I agree...if the device is that beautiful and at that price point, it's too hard to pass up.
- Craig Eddy
Definitely. Its a beautiful piece of equipment. I dont have a netbook or a laptop. Just my trusty EEEbox which doesnt take up any space, but there is times, id like to still be on the sofa and check something quickly or surf while im waiting for a program to come on, or the girlfriend to bring me my dinner. :)
- Giraffes Up in The Air
This is nice. @dezertsnow, check this out. Do you wanna? ",)
- jan geronimo
yeah it looks nice in that picture but what is it ? from what i have read so far its just a browser on a touch screen . No OS, No storage, has anyone seen this thing running yet? how will it be better than a netbook? or even an ipod touch?
- tony bland
Tony, the post should explain. It's a Web tablet. No hard drive. No keyboard. No apps to slow it down. Just a browser. Supports Flash, unlike the iPhone.
- Louis Gray
yeah thanks Louis i got that, i'm just eager to know more.
- tony bland
It's only a rough 3D rendering. Long way to go baby.
- ĐS†Λ
if they manage to produce a product that looks like the render and also is cheap then it will do well. however if apple join the party all bets are off. Also the render looks little like a large iphone/touch so they need to get to market first.
- Darren Stuart
I just don't know anyone who DOESN'T want one of these.
- Jolie O'Dell
very cool... I'm amazed they followed through, should be nice!
- Tim Hoeck
Total cloud computing. No apps or storage to slow it down. I assume since it boots from the web, that no internet, no go (may be a big downside). I wish I had one of these a few years ago on my travels. Very keen to see when it comes out.
- Alistair
that's a good point Alistair with out an internet connection this thing is just an expensive tray, cant see this beating netbooks or iphones any time soon.
- tony bland
It still has some computing power built into it. I'm sure it'll be hackable for other uses. I'm sure Arrington will decry that, too.
- Darren Landrum
Interesting NY Times coverage (showing NY Times being displayed) - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... - this is something that it seems inconcievable for Arrington to pull off on his own - no doubt he needs powerful partners (or purchasers) -- could it be that the Times is involved?
- Brian Sullivan
@ Brian Sullivan I think you may have something there, though it wouldn't be necessary. It is probably sufficent to get the NYT to do a story by just showing their webpage on the CrunchPad Demo.
- Phil Boiarski
The only reason this doesn't flat out kick the kindles ass from here to the VFW at the edge of town is the lack of eInk. Because the eInk only needs power when it changes it's sick on battery life. Like years or something between charges.
- Matthew DeVries
I think Tablet Computing is the future, but this device seems really crippled.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
I don't watch it close enough. It would be nice to see some stats on how much my stuff was liked, rather than how many likes I've made -- that statistic is more indicative of community involvement and how many people's lives I've enriched.
- Andy Bakun
Well thanks to all you party poopers I just passed 45,000 likes and didn't announce it. I'll announce 50,000 though when it happens in about a month.
- Alex Scoble
Never. I don't even pay attention to that.
- Anika Malone
I did once, but I faded from that. I just started having fun with this stuff on FriendFeed and all that seemed to fade into the background. Funny, huh?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Way too busy doing other things to even look at that stuff.
- Ken Camp
I was shocked to see that 1000 people were subbed to me and at the time said something to the effect that I can't believe 1000 people could be interested in anything I have to say.
- Derrick
Announcing: I'm commenting on this thread foe the first time! (seriously, I'll mention it if the mood hits me)
- Ted Roden
via iPhone
Never. I have no idea where I stand. Even though the numbers are right there at the top.
- Rahsheen ™
Never. I don't even look. I figure I will have worn out my welcome when all my posts are met with silence, then exit stage left.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Every once in a while. Not bragging, mind you. I just have a number obsession. :-)
- Jason Huebel
via iPhone
“A class of fifth graders in California got a shocking crash course on the birds and the bees courtesy of their teacher and an x-rated home video she accidently included in a DVD of classroom memories.”
