i would describe myself as a "diehard Firefox user", and already I've switched my default browser to Chrome, and am about to compile a list of sites that I want to keep using Firefox for -- and this list of sites are the ones that I rely on extensions/greasemonkey scripts for. - Trent Olson
Trent, that sounds very interesting, I love seeing how other people do things. I might be high on caffeine or just lucky, but I honestly can't think of anything I NEED Firefox for right now. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Just imagine having a computer booting straight into a web browser. I personally would not like that one bit, but I think many web obsessed folks would have all they needed, right there. - Jason Kaneshiro
I personally cranked out a paper in Google Docs and, for the first time, didn't feel like it was running at a snail's pace. I'm a little excited :) - Shawn Farner
The cloud can be a pretty nice place to hang out. Once you get used to it, it's wonderful to know that your data isn't trapped on one frail computer that might crash, die, or start clicking. - Matt Cutts
@Shawn - that's my next step - looking at those "other" cloud app alternatives (I'm going to hell for sure now) - Steven Hodson
Now we are all gonna switch to Chrome.Poor Firefox get deeply hurt..... - Steve
@Steve I never used Firefox other than on a very rare occasion and this goes right back to its days when it was called Phoenix so it doesn't bother me if its feelings get hurt :) - Steven Hodson
haven't tried it yet. Impressed by the positive reactions. - Andrew Warner
"Most liked entries, most commented entries, most liked videos, most commented videos and most popular users on FriendFeed" - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
I think it's neat. It's only a popularity contest if you look at it that way. I think its another cool way of finding cool posts and people to follow. Data is what you make it :) - Steve Isaacs
Plus it seems very well designed and implemented - props to the programmers! - Steve Isaacs
I agree with Mona. Down with these popularity contests. - Shawn Farner
Interesting informations and statistics in FFholic user's feed ---> http://friendfeed.com/ffholic like "%12.0548 of FriendFeed users are private! (data based on FFholic.com)" - Erhan Erdogan
i don't mind popularity contests. i mind the people that take them too seriously. - Morgan
To me, this site is less about the "most popular" people, and more about finding most popular items (and by person). It is interesting at least. - Louis Gray
And thanks to 'popular' people like you, LG, that share items, the 'popularity' is spread evenly :) I just don't like seeing people getting feelings hurt over lists and websites. We're no longer in high school... - Mona N.
It's funny, while I see an email everytime someone follows me, I have no idea who many people that is now. I don't even know where to look. I don't think I even want to know :) - John Worthington
I want to like this entry, but you have a pic of arrington. - Alan Le
What's nice right now is that most people really only like entries that show up in their FF screen, so this gives us (at the moment) a broader spectrum of the various FF niches. - Justin Long
Erhan why U deleting the Fun comments? Is this a private club? That is why ffholic is FAIL Good luck! - Igor The Troll
Igor: I don't find you as a FUNNY boy and also I have no relation with this good job. Also ALSO also bye BYE! - Erhan Erdogan
Maybe U do not know the inside story! See U! - Igor The Troll
What just happened here? Was that an argument.. I am confused. - Kyle Lacy
Create an application that finds the most interesting people who AREN'T being followed and I'm there. Maybe.. scan popular links shared by popular users and see who actually shared it first. - Shawn Farner
I saw this post in the most-liked last 24 hours list - great job! - Erhan Erdogan
Maybe create an application by the people mostly blocked! And I am not talking about Spammers but with relationship to solid comments! There are some interesting controversial people on Friend Feed who have been blocked by a few A-Listers and many others just jumped on the band wagon! It is too easy to make a judgment by first impression without really knowing about the person! Anyway just alternatives to most likes! - Igor The Troll
Holic: Congrats to you! ; ) We want more features, graphs, statistics and also daily, weekly, monthly reports to our emails. I want to be your premium member for these. : ) - Erhan Erdogan
thanks erhan they are all on the way ;) thank you for your great support! - FFholic.com
Alexander - I have a post up today (http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008...) that takes pretty much the opposite point of view, at least to how innovation occurs inside the enterprise. In-person group dynamics at daily meetings can have a smothering effect on people's ability to be heard and voice opinions. - Hutch Carpenter
Hi Hutch. I guess there is an opposing view to any view presented (that was pretty much on of the points I was making. I guess I am not so fond of the word "discussion". You mention Friendfeed as a place where people discuss. I often (but not always) see it as a place where people ventilate their own truths. Thats a but different from a discussion. I like to find questions, more than I like to find answers. Here I find answers all the time - Alexander van Elsas
As I said in my post, just because I have written it down doesn't make it true ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
"I am quite obviously a big proponent of making some of my writing, particularly short fiction, available online for people to read at no cost to them. But I am also a big proponent of getting paid. " - John Dupuis
As usual, Chris gets the big picture. - Chris Baskind
Chris is a tech superstar that I listen to deeply. He is excited by Google's moves and lays out the poor execution on the Mozilla side of the fence. - Robert Scoble
What I missed in the Chrome comic was a mention of browser add-ons like Firefox's. Surfing the web without Adblock Plus is hard to imagine. - Ole Begemann
or without the delicious add-ons... or the evernote add-on... but at least bookmarklets are (likely?) to still work. - Justin Long
The comic was aimed squarely at devs. There was little mention of what would make end users choose Chrome over IE. - Paul Grav
Best read so far, been waiting for a commentary like this... - Kevin Cearns
