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Not coming here again” (at Pakwan Restaurant)
mjc and John E. Bredehoft liked this
I'll bear that in mind come tomorrow. Imagine the power of a negative restaurant review just before 40,000+ conventioneers come to your town.
- John E. Bredehoft
agree. if only people thought that way customer service would improve significantly.
- Fuad Arshad
@fuadar I am planning on it, hopefully we can meet up there #oow09 - http://twitter.com/gvwoods...
Awesome defintely should meet up there
- Fuad Arshad
from Nambu
Off to the Oracle Open World 2009. See you at the Cognizant booth. #oow09 - http://twitter.com/shoumo...
Fuad Arshad liked this
So Eddie will u be there at openworld
- Fuad Arshad
from Nambu
I'm afraid I will not make it this year. But with the livestream video feed and this feed it feels as if I was there. Keep on tweeting....
- Eddie Awad
Re: Physical Dataguard Password change - http://www.fuadarshad.net/wp...
"Agreed. The behaviour of a read only database does not allow for passwords to be changedin physical standby; Option #1 thus can only be used if the database is open for read write . i will update the post . Thanks"
- Fuad Arshad
"Agreed. The behaviour of a read only database does not allow for passwords to be changedin physical standby; Option #1 thus can only be used if the database is open for read write . i will update the post . Thanks"
- Fuad Arshad
Vince's Italian Restaurant (2/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"While I wouldn't call it a train wreck service was pretty horrible and the hostess had no clue how to manage a large group . We asked for coke and only after our drinks were served were we told that…"
- Fuad Arshad
Hot & Spicy (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Zabihah Halal Food, The Philly Steak Sandwich and the Club are simply Superb. We actually some extra as take out since we all loved the food so much. We will defintely eat here again"
- Fuad Arshad
Lal Qila (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Have gone to this place many times their lunch buffet is awesome the quality of the food is very good. The Ramadhan buffet we had was very gods and the staff has always been very courteous"
- Fuad Arshad
Re: Physical Dataguard Password change - http://www.fuadarshad.net/wp...
"Thanks . I was referring to 1,2 and 3 as independent options not linked to each other"
- Fuad Arshad
Real-time contest. Who is doing the geekiest thing right now? Answer on FriendFeed here:
Carlo Maglinao, K.D., Bora Zivkovic and 58 other people liked this
Following FF live feed :-)
- Bo Stern
I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Converting some values on my HP-16C.
- LogEx
Setting up signatures in Thunderbird.
- John Fox
Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt
- Pon
Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix.
- Michael Groner
Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard.
- BeauGiles
watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other
- Rob Clark
running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing
- Erik Boles
Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :)
- emon hassan
I am not geeky enough.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though)
- Jason Phillips
I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77...
- Travis B. Hartwell
Erik wins so far!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Alex Linebrink
Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/
- Derrich
Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY.
- emon hassan
Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can!
- Joshua Odneal
Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes.
- David R
Derrich wins hands down
- Jodi Church
ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!)
- Mr K
Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv
- Carlton Prest
David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!!
- Erik Boles
Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar?
- Stephen Pickering
Indexing mysql databases
- Mike
I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it.
- Michael Groner
watching buffy & angel, lmao
- Brendon Wadey
Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'!
- BeauGiles
Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well.
- Daniel Zarick
Helping someone set up an IRC client.
- Danny Minick
I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it.
- Scott Voss
Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :(
- Travis B. Hartwell
Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek.
- Fred
And with the iphone still geeking out!
- Stephen Pickering
Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly
- David R
I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN.
- Rob Sterling
@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :)
- Michael Groner
TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy
- Erik Boles
:)
- Travis B. Hartwell
getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget...
- esaarem
Defending Blue Bell ice cream and telling church jokes.
- Mistletoe Glen
Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-)
- Johni Fisher
Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte
- Jeremy Lane
Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest?
- David R
David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football.
- Akiva Moskovitz
watching systm on how to build a combat robot
- Sean Montgomery
@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet,
- Derrich
I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek.
- Justin Lowery
ill take that magnet
- David R
watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob.
- geoff hines
Playing World of Warcraft and watching FriendFeed's stream at the same time.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
rebooting PC after BSD
- Phani Raj Kuchibhotla
Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo
- imperator3733
Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT
- Rohit Harshvardhan
@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness.
- Erik Boles
Playing Wow!
- Bill Skoros
installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers
- Carlos
changing my friendfeed theme to custom
- thegeniusfiles
@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower!
- BeauGiles
EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building
- Sean Montgomery
researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up
- Justin Ruckman
first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids.
- Erik Boles
@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also…
- Justin Lowery
You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings.
- Yule Heibel
watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game!
- ann glenn
Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster.
- Kenny Rayl
@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it.
- Justin Lowery
This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby....
- Sean Montgomery
and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game.
- geoff hines
David: prize? My undying respect!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF
- Derrich
• The Geekiest Thing? Well — I'm reading micro-blog posts from Robert Scoble! How can you possibly do anything geekier than that? ☺
- Richard Merritt
Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC.
- Edward Coffey
Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Installing apps for the new 3Gs
- Denverken
Keeping up with this thread
- Reyna Carlos
Babbling in writing is just pathetic.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that...
- Dean Browell
Go Denverken!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Reyna Carlos wins
- Jeremy Lane
@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :)
- BeauGiles
Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :)
- Laura Zickus
digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net
- Fred Davis
Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard!
