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Weekend Reading: Its Been a While - http://feint.me/2010...
It’s been a while since I did one of these posts. Here are the best posts I read all week. If you’ve got nothing better to do this weekend – why not get some quality reading done: Travel Stuff My
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What People Pay For | Feint - http://feint.me/2010...
What People Pay For: In relation to web apps. An important part of building an web app, is figuring out how its going to generate revenue. If you fail to
- Anthony Feint
What People Pay For | Feint - http://feint.me/2010...
What People Pay For: In relation to web apps. An important part of building an web app, is figuring out how its going to generate revenue. If you fail to
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Australia Sues Japan Over Whaling Practices - http://digg.com/environ...
"One possible outcome of this though is if Australia loses, whaling will potentially become legal for Japan - not just for research purposes."
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How to Live Anywhere — A Review | Feint - http://feint.me/2010...
this book is great. Here's my review.
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How to Live Anywhere — A Review - http://feint.me/2010...
My review of this newly launched book.
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Bored.
jump up and down then turn around.....still bored?
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ffThreadKiller Notes and FAQs - http://chrispeoples.com/ffthrea...
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1. What is a thread killer? A thread killer is the last person to comment on a thread, or post. Kills are only counted when there is more than one comment, or the comment is left on someone else's post (so if the only comment is left by the poster it is not a kill).
- chrisofspades
2. What is kill rate? Kill rate is the rate, or percentage, at which a user kills threads. If a user comments on 100 threads and kills 10 of them, s/he has a 10% kill rate.
- chrisofspades
3. Lindsey: "Only killed 70 for a 20% kill rate. Does that mean I've only commented on 350 threads?" Do to some API weirdness, not all threads you comment on are included in your kill rate. It varies per user, but roughly the most recent 500 threads are included.
- chrisofspades
4. Are private feeds supported? Unfortunately, the thread killer engine can only look up public accounts, but don't fret, authentication will be added so all you private users can enjoy the fun :)
- chrisofspades
5. Kol: "Does this include entries imported via the custom RSS service in FF BTW?" It all includes entries. The API is not selective :)
- chrisofspades
Then that explains why mine is so high! I import lots of feeds.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, sounds like item #1 would cover your importing. If you bring something in and you have the only comment, it doesn't count. That's true for a majority of the items I bring in through the bookmarklet.
- caj needs a haircut
Ah, OK, thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
my kill rate was pretty low. I was surprised as I usually comment on smaller threads
- Anthony Feint
Apparently my kill rate is 40%.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Bumping because of this: http://ff.im/dMCXC
- Kol Tregaskes
Essential Web Apps for Lifestyle Designers | Feint - http://feint.me/2009...
"A big part of what defines lifestyle design, is having the freedom to work anywhere at any time."
- Anthony Feint
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Stop Being a Productivity Nerd | Feint - http://feint.me/2009...
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"You’ll end up spending your entire day “being productive” without actually achieving anything."
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In the last 24 hours my group feeds have not been updated nor delivered by email, and so using my feed reader or my mailreader I cannot realize when I have news in my FF groups. Have you any problem with feed delivery?
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> A lot of my group feeds are not updating either. I have a private room set > up with feeds from major news organizations. The last time it updated was > yesterday. Mark, Just like me. > Does that mean there hasn't been any news since yesterday? Absolutely no. I have checked the sources of all my feeds and there were several updates that FF did not consider. :((( P.S.: I have send this comment one hour ago but since it hasn't been published yet I have inserted it directly from My discussions page. :(((
- Oss
yep my private room isnt updating...really annoying
- Anthony Feint
Also, FF doesn't seem to collect any feed other than twitter
- KANZAKI, Masahide
Yes, for me too, works only if I manual refresh the feeds or randomly 1-2 times per week, although they have updates multiple times per day, FF doesn't seem to collect them, except twitter.
- Saxtus
Hmm. You guys tried *remove*-ing the feeds, logout of FF (and clear cache!), re-login into FF, and re-add the feeds?
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Removing feeds and re-adding feeds won't make them appear twice?
- Saxtus
I have not tried deleting and adding back old feeds, but I think that will not fix the issue, because I am also experiencing it with newly created accounts and newly added feeds (see http://ff.im/7MOdS). Perhaps the lack of auto-updating is not really a failure and just a slight strategic shift, they would perhaps prefer we use their stuff to add content directly to Facebook than to Twitter. I hope that is not the case and it's just a glitch.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
Oh. The Amazon thing is not a good sign. Could this be the end?
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
I have two of my posterous (custom/rss feed) posts from yesterday that haven't come through yet.
- Micah
The silence of FF staff is embarassing.
- Oss
already done. No answer yet. :(((
- Oss
I also submitted a bug report, hoping that it is in fact a bug and not a change in the way the service works. No response yet, but it has only been a few hours.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
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They start telling us to go to Facebook. Seriously, no response. We can't just force update someone else's feed. Some of the peoples I followed seems to never log in again routinely.
