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Good Memory Management When Using PureMVC - http://jessewarden.com/2009...
Great article Jesse. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
- funkyboy
Is the LinkedIn Platform Dead? - http://gigaom.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Roberto Bonini, Robert Scoble and 13 other people liked this
oh, yet another death news. aren't people sick and tired of killing platforms?
- Mengu
Their Serious Business PR is still rock solid Especially because they are slow to open up for privacy invasions running amok among other more "popular"social sites.
- Bill Whetstone
I know many people who segregate LinkedIn off from Facebook or Friendfeed--different groups of friends for different social networks. Is there still a place for pure business connections who don't want to know what you had for breakfast or your score in Scrabble? I think so.
- Andrew Leyden
Next: "LinkedIn killers" start popping up
- TheIndustryStandard
That's pretty interesting. I use the Wordpress app on LinkedIn, but was wondering what others are available. Om links to a page where you can see all 10 (count 'em) apps. I can understand their worry about apps allowing mining of their data - with limited possibilities for interaction, the data is about all they've got.
- Michael Slattery
monthly visit numbers have nearly doubled in the last 12 months...hard to think the platform would be dead...maybe just not the hellbent for leather place that we've grown to expect? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/linkedi...
- jeff hammond
iPhone Homescreen Exposé Concept: Would you use this? - http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009...
Why are cookbooks written in an imperative style, and not functional or declarative styles?
Tyson Key, Will Higgins™, Brett Morgan and 26 other people liked this
Because they are directions. They're directing you to do something.
- Spidra Webster
What would a functional or declarative style recipe look like?
- Mark Trapp
The functional ones evolve into applications during time :)
- Ozkan Altuner
I don't know -- it might be fun to write a cookbook in Prolog or something.
- Paul Buchheit
Michael Chu at Cooking for Engineers (http://cookingforengineers.com/) has a neat pseudo-functional style, but it's still at its core imperative: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe... (look at the bottom of the traditional recipe before the comments)
- Mark Trapp
It'd be hard to prepare food without side-effects.
- Laurence Gonsalves
The words "cookbook" and "recipe" are almost synonymous with imperative step-by-step directions. There are books about cooking which instead have the aim of educating you about the art and science of food preparation, which you might think of as a more declarative style of programming -- they describe the constraints, you solve them to reach your goal.
- ⓞnor
I prefer the Italian cookbooks because of the spaghetti code!
- Gabe
@Gabe LOL
- Ozkan Altuner
LOL. prefer them for the Ministrone: Tag soup
- Roberto Bonini
I prefer object-oriented cookbooks, where the tomato tells the pasta to cook itself.
- Jim Norris
But first you need a vegetable factory, which is of course instantiated via a vegetable factory factory, which is itself specified in an XML file.
- Paul Buchheit
Aren't those just a series of blog posts about how you can set up a panel of judges to evaluate how tasty your dish is, and also some discussions of the best way to organize your cookware, and whether a measuring cup is a subset of spoons, without ever discussing the actual preparation of food?
- ⓞnor
Shouldn't you have some sort of vegetable service, so you can instantiate different vegetables at runtime? Also, I may need to unit test that bottle of wine you're cooking with.
- Jim Norris
If a vegetable factory is a farm, is a vegetable factory factory... some agribusiness giant, like Monsanto? Or maybe a vegetable factory is a plant, and a vegetable factory factory is a seed.
- ⓞnor
I think Monsanto is a vegetable factory factory service provider implementation.
- Jim Norris
That's an implementation detail Dan, and therefore less important than the fact that we've carefully avoided creating any explicit dependencies. Presumably there's some kind of framework that can help with this.
- Paul Buchheit
Also, the measuring cup should just implement the Spoonable interface. Like your mom.
- Jim Norris
Yes, I think what's needed here is some sort of fruit guice.
- ⓞnor
Based on everything I've read about object-oriented programming, I think it would make more sense conceptually if the vegetable was a subclass of Rectangle.
- Mark Trapp
I wouldn't talk Jim, since *your* mom implements the Forkable interface.
- ⓞnor
At least my mother doesn't throw BrokenBarrierException.
- Jim Norris
Broken bury 'er exception? I hardly know 'er!
- ⓞnor
This has got to be the nerdiest thread of the month.
- Andrew C
Have you ever tried cooking in Haskell using Monads to separate and constrain side effects?
- Jim Norris
Paul: I'd rather have a farm factory than a factory farm! I think Monsanto is a factory farm factory.
- Gabe
I have to wonder if anyone has used any optimizers to plan out, say, a kitchen breakfast, given a standard autonomous programmable robot with attached spatula, various stores of ingredients, minimal thresholds for consumability, and double-blind taste testing for scoring. Given a robot arm dextrous enough to lift and move pans and mix ingredients and pour them between containers, it...
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- Jim Norris
Why isn't Linux written in contemporary Asian-Mexican fusion? ;)
- Pablo Mayrgundter
If the cooking is made by a team then we probably need some book on methodologies, like Agile cooking :)
- funkyboy
because imperative style needs you to behave like a dumb processor, one needs a smart interpreter for functional style recipes :D
- thequark
This wasn't a serious question, was it?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
courtesy of Andy Bakun: "def slow-cooker = stack() ; def cut(item) = { item.apply(knife) } ; def add-to-pot(item) = { slow-cooker.push(item) } ; [ [potatoes carrots celery onions].map(cut) roast salt pepper beef-bullion ].reduce(add-to-pot) ; [ (slow-cooker.apply(heat) * (x hours)) for 5 < x < 8 ] ; [ n/4 for person in range(4) ]" - http://friendfeed.com/thwarte...
- Dan Freeman
can't install windows7 neither on parallels 4, nor on virtual box. any suggestion?
Hello funkyboy! I am from Parallels. Can you send me a direct message on what you have tried to do to install and some info about your computer? Maybe I can help.
- Parallels_HQ
Tried to install Windows 7 on a MacOsx host (10.5.7). Parallels version: 4.0.3846
- funkyboy
The Iphone is a - http://spreadingfunkyness.com/the-iph...
Reflections after 6 months of usage
- funkyboy
What would the web look like if each time a developer wanted to change their site, it had to be approved by a committee with a 2 week delay?
John Wang, Vinay, Sunny (The Geek Lord) and 55 other people liked this
Like 1995 when I was trying to upload MBs of data over a 14.4kbps dial-up modem for a website.
- John Wang
Like the Apple Store? :)
- Ray Cromwell
Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery
- Charles Ying
You've obviously never worked for a large company.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
You would be amazed how many large corporations still do this.
- dthree
First off, it doesn't matter what the developer wants; decisions are made by the product manager and reviewed by the higher product review board and the VP of product. Then the UED team gets involved and the design has to be done, redone, pitched, explained, and revised. The change also needs to make it onto the next quarter's roadmap, where it can be evaluated in light of other...
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- Glen Campbell, B.A.
I'm not ignoring the fact that corporations go through a lengthy process to ensure the quality of their products. Of course Facebook does this too, and so do I personally. The point is, we are the ones who are qualified to determine when the app is ready. Apple is just a middleman, and they have a very limited ability to test the quality of our app.
- Joe Hewitt
A couple times Apple has caught bugs in our app and notified me of it, but they have also missed huge bugs that went through. The app on the store right now is orders of magnitude more buggy than the one sitting in the review queue.
