"designers and developers can take steps to improve the presentation of awkwardly formatted content." - from the article and website that awkwardly uses a scrollbar for each article to show off Adobe Flex, designed by the Adobe Experience Design team. The formatting is great for the video content, and front page, but curious if anyone else thinks the same about their blog format. It seems optimized for something more bite sized, but not reading articles. - Karl
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I'm seeing a ton of chatter about LinkedIn's new application platform. I'm not on LinkedIn. I guess I should join. - Robert Scoble
LinkedIn's done something very right with apps. I've always felt the site has a good premise, and now they're implementing some nice features. Also, I can't believe I'm on a site you're not :P - Will Higgins
"OpenID is fundamentally a sound idea, but these test results demonstrate that for most users it is not an ideal solution and has not been explained to them very well at all." - Chris Messina
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kyle: uh? The link is talking about openid, not opendns... But I'm guessing it proves the article's thesis, duh. EDIT: I'm not talking to myself, they guy deleted his comment... - Andre
Chris, you're going to make me join, aren't you? ;-) - Louis Gray
I woudl love to know how Ning is treating you for largish social groups. I woudl love to use it but the inability to suspend a user without deleting them and thus all their content kills it for me. - Soulhuntre
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resistance is futile! you will be assimilated Louis! :) LOL - Susan Beebe
"Ning, a company that lets anyone create a social network, is integrating with OpenSocial, the standards platform that makes it easier for any developer to write applications for Ning." Whoo-hoo! - DeWitt Clinton
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If you're interested in Ning, you should consider checking out Elgg. It is a very flexible open source social network engine. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Tina -- do you know if anyone is working on adding OpenSocial to Elgg? - DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt: I don't know anything specific, but if you Google 'opensocial' specific to the Elgg site http://www.google.com/search?h... , there are 100+ results and most of them show up in trac and code subdomains. I would take this to mean it's being worked on as we 'speak'. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Also, check here http://elgg.org/plugins.php On the lefthand side under plugins you'll see "OpenSocial (early beta) OpenSocial is still in its early days, however, this plugin will bring OpenSocial widgets to your site. It is based on OpenSocial 0.7." - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Ha ... I just got schooled at Googling. : ) That's great about Elgg and OpenSocial, too. Thanks, Tina! - DeWitt Clinton
LOL! I've heard that from you and Robert both, and I find it both perplexing and flattering ;-) I've not played with Elgg since OpenSocial became available, but the last time I worked with it I *really* enjoyed it. They offer something I've not seen anywhere else: the ability for a user or group to configure their posts to show up blog and comment style OR forum style (i.e. post & replies) on the fly. Since it uses the same engine, it gives a site a lot of flexibility. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
The electric mini-shock feedback will get us there. A win-win. I couldn't go back to giving up all of that screen real-estate to a darn keyboard. Or, going bulky. - Dion Almaer
+1 to that. Typing on the iPod touch annoys me so much I've stopped using it for anything other than playing music. - ana
iPhone typing is fine, fun even, it's the auto-correct that just f's up too often - Christopher Galtenberg
agreed. i nearly threw my ipod out the window 3 times trying to compose an email. not worth it. that's why the g1 is perfect for me. (sent from my real keyboard on gphone :) - jenna
+1 @bret ...i have fat fingers, the tiny keyboard provides necessary feedback that i'm doing something - .LAG
Btw, for those with jailbroken 2G iphones, there's a package in Cydia called Vibrus which does exactly what @Dion says. It sends tiny (configurable) shocks when you press keys. Some people like it! - Ashwin Bharambe
My iPhone typing kind of sucked until I turned the key-click back on. My WPM and accuracy shot up by 900,000,000%. (Whaddayouwant? It's purely anecdotal!) - Akiva Moskovitz
I would have loved it if my name was there. :-) - Dave Winer
But Dave, you're already all over Huffington! ;) - Mona N.
Ponders how I could get my name checked on CNN in a DIFFERENT way where they, for instance. liked me. ;) - Cyndy
oh look, another article with an "unchecked blogs are affecting the real world.. we need to regulate and/or license blogging to stop this" undertone. For me, what spoiled it was how the cheapest macbook in the UK went from £699 to £719 while the americans got a price drop. No fair! - alphaxion
We have had 8 years of George Bush. Don't talk to us about fair. ;) - Cyndy
heh... I refer you to the being british part once again ;P Besides, bush isn't the progenitor of the rot you guys are in, it's a cumulative effect of decades of shitty policies and corporations calling the shots. Just like in the UK, the last person holding the torch when it goes tits up gets it in the neck. - alphaxion
just to clarify, I'm not absolving him of any blame cause he has been a terrible pres.. I'm just sayin' that he's not the only one to blame. - alphaxion
Seems retrogressive to me -- why do I need two clicks (and in a somewhat illogical order) to get to best of week, month when I only needed one before? - Brian Sullivan
Brian: when you were in Best of view, there was no cue to get back to the standard view, or that you were in a special view. This now has that cue. The space of the standard view cue had to be made up somehow, and I'm sure they have statistics to show that best of day view is the most used best of view. - Mark Trapp
Mark: --when in standard view there is no way to know how to get to best of week or month (whereas before that was easy). I am sure you are right that the best of day is the most used but still seems retrogressive - Brian Sullivan
Brian: with best of month, they completely removed it during the first beta of the new design, which leads me to believe that either a) people really don't use it or b) they really don't want people to use it. In either case, it wouldn't be a loss for people to not find best of month immediately. With the best of week, there may be statistics to show that it's used very rarely or something like that. - Mark Trapp
Brian, as a user who basically never used this feature, it seems like a nice uncluttering compromise to not show all "best of" options in the beginning. Just a "View best of" link might work too, with the other links only appearing once you clicked it... - Philipp Lenssen
Now i know why this changes - to make room for real-time! - MG Siegler
This, much like aluminum bats and steroids, is a game changer. - qthrul
Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor
Josh -- we've barely scratched the surface of analyzing social media and networking. The AI-based social network analysis software of the future will optimize the interactions and experiences of billions of people. We are still at a very primitive stage in figuring this stuff out. - Sean McBride
Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride
I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca
Awesome. I'm going to buy Emily cookies so she likes more of my posts. :-) - Robert Scoble
Did someone record this talk? I'd love to see it, since I'm one of the sources. Hey, Bret, want to get together when you get back? I'd love to talk more in depth about this with you. I think you're onto something very important. - Robert Scoble
I wonder what effect I had vs. my brother. :-) - Robert Scoble
Friendfeed remains ahead of the game. Bret a driving industry force. - Alex Hammer