- Adam Jackson
Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project.
- Jimmy
On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance!
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-)
- Fred Davis
Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion
- Micah Wittman
Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...]
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-)
- Fred Davis
Watching Season 4.5 of BSG
- lisa padilla
My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt!
- Stephen Pickering
hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far
- Denverken
Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot?
- Jerry Garcia
yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha!
- Fred Davis
Watching Android get ported onto an MID
- Netbooknews
watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island"
- monkeystick
Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper.
- Sheila Scarborough
I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas.
- Jerry Garcia
I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter.
- Fred Jones
Going thru 104 comments on this thread.
- Winston Teo
Shape Collaging FF followees http://friendfeed.com/glongma...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video
- Outsanity
I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was
- Kevin Marks
reading scoble FF
- Ruchit Garg
hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor.
- Brett Kelly
zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled.
- David Newman
Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D
- Yahya
playing with django framework
- vinod
playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it)
- Keith - @tsudo
Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts.
- lily taylor
Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF.
- Sandra Large
reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =)
- Charl Pearce
Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek?
- John Nissim
Doing open source development in C++.
- Dean Michael Berris
checking out laptops on pc mag. #
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed')
- Bill Powell
Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
LOl @Stephen P.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Playing with Google Wave
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7
- RobinDotNet
Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what?
- Brent Cameron
My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it.
- Alex Knight
running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV
- Robert Higgins
Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone
- Johnny Worthington
Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :)
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :)
- Fahim
I dont know if this comes under the "tech" category! I am currently thinking ;-) Thinking if the human mind is really an illusion!
- rampantheart
Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog.
- Tim Maly
Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim.
- Jim Connolly
Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans.
- Steve Farnworth
running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome.
- Rohit
Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete.
- Usman Bashir
Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Making a few more custom buttons for firefox.
- April Russo (app103)
Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed.
- Ben Pashkoff
from twhirl
I am listening to Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte interview Michael Foord about Iron Python.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Drinking my morning coffee.....
- Roberto Bonini
it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^
- Paul Papadimitriou
from iPhone
And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :)
- Roberto Bonini
I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :)
- Charlie Anzman
When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky?
- DGentry
Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :)
- Usman Bashir
changing the links under my flickr photos from my personal website to my twitter and facebook fan page. You've got to go where the traffic is! </geekiness>
- Edward Barnieh
Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
reading all the comments above;p
- zʍıɔ
Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post!
- Martin Bryant
We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum?
- Jeff Sayre
Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification...
- Tyson Key
I'm organizing CloneFeed/OpenFF, the open source alternative to FF. Early stages though.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm.
- jcunwired
....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in.
- Matthew Ogston
everyon'es working around me and im on friendfeed. lol
- nivcalderon
Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up.
- Courtney Engle
ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there.
- Courtney Engle
A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee!
- Jeff Sayre
Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES.
- ashish
I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!"
- Trent Hamm
from iPod
Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals!
- Frank Da Silva
Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud.
- Micah Wittman
Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter.
- Michael Pardee
I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?"
- Jimmy Walker
Configuring a Sonicwall router.
- Norm McKenzie
Writing code in Scala.
- Joey Gibson
I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com
- Benjy Felsham
reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader.
- Fuad Arshad
OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky!
- Robyn Hawk
I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next!
- Jan Horna
Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL
- Jim Goldstein
Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . .
- MikeEllsworth
Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress.
- Michael Carnell
Ripping Hogan's Hereos DVDs to make H.264 files for later playing on Apple TV. It's good to carry on in comments here as it shows FF that there is a continuing need and use of the FF ways of doing things. If this was on Facebook, I could not send a comment to Robert unless he friended me. Things are just so much tighter and efficient here.
- Keith Rowland
About the only other thing we could ask for in comments, is comments on comments.
- Keith Rowland
playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature
- Heather
Using my phone to Skype, Friendfeeding on a netbook, playing sudoku on my ipod while watching Pulp Fiction.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated.
- Jim Peake
I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:)
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
following Scobleizer is pretty geeky
- Shari Weiss
working on new version of picollator.com
- Irina Yakhneeva
Installing IE8.
- Rob Schieber
Reading on FF instead of working...
- DAL
compiling Erlang
- Brian Hendrickson
Define "real-time."
- l0ckergn0me
_as if_ you can beat me :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting.
- Jim Connolly
OSgrid
- paniaguai
Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)
Marco Fabbri, Mete Donmez, Vijendar and 30 other people liked this
Congrats on getting the new Facebook app for iPhone done, looking forward to getting it.
- Robert Scoble
Ooh, looking forward to it! Hopefully it fixes a few of the issues I'd been having with the current one.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And if they decline it, just post it as an attachment here on FriendFeed. :)
- Louis Gray
Looking forward to trying it out!
- Paula W
looking forward to new the new facebook app.
- Fuad Arshad
I just wish there was a native client for Android.... That is what would make me very happy... but, Congrats, on getting the latest update out the door...
- Robert
Re: Join the Oraclenerd Family - http://theappslab.com/2009...
"Tha t is a very good idea . Developing centers of expertise or a set of blogs/areas where people can go to get their fix of a variety of oracle should be nice as far as domincation ORACLENERD dominates the world anyways ;). I think the Oracle Contractors network has done something similar wth getting guest writers. This could be an Idea for Mix too . Moderated or validated blogging."