- Joe Hewitt
I can only assume the review process is there for Apple to test compliance with their terms of service, and any bugs they find along the way are incidental. Thank goodness the web doesn't have a terms of service and a review queue.
- Joe Hewitt
With 40 apps per day per reviewer, I'm surprised the approval process works as well as it does.
- PXLated
Has any other company ever been faced with as many apps in such a short period as Apple - Just curious
- PXLated
If we developers always programmed everything to be perfect before releasing it, nothing would ever get released. ; )
- John Wang
it would look like an MMO they release half broken stuff every two weeks like clockwork
- Robert Higgins
Your question mentioned nothing of Apple and the App Store. I was merely responding to the question asked. Specifically, if, each time a developer wanted to change their site, it had to be approved by a committee with a 2-week delay, it would represent a vast improvement in the speed of delivery of site changes and probably a corresponding decline in the quality. Apple imposes their...
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- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Sorry, Glen, the context in almost all of my tweets relates to iPhone development :)
- Joe Hewitt
Of course, Apple can do whatever they want, and I can go elsewhere. I am making suggestions on how they can improve their flea market and prevent people from going elsewhere. I believe the web has set the precedent that big platforms like the iPhone can thrive even without a centralized quality control bottleneck.
- Joe Hewitt
But Joe, the iPhone isn't like the web as a whole - it's more like gaming platforms and probably more open then they are. Will be interesting to see what happens on Android and if in fact it is more open, and if so what kind of chaos may ensue.
- PXLated
Are you serious - "prevent people from going elsewhere" - Where? And pass up the iPhone audience/marketplace? Even if Android is a success, developers won't leave iPhone in spite of all the bitching.
- PXLated
The iPhone is not a "gaming platform" until they tell me I can't develop anything but a game for it. A significant chunk of iPhone apps, mine included, are basically iPhone-optimized websites written in Objective-C. I admit that I don't see anyone, myself including, abandoning Apple over this issue, but I do believe that the quality of apps on the platform is being hurt by it. Just because other platforms are even more restrictive, like Playstation or some mobile platforms, is not an excuse.
- Joe Hewitt
It's not an excuse but none is needed, Apple developed a platform and set the rules just as the gaming platforms did/do. I'm personally not sure the (overall) quality is being hurt either.
- PXLated
In fact, maybe Apple should be a lot more restrictive - 65K apps probably confuses the hell out of many users. Maybe they need a rating system and then start eliminating the poorly performing apps. Get it down to a reasonable (best of breed) 5K ;-)
- PXLated
"Apple developed a platform and set the rules" - well there's a news flash. I don't think anyone needed to be informed of that. I think Joe's just trying to make the point that centralized control isn't necessary for the good apps to rise to the top. Would you consider the web to be a success if there were 65k sites (please don't get pedantic and point out that sites aren't apps; the argument holds for any reasonable multiplier)?
- Joel Webber
"Get it down to a reasonable (best of breed) 5K" - And exactly from what larger pool would you take that best of breed? If the breed's too small, you can't *have* a best-of-breed. The web's an unholy mess, but its size and chaos are precisely what makes it successful. People still manage to find the good stuff.
- Joel Webber
It would look like the website where I work....
- Don Schuetze
What would the web look like if a developer could be shut down for an alleged ToS violation? Like FaceBook?
- Kevin Marks
That's a lot better than how web applications ship. Please allow a few months before we change it.
- Burcu Dogan
You would have [insert any corporate review process here]. For significant changes, this is understandishable. However, it gets insidious when everything looks like a nail ... even if it isn't.
- Joe D'Andrea
read it late though, but i would hate it, then maybe web might not be as popular, interesting and powerful
- testbeta
The Evolution of Apple Ads - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009...
Super cool post.
- funkyboy
Users will pay a premium for a better product that does a better job serving their needs - http://www.inspireux.com/2009...
And Apple knows ...
- funkyboy
was thinking ... nobody commented one of my friendfeed posts, ever. can you please do it. you know, just for fun :)
This is fun
- Daniel E. Renfer
Color yourself super happy then =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Okay, lets up it to Ecstatic
- Parth Awasthi
more fun than a panda in a waterpark
- RAPatton
Yessss ....
- Brent - Long Live Rock
How about... no?
- Chris Heath
iPhone Moving Beyond AT&T in 2010? Maybe - http://mashable.com/2009...
I wish so
- funkyboy
10 Mobile Plugins for WordPress - http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-mobi...
Great list of mobile plugins for wordpress
- funkyboy
Wired takes on Craigslist founder, who promptly walks into a door - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
Very alternative CEO!
- funkyboy
Open vs. Integrated - http://www.lukew.com/ff...
Open is referred to a technology. Intergrated is about the experience. It's like comparing oranges and apples.
- funkyboy
Cons Of Omniscience - http://www.geekherocomic.com/2009...
:) double :)
- funkyboy
So what are your priority mac apps? The first apps you always have installed when you get a new mac?
nadžak baba, Robert Mattar, Franz Sittampalam and 27 other people liked this
quicksilver, skitch, adium and fluid
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Xcode and TextMate.
- Aaron Brethorst
ohh and TextMate!
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Quicksilver, TextMate, Xcode, Adium
- Aman
no coders on friendfeed then :)
- Zee.
This is my first mac; almost two years old now. But when I get a new one next year, the essential ones will be: Quicksilver, Adium, Skitch, Aperture, iWork, Things, Evernote, Photoshop. Prolly Twitterific too, if it is still as good then.
- Parth Awasthi
What I run on a regular basis: Launchbar, Adium, Aperture, Evernote, Yojimbo, BBEdit, TweetDeck, Firefox, Photoshop.
- ronin
adium, quicksilver, coda, parallels/xp, tweetie/tweetdeck, adobe, firefox, wireshark, truecrypt
- Robert DeBord
adium, perian, growl, apptrap or appcleaner
- milus
Chrome, Adium, NetNewsWire, CyberDuck, Seesmic Desktop, Smultron
- Matt Ruiz
Adium, Firefox, Dropbox, Evernote, RDC, XCode, Smultron, NeoOffice, Launchbar, Little Snitch, 1Password, Super Duper, Launchbar
- Edmund Tay
Last time I bought a Mac: Google Quick Search Box. Sapiens. TwoUp. Firefox. iWork. Adium. Skype. iLife. Evernote. Fluid (for Friendfeed, Flickr, Posterous, Blip). AppFresh, AppCleaner. Superduper. Dropbox. Windows Live Sync. Things. Scrivener. Onyx. LittleSnitch. Growl. Nambu. Spotify. Writeroom. VLC. Lightroom/Photoshop. Etc, etc.
- Liviu Barbat
MacVim and Transmit
- Brad McCrorey
Every week when I get a new Mac (I wish) it's Adium, Quicksilver, Growl, Fluidapp and Mailplane first.
- Peter van Teeseling
Shimo (I guess that also means a Cisco VPN client), Office 2008 (but I've only had one new Mac) [edit: Remote Desktop Client, Firefox, Citrix]
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
TextWranger, Adium, 1Password, CS4 and Final Cut Pro
- dthree
Tweetdeck, Adium, Skype, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop.
- Garin Kilpatrick
adium, perian, growl, netbeans, smultron, cyberduck
- Osman Üngür
I forgot to add Transmit
- dthree
What is textmate?
- Amani
Growl, Dropbox, Google Quick Search Box, Tweetie, Skitch, Speed Download and Evernote.
