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Don't just drink the Kool Aid; open the packet, pour out the powder and snort it all day long.
Jimminy, Joe Beda (), Scott and nakachi liked this
Which kool-aid?
- Scott Ludwig
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- Gary Burd
It's a general comment but also reflective of certain eco systems these days. What's the word? Credulity?
- Hayes Haugen
comment on cults, too, no?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Bruteforce Mediocrity?
- Scott
It's a general comment but also reflective of certain eco systems these days.
- Hayes Haugen
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Jonestown?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Photos of Amazon.com fulfillment center | Doobybrain.com - http://www.doobybrain.com/2009...
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It's like Costco, but more awesome!
- Kevin Fox
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awesome... that's where the stuff comes from !!!
- Harold
one of these just a few miles from my house. one. bug. giant. box. of. stuff.
- MikeAmundsen
Dang.
- Derrick
So amazing. There's one in Plainfield, IN, near where Harold used to live, too.
- Kamilah Gill
Reminds me of the ending sequence from Indiana Jones.
- Hayes Haugen
"Top... men..."
- Gabe
I think I see my package!
- Joe Beda ()
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oh sweet, loverly books that make me so happy and content. <sigh>
- Felicia Yue
This is the funniest thing I've seen all day - http://www.facebook.com/pages...
Louis Gray, Felicia Yue, Dan Hsiao and 11 other people liked this
And they *did* change their web site! Check out the video! "Tired of someplace where everyone already is? I want My{own}Space!" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Kevin Fox
let's make it even more funnier http://www.facebook.com/photo...
- Eren Emre Kanal
Is the $100 million acquisition today considered a good exit? (good enough?)
- Hayes Haugen
How would you persist a password that is known only to you while you are alive but is revealed to another (not everyone) if you are dead?
Trusted 3rd party. Password is written down and stored in safe deposit box. Power of attorney gets it opened - which is the solution but also the weakness.
- Hayes Haugen
Here's a couple of long range shots of our loft with the LED lights changing
Burcu Ekiz, Will Sandaleros, Artemko and 67 other people liked this
Haha. You have a poofy dog.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, correction. My wife has a poofy dog. :)
- Cristo
Cool.... is this a re-construction building? Oriental warehouse?
- Bindu Reddy
Cristo, I want to make out with your loft.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I still want to see a picture of you and your wife. I'm not yet convinced you're not a bot and she's not made up.
- Rochelle
Your place looks fabulous! And the puppy is cute, too.
- Katy S
Rochelle, yeah, well some people want to see a photo of Akiva also.
- Cristo
You've seen some. They've been posted before. I posted one of us on our anniversary two months ago, in fact.
- Rochelle
Actually, we're both in the photos here. Some beings can't be captured by mirrors or cameras. ;)
- Cristo
Vampires?
- Akiva Moskovitz
You need to get into hoarding. There's lots of empty space there.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes: http://friendfeed.com/cristob...
- Cristo
Cool!
- Anne Bouey
WOW.
- Mona Nomura
PIMP.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Absolutely swank. Give me your place.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Cristo, your place is pure bad ass. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
Drool.
- Rachel Garb
That would be a great place to party when Friendfeed will shut down :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Very cool! What kind of LED lights are you using? We have old rope lighting that we are planning to change out for color changing LED rope lighting in in several rooms, but we have a bunch or research before we begin that project. Any tips from your experience?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Also, are the color changes tied to any data or just rotating on a cycle?
- Kevin Fox
We're using Color Kinetics: http://www.colorkinetics.com/. Beti actually ordered these, and I haven't investigated them deeply. There are two types of controls, one which is a dial on the wall that changes color, modes, and frequency of change. The other is an ethernet/RS-232 solution. We don't have the advanced one right now, but we may upgrade to it sometime after I look into it. I'm not sure how much work needs to be done to time the lights to something like Sonos.
- Cristo
I want one that ties to my brain according to my mood
- Jesse Stay
Ewww dats Purdy!
- Bryan Lee
Bryan, is that good?
- Cristo
Thank you Cristo!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel, also I think you like hidden doors, right? I don't think I've taken a photo of our finished hidden door, but I'll try to upload one soon.
- Cristo
Finally watched the video for Google Goggles. Wow, this is some seriously cool tech - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Try it in real life. It's a nifty demo but it's still much easier to read the label or upc code and search on that. Going from question to answer it has about a 10% hit rate.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch... Taking old vacation pictures and finding out what the buildings are. The good stuff starts about 4:30 minutes in. :)
- Matt Cutts
So he taking pictures of his computer using his phone, finding out what the object is, then going back to the computer and typing it in? Something seems terribly inefficient about that ;)
- Amit Patel
Amit: my point is that by the time I start the app, take the picture and get a false hit it's faster to just recognize the object myself and search on it (with my phone).
- Hayes Haugen
Matt: like I said it does cool stuff sometimes but as a general purpose tool for identifying the things I run across it has not done well. I'm not claiming anything other than how it's worked for me. Suggest people use the product instead of watching promo videos! And I'm not crapping on the concept - looking forward to its evolution.
- Hayes Haugen
From most recent search history: miss: $20 bill, Norwegian flag, a Sitar, a MacBook, an iPhone, a Leatherman tool, the box for the Leatherman, a Canon Ti, a photo of Venice with a tower. Hit: box of Pepperidge Farm Entertaining Quartet crackers because it recognized "Entertaining Quartet" in huge letters - just like I did. What I really need it to do is recognize things I don't recognize. So I'm off to do some tests....
- Hayes Haugen
"Sorry, but Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t work with this web browser."
John Wang, Oğulcan Orhan, rowlikeagirl and 29 other people liked this
Sigh. :)
- Matt Cutts
Which one? Works in Chrome Windows.
- Hayes Haugen
It does not work on Chrome OS X.
- Gary Burd
It definitely does not work with Chrome on Ubuntu.
- imabonehead
STOP USING THE BETA!
- Andy Bakun
Guess you don't get to check it out.
- Hayes Haugen
I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu.
- Matt Cutts
Be a man. Get IE8 :)
- dannysullivan
Danny, what would I run IE8 on? I don't have any Microsoft OS software any more. :)
- Matt Cutts
I find it informative to use my competitor's products.
- Hayes Haugen
I keep trying, Hayes, but when AdCenter rolled out, it wouldn't even work on Firefox.
- Matt Cutts
The Web wins again. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Does this mean you've broken your "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge? Or are Microsoft websites excluded?
- Tony Ruscoe
Google's bet on HTML5 and the web is the right one.
- Diego Barros
who gives a tard about Chrome :) Grow up Cutts!
- Jose Fajardo
Matt it works fine on Chrome on Windows. This is the only platform on which a non-beta version of Chrome is available at the moment. You should use only supported browsers like IE8 and Chrome on Windows, Firefox, Safari and Opera on Windows and Mac OS. If you are using a Linux-based distribution, you should get the latest Moonlight binaries and use a supported browser like Firefox or...
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- Lituus Limacon
Silverlight used to work with the Chrome Dev beta. Not sure what changed....
- Roberto Bonini
Tony: Microsoft websites are excluded from my challenge. :)
- Matt Cutts
This is very, very, very cool
Kol Tregaskes, Rafael Robayna, John Wang and 30 other people liked this
I fail to understand.
- Richard A.
they scanned a biz card from a Android ... into an Address Book ,.
- johnpiercy
Looks like on the fly OCR, properly parsed into contact data. That is win.
- EricaJoy
Two weeks ago, my boss came back from a big event with 60+ visit cards. He had a scanner and a software. Guess what I suggested and then regretted? :)
- Jérôme Flipo
This feature will save a lot of time, for many users, and move many of them to Google Contacts.
- Jérôme Flipo
Richard, it's one possible use of the new Google Goggles product http://www.techcrunch.com/2009.... It recognize the text on visit cards and makes it useful. That's a pretty convincing application of Google's mission IMO.
- Jérôme Flipo
I was just thinking how much I would like smartphone OCR.
- Andrew C
If you have this installed on your Android phone, for fun go to Amazon and start taking pictures of book covers. Its nuts!
- EricaJoy
Erica, does it read the book in the language you want? What, not yet?! :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Another reason to get an androphone soon, very soon ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
When is the Iphone vers,,, I want NOW
- johnpiercy
I bet they'll merge this Goggles thing with the current iPhone app. If they release their branded phone with Google Nav and Goggles, I'll feel old school with my iPhone.
- Jérôme Flipo
Erica, the existing Amazon Android app does book covers. And so does the standalone app SnapTell. =)
- Andrew C
Just DL'ed from Android Market. Doesn't work all the time but very cool!
- Mike Reynolds
It's been hit and miss for me, but when I took a picture of a business card, it Goggles scanned it and gave me a list of the contact information just like the picture depicts. It messed up a couple of letters ("e" was "o", etc), but overall did a decent job. It /does not/ do facial recognition.
- Jason Huebel
Took a picture of a bag of potato chips and got some demon wicca sex blogs. But then took a picture of a coffee table art book that's just a figurative painting on cover and it correctly identified it as a Julian Schnabel book. Definitely entertaining but definitely labs level results.
- Hayes Haugen
Can't see it in the [Canadian] Market. Does it work with Android 1.5?
- Andrew C
Nope, 1.6 and newer. Turning into a trend.
- Hayes Haugen
Then Rogers *really* needs to get off their asses and release the 1.6 update.
- Andrew C
Ahhhh.so it's for people with crappy input devices ;-). One day will people have forgotten how to type. It's a good idea. We'll see when they make it available to all platforms.
- Richard A.
If a device hasn't been updated to 1.6 already I don't think it's likely it ever will be. Everyone has their hands full with 2.0.1.
- Hayes Haugen
Ergh, maybe I'll just root the phone then. =P
- Andrew C
Advertising is the wrong model for the open Web - http://www.betanews.com/joewilc...
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Seems like the "open" web has made it clear that it doesn't need no stinkin' business model.
- Cliff Gerrish
correct - subscriptions are essential because Google has taken 99% of the available advertising money and there is no second place on the Internet. It's only once all the newspapers are gone that people will wise up.
- Thomas Power
The Internet is free? I can't find the statistics but it's reasonable to assume that the average household spends at least $300 per year on net access. Yes that's for "infrastructure" but it's still a large amount of money that people are willing to pump into the system. Couple that with the average US household spending $115 per month on subscription media and I don't see a problem with the revenue, just how it's distributed. Can't I just pay $10 to the web per month and let the web figure it out?
- Hayes Haugen
What's the last full album you listened too? You know, track 1 through track 12+. You may have even had to turn the vinyl over.
kind of blue, 50th anv edition (yeah, i listend to all the studio chatter)
- Gary Burd
Will get. Chatter is great, people at work.
- Hayes Haugen
K, how about suggestions. I'll go with Exile on Main Street and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart.
- Hayes Haugen
The chatter is not very interesting.
- Gary Burd
Scream Aim Fire by Bullet For My Valentine
- Schadenfreude
1990 Achtung Baby.
- Hayes Haugen
K, how about suggestions. I'll go with Exile on Main Street and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart.
What is the best Stones album?
- Gary Burd
The one you love.
- Hayes Haugen
BBC News - Amanda Knox awaits verdict in Kercher murder case - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
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"The verdict in the trial of two students accused of killing Briton Meredith Kercher in Italy is expected to be delivered at 2300 GMT. American Amanda Knox, 22, and her Italian ex-lover Raffaele Sollecito, 25, deny murder and sexual violence. Miss Kercher, 21, a Leeds University exchange student from Coulsdon, south London, was found with her throat slit in her Perugia room in November 2007. Rudy Guede, 22, from Ivory Coast, is already serving 30 years for the crime."
- Kol Tregaskes
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This is big news here, since Amanda Knox is from Seattle.
- Rochelle
I have the TV on our local ABC affiliate. They're going to break into programming in a few minutes so I'm all set.
- Rochelle
Here's the verdict: http://ff.im/crXf5
- Kol Tregaskes
That's the thing with circumstantial evidence. What if she is innocent or just guilty of a lesser crime? But what if she did it? And there's a family that no longer has a living daughter. Tough stuff.
- Hayes Haugen
Viddler.com -
Nokia's 2010 Symbian user experience - Uploaded by engadget - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
Cristo liked this
Unfortunately his first words are "the Symbian OS is not the problem". It's definitely one of them. Hopefully Qt will ease that pain.
- Hayes Haugen
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What is all this crap, and how do I know which of it I need?
Tyson Key, Mona Nomura and ashish liked this
Don't you have people for that?
- LogEx
No, unfortunately.
- Cristo
We have four boxes of those unidentified cables and missing parts in our attic; they are remnants of 20+ years of various computers. We totally blame our son.
- Anne Bouey
Part of our attic is called "geekside storage" and is full of bins with that crap in it.
- Rochelle
Whatever you get rid of is the thing that you will need. The rest is useless.
- Hayes Haugen
We have a bag of stuff like that in our garage. I'm afraid to get rid of it because I may need it someday.
- Michelle Martinez
I don't know, but please come figure it out at my house, too.
- joey
I've started getting rid of stuff by category. I threw out all the SCSI and ADP cables recently.
- Cristo
unknown unknowns.
- ashish
I need to start getting rid of composite and s-video cables. Maybe keep a few around in case I want to hook up some legacy box, like WebTV or a VCR. Coaxial RF cable is quickly becoming obsolete for me as well. I really only need 3 of them now in the media closet.
- Cristo
Have you shown a pic of the media closet yet?
