Chris is a tech superstar that I listen to deeply. He is excited by Google's moves and lays out the poor execution on the Mozilla side of the fence. - Robert Scoble
What I missed in the Chrome comic was a mention of browser add-ons like Firefox's. Surfing the web without Adblock Plus is hard to imagine. - Ole Begemann
or without the delicious add-ons... or the evernote add-on... but at least bookmarklets are (likely?) to still work. - Justin Long
The comic was aimed squarely at devs. There was little mention of what would make end users choose Chrome over IE. - Paul Grav
Best read so far, been waiting for a commentary like this... - Kevin Cearns
Gee, Ole... why wouldn't Google want you running AdBlock Plus? Can't imagine. ;) (Now, I agree, add-ons are cool, but as a publisher, I'm not going to weep over that one...) Anyway, I wouldn't count Firefox out. Obviously, what Google addresses is the performance/reliability side and building around apps. Both FF and Chrome are built around standards, both closely married to JavaScript for what they do next. I think this could be a great rivalry, frankly. - Peter Kirn
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They talk explicitly about plugins on pages 29-32 of the comic so you should be able to have your AdBlock. I seriously doubt Google cares that much about AdBlockers -- which makes up an extremely small percent of the overall market, and which is probably made up of people who don't click ads anyway. - Chris Messina
Chris: I suspect by plugins they mean Flash etc. and not Firefox-style extensions. But I hope I'm wrong. - Ole Begemann
Will they, wont they. Time will tell. Who do you want to hate today? - Steve Blamey
Interesting article. More choice = better for the users. But I think that you are over-hyping the death of Firefox. As far I can tell. Firefox 3.0 is much better than Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 will be better than Firefox 3.0. Multi-process, V8 and native Gears support are definitely a step forward but firefox is part of an ecosystem so I would not count them out (A lot of people said that Safari meant the death of firefox and firefox is doing much better today then back them). I look forward to revisiting this post in 18 months and see how the mozilla team/community proved you wrong! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm, well, I didn't claim to foretell the death of Firefox at all. In fact, Firefox will likely continue to gain marketshare and attention (as the web is still expanding). One of my points is that Mozilla missed the opportunity to be the foundation of Chrome -- and will now have to play catch up -- instead of set the agenda for what's next. - Chris Messina
Do you think that was a technical decision or a control decision. From the last couple of interviews I have seen of John Lilly, I think that he has a really clear vision around performance, usability and ecosystem. Performance is coming in 3.1. Usability is driven by some of the concept Labs has been pushing out and ecosystem come from the fact that there are 100s of extensions to firefox and a really vibrant community around firefox. That is a very unique blend. Chrome has made some good progress around performance but there is not much innovation around usability and extensibility. Google has proven with Android acitivities and cross application data sharing that they are capable of innovating...but it will take before those things make it to Chrome so while firefox might have to play catch up in part of the architecture, Chrome will have to play catchup in others. - Edwin Khodabakchian
I am using chrome right now, and I really miss my shareaholic addon as well as my stumbleupon bar. hopefully the developers get crackin for plugins for this browser. - James Campbell
I'm hoping to see some good progress from Mozilla. I do worry a bit about them fish-tailing and not being able to say no to developers (whose needs are often very different from regular folks). We shall see.
@James Campbell:There will be a need for web hooks, no doubt... and places to insert additions or modifications to your browser experience -- I don't really doubt that (some standardization there would be nice too). - Chris Messina
The bookmarklets work just fine. I really wouldn't miss any of my add-ons...but the fact that I can't scroll up with my mouse is a deal breaker. talking about plugins/add-ons/extensions when people can't even scroll up is kinda putting the cart before the horse...just sayin - ♫ Rahsheen™
@Matt I was actually thinking about something similar to that.. I have a larger avatar set now (I was missing a bunch of people) and there is a lot to fit. - Tim Hoeck
Well you will have to pay me $100 everytime you wear the shirt if you are going to have my image on it. :P - Mathew Ballard
2x, 8y = awesome, and honored. Enjoy the shirt, and let us know if people ask you who everyone on the back is while wearing it, and what your responses are :) - Nathan Chase
"And today, authorities announced a new form of depression caused by not being "friended" by important people on friendfeed. Apparently Dr. Wadda Frack has postulated that as recognition from thought leaders in the social media arena has become a form of social currency, that the "poor" among us are prone to depressive fits of outrage at not being included on the friendfeed t-shirts of the rich and shameless. To quote Dr. Frack, "This is very sad. The poor are always the last to know." ;-) - Bill Sanders
And Dr. Frack also wants to know where to order said FriendFeed Tee. - Bill Sanders
:0 cool, can i send them a higher res av image? - sergiooo
what a devious way to get more subscribers! hahaha - tagami
That is SO cool. (as I'm sure you already know) - Brandon Titus
So what's the deal, you just going to print on iron-on transfer or what? - Josh Haley
@tagami .. I realized that might happen after the post. FYI: new subscriptions will not be on the tee! I have the ones I am putting on there cached already (the pic above is not everyone) - Tim Hoeck
not to mention, these are the people I am subscribed to, not the ones subscribed to me! :) - Tim Hoeck
Is there a T-shirt service that let's you dynamically "program" t-shirts? I smell a business idea. - Jesse Stay
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And when I say that I mean a custom t-shirt for each buyer, based on a username on something like FriendFeed - Jesse Stay
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@Jesse Stay yeah there must be something I mean wheather you have charity or some cause you want to support there seems to be ways to get customized logos on shirts. I've heard of ways to even print a photo onto a shirt. - Colide81 (James)
Isn't it, you guys? The Sweetcron room is actually ROCKIN. Everyone's giving each other support and posting their sites :) @Benjamin: your comments are disabled! - Mona N.