- Natsuki Seika
Natsuki, I don't think so. Probably they tell us to go to Google Wave because we would never go to Facebook and they know it. :P Joke aside, I hope we will have an official answer soon because it's getting ridiculous to do myself what I put FF to do in the first place.
- Saxtus
I just saw an update on one of my accounts from an RSS feed, no manual intervention was involved so it seems promising, I'll inform any developments.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
from email
I am seeing auto-updates on two other accounts I admin, content coming from RSS feeds. So it seems to be slowly coming back to life, this is good news :-)
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
And I received an e-mail from FF acknowledging the problem and indicating feeds should be "slowly catching up". So It's official guys, we have not been left out in the dark. A toast to the FF team and I can now get some sleep it seems.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
So is it the same problem happening again, or something different? For almost 24 hours now feeds I generate from Yahoo Pipes have not been pushed to Twitter by Friendfeed. But manual updates seem to be working. Anybody else?
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
4 Steps to Outsourcing Your Email | Task Blog - http://task.fm/blog...
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"email is one major time-sink"
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RSS 101: Smarter, Faster Feed Reading | Task Blog - http://task.fm/blog...
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"rss feeds are supposed to be great time savers..." what do you think?
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Depends on what you define as time savers. What it does for me is keep me informed with things that interest me without constantly searching for it of finding it out by accident. It allows me to focus on news/articles without distractions.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Liked for the pic. I need a pillow like that.
- Curdy G
hackernewsbot: No more mySQL?... http://bit.ly/1n8Uk9 - http://twitter.com/hackern...
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With Google running and relying on MySQL, I doubt it will go away (as an open-source project, it can't actually just go away). If Oracle drops it, maybe it will become a Google project (GooSQL anyone?).
- Curdy G
Amazon must think differently as they just released cloud based mysql
- Anthony Feint
MySQL is not going away. They're just altering the release/development schedule (moving things up, actually). http://www.sdtimes.com/link...
- Curdy G
I Want You To Forget | Task Blog - http://task.fm/blog...
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I had lots of fun writing this post about the mad methods behind the app I built
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tim_weber: Blogger is 10 years old - but is blogging still relevant? http://bit.ly/bIwxK - http://twitter.com/tim_web...
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why is blogging questioned at all?
- ffcode
yep Blogging still very relevant. Even if people don't call it "blogging"
- Anthony Feint
agree with jeremy totally
- ffcode
we just shrink blogging 2 micro instead, therefore we just change the wording!
- polou/indigo_bow
On my whiteboard is "battlefronts." IE, who in the tech industry is taking over the castle. Who do you think is? Join me live:
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IE, Apple is taking over the castle from Nokia in the mobile phone space. Twitter is making a strong move on the social networking castle that Facebook owns.
- Robert Scoble
Ustream and Blip.tv are trying to get into YouTube's castle but keep getting shut out.
- Robert Scoble
Is Twitter storming Facebook's castle or is facebook storming Twitter's?
- Peter Kelley
Peter: I think Facebook is losing castle rooms to Twitter and it pisses Facebook off.
- Robert Scoble
Zoho and Google are trying to take ground away from Microsoft Office.
- Robert Scoble
Also is Mahalo building their own castle or storming someone elses?
- Peter Kelley
twitter are the horde slowly taking over the outlying areas of facebooks domain
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
So is SocialText and Atlassian and Jive and others.
- Robert Scoble
apple is going to be losing ground to both android and pre on different slices of turf IMO
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
FIOS is taking over cable and satellite. My iPhone is making my Windows desktop irrelevant.
- Brett Nordquist
Mindtouch is storming the sharepoint castle
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Gowalla is taking BrightKite's castle
- Peter Kelley
Anyway, the question is, where do you see entrenched "winners" under attack by new companies or ideas.
- Robert Scoble
Peter: FourSquare is doing a better job of doing that than Gowalla is.
- Robert Scoble
FIOS is a non-issue until they lose the "higher market" feel - i.e. it won't be in my working class neighborhood for another 2 years
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Wordpress is storming the Blogger castle.
- Brett Nordquist
But Gowalla is in the game.
- Robert Scoble
Anything related to keeping data tied to a physical location is dead. Freedom of mobility has stormed the castle and is now dancing in the courtyard as it burns down around it.
- Adrian Pike
Android from the iPhone, in the next 2 years
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
gowalla has just elbowed both twitter and foursquare out of the spot at the gate that is brightkyt
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Bing to Google
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Brett: Wordpress is almost an entrenched player now. Squarespace is the one trying to take away Wordpress share, isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Christian: I agree.
- Robert Scoble
squarespace is showing wordpress how to be a better hosted service -- *with their own product!*
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I don't agree that Bing is really disrupting Google that much yet. It's a nice thought, though, and it is a fun fight to watch, so I agree there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I still see a lot of Blogger blogs, but you're right. SquareSpace is making a big move.
