"Excellent food and service. The steak here is outstanding as it needs to be of course. Of note is the cheese toast. A tasty mixture of cheddar, swiss and parmesan with clarified butter on french…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Five words: bloody amazingly excellent brunch scones. Forget about the rest of the food, I'd be happy to go here and just have tea and scones. However if you must get breakfast as well (which I…"
- Gersham Meharg
"I like this little cafe in Yaletown, good prices and decent selection of sandwiches. There's also a great variety of wraps, rotis and the like. I've been slowly working through the variety they…"
- Gersham Meharg
"I actually walked out of this restaurant today without getting served. Never done that before and I eat out so bloody frequently. They were busy but nobody came to take a drink or food order.…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Went here tonight for some pasta and pizza. While the appetizer grilled squid was quite nice the rest of the meal was a disappointment. The pizza had too much sauce and the pasta was outrageously…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Nice, high-end sushi restaurant in Kits. Went here the other night and had their $100 chef menu. They were quite nice, taking down things we didn't like (mushrooms, yuck!) and noting various…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Middling Hot Pot restaurant in Richmond. After living in Chengdu, Sichuan (spicy hotpot central) for a couple months I fear I'm a bit jaded when it comes to other impostor hot pots. Still haven't…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Wow. Excellent restaurant for Dim Sum in Richmond. This is a Cantonese restaurant on No.3 Road in Richmond that serves amazing Dim Sum. I've been here twice and both times have been outstanding.…"
- Gersham Meharg
"I'm in love with a chain restaurant. Ugh, and it's Milestones. WTF? Milestones has been around forever and it used to be a really hot place to go in the 90's when the whole earls/cactus…"
- Gersham Meharg
"This place really has gone downhill. I hadn't been here for a year or so and just recently went back. The first sign of trouble was that the restaurant wasn't busy as was Coast next to it and the…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Went here for birthday celebrations the other night. All in all not bad, the food and especially the service were excellent. The menu is somewhat of an eclectic asian inspiration. The ribs were…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Found that my favourite Sichuan place in Vancouver has another restaurant nearby on Cambie street. The one on Cambie street seems a little larger and the menu is just as good. Been here a couple…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Great event, it was fun to meet all the various people here. Enjoyed the cocktails and appetizers. Managed to get a few drinks under the belt too, raw eggs and all! The space is pretty cool,…"
- Gersham Meharg
"Nice, clean and inexpensive sushi place on Cambie near the Save on Foods. The sushi here is acceptable but can suffer from a bit too much rice on the rolls at times. A decent place for take out…"
- Gersham Meharg
poutine on Google is turning into Cuil. Since when did quotes mean "Change everything in the quotes or ignore it freely". Makes searching for any programming related stuff hell. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Con #2: You'll have to keep buying certs.
- Sanjay Parekh
You can get free certs from Comodo and Thawte. Verisign was more convenient for me - and it's only $20/year.
- Leo Laporte
I've gotten the free ones from Thawte but never have gotten approved by the circle of trust thingy. It seems a bit hard to do. But nice in theory.
- Sanjay Parekh
More webmail clients use gpg that I've seen, but otherwise I think S/MIME has good representation in email applications.
- Jeremy Heslop
I'm curious.. Do you use these for Digital Signing (authentication)? or Encryption?
- Randall Hand
S/Mime is what tends to be supported in Enterprise IT applications. GPG/PGP tends to the individual although I have seen plugins for Outlook. Its a similar question to whether you select Sendmail and Thunderbird (GPG/PGP) over Exchange and Outlook (S/Mime) when you make IT decisions.
- Craig Duerr
I used S/MIME for a couple years with Mail.app and it does get irritating to deal with yearly expiration which most certs are. The other issue is that some people will start to routinely automatically encrypt email to you (whereas most people don't have GPG, S/MIME support is pretty widespread) and if you ever lose your cert or access from webmail you'll not be able to read their emails.
- Gersham Meharg
S/MIME relies on trust of corporations (Certificate Authorities). (pgp|gpg) relies on trust of individuals and is more granular. Also there's the monetary cost (already mentioned.)
- Kevin W. Mullet
Three big differences: support, key trust, portability. Leaving aside webmail, which (with notable exceptions) generally don't support either of them ... when it comes to support, S/MIME is the clear winner: almost every email client supports S/MIME out of the box, and basically none of them support PGP.
- Joel Bennett
Trust: With the exception of some odd "free" certs, SSL cert providers generally make some effort to associate a REAL IDENTITY with a certificate --that is, not just an email address, but a human being. You can obviously attest to this yourself. The "free" certs are generally issued to an email address (ie: the "name" will be the email address rather than a person's name) to signify the...
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- Joel Bennett
Portability: PGP/GPG are trivially portable, and in fact most such tools offer the option to "sign" or "encrypt" (and test signatures) on any free text, because the signing is done in pure text. However, that (generally speaking) means you're restricted to plain text ;-) and, well, S/MIME is basically the opposite ;-p
- Joel Bennett
Thunderbird+Enigmail addon+GnuPG is my preference at my desk. GnuPG + Firefox + FireGPG addon is awesome on the web and really decent inside Gmail. FireGPG can also help with other GPG tasks generally on the web. It's great! Throw in a key-signing party and trust of keys is no sweat!
- Andrew Skretvedt
It's too bad you didn't go for a CAcert! It would've been an interesting statement to make.
- A. Karl Kornel
from twhirl
@Sanjay: Are there enough people in your area to meet with? If not, have you tried the trusted third party route? I was able to do the former with Thawte, but did the latter with CAcert.
- A. Karl Kornel
from twhirl
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди