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Tom Himpe
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Design Glut Interview - http://www.brepettis.com/blog...
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Design Glut Interview
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Design Glut Interview
"3D printing has the potential to be pretty revolutionary. What’s your vision for the future? Right now we have a way of distributing and manufacturing products that is completely alien, compared to what people were doing 100 years back. We shop for things, often online, and we find the thing that most suits us. We order it. It was probably built very far away, and it ends up getting shipped to some other place and some other place and some other place before it comes to you. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. You could just shop for something online, download a file, and print it out at home on your 3D printer." - Tom Himpe from Bookmarklet
Ok for small gadgets, but for a real thing, i.e. a tool, a piece of furniture, a spare part for a car etc... ? - skylendar
Cool. With a little bit of work, I could create my own action figures. I could see a larger version being used to make patio furniture and certain car parts, such as the big plastic thing that houses the headlight unit on my car. - Nathanael M. Christen
For real spare parts, you need steel, not plastic. - skylendar
3d printing is available for steel/metal as a sintered metal using lasers to melt it into place on top of a piston which drops before the next layer is blown into the chamber. 3D printing is more real than nanotech. It is disruptive tech. You can print in thermoplastics and sculptural wax, (you can 3D scan with Open source software), you can email CAD file to 3Dprinteries who'll send it... more... - meika loofs samorzewski
And what about printing in colors ? - skylendar
I think it should be possible to 3D print houses with everything : structure, insulation, wiring, etc - Bud Blumenthal
jonathan macdonald
Adam Ostrow
if u missed it late last night ... William Shatner Performs Poetic Reading of Levi Johnston’s Tweets [VIDEO] - http://mashable.com/2009...
PiccoloImprenditore
Can you start today?
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a parte tutto, è un ottimo esempio di pensiero laterale :-) - .mau.
nella quarta vignetta il capo avrebbe dovuto chiedere "e cosa fai se la compagnia di assicurazioni fallisce?" - Gino Tocchetti
Like a Gino! - marco frattola (sbarrax)
bella domanda;) - Patrizia Filippetti
Antonis Plessas
Gerd Leonhard: Να πώς θα λύσουμε το Πρόβλημα της Μουσικής στο Διαδίκτυο. - http://plessasmusic.com/2009...
david cushman
RT @cyberdoyle: RT @jobsworth: Eng v Ukr will set 2 precedents. The 1st UK match not 2 B screened live on TV; the 1st 2 B internet-only PPV.
Don Fenice
Arnold Schwarzenegger @ Japanese ads - http://haha.nu/consume...
zeroinfluencer
All2gethernow: "Ultimately, the crisis in the music industry is a crisis of exploitation mechanisms, not of the music itself." - http://www.a-2-n.de/blog-en...
All2gethernow: "Ultimately, the crisis in the music industry is a crisis of exploitation mechanisms, not of the music itself."
"Life after Popkomm: Entrepreneurs in Berlin established a non-profit association which sets up an innovative convention to focus on viable business solutions for the music industry. a2n - facts in english The traditional German music industry trade fair Popkomm, originally scheduled for 16-18th of September has been cancelled. Dieter Gorny, chairman of the Bundesverband der Musikindustrie (German Federal Association of the Music Industry), had announced the cancellation on the grounds that "many companies can no longer afford to participate in the Popkomm due to Internet piracy"." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet
HOT! This is the kind of event I like to see! Too bad the dates, I can't go, but I'll watch out to attend to a possible 2010 edition! - Marcos Marado from fftogo
Steve Rubel
Since I am all cloud, I have noticed the OS doesn't matter to me. I tote apps on a thumb drives and I get what I need anywhere.