- Brett Nordquist
this is why i like friendfeed
- Brent
Rackspace is taking place of Amazon in hosting :)
- Ashish
Spotify trying to sneak up on iTunes/Amazon/Pandora
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
In location services I see Yelp making big moves into a place that Google owns right now, at least in my mind.
- Robert Scoble
Ashish: shhhhh.
- Robert Scoble
We need something to take a bit away from WordPress - too much insecurity stuff in the press recently
- Jalada
Ankush: we think alike, I had that on my whiteboard already.
- Robert Scoble
rackspace still has a pricing misconception demon to shake loose
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Are Wordpress and Drupal different castles?
- Peter Kelley
I love the cool ads on free squarespace blogs. Makes me think of blogspot in 2002
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
I wish Rackspace would give me a huge amount of storage to host my blog, pictures and music, but make it affordable and easy to access from any device with internet.
- Brett Nordquist
drupal is being stormed by mindtouch - now that is a sleeper-awakening fight
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett: how is http://rackspacecloud.com not doing just that?
- Robert Scoble
Google is moving against Twitter by adding contextual streams to web pages via Scoble's favorite tool: SideWiki
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Mike: that's an interesting one. I don't watch mindtouch that much, I should do an interview with them.
- Robert Scoble
@bear: On Intranets or more generally, there are a lot of Drupal sites out there
- Peter Kelley
Robert: Checking that out now. Did not know about it.
- Brett Nordquist
Ankush: I don't agree there, but that's one to put on the board as a potential disrupter.
- Robert Scoble
Windows Mobile 6.5 was found dead in the moat.
- Brett Nordquist
peter - on the intranets - but that means they will bust out when the open-source side catches up with what they have commercially developed
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
robert - mindtouch is moving in all the right places and in the proper direction ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: give it a year regarding Bing -MS know how to commoditized better than anyone (as u know!)
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Got Brizzly on your whiteboard? I think they're up to something
- Jalada
First you have to define who's in the castle that is being taken over.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
yea, brizzly is looking at their feature set getting over shadowed by twitter doing a "me also" update
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jalada: I need a whole whiteboard on Twitter clients. Damn, did you see Tweetie 2.0 yet? You should, it's going to take over the iPhone app space for Twitter clients.
- Robert Scoble
Mike: it will be interesting to see what Seesmic does about Tweetie 2.0.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, Tumblr and Posterous are also disrupting Wordpress and Blogger.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Seen the coverage of it. Can't wait to get my hands on it. We're re-engineering our iPhone app at Twitterfall too, it's sure to give us some ideas ;-)
- Jalada
robert - :/ yea
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
VMWare/Spring Source are taking over the RedHat/JBoss castle
- Peter Kelley
For that matter what about threadsy? They are surely capable of disrupting the webmail market if marketed properly
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Posterous is fantastic and i'm using it to replace Flickr in some areas.
- Brett Nordquist
I predict tumblr and posterous merging by the end of the year - they are just too awesome to fight each other
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I heard threadsy had some performance issues, have they been ironed out?
- Jalada
Microsoft Office Web tries bringing in the battering rams, but isnt doing much right now against the heavily fortified walls of Google Docs
- Kevin Traver
Mike: I have some ideas, but they require you guys to become curation tool before Tweetie gets there.
- Robert Scoble
Last.FM is storming the Pandora castle.
- Brett Nordquist
glassfish+(scala,jpython,jruby) is owning the bare RoR scene
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Kevin, I see Google Docs as breaking over the castle wall into Microsoft territory right about now, actually. :-)
- Robert Scoble
robert - yes, we need to become the goto place for both current and historical data flow
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Cloud computing is like a fog that's obscuring the view between castles. When the fog lifts, no telling whose castle will be left standing and who will be crushed.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
But Microsoft's castle is so big they still aren't worried. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Paul: Cloud Computing is just a tool to get over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
bear - I think Groovy/Grails are doing a better job of storming the ROR castle and many other web framework castles besides
- Peter Kelley
cloudcomputing allows you to take the battle off the ground and just go *around* the others
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: It's a magical tool that everyone says is great, but then find it's too small to get over big walls.
- Jalada
peter - hmm, then i'm not watching enough Groovy/Grails shops to get wind of that - i'll have to adjust
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
is Netflix on your whiteboard?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: no, but it is now.
- Robert Scoble
rssCloud/Hubbub? Not companies though...
- Jalada
Jalada: that's like Cloud Computing: a tool to help you get over the wall.
- Robert Scoble
jalada - IMO that's a minor battle between what type of pipe to use - only internet plumbers are worried about that
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: Redbox is pretty cool too. Used it before?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: No, and I haven't used Roxio yet either.
- Robert Scoble
Google Analytics is taking over Omniture (maybe already taken over going by Omniture's Q1 earnings)
- MadhuIyer
One night DVD rentals for a buck. Red Box always seems busy no matter where I see them.
