Kiran C

shiny! - Mona N.

let me guess... closed-source drivers? huh... - silpol

@silpol - and yer point for such a stupid comment?? open source is not the end all be all ya know and gawd forbid some company out there that actually wants to make that thing they call money and the fact that the money goes to people who have rent / mortgages to pay or a family to feed - fuck comments like that really piss me off sometimes. - Steven Hodson

Calm down Steven :) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

@Silpol: Yeah. They aren't even publishing the device blueprints! Horror! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Looks like someone ate the brown Cheerios this morning. - Akiva Moskovitz

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA - Mona N.

doubles as a usb bottle opener? - Anthony Citrano

I so didn't expect the conversation on this link. Microsoft makes a mouse and designed it to work against Windows, I don't see anything wrong with that. - Alan Le

@Alan: You just don't understand! The world *will* come to an end if MS doesn't release GPL drivers for all of their hardware products. - Chad Myers

@stevenhodson: There's nothing wrong with either closed or open source... Nothing to get angry for, come on :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

@steven conversely, your comment is extremely smart and to the point, leave alone impersonallity and wittiness... just one little thing tho some people get paid for open source - silpol

[obligatory meta-conversation] It's weird how a MOUSE can cause a conversation about opensource drivers. just sayin. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Steven: Aren't we talking about mouse drivers? Is Microsoft planning on charging for the mouse AND the drivers, or just the mouse? If they're charging for just the mouse, isn't it in their interest to make it as usable as possible on as many different OSes as possible? I personally don't care if they make the drivers open or closed source, it just seems to me that open source drivers would spur more sales of the hardware, which is the bit they make their money from. - David Worrell

@David: Err, you mean I need to install SEPERATE MOUSE DRIVERS for Linux? I never quite remember installing one for windows.... (I could be wrong - maybe fancy ones do require sep. drivers. But, I've got a wireless one that needs no special drivers) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

@silpol - true enough some folks do get paid for working on open source projects that are then used by companies to either directly or indirectly to make money from. The problem is that the *common* perception of open source is that is all about free software. While you may not have intended for that reaction I get really tired of people taking potshots at companies in the software busines because they want to make money and this is seen most often by the rabid OSS advocates. Why there is this assumption that everything software companies do *must* be open source or they are just being thieves irritates me to no end. It is also extremely irritating that this attitude is 99% of the time directed to MS and the Windows OS but Apple can do anything it likes in locking down it's software path and make money from it. - Steven Hodson

Yuvi, that's just the problem and quite astute: some open source (and Apple) evangelists can't help but interlope into any conversation they can to proselytize their politic. - Akiva Moskovitz

@David yes we are talking about Drivers here and they *are considered* to be free but the fact is that they as has been pointed out something that they use to make money from the products that use them. Does this mean though that being open sourced is going to benefit companies that are making money from those products - no it doesn't and I really don't care if the things are open or closed source either. It just really irtritates me - this assumption that open source is the cure for all our ills. - Steven Hodson

posting token freetard crack, also, sexy! - Eric Rice

If its got trackball capabilities, I'm all for it. Once I got used to trackball I never wanted to go back to a movable mouse. - Melanie Reed

@Yuvi I had my Windows desktop and my Linux box on a PS/2 KVM. My Logitech trackball drove Ubuntu nuts. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Melanie, amen. I'm a Kensington Expert Mouse user. - Akiva Moskovitz

Stephen, amen. - Akiva Moskovitz

I still use a touchpad attached to my PC. Never liked that mice required desk real estate to be useful. Much better to keep the pointer peripheral stationary. - Sprague D

Wow, that looks like RSI waiting to happen... - Brad Brooks

@Sprague D Same here. My desk real estate is too valuable for the price of a mouse. lol - Melanie Reed

Hands up! I'll heal ya! :) - directeur

reminds of the I-robot movie -- for some reason !! - Peter Dawson

One more way to "get that kid back on the field damn it". - Russellreno

Oh my lord - this is simply the best video I have *ever* seen - Mike Taylor via twhirl

