneane sessum
Good going! High five!!
- Dave Winer
Hoooty Hoo!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I ate a mango!
- Chrimmus Tad
I like turtles
- Josh Haley
Rasheen, I'm not the only one that says 'hooty hoo'!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Let's try it. Sounds fun. :D
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
I like pie
- Laura Norvig
@Nate, I'm in! High five!
- jeneane sessum
Bacon, FTW
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
More sugar!
- Dave Martin
Oh jeez. I have a co-worker who does this constantly.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I Like Muffins!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
For whatever reason, I had a vision of Ed McMahon (or rather, the parody of him) saying, "Yes! You are correct, sir!" Oh dear.
- Chris Brogan
mmmmmm pie
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
densaugeo!
- ɥsıuɐʎɹ
I think that's the equivalent of when someone posts "Nice shot" as the entire content of a comment on Flickr.
- Aaron B. Hockley
bonza you beauty!
- Duncan Riley
Hi Five!
- Roberto Bonini
Old for you maybe, but everyone else is having a ball!
- Michael C. Harris
The Next Social Networks Will Not Be Powered By Blog Platforms - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
bill giltner, Martin Recke, jerobins and 10 other people liked this
I agree with your conclusion, but I come to it via a technical path... The next gen of social networks will need to start at Facebook's volume as a baseline of activity and scale exponentially from there as social networks become more mainstream. As Twitter has shown us, these 2 tier database backed architectures are simply incapable of supporting these requirements.
- Jason Carreira
I think Sweetcron, an app soon to be released here in Japan, might change this. If I'm right about what it will be, it will be the next WordPress, the next evolution in self-hosted blog platforms more attuned to the multi-channel media that we involve ourselves in these days.
- Ray Grieselhuber
URL: http://www.sweetcron.com (I have no affiliation)
- Ray Grieselhuber
Read posts (Riley/Perez) I am dismayed that neither mentioned the DiSo project. I expect to see a trend back to blogging with Ping.fm services enabling people to broadcast to the many micro sites.
- sam sethi
from Alert Thingy
What Sara wrote was more right than wrong. MT Pro has OpenID 2.0 built in, plus OAuth libraries for plugin developers. SixApart demoed their implementation of Facebook Connect, which allows a user to use their Facebook login on MT. The same should be coming for Google's OpenSocial APIs. Personally, I like the direction that MT is going in; I'd rather have a MT site with the social networking stuff than a Ning site.
- Albert Willis
Ray, I think it's a bit much to say something that hasn't even been released yet is going to be the next WordPress. I hope it does well, of course, but there are new blog platforms out there doing interesting things, like Habari and Chyrp.
- Michael C. Harris
Michael - point taken, but I did qualify it with "if I'm right." I've been known to be wrong before. :-)
- Ray Grieselhuber
Chyrp and Habari look pretty cool, though.
- Ray Grieselhuber
i believe MT and WP - toghether with data portability - do have a chance to change the way we blog, in a more interactive and "social" way.
- Markingegno - Donato
I should have added a disclaimer, I'm a committer on the Habari project. Interested parties welcome to join our little community :)
- Michael C. Harris
Gregory, I can only speak for Habari, but security is certainly something we consider all the time. For example, we use PDO to protect against SQL injection attacks. Also, see http://wiki.habariproject.org/en....
- Michael C. Harris
quote- "features such as forums are old school." Yep.
- Kevin Gamble
We are drinking rose wine and lattes while eating gelato. Would @garyvee approve? Probably not but we don't give a damn at this point. :-)
Franklin Day and Yolanda liked this
does rose wine and lattes go toggether? or doesn't it matter?
- Jonathan Jesse
Let us know how you feel in the morning :)
- Charlie Anzman
as long as there was some exercise today
- Ryan
Michael R. Bernstein, Lora Lufark, Stephen Pierzchala and 11 other people liked this
I agree. I knew things have been "tense" for sometime but an actual shooting war? Wow, that was a surprise.
- Steve
give them time they are all focused on #080808. They can not be as agile as us. How can they follow the cloud, when the cloud doesn't know where it is going yet.
- Jonathan Ferguson
Isn't anyone thinking of the CELEBRITIES? Damn news media!
- abacab
But that's when it's sensational...