- Rubin Sfadj
Amani: TextMate: http://macromates.com/
- Liviu Barbat
Used to be Quicksilver, but it's Google Search Box now.
- Brome
CoRD, Dropbox, VLC, Evernote, Growl
- Anthony
Scott - last time it was CS3 with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver
- Robert DeBord
Quicksilver, TextMate, DefaultFolder X, TextExpander, Developer Tools (incl. XCode), iWork, MacPorts and then LaTeX, Hazel, Adium, BibDesk, Carbon Copy Cloner, Colloquy, Gimp, ImageJ, iPhotoLibraryManager, MainActOn, MailTags, Matlab, OmniALL, Snapz Pro X, SpiritedAway, Transmit
- Jason Miller
This thread is great for the sole reason that I've asked myself, "ooh, whats that?" about a dozen times already. Ooh, and I'll toss in AppFresh as the first thing I put on.
- Mark Howell
growl, Adium, Skype, Firefox, Tweetie, Evernote, Things, MarsEdit, Scrivener, MindNode Pro, Curio, iWork, Aperture, flickery, Phoenix Slides, Coda, Flux, Pixelmator, Lineform, iStudio Publisher, VLC, Tofu, Skim
- Sergej Sidoruk
firefox, tweetie, iwork, aperture, and evernote. and more.
- Zachary TG
After the defaults (incl. Xcode) & iLife & iWork... Final Cut, Photoshop, Adium, TextWrangler, Handbrake, VueScan, Transmit, SuperDuper, and some additional browsers (Firefox, Camino, Opera, Chrome, etc.)
- LogEx
the very first one?perian
- Andre Fvini
quicksilver, textexpander, growl
- Kim Landwehr
Quicksilver, Growl and Adium.
- Andrew Roche
Adium, Colloquy, Firefox, vlc, qsb, textwrangler
- EricaJoy
Debian ;-) Seriously, iTerm. But I'm more on Linux than OSX
- directeur
Burn - free, open source CD/DVD recording software (lightwight alternative to toast, does everything) http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net
- egowrap
wget through macports
- egowrap
I can't function without Quicksilver.
- Simon Tracey
@Sergej - how do you find Flux, heard mixed things about it?
- Robert Mattar
Quicksilver, LittleSnitch, 1Password, Fluid apps, TextMate, git.
- Berk D. Demir
I wish Twitter would sell to Google so it would die like Jaiku and Dodgeball. But I won't post this over on Twitter. I really don't have much love for the service, even though I know I'll be stuck using it for the indefinite future. Jesse Stay has it figured out. It's a horrid place to try to communicate anything other than a bit of self pimping.
Anthony Citrano, John B. Osborne, Ozer Wrzl (EN) and 166 other people liked this
Here I can write the equivilent of an entire blog post. And even make changes. And even have a conversation. And use it as many times an hour as I want (Twitter rate limits my apps after a while cause I'm too heavy of a user).
- Robert Scoble
werd.
- imabonehead
I can sense already that FriendFeed is slowing down now that it is joining Facebook, while Twitter still has the best flow (and best system for following people and best mobile clients). So, we're stuck with Twitter, which is too bad, because the technology here is a ton better.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter is a piece of crap - BUT it's where the audience is (currently).
- Jim Connolly
Now it is starting to feel like FF again with you bigging it up again Robert ;)
- Travis Koger
Twitter is the new MySpace.
- imabonehead
Maybe google wave will change the way we use twitter, etc. again. Haven't tried it yet, but it might succeed where friendfeed "failed" - getting enough people to use it.
- Frank S.
Travis: I had to go and clean out my Twitter and Facebook accounts and spread out my usage.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed! - Friendfeed is so much better (for as long as it really lasts in Facebook world...)
- Matthew Blaisdell
from iPhone
Robert: I'm thinking of setting up a facebook account for my Marketing blog - what do you think?
- Jim Connolly
@Scobleizer I don't think Friendfeed would be quite so popular if it weren't for twitter
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
Twitter is the new Myspace - HAHA - this quote made my day. For me it is just becoming a multiplicator for my friendfeed but it is important for that!
- Sascha Pallenberg
Prolific: I'm not so sure. Blogs made Twitter. So, what if there were no Twitter? We would still talk up something else. But maybe FriendFeed wouldn't have thrived anyway. Twitter hit a sweet spot with its easy to program API, it's easy to use interface, and its cute name and branding.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter works extremely well on mobile devices. I constantly see people tweeting whereas it's more difficult to do with FriendFeed's interface for a typical user.
- imabonehead
Really think that Twitter is annoying it's users too much. There's some problems out there that are really being ignored. Here's an example of a problem that could be solved very simply, but no action is being taken (if it was solved it'd create a lot of goodwill) http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter...
- Edd McArdle
Robert, now that FriendFeed's people are working for Facebook, and since Facebook has already been making changes to make it more "open socially", do you think eventually that Facebook will become the best place to have serious conversations?
- Carlton Hackett
Carlton: yes.
- Robert Scoble
I've been thinking so too. Although, I wonder how the non-Soc/net junkies will respond to that?
- Carlton Hackett
Robert, two thoughts. #1 - do you think Google really would let it die? Acquiring Twitter would be more like its YouTube acquisition than Jaiku (in terms of price and # of users). Secondly, what would Twitter have to change for you to change your opinion?
- Ben Parr
I really, really, really want Twitter to work out is the thing. It's just a pain in the neck to communicate without either losing the conversation or spamming useless banter over multiple Tweets because you can't fit it in 140 characters. That's just my experience. Those still spending most their time there don't mind it I guess.
- Jesse Stay
I like Twitter. The conversation flows pretty well for me, and to be fair, I get more @replies there than I get replies here to my posts.
- Chris Nixon
I think a combination of the Retweet API and a true threaded replies architecture and UI could change some of my opinion on that though if they do it.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: It's NOT just your experience. Twitter is getting less valuable the bigger it gets. The spam / porn / bots issue is insane and ruining the experience.
- Jim Connolly
Chris: I have a twitter account with over 20,000 followers and get ten times as many replies here as I get there. Here I only have a small following. The calibre of people I connect with here is better too.
- Jim Connolly
Jesse, have Twitter improved their communication with developers since you wrote about it in April?
- Edd McArdle
Edd, over the last week I have noticed a difference, yes, but it's hard to tell if it will remain that way. They now seem to have a project manager over the API dev team (Ryan Sarver). He seems to be putting a filter on some things and keeping devs updated elsewhere. They're still learning though, much slower than FB or FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
agree on spam and bots, but it still is a nice little thing, if it remains what it was made for! marketing and reviewing thing isn't/shouldn't be there, true friendfeed is more effective as a tool for sending your message across, it is simple and strong
- testbeta
Testbeta: ... and FF works.
- Jim Connolly
Jim, Jesse, Robert: Value varies. For me, Twitter value continues to increase. I use it to find out what's happening, meet up with people, get random insights into how people are doing, find new people. It all works well. There are many different use cases and one tool does not have to do them all.
- Rachel Clarke
i couldn't agree more!
- lilian
Rachel: "It all works well"? Really? Twitter?
- Jim Connolly
Rachel, I agree with you. I just don't think Twitter works well for conversations, that's all. I use FriendFeed and Facebook for that. I use Twitter for different purposes, and I agree it does still have value.
