Yes, much better than the real thing. I can't stand Beyonce's version. (edit to mention I have never seen Beyonce's music video, only heard the song on the radio)
- Skyler Call
Now Jesse, Im really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time... or is this meme finally dead.
- Ed Millard
Ed, that was too easy - I set you up for that :-)
- Jesse Stay
Quick question, what do you call a meme that has gone on too long and is now just annoying.... mime?
- Ed Millard
Ed: I don't think it's truly a meme until that's the case.
- Ken Sheppardson
The graphic was created by The Today Show, not MS ... and in any case that's a plus for Windows 7 anyway: it runs legitimately on any machine you can pick up in a store. Let's see Jobs do an interview showing a ThinkPad running OS X in the background. He'd probably die before he let that happen
- Judah Richardson
Judah... Someone said something to me that stuck with me... Never do something you're not willing to continue supporting. The Genius Bar would be a whole new experience if I was stuck behind people with third party hardware.
- Johnny
I'm with Judah. This demonstrates MS's flexibility (or allows us to reflect on Apple's inflexibility). Maybe the next thing to do is improve WinMo some more and show a phone owner switching providers (or just having more than one provider as he/she travels).
- MiniMage
ms is flexible their is no question. I really believe that Apple is not as flexible look at how Steve Jobs rules Apple his word is god
- Rob Cairns
Microsoft is a software company. Why should he care if his flagship product is featured on a Macbook. To look at it another way its telling that a product that purportedly comes installed with the "The worlds most advanced OS" still has so many users using Bootcamp to run Windows and is used as a selling point.
- Arawak
...nothing is wrong with it. if it's your company, and your sweat equity, you can do whatever t.f. you want with it.
- .LAG liked that
Nothing if you don't want to hang in there, plus if it's your first one why not make the exit, that way your next ventures you won't have to worry about how you're going to survive, if it fails.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
whats wrong with making money? if the founders want to - its up to them
- Anthony Feint
"If I were to tell you that Apple’s app economy was worth more than $2.5 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes?"
- Oguz Serdar
from Bookmarklet
Let's say it like it is, Facebook sucks. Their UI is heavy and painful to use. The accumulation of Apps on the users' pages is the embodiment of bad taste. Their lack of inspiration has made them blatantly copy the ideas of others like they did with FF's "like" in the past. I can't see how FF can possibly benefit from this union.
- Brome
I love it when Brome starts sentences like that ;)
- Josh Haley
Seriously, if Google had acquired FF, I'd be dancing a jig right now. But Facebook? At least we don't have much time to wait before Google Wave beta arrives.
- Brome
Brome!!!! Words out of my mouth. Damn you facebook! Sucks!
- vijay
Here come the targeted ads with "f$ck-your-privacy" inside...
- Laurent
Damn you Facebook... Il n'y avait qu'une seule chose à faire pour tuer mon enthousiasme pour FF...
- Claire
FF will continue to operate "for the time being". That's even scarier than not writing anything about it.
- Brome
At least it seems clear they did not buy the user base ;-)
- Laurent
Brome, be honest; just tell us how you REALLY feel. Don't worry about holding back. :-) [Also: sadly, I agree.]
- Ordinarybug Heather
certes, je suis chez facebook aussi, mais leurs gadgets sont pourris, archi-pourris ... sans parler des fautes d'orthographe qui sont presque devenues la marque de fabrique de facebook ... va-t-on niveler par le bas? je le crains! (too lazy to make it in english, sorry guys, but facebook sucks)
- laurent des fraises
FB la plate-forme la plus pourrie que je connaisse après MySpace!
- Scheiro
Heather, honestly, I feel like in a car crash. It's a disaster, but the most important thing to care about is not the vehicle, it's the people inside. I always knew that something better than FF would come and present an alternative, anyway. Maybe it'll be Google Wave, maybe it'll be something else. But I'm 99% sure it won't be Facebook. What scares me is not FB destroying the FF platform, it's FB destroying our community.
- Brome
Ouah c'est vraiment "ZE bad news in the day of the world"... Pas cool
- All for design
Oh no. Tell me it is not true, it is a nightmare.
- bellegarde-webb
Pourrie sur certains points, mais il est indéniable qu'il y a du monde sur ce réseau social, des informations (données) et de l'argent...affaire à suivre Vous avez peur de perdre l'interface de FF ?
