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After Five Years on the Web Firefox Preps for the Next Round - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
"Vladimir Vukićević was working at the Mozilla office when Firefox was first released into the wild. “All of our servers melted instantly,” Vukićević says. “We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.” Indeed, the anticipation around the release of Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004 — five years ago Monday — was electric. Mozilla had already produced its own eponymous browser based on open source code in 2002, but it was largely considered a failure. Firefox was the organization’s great re-do, and its second attempt to unseat its biggest nemesis, Microsoft Internet Explorer. A half-decade later, Firefox is no longer a scrappy upstart but a dominant player. Old rival IE still commands around 60 percent of the market share, but close to a quarter of the web now uses Firefox — a formidable number which speaks to its success as an open source project. At a time when nobody wanted to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft, thousands of disparate programmers rose to the challenge, landing...
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- Kevin Cearns
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It's been a while since I've hung out here. I'd forgotten how much more interesting and fun it is. Guess I'm back...
Kevin Gamble, Kenton, Eric Logan and 3 other people liked this
Welcome back
- Amit Morson
welcome back to the undead site ;)
- alphaxion
This is exactly what I mean....thx :)
- Kevin Cearns
Zombies........LOL
- Eric Logan
Checking out the zimbra social zimlet.....
Zimlet? SRSLY?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Yep...works great...ZCS 6 required
- Kevin Cearns
Woah - it was 61F this morning here in #phx Now I'm starting to remember exactly why we live in Arizona. 8 months perfect weather. :)
Her Lindsay-ness liked this
and four months of hell
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
curious - what happens for four months of the year?
- Kevin Cearns
Horrible, horrible hell. BUT, no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no massive floods, no tornadoes, no volcanoes, etc etc :)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
115 degree highs.
- Jonas, Leper of FF
Yeah, maybe now you can kwityerbitchin about the hot weather and moving to Seattle for a while!
- Her Lindsay-ness
4 months of the year we get highs in the 110F+ range. The horror. The horror.
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Yeah, I'll enjoy the next 8 months completely forgetting about the summer until next June. :)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
ahhh, that kind of hell....
- Kevin Cearns
It's a dry heat
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
This is my 4th time working here, and I have yet to see this "perfect weather". I call shenanigans. And yes, it was 58 (I think) in Sierra Vista this morning. Nice driving-across-the-desert weather. It's beautiful out here.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Ha3rvey, when I'm wearing shorts and sandals in January, I consider that perfect weather. :)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
America loses its landlines: Cutting the cord - http://www.economist.com/busines...
If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025.
- Kevin Cearns
Which OS (operating system) are you using? (for research purpose)
F. Batuhan Icoz, Cobatra ♘, i80and and 109 other people liked this
Windows 7 ! I love it :)
- Farshad
win. xp
- Müjdat Korkmaz
Ubuntu Jackalope - (I'm an ex-Gentooer, too)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Leopard!
- Piero Tagliapietra
Now xp but usually ubuntu.
- bilge kagan
7 on win, leopard on mac.
- vijay
xp-vista
- Tamkarışık
Osx
- Stefigno
Ubuntu 9.04
- Matteo
şu anda xp ama proje dönemleri dışında ubuntu ve pardus da kullanıyorum..
- ♪♫ halil ♪♫
Tiger
- Andrew Roche
Ubuntu 9.04, the "system" that starts with "W" makes me sick.
- Oskar NRK
windows XP
- 士慷
Right now - iPhone 2.somethinorother. I have OS X 10.5, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04 all at my disposal in the other room.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
Windows XP, but only because that is what came on this thing and I'm escared to completely format the drive.
- Joe Pierce
OsX 10.5.6
- ialla
Win7 and Pardus Linux
- Arda Çetin
Windows Vista.
- Alp
Ubuntu 9.04
- Alejandro
Windows 7 RC, of course
- Jemm
Windows Vista at home XP at work
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
XP Pro
- Alfredo
XP at work, Vista at Home
- RAPatton
Vista, OSX and Win7
- Carlos Ayala
xp and slitaz linux
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
XP at work and at home.
- Alex Scoble
xp, OEL at work. Leopard for personal stuff
- Kiran Patchigolla
OS X.
- Parth Awasthi
Work: Ubuntu, OSX. Home: Debian, Vista, OSX
- Steve Lacey
XP, Suse and Fedora
- dstamand
OS X, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 7, WinXP, various Linux
- LogEx
osX, Debian on the server.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
XP on netbook. Ubuntu 9.04, Android, and Windows 7 RC1 in VirtualBox on netbook. Windows 7 on desktop. Vista on work laptop. OSX on Macbook.
- Rodfather
XP
- Dee S.
XP:)
- nursel
OSX.
- Joey Gibson
OS X, XP
- Mike Nayyar
WinXP, sometimes Win7 and Debian in VMs
- bnoise
Vista on one of my laptops, XP on another. 3 other computer at home uses Vista and one more uses XP. We have 8 computers :)
- Svartling
At-this-very-moment: Vista. Today? OSX 10.5, OSX 10.4, Ubuntu 8.something, Windows 7, Windows XP.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Windows 7 but I wish adobe apps could run on ubuntu
- Justin Beausoleil
Windows 7
- Matti Leppänen
XP, Win 7 Beta at home and Win 2003 Server at work.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Vista
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I run XP, OSX, Vista, and Win7
- andy brudtkuhl
XP and Vista.
- Mark H
XP @ home and @ work
- Kim
Right now, Mac OS. A fairly even mix of Windows, Linux, and IOS through the work day today though.
- Andy Bold
linux fedora 10
- eric
win 7
- aykut
ingilizce sormuşsun ,türkçe cevap vermişim :)) yorumları okuyunca farkettim ingilizce sorduğunu ,bir de diyorum ki içimden niye herkes ingilizce cevap vermiş :)
- ♪♫ halil ♪♫
Windows 7
- Michael Fidler
Windows XP
- Nimaa
Linux, Windows 7, and Windows Vista.
- Antony Jepson
ubuntu netbook remix, ubuntu desktop and server, XP in virtualbox (none for research)
- Kevin Cearns
Ubuntu Desktop.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Mac OSX and Windows Vista
- Farzad
XP
- Göksel Şirin
UBuntu RulZ
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
XP ve pardus...
- Uğur Deligözoğlu
XP
- zeynep
Windows XP
- ercan
Kubuntu
- Ehsanislav
Xubuntu
- Sarah Peterman
Mac OS X
- Bill Scherer
Mac OS X 10.4 and Ubuntu remix on the Aspire One
- Paolo Frattini ⏏ docpap
Windows XP/Vista, Ubuntu Linux, and OpenSolaris.
- Rudy Amid
Mac OS X
- Violet Mae Lim
win7rc
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Leopard, Ubuntu amd64, debian amd64, win7 amd64...
