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Seems interesting but what am I entering my FF credentials into Steve? Not going to enter them into something I have heard nothing about.. - Bill Heslin

Silverlight and Flash do have one potentially critical advantage over HTML5 ... DRM. In my opinion publishers should have a mechanism to protect their content from piracy. If Jobs succeeds in blocking both Flash and Silverlight runtimes from the iPhone, it will be interesting to see what kind of DRM solution Apple establishes with their new video streaming technology and how tightly... more... - scott anderson

It's difficult for me to understand how "research" was needed to figure this out. - Jeremy Zawodny

Women's brains are different, instead of seeing women as an equal, geeks most likely see them as a lead weight. I don't see that changing any time soon. - James Robertson

James, women's brains aren't *that* different, in terms of ability: http://friendfeed.com/opensou... - Michael R. Bernstein

+1 There isn't wifi love anymore. Don't hold your breath for Mifi being a saviour .Weh lve? - James Robertson

At last someone is speaking out. - James Robertson

Liked and retweeted - Jorge Escobar

That's irresponsible promoting that drink. - James Robertson

ouch ouch ouch - slammed the door on the end of my thumb. Looks nasty - worry about blood under nail making nail fall :( - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Nail update: it looks significantly less black - perhaps all my random treatments helped, perhaps it is the normal way - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I wonder if Alan Cooper would still be calling Twitter "stupid" if it had been written in Visual Basic. - James Robertson

But it is not. :) - Fikrizula

"Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage. However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine. News Corp and Microsoft, which owns the rival Bing search engine, declined to comment. One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan "puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them". Microsoft's interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts... more... - sofarsoShawn

Funny how most people are paying to make their content show up in google. I hope they do it and we can see what happens. Of course if it takes off then sites that search all the search engines will spring up very quickly. - John Cooper

Congratulations on starting a new job. I was beginning to think you had a full-time job with FriendFeed :-) - James Robertson

Oh no, just the last few days since I am at home doing admin :) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

although a lot of what appears in FF comes automatically via bookmarking in diigo, marking in my feedreader (both appear via delicious as the integration is better) etc. PS: I would have taken a full time job at FF/FB - they missed their chance - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

glad I met her, she got me on my train (drove me), obviously, but also because she runs an online (and a shop) about car customization - for gals! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

i'm ashamed, i forgot about sending her the email - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

"Those in a bad mood outperformed those who were jolly - they made fewer mistakes and were better communicators. Professor Forgas said: "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world." The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style"." - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) from Bookmarklet

ahahahahahaah YES! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Tease: The problem with Javascript and security. Guest John Graham-Cumming says it's the "elephant in your browser." - Leo Laporte

Lol - Mark from iPhone

This draws power from a source which the user doesn't pay for. There's even a comment about it ... - James Robertson

This is a fantastic idea. I wish I had this software when I had my accident because it would have helped make the experience less stressfull. - James Robertson

Infinite scrolling works very well in my experience for browsing the TED videos on YouTube. - James Robertson

There is no guarantee the Accept-Language header will be present. - James Robertson

They don't just switch language based on IP but the whole catalogue. This way they can provide somewhat localized search results and filter/censor according to local laws. - Andreas Gohr

they don't have love for XML. - James Robertson

I'm not sure about that, in my experience I've been surprised to see @replies in my twitter/replies page from people on identi.ca. However I don't see replies from Twitter users on my identi.ca page, I presume bcause they don't have an identi.ca account. - James Robertson

It won't succeed because 99.9% of the time there won't be anything to see. When there is something to see most people won't be watching. e.g. 3 in the morning - James Robertson

Not sure don't server farms give off alot of heat? Which means Iceland would melt and be renamed as hotland? #spaceheaters - James Robertson

That's why it's a good place for server farms. The air conditioning is free. - Dave Winer

'I don't enjoy programming so much as I enjoy the satisfaction I get from cracking hard problems. In that case, computer code is a means to an end, but so is my Craftsman socket set. I like to spend free time wrenching on a car or a bike, but I don't set out on Saturday morning and say "I'm going to learn how to use a torque wrench today, because those things are the future of tools".' - Jeremy Zawodny

I agree that programming for fun should not be a requirement, but I think it's a good sign that someone might be enthusiastic about their craft and is hungry for more challenges than they're finding at work. I'd want to hear about interesting problems someone enjoyed cracking, whether on the job or elsewhere. - Seth

Why would they want to kill Ruby? - James Robertson

"Britain’s most popular music-streaming service could be out of business within a year unless it can make more of its users pay for music, industry experts claimed today. Senior executives said that Spotify could soon be “dead” if it continued to be available free and relied on advertising to fund the service." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

Something has to give, and someone will always lose out. If Spotify finishes, then people will go back to torrenting and fileshare sites. - Charlotte M

That's the problem with the drugs business model, you can give it away free and at some point start charging but in this case you can't intimidate the users with pay up or else. - James Robertson

that will be the second bus I've seen do something like that in the past month. Problem driver, mechanical, design, elctrical fault or something else? - James Robertson

I suspect that paper works quite closely with the Hone Office because I see quite a few articles which are aimed at ordinary people acting badly. - James Robertson

Ruby! - James Robertson

know anyone looking? i can pass the details to them :) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

seems not? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

this lazyweb thing is overrated - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

It's about timing, you and I are ahead of most people in terms of adopting this technology. Given that microblogging was an idea I had thought about in 1996 that puts me at least 10 years ahead of most people. - James Robertson

Ideally the government should give vouchers free of charge to to Youths who have ASBOs encouraging them to book 1-way flights to Afghanistan, and in return we take some of their immigrants. If the youths don't use their voucher the government stops their families benefits. - James Robertson

all he needed to do was say "oops, i was thinking out loud and used the fake cliche about girls being less able i dont really believe that". It's a shame too, because a lot of the points in that talk are actually really good - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

not exactly - 3ppl example was just example how deep specialization is needed in our team... we do post job openings but usually candidates filtered out on simple category "do you have patches submitted to kernel.org and accepted into main tree?" - A.T.

Everybody wants a piece of the pie. - James Robertson