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Sarah Perez posted a message
“I started using AwayFind.com & immediately some crafty PR person used it to pitch me even tho my AF msg says URGENT matters only & provides my tips email address. I kind of feel like deleting their email now. Is that wrong?”
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I don't see a problem with that! - Phil Glockner
Um, I think that's a given. ;) - Cyndy
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"Yesterday, Fi (Fantasy Interactive) sent out alpha invitations to their new product, Kontain. This is one product I’ve signed up and (not very) patiently waited for its launch, as it should be pretty revolutionary in terms of user-friendliness. Basically, it’s the first Flash-based blogging platform open to world wide free public access." - Alex Cristache
Who needs a Flash-based blogging platform? It's inaccessible. Each page weighs at least 400Kbytes. Maybe someone would use Flash-based blogging tools, but the reader also needs Flash to view even your text and image content. I don't get it. Isn't this why we have standards like JavaScript? - Benjamin Doherty
Benjamin, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of computers these days. That's not the real problem. Also, no matter how much we complain about it, the dial-up era is gone. 400Kb per page? We should analyze standard blogging platforms and see much their pages weight, with tons of widgets & slow loading gadgets using external APIs. This is a great product for those that find "drag and drop" type of actions easier. It would be a whole lot easier to explain Kontain to my father rather than WP. - Alex Cristache
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World's First Lolcat [PIC]
yesterday at 9:52 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Original link is all bandwidthed out - Here's an alternate. - Carlos Granier-Phelps via Bookmarklet
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Sarah Perez shared an item on Google Reader
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I'm more afraid of that giant glowing ball in the sky. It's waiting for me when I wake up and it stays out there until the sky goes dark. It makes my skin burn if i'm outside too long, too! It frightens me! - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Jst coz i'm not scared doesn't mean it's not out to break me into bits and put parts of me round the world - hang on, that's already happening. - weblivz via twhirl
It's a tool of the devil. :P - Morton Fox
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Google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail
November 11 at 1:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Very interesting! I'll have to try it and see how it compares to Skype. - Squirrel Girl
I really wanna try it out, but it's not activated yet in my account. ... Sniff :( - Jaap Willem
me neither, I wonder if anyone has it live yet? - Marshall Kirkpatrick via IM
It's not working for me. - Mike Doeff
I even installed the plugin but don't see it on my account yet - Jorge Escobar
Hey Zee thanks for getting the conversation started.. I failed twice today to generate any feedback on this app! - Susan Beebe
You can only use firefox on the mac for this one, what is a bummer as well, hope they will include safari as well, or webkit in general.. - Jaap Willem
gmail's color scheme in that screenshot is different, and the ui a little bit cleaner, looks like the one they used when they introduced aim support in gchat http://googlesystem.blogspot.c... - Mateo Yadarola
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Apps: Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link
Google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail
November 11 at 1:09 pm - via Reshare - Link
WTF! - Andre
WTF! again! - AbdO
w00t!!! Only a matter of time before it hits my phone! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Woah! - Evan Sims
srsly, wtf! "The new chat functionality will work on PCs with Windows XP or Vista, as well as on Macs with OS X 10.4 or later. The plugin will work with all the major browsers, including Google's own Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." =) - Andre
the thing is - without it working with desktop clients, i can't see myself using it right now - Zee from WeDoCreative
You can get the plugin here: http://mail.google.com/videoch... ... but there is no mention of mac support. :\ - Brandon
brandon: if you visit it from a mac you get to download the .dmg - Andre
Look Out SkyPe..here comes Google. - Scot Duke
http://gmail.com/videochat Installed the app but it doesn't work on my hosted email account yet. - fac287
Have they forgotten the Gtalk desktop client? - Rameez Nooruddin
Finally... - Nate Pilling
I tried it, and it stuttered and paused, and froze. We gave up, and went back to Skype. - Ian May
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User Interface Concept: Calculator « petitinvention
User Interface Concept: Calculator « petitinvention
User Interface Concept: Calculator « petitinvention
November 11 at 12:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
This guy's blog is fun - constantly posts ideas for products he has. Always interesting. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
this is amazing stuff! - Jorge Escobar
So could you literally carry the one then? - Louis Gray
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
November 11 at 11:44 am - Link
Now that would be weird. - Corvida
Guess that means an end to the ugly in-store activation requirement. - Kevin D. White
I think my Wheat Chex is going to be running out around 2009 anyway. :) - Josh Haley
I don't think most tech people will like this becasue it will make their iPhone feel less "special" - Kipp Bodnar
Bingo Kipp! THAT is the very reason I tell Mac snobs to go suck it. Give me function and form without the attitude. - Josh Haley
Make it mayonnaise instead of Chex and I'm there. - Matt
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Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude
Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude
November 10 at 9:25 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
This is heaven for when I see people's geo numbers on Twitter as their location! - Corvida
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First look at WordPress 2.7 beta 2
November 7 at 10:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Wow, what a change! - Josh Chandler
Digging the default dashboard look. - TDavid
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Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link
Change.gov - Obama's site just went live.