- Brett Nordquist
Redbox is for those that don't know what's good for them
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Oh and Fake Carol Bartz taking over Fake Steve Jobs
- MadhuIyer
Madhulyer: oh, I SO agree with that!
- Robert Scoble
verizon realizing before at&t that limits on the data flow just hampers profit increases
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Although @shitmydadsays is kicking both of their asses.
- Robert Scoble
according to my kids, the iPod Touch is replacing the Nintendo DS
- Brett Nordquist
I'm liking where Boxee is going with webtv. could be what appletv had hoped to be.
- michael sean wright
Boxee taking over tivo?
- Ashish
Brett: I agree with them, it's certainly a threat Nintendo/Sony need to tackle
- Jalada
Yeah, Boxee and Bittorrent are definitely changing TV for a new generation.
- Robert Scoble
Renting physical media is not going to put a crack in anyone' wall.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
Jalada: This year we'll spend more in App Store games from Apple than games from Nintendo.
- Brett Nordquist
Hulu is taking over paid cable
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Google's archers try to fend off some incoming twitter boats
- Kevin Traver
but this proves to be difficult because the water in the moat is very unstable due to Google Waves
- Kevin Traver
Brett: us too. And Xbox.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: Google Wave is super slow for me today. And totally unusable. I don't know about people who like it. I think they are all nerds. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Google Wave is to far out on the horizon - it still has a chance to sink itself or run up on the reef of complicated-UI
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This Friendfeed thread is taking over my social life!
- Brett Nordquist
I think they're handing out a new Wave (aha..) of invites today, slowly.
- Jalada
FriendFeed will take over something I hope
- Jay
Robert - yep, wave is for early adopter nerds
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jay: Can it still do that now it belongs in Facebook's castle?
- Jalada
Google Wave is just taking over people's ability of effectiveness...
- MadhuIyer
Jalada: How about..? FriendFeed should take over everyone's homepage.
- Jay
FriendFeed is a realm that joined the Facebook Castle so they could get some troops garrisoned inside their operation
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This castle analogy is brilliant
- Jalada
Mike: gearing up for pushing Twitter back over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Some of Google's guards cautiously watch Wolfram|Alpha in the distant horizon.
- Kevin Traver
Robert - yea, they saw the oncoming battle and decided to join forces
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
/me wonders if Robert has enough new ideas for interviews and articles yet
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, I was just checking to see if there was some wall breach happening that I wasn't familiar with.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin - and laugh
- Peter Kelley
some of these battles are good ol' "dig under the walls and let it slowly collapse" fights, while others are storm-the-gates assaults
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: At WordCamp Seattle two weeks ago, I was surprised to hear how many people were still on blogging platforms other than Wordpress. Assumed everyone was on WP already.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: Yeah, that's wacky. What were the most popular non-Wordpress ones? Any idea why they are still on those?
- Robert Scoble
Brett - at PodCamp Philly last weekend almost everyone was asking how to use WordPress and if they should move from Blogger to WP (amongst the new blogger scene)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Adobe Flash coming under attack from HTML/5 if the major players will stop their HTML/5 codec bickering. For example a Safari plugin to switch YouTube Video from Flash to Apple H.264 http://bit.ly/JlWVO
- Ed Millard
Robert: almost all I spoke with were on Blogger. A few on Typepad and many had created websites that were out-of-date.
- Brett Nordquist
Mike: I'm not surprised. Maybe still too difficult to roll your own WP install?
- Brett Nordquist
Ed - good one - yea, if the HTML/5 scene doesn't stop fighting they are going to cede all that work to Flash
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett - some of that plus also the latest security issues were a big concern
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike: Good point about security. Lots of talk about that as well. Still too many hurdles for the less technical.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett - agreed - I was pointing everyone to hosted solutions by asking them the question: Do you *really* want to become a SysAdmin as well as a blogger?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Scobleizer's SUL taking over Twitter's SUL
- MadhuIyer
here's a challenge - let's talk about who's taking over what castle and *not* mention Twitter
- Dave Hodson
Madhulyer - and also true celeb's twitter lists taking over both of those SUL's
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
@Cristo - yup. I have Twitter fatigue; there must be other castles to storm out there
- Dave Hodson
I'm going to need some buffs if there's more castles to storm today.
- Brett Nordquist
/me puts down a fish feast and calls out for a table
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I think the Twitter fatigue is due to the fact that people constantly reference it. Sure it is growing, super cool, the-best-thing-eva, but what *else* is out there? How about the impact that a service like Aardvark is having/not having on Yelp for example?
- Dave Hodson
Dave: fair enough but let's see your ideas for castles being stormed that don't include the T-word anywhere? :-)
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - as I said, Aardvark and Yelp. I've been using Aardvark for a while now and I think they might be on to something.
- Dave Hodson
Dave: that's actually why I started this post, to see if there's any other battlefronts out there. Turns out there are. As to Yelp: I don't see @vark as a @yelp killer. I'm not even sure they are battling for the same thing. Most of the questions on @vark that I get have nothing to do with restaurants or places or businesses.