question: i have a wp self-hosted blog and i was thinking this sweetcron page would be nice as a page added onto that blog. is that possible? just set up the sweetcron page and connect it to my wp blog with a link? - Anika Malone
Vince: everything you need to know, is here :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sw... The creator of Disqus and um, the creator of the um, source code is there, too... :( - Mona N.
- how does this differ from something like Swurl (aside from self-hosting & themes)? - JA Castillo
this is just a link farm.. we can do the same thing uinsg RSS | EMAIL|BLOGGER|GROUPS. Whats the hue and cry about this service? Tell me what is new here underlying a UI ?? - Peter Dawson
Peter: Do you see the difference of the UIs? Just asking. - and it's not a service. it's a software, since it's FREE and OPEN SOURCE - Mona N.
yes its s/w .. but not on the cloud . and UI is just UI. I really dont see whats the big deal.. thats all. I dont mean to bust any1 ballon, but thats the fact. - Peter Dawson
Peter: it's clean, simple to use, and any non tech savvy person can jump on and click around. the embeddable media is pulled in and displayed / organized. one of the most intuitive templates i've ever seen. plus it's open source and free. why WOULDN'T you jump on it? - Mona N.
I'm going to have to partially agree with Peter. I don't see the big deal either. Sure, it's free and open source but using any aggregator or, creating your own (like Rob does for TGM) is just the same. Creating your own still makes it free. I can't say I like the UI at all. Open source and free doesn't always mean a great product. - Candace Holly
So what about people like me, Candace, who can't create my own? I'm stuck with default templates I have to find around the web. Open Source excites me, because of the possibility of people creating various templates - for free -. I've already showed the site to a few of my non tech friends, and they've all told me it's simple and easy to navigate. - Mona N.
I'd like to see this turn into a Wordpress theme/plugin instead. After installing the auto updater, I don't feel like going through another install process again. - Rodfather
There's plenty of places to get free templates and sites. Wordpress is one. Not a regular WP blog but installing the software in your site itself. There's 50,000 plug ins and ways to customize it (and aggregators too). I think there's more out there with better options. - Candace Holly
Candace, I specifically don't have my own domain because there are way too many choices, too many plug-ins, I don't know how and where to start. I envy you for knowing where to look, because frankly? It's a headache for me. That's the exact reason I haven't registered my own domain. I love the SweetCron UI, it's Tumblr-like look, and the archival system. To each their own :) - Mona N.
Mon, I agree each to their own. I am trying to close out my other thread and flod it back again to this one here. Meanwhile ..all my blogs are archieved in Groups. Did you check the link that I posted ? I created one recusive loop as a poc. albiet its manually, and not a cron. :)- howwever, I can cron the same thing in the fwd manner just using an RSS -2-email | filter | Blogger | groups. thats the core events. Zap up a blogger /CSS tempate and voila I can sweetcron without any download at all. - Peter Dawson
I cheat..I'm still not off WordPress itself . I just mask the name. Getting a domain is easy...godaddy.com! (p.s. Pixelbits.me is available I searched ~_^ ) ..For the record, I have no idea what Peter just said. I need Rob to translate that. - Candace Holly
@Candace, mea culpa. its easy. Get an RSS2email service (R|mail.org). Add RSS feeds to rss2email account,. Each time a new pos is created, it will get email to you. Create a filter rule < all emails tha come from rss2email, fwd to blogger account. This will create a blog entry. Set up your blogger profile to email all BLOGS posts to specific group e,g googlegroups. I one for myself for all my blogs. so its < RSS -2-email | filter | Blogger | groups> . Did that make sense ? - Peter Dawson
Candace: It's deciding on the domain name! LOL @Peter: Aside from the technicalities - I mean good for you for knowing all that -, is your site user friendly? - Mona N.