What are your favourite apps? - Tris Hussey
Google Chrome and web apps. I run XMind and Evernote as desktop apps on a USB key. - Steve Rubel from email
I agree more than ever, despite my Mac OS X preference. - Louis Gray
Much agreed on the OS agnosticism here (esp with a locked-down work laptop). Is FreeSMUG (http://www.freesmug.org/portabl...) pretty much the best analog to PortableApps? - Sam Harrelson
I'm good as long as there's a remote desktop app. I could work on an OLPC - Rodfather
I can't get away from the graphics/video/design production apps. Still need a PC to run most of those. Cloud is out a bit further for workflows involving these. - SolidSmack
@Louis I am on a PC at work for the first time in five years - and a desktop too. I requested one. That's a first time for me ever (I have been on notebooks since 1995). At home I use a Mac and on the road I do too. In between I use my iPhone. It's liberating not having to carry a notebook, even one that's just 3lbs. - Steve Rubel from email
Chris - re: your comment on MS/standard/ActiveX, I think it's the other way around. For general consumers, they are more likely to avoid sites that display content in ways they can't access it - as opposed to changing their browser to meet the demands of those sites. Granted that won't be the case for business users, but I think that sites that attempt to force users into adopting a specific browser will just be further marginalized. - Jim Tierney
Holden, definitely. Run Chrome on a stick and Evernote. - Steve Rubel from email
omg rubel you = straight P-I-M-P - sean percival
The most portant question is still, what do you do if you are without web access? - Robert Hafer from iPhone
@Robert It's very hard for me to be without web access (and access to the apps and data I need/use) with an iPhone. - Sam Harrelson
Nope, no tethering. I'm even leaving my laptop behind when I travel for conferences (which is amazing). Basically, the iPhone has become my primary computing device and my various laptops are entry points (I'm a Middle School teacher, so on-the-go mobile is incredibly impt for me). Wrote about the apps etc I use here: http://bit.ly/YImRr - Sam Harrelson from IM
@Chris, I keep a copy of Portable Firefox for Mac on the same USB drive. Otherwise, I just run their instance of Safari in private mode and I am good to go - or I use my iPhone. - Steve Rubel
@Robert - simple, use USB drive apps or my iPhone. - Steve Rubel
@Sam, my iPhone is slowly becoming my primary computer. If it starts connecting to full size monitors and keyboards, lookout. - Steve Rubel
I still can't find a descent inventory app for my iPhone. The wine cellar at work is wireless opaque, so I can't update numbers to a web app. The ones that call themselves inventory apps are just 'list of stuff I own apps'. I tried Bento but it doesn't do running totals (that i can figure out) on the iPhone version. - Robert Hafer
If you're into netbooks, you might like to give Jolicloud a try. I'm just about to install it on my Asus EeePC 701. - Dan Monsieurle
@dan Jollicloud is available? Thought it was only via OEMs. - Steve Rubel from email
Nope they are giving out a 1000 accounts a day right now, starting to really get out there. I have it on my asus eeepc, pretty slick OS. - sean percival
I don't understand how people get Much done without fundamental UI tools like drag and drop, and newer innovations like Quicksilver/LaunchBar, etc. Web apps are great for some specific tasks, but after that a powerful OS with software that can dig in deep to shared resources is killer. - David Chartier from iPhone
OS still matters to me as the cloud has to run on an OS... can't escape it - Bwana ☠
@David, my needs are limited. With the exception of PowerPoint and mindmapping apps, I can do what I need in a browser 100%. - Steve Rubel from email
Steve, just out of curiosity, do you know http://280slides.com/ ? - Meryn Stol
@Meryn, I do - but many decks I create are confidential, so I use PPT. - Steve Rubel
@Luke sure I worry about security but I am very choosy about where I store data. Business info, for example, is on Edelman servers. - Steve Rubel
Music and multimedia is an open question, isn't it. - Steve Rubel from email
Music wise, I keep a few of my "desert island" albums on Dropbox and the iPhone. All of my other music consumption is via Pandora, Last.FM, AOL Radio and numerous podcasts that I download via the iPhone. I do have one laptop that I use as a syncing station for my iPhone but it's become just a place to grab backups which I then upload immediately to Dropbox. - Sam Harrelson
Definitely can't say the same for myself - LANjackal
You can upload all your music to the cloud too, and not have to lug it around. (try lala.com) - April