- Jesse Stay
sometimes i think of Automattic's intense debate, but well friendfeed is intense debate, such a experience was never had on blogs, the commenting, liking, and so fast it propagates, even disqus commenting systems can't achieve what we have here on friendfeed, but i can't just throw away twitter, twitter still is good, true for the serious types it's word limit, reply system is a bit of...
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- testbeta
I would love to have FriendFeed as the commenting system on my blog.
- Chris Nixon
Chris, there are a few plugins that do that. I haven't tried them though.
- Jesse Stay
Chris: Check out what Scoble's doing with FF on building43.com
- Jim Connolly
Jim: yes. It works well for what I want it to do (I'm ignoring the ongoing issues with the DDOS). It's a free tool that adds far more value than it costs me to wait for odd outage.
- Rachel Clarke
Just checked your Twitter account and now understand exactly what you are saying.
- Jim Connolly
Jesse: agree, I use Facebook, Friendfeed, blogs, comments etc, all for different things. I even use the phone as a phone occasionally to talk with people ;-) But the assumption that one tool/service can do everything - and should do everything - is something I have a problem with. If something does not work for a person, don't use it.
- Rachel Clarke
The twitter ecoverse is cool, can do Psychological Profiles, can do Social Network Analysis. All those services that spawned as a result are amazing. I am also amazed at how dense Asians Languages are on Twitter, think about it they get about 60% more per tweet.
- Robert Higgins
Ben: at this point I am not sure what Twitter could do to win back my love. I will use it just like I use AT&T and United Airlines. I have very little love for those even though I use them frequently. Twitter wins because it is simple and flat and has great clients. I wouldn't cry if it disappeared, though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
So why do you hate it?
- Raanan Avidor
You are a hypocrite! I remember you use to sing the praises of Twitter all the time. Another toy comes along and you start bashing it. If I was Friendfeed management I would cancel your account now before you start bashing them. Robert Scoble is nothing but a follower of crowds anyway.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
You want it to die? Such an odd statement. I have met so many great people through Twitter, and the news information I can find through search or news agencies or even people who are newshounds are amazing. I know it's not perfect and the last few weeks have definately proved that, and the spam is just awful. But to want to kill it, what a strong statement.
- PC Easy
from twhirl
Twitter is not abot writing blog posts or having conversations, its about small pieces of information being communicated to anyone who wants to listen. You do not have to listen, if you want a conversation use a forum or FriendFeed, use WordPress for blog posts. Stop trying to make Twitter into something it is not designed to be.
- Darren Rollett
I really used to like Twitter, still do sometimes. What I don't like is the Twitter hype. I don't seem able to turn on any media channel these days without reading/hearing or watching about it. Even the BBC reported that Twitter was under attack recently on the main BBC news. FFS come on, there must be more happening in the world than a micro blogging site with a few million users...
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- Nick Bristow
If you owned twitter would you sell to google?
- cheapsuits
from iPhone
Robert, Atleast something positive could come out of it. If Twitter sells to Google they might(though its not guaranteed) make it opensource and then a federation of twitter server(ala wave servers) can co-exist happily and that way we'll own our stuff(as Anil Dash and other points out). Or they might integrate it in Wave framework. Not that people are not gonna complain about it but thats a different topic.
- Abhishek
Surely an improvement in the service would be a more positive wish?
- Chris Nixon
Say what you want but something with the architecture of friendfeed is far more conversational then twitter could ever be.
- cheapsuits
I don't know why people think Twitter is the place to converse. It's really not built for that. I find myself enjoying the flow of conversations more on Facebook and FriendFeed.
- Naomi Williams
Self pimping? Hmmm... Perhaps not for all of us. And besides, self-pimping isn't limited to twitter.
- @JonAston
PS - Maybe it's just me, but you seem bitter lately. Hope you turn that around for yourself.
- @JonAston
Jon: You are right. People pimp on FriendFeed too; as I say in my new book.... :-)
- Jim Connolly
@jim, they will do anywhere, this is human nature, they do even in real life, so why not in virtual one?
- abdellah
Abdellah: Absolutely.
- Jim Connolly
"(Twitter) It's a horrid place to try to communicate anything other than a bit of self pimping." AMEN
- Alejandro
Personally I wish Google would buy both Facebook and Twitter so they could both die.
- Brian Sullivan
@brian, hey where could I read to you then?!!
- abdellah
@Frank S. Google Wave will only be valid if you actually have other friends/collegues who use Google Wave. Otherwise you'll be using it with the *crickets*
- Naomi Williams
Oh yeah -- forgot that due to circumstances beyond our control FF is now Facebook. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
oh yeah , they share the same vision, they got the same perception...
- abdellah
It's the ff interface (developers) that make it great, but it's really you guys and gals, the people friendfeed attracted that make it valuable to me. Let's consider a real migration to a more reliable long term social media. It has to be open (data portable, unsellable) to get my trust
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
I hope the FaceBook people will take comments like these to heart. I do like twitter but the functionality FriendFeed brought was the next generation in stream notification.
- Chris Jackson
Ohh time to pimp Jim's new book on Twitter ;)
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Mark: Yeah - all I need is a title. Oh, and a book....and the time to write one....then I will be pimping like a pro!
- Jim Connolly
Wow Robert, I was thinking this the past few days and could never bring it to words...well done
- Braden Douglass
Jim: I'm time bankrupt but love sharing and collaborating. Let's hire a ghostwriter to capture our best ideas in an intelligible manner :). Joking of course, there's no easy way to spread our thoughts but doing it ourselves
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
I was gonna call the Funky Phantom. (That really dates me.)
- Jim Connolly
Robert, I challenge you to stop using Twitter for a month and then blog about the experience. And that includes hiding all Tweets in FF.
- Mike Doeff
from iPhone
Lets face it, Twitter was built as an update service - a big Internet megaphone. The natural transition has been from update service to marketing service. Big Internet Megaphone. It's good at that, but it's not at conversations nor at discovery. The larger problem is people still approach Twitter like a true social engagement tool - and it's simply not. The disconnect between perception and reality results in the poor adoption numbers and other soft metrics.
- AJ Kohn
twitter is noise. filter it and you can find some gold. imho, that's beyond mere self-pimpage
- Rob Schieber
Agreed Rob. I'd prefer semantic algorithms applied to all tweets. I'm interested in real time search and datamining. And semantic extraction on all status would allow for real time "sorting"
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
i'd love to meetup with fellows and see what api scraping is going on - know where threads are for that?
- Rob Schieber
Idk, This seems so much better then twitter.
- SeanParnell
It does have a lot of noise, granted - but if it went away now, I'm not sure where everyone would run to. Facebook is too silly, Linkedin is too stolid, and everything else is too fractured for me to communicate with all the people I want to in a single shot. Guess I'd end up doing everything through ping.fm after all.
- Ciaoenrico
Wow, Isn't online chit-chat such a fuss? :)
- SeanParnell
Robert, just a week or two you were saying that Twitter is beating FriendFeed because of scanability http://friendfeed.com/scoblei.... And you had lots of complaints about the FriendFeed user interface. You also talked about how Twitter was much better after you un-followed everyone and hand picked who you're following. I have to ask, what has changed in the past few days to make you say that the service should die? Feels like you're flip flopping.
- Mike Doeff
Can't you apply for extended API limits?
- Tristan Seligmann
love the single post/status page, i mean like this: http://twitter.com/twitter...
