As of today, Facebook staff will be allowed to eat your children and pets. To turn this option off, go to settings, then privacy, then meals. Click the top button to not feed the employees of Facebook anything. They are also going to start stealing your underwear. Copy this to your status to warn your friends.
Brisbane is featured very heavily in this film clip from epic Aussie band Powderfinger. Check it out to see what my city looks like!!!! :)
- Johnny Worthington
from Bookmarklet
Holy crap this is making it even more difficult to decide what city to move to. Though I have visited Brisbane before, it looks even more awesome in this
- Mo Kargas
Bruce Schneier points in his blog to an article in The Telegraph in which Steve Ballmer blames the failure of Vista on security. Every security person around should clear their throat loudly. Security is not what made Vista unpalatable. Many people liked Vista. My tech reporter friends not only adored it, but flat couldn't understand why people didn't adore it. I have a number of other friends who adored it. In assessing Vista, this is important to keep in mind. Despite its bad rep, many people liked it. So why did many people not like it? First, there were the gamers. Before Vista came out, Microsoft did a lot of marketing Vista to gamers. There were kiosks at gaming conventions and other places touting Vista as a gaming platform. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Reliable tests at the time said that Vista ran games about 20% slower than XP. Compounding this was that among the drivers that were dodgy when it first came out were video drivers. Many gamers felt that they had been sold a pig in...
- Hacker News
I LOVE FriendFeed, I bet you all know that. I'm a passionate guy, I don't half-love. And that's because I love it, that I often criticize it. Feedback is what makes systems evolve. BUT I won't write any app for FF anymore (or FB)
See? I love Linux, and even if I can and know how to write apps for windows and osx, I won't do that anymore. Yes, I know many people (if not most) use windows, but I'd rather support FREE options like Linux. (notice many Linux apps are easily ported to other OSes) And that's exactly what I started, lately, to think about SocialMedia tools. Think WIDER, think FREE.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver Extra!
I can't do everything by myself, and that's why I often talk about these stuff. I want to see many people on it. So, please if you can help, please do it!
- directeur
There's a "marketing" principle called "OPM, OPT, OPC" (Other People’s Money, Other People’s Talent, Other People’s Connections) — Nothing evil about it in our case, We can drop that OPM part, Just think, for eg., that 1000x5 minutes = 5000 minutes = 3.47 days
- directeur
*Crickets* (Heh, you guys are celebrating today :))
- directeur
Right here :) Yep, the party is _on_.
- *CRICKETS*
@CRICKETS ;-) — @Eric: well, I'd like to see them write code, design, discuss ideas, promote the idea. If We have 1000 people who spend 5 minutes a day on this, each on his domain of expertise, we'll have 3 days and a half worth of work in a single day :) - People are already doing this for other opensource tools, why wouldn't we copy that model for open source distributed socialmedia?
- directeur
FriendFeed is much better for conversing than Twitter is. FriendFeed is better because you can share a lot more stuff then you can on Twitter.
- Patrick
from twhirl
Patrick : a distributed, open and opensource FriendFeed is even better than FriendFeed, FaceBook, Twitter... etc.
- directeur
My concern is building a me too app after people are already deflated about the idea of the original. Now, since some of the FF goodness has been open sourced, there could be something gained, especially in business. Many are making me too Facebook or Twitter apps, but I think the FF model inside business has potential to be much richer for employees. Find a way to build it for business, and I could get excited about it.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Eric I understand your concern but what i'm talking about is def. not a "me too" or a "yet another" thing. FriendFeed is NOT *distributed*, is not opensource (a server is just a little piece) - Don't get me wrong, FriendFeed is GREAT but I'm dreaming of a GREATER thing: a distributed one :)
- directeur
well directeur let us know ....thinking greater is great
- marsupilamima
Show me the napkin. You must have a napkin with this idea on it.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
A distributed social network is better in a theoretical sense, but there are a lot of practical issues that would be challenging if you don't want fail whale. You also need an architect with vision, diplomatic and political skills to hold something like that together like Linus does for Linux or Paul. You can't just throw a thousand people together and get an architecture that works. You also need critical mass and viral marketing, which is somewhat mysterious. Twitter got lucky on that, FF didn't.