- Fuad Arshad
Re: The Race for Your Identity: Twitter vs Facebook - http://theappslab.com/2009...
"Its kind of interesting that facebook and twitter would become OpenID provider but that would cause a lot of corporations to cringe. Currently a lot of of comapnies block access to facebook and twitter whereas google and yahoo as OpenId providers are permitted . While the concept of OpenID has been long overdue , it will still take time for people to get a hang of it so to speak."
- Fuad Arshad
Re: Oracle Dataguard Broker and CFC - http://www.fuadarshad.net/wp...
"This was not the case here since the primary database was on a HACMP cluster. broker was having difficulties between virtual nodes and physical nodes . oracle states that they do not support this type of config in 10 and in 11 only if clusterware is installed."
- Fuad Arshad
Headed over to the studio for my 1v100 appearance
any idea when us audiences will see this. it should be really nice
- Fuad Arshad
Legacy Mountain Resort (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"We selected these cabins as part of our trip. My wife and kids both loved the cabin. The cabin was clean and came with all the amenities and a pool table. abbsolutely wonderful experience here"
- Fuad Arshad
Boston's Shrimp Bucket (1/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Absolutely horrible food. The service was aweful. We waited for our refills on our drinks and no one even showed up to ask or provide. Food was really horrible . There were only 2 customers including…"
- Fuad Arshad
Re: Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me - http://www.dannorris.com/2009...
"Hey Dan, Congratulations. I think Oracle is getting a great deal on this acquisition as well . Good luck in your new job"
- Fuad Arshad
I've been on Twitter 886 days. How long have you been on? http://whendidyoujointwitter.com/ Answer here: (I joined November 20, 2006).
Marko Saric, Mohammad Abdurraafay, Susan Beebe and 80 other people liked this
I just tried getting on this as you tweeted it and you crashed the site! or did your followers?
- Matthew Sauer
Damn Scobleffect!
- Kevin Kuphal
Matthew and Kevin: hah!
- Robert Scoble
TechCrunch got on it February 7th, 2007.
- Robert Scoble
786 days. Started on 28 February 2007. By the way, it doesn't seem to work on Chrome on Windows. Had to fire up Firefox.
- Sam Grover
CenterNetworks got on it December 12, 2006.
- Robert Scoble
I got it on August 23 2007, 610 days
- Jaffer
758 days!
- Matthew Sauer
sir, you just crashed that site. edit - previous attempt chrome, same FF on XP
- shayne catrett
I think you just killed their website...
- Roy Herrod
I created on March19, 2008. Only 401 days for me. :)
- Paul Wade
470 days ago. wow ididnt realize it was that long i've been on twitter
- Fuad Arshad
I joined on April 4, 2008 - 385 days.
- Laurie Stoker
I joined twitter 910 days ago on 27 October 2006
- Willem Karssenberg
I joined on April 23, 2009. - 1 day. Took me long enough, right?
- Angus Burton
You don't need to use some third party site, this information's in user info available via the API. Just look for "created_at" in the url http://twitter.com/users..., using your user ID, of course.
- Ken Sheppardson
300 days
- Thomas Power
I deleted my account at one point, and have subsequently shuffled and renamed some stuff, but it looks like KenSheppardson's been there since November 5, 2007
- Ken Sheppardson
I joined twitter 829 days ago - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ?
- Rom Feria
Jul 30, 2007
- Pat Hawks
April 19, 2007
- Joe Buhler
Your account was created on 1 August 2007
- Jay Neff
20 March 2007, to follow @Veronica. :) Even beat @leolaporte by 20 days!
- Surferbill
11 August 2007, 623 days ago.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
26 January 2009 - so 88 days ago... not really that long to be honest, I kept avoiding it!
- Roy Herrod
756 days ago for me
- Donald Matheson
Dec 6, 2006. 870 days ago
- Rodfather
759!!!
- Iain Baker
568 days ago.
- Simon Wicks
799 days.
- Morton Fox
November 30th 2007, A year less than you.
- Paul Bainbridge
750 days @thbenkoe
- thomas benkö
218 days ago. Now how about whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com
- Kiran Patchigolla
617 days -- more important though - when was the last time I actively used it (not sure -- is there a similar tool to tell me when I joined FF? :-) )
- Brian Sullivan
775 days johnr99a
- John
710 days "only"
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Scoble effect > digg effect
- Tim McDougall
Jun 2007
- Zee.
I joined twitter on 25 August 2008, 243 days ago: the rest is History
- sofarsoShawn
still haven't and not gonna.
- Andrew C
Joined Twitter 754 days ago
- Michael Kreidler
Or just click on your profile in tweetdeck / many other "clients" -- it will tell your joined date. I joined Fri 07 Mar 2008 23:57.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I make it 279 days if my math is correct.
- Sharron Field
You're on Twitter? :-)
- sofarsoShawn
The website is down at the moment, but I already know the answer. I'll be celebrating my one year Twitter anniversary on May 06.
- Sharon McPherson
845 :-) December 31st 2006 :-)
- Luca Conti
448 which actually suprised me, must have early adopted then just forgot I had the account.