November 6 at 11:28 am - Link
as lovely as the ever - Zee from WeDoCreative
Awesome. Please let there be a Twitter account there. - Anika Malone
"No suitable nodes are available to serve your request" - Shawn Duffy via twhirl
It's so busy, I can't access it. - Lainie
wow, it was fine just 13 minutes ago - Zee from WeDoCreative
I'm sure someone could craft a pretty awesome fail whale out of the Obama logo - Shawn Duffy via twhirl
it seems to be coming up now... albeit VERY slowly - Shawn Duffy via twhirl
Still down at 18:46 - Roberto Bonini
still not loading huh... - Zee from WeDoCreative
President 2.0 - Eric @ CS Techcast
@Shawn that would be awesome. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
just came up for me. took a long time to load though - Jon We Won Lee
error: No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. - AJ Batac
No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. - Nicholas Kreidberg
However, if you don't mind unsuitable nodes, then head right on back to FriendFeed.com. - Ladybug Heather
Well said Heather ;) - Nicholas Kreidberg
down - Shey
He should have run it in the cload... - Bill Pennington via twhirl
or maybe even the cloud.. - Bill Pennington via twhirl
All Your Nodes Are Belong to Us - Micah Wittman via twhirl
No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. WTF? - Lon Cohen via twhirl
Am I the only one that sees something about nodes and thinks Drupal? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
also got an error - Mattb4rd
I just heard that the site is down. No reason why though. - Lon Cohen via twhirl
Unfortunately, his site just went dead - Glen Campbell
It's back. - Vincent X
shouldn't the URL now be changed.gov? - Andrew Smith
naa...no where near changed yet... - Zee from WeDoCreative
changed.gov couldn't possibly launch until at least Jan. 20th - Scott from Canada
Should have checked FriendFeed first. I stumbled across this site and thought nobody else had shared it yet :P - Benjamin Golub
you should know us better than that Benjamin :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
FYI I thing the nodes message was from the load balancer - Bill Pennington via twhirl
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Sarah Perez posted a link
Election maps - Results By Population
November 5 at 3:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Reminds me of the sensory homunculus - mikepk
Noiw I know what's getting extra funding and what's not. - thomasrdotorg
A much more meaningful map than one not population-weighted. But how about one weighted by the number of registered voters or by the number of actual voters? - jswi_jim
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Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit
November 5 at 2:53 pm - Link
Also God seems cool with abortion rights, medical maryjane, and assisted suicide, which is rather progressive of him. Just lagging on equal rights for gay couples, but God is, you know, part of the older set... I'll leave it at that. - Christopher Galtenberg
I'd love the chance to sit down with Palin and discuss the charater of God. I think she limits Him. - Brian Norwood via fftogo
Yes, that one won! - Sudha Jamthe
See, I thought the whole point was that God gave us *free will*, that He allows us to *choose* good or evil; that He wants you to choose good but that He doesn't interfere with your choice. Since an election in a democracy is a bunch of people exercising their (God-given) free will, what role did she expect the Almighty to play...? - Karim
Also what is the point of saying "God will do the right thing on election day?" Is there some other day where God *doesn't* do the right thing? Does God not pay attention when a busload of orphans gets hit by a freight train, but then He sits up and pays attention because, oooh, it's Election Day and Wolf Blitzer is on CNN? - Karim
well, G-d did! - ♣genieyclo♣
No *we* have to do the right thing on Election Day. We The People. - Karim
The whole "free will" concept isn't actually a Biblical thing. It was a response made by theologians to the Problem of Evil and others. The Bible contradicts itself on the issue, and never truly approaches it with any sophistication. On one hand, your relation to their god is personal, because individuals choose to sin or be saved, etc, but somehow it is also the case that you inherit the sins of your ancestors. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
well "free will" was certainly expounded upon by theologians and philosophers, but it seems to be in the Bible as far back as the part about Adam & Eve being able to *choose* whether they ate from the tree of knowledge of good & evil. - Karim
Freewill is a Biblical concept. Predestination it the theologian trying to reconcile an omnipotent God with the process of Salvation. - Brian Norwood
depends on your level ... let Thy will be done is considered higher - Gregory Lent
freewill discussions are a LOT older than the bible, my gosh - Gregory Lent
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♫ Rahsheen™ published a video on YouTube
Yes We Can - My Thoughts About Barack's Election.
