Brett Slatkin on one of the under appreciated dilemas facing young urban professionals today. Simply put, the math around home ownership in expensive US cities doesn't add up. This is markedly different than any other time in post-war history, as far as I know.
- DeWitt Clinton
I bought a home in the early part of the recovery from the last California housing bust, in 1996. Its made financial sense since then, but if I were starting now I'd be somewhat more hesitant. Even with the drops of the last several years, a mortgage is still a higher percentage of the typical family income now than it was then.
- DGentry
"Next Tuesday, Google is expected to announce its long-rumored Nexus One smartphone. It is undoubtedly designed to run the Google Android operating system for cellphones, which the search giant introduced more than a year ago. Android was envisioned as a major breakthrough in cellphones because it offered an "open" operating system – i.e., one that other companies could use and design applications for. At the time, this strategy was compared to that of Microsoft Windows, which broke the market hegemony of Apple's decidedly non-open OS in the mid-1980s and within a decade, turned Apple into a niche company. This time around, the new Android phones were supposed to break the hegemony of the Apple iPhone. So far, it hasn't quite worked out that way with Android"
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
"The early reports suggest that what Google will introduce next week, the Nexus One, will be a largely conventional smartphone. That's a pity because I suspect Google will never get this chance again. Meanwhile, strong on momentum and flush with cash, Apple isn't waiting around for the world to catch up with it. Two weeks from now, the company is expected to introduce yet another category-buster..."
- Louis Gray
Way too much iPhone Koolaid went into that article!
- Paul Jacobson
Seems that way, doesn't it, Paul? :) One commenter suggested Apple -- Steve Jobs -- Disney shareholder -- Disney -- Owns ABC -- Columnist bias! But I think that is trying too hard.
- Louis Gray
Excluding possible bias, the pro-iPhone position is the safest bet for the author, IMHO.
- Kurt Starnes
People look for a coordinated conspiracy with even the most nebulous of connections.
- DGentry
I noticed that. Marketers gone wild.
- Scott Ludwig
When I saw McAfee warned against possible hackers going wild vs. Google Chrome OS and Adobe in successive days last week, they got on my "ignore at all costs" list.
- Louis Gray
"Marketers Gone Wild"'.... "Hackers Gone Wild".... are these the lesser known sequels?
- Nick Lothian
The bright side is that Ubuntu 9.10 is running great on the MBP 13" SSD. Super fast, too. A few minor quirks to work out but it looks like I have a mobile dev environment ready to go.
- DeWitt Clinton
So far, the VMWare tools package that you install in Windows (mouse driver, etc) doesn't drag a bunch of crapware in with it. I wonder if thats next on the marketcritter's list?
- DGentry
I know it's early, but when you guys find out if it's a boy or a girl, you have to let us know. If it's a boy, we need to send you more stuff!
- Jason, Incognito
It's almost more entertaining to watch these comments stream in without listening to the podcast and try to figure out what the hell Johnny and Josh are talking about.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I found out about Robert Scoble through FriendFeed. Everybody else at the FF Boston meetup that I asked found FriendFeed through Robert Scoble.
- Bruce Lewis
if scoble's time scale for "now" was shorter then folks would realize how much he is always thriving for that new thing, but because it's more than 6 months normally it allows you to settle into his ideas
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
SAM - you're reminding me of Black Adder Christmas Carol where Prince Albert says "Yeeess. I am from Glasssgow"
- Spidra Webster
This chat is throwing the FF notifier off something fierce. It's still throwing up notifications from like five minutes ago. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I traveled Friday and Wednesday (25th and 30th) and had no trouble with the TSA at all. I don't get what the big deal is. Got through security in like five minutes total.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
(Granted not international travel - maybe that's where the new rules are, but still.)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I like Bruce Schneier's (sp) comment about it. He basically said that the only real security improvements are reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who won't just sit there anymore.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
My Mom just got back from Boston and she didn't have issues
- Molly, New Ears :P
bear, I would suggest that terrorists are a worse source of evil.
- Akiva Moskovitz
TSA do not allow personal communication devices in secure areas for it's employees
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
BABBY!?! (sorry. I just got back). Congratulations Rochelle, Akiva and Audrey!
- Micah Wittman
akiva, I say it's the TSA because it (the theatre of security they promote) cause people to not focus on the real issue, stopping the terrorists from having any control over our lives
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
TSA isn't evil, it's the system. The system is broken.
- Molly, New Ears :P
Signing out tonight, gang. Hope you all have a good weekend. :) Thanks for the pick, Johnny. I'm honored. :)
- LB - all new for '10!
"Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers."
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
TSA needs much improvement, but remember it used to be a bunch of contractors. That was lame.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Behaviour profiling is done (well, apparently) at Amsterdam's airport, it just wasn't used in the case in question (from what I've read).
- Micah Wittman
Georgia and I are playing in the McDonalds playground next to where Rach is getting some physio for her back... I just heard the couple sitting next to me whispher 'it must be a visitation day'... Since I'm the only other person in here, it was directed at me...
Firstly... WTF you sacks of shit? You know nothing of my situation and what I'm doing here. And Second... So a dad and his daughter alone automatically equals a divorced dad on visitation? Finally... Why is this a bad thing? I know divorced fuck heads who never ever see their kids and I also know great people who only get to see thier kids on rare occasions and treasure what little time they do have like gold... I'm so fucking pissed right now. Knowing some FriendFeeder's situation with thier kids and lack of access, I wanna cram a Happy Meal right up these fuck head's asshole... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
- Johnny Worthington
from email
If it had been me, I don't know if I could have kept quiet about it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, that's astonishing. I take my daughter places all the time, I wonder how often similar comments are voiced that I'm simply unaware of.
- DGentry
from Android
Any day I can make Johnny Worthington laugh is good day, and an honor... But as a friend: Random comments from some yahoo? ...eh, it's just sad they don't know better really.
- SAM
Bad enough they feel they can make a judgement. They compound their stupidity by being indiscreet enough to state their ignorance aloud. Fine, I can turn this into a lesson for me in how NOT to behave.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I'd rather talk about the playground than judgmental folks. Is it inside or outside? Ball pit or slides? Is there a Hamburgler statue?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Hehe... I like Eric... that's good stuff. (Hey Johhny, you back on your game? FFundercats in 1hr!!!)
- SAM
I hated it when I went somewhere without my Kid and someone would say "Oh, is daddy babysitting?" I always wondered if that's what I was doing when I was caring for the Kid.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I just figured they thought you were crazy and she was visiting YOU.
- Louis Gray
i get similar bullshit directed at me when i'm out by myself with my daughters, Johnny. it sucks. chin up, these fools don't know what an awesome dad you are. they don't count, only your family does.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Frankly, it's sad that those people believe that dad + daughter - mom = divorce. Think about what that says about THEIR jaded views of marriage and family.
- Jason, Incognito
i've had it implied that there was something pervy about me being alone with my daughters. now THAT'S sick.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
First Johnny rant of 2010 (at least for me)! Your right, they are pricks, but I'm sure they are sadly incomplete in their lives and try to fill the void by assuming things about others.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
In parallel, I always get weird looks too when I'm out with Sarah (or Sarah and Matthew) when at the park. My kids happen to interact with other kids, and as a good parent, I must occasionally hover to avoid bruising, etc. Yet I often get looks from other mothers that clearly I must be preying on their kids or looking to accost them in some way. Whereas mothers will talk with other kids' mothers, I am seen as unapproachable.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I have been accused of being a perv on more occasions than I care to recout with my photgraphy... Makes me want to cry at times... My favourite response it 'I'm a landscape photographer and your kid just ruined my shot. Do you know how long it's going to take me to Photoshop them out?'. It's effective, but I wish I didn't have to say it :(
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
It's such sad commentary. Paranoia doesn't end at airports, it stretches all the way to the playground. *shakes head*. I'm a dad, and I feel for all the dads who spoke up here.
- Micah Wittman
I'm a single full-time Dad to an eleven year old Daughter about half the time, so I can relate to some of the thoughts above. I used to feel weird and uncomfortable hosting play dates and such at our house. We've been at the same school for years now, so it's no longer an issue. I don't even think about such things much anymore when my Daughter and I are out together - if someone thinks something weird is going on it's their problem, not mine! Don't let it get you down, Johnny! :->
- Kurt Starnes
This is why you need lasers, or Emperor Palpatine electricity fingers
- Mo Kargas
The whole thing sux. The idea that you guys still have to deal with this crap after all these years - we fought so hard for the right to raise our kids as we saw fit. And now it seems like it's back to the Fifties . . .
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Wow. I think I would have had a "polite" and "quiet" conversation with them.
- Jordan Hofker
Surprised blogosphere's been meh 'bout web-based MOG (http://mog.com/ - U.S. only), but gaga over Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/en/ - Europe-only). Is it all about the $5?
I've been a firm believer in (and paying supporter of) music-in-the-cloud services for more than five years, and I find it both puzzling and frustrating that proportionally few of my fellow geeks seem to share my love for this stuff.
- Adam Lasnik
Yeah, but you can't fault me for non-disclosure ;-). So with that said, assuming that it's a usable service with a good library (you'll just have to take my word on that), would *you* be apt to pay $5 for it?
- Adam Lasnik
Nice service! My only reservation is that their library is pretty spotty on indie labels, even some of the larger ones (for example, try searching for anything on Warp).
- Matt Stanton
hmm, that's a bummer! If you've tried other online music service's, how do you feel MOG's library compares? One of their execs insisted in TechCrunch comments (assuming no impersonation) that MOG's library was just as big as Rhapsody's and such, but I found this not to be the case :(.
- Adam Lasnik
I haven't tried any of the other all-you-can-eat services, but emusic is generally a lot better about having what I'm looking for. Then again, emusic started with indie labels.
- Matt Stanton
i really need to get my brother to set up a proxy for me. re: paying. sure, if i like the service. just signed up for free trial of sugarsync and am thinking i might pay for real. i should go back and add up how much i've spent on iphone apps. i'm sure it's a lot.
- Rocky
Life isn't fair. Spotify is the best streaming service I have ever tested. I (full disclosure as always) was given a free premium account, here in the US, and have the iPhone app also. So that goes a long way. But even with that, it has had a dramatically positive impact on the way I listen to music. It is smart and sharp, and I've never felt that from any alternative.
- Louis Gray
So, with the disclaimer that I have no affiliation with any music service other than as a user, I am curious to know what aspects of Spotify you like better than MOG. I have tried both services, and so far like MOG a bit better due to social aspects and the fact that I can share (at least 30 second snippets of) music with friends with a real web URL rather than requiring them to...
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- Adam Lasnik
Anne, I assume the better the system, the better the recognition capability. It's all about competition. :)
- Cristo
Beti is singing songs in the kitchen, and I'm finding them and playing them from the office through Sonos. I'm kind of the human prototype for this technology right now. ;)
- Cristo
And will it include automatically billing you for ASCAP licensing fees for the live performance - the 3 Ms: Monetize, monetize, monetize. ;)
- Micah Wittman
Midomi does the first part very well, but the second part is not automated for obvious reasons :)
- Ethan Gahng
Well, first of all you can't automate the purchase part. Midomi lets you buy the discovered song directly from their app though. And, even if the purchase part is resolved--assuming that all the songs you hum or sing is in your iTunes library--you would still want to choose from several discovered songs with similar traits. For example, I just hummed the music "Desafinado" into my midomi, and it brings me several versions. I wouldn't like it if it just started playing the first one on their list.
- Ethan Gahng
And yet somehow I know which one to play even though I'm not the one humming.
- Cristo
He says: "The only other social networking website I use is FriendFeed, so I’m cutting that out too." I say it's open season on Matt for seven full days!
- Louis Gray
If you produce a male offspring, I recommend we get these kids paired up and married off immediately posthaste. If you clone Audrey, then I believe by contract, we are required to produce a second male offspring. Let the complaining commence.
- Louis Gray
oh go for it we could always hit the hide button.Only kidding.
- VAL D. Zone
"I have the MacBook Pro 15 inch, and am more interested in Air than the 13 inch, although I have some minor interest in that as well. I think I need to play newbie and actually walk into an Apple Store to try them all again. It'd be more fun to do the same after the end of January, I assume. (+ few months for delays)"
- Louis Gray
"It is tempting to start thinking that I need less storage space and not more, and that the cloud will take care of the rest. But so far, that isn't yet happening. If I were to ditch iTunes 100% for Spotify, that would be a start, but I do feel better having local copies of videos and photos, still."
- Louis Gray
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! You are both certainly invited to use my just-for-fun http://bebepool.com site if you were planning on having friends/family prognosticate about babby's arrival :) Cheers!
- Micah Wittman
My Top Two Google Reader Sharer List: Louis Gray and Jesse Stay. Thank you for the shares. Everytime I open up Reader I look forward to seeing what you guys share.
Wow - thanks Beau! I'll try to make them even better for the new year just for you :-)
- Jesse Stay
I don't really use Google reader but of the Google reader links that come into FF, Louis and Jesse are probably the ones I read the most.
- WorldofHiglet
i highly doubt that this would taste good AT ALL. give it to me right now and i will test it.
- Marie drinks champagne
Myrna, I know all about the 32-pack Diet Coke my wife picked up from CostCo yesterday. Yum. Diet Coke. I am willing to split this with Derrick. Doesn't he get one of those #insta thingies he keeps talking about over this food?
- Louis Gray
Louis, not sure I want to rain on your diet coke parade at this moment. When you're in a really good mood, let me know.
- Myrna
I am smiling just like in my avatar, Myrna. Bring it. :)
- Louis Gray
I disagree with what Dave is saying here. OAuth needs Facebook and others to adopt it in order to survive. It wasn't going in the right direction, so those companies took charge. Dave Recordon, if you read in the comments, made it clear they had full intentions to wrap this back into OAuth 2.0 if it makes sense. The fact is, calling it another revision of OAuth helps me, the end user,...
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- Jesse Stay
It should also be noted that Eran is not even on Twitter, despite Twitter being perhaps the biggest supporter of the old format. Note that Yahoo, perhaps the biggest implementor of OAuth, is also in on the WRAP proposal. :-) I think Eran is just bitter. Understandably so considering a lot of the original spec was his effort.
- Jesse Stay
Write it up, Mr. Stay! Sounds like a job for a guest post!
- Louis Gray
Perhaps soon, and I'll do it as a guest post if you like :-) I've got to get my new years posts out the door first. And before that I've got to get a couple SocialToo features out the door. :-)
- Jesse Stay
happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you
- v per vitzbank
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla...
- Dedegi
i dont love your present actually i hate it and i wanna kill it but it doesnt work. İts immortal. So could you please remove your fucking duck? And also its not lovely. By the way, Happy new year Bret, may it be the best for you
- özge gürçay
I cannot believe she's turned into such a kleptomaniac.
- Derrick
I have toddlers that visit me and I have toys around for them to play with its amazing how they all try to get away with taking something and I catch them everytime. lol
- VAL D. Zone
Hah. I wish Audrey would play with her toys but 90% of the time she's more interested in whatever's on our coffee table: if it's a laptop, she wants to bang on the keys; if it's anything else, she wants to put it on the floor.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Would YOU want to play with baby toys? Adult stuff is MUCH more interesting!!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
She is merely claiming her inheritence; your day is over, old man!
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I might be a little biased, but this post kind of pisses me off. No matter how hard we try to support the open net/web, people like the author of this post are going to fling shit at you -- "Not *everything* at Google is open, so this is all a bunch of hypocrisy, blah blah blah".
- Joel Webber
If there is one thing TC does well, it's fling pooh. They do many other things well, but flinging pooh gets folks like you and I to link to them, talk about them and propagate the brand. Social media isn't great at differentiating good news from bad news yet.
- Bill Strathearn
And yet, Bill and Joel, those of us who try not to... "fling pooh"... those efforts are not always rewarded. I try to filter out said "pooh" from those things I share or distribute or create. It's a "pooh strainer" of sorts. But it is in beta.
- Louis Gray
I appreciate your efforts, Louis. Your work has always seemed sensible and level-headed to me. I think it's rather unfair of us to characterize TC in general as pooh-flingers. When pooh does get flung, it has to be an individual that does the flinging!
- Joel Webber
I do to, and I'm sorry to even kid. I'm sure Twitter is being attacked constantly from various directions, from hackers to script kiddies to governments. I'm impressed they hold up as well as they do.
- Kevin Fox
I think we all share Kevin's views. The timing of Ev's share was very unlucky. But nobody wants this kind of trouble. They have been stressed to the limit with growth, which in theory is a good problem to have, and they are maturing. Tonight was a rare exception to recent continued good news.
- Louis Gray
Do the have a huge whale on top of their office?
- Jemm
LOLLLLL Onwards + Upwards to IRIDIUM!!
- Billy Warhol
after #real-time web -- comes real-time encyclopedias - ten probabilistic anticipatory encyclopedias?
- Reese Jones
As bad as the misinformation can be, the edits get redacted pretty quickly. Usually within 10 minutes they are cleaned up. I consider that an acceptable trade off.
- Jeremy Clark