This hits too close to home! Awesome! - Dave via twhirl

probably the funniest thing i've EVER seen! - Benton

This is so perfectly observed. A must see. - Phil Morle via twhirl

Tech support: "What's your password?" Sales guy: "The letter A" - Mike Doeff

I have SO worked in places like this. - Diane Ensey

Good the second time around too. Replace Halo with friendfeed and that could be me. Web Dude does have some skills with OS'. - Andrew Smith

Excellent! That's just how I picture a "sales guy" system. - Fred Yankowski

The chipmunk voices add a bit, but I found certain people hard to understand, and I think it ran a bit too long, otherwise.. brilliant! - Phil Glockner

Entertainment Value: Priceless.. - Winston Teo

That was extremely worth the time to watch/listen to. - Mathew A. Koeneker

That is as close to perfect as anything I have ever seen. - Robert Cooper via twhirl

Wow. I was crying by the end. Nothing has made me laugh this hard in forever. - Jon-Paul Bussoli

Genius - Brian Pharris

Amazingly fantastic! Josh Weinberg you rock... - Mitchell Tsai

That's hilarious! Milk came out of my nose - Eric

Loved this! (Thinking Friendfeed should offer that option since this is a must see!) - Larry Kless via twhirl

In any case, Digg it to the point where it will be featured on Diggnation :) - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

fftogo is the one, I really like it and have seen a few comments posted here from there! - Joe Dawson (beta)

The above link breaks due to the via tag. Here it is: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

fftogo is your place :) - Ben Borges

fftogo rocks! - Dieter Schwarz

Another vote for fftogo here, works really well! - Joe Dawson (beta)

:) - Benjamin Golub via fftogo

fftogo is what i use too, love it. - Globecode

use a mobile feedreader? (or an iphone -- duck) - dekay

I would like an official FriendFeed2Go that doesn't require me to remember that stupid key. - Aaron Myers

fftogo! - Sarah Perez

Yes. would be great - Navin

Yeah I agree, why not? - Timon

+1 for an official mobile version - Alessandro

http://fftogo.com is my mobile FF site - Susan Beebe

+1 for an official mobile version also. - Jason R. Hunter

+1 for an official IPHONE version! :-) - Dieter Schwarz

+1 for an iPhone version too - Giovanni De Stefano via fftogo

+1 iPhone version, and being able to make FF shares via SMS - Steve Isaacs

+1 for an iPhone version! - Daniel Spradau

+1 for iPhone version - xero

+1 for iPhone version....whyTF isn't it out already? Look at Hahlo...amazing, but limited due to Twitter API.....do it now! - Philip Ryan Johnson via twhirl

with Nokia Tablet, I don't need neither mobile version of FriendFeed nor iphone ;) - silpol

Have you tried Loopt, yet? I'm looking forward to the iPhone app. (www.loopt.com) - miked-licious

Java isn't inter graded into my Dash's browser. Your phone must be like a laptop. - Jacob

+1 - Mitchell Tsai

My credentials stay in the login area but I keep getting kicked back to the login screen all the time! - Joe Dawson (beta)

+1 not just focus on the iPhone, there're majority of nokia, moto, samsung users. - Langley Zhu

I normally have a iPod Touch or computer with me when I want to check FF, but sometimes FFTOGO will work, I just don't like the whole remote key thing. - Aaron Myers

fftogo is nice, but not enough, it's not compatible with enough phones, hoping FF is going to provide it's own mobile - Majento

Blackberries! Including the smaller screen of the Pearl. - David Silvernail

That's pretty damn cool! Well done. - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

Yeah, I'm wondering why he doesn't have comments open there... - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

LOL, the "Qik" is why I stopped following him over there... you can see why. - Bwana

Interesting data there. So, are power users skewing the data out there? Thanks for sharing. Kamla - kamla bhatt

Interesting analysis. Have you noticed I have been tweeting less cause of FriendFeed? - Robert Scoble

there is a cool site out there that does the same thing for last.fm that I crash every time I try and use it - Stefan Hayden