- Clay Newton
the problems Georgia and Russia have been well know for awhile , ever since the Rose Revolution. Kinda why Georgia wants to join NATO , so Russia doesn't invade them....... oh wait
- Carl Backstrom
Looks like we are back into 19th century "spheres of influence" politics. You'd think after the Cold-War everything would have been peachy.
- Stephen James
Its also funny that twitter reports are faster than the AP now.
- The Dude Dean
The Dude - that's nothing new. A mailing list I was on heard about 9/11 before the media did.
- Earle Martin
What women know - http://howto.opml.org/dave...
Rakesh, Dave Martin, Dileepa Prabhakar and 53 other people liked this
See also: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Dave Winer
HA!
- Mona Nomura
I think my entire office heard me laugh at that one...
- Justin Korn
It's a variant of the old joke -- If a man says something in a forest and there's no woman present, is he still wrong? :-)
- Dave Winer
Wrong again. That's the first thing they know.
- Russell Holliman
Or it could be all ten things. :-)
- Dave Winer
as in "you're wrong wrong wrong..." - yea, definititly.
- Russell Holliman
Wrong! Definitely ;)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
- Steven Perez
Ha I must start hanging out with a different sort!
- Sean Kelly
Brilliant Dave, brilliant.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Dave! ROFL....
- susan mernit
Puh-leeze!
- Sherrilynne Starkie
The only reason 1-9 are blank is because we haven't chosen to share it with y'all... it would really be too much for your minds to handle! ;)
- Lucretia Pruitt
It's starting to happen, Friendfeed dumbing down with this mindless drivel... Time to move on, then! *sigh*
- Mario Olckers
Mario: You're following 70+ people. Unsubscribe from a few (or subscribe to other people), and the content will change.
- flammable
Slow Motion Video of Lightning - http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~r...
JECO Photo, Franklin Day, M. Donaldson and 3 other people liked this
Lots of lightning here in Florida. Interesting to see it in slo mo.
- Brenda Young
Rich People Rooftops NYC - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
elif kavalci, mersenne, Ray Metzen and 7 other people liked this
wow, cool set of photos! when i lived in nyc, i was always amazed at the rooftop gardens and courtyards hidden in the middle of blocks.
- Hillary Hartley
Gas prices are getting RIDICULOUS in Seattle: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
ChaCha Fance and Franklin Day liked this
Weird, they are dropping here in the 'Lou.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
lmao & I thought it was bad here in Kansas lol. Gas is almost the same as minimum the wage here.......
- ChaCha Fance
26 Teen Cheerleaders Squeezed Into An Elevator… - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Franklin Day, Andy DeSoto, Mitch Wagner and 3 other people liked this
"Dear Penthouse Forums, I never thought these letters were real, but..."
- Jason Carreira
I smell a million dollar Cinemax pitch in the works... can I at least co-produce?
- JR R.
SONY PICTURES ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE CROSS PLATFORM DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS TO ROCKETBOOM - http://dembot.com/post...
Sarah Austin, Mark Derricutt, Elias Torres and 37 other people liked this
Congrats on the deal Andrew!
- Aaron Krug
Excellent. Can't imagine how hard it must have been at times to hold out for what you wanted. Very brave. Congratulations.
- Amyloo
well done
- Ouriel Ohayon
Congrats to the team. Hope your content and style is embraced by Sony and you retain your creative freedom!
- Glenn Batuyong
awesome!!! congrats!
- David Parmet
from twhirl
Fabulous news for you, Andrew, as well as Joanne, Kenyatta and the rest of the crew -- many congratulations.
- Stephen Mack
Thanks again everyone, 'pretty damn psyched!
- Andrew Baron
It just goes to show you that hard work and perseverance pays off. You guys really did it the right way. Hopefully I won't have to get a damn PS3 to see the show. ;)
- Sean-Michael Robinson
That is quite an accomplishment Andrew. Its inspirational to here your struggles and successes over the last few years. 7 figures is nothing to balk
- Chris Conway
at in this economy. Now I suppose you can affoard a 6 fugure idea man on your team. hahaj.k.
- Chris Conway
Thanks for the detailed post on this Andrew, and especially for outlining how you explored options with traditional entertainment co's and hired CAA as reps... Those are avenues I've considered with an entertainment news property I'm developing (nothing like Rocketboom) and it's encouraging to see that strategy pay off. It's also pretty awesome to see someone benefit from the hard work and creative drive connected to a passion for a project rather than an industry. Congrats and best wishes for the future!