- mjc
Win 7 RC
- BASEnet
Mac, and also running Win 7 in a vm ...
- Patrick Jordan
Vista here and Win 7 beta on the laptop
- Roberto Bonini
Ubuntu, Mac OSX 10.5, XP & Vista
- Alastair Montgomery
DOS 2.9
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Mac OS X, Windows 7 RC
- Christoph Studer
backtrack, pclinuxos, fedora
- bob
Windows CE (6.1), Win XP, Ubuntu Linux.
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
Vista
- Ahmet Sinan Yavuz
Windows 7 and i like it...
- Semih Masat ™
up
- Nimaa
Kubuntu/XP (desktop), Ubuntu (laptop), OSX (laptop)
- Mark Philpot
UBUNTU
- ™یک بابک
OSX
- Jason
OSX
- AJ Kohn
OS X
- Simon Wicks
linux - Ubuntu 8.10
- Simone Biagiotti
Windows XP
- Jack DeWitt Smith
winbloze pissed-ah (home premium)
- Jim Hearts FF
Widows 7 :)
- Serkan Cura (XiLoNeN)
xp at work, vista and 7 at home, apple notebook. Windows CE on my phone, and I have an Ipod. Right now I am on XP, later on tonight I'll be on 7 and Apple.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dual-booted ubuntu and Win XP on the desktop. On the laptop is Ubuntu. I'm running Jaunty right now on both.
- Amy H.
Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope.
- Steven Perez
from fftogo
Mac OS X
- Batu
Windows XP and Ubuntu
- Tanju Yildiz
XP/Win7 dual-boot and (obsolete XP)-Ubuntu dual boot on my laptop
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Windows 7, Vista, and OS X :)
- Spencer
winXP sp3
- Orçun İlbeyli aka Nucro
Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows XP, Mac OSX
- Jay Cuthrell
WinXP SP3 & Ubuntu 9.04
- Ricardo Vidal
One Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, one Vista Enterprise SP1 64-bit
- Andy Kruger
Running Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a 2004 PowerBook 12" G4 - Have 10.5.6 on a Mac Mini, and MacBook as well
- Pilgrim Five
OS X 10.5.6 on my Mac Pro. OS X 10.6 on my MacBook. VMware ESX 3.5 with multiple VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2 RC, Windows 7 RC, FreeBSD 6.2 & 7.0 and FreeNAS 0.69. FreeBSD 7.2 on my colocation server.
- Peter Kruit
Arch Linux at this precise moment.
- Michael McKean
Windows 7 RC
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
OS X 10.5.6 and Windows 7
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Windows XP (tweaked), due to some restrictions. Otherwise definitely Windows 7!!
- Praveen Vasudev
WinXP
- Angga Satria
Mac OS X 10.4
- Brian Hendrickson
Win XP
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Ubuntu
- Bruce Lewis
Windows 7
- Alan Le
Mac OS X.something. 5? The latest one anyway.
- Deborah Fitchett
Not sure how this could be remotely useful. Windows 7 with a Windows 2003 server VPC open
- Paul Whitaker
Windows Vista.
- Daniel Rowley
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
- Faraz Mullick
osx
- Leo
ubuntu 9.04 and Vista
- Bluesun 2600
XP SP2 (But I've got the windows7 iso downloaded, just need some time to install it
- Glenn Slaven
XP primarily, but also a Mac Mini for studio work and dual-boot LInux on the XP machine
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
OSX
- Naor Mark
Windows XP
- Anton
Now @work-Vista. At home-Vista, XP, Ubuntu, OS X.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
both laptop and desktop: windows XP
- ohke
Work = XP, home = Vista64 running VMWare server, running CentOS, and another system running Windows 7
- kevin
home: XP work: XP and OSX
- browneyes
iPhone 2.2.1
- Phil Maxwell
Windows 7, but I boot Ubuntu off my jump drive.
- Mike Vierow
iPhone 2.2.1
- David Owens
XP
- Chieze Okoye
Main box is OSX, laptop is Ubuntu Linux.
- Neal Jansons
Primary OS: OSX 10.4.11. Secondary OS: WinXP SP3 (in a Parallels 4 VM)
- Thunderwing
from Nambu
Mac OS X 10.5.6 & XP
- Jeffrey Marsh
Windows Vista and Windows Mobile 6.1
- David Cook
Let's see..computer #1; Windows Vista , Computer #2; Custom Windows Vista , Computer #3; Windows XP, Computer #4; Mac...something or other. I never use the Mac.
- Candace
Tiger. I think XP at work ... not sure.
- Laura Norvig
مک ۱۰.۵.۶
- مهدی یحیی
XP
- Bryan R. Adams
Wow, a lot of XP people! My advice: upgrade to 7 ASAP
- Kirill Petrovsky
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.04, Windows Vista 32Bit, Windows XP, Android.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Windows 7 RC
- Tony, Paradox of FF
win7
- getalifejerk
Windows XP
- Andrew Kharook
all 14-15 ubuntu except for 1 lone vista
- John Serra
TO many win xp users :) Though does virtualized o's count? :) Primarily Jaunty 9.04 but also have a previous windows server 2003 setup. @donor why upgrade to windows 7 at all look at the open source possibilities :)
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
Suse Linux
- Pierre Lindenbaum
Ubuntu 9.04, work and home.
- Neil Saunders
Linux (netbook, desktop and laptop computers)
- Miroku
win xp mce sp3. my other pc with linux on it is on leave atm
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Ubuntu 9.04 - both on desktop and on netbook.
- Hanna Wiszniewska
Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04
- Brandon Titus
OS X
- Steve Sill
osX & windows7
- Necdet (nec) Terkes
@Alp: Windows Xp but planed to move to ubunto
- Mostafa Lameei
OS X. Windows Vista, 7 and Fedora on it with VMware Fusion
- hiro
OS X
- Mona Nomura
OS X
- Bren, Photophobe
Windows XP
- Justin Korn
WinXP at work, OS X at home
- Philip Lei
OS X and XP through VM
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
xp,ubuntu
- junrxu
Mac OS X
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
xp and ubuntu
- Cristian
Ubuntu Linux of course : >
- Adval
Windows Vista
- Kristian Salonen
EEEPC 900 Pardus, Toshiba A210-19D Win 7(vista upgrade), Desktop PC Win XP
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu
Windows Vista, but with many RDP sessions to Windows 2008 servers where I do most of my work.
- Pete Gilbert
OSX 10.5.6, Win7 and iPhone OS(X) 3.0.
- Thomas Bøhm
OSX 10.5.6 on 5 machines and I think we still have an Amiga 500 in the loft. Oh and an Acorn Electron. But we don't use those last two. Much. There are also a couple of XP machines gathering dust in the garage.
