Left to right, as if you didn't know already: Dan Hsiao, Casey Muller, Ana Yang, Jim Norris, Tudor Bosman, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit (with Camilla), Sanjeev Singh, Kevin Fox.
- Tudor Bosman
That's why I love today's web : you can talk with the people that build the next web, and see those who build your current web. Congrats guys!
- Zackatoustra
FriendFeed Team, I love you !!!! Thanks to you all, I'm very happy everyday!!!
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
So that was the TGIFF ("Thank Goodness It's FriendFeed") party? Perhaps slightly off-topic, but if Camiila hasn't been betrothed yet, have I got a grandson for her ;-))
- ianf ⌘
TGIFF was excellent. Great event and great people.Thanks for the invite and hospitality.
- AJ Kohn
Louis, thank you and thank you to the FriendFeed team for making a killer product and hosting a great open house!
- Brian Solis
(bump) Ana and Casey are now married. Here's a pic of them on the left, between Ross and Jim. Congratulations to Ana and Casey! (per http://friendfeed.com/jessica...)
- Louis Gray
علی حجوانی تو روحت، ای واسه چه موقعیه؟ :)))
- Mehran
:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم
- Aly
Zee: From your post -- "Secretly, its something I’ve wanted for quite some time; an open source, fast, lightweight and secure OS with the web and Google’s services (of which I use all) as its backbone." Tell us what is lacking in a plain Linux.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
Props for realizing that Chrome OS isn't just about Windows, which apparently is the only other OS out there from the articles I've been seeing *sarcasm* BUT "I am writing Microsoft’s long term consumer market off now" - Windows 7 pre-order sales have been going through the roof, and Windows dominates the netbook market despite having been very late to it. Good luck with that prediction buddy.
- LANjackal
Of the two major OS producers, Apple is the one most friendly with Google. Microsoft is the one most likely to be going to a war footing, it has the most to lose. It is also the one with most leaden feet. The rug may already have been pulled from under those feet without anyone realising it. Come Monday we shall see what ammunition Microsoft has.
- Gilbert Harding
"Apple is the most friendly with Google" - Really? Because all evidence seems to point to the contrary. IE gets all the latest Google Toolbar features, and just about every Google desktop client hits Windows long before it hits OS X. I think it's hilarious how people are already calling Google victorious after just one opening volley. Chrome is a netbook OS, and there are better-selling...
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- LANjackal
Just because Windows gets Google toys first doesn't imply that Apple isn't friendly towards Google. However I do agree with you over to hoohah this announcement has caused. It is important, but it's important to "wait and see" before sounding the death knell of Windows and OSX. As for Netbooks, I see them as a passing fad until someone comes up with a cheap usable compact touch screen device that actually works.
- Gilbert Harding
I am calling it. Windows is dead. There, I said it. It's official. You heard it here first kids. If Stephen Colbert can end the Iraq war, I can end the Browser war.
- Brian Bufalo
lol, i called it first Brian! Check the article! :P
- Zee.
Are you guys in reality, or making jokes? Seriously: "Windows is dead ... Browser war" has it occurred to you that those are 2 very different things. IE could die but Windows would still win if everyone was running Firefox on WIndows. You guys are letting the Google RDF warp your minds. ChromeOS is likely to be a technical success, but it won't kill any of the incumbents
- LANjackal
from IM
I called Windows dead when I switched to Linux a few years ago and haven't switched back. ALTHOUGH...Windows 7 seems to be hitting off a really nice start. I'll never buy it because I'm happy with Linux, but now I can at least tell people who are looking for a new computer not to wait or buy a Mac or have me build one with linux :P Some people...are stuck in their ways with windows
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
More like some apps/features are stuck on Windows. No distro comes close to being what i need out of a primary OS, and ChromeOS, being just a browser atop a kernel, is likely to be worse in that regard.
- LANjackal
from IM
Come now, you guys haven't been paying attention. Steve Jobs and Tim Cook says netbooks are sucky and terrible. :-)
- Piaw Na
TBH, despite not being an Apple user, the fact that they've been extremely successful as a hardware company but have stayed out of the netbook game is a sign to me that that device class is just a fad
- LANjackal
from IM
Lan is right...even Google puts its B-team to dev products for the Mac so I don't see how Apple will end up being the player to challenge Google whose core business is being an Ad company. Writing off Windows and MS has always been fashionable but it'll take a lot more than vaporware and an OS that's never broken single digit marketshare to bring down their empire on the desktop.
- Adi
I don't think Windows is dead, and anytime you bet against Microsoft, you're betting against a company that is only at its best when its back is against the wall. Besides, it's not Windows that is dead, but all the desktop OS's. As for Apple and Google, I think there's been a fight brewing for some time. The next OS is going to be browser/cloud based, but it really depends on the...
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- Michael Fidler
Google: light, simple, low cost. Apple: professional, full-featured, high cost. I think they can coexist.