- Anthony Citrano
via Bookmarklet
The best way to find the video is to do a search for Crystal Defanti on Twitter search, and then make sure the person linking the video follows zero and has only a couple 10s of followers
- Matthew DeVries
Yeah, well, while I can appreciate the sentiment, I certainly don't want other people enjoying my private moments later; in other words, they WON'T be filmed! Just a no-brainer for me. YMMV, but you risk sharing that road with unauthorized vehicles.
- MiniMage (FakeLifePerson)
I have friends that were two grades younger who borrowed a digital camera from an old teacher of mine when they were in 8th grade. Then they found her naked photos on the camera. She was fired, of course.
- Daniel Zarick
I hope she doesn't get fired. I mean, big mistake for sure but ... um, we all have sex. I'd rather they see nudity over violence.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ authority figure, trust, all of that. news says she probably won't, though
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
@Michael: She made the mistake of splicing this onto a DVD. Outside of that, there's nothing else going on IMO. Did we think she *didn't* have sex before this happened? Or that she's some rarity who takes pictures or video of sexual activity? *shrugs* We just happen to know about her peccadilloes now - nearly everyone has 'em.
- AJ Kohn
I disagree with those who think she shouldn't be fired, not because she has sex, or because she made a video, but because of the sheer stupidity of handing it out to students. I wish someone with more experience than me could explain how it is even possible to accidentally include a clip. Does she just have the file on her desktop? Did she not check the DVD before sending it out? This...
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- Andrea G
I've come to mostly ignore the trending topics. They are very rarely the "trending" topic of the people I follow, and even more rarely a topic that I even care to divulge into.
- Daniel Zarick
Louis, I saw that too. More colossal immaturity from 4chan.
- Stephen Mack
via iPhone
There has to be a better mechanism put into in place for the trending topics, it's way to easy to game.
- Mike Fruchter
@Mike, there isn't much that can withstand the sheer number of /b/tards..
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
It's possible - spammers will always try to game the system. FF could delete such accounts or do something less drastic such as muzzling them so they can't post anything for a certain period of time.
- Ahsan Ali
friendfeed is very good at ousting spammers right now, but that is relying on the community to report and staff to monitor and delete accounts by hand. Not sure this approach will scale well when friendfeed gets bigger.
- Laura Norvig
Computational approaches to spam detection work better with more data, which is when the community approach starts breaking down. I'm not too worried.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, I'm not worried either. But I am worried that Chris' link didn't work.
- Louis Gray
it will be interesting to see that develop or where it goes for sure. I hope it can be kept to a minimum
- (jeff)isageek
Reminds me of a line from a John Hiatt song: "She is beautiful, she is small/She don't want to play basketball"
- Joe Bonner
via fftogo
This is what Sarah and I were doing after escaping from sacrament meeting. She got fidgety, so we wandered around the church. Some of you can no doubt relate.
- Louis Gray
We just added a "Best of day" link at the bottom of the page. The best part is that it works for friend lists too, so you can have a "Best of day from family", etc. Thanks to Matt Cutts for the suggestion (http://friendfeed.com/mattcut...)
Nice! I was just thinking about this today, but it'd also be awesome to have a "Best of" link for user profiles as well, so it'd be easy to see which of a users (or yourself) updates/posts were the most popular
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
this is good. how about also adding best of week and month and putting the same tool on searches as well?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome...I've really missed this since the redesign.
- Mark Krynsky
And guess who comes up twice as soon as I click this new feature...? Paul Buchheit!!! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This is great but hopefully will be expanded to groups, users and saved searches too? And agree with Thomas about best of week/month too.
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah, didn't know what happened. I was goofing with my Twitter settings and turned off a lot of the echoes. I didn't think I checked anything, but must have.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Who will Friendfeed compete with? Plaxo requires login but aggregates all networks, Friendfeed aggregates public info (and maybe someday login required data). Flock, which requires download also aggregates your network into one place. What site could be the biggest threat to Friendfeed? I say web email sites like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and MS Mail.
Agree with Ben, Google Wave has all the bells and whistles, I'm waiting for it to unfold
- Julie Williams
Ben Parr: agree wholeheartedly, it's public, it's shared, it's conversations, it sucks things in
- Mark Essel
can friendfeed and google wave play nice? sorry first week with two puppies, that's the best vocabulary I can muster.
- Mark Essel
FriendFeed can leverage many google wave technologies and package them in a way that is not designed for internal communication/information consumption (which the current google wave client is designed to do)
- Chris Saad
FriendFeed already competes with Facebook news feed - but it has none of the bloat - it is designed for someone to aquire it and deliver the facebook newsfeed experience for the openweb (Hint: Google)
- Chris Saad
My vote is Wave. But it's a premature, ignorant prediction.
- phil baumann
Jeremiah, thanks a lot , your post sparked a conversation that's driving my attention away from my feed reader and a blog post about a new education/support infrastructure for entrepreneurs based on VC like support (not the capital, the knowledge of startup cycles/networking/market)
- Mark Essel
ACtually KD is on to something, if web sites as destinations go away, FF has that opportunity. Mark, sorry bud :)
- Jeremiah Owyang
@Mark Essel One evidence is that I look for content from the Whole Web(via search engine, digg,etc) in the past, but now I only go to friendfeed for content. For me, ff has won the competition against the Whole Web.
- K.D.
ahh but what is ff without the rest of the web?
- Mark Essel
it's a wonderful indexing service that brings information important/interesting/pertinent straight to your door. it's a personalized information delivery service (fantastic). folks go from ff to my blog, that's fine by me. What I'm trying to peddle is the hardest sell, ideas.
- Mark Essel
interesting analysis.. im not sure if friendfeed will ever go mainstream becuz to understand it means that you understand way more than the average internet users.. twitter is for the masses cuz anyone can write a few words and send out a tweet.
- Jason Pollock
Good question, Jeremiah. Right now, no one. Google Wave if people run with it might be a competitor, but if they don't and Google does what it normally does with the technology on their own (little to nothing...Jaiku or Orkut, anyone?) then probably not.
- Neal Jansons
Phil and I just spent an hour and a half cleaning out the garage. I (somewhat compulsively) save every box that anything is ever shipped in, along with all those peanuts and air packs. We broke down about 40 boxes, put a ton of stuff in the car for goodwill, and a ton will go out with the trash. Garage looks so much better already.
I am keeping some of them since I am going to start working again, but we have probably about 150 shipping boxes out there, not including the ones I have bought. I want to arrange the garage so I have a better space to work, but it's hard because it's like 90F at 2am. I'll take photos of it "so far" and post later.
- Andrea G
I was just kidding about the boxes... I have TONS of boxes! :-)
- Jannifer Stoddard
lol Jannifer I think you are too far away to be able to get them but you could have them. Most of the ones we are throwing out have some kind of damage though.
- Andrea G
Damage because at 2am while cutting them down I realised some genius in the shipping department also glued them shut so I just started jumping up and down on them to make them flat. This was about the time we decided to call it a night.
- Andrea G
"A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl. The sexually suggestive ad allowed parties to get a number for a 9-year-old girl. According to prosecutors, Margery Tannenbaum posted the ad to get revenge after an argument between her daughter and the girl, who attend the same school in Hauppauge, New York."
- April Buchheit
via Bookmarklet
Correct me if I'm wrong: isn't breaking 1M on Compete.com irrelevant? Those numbers are a loose estimate, based on less than 1% of US users ... with global reach, they MUST have hit 1M months ago (alexa says only 26% of FriendFeed users are from the USA)
- Joel Bennett
No metric is per se irrelevant. If we want to celebrate FF hitting a meaningless milestone, why not? It's not as if anyone's using this graph as justification for an argument.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
the party was held - the only participants were those on the default list :)
- Allen Stern
I just had our IT guy compare our google analytics with Compete stats and Compete was reporting about 30% of what the google stats showed.