- Robert Scoble
I think @vark could disrupt Yahoo or Google search, though, and take away some revenue.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - questions really depend on what you sign up for - I asked a question the other day about a good/quick place to eat near the Fillmore in SF and got several good replies right away. Yelp wouldn't really have helped me there. Plus the new iPhone app is pretty good. And not to be a total fanboy, but I really like the IM integration.
- Dave Hodson
Yeah, good point. I do love @vark, don't get me wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Surprised nobody mentioned the Kindle
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: good point!
- Robert Scoble
that atari thing my neighbours have is taking over my lightbrite.
- Brent
Brett - or the new tablets coming out (and not the apple one either!)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike, who is making the new tablets? I've not heard much then.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: there are a couple already out in EU by Archos. Gateway's tablet PC was leaked and there is the hopefully coming Crunchpad. Those are just off the top of my head
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Chrome is taking over someones castle. im not sure if its ie or Firefox
- Anthony Feint
How about on the SSD front, OCZ Vertex line vs Intel X25's
- Joe Hanink
Skype, cell and Google Voice are taking over traditional telco phone landline castle
- Susan Beebe
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Thanks for all the MindTouch mentions folks. Scoble, happy to talk again. It's been quite a while. Ping me and let's set something up. Happy to meet up when I'm in your neighborhood again.
- Roebot
Scoble, more on MindTouch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... and also watch some of the demos to the right of the page here: http://www.mindtouch.com/Solutio...
- Roebot
Apple to sue Woolworths - MacTalk Forums - http://forums.mactalk.com.au/19...
""Apple Legal plans legal action against Australia retailer, Woolworths, over use of a logo the computer company thinks is too similar to its own."
- Bryce Roney
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WTF Apple, the logos look nothing alike
- Bryce Roney
I guess this means nobody can use an apple in a logo now, since an apple is always going to resemble an apple...
- Melly Botts
I think the issue is Woolworths will plan to put this on their electronics products
- Anthony Feint
Apple, I'm really sick of you.
- Amit Morson
this is like Monster Cable suing Pixar over the film Monsters Inc.
- Joe The Sausage
Woolworths makes electronics?
- Melly Botts
i've been on that page for years, welcome aboard!
- Joe The Sausage
It looks like a 'W' with an accent on top. I love you Apple, but come on
- Shevonne
Ugh... I'm with you Mohomed and have been for a long time.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Woolworths is still in business somewhere?
- April
This is the Australian Woolworths, a supermarket chain with 35% market share.
- Bryce Roney
from iPhone
Notes on notes - http://task.fm/blog...
"A huge part of Getting Things Done is ubiquitous capture, which means constantly dumping all of your ideas out of your brain...."
- Anthony Feint
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Need Opinions. If the startup focuses with the topic of Samurai, which logo jumps at you the most?
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2
- Bren
Whats the business model of the startup? I believe the logo would have direct correlation with what the business is up to.
- TrafficBug
#5
- reshetnikovaf
#6
- Buds
5 or 6
- Herb Hernandez
#6 for me for samurais but i think i'd agree with trafficbug that it should be related to the business
- Wang Yip
Thank you everyone for your feedback. The feedback has been very helpful.
- Joshua
5 or 6
- Anthony Feint
5
- Student Saver
4
- Just Ken
#2
- Andrew Terry
7
- Yolanda
8. Samurai are not big on flowers and trees
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
numer six, but it's a bit scary
- fabrizio maria pini
Ruud: Actually the flower designs are real crests of a samurai clan, but thanks for your input!
- Joshua
I understand there is real history and thoughts behind this selection, but I was trying to relate to the perception most people have :)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Ruud: Yeah, good point! Definitely something to keep in mind while I work on this.
- Joshua
2
- Alexis Nazarbaev
6.
- Jonathan Kong
That looks familiar. 2 rotated 90 degrees.
- Rodfather
I like #2 the best and think it has the most potential for an iconic design, but my first thought looking at it is not "samurai". #6 is very literal, but it looks menacing and will be difficult to use at smaller sizes because of the detail. If I had to choose I would pick #2, but as others have said it also depends on the relationship to the business.
- Lindsay
6
- AJ Batac :)
1,2, or 3. Those look closest to a family crest
- Rodfather
4
- Susanna Bellini
1
- Menno Gijrath
50 Essential Web Apps for Freelancers – Web.AppStorm - http://web.appstorm.net/roundup...
"We’ve broken down the apps into larger categories, highlighted the best or most interesting in each category, and included the best of the rest...."
- Anthony Feint
from Bookmarklet
I am following anyone who says whether or not they like http://twitter.com/scoblei... Why? Only geeks are up right now. :-)
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*outted*
- Micah
I like. Mixture of tech and humor.