- Anne Bouey
Anne: http://friendfeed.com/home-th... Such as it is. :) There's a club-like curtain that closes it off.
- Cristo
I just threw away about half that many cables tonight.
- s t e v e
This pile of cables fills a decent size moving box. It's about 1/4 of what I had before I started sorting through these.
- Cristo
Thanks, Cristo. It's all very impressive. Have you had fun making all the changes to your loft?
- Anne Bouey
No, but I have had fun making some of the changes to my loft. :)
- Cristo
What piercings do you find sexy in others?
Kol Tregaskes, Joe Silence is not dead, MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) and 4 other people liked this
None really. Lip piercings in particular weird me out.
- Alex Scoble
What makes a person sexy isn't anything that can be seen, so piercings and/or jewelry isn't going to do it for me.
- April Russo (app103)
But do you find them a turnoff, April?
- Alex Scoble
For the most part, yes. (it may also have something to do with my age)
- April Russo (app103)
Some look good with facial piercings (the majority don't). Navel piercings are usually nice.
- Beau Liening
I don't really care enough about piercings to use them as something I'd classify someone as sexy. Sexy is a sensibility, a state of mind, it's not...like a hat, or something.
- Derrick
lip.
- Marissa
you've never seen someone in a sexy hat??
- Chieze Okoye
A cool hat, an interesting hat, yes. No hats have ever induced #instaboners.
- Derrick
Septum actually.
- Onur Gündüz
LOL, I see.
- Chieze Okoye
As a general rule, I do not find piercings sexy. But I do find them fun to photograph.
- Wirehead
Still depends on the person and the piercing. How they go together. Really large piercings or things laced together or a large number, I probably won't find sexy on anyone.
- joey
Derrick, I sense a business opportunity!
- joey
The piercings I really don't like are the ones that stretch a humongous hole in ear lobes.
- Beau Liening
*covers ears so Beau can't see his plugs*
- Derrick
Derrick, I meant in a sexy way
- Beau Liening
I have no love of piercings or tattoos. I'm not against them, just not attracted by them.
- Cristo
i kinda like nipple piercings from a visual standpoint, but they do bad things to my teeth if i am invited to get up close and personal.
- Joe Silence is not dead
no piercings
- echostreamer
Mine
- Hayes Haugen
*dead*
- Steve
I think piercings/tattoos in general are really sexy =] on girls and boys
- Marissa
I'm ambivalent about piercings, except for people who look like they've been attacked by a fishing tackle box. Bleh to that.
- vicster
I think just about any piercings can be sexy, except maybe in more extreme cases. some people it just *works* and... YUM.
- holly
piercings I often like on others (when done well): nipple, labret, prince albert, navel, guiche, and madonna [you may not want to google some of those]. piercings I often don't like on others: nose (unless it's a tiny stud), cheek, eyebrow (I don't know why) or lady parts. septum & ear plugs fascinate me & I go either way, depending on the person.
- jbrotherlove
The ones that completely weird me out are those chest implants...yeesh, why?
- Alex Scoble
yeah, the implants are way bizarre. not big on the cheek piercings either.
- holly
I'm watching the CNBC show about Google. It feels a lot different seeing it on TV than actually working there.
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It actually makes me uncomfortable to watch stuff on TV I have some knowledge about. It makes me wonder how skewed all the stuff is I see that I don't have any knowledge about.
- Cristo
Eric Schmidt just said, "Judgement matters. If you are worried about someone finding out what you do online, maybe you shouldn't be doing it."
- Cristo
What a BS statement. I don't suppose he lives in a glass house, does he? I like to see him publish a real-time feed of his IP traffic.
- LogEx
“People turn to the search engine box and admit things to it that they would not admit to their doctor, their shrink, their priest, their wife or husband or anyone else, without a thought that all of these queries are being stored,” says Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Among other things, the government can then get at this information in legal...
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- LogEx
Now they're talking about Android.
- Cristo
I really wish Google wouldn't use the Microsoft term "dogfooding". If you call it dogfood, that's what you're going to get. (And yes, I know it originally came from Lorne Greene). Of course, if you hire people from Microsoft, they are going to continue using their terminology.
- Cristo
I watched it but I think one hour documentary is not enough to know about Google.
- ashish
I've never liked the term "dogfooding" either. It's just...wrong, and implies that what you are making is crap. But I'm 100% in support of the practice, whatever it's called, because it's a key component of not building crap.
- Hayes Haugen
How about "Use Your Own Products", and we can abbreviate it UYOP.