- testbeta
I noticed that in the past two weeks, the tweet intensity has greatly decreased from all my follows in Twitter. Granted, I'm not following too many, but the ones I do follow have traditionally tweeted a lot each day. Is this a trend (has Twitter become a has been) or is this simply a coincidental anomaly?
- Jeff Sayre
Robert I find myself on friendfeed more these days
- (jeff)isageek
@brian would you consider myspace if both facebook and twitter die?!!(ps: sorry I forget the LOL)
- abdellah
Myspace -- don't know. I haven't really tried or paid attention to it. But probably not -- isn't it Facebook like? Maybe usenet? ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
brian, let forget all those techie and go irc :)
- abdellah
IMO, people who don't like the limitations of Twitter and whine about it hampering them are using it wrong. Twitter is not a place to pimp your blog or drive traffic to your site. It is not an SEO tool. It's not a place for you to compete in order to get more 'followers'. If you've ever tried to do any of these things, or if you ever followed more than a few hundred people, then yes, no...
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- Otto
Well said Otto
- Chris Nixon
Jesse Stay: you should stop complaining so much about twitter when you build an entire business based on their lack of functionality and other issues.
- Mihai Secasiu
Mihai, I'm not complaining - they can do what they want. As I said I really want them to succeed. It's a matter of fact that they do have their flaws - I'm hoping to help them fix those, assuming they're listening at all. What are you doing to help Twitter get better?
- Jesse Stay
it is like twitter if for what,where, when and friendfeed is for why, how
- testbeta
Mike: just because I use a service doesn't mean I love it. I use ATT and United all the time and they suck too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
And yes Twitter has some good things about it. Doesn't mean it is all good. Personally it is overused and overhyped and YES I am partially responsible.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Apostol I get value out of Twitter. You aren't listening. I get value out of AT&T too but it COULD be so much more. Chris I tried to be positive but Twitter just doesn't respond to positivity. Plus they are cynical AT BEST about their users. Read the Twittergate documents to see just how cynical they are.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Twitter was just there at the right time. It's not the best solution to the problem (microblogging), but it's good ~enough~.
- Trent Hamm
You seriously think Twitter will die once it gets bought by a 'bigger' company?
- Mike Shields
Mike: do you use Dodgeball? It was bought by Google. So was Jaiku.
- Robert Scoble
Trent: did you just call Twitter the Microsoft of microblogging? Yeah, that's sorta what I was trying to say too! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
I just find it amazing that all the early adopters get really snobby about Twitter now it is getting more mainstream. There is something snobby about people's attitude to Facebook as well. I'm not a fan of Facebook but I know more people who use Facebook than use Twitter or Friendfeed combined. Even my mum has a Facebook account but she'd never be on Twitter or Friendfeed. Twitter...
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- Paul Nash
I liked Pownce. I wonder what SixApart has cooking up for them. So there's really no chance for Plurk to make a comeback and take back the community? With all the outage problems Twitter has, I would think Plurk would try to capitalize on that. Guess not.
- John Wang
now if the Google Reader team could just get their new commenting system streamlined and real-time ... :)
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Paul: it's not hard to understand if you are in our shoes. Here's why. When a company is young and struggling to get noticed, they love having early adopters. After all, that's the ONLY WAY a company gets to the next stage. I've never seen a company go straight to Oprah stage without getting early adopters excited. Then once the company gets enough traction they usually start mistreating the early adopters. In this case Twitter stabbed them in the back. Leo Laporte, for instance ...
- Robert Scoble
...got me excited about Twitter and was THE REASON it was the big huge deal at that 2007 SXSW. He had more followers than Mashable last year. But did he get put on the Suggested User List? No. So now Mashable has more than a million and Leo has a knife in his back. And you think it's amazing that early adopters turn their backs on Twitter? Really now.
- Robert Scoble
I don't see how Leo has a knife in his back. There was no preconceived notion that anyone would be added to that list. Who cares? He was fine before that list was created, and he can be just as fine now, and just as engaging.
- Andru Edwards
Andru: when he was hyping up the service and telling his users to use it, he was getting something in return: being at the top of the follower lists. When Twitter artificially put its own people at the top of the follower lists, and handed out grants of followers (worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars, by the way -- Mashable has changed its entire business to be Twitter centric) they specifically dissed Leo and many others. Most of whom won't point it out in public.
- Robert Scoble
Sadly true. I'm in much the same boat -- Twitter is a necessity for professionals and bloggers to stay on top of things, but other socialnets like Brightkite and FF are light years beyond it, which doesn't look to be changing any time soon. Don't even get me started on the spammers and the get-rich-quick'ers.
- Ryan Meader
But before the SUL was released, didn't Leo abandon Twitter in favor of Jaiku, due to Twitter having "Twit" as part of its name? Just saying, if I owned a list that I had complete control over, and someone showed that behavior towards me (whether it was right or wrong, I am not judging), I would think twice before putting them on a list that will result in many people seeing they they...
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- Andru Edwards
I can't agree with you more, Robert.
- Jon Ursenbach
Scobe: I very much disagree that it is about self pimping. Perhaps your senses are mush because you follow too many? I absolutely love getting that link to a new article or research, or to get a tweet from that celeb that makes me think and provides insight into a new world. I also use it as a research tool, for exploratory purposes. Twitter, as you know very well, is about what you make it, and that is a tenuous notion that really is influenced by who you follow.
- Chad Gesser
Andru: again, the list did NOT exist in the days when we were hyping up Twitter. So, there was a "promise" to early adopters that if they invested time in the service they could be at the top of the follower lists. Sort of how PlayFoursquare is today promising users that they can become mayors of places they frequent more than anyone else. What Twitter did was the equivilent of PlayFoursquare telling everyone that their "mayorship" doesn't matter anymore and that Oprah is now mayor of everywhere.
- Robert Scoble
Chad: one thing you have to remember about me is that I see that Twitter has 1,001 uses. Stop seeing the world as black and white. This is one post I'm making about Twitter among thousands. Translation: I already agreed with you. But you have to admit that many people use Twitter for self promotion.
- Robert Scoble
Andru: and anyway, the SUL is hardly the only reason to diss Twitter. Twitter still goes down all the time, it still has stupid rate limits. It still can't block spam effectively. It still has no friend management. It still has no features that didn't exist a year ago. And it is, in many respects, behaving worse. I'm hearing from developers that Twitter is becoming more closed, not more open (to monetize) and we're seeing them pick winners before the marketplace is done (bit.ly anyone?)
- Robert Scoble
The nice thing about Twitter is that it keeps your message short and to the point. Friendfeed is great but it doesn't lend itself well to an external app out of the browser. Also FriendFeed and any of these services you don't own your content
- Seth Goldstein
Seth: bing! So, back to the blog we will go. Except, why are we still here? ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Awww Twitter the "me" network :)
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Anyone tried Streamy?
- cheapsuits
because the interraction is in real time
- abdellah
Wayne: retweet me. :-) abdellah: I thought it was because of all the sex. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
that was my expectation too ;)
- abdellah
I like friendfeed because of its realtimeyness, but I like twitter because it requires you to be concise. I have seen some brilliant tweets done in 140 characters or less. I think that's always been the allure of twitter, its sheer simplicity. How many features can you add to twitter without actually changing the core of what twitter is?