- Francesco Balducci
Exactly. Actually, all of the OSes on the market currently (Linux, OS X, Windows) are very likely to coexist for a very long time to come, barring a cataclysmic disaster at either Apple or MS
- LANjackal
from IM
To be honest I don’t think a new Google OS is going to be much competition for Apple or even Microsoft. Reason being, the OS is going to be geared towards netbooks. And although some may try it out on regular laptops and PCs I don’t think it is going to do much for most people. Personally I will probably only test it if I can do so through VM Fusion.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Google should port Chrome to Ubuntu Remix. This move is to keep investors warm.
- karthick
Chromium runs on Linux <- newsflash
- LANjackal
from IM
No Linux distro I've seen can boot almost instantaneously, which I think is Google's goal with stripping it down to only the kernel and the browser. And I think Apple has already ceded the territory Google is trying to claim, seeing as how Apple has yet to release a netbook.
- Victor Ganata
I have a old Sony Vaio laptop, 600mhz celeron with only 256mb of ram. (one of the ram sockets is borked) It struggles to run WinXP because it's always paging stuff to the hard drive. I can't install Ubuntu because there isn't enough ram for the installer. Maybe ChromeOS will make this laptop usable again. By the way I don't recommend Sony Laptops, it's the worst piece of crap I've ever owned.
- Gilbert Harding
As a longtime Linux user, I don't see (yet) what Chrome OS will really change. (I'm not talking about the Google logo on a Linux desktop)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Gilbert, I suggest you install Debian on your 'old' laptop. Works great on an old Toshiba Satellite 2180-CDT: AMD K6-2, 96Mb RAM ;-))
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
I say this every time this subject comes up. If you want to be a threat to ms, build a server+client combo with openldap and zimbra at it's core. Without a comperable system to active directory and exchange you are never going to crack out of the niche market
- alphaxion
from iPhone
I dunno, I can't see a browser app competing with the likes of photoshop, final cut or another pro app. There's huge investment in these, and while Google might force a paradigm shift, it's not going to work for every kind of app. Glad to see choice in the market, though.
- Rick Cogley
Yeah, I don't think Google is trying to take Microsoft on at all, except in the very narrow realm of netbooks, and maybe on a long-term basis by trying to shift the dominant paradigms of computing. I don't think they're interested in releasing just another Linux distro.
- Victor Ganata
"That’s an interesting implication raised by the statement that the Yankee Group just sent out about the announcement of a Google operating system for PCs. The research firm argues that the real winner of the battle between Google and Microsoft is Apple. That may be overstated, but it raises an interesting point about the gaps in what Google has offered consumers. Google is as well-known as any company in the world, and it has earned a reputation for technological innovation. But so far its products are not consistent, easy to use and interconnected the way Apple’s are."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
I think Google doesn't want its products to be strongly interconnected - except for products aimed at businesses. Few months ago, Google decided to kill Notebook: it may have been a wrong decision but at least, Google was in a position where they could kill the product without damaging search, mail and docs. "Google faces far less risk in product development than the usual business...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Ekmeğini Çin'den yiyeceksin, seni anlıyorum. Ama içinde insanlık varsa, en azından sessiz kal.
- Kuday Can
@selim bey. Nasıl bir zihniyet nasıl bir bakış açısıdır sizdeki.. Aferim harika yakalamışsınız. Tebrik etmek gerekir.. Ne amaçla bunu koyduğunuzu inanın anlamış değilim.. Hiç birşey olmadı aslında bunu mu demek istiyorsunuz... Geçenlerde Türkiye Türkü olmaktan utanmaya başladım demiştimya işte onun nedenlerinden bir tanesi sizin gibi düşünen insanların sayısının artmasıydı.....
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- Semih Masat ™
@kuday Tabiiki. Bakın burada insanları kandırdığımız bir fotoğraf daha var. http://friendfeed.com/ceoyavu... ama tabiki bu yalanların* ardı arkası kesilmiyor. onlar ölmedi aslında uzanıyorlar güneş güzel diye.
- Semih Masat ™
Hiç bir iletişim özgürlüğü olmayan yerden bahsediyoruz. Dolayısıyla her bir fotoğraf parçasına balıklama atlanıyor. Bu resimlerin bir kısmı bizzat Çin'in ajanları tarafından dezenformasyon için yayılıyor ve sonra yalanlanıyor. Gökbayrak'ta yayınlanan resimlerin hepsi gerçek ve olay günü çekildi.
- Kuday Can
Yeah - it does. I hate that BeeJive is $16, but damn, it's polished and worth every penny. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for their update to be approved so I can have push IM for all my networks.
- Sparky
16 bucks is way too much for an IM service, those jerks. I'm sticking with sucky connection with IM+
- Mona Nomura
Push isn't working yet for IM+... :(
- Mona Nomura
I'm a cheapo. Won't pay for BeeJive... But honestly, i don't IM that much. when i do, I can swing Skype chat on phone. good enough...
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Jeff ++ I'm right there with you LOL. Wanna IM me? My IMs are always on 24/7. Need me immediately? Email/text me. ;)
- Mona Nomura
from IM