- Cristo
Otherwise great Sports Illustrated-on-a-tablet demo has hands that creep me the f*** out! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Agreed! Creepy hand, and the voice is *way* too gruff.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
It's like JibJab trying to play it straight. Spring for a damned hand model or use an actual paper cutout. Don't suspend me over the uncanny valley.
- Kevin Fox
I was impressed too. It's a great first step and can't wait to see the iterations. I read lots of magazines (in print).
- Hayes Haugen
As Google Backs Away From A Plug-in, Microsoft Rushes Towards One - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Browsers aren't standard - as MG points out. Each renders HTML slightly differently. Silverlight is the same on every browser.
- Cliff Gerrish
Thought experiment: if the web were utterly balkanized in different ways (plug-ins, de-indexing deals), would that help or hurt Microsoft's bottom line?
- Matt Cutts
You're evil, Matt ;)
- Schadenfreude
Cliff, at least on Linux all Silverlight objects are rendered with a different implementation so the point is rather weak.
- Alex Kapranoff
All I want to do is go watch the movie Face-off all over again.. Cheesy but so much fun :)
- Bindu Reddy
I really don't understand why they don't open source it.
- Hayes Haugen
See Mono and Moonlight...
- Cliff Gerrish
Silverlight is indeed basically the same on every browser it supports, just as Flash is. Though it's worth noting that Mono/moonlight *don't* support (at least last time I checked) all of SIlverlight (video in particular). And I'd hardly call allowing the Mono guys to implement Silverlight a real commitment to openness. The fact of the matter is that if you build on Silverlight, you're...
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- Joel Webber
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips - Listen free on Lala - http://www.lala.com/#album...
What makes this so good is that it is an album - a symphony. A remarkable piece of music. 1993
- Hayes Haugen
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The best part about hearing people say open technologies aren't powerful enough (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...) will be proving them wrong.
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I'm completely convinced at this point that there is nothing that Flash or Silverlight can do that won't be reproducible with technologies like SVG, Canvas, O3D, native media support, storage, web workers, etc. There's still a way to go -- that I'll readily acknowledge -- but I see which way the momentum is going, and the time is getting close. (Though I'll admit that the tooling and language support, particularly .NET, is very, very good.)
- DeWitt Clinton
There's still the issue of JS performance as well as low-level access.e.g.<audio> provides no access to samples.
- Ray Cromwell
(Started to reply with the "also send to twitter" box checked, but then worried that it would be prefixed with an @dewitt. Replied on Twitter instead. Here: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt...)
- DeWitt Clinton
Star this Chrome PCM bug: http://bit.ly/8qAePd :)
- Ray Cromwell
@Ray - starred!
- DeWitt Clinton
.net/c#/clr is great stuff. check out mono
- Hayes Haugen
AT&T has a secret command center where they monitor data usage of iPhone customers then shut then down if too much - http://www.lightreading.com/documen...
Roberto Bonini liked this
From my understanding every carrier does the same thing and has for years. If you are using too much service on a partner network you are costing them money and they want you gone. It's also a good way to get out of your service contract.
- Hayes Haugen
2008 Protector 8M Cabin RIB Power Boat For Sale - www.yachtworld.com - http://www.yachtworld.com/core...
"Engine(s): 2 Engine(s) HP: 250hp Engine Model: Yamaha Hours: 50 Max Speed: 52 knots" - this should do the trick.
- Hayes Haugen
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Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...
Tom Stocky, Fabrizio, scott willeke and 53 other people liked this
When is Facebook going to give people open access to the address book? :)
- Bindu Reddy
They already do. My DROID syncs with my Facebook and Google contacts, converging them both for the same contact on either network. Don't ask me how that's done though
- LANjackal
You mean your DRIOD can get to the email addresses of your facebook contacts?
- Bindu Reddy
""Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it." Maybe everyone you know ;)
- Clare Dibble
a friend of mine has a bb storm and it integrates w/ facebook (when i call him, my facebook avatar shows up... etc etc) -- the Droid being able to combine contact lists and merge them when applicable sounds like the next step
- Chris Heath
It's still not open. That data is locked into the built in contacts app and you can't get it at an api level. Android 2.0 has a complete (well, half-baked) contact model that allows aggregating contact info. Not to mention that when I entered my contact info into facebook that I understood it was going to be shared that way. But from an end-user standpoint it's great!
- Hayes Haugen
@LANJackal that sounds great... I guess my information is dated than..
- Bindu Reddy
Very great post. One of the best. This share remember me with two other great peoples described by Katie Hafner is his book (Where the wizards stay up late): Vint Cerf (you known what i mean) and Dave Clark (by his famous quote : "we reject kings presidents and voting. we believe in rough consensus and running code.") With an "open" mind like yours, they make with days, months, years, a very great open life fluid. I'm very happy to follow you. As Louis Gray says : Please keep blogging. Thank you.
