Loren Norman

as if Ruby needed to get more confusing and complex...this comes along - acedanger

From 2003... he mentions its been vaporware for a long time. - Sam Pullara

Is that deck from 2003? Did Rails not evolve since then? - AJ Kohn

It says it was presented at Ruby Conference 2003... Rails and Ruby are not really connected as far as development goes. - Sam Pullara

The best PR: create an uber useful product that targets people who (a) have large audiences and (b) can't keep quiet about using it. Eg, FF targeting Robert Scoble. :-) - Ranjit Mathoda

The PR Game needs to change, but can't figure out how. Bullshit is about where they are right now as they try to figure their way out of the pasture. - Warner Crocker

Love the "Centipedes?" poster on the wall. - Marty McGuire

Yes, the glitches and outages are getting worse, not better. And it's driving activity over to Friendfeed. Which is not a bad thing, except for Twitter. They have several weeks at most to fix this before leading users start abandoning it. - Dion Hinchcliffe

@Michael Pardee - I already have quit twitter (like the ryhme of that) and am using FF exclusively. - Jason Kaneshiro

Yep... twitter is over and out... - Aad 't Hart

Why doesn't this item in FF get any comments but the twits and google reader shared items do? Is it because otherwise the conversation gets away from the blog or is fragmented to much ;) ? - Mark Jenniskens

Personally I'm very bored of Facebook and I think a lot of people will get bored of it over the coming months and years. We've been through all this before. Five years ago in the UK friendsreunited was huge; it was all anyone talked about. They tried to maintain their monopoly by keeping it incredibly closed. Now it's virtually dead. Great services always beat big walls. - Charlie

Here's my first ever comment on FriendFeed, just for you Scoble. I can't see MS keeping Facebook closed if they do in fact acquire it. I don't agree that it is in their own best interest to do so. - Mack D. Male

He's using window.name for object storage. This is a really interesting and potentially useful hack. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before. - Paul Buchheit

This is interesting for limited applications, but the security flaw is troubling. Perhaps it would be useful for "one-page" or "flash" session data where you have a multipage form and don't want to POST between pages. - Gary Burge

The second comment notes that both Firefox and Safari *crashed* if you tried to stuff > 32 MB into window.name. Sooooo I'm not sure the security implications are limited to XSS ;-) - Karim

The latest from my brother Brian. Big news coming from him soon, by the way... - Christopher Sacca

[Brendan Eich comments about the birth of JavaScript]: As I've often said, and as others at Netscape can confirm, I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of "doing Scheme" in the browser... - Chris Wetherell

[About having Java and JavaScript]: ...two languages were required to serve the two mostly-disjoint audiences in the programming ziggurat who most deserved dedicated programming languages: the component authors, who wrote in C++ or (we hoped) Java; and the "scripters", amateur or pro, who would write code directly embedded in HTML. - Chris Wetherell

[On JS adoption]: Is JavaScript popular? It's hard to say. Some Ajax developers profess (and demonstrate) love for it. Yet many curse it, including me. I still think of it as a quickie love-child of C and Self. Dr. Johnson's words come to mind: "the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." - Chris Wetherell

great. i now have that song stuck in my head again! :) - Nicole Simon

Louis, did you reach the end of the Internet and decide to go back to read it again from the beginning? - Chris White

Ah, now reading more of FF, I see it was 37signals that was reading the Internet over again. - Chris White

The author of this anti-Internet piece is Cliff Stoll, best known for The Cuckoo's Egg, his 1990 book about tracking a hacker who had infiltrated his systems at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. He's an astronomer by training, but an early Internet user. We used him as a contrarian columnist on MSNBC's The Site, and ZDTV/TechTV. It was his schtick, but like our 1995 hair styles, it hasn't aged well. - Leo Laporte

Great find, Louis. Shows we've come a long way... - Rubin Sfadj

It's really interesting how this is a new phenomenon. In the past if I was at a bad or boring presentation I would think it was dull, maybe tell my neighbor and maybe talk with some people afterwards about how boring it was (but we wouldn't all remember most of it) Social networking changes all that...I can get instant verification that yes, indeed this is awful from my fellow audience members. It creates a feedback loop that wasn't there before, made worse if the people on stage are not hooked in to that loop. - Nathan Manley

Sounds like a real life demo of Internet commenters. - Guy

"Twitter is another example of the ridiculous quickly turning to the sublime. Morons who can't choose one bar and stay there on Friday nights want their friends to be able find them. Voila, a service that sends out badly spelled messages about your whereabouts to everyone you know. A few short months later, Egyptian democracy activists are using the same tool to organize and communicate below the radar and/or while in jail." - Paul Buchheit

Wow this is cool. - Loren Norman