Play
November 5 at 1:14 pm - Link
Powerful words man. - Daryl Burns
Complete and utter WIN... - Johnny Worthington
that was real man. very touching. good for you. - Cee Bee
awww. i wuv you baby. - Monique
well said Rahsheen, very well said. Thanks for making this and sharing it. - Thomas Hawk
Big ups, R. - Derrick
*double fist bump* - Kamath ॐ
*hands Rah a kleenex* there, there, my friend - Derrick
Thanks, glad you guys enjoyed it. I almost did it over, but I guess it will serve to remind me exactly how I felt. Maybe others who don't really get it, will. I definitely didn't get it until a few hours ago. - ♫ Rahsheen™
Now you have me crying all over again. <3 - Cyndy
serious, that made me well up man. i'm gonna have to go shave with a cheese grater just to help me feel tough again. thanks - Cee Bee
Solid Man, Awesome statements and an exciting view on this next Government this next experience for the next 4 years. Thanks for opening your heart and sharing with the people at large and its the attitude that just rocked this video and it is definitely real. - Ray Marr
Word. And you get to check that box next to role model already. - AJ Kohn
If there was ever a time for a grown man to well up or get the sniffles, I think this is as good as any. I'm about to go hit the weights, though :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
*reaching for the kleenex again* - tiffany
Yes you can, Rah. Yes you can. - Phil Glockner
Rah, that was beautiful. :,) - Carmen
[Comment Deleted Due To Assholery™] - ♫ Rahsheen™
The ™ should be put on Assholery™ Rahsheen :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur, corrected :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
Thanks, Rah. - Ryan Kuder
“I feel like hope won. It’s not just a victory for Barack Obama. It feels like America did the right thing…It feels like anything is now possible.” --Oprah - ♫ Rahsheen™
awesome bro, seriously and I couldn't agree more. - Zee from WeDoCreative
that was powerful Rah, keep it up - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Rahsheen - thoughtful and strong. That was quite amazing! - Abby Martin
Damn, Sheen...have I told you how much you rock lately? - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Friggin AWESOME. - Bec Rowe
Damn, hard to watch this without tearing up myself. Good stuff. Oh and you need to replace your smoke alarm battery. Just sayin'! Awesome finish btw. Just awesome. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Rahsheen...I don't even know what to say. Thanks for sharing this! - Justin Korn
Excellent video, Rahsheen, I appreciate your expressiveness and transparency. I'm proud of you for posting this version. Bravo! - Anthony K. Valley ©
this is great. very powerful words - Chieze Okoye
Love it! Amazing! - David Cook
same for me, though no one would call me black .. good opening for you, me, everybody .. thanks - Gregory Lent
Thank you. - Gary H
You summed it up, mate. Impossible is nothing. - Andrew Trinh
Just saw this; MAD COOL Rah, almost had me in tears too - Gordon Swaby
Si se puede, si se puede! - Kim Mahan
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Jesse Stay posted a message
“Off to vote, then get some hot chocolate at Starbucks, then free chicken at chik fil a, then free ice cream at Ben & Jerrys. Wish there were a Krispie Kreme nearby :-(”
November 4 at 1:19 pm - via twhirl - Link
Sounds like you have the day off ;) - Daniel J. Pritchett
My day's just getting started! ;-) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
I didn't realize you could get hot chocolate, I'll have to go later! - Kat
kat hot chocolate's not free, but it was good! Starbucks discriminates against non-coffee drinkers ;) - Jesse Stay
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They cannot be serious with this logo..."A-Style"
November 2 at 7:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
HAHAHAHA! - WorldofHiglet
omg! ha ha - Sarah Perez
A graphic designer somewhere is laughing his pants off that this passed QC. - Will Higgins
wow. - Melissa
OMG all this time I thought that was my friend's original logo design!! Gotta email that bastard and give him crap for tricking me! - Mona N. via fftogo
LOL Mona... - Zee from WeDoCreative
So that's what the kids are calling it now. - Steven Perez
this is the site : http://www.astyle.it/eng/home.... :) Gotta hand it to them, it's pretty memorable. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Could their site be any slower? - Alex Scoble CISSP