- Gilbert Harding
Windows 7 as of today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
In this order: Osx86, Ubuntu, Win7, Vista
- Neill Adamson
Mac OS X, Ubuntu 9.04, Kubuntu & Windows XP. Windows 7 is waiting to setup. :)
- doruk tokçabalaban
from Posty
Mac OS X (Leopard)
- Paul Jacobson
Windows 7
- Kris
Xp Tablet Pc Edition with my Tablet Pc & Vista with my Office PC
- Can Eğridere "Jegraphy"
Win XP and have just installed Ubuntu 9.04 in dual boot through wubi, but am not using it much.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Ubuntu linux with Gnome.
- Marco Bonomo <radel>
Vista, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Win 7 :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
XP at work, Ubuntu 9.04 at home
- Warren Butler
W7 RC, XP SP3, many flavors of linux. screw the mac os. I'm moving away from MacOS for coding/development. HATE DRM'd HW too. I will NOT be buying another product from Apple for a LONG LONG time I think.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ubuntu 9.04 at work, Arch Linux at home, Windows XP on both laptops. Planning on upgrading to Win7 on the 'tops.
- Daniel Bruce
windows vista
- Seltoon
windows XP & ubuntu linux
- yagami
Ubuntu and very rarely Vista
- Jim Braux-Zin
Os X 10.5.6
- Ingriddina⁂
vista - but how is this for research purposes? what are the research questions? What are the null hypotheses?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I have one PC with Win XP and Linux for home. One Macbook with Leopard for work...
- Erica - Mystiria
Apple MacOS X 10.5 & MS WinXP Pro SP2
- Mackley ॐ
Primarily OS X (10.5) and Win XP SP3, but also have ubuntu & Win 7 installed via Parallels
- Robert DeBord
at work and on my netbook linux. on my desktop i have vista business 64 (needed for some school tasks)
- Andrei Savu
OS X Leopard and Win 7
- Al Degutis
cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.04
- Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
Mac OS 10.5. XP at work.
- Rowan Evenstar
windows xp
- Nilesh
ubuntu 9.04
- Engin Yazılan
Windows 7 RC, virtualised ubuntu 9.04
- Andy
OS X 10.5.6
- Mitchell Tsai
Windows 7
- F. Batuhan Icoz
win xp 64, ubuntu 9.04
- Chris Hofmann
OSX 10.5.6, Vista, XP, & RedHat 4 WS
- clarke thomas
XP at work, and Ubuntu on my own machine
- embee
OS X Leopard, Arch Linux, Ubuntu (range from gutsy to jaunty), XP, Vista, Windows 7 - yes I have way too many computers :)
- timepilot
linux, its a swiss knife for programming issues
- Hüseyin Oğuz ALBAYRAK
At home, Vista laptop + Gentoo server
- James Myatt
XP, but I miss Win98SE. Loved it. Would like to explore Linux. btw, I have an old Mac that works if anyone's a collector. Pay UPS (or whatever you choose) shipping and it's yours. DM me or email me @ infolode.com@gmail.com Keyboard, mouse, unit all there and working last time I booted it up.
- Molly
OS X, Ubuntu
- Jan Erik Moström
Windows Vista, Ubuntu, and OS X
- nfan12
Mac OS X 10.5.6 & Windows XP
- Tommaso
XP
- Mathew A. Koeneker
XP at work. Mac OS X at home.
- Rutger Blom
XP
- stark
OS X, but have XP loaded for Quicken
- Kelly W.
OS X on my Laptop, dual booting XP, Ubuntu Linux on my server, Android on my phone. :D
- Evan Travers
was quad booting osX 10.5.3, win vista, slackware linux, and backtrak3. and I just wiped and installed windows 7. and in a few months I will reinstall Slackware.
- Charles Rice
Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu 9.04 with customized staff desktop menu (on work's laptop) - home still running Ubuntu but not Jaunty think it's still on 8 something
- Mlibrarianus
ubuntu(laptop) + opensuse(for office) + leopard(mini) + xp(ie)
- dogan kaya berktas
Windows XP, Ubuntu 9, MacOS 10.5
- Anand Sharma
Home - Win Vista/Ubuntu (laptop) Win XP/Win 7 (desktop) Work - Win XP, Server 2003,
- Charles Dick
Ubuntu. I can't stand windows.
- Josef Davies-Coates
Ubuntu too (Jaunty)
- howard shippin
windows, pardus
- Gizem B
Windows 7 RC Turkish
- Adnan Taşkıran
OS X 10.5.6
- david medina
W2K - Windows 2000 pro. It does all I need. Next will be some *nix + virtual machines.
- Markus Merz
Windows XP (upgraded from Windows Vista)
- Brian Massey
OS X Leopard with virtualized XP, plus a Vista box.
- Eric P
XP home and work - Could someone (Alp?) please turn this into a graph/chart of some form - would be really interesting to see this given the data in thus far.
- Graham Steel
windows vista
- Tahmina Ghani
OS X no windows in site
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
ubuntu 9.04 and vista dual boot
- Gaurav Bansode
OS X Leopard. It's the only way to fly. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Windows. I want to use Linux but not without a dedicated hard drive for it. I am not ever installing a boot loader on my primary hard disk's MBR again.
- Zed Darkman
XP and OSX Leopard, both home and work
- Sean O'Brien
Kubuntu 9.04
- Grant Bierman
XP, Vista and OSX
- Nicholas James
OSX (mainly), Linux (various distros)
- John Collis
vista home basic, vista home premium, gentoo linux, ubuntu, OSX
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Win7 and XP. Still some of my OLD stuff won't run on 7.
- David Slater
Mac OS
- Kevin Pedraja
We collected really good data. I hope we can collect more and then I will share results with you.
- Alp
I hope you share the results.. that's a very ambiguous survey. :P
- Michael McKean
apple osx
- cysko
Leopard
- Vincent van Wylick
Will you also publish the results on your blog or so?
- Vincent van Wylick
Right now, Android (linux-based). Once I get home, Ubuntu (9.04). At work, OSX 10.5 & Ubuntu.
- Andrew Perry
windows 7
- Ahmet Ercan
Easy Peasy 1.1, a customized Ubuntu with the netbook-remix interface
- Andrew Currie
Work - XP, Home - OSX Leopard or XP (on my wife's netbook)
- mark
right now vista or 7 ... but mostly osx
- Julian Lukács
Now, Ubuntu 9.04
- Krishnamoorthy
7RC...rather impressed
- Kevin Pruett
Thanks :)
- Alp
desktop: ubuntu & server:centOS
- Murat Küçükosman
XP home edition & ubuntu 8.04
- Reza
XP and ubuntu
- ümid urmuli
Xp and Windows 7
- Roberto Bonini
xp and symbian os
- Orçun İlbeyli aka Nucro
DEBIAN!
- k00pa
Vista and WMobile 6.0
- Kaan Şengül
mac
- sean808080
OS X
- Giovanni Piller Cottrer
Home PC #1- Win 7, Home PC #2 - Ubuntu, home server - Debian, corporate notebook - WinXP.
- Один дяденька
Pardus 2009
- F. Batuhan Icoz
Interesting that this comes up to the top again. Now I'm using OS X 10.5.7, funtoo (instead of gentoo), Ubuntu, Win7(rc), and the Vista that will not die. and about to try OSx86. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
xp and win7
- Muhammet K. (oceangray)
Mainly Fedora. Sometimes Ubuntu.
- Hassan Ibraheem
OS X
- Лучше не знать
OS X Leopard
- Nick Humphries
windows xp, i'm ...use to it...
- Dragos Danescu
fistaa
- Kenan Rauf Kurt
ubuntu n' also Xp
- Emre 'lowrider' Savaş
fedora 11 and windows xp modified
- Ahmet Soyata
You should have made a poll. :P
- Logan Lindquist
from twhirl
OSX on daily basis with some ubuntu on occaison
- Logan Lindquist
from twhirl
z/OS @work, Windows XP @home
- Semra Arslan
windows 7
- Ata İsmet Özçelik
Windows 7, too.
- Alp
Mac OS X
- Ronald Hahm
windows 7RC most of the time,xp when my kid play games :D
- misca mihaela
Linux Mint Gloria most of the time at home. Windows Vista Business 64-bit at work.
- Curtiss Grymala
MacOSX 10.5.7
- Kirk Fontaine
Mac OS X 10.5.7
- Adnan Uludağ
Mac OS X 10.5.8
- Parvez Halim
Ubuntu Linux on my personal laptop, work desktop, home server, and my VPS. I'm running Debian Linux on the many thousand servers I help manage at work.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Windows 7
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Slackware -current on my main machine, and Slackware 12.2 on my printserver.
- i80and
Still on XP Pro SP3, I love it's
- Cobatra ♘
OS X Leopard on MacBook Pro and Ubuntu 9.04 on HP Mini netbook
- Travis Smith
Configuring MacMail for CIS Managed Exchange Mailboxes - https://anlmail.anl.gov/exchweb...
ANL\USERNAME\ALIAS
- Kevin Cearns
After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa For Mac Finally Arrives | Epicenter from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/busines...
HealingBrush, Patrick Hall, Beau "Slick Foot" Liening and 29 other people liked this
Mac users, you can stop holding your breath. Google announced Monday that Picasa for the Mac, a free desktop application for editing, organizing and sharing digital photos, is now available as a public beta through Google Labs.
- Matt Harwood
from Bookmarklet
Please note the url is currently not working...
- Matt Harwood
where where.. the d/l page does not work :(
- Naor Mark
ya, not working :S
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
If somebody successfully downloads this, can you please try OurDoings and see if our Picasa button works? You can disable the button afterwards.
- Bruce Lewis
Eep. Is the gap of time between the Windows release of Picasa and the Mac release an indication as to how long we'll have to wait for Chrome?
- Victor Ganata
Seems to work now for me! - http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2009...
- Adam Lasnik
only the blog post not the download
- Naor Mark
I've got it installed. Currently scanning my HDD for pics. Cool.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Victor, could be longer. The customized UI they did for Chrome will have to be created from scratch for OS X.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Still can't access http://picasa.google.com/mac :(
- Matt Harwood
Matt: just go to: http://picasa.google.com/ ON a mac you will automatically land on: http://picasa.google.com/mac/
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Nicholas - you're fantastic. Thank you very much!
- Matt Harwood
done that and i get the dmg of PicasaWebAlbumsUploader not the picasa app - could it be limited to a territory?
- Naor Mark
About time too!!!
- Mel Buckpitt
I've never used Picasa - until my needs grew to Aperture I loved iPhoto. What does it do better than iPhoto? Why would I want this? (honest questions, not snarky ones)
- Sparky, a big deal
Ah, yeah, Nicholas I just installed the web uploader too - still no cigar :(
- Matt Harwood
It seems that most iLife apps realize their potential when used in conjuction with their online services(.mac/ MobileMe). Picasa (and Google apps in general) accomplish most of the same things for free.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
for me it's mainly for multi platforms (having mac,win & linux at home). As an app (and i'm not an expert, used it on Win.) it's very easy to use, with various tagging options and it works quite well on my home network storage so it is perfect for our "home photo processing work flow->(i.e. i move the pics to the drive, wife is organizing and tag them :))
- Naor Mark
Link still isn't working - only downloads the web updater, not the actual Picasa software.
- cecily
From Duncan Riley - this link at Download.com works!! http://www.download.com/Picasa...
- Matt Harwood
Here's the direct link (others above forgot the #): http://picasa.google.com/mac/#
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
After installing, I realized that Google is investing in video a lot with this, particularly with connecting YouTube directly to the interface. Given that most consumer cameras can shoot acceptable quality videos (which will increase significantly soon), Picasa is likely to become more relevant for videos at some point.
- Engin Erdogan
amazing how so many so called tech experts kept pushing the uploader as the real deal - it finally materialized but long after most had shot themselves
- Kevin Cearns
I'd like to echo Sparky's question: Can someone articulate advantages over iPhoto? Is it just sync to cloud integration?
- Micah Wittman
Personally speaking I find that iPhoto is a 'walled garden' or in OSx speak 'a package'. If you want to store your images in different folders, with different names, manipulate your images with another app, you have to set up aliases and all sorts of other nonsense. Picasa allows you to import your images wherever you want so they can be used by whatever app you want and that includes Picasa. It has basic image manipulation which I find very intuitive to use.
- Mel Buckpitt
It also allows you access to a Flickr like photo sharing account
- Mel Buckpitt
Its nice but it does not integrate with the other apple software (media browser) and it doesnt allow the db to be stored on a different drive :( Picasa web albums is very nice though
- Jonas Wouters
Will give this a try when I get home after work, but I don't know if I will migrate away from Flickr.
- Vinko
aah fcuk. Intel only. I really need to upgrade my Mac this year.
- Vincent van Wylick
Vinko, try http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/ Picasa supports buttons that upload to other photo-sharing sites. Now I just need to test it with my site. Is it really Intel only?
- Bruce Lewis
bout time.
- Cee Bee
Installed Picasa eagerly. It's giving me some issues though. Doesn't show one of my watched drives and folders on it. Worked fine for an hour, dissappeared the second time I opened it.
- Kamath (नमः)
I'm just urked that the damn program only works on Intel. Programmers, STOP making things ONLY for Intel, (or just new stuff). some of us are #unemployed and poor. :( --- still holding my breath.
- thecolor
Yeah, I don't understand why they can't just build a universal binary. Are developers really relying on Intel-only bits?