- Richard Tousignant
I've got it going on http://whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com/ - trying to figure out how to point the domain name to it - can anyone help? (What a noob)
- Neville Ridley-Smith
665 days
- chrisofspades
I joined April 2007. wish I could figure it out # of days...the link above isn't cooperating :( Loving tho that I have been on over 700+ days ;) --- thanks Sharon McPherson for the redirect. It worked - 748 days
- enza (aka iVenus)
408 days
- Chris Noble
728 :) 27 April 2007
- Max Trisolino
Neville, I'm no expert, but you can redirect the domain's index page to http://whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com in your .htaccess file. Or you can just use a meta redirect.
- Sharon McPherson
I joined twitter 743 days ago I feel so old now :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
752 Days ago. Funny little tool--the app, not me. ;)
- BISQ
Apr 18 2008
- Nicholas James
515 days. Kaspersky is warning of a Trojan downloader on that site.
- Elpie
872. Seems like yesterday.
- Kevin Gamble
667 days - seen lots of whales
- Jack DeWitt Smith
dude, everything you touch, breaks..gettin' a 404 :)
- George Dearing
Ok - forwarding has been set up - site is live again
- Neville Ridley-Smith
775 days for me.
- Chrimmus Tad
I think we need a new verb: The site has been -- robertscobled or scobleized?
- dario
it was pretty hosed before he got to it but it certainly didn't help matters!
- Neville Ridley-Smith
765 days. huh? didn't know it had been so long
- Ted
773.
- MikeAmundsen
I joined twitter on 13 August 2006 - I joined twitter 986 days ago!
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I joined 576 days ago (09/26/2007).
- Joey Gibson
Looks like i've been on twitter for 527 days. I don't remember using it before November of this year.....
- Eric
3-8-2007 (778 days)
- George Dearing
I joined twitter 806 days ago
- Kim Landwehr
774 for me.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
I joined Twitter 803 days ago (February 11th, 2007).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
775
- Victor Ganata
April 29th 08: "I'm just killing time at work right now. Looking forward to keeping updates on my friends." http://twitter.com/Skizzli...
- David Cook
July 13, 2007 for two accounts, April 10, 2008 for the other.
- Kathy Fitch
19 March 2007 - 768 days ago. Just set up an account for my company and was explaining to my coworkers - when I mentioned I'd been on Twitter for about two years, they were like, wait, I thought it was only a couple of months old! *sigh* Funny that my guesstimation was so close, though!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
April 8, 2007
- rob
I'd sure like to see a personal Twitter timeline similar to coverflow where I can easily go back and forth through tweeting history and see what I've said over the years...
- Glenn Batuyong
So I'm the oldest twitterer here?
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I joined twitter on 23 July 2006
- (jeff)isageek
i beat ya by a few days carlos :)
- (jeff)isageek
@jeff, beat me by about 3 weeks ;-(
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Since September of 2008
- Adam Martin
25 April 2007 crap that's 2 years tomorrow
- Rodzilla
Nifty little site, Robert...774 days for me.
- Ken Kennedy
I joined Twitter 460 days ago. I joined FriendFeed 556 days ago.
- Louis Gray
July 14, 2007 ... 650 days
- Stuart Liroff
224 days ago
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
17 November 2007
- BEX
766 days -- 21 March 2007
- xero
800 days...beat Morty by a day :) February 14, 2007 <3 day....
- Mark Krynsky
1yr 1mo ago ... 24 Mar 2008
- Craig Brownell
524160 minutes.
- imabonehead
563 days ago- 9 October 2007
- metalerik
26 August 2007 - 607 days :) That's pretty good, yeah?
- Michael Forian
THIS IS MY FIRST DAY ON THE INTERNET! :D
- Josh Haley
I joined Twitter 10 days before you, Robert.. November 11, 2006
- Pico Seno
What is Twitter?
- Dominic Jones
I joined twitter 1015 days ago
- Wayne Sutton
only 261 days, just caught the tale end of twitter's more innocent days.
- Mike Elliott
1016 days ago. A day before Wayne!
- Kevin Fox
Wow. Kevin, Wayne, and Dave are cooler than me!
- Robert Scoble
24 October 2006, 914 days. What's your average # of tweets per day. My average is 0.012 :-).
- Gary Burd
Is how many days we've been on Twitter the new status bar to measure up to now that there are million+ following @aplusk? (766 days)
- Peggy Dolane
421 days.
- Sue Radd
yeah, like way back in the olden days... last summer.
- Peggy Dolane
08/29/2008
- John Wright
823
- Johnny Worthington
848 days.
- Alix Whitmire
762 days
- Bastard Operator From FF
807....7 Feb 2007
- Live4Emma (L4S)
536 days.
- Larry Hudson
1002 days
- rob friedman
13 April 2007, 743 days. Though wasn't very active (and still aren't)
- Jemm
October 26, 2006, 912 days ago.
- Erik S
819 days ago
- Rob
twitter 17 November 2007, 525. friendfeed 12 February 2008, 438 days ago
- Adamo Lanna
802 days ago - 13th February, 2007. Though it's only the last year or so that I started paying more attention to it.
- Andy Bold
731 days for me
- Jesse Stay
I joined twitter on 9 September 2007, so 594 days ago.
- Peter Kruit
26 August 2007, or 608 days ago
- David Young
less than 1 week.
- auburn
I joined Twitter June 18, 2008 - 311 days ago
- Tony C
21 dic 2006
- pm10
4 April 2008 386 days
- Jamie Vidamour
Hah! 1002 days.
