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l0ckergn0me posted a link
August 10 at 10:07 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
LMAO! Wow, they actually were there to take a photo of that? Do city workers take those pictures? - Michael Forian
Woah! - Mark Wilson
When someone's looking for directions your (whoever it belongs to) house via Google Maps, they're going immediately call up and ask if everything's alright. Perhaps they should visit another time. - Andrew Trinh
How the hell does Chris just randomly find these image? - Outsanity
It doesnt load for me! From 90 seconds fooling me by saying 'loading...' !! :( - Jigar Mehta
isn't there a site that catalogs all of these Easter eggs? - Josh Haley
@Andrew, my guess is that no one is visiting that house for a bit - Marc Vermut via Alert Thingy
If you wanted to find some more like this. http://bit.ly/1R4giU - Andrew Trinh
That's the one, @Andrew. thx - Josh Haley
What a catch!! - Jeff P. Henderson
Aaaannddd it's been pulled. Drat me and my East Coast timezone! - Marci Maleski
The weird thing is.... I can drive to this spot in about 20 minutes. Talk about close to home =) - Anthony K. Valley ©
GoogleMaps has been reading our Friendfeed and removed the image. - Benedikt Koehler
The linked image may have been removed but all the images around it are still there! - Arthur Guy
Next one over works (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...) It was on the list of new Google Street Finds yesterday, they all seem to have now gone MIA. - cmiper
They're on to us! - Andrew Trinh
Twitter
Kevin Rose posted a message on Twitter
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l0ckergn0me posted a link
Is this NSFW or not?
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June 19 at 8:18 pm - Link
Something tells me this guy spent his entire adolescence perfecting his talent. - Tad, Fool
hilarious! - Sean Dunn
his drawings look like "school house rock" - Tyler Gillies
also reminds me of "fight club" where he splices the porn into family films - Tyler Gillies
Reminds me of Mr Squiggle. - Michael C. Harris
Flickr
Raoul Pop favorited photos on Flickr
Stop!
Corkscrew
Canaima - Salto Angel
the rays
20080616_3753
Last Communication
Let There Be Light!
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June 16 at 7:18 pm - Link
These are gorgeous. Well spotted, Raoul. - Dawn M. Armfield
Thanks Dawn! - Raoul Pop
Nice finds Raoul! Misty forests are quite awesomely. - Jim Stanger
Blog
June 10 at 2:49 am - Link
FriendFeed rocks, is what I learned. So did VentureBeat. Thanks! - Robert Scoble
I was at an Apple Store yesterday and the employees are either really in the dark or are excellent actors! They were asking ME what was going on in Steve's keynote address! One thing they were adamant on telling me was they are not allowed to mention anything at all that was speculative until "the website has been updated." - Glenn Batuyong
Of course, if you'd used IRC (BoingBoing's channel was good) or just listened to the live audio via Ustream, you'd have got the news faster. But then again, pretending things like that don't exist and hyping FriendFeed *again* is much easier, no? - Ian Betteridge
the boogeyman checks his closet for friendfeed - Tyler Gillies
It was fun here on FF - Andrew Smith
I was on IRC too. Yeah, but FF had a greater number of news sources and was more usefull for a bunch of other things later. - Robert Scoble
Was there news from Apple? We were beating Italy in soccer, isn't that way more important? ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
And once you add Duncan Riley's greasemonkey tabs ... why go anywhere else? - Dan Covington
I used to work at apple in the web team and we did not know what was going to be announced, we would receive all the graphics for new machines minutes AFTER the keynote and then quickly had to scramble to get webpages up. - Gerard van Schip
I was livestreaming the audio, refreshing engadget (for the photos) and following VentureBeat's FF room for the comments and for the crack. - Gez
FriendFeed is an amazing tool! - Gavin
Geeks, whether they blog or not, don't have entourages...by definition. Some may have followers. Douglas Hopkins - Douglas Hopkins
everyone thinks 3G iPhone has no video. Well I asked Jane at Quik.com when the Qik app will be "signed" for use in Japan; and if they were developing Q!ik for the 3G iPhone. Here is her reply: Hi Theron,Thank you for your consistent support to Qik.We keep pushing to get Qik signed so that users from Japan will join the community as well. Hopefully it will be done in the near future.Our support for iPhone is coming SOON !!Also to let you know that we do have a discussion forum as listed in my signature. However, it is not actively used, guess we need to promote this to more users..Regards Jane - Tokyo Dan via twhirl
Well Balanced analysis, as always. - Parth Awasthi
I like your honesty re. you would buy if it were a pile of dung so you could tell us it is a pile of dung... :-) - Mary Anne Davis
YouTube
Morton Fox favorited a video on YouTube
World of WifeCraft
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June 6 at 10:15 pm - Link
OMFG - Caroline
OMFG!!!!!! - Caroline
OMFG!!!!! im showing this to matt. maybe then i wont have to pull him off that game so i can get some. i think his dick got lost playing that !@#!@#! game. that is all. - Caroline
far, far too funny. - Andrew Feinberg
so cool... - Anthony Farrior
every so often a youtube video comes along that makes you cry with laughter. This is one of those. I hope they put together more ! - Nigel Cooke
I don't even play WoW but I get it. - Sam Pullara
LOL. This is so good :) World of Wifecraft... I need oxygen. - Ryo
Love that look of death. - Jeremy Brooks
AMAZING!!! - Dieter Schwarz
@Caroline: hee. - edythe
now _that_ was worth watching! looks like they actually put effort into it - Tyler Gillies
I cannot stop laughing, at the video, at the comments - Michael W. May
Loved the Leroy Jenkins reference. LEEEEEEEEROOOOOY JEEEENKIIIIIINSSSS!!!! XD - CannonGod
did anyone see there guild name "bros b4 hoes" - Caroline
You GD right I am! - John Minni via twhirl
That brought the funny. - Scott Kitchen
Laffing. Laffing. - Robert Merrill
As a WOW widow on the weekends (try saying that fast), I found this truly funny - Abby Martin
Funny - Russellreno
That was hilarious...although in my house, it's more like world of husbandcraft...via feedalizr - Nick
Awesome! - Todd Jordan
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Steve Lacey posted a link
May 30 at 12:57 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Although I can only guess, here’s what I think really happened. Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes – quite without our approval. When we closed off their backdoor access, MediaDefender’s servers freaked out, and went into attack mode – much like how a petulant toddler will throw an epic tantrum if you take away an ill-gotten Oreo." - Steve Lacey
Wow. These people (MediaDefender) need to be shut down. - Steve Lacey
Not just shut down, sued out of existence. - Robert Scoble
Yes, they shoud be put out of business, because they are not even good at what they do. Who signs DOS packets with their registered IP addresses. - bvs via fftogo
YouTube
Thomas Hawk favorited a video on YouTube
WNYC Streetshots: Bruce Gilden
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May 28 at 1:56 pm - Link
Love the hat - Brian Sullivan
That would piss me off. For that sort of in-your-face photography, the least he could do is to offer a thank you afterwards. But he just walks on after capturing someone's photo, after shocking them with his flash and camera, with even an acknowledgment. Then he makes money off those photos. Where's the release? Where's the thanks? Where are the ethics? Nowhere. - Raoul Pop
He says in the video that he has no ethics. He also does say though that he considers these people his friends. Model releases would not be needed for fine art photography. - Thomas Hawk
What is "fine art photograhy" -- sounds made up to me - Brian Sullivan
Brian "fine art photography" is pretty wide. A few years back a NY court ruled that photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia was within his right to covertly photograph people on the streets of NY without model releases and sell the prints as fine art. Model releases are only needed for commercial stock photography. http://thomashawk.com/2006/02/... - Thomas Hawk
on a public sidewalk, there is no need for a release or permission to take a photograph. - Nathan Eckenrode
Gilden's work would classify as "fine art" and he would not need model releases to make and sell prints of his subjects. - Thomas Hawk