Alex, I saw the progress bar for just loading the site and hit the back button real quick. Fail. - Tad, Fool
Dirty Dirty minds... i kid would see the letter A lol - Gordon Swaby
Once you see that logo in "that way" it's pretty much impossible to see it otherwise... - Jason Kaneshiro
Well, at least this one was intentional, unlike the UK OGC http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Chuck LeDuc Díaz
lol, yeah Chuck - that was pretty embarassing - Zee from WeDoCreative
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a link
FriendOrFollow [Twitter Tool] | Social Web Tools
October 31 at 1:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Helps you manage your Twitter contacts. Enter your Twitter screen name to find out who you’re following that’s not following you back & who’s following you that you’re not following back." - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
October 31 at 3:38 am - Link
This really brings it full circle doesn't it? - Andy Lewandowski
I had it last night and tested it. It worked fine. This morning, I don't have it anymore. Looks like they've removed it from Labs temporarily. Anyone else notice this? - mrshl
I noticed the same...worked yesterday...gone today. - Chris Rossini
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October 30 at 8:40 am - Link
"There has been a lot of new news lately around the idea of home entertainment and media and I wanted to write a post reflecting on recent announcements coming out of Microsoft on their Media Center platform in Windows 7, the new XBox 360, an increasing role for Netflix's "watch now" technology and today's announcement regarding Netflix by TiVo. Put simply, the battle for your living room and the dollars associated with your living room is heating up and I believe that 24 months from now there will be clear winners and losers. The next 24 months will likely represent the biggest changes we've seen yet for mainstream America's media consumption." - Thomas Hawk
great post T-Hawk. I am pretty impressed with MSFT's forays in the living room over the past couple of years. Xbox+Netflix is a *huge* win IMHO... - Jeremy Toeman
What about the PS3? Besides the Blu-ray player, and kick-ass gaming platform, it can already stream content from your network, and you can download HD content in 1080p glory from the Sony network. If they can also strike a deal with Netflix, it could be another winner. - Andy Roth
@Jeremy, I agree. I think where MSFT has an advantage is that so many people already have PCs and/or XBoxs in their homes. This allows people to adapt their devices to take advantage of existing devices with little additional cost. And even if you want to buy a new XBox, it's not that expensive compared to either a TiVo or your mammoth monthly cable or sat bill. The MSFT/Netflix combo becomes the low cost provider for content. - Thomas Hawk
@Andy. Does the PS3 have a DVR? Can you record OTA HD TV for free and then skip the commercials with it? I think that this is fundamental tech that gives the XBox 360 an advantage. The streaming Netflix further solidifies MSFT's lead here. - Thomas Hawk
@Andy don't forget (1) the price point, (2) regular folks don't care about blu-ray yet (and probably never will), (3) online element of PS3 isn't nearly as well regarded as Xbox live... - Jeremy Toeman
Confused - you can record with a 360, DVR or OTA...how is that an advantage? Also, I've been streaming Netflix on my PS3 for weeks now. - Andru Edwards
Disclaimer - I own 2 Xbox 360s, 2 PS3s, 2 Wiis, 1 TiVo Series3, 1 TiVo HD, 3 cable DVRs, 1 Windows Media Center box, a Vudu sreaming device, etc. I'm not a fanboy for any one device, just giving my thoughts. - Andru Edwards
@Andru, as a Media Center extender an XBox can bring up a menu virtually identical to the Media Center PC. Both Vista Home Premium and Ultimate ship with Media Center by default. All you need is a TV tuner, and there are good ones that you don't even have to install, that can sit on your network for instance and you can record any OTA (over the AIR) HDTV and then skip the commercials using the media center interface on your XBox 360 unit. - Thomas Hawk
it's an advantage to be able to record network HDTV for free because then you don't have to pay to buy these shows or pay for cable/sat when it comes to your network programming. - Thomas Hawk
Good point, Thomas. Hardware wise, I'm sure the PS3 could handle that, and I suspect that hackers have made it work, but I know of nothing official. - Andy Roth