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
@bdeseattle joined 825 days ago. @pplpwrd aka @infinitelymeta joined 735 days ago.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
67 days :(
- rama mamuaya
777 days!
- Roshan Vyas
I joined twitter 507 days ago
- Meriç Dağlı
699 days ago, 27 May 2007
- Majento
750 ish
- Jamie
A late starter, 419 days, joined 2nd March 2008.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've been here for 738 days (April 18th, 2007).
- Brome
2 June 2007 I joined twitter 693 days ago
- Felter Roberto
I've got a pretty silly question....how do you know when you started using Twitter?
- Christian (Simply X)
@Christian: Check out the link on top :)
- Jemm
I joined twitter 268 days ago (July 30, 2008), and i just twitter my 802nd tweet....
- Marina
lol oh, durrrrrr. Oops totally missed that. 57 days? w00t! 02/27/2009
- Christian (Simply X)
I joined twitter 714 days ago, on 12 May 2007
- A.T.
2 days before A.T. 10th May 2007
- nouhad
I joined twitter on 8 April 2009 - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ? I couldn't resist any longer, @leolaporte kept talking about it.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
821 days ago on Jan 25th, 2007 :)
- embee
I joined twitter on 25 April 2007- happy anniversary to me!!
- Brian Sheehan
910 days. Joined in 27 October 2006.
- Martin Añazco
I joined twitter 153 days ago on 23 November 2008. On the other hand, I've been on FriendFeed for a year and Facebook for 5 years.
- Bora Zivkovic
I joined twitter 309 days ago
- DAL
i joined twitter 43 days ago
- John Wood
Funny I joined Twitter on Feb 21 2006, the day after you.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
July 29, 2008
- Kevin Whalen
778 days (March 9, 2007)
- Kevin Tunis
My first account 13 July, 2006. My most used one, 12 February 2008.
- jcunwired
723 days ago, 03 May 207
- Bill Rawlinson
\o/ I joined twitter on 20 December 2006
- Caers Mane
332 days
- Damond Nollan
772 days - i was invited much earlier but didn't see the value for me (in nyc) since it was all about what silicon valley folks were having for lunch, wait has that changed ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I joined on March 28th 2007 (759 days ago).
- Daniel Rowley
769. What's next? Slashdot user numbers are now passe. What's the next measurement of geek coolness?
- Andrew Leyden
at least 943 - one account Oct 2006, but I can't find the date for my main one.
- randulo
I joined twitter 223 days ago
- OnuRC
1 December 2006
- John Graham
I joined twitter on 30 November 2008 - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ?
- Roshan Ramachandran
I joined twitter on 23 January 2007, 823 days ago :)
- CantorJF
303 days on Twitter, geez, what a newbie
- Rick Bucich
769 days ago
- Victor Panlilio
from Nambu
495 im young compared to yall XD
- Zafarali
Joined on 16 March 2007, 771 days ago. (Yes, WDYJT crashed yesterday)
- Red Label
714 days - twitter.com/atveit
- Amund Tveit
244 days on Twitter so far :)
- Frode Stenstrøm
538 days joined on November 4th 2007
- BCK
Wow. I guess I joined the same day as you ;). What were we thinking?!?
- Michael Lehman
695 days plus the days from an old account thats no longer found
- Monique
863 days ago. I joined on 14 december 2006
- Cristian
986 days ago, 13 August 2006
- Sean Oliver
1015 days ago, 16 July 2006
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
886 as well
- Michael Specht
funny! i joined Nov. 20th 2006 as well. :)
- Eddie Codel
788 days ago.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
27 August 2007
- Tony Vota
716 days
- Ryan Dadey
Ok, I'll admit it, I've shamelessly hitched a ride on Robert's coat-tail by embedding the feed from this discussion into a page on my website. http://twitclicks.com/rlrn
- Sharon McPherson
724 days! Joined during MIX07.
- Gregg Le Blanc
I was only slightly exaggerating yesterday. I have been on for 863 days. I joined in December 2006.
- Francine Hardaway
I joined twitter 786 days ago on March 1, 2007.
- Rajiv Doshi
I joined a day after Scoble (November 21, 2006)
- Michael Markman
I beat @techcrunch! But as usual I trail you by a couple of months, Robert. ;)
- Denise Howell
782 days, joined on March 5 2007, wow didn't realize it was that long ago
- Keith - @tsudo
421 days, joined on 1 March 2008 - I joined twitter and FriendFeed on the same day :)
- Susan Beebe
912 days, cant believe I was there before you :-)
- Patphelan
563 days
- Peter Efland
762 days ago on the 27 March 2007
- Mick Stanic
Took me Twanalysis to finally find it .... Sept 12 '07 Late adopter?
- Charlie Anzman
I joined twitter 179 days ago - http://whendidyoujointwitter.com ?
- Geoff Jackson
Robert, check this out : http://whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com/
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
CNN Acquires CNNbrk Twitter Account With Nearly 1 Million Followers - http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-acq...
Lianna, Roman, johnpiercy and 6 other people liked this
"Hard to believe, but the CNN Twitter account racing Ashton Kutcher to 1 million subscribers wasn't even under CNN's (TWX) control until recently. CNN confirms that it has has taken control of the @cnnbrk account -- and its 944,000 followers. CNN didn't disclose any financial details, but said it's been working with previous owner James Cox for more than two years on the account."
- Jonathan Kong
from Bookmarklet
Is this a first for Twitter? An account sold?
