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Maybe I'm just numb, but it seems the landscape's full of me-too search, filtering and dashboard apps. Where's today's "Visicalc"? #crunchup
@chrismessina Oh *appstores*. I read that as *apostrophes*, which also made sense.
Too bad everybody couldn't have just stuck with Morse code. Just think how interoperable everything would be.
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Oh, look. I just saw a batch of tweets from the Real Time CrunchUp show up in my FriendFeed stream. The oldest is from 47 minutes ago. #fail
Brizzly seems like it's in an incredibly tenuous position, what with building a business around a web interface to a service with a web interface.
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Especially when a) Service changes features and b) when service steals features from you.
- Johnny Worthington
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Yeah, if you're a [Twitter|Facebook] UI product manager and you're not taking the best features from Brizzly and incorporating them into your own UI, [Twitter|Facebook] needs a different product manager.
- Ken Sheppardson
They should be doing what Apple used to (still does?) where they fold all the coolest 3rd party fixes into the next OS release...
- Aron Michalski
'Paul is Dead!' (said Fred) | Michigan Today - http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2009...
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"Beatles experts say this Michigan Daily article by Fred LaBour catapulted the 'Paul is dead' rumor from fringe weirdness to mainstream frenzy."
- Ken Sheppardson
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And now we know... the rest of the story.
- Louis Gray
The walrus is Paul.
- Gary Burd
Kookoocachoo
- Curtiss Grymala
But @leolaporte, did you *pay* for the Droid?
Roberto Bonini liked this
With shares of Sweat Equity ;)
- Micah Wittman
ha ha ha ha ha
- Chris Heath
I think I can speak for Leo when I say, "Screw you, Sheppardson!"
- Laura Norvig
What's your "TL;DR Threshold" for FriendFeed comments? If you see the dreaded little italicized "124 more comments" message, how many of them will you actually read before you comment yourself?
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I'll admit I tend to read the first 10-20 and the last 10-20, but those 100 in the middle...oy.
- Ken Sheppardson
at that point, I generally won't comment at all. after 50+ comments there is rarely anything that I can add that hasn't been said already.
- chrisofspades
In general, threads like that are political enough that I wouldn't want to get involved anyway. *Usually* I prefer to read all of them before making a comment, which is why I don't jump into too many threads that long.
- i80and
If it's something I'm interested in or care about, I'll read/skim most of it. Otherwise tl;dr
- Maxamad
It's tough being a latecomer to a thread like that, however interesting it may be.
- LogEx
I don't think the comment count itself has ever dissuaded me from expanding comments, but the content of the first few comments will sometimes stop me from reading further.
- Victor Ganata
*placeholder lest I get trapped in middle*
- Micah Wittman
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- Maxamad
The more comments there are on a post I find interesting, the more likely I am to expand them.
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
After only eight years of reliably running 24x7 my faithful Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV+TiVo box is now rebooting every five minutes. It'll be sad to see it go, but it probably deserves to be put to rest.
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Well, it's dead. Time to revist that whole DirecTV vs TiVo vs Comcast thing again. Sigh.
- Ken Sheppardson
I dunno if this helps at all: http://www.engadgethd.com/2009... I'm waiting to see how much those Ceton cablecards end up costing.
- Richard Lawler
Nice, Richard. And timely :-) I so dread the thought of going to Comcast, and I don't know what's worse... waiting for the past five years or so for DirecTV and TiVo to get their act in gear and make up or waiting for a cable card tuner I can drop into my own W7 Media Center box. Heaven forbid DirecTV and Microsoft do anything this century that'd bring satellite to Media Center.
- Ken Sheppardson
I suspect I'm probably going to end up slinking into Best Buy and picking up whatever the absolutely cheapest choice is from DirecTV to hold me over until I figure this all out again.
- Ken Sheppardson
One spare hard drive, $25 for the latest InstantCake image, and 15 minutes with a torx driver later, the SAT-T60's back up and running. You've got another six months to get your act together, DirecTV/Microsoft.