- Victor Ganata
Picasa for Mac is fantastic! Although I have and still use Nikon Capture NX for my Nikon RAW files (NEF), Picasa does a wonderful job of organizing my photos and making it so much easier to search through them! It does have some pretty nifty editing tools available, too, although it won't take the place of a more full-featured photo editing program. Picasa has organized my files in such...
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- John G
Red Hat Program Certifies Partners to Put Linux on Cloud by PC World: Yahoo! Tech - http://tech.yahoo.com/news...
"The new Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program unveiled this week certifies cloud-computing providers to offer applications and infrastructure based on Red Hat software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and JBoss Java middleware, according to Red Hat."
- Kevin Cearns
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Acer’s Everywhere in the PC World - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer. “It was the first time in my life that has ever happened,” he says."
- Kevin Cearns
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Do folks have AppleTV? what do they think of it?
Rodfather, Timothy Griffin, Jess and 4 other people liked this
Used to. Got the best use out of it with Boxee. Underpowered. The only out of the box functionality I used was basically just as an AirTunes receiver
- Fox
Love it. Haven't been to a DVD rental place in months. No issues with performance (even streaming from workstation) and I can watch my podcasts in the comfort of my living room....
- Kevin Cearns
I have had mine for well over a year and love it! I don't even watch regular tv any more. I watch all my video podcasts on it. And put all my digital copies of movies on it. I have used the rent feature quite a bit, But prefer just buying the movie on itunes. I couldn't live with out the apple TV
- Corey Harris
I've had my Apple TV since it launched in 2007, and I love it, it's great. I've recently hacked it with aTVFlash. I can now watch Boxee and Hulu content on my Apple TV. I got it at http://www.atvflash.com/ The Apple TV has also been great when our Satellite craps out on us, we either watch the mis recorded show on Hulu, or we buy it on iTunes. A great device that in my opinion should be more than just a hobby for Apple. This should be up there with the iPhone.
- Gerard Lagana
I love mine for all the reasons listed. Also because every time there is a new update, Apple gives it for free. I didn't know you could sync it with Hulu, I need to do that!
- Jess
I was gonna ask a similar question myself as I'll (hopefully) be in the market for one soon.
- Timothy Griffin
Microsoft Defends Its Empire - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
"When a Microsoft (MSFT) salesman dropped by IT consultant Westcon Group's Tarrytown (N.Y.) headquarters for a round of negotiations in late 2008, Westcon's chief information officer, William Hurley, decided he had had enough. "I'm sick of this," he said to the sales rep, complaining of the high costs of buying and maintaining Microsoft's broad portfolio of business software. "I don't want to do this anymore.""
- Kevin Cearns
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Technology Review: Search Me - http://www.technologyreview.com/web...
Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine."
- Kevin Cearns
Why do we have to *learn* how to use enterprise software? Complete mental entrapment. Heap of Fail. Bucket of sighs. Lump of WTF
Denise Aday, Chris Sparno, Maria Niles and 15 other people liked this
The complication of enterprise sw is it is feature packed in order to satisfy everyone. It's like sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing 747! Companies make a whack of cash from training
- Shane
Half of the feature set never gets used. I have been through a few CRM implementations and its fun how long they take, how much training is required and then when you're done 10% of the system is used.
- Jason Cronkhite
Per your headline, Wow! I think that about says it.
- Mark Evans
manufactured complexity drives the integration and support/maintenance community, creates never ending training cycles and guarantees that any further updates will require the same - although I tend to think this model has a finite life expectancy
- Kevin Cearns
Enterprise software is about control. Control of resources, control of mindshare. Control of thinking. It's about binding employees tightly to the Borg collective - the enterprise hive mind. MS Sharepoint is a perfect example. It's touted as a collaboration tool, but it's really a control mechanism used to contain and control corporate institutional knowledge.
- Ken Camp
I don't think Sharepoint is an evil control mechanism, it just suffers from a uniquely Microsoftian way of thinking, i.e. "How can we empower employees to collaborate without letting things get out of hand". It's really an intractable problem and that's why SP consulting is so big.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This is a funny conversation. I think vendors are finally feeling the tertiary wave of this recession with customers, analysts, and the like beginning to question the entire enterprise software solution selling and delivery model. Gone are the days of 8-9 figure deals with armies of follow up $$$ delivered via costly consultants, partners, and unnecessary shelfware. Customers want the NASA approach - faster, better, cheaper and they are beginning to demand it from their vendors.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I'd love for companies to jump in headfirst with laissez-faire megawikis rather than tightly regimented CMSes or Sharepoint installs, but I take whatever I can get.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I see a BIG shift coming and a MAJOR reset in the enterprise sw selling model/approach. Especially with all of us moving the stack into the clouds.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
In the meantime, what are those of us inside these enterprises supposed to do with the bloated products provided by software vendors?
- V Mary Abraham
The real problem lies in the way that (largely still database driven) software is being created to this day. Everything is mostly a silo, interoperation and customization are still difficult/expensive despite APIs, and way too many wheels are being reinvented on a daily basis (especially for GUIs). BTW, this goes for open-source stuff like Wordpres as well, look at the code and how...
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- Alex Schleber
Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business - http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-b...
"The traditional TV industry--cable companies, networks, and broadcasters--is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: In denial. There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure as Internet distribution takes over. But, so far, the revenue and profits are hanging in there, so the big TV companies don't really care."
- Kevin Cearns
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Sweden's free-Web Pirate Party captures Euro seat - http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s...
"Sweden's Pirate Party, striking a chord with voters who want more free content on the Internet, won a seat in the European Parliament, early results showed on Sunday. The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot, enough to give it a single seat. The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet."
- Kevin Cearns
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Ubisoft merges videogames and film making - http://tech.yahoo.com/news...
"French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft is building its movie-making muscles. While pairing films with videogames is a long-running trend, Ubisoft is rising to a new level by collaborating with famed director James Cameron on a title crafted as an extension of his highly-anticipated 3D movie "Avatar." "Ubisoft didn't want to just put something flashy on the screen; they wanted a soul behind the videogame," Cameron said during a press conference with Ubisoft at a recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles."
- Kevin Cearns
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Why Isn't Microsoft's Strategy Working Anymore? - http://seekingalpha.com/article...
"We've owned shares of Microsoft (MSFT) for almost seven years -- with nothing to show for it. I've been wrong on the stock, and something is wrong at the company. What is it?"
- Kevin Cearns
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QA: Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film - http://www.wired.com/enterta...
"Two years ago, few outside of fanboyland knew who Guillermo del Toro was. Film geeks name-dropped him as one of the "Three Amigos," a triad of up-and-coming Mexican-born buddies that includes Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) and Alejandro Gonzàlez Inàrritu (Babel). But del Toro was probably the nerdiest of the three—the pasty indoor kid behind Hellboy who doodled in his notebook and painted pewter dragons while his pals made "important" films with Clive Owen and Brad Pitt."