Gee, Ole... why wouldn't Google want you running AdBlock Plus? Can't imagine. ;) (Now, I agree, add-ons are cool, but as a publisher, I'm not going to weep over that one...) Anyway, I wouldn't count Firefox out. Obviously, what Google addresses is the performance/reliability side and building around apps. Both FF and Chrome are built around standards, both closely married to JavaScript for what they do next. I think this could be a great rivalry, frankly. - Peter Kirn via twhirl
They talk explicitly about plugins on pages 29-32 of the comic so you should be able to have your AdBlock. I seriously doubt Google cares that much about AdBlockers -- which makes up an extremely small percent of the overall market, and which is probably made up of people who don't click ads anyway. - Chris Messina
Chris: I suspect by plugins they mean Flash etc. and not Firefox-style extensions. But I hope I'm wrong. - Ole Begemann
Will they, wont they. Time will tell. Who do you want to hate today? - Steve Blamey
Interesting article. More choice = better for the users. But I think that you are over-hyping the death of Firefox. As far I can tell. Firefox 3.0 is much better than Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 will be better than Firefox 3.0. Multi-process, V8 and native Gears support are definitely a step forward but firefox is part of an ecosystem so I would not count them out (A lot of people said that Safari meant the death of firefox and firefox is doing much better today then back them). I look forward to revisiting this post in 18 months and see how the mozilla team/community proved you wrong! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm, well, I didn't claim to foretell the death of Firefox at all. In fact, Firefox will likely continue to gain marketshare and attention (as the web is still expanding). One of my points is that Mozilla missed the opportunity to be the foundation of Chrome -- and will now have to play catch up -- instead of set the agenda for what's next. - Chris Messina
Do you think that was a technical decision or a control decision. From the last couple of interviews I have seen of John Lilly, I think that he has a really clear vision around performance, usability and ecosystem. Performance is coming in 3.1. Usability is driven by some of the concept Labs has been pushing out and ecosystem come from the fact that there are 100s of extensions to firefox and a really vibrant community around firefox. That is a very unique blend. Chrome has made some good progress around performance but there is not much innovation around usability and extensibility. Google has proven with Android acitivities and cross application data sharing that they are capable of innovating...but it will take before those things make it to Chrome so while firefox might have to play catch up in part of the architecture, Chrome will have to play catchup in others. - Edwin Khodabakchian
I am using chrome right now, and I really miss my shareaholic addon as well as my stumbleupon bar. hopefully the developers get crackin for plugins for this browser. - James Campbell
I'm hoping to see some good progress from Mozilla. I do worry a bit about them fish-tailing and not being able to say no to developers (whose needs are often very different from regular folks). We shall see.
@James Campbell:There will be a need for web hooks, no doubt... and places to insert additions or modifications to your browser experience -- I don't really doubt that (some standardization there would be nice too). - Chris Messina
The exciting news to me is that the "public" is interested in this. The article is being, clipped, dug, etc. - Nice Fish Films
Most excellent -- one quibble, I'd like to see "no insider information" credited to Jean-Claude. - Bill Hooker
well thanks Bill - the author removed it after some reformatting of the original paragraph :) I didn't ask for it to be removed - I have no problem with that paragraph - Jean-Claude Bradley
so you think that private company will always permits to their scientist to share data with the rest of the world? - Piero Giacomelli
@Piero: some will, some won't. The hypothesis is that the sharing model will prove more efficient, so early adopters will realize an advantage and eventually the mainstream will adopt their methods. There are no guarantees but I think it's worth testing the hypothesis. - Bill Hooker
Depends on the information. Pharma companies are already sharing pre-competitive information. Stuff that they would need to repeat in the absence of any data availability. With things like GWAS, it might be impossible to do for a company, so they will collaborate with universities and make the raw data public (e.g. Novartis) - Deepak
Expression data (eQTL) too. See Rosetta/Merck. - Chris Cotsapas
@Chris, oops. Should have included that one esp cause I have used that in talks :) (I was at Rosetta Biosoftware) - Deepak
Just my thoughts. Science blogging is different things to different people or at different times. - Martin Fenner
Neil, at least we didn't blog about it simultaneously this time :) - Deepak
I think you're right. People are confusing a tool with a profession. We don't talk about "pencilers", it doesn't make any sense to talk about "bloggers". A blog is just a communications tool, used in many different ways. - Richard Akerman
We are moving away from a world where having one object cited as many times as possible is not as important as having knowledge communicated through as many channels as possible - Jean-Claude Bradley
“Dear all, Nature will be publishing a "big data" special issue this week (4 Sept issue); I'm giving you a heads-up that our publisher has kindly agreed to make the content free for 2 weeks from pub date.”
Well, I see two terms bandied about quite a bit -- e-science and science 2.0 (or open science). I tend to thing of the former as grid & data and the later as collaboration & lab notebooks. Some days I think e-science is all of the them and science 2.0 is the subset. - John Dupuis
pinching, loud radio with recognizable lyrics, a/c, and the windows down are still no match for sleep itself - Pete Delucchi
I find talking to the person next to you is a great way to stay alert. You don't have to be sleepy to fall asleep on the road. I know that first hand, we like to roadtrip. - Shey
hilarious study where they found out that the best way to stay awake- take a 15 minute nap. - anna
this history shows that the interests of those who used the Net as social platform shaped it in the interplay of military, scientific, entrepreneurial, activist, artistic, and altruistic agendas. The evolution of the Social Web was driven by fear, desire (to be with others), and fandom. By no means exclusively an American story, it shows instances in which users succeeded when striving for open access, jointly negotiating with corporate platform-providers. - Seb Paquet