- Stacy Bond
Congrats Andrew, you were a pioneer long before anyone else. Looking forward to seeing what else you do with Rocketboom.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations, Andrew! - You've totally earned it.
- Julie Perry
Kudos Andrew. Does this mean Rocketboom will include rootkits now? :P Make the most of it!
- Mark Forman
Social Bookmarking: The Race to Be Famous or a Tool? - http://mashable.com/2008...
S. Charles Balazs and Franklin Day liked this
Twitter will kick themselves for missing this (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
cori, S. Charles Balazs, Sylvain Carle and 77 other people liked this
Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share. Further, what if that vendor had the foresight that there would be other vendors and that compatibility between their services would make a huge market, and that incompatibility would keep the market fragmented and relatively small. What would that vendor have done?
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Dave - I don't quite understand your argument for how Twitter could have been the NSOL of microblogging. Are you saying that Twitter should have been the site that binds every other micro-blogging service together?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I don't understand your question, sorry. All I get from it is your first phrase that you don't understand me. So neither of us understand each other. Oh well. Maybe someone else can bridge the void..
- Dave Winer
Love it Dave. We're having a meta conversation about microblogging. Maybe I'll go craft an old fashioned blog post of my own to try and elaborate/clarify :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
It's kind of like this Apple commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dave Winer
Exactly!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Another example, I read somewhere on FF the other day that people took a feed from a music room here and added it to iTunes and it knew what to do with it! I feel really proud of that cause it was made possible by some early foundation work I did with RSS, a long time ago, paying off now for users. Exactly the kind of foresight I would like to see Twitter do now.
- Dave Winer
Now that I get. Thanks Dave.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Dave, yes you spot on (once again !). However, twitter doing it is basically like asking like asking water to turn to honey. Only a miracle can make it happen. The underlying architecture of Twitter, really can't support a framework of collaborative sharing of info with other 3rd party vendors. FB did a great job with creating the app that was actually a platform. FF seems to be like this, twitter is ouf of the window.
- Peter Dawson
Do you think the problem lies in the fact that they are a Valley startup that needs to look like something Google or Yahoo would buy and put ads on.
- Harold Gilchrist
from twhirl
Harold, I don't think there's a "problem" -- they're overworked and head-down and faced with an enormous amount of opportunity. It must be hard to sort through it all, and to them, a missive like this from me probably sounds pretty shrill. "Oh there he goes again." I don't blame them for this, but I would be remiss if I didn't put my stake in the ground so we can play Monday Morning Quarterback in 2010 or so. (Murphy-willing, knock wood!)
- Dave Winer
Network Solutions are the worst company ever, i don't know why you related Twitter to them.
- Nicholas James
I suspect that the problems from this past weekend are only going to exacerbate the problem. http://tinyurl.com/5pkpjs Not only have they missed they opportunity, but poor communication and support are seriously eroding the customer base. That the victims of this weekend's situation included several strong Twitter evangelists has unfortunate potential. Even tho the folks involved seem to mostly still carry a fondness for Twitter, their followers witnessed the problems and were involved in the solution.
- Patricia F. Anderson
"Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share." Wasn't that *mostly* true of AOL, though? Didn't AOL consolidate their position by buying up ICQ? Didn't they drag their feet for years and years on efforts to make their IM play well with others? By illustrating your point with IM, perhaps you have...
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- Karim
Likewise, Network Solutions is an example of *abuse* of a dominant position: in 1995 they charged $100 to register a domain name for 2 years, which led to an antitrust lawsuit. They've also been guilty of domain name censorship, domain name slamming, subdomain hijacking, domain name frontrunning, selling WHOIS information, etc. ad nauseam.
- Karim
I, for one, am glad their business model didn't become IP of a namespace
- Ross Mayfield
I'm really surprised that this weekend's problems of account closings haven't caused more of a fuss. It seems to me that it would be such a big deal, it would be the final straw that would get most of the major twitter advocates to finally pay attention to the whole issue of federation of microblogging. Also: this is the umptyzillionth thing that's made the thought go thru my mind that they must be *trying* to fail!
- Tegan Dowling
@Karim: While AIM is definitely the dominant IM standard here in the US, it doesn't even come close to being so abroad. People I know in India and Australia, for example, don't even know what "AIM" is. Yahoo and MSN Messengers are both the dominant IM networks there. I think that Dave's example very much reflects why Twitter would have done better in the long-term with an open model.