- Tomy Thomson
Robert: But what do you want from these companies ? Chaps like you give them the oxygen of publicity they need and they court you and then when they become successful you suddenly start to criticise them. Friendfeed has become successful (in great part to your endless plugging of it) and the founders will now go on to make money through their company being taken over by Facebook. You,...
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- Paul Nash
Scoble: no doubt....I can deal with the self promotion, the e marketing and spam garbage though to me is what has gooootttt to go
- Chad Gesser
Paul: my role in life is to use what will be, not what is. I don't turn on many companies, but Twitter isn't one that dealt with early adopters on good faith.
- Robert Scoble
nick: I explained why above.
- Robert Scoble
Is there a "social media" company that has dealt with early adopters in "good faith"? Facebook, FriendFeed, Flickr I suspect don't qualify ? Any that do?
- Brian Sullivan
all platforms seem to have self pimpering styles, why so passionate against twitter? Objectional question, not one of rhetoric.
- nick tadd
Brian: I didn't know that any of those have actively dissed their best early adopters. Facebook kicked me off, but only because I broke the TOS. It's always been straight up with me. Same with Flickr, although I do watch Thomas Hawk's talk about their censorship.
- Robert Scoble
none as brian says, they all deal with them, and "the earlier adopter" contribute to their evolution until they sell (sorry)
- abdellah
nick: because it's so prevalent there. "Look at my blog post about xxx" is almost a staple on Twitter. It's a new RSS reader. Which is fine, I use it too for that! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I think you may have the makings for one of your future blogs here. Perhaps you do it for that reason? ;) The thing about Twitter is always going to be its LBE. It's a mainstream LBE to Social Media. For that very reason its perfect for business, government, and non profit to take public temperature and promote. The other "noise" is the "MV", the "mainstream voice". The conversation is 4 way.(and yes sometimes only 1 way) but there it is and its not going to go away any time soon.
- Melanie Reed
Yes, indeed, Twitter is the Microsoft of microblogging. It's good enough, but not the best - but it has the huge advantage that everyone is using it, so you have to use it for compatibility reasons.
- Trent Hamm
I still use Twitter for more than just updates. I converse, I crowdsource, and I read through to see what other people are thinking and talking about. FriendFeed is the one that I have a difficult time finding use for, but I'm trying.
- Dave Huston
DAMN Robert I HATE that you are right on this one!!!!!
- Arleen Anderson
Hopefully you use it for positive self pimping and not for negative pimping... which is inevitable
- Kevin Burrell
If FF would have taken mobile seriously, the game might look different right now
- Alex C. Williams
Alex, they are taking mobile seriously - they sold to Facebook. :-)
- Jesse Stay
I can't see how Twitter can survive Facebook now. FB will bring Twitter down, the only chance they got is to sell to Google.
- Patrik Johansson
What makes people think Facebook or Twitter is all-conquering? There's a new generation coming through, and they aren't using these services. It's very important not to get sucked in by the hype of a service you use. Fanboys will talk up the positives and ignore the negatives, giving you a skewed message. The truth is somewhere in the massive grey area in between.
- Chris Nixon
The new generation uses Facebook a lot, but not Twitter.
- Steph (sh_skew)
from email
Twitter is just a temporary solution for a quick mixture of instant messaging + status updates + chat forum.
- Bora Wiemann
Just having a discussion today that Twitter will eventually go bankrupt when the hype is over
- Khuram Hussain
I don't agree with you Robert. Twitter is easy to use, succinct and versatile. I've made multiple very meaningful connections through my use of twitter. I do like friendfeed's threaded conversations which are great but in a way it only helps those who have big followings like yourself, because people are more apt to comment on your thread than say mine because they know the conversation...
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- Lon Cohen
For example - how do I message you directly so you know I'm speaking to you (i.e. Twitter @ reply) but all your followers and my followers know that we're having a conversation in Twitter back and forth so that they can follow and interject when they want. Everytime we do that we have to start a brand new discussion thread and I have to "tell" you somehow that I'm talking to you. Twitter is like email/phone conversations and friendfeed is like collective blogging/commenting.
- Lon Cohen
Amen, Robert.
- Her Lindsay-ness
The power and beauty of twitter originate from limitation. Think of it as conversation haiku.
- Brendan
Could you always do this in Google Reader?
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do what?
- Ahmed
Fine tune what items "Mark all as read" affects.
- Benjamin Golub
Certainly not when I was working on it. Jenna? Is this brand new? I like it!
- Kevin Fox
nope, that's new.
- Jordan Brock
I haven't noticed that before.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
I don't have it
- Roshan Vyas
Yup...def. a new one :)
- Ahmed
That's great... hadn't noticed that yet. Edit: I don't seem to have it, even after refresh.
- Shannon Jiménez
It's still rolling out. Courtesy of our newest engineer, Arif (http://friendfeed.com/arif).
- Mihai Parparita
oh goodie! I want!
- BEX
Well played Reader... well played. :)
- Michael Leggett
I never Mark All as Read anyway, so this is not required. :)
- Louis Gray
@Louis imagine leaving your GReader for 4 days and come back with 4000+ new items waiting for you...I check it every hour and I find 100+...read the first 50 and Mark all as read :)
- Ahmed
Just pushed it about 20m ago.
- Jenna Bilotta
lazy coders!!!
- Hüseyin Mert
Now that's handy to have.
- Andrew Trinh
from iPhone
Jenna: serious bug... I marked all items older than two weeks as read, and it did that, but also marked all items newer than 2 weeks as unread!
- Shannon Jiménez
@shannon We just tested this and couldn't replicate it. Could you give some additional detail?
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna: I selected one of my folders (that contains many feeds) and selected "Mark older than 2 weeks as read." I'm using IE8.
- Shannon Jiménez
I think that's new! I got it as well, good to have.
- Cassidy
@ben cool, thanks! (we'll chat about adding it but in the meantime you can add it as a custom service on the settings page)
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna: Just for further info-- it does not happen when I select an indivdual feed, only when I select folders.
- Shannon Jiménez
@shannon can't replicate that here. :-/ (looking into it some more)
- Jenna Bilotta
This is new. Good idea though.
- Diego Barros
hey that's NEW!! :)
- Susan Beebe
new
- Shevonne
@Jenna: still having the same problem (tried it in both IE and FF). Also, discovered that it doesn't happen if everything is already marked as read in the folder. It only happens when some things are unread. Edit: based on Joelle's comment below, maybe this happened because I had marked everything as read in that session, not because everything was marked as read...
- Shannon Jiménez
I have just had the same problem as Shannon - was coming here to share the warning - what a horrible horrible bug! (I have 400 feeds). My google reader experience is more and more a love/hate thing (certain things are just a pain when you have 400 feeds) :S Although for me it did it in every feed except the ones that didnt have posts in the last 2 weeks (obviously), including ones that were totally marked as read
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
note: actually i did not mark as read items I had read this very session, but all others
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Do programmers still buy printed books? - http://www.dzone.com/links...
For what I am concerned no
- funkyboy
Do Your Posts Pass The “So What?” Test? - http://www.dailyblogtips.com/do-your...
Everybody should write with such a question in mind.
- funkyboy
durante il colloquio di lavoro,quando vi chiedono quali sono i tuoi (3) diffetti,che cosa rispondete?
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1) non riesco a stare in silenzio quando qualcosa non mi piace 2) son simpaticamente critico 3) non sono perfetto
- v per vitzbank
questo è quello che bisogna dire o quello che non bisogna?? :P
- albybisy
la seconda che hai detto :)
- v per vitzbank
1) Non so rispondere a domande come questa :)
- funkyboy
1) non sono un santo 2)se serve, mi scuso 3)non ho mai detto di avere difetti
- el_sime
1) odio le domande dementi 2) ho una forte antipatia per chi si ostina a fare HR vecchia maniera 3) ho sempre ragione
- Eta
If Jason Calacanis Is Against Apple, Who Can Be For It? - http://www.crunchgear.com/2009...
Partially agree with him, but not enough to think of a switch
- funkyboy
Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss on FB and then bitch about your job. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Obvious, but sometimes everybody needs this reminder
- funkyboy
The Webcycle: Lose Weight While You Watch YouTube Videos - http://mashable.com/2009...
A crazy but cool idea! I'd really like to try it...
- funkyboy
Passion is Not Emotion. - http://learntoduck.com/startup...
I agree, passion is not emotion. I have seen some failure due to eccessive emotional attachment to ideas, frameworks and even programming languages.
- funkyboy
TWITTER PURGE: Top Twitter User Unfollows 106,000 People - http://mashable.com/2009...
TWITTER PURGE: Scoble Unfollows 106,000 People as a publicity stunt, accidentally realises that following 106,000 people really IS a dumb idea!
- Snipergirl
Mail Delegation in Gmail - http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2009...
Cool. Especially for companies!
- funkyboy
A speedier, spiffier beta for Google Chrome - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
when macosx version will be ready? Wanna compare it with Safari.
- funkyboy
Movies we should watch again:
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The Big Lobowski
- Paul Buchheit
Pi
- Paul Buchheit
Real Genius
- Kevin Fox
Airplane
- Jim Goldstein
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Paul Buchheit
The Woman in Red
- Tony Peters
Ferris Bueller
- Nils Sandin
Brazil
- Jim Goldstein
The Princess Bride
- Jenna Bilotta
All ZAZ films (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots) and Most Mel Brooks films (Blazing Saddle and Young Frankenstein)
- Neal Krummell
Goonies
- Jenna Bilotta
+1 For Lobowski!
- TheHenry
Chinatown
- Karl Rosaen
bottle rocket
- Karl Rosaen
Factory Girl Edie
- simge ungor
+1 for Young Frankenstein! (and yes, I sooo need to see Chinatown again)
- Tony Peters
The Great Escape
- Matthew DeVries
The Wizard of Oz
- Eric Logan
Harold & Maude (& I 2ndYoung Frankenstein)
- Jim Goldstein
Just watched: Waynes World ..... classic
- patrick
Fight Club
- Matt Ruiz
Lives of Others
- Deepak Singh
Into the wild
- Алексей Мельчаков
just recently caught "Point Break" on netflix streaming, can't say I regret watching it again
- Karl Rosaen
The Godfather, I, II and III
- Benjamin Perdomo
Tron
- Kevin Fox
Memento
- Stephen Mack
Blast from the Past
- Kishore Balakrishnan
star wars
- chaz2b
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- Jim Goldstein
Fast times at Ridgemont high.
- Joe....
Sixteen candles.
- Joe....
Spirited Away
- Shirley Wu
Grosse Point Blank.
- Joe....
I can always watch Harold and Maude. My fave. Boondock Saints.
- R1CC1
Something About Mary
- johnpiercy
Shawshank Redemption
- Gabe
+1 Brazil. Also Do The Right Thing
- Steve Crossan
Blade Runner
- Johnny
+1 for Blade Runner
- Henner Zeller
Army of Darkness...preferably with beer and friends
- Alex Scoble
Alex - neither of those things exist on school nights.
- Matthew DeVries
I'm not a big fan of watching something I've already seen, but I could probably watch The Last Dragon again. I suspect seeing that would be a first for most of you, since it tanked at the box office. Why? Taimak is so beautiful!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Ok, I'm looking at highlights. I know why :D
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Joel Webber
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Joel Webber
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Matthew DeVries
Bridges of Madison Cou…no, never mind, I can't bring myself to that level
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Boondock Saints
- scott willeke
Punch-Drunk Love
- edythe
Falling Down, Beautiful Girls, Juno, Almost Famous
- Liza
Can't Buy Me Love (African Dance scene)
- Liza
Matrix?! :-o
- hIpPy
+++ edythe
- RAPatton
Better Off Dead, 3 O'Clock High, The Killing Fields
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Rap: :)
- edythe
"How I Got In To College". Yeah, I said it.
- Kevin Fox
++ to Jim Goldstein for Airplane! and to both Jim and Ricci Krassa for Harold and Maude. :)
- edythe
Pulp fiction
- arunthampi
from iPhone
Anything by Hitchcock or Miyazaki. Almost anything by Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Tarantino, or Coen Bros.
- LogEx
this is an example of a discussion prompt that got messy. So I vote for two, too: Revenge of the Nerds, Moving Violations, and anything with Kate Blanchett, I mean by Woody Allen. I mean produced by Harvey Weinstein.
- Lane Rapp
The Fifth Element
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Transporter 1, 2 & 3
- Mac Sharp
Dune.
- Bwana ☠
Vanilla Sky
- Mike Bracco
1UP Bwana
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
True Romance
- Rick Cogley
Office Space
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Stalker.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Serenity
- WorldofHiglet
Riddick
- Mac Sharp
Men in Black
- Mac Sharp
Trainspotting
- Will Higgins™
Chungking Express
- Rodfather
12 Angry Men
- Dennis O'Neil
+1 Will
- Johnny
Sin City
- Mac Sharp
Kill Bill
- Mac Sharp
E.T.
- Mark Evans
from iPhone
Jason Bourne series
- Mac Sharp
Being There
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Matewan (a John Sayles film)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Mr & Mrs Smith
- Mac Sharp
The Conversation
- Cathryn Hrudicka
On the Waterfront
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Rashomon
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Men With Guns. Cidade de Deus. Not happy, but wonderful movies.
- Joel Webber
A Patch of Blue
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
- Matthew DeVries
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and read the book!)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Midnight Cowboy
- Cathryn Hrudicka
In the Heat of the Night
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Day for Night
- Cathryn Hrudicka
A River Runs Through it
- Mac Sharp
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Manhattan (and some of Woody Allen's other movies)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Do the Right Thing (and other Spike Lee movies)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Any of these: http://www.flickchart.com/Charts... :)
- Nathan Chase
My Brilliant Career
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Chan is Missing
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Saint with Val Kilmer
- Mac Sharp
My Left Foot
- Cathryn Hrudicka
My Beautiful Laundrette
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Gran Torino
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Tomb Stone
- Mac Sharp
American Splendor
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Ghost World
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and other Ingmar Bergman films
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman
- Mac Sharp
Cool Hand Luke and Hud
- Bonnie Foster
The Graduate
- Bonnie Foster
Easy Rider
- Bonnie Foster
BrotherHood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups)
- Mac Sharp
The Last of The Mohicans
- Mellissa Jane
Wanted with Anjelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman
- Mac Sharp
BeoWulf
- Mac Sharp
A Clockwork Orange
- Gabe
It's crazy to me how consistently "Children of Men" is overlooked.
- Chip Ramsey
Alien & Aliens
- Rolf Schewe
Children of Men
- Mac Sharp
Reign of Fire
- Mac Sharp
space balls! :D
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Blazing Saddles
- Mac Sharp
¡Three Amigos!