- Ed Millard
You also need servers and bandwidth which costs money :)
- Ed Millard
The first issue with socnode is you kind of need a database, since you aren't centralized do you need many databases, one on each node and you have to keep them all in sync over a haphazard network. Or do you keep a lot of little databases scattered all over which is complicated when you have people chatting from many nodes and to do search. Mirroring databases would be ... hard... to keep them all in sync and resolve discrepancies and failures
- Ed Millard
Ed, No. It's NOT about DB replications/Mirroring. That's not the design of socnode. Please read this page http://www.socnode.org/how - A node doesn't even notify its subscribers of new content. And I can show you how a post goes from gamma to alpha (through beta) in realtime. Plus, by "distributed" I don't mean that "I" or a "company" will manage the whole network. Absolutely not. Each node is managed by a person, owner, an association, why not a company... In fact, it's like the Internet
- directeur
I'll have a wee look in the morning, almost midnight here
- marsupilamima
OK, that's the many little databases model, basically one for each publisher, or all the publishers on the node, and presumably all the chat from all over goes to that hub to archive with the original publisher. How do you do a search then? Do have to know the publisher/hub you want and only search there? Doing a search for something you don't know the locale of will be... interesting
- Ed Millard
Ed, I actually have my little idea on this very subject and I highly welcome any contribution! I call it "delegated search" - You're on a node A and subscribed to people in nodes B, C, D. When you make a search you can 1) search within your node or make a "delegated search" that will ask (and even eventually subscribe to search feeds from) other nodes. A analogy is: I want a given pair of shoes, the store can call other sister-stores if they have it.
- directeur
Those searches would be a little expensive and slow though I guess they would work. Hope your users don't do a lot of searches, or run bots doing a lot of searches even worse. Another question, if I am a new user joining your network how do I get a node as my base, do I have to make my own which would limit adoption, or do I impose on the good will of whomever is hosting the node I decide to exploit, what if his node is overloaded, do I get moved to some place on the network with space?
- Ed Millard
Also seems like you are doing a lot of mirroring of databases since friends and friends of friends all apparently archive their whole stream on their node's database. How do you deal with a malicious node getting in to the network and, for example, altering content in a malicious way and distributing it.
- Ed Millard
Yes, I agree, those searches are expensive but if we subscribe and ask hubs to notify us, they'll be as simple/light as regular feeds. Regarding "adoption", well, it's up to you... I imagine it this way: I can host my own node, I do it. I have friends on a node, I ask them to host me. There's a company who's hosting nodes I get one at this company. It's actually the same case with blogs. You host your own, you guest post on other blogs, or get a free one at wordpress.com, blogspot.com ...
- directeur
You going to prevent bots from doing searches? Centralized networks do have advantages in managing security. Someone gets malicious on your network it might be hard to stop. If you aren't careful you could allow creation of a pretty big botnet. As for hosting my node that will certainly be a lot higher barrier to entry than FF, FB or Twitter which would limit adoption unless some entity creates node where users can open free accounts, with ads for revenue maybe.
- Ed Millard
As for bots, yeah that's a concern, but hey! some might be useful too! Anyway, It'll be always up to the "nodemaster" (the guy who manages the node) and the node implementer to make sure his node is being clean. Again, I suppose that managing a node will be like managing a blog, a site or to a higher extent: a server. I know adoption won't be easy, but all it takes actually is to make...
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- directeur
There is a bot on here named RSSFeedBot, that's mine. It posts a lot of good stuff that keeps people informed. Other stuff is useless depending on the users who read the what it posts. Now that everyone knows that that is my bot, y'all must hate? :P
- Patrick
from twhirl
Problem is if you have no control over people adding nodes then someone with malicious intent poses as a friendly node administrator for a while, gets in the middle of a lot of traffic and then starts doing bad things. Centralized servers don't have this problem they just authenticate users and talk to them and if a user does bad things they shut them down. Once you put an untrusted man in the middle you have problems, they can change what people say, pose as people they aren't, listen to private stuff.
- Ed Millard
Ed, I understand your concerns really. But there are dozens of distributed tools that just work fine (email is the best eg.). Sure they've build security methods over the time, but they work. I like your insights! Please help! Your feedback and ideas are really very welcome :)
- directeur
Email usually only goes through ISP's and routers, you are talking about a system where anyone can inject themselves as a man in the middle I think. I guess you don't have to worry about the integrity of your feeds, operate on trust, and maybe trust and verify nodes and have a mechanism to cut them out if they do bad things. Would seem like you might want to at least sign all your traffic though it will add overhead.
- Ed Millard
@Ed - a client can choose which nodes to trust, and the originating server can make a decision about what nodes it trusts enough to post to. http://ff.im/8dg2t discusses man-in-the-middle in some depth. It is a valid concern, but not one that is tackled widely so far.
- Nick Lothian
LAUGH OUT LOUD! Woman accidentally uses Facebook status updater, instead of messaging system, to thank a man for the incredible sex they recently had! HAHAHA! CLICK IMAGE TO READ
Sometimes it pays to read the directions..funny but I'm embarrassed for her.