- Kevin Cearns
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Acer Will Use Moblin Linux Across Its Products by PC World - http://tech.yahoo.com/news...
"The world's third-largest PC vendor plans to roll out the Moblin Linux operating system, championed by Intel, in its products, a top executive said Wednesday. "Acer is in the process of putting Moblin in the range of its products," said R.C. Chang, chief technology officer at Acer, at a news conference in Taipei. Acer products that will soon run with Moblin Linux include Aspire One nettops, as well as regular laptop and desktop PCs, he said."
- Kevin Cearns
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If people aren't responding to your posts, it's probably because it's not very interesting.
Chris Rogers, Marco Castellani, Daniel Miessler and 91 other people liked this
Carry on.
- Derrick
gotta disagree, i think a lot of the time peoples updates just skim on bye and its the luck of the draw and whether you have enough subscribers if people notice it, comment/like and it bumps it up for other people to see
- Zee.
:(
- Anne Bouey
There's that too, Zee. I hate real time and have it paused though, so nothing really scoots by. I do have a lot of people subbed to me, but somehow I make it work.
- Derrick
:(
- martha
Timing is an issue as well -- posts done early morning my time (EDT) are more often ignored because west coast people are still in bed. So there is a whole swath of things -- including how interesting the post potentially is to your subscribers.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm not talking about you Anne and martha!! I'm talking about people who go on and on and on about no one paying attention to them. The whole "Look at me!" syndrome.
- Derrick
Or they don't like you
- Rodfather
There's also the issue of posting during regular working hours (along with time zone). Not everyone checks in when they are working. If you post when the people subscribed to you are at work, you probably shouldn't expect a lot of responses.
- Katy S
It's true and you can learn to live with it. The articles I post are interesting to me, but as I've discovered, not to friendfeed as a whole. It hasn't stopped me from posting them, though and has not made me like friendfeed any less
- Alan Simpson
That explains alot. lol
- Christian (Simply X)
True dat, Rod...also, if you are subbed to 10 people and 3 people sub to you, it's a little hard to be visible so that people DO see your posts. I'm actually paring down my subs a bit too. 600+ people is an awful lot and I think if I had even half that, I wouldn't miss a lot.
- Derrick
1UP Alan
- Derrick
Sometimes - not always, but sometimes - people who post things like this are just reaching out blindly for someone to connect with or talk to because they're so lonely in their own real lives. I've had more of my fair share of these kinds of posts lately, so I guess I can see where they're coming from. Sometimes all you want is for someone to say "Hi. I see you. You're not invisible."
- cecily
Derrick - I don't think real time affects this one way or the other. Paused real time (a la the old interface) just means that when you refresh stuff gets pushed to beyond the first page - which is exactly what is happening in real time from what I can tell.
- Brian Sullivan
And there's one person in particular who seems to be doing this a lot more than others. I don't know him, but I'm concerned.
- cecily
I've had my share of loneliness too, Cecily, but attacking people for not paying attention to you is off-putting. I get concerned about some of these people too, but spamming and hitting people over the head only pushes me away.
- Derrick
@Alan: +237
- AJ Kohn
Aye, it's certainly not fully down to them being uninteresting. I've had so many things that I've posted, only for no bugger to bother even throwing a like at it. Yet, someone else will post the exact same thing and suddenly there's 20, 30, 100 or more comments on it. The wider net is like this, a lot of it is based on the person sharing rather than what is being shared. And I can take...
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- alphaxion
I post plenty of things that get ignored. It all comes down to me not really caring that much, I guess. I love FF. I love the people I'm connected to, and those I've met in real life, and those I've yet to meet, but at the end of the day, I don't look for FF to cure what ails me socially. If you think I'm a bozo here, you should see me in person!
- Derrick
Massive case in point. Some kid does something silly on the net and gets a few people see it. Chris Pirillo does it and it's all over blogs. Cult of Fame, if no-one knows who you are they may enjoy but they won't share your work with others.
- alphaxion
Not really, Derrick. I've posted items with the same exact content as others BEFORE they posted theirs, and we have about the same-sized following. Mine gets no comments or likes... the other person gets a whole stream of discussion. Oh well, I just don't have the star power :(
- Glenn Batuyong
Not always true, Derrickcito. Some people just have less exposure. That said, FriendFeed makes it easier to be discovered.
- Louis Gray
Glenn, I think FF is different things to different people. I was way intimidated to using the site after having friends tell me about it because all the stuff I saw was tech oriented. If you know anything about me, it's that I'm not techy in the slightest. So for me to post pictures of food, pop culture stuff, art, photography and GLBT stuff, I never thought anyone would care. Is there...
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- Derrick
Aha! Thats why! I see... :-)
- Håkan Dahlström
Yeah, but mine aren't interesting, and some people keep commenting, Derrick. What's up with that?!?
- Steven Perez
Steven: People just want to interact with you ;)
- Nicholas James
DAMN YOU.
- Derrick
Steven, I think in your case it's because some people invest the time to comment knowing their words will get more exposure there compared to lower activity posts. That exposure may lead to more activity for them on their posts or at least in other discussions in FF.
- Micah Wittman
Or, they have an undying affinity for cilantro. It could be that.
- Micah Wittman
We should do a link test exactly the same time on seperate days, measure the click throughs :D
- Stuart Evans
It's got to be the cilantro!
- Steven Perez
*HIDE*
- jbrotherlove
So THAT'S why! Any tips on how I can pretend to be being interesting? Maybe some fake sincerity?
- Alex Scrivener
I'd start with bacon and work from there.
- Steven Perez
from IM
With the number of comments here your theory would indicate that this post was very interesting...
- Kenton
ummm...not so much - cilantro and bacon are more likely to get responses than interesting articles or anything with depth...this post kinda proves it
- Kevin Cearns
Kenton, this is interesting because it's related to current events and also because it's something most FFers can identify with. And Chris: the posts might be equally interesting but then there's the the numbers and luck game to consider: how many followers do you have, how many are online when you post it, will the one with the most followers of their own be the one to like/comment it thereby sharing it with countless other FFers.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Don't agree with this. Lots of times it's just lost in the maelstrom.
- Karoli
I just think interesting is maybe the wrong word. This post was a really good conversation starter and the comments have made for good, and I suppose interesting, conversation. I think there are plenty of posts that are interesting, but get very few comments because there is nothing more to be said.
- Kenton
Sometimes a post I'm really satisfied with myself gets almost no response while my all time most read post isn't something I am very proud off.
- Alexander van Elsas
Yea I agree @Kenton, we must remember what is interesting to one person might not be to another.
- YoYo_P
I can't believe that this keeps needing to be said, but: if you're worried about not getting likes or comments in your posts, don't. Just participate. THAT is the whole point of FriendFeed.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I disagree, too. I miss a lot of stuff when I'm not online that I think is interesting, and didn't comment on it because I didn't see it.