Well my inclination would be if he stuck a camera in my face and flashed it to have him arrested for assault. I am guessing some New Yorkers might clock him on the spot. I am all for photographer's rights to take pictures in public places but I think this is pretty close to crossing the line. - Brian Sullivan
Brian, using a flash on someone in public would not be deemed assault by the NYPD. He would never be arrested. Now, yes, my guess is he's probably had some pretty gnarly personal interactions with New Yorkers on the street. In his case I'm not so sure that there is a line to cross. In the video he states that he has no ethics. - Thomas Hawk
Well the fact that he says he has no ethics is hardly justification. Maybe he has no line -- but I am guessing the subjects have a line. Presumably they have rights as well? - Brian Sullivan
Brian, they have no rights in this case from a technical legal standpoint. Anyone can shoot anything they want in public. There is no right to photographic privacy. I'm not necessarily saying how Gilden acts is correct, but there is in fact no legal recourse for people who do not want to be photographed by him. - Thomas Hawk
I wish I had the balls to do that. - Joe Mac Stevens
I love this. I've not been to NY in about 5 years, yet every single one of those photos makes me remember exactly how it felt to be there. I don't care how he does it, I just like how it makes me feel. - Iain Baker
Well if they have no rights they should have (and I suspect in may other jurisdications do). - Brian Sullivan
Brian, maybe outside of the US, but not here. Anyone can shoot anything or anybody that they want in public in the US. - Thomas Hawk
The flash in the face is what I see as particularly offensive (and potentially dangerous?) -- what would happen if the person temporarily couldn't see and stepped out into traffic or walked into a light standard? - Brian Sullivan
FWIW, he states in a follow-up interview on the WNYC site that the "I have no ethics" line was sarcastic. Sounds like his intention was to have it interpreted as having ethics, just not the same as others'. - Tom Harrison
Brian: I'm no lawyer, but I think a case like that would be a very specific instance which would need to go to court, where the plaintiff would have to argue poor judgement on the part of the photographer -- contending that they would not have sustained injury had the photographer not impaired their vision with his flash. Whether or not that would stand I have no idea, but even if there was a conviction it would still not set a precedent that prohibits photographers from using flash on people in public. - Tom Harrison
It might set a pseudo-precedent that photographers using flash in public should use better judgment, however. - Tom Harrison
My concern is that the flash could be seizure-inducing. I know that strobe lights induce seizures in some epileptics, but I don't know if a single flash in the face would. - David Thomas
While it's not exactly the most civil behavior, seeing as he's been doing it since the 80's and I'm assuming hasn't caused anyone any actual harm, what's the point in getting so riled up about it? The photos are pretty awesome, and it appears that most of his subjects aren't even bothered enough to stop walking. - Kevin Reed
fascinating discussion - Christian Burns
if you can smell the street in the photograph then its a street photo. love that quote - Tyler Gillies via twhirl
Very interesting, you have to see it to believe it. Now I would like to see more of his work... would be nice if he had a flickr account. On the video he seems arrogant but I think this is on purpose, he is provocative. - Xavier Donat
Street photography is about the hardest style of photography there is. Miles, alone in the outback; Lay on your belly with the ants and lizards to get a tiny wildflower in the bush; climb huge sand dunes for the harsh grandeur. They're all hard, but street photography: not many people do it because not many can. - Laurie McArthur
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Corvida posted an entry on SheGeeks
May 26 at 11:23 pm - Link
trying feedalizr now, thanks for the heads-up...via feedalizr - Eric Schlissel
finally downloaded alertthingy and now I need something new... uggghhh - Chris Heuer via Alert Thingy
I had no previous knowledge of the Google App, i do now:) downloading right away. - Gordon Swaby
dear corvida, thank you very very much for this post - mhmazidi
feedalizr rocks!...via feedalizr - Otavio Ferreira
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Thomas Hawk dugg a story on Digg
May 22 at 9:06 am - Link
More geotagging for everyone, please. - Dave Roth
That's awesome. Is it automatic based on GPS? - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
Yes! Finally!!!! Now all we need is a video-recording feature and/or Quik support... - Alexander Falk via twhirl
Google Reader
Charlie Anzman shared an item on Google Reader
May 15 at 12:53 pm - Link
Checkin' this one out now! - Charlie Anzman
be nice if tags came in order - John Fleming via twhirl
Wow! This looks great. - Svartling
cant...keep.. up.. with newness.. must get... green tea - Dan Rockwell via twhirl
I don't see an option to share.... - Shey
Potential but definitely not ready for prime time - Charlie Anzman
Flickr
Mike Doeff published photos on Flickr
05-14-2008 Sunset
05-14-2008 Sunset
May 14 at 8:41 pm - Link
nice shots. it was an amazing sunset! - bernie
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
May 12 at 9:04 pm - Link
http://www.fastcompany.tv/vide... is the video interview I did with the two guys who coded this. - Robert Scoble
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May 12 at 10:43 pm - Link
MSR rocks! - Mitchell Tsai
http://www.fastcompany.tv/vide... is the video I did with the guys who invented this. - Robert Scoble
Yay! Downloading right away! Celestia blew my mind a few years ago. This could do b - Yuvi (has IRL friends!) via twhirl
Flickr
Thomas Hawk favorited photos on Flickr
Sutro Baths
Seal Rocks
Happiness
ghosts
Untitled
Listen
Untitled
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May 8 at 1:51 pm - Link
I have to say, since trying friendfeed a few weeks ago, this new feature to see what other people favorite on flickr is my most liked thing. You do the work for me finding the "good stuff." - Jeremy Hall
In 2 - 3 months FF will rock big time. My no 1 request is better Flickr integration. FF, Flickr, and Twitter. Throw in an occasional GReader, SocialMedian and Twine. - Russellreno
FF could integrate a *lot* more of Flickr into it. That would rock. Uploaded photos and faves are a good start though. The problem is how to get more of the Flickr community over here. Less than 2% of my Flickr contacts are probably here. I made a bunch of imaginary friends but how to get the non geek Flickr users on FF? - Thomas Hawk
FriendFeed: Still want extracted photos from Blog posts... :-) - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell, you could work around that by sharing your blog posts manually with the "Share on FF" bookmarklet instead of (or as well as) using the automatic feed. That way at least, you can click on pics to have their thumbnails appear on your ff post. It seems like a bit of a rigmarole at first, but I'm sure it'll do until engtech writes a script for it, lol. - Slippy Lane
Slippy Lane: Cool idea with the Bookmarklet. I'll try it! - Mitchell Tsai
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May 1 at 10:38 pm - Link
I still don't 'get' what Mesh is. If all it does is sync files, meh. I'm already short of bandwidth here (most of the connected world is), and don't want files flying around. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Wondering why scobleizer.com keeps giving my Firefox the hickups. It won't load, I need a refresh every time. Better start making backups with Live mesh ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Yuvi it doesn't just sync files. It syncs anything. It's actually pretty cool and will enable new kinds of apps. That is, if it stays installed on my computer. - Robert Scoble
for once, I'll stay slightly behind the curve (or cliff) :-) - Scott Davies
I'm having really hard time trying to get why Joel hates Ozzie or Mesh so much... - Cem Catikkas
Just installed it and although I've lacked enthusiasm for most of MS's online initiatives, I think this one could be really cool. But yea, we all need more/cheaper bandwidth. - Phil Ashman via twhirl
while I agree with the web sentiment, I think real buzz will come from RIA style apps leveraging local processing and web connectivity (internet as infrastructure). - Tyler Hannan via twhirl