I tried running portable firefox when using a shared PC at work, but found it painfully slow via the USB drive. - Jonathan
I wonder if you use photoshop or do some programming. Probably the all cloud solution is not indicated yet for these tasks. - funkyboy
@funkyboy : why not? intellectual property or industrail property matters could, will rise. So what? Clouds will just get mature enough to help businesses. For now, I'd say that The Clouds are still in their early years. If somehow, part of the CPU implied in the many daily compilations of larges set of code, or implementation of any sort if real continuous integration process, if somehow some part of that CPU could be saved from server machines dedicated to that, that would be those costs saved.To start. - Zackatoustra from IM
I am switching machines & OSes every other week. All I see is Firefox Tabs. It is available in every platform and now that Weave is being developed. I don't need to export my current working tabs to my home/back to work. - karthick
@funkyboy Have you ever heard of SUMO Paint? While it isn't quite Photoshop yet, it does show that the old excuse of not being able to do stuff like that in the cloud won't live much longer. http://www.sumo.fi/web/ - April
@funkyboy and @April Russo - also check out pixlr: http://pixlr.com/editor/ - it''s pretty freakin sweet for an online app - Bill Rawlinson
What are you doing to back up your cloud in case it dissipates? - David Libby
@David everything I do is backed up in multiple places. - Steve Rubel
Sounds like a business opportunity to me, Steve. In all seriousness, I think if it required fewer steps (backup, different web apps, numerous logins, memory stick, etc.), it could be a very viable option for many people. There needs to be an uber web service that does all of that for you with a few clicks. A personal Network Admin. Oh wait...Google...could that be you I hear at my door? :-) - Michael Chin
Joi Ito
Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web - http://www.networkworld.com/news...
Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web Government uses both blunt and surgical tools to stifle dissidents, hacker says By Brad Reed , Network World , 07/20/2009 - Joi Ito
I really wonder what our ISP, Etisalat (United Arab Emirates) is using - Ahsan Ali
I also read that Etisalat is using Sandvine (www.sandvine.com/) for throttling - Ahsan Ali
Interesting. On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:26, Ahsan Ali wrote: - Joi Ito from email
Paul Stamatiou
FINALLY! OS X Time Machine backups to S3 with "Time Warp". RT FOR GREAT JUSTICE http://jumpingbeansoftware.com/
That's great. Now... how long will it take to back up 100 GB? - Louis Gray
ill let you know when i get back to ATL.. i have an 80mbps down/40mbps up fiber connection at home there :-) - Paul Stamatiou
*sigh* fiber... *jealous* I'm stuck with 20/2 business class line from Comcast. I get 36/16 reliably though, so that's not so bad. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
i live in a tiny portion of midtown atlanta that has fiber running through it..but the area is, um, kinda ghetto. tradeoffs.. fortunately Georgia is pretty lax about handing out concealed carry firearms licenses - Paul Stamatiou
That's not necessarily a good thing. - Andrew Trinh
Steve Rubel
Will consumers tolerate ads in ebooks? I don't think they will but AdAge probes further - http://adage.com/article...
Will consumers tolerate ads in ebooks? I don't think they will but AdAge probes further
Please no. - James Hull
They may tolerate it, if the ebooks were free as a result. I would read free, ad-supported ebooks. - Rui Pereira from iPod
I'm with Rui - if the ebooks are free, then I don't mind ads. If I've paid for it, then no, I'm not OK with that. - Jennifer Dittrich
Until it's unreadable for them. - Jason Nunnelley
no, im paying a decent price for my kindle books, considering the reduced cost of the publisher. so no thanks. - sean percival
I paid for mine so Amazon will give me my money back? If they add ads to the device I am going back to the paper. - petar vucetin
I'd tolerate them if, and only if they weren't plastering every single page of the said eBook, and they were inconspicuously placed (e.g. on a page towards the back/appendix, or just after an index page). Otherwise, I agree with James and Rui. - Tyson Key
The business model is not set up for books to be free - at least now. - Steve Rubel from email
ebook readers need to get a lot quicker before they start putting ads in them. And I never want ads in my books, they might be ok in periodicals and the like. - Phil Maxwell
vijay
Matte Black MacBook Pro Looks Like a Deadly Stealth Ship - the damper? it's 6000$. - http://gizmodo.com/5305501...