- Mac Sharp
Broadcast News
- Cathryn Hrudicka
King of Hearts
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Ghost and the Darkness
- Mac Sharp
Kalifornia
- Mac Sharp
Seven
- Mac Sharp
Atlantic City
- Cathryn Hrudicka
All That Jazz
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Boondock Saints
- Brandon Mendelson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Lolita; other Kubrick films
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Time Bandits
- April Buchheit
Vanity Fair (the BBC version and not the version with Reese Witherspoon in it - that was such a crappy rendition imho)
- April Buchheit
ForestGump
- sirishkumar
Cast Away — more than anything, I liked the skillful use of silence in the soundtrack, which you don't hear much in today's films. I'm biased, perhaps, because I interned with Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom, but often I choose films based on their soundtracks as well as for visual reasons or a good screenplay.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
MANY Capra films: It's a Wonderful Life (try watching it outside of Xmas so you aren't influenced by that), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, American Madness, You Can't Take it With You
- Spidra Webster
"The Magnificent Seven"
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Matrix & The Beach
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Inglorious Bastards
- Adrian
Apocalypto + lethal weapon I II III IV
- r1lita
Apocalypse Now
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Pursuit of Happyness
- Nick Humphries
Paths of Glory
- James (!?)
Electric Dreams (not sure if that's the name but it's where the computer comes alive)
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
2001: A Space Odyssey
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
I can watch "A Christmas Story" at least once a year.
- Spidra Webster
The Departed.
- Shawn Whitmire
@CreativeSage great pointers to underrated movies - thanks.
- andrei_c
Surfs up
- Mac Sharp
Ratatouille
- Mac Sharp
Happy Feet
- Mac Sharp
L'Eclisse, The Passenger by Antonioni
- andrei_c
Conformist, Stealing Beauty, The Last Emperor by Bertolucci
- andrei_c
In The Mood For Love, 2046, Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai
- andrei_c
Throw Momma From The Train
- Mac Sharp
Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Mac Sharp
@andrei_c Thanks for mentioning some other great films—there are so many different reasons certain ones resonate and we remember them over time.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Of course Rocky Horror !!
- R1CC1
Clue
- Mac Sharp
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Klute
- Cathryn Hrudicka
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Paris, Texas
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Grapes of Wrath
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Some Like it Hot
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Wings of Desire
- Charles Tanton
Reservoir Dogs
- Charles Tanton
Wild at heart
- Charles Tanton
Wedding Crashers
- Charles Tanton
+1 to The Big Lebowski
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
+1 Cathryn +1 Mac :)
- Bicentennial (Franc)
I mean ++Crouching Tiger ++ Rocky Horror Picture Show =P
- Bicentennial (Franc)
+Baraka
- Bicentennial (Franc)
Seven Samurai
- Andrew Terry
That reminds me .... Rashomon (by Kurosawa, the directory of Seven Samurai). Bewitching !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
Top Gun?
- funkyboy
+1 For Lobowski!
- Özgür
Gattaca (1997) http://bit.ly/NDBBi
- Michael Fidler
Goodfellas (1990) http://bit.ly/XXrwg
- Michael Fidler
The Sting (1973) http://bit.ly/WUXd1
- Michael Fidler
Equilibrium (2002) http://bit.ly/gUk7L
- Michael Fidler
Excalibur (1981) http://bit.ly/3HyNJI
- Michael Fidler
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) http://bit.ly/prB3J
- Michael Fidler
Sideways (2004) http://bit.ly/SsPh4
- Michael Fidler
12 Monkeys
- Anton Tanderup
Spartacus (1960) http://bit.ly/PCOlR "I'm Spartacus"
- Michael Fidler
Casino (1995) http://bit.ly/ta7Ma
- Michael Fidler
Full Metal Jacket (1987) http://bit.ly/31yx7
- Michael Fidler
Legends of Fall
- imran
The Warriors (1979) http://bit.ly/fwLBC
- Michael Fidler
Platoon (1986) http://bit.ly/O6qoG
- Michael Fidler
The Mission (1986) http://bit.ly/236QzJ
- Michael Fidler
The Hunt for Red October (1990) http://bit.ly/2X0d4O
- Michael Fidler
The Elephant Man (1980) http://bit.ly/D8C3N
- Michael Fidler
We Were Soldiers (2002) http://bit.ly/V9Smu Excellent!
- Michael Fidler
Time Bandits (1981) http://bit.ly/DCTls
- Michael Fidler
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) http://bit.ly/ILnmJ I watch it when I'm sick; it makes me feel better!
- Michael Fidler
The Goonies, Hackers, Wargames
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Amadeus (1984) http://bit.ly/1ARfot
- Michael Fidler
Scarface (1983) http://bit.ly/Cg7dy
- Michael Fidler
Planet of the Apes (1968) http://bit.ly/17mW3H
- Michael Fidler
Catch-22 (1970) http://bit.ly/QLmeN
- Michael Fidler
Casablanca (1942) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- vinod
Good Will Hunting (1997) http://bit.ly/18BIvZ
- Michael Fidler
Groundhog Day (1993) http://www.imdb.com/title... (Again and again ;)
- Jemm
Sid and Nancy (1986) http://bit.ly/DJonx
- Michael Fidler
Modern Times (1936)
- Trent Hamm
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) http://bit.ly/68WFY
- Michael Fidler
As Good as It Gets (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Amit Morson
Old School
- Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom
The Pink Panther (1963) http://bit.ly/19Y7Ex
- Michael Fidler
Enter the Dragon (1973) http://bit.ly/ZnoGA
- Michael Fidler
Annie Hall (1977) http://bit.ly/Xj7YN
- Michael Fidler
Sleeper (1973) http://bit.ly/aEbKd
- Michael Fidler
Heaven Can Wait (1978) http://bit.ly/WtC54
- Michael Fidler
Shawshank Redemption
- Ozgur Gercek
Defending Your Life (1991) http://bit.ly/3xqbgy
- Michael Fidler
Little Big Man (1970) http://bit.ly/UPrF1
- Michael Fidler
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) http://bit.ly/AsywZ
- Michael Fidler
Network (1976) http://bit.ly/14ut31 should be re-made
- Michael Fidler
JFK (1991) http://bit.ly/9lg0C
- Michael Fidler
My Dinner with Andre (1981) http://bit.ly/TnJN7
- Michael Fidler
Saturday Night Fever (1977) http://bit.ly/9SFMv
- Michael Fidler
Old Boy (2003) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- chocobo
2001 Space Odyssey
- Harold Cabezas
Logan's Run
- Mark Layton
Big Trouble in Little China
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Purple Rain
- Tofu De la Moore
from BuddyFeed
Shine + Sling Blade
- Steve C
2001
- Tsega Dinka
Primer. Quite a mind-bender.
- Wade Dorrell
Some great suggestions. My personal play list now contains: The Big Lobowski, Brazil, Blazing Saddle, Young Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Waynes World, Fight Club, Memento, The Godfather, I, II and III, Fast times at Ridgemont high, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Serenity, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Dr. Strangelove, Teh Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Some Like it Hot. Blade...
more...
- Ken Morley
star wars series, ocean's eleven, the prestige
- Ahmet Soyata
Nine Queens - bet most people have never watched it
- Andy Davies
The Breakfast Club
- bujio
Kikujiro
- Krishnamoorthy
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