- Laura Norvig
Any pointers to trend-tracking sites besides Compete, Alexa, Google Trends, Quantcast, StatCounter Global Stats and Trendrr?
- Sean McBride
YAY, that is impressive - congrats FF team :)
- Susan Beebe
Congrats, FriendFeed. But how many registered users? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - all you have to do is look at the people on the default list - look at how many subs scoble has - i'd bet the total subs isn't more than a few x more.
- Allen Stern
Wow! One of the reasons is probably the better permalinks we got in the latest big update. Friendfeed indexes way better now by Google.
- Svartling
it's really hard to find new, good podcasts. Just went through 2 pages of search results here at FriendFeed and didn't find anything I wanted to listen to more than Stack Overflow and twit. Those i already knew about. :( What's your iTunes podcast window look like? hint hint, suggestions?
I enjoy BOL too. Been a fan since the beginning. However, if you're looking for something different, try On Digital Media http://odmcast.com (shameless plug ;-)
- Steven Hatch
john cleese, stephen fry, kevin smith, Andrew Denton. Get to it!!
- thomasrdotorg
via twhirl
NOVA Science Now, Scientific American, The Naked Scientists, the Pragmatic Podcasts, Hanselminutes, SE-Radio (though I skip most of them), Core Intuition, Late Night Cocoa, Mac Developer Network, Grammar Girl
- DGentry
NPR's All Songs Considered, NPR's Science Friday, Magnum in Motion
- samgrover
I love BOL (Buzz Out Loud)...also Loaded, Twit, The Social Geeks (of course), Diggnation, Grammar Girl, The Answer Bitch, LostCasts (when LOST returns that is), ReadBurner, CNET TV, CNET Mailbag (Molly Wood is damn funny) and the occasional Tekzilla and Security Now.
- Sarah Perez
I listen to the Gillmor Gang (I'll be on tomorrow at 1 p.m. from China, by the way) and TWiT. Otherwise I "snack" on other audio shows here and there.
- Robert Scoble
NY Times Front Page, Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing (both are good first thing in the morning), NewsGang Live / Gillmor Gang. Leo Laporte has a few good ones like TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now.
- Rolf Schewe
I feel bad for not listening to TWiT very much while everyone else does. It is in my podcatcher but I almost always listen to it part way and then move on. The podcast is a lot of fun, but it just feels like BOL got the same things already and talked about them days earlier. I have a lot of podcasts (I do love NPR and I've found a number of great book world and fiction podcasts) and I'd rather listen to something new.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
via twhirl
Aram: I understand that. I don't get to all of them either. usually I just listen to the ones that get talked about on Twitter or FriendFeed. Speaking of which, http://www.fastcompany.tv is my video podcast.
- Robert Scoble
These are all great suggestions -- I just scarfed up a mess of them and added them to iTunes. Thanks!
- Mitch Wagner
If you're not already listening to This American Life you're missing the best radio show ever. Fresh Air is good, too. And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
- Leo Laporte
If you like listening to non-work related podcasts (i.e. NOT tech), check out The Moth. Also This American Life.
- Aaron Uhrmacher
"WFMU's Best Show On WFMU" is HILARIOUS! I also like Studio 360 and many of the ones mentioned above.
- Brad Williamson
In the same vein as WFMU are the podcasts from RESONANCE FM, "the art of listening"
- Brad Kligerman
Oh my - where's NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", and NPR's Car Talk, and Leo's "Security Now!" podcast? And if you're not only twisted, but actually sprained, check out Merlin Mann's podcast "You Look Nice Today".
- mamapadawan
If you are into Social media, PR and communication, then check out For Immediate Release (FIR). Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson host this bi-weekly podcast and it is without a doubt the best communications podcast out there.
