"BetterTouchTool adds many new, fully customizable gestures to Magic Mouse and Macbook Touchpad. These gestures are customizable: Magic Mouse: * Pinch in / out (zoom) * Single finger tap left * Single finger tap right * Single finger tap * Two finger tap * Two finger click * Two finger swipe (up/down/left/right) * Three finger more..."
- sofarsoShawn
from Bookmarklet
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- CW™
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
:( but damn if that hair doesn't look great! ;)
- Josh Haley
For infections: eat as much as you can, preferably in light - to mid hearty soups, this serves the dual purpose of keeping you nourished as well as keeping you hydrated to promote the cleanse of the infection. As well, drinking as much as you can, through teas, but preferably more vitamin enriched juices ~ these are dependent on how much you can hold down. & Hell yeahzz you are one put together invalid :))
- sofarsoShawn
Aww. :( Sorry you're not feeling well!! Hope it passes quickly.
- Laura H.
@Josh, Shawn - fixed the hair to go to the doc when I was feeling significantly better (when it was mainly the sore throat)... by the time I got home I felt awful. Rest assured a few hours tossing in bed has wrecked the hair for sure!
- Lindsay
"Twitter makes a search tool available on its own site. But Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, said that Google would be better able to provide Tweets that were relevant to a particular user’s questions. “We’re not good at relevancy right now, and they are,” he said. “More people will get more value out of Twitter because we are doing this with Google.”" I think that would be great--easier to search Twitter means more people tweeting.
- Matt Cutts
from Bookmarklet
I suppose that if somebody wanted to search Twitter, Google would be better at it. I just can't imagine why anybody not searching Twitter would want those results in their searches.
- Gabe
Gabe - Try again. Imagine someone searching for "Honda Civic", gets regular Google results but also a few tweets on the results screen. Those tweets mentioning "Honda Civic" could be very revealing. Like, dislike, problematic, cool feature found, just bought... Can find people thinking or doing the same thing you are right now. It is the future of search, come on.... I think so anyway.
- Odi Kosmatos
Odi — I don't understand the “Honda Civic” example. What are you looking for, when you search for “Honda Civic”, that you'd rather see what was posted 5 seconds ago instead of 5 minutes or 5 hours or 5 days ago?
- Amit Patel
I'm having a hard time trying to imagine a query where I would want to see the latest out-of-context chatter about the topic.
- Gabe
Gabe, it's mainly interesting as a way to see what people are thinking about something "right now". It's fun to watch during product launches and other events.
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's most appropriate for current event and news searches. If something big has gone down in a certain location... you would be able to have real-time accounts of the action fed into your google search. That makes it cool.
- SAM
Two slider controls are needed to customize page of result set: Pagerank<Low---|---High> and Date <Old---|---New>
- Micah Wittman
That's great but when can I get a pubsubhbbadabub Google Alert feed from that search?
- Bart LePoole
"News that critically acclaimed vocalist Sade is working on her first studio album in nearly a decade, Soldier Of Love, has been welcomed by music lovers worldwide. Due to her unique fusion of R&B and smooth jazz the Nigerian born singer created timeless classics such as Smooth Operator and The Sweetest Taboo. With the leak of the title track we now get the chance to hear what her highly anticipated new body of work will sound like. Fortunately the long wait was more than worth it. Sade leads her sultry yet powerful voice over a staccato rhythm thus proving that she has retained her style despite the numerous changes within the musical landscape in recent years. Soldier Of Love is set for a worldwide release on February 8th via Sony Music."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Make sure to follow the 'Sade – Soldier Of Love' link to download the track.
- Christopher Harley
Listened to it three times so far and I really like it. Reminds me a bit of the latest Portishead album.
- Derrick
Not a fan of this track (the soldier boy drum roll gets to me and its a departure from her writing/singing style) but welcome a new Sade album anxiously.
- Carlos Ayala
Tad will like this. He is a fan of Sade.
- Lindsay
Very first CD I ever bought was a Sade album. Actually, maybe that was the first tape I ever bought. Damn. Remember tapes?
- Internet's Tad
oh yeah, i still have loads of tapes in boxes. one of my cars has a tape player and i have a cassette jambox in the master bathroom that blasts Rush - Hemispheres twice a week. *goes off to check out the Sade track*
- Joe Silence is not dead
Oh man, I'm all choked up now. I hope she tours.
- Rochelle
Does it translate handwriting to text, or do you need to run what it saves through a 3rd party OCR program?
- Thomas
I dunno...the idea of it needing special pads to write on (and them being £10 each) seems a bit awkward, I wouldn't have bought it for uni. It sounds like a cool product though.
- Amy
It would be amusing to play with, just to see what it thought I was trying write...
- Thomas
I once took notes on 'the chicken-beef theory' in a class about the psychology of vision (I was asleep!), the ability to hear what the lecturer was actually saying during my snooze would have come in handy. :)
- Amy
what the hell is the chicken-beef theory? Yes, i'm too lazy too google.
- Jerry Perez
Jerry: There isn't one! I was hungry and asleep, and taking notes.
- Amy
I wish there was Facebook and Friendfeed when I went to college.
- Jason Wong
from iPod
I probably wouldn't have graduated if that was the case. Friendster was bad enough.
- Veronica
Lol. Do they ever ask to see "where your at?" *shudder*
- Jeffrey Canton
from Android
LOLOLOL (funny because it is TRUE!!)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I'm trying to ease off on my knee-jerk reaction to those sorts of things, solely because of the iPhone. I can't count how many times I've sent something with an absurd grammatical error simply because the helpful autocorrect got it wrong, and since I do pretty much everything on the phone these days, I feel like I've gotta give people some benefit of a doubt or two.
- Roger Benningfield
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
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
"Starting next year, DC Comics will unveil SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE and BATMAN: EARTH ONE, two graphic novels spotlighting the most powerful heroes of the DC Universe, with their first years and earliest moments retold in a standalone, original graphic novel format, on a new earth with an all-new continuity."
- Bill Sodeman
from Bookmarklet
Although, how many times can you re-tell an origin story? My goodness. It seems, however, that with both Clark and Bruce not currently playing the leads (or in general continuity) in their signature books right now, this is a decent way to keep them around.
- Jason Toney