- Mohit
It would be great to see FriendFeed run their own laconica service (identi.ca).
- Dan Cameron
Isn't Identi.ca exactly what you're looking for? FriendFeed doesn't support multiple instances of FriendFeed, but I'm already party of multiple Laconica (the source of Identi.ca) networks via one seamless interface. There are some kinks, sure, but I'm bowled over by how much they've gotten done in a month.
- Marina Martin
Marina, I am an identi.ca user. How do I follow a user on another laconi.ca server? How do they follow me? Please post a pointer to the docs. This is very important.
- Dave Winer
Dave, when you are on the profile page of a user on another laconica server (such as mine: http://waka.me/wil) just click on the Subscribe button. It will then ask you for your profile URL (yours would presumably be http://identi.ca/dave) then submit the form. Your browser will do an OAuth redirect dance, after which you should be subscribed to me.
- Wil
from MojiPage
Mohit, the market is badly fragmented *now.* QQ is huge in China. Yahoo! and MSN started beta testing interop only in 2006. Google whipped out their checkbook and paid AOL a billion dollars for interop, and even that is lame -- AIM users can't see GTalk users from AIM. My point was that AOL *used to be* the dominant IM, just as Network Solutions *used to be* the largest domain name...
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- Karim
(continued) be different. Maybe "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." -- G.W.F. Hegel
- Karim
Stop Blocking, FCC Tells Comcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Hassan Ibraheem, Mark Trapp, Franklin Day and Candace liked this
Caveat Lector: We won't know what the specifics are until the final Report and Order is made public.
- Andrew Feinberg
With Genie Out of Bottle, Obama Is Careful on Race - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Mohit, Steven Perez, Franklin Day and 8 other people liked this
I just started using the FF bookmarklet. It's really cool. I was wondering how people were posting all those great pictures. Now I know.
- Dave Winer
The FF bookmarklet is definitely quite cool. Wish the information about its capabilities were a little clearer. But I guess since I was able to figure it out then most people can.
- Scott Jarkoff
How do I get this bookmarklet?
- shelisrael1
@shelisrael1 http://friendfeed.com/share...
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
With Mento you can bookmark pages and even grab a screenshot. Mento is automatically posting the bookmarked page to Friendfeed if you want.. ;)
- Timo Heuer
Don’t Feed the Pigeons - http://www.digyourowngrave.com/dont-fe...
Alfredo, Tom, Alexey Ivanov and 223 other people liked this
haha
- Fa La La La Lindsay
LOL
- Pete Delucchi
Ahahahahaha!!
- Andy DeSoto
OK, this is my favorite post of the day.
- Kevin Bondelli
ahahaha.... messing with the olds is fun....
- Jason Carreira
Hilarious!
- Penny
lol
- ChaCha Fance
from twhirl
LMAO!!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
250 proof hilarity
- Bwana ☠
Stuff like this and Trigger Happy TV make me wish I owned giant animal costumes just to mess with people.
- Kevin Bondelli
Hee.
- Ayşe E.
pigeons = flying rats
- Mona Nomura
I had a pigeon wave a knife at me once. Those mofos mean business!
- Jim Stanger
I agree with Mona, I don't like pigeons, they're disgusting.
- Oli Kenobi
Mona: thank you! I was just watching Samantha Brown on travel channel, eating pigeon dumplings in Xi'an, and I said the exact same thing..
- Bren -- feeling merry
Epic
- Johnny Worthington
That's not just any pigeon!
- Charlie Anzman
now that was funny!
- Tim Hoeck
Every time this gets bumped up I start laughing again.
- Kevin Bondelli
Tim liked it. I'm gettin' outa here while everybody's on an up!
- Charlie Anzman
you see, now i have a disturbingly twisted version of Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag playing in my head. it's not *right*.
- idnan
hahahahahahaha GENIUS :)
- Iain Baker
olololololol
- Jay
A Top Secret missing scene? http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Federico Bolsoman
ha, I saw that on Reddit earlier. Brilliant. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
LOL
- Mitchell Tsai
Classic forum avatar. I think someone overfed the pigeons
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
lol
- Arjun
Steroids!
- Bill Sodeman
haha
- accesine
haha, it's <b>funny</b>....
- kakilang
That's one awesome pidgeon. I love the frustrated toss of bread at the end.
- Derick Valadao
There's always one!
- Alex Hammer
thats awesome!
- (jeff)isageek
LOL! Literally, LOL!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I know a guy called 'Pidgeon Lowry'. I wonder was that him?
- john conroy
epic tail
- John LeMasney
haha, great!
- Nick
This is funny! that dude was pist! threw his last piece of bread at the "aggressive pigeon"!! ha, ha!!
- Susan Beebe
lol now that was funny!
- Daynah
you never know when life will throw a giant pigeon at you.
- John LeMasney
totally something to share
- Got80s
good thing that big pigeon can't fly and poop on ya!! yuck!
- Susan Beebe
Everytime I see this it cracks me up! Where do I get that pigeon costume?
- Rowell
Wow, this is already #4 for the best of the month. Why that's important I have no idea. It probably isn't.
- Phil G
OMG this showed up again... I love it!! tooo funny! :-)~
- Susan Beebe
Still laughing at it. Wife thinks it's funny, too. :)
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
it's #1 on my feed for the month. :D
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
chao dou
- terababy
Can someone make a video like this about Trolls? Do not feed the Trolls! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
What I want to see is a giant cigarette come and attack the next Asshole I see flick a lit cigarette butt out the window on the freeway!
- Jeff P. Henderson
That is 100% awesome. No. 137%.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
An algorithym for block spam here on FriendFeed: if an account has x more blocks than subscribers put the account into jail where it won't show up in anything others than the jail. I don't like Facebook's policy of deleting stuff. Just move it to jail.
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I like the idea, except maybe it could be modified so that it would not punish new accounts. If someone is blocked by the very first person who sees their them, they would go to jail before they could even get subscribers. Maybe there could be a probationary period for new users so that they wouldn't immediately be put in the jail. Or there could be a minimum number of hides before they are jailed
- Thomas B
That's why I said "x" because it shouldn't be one.
- Robert Scoble
I like the jail argument.
- Cem Catikkas
For what it's worth, I created a room tonight to list FF spammers (http://friendfeed.com/rooms...). I only have 2 in there right now, but I figure as people add more it gives us a central place to go through and just block them as they pop up. It would be fantastic if FF took care of the spammers on their own but for now I think this will hopefully help.
- Robert DeBord
This further illustrates the problem with Friendfeed Rooms. Just like Facebook has way too many "kinda similar" groups, which results in overlapping groups trying to do the same thing. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Part of the reason why I haven't been really using the FF rooms feature very much.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
See, what happens if you get bunch of spammer accounts that blocks bunch of legit posts? What is that called? Reverse spamming?
- Cem Catikkas
@Cem I think it's called a false positive (like if a CAPTCHA prevents a legitimate user from doing something)
- Thomas B
@Cem: I think there would have to be a human element involved, like an appeal process. Also, if I could expand on Robert's algorithm: 'Jail' = 'x'% of blocks and/or 'y' > Followers, 'Y' could be points for identical posts or excessive hyper-links.
- Johnny Worthington
I must admit, I am afraid of the spam that will show here eventually
- Stewart Rogers
It's not going to take long for the Twitter spammers to figure out FF exists - I've had a load there the last 2 weeks from people spamming about the6figureteam.com.
- Sally Church
The way twitter spammers can be identified is via their following/followed ratio and the rate at which they follow people. I saw one today that was following 500 people in every 4 minutes. Perhaps a similar metric could be used here?
- Mr. Gunn
YEAH ROBERT!!! great idea!! jackass jail... fantastic!
- Susan Beebe
so what will the user say ? "I'm jailbreaking the FF jail ?"
- Peter Dawson
So where's the march onto Facebook for exposing such negative emotions in the first place? Amnesty or Attica!
- Roney Smith
@Digidave ethanol is a stupid idea. We are going to starve people because of that idea.
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starve people?
- sedgewick
Really liking the fact that every one of these comments on twitter is spawning a whole new thread/convo on FF. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Agree Robert. Here's some data points on the ethanol debate: http://is.gd/SA7
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Agreed ethanol is stupid, using land to create fuel at the expense of food. Perhaps algae might be an alternative to that though
- Mo Kargas
When there is starvation and hunger in the world, it is utterly moronic to use a food source as a fuel source. In the hierarchy of needs, eating comes before automobiles ANY day.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Cyanobacteria as fuel/energy producer holds some promise. http://www.utexas.edu/news...