- Guy Vander Heyden
Just like with any other activity, the intention behind being open is very important. If somebody wants to manipulate or mislead, then it can be dangerous to follow them. We just have to be aware of extremes. That said, I have learnt a lot from following you and thanks for sharing your ideas so eloquently.
- Shakeel Mahate
Hey, thanks for the mention - I'm glad you're enjoying Alfie Kohn's book. He makes me think.
- Laura Norvig
Thanks Laura. I've actually "outsourced" the reading to April, but she tells me about it :)
- Paul Buchheit
Heh, see this is the type of efficiency mindset you've developed by running a startup.
- Laura Norvig
No, I've always been lazy :)
- Paul Buchheit
lazy like fox! ;)
- Susan Beebe
I just realized that I'm on day 50 of my 30-day "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge. Liking it so far.
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I am on year four of no Microsoft OS/software.
- Gary Burd
Gary: what do you use ubuntu? or mac? Matt does a lot of 30 day challenges, sometime ago i saw book reading on his blog
- ffcode
Redhat, Ubuntu for work, Mac for home.
- Gary Burd
Gary: 4 years? Did they wrong you personally? I can't care enough one way or the other about a company to love/hate their products to such an extent. Now if they mess with my livelihood that's another story....
- Hayes Haugen
I primarily switched to Mac at home because I think OS X is easier to use and maintain than Windows. Microsoft did mess with my livelihood, but that's another story...
- Gary Burd
After I posted I realized that I was still holding my Apple grudge. They messed with my livelihood too. But it's ancient history and I should probably move on. Probably.
- Hayes Haugen
What did you use and what are you using in it's place now?
- John Wang
Rather freeing, innit?
- Joe D'Andrea
I would have to say that Windows 7 is the only product I feel like paying for. AFTER A LONG TIME
- Nikhil Dev
Gary: any reason for not using mac @work?
- sizofroid
ABC [pauses] production on sci-fi series 'FlashForward' (NY Daily News) - http://www.nydailynews.com/enterta...
Alex Scrivener liked this
Original headline is a bit misleading so I rephrased. The show has low ratings and is being retooled. From the article: "ABC has stopped production on the freshmen drama series - at least for the next six days." ... "Though the show is not cancelled, recent circumstances might mean trouble for the sci-fi series. The pause comes days after the series hit an all-time low in ratings on Thursday."
- Stephen Mack
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Studios should pay me to watch the shows from competing studios because anything I watch gets canceled.
- Kevin Fox
Good thing I'm no longer working as a nanny for the kids whose mom works on that show!
- Lis Miller
Kevin, everything gets canceled eventually...
- Stephen Mack
I hope it returns, it's a good show. Better than V, that's for sure.
- AJ Kohn
++AJ
- Rachel Lea Fox
Sometimes ABC retooling a first-season show actually works out pretty well.
- Andrew C
Stephen, everything that is not currently canceled is a counterexample. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
Ah, good to know that by your logic I'm immortal!
- Stephen Mack
They lean on exposition too much and dumb things down unnecessarily but otherwise it's pretty enjoyable with an interesting premise.
- Hayes Haugen
I like my Flashforward....
- VAL D. Zone
Stephen, maybe so maybe not, but you can't prove everyone dies. ;-) As for FlashForward, I really like the premise and I wish they could make the show more engaging. I always feel like the writers are trying to stretch the story too thin to make sure they fill the ordered number of episodes. And what happens after they pass the flashforward event? Whatever it is it'll probably be contrived unless they hire a few of Galactica's writers to fix it.
- Kevin Fox
Shoot, after the first few episodes of Heroes S1 established that the 2006 elections in November would be a crucial point, I was hooked... and then they spent the rest of the season putting on the brakes until the end of the season - May 2007! - finally got to Nov 2006 in in-show time.
- Andrew C
Kevin, I agree. I was initially very enthused about FlashForward, but each episode after the first has left me less engaged.
- Stephen Mack
Boat Ramp at Marina Park - http://www.panoramio.com/photo...
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Taken with your new camera?
- Scott Ludwig
Yes, taken w/ recently purchased camera.
- Gary Burd
....and which camera would that be? Don't make me get all exif on you.
- Hayes Haugen
The exif has probably been stripped by FF.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
S90?
- Benjamin Golub
from fftogo
s90
- Gary Burd
Gary, how do you like your S90? (Great photo, btw.)