- Ken Sheppardson
ffcheck Bookmarklet - http://ffcheck.com
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The ffcheck bookmarklet gives you a quick way to find out if there are any existing items on FriendFeed related to the web page you're viewing. Simply drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you click the link a list of FriendFeed items will be overlaid onto the page you're viewing.
- Ken Sheppardson
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coooooooooool
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
perfect!
- Patrik Johansson
is there a way to go through my contacts only?
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Dobromir: Not that I know of. It's not authenticating at all, i.e. it has no idea who you are. In fact, you don't even need to be a FF user to use it. I don't know if the API allows you to retrieve a filtered list.
- Ken Sheppardson
Also, that sort of circumvents the intent. [ Well.. my intent at least :-) ] The idea is to promote discovery and connect you with folks you might not know otherwise. Rather than have 30+ people all start threads on an item (as shown in the screen shot), this lets you join the existing conversation instead of resharing something. Your Like or Comment will put it in your followers' stream without you having to reshare it.
- Ken Sheppardson
so I though, I asked because feedly can do something very similar, but again it searches the whole friendfeed instead of the users home feed, anyway cool enough :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Just made a quick fix. Should work with Chrome now.
- Ken Sheppardson
Brilliant thanks, Chrome needs it :)
- M F
Another fix, and it works on Safari as well (all on Windows XP). IE7's being a bit more temperamental...
- Ken Sheppardson
took me a minute to find the close 'button' maybe also a [X] in the upper right?
- Chris Heath
Chris: Yeah, Micah suggested that earlier today. Just swapped the [close] out for an [x] in the upper right.
- Ken Sheppardson
cool... i like ... this bookmarklet will come in handy - good work @kshep!
- Chris Heath
I just grabbed ffcheck.com and moved this over to http://ffcheck.com, so if anyone is so inclined they can delete the bookmarklet that points to kshep.net and grab it again from there.
- Ken Sheppardson
sweet!
- laura
Great tool for discovering other FFers who are interested in a topic. You can click on entries within the page ffcheck produces. Or you can print the page. Well done, Ken Sheppardson.
- Polly Potter
Thanks for posting this. It will come in useful to see who else on FF is talking about a link I find interesting. BTW, I like it better than the Feedly function.
- Alexander Grundner
[edited] FF Share code can be found here: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (this can also be found on friendfeed itself)
- Chris Heath
[edited] FF Check code can be found here as well: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (also can be found at http://ffcheck.com thanks to Ken)
- Chris Heath
to clarify: the FF Share is the bookmarklet that the ff team developed (i guess) and the 'FF Check' is Ken's great bookmarklet
- Chris Heath
and don't you love it when the code doesn't really make it in the comment box?
- Chris Heath
ok so i went thru the trouble to make a page with both ff bookmarklets on it - totally 1990's html but here goes anyways: http://chrisheath.us/friendf...
- Chris Heath
not sure why i did all that or when thru the 'trouble' to do it... if you're reading this years from now don't expect my links to be valid
- Chris Heath
Does ffcheck still work? Just asking because I haven't gotten it to work in a few days, even after dumping cache (which usually fixes weird transient JS errors.)
- Andrew C
I hope so. It's still useful to me. kshep, did you intentionally pull it down? ffcheck.com/javascript/ is 404'ing. Also is the code here: http://userscripts.org/scripts... a current or an old version?
- Micah Wittman
No, I didn't pull it down... it's needed two clicks in my dev channel version of Chrome to work, but other than that it was cranking away... or so I thought... let me take a look...
- Ken Sheppardson
nice!
- .LAG liked that
Should be back. Sorry about that.
- Ken Sheppardson
I should note that in Chrome 4 (My default browser...I'm on the dev branch) you have to click the bookmarklet twice. I've been putting off resolving that in the ffcheck code, but it's probably time to dig into it.
- Ken Sheppardson
Great! Thanks, Ken.