Matte Black MacBook Pro Looks Like a Deadly Stealth Ship - the damper? it's 6000$.
"This $6000 Colorware MacBook Pro isn't just impressive because of its price, it's impressive because it looks like what a real matte black MacBook Pro from Apple would look like. There are only ten available, and with each one costing $6000, you're probably not going to be one of the ten. So soak up the images and pretend that you can reasonably justify paying more than twice as much for a laptop just for it not to be so shiny and grey." - vijay from Bookmarklet
Too cheap for me, Sir! - directeur
bah! mere peanuts isn't it? =P LOL! - vijay
Yeah :P But baby you can drive my car, yes I'm gonna be your star :D - directeur
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah :D - vijay
Beep beep'm beep beep yeaaaah :D - directeur
I didn't know I loved matte black until I saw this. - Andrew C (✓)
That is PRETTY. *gadgetlust* - Jandy
I know. It's really well done. Awesome shots. Look at the sexy backlights on the keyboard. : ) - vijay
pretty, but $6000? Really? How'd they work that one out? $2000/$2500 for parts and $4000/$3500 for labour? - alphaxion
limited edition. Only 10 available. That's why. - vijay
meh - Yuvi
I wonder how many people will just spraypaint theirs? - alphaxion
lol! I don't think I wanna spray-paint mine. It's just not the same thing. - vijay
If you disassembled it carefully, sanded the case for a rough surface, painted it, then covered it with a matte finish, I wonder how close you could get. - Andrew C (✓)
that sounds like a plan Andrew but the big question is will there be any takers? : ) - vijay
HA HA HA HA HA! A $6000 macbook pro? no thanks. - Violet Mae Lim
I would be shocked if Colorware doesn't roll out a general matte black option soon. - Andrew C (✓)
Wilbert
What a news organization looks like in a social media driven web - http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpre...
david cushman
What if everyone on twitter followed everyone on twitter? - http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009...
Susan Beebe
Burglar left bruised and bleeding by retired boxer, 72 - WOW! - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
Burglar left bruised and bleeding by retired boxer, 72 - WOW!
wow is right. - vijay
Must've been Clint's brother - separated at birth - Capn' One Eye - adrift
Reminds me of the guy from Seinfeld. "IT'S GO TIME!" - Mike Smith
liking the " yeah? want a piece of me? " look he's giving. - vijay
That is beyond badass - particularly when you consider that the guy has to tell people that an old man totally kicked his ass. - Brett Kelly
...say hello to my little friend? - Joshua Schnell
Ass. Whooped. - Derrick
Pwnd! - Susan Beebe
You do not mess with old man strength - Will Higgins™
The judge said the punk 'got what he deserved'. GOD BLESS THE UK. Also the punk said he 'didn't remember what happened'. Of course he didn't, he got KNOCKED THE F*CK OUT. - Will Higgins™
I imagine him standing over a bruised and bloody burglar saying "get off my lawn." The picture in my head is pretty epic. - Aaron Hood
Sorry, I got a little excited by how awesome this story is. The guy kinda does look like Clint, doesn't he? - Will Higgins™
"The Price is Right, bitch!" - Anika
Will - yep, he does have the classic Clint Eastwood look goin' on... "feel lucky punk? well, do ya?!" - Susan Beebe
lmao thats wat he gets for targeting an older person well done - eric
Bit of Sean Connery about him: "You must never hesitate." Well done. "You're the man now, dog." - Melanie Reed
way to deliver the beatdown! old dude shoulda feckin' made the kid's eyes match. - Joe The Sausage