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Any alternative will prompt problems...Detrimental effects of algae include damaged oceanic ecosystem, increased waste after oil sequestration, production logistics.
- Andy Angelos
DARPA should be working on that project, will see if any alternative fuel cars show up this year at the Urban Challenge.
- MedicalQuack
Daniel Quinn would argue that the source issue is rampant human population growth- which sources from ever-expanding food supply
- sedgewick
I mention algae because it will grow on already polluted watersystems, therefore gaining use from otherwise untenable areas.
- Mo Kargas
There's a problem with everything. Ulltimately, we need to conserve and not just look for a quick fix.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Agreed Francine, though I think the most immediate step and perhaps quick fix itself is reducing consumption across the board
- Mo Kargas
@Andy I agree with you. Every solution has it's own set of problems. Believing that there's a perfect solution is just foolish. It's just about choosing which set of problems we could live with. I doubt algae can be fully contained within a desert.Large changes anywhere and for anything will prompt consequences, always.
- Chris Chua
from fftogo
they can grow algae that eats co2
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
I just wish we'd do something - drill in Alaska, open up more Nuclear plants, whatever it takes, but something is better than nothing like we've had thus far. (note, I voted for him, unfortunately) George Bush has had a tremendous opportunity to get a deal for oil from Iraq - why haven't we seen anything there? *something* needs to be done, I don't care what.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
I actually agree, which is why I find it weird that we have a government mandate.
- David Cohn
Eric - Doesn't all algae consume CO^2?
- Andy Angelos
I agree with mokargas. I wish more of the debate was how we can use less energy regardless of it source. No matter what we're pumping into our Hummers, that energy may have been put to better use elsewhere, ethanol being one of the more egregious examples
- Brian Pharris
@andy I left out the word emissions - like from smoke stacks - I'm having a hard time typing tonight :)
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
People are already starving because of this stupid idea.
- Helen Sventitsky
Ethanol is a good idea, but not having it derived from corn. There are other sources that can be used to generate ethanol.
- imabonehead
ima: growing stuff means taking resources away from food production.
- Robert Scoble
@robert - except when that "stuff" is single cell algae & bacteria. +1 if they consume CO2 & can grow without O2.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
As a side note, here's a table of how green biofuels are - http://is.gd/jvH
- imabonehead
Not necessarily, Robert. It's not a straight zero sum game. There are certainly sources for organic material that could be used for cellulosic ethanol production without detracting from food production. But that conversation's over here http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ken Sheppardson
I'll restate what many here have said, ethanol is a pretty good idea, just not from corn. There are other, safer ways around it. But, better yet is have other renewable energy sources like the wind and solar.
- Danilo da Silva
First generation - especially corn based - ethanol is stupid just like the first generation of most new technologies are impractical. Ethanol has a future, probably involving a lot of genetic modifications in both the plant and the algae/fungus/nanobots/whatever to convert it to energy. Also, the hippies aren't wrong, hemp is much more efficient than other plants to create energy. This should be a different debate from the one around drugs.
- Nicholas Molnar
There's a few startups are working towards alternative energy led byShai Agassi (SAP), Elon Musk (co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors), and Vinod Khosla (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and venture capitalist). Source: http://is.gd/SCX
- imabonehead
Ethanol's OK, it's corn which is the problem. Long term, algae for E85/E95 is very promising.
- James
@kshep that is exactly why I love FriendFeed so much.
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I'd be liking it a whole lot more if it let you merge items manually, e.g. you could combine all your energy posts into 1 item
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah Ken - then we'd be mixing ethanol and nuclear discussions.
- Hutch Carpenter
Which is why I suggest manual. One could keep the ethanol separate from the nuclear... or combine them. Author's choice. How many ethanol items/threads are there on FF now?
- Ken Sheppardson
Seeing two. One will die, or they'll go strong on two different tangents.
- Hutch Carpenter
Right, you're only seeing two because you only follow Robert. Any threads originating from Twitter posts from people other than Robert in reply to his posts--i.e. that were just @scobleizer--are basically invisible to you. And I realize Robert having the ability to combine his related comments into a single thread won't fix THAT, but it's a start.
- Ken Sheppardson
True (although I am following 592 people)...are you following some alt energy enthusiasts? Post a link to an entry, I'd like to check it out.
- Hutch Carpenter
Sorry, I was trying to make a feature/process point... not talking about energy specifically.
- Ken Sheppardson
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