- Bwana ☠
Wow twitter account being sold were the followers contacted and informaed of the change in ownership ?
- Fuad Arshad
cant sell a Twitter name or Impersonate http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums...
- johnpiercy
The IT Crowd: Series 1 - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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pretty funny
- Fuad Arshad
Buy.com - Motorola MOTOROKR S9 Bluetooth Stereo Headset - $39.99 with Free Shipping - http://www.dealcatcher.com/rsslink...
with iphone 3.0 supporting stereo bluetooth this loks like a good deal
- Fuad Arshad
Reading Blocks - Nomenclature - http://prodlife.wordpress.com/2009...
nice term definition
- Fuad Arshad
Re: Boxee Invites - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"looking forn invite for boxee for windows .already have an account but no mac ;("
- Fuad Arshad
On the Usefulness of Software Instrumentation - http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2009...
This is definitely something thati feel developers always ignore and my addition to this is the amount of physical work in debugging a non instrumented code causes greater outage period than wworkign with code that is instrumented. Instrumentation can not only time time and money it can reduce TCO's and cost of management by huge amounts.
- Fuad Arshad
Google Tells Users To Drop IE6 - http://tech.slashdot.org/article...
Jemm, Amber, Random Time Lord, Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) and 7 other people liked this
Way to go google, IE6 has to go
- Fuad Arshad
hahhahahhaha IE6!
- Mona Nomura
Who uses IE6?
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
what's IE6?
- Eugene Huo
We use IE6 at work still :(
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
Not me...
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm with Brad. My employer has not yet authorized IE7, much less any non-IE web browser. Vista and Office 2007 aren't authorized either.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Macworld 2009 - come to our tweet-up and win with your Qik video! - http://qik.com/blog...
Robert Scoble liked this
but bhaskar are u launching a legal qik app for iphone then ?
- Fuad Arshad
It’s a new year, have you backed up? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Chris Heath, Keith - @tsudo, Paul Papadimitriou and 18 other people liked this
chethan: yep. I don't see your comment on my blog, though.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the reminder - there are a few things that I don't have automated - good time to make sure that it's up to date!
- Brad Parler
chethan: I did a whole video on it: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Robert Scoble
planning on it this weekend - in addition to cleaning out my closet.
- Jen
Once/week at least. Get into a routine!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Not yet, thanks for the reminder ;-)
- Mario (wisher)
YES :) everyday...bliss! Need offsite / cloud solution... suggestions?
- Susan Beebe
@susan check out mozy or jungle disk with S3
- Aaron Eaton
I just started using Mozy for my home systems and I like it. Had not seen Jungle Disk and I will have to look at it.
- Robert Miller
I back-up every morning. It's the only way to get the car out of the driveway. Wut?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I would do it Josh. I was offline for a couple of weeks and lost 4 months of email do to not having a routine. Not proud of it (ashamed, actually), but that is why I looked into online backup services as another layer. I am also thinking about loading up a Windows Home Server or Linux NAS box.
- Robert Miller
Josh: I have not gotten to the point of determining the best solution for a NAS. For my security work, I use OpenBSD, but I have not sat down to go over a NAS build-out. I have put together a couple of Windows Home Server set ups and it is not bad; once you get past the "Windows Server for Dummies" mentality.
- Robert Miller
I've been using Linux with a hardware RAID controller to provide NAS service for Windows, Linux and occasionally OS X clients for years. It hasn't let me down yet. It's defiantly not cheap, but you could try the LVM/softRAID setups if you want to cut the cost. (and performance)
- matthew john ernisse
Matthew: Interesting thought. I will look at LVM/softRAID, though I am more of a hardware raid person myself.
- Robert Miller
Depends on your definition of "good" and how much storage you need. Other than that, should be good.
- Robert Miller
That is total space. RAID 5 (minimum I would go) that means a minimum of 3 drives and, yes, that is like Microsoft saying Vista runs on a 1GHz P4.
- Robert Miller
Using Mozy daily, but will soon switch to JungleDisk (archive + backup)
- You.
@robert years ago I used to use the kernel soft RAID stuff for mirroring for my /home drives. Worked pretty well, didn't fail me. The code has been in mainline since sometime back in 2.4 land if I remember correctly so it should be fairly robust. It is hard to beat the performance of a PCI-X hardware card though :)
- matthew john ernisse
@joshchandler try dlink dns323 works quite well with vista and also supports upnp => u can stream media to ps3 and xbox
- Shivanand Velmurugan
If I was going for a dlink solution, it would be the dns343 (Four drives) and RAID 5 capable.
- Robert Miller
I don't know a lot about the embeded solutions, but I will advocate the usefulness of hotswap & hot spare abilities. In the 5 years I've had a hardware RAID-5 setup I've replaced 3 drives. It is well worth it to invest in something that can do at least hotswap and online rebuilds.
- matthew john ernisse
True. +1 hot-swap and online rebuilds. I also prefer hot-spares, but that adds $$$ to the price.