- τorƍue
I like the S90. It's small, the manual controls are easy to use and it has lower than average high ISO noise.
- Gary Burd
I am getting very good at taking naps. Practice makes perfect.
Stephen Mack and Hayes Haugen liked this
The little bit of sleep is a side effect...what I seek is the state transition. 20 minutes and I'm good.
- Hayes Haugen
Wow, sun is setting already. If this keeps up, pretty soon it will get dark at 3pm. ;)
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I was noticing the same thing....unfortunately that was an hour ago.
- Hayes Haugen
Sounds like Seattle.
- Rochelle
In other words, why Spidra is a sad panda from Oct - Feb.
- Spidra Webster
I don't know why I get surprised by this every year, but I do.
- Stephen Mack
I was just wondering today whether SADS is due to the fact that humans originated in the tropical zone. (Not like there's been no evolution since, but...)
- Spidra Webster
International growth has started to completely dominate on FriendFeed since August. Below is an unlabeled graph of page views on FriendFeed this month, broken down by country. Guess which country is the largest green slice below? (Hint: it is not English-speaking)
emel karakaya, Nick Mutton, elodeon and 220 other people liked this
Iran!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Turkey??
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
We are still blocked in Iran
- Bret Taylor
Turkey
- Cliff Gerrish
Me
- Johnny Worthington
Brazil?
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
turkey, imho.
- 1Co
Oh and good to see you bret.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Turkey is in fact the green slice. Orange is also not English speaking. Guess which country :)
- Bret Taylor
france
- WorldofHiglet
Japan or Italy? Maybe Portugal?
- Schadenfreude
Hmm.. Turkey is the biggest international... I am not surprised (:
- Ozgur Demir
i totally don't know my FF :(
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Orange - Russia? :)
- Шалена бджiлка
FF is rising fast in Turkey I guess. And will probably continue to rise for some time. Celebrities are joining too (:
- Hakan Deryal
I am guessing the orange is Canada :P
- Johnny Worthington
COUNTRY OR CONTINENT?UNITED STATES OF AMERICA....
- Pam Gwenzi
@Brent. is USA one of these countries ? or does chart only show internationals ?
- Ozgur Demir
USA is blue. About 23% of our page views now.
- Bret Taylor
Does Australia get a slice?
- Johnny Worthington
@Bret, Can we get more info about Turkey in FF?
- Hakan Deryal
India
- Hayes Haugen
The orange slice is actually Italy, believe it or not. Turkey and Italy have been growing like gangbusters the past few months.
- Bret Taylor
@Bret. yes, your guess is correct (about gangs) (:
- Ozgur Demir
Sweet, correct guess :)
- Schadenfreude
Turkey. hehe :)
- Oğuz Serdar
from Android
What is the gray then, Bret?
- Schadenfreude
what is the gray?
- Mycaptain
some of our friends from US don't know about FF, lol :)
- Ufuk Özgül
Gray is "other"
- Bret Taylor
where other is proxied users from Iran. ;)
- EricaJoy
Both China and Iran would have been in there if they were not both blocked currently
- Bret Taylor
Is Russia any of the other slices pictured above? (other than gray)
- Schadenfreude
That's where Australia is, in the grey :)
- Glenn Slaven
OMG. Friendfeed is going the way of Orkut ;) Btw, is Norway/Scandinavia even visible in all this ? Just curious.
- Thomas Bøhm
@thomas. even though Orkut is Turkish (the guy), it is (site) not big in Turkey.
- Ozgur Demir
Just look at the public feed for 2 secs or 2 hours - yep, definitely.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Facebook has a very similar story as far as I know.. we are a communicative nation:)
- Neşe Uyanık
Who's Gray? It's Gray, Louis of course :)
- Micah Wittman
Thank you for sharing this graph, Bret.
- Micah Wittman
Interesting - though for the sake of data visualization, pie charts are the worst of all.... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming, a-hem, take a look at your avatar ;)
- Micah Wittman
@Bret, what is the exact number of Turkish people on FF?
- Ozkan Altuner
Ozkan, I'd be curious to know too, but I have a feeling there's an internal policy about not releasing absolute numbers, hence the percentages. But it never hurts to ask :)
- Micah Wittman
@Micah, it's the page view, however, not the number of users :)
- Ozkan Altuner
Good point, Ozkan. But I can't remember Visitor or View counts ever publicly reported before. But today could be the first time! :)
- Micah Wittman
Iran :-)
- Nimaa
Everyone knows teh fuckin answer Bret. It's Turkey. Mahir loves you http://www.ikissyou.org
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
I'm not surprised that Turkey is the green portion. I've seen more and more Turkish posts in my home feed. I thought it was just a biased sample, but perhaps not.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Iran
- Assal
Turkey
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Intense competition between Iran and Turkey occurred :D
- Nimaa
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...MOZAMBIQUE luminous orange l guess
- Pam Gwenzi
the desire to push the boundaries of internet of the turkish is troubling. the possesive tendecies of the turkish can be observed in the currently popular ''ff bu deYil'' (this is not ff) comment. turks are crowding ff, westerners are in panic!