Robert - I guess I need to own up. I think you are wrong. I wrote about it here http://tinyurl.com/5fj7nb ... but here is the 2 cents version. Live Mesh won't fail because is has appeal in the Enterprise. The primary reason Russel 2000 companies are slamming in Sharepoint, Documentum, Interwoven, Stellent (now ORCL), etc is management of unstructured data. So just like Office won due to the Enterprise ... so will Mesh. An no, I am not a MSFT fanboy. - Tim Bauer
I'm on a Mac platform and don't use any buggy MS apps, thankfully! - Sally Church via Alert Thingy
@Tim the problem is that as more of our data and our applications are resident in the cloud the less need there is for sync (which is really 90% of Mesh is right now). Cloud apps already include sharing, collaboration, and versioning (the other 10%). Early adopters have already integrated this stuff into their lives. The final nail is that once again, Mesh is Microsoft-only for the time being. Sure we may get x-platform at some point but why wait when all the competition has already crossed over? - Kevin D. White
@KDW. I hear ya but until we all can walk around anywhere and have connectivity to the web and a S3 like repository ... Mesh is golden for the masses ... the bridge to Nirvana that the early adopters bleed to achieve. It is not hard to get Live Mesh into Enterprise shops that are MSFT. Then they will start building/playing with it. Then they will start replicating to their houses to work at night (if the security concerns get cleared). Wallah. Critical Mass. Fortunes are made from such manuevers. - Tim Bauer
"it's not hard to get Live Mesh into Enterprise shops." TRANSLATION: Windows 7.0. :-) - Robert Scoble
Sounds a lot like... Step 1: Bundle Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. That strategy used to work but recently, not so much. I am more than willing to be proven wrong however. Just as soon as Mesh for Mac & iPhone & Google Apps gets released. - Kevin D. White
MESH is like Linux...only geeks will grab ahold of this new "cool" technology. Mainstream folks will not embrace this... same adoption rate as twitter; perhaps even less. - Susan Beebe
I think you are wrong on this one Robert. While this release may be light, developers are crazy excited about it... awesome stuff will come. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
I haven't looked into Mesh yet, but from what I gather this type of functionality is what I was thinking of at the introduction of the iPhone. At the time I was explaining to a friend about how it was another computing platform, and the limited storage and horsepower was a non-issue because people would have other PCs and media servers and that you only need to carry around a subset of your data. Mesh-like synching along mobile computing make for some interesting possibilities. - Cornelius Toole
I agree. Mesh is not interesting the way FF is - it is interesting the way Flash (or Silverlight) is - it is about what others do with it. I'm a prof at UW who works on one of the LHC experiments. I can think of a "socal" app that makes reading papers from the preprint archive a community thing. And perhaps FF will figure out how to read an activity feed from Mesh and then when someone reads and likes a paper an entry can show up in FF. I wouldn't do this for $$ (no time) and I sure as heck don't want to run a servier to deal with it - Mesh is perfect for that sort of thing. Sort of like what Amazon did, and then Google - each lowered the bar for entry for someone with an idea. For the sort of thing I'm thinking about, Mesh lowers the bar even more. - Gordon Watts
FriendFeed
Robert Scoble posted a link
May 8 at 11:23 am - Link
Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them. - Robert Scoble
Thanks Scoble. - Mitchell Tsai
I'm running it now. I bet it barfs on an account with 21,000 friends. - Robert Scoble
account, but i only have about 100 friends - Chris Jones via twhirl
it barfs for me :-/ - HokieGeek via twhirl
just finished for me and worked like a charm - Chris Jones via twhirl
Hmm, I'll have to take a look at that. I use around 300 followers in my tests. - engtech
Thanks for finding and sharing! It worked great for me. Surprised that some of my twitter friends that I would think would be here on FF are not ...yet. - tagami
It failed. Sigh. Too many friends. - Robert Scoble
can't wait to see a web-based version of similar functionality - ben bloch
I want to see a Flickr version. (The Twitter version is fantastic.) - Russellreno
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