- Robert Miller
I have found sparing to be worth it, esp. in a RAID4/5/6 situation. Running degraded sucks, and you are vulnerable to another drive failure taking out all of your data. And it is SO EASY to be lazy and go "I'll replace the drive next paycheck"... (learned the hard way)
- matthew john ernisse
well i've had 2 backups to 2 different NAS devices for years but this year i think i'll experiment with the cloud
- Fuad Arshad
I bought a buffalo terrastation 2tb raid5 (1.5tb actual after parity) for around $900 about two years ago - next storage device will probably be a drobo. what i really would like to find though is a usb or firewire external bay for IDE drives that loads like the drobo - from the front - hot swappable isn't necessary, but would be nice. toaster style like the esata that @leolaporte has is the dream, but ease of swap is the idea... any suggestions people?
- Chris Heath
Backed up and cleaned my car. Do I get a cookie? :-)
- Mayuresh Walke
Is anybody going to stop using Flickr b/c of the payment thing?
Viqi French, Rob Sellen :o), Chester and 8 other people liked this
I'm mad b/c I've used flickr for photo hosting for posts, and now I'll have to move all of those off. This whole "now we're charging" b---shit is not nice. At least Kodak never made bones about it: you have to buy something to stay on. Changing policy 3X since my going on Flickr... come on, make a decision already.
- anna sauce
I'm not gonna pay... it means I won't be able to use a bunch of sets and collections, but *shrug* too bad AT&T deal ended, though
- Michael W. May
been out of the loop? what did Flickr do? I've been a Pro member for a while
- Jeff Quinton
It's like, I wasn't prime, then I was grandfathered in with AT & T & yahoo membership. Then I'm back to being on probation. They basically hold your photos hostage. Unwise.
- anna sauce
What changed?
- Mike Doeff
I never had any special deal from my ISP for using Flickr -- it's always been free with the 200pic/3set limit, or $30/yr (after conversion to CAD) for everything. Personally, I'd say that paying and continuing to use the service is a better option than jumping ship; so far I've not seen a single photo sharing service that matches Flickr, even when you factor in the cost of service.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I already paid for it. Flickr is one of those essentials to me (zooomr too). If not for Flickr nearly all of my 2007 pictures would have been lost in a hard drive crash.
- Karoli
ISP deals like that are always trouble waiting to happen, anyway. I didn't like that I was offered two free months of service when I signed up; such things can eventually lead to getting financially bitten in the ass. Probably the only thing to do is raise enough hell with AT&T to make them provide the full Flickr service for free again, although they probably won't do anything.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
" Due to changes in your AT&T Internet Service, your Flickr Pro account will expire on 1st February, 2009. That's in 29 days! You can renew Flickr Pro for just $24.95 for a one-year account. And to thank you for staying with us, we'll give you another two months at no cost. Why is my Pro account expiring? " -->http://img.skitch.com/2009010...
- anna sauce
Third times a charm; What changes have Flickr made to their pricing?
- Christopher Harley
I've already been paying for Flickr Pro.
- Morton Fox
Photo friend of mine was making a matrix comparing services, and she totally drank the Flickr cool-aid. "It's free." I'm like, uh, it's not free. "Kodak is not free" uh, it's free if you buy a sticker page for $2.50. It's sadly all about marketing.
- anna sauce
sounds like AT&T is the bad guy here, not Flickr
- Jeff Quinton
Got me worried for a minute! I already have a Flickr Pro account, and I won't touch AT&T with a bargepole so nothing for me to worry about!
- Ian May
What Morton said.
- Derrick
@Jeff It could be Flickr too, we don't really know the details of the deal they had for providing AT&T customers with free service. OTOH you're probably right.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
So, wait...you're complaining because you were getting something for free that most people pay for and now you're down with the rest of us paeons again? I'm sorry you're losing your freebie, but Flickr's pretty sweet anyway. I mean, they don't even delete your older photos when your pro account expires. I call that pretty friendly, and as soon as I'm more financially viable, I'll fork out for a pro account again.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
The non-Pro account (amateur account?) meets my needs.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Jandy, thought everyone was getting it "for free"<-- I wasn't really, I pay a premium SBC account, which owns AT&T & Yahoo, so more like, it was bundling, then it wasn't bundling. That's bait & switch. I'm questioning a couple of things- the price point, (other services are a lot cheaper) and the practice of switching
- anna sauce
I guess this doesn't apply to me who have an ordinary free acct?
- Thomas Bøhm
full disclosure: one of my main clients is Kodak EasyShare Gallery. I don't use them for posting, and I've been an advocate for a *long time* that they need permalinks. I use my consumer hat on when I use Flickr. But, I do know the comparable services out there and the price points, since I'm tangentially in the industry. And, Flickr is expensive, for those with Pro.
- anna sauce
Okay, Anna, I get that. If it's advertised as a bundled perk and then taken away, that's a bit more shady. I'd still say Flickr is worth it, though, either the pro or basic account. BTW, I just looked at Flickr's FAQ for basic accounts, and it sounds like photos you've used in blog posts will still show up in the posts, even if they no longer show in your photostream.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I've been boycotting Flickr since October. Facebook is now my Flickr. LOL
- Mona Nomura
It's basically a "pay to play" social network. Those that use it for free/non-pro, have you been on there long enough or active enough for them to hide your old photos?
- anna sauce
Mona, interesting
- anna sauce
Also interesting that the JPG folding comes on the heels of Flickr/AT&T pro-account-grandfathering ending
- anna sauce
My photos used to all be on Yahoo, then they made me switch, now I'm running out of space there and I'm not sure a pro account is something I'm willing to invest in just yet. As many of you know, my pics are not really all that serious. That Facebook idea sounds kinda neat, though. Do they have limits on photos? Why boycotting Flickr, Mona?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I had a pro account account, anyway.