- Laura Norvig
I like super geeky....More dev talk the betta
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I like your feesd but dont like the tiled background please change it
- Atif UNALDI
i don't like the tiled background....i think you need a new one
- Anthony Feint
Wots title background ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
oh yes, sneaking a look over scoble's shoulder is interesting
- Michele Costabile
only geeks are up right now:? then Milan is a geek!
- Laura Norvig
Geeks are supposed to be asleep right now?
- Jesse Stay
Tell me about it @jesse I haven't slept from 48 hours now
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Rackspace brooch on twitter but not on ff : )
- mehmet
I never sleep.
- Faraz Mullick
I finally got my nightowl powers back...the sickness took them away for a bit! :(
- Carlton Hackett
After 48 hours coffee and tea has stopped working now...Any tips ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Just when I think I lost my sleepness nights, they find me again. But anyhoo...still up and at 'em. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Of course I'm up it's 10 am here. The favs list is great because one can look just when and if one wants and it reduces the number of RTs.
- Michael Slattery
Well most of the Uk is up right now thats alot to follow ;-)
- Yant
Time update its 1:55 PM in here
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
When should I pencil in the next mass Twitter unfollowing for?
- Johnny
Guys, what are continuous max hours you haven't slept ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
25 hours at work is my record
- Michele Costabile
WOW 25 hrs continues work...Great
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Mine is 48 hrs but online at home
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Michele: Please tell me you got overtime ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Hey at least FriendFeed doesn't limit my API use.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
YAY...welcome to FF Robert
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Feel Free to join in :D
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
And India as well [ Time Update : 2:08 PM]
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
France actually been up for a while
- marsupilamima
Marsupilamima: Bonjour...Thats the only bit of French I know.....
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Been up for a while : in a different timezone Robert : does that count ?
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
I am a Proud GEEK and wanna be friends with all the other geeks...
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Interesting favorites twits, but yes the background has to be changed! :-)
- Stefano Pietroiusti
from twhirl
Guys/Gals on this thread, As we all are geeks lets subscribe to each other...I don't mind :) what say ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I really like it, and plan on stealing the idea for a couple specialty Twitter accounts. I wish everyone used favorites. Social search is the future, for me anyway.
- Justin Luey
from FreshFeed
Justin: True, Social search is the future. Human data is precious
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Yeah I don't mind it, would just prefer it if done on FF rather than the bird site, but I understand the reasons though.
- travispuk
it's 5:18 AM, so quiet everyone, too much noise can't sleep. Do like the favorite thing though
- Kim Landwehr
what if I don't have an opinion because I don't follow? does that make me a non geek? edit: also. yes. tiled background bad!
- Nathalie
I love your twitter favorites & check those out regularly!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Robert, I scan your favorites to look for interesting new blog and sites... I like this approach; much better than only using the retweet
- Jeroen De Miranda
Is your background the shot that Chase took of you in Seattle?
- The original Kevin
Kevin: Kris Krug took the shot while on Chase Jarvis' photowalk. Chase' lighting guy is holding the light, though.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: Some of us are on other timezones LOL
- RK
Don't like the background btw :P
- RK
Robert, has anyone thanked you for doing this? If not, thanks.
- The original Kevin
It's a good way to choose people to follow
- Sherrie Belken
You favored one of my blog posts, cool!
- Marko Saric
thx for the follow. I don't tweet all that much - mostly hang out here. I do tweet more consistently for my work persona, @serviceresource
- Laura Norvig
Thanks,have a great wknd
- Johni Fisher
Scoble I liked it well enough that I subscribed to the RSS feed a few weeks ago. It's a best of Twitter list that I really enjoy.
- Keith - @tsudo
You have a pretty low bar set for being a favorite
- jason smathers
what else to do lol
- Ali
I am not a Geek reason? I am an old dude....but I like to follow Robert anyway....informative for me and entertaining....
- Bob DeMarco
some of the favorites are ok.
- rob friedman
Total geek here - said that, still believe in curating the best content from the web. For some reason I couldn't drill down past the separator in your faves list..
- Ahad Bokhari
Say "whether or not they like"
- Robert Higgins
Hackers Paid to Hijack Macs - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Nick Martin, CantorJF, Will Higgins™ and 6 other people liked this
"A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Soon, soon... I'm going to be able to say 'I told you so' to my mac friends. It's just a matter of time and market share
- Amy
The problem, as usual, is PEBKAC. In this case, it's the MacSnobs and Apple fanbois in steadfast denial of the necessity of security software on their system. I'm totally with Amy on this one... "I told you so..."
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
why haven't there been any reports from actual users of this happening?
- Anthony Feint
Because of the sunk cost bias that Apple engenders. When you've put so much $ and emotion into your love for something, it's tough to admit it's been compromised.
- LANjackal
RT @mashable Should Facebook Remove Subject Lines from Messages? http://mashable.com/2009...
yes! Subject line could be replaced with a summary
- Anthony Feint
It Took A Year, But Fitness Gadget Fitbit Will Finally Launch - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Ginger Makela Riker, DGentry, Sean Oliver and Mark Krynsky liked this
If this thing actually works, it's going to be HUGE.