- morten saxnaes
NPR's Wait Wait and This American Life make it to my podcast list. I'm learning Danish too, and there is a great podcast called "CopenhagenCast" that is a great learning tool for the language.
- Guy Martin
Check out The Bugle and Sex Talk with Jimmy Stewart!
- Wes Hoogenboom
via iPhone
Give No Agenda a try. One of my fav of the week. Another good listen is This week in startups with Calacanis.
- Shaun Trennery
via iPhone
Skeptics Guide to the Universe is excellent, one of the best podcasts out there. Also, Seminars about Long Term Thinking is often great.
- Gersham Meharg
Savage Love (sex and relationships, about 35 minutes, weekly), Memory Palace (quirky history stories, about 5 minutes, published irregularly), 60 Second Psych (short stories about psychology, published irregularly), and I love, love, love Tank Riot (kind of indescribable--runtime 1 hour+, published every two weeks or month or so by three guys in Wisconsin), and also one called Copper Robot by some guy named "Mitch Wagner."
- Mitch Wagner
The Moth, The Memory Palace, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Dinner Party Download, The Sound of Young America, Obsessives (video by CHOW), Studio 360, TED (audio or video), Third Coast International Audio Festival, Current Vanguard (video), Frontline WORLD (video), World Cafe.
- Rekha Murthy
The autoblog pod cast, and the truth about cars (although they are daily now, that could disappear)
- rosenbaaron
If you want some nuanced humor, check out and listen to the backlog of You Look Nice Today.
- Charles Englert
PodCastle, Escape Pod and PseudoPod for fantasy, sf and horror respectively.
- Deborah Fitchett
the rate of speed indicates the number of ff items posted per minute, of them, their friends and their likes ....../// well, how long can you, do you, stare on this spin post? I did 2 minutes ...
- Petr Buben
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help and if you can find them maybe you can hire The Fundercats... Sorry; first thing to pop in to my mind.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
The twins are not yet walking. Matthew and Sarah can both stand, and Matthew has taken one or two steps, with prompting. But that doesn't _really_ count.
- Louis Gray
It doesn't take very long to get to level 30 btw, just hit the top task every time.
- Kol Tregaskes
I clicked it because I was BORED with the game.
- Seth Blank
Quick tip or at least something to try before you turn Elite. How about selling everything you own, all your houses, etc. and transferring all your money to another user, switch to Elite then transfer the money back?
- Kol Tregaskes
And no I didn't do this, I thought about it *afterwards*. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes Yeah... I had the same idea *after* I erased all assets, lol. Oh well. Maybe for class II elite. ;-)
- Czar
But where is the advantage or addition for being an Elite?
- Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes You have a nifty yellow title next to your name in the assassinate page. Other then this, IDK.
- Czar
Very nice! I want to lick your toes, in a completely non-sexual way. I just love Watermelon. Also: the Ladies Room came back?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Sean, nope. The original thread was just posted both to Shevonne's feed and to that room.
- joey
Ah, I figured. Although when I clicked on the link it said "Request Subscription" and it has an avatar that says "I recycle men"
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Sean, no. That's the old room. It was cross-posted to Shevonne's feed. That's how you can see it.
- Rochelle
The Nerd-Valdez Update: Clean up efforts are underway but the extent of the damage is still unknown. Initial estimates put expected death tolls of indigenous species at 1200.
- Geoff Schultz
Iain took the time to commemorate the one year anniversary of his excellent product with me by answering some difficult Q&A. Hope you enjoy it.
- Louis Gray
A lock symbol means they have a private feed on Twitter. You can request a subscription (as you can on FriendFeed as well).
- Louis Gray
Thanks Louis.. I'm a twitter virgin (http://ff.im/4isgN), let me tell you it's strange looking in from the outside. FF seems like something I could explain to my dad!
- Chris Myles
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Logical Extremes
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- Logical Extremes
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu_ElijahBailey
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Logical Extremes
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Logical Extremes
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Logical Extremes
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Logical Extremes
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Logical Extremes
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James