- Helen Sventitsky
@anna I used Flickr for free long enough that I ran into the 200 pic limit. After grumbling for a while and considering hosting my photos on my own site, I realized the value of Flickr was more than just hosting the pics. So, I upgraded to Pro, and not looked back.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I haven't heard. What's going on with Flickr? I have photos on there as well. I used to have a pro account but after my separation things were tight and I let it go. Anything I should be worried about with all the photos I have in there?
- Adriana
I have always had a Flickr pro account, so I'm not in any way affected. I can afford the annual fee and I like it there, so I've never had any desire to move to another service. Feel sorry for those who are losing their free pro account access. I've been through that before with AT&T/Yahoo and it sucks balls.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I finally switched to a pro account a few months ago--it was worth having the photos backed up and more easily shareable with groups of friends. So for me the cost is worth it.
- Abigail
Mona, how to you work with Facebook photos? I've so far only found it useful to share with Facebook people. I guess you can right click the photo and get the photo's URL from the properties, but other than that I haven't found an easy way to post Facebook photos on external sites, which is Flickr's greatest draw for me.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I make the album viewable to everyone and display it elsewhere (blog, ff, etc). So Facebook is hosting for me. :) The concept is the same as Flickr's sets, the only down side is grouping, mosaics, all the fancy stuff I really don't need. This works for me since I don't have use for ultra high resolution photos. Zooomr is my other solution - though the interface is kinda... um... bad. :\
- Mona Nomura
Oh interesting Mona- wondered how you were doing those photos
- anna sauce
If you're going to have to pay for something, I think $39.95/year for a Smugmug.com account is more worthwhile. For my uses, anyway. But, then, the cropping of thumbnails into squares on Flickr was always a deal-killer for me.
- Chester
i'm wondering all those att users that were sold dsl and uverse with flickr pro being an added beneift how do they feel or is this a non issue
- Fuad Arshad
I already did. Long, long time ago. Moved to Picasa but I've got the same problem... Have to look somewhere else, I guess.
- Jordi Soler
I use picassa.... why don't more people use it?
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Rob Perhaps because the 2Gb cap. Flickr doesn't have such a cap, or at least if they do, it's big enough that nobody's complained yet about hitting it.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Chris, I encountered it right away
- anna sauce
I probably would have hit it right away too, if I had a decent camera instead of a cell phone built-in. Thing is, for the value that Flickr provides, the cost of a Pro account is pretty damn good. I've yet to see another photo sharing service with unlimited storage for less than what Flickr charges for Pro accounts.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This is annoying, isn't it? I'm thinking moving on from Flickr, but don't know where I want to go. I like Tabblo a lot and used it a lot at one time, as it encourages me to write essays to accompany the posted photos. I don't understand if *everything* will disappear from Flickr or just selected photos. Since I use it sort of as storage, guess I'll have to pay Flickr the big bucks in the long run.
- Viqi French
GM now asks FAA to keep flight plans for its private jet secret. However, once GM asked for a public bailout, they should forfeit any right to stay out of the court of public opinion. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
I would agree why would u want a public bailout but still use private jets executives need to tone down spending like flying private jets and not living in the vicinity of their workplace
- Fuad Arshad
from fftogo
If you had to choose just one service to connect with your friends, what would that be? a) social networks b) blogs c) twitter d) email?
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Social networks.
- Vincent X
its this AMAZING new technology i've recently gotten into. it's called the telephone! when it fails I go with this thing I refer to as "face-to-face". the uptime is 100%, and I don't think it uses EC2...
- Jeremy Toeman
Jeremy: face-to-face is very cool, particularly when I do that with my wife or my son. But it isn't particularly scalable. If you try to force scalability then noise enters the system too (I get slapped when I try that with my wife). So, if I need to talk with a group of you, then FriendFeed wins. But, if I had to choose one to keep in touch with "real" friends (the kind you drink beer with) then I'd say Skype or Google Talk so I could see and talk with them via voice and video.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert - i dont feel my need to keep in touch with friends has a "scalability problem". then again, i dont feel the need to use the word "real" as a modifier to the word friends...
- Jeremy Toeman
Social Networks
- Svartling
the one which will provide the best opportunity for maximum information sharing and continuous and easily/universally accessible/usable interface, i.e. anything that comes (relatively) closest to real life communication..
- Hayk H.
i'm changing my answer to "whichever one allows me to occasionally throw sheep at and/or bite my friends"
- Jeremy Toeman
when it comes to 'friends'.. social networks..
- Devakishor
@Jeremy @Robert I'm not sure whether the phone should be called face-to-face communication unless you're using a video phone. The low scalability is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It needs a lot of attention but is also symbolically showing your partner that you feel s/he deserves this attention. It's hard to suggest this via textual media.
- Benedikt Koehler
Twitter
- Fuad Arshad
Twitter, but I totally like what Jeremy Toeman said above. My computer seems to distance me from society in some cases. This stupid, but lovely, iPhone keeps my fingers going and face down while at social gatherings.
- Valley
The phone should have been option e. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
If I had to pick it would be email. Most friend are on FB but I always use email or the phone when chatting to friends.
- Kol Tregaskes
It also depends on the type of friends, personal ones are email but people you've met online I use the social site we use.
- Kol Tregaskes
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