- Scratch5150
I still can't stop laughing. It is sweet in many ways and it is a private and intimate exchange but come on! Next time I might suggest some more discretion ! lol
- Kevin J Hatton
Ah. The "love cave" bit did seem a bit much. Not cool, 4chan. I wonder if potential employers can appreciate the subtlety of a situation like this? Tracy didn't write this, yet it has her name and picture on it. Can Facebook remove all traces of a hacked account like this one and then set a person up with a fresh one? (I doubt it.)
- Kamilah Gill
"The unnamed Christian dating service I mentioned earlier had an exploit in the website that allowed the entire list of usernames and passwords for the site to be exposed." WTF? Uncool.
- Andrew C
If you're responsible for a website in 2009 and you store plaintext passwords, you should not only be fired, but not allowed to touch a computer professionally for half a decade.
- Andrew C
I still think the picture is funny - in the sense of how NOT to use the update box. I'm torn a bit - because I feel that people should be responsible about passwords and what online services they use, so she holds some of the responsibility. But Scott's right. This was a 4chan hack-job, and should come down. Her privacy has been compromised - even if the image does still make me laugh.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
People, read The previous comments. A Christian Dating site was hacked by some people in 4chan (you can actually download a file with their login and passwords). Many users use The same passwords in many services, that's why some Facebook profiles are now like The one in the picture. Facebook was not hacked.
- Gianluca Neri
from iPhone
first hint it might be a fake... she commented on the status a minute before she posted it
- Bastard Operator From FF
"Hot and Sour Soup with Shrimp (tom yum goong, ต้มยำกุ้ง) is probably the most famous Thai dish, both inside and outside of Thailand. It’s eaten very often here, usually in a type of hot pot with fire underneath. There are hundreds of variations of tom yum, and this recipe includes the two most common versions of Tom Yum Goong."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Looks a lot like competing on futures and speculation. Competing with something that isn't in public view is an exercise in marketing spin. Time will tell how Shareflow stacks up against WAVE. One ways it's already losing is 60 days free, then pay. That's not a model any of us expect consumer driven WAVE to follow. Google has mastered being profitable by delivering free services to consumers. I'm not convinced this is tangible competition at all.
- Ken Camp
I am using a machine running Vista SP1. I use Gmail for ALL my email. No local email clients in use. When I want to email a note in Evernote it always tries to fire up Windows Mail, instead of GMail. I do NOT want to use Windows Mail AT ALL. How can I change it to fire up Firefox and my Gmail ?
I don't think Evernote can do that for you but I've seen applications you can install in Windows that make that happen (for anything that triggers an email). Sorry I don't have a link but search on Lifehacker.com, I think I remember seeing something there.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
@Lindsay D - thanks very much. That seems to have done what I wanted. No more lame windows live mail popping up!
- Ian May
I found this post thread searching for a way to link gmail to Evernote, and was bummed when the link provided at the Lifehacker post noted above didn't work - but then found apparently the 'gattach' app has been integrated with a yahoo-based 'yattach' app available via http://www.affixa.com/downloa..., in case anyone else ends up having the same question/issue and finds this conversation later.
- Victoria Marinelli
I had the same question as Ian May and just found this post today (17 July '09). The Affixa program doesn't seem to work with Evernote when I tried it though (it works as advertised with everything else). Also, Affixa creates a draft in Gmail and you have to manually open Gmail to send your mail? I'm sorry but that's a very lame implementation.
- Andre P. Siregar
ok, try installing google apps, and making that default for mail. That seems to work for me now.
- Ian May
It works for me just fine. I like my Evernote more and more.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I got my picture taken with her at Emerald City Comic Con - its on my bookshelf next to my wife and kids picture. Gotta have priorities when dealing with Jewel Staite. :-)
- Alternating Reality Books
Stargate Atlantis powa ; Jewel Staite really cute
- TiTi
I really liked her as Kaylee, and she was good in Wonderfalls (although her characters was not that likable)... I've yet to see her in Stargate Atlantis however.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Anybody who thinks any aspect of burn notice has any more than coincidental similarities with actual real-world stuff should probably pry themselves away from the TV for a day or two, lol. Also...bump!
- Slappy Line
Umm, yeah, a lot of the methods they use in the show for circumventing security systems are real. Such as using a picture of someone to fake out a face recognition system. Real.
- Alex Scoble
And does anybody in the security industries actually use these proven-insecure entry systems?
- Slappy Line
Yes...they do, as a matter of fact. Most doors are still secured by locks that are known to be extremely vulnerable to quick circumvention methods. And they talked about creating a "bump key" and showed pretty accurately how to use it in the latest episode.
- Alex Scoble
If someone can get into it, then it is not secure. End of story. Your level of security is only a matter of how difficult you make it for someone to get into unnoticed.
- xero
The vast majority of "security" is effective at making people feel better - or inconveniencing them - not at providing actual security.
- Anthony Citrano
@Anthony that's because vast majority is not able think - they just don't want to, for variety of reasons
- A.T.