- Trish R
Or in a strange foreign language :)
- Baard @ Pixum
THEN I'M WRONG...ALL WRONG. *cries*
- Derrick
You're right about that Derrick ;-)
- Kenton
There, there, Derrick. *hugs* SEE WHAT YOU DID, YOU RAT BASTARDS?!? YOU MADE DERRICK CRY!
- Steven Perez
from IM
This is overly simplistic. Fails to take into consideration the user's engagement with the community, their number of followers, their personal popularity, the time of day, and the fact that Friendfeed loves a good bacon donut picture, whether it's really interesting or not. And stop your sobbing, Derrick. It'll be OK. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Kittens delivering bacon and donuts always a winner :D
- Moved to Facebook
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or it could be because they have a feeling that you're the type of person that would choose The Untouchables over Snatch on Flickchart - I'm just sayin'...
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
LOLcats delivering bacon cilantro donuts is TOTAL WIN.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It is probably also inversely proportionate to how much the poster cares about getting comments.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
No, my LOLCat with bacon in it's mouth frolicking with rainbows whilst farting glitter is total win, Steven.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No cilantro in the rainbow? FAIL.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'm just sayin' some of y'all is some sensitive sumbitches. Just because no one responds to a post doesn't mean people don't *like* you. You don't need to go off on rampages because of it, damn.
- Derrick
I just figure that they can't respond to my posts because they are blinded by my utter brilliance! /livesinabubbleworld
- Joe Pierce
Why mess with perfection - right Joe?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
totally agree - i respond to your stuff all the time when secretly all i want to do is hit you inthe head with a movie - oh wait that's what you do to me
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
And I'll keep on, Marco until I knock some sense into that head of yours. Freaking 'pubs. ;)
- Derrick
Engagement is the key - I used to like and comment a lot more and so my posts got more likes and comments in return, but the last 6 months have been insanely busy with work (new clients, projects, launches etc) so I don't spend as much time here as before, with inevitable consequences. It's life, I just accept it and assume things will return to normal when I have more time to devote to it. That said, if I don't tweet for 3 days I get deluged with DM's checking if I'm ok.
- Sally Church
If I were posting lots of original stuff (personal blog entries and so on), I might be let down by a lack of response... but 95% of the stuff I post is just linkage with a snarky title attached, and I can't expect anyone to get too enthused about that. If I want a response, I'll just go comment on someone else's post.
- Roger Benningfield
I think some of the frustration over no-one seeing your posts (and interacting with them) could be solved by some sort of good duplicates checking when posting material. The current one is buggy - and it is frustrating to post something interesting, have no one notice, and then see someone more "popular" post the same material days later and get a lot of responses. I'd rather comment on someone's earlier post, than repost an article on my own, but that's not easy to determine.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'll amend your post this way Derrick. Interesting to those currently subscribed to you. My enterprise 2.0 stuff doesn't find a lot of takers, but I know why. They're all over on Twitter. It's cool. I like to see the crazy stuff posted here, along with the consumer-oriented web stuff that's so important in driving the future of the web and even the enterprise.
- Hutch Carpenter
Derrick I fear that the fact that I am still a 'pub may indicate that i am either too stubborn or stupid to have sense knocked into me - i'm still trying to figure out which one ; )
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Wow. Is it really that deep. Just post a pic of boobs, you'll get a lot of comments and likes then. LOLcats included. I used to worry about this, bc on Twitter responses to me are way different than they are here. But these are different audiences and you have to engage and become involved differently in both. I'll keep posting even when the crickets are out.
- Lynne d Johnson
I've given up on it. I used to think that with 200+ followers there might be some response, but I figure its the average mindset and what one wishes to get out of it. So for me FF is an aggregation tool that I can also contribute by commenting on others' posts. I'd love to start a conversation that gets a ton of interaction, but I'm just not interested in how you pronounce panties. :)
- jcunwired
1UP jcunwired
- Derrick
People who care about that are shitfucks.
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500+ people sub to me. Most posts just float off into the sunset. I spend a vast majority of the day here and have a decent number of comments and a crapload of likes. People probably follow me because my nephew is cute. It is still does not make sense to me why some folks whine about lack of interaction.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
(The following comment ended up on the wrong post. It's what I get for typing and managing a pug at the same time.) Here's my take: I come from a place where I'd built a small community around my blog. As we've (and this includes me) fragmented off into the larger spaces called Twitter and Friendfeed, that community has also fragmented. I'm not necessarily interested in interacting for...
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- Karoli
k, I think it's time for Derrick to tell us who it is that upset him so much that he started whining about people whining. Overall, pretty whiny. :D
- Vlad Bobleanta
Yep Karoli, thats pretty much how I treat social media. A lot of info I bookmark or evernote for myself, but that which I share is content that I think others might be interested in, or I'd be interested in what others might think. Not gaining this benefit is the only disappointment I have with regard to lack of interaction, its not an ego thing.
- jcunwired
FUCK, NO ONE LIKES ME
- Mike Nayyar
I call BS on this one.
- Brandon Mendelson
The Amber, I follow you because you're cute. </flirt>
- cecily
Cecily, I'll whoop your ass. Back off Amber pls. Thanx.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
what is interesting to me isn't always interesting to others of course, and vice versa
- Ian May
Wow. Poop.
- Sean Oliver
Disagree...I've recycled someone's post (can't remember who?) that got no notice and posted it as my own and it got 15x the attention not saying I'm popular, but # of subs does matter.
- sofarsoShawn
Mo, you already have a harem. Hello there Cecily.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I've felt a little miffed sometimes, when I've posted a breaking news item of some kind, and got no response, and someone else has posted it an hour or more later, and got shedloads of responses, and from some of those that follow me. Still it's not something to take time to dwell on. There's more important shit to worry about!
- Ian May
I'm profoundly discouraged by this remark.
- © b e e n s w a n k
AGAIN, this was written in response to some rather whiny people who post *ad naseum* about why no one ever responds to their posts.
- Derrick
I'm learning there is simply a very different dynamic here than on Twitter. What gets pages of @replies there doesn't get a single response here. When ever I post something here as just a thought - expecting no response - I get responses. Different group of people. Personally, I really like it here =)
- Arleen Anderson
If you find yourself missing things, try to create some new lists for rooms, people u r subbed too,etc, etc and use best of the day and you can see alot of stuff. Zee- I thought we were going to work on a solution for the under the radar stuff. still interested? Also, if you use this site as an aggregator and a "social" bookmarking service, than you will be fine b/c it is your FF. Be yourself and eventually people will follow you and comment.