- Eric Reboisson
from email
Brome, c'est terrible: je suis en vacances dans le Sud, les cigales chantent, fin de partie de tarots, j'allume l'iphone et là, c'est le drame. Stanislas par en rando demain. Ça ruine des vacances, une newz comme celle là. Tous les mois passés ici, c'est un investissement considérable et je crains devoir quitter FF bientôt. Dur :(
- Jérôme
from iPhone
Pourries surtout parce que les interfaces de FB et MS rament alors que mis à part des tonnes d'apli inutiles ces deux plates-formes ne proposent rien de particuliers, de spécifiques.
- Scheiro
@laurent toute façon il faut bien se financer d'une manière ou d'une autre
- Harold Pognonec
Oui, mais la manière de FB est probablement la pire qui existe... Ceci dit visiblement ça marche, ça permet de racheter les jeunes pousses prometteuses et d'effacer la concurrence...
- Laurent
Eric, le (gros) risque est que FB phagocyte FF, en pompant toute la technologie real-time puis en le sabordant. FB a acheté FF pour bénéficier du savoir-faire de la compagnie et de ses employés, ils se foutent éperdument de la plateforme elle-même et de sa minuscule base d'utilisateurs.
- Brome
euh...@brome : ct quoi la pire news avant les 15 mois précédant ?
- laetSgo
laetSgo, c'était Twitter qui me faisait passer pour un abruti en supprimant les notifications SMS en Europe, après que j'aie fait s'inscrire tous mes potes dessus grâce à cet argument. ;)
- Brome
To be honest, I hadn't really thought of my data going into the hands of FB. Because I've always considered my content here as being displayed here with some kind of open source/Creative Commons status. But seeing as how FB uses the content of their users, yes, maybe that could piss me off. Wondering if it's still time to delete the pics I posted in private groups and that I wouldn't want to be re-used.
- Brome
Alex, I've listened to the interview, but I don't think there's much to learn there apart from what's already said on the FF blog. In other words, we're still subjects to fear, uncertainty and doubt.
- Brome
yes but still interesting to listen, and yes i also think facebook will mess up friendfeed....
- FullSite
Oh my Fucking God !!! I hate Facebook !! Waiting for GWave for now... Sad News !
- DAL
Très dur à encaisser en effet... :( (@Jérôme heureusement la rando etait vraiment géniale, super temps and co, du coup j'y ai plus trop pensé après ;-).
- stanjourdan
Brome : we're all in troubles with that news. FriendFeed is (or was?) not just a tool, it was before all a community. Now i just hope i won't lose these people i enjoy(ed?) to be in touch with here. :)
- stanjourdan
Really, I can't feel good using Twitter. Lots of people are on Twitter thinking they are part of something new. I think I'm part of something incredibly big - but technologically obsolete. It takes away a lot of the fun.
- Meryn Stol
I've never felt "at home" in twitter, and have given it up
- Nadine Pestourie
yeah i prefer friendfeed much more over twitter these days
- (jeff)isageek
"I wish I never discovered FriendFeed. I wouldn't have seen the light! And, so, I wouldn't feel so bad about all the poor Twitterers that are following ans staying on the the wrong path..."
- Zackatoustra
@Alessandro - oh i get it now, sorry. i got the "session expired" message in the main twitter window that shows tweets, not in the gadget itslef.
- Ivan Zuzak
Works great for me no problems so far "knocks on wood"
- Annika
from Nambu
I love it use it all the time it's great
- Annika
from Nambu
Yeah, I can't quite get the secure one to work.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
I've been running Twitter Gadget for Gmail for two weeks. Suddenly, yesterday, I started getting "Your session is expired, please reload Gmail." The only thing that gets it back is to restart my computer.
- Marie Carnes
boy, if you messed that up it could really put a damper on your day. Some doof needs to try it and put up their fail-flip on youtube. Absolutely amazing, though.
- Rick Cogley
Thought he was going to munch it, clearly, he's not human.
- Will Higgins™
How many times did he try that until he got it right?
- Louis Gray
Not sure how many - but my guess would be that this guy is a competitive gymnast (based on the body and the setting) - things like this often come easy (when you have trained for a dozen years to develop muscle, balance and body awareness),
- Brian Sullivan
I can't get enough of this. Of course it should carry the "don't try this at home disclaimer". I'm sure they could run a whole episode of Amerca's Funniest Home Videos of people trying to do this.
- Mark Krynsky
thanks for the link Veronica, I'd forgotten about this!
- anna sauce
"Even in America a round-faced, weak-chinned nerd can get on television."
- anna sauce
"The Constitution is essentially the frequenty asked questions list of the United States. It was written by moneyed, sickly, bi-focal wearing nerds who thought God was a distant, uncaring dungeon master." 4:49
- anna sauce