- Micah Wittman
The code at userscripts.org is pretty old. I branched off from that for the version that's hosted at ffcheck.com. As it says in the "About" page there on userscripts, it really just demonstrates how the API works. Honestly, I haven't touched this in forever. Y'all are going to make me try to remember how it works, aren't you? :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I always thought it should be a core part of the tool because it worked so well, too many fragmented discussions get started without it!!
- Chris Myles
I think that in chrome you've had to click twice for a long while... since version 2 of chrome or something (i think) - oh and if you do mess with the code a bit of animation would be nice while it's loading... even if it's the most simple of blinking periods - just to indicate that it is working and not stuck
- Chris Heath
Thanks Ken!
- Andrew C
So what's the most efficient way to split a Windows 7 install between a 30GB SSD and a pair of 1TB drives in RAID1? Is it worth using the SSD? Hm.
Roberto Bonini liked this
Just start the install onto the SSD but move the Program Files and Users directories to the array?
- Ken Sheppardson
Do you have a large hadron collider on hand to perform a split like that?
- Micah Wittman
Heh. Shouldn't really be that hard. Seems like somebody online must have done this before. Googling is in order.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm sure ken could get one. He just needs a country the size of swizerland and 15 Billion smackers.
- Roberto Bonini
pagefile.sys could certainly live on the SSD. Adobe scratch disks... maybe the browser cache files... there must be a FAQ for this...
- Ken Sheppardson
Cool... "Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition" -- http://tuts4tech.net/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
50 Years of Space Exploration - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Just found one of those "OMG, I can't believe I never caught this before" bugs. I'm an idiot.
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aren't those just lovely! but I don't think you can call your self a working coder without at least one of those a year :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, this one's particularly embarrassing. Folks had been asking "Why isn't this doing X?" and I kept saying "Probably because A. Let me tweak that". Time would pass... "Why is it still not doing X?" and I'd say "Must be B. I'll take a look". Time would pass, etc. Turns out it's 'cause I'm an idiot.
- Ken Sheppardson
*solidarity*
- Micah Wittman
I hate those and love them at the same time. They're the type that just make you feel better once you realize it.
- Jesse Stay
Video: 'Numa Numa Guy' takes over Spartan band - NCAAF - Yahoo! Sports - http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa...
"If you would have completely comprehended this clip on its own, with no introduction to Brolsma or "Numa Numa," I humbly suggest that you should seriously reexamine your life. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to calculating Kirk Cousins' completion percentage on third-and-long."
- Ken Sheppardson
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Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Merlin Mann - http://vimeo.com/7192517
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I guess I should stop watching this one and go watch the other one first :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Dishwasher Detergent Soak Cleans Dishes Overnight - Cleaning - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5385784...
This looks a whole lot easier than hanging them outside to be blasted clean by the blowing sand. I'll have to try it.
- Ken Sheppardson
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The saddest part of this whole Colorado balloon incident is next time a six year old boy really DOES get stuck in a runaway experimental helium balloon nobody's going to believe it.
Josh Fraser, Brian Appleby, David Knight and 8 other people liked this
or a box...
- Johnny Worthington
Or that a "Wolf" really interviewed a "Falcon"
- Micah Wittman
Indexed » Needles and haystacks and such. - http://thisisindexed.com/2009...
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Daring Fireball Linked List: GitHub Flavored Markdown - http://daringfireball.net/linked...
Dustin Sallings liked this
"I created Markdown for my own use, and, well, I know the formatting rules pretty well. For use in situations like user-submitted comments, GitHub Flavored Markdown is a superior variant. It changes just three rules from regular Markdown, all of which make for a better set of formatting rules for people who don’t even know the rules."
- Ken Sheppardson
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Nice... paraphrasing, "I built this, but somebody else improved on it, so you might want to look at theirs." Refreshing to see this these day...