I love my TiVo; really looking forward to streaming netflix with it. But I also love my AppleTV. Maybe I'm in the minority here. - Jeremy Brooks
my piano, my cat, and my two dogs. - Bora Zivkovic
The new Xbox 360 Live Experience is going to be awesome. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
AH yes, the PS3 can also stream recorded content. From computers, from Drobo, even from OS X. Same with Netflix, I've been doing netflix on PS3 for weeks, as well as Hulu. Plus, it gives me Blu-ray, and uncompressed 7.1 surround sound, which I don't get from any other system. Heck, the 360 only has an HDMI 1.2 out, which means no uncompressed audio. - Andru Edwards
That said, I am already running the New Xbox Experience, and it's very slick - HD Netflix looks fantastic. - Andru Edwards
@Andru you seem hardly qualified to comment on all this. (j/k) - Jeremy Toeman
@Andru - how do you stream Netflix to your PS3? I would love to do that. - Andy Roth
I haven't had as much experience with the PS3 as other platforms. Is it easy to set it up with a DVR functionality / streaming Netflix? If it's easy that sounds pretty good. If it's more geeky or less out of the box though I think it would lose some mainstream appeal as a media center. - Thomas Hawk
My brother in law has the PS3 but their internet connection is too slow to really take advantage of it. I've played it once or twice, but they don't have a HD tv either so it's hard to say how good it is. My 360 is connected my HD tv and high speed net and I love it. I'm hoping the XBE will be all that it's promoted to be. - Jason Shultz
To set up Netflix, Hulu, ESPN, and other streaming on PS3, you need a Windows computer on your network. Then, download PlayOn (there is a demo, full version $30). It will create a server from that box, which both the 360 and PS3 can see and play from. Very nice, integrates right into the PS3 menu and everything :) - Andru Edwards
Hulu is the current champ - Mark Radigan
my living room is my art studio and lately it has been oils over acrylics - Gregory Lent
Man Mini is my pick for now, but whether it lasts the next 24 months depends on whether they upgraded in the next few. - Andrew Leyden
My xbox 360 wins. - Jordan Hofker
Thomas.. add to the fact I have to pay an additional $15/mo to Comcast for my cable cards, and continually have problems with them working correctly really hurts Tivo. - Tim Hoeck
so - equrick
Wow Tim, I had no idea Comcast charged an *additional* $15 per month for cable cards. What a rip off. - Thomas Hawk
Tim, ditch comcast and go to DirecTV. They're picking up Tivo HD units next year sometime. Besides, friends don't let friends subscribe to cable. :) - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Tim, Thomas: By law, Comcast should be giving you your first cablecard (single or multi-stream) for free if you have digital cable. Additional ones are about $2 or so. $15 is completely out of line. - Brian Johns
Comcast's FAQ about CableCARD cost: http://www.comcast.com/custome... - Brian Johns
I think you guys with serious tech cred need to step back and re-consider the original question. "The battle for the living room" isn't going to be won by ANY solution that requires PC-set top integration of any kind. It's just not consumer friendly enough. Standalone Xbox 360 is a comer, but not there yet. AppleTV is too incomplete. If Tivo can convince Comcast to ditch their horrible circa-1990 iGuide interface for the Tivo UI, they could be a real player. But Comcast won't, because they are dumb. - Kevin Pedraja
The winner will be the company that can produce the stand-alone $299 God box: tuner, DVR, game system, streaming media player, Internet access station all in one. It'll need an interface as easy as Tivo's, seamless integration with a source of premium content in the cloud (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, etc.), and easy input/storage of local content (your own music, for example). None of the companies in the thread is close to doing this yet, though most of them could, if they chose... - Kevin Pedraja
... and they each have institutional reasons for NOT doing it. Microsoft: unwillingness to cannibalize MC sales; Apple: unwillingness to cannibalize Mac/iPod sales; Tivo: don't sell content and can't piss off cable companies by making it too easy to get content from elsewhere. - Kevin Pedraja
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