I want to party with this guy. The old dude, I mean. :) - Hookuh Tinypants
Wow! Good for him.....I'm with Dead Silence! - Bonnie Foster
NIIIIIIICE! - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Good! - Mo Kargas
the retired boxer "caressed" the burglar very efficiently :) - Besim Dönmez
Do ya feel lucky punk? Well do ya? - Tony C (Unrated)
Instead of like, can I love this article? - Kreg Steppe
The authorities should stick this on lamposts - Bill Masson
Hang it up in what ever jail dining hall the Ass Whoopee is going to be doing his 30 days in. - Tony C (Unrated) from fftogo
I just love it when a bad guy gets this shit beat out of him. - Joey Gibson
love it! the old man is like, "how about I teach you a lesson, punk!" - Phil Maxwell
Justice baby - Chris Jackson
@Earl - he got 4.5 years for aggravated assault! - Daniel J. Pritchett
Owned! Wow! - Rick Cogley
A big virtual pat on the back there eh... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)
LOL Awesome! I wanna grow up to be just like him ;) - Paul OFlaherty
This made me smile, how awesome this little fart got what he was due. How dare he pick on the elderly and how wonderful the elderly did rearranging some youthful behavior. - Janet-The Bottley Crue
He got 4 and 1/2 years in prison along with the beat down. - Brent - Yes I am
Ouch. he got rearranged alright. - Vicarbott
OMG this made the top of the FF "Best of day" ... LOL - Susan Beebe
I love that the judge said he got what he deserved. Seriously, more older people should be this strong. Awesome. - Rick Cogley
awesome! - AJ Batac :)
That is why you finish the job here in the US and then place a pointy object in the assailants hand. More mess but less litigation. Odd how blind lady justice can be. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Ouch… :S - Daniel Schildt
Good Job Sir. He got what he asked for! - Usman Bashir
Robin Wauters
Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Steve Rubel
FriendFeed now 6x more awesomer with themes - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Definitely, what did you end up sticking with? - Angelo Rodrigues
Do you really think so? The so called "Themes" are just changes of color and background. Nothing awesome about this! There is much more they could do to match with "State of the Art" Designs. - Hans Kainz
I stuck with the default. - Steve Rubel from iPhone
Alister Cameron
It's true: the Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
Guess that means is highly desired;) - Gerd Leonhard
Jeremiah Owyang
What comes up first for you? Right now, many of my friends LinkedIn ID shows up first in SERP. Let's see if the Facebook ID bypasses it
Eric Andersen
Looks like my Tweemap is ready http://tweemap.com/map... cool Google Maps mashup view of followers! Need more Brazil!
Zee.
Mail: up to 2.3x faster. Safari: “4 has been in beta for a couple of months, today we’re shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger — and Windows. It offers unsurpassed speed… the scale is multiples of IE8’s speed.
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unsurpassed crashes too.. - Giuliastro
"The number 1 cause of crashes in OS X? Browser plugins. Now the plugin crashes inside the browser, but the browser — and the OS — don’t crash" - Zee.
Safari had plug-ins? - ronin
yeah, quite a few http://pimpmysafari.com/ - Zee.
@ronin yea, but they were hard to find. One was a makeshift adblock. - jonn
Not quite in the range of Firefox plug-ins but cool. Hopefully more will be coming. - ronin
oh no, nowhere near FF range - Zee.
Brian Oberkirch
So glad you guys are twitbanging the wwdc announcements, else I'd have no way to find out about the new apple offers.