- Dawn
One of the things it can do is measure the quality of your sleep. I think the iPod Nano is still too large to comfortably wear while sleeping. The Fitbit is tiny.
- DGentry
i cant wait for it to come to Australia
- Anthony Feint
Can I call others from my iPod Touch using any apps?
Faraz Mullick liked this
Fring works too
- John Wang
Where is the mic?
- Nishant
if you have a gen 2 touch you can plug in headphones that have a mic
- Anthony Feint
You would need earphones with a microphone or an external microphone. The iPod touch does not have a built in microphone.
- Faraz Mullick
help me understand. Where is the mic jack?
- Nishant
You can use the headphones with the built in microphone for the 2nd Gen iPod Touch or you could buy this ----> http://ipodtouchtricks.net/ipod-to...
- Faraz Mullick
Thanks all of you!
- Nishant
Million Dollar Question: If you had to call it now. Is there: A) a particular community/site you're replacing Friendfeed with? If so, what is it? Or...B) nothing yet that comes close, and my plans are to...
Jason A. Samfield, polymath22, Mitchell Tsai and 33 other people liked this
B.
- Tinfoil 2.0
B.
- SAM
B.
- Michael Pardee
B.
- Spidra Webster
/b/
- Akiva
B.
- Derek Coward
I'm spending more time on FB... not that it's.. remotely the same.
- Lix
Can I buy a vowel, because A is too upsetting.
- Micah
B... It has not felt quite the same since the FB buyout...
- Robert Freeze
B... I don't know!! :( Ride it out as far as I can, hope that Google Wave saves the day really soon (though I'm worried if Google Reader is any indication of what that will be like). I'm so worried!!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
B and my plans are to keep hanging out here until further notice.
- Laura Norvig
B.
- Anne Bouey
B. I don't see a point in replacing Friendfeed. there is enough activity here to keep one going on for times to come... oh by the way what if Twitter becomes FriendFeed, in layout/functions?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Sardar, that would be perfect and amazing, but I doubt it would happen...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
A-ish. Gotta be honest - the thing i liked most about Friendfeed is the tech community. My current project in SAlabs is building out a Friendfeed-like set of functionality for facilitating tech conversation.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
B. ...stay here until Friendfeed dies.
- Jeff P. Henderson
You know, I still don't get why everyone thinks this place is going to die. I get that it could, but I'll wait until FB/FF announce something like that before I start worrying about it. (BTW, self-fulfilling prophecies generally aren't so great.)
- Andrew C (✓)
Threadsy
- Carlton Prest
B - my plans are to stay on FF as long as it's here in it's current unFacebook'ed state. As for alternatives, there is perhaps GReader but it doesn't come close. So let's hope the new OpenFF will eventually be FF's replacement. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
B - remain here and make friends. Websites may come and go, friends are forever. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I liked the older version of friendfeed better, before the interface redesign, so if other site offered same interface with lots of people already in it, then I would be interested. From what I have seen, nothing comes close. The closest is socialmedian as alternative to friendfeed but it lacks the structure and flow as is found here.
- TrafficBug
B. While the community here continues to be so engaging, I don't feel the need to move on to anything else.
- Andrew Terry
B. Andrew +1
- Sasha Kovaliov
from fftogo
B.
- Mark J Subtly Severe
B. Well I've just managed to get all my real friends using Friendfeed. I created a private room and now all my close friends from all round the world can banter it up. Facebook has the numbers but the tech is still poor. Anyone who watched the developers preview of Google Wave will know we're all just treading water till it comes out
- Toby Graham
Paul Buchheit declined to make any definitive statement about the future, but I think that's because geeks like to always be right, and forward-looking statements can be wrong. He did say that he thinks the chances of FriendFeed disappearing are lower post-acquisition, which to me means "don't worry about it." I don't have any post-FriendFeed plans. I like it here, and I'm staying.
- Bruce Lewis
Nothing even comes close yet. I'm staying here until they turn the lights off.
- David Cook
from fftogo
b - stay on ff as long as i enjoy staying here
- Barbara R. S.
/b/ then /s/
- Chris Hofmann
No there would be nothing close - unless someone managed to build something very similar. If anyone knows of such a site - let me know.
- Comics Forge
B - I agree with Andrew as well - This is a great community
- comix aka martha
B - Still a great community. Nothing has come close to replacing it yet
- Anthony Feint
B - and I'm staying put until everyone else leaves. Like most folks here, I have tons of accounts on other social networks and web services, and I maintain them to a degree, but FF is one of the only places I come back to regularly, with a high rate of frequency.
- Hookuh Tinypants
B - Go down with the ship if it ever sinks. I'm sure other sites will replace this experience at some point but no need to worry now.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
B - I tried A. Facebook and A. Google Reader and they're both something else
- Jorge Escobar
B - My plans are to cut my self off from the social networking community when FF goes under.
- Alex Scrivener
B. Keeping my eyes open for a backup/archiving system (I know a few are out there), but most of the good content is aggregated from other places -- as time goes by, that becomes less and less true, as I've been uploading stuff directly to FF. I am hopeful that FB won't do something stupid though.
- Andy Bakun
B and I agree with Anthony Feint
- MugeCerman
B. We obviously need a decentralized way to share real time. Wave federation seems to fit in but it's not even available for all.
- Berk D. Demir
I think B but once Wave comes out there's a chance it may replace FF for me
- Wang Yip
Someone will need to create a front-end, of sorts, if we want Wave to replace FF. Ideally it's the best option but I don't believe it will be easy.
- Kol Tregaskes
Posterous seems to be moving in an interesting direction.
- Colby
B.
- Ton Zijp
b
- Mike Nencetti
B - Unless something wonderful comes up with a similar community of users, I'll just drop out when FF is gone. FB is for RL friends and that sort of use won't change probably.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Spending more time w Posterous lately
- Phil Dunn
B but using A GReader a lot more and waiting for OpenFF - I have to say that Google Wave looks v promising though and have been trying it out
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
wow, so i'm the only person who used FF to replace something else? :P
- Joe The Sausage
Well he didn't ask us what we used FF to replace. He asked us what we're replacing FF with, if at all. Otherwise I would've answered differently. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
Both..
- ★ Soner Gönül
B
- Chris Myles
B. I'm pretty sure another FF like service will become huge in the next two years, the walled garden approach of FB has no future.
- Nik
A: Reddit, Google Reader (although I don't comment that much) and Twitter. I don't know why, but I'm not spending a lot of time here anymore.
- Alejandro
B: This is still the spot. No other system compares.
- Eric
B: Plan is to wish that it was still around
- Keith - @tsudo
Friendfeed will only die if we let it.
- Garin Kilpatrick
B !
- ciw
B - Everything has a life cycle but FF does just what I'm looking for now. Show me something new and I'll try it. I come here first for tech news daily.
- Dave Blankenship
from BuddyFeed
d'oh, misread OP! B: i'm sticking around on FF.
- Joe The Sausage
gotta go with the B's.
- Karma Martell
B, but I'm starting to focus my time on fewer networks & I'm going too be very cautious about joining new ones for the time being.
- Michael Fidler
from BuddyFeed
Spending more time in Google Reader now. Is it me or Reader's comments/conversation isn't real time? Oh, I have Posterous account now. Just in case.
- jan geronimo
B.
- Denis Titkov
sigh. :(
- edythe
B.
- Guy Vander Heyden
B
- LouCypher
B. Staying with FriendFeed, at least for the time being. There are a couple of other semi interesting services out there, and I'm not talking Posterous, but until such time as they're supported by some slick iPhone clients there's no chance I'll be taking a closer look. FreshFeed has had a recent and very useful update (currently a complete bargain in appstore, go get) and hopefully...
more...
- JSLeFanu
making an effort to use facebook while waiting for friendfeed to get integrated
- Mike Chelen
I tried to replace the experience on Facebook and then got hooked on a silly farmgame there. So, somehow not spending as much time here anymore... The system of Facebook does have potential though. Not such a big surprise, since they replicated Friendfeed.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
B
- Kimber Scott
B.
- Steven Perez
B - Nothing else compares *mumbles* - I really hate Facebook
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Tobias: it would be great if they can copy Friendfeed, for now the like & comment system is very different, posts don't get bumped to the top, and there is nothing in realtime except chat
- Mike Chelen
jungleG » Blog Archive » Check the Expiration Date on Your Favorite Startup - http://jungleg.com/2009...
Dimitar Vesselinov liked this
Users want startups to have something more than an exit strategy. They want startups that will make an impact on their lives and stick around for a long time. It’s very hard to understand how a site works, get enough traction and community around it, implement its APIs, convince our friends to join and so on.
- Jorge Escobar
from Bookmarklet
37signals would be a good example of a startup that isn't going to be acquired any time soon. Thats maybe why its so successful in its niche.
- Anthony Feint
That's probably true Anthony, and that's why they can see things differently
- Jorge Escobar
Sunny (The Geek Lord) to Sunny's feed, Blogging and Business Success Collaboration, Blogging School, Social Media Club
Tumblr Vs Posterous ....Which to go for ?
soup.io has all the features of tumblr and posterous and more, though looks less patronized to me,.
- TrafficBug
How about good old blogspot ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
tumblr...because it has sexy themes
- Anthony Feint
like I said before how about blogspot ? (I do have more and sexier themes then tumblr and posterous)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Screw Investors, Get Customers! - http://www.socialtimes.com/2009...
Dan owns Comicsforge.com, Chris Charabaruk, Kim Landwehr and 4 other people liked this
if you focus on, and end up getting customers, investors will probably start chasing you anyway
- Anthony Feint
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