Ya know, with a tweak or two I could use this as an enterprise dashboard for different topics and existing internal feeds. Then when/if it becomes multi user I could use it as a behind the firewall version of friendfeed for workstreams. Of course workstreams doesn't sound all that fun so i'll have to change that. - Shawn McCollum
@mona, pls take a look at the what I posted.< http://lifestreampeter.blogspo...> The site I created was a POC, just for the convo . It took less then 15 minutes to completed. Is the UI heck sweet ? NO WAY 1. Does it have the underly principle of cron, very much so !! So all this sweetness in sweetcron really does not rock my boat. Been , there, seen that done that long long time ago. If you into UI only,. then it rocks your boat. - Peter Dawson
Peter: I already did look at your site, Peter. And that is why I stated what I stated. If all of your visitors are people who do not care about UI, then great! You just built a site in under 15 minutes. You're totally awesome :) However, if you read my blog, I explain -- in detail -- WHY SweetCron is right for me :) - Mona N.
It has it's uses, infact it's saved me building a very similar app. Most importantly, it's open source. If it were a hosted pay/month service, it would be useless. - Cains
Wow. Well, you never know - it says "Entertain your friends ;)" on there - but this may turn out to be a great example of the art of selling your ideas to investors who dont really know better. I.E. not really a market affirmation. - Andrew Baron
we throw this bubble term around too much, until i see everyone working only in social media and not in other trades i call bs on that. Oh wait I just went to the site, uh err ;) - adolfo foronda
Definitely scary given the lack of monetization in such services. Sure, entertainment can be a real business - but the company should know how to turn it into one. - Svetlana Gladkova
Doom! Dooooooooom, I say! Congrats, looks like you'll have a paycheck for a while. - JD Lasica
I can't figure out what compelled them to combine video and products... - Brady Brim-DeForest
Hi Robert, could not find it in Techmeme, who did they raise from? Interesting... - Loic Le Meur
being in a bubble and seeing companies over funded is totally different. startup overdosis will calm over time. but there is no industry collapse ahead. ad dollars, ecommerce and internet penetration are progressing. so for me no worries - ouriel
Loic: I'm not sure. I got this on Google Reader. - Robert Scoble
haha, wow funny that I found out about the funding through friendfeed first seeing as I know a good amount of the people at that company - Danish Khan
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Well let's see, property and stock markets are down in many countries and there is constant talk of a world economic slowdown. If the tech sector isn't in the same situation, all this is bound to have some flow-on effect sooner rather than later. No, I don't think there is a bubble. - jjprojects
jj: yes, but there are still a lot of companies who have funding that the overall market will not reward. I think there's a bit of a bubble in that there's a lot of people who have gotten funded by VC firms who haven't yet felt the more general economic pain that's out there. - Robert Scoble
Amazing....We have a solution that fits perfectly in the current economic situation and these guys get 8 million? - Brad Nickel
Of course we are in a bubble. that's the way our economy works now. The reason is that we have too many unregulated speculators in the markets today. - Bob Blunk
I would call this "statistical occurrence." It is pure statistics, not a bubble. There are many samples of similar nature which occur. The higher the size of the sample (overcrowded online entertainment market) the more likely is the occurrence of a highly-improbable event. Funding such a startup as redux would otherwise be improbable. good thing about stats is that 90+% of it is there to support the few. - Hayk
The Stata Center is home to MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), created in 2003 by the merger of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science. - Cee Bee
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egad post modernism is getting out of hand. try some new design cohesion... must everything make a self reference? I find it sad that a community dedicated to progression like MIT can't find a better use for new architectural possibilities. one hundred years from now it will just look like an old joke. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
The entire complex looks like some giant came along and stepped on it. - Peter Simard
This building is cool to look at, but according to some of the people in it, it leaks terribly. I hate to name drop (not really) but I was so fortunate to get to meet Noam Chomsky, who's office is in this building. The rest of the campus is lovely, as well. - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
Chomsky's office leaks eh? kind of like his theory that there were no WMDs in Iraq. Too bad he had to back peddle on that as well. How ironic that he works in a self referential post modernist house that parallels all his elitist bias. Perhaps if the architecture he worked in were better then he would see that history doesn't always reflect and cycle and that the signs of one mistake do not add up as mistake in other moments in history. Better Architecture=Better Brains! - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Linguists need to understand Language. Perhaps the language of architecture? Innovate... don't hesitate! Chomsky=FAIL! - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