- Amani
But it also could be probably because you have to few subscribers. You know, it happens so many times, that someone write things, and nobody cares. The EXACT same post copied from one of the more famous people around, gets then very high number of likes and comments. Face it: It's not about topics, it's about who posted it!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Yeah, popular people get more response. But popular people generally get to be popular by being interesting. Then they can be less interesting and continue to get responses. May not be wholly fair, but the point is, if you're not already popular and also not interesting, you have much less chance of getting responses.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
"I just looked at my followers numbers and said to myself "where did all these people come from?" And why aren't they on friendfeed?" —Robert Scoble, 2 min ago. We all have laments.
- Micah Wittman
It depends very much on when you post something. If you want attention on Friendeed you better start thinking USA timezone.
- Rutger Blom
This should improve, because frankly the San Francisco domination of the FF-sphere gets very boring at times
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Amber just shut me down. :(
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Well, yeah, but "interesting" is relative. Relative to the interests of people on FriendFeed, and sometimes I think that people here try their damndest to be as glib as possible. No matter what Robert Scoble says, FriendFeed is not the digital equivalent of a literary salon.Even with: Really cool search capabilities! If I were to judge my interests by the interest in mine of those on...
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- Rick Powell
Well, Rick, in real life I am the head of a multinational giant corporation that employees over 500,000 people in 32 countries.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
If no one interacts with you, you're not interesting, plain and simple. Let's stop blaming it on the person's low exposure.
- Brandon
@Brent I guess that explains a lot?
- Rick Powell
I look at the trending topics on twitter, which, I suppose are interesting, by someone's definition. Am I thinking about, or interested in Jay-Z, hangovers, Conan or Death of Autotune? I can't imagine what sort of person I would have to be to speak knowledgeably about such things. Or about bacon, for that matter. I miss bacon, I've enjoyed bacon, but do I talk about it? Do I spend a lot...
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- Rick Powell
*scoots over next to Amber*
- cecily
@rick: was thinking the exact same thing. I'd love to see an infograph of the last year of FF activity and what items (by subject matter) received the most interest. What gets the most attention/activity paints a rather sad picture of the community overall. Finding a single item of any serious intellectual heft, true social consequence, or creative brilliance in "best of day" is a rarity. But as many have said, FF is about making your own thing.
- Anthony Citrano
Funny post Derrick. An infograph would be fascinating Anthony. FriendFeed has taught me that my complete loves in life bore other FFers- my loves will not change though. There is a definate "newest" tech/media/how to get a head focus here- good to know for our economy.
- E-Advocate Network
Rutger, you made a good point. But what is exactly US-Time zone :) ? East or west coast? And then, when is the right time to post on which time zone? (Please, with time zone)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Posting with some of the USA timezones in mind is not a guarantee for attention, but it helps. I don't know which USA timezone. Best times to post for me are between 6 - 9am and 3 - 6pm Swedish local time. Think that covers whole of USA?
- Rutger Blom
from email
I guess I'm just going to have to face facts. I'm boring as all get-out. Nothing I post can ever be more interesting than a cat pikchur, someone requesting a roll call, or another FFer typing random characters. Even my "Guess what movie" posts are duller than those of others. Time to shut this non-interesting brain down for a few hours. I'll bore Facebook when I get up.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I let my buddy José read this thread and he said: "Man, you are much more serrrrious on here than in real life!" (He also added something about the quantity of assholes on the Internet and how he doesn't understand what the attraction is.) Which is true to an extent. My internet persona, maybe, reflects more my interior life while in meatspace I am far more connected to (obsessed with)...
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- Rick Powell
*sits in between Cecily and Amber* Hey ladies. :D
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Moving to the Cloud (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) - http://developer.yahoo.net/blog...
"There's a paradigm shift going on in the industry about how we deal with computing infrastructure. Services such as Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, and various other cloud infrastructure providers are changing the way that companies think about writing, hosting, and deploying web applications. At Yahoo!, we're also getting on the cloud. Our deep involvement with Hadoop is the best-known example, and we are building out other internal cloud services focused on storage and deployment. The cloud model enables Yahoo! properties and services to scale effortlessly and focus on what their audience wants, rather than on how to manage the data."
- Kevin Cearns
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Palm says its Pre smartphone is an Apple iPhone killer - http://money.cnn.com/2009...
"Not much rattles Apple. Disciplined and focused, the company lavishes attention on its own elegant products and rarely deigns to discuss rivals. Yet here was Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer and designated stand-in for ailing CEO Steve Jobs, erupting during an earnings call in late January at the mere mention of a pip-squeak competitor."
- Kevin Cearns
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The 5-step guide to fixing almost any PC problem - http://www.techradar.com/news...
"Troubleshooting is curious skill. It's part detective work, part methodical experimentation and part inspired guesswork, and part Zen Buddhism. That's a lot of parts but you need them all to be able to sift through a list of symptoms, identify the fault, work out an appropriate remedy and not go barking mad in the process."
- Kevin Cearns
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Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
"Canonical is building an Android execution environment that will make it possible for Android applications to run on Ubuntu and potentially other conventional Linux distributions. The effort will open the door for bringing Android's growing ecosystem of third-party software to the desktop."
- Kevin Cearns
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So when is Caprica suppose to hit the airwaves?
anyone anyone? :)
- (jeff)isageek
i believe it's sometime early 2010 :-(
- Kevin Cearns
There is a pilot that is out now, but the series itself is not supposed to start until 2010.
- Derek Coward
thanks guys. yeah i knew about the pilot. need to check that out.
- (jeff)isageek
The previews look like so many different kinds of bad. What a profoundly uncompelling concept for a TV show. No space ships, no guns. It's just Small Wonder remade.
- Matthew DeVries
Early 2010, for now we have only the 2 hours pilot..
- Lucio Riccardi - CantorJF
Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband - http://gigaom.com/2009...
"Insufficient bandwidth has the potential to limit the cloud because it can take a long time to send large files over thin pipes. Amazon Web Services now addresses this problem with a new data delivery service called AWS Import/Export, which uses the postal system rather than the Internet to deliver data. Yes, it means customers now have the option to send their data to Amazon’s cloud via the mail."
- Kevin Cearns
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Android MID Coming June 11? - http://jkontherun.com/2009...
"The folks at ARCHOS, makers of high-end portable media players, are throwing a press event on June 11 that has some thinking we may see the first Android Mobile Internet Device (MID), possibly with telephony."
- Kevin Cearns
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Technology Review: BIOS Maker Aims to Retake the PC - http://www.technologyreview.com/computi...
"Typically, PC users do not give the low-level software on their computers a second thought. Known as the basic input-output system, or BIOS, this software plays an extremely important role in the way that computers work--checking and preparing hardware when a machine is switched on--but most people don't even know it's there."
- Kevin Cearns
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Is Print Dead? Dave Eggers Makes Futile Gesture... http://gawker.com/5264393... (via @sarahmerion)
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print customers who were 30 days now take 90-120 to pay, and that's those who can...so dead I don't think I'll take on any print customers going forward unless they pay in advance...
- Kevin Cearns
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