Ozgur Poyrazoglu
Bu cuma kacamagi tum FF icin... Sagliginiza ;) http://twitpic.com/6nvqw
Bu cuma kacamagi tum FF icin... Sagliginiza ;) http://twitpic.com/6nvqw
Afiyet olsun ;) - Chris Direduryan
of ya ne özledim şu keyfi. Bi geri geleyim.. aah ah. - siniradam
cesmealtı tarafında, "gelinkayası" denilen yerde, deniz kenarında caybahcesi tarzında ordekli guzel bir yer var. tavsiye ederim - Taylan Öztürk
ayıptır ! - loran the 'amorfati'
Cheers :-) !!! - John Serra
gıcık - papatya tıraşın
öğlen öğlen bira açtıracaksınız adama... - Ulaş Apak
Biranın öğleni akşamı olmaz, çat açıcak lık lık lık içeceksin buz gibi. Yanında patates kızartması ya da tavuk oh mis. - siniradam
@Koray LIK LIK LIK çok gerçekçi bi efekt oldu bir anda sahiden =) nasıl içten gelerek yazdıysan... - GeneratioN from email
@Nesil O keyfi nasıl özledim anlatamam, ondandır =) - siniradam
birana bir an önce kavuşman dileğiyle =) - GeneratioN
afiyet olsun ;) - Goktug Gedik
az kaldı, 1 ay falan =) - siniradam
içkiye hasretlik hımm..hapiste ya da askerde misin?bildiğim kadarıyla ileitşim yolları yasak olan ama yasağa rağmen en çok ileşim faaliyeti (sms,msn,internet, vb) gerçekleştirilen yerler oralar =) - GeneratioN
danimarkadayım burada efes yok, var da zor =) şöyle bi deniz karşısına geçip içmekte yok, oradaki gibi değil işte! - siniradam
Teşekkürler :) - Kemal Saraçoğlu
Clo
Clo
Report: 99% of 18-24 Year Olds On Social Media, But Only 22% Use Twitter http://thepmn.org/pressre... Check out those graphs, too.
Pfeisinger
simplicity.png (PNG-Grafik, 499x964 Pixel) - Skaliert (94%) - http://stuffthathappens.com/blog...
simplicity.png (PNG-Grafik, 499x964 Pixel) - Skaliert (94%)
Buzzsonic
Sorry if I've posted this b4 but just re-read! '10 Highly Effective Ways to Market like an Asshole', from AudibleHype http://www.audiblehype.com/diy...
Tom
Tom
RT @petercrosby: The Guardian have more people following one twitter feed than buying the paper in the uk - martin belam, guardian #isslon
Iphigenie
Nova Spivack on the transformation of the web into the Stream - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/nova-sp...
"And just as the Web once emerged on top of the Internet, now something new is emerging on top of the Web: I call this the Stream. The Stream is what the Web is thinking and doing, right now. It’s our collective stream of consciousness. (...) Just as the Web is not any one particular site or service, the Stream is not any one site or service - it’s the collective movement that is taking place across them all." - Iphigenie
Wondering how virtual worlds such as Second Life fit into this. As it is explained in the article, the web is not the internet, it developed on top of it. The Stream is developing on top of the Web, or.. on top of the Internet? (which would include parts of the internet which are not part of the web as such, like Second Life and other virtual environments). - roland legrand
I see the games and virtual worlds as you do, using the internet infrastructure but not of Web or Stream. But their community does live in the web and stream. And since we are starting to see games that "sync" with the real world (sports games mostly, for now) so it is possible that in the future some virtual worlds will be in interaction with the stream, being a 3d world containing a... more... - Iphigenie
since we were talking about this I found this: http://minsh.net/ a fish aquarium virtual world over twitter. Perhaps a sign of things to come? - Iphigenie
Very cool conversation :) Joelle, Roland you're invited to get your fish ;-) - Jonathan Maïm
Hello Jonathan - some good filters you have, you appeared on my twitter and friendfeed very quickly. So what are your thoughts at per Roland's question about how it all can fit? - Iphigenie
Dave Haynes
They're talking about illegal film downloads on BBC Five Live. All the old arguments coming out from same discussions re: music industry
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