finally an edifice that reflects the ugly ineptitude of revisionist theory. Looks like elephantitus of an institution. Cancer of the code has materialized... Post Modernism and all it's bastardizations like Feminism reflects and what is seen is a waste of technology, money and energy. We all suffer from the Blue State Fashion Tyranny. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Noah: Chomsky didn't design the building, he just has an office there, and in fact he hates the building, for any number of reasons. And your utterly fallacious argument regarding a correlation between the architecture of one's office and the 'architecture' of one's theoretical constructions reveals a simplistic world-view. Alas, I can see from your posts that you are here mainly to incite and inflame. - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
I'm sure Chomsky has enough clout that he can decide where his office goes. Nothing but passing the buck of guilt in the Blue States like usual. Always looking to claim that you had no power... looking to bureaucracy for responsibility and afraid to delineate structures... because if you do it looks like this! THE BUCK STOPS HERE on this comment. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N... Gehry told the Times that he had received support from professors and others the building was designed for. They are “sending me e-mails dumbfounded that their institution is doing this,” Gehry said. by the way... where is the link for Chomsky's opinion on this building? - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
When one talks of visual language and uses it for metaphor to the language of history and politics, of course it is simplicity. Metaphor is dependent on a certain abstraction. It is your words that reveal a lack of understanding. Your bias does not allow you to listen to anything that criticizes the status quo academic tyranny. Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but Chomsky's edifice will fall before your names hurt me. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Pointlessly erudite flame wars are my favorite. - Derrick Burns
I don't have a problem with disagreement do you Derrick? I have problems with intellectual laziness. Calling people names and barbs. Please respond and argue in the context of the thread. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
@Noah: Frankly, I quite enjoy disagreement. And I will gladly concede that intellectual laziness is a problem. As for my two cents on the thread: As far as I can discern, your contention is that Chomsky's philosophical models either A) reflect, or B) are reflected by, the dissolute post-modernist architecture of the building in which he works. I will yield that environment can impact psychology, but I'll go no further than that.[ ...] - Derrick Burns
Beyond this, you are arguing metaphor and symbology, which are intractably subjective and externally referential. In other words, if the building seems to you a physical manifestation of a philosophic model, the responsibility for that association is yours, not Chomsky's. - Derrick Burns
All of this is, of course, overlooking the fact that this entire comment thread reads like a series of Markov chains sourced from a freshman philosophy textbook. - Derrick Burns
your Subjectivity betrays a sad denial of a truth. I am arguing against self reference and you argue for it by using the very argument that is in question. You are not capable of leaving your limited logic. Enjoy the cancer of the code... it is yours to cherish with the rest of the monoculture. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
because you have no understanding of metaphor. You only understand CODE... and you have met recursion. CANCER of the CODE... when you forget humanity and its liberation is determined by structures like Polity Republic States or Good Architecture. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
'good architecture'? Who gets to decide what is good and what is not? ...I'm also not entirely certain that human liberation is determined by structures of any sort. Derrick: your point about environment impacting psychology is apt, but I would note that most of Chomsky's core theoretical work was done before he was in this building and, therefore, could not have been impacted by *this* environment. - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
his scene is a reflection of that building. It is his manifestation and it is yours as well. It is what happens when you deny structure and then attempt to put one together with a last minute bandage. If you see no place for an elegant evolving structure then that is your flaw. NO MORE GREEN GHETTOS! - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
the sad thing is there is structure in this building. ...though it is hidden and elitist like Robert Scoble's private feed. If the structure were a bit more tranparent in an non- absolutist way then there would be a beauty and intelligence. Instead what we are left with is the ugliness of Blue State deception that deny the self, by making reference to it's own history of mendacity, spuriousness, & inaccuracy! - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
there must be a structure. and we shouldn't pretend it shouldn't be there. there is a morality, a truth; a set of patterns that are worth fighting for. Never forget that. Don't reject our culture and then build a heap of garbage over it. Don't let the LEFTISTS build "60's project buildings" over ghettos. Stop hiding the truth. Tell us what our roles are (gender for example). It is time for our leaders to be more honest about us. please don't let this important thread decompose into more recursion - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Little bit late, Lufthansa has it since 3 years. But no idea why this is not standard? Just ditch all the in flight entertainment stuff (incl. shitty food) and give use power sockets and wifi. - Benjamin Kohler