- Ken Sheppardson
I figured I'd do a little desktop system renovation work before I upgrade from Win 7 RC to production (my motherboard only supports 2GB RAM) but I'm not sure I have 40hrs to invest in catching up on the state of PC hardware... sigh...
check out the pc perspective web site - they have amazing resources.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, I'm just starting to dig in... If I wanted to just start from scratch, I'd probably just pick components off the PC Perspective leader board and be done with it, but I'm sorta trying to fit in a new motherboard and memory around my old Core 2 Quad Q6600 and video cards. I'm trying hard to avoid the "While I'm at it..." trap.
- Ken Sheppardson
did you see the MSI board with "OC Genie" that Ryan showed on TWICH last night? press a button and got 700mhz in just a few seconds with a hardware overclock! -- here's the initial review from sept: http://www.pcper.com/article...
- Chris Heath
although i don't think that mobo fits core2 cpus... only i5 and i7 (i think)
- Chris Heath
Yup. Saw that. And that's exactly the sort of "While I'm at it..." stuff I need to avoid :-) Just looking at Socket 775 boards at Newegg, it seems like if I pick up a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P for $135 and a pair of 2GB(+?) sticks I might be all set.
- Ken Sheppardson
sounds good to me... i'm still hoping that i'll win that cyberpower giveaway in the pcper contest... that would be a sweet pc
- Chris Heath
YouTube - Welcome to the Microsoft Store - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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So did those same people who did the "Hammertime" dance in the clothing store just dress up in colored shirts and take over an Apple store?
- Ken Sheppardson
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Apartment market moving on up - San Francisco - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
"'Landlords who have been waiting to exhale can breathe a sigh of relief as renters slowly creep back into the market to fill up their empty units,' says Novato's RealFacts, a database company that analyzes apartment rental numbers nationwide. Bay Area landlords might not be entirely thrilled, having seen their rents drop by an average of 7.5 percent over the past year, compared with 3.7 percent nationwide, according to the report, based on figures up to Sept. 30. Still, not so bad in light of the 17.3 percent increase they enjoyed over the past four years. In San Francisco, rents dipped 5.6 percent over the past year - studios and one-bedrooms showing significant drops - compared with an overall 26.4 percent increase in the past four years."
- Ken Sheppardson
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Facebook, MySpace Divide Along Social Lines : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...
Francine Hardaway liked this
"Social media researcher Danah Boyd has heard a lot of conversations just like this. In her work for Microsoft she's spoken to teens all over the country about their use of social media. She thinks the online social world is dividing up, just like the real world."
- Ken Sheppardson
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NCC-1701 Bridge
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Oooooh!
- Janice
my question is this: did he go to his bookshelf to get that blueprint or find it on the net :) (honest does make me say that my own Star Trek set of blueprints is in a storage box so it's not handy)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
My set is stashed somewhere along with my Technical Manual, Concordance, and Medical Reference Manual, so I had to resort to Google/Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't have a set of Star Trek blueprints... :(
- Janice
The real question isn't whether FriendFeed is dead or not. It's very much alive. The real question is how much of what's keeping it alive is people starting the exact same thread about whether it's dead or not over and over again.
Stock market gurus call that the dead cat bounce ;)
- Eric Logan
Dell Studio 14z - http://www.dell.com/us...
I've finally retired my Latitude D600 and replaced it with a Studio 14z. It's a pretty darn slick machine, but my brain's having a hard time switching from good old 1024x768 to the 1600x900 screen. It's so... wide...
- Ken Sheppardson
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Some Pictures Don’t Need The Family | Progress City, U.S.A. - http://progresscityusa.com/2009...
"Family pictures are important but a few go a long way. The same picture without the family clearly shows the submarine they just cruised on ... better for storytelling back home."
- Ken Sheppardson
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With FriendFeed dying, maybe we should all move over to Jaiku. It looks pretty spiffy.
Matthew Gifford, Micah Wittman and Steve Gillmor liked this
that's mean! :D
- pea
Migrate-schmigrate. I just unpacked.
- Michael Markman
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