- ferayebend
turks are invading ff!!! call norad
- aadagger
international growth dominates FF and yet the USA dominates the world. Not always in good ways either. What is the link? I don't think there is one. All I can say is that I love the USA and I love FriendFeed. What does it all mean? More free, cold beer is needed to find the answers.
- Morgan Haley
.. because, Turkish Facebook users are 10-20 years old. FF is very good alternative for older users. (and in addition Twitter is non-useful)
- Murat Tatar
Bret would that mean that FF has around 200K Turkish users? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- Cem ARGUN
Murat Tatar. So you've seen that Turkish Facebook users demographics ? even though it's unpublished.
- Ozgur Demir
SO when are we gonna party BRET? :)
- Bahriye
Actually, I wonder when Bret is gonna post something like "FF bu degil!"..
- Ozgur Demir
What do we care :) FF is this. And this is the rl. SO THE QUESTION IS: When are we gonna party!
- Bahriye
Bret start learning Turkish. You should have guessed from the reactions the days a.) you changed the design, b.) announced the FB deal. :)
- Cem ARGUN
I've noticed it on my feed. It's all good.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I've noticed a huge increase in Iran, peaking at about 7-8am Eastern
- H0llywoodWh0re
Just curious, what's happening with total page views? (I don't trust alexa, compete, etc.)
- Bruce Lewis
@Bret, 1- Turkey, 2- USA, 3- Italy, 4- India, 5- Japan, 6- Germany, 7- UK & Russia 8 - Pakistan 9- Iran 10- Canada.. Is it True?
- Kemalettin Bulamacı
italian power! yeah! ;)
- Dario Salvelli
Anyone worth their weight in tweets knows that it's turkey.
- Richard A.
knew it english speaker are way down
- ffcode
Turkey?
- ★ Soner Gönül
If that is so, can we get some way of filtering by language? I want to follow more international people but be able to ignore them or their friends when they post in what I cannot read :)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Turkiye :)
- Mustafa Çamaltı
italy rules!! :-)
- batta
Turkey
- Melih Bahadır Varol
My bet's on India
- Rod Nicolson
Country dominating FriendFeed? My guess...Brazil (have to bet on the homeland)
- Victoria Harres Akers
Btw, FriendFeed is blocked in Turkish Schools :(
- F. Batuhan Icoz
from iPhone
It's blocked in US schools that I attended as well F. Batuhan :(
- Schadenfreude
Italy?
- Matte
You may have to develop "hide by language" feature very soon.
- Bahadır Yağan
Afghanistan
- Pam Gwenzi
go italy!
- Alessandro
How much does the UK get?
- Kol Tregaskes
Turkey is the winner btw.
- Kol Tregaskes
YEAH TURKEY !
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
different kind of widgets? I don't like with blue line. years fighting with it :) and option to change fonts. please :)
- Okeane
#Turkey of course ;)
- Volkan Özçelik
IRAN :)
- ДMIROVSKY☂امیروفسکی
Iran خودشم تو روحت که دیشب فرفر و خراب کرده بودی . اگه تونستی بفهم چی گفتم !
- حاج مهدی ©
Gotta be Turkey. It is Thanksgiving weekend, after all!
- Mark Jepsen
:)
- Susan Beebe
Is there any place to get a full breakdown, including the smaller slices, by country with percentages? Thanks.
- Mikeynitle
@bret, what is the number of friendfeed users in total?
- elodeon
Did someone make an iPhone app that scans your call log and does a reverse-lookup on unknown numbers yet? Because that would be awesome.
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I think I've heard of an Android app that does something similar using white pages data. Dunno about iPhone though.
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
Indeed it would.
- Roberto Bonini
I seriously doubt apple would let a third party app data mine the phone app. To many privacy issues
- Charles Dick
Matt: Android has a few apps like that. I use "caller lookup" which tells me the caller name and city of incoming calls, and also whether it is a telemarketer. The one extra feature I would really like it to have is to automatically block the call or send it to voicemail if it is identified as a telemarketer.
- Simon
Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian all allow API access to the call log.
- Hayes Haugen
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